Siege warfare should be avoided as much as possible in the case of non-superior forces. [No pop-ups]

As a senior commander of the Renaissance Army, Zhao Guogang, commander of the mixed brigade, certainly knew such tactical principles.

In the recently concluded battle against the Mongol-Han coalition forces outside the city, Zhao Guogang's brigade captured a lot of prisoners. After interrogating the captives, the intelligence department of the General Staff found that Zhao Guogang was quite lucky, he originally thought it was an unexpected battle of Haizhou, and actually surrounded Huang Taiji, the supreme ruler of the Later Jin Jurchen.

Under normal circumstances, a brigade like Zhao Guogang surrounded a large city, because even if it entered the city, it would have to carry out relatively complicated street battles, and without the support of professional and specially trained urban warfare troops, a field unit like Zhao Guogang would not take the initiative to attack the city. Moreover, the combat mission undertaken by Zhao Guogang's brigade was to clean up the operation rather than attack the city.

If there was no Huang Taiji in Haizhou City, Zhao Guogang would have turned around and left after killing and wounding more than 10,000 of the enemy's living forces. But since he had unexpectedly surrounded Huang Taiji, the big leader of the post-Jin Jurchen regime, Zhao Guogang would not have done that.

After receiving reliable information, Zhao Guogang immediately reported the situation by radio to the party committee of the southern Liaoning base area of the Baath Party.

After receiving the news, Wang Shuhui immediately ordered the staff headquarters of the First Army Corps in southern Liaoning to contact several mixed brigades near Haizhou City. Finally, the other two mixed brigades that were carrying out a sweeping mission near Haizhou City received an order from the General Staff of the Corps to go to Haizhou to jointly carry out the task of besieging Haizhou with Zhao Guogang's brigade. And Wang Shuhui also immediately set off to join the two main brigades arranged in the Gaizhou area and went to Haizhou.

It took Wang Shuhui almost a morning to reach Gaizhou by boat. At the same time, after receiving the telegram, the two mixed brigades carrying out tasks near Haizhou City marched quickly to the outside of Haizhou City and converged with Zhao Guogang's brigade.

By the time Wang Shuhui led the two main brigades stationed in the Gaizhou area to start a rapid march to the Haizhou area, Huang Taiji, who had an extremely sensitive military sense, had already found that the situation was not good, and he was surrounded by the revival army in Haizhou City.

The total strength of Zhao Guogang's mixed brigade was 2,750 men. Among them, three infantry battalions totaled 1,500 people. Two battalions of cavalry totaled 1,000 people. A platoon of combat vehicles, a total of fifty armed armored carriages, equipped with a strength of two hundred and fifty men.

Although the cavalry battalion was not equipped with special artillery, the cavalry battalion itself had special rocket launchers to support the fire, and each of the fifty armed armored carriages of the tank platoon was equipped with a machine gun and two rocket launchers. Therefore, in terms of firepower, even if Zhao Guogang's mixed brigade is not as good as the main force in terms of firepower configuration, it is sufficient compared to the indigenous troops of this era.

Before the two surrounding mixed brigades arrived, Huang Taiji was not motionless in Haizhou City.

After tentatively sending the Eight Banners cavalry to fight against Zhao Guogang's brigade outside the city, Huang Taiji found that the current situation was that the Fuxing Army, a unit of unknown origin, was particularly strong in field warfare. In the battle of the squad cavalry, although the Eight Banners cavalry was flexible and fast, when facing the Fuxing Army cavalry lined up in a dense formation and equipped with bazookas and rifles, the Eight Banners cavalry was simply in a state of being slaughtered.

Because of the range of bazookas and rifles, although the cavalry of the Renaissance Army did not move in rows as fast as the Eight Banners cavalry in terms of speed, the cavalry of the Renaissance Army did not seek to surpass the Eight Banners cavalry in speed. As long as they can keep the distance between them and the Eight Banners cavalry within range with the help of their war horses, they are completely fine.

When the Eight Banners cavalry carried out scattered operations, the cavalry of the Fuxing Army pursued in the mode of a three-person squad, and could still rely on the advantage of the range of weapons and use relatively stiff tactical movements to shoot those scattered single Eight Banner cavalry.

Under these circumstances, Huang Taiji was reluctant to send troops out of the city to fight a field battle with the Revival Army, which had an incredible firepower advantage while maintaining an unbelievable advantage in terms of strength and strength.

Of course, Huang Taiji will not sit still.

In his opinion, as a foreign force, there must not be many "elite" armed forces like Zhao Guogang's brigade. And Haizhou City, where he was located, belonged to the inner line area of the Later Jin Juzhen, so he sent a large number of communication troops to escape from Haizhou City, and dispatched troops to nearby cities and military strongholds, preparing to carry out internal and external attacks on Zhao Guogang's brigade when his own forces were superior.

Huang Taiji's idea cannot be said to be wrong. In this era, when he was suddenly attacked by such an unbelievable armed force as the Renaissance Army, Huang Taiji was able to use his brain to make a sober response, which is very rare.

But the gap between the times is, after all, the gap between the times. Huang Taiji simply could not understand what stage the military technology level of the Renaissance Army had developed. Except for seven or eight out of ten of the communication troops sent by Huang Taiji, who were killed by the mobile cavalry of the two platoons of Zhao Guogang's brigade, it was actually difficult for the few communication soldiers who escaped to convey the order to transfer troops to Yaozhou and Muxi City near the belly of Haizhou City.

In fact, after receiving Zhao Guogang's telegram, Wang Shuhui, in addition to transferring the two mixed brigades that were carrying out tasks near Haizhou City to Haizhou City, also ordered the two mixed brigades near Yaozhou City and Muxi City to cut off the communication between Haizhou and the two places. At the same time, three reconnaissance companies carrying out intelligence missions north of Haizhou City were also ordered by Wang Shuhui to block the official road between Haizhou and Anshan.

In other words, even if the communication personnel sent by Huang Taiji escaped the pursuit of the cavalry of Zhao Guogang's brigade, it would be difficult for them to pass the news to the nearby cities.

More importantly, Huang Taiji underestimated the strength of the Renaissance Army. On the morning of the next day, the two mixed brigades had already reached Haizhou City to join the siege mission of Zhao Guogang's brigade. At this time, Huang Taiji found that the total strength of the armed forces outside the city had exceeded his own garrison, and he began to panic a little.

Wang Shuhui did not think that killing Huang Taiji would completely disintegrate the Houjin Jurchen regime. However, Wang Shuhui also knew that the evolution of the entire Jurchen nation from a primitive and backward tribal alliance to a semi-slave and semi-feudal state was completed under the leadership and efforts of Huang Taiji.

Judging from the historical data of later generations, the main reason why the Later Jin Jurchen regime was able to eventually become the Manchu regime that replaced the Ming Dynasty to rule China was that with the efforts of Huang Taiji, the Later Jin Jurchen, a local ethnic armed force with the nature of a tribal alliance, was successfully transformed into a centralized state that could mobilize all forces and concentrate all advantages.

Therefore, when the internal contradictions of the Later Jin Jurchen were intensifying and Huang Taiji's efforts had not yet been fully realized, eliminating Huang Taiji himself could effectively interrupt the evolution process of the Later Jin Jurchen tribal alliance to the Manchu government, and let the Later Jin Jurchen regime return to the state of scattered and backward tribal alliances.

Moreover, the sudden death of Huang Taiji is also very likely to make the Houjin Jurchen fall into the internal struggle of power reshuffle and power grabbing.

It is precisely for this reason that Wang Shuhui directly participated in this military operation, leading the two main brigades to march to Haizhou in the form of a rapid march.

But when Wang Shuhui arrived outside Haizhou City, he was faced with news that he did not expect.

Shortly before he arrived in Haizhou City, the future "Tiancong Khan", the founder of the Manchu nation and the Qing Dynasty, Ying Tianxing Guohongde, Zhangwukuan, Wenren, Shengrui, Xiaojingmin, Zhaoding, Longdao, Xiangongwen Emperor Huang Taiji, in the process of leading the troops to break through, was "unfortunately" shot in the chest by a sniper of the Fuxing Army at a distance of more than 700 meters, and died on the spot