Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen smiled slightly, "Zu Dashou, Wu Xiang, Wu Sangui, I order you three to lead all the Liaodong armies to form a division and strengthen the division!" Zu Dashou is the division commander, Wu Xiang and Wu Sangui father and son are the deputy division commanders, you are all a family, I will not send you a staff officer, and your army is together all the year round, if you are good in this battle, you can be hired into the Imperial Forest Army, after this battle, the entire Liaodong and Liaoxi people are placed in the Imperial Forest Army, and those who are poor, old and young, will be arranged separately. ”

Zu Dashou, Wu Xiang and Wu Sangui heard the personal appointment of Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but did not expect that the emperor did not care about the previous suspicions, although he knew that this battle was arranged like this, he would definitely be used as cannon fodder, but since the emperor arranged it this way, in fact, he also left a chance for everyone, as long as he could fight brilliantly and make great achievements, the emperor would not be able to kill the heroes casually.

"Wechen obeys! Long live my emperor, long live, long live! All three knelt down at the same time.

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen waved his hand, "Flatten, now I am in the army, I am the supreme commander of the Ming Dynasty, in the army, according to the military system, you don't have to kneel down every time you speak, just salute, you go and arrange it, launch a general attack on the Qing army within three days!" ”

Zu Dashou, Wu Xiang and Wu Sangui, as well as a group of Liaodong generals, led their troops out of Jinzhou, and when they arrived at the Daling River, they could not see a shadow of the Qing army along the way. The Liaodong Army's scouting horses explored the surrounding fifty miles, which had become a no-man's land. The Manchurians have run out, and at present they are mainly concentrated in Quang Ninh, which is close to the steppe.

The Liaodong army arrived at the periphery of Liaoyang, and it was Dolgon who defended the city, and the army besieged the city! Took Liaoyang. Shenyang is in danger.

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen and Hong Chengchou and others were doing various drills on the sand table. Dozens of senior staff officers came up with a variety of proposals. Many of them are the same, because there is really not much technology to speak of in this battle, the Ming army is 350,000, including more than 20,000 elites of the Imperial Forest Army with Chongzhen-style rifles, hundreds of tanks, thousands of artillery, and the strength has exceeded the Jiannu army of less than 200,000.

The difficulty lies in the fact that the Jiannu are all iron cavalry, and the army guarding Liaoyang in this battle. Most of the infantry armies of Jiannu were Mongolian banners and Han army banners under Jiannu's rule, and the main force of Huang Taiji was on the sidelines in Shenyang.

When the Liaodong Army besieged Liaoyang City, the 300,000 Imperial Forest Army directly controlled by Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen formed a huge encirclement on the periphery of Liaoyang City.

"The difficulty of attacking the city is not great, the key is that it is difficult to annihilate the city, Jiannu must defend Liaoyang to the death, carry out street battles, there are 500,000 people in Liaoyang City, this is why Jiannu will transfer all the people around Liaoyang into Liaoyang, and these are all young and strong. And the family members are all in Shenyang, Liaoyang, which is a hard bone. It's not easy to gnaw. Hong Chengchou looked at Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen, Hong Chengchou was very calm, and he was not blindly arrogant because of the absolute numerical superiority of the Ming army.

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen nodded, Hong Chengchou's words were not finished, but it meant that if he beat Liaoyang hard, there would be a lot of casualties.

"You make up your own mind, I will make the final decision, don't have any worries." Since ancient times, the generals have been subject to the orders of foreign monarchs, and Zhu Youzhen, the Chongzhen Emperor with armed helicopters, can personally go to the battlefield to command, even so, he has not thought of completely disposing of the generals.

Hong Chengchou was not pretentious, and continued, "The battle of Jiannu is to make it clear that we want to defend the frontal army of our Ming Dynasty, and use Huang Taiji's nearly 200,000 horses to disperse and cut the supply line of the Ming army, Liaodong is a barren, and the supply all depends on the Beijing Division, such a long supply line can give full play to the advantages of the Qing army's iron cavalry, although our army is equipped with cars, but it has only improved its transportation capacity, whether it is a car or a tank, the speed is still much slower than that of the iron cavalry, which disperses the army for Jiannu, Looking for an opportunity to break my supply line to create a condition, so for now, Jiannu still has a slight advantage, Chen Jiannu, with the old method commonly used by Jiannu before, besiege but not attack, trap these hundreds of thousands of Jiannu in Liaoyang, let them starve to death in the city, we have the advantage of troops, we can take turns to let the army return to Jinzhou City to supply, this method is foolproof, once Liaoyang is broken, most of the population of Jiannu is damaged, Shenyang will also be in chaos, then at that time, the war situation is completely tilted in the direction of my Ming Dynasty. ”

Hong Chengchou said very clearly, and the analysis was also very good, but Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen was not satisfied, "Siege but not attack, although it is stable, but how much time does it take?" ”

Hong Chengchou groaned slightly, seeing the emperor's impatience, "At least three years, the minister estimates that there are at least three years of grain and grass reserves in Liaoyang City." ”

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen snorted coldly, "Hong Chengchou, do you plan to let the army of more than 300,000 people wait like this for three years?" In this way, how much economic pressure will Daming have to bear in the past three years? Not only will the economy not be able to move forward, but it may even go backwards! No, although this method is good, I ask you to discuss it again! ”

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen did not lose his temper, but he was really dissatisfied with such an ending.

Just when the base camp of the Ming army could not come up with a way to deal with Jiannu, the Liaodong Army had completed the encirclement of Liaoyang City, Wu Sangui took dozens of Liaodong generals to take turns scolding, anyway, the Liaodong Army is still very satisfied with the current situation, even if it is possible to become cannon fodder, the army is also very happy, how many years, the Liaodong Army has been pressed by Jiannu to fight in the city, it seems that the Ming army will only have one method of war, that is, to hold on, when was it so majestic?

"Come out, Dolgon! The shrunken turtle is talking about people like you! Hahaha! Wu Sangui shook the big knife in his hand, and looked at Dolgon at the head of the city triumphantly, if the emperor didn't kill him, he already felt like he was reborn.

The generals of the Ming Army laughed and agreed, and all kinds of Chinese essence swear words came one after another!

Dolgon said angrily, "Wu Sangui! Don't be complacent, your uncle's ancestral surrender is still in Lao Tzu's hands, you bastards, Chongzhen is using you now, when you don't need you one day, all of you will not die well, think about what year did you not have a secret repertoire with me? ”

Wu Sangui's face was feverish, although Zu Dashou and Wu Xiang did not come to the front of the battle in person, but Dolgon's words were true, and there were many emperors' eyes and ears in the army, if he did not attack the city in the long run, he would definitely be resented by the emperor.

Wu Sangui let the army continue to scold, and at the same time returned to the camp of the Liaodong Army and asked Zu Dashou when he would attack?

Zu Dashou and Wu Xiang, the old picks, were drinking sullen wine with their heads down.

"What's the hurry? Just the 50,000 horses in Liaodong, fighting hard with Jiannu, is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg, and if the emperor really has the heart to take this Liaoyang City, why not use artillery support? Now the artillery superiority of the Imperial Forest Army is enough to destroy the houses in Liaoyang City. If there were no army, we would really be talking to Dorgon like wild dogs. Wu Xiang listened to Wu Sangui's inquiry and scolded.

Zu Dashou nodded slowly, "If you fight the 50,000 troops together, you will fight them all, this is nothing, it was originally eating the food of the imperial court, and it is also appropriate to die for the imperial court, the problem is, just let us Liaodong Army come to attack the city, if the Imperial Forest Army does not move at all, there is no way to explain to the people below, no one is a fool." Morale is also an issue. ”

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