Huang Taiji was suddenly beheaded by Liu Jiye on the battlefield of Liaohe, leaving a thorny issue of succession to the throne. Originally, Huang Taiji's eldest son, Prince Su Hauge, had the greatest possibility of inheritance, but under the interference of the three Dolgon brothers, the clan finally reached a compromise, which did not let Hauge sit on the throne, but also prevented Dolgon from becoming unified, and was finally succeeded by Huang Taiji's three-year-old ninth son Fulin.

Originally, the emperor died suddenly in battle, and at this time, it was natural to choose the older and meritorious Haoge to succeed him. However, the three Dorgon brothers were strong, resolutely opposed, and used cunning methods at the election meeting, so that the throne finally fell to Fulin.

For this result, the three flags reluctantly accepted, the two red and blue flags were also reluctantly accepted, and in the end, only Hauge was pitted.

In fact, everyone understands that Fulin is now just a puppet emperor. If it weren't for Liu Jiye's troops besieging Shenyang, this throne would never have fallen to Fulin. Although Fulin was elected as the emperor, in fact, the power of the court was in the hands of the four auxiliary princes.

It is still based on strength, the four princes control the government, and the three Dolgon brothers are still the strongest. The two yellow flags originally led by Huang Taiji are now handed over to Prince Ying Azig for the temporary acting flag owner, and the inlaid yellow flag is handed over to the eldest son of the deceased eldest son Yue Tuo, Prince Luo Luohun, who is temporarily the flag owner.

In this way, the three brothers of Dolgon mastered the three flags of two white and yellow, and the two grandsons of Daishan mastered the three flags of two red and inlaid red, and the strength was the strongest, and the remaining two blue flags, Prince Su Haoge still mastered the blue flag, and Prince Zheng Zierharang mastered the inlaid blue flag.

For Dolgon and Daishan, the old and the young, the two foxes divided the two yellow flags, of course the three-year-old new emperor can't control it, and the queen mother of the two palaces can't control it. Zilharang has always been weak, even if he dares to be angry, he doesn't dare to speak, and there is only one Haoge left, even if he is angry, no one cares.

Liu Jun's original plan was to take Shenyang before the Qing army returned.

However, the actual situation far exceeded the plan. After the capture of Shenyang by the Later Jin. The capital was moved here and operated here for many years. It has already been operated very steadily, not to mention the high walls of Shenyang, and in the periphery of Shenyang, there are countless city fortresses.

In addition, the weather was cold and frozen, and the rain and snow were mixed for several days, which hindered Liu Jun's siege plan.

At this time, the Manchurians ignored the rain and snow and fully mobilized.

There are more than 300 cattle records in the Eight Banners, plus hundreds of Niu records in the four banners of the Han Army and the Eight Banners of Mongolia. They are all urgently mobilized. In the past, every time the army was dispatched, each Niu Lu only recruited a few or even twenty or thirty people, but this time, the armor of each Niu Lu of the Manchu and Han Dynasty was not only emptied, but even the rest of the young and strong bannermen were also recruited, and even the young and strong clothed minions of the bannermen were also emptied.

The most elite armor was assembled and rushed to King Qinwang in Shenyang, some were stationed in Fushun and other big cities, and the ordinary banners were guarded by some important places around. Villages and forts all over the place. They are guarded only by the old and the weak, and by women.

Facing the Chu army of the Southern Dynasty that killed Huang Taiji, and facing this army with the banner of the nine-headed bird, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was extremely afraid. For the first time since Nurhachi raised his army, they were so afraid of a Ming army.

Although the Qing army was urgently mobilized. But the forts between Liaoyang and Shenyang still fell one after another. Those forts could not withstand the attack of the Ming army with many light and heavy artillery, and each time it could not last a day.

Huangniwa Fort, Muddy Fort, Wangdaren Fort, Thorn Yutuo Fort, Wujing Camp, Zhangyi Station, Shilihe Station, Shaling Fort, Fengji Fort, Dashiqiao Fort, Ping'an Fort, Jingyan Fort, Pingluo Fort, Baitapu and other forts. Broken one after another.

Along the Liao River, the Hashu River, the Hunhe River, and the Taizi River, the Chu army advanced all the way, just like a bulldozer. All the castles that stood in front of them were breached one by one. And Kong Youde's reorganization army of the four associations spread out in all directions, following behind the nine-headed bird.

The Chu army only fought those castles, and the rest of the villages were all handed over to these soldiers to sweep. With Liu Jun's plunder permit, these troops gave full play to their looting skills, burning and looting all the way, and seriously implemented the three-light strategy of robbing and killing all the light in the Liaoshen area.

The Liaoshen area is a plain with a flat river.

Except for a few castles on the Hunhe River between Liaoyang and Shenyang, Liu Jun destroyed all the other forts after they were breached.

After the army swept the forts and arrived in Shenyang, Liu Jun stationed his troops at the three forts of Shaling Fort, Dashiqiao Fort and Pingluo Fort in the west of Shenyang, and did not implement the siege plan on all sides.

Each of the three forts garrisoned an association, plus a association of mobile soldiers and horses, outside Shenyang, the Chu army was less than 20,000. In addition, 20,000 troops were reorganized and surrendered to the surrounding areas to clear the fields and collect grain and grass.

On the first day of December, Dashiqiao Fort, twenty miles west of Shenyang.

On the fort, the nine-headed bird flag flutters high and hunts with the wind.

From time to time, a group of well-dressed Chu troops rode horses in and out of the fort gate, and these cavalry were light cavalry of the reconnaissance battalion directly under the command of Liaodong Town, and after arriving at the city of Shenyang, Liu Jun sent a large number of light cavalry to reconnoiter the enemy situation and liaise with the communication between various departments. Although the number of Chu troops under Shenyang was not large, Liu Jun still stationed his troops in three castles, each of which was about 20 miles apart.

Liu Jun did not concentrate all his troops and horses in one fort, he had the self-confidence, thinking that it was more beneficial to defend the three forts by dividing his troops into three forts.

Liu Jun is not in a hurry to attack Shenyang now, he is asking the Qing people who have been captured everywhere to speed up the transformation of the three castles. Liu Jun planned to build the three castles into a three-dimensional defensive fortress, and use this new type of fortress with the guns of the Chu army to fight a hard battle with the Qing army.

Every day, a large number of Qing people were escorted over to join the fort building procession. At the same time, large quantities of livestock and grain fodder are brought back every day.

With these collected and plundered grain and grass, Liu Jun became more and more confident in fighting the Tartars under the city of Shenyang.

It was cold, Liu Jun was eating hot pot in the castle, and the hot pot was very refreshing. While eating hot pot, Liu Jun listened to the reports of the staff officers, and more and more Qing troops gathered in Shenyang.

Even many Jurchen tribes from the Heilongjiang River valley also came with men and horses. In the past, these tribes had always been the sworn enemies of the Manchus, mainly the Jurchens of Jianzhou, but under the unremitting conquest of Nurhachi and Huang Taiji, father and son, all the tribes had basically submitted to the Manchus a few years earlier.

"Now the presiding officer in Shenyang is Prince Azig of England, who is Dolgon's elder brother. In Jinzhou, Dolgon, Dai Shan and others elected the three-year-old Fulin as the new Empress of Manchukuo, Azig was promoted to Prince Heshuoying, and served as the acting banner master of the Zhenghuang Banner and the secretary of the Manchu Qing Army, and was ordered to preside over the war situation in Shenyang. ”

"There is a brave emperor in his thirties who is not chosen. Choosing a three-year-old child to be the emperor, it seems that the Manchu Qing Dynasty is not monolithic, it is also intrigue and internal contradictions. Liu Jun said with a smile.

Sitting opposite Liu Jun was the patrol Li Chunjiang, who was wearing a mink fur, and he was not afraid of the heat, while eating mutton hot pot, he smiled, "When Huang Taiji was here, he could still suppress those clans, but now he was suddenly killed." Of course, Hauge can't get Dolgon and other powerful clans. It is also normal to be robbed of the throne, it is said that Nurhachi did not intend to let Dolgon take over the throne, but in the end, the throne was not taken away by Huang Taiji, Tartar, although it is said that a Zhubeile jointly elected the emperor, but in fact, it is not who is more strong, who has more power. ”

"This Hauge is really a wretch, and he actually softened like this. I was expecting the Tartars to fight each other. Fan Zhiwan drank a glass of wine and said with some disappointment.

"Tartar is not stupid, Hauge is not stupid, this guy is also a battle-hardened battle. Now that our soldiers are in the city, no matter how much they fight, they will definitely be the first to unanimous guns. If we hadn't been here, maybe they'd have been fighting. However, Hauge is too weak after all. Dai Shan is an old fox, and Zilharang falls with the wind again, without their resolute support. Hauge did not engage the three Dorgon brothers. Fu Zonglong took a slice of hot mutton and ate it, and said slowly.

Fu Zonglong turned to Liu Jun and said, "Commander, Dolgon and Dai Shan led an army of 50,000 to come back, but they didn't come to Shenyang directly, but went to Liaoyang, this is to break Liaoyang first, and then cut off my way back, and want to surround us here." ”

"There is Fu Shan in Liaoyang, he has two soldiers and horses, and an intact Liaoyang city, even if Dolgon has 50,000 elite soldiers, if you want to capture Liaoyang, it is not a dream." Liu Jun already knew that Dolgon did not come to Shenyang but went to Liaoyang after they returned to the teacher, and Liu Jun was not worried about this.

Fu Shan led 10,000 soldiers and horses to defend Liaoyang, with this cold season, although Fu Shan could not get the assistance of the sailor because of this. But he had a fortified city of Liaoyang to defend, and it was quite difficult for the Qing army to break through such a fortified city guarded by 10,000 elites and defended by many cannons.

The Chu army is not an ordinary Ming army, and if it is said that the city is broken, the city will be broken.

If it was an ordinary Ming army, it was besieged by 50,000 elite Qing troops, and it was still isolated, maybe it wouldn't be able to hold it for long. However, even in the siege of the Daling River that year, the soldiers and horses of Liaoxi led by Zu Dashou still held on for more than three months in the face of the siege of the Qing army in the face of the siege of the Qing army. In the siege of Jinzhou in history, Zu Dashou held on for a year when there was grain and grass. If it weren't for the defeat of the reinforcements, and the generals in the city surrendered to the enemy to open the city to meet the Qing army, Zu Dashou could have held it longer.

Therefore, it can be said that the Qing army's ability to attack the city is actually not very good. Although they broke through Jinzhou quickly last time, it was also because there were traitors, and they got the artillery of Ning Jinjun.

When Jinzhou lacked artillery, it could not stop a large number of artillery attacks by the Qing army, but the Chu army did not have to worry about the artillery of the Qing army. Their artillery is all eliminated by the Ming army, compared to artillery, then they are really a class with axes, and the Chu army teaches them to be people in minutes.

The biggest threat to the Chu army was not the artillery of the Qing army, but the supply of grain, grass and shells.

However, in the current situation, when the Chu army seized Liaoyang and swept Liaoshen, it obtained a large amount of grain and grass materials, which could fully supply the Chu army for long-term operations.

There is no need to worry about ammunition for the time being, I carried a lot of ammunition when I went out this time, and there is still plenty of ammunition. Because of this, now Liu Jun is sitting firmly in Diaoyutai, even if he does not take Shenyang as quickly as planned, he is not worried.

If it were an ordinary Ming army, they would never dare to go deep into the enemy's territory, let alone be so optimistic when they became a lone army.

"I don't think we need to rush to take the initiative now, we can just sit back and wait for the Tartars to attack, we can sit back and strike." Chief of Staff Wang Qian said to Liu Jun that although the army of Dolgon and Daishan did not return to Shenyang, during this time, Shenyang had also gathered many Tartars.

Wang Qian estimated that the Tartars would definitely not be able to resist wanting to attack.

"That's just to consume the Tartars and fight in the field, we can't fight hard with them, but when it comes to fighting the city defense battle, the Tartars are hanging for a long time."

"That's it, I wish they were coming, it just so happens that the fort and fortifications are almost repaired, it's time to let the Tartars see what the nine-headed bird tactics are, and let them know how Huang Taiji died, and let them know that Huang Taiji died not unjustly."

In the city of Shenyang, the Shangshu of the Ministry of War, the Acting Banner Master of the Zhenghuang Banner, and the Prince of Ying Azig swept through the hall and said loudly, "Now that the elites of the Eight Banners have gathered, Shenyang has gathered 50,000 troops, and it is time to teach the Southern Barbarians a hard lesson!" ”

Prince Su Haoge hesitated about this, he thought that he should still stick to Shenyang and not rush to attack. We should first wait for Dolgon and Daishan to take Liaoyang and Haizhou, cut off Liu Jiye's retreat, and also cut off the reinforcement of the Lushun Ming army, and then wait for the main force of the two kings' army to come back, and then attack Liu Jiye in the three forts outside Shenyang.

This is more secure, after all, the so-called 50,000 troops in Shenyang, in fact, there are no more than 10,000 real Eight Banners in armor, and the rest are old or young banner people, and many are usually only responsible for farming and grazing. Now these people are hastily assembled, but the combat effectiveness is only average.

In particular, Haoge has already explored clearly, Liu Jiye has strengthened the defense of the three forts outside Shenyang, and has many guns, and he dares to attack, but he is afraid that he will be too light on the enemy.

"I don't think you're steady, but you're scared by the Southern Barbarians. In the three forts outside the city, there are only 5,000 barbarians in the south of each fort, what are you afraid of? Now that they are building fortifications day and night to strengthen the city's defenses, are we just sitting back and watching from the city? ”

Hauge's cynicism at Azig was of no avail, and he said slowly, "If Prince Ying definitely wants to fight, it's not impossible. But we can't fight the three forts outside the city, the castle is heavily defended, and there are a large number of guns, and we will definitely suffer a big loss if we go to fight. If you want to fight, I think you should send cavalry out to fight the black flag soldiers of the four traitors. ”

After Liu Jun reorganized Kong Youde's four subordinates, he organized them into four associations, but he did not let them play the nine-headed bird flag, nor did he let them play the red flag, but gave them the black flag. It turned out that in the Qing army, they had a white flag with black edges, but now they are playing a black and white skull flag with a black and white skull symbol.

Liu Jun originally used them as auxiliaries, responsible for opening roads and bridges, and transporting equipment and ammunition. Now they are completely let out to sweep and plunder, to plunder on the spot, to feed the war with war, and at the same time to clear the wilderness.

Previously, Shenyang had few soldiers, and the army of Dolgon and Daishan had not returned, so Haoge could only stay in the city and did not dare to go out, allowing these black flags to crisscross between Liao and Shen, and watched them destroy village after village.

Now that many soldiers and horses have gathered in Shenyang, and Azig is in a hurry to fight, Haug thinks that he can take these traitors first.

"These traitors!" Azig cursed, and then said, "Okay, then take these traitors first!" (To be continued.) )

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