There are eight city gates in Shengjing City, there are eight streets in the whole city, each street corresponds to each city gate, and in the center of the city is the imperial city of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in Shengjing, with the Khan Palace and the palace and the six yamen and temples.

When the 150,000 soldiers and horses of the Second Army of the Guards arrived at the Tiger Skin Post near Shengjing City, it was the twentieth day of the first month of the 23rd year of Chongzhen, the temperature began to rise, the rain began to work again, and the melting of the snow made the entire Shengjing City near it muddy.

The army had to stay in Baitapu for four or five days, and only after the weather cleared for three or four days did it begin to encircle in the direction of Shengjing City.

Among them, the 1st Corps of the 2nd Guards Army prepared to cross the Hunhe River and enter Shenyang along the official road, while the 2nd Corps prepared to take Fengjibao along the official road, and the Qing defenders who intercepted Shengjing would retreat to Hetuala.

The whole Shengjing City was built in the Shenyang Zhongwei of the original Ming Dynasty, and the former Shenyang Zhongwei had four defensive castles and two checkpoints in the area south of Fushun, namely Dongzhou Fort, Magendan Fort, Sanyangyu Fort and Qinghe Fort and Yahu Pass and Fushun Pass.

Out of Fushun Pass, you can directly reach Salhu by walking along the Hunhe River.

And out of the Raven Pass, through the Zaotu Mountain, is Hetuala.

But the march of the army to ensure that the water is sufficient, basically along the river, the Ming Dynasty during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty to conquer the captives along the road from Fushun to Salhu, because this area is the flow of the Hunhe River and the Suzi River, and now it is still an important stronghold of the Qing army to defend Hetuala.

The governor of Shengjing, that is, Meler, Ezhenzhang, Jingye Keshu, although it was for the sake of Baoshengjing, did not transfer the Qing army from Fushun and Fushun Pass, as well as the Qing army from Salhu to Hetuala, along the Suzi River, into Shengjing.

Even in addition to Fushun and Fushun Pass, Dongzhou Fort, Magendan Fort, Sanyangyu Fort, Qinghe Fort and Yahu Pass were still garrisoned by Qing troops.

However, no matter how many Qing troops defended these four forts and two passes, if you want to support Shengjing, you have to take Fengji Fort from the official road, and cross the Hunhe River from the direction of Baitapu to enter Shenyang, so the Second Corps of the Second Guards Army needs to occupy Fengji Fort first, and then attack other defensive cities to prevent the support of the Qing army Shengjing in these places, and then the First Corps of the Second Army of the Guards Army is responsible for attacking Shengjing.

The First Corps of the Second Army of the Guards Army attacked Shengjing along the official road, and needed to cross the bridge to cross the Hunhe River.

At the same time, the Qing army also demolished the stone bridge on the Hunhe River, which made it difficult for the First Corps of the Second Army of the Guards Army to cross the river.

The 1st Corps of the 2nd Guards Army had no choice but to march eastward along the Hunhe River, where the water was slower, and the infantry swam across it first.

Most of the guards are southern soldiers, and their swimming skills are naturally not bad, but in the end, it is still the warm and cold season of spring, and the river is still very biting.

The infantry of the Second Guards Army could be frozen almost shortly after they got out of the water, but they could only grit their teeth and cross it.

The artillery fired artillery at the opposite bank at all times to prevent the Qing army from appearing on the opposite bank and prevent the Guards infantry from coming ashore.

There were also Guards infantry who began to build pontoon bridges in the biting water with felled logs, after all, artillery, war horses, and baggage were not allowed to wade across the river.

In this way, the First Corps of the Second Army of the Guards Army spent a lot of time just crossing the river, and it came to Shengjing City after the third day of the second month of February.

At this time, Ye Keshu, the governor of Shengjing, had already summoned the Qing troops such as Changliao Haiwei and Tielingwei to Shengjing City, plus the landlord armament, and the Qing army in Shengjing City had 80,000.

Ye Keshu, the governor of Shengjing, breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this, but when he learned that only tens of thousands of Ming troops had crossed the river, he thought that his Shengjing City was a place with high walls and thick walls, and even red-clothed cannons could not conquer his own city walls as thick as nearly a zhang, so he also slightly reduced his fear that the Ming army might break through his Shengjing City.

In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the Qing court moved the capital to Beijing, and set up a post of general manager in Shengjing City, and at the same time left eight banners to guard eight gates, and each flag had deputy commanders, city guards, defense captains, assistant leaders, Xiao cavalry schools, assistant leaders and other officials in Shengjing City.

Now Ye Keshu has also assigned the 120,000 defenders in the city to the deputy commanders of each of the eight banners, responsible for guarding the eight cities of Shengjing.

After all, Shengjing City is the capital of Jianjiao, in addition to the officials such as the Eight Banners and the Sixth Department who stayed behind, there are even many craftsmen who make ordnance, and there are also Manchurian banners and armor soldiers stationed in Shengjingcheng, that is, the so-called strongest armor soldiers in Manchuria.

Among them, Manchuria has 90 armored soldiers with yellow flags, yellow flags, white flags, red flags, blue flags, and blue flags, and four blacksmiths; There are 90 armor soldiers in each red flag and white flag, and two blacksmiths each.

A total of 720 armored soldiers were in charge of the city's defense.

In addition, the Shengjing Internal Affairs Office also had three banners to guard the Shengjing Palace, each of which had 230 armored soldiers.

In addition, there are 80 armor guards guarding Fuling and 80 armor guards guarding Zhaoling.

In other words, there are 1,100 armored soldiers in Shengjing City today, the so-called strongest elite of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, while the rest are all green battalions composed of the Eight Banners of the Han Army and the Eight Banners of the Mongols and the landlords.

Ye Keshu, the governor of Shengjing, also gathered all these armored soldiers, and one thousand of them were evenly distributed to the eight city gates to supervise the battle, while he himself personally led a hundred armored soldiers to deal with various places in the city.

Ye Keshu looked solemnly at his own defenders in Shengjing City, and sighed secretly: "This is the last soldier and horse of the Qing Dynasty in Liaodong, and if I am defeated again, I Ye Keshu will not have the face to see the spirit of Taizu, and I am ashamed of the Longen of the current saint." ”

Originally, when he learned that Gao Di's 10,000 Han cavalry were completely annihilated by the Ming army, Ye Keshu was not too shocked, at most he thought that it might be because of the large number of Ming troops, and Gao Di's arrogance and underestimation of the enemy led to a big defeat, but after he personally led 10,000 Manchurian iron cavalry to ambush the Ming army and also wiped out the whole army, he realized that the Ming army was stronger than he imagined.

"In the past, 10,000 iron cavalry of the Qing Dynasty was enough to level Liaodong and win the world, how could I have thought that now I have occupied a geographical advantage but is still completely annihilated, what is the firearm used by the Ming army, why can it kill people so much, and what if the city wall can't resist it?"

Ye Keshu finally raised a trace of worry, and at this time, a deputy commander under Ye Keshu's command, Ahani, had come over and said: "My lord, the Ming army is here!" ”

"Tell you to go down, strengthen your vigilance, hide first, and wait for the enemy to bombard the city before going up to the tower! Drive all the captured Han Chinese to the city wall! ”

Ye Keshu commanded.

Now, the only thing he could think of was to use the Han people as meat shields or hostages to make trouble for the Ming army to attack Shengjing City.

(End of chapter)