After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Zheng Jing was forced to move to the barracks in the north of the city at the behest of the emperor, and received military training with the Yulin orphans in Yulindu.

I don't know if Li Puxing did it on purpose, Zheng Jing was actually assigned to Huang Feiyang's outpost and became the lowest-level private.

When he saw Huang Feiyang, Zheng Jing's face obviously became very ugly, although he thought of the revenge he thought of last night to prepare for the other party, he immediately dispelled this thought, he is estimated to be under the other party for a long time in the future, if the revenge on the other party is discovered, then he will not have good fruit to eat.

Therefore, he could only reluctantly salute Huang Feiyang and undergo military training under Huang Feiyang's leadership.

Facts have proved that the military camp can indeed change a person, after Zheng Jing was sent to the military camp for training, the Yulin generals did not treat him particularly because of his status as the son of the world, eating and living together, bleeding and sweating together, in just one month, Zheng Jing's temperament became much calmer.

A month later, the training of the new army formed in Shandong was finally completed, and Su Yan named it the fifth town, and quickly transferred it to Liaodong to be dispatched by Su Dingyuan to launch a final attack on the Qing court guarding Shengjing.

In March, with the arrival of warm spring, the snow on the ground gradually melted, and the haze of war restarted in the land of Liaodong.

First of all, North Korea, the governor of North Korea, Su Fu, led the army to cross the Yalu River in early March, into the border of Liaodong, along the way various gathering points have looked at the wind and surrendered, the Manchus who settled here have already fled in advance, leaving only the Han people who have been enslaved for many years, the Han people saw their compatriots calling, naturally they have to eat pot pulp, and welcome them.

After the Korean Xia army entered Liaodong, the situation in the area became more severe, the military strength of the Xia army was strengthened, and the Qing court did not dare to take the initiative to provoke a war even if it had the assistance of the army brought by Aobai.

Half a month after the Korean Xia army entered Liaodong, the huge army of the fifth town finally drove to the outside of Liaoyang, and after accepting the command of Su Dingyuan, the latter discussed with Su Ci and Su Fu, and decided to fight a quick battle and recover Shenyang as soon as possible.

On March 19, the Xia army marched out, crossed the Taizi River, and drove mightily towards Shengjing City.

Seeing the Xia army coming, Shengjing City was suddenly in chaos, and the ministers of the court and the central government advised the Shunzhi Emperor one after another, asking the emperor to take the Jiangshan Sheji as the priority, not to continue to stay in Shengjing, temporarily retreat to Xingjing (Hetuala, the capital of the Later Jin State), and hand over the military affairs of Shengjing to Wang Yuele of Anjun with full authority, and Ao Bai as his deputy general.

But Emperor Shunzhi was unwilling to evacuate Shengjing, he decided to fight to the death with the Xia army in Shengjing, but in order to prevent accidents, he ignored the civil and military obstruction of the Manchu Dynasty, and ordered the fourth elder brother Aixin Jueluo Xuanye to be the crown prince, and ordered the ministers of parliament Sony, Kubilong, and Suke Saha to be auxiliary ministers, escorting the crown prince to retreat to Xingjing, and once he was martyred, he was succeeded by the fourth elder brother.

Unlike in history, there were only three of the four auxiliary ministers left, and Ao Bai was required to stay in Shengjing to assist in the resistance because of his military power, and two days before the Xia army arrived in Shengjing, the auxiliary ministers and some soldiers and horses escorted the empress dowager and a group of royal relatives to evacuate Beijing.

In addition to them, in the past few days, many Manchus have fled from Shengjing in the interior, and the emperor did not stop them, he stood on the wall of Shengjing, looking at the Manchus who fled with the old and the young, and dragged their families to flee, and his heart was full of sadness.

Before the siege, the imperial court sent messengers to the Horqin steppe one after another, asking the empress dowager's maiden Horqin tribe and several other tribes to send a large army to support, they also knew that the Mongols would not necessarily come to the rescue wholeheartedly, so they did not need to kill Shengjing, to cut off the Xia army's grain route.

On March 22, the Xia army and the Qing army fought a fierce battle five miles south of Shengjing City, and although the Qing army was not afraid of death in order to defend the capital, it was still almost annihilated by the Xia army.

In order to avoid more unnecessary casualties, Yue Le withdrew the peripheral army and strengthened the city defense of the city wall, but Ao Bai thought that the imperial court had a large number of troops and should have its back to the city, and took the initiative to go out of the city to fight with the Xia army.

Yue Le had no choice but to stay in the city to recuperate, and at the same time mobilize the only remaining bannermen and Han people in the city who did not escape

, all men were forcibly conscripted into the army, with the help of hand-held, the old and weak, women and children also had to participate in the battle, they did not need to participate in the battle directly, but they needed to prepare food for the defenders and take care of the wounded.

On the afternoon of the 22nd, the Xia army came to the Shengjing City, Ao Bai led 20,000 soldiers and horses to fight with the Xia army outside the Tianyou Gate, during which the Hongyi cannon at the head of the city rang out from time to time to provide cover for the Qing army, but after a fierce battle, the Qing army was defeated, and Ao Bai had to lead the remnants of the defeated army to retreat into the city, and the Xia army did not pursue, and let the Qing army retreat.

The battle before the siege caused the morale of the Qing army to plummet, but the emperor did not blame Aobai, he just ordered Aobai to obey Yue Le's military orders after the worship in a bland manner.

At this time, Shengjing City has not expanded the outer city wall (the outer city was expanded during the Kangxi period), the whole city is square, there are two city gates in each direction, and the residents who settled outside the city have long run out and are empty.

The Qing army in the city has a large number of troops, and it is also a soldier of the whole people, and it is conservatively estimated that the garrison strength is at least 70,000 people, and the strength of the Xia army outside the city is not much different, the Xia army has more than 10,000 troops in the first town, more than 7,000 in the third town, more than 4,000 in the Suzaku Left Brigade, more than 2,000 Mongolian cavalry battalions, more than 40,000 in the fifth town, and more than 10,000 Xia troops led by the Korean governor Su Fu and 20,000 Korean officers and troops composed of the combined army.

The Xia army deployed many artillery pieces outside the eight gates of Shengjing, and after constructing the siege camp, they launched a fierce artillery bombardment of the city.

With the order of the artillery bombardment issued, the deafening roar of artillery sounded in the four directions of Shengjing City, and hundreds of shells smashed on the city wall of Shengjing City one after another.

The shelling lasted from early morning to evening, and the Xia army almost emptied the shell reserves they brought, and the outside of the city wall of Shengjing City was also a mess, the surface was mottled, the city wall collapsed in many places, and some sections of the wall that did not collapse were also exposed hideous cracks.

The Qing troops in the city were even more demoralized by the day-long bombardment, and they were afraid of the firepower of the Xia army, and those Koreans and some Han Chinese who had been forcibly recruited from Korea fled into the city at night that night, intending to hide in the complicated streets and alleys until the end of the war.

That night, Yue Le, Ao Bai and a group of generals who stayed behind hurried into the imperial city of Shengjing, and met the emperor, whose face was pale from the constant shelling during the day, and when they saw Emperor Shunzhi, although the emperor's face had regained a little ruddy, the trembling in his emphasis as he spoke could not be concealed.

"Aiqing, how is the morale of the soldiers in the city?"

Pretending to be calm, Emperor Shunzhi asked Yue Le and the others who were kneeling on the ground.

Yue Le hesitated for a moment, he still didn't want to report the truth to the emperor, so he said: "If you go back to the emperor, the morale of the generals in the city is stable, and it has not been greatly affected by the artillery bombardment during the day, but part of the city wall has collapsed, and some of the Hongyi cannons on the city head have also been destroyed in the shelling, once the Xia army launches an attack tomorrow, our army will lack heavy weapons to fight back."

The emperor didn't tell whether what he said was true or false, and when he heard that his morale had not been greatly affected, his heart calmed down a lot, but when he heard that part of the city wall had collapsed and the artillery had been destroyed, he suddenly became a little anxious, and hurriedly said:

"Then why don't you order someone to strengthen the collapsed city wall, after a day of artillery bombardment, the Xia army should run out of shells, and reinforcing the city wall may be able to block the Xia army's march into the city."

"Your Majesty, please rest assured, the minister has ordered the city wall to be strengthened before he came, and ordered people to patrol around, and he will definitely be able to repel the Xia army's attack."