Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 302 Meeting Outside the City of Shenyang
So Ning Jin fought again, and it ended almost as soon as it started.

On the afternoon of the day when the battle broke out, all the Qing troops defending the city were tied up, while the civilians in the city, led by the gentry, went out to meet the Ming Dynasty King's army.

Seeing their emperor coming, these people covered their faces and wept loudly. Jinzhou has been captured for many years.

A few years ago, when they heard that Emperor Chongzhen said that he would abandon all the land outside the Pass, use all his strength to exterminate the bandits within the Pass, and defend the front line of the Great Wall, they thought that they, the people of the Ming Dynasty, had been forgotten by the imperial court.

Unexpectedly, only a few years later, the soldiers of Ming Dynasty came back again and took Jinzhou City back into the hands of Daming, and even the emperor personally conquered it.

"It seems that the war is coming to an end. The Son of Heaven's royal conquest will definitely sweep the people of Mitezhou into the ground."

"That's great. Kill all the people in Mite Island. We, the people of Liaodong, will have a future."

The gentry and commoners who welcomed the Ming army into the city all sighed, I am afraid that the situation in Liaodong is about to change, how could the emperor of the Ming Dynasty fail in his own conquest.

But at this moment, there are some Xiaoxiao who are speaking ill of Daming and Zhu Cihong.

"Whether the Ming army can reach Shengjing is still another matter. Didn't Emperor Yingzong say he would go to the Northern Expedition a hundred years ago? What happened? Hundreds of thousands of troops were wiped out, and even he himself was captured."

When a gentry heard what he said, he slapped him in the face.

"What are you talking about, kid? How dare you speak ill of me, Daming? What are your intentions?"

People like myself came to welcome the Ming army and were moved by the arrival of the Ming soldiers, but you are here to speak ill, cursing that today will be like that trash of Ming Yingzong, who will lose his master and humiliate the country. It's cheap for you.

Just after the slap was over, someone nearby who knew the bad-mouthing Xiaoxiao stood up and explained his identity.

"He is the coated servant of the Chizhou people, and he often works for the Chizhou people."

Others also echoed, "Yes, he is a traitor, kill him."

"He said bad things here today. He must have been instigated by the people of Chizhou. He wanted to curse me, the Son of Heaven. He must not be spared."

Ever since, the guy who spoke bad words was tied up into a rice dumpling by the surrounding gentry and common people, and then handed over to the Ming army.

For this kind of person who dared to speak ill of the court and cursed the emperor's defeat, the Ming army would naturally not let him go, and killed him in the name of traitor with a knife in his hand.

This guy was unlucky to be the first Han to die at the hands of the imperial court after the recovery of Jinzhou City, but it was also his fault for talking nonsense.

In the imperial court, how can the emperor allow ordinary people to criticize, let alone speak bad words and curse when welcoming people into the city.

After conquering Jinzhou, Zhu Cixiang did not stop, but sent 5000 troops non-stop to capture the nearby Ningyuan City.

The Qing army's guard force in Ningyuan City was not large, not even a thousand men. After one round of artillery bombardment, they were frightened to death.

So the Ming army took only one day to take down the two important cities of Jinzhou and Ningyuan at the cost of negligible casualties and dozens of casualties.

Next, the Ming army only stayed here for one night, bought some food locally to supplement the army rations, and bought some wine and meat to reward the sergeants. They set off early the next morning and rushed towards Shenyang.

Before Zhu Cihong ordered Xu Hongji to drive along the coastline to capture Jinshanwei and Gaizhouwei. Now that Zhu Cihong has reached Ningyuan and Jinzhou by land, he must have rushed north to Shenyang on this road.

Zhu Cihong wants to join forces with him in Shenyang to attack the city, take Shenyang, and completely wipe out the Qing court, so now he needs to go north quickly.

However, just one day after leaving Jinzhou, Zhu Cihong suddenly received a handwritten letter from Xu Hongji, saying that he had encountered tenacious resistance from the Qing army in Gaizhouwei. Nothing to do with them.

At this time, Zhu Cihong remembered that Xu Hongji's naval division was the old Ming army, which had not undergone his own transformation, with loose military discipline, low combat effectiveness, and poor military quality. It was completely incomparable with the Wuwei Army and Jinwuwei troops he commanded.

However, Xu Hongji's navy officers and soldiers are still regular troops no matter how poor their combat effectiveness is, they can give Zhu Cilang a hand, but he cannot give up this force.

So Zhu Cihong had no choice but to send Echina, the commander of Xiaoqiwei who was familiar with the terrain of Liaodong, to Gaizhouwei to support Xu Hongji.

The Xiaoqiwei was an army formed by Zhu Cihong on the battlefield of the Central Plains in Guannei, using the captives who were willing to surrender to Ming Dynasty.

Regarding this, the Ming army had no objection. On the contrary, they even directly regarded them as friendly troops like the [-] Battalion.

Because the Ming army has a long-standing tradition of using foreign troops. As early as the Hongwu and Yongle years, King Yan, who later became Ming Chengzu, had a very powerful foreign cavalry unit named Duoyan Sanwei.

And those Chizhou people have no sense of shame or embarrassment about treason, after all, Chizhou people have established a country for decades.

Moreover, the Mizhou people and the Jurchens are not the same thing, otherwise Huang Taiji and Nurhachi would not have to forcibly create a Mizhou, and just call the original Haixi Jurchen the name.

Therefore, many times the savage Jurchens and other Jurchen tribes are not of the same mind as the Jurchens on Nurhachi's side.

Ezina and his deputy Geshimu are the representatives. They are neither popular with the people of Mite Island, nor do they like to be cannon fodder of the people of Mite Island.

After Eqina led the Cavalry Guard army south to Gaizhou Guard, he helped Xu Hongji capture the Gaizhou Guard within a few days. Then Eqina and Xu Hongji went all the way north and walked for seven or eight days. Meet Zhu Cixiang outside Shenyang City.

After seeing Xu Hongji, Zhu Cihong didn't say anything, let alone accuse him of being ineffective in fighting.

This is the reason why the combat power of the ordinary Ming army is too low. It is not his command. Even if Qi Jiguang and Yue Fei come over, it is difficult for such an army to explode with strong combat power and defeat the Qing army occupying a favorable location and guarding the fortress.

However, after meeting outside the city of Shenyang, Zhu Cihong did not sit idle, but immediately ordered Xu Hongji and the soldiers and civilians to pick up tools and cut down trees outside the city to build a siege camp.

He also ordered craftsmen to make a large number of siege equipment for future siege use.

In addition, a narrow, long and low earth embankment was built outside Shenyang City to prevent the Qing army from escaping in the future.

Fortunately, it is not the coldest time in Shenyang, otherwise the Ming army would not even be able to shovel the soil on the ground, let alone build earth embankments.

The preparations went on for three days in a row, and the camps of the Ming army outside the city were brightly lit day and night, and the Qing army in Shenyang city was really terrified.

But every time they wanted to come out and interfere with the Ming army's siege, they would be bombarded by artillery, a considerable part of which were astonishingly powerful rockets.

(End of this chapter)