Hearing Huang Taiji's question, Zhenghuangqi Gushan'e Zhenbaiyingtu hurriedly bowed and said:

"Your Majesty, according to the intelligence of the Qing Dynasty's reconnaissance cavalry, the young emperor of the Ming Dynasty is on his way to Ningyuan. It is estimated that he will reach Ningyuan City tonight. If they want to rescue Jinzhou, they will need to do so today..."

Huang Taiji nodded:

"The young emperor of the Ming Dynasty has not yet arrived at Ningyuan. The Qing Dynasty must let him rush to die as soon as possible. He ordered the Ying Erdai to bombard Jinzhou City. Remember, he will bombard him for two hours every day from now on, and send the Han army to launch a few symbolic attacks.

Wave attack..."

Huang Taiji knew very well that with the solidity of Jinzhou City and Zu Dashou's tenacious defense, Jiannu would definitely suffer heavy losses if he tried to forcefully attack Jinzhou. Jiannu simply could not afford to fight such a war of attrition.

The reason why he wanted to bombard Jinzhou and then let the Han army flag conduct a feint attack was that Huang Taiji's real intention was to put pressure on Jinzhou's ancestor Dashou and create panic among the soldiers and civilians in Jinzhou City.

From now on, Zu Dashou will definitely seek help from Emperor Shenwu urgently. Jianu cannot attack the city, but ambushes are his strength.

No matter how much more powerful the Ming army is now than in the past, as long as they enter the Jiannu ambush circle, Huang Taiji is confident enough to make it impossible for Emperor Shenwu to come back and give the Ming Dynasty a civil fortress!

"According to the order!"

Baiyintu received the order and immediately sent people to Jinzhou City to deliver the order, asking Zhenying Ordai to mount a yellow flag on the mountain and launch several feint attacks on Jinzhou every day.

The leader of the Xianghuang Banner turned out to be Du Du, and the leader of the Zhenghuang Banner turned out to be Ah Shan. In the eighth year of Chongzhen's reign, he followed Abatai and Azige into the Pass, but was killed by the East Palace Guards led by Zhu Cixiang.

Now Baiyintu and Ying'erdai have taken over the positions of Dudu and Asan.

However, whether in terms of personal abilities or commanding battles, these two men are quite different from Du Du and Ah San.

The reason why Huang Taiji let them serve as the leaders of the Two Yellow Banners was because he really couldn't find anyone with stronger capabilities within the Two Yellow Banners.

Xianghuang Banner Gushan'e Zhenying Er led the edict, and immediately called his Han Army Banner Gushan'e Zhenma Guangyuan, ordered the Han Army Flag Artillery Battalion to bombard Jinzhou, and at the same time ordered five thousand Han troops to be ready to attack the city at any time.

"Rumble..."

Suddenly, there was a boom of artillery outside Jinzhou City. Thirty red cannons fired at the east wall of Jinzhou. The huge shells hit the city wall and bricks and stones flew into the air.

Guan Ning's army on Jinzhou City felt that the city walls were shaking under their feet, but they did not panic. Instead, under the command of their respective generals, they immediately turned the red artillery on the city to counterattack the Jiannu artillery position.

The Jiannu bombardment of Jinzhou could only bombard the city walls, but the red cannons on Jinzhou City were condescending and directly bombarded the Jiannu artillery positions...

The artillery battle between the two sides lasted for about an hour. The damage to Jinzhou City was not serious and was quickly repaired by craftsmen. However, half of the red cannons on the Jiannu artillery position were destroyed by the Ming army, and more than a hundred Han army artillery were also bombed into pieces.

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It can be said that Jiannu was defeated miserably after an artillery battle. Then Ma Guangyuan commanded the Han army to attack the city, but they were repulsed by the city's artillery and rolling logs and rocks.

It has to be said that in terms of city defense capabilities, few people can compare with Zu Dashou. Historically, Jinzhou City has never been attacked by Jiannu when it was isolated and helpless.

Seeing the fierceness of the red cannons at the top of Jinzhou City and their condescending bombardment of the Jiannu artillery positions, Ying Erdai and Ma Guangyuan decided to use the newly built twenty red cannons and gunpowder.

These twenty red-coated cannons were all recently produced, and the new gunpowders were also newly developed and have not yet participated in actual combat.

According to Kong Youde, this kind of gunpowder is more powerful and the artillery has a longer range. It is mainly used as a trump card for the slaves and will not be used easily.

In the previous artillery battle, Jiannu suffered a loss because the range of his artillery was not as good as that of the Ming army, and Ying'erdai was also badly beaten.

In order to intimidate the soldiers and civilians in Jinzhou City, they pulled up all twenty new red artillery pieces, set them up about 150 steps behind the original artillery position, and started bombarding the Jinzhou City Wall.

"Rumble..."

Twenty artillery shells violently bombarded the Jinzhou city wall, and five of them hit the city wall, crushing the crowd of Jinzhou soldiers and creating a path of blood...

The deputy general Zu Kuan who was defending here saw the position of the Jiannu artillery. He knew that the artillery range on the city could not pose a threat to the Jiannu artillery, so he hurriedly shouted:

"Jian Nu will not attack the city for the time being. Hurry and hide in the Tibetan Soldier Cave..."

Zu Kuan was originally just a captain of the Zu family's servants, but now he has been promoted to deputy general due to his military exploits, and he can be considered a battle-hardened general.

He gave the order, and the Ming troops on the city immediately went down to the city and hid in the Tibetan Soldier Cave to avoid the Jiannu bombardment. Once the bombardment was over, the dead soldiers would immediately go to the city to defend.

While they were hiding in the Tibetan Soldier Cave, twenty cannons from Jiannu kept bombarding Jinzhou City. Apart from blowing two big holes in the city wall, there were no casualties in the city.

"Rush..."

At the end of the bombardment, five thousand Han troops once again raised their ladders and rushed towards Jinzhou, and the rumble of cannons immediately rang out from the top of the city.

The Fran machine cannon and the red cannon sprayed shotgun shells together, and the Han troops rushing in front fell one by one with the sound of the cannon...

This feint attack caused the Han army to drop more than two hundred corpses. Seeing that the situation was not good, Ma Guangyuan hurriedly sent an order to withdraw his troops.

Huang Taiji's feint attack plan was originally very clever, but unfortunately there were too many artillery guns in Jinzhou City, which cost them more than 500 casualties, of which more than 200 were killed.

Ying Erdai immediately sent someone to report to Huang Taiji that the feint attack would increase unnecessary casualties and the Han army flag would be destroyed after a long feint attack. He hoped to start a full-scale attack on the city.

However, Huang Taiji's reply was to continue the feint attack. After each bombardment, he would attack again no matter whether it was effective or not. Seeing that the Ming army could retreat after firing the artillery, he wanted to make the Ming army defending the city collapse psychologically.

After the first day, Zu Dashou had already seen Huang Taiji's intention. He immediately sent an order and evaded when he saw Jiannu firing cannons. In order to save ammunition, he ignored a small number of people pretending to attack the Han army flag and focused on attacking Jiannu's main force to attack the city.

The back-and-forth between the enemy and ourselves continued like this for two days. The Ming army heard the roar of cannons at night and knew that Jiannu was attacking Jinzhou.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! But Jinzhou has been tightly besieged by the Jian Nu, and they cannot get close to Jinzhou at all. The only people who can contact the city now are the Jin Yiwei, who communicate through carrier pigeons.

On the way to Ningyuan, Zhu Cihong had received many messages from Fei Ge, so he could be said to know Jinzhou well.

It can be seen from the two-day offensive and defensive battle in Jinzhou that Huang Taiji wanted to anger the young and energetic Emperor Shenwu so that he could set up an ambush at Rufeng Mountain to call for reinforcements.

On April 5, Zhu Cixiang led his army to about five miles from Ningyuan City. Liaodong Governor Qiu Minyang, Ningyuan Commander-in-Chief Wu Sangui, Liaodong Commander-in-Chief Liu Zhaoji, Ningyuan Deputy Commander-in-Chief Jin Guofeng and others had been waiting here for a long time.

"Your Majesty, the Ningyuan and Liaodong generals ahead are here to greet you."

Li Fang received the report of not accepting orders at night and immediately reported the situation to Emperor Shenwu.

Zhu Cixiang felt very unhappy when he heard this. There was no need to go out to meet the enemy for five miles. Didn't he send a warning to the country at night? Why did he do this?

But thinking about it, he felt relieved again. The generals must have been very nervous when they learned that the emperor was coming to the city. It must be difficult for ministers to ask them to stay in the city and wait for the emperor's emperor to enter the city.

Although he no longer blamed these people in his heart, Zhu Cixiang did not intend to stop here to meet Ning Yuan's generals and said to Yue Yang:

"Yue Yang, go tell them that it is not advisable to stay on the road during the current war, and let them meet me at the governor's Yamen!"

"According to the order!"

Yue Yang received the order, immediately urged his horse forward, came to the front of the crowd and said loudly:

"His Majesty ordered that it is not advisable to stay on the road during the current war and lead the way to the governor's Yamen immediately!"

"According to the order!"

Qiu Minyang, Wu Sangui and others were stunned for a moment, but they quickly reacted and hurriedly bowed to receive the order. Then they mounted their horses and led the way, and the army slowly entered Ningyuan City.

The Shenwu special carriage stopped in front of the governor's office. Hu Bao jumped out of the carriage and quickly stood on a brocade stool in front of the carriage, and then helped Emperor Shenwu step out of the carriage.

Before everyone came forward to see him, they found another eunuch helping a middle-aged man to get out of the carriage. Wu Sangui and others had never seen Chongzhen and did not know that the person in front of them was the Supreme Emperor.

However, the governor of Liaodong, Qiu Minyang, Cai Maode and other civil officials recognized the Supreme Emperor at a glance, and they were immediately confused.

They didn’t know why Emperor Shenwu brought the Supreme Emperor with him on his personal expedition. Could it be that the Supreme Emperor was listening to politics behind the curtain? Impossible. With Emperor Shenwu’s strength, it was impossible for him to be a puppet...

In the governor's hall, Zhu Cixiang was sitting on the throne, and Emperor Chongzhen was sitting next to him. Qiu Minyang, Cai Maode and other civil servants were the first to come forward to see:

"See your majesty, see the emperor..."

Chongzhen just smiled and nodded at a few people, and Zhu Cixiang waved his hand:

"Pingsheng!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty, long live my emperor!"

Wu Sangui reacted very quickly and immediately stepped forward to prostrate himself:

"My lord, Ningyuan Commander-in-Chief Wu Sangui pays homage to Your Majesty and pays homage to the Supreme Emperor..."

After Wu Sangui, Ningyuan Deputy Commander-in-Chief Jin Guofeng, Liaodong Commander-in-Chief Liu Zhaoji and other generals came forward to prostrate themselves:

"I pay my respects to Your Majesty and the Supreme Emperor!"

Zhu Cihong looked at Wu Sangui. Wu Sangui was only twenty-five years old at this time. He was definitely a talented person. His appearance was both northern and southern.

The two bright eyebrows and a straight bridge of the nose on the fair face fully evoke the heroic demeanor of a man.

What is even more eye-catching is the calm and steady aura between the brows, which is like still water in a deep pool, wafting over people.

No matter what he does or what he says, people who don't know him will have a good impression of him!

Wu Sangui, also known as Changbo and Yuesuo, was a native of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty. His ancestral home was Gaoyou, Jiangnan. He was the son of Wu Xiang, the commander-in-chief of Jinzhou, and the nephew of his ancestor Dashou. He was a famous traitor in history.

During the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, he was the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, granted the title of Xibo, and guarded Shanhaiguan.

Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne and opened the martial arts examination to recruit scholars. Wu Sangui won the martial arts examination. Soon, Wu Sangui took his father Yin as the governor.

In the 17th year of Chongzhen's reign, he surrendered and became a slave. Together with Dorgon, he defeated Li Zicheng in the battle of Shanhaiguan and was granted the title of King of the West.

In the 16th year of Shunzhi, Wu Sangui guarded Yunnan, led troops into Myanmar, and forced the king of Myanmar to hand over Emperor Yongli of the Southern Ming Dynasty. In the first year of Kangxi, Wu Sangui personally killed Emperor Yongli of the Southern Ming Dynasty in Kunming.

For personal and family interests, after releasing the slaves into the customs, Wu Sangui went all out to kill the remaining anti-slave rebels in the northwest region.

During this period, Wu Sangui wanted to show his loyalty to being a slave.

He not only brutally suppressed the remnants of the peasant army, but also massacred cities at every turn.

Moreover, he spared no effort to kill all the descendants of Zhu Ming who had raised armies to resist the Qing Dynasty.

The changes in Wu Sangui's thoughts and actions made the central government of the slave establishment more dependent on him, and the remnants of the anti-establishment slave rebels in the northwest were wiped out.

Before the fall of the Ming Dynasty, Wu Sangui often bribed court officials in Beijing and provincial generals with large sums of money to benefit himself!
To be continued...