The same is true in the south. The Tiance Army's Lingbao tactics caused the Later Jin Dynasty to suffer enough. Not only was it difficult to chew, but there was no gain after chewing it. At most, it pushed the display along the Yalu River.

Li Tai in the northeast was doing a good job, but after the weather turned cold, the military operations basically stopped. After all, it was difficult to walk, let alone fight.

The only possibility is to use troops to Jinzhou, which is the place Huang Taiji dreamed of chewing.

Therefore, under the co-sponsorship of Qin Zhiyuan and Cheng Xikong, Bai Yunlong also began to prepare for war.

In addition to the Fourth Legion, which was originally stationed in Jinzhou, one battalion of artillery was also added from Shandong, and two battalions of cavalry were removed from the Third Fifth Legion, strengthening Jinzhou's defense, and expanding the defense force on the front line of Jinzhou to 40,000.

In addition, a large amount of cement was transported to strengthen the defense capabilities of cities in Jinzhou, allowing Huang Taiji to repeat Nurhaci's mistakes.

Normally, the defense of 40,000 troops and the cement-reinforced cities have sufficient food and grass reserves, as well as sufficient artillery and ammunition. Even if the Tartars come to 100,000 troops, it will not be a problem to support them for half a year.

However, Huang Taiji came prepared this time, not only brought a hundred thousand troops, but also nearly a hundred red cannons.

There was no news about this batch of red and barbarian cannons earlier. Most of the time, Huang Taiji ordered secret castings by Huang Taiji. After all, Geng Zhongming ran away from Tiger Mountain in Laizhou and took away the craftsmen in the army. If Huang Taiji was willing to pay the capital, he would have cast a batch of red and barbarian cannons in more than a year. In addition, what Geng Zhongming had brought over and seized from Lushun, it would be enough to form an artillery unit composed of hundreds of cannons.

Although the Red Cannon was bulky, Huang Taiji had enough troops to support the formation and was still brought to Jinzhou area. Huang Taiji was not anxious and used these cannons to blast open these cities one by one.

So far, Baiyunlong has given up five castles. According to time, these red-clothed cannons should have arrived at Jinzhou City, so Cheng Xikong said that Jinzhou is in urgent need.

After listening to what Cheng Xikong told, Kong Youde also took a breath of air. Huang Taiji is worthy of being a master of humanity and has such courage and insight.

I have to say that this time Huang Taiji launched a large-scale attack on the Jinzhou defense line, which was indeed quite pressured on the Tiance Army.

Not to mention anything else, just the timing of their choice can be said to be an excellent opportunity. Not to mention that this attack happened when I left Shandong. Even if I was still in Shandong, this time point would be quite beneficial to them.

Although the Bohai Sea has become the inner lake of the Tiance Army, it does not mean that the inner lake is always unobstructed. In late November, the northern area of ​​the Bohai Sea will gradually freeze. Although they are all near the coastline, the widest ice area can extend to a distance of fifty miles.

The navy of Guanning Army was frozen in the port of Juehua Island. Huang Taiji, who had been attacked by Ning for a long time, led his troops and horses to attack Juehua Island from the ice. Hundreds of warships burned all of them.

There have been no icebreaker these days, and it is difficult for warships to enter it. If you enter it rashly, it will probably end up with the Guanning Army Navy in the end.

The relationship between the Tiance Army and the court will inevitably not allow the Tiance Army to take land, pass by Shanhaiguan, the Liaoxi Corridor to reinforce Jinzhou, and even the Ming army in Ningyuan will not come back to assist. In other words, as long as December enters, Jinzhou City will become a completely lonely city.

Coupled with the red-clothed cannons that spent a lot of resources to build, this war was quite beneficial to Huang Taiji.

But Kong Youde was still a little worried when he left Bai Yunlong alone to resist Huang Taiji. He had nothing to do with work at hand, so he decided to go to Jinzhou to take charge in person.

Taking advantage of the beginning of the ice season, he could use the fleet he brought back to transport a group of soldiers and supplies. Since Huang Taiji had invested a lot of money, he naturally could not get what he wanted.

Of course, in addition to the frontal battlefield, we must also put pressure on Huang Taiji's back.

Jinzhouwei, Lushunkou.

As the end of November approached, the north wind was whistling, and it seemed particularly cold, but at this time there was a small team of cavalry, leading war horses, patrolling slowly by the sea.

Since half a year ago, the Fifth Fleet of the Tiance Army destroyed the Later Jin Navy in Yaozhou Port and captured the Haizhou Guard. A nail was embedded in the hinterland of the Tatars, and the Tatars strengthened their defense against Jinzhou Guards, Fuzhou Guards, Xuancheng and other important military cities near the seaside.

After Huang Taiji launched an attack on Jinzhou, these cities also began to send patrols, patrolling the seaside day and night to prevent the Tiance army from landing from these places and threatening the safety of Shenyang.

This team of cavalry has a total of five people, one Tartar and four Han troops. This is a common configuration of the patrol team.

Huang Taiji gathered most of his troops to attack Jinzhou, and there was not much defensive force used in these cities. If even the patrol teams used real Tartars, there would definitely be insufficient manpower. If they used all the Han army or the Korean minion army, they were worried that they would be lazy, so they came up with such a configuration.

Suddenly, the leading Tartar felt something was wrong and subconsciously looked towards the sea.

Not long after, he found some black dots on the sea surface, which were too far away to see clearly, but these black dots were obviously not ordinary seabirds or something. Gradually, these black dots gradually expanded under his gaze, showing the outline of the ship.

As time goes by, these ships become clearer and clearer.

"No, it's a warship!"

Several Han soldiers shouted in horror.

And the only Tartars knew that this must be the warship of the Tiance Army. Without thinking, the Dajin naval army had been completely destroyed. The Ming navy had not seen it for more than a year, and the only ones that could be seen were the warships of the Tiance Army.

After a rough count, there were almost twenty ships. It was obvious that the Tiance army launched an attack.

"You guys stay and continue to monitor the movements of the enemy ship!"

After the Tartar issued orders to several Han troops, they rode on war horses and ran north with a whip.

Their mission is to discover the enemy's traces as soon as possible so as not to be sneak attacked in the city. Nearly twenty warships appeared on the sea, and the target was undoubtedly the Golden State Acropolis.

As for how to fight back when the enemy comes, it is not something that he, a soldier, needs to consider. What he needs to do is to report the news to Mr. Beile in the city as soon as possible.

At this time, the ones that appeared on the sea were naturally the warships of the Tiance Army, but there were only five warships in the fleet, and the rest were all transport ships. The two battalions of the Second Division of the Dongjiang Legion were led by the division commander Wu Kejin.

This time their action was to take advantage of the emptiness of the rear of the Tartars to take down Lushun. If the war goes well, they can also take advantage of the situation to attack Fuzhou Guards, so that Huang Taiji could not attack Jinzhou with all his might.

Although the Tiance Army had already had many battles on the Yalu River front line, the road to the hinterland of the Later Jin Dynasty such as Chenyang and Liaoyang was not easy to walk, and it was basically all mountains. Huang Taiji also adopted a defensive move to build a city at important intersections to block the Tiance Army's attack.

If you attack from Jiuliancheng and Yizhou City to Shenyang, it will not only take time and effort, but also have great casualties, and some of them will not be worth the cost.

The attack from Lushun is different. The terrain of the Jinfuhai-gai line is somewhat similar to the Liaoxi Corridor. The terrain near the seaside is flat, while the east is full of mountains. The Gaizhou Guard has already taken it. However, now it is basically a defensive situation. If the Jinzhou Guard is successfully captured and the Fuzhou Guard is attacked by the north and south, this large area will become the territory of the Tiance Army. Going north will be a flat Liaodong Plain, which is enough to pose a huge threat to Chenyang.

"Come on, prepare to log in!"

Looking at the land that appeared in sight, Wu Kejin calmly ordered, and clenched his fists.

He also discovered the Tartars who were going back to deliver letters on the shore through the telescope, but he didn't take it seriously. If these Tartars took the initiative, it would be more suitable for him. The firepower of the five warships would be enough to let them have a good drink.

The landing location they chose was Lushunkou, which was the Dalian Lushunkou District in later generations. However, this Lushunkou actually refers to the name of the bay. In the fourth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, sent two generals Ma Yun and Ye Wang to lead an army from Penglai to cross the sea to land here and recover Liaodong. Because the sea journey was smooth, the Shizikou was renamed Lushunkou and continued to be used to the present.

"Let the landing ship!"

Wu Kejin ordered loudly.

Because the navy that the Tatars finally got was wiped out, there was no need to retain the port, but instead it was convenient for the Tiance Army to launch an attack, so the Tatars destroyed all the original ports along the coast, increasing the difficulty of landing.

However, the Tiance Army itself had a landing ship, and performed well when attacking Zheng Zhilong's fort during the southern expedition, so naturally he brought a lot of them this time.

The soldiers quickly boarded the landing ship held behind the large ship. Two soldiers controlled the sails, and the rest paddled with their hands and quickly approached the land.

During this process, there was no situation where the large Tartar troops came to block the attack, and the landing process was quite smooth.

Wu Kejin also landed closely, and the fleet was continued to be commanded by Zheng Zhilong. The muzzles of the five warships were aimed at the road from Jinzhou Acropolis to Lushunkou. Even if the Tatar cavalry came over, they could fire their guns and support them immediately.

However, when all the soldiers of the two battalions landed, they could not see the Tartars. In order to be on the safe side, Wu Kejin distributed fifty people to the two hundred cavalry who were finally transported to investigate as a vanguard, and could react if there was an unexpected situation.

Next, Wu Kejin began to command the launching artillery to go ashore. These damn Tartars destroyed the port, which not only made people trouble landing, but also made the artillery to go ashore ashore a huge problem. Even if the total weight of the Yunfei cannon was only over one thousand kilograms, the large ship could not dock and could only move slowly with the landing boat.

It took a full two hours to thirty-six Yunfei cannons from three artillery squadrons to be transported ashore without any accidents.

Landing operations have always been a complex issue, especially for the Dongjiang Legion, which is more like the army. People, war horses, artillery, ammunition, food, etc. are not careless. After getting these things done, Wu Kejin was so tired that he sat on the ground.

At this time, the cavalry sent out to investigate were rewarded, the three cities in Muchengyi, Tucheng, and Jinzhou Zhongqiansuo were all abandoned by the Tatars, destroying the city and destroying the main roads along the way.

These cities were abandoned, which was not beyond Wu Kejin's expectations. These three cities were close to the seaside, basically no more than two miles, and were within the range of the artillery of the Tiance Army. When Guo Huaiyi led his army to destroy the Tatar Navy, he had shelled the Tatar cities along the coast one by one. Although the results of the battle were not many, the Tatars were still scared.

There is no way, now we can only fill the roads that have been bumpy and lead the army forward. The two hundred cavalry, all scattered into a team of ten people, seeking the enemy in front to avoid ambushing the enemy.

The area they are now located is a peninsula to the west of Jinzhou Acropolis. It is more than 60 miles long from east to west and nearly thirty miles wide from north to south. Although the three cities have been destroyed, it is difficult to ensure that there are no ambush in the mountains and forests. It is always right to be cautious.

The army continued to advance. By the evening, it finally left the mountains. There was a large plain in front of it, and the area behind it had already been searched, let alone the Tartars, there was not even a single figure.

Although these places are mainly mountainous land, there are still some land that can be cultivated, but there is no one figure, and only some dead bones means that the residents here will either be forcibly moved to the inland or killed.

The next morning, the army set out to set off eastward and approached Jinzhou Guard.

Less than ten miles after hiking, a scout reported that the Tartars in the Jinzhou Acropolis had left the city.

Wu Kejin came to the top of the mountain and looked around and saw that there were indeed a large group of cavalry on the plain in front of him.

Judging from the banner, most of them are inlaid with blue flags, and of course there are also a small number of inlaid with yellow and blue flags. The number of cavalry is about 2,000. Of course, not all of them are Taurus cavalry, but also Mongolian cavalry and Han cavalry.

The two sides walked towards each other and soon arrived at a location of more than five miles.

"The artillery is in place!"

Wu Kejin ordered loudly that the distance was almost the same. When the artillery was arranged, the Tartar cavalry should enter the range.

The installation of the Yunfei Cannon was not complicated, and the soldiers quickly completed all preparations.

"fire!"

With Wu Kejin's order, the soldiers ignited the leads at the same time, and thirty-six artillery guns sprayed out pieces of shells.

As soon as the flowering bullets were launched, the carriers had huge kinetic energy. They crossed the sky less than three miles and flew toward the approaching Tartar cavalry.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"

Each shot that falls among the Tartar cavalry can overturn several cavalry, and the loud noise caused by the explosion frightens some war horses, breaks away from control, and throws the Tartars on their backs off.

However, it was more than three miles away and had no test shots, and the hit rate was only about half. However, even so, after this round of artillery bombardment, there were fifty or sixty Tartars, with significant results.
Chapter completed!