Liaodong was filled with jungles, and places where 1,800 people could be hidden everywhere. However, since the Qing army occupied Xingshan and Tashan, in order to prevent the Ming army from rescuing the defenders trapped in Songshan and Jinzhou, camps and forts were built on the main roads. It is impossible for the army to bypass these forts and go deep into the Songjin line.

Others can't do it, and Lu Xiangsheng is the same.

At first, the total defenders of Song and Jin cities had nearly 50,000, and there was no worry about food and grass at that time. If they had worked together to break out, there might be some variables in Jinzhou, but there was absolutely no problem with the 30,000 soldiers in Songshan City withdrawing from the sea. However, the court was unwilling to give up Songshan and Jinzhou, and Zu Dashou was unwilling to leave the dead city of Jinzhou for personal gain.

Until now, Jinzhou surrendered after the food was exhausted, and Songshan immediately fell into the point where the food was exhausted. When it reached this situation, Lu Xiangsheng became the supervisor, and was a little disappointed and could only try his best to make his final attempt.

He selected 800 elite cavalry from the army, divided them into several batches, and advanced along different paths towards Jinzhou. Some were short and could reach the designated location in one or two days, while others were long and took seven or eight days.

Just like the group led by Lu Xiangsheng, there were 400 people, which was the most. After they came out of Tashan, they headed northward and climbed Hongluo Mountain. Then they walked northeast, crossed the two rivers, the Da Er River and the Xiaoling River, and finally went through difficulties to reach Dasheng Fort in the northwest of Jinzhou.

After traveling for so long, the Qing army was not discovered. This should really be thanked to the rebellion of the Chahar tribe in Mongolia and the pressure brought to the Qing army by the Ming army's hard fighting on the Tashan front for many days.

Most of the local Mongolian troops were either transferred to the Chahar tribe to counter the rebellion or to the Tashan front line, causing serious emptiness of the troops behind the Qing army. Many of the remaining troops were stationed on those avenues, resulting in no attention from those trails.

Lu Xiangsheng raided the Dasheng Fort, with only dozens of old and weak inside, and was captured without any resistance. Lu Xiangsheng stayed here for a day and night, and sent soldiers to wear Qing army clothes to contact Ming soldiers scattered in other places. In order to prevent the leak, the destinations of each soldier were not far away, but different.

By the night when Hong Chengchou made a breakthrough, Lu Xiangsheng had gathered more than 700 soldiers. Only a few dozen people were discovered by the Qing army on the way to come and fled into the dense forest and could not arrive on time.

Lu Xiangsheng gathered the information brought by various Ming troops and was surprised to find that Dorgon transferred all the cavalry in Jinzhou to Songshan. His first feeling was that the matter was exposed, but Dorgon probably didn't know about his coming to Jinzhou, otherwise he would not have transferred all the cavalry to Songshan.

After thinking hard, Lu Xiangsheng decided to continue to follow the original plan to disrupt the surrounding areas of Jinzhou to restrain the Qing army. However, he was a little bolder than the original plan, because he decided to seize Jinzhou directly.

Jinzhou was run by Zu Dashou for many years, and the city was tall and strong. The Qing army returned in a desperate situation after attacking many times. In the end, they could only adopt the tactic of siege, which lasted more than two years. Two months ago, the city's food was exhausted and people were fed. Zu Dashou, the chief general in the city, chose to surrender in desperation.

He himself and his sons were sent to Chenyang by Dorgon and detained there by Huang Taiji as hostages. Many of his old subordinates were assigned to the Qing army as their original positions. Although some were sent to Songshan and Tashan fronts, most of them remained in Jinzhou City.

There were still 7,000 or 8,000 people in Jinzhou City. The Qing army did not trust them and did not dare to use them boldly. They adopted the general method of dealing with surrendered generals, divided and won over them, and used some generals who were interested in them. For the others, they used the method of transferring them from their military posts and trying their best to suppress them. They also left a large number of troops in Jinzhou City to prevent them from causing trouble again.

Originally, there were five thousand Qing troops, three thousand infantry soldiers, two thousand cavalry soldiers in the city, and two thousand cavalry soldiers on the periphery to completely shock the surrendered soldiers in Jinzhou City. However, Dorgon later transferred all the cavalry soldiers, which means that there were only three thousand infantry soldiers left in the city at this moment, and the number was far less than that of the newly surrendered Zu Dashou soldiers.

In Lu Xiangsheng's eyes, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Although I don't know what happened in Songshan, if I could take down Jinzhou, it would be more fake than attacking anywhere, which would disturb the Qing army.

The only problem is that Lu Xiangsheng had only more than 700 soldiers under his command. He used more than 700 soldiers to attack tens of thousands of Qing troops that could not be captured for many years. This was undoubtedly a huge risk. Not to mention the huge gap in military strength, it is not clear whether the Ming troops that had surrendered had completely obeyed the Qing army.

Lu Xiangsheng was unwilling to deceive the soldiers and reported the details to him. But what moved him was that several generals hesitated and expressed their support first. With their statements, other soldiers at the bottom of the country enthusiastically supported him. Even Lu Xiangsheng was willing to spare no effort as the supervisor, so what else could they say?

More than 700 soldiers rode southward and galloped all the way to the city of Jinzhou.

After they arrived, countless torches were lit around the city, which shocked the sound, causing countless Ming troops to come. The cavalry and the cavalry held torches and the banner of Lu, running back and forth around Jinzhou City, shouting loudly the slogans that the Commander Lu had arrived.

The general under Lu Xiangsheng, Zu Kuan, rode forward, illuminated his face with a torch, shouted loudly the names of the original ancestral generals in the city, and asked them to open the city gate immediately and welcome the commander Lu into the city.

Zu Kuan was originally a slave of Zu Dashou's family. Because of his bravery and fighting skills, he was promoted to the position of deputy general. Because he was unruly and could not control others, he always worked under Lu Xiangsheng. After Lu Xiangsheng was dismissed, he was also demoted for his crimes. Later, Lu Xiangsheng became the governor and had no generals around him, so he transferred him to his side.

Many generals of the ancestral division in the city knew Zu Kuan, and even knew that he was playing under Lu Xiangsheng. At this moment, he suddenly appeared outside Jinzhou City. Although he didn't know how they got here, Lu Xiangsheng was undoubtedly outside the city. It is conceivable how much shock this sudden change caused in their hearts.

Although each of the four sects of Jinzhou was composed of some Qing generals, the soldiers were still the original soldiers of the ancestral division, and the one who directly ruled them was the original generals of the ancestral division.

When the Qing generals on the head of the city saw Zu Kuan disrupting the morale of his own army, they ordered them to fire their guns and bombard Zu Kuan. However, they were panicked and were a little dissatisfied with the Qing army, not only refused to obey the orders, but also held swords at the Qing soldiers who tried to approach the artillery.
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