In the Qianqing Palace in the Forbidden City, Emperor Chongzhen convened the cabinet and some nobles with military power to discuss matters.
Wen Tiren reported to Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, the Later Jin Dynasty has more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, and has once again invaded northern Zhili and Shandong areas.
King Qin's imperial edict has been sent to various places, and Sun Chuanting, the governor of central Liaoning, and Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Henan, have both received orders and rushed to the capital."
Chongzhen is not worried about the safety of the capital. Now there are many red cannons in the capital to defend the city.
The main force of the Eight Banners soldiers did not move towards the capital.
He also has Huang Degong and Zhou Yuji, two discovered generals from the Beijing camp, who are training the firearms unit assiduously.
Chongzhen felt that he could defend the capital with only the Jingying camp and Hongyi artillery.
"My dear friends, Zhu Dadian, the governor of Shandong, has asked the imperial court for help. Jinan City has been besieged by Eight Banners soldiers."
Wen Tiren immediately said: "Your Majesty, we must rescue Jinan City immediately. Jinan City can survive in a short time.
If it is besieged by the Eight Banners soldiers for a long time, Jinan City may not be able to defend it."
"Cheng Guogong, can the Beijing camp go out of the city to rescue Jinan?"
Zhu Chunchen, Duke of Chengguo, was so frightened that he immediately knelt down.
"Your Majesty, I still need to lead the Beijing camp to guard the capital.
The capital cannot be compromised, and His Majesty's safety cannot be compromised."
Zhu Chunchen did not dare to take the Beijing camp out to fight.
Except for a few troops in the Beijing camp, most of the people are incompetent. Going out to fight in the city is just a matter of death.
Wen Tiren immediately said: "Your Majesty, the capital camp is of great importance and cannot be easily touched.
Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Henan, is about to arrive in the capital.
You can let him lead the Tianxiong Army to rescue Jinan City."
Emperor Chongzhen was also very optimistic about Lu Xiangsheng, and he immediately issued an imperial edict asking Lu Xiangsheng to rescue Jinan City.
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After Lu Xiangsheng received the imperial edict from King Qin, he immediately led the Tianxiong Army from Henan to the capital.
As soon as he entered the Northern Zhili region, he received another imperial edict from Emperor Chongzhen, asking him to relieve Nancheng.
Lu Xiangsheng collected the imperial edict and immediately rushed to Jinan City with the Tianxiong Army.
Along the way, he could rely on the imperial edict to ask other cities to replenish food and grass for him.
As the governor of Henan and the censor of Youqiandu, all the civil servants in major cities would give him face.
Lu Xiangsheng was not like some military generals, who could not even get food and grass in their hands.
The Tianxiong Army only needs to carry weapons and ammunition, and does not need to prepare a large amount of food and grass. It can march very fast.
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Huang Taiji sat in the carriage and listened to the battle reports from various places.
Zhengbai Banner tried to attack Jinan City, but failed to capture Jinan City after multiple attacks.
The Ming army defending Jinan City had very high morale.
They did not go out of the city to fight, and only relied on Jinan's thick city walls and firearms to defend the city.
The powerful field combat capabilities of the Eight Banners soldiers could not be used at all.
Huang Taiji found that Jinan City could not be captured for a long time, so he immediately changed his tactics.
Dorgon's troops were still trapped in Jinan City, holding back a large number of Ming troops in Shandong.
Azige, Yue Tuo and other Eight Banners troops swept through other cities in Shandong.
They have now captured most of the cities in Shandong and are attacking the remaining cities in Shandong.
Acquired more than half a million slaves and countless wealth.
The losses of the Xianghuang Banner can be made up for by the gains of this war.
The only regret is that we did not conquer Jinan City.
Only a big city like Jinan has exquisite firearms craftsmen.
The firearms craftsmen in other cities have very poor technical skills and can only make some simple firearms.
Only when the city of Qufu was destroyed, the Kong family behaved well and gave them a large amount of money and craftsmen.
"Great Khan, I have something important to report."
Huang Taiji opened the curtain of the carriage and asked, "Has the Ming army's support arrived?"
"Great Khan, Shanxi merchants sent someone to inform us.
Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Henan, led his Tianxiong Army to rescue Jinan City.
This Tianxiong Army is one of several firearms units in the Ming Dynasty."
Huang Taiji knocked on the armrest of the carriage with his hand.
He was thinking about how the Eight Banners Army should deal with the Tianxiong Army. The Ming Army equipped with firearms put too much pressure on him.
"Let Azige lead the troops to test the Tianxiong army. Use troops carefully and don't be reckless. The Han and Mongolian Eight Banners troops will be the main ones.
If you are unable to fight against the Tianxiong Army, use our army’s high mobility to get rid of the Tianxiong Army.”
Huang Taiji can only choose the most conservative style of play.
Send troops to test it first. The Tianxiong Army is very capable, so they will avoid its edge.
Use the speed of the cavalry to throw away the Tianxiong army.
The Tianxiong army is just an empty frame, they will swarm up and destroy this Ming army.
The Tianxiong Army only has more than 30,000 people, and their Eight Banners soldiers have more than 100,000 people.
Huang Taiji will not swarm him. If the casualties are too great, he will avoid his sharp edge.
They had already lost the Xianghuang Banner and could not afford to lose too many Eight Banners soldiers.
The 30,000 Tianxiong troops were completely wiped out. If the Eight Banners soldiers lost more than 5,000, Huang Taiji would be extremely heartbroken.
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When Lu Xiangsheng entered Shandong, he immediately became vigilant.
Most of Houjin's soldiers and horses are cavalry and may attack Tianxiong's army at any time.
He sent out scouts from the Tianxiong Army to always pay attention to the surrounding situation.
Not long after they entered Shandong, Tan Ma discovered an important situation.
"Reporting to your lord, we have found Eight Banners soldiers and horses ahead, approximately 20,000 of them."
Lu Xiangsheng was not surprised at all. The Eight Banners soldiers were attacking Jinan City fiercely, and they were good at field combat.
A common tactic used by the Eight Banners soldiers was to besiege a city and recruit reinforcements.
The average Ming army did not dare to fight with the Eight Banners soldiers outside the city.
Generals who dare to do this will basically fail.
The title of being completely invincible at the eighth level is indeed achieved by them fighting with one sword.
When Lu Xiangsheng thought of this, he thought with great confidence: "Before the Eight Banners Soldiers, I had never encountered the Tianxiong Army."
He is a man who knows soldiers. He has seen the Guan Ning Army, the strongest army in the Ming Dynasty.
It was hard to describe this army, and he felt that its name was not worthy of its name.
Lu Xiangsheng commanded the Tianxiong army and immediately began to form an array.
To deal with the cavalry, he adopted the method used by the yellow-robed thieves to deal with Guan Ning's army.
This tactic has proven to the world that it is simple and effective to use this tactic against cavalry.
Lu Xiangsheng does not have that luxury and specializes in custom-made iron box cars.
He directly asked people to place the heavy vehicles, mainly those transporting grain and grass, at the front of the team.
The musketeers and artillerymen hid behind the grain trucks, preparing to deal with the Eight Banners' attack.
The Tianxiong Army had already laid out the battlefield, and soon saw an elite cavalry arriving here.
Azig looked at the Tianxiong army in front who had already arranged their formation.
He had never been hit by a firearm before, but he also knew that firearms were very powerful.
He believed that he could not compete with Dorgon as a leader, and that he and Hauge were equally powerful.
Dorgon and Hauge both suffered greatly from firearms.
Azig was more prepared to be more prudent. He directly sent the Mengba Banner to tentatively attack the Tianxiong Army.
He specifically instructed the generals of the Meng Eight Banners to use bows and arrows to test the shooting range of the Ming army's firearms, and never to charge into the formation.
The Eight Banners of Mongolia began to attack the Tianxiong Army.
They did not dare to rush into the formation and tested the surroundings of the Tianxiong Army's formation.
Lu Xiangsheng saw the Eight Banners soldiers wandering outside the military formation, and he understood what these Eight Banners soldiers meant.
They were testing the range of the Tianxiong Army's muskets.
He sneered in his heart, these Eight Banners soldiers were too naive.
It's not the muskets that have the longest range. There are many cannons in the army.
He has always been obsessed with cannons, especially Hongyi cannons.
After rescuing Luoyang, Lu Xiangsheng's idea became even more profound when he saw the Hongyi cannon at the top of Luoyang city.
After Henan was stabilized, he immediately summoned all the outstanding craftsmen in Henan and asked Emperor Chongzhen to mobilize a group of outstanding craftsmen.
A local firearms workshop was established in Henan to produce some muskets and Hongyi cannons.
The skills of Henan's craftsmen are not weak, but Henan's smelting technology is not good and there is no way to smelt qualified iron.
Lu Xiangsheng could only retreat and learn from the early practices of the yellow robed thieves and cast a batch of bronze cannons.
These bronze cannons are very expensive to make, but they are worth the money and they are very powerful.
"Sir, we can't fire our cannons now. The Eight Banners soldiers' bows and arrows can already hit us.
Our muskets failed to hit the Eight Banners soldiers.
If we continue like this, we will only be beaten passively, and the morale of the soldiers will easily collapse."
Lu Xiangsheng waved his hand and said: "Wait a little longer and let more Eight Banners soldiers enter the range of the cannon shot.
We will fire a single salvo to maim and beat up the Eight Banners soldiers, so that we can liberate Nancheng."
Azig was very happy when he saw that his tactics were successful, and the firearms were nothing more than that.
As long as you master the distance and take advantage of their bows and arrows, it is not difficult at all to defeat the Ming army.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Continuous loud noises came from the Ming army's military formation.
Pieces of gunpowder smoke arose in the sky above the Ming army's military formation, and soon formed a white cloud, making it difficult to see clearly the situation of the Ming army's military formation.
Azig did not care about the situation of the Ming army's military formation. He saw the Eight Banners of Mongolia as if they were harvesting wheat.
They stumbled and fell off their horses.
Many horses were in miserable condition, with blood holes all over their bodies, lying on the ground whining.
The Ming army's counterattack directly cost him more than three Niulu.
The Meng Eight Banners that attacked the Ming Army were directly destroyed by the Ming Army's artillery.
Lu Xiangsheng saw that the formation of the Eight Banners soldiers was in chaos after being shelled.
Azig saw the sharp weapons of the Ming army and immediately withdrew his troops.
He sent out cavalry and kept wandering near the Ming army's formation, trying to find the weak points of the Tianxiong army.
The Tianxiong Army and the Eight Banners Soldiers continued to confront each other.
Lu Xiangsheng saw that the two armies were facing off for a long time. He wanted to rescue Jinan City and there was no way to delay it here.
He issued an order: "The entire army will form a combat formation and march towards Jinan. Always be alert to the attack of the Eight Banners soldiers."
The Tianxiong army quickly formed a formation, with two rows of spearmen at the front, carrying spears more than three meters long.
These spears can effectively withstand cavalry attacks.
Behind the spearmen were musketeers in groups of three.
They held their muskets and were ready to shoot and kill the enemy from the gaps between the spearmen.
If the cavalry wants to get close to the military formation, it must withstand at least three rounds of musket fire.
The Tianxiong Army formation moves very slowly, so be alert to the surrounding situation.
When Azig saw that the Ming army couldn't bear it, he stepped out of his turtle shell.
After the previous tests, he had discovered that there was no way to arrange artillery positions while the army was marching.
When Azig found the fighter plane, he immediately dispatched an Eight Banners soldier Niulu with five Mongolian Eight Banners Niulu to attack the marching Ming army.
They bent their bows and arrows on horseback and launched an attack on Tianxiong's army.
They have tested out that the shooting distance of the Ming Army's muskets will always remain outside the range of the Ming Army's muskets.
After they fired a round of arrows, many people from the Tianxiong army fell, but more people were added to the formation.
The Ming army's muskets had only a slightly shorter range than the Eight Banners soldiers' bows and arrows.
After the Eight Banners soldiers finished shooting their arrows, their horses ran forward before the second arrow could be fired.
Lu Xiangsheng ordered the Tianxiong Army to attack the Eight Banners soldiers.
The Tianxiong army marched in neat steps and began to attack the Eight Banners soldiers.
The Eight Banners soldiers entered the range of the Tianxiong Army's muskets.
Azig's eyes widened. He did not expect that the Ming army would dare to attack the Eight Banners soldiers.
The whistle blown by the general of Tianxiong Army.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
In three consecutive waves, a large number of lead bullets were fired at the Eight Banners soldiers' formation.
After the musketeer in the front row fired the trigger, he immediately stepped back, and the musketeers in the rear who had already loaded their ammunition began to fire in succession.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
After three more waves of shooting, more Eight Banners soldiers fell.
The Tianxing Army's troops are of very high quality and they face the cavalry attack.
The soldiers around him kept falling down after being hit by arrows, and the officers and soldiers of the Tianxiong Army remained calm.
He also mastered the tactics of queuing to kill very well. The entire army formation was not scattered at all and the attack was carried out in an orderly manner.
Azig saw that three Niulu had been beaten and disabled, and he finally saw the power of the Ming army's firearms.
Woo! Woo! Woo!
The retreat horn sounded, and the remaining Eight Banners soldiers immediately withdrew from the battlefield.
Azig carefully considered the battle loss ratio, excluding the Ming army's shelling.
The Eight Banners soldiers fought head-on with the Ming army, and the battle loss ratio was close to one to one.
An Eight Banners soldier can replace a Ming army.
This strategy is too bad. Even the Eight Banners of Mongolia are more valuable than the Ming army.
The number of Han people is simply too great, resulting in this battle loss ratio.
Even if the Eight Banners soldiers, from old to young, all went to the battlefield, they would not be able to defeat the Ming Dynasty.
Azig immediately retreated with the Eight Banners soldiers.
They are all cavalry, and it is very easy to withdraw from the battlefield.
Lu Xiangsheng saw the Eight Banners soldiers retreating, so he left part of the army behind to clean up the battlefield.
Gather your own wounded soldiers and corpses, and cut off the heads of all the Eight Banners soldiers.
These are all military exploits. The Ming army's military exploits only recognized the enemy's heads. The true Tatars' military exploits and silver rewards were extremely large.
The main force continued to advance towards Jinan City.
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Huang Taiji watched Azighui report the situation.
“It’s really not possible to achieve this record.
The number of the Ming army is much greater than ours, and we cannot compete with the Ming army for consumption.
Jinan City is too strong and has not been captured yet.
Our current methods of fighting against the Ming Army's firearms units and sieges are somewhat inferior.
Send me the order to have all the troops begin to retreat.
Dorgon finally retreated and used Jinan City to hold back the Tianxiong army so that we could retreat calmly with our slaves and baggage."
The Eight Banners soldiers who attacked various parts of Shandong began to retreat under Huang Taiji's order.
Their attack on the Ming Dynasty this time basically achieved the purpose of the war except for Jinan.
The harvest this time was huge, and now that Ming Dynasty has reacted, it is time to harvest as soon as possible.
The Ming court saw that the Eight Banners troops were defeated and retreated, and the Tianxiong Army achieved a great victory.
They immediately mobilized King Qin's troops to intercept the Eight Banners soldiers and block them in the pass.
In addition to the Guan Ning Army led by Sun Chuanting, many bodies of Eight Banners soldiers were left behind.
The other Ming troops encountered the Eight Banners soldiers' attack and were defeated in one blow.
They were directly killed by the Eight Banners soldiers.
Huang Taiji followed the road he came from, took a large number of baggage and slaves, and retreated outside the pass calmly.
He looked at the people captured this time.
The population this time includes only young men and women.
They captured a large number of craftsmen.
The craftsmen donated by the Confucius family in Qufu City were talented in making firearms.
The Eight Banners must master firearms in order to survive in this era.
Huang Taiji felt a little worried about the future of the Eight Banners.
Even if these craftsmen can reach the highest level of the Ming Dynasty.
There is still a huge gap between the firearms they manufacture and those of the thieves in yellow.
