Huang Taiji was suddenly killed by Liu Jiye on the battlefield of Liaohe, leaving behind a difficult issue of inheritance of the throne. Originally, Huang Taiji's eldest son Prince Su Haoge had the greatest possibility of inheritance, but after the three Dorgon brothers interfered with it, the royal family finally reached a compromise, which neither allowed Haoge to take the throne, but also prevented Dorgon from competing for the throne. In the end, Huang Taiji's three-year-old ninth son Fulin succeeded to the throne.

Originally, the emperor suddenly died in battle, so he naturally should choose the older and good-for-war Haoge to succeed him. However, the three Dorgon brothers were strong and firmly opposed it. They used cunning methods at the election meeting, which ultimately led to the throne falling to Fulin.

Shangsanqi barely accepted this result, and Lianghong and Inlaid Blue Flags barely accepted it, and in the end, only Haoge was cheated.

In fact, everyone understands that Fulin is now just a puppet emperor. If it weren't for Liu Jiye's army surrounding Chenyang, the throne would never have fallen to Fulin. Although Fulin was elected as the emperor, the power of the court was actually in the hands of the four auxiliary princes.

It is still based on their strength, the four princes control the government, and the three Dorgon brothers are still the strongest. The two yellow flags, which were originally personally led by Huang Taiji, are now handed over to Prince Ying Ajige to temporarily take over the banner owner, and the Yinghuang flag is handed over to Prince Jie Luo Luohun, the eldest son of Daishan's deceased eldest son Yue Tuo, as the banner owner.

In this way, the three brothers of Dorgon mastered the two white and Zhenghuang flags, while the two grandson masters of Dai Shan mastered the two red and inlaid red flags, and the strongest strength was. With the two blue flags, Prince Su Haoge still mastered the two blue flags, and Prince Zheng Jiergalang mastered the inlaid blue flag.

Dorgon and Dai Shan, one old and one young, divided the two yellow flags. Of course, the new emperor, who was only three years old, could not control it, nor could the two empress dowagers. Jirgalang has always been weak, and even if he dared to be angry, he would not dare to speak out. He was left with Haoge, and even if he was angry, no one would pay attention.

Liu Jun originally planned to take down Shenyang before the Qing army returned to aid.

However, the actual situation far exceeded the plan's expectations. After the Later Jin Dynasty seized Shenyang, it moved the capital here and operated it here for many years. It had been very stable. Not to mention that the city of Shenyang is high and the walls are strong, there are countless city and fortresses on the periphery of Shenyang.

In addition, the cold weather and the continuous rain and snow of days hindered Liu Jun's plan to siege.

At this time, the people in the world were mobilizing in full regardless of the rain and snow.

More than 300 Niulu of the Eight Banners, plus the four Han army flags and hundreds of Niulu of the Eight Mongolian Banners, were also urgently mobilized. In the past, each Niulu only recruited a few or even twenty or thirty people. This time, not only were the armors of each Niulu of the Manchu and Han Dynasty, but even the other young and strong bannermen were summoned, and even the young and strong slaves of the bannermen of the bannermen were summoned.

The most elite armored men gathered and rushed to Chenyang to serve the king, and some of them were stationed in big cities such as Fushun, while ordinary flagists and young men guarded some important places around them. The villages and forts in various places were only guarded by the elderly and the weak and women.

Facing the Southern Dynasty Chu army that killed Huang Taiji and facing this army with the nine-headed bird flag, the Qing Dynasty was extremely afraid. This was the first time since Nurhaci started the army, they were so afraid of a Ming army.

Although the Qing army mobilized urgently, the forts from Liaoyang to Chenyang were still falling one after another. Those fortresses could not resist the attacks of the Ming army with many light and heavy artillery, and they could not last for a day each time.

Huangniwa Fort, Lannipu Fort, Wang Daren Fort, Chiyutu Fort, Wujingying, Zhangyi Station, Shilihe Station, Shaling Fort, Fengji Fort, Dashiqiao Fort, Ping'an Fort, Jingyan Fort, Pingluo Fort, Baitapu and other forts were successively destroyed.

The army along the Liao River, Hashu River, Hun River, Taizi River, and Chu advance along the way, just like bulldozers. All the castles blocking the front were broken one by one. And the four adapted troops of Kong Youde and his team spread out everywhere, following the Jiutou.

The Chu army only attacked those castles, and the remaining villages and villages were all handed over to these surrendered soldiers to sweep. With Liu Jun's plundering permit order, these surrendered soldiers fully utilized their plundering skills, burned and killed all the way, and seriously implemented the three-light strategy of killing and burning everything in the Liaochen area.

The Liaoshen area is full of plains.

Except for leaving a few castles on the Hunhe line between Liaoyang and Chenyang, Liu Jun destroyed all the other castles after they were captured.

After the army swept through the forts and arrived in Chenyang, Liu Jun stationed troops at Shaling Fort, Dashiqiao Fort and Pingluo Fort on the west side of Chenyang, and did not implement the plan of siege on all sides.

There are one army garrison in each fortress, and one motorized army is added. Outside Shenyang City, the Chu army has less than 20,000. In addition, 20,000 troops are reorganized and surrendered to build strong walls and clear the fields around the surrounding areas and collect food and grass.

On the first day of December, Dashiqiao Fort, 20 miles west of Chenyang City.

On the fort, the nine-headed bird flag fluttered high, flew in the wind.

A group of Chu troops with distinctive armors rode their horses into and out of the fort gate from time to time. These cavalry were all light cavalry directly under the command of Liaodong Town. Since they arrived at the city of Chenyang, Liu Jun sent a large number of light cavalry to reconnaissance enemy situations and communicate with each department. Although there were not many Chu troops under the city of Chenyang, Liu Jun still stationed his troops in three castles, each of which was about twenty miles apart.

Liu Jun did not concentrate all his troops in one fort. He had the confidence that it was more conducive to defensiveness to divide his troops and guard the three forts.

Liu Jun is not in a hurry to attack Chenyang now. He is asking the Qing people who were captured everywhere to step up the transformation of three castles. Liu Jun plans to build the three castles into a three-dimensional defense fortress, and use this new type of castles with the Chu army's guns and cannons to fight a tough battle with the Qing army.

Every day, a large number of Qing people were escorted to join the fortification team. At the same time, a large number of livestock and food and grass were transported back every day.

With these collected and plundered food, Liu Jun became more and more confident that he would fight the Tartars under the city of Shenyang.

It was cold and Liu Jun was eating hot pot in the castle. The hot hot pot tasted very comfortable. While eating hot pot, Liu Jun listened to the report of the staff, and more and more Qing troops gathered in Chenyang.

There were even many Jurchen tribes from the Heilongjiang River basin who came with men. These tribes have always been the mortal enemies of the Qing Dynasty, mainly the Jianzhou Jurchens, but with the two generations of Nurhaci and Huang Taiji, they had basically surrendered to the Qing Dynasty a few years ago.

"Now the one who presides over the defense in Shenyang City is Prince Ying Ajige, who is Dorgon's brother. In Dorgon, Daishan and others elected the three-year-old Fulin as the Empress of Manqing Qing, Ajige was promoted to Prince Heshuoying, and served as the acting banner leader of Zhenghuang Banner and the Minister of the Qing Dynasty's War, and was ordered to preside over the battle situation in Chenyang."

"There is a brave emperor who is in his thirties who doesn't choose the eldest son. Choosing a three-year-old child to be the emperor seems that the Qing Dynasty is not a solid piece of mind, and it is also full of intrigues and internal conflicts." Liu Jun said with a smile.

Sitting opposite Liu Jun was the inspector Li Chunjiang. He was wearing a sable fur and was not afraid of heat. He was eating mutton hot pot and smiling, "When Huang Taiji was there, he could still suppress those royal families, but now he was suddenly killed. Of course, Haoge could not beat Dorgon and other powerful royal families. It is normal for him to be seized. It is said that Nurhaci had intended Dorgon to take over the throne back then, but in the end, the throne was seized by Huang Taiji, and the Tartars, although he had made a belle to elect the emperor together, in fact, it was not that whoever had a strong man had a greater say."

"This Haoge is really cowardly. He actually gave in. He was looking forward to the Tartars fighting each other." Fan Zhiwan drank a glass of wine and said in disappointment.

"The Tartars are not stupid, and Haoge is even more stupid. This guy is also a battle formation that has been fought for a long time. Now that we are at the city, no matter how much they fight, they will definitely be able to fight with each other. If we were not here, they might have really fought. But Haoge is too weak after all. Daishan is an old fox, and Jirgalang is falling with the wind. Without their firm support, Haoge can't do anything more than the three Dorgon brothers." Fu Zonglong picked up a piece of hot mutton and ate it slowly.

Fu Zonglong turned to Liu Jun, "The commander-in-chief, Dorgon and Dai Shan led 50,000 troops back to the rescue, but did not come to Shenyang directly, but went to Liaoyang instead. He wanted to break Liaoyang first and then cut off my way back, and he wanted to surround us here."

"Fu Shan is here in Liaoyang. He has two soldiers and a complete Liaoyang city. Even if Dorgon has 50,000 elite soldiers, he can't imagine if he wants to seize Liaoyang." Liu Jun had already known that Dorgon and his team did not come to Shenyang after returning to the army, but went to Liaoyang, so Liu Jun was not worried about this.

Fu Shan led 10,000 troops to defend Liaoyang. In this cold and cold season, although Fu Shan could not get help from the navy, he had the Liaoyang city to defend. It was quite difficult for the Qing army to break through such a city with 10,000 elite troops and many cannons to defend it.

The Chu army was not an ordinary Ming army, so it would destroy the city if it was said to be broken.

If an ordinary Ming army had been siegeing the city with 50,000 elite Qing troops and still had no support, they might not be able to defend for long. However, even in the Daling River siege, the Liaoxi troops led by Zu Dashou had only half a month of food reserves and Daling River City had not been built, they still held for more than three months in the siege of the Qing army. In the historical siege of Jinzhou, Zu Dashou had held for one year with food and grass. If it weren't for the defeat of all reinforcements, and if there were generals in the city surrendering to the enemy and opening the city to meet the Qing army, Zu Dashou could have been defending for longer.

Therefore, it can be said that the Qing army's ability to attack cities was not very good. Although they broke Jinzhou quickly last time, they were also because of traitors, and they obtained Ning Jinjun's artillery.

In the absence of artillery in Jinzhou, it was impossible to stop the Qing army's large number of artillery attacks, but the Chu army did not have to worry about the Qing army's artillery. Their artillery was all things that the Ming army did not want to eliminate. Compared with cannons, they were really showing off their skills. The Chu army taught them to be human in minutes.

The biggest threat to the Chu army was not the Qing army's artillery, but the issue of supply of food and artillery shells.

However, in the current situation, when the Chu army captured Liaoyang and swept the Liao sinking, it obtained a large amount of food and grass supplies, which could be fully supplied to the Chu army for a long-term battle.

There is no need to worry about the ammunition issue for the time being. I brought a lot of ammunition when I went to war this time, and I still have sufficient ammunition. For this reason, Liu Jun is now firmly sitting on Diaoyutai, and even if he does not take Shenyang quickly as planned, he is not worried.

If it were ordinary Ming troops, they would never dare to go deep into the enemy territory, and would not dare to be so optimistic when they became lonely soldiers.

"I don't think we need to take the initiative now. We can wait for the Tartars to attack. We can sit down and take action." Chief of staff Wang Qian said to Liu Jun. Although Dorgon and Daishan's army did not return to Chenyang, many Tartars had gathered in Chenyang during this period.

Wang Qian estimated that the Tartars would definitely not be able to help but want to attack.

"That's just enough to consume the Tartars. We fight against them. It's not worth it, but when it comes to fighting against the city defense, the Tartars are just a long life-long star.

"That's right, I wish they could come here. The bastion and fortifications were almost completed. It's time for the Tartars to see what the nine-headed bird tactic is, and let them know how Huang Taiji died, so that they know that Huang Taiji died was not unfair."

In Chenyang City, the Minister of War, the acting banner leader of Zhenghuang Banner, Prince Ying Ajige swept the people in the hall and said loudly, "Now the Eight Banners are gathering, Chenyang has gathered 50,000 troops. It is time to teach the Southern Barbarians a severe lesson!"

Prince Su Haoge hesitated about this. He believed that he should stick to Chenyang and not rush to attack. He should wait for Dorgon and Daishan to take over Liaoyang and Haizhou, cut off Liu Jiye's retreat, and at the same time cut off the reinforcement of the Ming army of Lushun. After the main force of the two kings' army returned, they should attack Liu Jiye in the three forts outside Chenyang City.

This is more secure. After all, the so-called 50,000 troops in Chenyang are actually only more than 10,000 people wearing armor. The rest are old or young bannermen, and many are coated slaves who are usually only responsible for farming and grazing. Now these people are gathered together in a hurry, but their combat power is only average.

In particular, Haoge has already made it clear that Liu Jiye strengthened his defense in the Sanbao outside Shenyang City and had many guns and cannons. He attacked rashly, for fear of underestimating the enemy too much.

"I think you are not steady, but you are scared by the Southern Barbarians. In the three forts outside the city, there are only five thousand soldiers in each fortress. What are you afraid of? Now they are building fortifications day and night to strengthen the city defense. Are we just sitting in the city?"

Haoge was useless to Ajige's sarcasm, and he said slowly, "If Prince Ying must have wanted to fight, it's not impossible. But he can't go to fight the three castles outside the city. The castle is heavily defended and has a large number of guns and cannons. We will definitely suffer a great loss when we fight. If we want to fight, I think we should send cavalry out to fight the black flag soldiers of the four traitors."

After reorganizing Kong Youde's subordinates, Liu Jun organized them into four associations, but did not ask them to beat the Nine-Headed Bird Flag, nor did he ask them to beat the red flag, but instead raised the black flag for them. It turned out that they were white flags in the Qing army, but now they were wearing a black flag with white skull logo.

Liu Jun, the surrendered army, used them as auxiliary troops, responsible for opening roads, building bridges, and transporting equipment and ammunition. Now they are completely released to sweep and loot, and plunder on the spot, using war to support the war, and at the same time, they are strengthening the walls and clearing the fields.

Previously, there were few soldiers in Chenyang, and Dorgon and Daishan's army had not returned, so Haoge could only defend the city and dare not go out. He allowed these black flags to surround the Liaoshen and watched them destroy one village after another.

Now that many soldiers gathered in Chenyang, Ajige is in a hurry to fight, Haoge believes that he can attack these traitors first.

"These traitors!" Ajig cursed and then said, "Well, let's take these traitors to sacrifice the flag first!" (To be continued.)

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