Jin Xin led the soldiers of his headquarters to quickly attack the north, attacking the city all the way, and successively recovering Dongguang, Nanpi, Cangzhou, Qingxian and other cities, and the troops approached Tianjin Wei.

Tianjin is an important town in the southeast of Beijing, has always been heavily guarded, guarding Tianjin is more than 3,000 green battalion soldiers, originally Tianjin had 1,000 8 banners garrisoned, but at the beginning of the war, the Manchu Qing army was empty, and had to transfer this 1,000 banners to the front line.

The Battle of Linqing was defeated by the Eight Banners, and of course the news reached Tianjin, and the green battalion soldiers in Tianjin immediately panicked.

Recently, in this short period of time, first the Shandong riots could not be quelled, then Shanxi, Shaanxi, and the northern provinces under the rule of the Manchu Qing were in flames, and then the Ming army waved the Northern Expedition, and the Manchus collected the last troops to fight the Ming army for a decisive battle. However, a major battle ended in the defeat of the Qing army, 50,000 soldiers of the Eight Banners were killed in the field, and the news spread to the north, and the cities under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty had long been shaken.

This is also the reason why Jin Xin quickly attacked the city, because there was no need to attack the city at all, and when the Ming army arrived at the city, the city would surrender. If the Manchu appointed officials were unwilling to surrender, some righteous people would rebel and open the city gates.

Just when Jin Xin led his troops happily to the south of Tianjin, he thought that Tianjin would be easily defeated as before, but the green battalion soldiers in Tianjin did not surrender easily, because the Eight Banners Cavalry had already arrived.

As far as Beijing is concerned, Tianjin is an important town in the southeast of Gongwei, and there is no room for error.

At present, hundreds of thousands of Manchu people in Beijing are retreating, and only by blocking the Ming army in the south of Beijing can hundreds of thousands of people retreat peacefully.

Therefore, after receiving the order, Luckedhun immediately went south with 5,000 cavalry and arrived at the city of Tianjin.

Looking at the overwhelming Qing cavalry, Jin Xin's face showed bitterness, it was still too late.

There are only more than 20,000 infantry under his command, and more than 20,000 people are still the reorganized army of Jiaodong soldiers and surrendered green battalion soldiers, and their combat effectiveness is really average, and the field battle may not be the opponent of the Eight Banners Cavalry, and the problem now is that they must cross the river before they can fight.

Luckedhun did not take the initiative to attack, as his cavalry was equally unable to cross the river in front of him.

Of course, for Luckedhun, his task was to stop the Ming army from advancing, and even if he defeated the Ming army in front of him, it would be useless. Moreover, for the current Qing Dynasty, it simply cannot bear the loss of troops. Therefore, he did not have the idea of crossing the river to fight the Ming army at all.

When the Eight Banners cavalry arrived, the green battalion soldiers in Tianjin naturally did not dare to think of surrendering again. Luckedhun sent 508 bannermen into the city, firmly controlled the city's defense, and began to mobilize the people in the city to arrange the defense.

The canal and the Haihe River meet in Tianjin, and the Tianjin Acropolis is located east of the canal on the north bank of the Haihe River.

Jin Xin's more than 20,000 people were located on the south bank of the Haihe River, and there were a large number of Qing cavalry in the north, so it was very difficult to cross the Haihe River and reach the Tianjin Acropolis.

Of course, Jin Xin had dozens of boats carrying food and equipment with his army, and it was not a big problem to cross the Haihe River by boats, and he was afraid that he would be attacked by the Qing army when he crossed the river.

While sending people to deliver news to the Chinese army, Jin Xin was unwilling to wait, with his character of being happy when he heard the war, even if there were not many troops, he would definitely have to fight.

The grain materials on the cao boats were unloaded, fifty cao boats stopped on the bank of the canal, and Jin Xin commanded the army to start boarding the boats. A cao boat can carry fifty or sixty people, and more than fifty cao boats can carry three thousand troops, Jin Xin decided to send three thousand troops along the canal to the north bank of the Haihe River to test the reality of the Eight Banners cavalry.

During the Battle of Linqing, the Ming army blocked the canal with boats, causing great damage to the Qing cavalry, and Jin Xin also decided to give it a try.

More than 50 boats were connected end to end, sailing on the canal, and soon sailed across the Haihe River and arrived to the west of the Tianjin Acropolis.

Standing on the boat, you can see the Qing soldiers standing on the Tianjin Guards.

Tianjin is an important place for Cao Yun, there are a number of prosperous places in the north, there are many houses and courtyards by the canal outside the city, it is not an endless wilderness, the terrain is not conducive to the Manchu cavalry galloping, which is why Jin Xin dared to cross the river with 3,000 troops.

Yang Xiaolei stood at the bow of the boat and looked nervously at the east bank of the canal. Since joining the Pingnan Army, Yang Xiaolei has been under Chen Yue for nearly three years, and his military rank has been promoted to deputy general, and he is now ordered to command the battle.

The east bank of the canal is lined with houses, but there is not much popularity, the Ming Dynasty moved south, the Cao Yun stopped for more than three years, most of the Cao Gang people who relied on the Cao Yun to eat changed their careers, and Tianjin, which was prosperous because of the Cao Yun, also inevitably declined. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Ming army was about to arrive in Tianjin during the Northern Expedition, and the people living outside Tianjin had already abandoned the housing industry and fled to avoid the military disaster.

Looking at the scene on the east coast, Yang Xiaolei knew that this was not the place where the Qing cavalry played, so he began to command his subordinates to abandon the ship and go ashore.

One by one, the soldiers went ashore nervously with their weapons and quickly lined up under the command of the officer, guarding against a possible attack by the Qing army. However, until all 3,000 people came ashore, no Qing army attacked. Yang Xiaolei originally thought that the Qing army was hidden in the nearby houses and courtyards, and they would attack when the Ming army came ashore, but now it seems that there is no such thing at all.

The fleet of soldiers was emptied and sailed back to the south of the Haihe River, and learned that the Qing army did not prevent the Ming army from going ashore, Jin Xin was overjoyed at the same time, but he was also very puzzled, he couldn't figure out what the Qing army wanted to do, obviously the best moment to block the Ming army in the middle of the crossing, why did the Qing army not move? Is there a conspiracy?

However, regardless of whether the Qing army had a conspiracy or not, he had to continue to march. So under Jin Xin's order, another group of Ming soldiers took a boat to the other side of the river.

When Jin Xin also took a boat to the opposite bank, there were already 10,000 Ming soldiers crossing the river, and Jin Xin's heart relaxed. There are 10,000 people, and the Qing army can't think of defeating the Ming army easily!

Under Jin Xin's order, the Ming army set up camp by the canal, in fact, there was no need to set up, there were too many ready-made houses on the east bank of the river for camping. Jin Xin only ordered that some of the houses be removed, several walls were built on both sides of the road, and low walls were built on every alley road that could be rushed by cavalry.

As long as the cavalry can't raid, the Eight Banners infantry is not afraid of attacking Jin Xin, his soldiers are already more than the Qing soldiers, and they have a lot of firearms, so they can't wait to have a barricade attack and defense battle with the Qing army.

How many Manchu troops can there be now? It is also cost-effective to exchange two Ming troops for one Eight Banners. When the first batch of troops went ashore by boat, the Qing army did not attack, and Jin Xin saw through the lineage of the Qing army, that is, the Qing army could no longer bear the battle damage!

It took Jin Xin two days to transport all his troops to the other side of the Haihe River, and then began to think about capturing the Tianjin Acropolis. (https:)

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