Entering the city, Qin Shuhuai, Yuan Chonghuan and other generals discussed the attack plan again and made minor adjustments.

The final strategy is as follows:

Zhao led the 52,000 left-hand army to the northwest along the Daling River-Yixian line until he captured Zhangwu City, an important town northwest of Shenyang.

Li Dingguo's right army followed the line of Xipingbao-Anshan-Liaoyang until it captured the city of Jianzhou (now Benxi City) southeast of Shenyang.

Qin Shuhuai's Chinese army directly approached Shenyang from the front along the line of Daling River-Tai'an-Ashniulu (now Liaozhong City).

The strategy is very simple, that is, to copy the three breads, but leave the north to let Huang Taiji escape.

Why leave one side?

This was proposed by Li Dingguo.

There are clouds in the soldiers: the mourning soldiers will win. If the retreat of the Tartars is completely blocked, the Tartars will inevitably fight against the water, and the casualties of the officers and soldiers will definitely be very large.

But if there is a way out, at least many Tartars can think that Shenyang City is not a "dead place", and the so-called idea of putting it to death and then living will naturally not be there.

But in fact, if they retreat north, they will most likely die.

Why?

Because winter is coming soon, you can imagine that in that wild place in the north, there is no military ration to be found in the ice and snow, and most of them are either starving to death or freezing to death, and it is useless for you to retreat.

Although the far-sighted Tartar elite would never want to retreat north, can you guarantee that ordinary soldiers also have this foresight? If they find that Shenyang City is surrounded on three sides, and only by going north can they temporarily save their lives, will they have no idea?

Therefore, Qin Shuhuai agreed to this strategy on the spot.

Without further ado, it is now the eighth day of October, and it will soon snow, and only before the arrival of midwinter can the various units arrive at the predetermined position and complete the three-sided encirclement of Shenyang City, can they firmly grasp the initiative.

At this time, in Shenyang City, the atmosphere was already solemn.

The battle that decided the fortunes of Dajin had arrived, and the Eight Banners Army had already entered the highest state of alert, and the entire vicinity of Shenyang City was like a great enemy, and heavy troops were gathered.

But even so, Huang Taiji still did not reach the point of despair.

With such a vision as him, how could he not have thought of the counterattack of the Ming army?

Since the failure of the last southern expedition, he has been actively organizing this life-and-death defensive battle.

During this time, he searched everywhere for allies, not only found the Mongol tribes that were close to him, but even sent people to the Western Regions, saying that many small countries would join him in resisting the "tyranny" of the Ming Dynasty.

His efforts were not in vain, and now in the territory of Houjin, there are elite soldiers from the Dzungar Tribe, the Duoyan Tribe, the Chahar Tribe, and even the Ruoqiang State and Hami Kingdom in the Western Regions, and these alone add up to 100,000 people!

Coupled with the remaining 120,000 elites of Houjin, he now has at least 220,000 usable soldiers in his hands!

And among these elite soldiers, the cavalry alone is as high as 38,000 horsemen, which is his biggest hole card!

With 38,000 cavalry, he gathered almost all the cavalry on the steppe. Of course, this requires a lot of grain and grass, but even if the entire Daikin only eats one meal per person a day, it is definitely worth it!

You must know that around Shenyang, there are large plains! The cavalry is the king here!

In addition, he has no shortage of masters at his disposal.

Ruoqiang's three red-topped masters, nearly 100 Western Regions Jingwei and nearly 1,000 Tsing Yi troops who ran out of Ruoqiang are now here, in addition, Helian Batai has recovered from his injury, and Aobai's martial arts have reached a higher level, and even this time even Su Daha, who has never asked about state affairs and even the Dajin Emperor, has also taken six disciples out of the mountain to help, which has added several layers of security to Huang Taiji.

Su Daha, the sect master of the Blood Cloud Sect, is also the master of Aobai, and there are countless training masters in his life, but very few people have seen his true face.

During the second southern expedition, in order to deal with the good hands in the martial arts alliance, Huang Taiji personally went to the Blood Cloud Sect to visit Sudaha, hoping that he could send one or two disciples to accompany the army.

Unexpectedly, Su Daha didn't even bother to see him, so he only sent a little boy to tell him that the Blood Cloud Sect didn't care about state affairs, so he forgave his fate. was so angry that Huang Taiji didn't eat for a day, but he was helpless at all!

There are six disciples under Sudaha's seat, and Ao Bai is counted as one, but he is only the youngest and least qualified. In the current situation of Dajin's urgent shortage of talents, Ao Bai has already soared to the sky, not only awarded the title of Baturu, but also has become the head of the Baya Labing Sect.

It is conceivable that the other five disciples under him have a high level of martial arts, and he himself is at what level.

In the eyes of many people, Helian Batai is the number one master of Dajin on the bright side, but that is only because Sudaha almost does not show up, and few people know about his existence - including in the Ming martial arts, few people know about this person.

It was precisely because of Su Daha's sudden addition that Huang Taiji felt that his chances of winning had increased greatly!

Even he faintly felt that the kid named Qin Shuhuai in the Ming Kingdom was going to make a big deal in Dajin this time!

The two failed expeditions to the south were all because of this kid who suddenly appeared! If Sudaha made a move this time, it is very possible that he would die outside the pass!

Qin Shuhuai, do you think you are really invincible? My dignified golden dragon vein has appeared, how can you stop this majestic national fortune?

Let's say that Qin Shuhuai's side, on the day he entered Jinzhou, he received information from the White Lotus Sect from all over the country.

Although under the blockade of the Later Jin, this information may not be accurate, at least it is known that the Later Jin has united many forces to deal with the Ming army together.

This was not surprising to Qin Shuhuai, according to the strength of these forces, as well as the comprehensive intelligence, after he and the generals combined, they came to the conclusion that the total strength of Houjin was about 250,000 - this is very close to the real situation.

It is important to know the approximate strength of the opponent.

On the second day, the army set out.

After passing through the Daling River, the soldiers divided into two routes.

Zhao led more than 50,000 Left Route troops to the northwest, and the first thing to occupy was Yizhou (now Yixian), which was eighty miles away.

The armies of Qin Shuhuai and Li Dingguo's center and right continued to move forward, all the way unimpeded, and only after arriving at Gaoping Fort, thirty miles outside Tai'an, did the two armies separate.

Li Dingguo went straight to the right to attack Shaling Fort, while Qin Shuhuai prepared to attack Tai'an City.

At this time, news came from the Left Route Army, Zhao led the sect to capture Yizhou almost bloodlessly, and then continued to the north, all the way unhindered, until more than 80 miles northwest of Tai'an City, the big and small black mountain forts found that there were heavy enemy garrisons.

In this way, Houjin's first line of defense came out, which was a horizontal defense line based on Daheishan Fort, Xiaoheishan Fort, Tai'an City, Shaling Fort, and Niuzhuang City.

This first line of defense is only more than 200 miles away from Shenyang City, and it seems that Huang Taiji wants to shrink the defense line and concentrate superior forces to fight with Qin Shuhuai.

Qin Shuhuai was not in a hurry, and first ordered the spies of the three-way army to find out whether there was an ambush near each city, and then a day later, he ordered the three-way army to attack at the same time.

October 15 of the fifth year of Chongzhen, light snow.

Qin Shuhuai's army on the middle road came to Tai'an City.

This way did not encounter any Houjin army to stop - you must know that Houjin is good at field warfare, Qin Shuhuai once thought that there was likely to be an encounter on the road, but the result was greatly beyond his expectations.

But in any case, since you have reached the city, you must attack the city.

Tai'an City is a big city, the city wall is more than 17 meters high, the city wall is equipped with as many as eight Franky cannons, the muzzle of the cannon is pointed at the ground in a black hole, it is indeed majestic.

But compared with the improved version of the red-coated cannon pulled out by the Ming army, it seems a bit pediatric.

The Furlong cannon weighed about 300 catties, while the red-coated cannon weighed 1,000 catties, and you can know the difference between the two just by looking at the weight.

It was the old rival Azig who garrisoned Tai'an, and there were 20,000 Houjin elite soldiers and 15,000 Mongol soldiers stationed in the city, for a total of 35,000 troops - as for those soldiers, they were ignored.

Azig came to the city in person and looked at the black and oppressive Ming army below, but he was calm.

He is not afraid, because he still has a backhand!