The war in the Monan Plain was in full swing, and Liaodong was not at peace either. Nurhaci learned that Zhu Youxiao was personally conquering Mongolia and shouted that the time had come.
He had long planned to conquer Liaochen. Now that the Ming emperor was away, it was a God-given opportunity. Liaodong was already alone. As long as he defeated Xiong Tingbi, he could get the Liaochen town he dreamed of.
He personally led the Eight Banners Army from Hetuala, passing through Sarhu and Fushun, and directed his troops towards Shenyang.
In this battle, he could be said to have gathered the entire Jianzhou army. He believed that he could repeat the glory of the Battle of Saarhu. He always believed that his Eight Banners warriors were invincible.
At the mouth of the Yalu River between North Korea and Liaodong, dozens of warships were heading up the river. The sun and moon flag of the Ming Dynasty was extremely conspicuous under the moonlight.
"Get up quickly!"
The warship docked, and the Ming army officers and soldiers on board lined up on the shore one by one. Everyone was waiting for their general's next instructions.
"General, everything is ready!"
The Ming army general glanced at the moonlight and ordered without hesitation:
"Set off!"
This general was Mao Wenlong. He asked Xiong Tingbi for instructions three months ago to lead a surprise attack on Houjin's strategy. After agreeing with it, he quickly collected warships and selected elite soldiers.
He finally set out from Liaoyang two months ago. He went to sea via Haizhou and Gaizhou. After his reconnaissance and intelligence obtained along the way.
Finally, he set his target at Zhenjiang Fort, the former border fortress of the Ming Dynasty. This was the place where Hou Jin's defense was most loose. For this reason, he sailed nearly three thousand miles by sea and finally arrived recently.
After his personal reconnaissance and inquiry, he had learned that there were less than a thousand guards in Zhenjiang Fort, and among them there were very few Jianzhou armored soldiers.
The guard general of the town was named Tong Yangzhen, a surrendered general of the Ming Dynasty and a guerrilla general appointed by Nurhaci.
Moreover, he also contacted Chen Liangce, another surrendered general. He promised Mao Wenlong that he would fight back anyway and cooperate with him inside and outside to win Zhenjiang.
Mao Wenlong was overjoyed and immediately started preparing a plan to attack Zhenjiang Fort. Hou Jin's main force and attention were all on Liaochen. As long as he could capture the fort, he could do whatever he wanted within a hundred miles.
Zhenjiang Fort is right next to the Yalu River. The Ming army arrived here quickly. Today's battle will definitely be the moment when he becomes famous all over the world.
The Jianzhou soldiers defending Zhenjiang never expected that anyone would attack them. This was the rear area far away from the front line, and they had no defense at all.
Moreover, since the beginning of the war, they have always attacked the Ming army by surprise, and they have never been attacked by the Ming army. Even the basic night guards are very few, and they have all retreated to sleep.
Although Zhenjiang was an important military fort, Nurhaci did not attach great importance to it. If it were not for the fact that he was occupying an existing fort in the Ming Dynasty, he would not even have sent garrison troops.
At the agreed time, Chen Liangce returned to the Ming Dynasty anyway, led his soldiers to fight out of the military camp, and killed the surrendering Han troops along the street.
Then he quickly opened the gate. As soon as the gate opened, Mao Wenlong immediately led hundreds of elite soldiers into the fort.
The Ming army made a lot of noise. They set fires everywhere and shouted, "Kill the slaves." Many sleeping Han soldiers were awakened.
"It's Ming Gou, Ming Gou is here!"
Everything was too late. All the Ming troops had already entered the fort. Many Han soldiers were killed by the Ming troops before they had time to resist.
Mao Wenlong's first target was the guerrilla Yamen where Tong Yangzhen was located. He personally led more than fifty elites to attack here personally.
These surrendered Han soldiers were no match for the elite Ming army. They were beaten back and forth and had no power to resist.
Tong Yangzhen's nearly a hundred personal guards were wiped out by the Ming army, who killed them as if they were chopping melons and vegetables. Tong Yangzhen's son was also beheaded on the spot.
Tong Yangzhen knew that he had no way to escape, but he did not have the courage to commit suicide. Qian Boss Zhang Ban grabbed the braid on the back of his head and dragged him to see Mao Wenlong.
Tong Yangzhen was captured and without command, the Han soldiers in the fort were in chaos and were killed by the Ming army.
The Ming army soon took control of the entire Armed Forces Fortress. As long as they encountered Han soldiers, they would chop off the heads of these people without mercy. Although they were not slaves, they could be exchanged for money!
Mao Wenlong looked at Tong Yangzhen, who was naked, shivering with cold, and had a pig tail. He couldn't tell what kind of bastard this was.
"General, have mercy on me, general, have mercy on me!"
If he didn't have something to ask, Mao Wenlong would have really wanted to kill this bastard with a knife.
Finally, he learned from his mouth that Lao Nu was preparing to launch a large-scale attack on Liaoshen in the near future, and most of the troops had been concentrated in Hetuala and Sarhu City.
Except for some guards left in some necessary places, the entire hundreds of miles of land in Liaodong is now very empty.
Mao Wenlong secretly thought that God would help me. After preserving all the heads of more than 400 Jiu slaves, he intended to continue going north.
As long as Nurhaci dared to invade Liaoshen, he would immediately lead his army to attack Hetuala and support Xiong Tingbi, leaving Nurhachi in a dilemma!
In the morning of the next day, he issued a message to various places near and far, calling on the remaining remnants of the Ming army and the fleeing people to rise up to resist, and even shouted the slogan to fight back home.
When the people in the two camps in Tangzhan and Xianshan got the news of Zhenjiang Fort's victory, they immediately rose up in arms and brought Chen Jiujie and Li Shike, the former Ming Dynasty surrender generals, to Zhenjiang to join Mao Wenlong.
When the people who fled to North Korea and Liaodong learned that the Ming army had returned, they all crossed the Yalu River and quickly went to Zhenjiang to join Mao Wenlong.
In just a few days, nearly 20,000 people came to seek refuge with him. Mao Wenlong selected a thousand young men and trained them into an army. When the time was right, he went north to attack Hetuala!
Mao Wenlong wrote the report and ordered Wang Huao to escort Tong Yangzhen back to report the victory to Xiong Tingbi. He had initially completed the task and had a firm foothold in Zhenjiang.
Mao Wenlong attached great importance to intelligence work. He ordered the Ming army to attack everywhere and quickly mastered all nearby intelligence.
In three days, Mao Wenlong captured two more forts and rescued thousands of people. Most of the people who stayed in such places were surrendered generals of the Ming Dynasty.
These people were originally greedy for life and afraid of death. Seeing how powerful this Ming army was, they all abandoned the fort and fled. They were frightened by the news.
Mao Wenlong's tactics are very similar to Nurhachi's. They both like to rely on internal support and cooperate with the inside to attack the Ming army. He also likes to behead and attack those generals.
In the past, the Ming army was severely beaten by Nurhaci, but now Mao Wenlong is just treating him in his own way, beating Jiannu so hard that he can't find his mother.
Two days later, Mao Wenlong received important news. The emperor had personally conquered Mongolia more than ten days ago. After Nurhachi learned about it, he had mobilized more than 80,000 troops to go south.
I heard that Nurhachi also said that this battle would not end and he would never give up.
Mao Wenlong quickly organized all the people to gather in Zhenjiang, and then sent more than 2,000 troops north to prepare to attack Lao Nu's lair.
