Cui Xiuzhu, commander of the Third Division of the Seventh Army, led his troops into Tianjin City.

Except for a few of the Ming troops he encountered, they resisted tenaciously.

He mobilized heavy weapons and sent troops to quickly eliminate these resisting Ming troops.

Most of the Ming troops Cui Xiuzhu encountered surrendered to him.

The Third Division has taken control of the northern area of ​​Tianjin City.

Cui Xiuzhu thought: "The first success in attacking Tianjin City was Zhuang Renyi, and the second division attacked the west city.

Only one city wall was forced, which caused a chain reaction. The Ming army in other places had no fighting spirit.

Only then could they easily break through, allowing the Seventh Army to easily attack Tianjin City.

Now I can only compare my achievements with those of First Division Tan Fangyuan.

My performance in this siege was very good, and there were no points deducted.

The first division's hot air balloon troops were shot down by the Ming army in Tianjin.

This kind of mistake should not be made, but Tan Fangyuan made it. This is a very big deduction.

Taken together, Tan Fangyuan has a high probability of guarding Jizhou."

Most of the Ming army chose to surrender, and the war in Tianjin quickly subsided.

Cui Xiuzhu received news from Li Dazhuang's guard.

The Seventh Army headquarters held a military meeting in the center of Tianjin.

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Li Dazhuang has received reports from each division, visited each unit, and learned about the situation of each division's attack on Tianjin.

He called all the officers of the three divisions over for a meeting.

Li Dazhuang directly laid the map on the table in front of him.

"We have conquered Tianjin City, and all the Ming army that resisted have been wiped out by our army. Tianjin City has been handed over to the garrison.

We have rested here in Tianjin for half a month. This time we attack Tianjin, the fighting is not too fierce.

The morale of each army is very high and there is no need for further repairs.

We directly sent troops to capture Jizhou and Tongzhou.

Jizhou's geographical location is very important. It guards the enemy forces in the direction of Shanhaiguan and Zunhua.

The Ming army in Liaodong has been basically drained by the Ming court.

The Ming court has also negotiated peace with Jiannu, and it is very likely that the Eight Banners cavalry will rush out from Shanhaiguan.

Jizhou must be heavily defended to buy enough time for the main force to make military adjustments."

After Li Dazhuang finished talking about the importance of occupying Jizhou, he looked at Tan Fangyuan, Zhuang Renyi, and finally stopped at Cui Xiuzhu.

"The task of capturing Jizhou will be assigned to the third division.

I made it clear before the war started that in this attack on Tianjin City, the Third Division's performance was quite satisfactory and it did not make any great achievements.

The second division made the greatest contribution, directly attacking Tianjin City.

The First Division sent elite troops, and with the cooperation of the people inside Tianjin City, they took control of Zhu Dadian and made the Ming army in the city surrender to us."

Cui Xiuzhu heard the army commander's introduction and learned about the achievements of the 1st and 2nd Divisions.

In the face of these two achievements, the performance of the third division was indeed not outstanding.

The second division directly attacked Tianjin City. This was definitely the first success and no one could question it.

The First Division sent elite troops to control Zhu Dadian and made the Ming army in the city surrender, which reduced the casualties of the Qin army.

Cui Xiuzhu was convinced that he stood up and made his request while saluting the military salute.

"Commander, most of the ammunition and food in the battalion must be given to our third division.

Most of the Ming troops in Jizhou were eliminated by Tongzhou.

It is not difficult to capture Jizhou at all, but Jizhou is likely to be surrounded by heavy enemy troops.

Defending Jizhou requires a large amount of food, weapons and ammunition."

When Li Dazhuang heard this request, he smiled and said: "Your request is not too harsh, so I will agree to it.

The navy has a lot of supplies, which will be delivered in a while. You should try to bring as much supplies as possible to the camp.

Tianjin City will next become a material transfer station.

If we want to make full use of these captured Ming troops, there is no problem in serving them as coolies.

Ammunition was left to the logistics troops for transportation, and these Ming army prisoners were allowed to transport grain, grass and guns.

When you leave this time, select some Ming army prisoners to transport supplies."

Cui Xiuzhu obtained Li Dazhuang's permission, and he immediately arranged logistics troops to select Ming army prisoners and transport most of the military supplies in the camp.

The soldiers of the Third Division were still immersed in the victory of capturing Tianjin.

Cui Xiuzhu handed over the defense area controlled by the Third Division to the garrison.

He led the third division to escort the logistics troops out of the city and went straight to Jizhou in the north of Tianjin.

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When Li Dazhuang saw Cui Xiuzhu leaving with his troops, he immediately asked the first and second divisions to prepare.

The Seventh Army will wait until the navy delivers the ammunition, and then they will set off immediately and follow the waterway to Tongzhou.

The navy also moved very quickly, occupying Tianjin two days later.

Pan Hongcai Zhu, with a smile on his face, approached the Seventh Army headquarters with a young man.

"Welcome Admiral Zhang to visit our Seventh Army. This is Li Dazhuang, Commander of the Seventh Army."

When Li Dazhuang heard Pan Hongcai's words, he knew who this person was.

He immediately walked over, shook hands with Zhang Wanfeng and said: "Admiral Zhang, the arrival of your navy is really timely.

Without the ammunition brought by the navy, I don’t know how long we will be held back by Tianjin City.”

Zhang Wanfeng said politely: "We are both Qin soldiers, so we should help each other.

I have a small request. In order to facilitate the transportation of supplies, please ask the Seventh Army to help our navy build a simple dock at Dagukou.

I heard from Li Ran Zhu Shi that you are going to attack Tongzhou.

From Tianjin, you can take a boat directly to Tongzhou by borrowing the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

Do the ships of the Seventh Army have enough? Our navy has some small boats that can travel in the inland rivers."

Among the small boats of the Seventh Army, a small number are the warships of the Zheng family, and most of them are ships captured by attacking the Ming Dynasty Navy along the way.

These ships could be driven by just a few people, so Zhang Wanfeng did not abandon them.

When Li Dazhuang heard this, he was extremely grateful and said: "We are short of ships and thank the navy for its help.

With the assistance of the Navy, this battle of our Seventh Army will become much easier.

Please don't worry about the dock. We have captured so many Ming troops and we can't let them eat for free.

Just send some prisoners to build a dock at Dagukou."

Li Dazhuang and Zhang Wanfeng decided on these things, and they talked about many things.

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Shi Daxuan piloted the ship and walked on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

Many soldiers of the Seventh Army were on both sides of the canal, using huge ropes to drag the transport ship forward.

Zhang Wanfeng lamented: “Inland water transport is far inferior to sea transport.

I have been sailing on the sea for a long time. The scale of shipping is large and it will not be affected by the dry season.

The transportation quality of southern water systems such as the Yangtze and Pearl Rivers is not as good as that of maritime transport, let alone water systems in the north.

I had learned about the role of trackers in books before, and it was the first time I saw trackers in reality.

It’s really troublesome to transport supplies this way.”

Li Dazhuang was very happy and said: "Admiral Zhang, having a canal to transport supplies is the best transportation condition.

If you take the land route to transport these supplies, it will take even longer.

Thanks to the ships provided by your navy, our Seventh Army can transport the supplies in one trip.

Otherwise, with our small boats, we would need to make several round trips, which would consume more time."

Li Dazhuang didn't know much about shipping, and unlike Zhang Wanfeng, he looked down on canal transportation.

This has always been the case with the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

It also feeds and helps hundreds of thousands of people.
To be continued...