Nurhachi ran out of court to make an account, and Baylor, the banner lord of Houjin, also hurriedly convened a small meeting of his subordinates, and called up the infantry armor, horse armor and conscripts who were still sleeping.

For a time, the people of Houjin Daying shouted and neighed and moved frequently.

On the city wall, Man Gui, who was patrolling, saw it and was immediately taken aback, thinking that the Houjin army was going to take advantage of the rainy night to attack.

The open fire in Shenyang City gradually cooled down, but it was the generals who found out that after the large-scale mobilization of Jin's soldiers and horses, they ordered their subordinates to prepare rolling wood and boulders, and went to the city one after another to reorganize the army for battle.

"General, could it be that Taitai's estimation is wrong, Nurhachi just wants to storm Shenyang?"

The general looked at the movements in the Houjin camp, his eyes full of worry and fear.

Man Gui shook his head.

"I can't guess that."

Turning around, he said:

"I just hope that Taitai is thinking right, the city defense of Shenyang is not as good as it was at the beginning, and it can't stop Jiannu for a long time, and the reinforcements have been transferred to Fuyuwei by the imperial court.

The two stood on the city wall and looked at the camp of the Jin army for a while, but found that the other party came to Shenyang City with fewer and fewer sentry horses, and most of the firelight was running in the direction of Liaoyang.

"Could it be that the slave chieftain wants to give up Shenyang and attack Liaoyang?"

The general was full of question marks, and said with a look of disbelief: "Isn't he afraid that our army will go out of the city to attack him?" ”

This thought appeared in Man Gui's mind, and he was worried in his heart.

Indeed, with the strength of the 30,000 defenders of Shenyang now, if you rush out of the city, you will only be dumplings made by Jiannu.

But if Nurhachi really attacked Liaoyang and didn't go out by himself, once the Liaoyang Heavy Land fell, Shenyang would become a lonely city outside the Guan, and 30,000 defenders would be trapped in the lonely city sooner or later.

Just as he was thinking about it, a personal soldier came to the city and sent a secret letter from afar:

"General Yu, Liaodong is slightly urgent."

"Bring it to me quickly!"

In Shenyang City, the whole battle situation can be described as a black eye, it is the time to advance and retreat to encircle and annihilate, if he doesn't give an order, he doesn't know what to do next.

In a big war of this scale, we must not make a mistake in our own link.

"Man Gui saw the letter like a meeting: order the Rubu to defend Shenyang, not to form a battle with the slave without authorization, if it is not for the express order of the governor, that is, to wait for help.

——Liaodong Jingluo Xiong Tingbi. ”

After burning the letter, Man Gui's eyes gradually became firm, and he said:

"The order, the cities of Shenyang are tightly closed, they can't be defended, and those who go out of the city to engage the slaves without authorization will violate the military law and will not be spared!"

"Yes!"

The Ming army waited for the Houjin siege.

However, on the side of the Houjin Daying, it gradually subsided, and even the number of sentry cavalry returned to the original state, and most of them came down towards Shenyang City.

Despite this, the Ming army still did not dare to be careless, and continued to be strictly prepared to guard against Houjin's sneak attack on a rainy night.

Nurhachi originally thought that this was a sudden attack by Man Gui and Xiong Tingbi with the cooperation of the inside and outside, coupled with the wind and rain for several days, which made him nervous.

Who thought about it, and made a false alarm.

Xiong Tingbi received the order of the military department at the beginning and learned that Cui Chengxiu had given him all the command in this battle, and while he was happy, he also decided to test the Houjin army outside Shenyang City first to see what the situation was over there.

He sent a small team of cavalry to the outside of Shenyang, just at this time Man Gui was patrolling the city, and it happened that the weather was bad for several days.

It's no wonder that Nurhachi thinks so.

This small group of Ming cavalry from Liaoyang originally received Xiong Tingbi's order to test the enemy's situation.

Wang Anrong, the guerrilla general who led the troops, was really afraid of the Houjin cavalry, and after he led his troops out of Liaoyang, he wandered in the wilderness for a long time, but he did not dare to approach Shenyang.

Wang Anrong arranged the rhetoric, thinking that he would spend the night, so he went back to Xiong Tingbi to give his life.

Although the scale of this cavalry was small, Nurhachi broadcast the sentry cavalry in the direction of Liaoyang, and it was not long before it was discovered by the Houjin sentry cavalry.

Houjin's sentry cavalry did not dare to move lightly, and quietly reported the location of Wang Anrong's subordinates to Nurhachi.

When Nurhachi heard this, he remembered his previous guess, and this was the large-scale transfer of soldiers and horses in the Houjin military camp that Man Gui saw.

The Houjin cavalry suddenly dispatched, and even more badly discouraged Wang Anrong, who was timid and afraid of death, fled all the way back to Liaoyang overnight, and replied to Xiong Tingbi, saying that the Houjin cavalry appeared on a large scale in the area from Baitapu to Fengjibao.

Xiong Tingbi initially had the same idea as Man Gui, feeling that he had misestimated.

After careful consideration, Xiong Tingbi decided to let people investigate again before replying to Zhu Youxiao in Nanjing, after all, this kind of news came and went, the distance was extremely long, and the impact was irreversible.

Xiong Tingbi ordered the officials of Liaoyang to go to investigate the movements of the local Houjin army, and this time only one person was sent to ask him to dress up in disguise, so as not to startle the snake.

Who knew that this sub-road official, as soon as he walked to the Chang'anbao River, did not see the shadow of the Houjin cavalry, so he ran back crying, saying that he did not want to go again.

At this moment, Xiong Tingbi understood that this division of the road might be afraid of the Houjin cavalry, and it would be useless to continue to ask him.

There was no way, Xiong Tingbi had to ignore the wind and rain, and the dangers on the road, took off the armor given by the emperor, and went in person, from Liaoyang to Fengji Fort along the way, he walked all over.

Surprisingly, Xiong Tingbi did not see the shadow of half of the Houjin cavalry.

The situation is like this, after Nurhachi found out that he was nervous, he reduced the sentry cavalry in the direction of Liaoyang by eighty, and ordered Beile, the banner lord of Houjin, to go back to sleep.

The officials of the sub-road guarded back and forth, and by the time Xiong Tingbi arrived at Fengji Fort, the Houjin cavalry had already withdrawn cleanly, and there was not even a single horse hair left.

If you come here, you can't come in vain!

Xiong Tingbi took advantage of this opportunity to go around Shenyang, and on the way back to Liaoyang, he rushed to Changning and Changding Erbao overnight, visited the local garrison of the Ming army generals, and inquired about the situation of the garrison.

Before leaving, he once again warned them to wait for their orders and not to act rashly.

Along the way, Xiong Tingbi observed the terrain of various places, and heard that it is not as good as what he sees, and at this time, he was even more sure that Nurhachi would never easily march in the direction of Liaoyang.

Hou Jin's move this time, the focus must be on Fu Yuwei, and his initial judgment was correct.

When he returned to Liaoyang, the first thing Xiong Tingbi did was to ask the pro-army of the Dubiao Battalion to arrest Wang Anrong, a guerrilla general who was greedy for life and afraid of death.

His erroneous information almost made Xiong Tingbi feel that he had made a mistake in his previous judgment, and he wrote half of the excerpt to Zhu Youxiao.

If this is sent out, it will be terrible.

Three days later, in front of more than 300,000 soldiers and civilians inside and outside Liaoyang, Xiong Tingbi waved Shang Fang's sword and personally beheaded Wang Anrong to sacrifice the flag.

After Wang Anrong's death, the Liaoyang Ming Army, under the leadership of Xiong Tingbi, was even more strict in military discipline and high morale, and even the people were indignant, shouting to kill Guang Jiannu to avenge the shame.

As a result of my own testing, I learned the exact terrain.

Xiong Tingbi raised the tent to the army, fortified layer by layer from Shenyang to Liaoyang, and the sentinels went out in all directions, and Liaoyang was garrisoned as solid as gold.

Later, when Nurhachi heard the news, he regretted it, saying that he had missed an excellent opportunity to catch Xiong Tingbi and take the entire territory of Liaoshen.

However, the fighter plane was fleeting, and now he could only wait for the situation, waiting for the good news from Fu Yuwei.

This is the first confrontation between Nurhachi and Xiong Tingbi, the two old enemies.

In this confrontation, the Ming army and the Houjin army moved frequently, but the two sides did not lose a single soldier, and the victory and defeat were divided.

Obviously, Nurhachi was one move short and lost to Xiong Tingbi again.