After half a month, the weather around Shenyang gradually improved.

Although the temperature is still very cold, it is not biting, and the Jurchens living in Liao have long been accustomed to this cold.

The current temperature, the Ming army felt very cold, but the Jurchens already felt warm.

It is precisely because of this that Nurhachi's wind chill gradually changed from severe to mild, and every time he thinks of the opportunity he missed when he fought Xiong Tingbi last time, he regrets it.

It didn't take long for the sentinel to report that the Ming army in the Liaoyang area was fortified layer by layer, and the farthest had gone deep into Fengji Fort.

Nurhachi was still convinced that the Ming court had taken advantage of his own strategy to attack the west, so he did not dare to easily move troops before a large number of reinforcements arrived.

But this doesn't mean that he doesn't dare to go out and wrestle with the Ming army under Xiong Tingbi, after all, he has always felt that he is invincible in the world.

Now the generals of the Liaodong Ming Dynasty, there are almost no Xiong Tingbi who makes him suffer repeatedly.

Nurhachi decided to use the Ming army in Liaoyang on a small scale without affecting the established plan, rubbing their sharp spirit, and recovering the last field.

On March 18, the third year of the Apocalypse, the two blue flags of Gushan Ezhen Iran, because of his outstanding performance in the last battle, received this errand.

He led about 300 cavalry with blue flags, 1,100 infantry armor with blue flags, and more than 3,000 forcibly recruited Liao people to launch a surprise attack on the Fengjibao camp.

Fengji Fort is a newly established outpost of the Ming army in the direction of Liaoyang in recent days, and it is one of the outermost defensive lines of Xiong Tingbi.

Originally, compared with the Houjin army, the defense of the Liaoyang Ming army was still insufficient, and normally speaking, no one would take the initiative to attack at all.

Xiong Tingbi did this, knowing that he would suffer casualties, but this just proved to Nurhachi that he had his backing, that is, the army out of the customs mentioned in the text.

He concluded that Nurhachi would not enter the army in the short term, so he dared to take the initiative.

Xiong Tingbi understood that if he didn't do this, it would make the slave chief suspicious and discover the true intentions of the Ming Dynasty early.

For Nurhachi, although Xiong Tingbi has managed the army well, Liaoyang has been solid under his three-year operation.

However, the strength of the Ming army in Liaoyang, after all, is far behind the overall strength of Houjin.

If you are determined to fight a big war, although it is a little unrealistic to completely annihilate Xiong Tingbi, if you can put an end to the reinforcements on the front line of Guangning and Songjin, it is not impossible.

The order that Iran received before leaving was not to start a war with the Ming army, but only to test and plunder the people and materials.

The two blue flag cavalry infantry led by Iran and Afghanistan marched from two directions.

The cavalry slaughtered the village near Fengji Fort and captured more than 400 local Liao people.

The infantry attacked the camp of the Ming army at night, defeated the headquarters of Liu Chun, the commander of the Ming Qian, who was still asleep, beheaded more than 200 pieces, and plundered all the baggage and military rations.

Getting this news, Nurhachi was overjoyed, and he could be regarded as having recovered some fields.

The news was transmitted back to Liaoyang, Xiong Tingbi immediately raised the account to convene the generals to lead the army, and in the stunned eyes of everyone, he proposed to gather the guards of the Ming army and poured out.

This frightened Liaoyang's Chinese martial arts.

In their opinion, Xiong Tingbi made the mistake of Wang Huazhen back then, and when it was incorrect, he had to raise troops to attack.

The opposition of the crowd did not stop Xiong Tingbi from summoning the news that the Ming army of Liaoyang would take the initiative to march to Shenyang.

Nurhachi received this news without the slightest surprise, but he did not plan to start a large-scale battle with Xiong Tingbi before the arrival of Ming reinforcements.

The Ming army in Liaoyang City is not to be feared, what really makes him care is the 200,000 troops out of the pass, which is almost half of the northern military strength that the Ming Dynasty can mobilize at present.

If this support army can be defeated, the Liaoshen Plain of Guangrou will be in your hands.

At this time, the head of Xiong Tingbi was bloody, and it didn't make much sense.

But after all, Xiong Tingbi made the momentum of wanting a decisive battle, and Nurhachi could not be indifferent, and he personally led the banner owner of the four banners, Baylor, to go.

On March 22, Xiong Tingbi met Nurhachi at Fengji Fort.

The Ming army of Liaoyang falsely claimed 50,000, and Nurhachi claimed 80,000, and the armies of the two sides gathered in the small Fengji Fort.

Nurhachi personally led Zhubeile to the front of the army, and saw that the Ming army in the distance was neatly lined up, the armor was clear, and there was a bloodstained human head on the banner that had long since dried up, and he did not dare to act rashly.

He stopped the discussion of Zhubeile asking for battle, and suddenly saw a group of men and horses galloping out in front of the Ming army.

I also saw that the cavalry of the Ming army on the horse was full of energy, and their weapons were lofty, and their combat effectiveness should not be weaker than their Eight Banners Iron Cavalry.

There is a general in the front line, with shining armor, a figure of more than seven feet, a high banner behind him, a big waist and a round waist, and an extraordinary bearing.

Don't think about it, this Meiyu saw a dignified and murderous aura, and the general who was heroic from afar was the current Liaodong Jingluo Xiong Tingbi.

Nurhachi looked left and right, stared and said:

"It's supposed to be Xiong Tingbi."

"Hui Father Khan, it is Liaodong Jingluo Xiong Tingbi!" When Dai Shan spoke, he also showed deep jealousy, and he didn't feel that the person in front of him was easy to deal with.

Dai Shan has always been conservative, and he also feels that if he fights Xiong Tingbi to the death before the decisive battle with the Ming reinforcements, then this battle will be lost before it is fought.

Their bannermen could not withstand attrition even more than the Ming army.

Nurhachi nodded, and was truly amazed in his heart, this emaciated camel in the Ming Dynasty is bigger than a horse, and there are such powerful people under the little emperor of the Apocalypse.

Although he didn't say it on his face, everyone could see the meaning in his expression.

When Beile and Nurhachi, the masters of the Houjin Banners, were looking at this side, Xiong Tingbi also looked at the old slave from a distance.

He sneered and said:

"This group of barbarians, all of them are born with strange and ugly appearances, and the old slaves are even more so, the so-called Jurchen money rat tail, obscene and ugly, and it really lives up to its name!"

When the words fell, the generals of the Ming army burst into laughter.

"Fetch the arrows!"

Less leaning, a pro-soldier presented a powerful bow and arrows.

Xiong Tingbi concluded that Nurhachi would not fight him first, and the stronger he was now, the more he could make the old slave believe and bring an advantage to Fu Yuwei's side.

He took his bow and arrows, wound them up, and aimed them at the blue flag in front of the two armies, held his breath, and let go suddenly.

"Ah——!h

Iran Ah was still sneering disdainfully on his face one moment, but the next moment he fell in response, with a sharp arrow stuck in his chest.

This scene made the blue-flag cavalry around him panic and shocked.

"Whoosh-"

Immediately afterward, another sharp arrow roared with the sound of breaking through the air.

A blue-flaged bull beside Iran screamed and fell off his horse, but the arrow was still impartial and hit the chest.

Immediately, the third arrow arrived.

Due to the previous two examples, the leaders of the Houjin army with blue flags had learned their skills and retreated to the rear, this time shooting only one ordinary waistcoat.

"Good archery!"

Huang Taiji was stunned for a moment, and then involuntarily let out an exclamation.

Nurhachi was furious, but he still had some sense.

He knew that Xiong Tingbi's move was undoubtedly to provoke himself to enter the army, so as to fall into the full set that had been prepared for a long time.

He thought about it again and again, but instead ordered the troops to be collected, and led the four banners to retreat to the camp outside Shenyang, leaving only a part of the people to guard at Fengji Fort to stop the Ming army in Liaoyang.

After Xiong Tingbi's provocation, Nurhachi still chose to calm the situation, and deployed the main force of the Jin army to meet the reinforcements in Guannai.

Xiong Tingbi's inference was once again confirmed.

After the Ming army of Liaoyang was killed in the field battle, a Gushan Ezhen and a Niu Lu Ezhen of the Jin army were killed, and they did not lose a single soldier and a soldier, but forced the Houjin army back to Shenyang.

As soon as the news came out, both inside and outside were shocked, and the morale of the army was greatly boosted.

Xiong Tingbi, on the other hand, said that he had no merit in sending troops without authorization, and at most he had no merit or demerits, and this action was praised by the government and the opposition.