Chapter 54: Siege Feint

The Ming army under the city was looking for an opportunity to shoot arrows to the city, and suddenly saw a few people jumping down from the city, and they froze for a while.

Then he saw the Tartars on the city wall shooting arrows at these men, and immediately understood.

"Archers! Hurry up and release the arrows! ”

A thousand-household officer of the Ming army roared loudly, and then took advantage of the opportunity for the Ming archers to release their arrows, and rushed to the city with a small group of sergeants, and ran back with the Ming gunners on their backs.

"Rub, rub, rub" dozens of feather arrows chased after the Ming army, and with a "bang", a Ming soldier was shot in the leg and fell to the ground, and his body was instantly filled with feather arrows.

"Shoot these dogs!"

The Bayala in the city roared loudly, shooting arrows at the fallen Ming soldier and the gunner he was carrying.

"Brother, brother, Lian, even you."

The gunner who fell to the ground looked sideways at the Ming soldier who was lying motionless next to him and muttered.

"In the next life, we are killing and killing Tartars together."

With that, his head tilted, and a feathered arrow pierced the back of his head from his forehead.

The squad of Ming soldiers rushed to the back of the shield cart with the other three gunners on their backs, and saw a herald waiting behind the shield cart.

"Zhao Shuai has an order, send these strong men to the Chinese army's big tent as soon as possible, and take good care of them by the doctors, so that they must save their lives."

The city wall of Quang Ninh is more than two feet high, and the city is full of mud that has been loosened by cannonballs, so these gunners were not fatally injured after jumping, but then a few feather arrows chased after these gunners were not lightly injured.

One of the gunners appeared to have been shot in the heart and lungs, and was dying at this point.

After picking up those gunners, the Huzun cannon in the city fired another round of more violent shotguns, and the Ming army suffered many casualties.

Taking advantage of the gap between its charges, the Ming army was about to continue to advance, but at this time they heard the sound of "dang dang dang".

Hulala, the Ming army and the people who came like a tide retreated back like a tide in an instant.

"Today's feint is quite realistic, isn't it?"

Looking at the retreating Ming army, Man Gui said proudly to Zhao Shujiao.

"It's very realistic, 30,000 people attacked for a day, and only then did they touch the outer edge of Guangning City, but fortunately, our Ming army rarely attacked the city in Liaodong, and Yue Tuo couldn't see the reality for a while."

Zhao led the teaching to caress the beard.

"And continue the shelling tonight?"

"Well, last night the messenger from Guangning City has been out, and it will take at least two days and two nights to reach Tiger Squatting Rabbit Baicheng, and even if the little slave chief immediately leads the army back after receiving the news, it will take at least five days, and if he leads the light cavalry vanguard to return to the division first, it will take three days."

"From this point of view, Your Majesty ordered me to wait for two days to go down this city, which is a calculated day, and we must not miss Your Majesty's orders, and the city must be broken by the morning after tomorrow at the latest."

After Zhao Shujiao finished speaking, he smashed his fist on the table.

"Well, last night, there were already two groups of messengers in Guangning City, at least one of which was to report the movement of my middle route army, indicating that His Majesty has arrived or is close to Liaoyang, and it is urgent to break the city.

That night, coach Man Gui and deputy coach Zhao Shujiao set a plan to bombard Guangning City at night.

That night, a group of knights galloped to Quang Ninh, and under the deliberate negligence of the Ming army, three Tartar soldiers braved the rumbling artillery bombardment and walked to the city of Quang Ninh.

After some verification, the three were dragged up the city wall by hanging baskets.

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On the second day of the recovery of Xiping Fort, in the evening, Liaoyang City was under the city.

After galloping for five days and killing all kinds of small forts along the way, Zhu Youzhen finally arrived at the city of Liaoyang, Zhu Youzhen looked at the towering city wall under the sunset, and his expression was agitated for a while, so he wrote a poem.

The group of Hu tied up their canes and died in the sky, and abandoned their armor all over the battlefield.

The snow rushed to chase the horse tracks, and the officers and soldiers entered Liaoyang in the middle of the night.

"Your Majesty, what a poem!"

Zu Dashou's fart next to him was very timely.

"Well, it's really a good poem, Lu Fangweng's poem is very suitable for this situation, I will enter Liaoyang in the middle of the night tonight."

Zu Dashou was shocked when he heard this.

The horse team attacked the city, and it went down overnight, Your Majesty is talking about a fool's dream.

Cao Wenzhao next to him was also stunned.

Afraid that Zhu Youzhen had hysteria, he forced the cavalry to attack the city, and after some psychological struggle, Zu Dashou decided to persuade Zhu Youzhen.

"Your Majesty is so courageous, but we are all cavalry, and we have not brought siege equipment, Liaoyang City is high and strong, it may be inappropriate to attack the city rashly, I hope Your Majesty will think twice."

When Cao Wenzhao heard this, he also stepped forward and hugged his fists.

"Your Majesty, what Zu Shuai said is extremely true, we are cavalry, and it may be inappropriate to attack the city, so it is better to lead its defenders out of the city to fight, and the last general will capture the flag for Your Majesty."

Zhu Youzhen looked back at the two generals who accompanied him this time, and then laughed.

"Haha, the two generals don't have to worry about breaking the city, when the sergeants are ordered to camp and rest early, and assemble at dawn, the city will naturally be broken by then."

Speaking of this, Zhu Youzhen smiled weirdly again.

"As for the destruction of the city, I have my own clever plan, and the generals don't need to worry, but when the city is broken, the generals need to enter the city first and kill him without leaving a piece of armor."

When the rest of the generals heard this, they were all shocked, but when they heard Zhu You's words, they didn't dare to refute it, and they all bowed down and took the order.

"General Cao, General Wu, I heard that Li Yongfang, the grandson-in-law of the old slave chief, lives in this Liaoyang City, and on the day the city is broken, I don't know which of the two generals can capture this fang for me?"

"The last will go!"

"The last will go!"

Cao Wenzhao and Wu Sangui both bowed down to receive the order.

Li Yongfang, a native of Tieling, Liaodong, was originally a guerrilla of the Ming army, in the forty-sixth year of Wanli, Nurhachi attacked Fushun, Li Yongfang killed Fushun after the garrison of the king's seal, and surrendered without a fight.

At this point, Li Yongfang became the first general of the Ming army to surrender to the Jurchens, and Fushun also became the first Ming Dynasty city captured by Nurhachi.

After that, in order to win over Li Yongfang, Nurhachi married the daughter of his seventh son, Abatai, to Li Yongfang and named her a forehead.

After Li Yongfang surrendered to the Jurchens, he not only personally led his troops to participate in Nurhachi's subsequent major military operations against the Ming Dynasty, but also played an extremely important role in the spy war of the Later Jin against the Ming Dynasty.

Li Yongfang successively subdued Jin Yuhe, Wang Yiping, Sun Degong, Shi Tingzhu and other generals of the Ming army, and in the war between the Later Jin and the Ming, he sent traitors to steal information to shake the morale of the army, so as to help the Later Jin win.

Especially in Nurhachi's attack on Shenyang and Liaoyang, Li Yongfang took advantage of his old relationship to send spies to secretly infiltrate the city, collude with the generals, and open the city gate privately.

During Nurhachi's lifetime, he attached great importance to intelligence work, and under his instruction, Li Yongfang established a very powerful spy team for Houjin, and sent spies to infiltrate.

Zhu Youzhen's surprise attack on Liaoyang this time was to deter Houjin and lead Huang Taiji to rush back to help, and secondly, to kill Li Yongfang.

Li Yongfang, as the first general of the Ming army to surrender to the Later Jin, was willing to become a traitor and made immortal contributions to the Later Jin invasion of the Ming Dynasty.

The significance of this person's symbol is too bad, and it can be said that it is a precedent for the generals of the Ming army to surrender once they are unable to resist the enemy.

Therefore, the first thing Zhu You did after he broke Liaoyang was to kill Li Yongfang and stop the thoughts of those traitors in the future.

That is, if you are a traitor, I will punish you!