On February 12 of the first year of Taichang, it was still the season of cold spring, when the last stroke of "weeping willows in front of the pavilion cherished the spring breeze" fell the next day, Nurhachi's eight banners elite 20,000 people had also set up camp on the bank of the Hunhe River seven miles east of Shenyang City, and it was only ten days before the Spring Dragon Festival was planted.

At a glance, the planks, ladders, and chariots that could not be seen at a glance assembled and set off from Salhu City, and went down the Hunhe River after leaving Fushun Pass, advancing by land and water, and were mighty.

Within half a day, a military city had begun to take shape on the east bank of the Hunhe River.

When the Ming army heard the police, they raised a flint to report it.

After receiving the alarm, He Shixian and You Shigong, the commanders of the Shenyang garrison, gathered the defenders in various places near Shenyang in the city overnight, but the total number was only more than 10,000 people.

The sharp whistle in front said that there were tens of thousands of people coming to the Houjin army one after another, and Fengji Fort was also besieged by the Eight Banners Army.

The scouts sent to Liaoyang for help have set off, but the entire Shenyang City is still immersed in an inexplicable self-confidence, Wang Xingping knows that this is the confidence brought by several victories since last year, I am afraid that in the eyes of the Shenyang guards, Houjin's crazy move now is already the end of the crossbow, as long as it survives these few days, the whole Liaoping is probably only in front of him.

However, since Wang Xingping arrived in Shenyang, in addition to collecting all kinds of commercial and military intelligence, he has never met any local officials and generals, including the two main generals of Shenyang, although he has a letter written by Zhang Mingshi to the general soldier You Shigong.

Wang Xing's parallel affairs are unusually low-key, and the place of residence is an inn in the outer gate of the west of the city, except for going out to collect information, he lives in a simple house on weekdays, and the store thinks that he is a visitor from the south, and he doesn't ask much.

He is a student of Zhang Rulin, and now he is the governor of Liao as the head of the household and the imperial history of the right capital, and Li Changgeng, who is in Tianjin and holds the sea road, has a good relationship with Gu Ziming and Fu Xiaofei, and Li Changgeng and Tian Shengjin are still friends. And Zhang and Li were both born in the 23rd year of Wanli with Yuan Yingtai, and it is completely possible to say that they can come to the door with a worship post.

But this time in Liaoyang, neither of them went to see Yuan Jingluo.

Without him, this duke had a bad reputation in the Liaodong military generals, and Wang Xingping did not agree with this one's approach, and he was not optimistic about the battle of Shenyang, so he didn't want to involve too much.

And now Shenyang's guard He Shixian is Yuan Yingtai's Shaanxi Township Party, and he is very obedient to Yuan Yingtai's arrangement.

As for the other guard, You Shigong, although he is also from Shaanxi, he is still the chief soldier of the town, but he has some skills. The sub-word before his general rank was removed by Yuan Yingtai after he took office, and it was only because of the admonition to accept and surrender that Yuan Yingtai did not like it.

After the Jin army came to the city, Wang Xingping also had to gather all the family members.

"What is the charter of the East Side now?" Because of the relationship between the speed and the speed, Wang Xingping still pays more attention to what he says, and only commensurate with the east.

After sorting out his thoughts for a while, he said, "I saw Nurhachi's flag and umbrella cover, and the old slave should have come in person." ”

"It's really early."

To tell the truth, Houjin sent troops so early, and he didn't expect it, after all, sending troops at this time, the consumption of horsepower and a lot of animal power is even irreversible, if you can't win, even Houjin's own spring plowing will be greatly affected this year, it seems that Nurhachi is going to break the boat.

"Yes, now all the households that can run in the east have run out, and there is no one on the piers except for the first round of beacon fires." ”

"Master, what do we do? Do you want to help defend the city? Ding Yi is quite confident in the weapons in his hand, although he is the chief officer in the name of this Yelang battalion, and he has followed him all the way, but he has never said much, and his sense of existence is extremely low, but now he sees that there is a battle to fight, and he is suddenly a little excited.

The people of the Yelang camp naturally did not believe that this Shenyang city would not be able to hold it, after all, the official army had not suffered a loss in the battle with Jiannu since last year, and the Yelang camp had not encountered an opponent in the southwest. What's more, now that Jiannu is pouring into the country, it is obvious that the famine in Jianzhou is also a little unbearable.

Once someone proposed this proposal, others were a little eager to try, but Ma Huateng did not show his state of mind.

Although these boys in the Yelang camp would prefer to kill a few Tartars in the wilderness, they know that Wang Xingping is not a risky character, relying on city defense and firearms, they also have enough confidence, although there are only more than ten people who follow Wang Xingping this time, but they are all elites, if they are hand-to-hand combat, they can't do it with one enemy or five, but pick up the musket and line up, and it is not an exaggeration to fight seven or eight at a time, let alone relying on the city wall.

But Wang Xingping did not let them get their wish, "We will not be involved in the matter of defending the city, and we must withdraw to a safe area before Shenyang City is besieged." ”

"Why don't you earn some credit?" Some people are puzzled.

Wang Xingping didn't hide his thoughts, "I'm afraid there won't be credit to be earned here." ”

"What do you mean, sir?"

"I still have that opinion, I'm afraid Shenyang won't be able to keep it." Looking at everyone's stunned expressions, he didn't want to explain more, after all, there was nothing to come to fruition, "But the credit is not without credit." ”

Wang Xingping looked at the speed as he spoke, and the speed immediately understood, "What did the master say about the villain's contact this time?" ”

"Do you know where Zaisai is imprisoned?"

"This is clear, people are imprisoned in the city of Yilusuo, but I am afraid that there will be another detective where it is."

"How's the garrison there?"

"It's the territory of the Zhenglan Banner Mang Gurtai, but now there should not be many garrisons, and the men and horses of the Zhenglan Banner have also arrived in Shenyang."

"When are the Uziyettes going to start?"

"From the beginning of Shenyang, they are probably going to do it."

Wang Xingping smiled when he heard this, got up and patted the dust on his body, and told everyone to pack their bags, and then turned around and said to the hand: "Then let's go and have a good time." ”

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Outside a camp tent in the east of Shenyang, the Dajin Kingdom, which had just passed its 62nd birthday, was holding a military discussion with a group of ministers under his Huangluo umbrella.

A white-faced, short-haired man sat beside him, looking about forty years old, and it was none other than Nurhachi's second son, the Great Bel Deshan.

Dai Shan led the Zhenghong Banner with Nurhachi to attack Shenyang, although the Niu Lu of the Zhenghong Banner had not yet been collected, but he had already rushed to meet with the Zhenghuang and Yellow Banners. The red flag in his original palm was only deprived by his father last year and distributed to his eldest son Yue Tuo.

He said: "The news from the city, now there are no more than 10,000 defenders in Shenyang, and I also ask my father Khan to order, I am willing to lead the three banners as the vanguard to capture this city." ”

Nurha's red hair had long since turned gray, but she was in good spirits, and she looked noncommittal when she listened to her son's words, but turned her face to a thin black man on the other side. The man raised his eyebrows and eyes, but he was not angry and arrogant, he seemed to be only thirty-four or five years old, if he was a personal soldier in the battalion, he would naturally recognize that this was Nurhachi's fifth son, Sanbel Mang Gurtai.

Nurha equator: "Old Five, what do you say on the Khalkha side?" ”

Mang Gurtai said: "Mang Getu (note: Mongolian Zhenglan Banner people, responsible for Houjin and Khalkha departments at this time) sent back the news, although Duling Hongbatulu (note: fried flowers) treated him well, but the inside is still the same as before, I hope we release Zai Sai first, they are willing to help." ”

Nurhachi chuckled lightly when he heard this, looked around at the ministers and said: "It seems that Sutai is right, everything has to rely on yourself, this time the troops are different from the past, and Shenyang has been defeated, we will naturally have a better life in the future, if we can't fight, I'm afraid even Hetuara will not be able to stay." ”

After taking Tieling the year before last, he imprisoned the captured Zai Sai, thinking that if there were hostages in his hands, the Mongols would obey him, but he didn't want the Khalkha tribes to be kind on the surface, but the people below were repeatedly provocative.

Especially in the past year, the flags and Zhushen have suffered a lot of losses as a result. But in order to concentrate on attacking the Ming, he can only let the small actions of the Mongolian tribes go, nothing more than blindly forbearance, but now it seems that this kid is still speaking well, and in the end he still has to rely on his fists to speak.

This rate Tai is the son of Li Yongfang, a concubine of Fushun, who invested in Dajin with Li Yongfang, but he was only a ten-year-old child at that time. Although Nurhachi later married his granddaughter to Li Yongfang, the son brought by Li Yongfang was taken in by him to raise him, just like he did with his nephew Amin back then, and even the name of Sutai was given by him personally.

This kid is really not ordinary, in the previous battle of Salhu, in addition to the four Baylors, he counted the most effective praise paintings of Tai.

Mang Gurtai said with a smile: "Father Khan, don't worry, as soon as Xiong Manzi leaves, this Liaodong is not for us to gallop, this time I will take Shenyang, and I will be ashamed." ”

"What's going on with Yue Tuo and Shuo Tuo?" Nurhachi didn't care about Mang Gurtai's compliment, but asked with great meaning to Daishan.

Dai Shan only promised: "The day before yesterday, Li Bingcheng's 3,000 men and horses were defeated by our army, and now they have retreated into the city, but when they attacked the city with the red flag, they were attacked by the city's artillery, and the damage was not small. ”

Yue Tuo and Shuo Tuo are Dai Shan's eldest and second sons, because they were born to their ex-wives, they have been treated harshly after Dai Shan's remarriage, and last year Shuo Tuo was even more unbearable and fled once.

This incident caused Nurhachi to be furious, and Daishan had to kill the stepfamily with his own hands to plead guilty, so that it could be calmed down. But in the end, Nurhachi still deprived Daishan of the right to inherit the throne, and was ordered to divide the family, and handed over the red flag he had originally received to Yuetuo and Shuotuo. Nurhachi was abused by his stepmother since he was a child, because he hated his grandson for being abused by his stepmother, and a year has passed since the incident, and he still does not forget to beat him from time to time.

This time, he intended to let his grandson practice, and in addition to the more than 20 Niu Lu with red flags, he also had two other sons, Babutai and Derge, 12 Niu Lu, a total of more than 10,000 people, to assist, and he wanted to leave the credit to his grandson.

However, there are also a lot of elites of the Ming army in Fengji Fort, so he doesn't think that these more than 10,000 Eight Banners will definitely be able to capture this fort, and it is always an experience.

Mang Gurtai said: "With the old seven and ten going together, it will not be a problem to capture Fengji Fort." ”

The old ten Dege class is the same mother and younger brother of Mang Gurtai, has always known the soldiers and is good at fighting, last year with him to attack the Ming army north of Shenyang, a lot of meritorious service, in his opinion, this lineup plus tens of thousands of eight banners of the army, to capture a small military fort is obviously the ambition to win.

But Nurhachi's words surprised him a little, "In the past, as long as the Nikan army over there is dragged, it will be a great achievement, capture Shenyang, and go to fight Fengji Fort to participate in the battle flag Ding will be rewarded with half a future." ”

"Actually, there is something unknown about my grandson." This time it was Nurhachi's eldest grandson Dudu, who was the son of his eldest son Chu Ying, who had always been by his side.

"Why divide the troops?" Hearing the question, the grandfather also put on a kind face and smiled, as if he was playing in front of his grandson.

"Yes, with our military strength, if we can concentrate in one place, wouldn't we be able to take Shenyang faster?"

"You are not as good as the eighth at this point, with our military strength, even if we capture Shenyang, I am afraid that we will suffer heavy losses, if the Ming army in Liaoyang goes north, the result is not easy to say."

"Didn't the Mongols in the city promise us?" Du Du also said that this matter is no longer a secret among the high-level of Houjin.

"Those Mongols descended to the two ends of the rats, they were able to return to Nikan for some benefits, how can they make people credulous, they refused to make a move before we decided the winner, otherwise Manggetu would have said that Khalkha would have been moved, and if Shenyang was really defeated this time, I can't say that those people will bite us back."

"So the Great Khan wants to divide his troops?"

"The division of troops is not the goal, but the means, it doesn't matter if Fengji Fort can be attacked or not, as long as Ni Kan can't take care of each other, it's good to mess up the position, at worst, even if Fengji Fort can't be attacked, it will be transferred to the Tiger Skin Station."

"That's what the kid said?" Du Du's words were unconvinced.

But Nurhachi didn't care at all, only stroked the white beard under his chin, and said, "Speaking of which, this child really surprises me." ”

"By the way, why don't you see him serving by my grandfather's side today?"

"He followed the eighth child to the front."

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