An arrow tower sounded a gong to warn, and the arrow tower next to it immediately responded, and the sound of the gong was transmitted all the way back to the Yuezi Pass in front of Ningyuan Pass.

The Ming army has always been a civil army, in addition to the civilian officials on the Ningyuan front, in addition to the superintendent Gao Di in Ningyuan City, Xiong Tingbi, Wang Huazhen, Yuan Chonghuan, Huang Daozhou are ranked in front of others in terms of official position, age, seniority, etc., so Gao Di let each of them be responsible for a piece, Xiong Tingbi is responsible for the defense of Ningyuan Pass, Yuan Chonghuan is responsible for the defense of Ningyuan City, Wang Huazhen is responsible for coordinating the remaining 20,000 reserve troops and their families in Yuezi Pass, let them stay in the western half of Yuezi Pass City and not run around, Of course, if the enemy comes around and attacks the west, it must also be defended, and it is not an empty word that the wife and children are behind to protect the family and defend the country.

The three imperial history supervisors Zhang Xiang'an, Sun Chuanting and Ni Yuanlu, who had just been sent from the Military Affairs Yuan, also had a division of labor, Ni Yuanlu brought two hundred people into the east of Yuezi Guancheng, Sun Chuanting brought one hundred people into Ningyuan City to help defend the south of the city, and Zhang Xiangan brought one hundred people into Ningyuan Pass to assist his eldest brother Zhang Jing'an in guarding Ningyuan Pass. Only in his heart expressed his disdain for the three scholars and the four hundred. In order to prevent accidents, Huang Daozhou also sent Lu Xiangsheng and 800 hammer soldiers to the emergency.

Three days ago, Zhao led the sect to take 20,000 people to join Hou Sui, Mao Wenlong, Zu Dashou, etc., preparing to seize Nanguan Xiu Castle and capture Lushun, and at the same time sent the families of 20,000 people to the rear of Qiantun, Gaotai Fort and other places to live temporarily, the east of Yuezi Guancheng was vacant, Cao Wenzhao's 10,000 cavalry, Zuo Liangyu's 5,000 car battalion was stationed in the east of Yuezi Guancheng, and designated Huang Daozhou to be responsible, after receiving the alarm, Huang Daozhou immediately ordered Cao Wenzhao to send 3,000 people to attack quickly.

When the 3,000 cavalry arrived, the Jurchens had already climbed over the side wall and came in about a thousand. The defenders in the arrow tower shot the gong and released the arrows at the same time, although there were some kills but could not stop the enemy more and more, the thick armor and white robes made the Jurchen soldiers look particularly demonic, watching the arrows fall on the Jurchens one after another, the Ming army in the arrow tower was so frightened that they had to lose the courage to fight.

As soon as the Jurchens climbed over the side wall, they tried to knock it down, and some of them thought about how to tear down the arrow tower, but they couldn't do it by hand because of the cold. Just as the Jurchens were looking for tools to take advantage of and were about to push the wall and tear down the tower, the 3,000 cavalry of the Ming army arrived like a whirlwind. In the face of the cavalry Jurchens wielding sabers, no matter how brave they were, their heads were cut off like watermelons and rolled to the ground, and the blood from the wounds poured out for a while and immediately froze, which also proved that the agrarian soldiers could also abuse the nomadic soldiers who were single-handedly ridden by animals.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the Jurchen army general had no choice but to order a retreat, and the two sides glared at each other angrily across the border wall, and the hatred inherited from ancient times has deepened because of today's battle, perhaps this irreconcilable hatred between different peoples must continue until one side is completely obedient.

Under Ningyuan City, Dai Shan led 30,000 people to stand outside the range of the cannon, looking at the countless torches on the city, Dai Shan knew that there was no way to sneak attack. He was not idle, and asked Ao Bai to take 10,000 people to attack Juehua Island, because a few months ago, a spy sent back information that the army's grain and grass were on Juehua Island, and as long as he could snatch the grain and grass on the island and bring it back to Liaodong, this trip would not be in vain.

In addition, Dai Shan also arranged for another 10,000 people to quietly bypass from the east of Ningyuan City, preparing to attack and occupy Ningyuan Pass from behind, as long as Ningyuan Pass was occupied and Nurhachi's follow-up troops came in, the people in Ningyuan City would be unable to fly, thinking of this, Dai Shan couldn't help but smile.

After laughing for a long time, he saw Ao Bai come back, and when he saw Dai Shan Ao Bai, he said: "Erbeile, the Ming army may have known the news in advance, and Juehua Island is empty. ”

Dai Shan frowned and said, "What about the grain and grass?" Nor no? ”

Ao Bai said: "No grain was found, only some moldy and rotten hay, and it is estimated that the horses will be strained after eating." ”

Seeing that Dai Shan's face was not good-looking, Ao Bai said again: "But I saw a strange thing below." ”

Dai Shan asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Ao Bai said: "Originally, according to intelligence, there were many boats on the island, but when we went up, we found that all the boats were missing except for a few broken boats, and what was even more strange was that there were traces of pushing the boats on the ground, and this trace lasted for three or four days at most. ”

Dai Shan said puzzled: "Traces of pushing the boat? Or was it three or four days ago? Is it pushed back to Ningyuan City? The Ming army has so many ships, and Ning Yuancheng can't fit it. ”

Ao Bai said: "According to the investigation of the traces, the Ming army pushed the ship into the sea, and the ice in the sea seven or eight miles away from the land became thinner and thinner. ”

Dai Shan nodded and said: "The Ming army is used to using tricks, do they want to go around to Youtun from the sea to cut off my way back?" However, there are 50,000 people in Yizhou nearby, and they can't please them if they go, so will they attack Lushun? It would be better to send someone to report to the Great Khan immediately. ”

was talking about the traces of pushing the boat, and the 10,000 people sent to attack Ningyuan Pass came back, saying that there were still many strange cities between Ningyuan Pass and Ningyuan City, and as soon as the people got close, they were shot back, and they couldn't see what the situation was when it was dark. When Dai Shan heard this, he had to order that he would set up camp first and wait until dawn to see the situation clearly.

In fact, the long castle in the mouth of the Jurchens was built between Ningyuan Pass and Ningyuan City. At the earliest, Xiong Tingbi built countless fire piers between Ningyuan Pass and Ningyuan City, and finally prepared to wrap a long row of outer walls on the outer wall of the fire pier, and prepared to wrap several fire piers into a parallel and parallel Yuezi Guancheng, some people proposed that the outer wall should not be parallel and side-by-side, but should be wrapped into a wide outside and narrow inside, and use countless Yuezi Guancheng to form a circle. Because the characteristics of the Yuezi Pass City are like snakes, the head is strong and the middle is weak, parallel and juxtaposed, it is easy to be cut off by the enemy from the side, several Yuezi Pass Castle is surrounded into a circle, just like countless snakes leaning together, the snake head is outward, and the enemy will receive fierce counterattack no matter which direction it attacks.

Because the moon word Guancheng is the idea of the apocalypse, Xiong Tingbi did not dare to change it at will, but just played the original story and drew a picture to ask for the opinion of the apocalypse. Because a single flat city is like a moon character, and a number of flat cities are like a round moon together, some people call the moon word Guancheng to stop the moon-shaped Guancheng. Its main feature is that it can both attack and defend, the attack can quickly enter and exit from the middle of the two adjacent flat cities, and the defense can resist at the head of the flat city section by section, and the attack and defense can be separated and coordinated with each other.

Early the next morning, the scouts who were patrolling around reported the information they had found to Daishan, saying that they had searched all the places and found no family, and it seemed that everyone had taken refuge in the castle. To attack Ningyuan City, the only way to attack is from the east and south, the terrain in the west is uneven, if you encounter a flank attack when attacking, it is not conducive to cavalry support, and the north side is connected with a circular strange city and cannot attack.

When Dai Shan heard about some strange city again, he asked the detective who listened to the information: "What strange city?" Where's the blame? ”

The soldier replied, "If you go back to Erbele, the little one can't tell what's strange, saying that it's a city, it's full of gaps, and that it's not a city, and that there are many people defending it." ”

Dai Shan thought for a while and said: "Pass my order, 20,000 people will attack from the south of Ningyuan City, 20,000 people will attack from the east of Ningyuan City, and 10,000 people will be on guard. ”

The Jurchens' attack on the city is similar to the way of attacking the field, they are all pushing the cart to cover the advance of people, the cover is in place, they will cut when they encounter people, and they will chisel when they encounter the wall, although the method is simple, it is simple and direct, and it is very effective in many cases.

Most of the land around Ningyuan City is boulders, so there is no moat, which is also the reason why Dai Shan plans to capture Ningyuan City in one go. With the shouts of thousands of people, countless Jurchens launched an attack on the east and south of Ningyuan City at the same time, and the cannons on the head of the city also began to exert their might, and the cannonballs whistled and smashed into the crowd, and the broken hands and feet of people continued to fly around, and the screams of one after another were endless.

Looking at the crazy Jurchens, the Ming army defending the city also had a panic, and some recruits couldn't help but want to vomit when they looked at the broken corpses that kept rising into the air not far away, only some veterans of a hundred battles showed an expression of indifference on their faces, and war would gradually numb people's nerves.