Xiong Tingbi did have more than 10,000 Sichuan troops under his command.

However, it is not the Tusi Army of Eastern Sichuan, the Sichuan Army led by Qin Liangyu's nephew Qin Bangping is estimated to have just received an order from the Ministry of War at this time, and they will arrive in Liaodong one after another next year, and it will be the end of the year.

And these are what Liu Wei wants.

Liu Dadao started with two major battles in the southwest, and his exploits have always been connected with the Sichuan army, and he only believes in the Sichuan army, before the war, he once claimed to give him 30,000 Sichuan troops, and he himself can solve the wild boar skin. Wanli did transfer the Sichuan army to him, but for various reasons he didn't wait, and after the battle of Salhu, the more than 10,000 Sichuan troops arrived one after another. And after traveling more than 5,000 miles from Sichuan to Liaodong, these soldiers are already exhausted, and it is difficult to say how much combat strength there is at present, not to mention that Xiong Tingbi can't even match them with armor and weapons.

But defending the city is no problem.

As long as you don't fight with Jiannu in the field, these Sichuan troops will have no problem holding Liaoyang.

Liaodong defense to open the iron as the front, Shenyang as the bottom line, here is the real gate of Liaodong, behind is the densely populated agricultural plain, and behind Shenyang is a tiger skin post and Fengji Fort, three cities triangle, plus a bunch of large and small fortresses around to fill the gap, Liaoyang is the rear support of this line of defense. Whether Jiannu crossed the river in the upper or lower reaches of the Hunhe River, he could not directly kill Liaoyang, but had to face this tight defense system, and was flanked by the Ming army in the confines of the Hunhe River.

Especially He Shixian of Tiger Skin Station.

This guy can be said to be the only one who can really fight among the generals in Liaodong at present, and the wild boar skin has to face him first when crossing the river downstream.

What's more, Liaoyang is not only the Sichuan army.

Xuanfu, Yansui, and even Shandong and other places out of the customs most of the reinforcements are there, Chai Guozhu to the Shanhaiguan general commander, but these people are also recruits, at this time the town generals are eating empty pay to support their families, small battles are directly responsible for these families, the big war was hastily recruited, and even the recruits continued to eat empty salaries......

How can I support my family without eating empty salary?

How can you get promoted without empty salary?

This problem has always plagued the Ming army, so the actual number of the Ming army in the battle of Salhu has always been a mystery, the establishment is more than 70,000 guest troops plus more than 10,000 local recruits, this is not counting the original Liaodong Town castles drawn to participate in the war, the latter has a total of 90,000, although it is necessary to warn the Mongols, but it is no problem to draw 10,000 or 20,000, theoretically the Ming army will not be less than 100,000, but in fact, no one knows the real number. Not only is the number of people who attacked a mystery, but even the more than 40,000 who died are just a look, that is the paper number of the Ministry of Soldiers, but the generals of the Ming army like to report more deaths. Yes, they will exaggerate the number of deaths, because the conscription pension for the death is also in their hands, and the more they report, the more the pension!

In short, the Ming army at this time, as long as it involves numbers, it is not accurate, and there are serious frauds in all of them, especially the number of troops, it is not surprising that less than half is less, and less than one-third is already very conscientious.

Xiong Tingbi looked at Yang Xin.

Yang Xin also looked at him rudely.

"I won't increase troops for Shenyang, but I will be responsible outside Shenyang, and you'd better hold Shenyang, as long as you dare to escape from Shenyang, Xiong's Shangfang sword is waiting for you!"

Xiong Tingbi said.

He has the style of the Battle of Quang Ninh.

"Xiong Jingluo, then it's decided, but since Shenyang is handed over to me, you have to support how I deal with it here."

Yang Xin said.

Xiong Tingbi, who likes to gamble, has a very bad temper.

"Yes, you can do whatever you want in Shenyang City, I will appoint Chen Yujie as the supervising army, there was originally a lack of a civilian supervising army here, and the five hundred Beijing battalions will continue to be left to you, Cao Wenzhao is led by guerrillas, and the meritorious Huang Degong is awarded to the general manager, and he is also transferred to him as a deputy!"

Xiong Tingbi said.

That's it.

Yang Xin expressed satisfaction with the result.

Xiong Tingbi then left.

"Old Bear is a little presumptuous!"

Chen Yujie, who had always been treated as non-existent by them, said cautiously.

The Li Rubai brothers, who were also regarded as non-existent by them, nodded thoughtfully, the old bear was obviously angry, they only found out Xiong Jingluo's childish side at this time, and then they looked at Yang Xin together, and now they and Yang Xin are completely tied together, Xiong Tingbi said to Yang Xin just now and also said it to them. In a sense, they had already torn their faces with Xiong Tingbi, and if they dared to abandon the city and flee, then Xiong Tingbi would not hesitate to cut them with Shang Fang's sword. So they had no other choice but to stay in Shenyang, and then try to hold on, and all the hope of keeping Shenyang was on Yang Xin.

"Regardless of him, we don't have to follow him anyway, let's go back to Beijing after this battle!"

Yang Xin said.

If the wild boar skin is really forced back, then at least Liaodong will have no worries for two years, he is not interested in spending it here, and the next year will be the most important year to really change the Ming Dynasty.

The capital is his main battlefield.

"Xiao Chenggong, please give me a list of families in the city who may have a relationship with the wild boar skin, don't tell me no, this battle is about our life and death, I don't want someone to open the door to the wild boar skin in the middle of the night."

He said to Li Rubai.

The latter nodded silently.

"Brother Cao, take the list of Xiao Chenggong, invite all the main men of these families to the bell tower, pile grass around the bell tower and pour oil, and tell them that once Shenyang is captured, then please be loyal to the Ming Dynasty first. In addition, the granaries of those grain merchants were opened, and a porridge factory was set up in the city, and all the men who participated in the defense of the city were eaten free of charge by their families, which were temporarily borrowed from these grain merchants, and the court would compensate them at a discounted price in the future. Some people dare to resist and directly kill them for the crime of collaborating with the enemy, and some officials dare to block them, and they are also arrested and imprisoned for collaborating with the enemy. ”

Yang Xin said to Cao Wenzhao.

"Brother Yang!"

Li Rubai said in astonishment.

Yang Xin immediately stretched out his hand to stop him.

"Xiao Chenggong, the order was given by me, you heard it, Xiong Tingbi said that I can do whatever I want, you just listen to Xiong Tingbi's order, it is Jingying who does this, and you also have no right to manage Jingying, so it's none of your business."

Yang Xin said.

Li Rubai immediately shut up.

There will definitely be trouble afterwards, and Yushi will bite it like a mad dog, but Yang Xin's explanation can completely take out the Li family, it was Xiong Tingbi who connived at Yang Xin's murder, and it was Jingying who was Yang Xin's minion, and Jingying was not under the control of the Liao General Army, to be precise, Jingying was directly under Xiong Tingbi. Since they can't control it, they can only watch these guys behave nonsense, but they also have to admit that Yang Xin is really bold, and the legend that he is favored by the imperial concubine should not be false!

"Xiao Chenggong, immediately order all gates to be closed, and all the city gates are blocked."

Yang Xin said.

Li Rubai gestured to a house slave.

The latter immediately went out to give the order, at this time the wild boar skin striker should be almost to Puhe, at most an hour can reach Shenyang, it is too late to do anything else, and must immediately prepare to meet the enemy. In fact, those elites who came back also went to the city wall, including those recruits who were not enough weapons, Li Rubai recruited another 5,000 recruits during Yang Xin's northern expedition, and the total number of troops in the city has reached 20,000. Among them, nearly 5,000 elites, 15,000 including the civil strife and miscellaneous armies that returned from the forts, but there are not many young and strong, and the population of Shenyang is actually not much, and most of those who have the ability to run have already gone to Liaoyang.

Most of the remaining young and strong people were arrested by Li Rubai, and there were still 10,000 or 20,000 old and weak women and children in the city, including those who had just been driven in, so Yang Xin actually didn't have much to catch, and most of the rich businessmen who had hooked up with wild boar skins went to Liaoyang to take refuge.

After he went out on a military adventure, he ran a lot......

It is estimated that they thought that Yang Xin and Li Ruzhen would basically not be able to come back if they went out.

However, there was plenty of food in the city.

After all, it was easy for these guys to escape, but it was impossible for the grain to be transported out so quickly, and Li Rubai also forbade them to transport it out.

However, the number of firearms is insufficient, and even Xiong Tingbi lacks this.

This problem is also easy to solve.

"Make trebuchets, small man-powered trebuchets, the more there are, the better, and if there are not enough stones, tear down the green bricks on the house."

Yang Xin said.

The small manpower trebuchet is simple, nothing more than a few pieces of wood nailed up, those recruits are not safe on the city wall, so let them use this thing to throw stones across the city wall, if there are no stones, throw green bricks, five or six pounds of green bricks fall from the sky, not to mention wearing a helmet at this time, even wearing a Kevlar helmet may not be able to hold up.

"There shouldn't be a shortage of gunpowder in the city, right?"

Yang Xin asked.

"Plenty of gunpowder."

Li Rubai said.

In fact, gunpowder in the Ming Dynasty was very cheap, and 100 catties of gunpowder was almost the same price as 100 catties of rice at the current price of rice in Liaodong, and the Ministry of Industry was made of hundreds of thousands of catties. Daming's nitrate is easy to obtain, at this time, Europe's nitrate has to rely on toilet soil, but Daming's nitrate is boiled in those nitrate holes, and a pound of nitrate is only two and a half, which is slightly more expensive than wrought iron but cheaper than good Sugang. Sulfur is expensive, because sulfur is imported, bought from Wakoku, Ryukyu and other places, and each catty of sulfur is four cents of silver, in fact, it is not a valuable thing.

Even the cannon is very cheap, and the cost of one furlong machine with six cartridges is only ten taels in total.

That's ten taels.

At present, as long as it is an industrial product, the price is not very high.

"Then make a gunpowder bag, twenty catties of gunpowder, and fill it with iron nails and the like, I will make it myself, and I will use it!"

Yang Xin said.

Twenty catties of black powder, this thing does burn slowly, but it is enough to bundle a few more layers and tie it tightly, wrap a hundred layers of silk, and then add an extra coarse cloth bag outside, and tie the iron nails densely outward on the cloth, it is estimated that it adds up to dozens of catties, and with his strength, there is no difficulty in throwing a few tens of meters.

But not downward, but into the air.

It is said that such a gunpowder bag exploded in the sky above the dense area of Jiannu......

What will be the end result?

I don't think I'm going to have to blow up thirty or fifty, right?

At this time, an officer rushed in.

"Governor, there is a Jiannu scout outside the city!"

He said with a solemn face.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the boar skin has arrived, and the next thing is up to us, life and death are here in one move, tell the brothers on the city wall, don't forget that the dead body of Abatai has just been sent away, and we have fallen into the hands of the wild boar skin, and there is no other end except cramping and skinning! Also, Xiong Jinglue's Shang Fang sword is waiting for us, we dare to escape from Shenyang, and his Shang Fang sword is also waiting to cut off our heads. Pick up arms, prepare for a bloody battle, kill, kill a wife and a son, kill a glorious ancestor! ”

Yang Xin picked up the Blue Dragon Glaive Knife that was thrown aside, and shouted excitedly.