The remnant sun was like blood, the artillery fire was flying, and the sound of killing outside the city of Yiju shook the sky. Huang Taiji knew that this was the last chance, and invested all his strength in attacking the city, casualties were no longer important to him, as long as he could capture this city, his plan would be half completed. The Eight Banners were worthy of being the most courageous cavalry at that time, and they still regarded death as if they were at home in the face of rolling wood and stones.

Because Huang Taiji suffered from firearms, he ordered the Rakshasas to suppress the fire on the city wall, and at the same time commanded the siege troops to climb up. This kind of fighting style that ends up together has caused Rong Shiyan and Qi Xingguo and others to increase the pressure dramatically, and they are tired of running back and forth. By the time it was dark for the thieves to retreat, Rong Shiyan was already covered in color, but he didn't have time to bandage it, so he ran to Qi Xingguo with one hand and pressed the bleeding wound and said:

"Lord Qianhu, the firepower of the Rakshasa people is too fierce, and tomorrow Yizhou is afraid that it will be more than auspicious. As the commander, I should live and die with the city, but you are a saint, you don't have to burn the jade, hurry up and withdraw with your people! ”

Qi Xingguo has been fighting behind enemy lines, and has never experienced such a tragic offensive and defensive battle, seeing the soldiers on both sides stepping on the corpses and fighting, and there is a pool of blood on the city wall, like hell on earth. Hearing that Rong Shiyan was going to persuade him to escape, he couldn't help but say angrily:

"Saibei Hou, before the humble general left, the saint told him a thousand times, Yizhou is a bait to attract Jianlu and Rakshasa people, even if you are broken bones, you have to buy time for the army to encircle. At present, the only way to do this is to mobilize the men, women, and children in the city to defend the city together, and move everything that can be used to the city walls. ”

Rong Shiyan heard that the army was already encircling, and suddenly saw a glimmer of life, and collapsed on the ground to rest. Qi Xingguo thought that this style of play could not give full play to his advantages at all, and while ordering someone to help Rong Shiyan bandage his wounds, he discussed:

"Today's thieves are attacking fiercely, according to the experience of the humble generals, it may be a desperate fight, and it is likely to take the opportunity to retreat at night, so I want to go out of the city in the middle of the night to find out the truth, if they still want to attack the city tomorrow, then find a way to blow up a few cannons to reduce our pressure."

For Qi Xingguo's bold proposal, Rong Shiyan felt his scalp tingle, and he didn't understand why Qi Xingguo, who was behind the gate and had a promising future, put his life in danger, which was rarely heard of in the history of wars in the past dynasties. Looking at the back of Qi Xingguo's departure, he fell into deep thought.

On the night of the new moon, it was pitch black in the wilderness, and the two cavalry were marching east along the Daling River, and Huang Degong concluded that they were only thirty miles away from Yizhou according to the boundary monument, and they could go around the back of the Rakshasa military camp tomorrow. After agreeing with Cao Wenzhao, he ordered the whole army to rest in place, and sent heralds to report to Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng overnight.

The main force of the Yeming army also marched to fifty miles southeast of Yizhou, cutting off the connection between Huang Taiji and the Liaohe camp, and the vanguard led by Man Gui and Hong Chengchou could even see the bonfire of the Rakshasa camp. In fact, Sun Chuanting's army was two days later than expected, mainly because the new Apocalypse cannon was still too cumbersome, and in order to ensure the coordination of artillery and infantry, the speed of the march had to be sacrificed.

Huang Taiji had already known the movements of the Ming army, and he thought that he could take Yizhou in one battle today, so that the main force of the Ming army would lose its strategic fulcrum, and then fall into the field battle that the Eight Banners were good at. In his view, the Han people were nothing more than a flock of cowardly lambs, and he was surprised by the tenacity of Yiju and had to rethink the new situation.

In fact, the bloody battle of Yizhou is no longer a simple offensive and defensive battle, but a contest of will between the two sides, even if the city is full of casualties, the morale of the Ming army will be greatly encouraged. From then on, not only were they not afraid of the Jurchen cavalry who came and went like the wind, but they would even fight the enemy in battles in one city and one place, which was like a catastrophe for Huang Taiji, who lacked logistical supplies and soldiers.

For excellent generals, they may have 10,000 ways to win the war, but if they want to become handsome, they also have to consider countermeasures after defeat, and Huang Taiji is this kind of person. For him, it is good to take Yizhou, he can withdraw from the battlefield and let the Ming army fight with the Rakshasas and Cossacks, and if Zhu Youxiao kills Nurhachi and other hostages, he can even directly raise the banner of revenge and get involved in this chaotic war. On the contrary, if he could not capture Yizhou, the Rakshasas and Cossacks who were cut off by the Ming Dynasty cavalry corps could only be forced to follow him, so that he could not only continue to cause chaos in Liaodong, but also get in touch with the Rakshasa Kingdom and become a place for him to be defeated in the future.

For now, he had to settle the quarrel between Turg and the Rakshasas before convincing them to follow him. It turned out that during the siege of the city during the day, the Rakshasas wanted to take the city in one go, and after robbing the gold inside, they quickly fled, so despite the fighting of Turg and his men at the head of the city, they still continued to carry out artillery bombardment, resulting in thousands of people being injured by mistake with the white flag.

When Turg came back, he scolded and even threatened to kill these old hairy people, but he glared angrily and said angrily:

"Great Khan, you know that these Rakshasas are not active on weekdays, but today my men have climbed the city wall several times, but at this time, their cannonballs came and they were killed along with the defenders, not to mention so many brothers sacrificed in vain, and the warriors' spirit was also bruised."

Those Rakshasa officers were not to be outdone, and immediately confronted each other. According to the agreed plan, the artillery and the siege troops crossed cover, but when the siege troops were tired, they still loved to fight, and they had to carry out limited shooting, so that their positions were exposed in front of the Ming army, and they were counted by the artillery on the city, losing more than a dozen artillery pieces and dozens of gunners.

Seeing the quarrel between the two sides, Huang Taiji knew that it must be calmed down as soon as possible, otherwise the frustration after trying his best would cause the internal division to fall apart, and even mutiny.

"Rest easy, Ben Khan knows that you are all good soldiers and deserve more wealth and honor. At present, although Yizhou is about to be broken, the main force of the Ming army has crossed the Daling River, and two cavalry corps of 10,000 people have appeared in the north.

Ben Khan heard that there were more than 20,000 Han families in the interior, and the little emperor also brought them 100,000 stone of grain and 400,000 taels of silver, which was enough for us to support for three years and five years, and then look for an opportunity to go south after recuperating our strength. ”

This plan is Huang Taiji's spare tire, he is a bandit who robs homes and houses, and has always advocated that if he fights, he will fight, and if he can't fight, he will run. But those Rakshasa people who were bent on making a fortune were not happy, they didn't take the watermelon in front of them, and they wanted to go to the Far East to grab that bit of sesame, and they screamed without waiting for Huang Taiji to finish speaking.

Through the translation, Huang Taiji knew that they wanted to continue to attack Yizhou, and thought that it was really a group of robbers who wanted money and did not want their lives, so he said with a black face:

"You may not know that there are 20,000 cavalry regiments of the Ming Dynasty stationed twenty miles north of Yizhou, and if you continue to attack the city at this time, you will be under siege."

It is a taboo for soldiers to suffer from the enemy on their backs, although the Rakshasa people love money but also cherish their lives, and they consciously fall for these pigtails, and they are angry and scolded. However, they had no choice but to agree to follow Huang Taiji north.

On the contrary, Rong Shiyan in the city did not dare to sleep, and mobilized the people to fight against the thieves from house to house, and moved all the tools that could be used to the city wall, such as kitchen knives, bricks, large iron pots, etc. Some of these people were herdsmen who had fled from the grasslands, and they had long been taught the brutality of the Rakshasas, and everyone knew what it meant for the city gate to fall, and it was better to give it a go than to sit back and wait. This is the backbone of the sons and daughters of China, and it is precisely because of this that China is still that China for thousands of years, standing tall in the East.

Just after the ugly time, Qi Xingguo led his troops out of the city secretly, lying on the ice of the moat and crawling forward, preparing to touch the Rakshasa artillery position and wait for the opportunity to blow up a few heavy guns. These unlucky Rakshasa people, since they were deceived by Huang Taiji, have not had a day of peace, pondering the gold-paved palace all day long. Since the winter in Moscow was even colder, these people were accustomed to drinking strong liquor at night to ward off the cold, and did not pay the slightest attention to the movement outside the camp.

When he was two hundred steps away from the position, the non-commissioned officer who was exploring the path whispered to Qi Xingguo:

"Lord Qianhu, the Rakshasa guards are all drunk, and most of them lie in the camp tents and sleep. I guess they didn't think we would dare to go out of the city, so the vigilance was very lax. ”

"Wait and see, don't act rashly!"

Qi Xingguo said calmly, he also discovered this situation, and he always felt that something was wrong. It was this army that swept through the steppes for thousands of miles, which made the Mongolian cavalry smell the color, and it could be seen that they had a high tactical literacy and very tenacious willpower during the siege during the day, and it could not be a rabble.

After about half an hour, a group of Rakshasas crawled out of the secret passage and changed the guard with the sentries on the battlefield. Seeing this, everyone gasped, but fortunately they didn't do it in advance, otherwise they would have been ambushed by the enemy.

After such a repeated change of guard, the Rakshasa people gradually became paralyzed, and they all took a nap in the second half of the night. Qi Xingguo lay in the snow pit for more than an hour, and finally waited for this moment, ordered the adjutant general to quickly retreat to the city after blowing up more than a dozen cannons, and he himself led a dozen subordinates to gallop to the north quickly on the stolen horses.

It turned out that he had noticed that Huang Taiji was preparing to escape, and at this time he was going to risk his life to tell Huang Degong and Cao Wenzhao the news, so that they could quickly intersperse to the east of Yizhou. When he arrived at Yuanmen, a sentry had already reported to Huang Degong, and Qi Xingguo didn't have time to dismount before he clenched his fists and said:

"General Huang, General Bei knows that Huang Taiji and the Rakshasa are preparing to retreat eastward, once they join up with the army stationed in the Liaohe River, there will be endless troubles, please immediately lead your troops to stop it."

Huang Degong knew that this matter was not trivial, his task was to prevent the Rakshasa people from escaping north, even if he saw the thieves retreating to the east, he must first ask the commander Sun Chuanting, and he couldn't help but be embarrassed and said:

"Lord Qianhu must know that military orders are like mountains, and without the commander's order, even if the sky falls, this general will stick to this position. Please dismount and rest in the tent first, and I will immediately send someone to ask Sun Dashuai. ”

Qi Xingguo thought that the daylily would be cold when the order came down, so he jumped off the horse and took out a gold token from his arms, and hurriedly said:

"General Huang, this is the dragon talisman used by the Holy Emperor to transfer troops, with which you can control the soldiers and horses in the world, I will hand it over to you now, please send troops immediately!"

Huang Degong saw this token when he was in the Qinzheng Palace, knelt on the ground and bowed three times before respectfully accepting it, and then ordered the deputy generals, partial generals, and generals to hurry up and march out of the camp.

The sky was slightly bright, and Huang Taiji decided to retreat to the east lightly, and at the same time ordered Tang Gu, who was stationed in the Liao River, to come to meet him, and quickly fled north after the two armies converged. In order to confuse the Ming army, he also sent several envoys to Sun Chuanting's Chinese army camp, falsely claiming that he had been attacked by the Rakshasa musketeers, and that he had lost more than half of his troops, and had fled back to Hetuara to recuperate.

When Sun Chuanting heard this, he knew that Huang Taiji was preparing to retreat, and he didn't have time to talk nonsense with these envoys, so he immediately ordered someone to escort them to Jingshi, and at the same time ordered the whole army to move quickly, and ordered the forward troops of Man Gui and Hong Chengchou to attack Huang Taiji's camp.

At this time, Huang Taiji was riding on a horse and was smug, once this Rakshasa firearms army was used by him, the future siege of the city was just to explore the bag and get things, and more importantly, he had his own craftsmen from now on, who could make firearms in a steady stream. He even thought that Sun Chuanting would believe his nonsense, and then sent someone to Hetuara to ask him for his guilt, and he couldn't help but whistle happily at the thought of this.

His triumph was like the slogan in front of the urinal, he came and went in a hurry, and suddenly found a riot on the left flank of the army, and before he could figure out what was going on, he saw that the rear team had already caught up. In the face of a two-front attack, these soldiers with low morale had no intention of fighting, and threw away their armor and ran wildly.