On October 13 of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty finally knew what Nurhachi was waiting for.

The small Youtun was surrounded by the army of Houjin, and the main forces of the other flags had all arrived in addition to the white flag left behind by Houjin.

Standing on the low head of the city on Youtun, Nurhachi's heart was full of agitation.

What a huge army!

Back then, when he was 25 years old and raised an army to defeat Nikan Wailan (Jurchen No. 1), there were only a few dozen people under his command, and thirteen were paid.

At that time, he was just an insignificant little insect compared to the Great Tomorrow Emperor, who had millions of troops.

When Nurhachi remembered when he first started his family, his heart was full of emotion.

After more than 40 years of fighting, Nurhachi already has an army of more than 100,000 outside the city.

He has won many battles against Daming, and even this vast white mountain and black water he also snatched from Daming.

Daming has become weak, if it weren't for the Ming army to prepare supplies for Dajin, Nurhachi would have already hit Shanhaiguan.

The so-called Ningyuan defense line that Daming spent several years of effort to build, in Nurhachi's opinion, was just a larger pigsty.

The pigs are fattened, and it's time to kill the pigs for the New Year.

"Let's go. Let's kill the pigs! ”

Stretching out his hand and pointing in the direction of Ning Yuan, Nurhachi shouted contemptuously.

On October 14 of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, Houjin gathered 130,000 main forces of the Eight Banners, and under the command of Nurhachi, attacked Daming again.

The Battle of Ningyuan officially began.

At the beginning of the war, Houjin went extremely smoothly.

It didn't take much to happen, and strategic places such as Dalinghe, Jinzhou, Songshan, Daxingbao, and Tashan fell into the hands of Houjin.

In these places, the Ming army was crushed at the slightest touch, and even fled directly in despair.

These victories made the already very high morale of the Houjin Eight Banners soar directly across the sky.

The only fly in the ointment felt by the soldiers of the Eight Banners was that the looting along the way was too little.

Whether it is wealth, grain and grass, or people, what Houjin gets from these places is pitiful.

Looking at the pitiful harvest along the way, the anger in Nurha's heart burned more and more.

It seems that Da Ming is really going to have a good fight with him in Ningyuan.

The main points along the way are not so much the banners of the Houjin as the Ming army gave up on its own.

Among the fortresses, the Ming army was stationed at the most with less than 1,000 people, and often as soon as they saw Dajin's battle flag, the Ming army fled in flocks.

The speed of the Ming army's escape was so fast that even the Daikin strikers could not catch up.

However, before the Ming army retreated, they withdrew the common people in advance.

The Houjin burned and plundered all the way, and it was not even worth the consumption of the army's actions.

This made Nurhachi very angry.

When Nurhachi led his team to attack the Ming army before, wasn't it a lot of robbery that time?

I can't grab anything this time!

Seeing the empty ox carts in the Houjin army, Nurhachi felt extremely dazzling.

Nurhachi did not expect that he would lead his army to kill pigs with great interest, and so far he had not even caught a chicken.

It seems that if you want to get a good harvest, you are afraid that you will have to hit Shanhaiguan.

Thinking of this, Nurhachi was so angry that his beard curled slightly.

Ning Yuan

Looking at the puffs of black smoke rising outside the city, Yuan Chonghuan nodded with satisfaction.

The Chinese army garrison He Kegang did a good job.

The people outside the city finally withdrew into the city, and the houses outside burned down.

Within dozens of miles around Ningyuan City, let alone wood now, even the grass was burned by Yuan Chonghuan.

In Ningyuan in October, the weather has already cooled down.

Although it has not yet reached the point of splashing water into ice, it will be cold enough to choke at night in the wild.

Aren't you from Jianzhou, and you're particularly cold-resistant?

When I asked your soldiers to come to the city, I couldn't find a single grass or tree in Ningyuan.

When the time comes, don't talk about heating, when you can't even drink hot soup, see if you Jurchens are still not really that resistant!

Thinking of the difficulties that Houjin would encounter under Ningyuan City, Yuan Chonghuan showed a smile on his face.

When he found out that the old slave appeared in Youtun, Yuan Chonghuan began to make all kinds of final preparations for defending the city.

While Nurhachi was waiting for the Houjin army to assemble, he also gave Yuan Chonghuan time to fully prepare.

Taking advantage of this short time, Yuan Chonghuan arranged for the soldiers and civilians of Ningyuan to remove all the things that could be withdrawn into the city outside Ningyuan City, and truly achieved the clear of the wall.

All the grass and trees and even stones outside Ningyuan City, those that could be brought back to the city were brought back to the city. Those who could not be brought back to the city were set on fire or destroyed by their ideas.

Yuan Chonghuan also tried every means to destroy the water source outside Ningyuan City.

All in all, Yuan Chonghuan used everything he knew, all the methods related to defending the city. It was important that Nurhachi's army could not find anything to use outside Ningyuan City.

He wanted to make everything Nurhachi needed to attack the city have to be transported thousands of miles from Houjin to Ningyuan.

Yuan Chonghuan wanted to see how much logistics money Houjin had for Nurhachi to squander.

This is what Yuan Chonghuan learned from Xiong Tingbi when he was in the capital, "defend first and then fight".

On the head of the city, looking at the bare Ningyuan City, which had completely completed preparations, Yuan Chonghuan took a deep breath.

His preparations have been completed, and now it will depend on the performance of Ning Yuanming's sergeant.

Thinking of Ning Yuanmingjun's performance, Yuan Chonghuan felt faintly uneasy in his heart.

The current Ningyuan defense plan is not the plan envisaged by Yuan Chonghuan and Sun Chengzong.

In the earliest prediction, in addition to guarding Ningyuan City, Ningyuan would also arrange a Ming army in Shoushan and Cave Mountain outside the city as a surprise soldier to harass the enemy.

With these two strange troops, plus the garrison of Juehua Island and Zhongqiansuo, they don't need to face the enemy head-on, as long as they harass the enemy army outside Ningyuan City.

Only then would the enemy army not be able to attack Ningyuan City with all his might.

However, the originally conceived plan was not implemented.

The reason is very simple, except for Man Gui, Ning Yuan could not find a general who was willing to lead troops to garrison outside the city.

You can't really let Ning Yuan's chief soldier Man Gui personally lead the troops to be a surprise soldier, right?

Even if you let Man Gui go, it's just a miracle all the way?

Another way of strange soldiers, Ning Yuan still couldn't find anyone.

And when it came to garrisoning outside the city, the faces of the Ming army were full of indescribable fear.

With this kind of military morale, how dare Yuan Chonghuan force them out of the city.

In desperation, Ning Yuan could only implement the current plan.

That is, they all shrank into Ningyuan City and defended it.

This made Yuan Chonghuan feel very helpless.

Alas, no matter how good the strategy is, in the end, someone has to execute it.

In the end, Ning Yuan still had to rely on the soldiers to defend. All his preparations for Yuan Chonghuan could only increase a little chance of defending the city.

If the soldiers are weak and can't withstand Houjin's attack, then everything Yuan Chonghuan has done is just a useless work.

Whether Ning Yuan's soldiers are mules or horses can only be known when Houjin comes.

Yuan Chonghuan sincerely hoped that the Guan Ning Army, as the main force of Ningyuan's defenders, could still support the wall.

In the distance outside the city, Yuan Chonghuan saw a scout rushing back.

I think it should be the striker of Houjin, and he has already appeared in the Ningyuan realm.

Houjin, old slave, come on!

Standing at the head of Ningyuan City, Yuan Chonghuan took a deep breath again, and he shouted loudly: "Beat the drum, raise the account." ”

On October 17 of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, Houjin Qianfeng arrived outside Ningyuan City.