Shimen Mountain, the camp of the Houjin Army. Bayi?? Chinese =≠=.≤

"What? The Ming army in Jinzhou went out of the city to attack our military camp? ”

When Li Yongfang sent the messenger to Nurhachi's tent, Nurhachi was talking to He Heli and Hu Erhan about the progress of the battle at Shimen Mountain, and when he learned that the Ming army of Jinzhou City had attacked the Houjin camp outside the city, he couldn't help but be taken aback, and stared at the messenger and asked.

"Hui Da Khan, it's true, when the little one left, the Ming army had already attacked our camp." The messenger, kneeling in front of Nurhachi, reached out and wiped the sweat from his forehead, then replied breathlessly.

Nurhachi's face sank when he heard this, it seems that Li Yongfang's bluff outside Jinzhou City did not frighten the Ming army in the city, which makes things complicated, once the Ming army in Jinzhou rushed to help, then the Jin army will be in a dilemma.

Although Nurhachi still has more than 20,000 Houjin troops in his hands, he is not ready to put more than 20,000 people into the battlefield, the tenacity of the Ming army in Shimenshan makes him very jealous, once he orders the 20,000 Houjin army to meet the Ming army from Jinzhou, I am afraid that there will be heavy casualties at that time, what will he use to contend with the Ming and Mongolia in the future?

According to the information that Huang Taiji found on Shimen Mountain, Nurhachi and the Houjin generals believed that the Ming army in Jinzhou City was also a sailor transferred by Li Hongyu, and in view of the tenacious combat effectiveness and fighting will of the Ming army on Shimen Mountain, it was impossible for Nurhachi to fight a decisive battle with the Ming army here.

Therefore, as long as the Ming army of Jinzhou broke through the interception of Li Yongfang and others and approached Shimen Mountain, Nurhachi had no choice but to order a retreat.

He knew very well that a big fight with the Ming army at Shimen Mountain was what Li Hongyu was looking forward to, and if he ordered the Houjin army to do this, he would fall into Li Hongyu's trap.

"Tell Li Yongfang that you must block it for me, at least until noon!"

Due to the urgency of the situation, Nurhachi didn't have time to think about it, and shouted to the guards beside him in a deep voice, he can only hope that Li Yongfang can drag the Ming army in Jinzhou City for a while longer, and as for the reinforcements, he will never give them.

"Tell the second and third beylers that the Ming army of Jinzhou is coming, let them not keep it, and give Ben Khan all his strength to attack the mountain!" After the guard left, Nurhachi groaned for a moment and said to He Heli and Hu Erhan with a blank face.

Hearing this, He Heli and Hu Erhan bowed to Nurhachi and left quickly, Nurhachi's move was to let them go to supervise the battle, which was not only to show the importance of the battle of attacking the mountain, but also to express their dissatisfaction with Amin and Mang Gultai's failure to capture Shimen Mountain.

"Damn!"

After He Heli and Hu Erhan left, Nurhachi smashed his fist on the table on the side, and two words burst out coldly in his mouth, the development of the matter was completely beyond his expectations, not only Shimen Mountain was difficult to capture, but the Ming army in Jinzhou also came to add to the chaos.

After Amin and Mang Gurtai learned that the Ming army of Jinzhou was attacking the Houjin army camp outside the city, their hearts were immediately very anxious, which meant that their remaining time was running out, because the two did not believe that Li Yongfang could block the Ming army in Jinzhou, and in their opinion, the Ming army in Jinzhou was as powerful as the Ming army in Shimenshan.

At this time, the fierce battle on the mountainside was already white-hot, and the Houjin soldiers tried their best to go up the mountain, while the Ming army resisted desperately, and the corpses of soldiers on both sides were already piled up on the mountainside.

As a result, the soldiers in the fight had to step on those corpses to fight, and the blood flowing from the corpses gathered into countless streams and flowed down the mountain, looking like blood and tears had fallen on Shimen Mountain from a distance.

Amin and Mang Gultai knew that time was running out for them, so they had no choice but to fight with their backs and break through the Ming army's defense line on the mountainside in one fell swoop, capturing Li Hongyu at the top.

For this reason, the two personally put on the battlefield and mobilized the elite banner soldiers under their respective jurisdictions to launch an extremely ferocious offensive, forcing the Ming army on the mountainside to retreat, and the mountainside defense line finally could not hold on and collapsed under the personal supervision of Amin and Mang Gurtai.

Looking at the Ming army retreating to the third line of defense at the peak, Nurhachi, who was watching the battle at the foot of the mountain, couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief, the peak defense line is the last line of defense of the Ming army, as long as it breaks through it, then Li Hongyu will be captured, and the balance of victory has tilted to the side of Houjin.

The summit of Shimen Mountain.

Li Hongyu was condescending, looking at the fierce battle that exploded in front of the last line of defense with a cold expression, after nearly two days of fighting, the Ming army had only about thirty percent of the troops left, and the rest were all killed, so he didn't know how long he could hold out.

Because he has been paying attention to the changes in the battle situation in Shimen Mountain, Li Hongyu is keenly aware that something seems to have happened to the Houjin army, otherwise the offensive of the Jin army will not suddenly become sharp.

If he didn't guess wrong, the generals of the Houjin army who attacked the mountain had already mobilized the elite in their hands, which meant that the final decisive battle had arrived, and if the Ming army could not hold out until the arrival of the Mongols, then he might not be able to escape this time.

When the battle reached this point, Li Hongyu had nothing else to ask for, and the astonishing will shown by the Ming army on Shimen Mountain had exceeded his expectations, and it seemed that Nurhachi was very jealous of him, so he did not hesitate to fight frantically with the lives of the Jurchen soldiers, wanting to destroy him in one fell swoop.

However, Li Hongyu is not unprepared for this, he has left himself a back road, and this back road is Naren Toya.

The only person Li Hongyu can rely on outside the gate now is Naren Toya, and now that Shimen Mountain has become a bloody hell, then Nurhachi decided not to attack Jinzhou City, and the war losses in the two places at the same time are not something he can afford.

This meant that Jinzhou would not be attacked by the Houjin army, so Naren Tuoya, Yuan Chonghuan and others would definitely guess that a fierce battle broke out on Shimen Mountain.

In Li Hongyu's view, due to the unclear enemy situation, Yuan Chonghuan will stick to it for the sake of the people of Jinzhou, but Naren Tuoya is different, he will definitely risk leading the army to Shimen Mountain to rescue for himself, Naren Tuoya is not only in Jinzhou, but also Li Hongyu's last killer weapon.

"My lord, you can't stay here any longer, and the lowly will lead you out of the encirclement of Jiannu."

At this time, Liu Hu, the general of the Navy Division whose clothes and armor were stained with blood, rushed over with a knife dripping blood, and said to Li Hongyu with an anxious expression.

The offensive of the Houjin army was too fierce, and the Ming army in the last line of defense could not hold out until the Mongols came, so Li Hongyu had to prepare early.

"Jiannu has more troops under the mountain, and if we rush down, we will be caught in the net."

Li Hongyu shook his head seriously when he heard this, Nurhachi must have thought of the possibility of him breaking through, so there must be a lot of Houjin soldiers under Shimen Mountain, and now breaking through is looking for death, and the only choice is to stick to the peak and wait for the arrival of reinforcements.

"Take care of the adults." Hearing this, Liu Hu gave a word of advice to the guards beside Li Hongyu, and then hurried away with his knife, commanding his soldiers to resist the attack of the Houjin soldiers.

Li Hongyu glanced at Liu Hu's back, and then slowly pulled out a saber in the style of an embroidered spring knife hanging on his waist, and a chill suddenly hit his face as the blade was unsheathed.

It is worth mentioning that Li Hongyu's saber was given by Emperor Wanli when he was alive, and it was made of stainless steel forged from meteorites outside the sky, which can be described as sharpening iron like clay.

After Li Hongyu stepped down as governor of Liaodong that year, he proposed to Emperor Wanli to train a new army, and Emperor Wanli gave Li Hongyu this newly created steel knife, which became Li Hongyu's saber.

"Looks like you're going to open meat and drink blood today!" Li Hongyu stretched out his hand and stroked the cold blade, and secretly said in his heart, judging from the current situation, he would definitely join the battle.

Noon.

The battle of Shimen Mountain entered the final moment, under the leadership of Amin and Mang Gurtai, the two roads of the front mountain and the back mountain of the Houjin army had converged, compressing the Ming army to the innermost side of the defense line on the top of Shimen Mountain, and then it was the location of the Taoist temple.

In other words, Li Hongyu's handsome tent is already close at hand, and Amin and Mang Gurtai can even see the Taoist temple from a distance, as well as Li Hongyu's handsome tent in front of the Taoist temple.

However, what made Amin and Mang Gurtai feel anxious was that although the Houjin army was about to attack Li Hongyu's tent, due to the desperate resistance of the remaining Ming soldiers, no matter how the two supervised the battle, the Jin army could not move forward further, and the battle situation was stalemate for a while.

The soldiers of the Ming army knew very well that they had no way to retreat now, and behind them was Li Hongyu's handsome tent, once their defense line was broken through, then Li Hongyu would be in danger, and they were now fighting for Li Hongyu.

Li Hongyu looked at the soldiers who were desperate to fight with the Houjin army with a cold expression, and his eyes couldn't help but be a little moist, if it weren't for the desperate resistance of the soldiers, the Houjin army, which had superior forces, would have captured Shimen Mountain a long time ago.

In fact, after this battle was fought so far, the Jin army was also extremely tired, just now they broke through the Ming army's mountainside defense line in one breath under the leadership of Amin and Mang Gurtai, and they had exhausted all their strength, and now they could not break through the last line of defense of the Ming army at the peak no matter what.

It's a pity that due to the superiority of the Houjin in terms of troops, if the Ming army continues to be consumed like this, the soldiers of the Ming army will be exhausted sooner or later, and Li Hongyu's handsome account will inevitably be broken by the Houjin army.

At this moment, at the foot of Shimen Mountain.

"Great Khan, the Ming army of Jinzhou is only five miles away from Shimen Mountain!"

When Nurhachi was looking at the fierce battle on the mountain with his hands behind his back, a cavalryman came at a gallop, and the horseman on horseback jumped off and hurried to Nurhachi, kneeling on one knee and reporting back.

"God won't help me!" Nurhachi's face suddenly changed when he heard this, and a gloomy look appeared in his eyes.

It turned out that although Li Yongfang led his Han army to resist stubbornly, he failed to stop the imposing Ming army of Jinzhou City, and after holding out for more than an hour, the Han army of Houjin finally collapsed, and fled to Shimen Mountain in a hurry under the ferocious offensive of the Ming army of Jinzhou.

The so-called defeat of the army is like a mountain, although Li Yongfang tried his best to control the situation, it was not easy to talk about, and the only last resort was to retreat to Shimen Mountain with the rout.

The Ming army of Jinzhou originally wanted to fight with the Houjin soldiers outside the city, but the thing was just as Naren Toya said, after fighting with the other party, it was surprising that those Houjin troops were really the Han army of Houjin, which invisibly stimulated the morale of the Ming army, and the Han army of Houjin was fighting at the beginning of the battle.

In fact, the Houjin Han army led by Li Yongfang has tried their best, and their counterattack at the beginning is still extremely fierce, after all, these Han troops have already taken refuge in Houjin, since they are under the fence, of course, they can't work like they did in the Ming Dynasty.

However, although the Ming army in Jinzhou City was afraid of the Jurchen soldiers, they were not afraid of the Han army of the Later Jin, coupled with the large number of people, so they resisted for more than an hour and inevitably collapsed.

Yuan Chonghuan was overjoyed when he saw this, and hurriedly waved his army to chase and kill all the way, and rushed to Shimen Mountain.

Li Yongfang had already sent a request for help from Nurhachi, but Nurhachi did not send troops, but just told him to hold on.

When those Later Jin Han troops were defeated, Nurhachi should have immediately led the army to retreat and leave the battlefield, but he was really reluctant to let Li Hongyu go, as long as Amin and Mang Gurtai added more strength, they could break through the defense line of the Ming army on Shimen Mountain, and then capture Li Hongyu.

(End of chapter)