In the morning of the next day, Yuan Chonghuan of the former Shaowuzhi County returned to Beijing to make a pilgrimage. When Zhu Youxiao heard this name, he immediately ordered him to enter the Hajj.

After Yuan Chonghuan gave the salute, Zhu Youxiao looked at it carefully, and couldn't help but feel a little disappointed, this is really not at all similar to the mighty Yuan Inspector in his mind, a black, thin and short person, who looks neither powerful nor like a forceful person, but the disappointment is only because of preconceived notions, he believes that people cannot be disguised, since Yuan Chonghuan has a great reputation in history, of course he will not be a simple person.

Zhu Youxiao asked, "According to the rules, Yuan Qing should be allowed to take any position?" Xia Jiayu stepped forward and said: "Yuan Chonghuan's performance in the past three years has been excellent, and he can be the county commander of the county, or the same state of the same knowledge, please judge the holy judge." “

Zhu Youxiao didn't want Inspector Yuan to be a county magistrate or a magistrate again, he should be used to build a slave, right, and was thinking about how to arrange him, Hou Sui said: "Yuan Chonghuan has excellent performance, and he knows the soldiers and is good at decisiveness, and the minister recommended him as the head of the Ministry of War." “

Zhu Youxiao was overjoyed, and was about to speak, when the right side of the imperial history Wang Qia, and the left political envoy Liu Zongzhou came out together and said: "The ministers seconded the proposal." “

Zhu Youxiao thought to himself, he came from later generations, of course he knew the prestige of Inspector Yuan, and these people were also optimistic about Yuan Chonghuan, so it can be seen that Yuan Chonghuan really had two hits, so he played it and appointed him as the head of the Ministry of War. I thought that after the situation in Liaodong became clear, I would arrange for him to go to Liaodong.

In the first month of the second year of the Apocalypse, Nurhachi was ready to attack Quang Ninh and began to transfer troops to Haizhou and Niuzhuang. Later, when Jin was gathering troops on the east bank of the Liao River, Wang Huazhen was also deploying troops and horses to realize his strategy, and was preparing to cross the river to attack. Later, the Jin soldiers crossed the river to the west, and it was imperative. Wang Huazhen naively thought that they would not dare to cross the river, and even planned to order Luo Wanyan to cross the river with some sentries to "lure him", and then attack with elite cavalry, which would give a "great creation". All the generals objected together, thinking that if the Houjin army came, there would be a strong city here, and they would definitely be able to deal a heavy blow to it.

The Houjin army has a total of about 50,000 people, divided into three roads, its main force is concentrated in the area of the Sancha River, and the other two roads cross the river from the Liuhe River and the Huangniwa, in the early morning of the 20th day of the first month, the main force of the Houjin Dynasty pulled out the camp and began to cross the river from the Sancha River, and the river defense soldiers deployed by Wang Huazhen saw that the situation was not good, turned around and fled. Houjin outpost guards chased twenty miles, chased until Xiping Fort, after crossing the river, the Houjin soldiers rushed straight to Xiping Fort, first attacked the south gate, the general Heiyunhe did not listen to Luo's consistent persuasion, went out of the city to meet the battle, Houjin army shot with heavy arrows, Heiyunhe did not dare to continue to rush forward, had to return to the fort.

On the 21st, the main force of the Houjin army began to attack again, and Heiyunhe fought again, and he shouted with a big sword: "Who dares to fight with me." "Houjin army galloped out of a general, stepped forward and shot an arrow into the neck of the black cloud crane, and then cut him under the city with a knife, Houjin soldiers shouted loudly, 50,000 soldiers surrounded the small Xiping Fort, the water could not be passed.

Li Yongfang asked a messenger to come to the city with a flag, and Li Yongfang himself stood under the banner and wanted to persuade Luo Yiyi: "I know that General Luo is a good man, there is no way to be clear, and the general can't have great ambitions, surrender quickly, Dajin can give full play to the general's bravery, and I am willing to share wealth with the general!" ”

Luo, the deputy chief soldier guarding Xiping Fort, always scolded: "Traitor! Why did the court treat you badly, why did you rebel? Don't you know that all of us in Xiping Fort are loyal and righteous? Do you think everyone shaves their hair and abandons their ancestors like you? What is the face of thy dead son to see thy fathers? He also raised a flag, waved it to beckoning Li Yongfang to surrender, and shouted: "The traitor Li Yongfang surrenders quickly, so that you will not die!" ”

Li Yongfang was furious and ordered the siege of the city, and the Han army, who were cannon fodder, began to push chariots, ladders, iron hooks, etc. to the castle. The cannon in the city sounded, although it was a solid bullet, but it could not stand the Han soldiers, the shells fell to the ground and rolled forward, sweeping the Han troops on the way forward five or six before stopping, because there were many people, so it can be said that the bullets were not missing. After the Han army, which was not on the trajectory of the cannonballs, approached the city wall, the sound of fire began to sound again, and the lives of the Han army were reaped in a big way.

Under the double blow of cannons and firearms, the corpses piled up outside the city higher and higher, almost as level as the city walls. The chariots and ladders were always destroyed as soon as they were put on the city wall, and many Han troops did not dare to approach at all, and when the fighting was most intense, they saw that they were about to break the city three times, but they were repulsed three times. In the fierce battle, a arrow flew and hit one of Luo's eyes, and the unbearable pain made him lose the ability to command, but the soldiers still fought separately. The gunpowder has run out, the arrows have run out, but the reinforcements have not yet arrived. At noon, after the artillery bombardment stopped, the Houjin army finally swarmed up with chariots and broke through the city.

Luo has always been martyred with Chen Shangren and Wang Chongxin, and all the 3,000 Ming soldiers defending the city were annihilated, and the whole city was washed away in blood.

After receiving Xipingbao's request for help, Xiong Tingbi immediately ordered Wang Huazhen, the commander of the arrow, to aid Xiping, and Wang Huazhen ordered Liu Qu to withdraw the soldiers of Zhenwubao to relieve the siege. He also listened to the idea of his confidant Sun Degong, sent all the Guangning soldiers, took Sun Degong as the vanguard, and together with Zu Dashou, together with Qi Bingzhong's department who guarded the Luyang Station, a total of more than 30,000 people, wanted to relieve the siege of Xiping Fort.

As soon as the fort of Xiping was breached, reinforcements arrived. The Houjin soldiers didn't even have time to clean up the results of the battle, and hurriedly began to set up an attack. Sun Degong asked Liu Qu to rush in with his subordinates, while he hid in the rear, and when Liu Qu just came into contact with the Houjin army, he immediately led people to flee backwards, shouting while fleeing: "Jiannu is powerful, defeated, flee quickly." Guerrilla Zu Dashou and deputy general Bao Chengxian also fled after him, so the rear army dispersed in a hurry.

Liu Qu, who was fighting, heard the noise behind the battle, and he didn't know why. His subordinates told him: "The soldiers in the back have fled. He was in turmoil, resisted indiscriminately, and fled with his troops. The Houjin army pursued closely, surrounded the Ming army in Shaling, and slaughtered them like chopping melons and vegetables.

Liu Qu's horse fell, knocking him to the ground, where he was killed by the Houjin soldiers. Qi Bingzhong was hit by two knives and three arrows, but fortunately he was rescued by his family, helped him on the horse, broke out of the encirclement, and died of his injuries halfway through. Liu Zheng, the deputy general of Zhenwubao, rushed to kill in the siege and fell from his horse with an arrow. Liu Shizhang was hit by an arrow that passed through his hip and nailed him to the saddle. The Ming army of about 30,000 died in Shaling.

Zu Dashou ran all the way, and only stopped when he ran to Juehua Island. Sun Degong received Wang Huazhen's order to persuade Li Yongfang to surrender, but he was unexpectedly persuaded by Li Yongfang to surrender. After he fled back to Quang Ninh City, he let his men spread the word everywhere: "The enemy soldiers are almost in Quang Ninh City!" "The people were even more panicked, the streets were noisy, the city gates were closed, many soldiers fled for their lives from under the city walls, and soon Quang Ninh was almost empty. Sun Degong and his henchmen are demagoguery; On the one hand, the treasury and powder magazine were closed, and preparations were made to welcome Nurhachi into the city.