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Of course, Li Hongyu would definitely not only let the 10,000 horses of Ye He's department come to the aid of Tieling, just when Huang Taiji was expressionlessly looking at the Eight Banners and Ye He soldiers who were fighting together in the distance, a cavalryman rushed over, dismounted and knelt down on one knee in front of him to report.

"How many are there?" Huang Taiji couldn't help but clench his fist when he heard this, and then looked at the cavalryman and asked in a deep voice.

"I don't know, it's all over the mountains, at least 10,000 people." The cavalry shook his head and replied helplessly.

"More than 10,000 people?" Huang Taiji's brows furrowed suddenly, and then he immediately made a decision and gave an order to the people around him in a loud voice, "The people with the white flag will follow Benbeile to reinforce Xicheng. ”

As he spoke, Huang Taiji turned over the horses on the side, and led the Eight Banners with a white flag to Xicheng with an expressionless face, preparing to support the Eight Banners there.

Because the southern city is the focus of Daishan and Huang Taiji's attack, there are only three or four thousand Eight Banner soldiers attacking Xicheng, which cannot stop the pace of tens of thousands of Mongols at all, so Huang Taiji must lead the army to the rescue, otherwise those Eight Banner soldiers will definitely be wiped out by the Mongols.

"My lord, look, those Jiannu are going in the direction of Xicheng." As soon as the Eight Banners soldiers outside the city moved, the Ming army on the tower of the city gate suddenly found out, and a military attache hurriedly pointed to the Eight Banners soldiers moving under the city and shouted to Yu Chengming.

"There are also our reinforcements outside the West City!" Yu Chengming's face was immediately happy when he saw this, if it weren't for the Houjin Army in the West Gate, then the Eight Banners would not have been transferred away at this time, after all, there were still a lot of Yehe's soldiers and horses outside the South Gate.

Sure enough, not long after, the guards of Ximen sent someone to report to Yu Chengming, more than 10,000 Mongolian soldiers suddenly appeared when the Eight Banners of Houjin were attacking the city, killing those Eight Banners soldiers by surprise, and now the Eight Banners have stopped attacking the city and turned to fight with the Mongols with all their might.

"The governor is really powerful, he can mobilize the Mongols to participate in the war!"

Knowing that it was the Mongols who attacked the Jin army outside the West Gate, Yu Chengming's face suddenly appeared in shock, he naturally knew that the relationship between the Ming and the Mongols had always been hostile for many years in Liaodong, so it was difficult to think that Li Hongyu could transfer troops from the Mongols to deal with the Houjin army.

The news of the arrival of reinforcements soon spread throughout Tieling City, so that the frightened people immediately cheered, and they all rushed to the city to watch the battle, and the south gate and the west gate were already in a melee, and the Houjin army, Yehebu and the Mongols fought happily together.

Dai Shan and Huang Taiji wanted to defeat the reinforced Yehe and Mongol soldiers in one go, but unfortunately the other party was not as easy to deal with as the Ming army, especially the soldiers of the Yehe tribe were as fierce as them, which made the battle stalemate for a while.

On a hill in the southwest of Tieling City, Li Hongyu looked at the two battlefields that shouted to kill the heavens with a blank face, and from his position, he could have a full view of the battle situation outside the southern and western cities.

According to Li Hongyu's original plan, he planned to use the forces of the Yehe Department to contain the Houjin army outside the southern city, let the Mongol soldiers of the Inner Khalkha Department destroy the Houjin army outside the western city, and then the forces of the Yehe Department and the Inner Khalkha Department would flank the Houjin army outside the southern city.

However, the combat effectiveness of the Houjin army exceeded Li Hongyu's imagination, or Li Hongyu somewhat overestimated the combat effectiveness of the Mongols.

Although the number of Mongol soldiers outside the western city was more than twice that of the Later Jin army, the two sides only fought a draw under the stubborn resistance of the Later Jin Eight Banners.

Speaking of which, this is thanks to Huang Taiji's decision to immediately transfer troops to support, otherwise the Houjin army outside Xicheng would definitely be overwhelmed by the Mongols, who were outnumbered.

Looking at the melee in front of him, Li Hongyu's brows became tighter and tighter, judging from the current situation, I am afraid that except for Li Rubai's Liaodong Iron Cavalry, the Ming army in Liaodong will not be able to attack the Houjin army on the battlefield, so the training of the laxly trained Liaodong Ming army has a long way to go.

In fact, lax training is not only a problem of the Liaodong Metropolitan Division, this phenomenon is very serious in the guards of the Ming Dynasty, and the phenomenon of laxity in military discipline is simply shocking, and the root cause naturally lies in the cantonment system.

However, in terms of the existing financial system and military system of the Ming Dynasty, it is not realistic to solve the problem of the cantonment system, in addition to touching the interests of the military attachés of the local guards, the most important thing is that the imperial court cannot afford the huge military expenses of the Ming army after the abolition of the cantonment system.

Due to the implementation of the garrison system, Ming Taizu did not include military spending at all when formulating the Ming tax policy, the original intention was naturally to reduce the burden of the people, in fact, buried the hidden danger of the demise of the Ming Dynasty, the low combat effectiveness of the Ming army and the garrison system can be said to be closely related.

Outside the West City, Huang Taiji looked solemnly at the Mongolian soldiers who fought bravely with the Eight Banners, with a look of surprise on his face, he never expected that the Mongolian soldiers would behave so fiercely, and he didn't know what benefits Daming gave them to make them so desperate.

In fact, Huang Taiji did not want to see the fight between the Eight Banners and the Mongols in a stalemate, because the Mongols were outnumbered, and the situation would gradually become unfavorable to the Eight Banners over time.

But he doesn't have any good way now, and if he retreats rashly, it will be a disaster for the Eight Banners, although the current combat effectiveness of the Mongolian soldiers is not as good as that of their ancestors two or three hundred years ago, but they are all good at horseback, and the cavalry marches very fast, which makes the cavalry of the Houjin Army unable to get rid of those Mongolian cavalry, let alone the infantry.

Huang Taiji's only hope now is that Dai Shanneng, who is good at fighting, can lead his Eight Banners to defeat Yehebu, and then lead his army to support him and defeat the invading Mongols together.

However, the battle situation on Dai Shan's side also fell into a stalemate, due to the loss of three or four thousand people in the previous siege of the Eight Banners, this made Dai Shan's troops only seven or eight thousand, while Ye He's department had 10,000.

Both sides were born in the white mountains and black waters of Liaodong, even if the combat effectiveness of the Yehe soldiers is not as good as the Eight Banners, but they are still an extremely fierce existence on the battlefield, plus Houjin is the enemy of the Yehe Tribe, and the Yehe soldiers have a strong will to fight, so it is not easy for the Eight Banners to suffer the Yehe Soldiers.

Therefore, it is still unknown who will finally win this war, if Dai Shan can defeat Ye Hebu and rush over to support before the collapse of the Eight Banners like Huang Taiji, then the Houjin army can achieve the final victory.

If Dai Shan had been entangled by Ye He's troops and could not rush to support the Eight Banners under Huang Taiji before they were defeated by the Mongols, then he would have been caught between the Mongols and Ye He's soldiers, and the Houjin army would suffer a major defeat.

Dai Shan knew that the Mongol soldiers faced by Huang Taiji had an advantage in strength and were under great pressure, so he kept urging his Eight Banners soldiers to rush forward, trying to crush the soldiers of Yehe's department.

Unfortunately, the soldiers of the Yehe tribe carried out a stubborn counterattack under the leadership of Buyangu, making it difficult for the Eight Banners under Dai Shan's command to take a step forward.

The reason why Buyangu fought so hard was not only because Nurhachi was his father's enemy, but also because he had made great achievements in this battle, after all, they were going to move to Ningyuan and had to take out a gift to the Ming court.

Tieling City.

"Lord Commander, no wonder my main force of the three roads was defeated so quickly during the Battle of Salhu, and this Jiannu soldier is really fierce."

At this time, the city wall was already full of soldiers and civilians watching the excitement, Wu Gongqing, who was wrapped in bandages on his head, saw the Eight Banners fighting bravely, and couldn't help but open his mouth to sigh to Yu Chengming, an inexplicable chill rose up his back, and he felt a little afraid, if it wasn't for the city wall, I am afraid that they would be annihilated by the Eight Banners on the first day.

"Yes, I didn't expect Jiannu to be so good at fighting."

Yu Chengming's brows furrowed slightly, and after hearing this, he nodded and said loudly, "However, no matter how much they can fight, they are no match for the Governor, and the Governor knows that they can fight, so he has brought in Yehe and Mongolian soldiers to deal with them, and they are far from the Governor." ”

"Lord Commander, Lord Governor's hand is really high for barbarism, which not only destroyed the Jiannu outside the city, but also weakened the power of Yehebu and the Mongols, which can be described as killing three birds with one stone."

Wu Gongqing immediately laughed when he heard this, Yu Chengming was right, the most powerful person in this war was Li Hongyu, and he quietly transferred Ye Hebu and the Mongols, which can be described as strategizing and winning a thousand miles.

"I wonder if the governor will come?" Yu Chengming bowed his head slightly when he heard this, and agreed with Wu Gongqing's words, and also thought that Li Hongyu was deliberately consuming the strength of Ye Hebu and the Mongols, and then changed his words and muttered to himself.

To tell the truth, not only Yu became famous, but also the soldiers and civilians of the entire Tieling City were very curious about this young Liaodong governor, and they all wanted to see the demeanor of this new champion of the Ming Dynasty.

Fierce fighting outside the city lasted from morning to afternoon, and the tragic scenes of fighting made the soldiers and civilians on the city walls thrilling and at the same time feeling their blood boiling.

If it weren't for the heavy casualties of the defenders in the city because of the defense of the city, and the Eight Banners were really fierce, then Yu Chengming would definitely lead the army to attack and give Dai Shan's Eight Banners a heavy blow from behind.

"Lord Commander, it seems that the people of Yehebu can't hold it anymore." Wu Gongqing, who had been closely observing the battle situation, stretched out his hand and pointed at the Ye He soldiers in the field who were forced to retreat by the Eight Banners, and said worriedly.

Once Yehe's troops are defeated, then Daishan will be able to free up his hands to support Huang Taiji, and then the Mongol soldiers who are surrounding Huang Taiji will be in danger.

"Come, give orders to go down, gather all the soldiers and people in the city, and go out of the city with your own officials to support." Yu Chengming groaned for a moment, and then gave the order with an expressionless face.

He naturally knew that Ye Hebu could not be defeated after a long time in battle, otherwise Li Hongyu's plan this time would fail, so he had to risk his life to attack the Eight Banners outside the city, hoping to contain the increasingly vigorous momentum of the Eight Banners and buy more time for the Mongolian soldiers in Xicheng.

"Look, my lord, our reinforcements are coming!" As soon as Yu Chengming's words fell, a surprised voice sounded, and I saw that the road leading to the foot of a mountain in the distance in the direction of Shenyang City was dusty, and a group of cavalry wearing Ming army uniforms flashed out of the road behind the foot of the mountain and drove towards Tieling City.

"Yes...... It's General Li's Liaodong Iron Cavalry, and the Liaodong Iron Cavalry is here! The cavalry of the Ming army continued to be used from the foot of the mountain, looking at the black oppression from a distance, Wu Gongqing's face changed and then he pointed to the Ming cavalry galloping in surprise, and shouted to Yu Chengming excitedly.

The military uniforms of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry are different from the troops of the Liaodong Guard, and Tieling is Li Chengliang's hometown, so Wu Gongqing recognized those cavalry from a distance as the Liaodong Iron Cavalry.

"The big picture is decided!"

Yu Chengming looked at the Liaodong Iron Cavalry with some disbelief, and it took a long time to come back to his senses, a hanging heart finally let go, the battle outside the city has now been carried out to the point of life and death, with the participation of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry, a new force, then the Eight Banners who have done their best will no longer be able to support, and they will be defeated.

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