After Li Xing entered Ningyuan City, he didn't see the legendary 'Hai Dongqing', and he didn't even know if 'Hai Dongqing' was a person or a group of people.

But he received a secret letter from 'Hai Dongqing'. In the letter, 'Hai Dongqing' told him that there were ten cattle in Jinzhou, including six Jurchen cattle records, three Mongolian cattle records, and one Han army cattle record.

Now is not the time for the Ming Dynasty and Jiannu to go to war in an all-out way, Jiannu's cattle are not enough, each Niu Lu has only 100 people, and the rest are engaged in grazing or agricultural cultivation near Shenyang.

"Ten cows? At best, there were only 1,000 people, and excluding those who stayed in Jinzhou, there were not even 1,000 Jiannu who actually came to reinforce them. Li Xing thought about it, and he burned the secret letter according to the request of 'Hai Dongqing'.

Jinzhou guard general Sukhbaru, is the Jurchen Jia Lae Zhen, he likes to bully the Han people the most, received Yue Tuo's order, he immediately set about the matter of going south, there are Han people can be humiliated, he can't wait to grow wings, like Hai Dongqing soaring in the sky, immediately fly to Ningyuan, fly to Qiantun.

In the city of Jinzhou, only a Jurchen Niulu and a Mongolian Niulu remained.

Sukhbaru personally took the remaining eight Niulu and more than 800 soldiers to the south to reinforce Ningyuan.

Jinzhou is far away from Ningyuan, about two hundred and eighty miles, and according to the speed of the Jiannu light cavalry, it can be reached in just one day.

However, Sukhbaru believed that if he set out in the early morning and arrived in Ningyuan, it might have been dark, which was not conducive to his raid outside the city and search for the Ming army.

So he postponed his journey south until noon and rested for the night on the road.

As soon as the sun set in the west, Sukhbaru approached Ningyuan City.

It was Sukhbaru who delayed the half-day march and was seized by Li Xing to recapture Ningyuan at night. But when Sukhbaru arrived in Ningyuan, he didn't know that Ningyuan had been secretly attacked by Li Xing.

He reined in his horse, slowed down the speed of the horse under his seat, and then said to a personal soldier who was closely following him: "You, go to the city gate, call the city gate, let's rest and eat first, and then search for the nearby Ming Dynasty tofu army." ”

"Yes, yes." The soldiers shook the reins and walked away.

"Bang, bang."

Two clear gunshots came from the air into Sukhbaru's ears, and his subordinates around him also heard these two abrupt sounds.

"What's going on? Which Niu Lu in Ningyuan City was issued with a fire # gun? Sukhbaru frowned, he was the most trusted subordinate of the banner lord Yue Tuo, and he had not been issued a valuable fire # gun so far.

No one answered Sukhbaru's words, no one knew what was happening.

"Da Da Da ......"

The sound of horses' hooves came from a distance, and Sukhbaru could see in the distance that a lone Mongolian horse was approaching from the south, and on the back of the horse lay a Jurchen soldier in leather armor.

Even if he couldn't see the soldier's face, Sukhbaru knew that it was his own soldier on horseback.

What made Sukhbaru wonder why his soldiers were lying on their horses instead of sitting upright. The Jurchens began to learn to ride and shoot arrows at the age of seven or eight, and could not move like a mountain on a flying horse.

The Mongolian horse was getting closer and closer, and upon closer inspection, Sukhbaru realized that something was wrong.

The leather armor on the front chest of the pro-soldier has been stained with blood, and even the saddle is dripping blood.

"What's going on?" Sukhbaru was furious and dared to beat his own soldiers, that is, he would not give him face, besides, he still came to reinforce Ning Yuan.

"Oh really...... Peaceful...... Ning Yuan...... Lose...... The guard ...... soldier barely sat up straight, because of his excitement and body movement, a stream of blood spurted out of his mouth, like a hidden weapon of the Tang Gate in Sichuan, sprayed firmly on Sukhbaru's face, and then his body was crooked, and he fell from the horse upside down, and there was no more sound.

Sukhbaru personally dismounted and checked on the injuries of his own soldiers, but the soldiers had already lost their souls for 3,000 miles.

"What did he say just now?" Sukhbaru's body stiffened, he didn't seem to understand, and had to ask the soldiers around him.

"Ezhen, he said, Ning Yuan has been lost." The deputy, Zalan Zhangjing, had no choice but to repeat the words of the dead soldier.

"What? Ning Yuan lost? Sukhbaru jumped up from the ground at once, "When did this happen?" ”

There was silence, and no one could answer Sukhbaru's question, including Urino. Everyone's eyes looked at the head of the north gate of Ningyuan.

"What kind of flag is that? Neither ours nor Ming's. A sharp-eyed soldier saw the flag fluttering above the city, but it was too far away to see clearly.

"Let's go, let's see." Sukhbaru took the lead, and more than a dozen Mongolian war horses galloped until they were only a thousand paces away from the city gate.

Sukhbaru knew that there was artillery left behind by the Ming army in Ningyuan City, which used solid shells and had a maximum range of 1,000 steps.

The slight northwest wind unfurled most of the flags on the city's head, and Sukhbaru saw it very well this time.

It was a blue background, a red sun, and a yellow moon flag.

The flag is rectangular, the background color of the whole rectangle is azure, in the middle is a round of fiery red sun, the sun is upward, down, left, right is a direction to stretch out a fiery red light, the upper and lower rays have been close to the edge of the flag, between every two rays, there are two slightly shorter rays, the same fiery red, in the center of the fiery red sun, is a round of golden moon, the fiery red sun and the golden moon are overlapped.

"Blue background, red sun, yellow moon, light," Sukhbaru muttered softly, "whose flag is this?" Not ours, not the Ming Dynasty, not Mongolian. ”

"Ezhen, the combination of 'day' and 'moon' happens to be the word 'Ming', is it the banner of the Ming Dynasty?" He didn't know some Chinese, so he made his guess.

Su Hebaru didn't understand what the 'day' and 'moon' had to do with the Ming Dynasty, and he didn't bother to worry about it, the key now was to find out whose banner it was, and who occupied Ningyuan City.

"Let a few Han soldiers go over and ask whose soldiers and horses are in the city. If it is our Jurchen brothers, let them open the gates and let us in; If it is a Han Chinese, then we will plant this kind of flag on their bodies and use their heads to worship our immortality. ”

Several Han soldiers trembled, and in front of Sukhbaru, they tried their best to maintain a straight posture, but their slightly trembling hands still betrayed them.

"These Han tofu army." Sukhbaru scolded, he had no regard for the other Han soldiers around him.

"Da Da Da ......"

Several Han soldiers went and returned.

"Ezhen, they are the subordinates of Yuan Chonghuan of the Ming Dynasty."

"Yuan Chonghuan?" Sukhbaru was startled and almost fell off his horse, and the only defeat of the Heavenly Mandate Khan and the Han people was at the hands of Yuan Chonghuan under the city of Ningyuan. "What's the matter with the flag? Could it be that Yuan Chonghuan broke away from the Ming Dynasty and established himself as the king? Su Hebaru was thinking that if Yuan Chonghuan broke away from the Ming Dynasty and became independent, he should eat Yuan Chonghuan's lone army first, or unite with Yuan Chonghuan first and defeat the huge Ming in the south first.

"No, yes. They said that this is the new military flag of the Ming Dynasty, called the Sun and Moon Military Flag. "The Han soldiers spoke very carefully, and now Sukhbaru must have a lot of fire in his heart, don't burn it on his head.

Sukhbaru still couldn't figure it out: "Sun and Moon Flag? What does that mean exactly? ”

"This ...... The little one didn't ask. In fact, from the literal Chinese characters, he already understood the general meaning of the Sun and Moon Military Banner, but he was afraid that after saying this meaning, Sukhbaru would not only not be grateful to him, but would also give him a whip.

"Is Yuan Chonghuan in the city? Did he kill my own soldiers? Sukhbaru asked.

"They said that Yuan Chonghuan was not there, and that the city was only his subordinates." The Han soldiers only knew that the soldiers in the city were Yuan Chonghuan's subordinates, and he didn't know whether Yuan Chonghuan was in the city.

Sukhbaru let the horse turn around in place for half a circle, and his pupils suddenly dilated: "Since Yuan Chonghuan is not in the city, then we will immediately launch an attack and take Ningyuan." ”

He didn't hurry to dissuade: "Ezhen, we are light cavalry, and we don't carry any siege equipment......"

"Can a big living person suffocate urine?" Sukhbaru's eyes widened, his pupils widened, and he pointed forward with his hand, "Shaman bless us, isn't there a forest on the right?" ”

Everyone looked in the direction of his finger, and sure enough, to the east of Ningyuan City, near the foot of the mountain, there was a slightly yellowed forest.

In the Jurchen tribes, bravery is the only convincing way, even if you have courage and no strategy, even if you kill innocents indiscriminately, even if you have developed limbs and a simple mind.

Sukhbaru immediately sent a part of his soldiers to cut down the trees, and then handed them over to the Han army Niu Lu, so that they could be driven into ladders for the siege of the city.

The ladder is not the best siege machine, but it is the easiest to make a siege machine.

In one afternoon, the soldiers of the Han army made eight ladders that could reach the head of Ningyuan City.

"Go to bed early tonight, and the siege will begin tomorrow morning." Sukhbaru left a sentence and went back to his tent.

Ningyuan City.

The soldiers guarding the city reported the arrival of Jiannu to Li Xing.

"How many reinforcements have Jiannu arrived?"

"Back to the brigade, because it is far away, I can't see it clearly, about hundreds of Jiannu soldiers, including Han Army Niulu."

Li Xing nodded, and sure enough, it was more consistent with what the 'Hai Dongqing' letter said, "What did they do?" ”

"Back to the brigade, they asked for our flag, and I told them that this is our new military flag, the Sun and Moon military flag."

Li Xing sneered slightly, these Jiannu, they must not know that the four rays of light on the Sun and Moon military flags represent the expansion of the Ming Dynasty in four directions, and the rays of light directly above the military flags are pointing to Jiannu and Shenyang.

"What else did they do?"

"Back to the brigade, they spent the whole afternoon cutting trees in the woods east of the city, and then choreographing something in the clearing outside."

"Cutting down trees?" Li Xingwei thought for a moment, "They are going to attack the city." ”

“……”

Li Xing issued an order to the heralds around him: "The order goes down, and the whole brigade takes the battalion as a unit, takes turns to rest, and monitors the Jiannu outside the city day and night. ”

The herald was about to leave, but was stopped by Li Xing: "Wait, immediately order the sappers to overhaul the artillery of the four city gates." ”

"Yes." The herald saluted, turned and ran away.