On a high post a few miles outside the city of Shenyang, looking at the city of Shenyang that is more than nine miles long, Nurha Chi rode his horse and felt infinite emotion in his heart.

Decades ago, he had passed through Shenyang countless times, and then from Shenyang to Fushun Pass, and finally returned to the old city of Jianzhou Department, he had followed his grandfather and father countless times here, trade, tribute, and the Ming Dynasty guards the border officials and generals exchanges, gifts, wine, at that time, no matter who it was, I am afraid did not think that he Nuerhachi had a day when he led 60,000 troops to attack Shenyang and seize the land of Liaodong in the Ming Kingdom, right?

After watching it for a while, Nurhachi ordered the people around him: "Call the soldiers to fight." ”

Preparing to go out of battle is the right wing of the banner soldiers, the four banners first out of the cavalry more than 2,000 people, to the east gate of Shenyang to go down, the previous sentry cavalry war has sent more than 10,000 coats, fill the trench and destroy the fence, pull out the arrow tower outside the city, destroy the fort behind the horse wall, at this time outside the east gate of Shenyang has been flat, suitable for cavalry to fight.

The general soldiers Baduli and Muharian and others were ordered to go first, and Nurhachi sent guards Huerhan and Borkin to lead two yellow flags and white-armored elites to ambush behind, if the Ming army dared to go out of the city to invite battle, the forward should not fight too hard, attract the Ming army away from the city gate, and then attack with elite to outflank the Ming cavalry out of the city.

The early morning shimmer on the earth, the weather in March was still very cold in the morning, more than two thousand red armor soldiers were mixed with less than two hundred white armor, cotton iron armor and silver battle armor flashed with cold light, the cavalry held all kinds of weapons in their hands, gathered together in the continuous sound of conch horns, the array was quickly set up, and the Houjin soldiers were already a battle group. The Eight Banners have clear hierarchies and strict military discipline, and they have never cut off the training of combat skills and arrays in the past 30 years. Many things have been integrated into people's bodies, becoming a very pure subconscious habit, even war horses are also, Houjin attaches great importance to the upbringing of war horses, at this time they are still facing the threat of Chahar Mongolia, Bahrain and Ao Han Those small tribes have not been submitted, only one Horqin followed Houjin mixed. Houjin didn't have many war horses, and their horses were all very fat. The same is true at times like early spring.

At the sound of the horn, the flag was unfurled, and the armored soldiers on horseback of the brigade began to run in the direction of Shenyang City, a distance of several miles. Under the leadership of generals and colonels at all levels, the armor on their bodies made a loud noise, and the noise of thousands of people was very loud, like a giant coughing incessantly.

The head of the city of Shenyang on the opposite side is sensational, most of the soldiers of the Ming army camp have gone to the city, the flags are densely packed, and the crowd at the head of the city is also very dense, if it is not for the defense outside the city to lose easily, just see the number of guards at the head of the city. It is enough to make the Eight Banners lose confidence in attacking the city.

Many of the people in Shenyang City also went to the city, totaling about 70,000 or 80,000 people, and most of these people were ordinary military households. They did not participate in the recruitment of the battalion soldiers, and they were remembered in such a great battle, and they carried sassholes and iron paddles with iron nails at the head of the city, and prepared to carry gunpowder and cannons near the gun emplacements, and at the same time burned boiling oil at the head of the city, and carried piles of arrows behind the archers. These people are like a swarm of busy ants, because there are so many people. The work at hand is not heavy, and when they saw the golden cavalry galloping in the distance, many people stood in place and looked stupidly.

"Come, sons and daughters, follow me!"

He Shixian's eyes were blood-red, and beside him were more than a thousand elite soldiers, most of them wearing iron armor, and a few wearing cotton armor and iron scale armor, each with spears and broadswords in their hands, each of them with thick and powerful arms, and their eyes showed a fierce light.

These family members are all raised by He Shixian for many years, and they are slowly trained, and they are not punished for making mistakes on weekdays, and their income is about ten times that of the battalion soldiers.

"Why did the chief officer attack?" General Xia Guoqing persuaded: "Isn't it safer to defend the fortified city?" ”

"When the captives come from afar, don't you first thwart their spirit and let them attack the city?" He Shixian got up in the morning and didn't eat, first drank a few large bowls of wine, at this time the wine was rising, the whole body was like a fire, and he couldn't wait to fight immediately, he had a small victory in the battle the day before yesterday, but only later the main force of Houjin retreated to the city, because He Shixian didn't think that there was anything terrible about Houjin soldiers, and he relied on his family to impact the enemy's formation, frustrate the enemy's spirit, and the battle below would be much easier.

When he first arrived, He Shixian ordered the Yongchang Gate to be opened, led the cavalry out of the city, and fought against the Eight Banners cavalry who rushed over.

The cavalry on both sides rushed together in an instant, far away, the Eight Banners began to shoot heavy arrows with flat arrows, the arrows swept through the air, screamed, and then fell in the Ming army formation on the opposite side, the Ming army also began to shoot back, He Shixian's family Ding was not much weaker than the Houjin soldiers in archery, the two sides kept shooting arrows, after entering a hundred steps, began to throw short swords, broadswords, bones, and spears to each other, these throwing weapons are more lethal, many cavalry were shot, the armor on the body was cut, pierced, and then people fell off the horse heavily.

The arrays of the two armies were not very strict and orderly after hedging, and He Shixian also wanted to train his subordinates into an iron-like array like Han Xu, and gave up after practicing for a while, the charge of the cavalry dense array was not a day's work, and He Shixian could not do it at all with the effort and effort consumed.

The people at the head of the city exclaimed from time to time, they clearly saw that the two sides began to fight fiercely, and finally after throwing their weapons, all the cavalry rushed forward, and the arrays of the two sides were dragged into two oblique lines, and then the short soldiers intersected, the broadsword was wielded, and the iron spear was pierced, because of the high charge, whether it was a person or a war horse, whoever stabbed or cut in, did not pierce or cut out a big wound, blood sprayed wildly, and the men and horses would soon fall to the ground and die, so fierce battle only for one or two moments, there were many dead people and dead horses on the ground, The place where the two sides first engaged in the battle had the most dead people and dead horses, and many corpses were piled up together, like a small mountain, and blood was constantly flowing from the black earth, exuding a pungent smell.

Although the Ming army was few, the elite was strong after the Jin cavalry, He Shixian was particularly brave, he kept rushing on the battlefield to boost the morale of his subordinates, the Ming army slowly began to take advantage, the Houjin cavalry began to be gradually forced to retreat, and finally began to retreat into the distance.

Seeing the retreat of the Houjin soldiers, the Ming army did not immediately pursue, people gasped, jumped off their horses not far from the city, took off the skin bag water bag and drank water, many people drank water and immediately ran to cut off their heads, and after a while, they cut dozens of bloody heads, the heads looked hideous, when the soldiers cut off their heads, the city head screamed for a while, many people had never seen such a scene at all, some people were frightened and fainted, more people were happily discussing, and the city head was buzzing.

After a while, the Ming army drank enough water, the horses also drank water, and the bloody heads hung on the horses, He Shixian and his pro-soldiers rushed out first, and the family members of the brigade followed him and rushed in the direction of the defeated Houjin army. (To be continued)