Since the removal of the Daling River, the Houjin Eight Banners have a little experience in siege warfare, after the Daling River, the Jin Eight Banners first besieged the Ming army, and then used digging trenches to cut off internal and external communications, no matter how much grain and grass in the lonely city is eaten, Houjin is to wait for work to concentrate on reinforcements, but it is too difficult to lay down this new city, Yang Bo's food and materials can be continuously transported by sea, and this Ming army will definitely not defend to the death, they can also fight field battles with themselves, which forces the Eight Banners not to dare to invest too many troops here, Otherwise, Yang Bo divided his forces to attack Nansiwei and even Shenyang and other places, which in turn would threaten the grain route of the army.

Although Abatai's words were very reasonable, Huang Taiji still frowned, he knew Yang Bo's threat better than anyone else in the Eight Banners, but he couldn't make this decision easily.

Dai Shan said with some hesitation: "With such a strong city, what else can be done except to attack hard?" In my opinion, it is still a confrontation between the Ming army and the Ming army, and we can design and lure out Yang Bo's troops and force them to fight a decisive battle with us in the field, which is better than losing troops in front of this city. ”

Hearing Dai Shan's words, Huang Taiji was displeased, slapped his hand on the back of the chair, stood up and said: "Mao Wenlong made me dare not stay away in the Dongjiang River back then, and now Yang Bo is even worse, before sending troops to the south, I was afraid that Yang Bo would come to a surprise attack, and specially sent Wuzhen Hachao and Kong Youde to increase Fuzhou's defense, but I didn't expect that Fuzhou would fall in one day!" At present, Azig does not know whether he is alive or dead, and most of the white flag has been lost, and at this time you are still fantasizing? Yang Bo is a vicious wolf, he will not be satisfied! Give up Fuzhou today. Then the south of Gaizhou is owned by the Ming army, and tomorrow will it be necessary to give up Gaizhou? Give up Haizhou the day after tomorrow? Finally trapped in Shenyang? The war situation in southern Liaoning is erosive, all because Lushun has a strong army. Today's Sentinel Cavalry Flying Report said that there were two battalions of the Ming Army stationed in Jinzhou City, and there were also two battalions of Yang Bo in Changping during the southern sweep, and there were eight battalions in Fuzhou New Town. If we don't plan early, if Yang Bo continues to expand like this, one day we won't be able to control the power of the Eight Banners. What to do at that time? Going back to your hometown to hunt? How many of you can afford that kind of hard work? ”

Everyone was silent, and Huang Taiji's words were very clear, but it was not easy to make up his mind.

Acting as a good old man and cunning. As soon as he saw that Huang Taiji's heart was firm in attacking Yang Bo, he threw out another topic: "What Your Majesty said is extremely true, but how to fight it still has to be summed up well, and the army will be restored." It is not a small amount of people who eat horses every day. And it is necessary to lose half of it along the way from Shenyang, compared to the Ming army in the city, we can't afford to delay, and it is even more inappropriate to besiege the city after the coast freezes in winter, and it is very inconvenient to dig the soil and dig the city wall in winter. ”

Huang Taiji nodded and said, "Second brother, this is also a helpless thing, we will definitely hurt our vitality if we kill Yang Bo." But it's better than letting him nail him in southern Liaoning, as long as Yang Bo is defeated. Our population, wealth can be snatched back from the Ming Kingdom"

Yue Tuo also got up and said: "What Your Majesty said is very true, after the Ming army occupied Jinzhou, it continued to harass Fuzhou, and the tuntian in the Fuzhou area was almost unharvested, and now Fuzhou is lost, and even the tuntian in the Haizhou area has been burned, we and the Ming army will fight to the death sooner or later, the slave thinks that it is better to fight late than early, and now my Eight Banners army is gathered, and Yang Bo's elite is all in the new city, this is the opportunity of God to give me the Eight Banners to encircle and annihilate the enemy in one fell swoop, and it is a pity to abandon it. ”

If it had been before, there would have been Daishan father and son who supported Huang Taiji, and they would have basically been able to make a final decision, but this time it didn't work, Huang Taiji looked at Duoduo with the white flag and looked at Duoduo with the white flag, and the white flag suffered heavy losses, and Dorgon's status in his mind immediately dropped a lot.

The strange thing is that Duoduo was unusual, and did not rush to say anything: "Xiao Fifteen is willing to be the vanguard, and he will definitely break through the city and cut Yang Bo with a thousand knives, and avenge the hatred of the Twelfth Brother", but nodded hastily in agreement and continued to ponder, not knowing what he was thinking.

"What's the name of this city?" Huang Taiji asked

"Mopan City" Abatai hurriedly returned: "I heard that it was the Southern Barbarian Yang Bo who personally started it. ”

"Mill City? Disc? Huang Taiji muttered to himself, slightly shocked in his heart.

Early the next morning, Houjin began to cut down trees in all directions, the entire north of Mopan City, there were flags flying everywhere, and the continuous camps were lined up one after another to ten miles away, and the Houjin camps raised their respective golden dragon flags, wrapping the big tent of Huang Taiji tightly, except for the Zhenglan Banner, the other seven banners of soldiers and horses arrived, and countless coats were driven to make earthen bags, and the General Staff Department believed that Mopan City would soon usher in a bloody battle.

Yang Bo stood at the head of the city and carefully observed the other party's movements with a clairvoyant mirror, behind him were He Jiu and Tie Niu, Chen Bilian, who had only arrived yesterday, was also wearing a majestic iron armor, that appearance was extraordinarily heroic, and behind them were people from the General Staff Department.

Due to the distance, the clairvoyant mirror looked vague, Yang Bo put down the clairvoyant mirror and looked at the city in silence, occasionally a gust of wind blew, blowing his collar whirring.

Compared with the relatively steady implementation of the five-year plan, the construction of the mill city is a fanatical move, at present, Lushun is far from reaching the strength of the decisive battle with the Eight Banners, even if the use of the city's defense to consume the Jin elite is also their own wishful thinking, due to the transfer of too many troops caused by the Jinzhou, Nanguan, Lushun line defense is empty, if the Huang Taiji soldiers are divided into two ways, all the way to attack and polish the city, all the way to the Jinzhou area of the key attack, although they have the convenience of the transportation of the water division, but will also be led by the Huang Taiji nose back and forth, And the war situation will also go to an unpredictable ending, the General Staff Department has put forward these warnings, but Yang Bo must gamble, a few days ago, the sailors have been dispatched one after another, and the two battalions of the Panshi Brigade have been transferred to the first line of Jinzhou to garrison, this abnormal situation can not hide the eyes of the Golden Sentry Cavalry, Yang Bo used himself as a bait, that is, the eyes of the gambling emperor Taiji, he is the second Mao Wenlong, is the soul of Lushun, once he dies, Lushun will inevitably disintegrate immediately, or fall into civil strife, or like the Dongjiang River, disappear under the unspoken rules of the Ming Dynasty, He knows this truth himself, and Huang Taiji also understands that the efforts that should be done now have been done, just waiting for Huang Taiji to play his cards to determine the winner.

"Choosing to defend is not good at all......"

Yang Bo put down the burden in his heart, turned around and said with a smile: "Damn." The initiative is not in our hands, when will we have to wait? ”

Yang Bo's relaxed words reassured everyone a lot, at least the adults could still laugh at this time. Wang Xiaoyu interjected: "If the Tartars don't come, should we find a way to force them to take the initiative to attack?" ”

Yang Bo nodded: "Send the water master to take a circle in the South Siwei?" ”

Wang Xiaoyu nodded in surprise: "It turns out that adults and villains have the same ideas?" ”

Yang Bo scolded with a smile: "It's useless, Huang Taiji can be regarded as a generation of heroes, what is a hero, once a hero is determined, he will never retreat halfway, no matter how many difficulties and obstacles he will go towards the goal, if we repeatedly try to expose our weakness." There is no need, these days it is necessary to unify the thinking of the soldiers of the battalion, and the morale should be kept high. At the same time, it is necessary to realize the hardship and length of this battle, only two of Huang Taiji may retreat, or capture Mopan City, and the second is that the Eight Banners will suffer heavy losses. Unable to attack again. There is no other possibility......"

There are still a large number of people in the city under the leadership of craftsmen to use the last opportunity to strengthen the city defense facilities, because the time is too tight, the Mopan City has actually only completed the main brick project, and even the Tunbao outside the city has no time to reinforce, the original two brick kilns around the north city to be rebuilt into a plan connected to the Mopan City have also been aborted, after inspecting the city defense, Yang Bo is under more pressure, but he can not show the slightest abnormality on his face. He had to keep his demeanor calm and wave to the soldiers and civilians to calm people.

Liang Hao, director of the Two Tigers Teaching Department under Zhang Dabao of the Propaganda Department. Zhen Ge, director of the Department of Religion, and the directors of the five divisions under the two divisions (Storytelling and Opera Promotion Office, Military Propaganda Office, Military Priest Bureau, etc.) all gathered in Mopan City, and the propaganda lineup was stronger than ever, since the strength was not enough to compete with Houjin, Yang Bo could only tap the potential of soft power, and tomorrow Zhang Dabao would also arrive in Mopan City, Yang Bo needed to explain to him the propaganda requirements of the three places in Lushun, the soldiers on the front line were fighting, and the rear could not be idle, and the enthusiasm of those workers, farmers, merchants, and students should be aroused. Take part in the tide of resistance to the Tatars.

The day passed with such trepidation, Houjin cut down trees unhurriedly, and the coating was also a large number of siege equipment for making earthen bags, but it did not reveal the slightest intention to attack the city, but the banner soldiers would also discharge a neat formation from time to time to walk around the city, and always maintain the deterrence of Mopan City, Yang Bo could not rest assured, and came to the city again at night to inspect, the Houjin camp in the north of the city was lit all over the mountains, and was connected to the distant sky, during which there were desolate horns from time to time, showing that Houjin was also stepping up his efforts to sharpen his troops and horses. Mobilize the army.

"What is Huang Taiji thinking at this time?" Yang Bo stared into the distance, this interesting question constantly swirling in his mind.

"Since the Ming army bypassed Gaizhou and posted notices in the Haizhou area, the people of the Tunbao were panicked, and there were constantly fleeing with clothes, and this situation was alleviated after His Majesty returned to the division, but Gaizhou calculated, at least more than 200 clothes" Abatai handed a notice to Huang Taiji's personal guards, who opened the notice with great interest.

"Unforgiving? Don't forget? Huang Taiji smiled slightly, and said: "This Yang Bo's vision is too short-sighted, if I were in his position, I would never say this, it can be seen that Yang Bo has some means in the military, but he is too naïve politically, in addition to attracting those at the bottom of the cloth, who else can this proclamation attract to work?" As the main general, Yang Bo is so narrow-minded, which is really unexpected by me. ”

The people in the big tent were silent, and the people who participated in the discussion tonight were all Baylor, as well as high-level officials such as Gushan Ezhen of each banner, and no Mongols or Han people participated.

Huang Taiji read it hastily, squinted his eyes and raised his head to Abatai and said: "It's not a big deal to run two hundred coats, and after the war, the Dingkou that came back from the southern sweep this time will be evenly distributed to each banner, and I have said that I will make up for you as much as I have lost in each banner, and I will never break my word." ”

Hearing Huang Taiji's words, all the banners were secretly happy in their hearts, this is the only good news in recent times.

Huang Taiji said again: "Since everyone has made up their minds, then we can't slack off, we don't have a good life without destroying Yang Bo, I came tonight to tell you, I have thought about it for a long time, Mopan City is tall and strong, and the Ming army's firearms are fierce, and it is difficult to capture it in a hurry, so I plan to do so, first use the coating to consume the firearms and ammunition of the Ming army, and the coat in the flag will be used by each flag, the total number needs about 30,000, and the Ming army will fight for half a month with the coat and the Han army flag, and the Ming army must be exhausted from defending day and night, I have already sent an order to Horqin, Naiman, Ao Han, Zalut, Bahrain and other troops sent troops to help me, I may share the wealth equally after their city is broken, and Karaqin, Tumut, Chahar, etc., or a cow Lu, or hundreds of people, when the time comes, they will be incorporated into each flag to fight together, my eight banners in addition to the blue flag need to be stationed in Shenyang, each flag in turn to fight in the city, never favor one over the other, Dolgon is the white flag has suffered heavy losses, I will not embarrass you, you and Abatai are counted as one banner together, but the ugly words are ahead, I expect this hard battle to fight for a few months or even longer, If anyone dares to give up halfway and procrastinate, it will be no wonder that I am unsympathetic!

Huang Taiji's murderous words shocked the audience, Dai Shan twisted his body, but he didn't make a sound when he played with his wrench, and the others were not qualified enough, so they didn't dare to speak out.

Huang Taiji said to Ao Bai behind him: "You send someone to shout to Yang Bo, just say that we don't want to fight a battle outside the city to determine the victory, Houjin out of ten people, the Ming army out of a thousand, if we win, the Ming army will surrender, if the Ming army wins, we immediately pull out the camp and return to Shenyang." ”

Ao Bai touched his head inexplicably, ran out to pass the word, Huang Taiji glanced at everyone, and said with a smile: "This Yang Bo will definitely not fall for this radical method, but this group of Nikan pounces on me every time I am unprepared to take a bite, it is really hateful, he takes a bite today, tomorrow a bite, everyone in our Eight Banners has the idea of preserving strength, and in the end no one can hide, I want to ask you, Yang Bo is just a Ming general, where did he get the money to support so many families?" ”

Dolgon hesitated for a moment and returned: "I heard that Yang Bo smuggled and embargoed, set up cards to collect taxes, lent money to collect seals, and blackmailed the gentry to do everything. ”

Huang Taiji snorted and said coldly: "Far more than that, this Lushun's golden sun is delicious, right?" I also heard that our Eight Banners are proud to drink the golden sun, and two hundred catties cost fifty taels of silver, and three stones of grain! ”

Huang Taiji suddenly kicked over the stool and said sharply: "Don't you know where the golden sun flows?" You know, you don't know, cover your ears and steal the bell so that you can hide it! I'm sorry for years after year, and you! How many jars do you have in your cellars? Tell me, huh? To whom did the money and grain end up? I came to tell you, it flowed into Yang Bo's pocket, he used this grain to feed tens of thousands of families, he used this silver to equip these families with armor, equipped with firearms, and in turn slaughtered the elite warriors of my Dajin banners, I don't blame you for being poor and extravagant, everyone is carrying their heads to lay this foundation, but! Why did you get to this point......" (to be continued......