The scene outside the city of Mopan has completely changed from a month ago, three miles outside the city is full of camps with golden dragon flags flying, the left and right hills are almost bare, the original scarce trees have been cut down, even the wild grass has been swept away under the gnawing of cattle and sheep, due to the fact that the coat continues to dig pits and take soil, the mountain is dug thousands of warehouses and holes, it is more than ten meters shorter than a month ago, a soil city under the head of the city rises from the ground, and the north city of Mopan is surrounded, strictly speaking, it is not a soil city, but it is a trapezoidal slope, The height has reached nearly one-third of the city wall, Houjin's archers can threaten the defenders of the city head by shooting arrows on the slope, the earth slope is directly in front of the north gate, the wrappers are still building a simple earth city, the archers are hiding under the battlements of the civil structure, the chance of survival is greatly improved, and the Ming army at the head of the city can no longer lean over and shoot at them without scruples. Behind the slope are dozens of Houjin camps, which are held by the troops led by the Eight Banners Gushan Ezhen, and under the management of Huang Taiji, this place has become a war fortress.

This dirt slope stretches for two miles, it is densely packed with flags of various colors, many coats and auxiliaries are still busy piling up on the dirt slope, Yu Xuezhong and the flagmen in a banner are holding three or four coats, these coats carry two bags of dirt and walk hard towards the soil slope, the skin-covered coats are struggling to carry the heavy soil on the slope, the green tendons on the neck and arms are jumping suddenly, Yu Xuezhong carefully shrank his head, to prevent the blow of the Ming army above his head, and indifferently monitored the coat work, After a month, he has taken care of the life and death of the battlefield, not to mention a few cheap coats, even the elite bannermen of each banner keep filling in the city. There was almost no place to dig a new pit on a hill behind the camp where the corpses were buried, which showed the heavy losses of the flags, but I heard that the Great Khan was ruthless. It is determined to encircle and annihilate the only army of the Ming Dynasty on the opposite side, although the top and bottom are bitter, but the Great Khan is not moved at all, looking for the opportunity is to desperately attack the city, and never give the Ming army a chance to rest.

"Bang!"

There was a fire bolt on Yu Xuezhong's right. Yu Xuezhong knew that it was the Ming army at the head of the city that opened fire, but he was not moved at all by the earthen bag, and he didn't even raise his head. Just staring at a few laboring coats, soon, a dense rain of arrows on the right covered the position where the fire bolt was placed, and the sound of panic also came from afar.

"Dog minion! Where do you look? Yes. Hurry up and finish the downhill! Yu Xuezhong pointed to a wrapper who turned his head and watched. The wrapper was startled, and subconsciously shrank his head behind the dirt bag.

Yu Xuezhong looked at the snorting vests on the right, and snorted disdainfully, since they began to build soil slopes, the Ming army has been using this harassment tactic against them, and they will change positions after putting a shot, and the most headache is that the cold guns of the Ming army are extremely accurate and almost never miss. I don't know how much blood was stained on this dirt slope, and Yu Xuezhong almost died under this cold gun. At that time, he was sitting in a trench made of dirt bags, and his helmet was slightly exposed outside, which attracted the shooting of the Ming army, and the helmet was blown away, and afterwards Yu Xuezhong dug a flat piece of lead from the helmet.

The harassment of the Ming army greatly slowed down the speed of building the soil slope, and the Houjin side also thought of a lot of methods, such as first using soil bags and planks to build a concealment, and the coating worked under protection, and sent many vest squads to fight against the Ming army, but the effect was not ideal, and the rain of arrows could only threaten the unarmored personnel at the head of the city, and it had no effect on the fire guns wrapped in the whole body.

Yu Xuezhong has participated in some affairs in the banner, plus Ge Lilan also chats with him from time to time, he also has some understanding of the movements of the Ming army in the city, this Ming army defending the city is also full of tricks, trying their best to toss, and the intrigues and tricks are endless, the high-level of the Eight Banners have been made nervous, the last time the Ming army in the city under the siege of the Eight Banners day and night actually dared to send sailors to land in the area of Gaizhou, and attacked several tunbao, the situation in Gaizhou was extremely tense at that time, due to the siege of Mopan City, most of the elite of the Eight Banners were transferred, Remaining only hundreds of banners and some auxiliary soldiers, under the artillery fire of the Ming army crumbling, I heard that the obedient Dai Shandu and Huang Taiji quarreled, and the Haoge who advocated returning to the division to rescue were beaten ten lashes in public and tied up outside the camp to show the public, fortunately, the Great Khan insisted on it, and the Ming army that did not achieve its goal besieged Gaizhou for two days, not down, but made the Eight Banners more unified in thought, and finally could only retreat at night.

But the Eight Banners siege loss is not small, the Ming army in the Mopan City is high-spirited, just in the two days of Gaizhou's emergency, Huang Taiji persuaded the Eight Banners to attack the city, the casualties were heavy, the corpses under the city were piled up, but unfortunately nearly a thousand people were lost, and they also did not take any advantage.

Yu Xuezhong sighed, the anxiety of wanting to go home and enjoy the happiness of Mopan City as soon as possible has long been gone, and now he is only numb, and he doesn't know when this battle will end as he wishes, even if Houjin is defeated, it is better than not dying like this.

At this moment, the big camp behind the soil slope sounded a horn, Yu Xuezhong saw a team of blue flag infantry armor was lining up out of the camp, many of them behind them were struggling to push two cannons, ready to fill the battlements that were destroyed yesterday, before dozens of artillery bombardment non-stop pomp has disappeared, I heard that these two artillery pieces are still removed from the head of Yaozhou City and then transported, with the cover of the soil slope, the artillery has caused heavy damage to the Ming army in the city, but unfortunately the city was built by the Ming army is extremely strong, and the artillery hits only a few shallow white marks, This is very frustrating for many gunners.

Yu Xuezhong turned his face and looked at the rear, a few stone walls were erected behind the soil slope, behind the stone wall were flags fluttering, the sound of fighting, people screaming horses, dense tents, the village stretched from the foot of the mountain to here, every time he saw these camps, Yu Xuezhong felt a little at ease, the strength of the Eight Banners was strong, the Ming army was only more than 10,000 people, how long could it hold on?

Yu Xuezhong comforted himself while drinking those coats and continued to carry the soil downhill......

In the big tent, Huang Taiji, who was wearing a bearskin coat, stood with his hands in his hands, and there were many Manchu and Han Gushan Ezhen standing under the tent, as well as the banner owners of each banner, as well as the Chengzheng of the six departments, etc., they were all listening to the report of Gang Atai wearing a bearskin hat to get information from Liaoxi.

“…… There are about more than 100 people who sent an envoy to Jinzhou, and I heard that they brought a lot of special products, led by Hu Gui, a subordinate of Lushun Yang Bo, accompanied by Yao Wenzhao, the second son of the Yao family of Anton Wei, etc., and what to talk about with Zu Dashou is unknown, but I heard that the cavalry of Jinzhou Guanning has been frequently mobilized recently, and it seems that there is a plan to cross the Sancha River. ”

Hearing Gang Atai's words, everyone frowned, Zu Dashou, an old opponent, was insidious and cunning, if he took advantage of the emptiness in their rear to march in a big way, this would indeed be quite troublesome.

Huang Taiji nodded and gestured to Fan Wencheng, who immediately ordered someone to unfold a huge map of Liaoxi in the big tent, on which the mountains and rivers were beautifully drawn, not inferior to the map of Lushun, Huang Taiji waved his hand, and the Eight Banners and Zhubeile and others all gathered around him to watch.

"Wai Wei to save Zhao" Huang Taiji looked at the map lightly and said slowly: "Zu Dashou is also an old man, he will not know the sea, Yao and other areas are where I will save, but Zu Dashou is a dog who guards the house, and he has defeated my Eight Banners several times, and now he still has the courage to cross the Sancha River, I am a little skeptical." ”

All Baylor frowned and pondered, and they didn't dare to say no for a while, after all, when attacking the Daling River, Zu Dashou was also full of means, and Mang Gurtai also suffered some losses back then, and Zu Dashou's mind was extremely difficult to guess, like throwing the whole clan to the Great Khan himself but running back to Jinzhou alone, even Huang Taiji couldn't figure out his way of thinking.

Huang Taiji also thought of this, and said: "Despite this, we must not be unguarded, so let's let Jierharang take the initiative to force the blue flag to the front line of Jinzhou, and attack a few tunbao as a deterrent, hmph, Zu Dashou thinks that I can do whatever I want if the main force of the Eight Banners is not there?" What a joke. ”

Gangatai said again: "Your Majesty, Liaoxi also found out a piece of news, saying that Yang Bo's regimental training battalion was stationed in the Changping area after entering the Jinggi Army, but it was ......."

Oh?

Huang Taiji was immediately interested when he heard Yang Bo's news, turned to stare at Gang Atai, and put on a look of listening attentively.

“…… I heard that the regimental training camp somehow, it's the other way around?! Gang Atai said with some hesitation

"Is it the other way around?" Huang Taiji was shocked and asked.

Seeing that Gang Atai didn't dare to confirm it, Huang Taiji fell into thought, and everyone in the big tent also whispered, this news was indeed a little shocking.

"After a few days, the detailed news of the Beijing master can be verified, but the slave thinks that this news is eighty percent credible, it is said that Hu Gui was shocked when he learned the news at the wine banquet that day, and he hurriedly packed his bags and rushed back to Lushun overnight, leaving only Yao Wenzhao and others to continue to conspire with Zu Dashou in Jinzhou." Seeing that his master's expression remained unchanged, Gang Atai felt a little weak in his heart, and hurriedly added in detail.

After half a ring, Huang Taiji nodded: "Yang Bo's ambition is not small, and I am not surprised that the regimental training camp is reversed, if the information is true, it is a great news for me." ”

Seeing that Huang Taiji's face was happy, Dolgon said tentatively: "If the Ming court is suspicious of Yang Bo, it is a good time for us to wait under the internal and external attacks, why didn't the Great Khan send envoys to test Yang Bo's attitude?" ”

Before Dolgon finished speaking, Yue Tuo took a step forward and said: "Yang Bo's department is a problem for my Dajin's henchmen, and the Great Khan should think twice, it is absolutely impossible to appease Yang Bo, and only by destroying it can you have peace of mind." ”

Huang Taiji waved his hand and interrupted the dispute: "Yang Bo is a wolf with ambitions, it is absolutely impossible to lure him down, Yang Bo's department is the only army in the Ming Kingdom that dares to fight, and the only way to do it is to use thunder and exterminate it to calm the troubles, but well, if the court and Yang Bo have reached the point where water and fire are incompatible, I need to take this opportunity to add fire and accelerate the Ming Kingdom and Yang Bo to turn against each other, and then Yang Bo will be enemies on all sides, I think he can still jump for a few days?" ”

Seeing that everyone nodded, Huang Taiji said again: "The time has passed for the Jingshi to deal with each other, and the time has passed after confirming this matter, what I mean is that whether it is rumors or groundless rumors, we must take the first step, so let's do it, Sukesa?" ”

Suksa didn't know what was going on, so she quickly ran out and fell to her knees.

"Send someone to shoot a book to Yang Bo, which means that Ri Zhen will personally answer him at the head of the city, and the two sides will not send personal guards, ask him if he has the courage?"

Before Huang Taiji finished speaking, everyone was startled...... (To be continued......)