"-- Thou art a man of great wisdom and knowledge of the times, and thou art a little more prepared to be an envoy, and thou art more than thou shalt be in marriage, and thou art not pampered and honored as a minister of my rank? If thou wilt fight, how can I know thee? If you can't win, what's the good of dying? And you go out of the city and surrender, our soldiers will not re-enter, and your soldiers will be safe. If our division enters the city, the men and women will be defeated by the old and the weak, which will be very detrimental to your people. Don't say that I am drinking, losing this Futu, and regretting it. Whether you descend or not, you are familiar with it. Don't bear to be angry for a while, and do things against my words! ”

Li Yongfang, a guerrilla in Fushun City who was nearly forty years old and had a strong physique, stood on the battlement of the south gate in full clothes, looking at the Eight Banners Army all over the mountains outside the city, he ordered the sergeants to prepare equipment to defend the city, and on the other hand, he folded Nurhachi's surrender letter and put it in his arms, and asked the Han people who came with the surrender letter to go out of the city and tell Nurhachi that he Li Yongfang was willing to surrender.

The three holes of the cunning rabbit, be prepared, Nurhachi said that Li Yongfang knew the current affairs at that time, Li Yongfang did not expect that Nurhachi dared to attack the city with great fanfare, but he knew that Nurhachi was a person who did not do two things, and since he had raised troops, that is, he completely broke with the Ming Dynasty, he Li Yongfang was dead or alive today, there were only 1,200 soldiers in Fushun City, and the 800 foot soldiers stationed in the east of the city had been defeated by Huang Taiji's Zhengbai Banner Army. The commander of the army, Zhang Jiang, was now being carried high by the Houjin sergeant with a wooden pole to show the public outside the city.

Li Yongfang knew that the Eight Banners Army was good at field warfare and clumsy in attacking cities, so although the enemy was outnumbered, he still had to defend it, who wouldn't want to be a loyal minister and leave a name in history, and his family members were still in Liaoyang, so he had to try to see if he could hold it, as long as he could hold it for a day. Eighty miles away in Shenyang, reinforcements should arrive. Reinforcements from Kaiyuan and Liaoyang, two hundred miles away, will also arrive. However, looking at the Jurchen infantry outside the city, the armor is divided into eight colors, it can be seen that Nurhachi's Eight Banners Army is pouring out, even if the Liao and Shen reinforcements can arrive in time, it will be difficult to resist the fierce Jianzhou Jurchen, Li Yongfang has been in the army in Liaodong for many years, and he still has a good understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Ming army.

The king of the Fushun garrison has ordered the only ten tiger squat cannons in Fushun City to be pushed up to the head of the city to bombard the Houjin army outside the city, but these tiger squat cannons are in disrepair and rained heavily last night. The barrel of the cannon was still wet, and the sergeant was also in a hurry to prepare the gunpowder projectile, and finally fired a cannon, but failed to hurt the Houjin army under the city, and the Houjin army had launched a tidal offensive, more than 100 ladders were set up on the city wall, and the Houjin armored soldiers with swords and shields quickly climbed up.

Fushun City was built in the seventeenth year of Hongwu, at first only three miles around the city wall, two hundred years of successive expansion, is now a large city with a circumference of ten miles. The bluestone city wall is not unfortunate, but there is a huge disparity between the number of people defending the city and besieging it. Nurhachi is determined to win, 12,000 cavalry to attack a thousand defenders of the city, if he still can't take this Fushun city, then he can only immediately lead his troops to retreat to Huerha.

Fushun garrison Wang Mingyin is a fierce general, commanding the sergeant to block the Jin army to the city with a stone, although the Ming army is not trained enough on weekdays, but also knows the consequences of the city breaking, one by one bravely fighting, bows and arrows, muskets, stones, dung juice are used, but helplessly after the Jin soldiers set up more than 100 ladders to attack fiercely, and the archers of the Houjin army are extremely accurate, the Ming army defending the city shows its head a little at the battlement, and the "whoosh" arrow is shot, and the head is penetrated -

A brave Houjin armor soldier jumped from the cloud ladder to the head of the city, "Qiang Qiang" twice, with a shield to open the two knives cut by the Ming army defending the city, the ladder knife in his hand slashed backwards like lightning, a Ming army screamed, the waist was cut off, blood sprayed directly, there were three Ming soldiers surrounded, one of them stabbed the back of the gold armor soldier with a spear, but the tip of the spear was blocked by the cloth armor, could not stab in, and then stabbed again, then the body of the gold armor soldier twisted, the shield smashed back, and the gun rod was broken, and when the body of the defending sergeant couldn't help but rush forward, After that, the golden armor soldier slashed it with a knife, and a head flew up "Peng", and the blood in the neck cavity splashed and sprayed.

This Houjin armor soldier is a Niu Lu Zhangjing under the jurisdiction of Zhengbai Banner, wearing three layers of heavy armor, the innermost layer is expensive chain mail, then a layer of iron armor, and the outermost layer is also covered with a layer of iron-inlaid cotton armor, such heavy armor ordinary muskets and knives and arrows can not hurt him at all, and in a moment, four Ming soldiers defending the city died under his sword, and behind him, a team of Houjin armor soldiers are quickly rushing up from the cloud ladder.

Wang Mingyin roared, leading several personal soldiers to rush to this side, the enemy has already landed in the city, the defense line has been torn apart, we must eliminate the enemy who has landed in the city as soon as possible, block this ladder, otherwise the general trend will be gone.

At this moment, the arrow under the city came quickly, hitting the neck that Wang Mingyin did not have, Wang Mingyin didn't say a word, he fell to the ground and died of convulsions, and the soldiers beside him were rushed up by the white flag Niu Lu Zhangjing and killed the two in the blink of an eye.

In such a short period of time, there were already seven or eight Houjin armor soldiers on the head of Fushun City, the defenders of the city were in chaos, and the fifty Houjin soldiers who pretended to be horse merchants and mixed into the city had also been burned everywhere at this time, and the fall of Fushun City was inevitable.

Li Yongfang wore the uniform of a Ming military general, rode out of the city and surrendered to Houjin, and when he saw Nurhachi, Li Yongfang dismounted and knelt on the side of the road, saying: "Descend Li Yongfang to meet Yingming Khan." ”

Nurhachi rode over with a smug face, Li Yongfang, who was a general of Fushun before, was able to fight against him, but now Li Yongfang knelt in front of him, and the authority of the Ming Dynasty was trampled under the horse's hooves by him.

For the Later Jin, Li Yongfang was the first general of the Ming Dynasty, and Nurhachi decided to give preferential treatment, and immediately gave a salute and comforted him with warm words, that is, he ordered the soldiers and civilians in Fushun City to kill those who dared to resist, and those who did not resist were all adopted by households, and the property was looted.

On September 29, the Houjin Eighth Banner Army captured more than 10 large and small cities and more than 4,000 small villages in Fushun and the surrounding areas, captured 300,000 animals, and distributed them to the banner owners on the spot.

On September 30, when the Eight Great Banner Lords distributed the prisoners, there was a student named Fan Wencheng who came from Shenyang to visit relatives in Fushun, who could not bear the constraints and was humiliated, and shouted that he was the descendant of Fan Zhongyan, a famous minister of the Song Dynasty.

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The news of the fall of Fushun City reached Beijing on the fifth day of October, and the Wanli Emperor was shocked to receive a report from Li Weihan, the governor of Liaodong, and replied very quickly: "The cunning plan to trap the border city, all the anti-suppression matters should be handled by the local officials, the military salaries should be paid more quickly, and the troops should be transferred to support, and the ministry will discuss and play at its discretion." ”

After the sergeant in Beijing learned the news of Jiannu's offense, although he was surprised, he still thought that Jiannu was a temporary power of Xiaoxiao Jumping Liang, and the major generals of Fushun City were inferior and negligent in defense, and as soon as the soldiers from Liaoyang and Shenyang arrived, the slave chieftains would be tied, so the people of Daming did not take the border police to heart, and talked passionately after tea and dinner, and still lived their own lives.

On October 16, an emergency alert was transmitted again in Liaodong: Zhang Chengyin, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, led an army to rescue Fushun, and all the troops were killed.

This news shocked the city of Beijing, the total soldiers were killed in battle, this is appalling, some rumors about the brutality of Jiannu have also spread to the capital, the people of the Ming Dynasty finally felt the threat from the Houjin, for a time, Hutong Lifang, everywhere is talking about Liaodong.

On the morning of October 17, Zhang Yuan read the latest issue of the Di Bao in Zhan Shifu, this issue of the Di Bao is all about the military situation in Liaodong, and the full text of Nurhachi's "Seven Hatreds" is reproduced in full to the sky, which makes Zhang Yuan a little strange, isn't this helping Nurhachi to publicize, when he sees that "in the past year of the drought in Jianzhou, the people have no food, I sent the envoy Nalan Bakshi to North Korea to borrow grain, and the Ming Dynasty canonized Zhang Yuan actually took my envoy to Beijing, and the humiliation was extreme, and it was really difficult to tolerate, so when he used this article to raise troops with seven hatreds", Zhang Yuan understood the intention of publishing the "Seven Hatreds". This is obviously a premeditated plan by Yao Zongwen and his party to attack him, and it seems that it will not be long before there will be an official who impeaches him Zhang Yuan who provoked Nurhachi and thus caused the disaster of war in Liaodong.

Zhang Yuan shook his head, and continued to read the news in the Di newspaper about the annihilation of the whole army of Liaodong General Zhang Chengyin, Zhang Chengyin got the urgent report of the fall of Fushun on the first day of October, and immediately led the deputy general Po Tingxiang, the general Pu Shifang, and the guerrilla Liang Rugui to lead 10,000 troops to rescue Fushun, the army set off from Liaoyang on the second day of October, and rushed to Fushun on the fourth day of the first month. The Han people who dared to resist were killed, and the remaining 300,000 animals were on their way back to Jianzhou.

Zhang Chengzhen immediately ordered the division of troops to pursue in five ways, and caught up with Nurhachi's Eight Banners Army in Xie Lidian, twenty miles from the border, this day was the sixth day of October, the Ming Army five roads gathered around a hill outside Xie Lidian, and camped in three places, according to the mountain danger, trenches, and firearms, the preparation was also sufficient, but when the Houjin Eight Banners Army attacked, the Ming army found that the first round of artillery and musket firing did little damage to the Houjin sergeants, and the enemy's bows and arrows were a great threat to them. It was a one-sided massacre, the main general Zhang Chengyin and the general Pu Shifang were killed, the deputy general of the Houshan battalion, Po Tingxiang and the guerrilla Liang Rugui, had the opportunity to lead the four thousand soldiers to break through, but when they heard that Zhang Zongbing was trapped in the front mountain, he bravely led the troops to rescue, so they fell together, only a few hundred people of the 10,000 Ming army fled back to Liaoyang, and the 100 cannons, 800 small cannons and 3,000 muskets brought with them all became the trophies of the Houjin army, and 9,000 war horses and 7,000 pairs of armor were all returned to the Eight Banners Army, Zhang Chengyin sent troops from Liaoyang to rescue Fushun, In order to pursue the enemy army as soon as possible, the Liaoyang war horses were requisitioned, and in this battle, the strength of the entire Liaodong Ming army was lost by half.

Reading the newspaper of the dismissal, Zhang Yuan was saddened: Zhang Chengyin, the general soldier of Liaodong, was still killed in battle, and Zhang Chengyin personally sent him and the delegation out of Guangyuan City three months ago.

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