Chapter 147: The Siege of the Beacon Fire
At the end of the Shen period, Shuangshupu in the northeast of Ningyuan City built a slave village, and the Jurchen Beile Beizi Gushan Ezhen and others gathered together to discuss countermeasures. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
"King Khan, today our army has lost nearly 1,000 banners, since the expedition to Ningjin, our army has been killed by more than 2,000 bannermen, how can it go on like this, King Khan, don't attack it like this." Erbel Amin said loudly.
Huang Taiji's face was expressionless, in fact, he hated Amin, this time to attack North Korea, this Erbeile Amin actually had the intention of becoming the king independently in Pyongan Province, North Korea, if it were not for the accompanying Zierharang, Azige, Yue Tuo and others to take their banners away from Amin Dazhai, the consequences would be unimaginable.
In the end, Amin still captured Anju, Hwangju, and Pyongyang to force the king of Joseon to return to Shenyang after the peace conference, but his disobedience was revealed, although he was surrounded by foreign enemies, Huang Taiji only let Jilharang receive five blue flag bulls, and slightly punished Amin, but he had already secretly determined to eradicate Amin.
At this time, Amin jumped up and down in order to use the attack on Ning Jin to shake his prestige among the Jurchen nobles, which was really hateful.
"King Khan, my Jurchen men are scarce and unbearable, and it is Khan Ama's instructions not to attack the city, and it must not be violated." The Great Belle Daishan persuaded with a compassionate look. Since there is a starter, Dai Shan doesn't mind adding a few words, but he will never do the role of taking the lead brother.
"This time, our army's labor expedition did not capture the fortified city, but it can be described as a great victory by capturing more than a dozen castles and tens of thousands of Ming people. Huang Taiji's eldest son, Hao Ge, stepped forward and shouted angrily.
"Hauge must not be rude. Retire. Although he strongly agrees with Haoge's rebuke of Huang Taiji, the elders and young still have to obey it. Don't break the discipline, after all, he is now maintaining the existing order, and the ones who jump up and down are the ones who want to destroy the order.
"I intend to attack for a few more days, and if I don't refrain from it, we will discuss retreating." Huang Taiji made a decision.
Hauge glared at Dai Shan and Amin angrily and unwillingly retreated.
Amin sneered and looked at Haoge with disdain, but he was just a yellow-haired child, a fox and a fake tiger.
Dai Shan glanced at Hauge expressionlessly. I am sure in my heart that this time I am afraid that it will be a futile, and it will definitely hit the prestige of Huang Taiji. That's good. As for Hauge, he's just a reckless man.
The endless wheat fields in the east four miles of Dalinghe Fort swayed with the south wind, and the beige ears of wheat were gratifying. It's a New Year. It's a pity that the harvest is not the Liaodong Ming people who work hard.
Fang Dongmen and Lu Quan were guarding more than 20 captured Ming army soldiers who were harvesting winter wheat in the field.
Fang Dongmen and Lu are all Zheng Huangqi Duoluo Niu Lu Ezhen's coating, this time in the battle of Duoluo Niu Lu Ezhen was left to harvest the military field of Dalinghe Fort, as his subordinate Fang Dongmen and Lu Quan and other Baoyi auxiliaries were sent to watch the military household harvest.
"Brother Fang, what the master said in the future will turn us into tenants and collect fifty percent of the rent every year, can you say it be true?" The thin Lu Quan asked with a grin and yellow front teeth.
"I heard that it is true, it was ordered by the Great Khan, and it was said that it would be carried out within the year. Pay the rent every year, the autumn tax, and. The sturdy Fang Dongmen scratched his head. He tugged at the back of his head, and didn't think about what taxes he was, "Anyway, my brother said that it must be about fifty percent." ā
"It's okay to rent fifty percent, after all, it's to farm for yourself," Lu Quan's triangular eyes were filled with tears, "Earlier, my family also had more than 40 acres of thin fields, and the wild boar skins were all taken away by the lord after they came, and my father and mother were all starved to death, but the poor only left our brothers are still alive in this world, not that our Shenyang is too far away from Liaoxi and the Dongjiang River, and we have also escaped." ā
"Shut up, damn," Fang Dongmen sweated profusely, and hurriedly looked around, there was no one else, "It's the King of Khan, bastard, you don't want to live anymore." Beads of sweat soaked in Fang Dongmen's bright head, and he glared at Lu Quan angrily.
"Uh," Lu Quan looked around in shock. And then smacked: "Phew, crow's mouth." ā
Fang Dongmen wiped his sweat fearfully, and shook his head helplessly, this road is very obedient to himself, but his head is missing a string and his mouth is too big.
"Brother Fang, my brother said let me take this opportunity to escape to Liaozhen, don't suffer here anymore, no, I have to listen to what Brother Fang means." Lu Quan touched his head embarrassedly.
Fang Dongmen immediately sweated like rain, if the road was all gone, he would not survive, he would definitely be sat down, fortunately these two fools followed him closely, otherwise he would have died unjustly.
"Don't think about it, my second brother said that there will be acres of land by then, and I will talk to my second brother at that time, and get you some acres to cultivate as soon as possible." Fang Dongmen comforted Lu Quan.
"Haole, Brother Fang, I believe your words the most, Second Brother Fang was raised by the master, what he said can be wrong." Lu Quan said with a smirk.
Fang Dongmen shook his head with a smile and pointed with his hand, "You kid is not really stupid, who should you listen to." This was exchanged for a giggle from Lu Quan.
Fang Dongmen said yes, but Lu Quan was not fat earlier, but he was definitely not thin, he should be very strong, and he has been suffering in Akdan's house for six or seven years, and it is also pitiful, if he didn't have a second brother to take care of him, it is estimated that he would have reunited with his father and mother by now.
Stacks of wheat were piled up, waiting for the captured tens of thousands of people to carry back the horses.
And their masters, the Ming soldiers who had worked hard to sow the seeds of hope at the end of last autumn, were either captured, killed, or hid in the city, daring to be angry and dare not speak, and watched as Jiannu looted the grain like a knife.
In the next few days, the Jiannu army attacked Ningyuan from all sides, under the leadership of Yuan Chenghuan, the Ming defenders fought desperately, bombarded with Hongyi cannons in the distance, bows and arrows, fire oil, and rolling wood and stones in the near distance, and successively repelled the three sieges of the Jiannu army.
Huang Taiji, who had repeatedly attacked Ningyuan Jiancheng, was disappointed to withdraw his troops and returned, his first expedition after ascending the throne was only half successful, but it was also found out that Ning Jin was a strong city, if he attacked even if he captured two cities, the Eight Banners would be half disabled, and the most precious thing in the Jurchen was Dingkou, which really couldn't afford to lose.
Huang Taiji knew that it was impossible to attack Daming from this direction. But what if you make a detour from the north to bypass the heavy defense of the Ming army in western Liaoning.
Of course, before that, the internal insecurity is also a huge problem that needs to be solved urgently.
When the news of the withdrawal of Jiannu came. Yuan Chenghuan immediately took the left and right to the top of the city to look, several black dragons meandered far away, and during the flickering cold light of the armor, all kinds of battle flags fluttered proudly in the wind.
Large puffs of black smoke rose one after another, and the scorching flames swept through the nearby castles, piers, and wheat fields.
Although they tried their best to force more than 10,000 Ming people to harvest regardless of life and death, they could not harvest more than 100,000 mu of wheat fields and miscellaneous grains within a few days. Then Jiannu's solution was simple and rude, setting fire to it, and exhausting the Ming army in Liaodong. Let Daming only consume a lot of manpower and material resources to transfer from the customs.
The remaining ashes of the flames were scattered in the wind, turning the head of Ningyuan City into ashes.
Yuan Chenghuan caught a few gray dusts with his hand, he looked at the gray-white ashes, and waved his hand to flick them down.
He reached out and removed his helmet. Set aside. Looking at the gray sky outside Ningyuan City like the end of the world and the scorching earth, a warm heat moistened his eyes.
He understood that after the war, it was when he returned to his hometown after leaving his post and losing his official position, although he defeated the attack of the Jiannu army, but he lost tens of thousands of people, burned dozens of tunbao, and lost more than 100,000 mu of grain and rice, which had given Wei Gelding enough truth.
He really didn't want to give up this vast black land. This is where his prestige lies, and at the same time, the Jiannu opposite has gone against the grain for several years. The Liao people fled, the fields were barren, and the strength did not advance but retreated, and the Liao affairs were the time when there was a lot to be done. It's a pity, it's a pity.
Yuan Chenghuan gently wiped the corners of his eyes with the sleeves of his robe.
The sound of horses' hooves sounded on the horse road.
A convoy of horses ran up the walls.
Most of them were blood-stained, and many had torn armor.
The two majestic generals who were quite strong at the beginning dismounted and bowed down closely. Jiannu withdrew, they could finally return to the city to rest, and the first thing they did when they entered the city was, of course, to meet Yuan Chenghuan, the governor of Liaodong.
"Man Gui and You Shiwei pay a visit to the governor."
Yuan Chenghuan hurriedly took two steps forward to help, "The two adults, please get up, a few days of fierce fighting outside the city, so that Jiannu can't take care of each other at the end, and protect Ning Yuan, the two of them deserve the first credit." ā
"Your Excellency has praised it, your Excellency has led the army and civilians of the whole city to resist the attack of the Jiannu army for several days, and Ning Yuan will not be able to protect it without your plan." The stout and swarthy Man Gui arched his hand.
Although Man Gui said that he was disliked by Yuan Chenghuan because of the conflict with Zhao Shujiao last year, and there was a gap between the two, he was extremely convinced of Yuan Chenghuan's skills in defending the city, after all, Yuan Chenghuan preserved Ningyuan City under two unfavorable circumstances, and also preserved the last foundation of the Ming Dynasty outside the pass.
"What Lord Mangui said is extremely true, we are ashamed that we can't defeat the Jiannu brigade, and we can only fight on the periphery, which is really ashamed." The slender Yu Shiwei arched his hand, and there was a clear arrow mark on the left side of his face, which was the result of the fierce battle that day.
The deputy general of the dignified general army was injured one after another, which shows the fierceness of the battle that day.
"Although the Jiannu army withdrew from the siege this time, Jinzhou was still besieged, and tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians and many tunbao were lost, and the winter wheat of last year was also destroyed." Yuan Chenghuan raised his eyes to look at the gray sky, "I'm afraid the government and the opposition will be extremely dissatisfied." ā
"Lord Yuan, we have been fighting fiercely for several days, and we will not lose our strength to protect Ning under the attack of tens of thousands of Jiannu troops, otherwise until the mountains and seas, all the Jiannu world, what is the dissatisfaction of the imperial court." Man Gui's eyes widened in disbelief, in his opinion, this battle of Ningjin can be described as a big victory, how to lose, how to reprimand dissatisfaction.
"Alas, Lord Mangui, the ministers in the court don't know the difficulties of our birth and death, but they only know that they have damaged dozens of tunbao and hundreds of thousands of acres of rice grain." You Shiwei shook his head, as a Han general, he knows a thing or two about the increasingly fierce disputes between Wei and Donglin in the imperial court, these two factions are now like fire and water, what you are in favor, I will oppose it, and vice versa, of course, Wei Zhongxian, who has the Emperor of the Apocalypse as the backstage, now has the upper hand.
This battle of Ningyuan depends on how Wei Zhongxian decides. You Shiwei knew that Yuan Chenghuan and Wei Zhongxian didn't deal with each other very well.
Yuan Chenghuan waved his hand and appeased the two, "The two adults have been fighting with Jiannu in Liaodong for a long time, and their ambition to capture Ningjin and drive directly to the mountains and seas has been going on for a long time, and the old slave attacked Ningjin when he was there. ā
Full Gui, You Shiwei listened with bated breath.
"In the future, this official will not be in Ningyuan, you must be careful of Jiannu's sneak attack, remember to remember." Yuan Chenghuan stared at the two of them.
"I will obey my lordship's orders." Man Gui and You Shiwei are arching their hands.
It's just that Yuan Chenghuan didn't know that Huang Taiji had given up the idea of attacking Ning Jin. (To be continued.) )