The next morning, Li Yuntian led 5,000 cavalry and 10,000 foot soldiers to leave the Tiger Skin Camp Post City and headed for Liaoyang City.

Although the soldiers of the Ming army were exhausted after yesterday's battle, no one had the slightest complaint about rushing to Liaoyang City, the reason was very simple, they knew that they had only won the battle of the Tiger Skin Battalion, and they were far from the point of resting on the spot, and the top priority now was to rescue the besieged Ming army in Liaoyang City.

After two days of marching, Li Yuntian and his entourage arrived at Liaoyang City with four closed gates in the afternoon of the next day.

Liaoyang City has been besieged by the Mongolian army last year, even if Phoenix City was captured by the Korean soldiers led by Li Daniu, the Mongolian army urgently needs troops to fight a decisive battle with the Liaodong Ming army led by Li Yuntian in the Tiger Skin Camp Post City, Adai Khan only took out 10,000 people from the 20,000 siege defenders, and still placed 10,000 Mongolian soldiers outside Liaoyang City, and at the same time sent 10,000 servant troops to assist the Mongolian soldiers to besiege the city, and surrounded the four gates of Liaoyang City.

It can be seen that Adai Khan attaches great importance to the Ming army in Liaoyang City, after all, the 40,000 Ming troops in Liaoyang City can be described as the elite of the Ming army in Liaodong, and he does not want to let the tiger return to the mountains and bring trouble to the Mongolian army in Liaodong.

Including more than 10,000 reinforcements brought by Zhang Hao, the Duke of Yiguo, the Ming army in Liaoyang City had been demoralized by the Mongol army last year, so they had to wait for the imperial court to send reinforcements.

In fact, the Mongolian army did not surround the four gates of Liaoyang City at first, but only set up a large camp outside the southern city, but last year Li Yuntian sent Li Daniu to lead 5,000 soldiers of the Suzaku Battalion of the Xiaowu Army to land in Liaokou Port in Gaizhouwei on the Liaodong Peninsula by sea ship, escorting a group of baggage to avoid the Mongolian troops along the way and quietly rushed to Liaoyang City, and transported the materials from the north gate to Liaoyang City at night.

By the time the besieging Mongol army found Li Daniu and the others, the 5,000 Xiaowu troops had already entered Liaoyang City safely.

Not only that, two days later, Li Daniu left from the north gate overnight with 3,000 Xiaowu troops, and rushed all the way to Liaokou Port.

When the cavalry of the Mongolian army chased to Liaokou Port, Li Daniu and others had already left the port on the Ming army's sea ship and rushed to Pyongyang Prefecture, Xijing, where they trained Li Yuntian in Pyongyang Prefecture.

It was Li Daniu's act of rescuing Liaoyang City, which shocked Adai Khan this time, that made the Mongol army change its strategy and set up military camps outside the four gates of Liaoyang City to surround Liaoyang City.

Zhang Hao once organized a night attack but the effect was very bad, the night attack troops were found by the Mongolian army's secret outpost just out of the city, and as a result, more than 1,000 people were lost in a fight, so he gave up the idea of sneaking up on the Mongolian army, and waited for Li Yuntian to lead reinforcements with peace of mind.

Due to the siege of Liaoyang City, Zhang Hao has not heard from Li Yuntian since last year, but judging from the fact that the Mongolian army has not attacked Liaoyang City for a long time after the New Year, Li Yuntian should have put a lot of pressure on the Mongolian army in Liaodong so that they have no time to attack the city, so he has an optimistic attitude in his heart.

However, what Zhang Hao could not have imagined was that when the Mongol army took Zhao Yong, Yang Wei and other Ming prisoners around Liaoyang City a few months ago, they also shot a lot of leaflets into the city about the defeat of Emperor Xuande's Northern Expedition at the Yinma River, and he was surprised to know that Emperor Xuande's Northern Expedition had failed.

Unlike the defenders of Kaiyuan City, there were many senior generals of the Ming army in Liaoyang City, who not only knew Zhao Yong and Yang Wei and others, but also knew that they followed Emperor Xuande's northern expedition, which made the mood of the generals fall to the freezing point in an instant, which means that the imperial court has been unable to send reinforcements to Liaodong.

In the face of the propaganda offensive of the Mongol army, the soldiers and civilians in Liaoyang City were also affected, and there were many discussions in private, which made Liaoyang City shrouded in an atmosphere of panic.

Originally, for the sake of secrecy, only Zhang Hao and Liu Qing were the commanders of Liaodong City to know about Li Yuntian's secret reinforcement of Liaodong, but in order to stabilize the morale of the army, Zhang Hao had to convene a meeting of the senior generals of the Ming army and told those generals that Li Yuntian had led the army to North Korea by sea.

In order to stabilize the military morale of those high-ranking generals, Zhang Hao deliberately exaggerated the reinforcements that Li Yuntian brought to Liaodong, and said that the 10,000 Xiaowu army was 80,000.

How many Xiaowu troops there are in Jiaozhi, no one knows except for the senior generals of the Xiaowu Army, but there have always been rumors in the outside world that there are two or three hundred thousand people, plus Li Da Niu came to Liaoyang City once, so the senior generals of Liaoyang City did not doubt Zhang Hao's statement, and they couldn't help but have ardent expectations in their hearts.

Subsequently, Zhang Hao asked people to post notices in the streets and alleys of Liaoyang City, telling the panicked soldiers and civilians in the city that the people who surrounded the city were not the generals of the Ming Dynasty, but the tricks of the Mongolian army, the purpose of which was to hit the morale of the soldiers and civilians in Liaoyang City, so that the soldiers and civilians would not fall into the trap of the Mongolian army, and said that the reinforcements of the imperial court had fought a decisive battle with the Mongolian army in the Daning Dusi and would soon arrive in Liaoyang City.

Zhang Hao's notice played a role in stabilizing the hearts of the people, and the feelings of the soldiers and civilians in Liaoyang City then calmed down, after all, no one wanted the Mongolian army to break through Liaoyang City, so he subconsciously chose to believe Zhang Hao, which made Zhang Hao breathe a sigh of relief.

Although the soldiers and civilians in the city were appeased, Liaoyang City had only been supplied with the baggage brought by Li Daniu for most of the year, coupled with the influx of many people who had taken refuge and the troops of the nearby guards, the food in the city became tight, and Zhang Hao had a headache.

Zhang Hao realized the problem of food as early as last year, because the war Liaoyang City did not have time to replenish food last year, and the grain in the city could only last half a year at most, and it was he who implemented strict control over the grain to persist until now, but in August, the food in Liaoyang City will be exhausted, and then he can only choose to lead the army to the north to break through, hoping to meet Li Yuntian in the north.

Obviously, Li Yuntian will definitely go to Kaiyuan City after coming to Liaodong, because there is a large camp of the Xiaowu Army Suzaku there, which is Li Yuntian's foothold in Liaodong, and he judged that Kaiyuan City must be in Li Yuntian's hands, otherwise the Mongolian army would have concentrated its forces to attack Liaoyang City a long time ago.

First, the Mongolian army had to cooperate with the Arutai army to attack Shanhaiguan, and secondly, they had already seen the top of the battle in Liaodong, and did not take the Ming army in Liaoyang City in their eyes, so they would not besiege Liaoyang City for a long time, and they would definitely fight quickly, and then concentrate their forces to attack Shanhaiguan.

On the morning of Li Yuntian's arrival in Liaoyang City, the defenders on the walls of Liaoyang City were surprised to find that the originally noisy Mongolian army camp outside the city was silent, so quiet that there was no one and no one was there, and it was not clear what was happening.

After Zhang Hao learned the news, he immediately led the generals in the city to the city gate tower to check, and it was hard for him to imagine that the Mongolian army disappeared overnight, as if it had gone cleanly.

Faced with the strange scene in front of him, Zhang Hao was also confused, he didn't know what the Mongol army was doing, for the sake of safety, he ordered the whole city to be on guard and wait to see the development of the situation.

Therefore, when Li Yuntian arrived in Liaoyang City, he saw the heavily guarded defenders on the city wall, and now Liaoyang City was shrouded in a tense and depressing atmosphere because of the sudden departure of the Mongolian army outside the city.

"Marquis Zhenwu, it seems that the Duke of Yiguo doesn't seem to welcome us very much."

Outside the north of Liaoyang City, looking at the archers who were waiting on the city gate, Zhao Yong smiled and teased Li Yuntian that at this moment, Li Yuntian could finally reveal his identity to the outside.

"Someone, come forward and shout." Li Yuntian smiled slightly when he heard this, and said to a military attache of the Xiaowu Army on the side.

"Listen to the people upstairs, Li Yuntian, the deputy general of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty and the Marquis of Zhenwu, led the army to reinforce Liaoyang City, please pass on the righteous Guogong." The military attache of the Xiaowu Army immediately slapped his horse and came to the city gate, shouting at the nervous defenders on the city gate.

Hearing this, the defenders on the tower of the city gate immediately looked at each other, and the bow and arrow aimed at the shouting military attache in their hands couldn't help but slowly put down, feeling incredulous at Li Yuntian's sudden arrival.

"Please go and tell the righteous prince quickly." Seeing that the defenders on the tower of the city gate looked stunned, the military attache who shouted couldn't help but shout in a louder voice.

"Wait a minute, Marquis Zhenwu, I will go and invite Lord Guogong." At this time, a thousand households on the tower of the city gate suddenly came to his senses, pulled his legs and ran to the city, and hurriedly went to inform Zhang Hao, who was discussing military affairs with the generals in the city.

As soon as the forward troops of Li Yuntian and his party appeared in the field of vision of the defenders of the gate tower at the north gate of Liaoyang City, Zhang Hao had already been informed and knew that a team was approaching, but because they were too far away, the soldiers on the city gate tower did not see clearly what banner the other party was playing.

For this approaching army, Zhang Hao's first reaction was naturally the Mongolian army, thinking of the suddenly empty military camp outside the city, he suspected that the Mongolian army was likely to attack Liaoyang City, so he summoned the generals of the Ming army in the city to discuss countermeasures.

Just when those Ming army generals rushed to the meeting hall, the defenders on the city gate tower came with news again, to Zhang Hao and the others' surprise, the army that came was under the banner of the Ming army in Liaodong, claiming to be the deputy chief soldier of Liaodong and the subordinate of Li Yuntian, the marquis of Zhenwu, but there were Mongolian cavalry inside.

Could it be that the Mongol army pretended to be Li Yuntian's subordinates? But why do you want to add Mongolian cavalry to the army, isn't this not three hundred taels of silver here?

For a while, even Zhang Hao couldn't figure out what was going on, because Liaoyang City was very important in Liaodong, and the Mongol army would definitely not give up.

Unless...... Unless the Mongolian army was defeated by Li Yuntian on the battlefield of Liaodong and had to give up Liaoyang City, but how could this be possible, Zhang Hao knew very well that Li Yuntian only brought 10,000 soldiers from the Suzaku Battalion of the Xiaowu Army to Liaodong.

As for the transfer of troops from Jiaozhi, Zhang Hao knew that Li Yuntian would never do that, not to mention how many troops in Jiaozhi were available for Li Yuntian to deploy, in Li Yuntian's planning, the vast majority of the soldiers in Jiaozhi were recruited from Jiaozhi and Annan, which was suitable for the water, soil, climate and geographical terrain of Jiaozhi.

Moreover, the battle situation in Liaodong has not yet reached the point where it is necessary to transfer troops from Jiaozhi, Li Yuntian wants to rely on 10,000 reinforcements and 20,000 or 30,000 troops in Kaiyuan City to defeat the hundreds of thousands of Mongolian troops in the Liaodong battlefield in most of the half a year It is simply an impossible task, and Zhang Hao has to be suspicious that even he cannot do this.