Chapter 689: Behind Closed Doors (Three Changes)

Although Li Yuntian wanted to leave Hu Legen on trial, for the sake of the overall situation of Liaodong, he still fulfilled his promise and let Mu Du flee from Yinzhou City with Hu Legen and the others.

"This official promises you that he will definitely give you justice!" Li Yuntian didn't explain much about letting Hu Legen go, he couldn't justify his actions on the grounds of the battle situation in Liaodong, solemnly made a promise to the middle-aged man who was victimized, and then walked away with a cold expression.

"Master Xie." The middle-aged man who was victimized was not the kind of person who didn't know what was going on, knowing that Li Yuntian was letting go of Mu Du and the others in order to save them, so he was very grateful to Li Yuntian in his heart, otherwise they would definitely be killed by Mu Du and others, and hurriedly knelt down at Li Yuntian's back, with Li Yuntian's promise, he also had hope, waiting for Hu Legen to be brought to justice.

In the battle of Yinzhou City, the 32,000 Mongol troops under the jurisdiction of Mansu and Mudu were all wiped out, except for Mudu who led more than 200 people to flee back to Haizhou City in a hurry, the rest of the Mongol soldiers were either killed or captured.

According to statistics after the war, the Ming army captured 17,000 Mongolian soldiers, and the remaining 15,000 or so were all corpses, either dying in the battle with the Ming army or dying in the civil strife between the barbarian Su and Mudu.

Among them, more than 3,000 Mongol soldiers were killed in the conflict that broke out between the Mansu and Mudu, and more than 5,000 musketeers were killed in the five musketeers in the south of the city, and the remaining more than 7,000 Mongol soldiers fell in the street battle with the Ming army.

This kind of result is exactly what Li Yuntian hopes to see, to exchange the greatest victory at the smallest cost, and try to find a way to reduce the casualties of the Ming army and the Mongol soldiers in the battle.

Compared with the Mongol army, the casualties of the Ming army were much smaller, with more than 3,000 killed and more than 5,000 wounded.

For this great victory in Yinzhou City, Li Yuntian was very calm, for him, the strength of the Mongolian army was still superior in Liaodong, and it was far from the time to celebrate, and he arranged the aftermath in an orderly manner, and he had a lot of affairs at hand, not only to rest the troops participating in the battle, but also to comfort the people of Yinzhou City, and to reorganize the captured Mongol soldiers.

Li Yuntian only stayed in Yinzhou City for three days, and then he led an army of 20,000 soldiers composed of Xiaowu Army and Jurchen soldiers to Shenyang City in a hurry.

Because the three walls were blown open, the city defense of Yinzhou City has become an ornament, so Li Yuntian must rely on the high wall of Shenyang City to resist the counterattack of the Mongol army, as long as Shenyang City is defended, then Shenyang City can be used to establish a solid defense line in the northeast of Liaoning, so that Yinzhou City and Kaiyuan City and other towns can be sheltered.

There are more than 15,000 Liaodong Ming troops in Shenyang City, commanded by Zhao Jing in Liaodong, Zhao Jing knows the importance of Shenyang City to the Liaodong war situation, not only the military town of Liaodong, but also with Liaoyang City in Liaodong into a corner of the mutual arch of each other, so he recruited more than 10,000 men in the city to assist the Ming army to defend the city.

Adai Khan originally stationed 3,000 Mongol troops in a town north of Shenyang City to monitor and contain the Ming army in Shenyang City, but with the fall of the Mongol army in Yinzhou City, the Mongolian generals in the town were worried about being attacked by Li Yuntian, so they led their men and horses to withdraw to the Mongolian army camp outside Liaoyang City with Mudu.

There were 40,000 Ming troops in Liaoyang City, 10,000 horses were brought by Zhang Hao from Guannei, 5,000 were the Xiaowu army sent by Li Yuntian to reinforce from the sea, and the other 25,000 were the Liaodong Ming army mobilized by Liu Qing, the commander of Liaodong.

Adai Khan stationed 20,000 Mongol soldiers outside the city, which made Zhang Hao and Liu Qing dare not act rashly and stick to the city, and it was clear that the Ming army in the field was not the opponent of the Mongol army.

Before Li Yuntian arrived in Liaodong, the Ming army in Liaodong was suppressed by the Mongol army in five cities led by Liaoyang City and Shenyang City, and from north to south were Kaiyuan City, Shenyang City, Liaoyang City, Phoenix City and Jinzhou City.

Phoenix City is located in the east of Liaodong, close to the Kingdom of Korea, is the seat of the right guard of Dingliao, with 20,000 Liaodong Ming troops.

Jinzhou City is located in the south of the Liaodong Peninsula and is the seat of Jinzhou Wei, with 15,000 Liaodong Ming troops.

If it weren't for the surprise defeat of the Mansu and Mudu by the Xiaowu army of Kaiyuan City last year, so that Adai Khan would take Kaiyuan City as the first target to be eliminated, then Phoenix City and Jinzhou City would probably have been captured by the Mongol army.

In the eyes of Adai Khan and the senior Mongolian generals, the Ming army in Liaodong was trapped in five isolated cities and could not echo from end to end, and could no longer pose a threat to the Mongol army, so what they had to do was to capture the five cities one by one, completely clear the Ming army in Liaodong, and then concentrate their forces to attack Shanhaiguan, and then force the Ming to fight on two fronts in Shanhaiguan and Shanxi Xingdusi.

However, the Liaodong Suzaku camp of the Xiaowu army disrupted Adai Khan's plan, and at the same time saved the Ming army in Phoenix and Jinzhou City, otherwise the Mongol army would inevitably attack Phoenix City and Jinzhou City after taking Kaiyuan City.

In late April, when Li Yuntian arrived in Shenyang City with 20,000 horses, there was no crowd outside Shenyang City, not only was the city gate closed, but the city wall was also full of soldiers standing in battle, which made Zhao Yong and Pei Jun and others who accompanied him quite surprised.

Li Yuntian had already sent an official document to Zhao Jing, the commander of Shenyang City and the commander of Liaodong, and it stands to reason that Zhao Jing should lead people out of the city to greet him at this time, instead of putting on a posture of rejecting people thousands of miles away.

Seeing this situation, Li Yuntian couldn't help but smile slightly, and didn't feel too surprised, it seemed that Zhao Jing didn't believe that he had won the battle in Qingfeng Valley and Yinzhou City, so he was so vigilant.

"Listen to the people in the city, the new deputy chief soldier of Liaodong, Lord Liu, will lead the army to come and report to General Zhao quickly." After Pei Jun asked Li Yuntian for instructions, he patted his horse and came to the city gate and shouted at the Ming army sergeant on the city gate.

As soon as Pei Jun's words fell, a long arrow was shot from the tower of the city gate, and it hit the ground beside him, and the tail of the arrow trembled slightly.

"Joke, the deputy commander of Liaodong is our commander, and now he is sitting in Liaoyang City, and now the Shanhai Pass has been sealed, where is there any new deputy commander."

Then, a military attache of the Ming army carrying a bow and arrows on the tower of the city gate coldly shouted at Pei Jun, who looked a little stunned, "Uncle won't kill you this time, go back and sue your master for conspiracy and tricks, if you are not afraid of hitting your head in Shenyang City, let the horse come." ”

When Zhang Hao led the army to reinforce the Liaodong Commandery, Liu Qing was appointed by Emperor Xuande as the deputy commander-in-chief of Liaodong, because Zhao Jing was trapped in Shenyang City and did not know about Li Yuntian's appointment as the deputy commander-in-chief of Liaodong, and not long ago, Chahe deliberately sent Zhao Yong and other Ming prisoners of war around the city to demonstrate when passing through Shenyang City, so Zhao Jing rightly thought that the official document given to him by Li Yuntian was fake, and it was a trick carried out by the Mongol army, and its purpose was to deceive the city gate of Shenyang City.

What is particularly important is that Li Yuntian signed his real name on the official document, which made Zhao Jing even more disbelievable, but he knew very well that Li Yuntian would not appear here if he went to the north with Emperor Xuande.

"This official is Pei Jun, the commander of the Liaodong Metropolitan Division, and let Lord Zhao come out to speak." Pei Jun glanced at the arrows on the ground, the look on his face was a little embarrassed, and then he shouted to the military attache in a deep voice.

"Master Pei?" The military attache was stunned when he heard this, and after carefully looking at Pei Jun under the city, he hurriedly walked away, as if he was going to report to Zhao Jing.

Sure enough, a moment later, a middle-aged man with a Chinese character face wearing a helmet and armor appeared on the city gate tower, looking at Zhang with a stern expression, he was the commander of the Liaodong Metropolitan to inform Zhao Jing.

"General Zhao, the emperor's newly appointed Liaodong Left Deputy General is here, quickly open the city gate to greet you." Pei Jun looked at Zhao Jing and shouted loudly.

Although Emperor Xuande appointed Li Yuntian as the deputy commander-in-chief of Liaodong, he did not exempt Liu Qing from his military position, so that there were two deputy commanders in Liaodong.

"General Pei, you didn't go to appease the Jurchens, how could you come here?" Zhao Jing glanced at Pei Jun and asked quietly.

Pei Jun's trip to Kaiyuan City this time was not only to appease Yang Mu Dawu, but also to recruit the Jurchen tribes to fight for the Ming Dynasty, so Zhao Jing was wary of Pei Jun who suddenly appeared outside the city.

"General Zhao, I met the deputy chief soldier who came through the Korean country in Kaiyuan City last year, and the matter of appeasing the Jurchens has been handed over to the deputy chief soldier." Pei Jun knew that Zhao Jing was suspicious of him, so he explained loudly, "The deputy commander-in-chief has already defeated the Mongol army in Kaiyuan City, and this time he has specially led troops to reinforce Shenyang City to prevent the Mongols from launching a counterattack!" ”

"General Zhao, the year before last, the capital was goodbye, and General Zhao was okay?" At this time, Li Yuntian patted his horse and came to Pei Jun's side, and shouted to Zhao Jing on the tower of the city gate with a smile, when Zhao Jing returned to the capital to report on his work at the beginning of the previous year, Li Yuntian had a few encounters with him, so he asked this question.

"Zhenwu Hou?" Zhao Jing felt that the voice was a little familiar, and he couldn't help but look at it, and then his eyes showed a look of shock, and he couldn't help muttering to himself, although it had been two years, how could he forget Li Yuntian, the youngest and most prominent Ming noble?

"Come, quickly, open the city gate to greet the deputy commander-in-chief." Soon, Zhao Jing came back to his senses, and while running to the city gate, he excitedly ordered the generals on the side, "In addition, inform the soldiers and civilians of the whole city that my Ming Dynasty has won a great victory in Yinzhou City and annihilated 70,000 enemy troops!" ”

In Zhao Jing's opinion, maybe Pei Jun would betray the Ming Dynasty to serve the Mongolian army, but Li Yuntian, who was the Marquis of Daming Town, would not betray the Ming Dynasty no matter what, so the doubts in his heart had already disappeared, and he hurried to meet Li Yuntian's arrival.

There is no doubt that Li Yuntian's victories in Yinzhou City and Qingfeng Valley were like a timely rain, which not only greatly boosted the morale of the Ming army in Liaodong, but also changed the situation in which the Ming army was passively beaten, making the Mongol army unable to do whatever it wanted in Liaodong, and had an indescribable heavy impact on the situation in Liaodong.