Liaoyang City, the Dege class who is responsible for staying in Liaoyang is very annoying.

Derge is the tenth son of Nurhachi, and his biological mother is Nurhachi's Dafujin Fucha clan. The son is more precious than the mother, and the Derge class was named Dorobelle at the age of twenty, and it is considered to be a high-ranking authority in Jiannu, and the status is only below the four great beylers.

Starling Huang Taiji led the army into the territory of the Ming Kingdom, and was looting on a large scale, which of the brothers who accompanied the expedition did not rob a lot of money? And he was left in Liaoyang, and the Derge class was naturally very unhappy. If you can't go out with the army, you can only wait for the army to come back and eat the leftovers of other people's alms, how can this make the Derge class willing?

But what can be done if you are not reconciled? You can't stay in Liaoyang honestly.

It's just a matter of staying in Liaoyang, but I didn't expect the Dongjiang Army to come to harass them, which made Derge even more unhappy.

Derge was the first to receive the news that the Dongjiang Army had conquered Lushun, and he didn't pay much attention to it at the time. He knew the intentions of the Dongjiang Army, but it was just harassment. The Eight Banners Army is attacking the city in the territory of the Ming Kingdom, and it must be the Ming Imperial Court that ordered the Dongjiang Army to send troops to contain it.

Although the Derge class is irritable, he is very clear about his task, which is to defend the foundation of Liaoyang. The Jinghua of the Dajin Kingdom has moved from Jianzhou to the Liaoshen Plain, and Liaoyang is located in the south of the plain, directly facing the western Liaoxi of the Ming Kingdom. Although Derge did not think that the Ming would send troops from Liaoxi to attack Liaoyang, he could not be unprepared.

Lushun City is located in the southernmost part of the Liaodong Peninsula, too far away from Liaoyang, and there are not many banner people living there.

But I didn't expect that a few days later, the news came again, and even Jinzhou was lost, and the Eight Banners lost hundreds, followed by Fuzhou and Gaizhou, just more than half a month's effort, and the three states of the Liaonan Peninsula were lost!

If he loses the territory, he will lose it, and he will take it back in the future. The key is to lose the territory at the same time, but also lose thousands of flags! This made Derge's heart ache a little.

How many banners are there in Dajin Country? So much to lose all at once!

How did you deal with the Great Khan who returned victoriously?

But whether to send troops or not, Derge was very hesitant.

"Amma, give me 3,000 flags, and I will definitely kill all the damned Ming people!"

Dexik, the eldest son of the Derg class, shouted.

"Go, go, what kind of mess are you making, you are not even a leader, what qualifications do you have to lead the troops?"

Babutai on the side sneered, and then looked at Derge: "Old ten, if you give me three thousand banners, I will definitely be able to kill all the Ming people!" ”

Babutai is the ninth son of Nurhachi, who is a few months older than the Derge, but because of his mother's low status, he was not reused in the Later Jin court, and now he is only a staff leader, and he is ordered to assist the Derge class in guarding Liaoyang.

Now in Liaoyang, in addition to the Derge class, the one who is qualified to lead the troops on the expedition belongs to Babutai, as for the Deke, although he is the eldest son of the Derge class, he is just a fourteen or fifteen-year-old hairy child.

Derge raised his hand, stopped Dixik's next words, and said slowly to Babutai: "Brother Jiu, do you feel that there is something wrong?" ”

Babutai was surprised: "What's wrong? ”

Derge said: "We all know what the Dongjiang Army is like, what ability do they have to capture the three states of southern Liaoning in such a short time?" According to the report from Liaonan, the Ming army even used Hongyi artillery when attacking Lushun, where did the Dongjiang Army in Guangludao have this thing? I suspect that this is not the Dongjiang Army at all, but the main force of the Ming Army attacking southern Liaoning, in order to attract us to send troops. ”

Babutai was puzzled: "The Great Khan has now invaded the Ming Kingdom, and the Ming court is still too busy to take care of itself, how can they have troops to put them in a place like Liaonan, what are they trying to do?" ”

Dege said slowly: "Brother Jiu must have heard that the Ming people have an idiom, which is called Wei Wei to save Zhao. It is false to fight southern Liaoning, and it is true to create chaos in eastern Liaodong to force the Great Khan to withdraw his troops from the Ming State.

If I am not mistaken, this army in southern Liaoning must be the soldiers of Liaoxi, they transported the Hongyi cannon from Ningyuan to southern Liaoning, and created a situation of the Ming army attacking our hinterland by breaking through the three states of southern Liaoning, and there must be an elite Ming army in western Liaoning, maybe it is still cavalry. If I send an army to attack the Ming army in southern Liaoning, the cavalry of western Liaoning will inevitably take the opportunity to go north and march directly to the hinterland of Liaoyang.

My army is on an expedition, if such a group of soldiers and horses appears in the hinterland, what should be the situation at that time, have you thought about it? ”

"This ......" Babutai was stunned for a moment, "No, the soldiers of Liaoxi are not in a hurry to enter the customs to rescue the driver, aren't they afraid that the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom will blame?" ”

Derge said quietly: "What if it is from the order of the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom?" ”

Babutai was a little messy, although he didn't believe that the Ming Emperor would be so wise, but this situation had to be guarded against.

"Could it be that we just watched the Ming army capture the entire southern Liaoning?" Babutai muttered.

Derge smiled coldly: "The kind of barren land in southern Liaoning, if you lose it, you will lose it, and when the Great Khan returns with his troops, you can easily fight it back." At present, you and I must not fall for the Ming army's plan to transfer the tiger away from the mountain. ”

Babutai opened his mouth and had nothing to say.

Derge wanted to sit firmly in Diaoyutai, but the development of things exceeded his imagination, and after a few days, suddenly there was bad news, Liu Xingzuo led tens of thousands of Ming troops from Phi Dao, killed Ying Erdai and captured Zhenjiang Fort!

Ying Erdai, the rising star of the Dajin Kingdom, has been in charge of diplomatic work with the Korean State, and was actually killed by Liu Xingzuo. In Zhenjiang Fort, there are 1,000 bannermen and 2,000 clothed soldiers, and the strength is not strong!

Being able to defeat Yingordai and take Zhenjiang Fort means that this Ming army is very strong, although they are under the banner of the traitor Liu Xingzuo, but it is probably not as simple as the Dongjiang Army, which must hide a large number of elite Ming troops.

What's more, Liu Xingzuo also has a number of Hongyi cannons in his hands! What does this mean? It means that Liu Xingzuo's army also has elite soldiers in Liaoxi!

Moreover, the Ming army actually fought out from the two roads of southern Liaoning and Yalu River, which was really unexpected by the Derge class. When Huang Taiji led the main force of the Eight Banners to attack the territory of the Ming Kingdom, the Ming Kingdom was able to mobilize such a large number of troops to launch a counteroffensive?

Could it be that the Liaoxi soldiers did not return to the Guannei, but sent the army to attack in two directions, but the problem is that according to the detailed report, Sun Chuanting really led the army into Shanhaiguan!

Derg was puzzled, but the problem had to be solved. The Ming Army of the East Road and the Ming Army of Southern Liaoning are different, there are not many banner people living in the southern Liaoning area, but the East Road is different, from Zhenjiang Fort to Phoenix City, but there are many banner people in Tun Village.

Before Derge could figure out the situation, the news of the loss of Phoenix City came again, Liu Xingzuo led the Ming army of the East Road to capture Phoenix City, and was sending troops to slaughter the Tunbao around Phoenix City.

Phoenix Fort, more than 400 miles away from Shenyang, only more than 300 miles away from Liaoyang, although it is still a mountainous area, there are many Qirentun villages. Now, the banner people in the Phoenix area are being slaughtered by the Ming army!

At the same time, Tanmalai reported that the Ming army of the South Road had also set off from Gaizhou and was about to reach Haizhou.

Haizhou, only one hundred and fifty miles away from Liaoyang, after Haizhou basically out of the mountainous area of southern Liaoning, Haizhou and Liaoyang are basically a smooth road, if the Ming army marches quickly, it only takes a few days to kill Liaoyang!

In the hesitation of the Derg class, the situation has become so critical.

Babutai asked for orders to fight one after another, but they were all rejected by the Derges. Because Derge never received news from the Liaoxi cavalry, this made him faintly uneasy.

However, the situation no longer allowed Derge to hesitate, and Erbel Amin sent an order from Shenyang, ordering Derge to immediately send troops to defeat the Ming army in southern Liaoning, and then return to the east to attack Liu Xingzuo.

Although Amin is only Nurhachi's nephew, he is one of the four great beylers, and between Derge and Amin, Amin is also the main one.

"You and I were ordered to guard Liaoshen, but the Ming army continued to attack the city and pull out the village, if the Ming army is ignored, what face do you and my brother have to go to see the Great Khan who returned from the Ming Kingdom?" Amin said in a private message to Derge.

"You pour Liaoyang's troops south to Haizhou and defeat the Ming army on the South Road as soon as possible, I will send Shenyang Qiding south to help you hold Liaoyang, and you don't have to worry about the Ming army's sneak attack. The eight banners are invincible, and I still have more than 30,000 banners in Liaoshen, so why not be afraid of the conspiracy of the Ming people! ”

After reading Amin's private message, Derge knew he couldn't hesitate any longer. Otherwise, Amin will inevitably put the responsibility for losing the city and land on his head, and when Huang Taiji returns with the army, he will inevitably punish himself heavily.

Derge immediately ordered the troops to gather and gather the bannermen near Liaoyang.

The Eight Banners system was originally a combination of military and civilian, and all the bannermen were professional soldiers, and with the order of the Derge class, the bannermen near Liaoyang rushed to the roof of Liaoyang, and 12,000 people gathered in two days.

And these 12,000 people are already all the bannermen in the Liaoyang area!

Among the 12,000 people, there are 50 or 60 old men, and there are 15 or 6 years old, and less than half of them are really in the prime of life.

There is no way, the elite of the Eight Banners is following Huang Taiji to the Ming Kingdom, and most of the people who stay in the nest are so old and weak.

However, all the soldiers of the Eight Banners are soldiers, every old man was once an elite warrior, and every teenager has also practiced martial arts since childhood, and everyone is familiar with the military formation, and all of them have good combat power.

Such an army of eight banners is definitely no worse than the most elite Liaoxi soldiers of the Ming Kingdom!

However, of the 12,000 men, only 8,000 had horses, and the rest were infantry. In order to strengthen the mobility of the army, Huang Taiji took away most of the war horses when he set out on the expedition, resulting in a shortage of war horses in the old nest.

Derge thought about it and decided to take only 8,000 cavalry to the battle, leaving 4,000 infantry to stay in Liaoyang.

Eight thousand cavalry, each carrying five days of dry rations, strive to quickly defeat the Ming army on the southern route, and even if the cavalry of Liaoxi raids Liaoyang, there will be enough time to rush back.

When you fight, you are fighting for speed, and you are fighting for mobility. At the beginning of the Battle of Salhu, the Eight Banners relied on their mobile superiority to defeat the Ming army!

After deciding to go to war, Derge became very decisive, and after gathering the army, he led 8,000 cavalry to take advantage of the night to leave Liaoyang City and kill it in the direction of Haizhou.