In the secret letter sent by Jin Yiwei, Cao Wenzhao and Liu Xingzuo agreed on the time of November 15 to meet outside Liaoyang City, Liu Xingzuo hesitated for a few days at first, thinking about whether to go to Liaoyang, after all, this did not match Lu Xiangsheng's arrangement.

It wasn't until Derge sent his family head that Liu Xingzuo made up his mind and went to Liaoyang City!

It is now November 8, and there are only seven days left before the time of the meeting. Liu Xingzuo did not hesitate any longer, left 2,000 Pidao soldiers to defend Phoenix City, and continued to the north with the army.

A day later, they arrived at Lianshan Pass, an important checkpoint leading to Shenyang, guarded by 200 bannermen. It was far away from Shenyang, and the pass was too small to accommodate many people, so the Derge class focused its defense on Benxi further north.

Liu Xingzuo ordered to storm Lianshan Pass. 2,000 soldiers of the Dongjiang Army rushed to the outside of Lianshan Pass regardless of the soil and stones on their backs, threw the earth and stones into a mountain, and paid more than 100 casualties, and it took half an hour to pile up a mountain of earth and stones that was higher than the pass. Hundreds of Janissaries rushed to the top, and under the protection of their shields, they condescendingly fired their guns at the pass.

The distance between the earth and stone mountain and the pass is ten zhang, which is the best range of Lu Mi Gong, and Liu Xingzuo even ordered several tiger squatting cannons to be put on the earth and stone mountain. Under the absolute superior firepower, the Jiannu on the pass were shot into the water, more than 100 bannermen were shot to death, and the remaining Jiannu abandoned the pass and fled.

After conquering Lianshan Pass, Liu Xingzuo assigned 3,000 soldiers and horses to Liu Xingzhi, ordered to bluff to the north to continue the attack, and made a posture that the main force would continue to march towards Shenyang. Liu Xingzuo himself, on the other hand, led a large group of men and horses from Lianshan Pass to the west, along the valley on the south bank of the Taizi River, and towards Liaoyang.

Marching all the way, with more than 1,000 Han Nu Baoyi who surrendered as the vanguard, the mountains opened the way, and the army followed.

These more than 1,000 troops all have money rattails, and then they are dressed in captured banners and armor, which looks no different from ordinary Eight Banner soldiers.

These surrendered soldiers, everyone has the blood of the family members of the flag ding on their hands, and their families are also in Phoenix City or Zhenjiang Fort, and they have long had no way to retreat, so they can only be honest and obedient.

All the way to the west, these soldiers pretended to be bannermen who were ordered to assemble in Liaoyang, and deceived many Tun villages. Then, without his defense, he killed all these Tuncun Jiannu.

Although Amin gave the order to clear the wilderness, but only for the Tun villages on the plains around Liaoyang, Liu Xingzuo traveled all the way through the mountains, and the Jiannu in the mountains were ordered to go to Liaoyang except for the adult bannermen, but the old and weak women and children remained in place. And Tuncun, where there are no men, is naturally easy to solve.

Liu Xingzuo has no intention of staying alive, as long as it is a tun village of Jiannu, all men and women will be killed.

It's just that the land in the mountainous areas is barren, there are few large pieces of flat land, and there are not many Jiannu who live in the mountains. But that's fine, but you don't have to worry about revealing your march tracks.

However, it was eventually leaked.

On November 13, when they were about to leave the mountains and enter the plains, they passed through a place called Shimen Pass, and the whereabouts of the army were still leaked.

Shimen Pass, as the name suggests, is sandwiched between two peaks with a narrow valley, looking like a door, is the only way to Liaoyang in the mountainous area. Only one carriage is allowed to pass through the narrowest part, and the terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

In such an important place, Jiannu naturally would not ignore it, and Amin put three hundred flags in this stone gate.

At the beginning, the bannermen of Shimenguan did not find anything unusual, after all, these clothed soldiers have lived here in Jiannu for many years, and they are wearing the clothes of the bannermen, and they look no different from ordinary bannermen.

But the problem is that there are too many people in this banner, more than 1,000 people. The largest number of Tun villages in this mountainous area is only 100 banner people, and it is impossible to gather so many banner people. And the most important thing is that most of the bannermen living in the nearby mountainous areas have been ordered to go to Liaoyang City, how can there be so many people?

The bannermen guarding the pass quickly reacted and shouted to the soldiers to stop advancing.

At this point, where can they stop, the soldiers rushed to the pass one after another, relying on the large number of people. However, the narrow mountain road could not arrange too many soldiers at all, and there were only dozens of people who could engage in battle.

After all, the combat strength of the soldiers was not comparable to that of Jiannu Qiding, and after a fight, more than 50 people were killed on the spot, and the rest immediately collapsed and fled back in defeat.

Liu Xingzuo was furious and ordered to kill more than 20 people who fled first, and thousands of soldiers were stunned.

More than 15,000 people were blocked to the east of Shimen Pass, if they did not break through Shimen Pass, they would not be able to enter the plain and join the Ming army on the West Road.

Moreover, when Liaoyang Jiannu got the news, he was bound to send more reinforcements, and it would be more difficult to break through at that time.

Liu Xingzuo ordered to break through Shimen Pass at all costs.

However, the terrain is too narrow, and the road facing Shimenguan Mountain is only more than one zhang wide, and there is no possibility of piling up soil into a mountain. If you attack strongly, you can only use a simple ladder to climb, but you can only set up several ladders at a time, and only four or five people can climb the wall at a time, and even if you can climb the wall, you have to face ten times the enemy's flanking attack.

After attacking for an hour, he lost more than 100 soldiers, but there was no way to take Shimen Pass.

Liu Xingzuo was secretly annoyed, if he knew this, he should have brought a few Hongyi cannons to break through this damn wall!

When Liu Xingzuo set out on the expedition, he carried more than ten Hongyi cannons, and used Hongyi cannons to break through the city wall of Zhenjiang Fort. It's just that from Zhenjiang Fort to the west, all the way is mountainous, and the Hongyi cannon weighs more than 3,000 catties, which is too stupid and stupid, seriously delaying the speed of the march, and did not come with the army, but reinstalled it back on the sea ship. Now Liu Xingzuo regrets a little, regretting that he didn't carry the Hongyi cannon.

When Liu Xingzuo was at a loss, a member of the Praetorian Guard named Liu Zuolin led people to cut down trees in the mountains, and it took an hour to make three simple stone throwers, and began to use the stone throwers to attack Shimen Pass.

One by one the stones were thrown towards the stone gate, at first the accuracy was not enough, either close or far, after half an hour, the accuracy improved a lot, every three stones must have an accurate hit the head of the city.

After the accuracy improved, Liu Zuolin did not attack with stones again, but ordered people to take out dozens of 10,000 enemies, ignite the lead and place them in the leather pocket of the stone thrower, and the long arm of the stone throwing machine threw out, and the leather pocket connected to the rope was raised high, and the 10,000 enemies in the leather pocket threw a beautiful arc under the action of inertia and fell towards the pass.

Of the three 10,000 enemies, only one accurately landed at the head of the pass, and then with a "boom", countless pieces of iron burst out, and the blown pass was in a mess, and several Jiannu were blown down the pass.

Liu Zuolin pursed his lips and ordered to be launched again, and three more 10,000 enemies flew out, but this time two of them landed on the pass, and then exploded.

Two rounds of explosions, killing and injuring thirty or forty Jiannu, it was really the Jiannu gathered too densely on the pass, and when they exploded, there was nowhere to hide.

Although there are more than 200 remaining Jiannu, this kind of beating and can't fight back is just too uncomfortable, and it will take more than ten lives in one explosion, who can hold it?

When the third round of 10,000 enemies fell on the pass, the remaining Jiannu couldn't hold it anymore and chose to abandon the pass and flee. The door to the Liaoyang Plain was opened.

At this time, Zhou Yuji and Cao Wenzhao had already led their troops to Anshan Post for a few days, and Anshan Post was only sixty miles away from Liaoyang.

Cao Wenzhao sent a large number of sentry horses, roaring and galloping around Liaoyang, and the Jiannu sentry horses started a chase and fight.

As soon as Liu Xingzuo's army came out of Shimen Pass, he was discovered by the sentinels sent by Cao Wenzhao, and immediately returned to Anshan Post to report the news. When Cao Wen heard the news, he personally led 2,000 cavalry to Shimen Pass to respond.

When Amin heard that Liu Xingzuo led a large army to appear at Shimen Pass, he was shocked and couldn't believe it. Just a few days ago, there was news from Shenyang, saying that Liu Xingzuo led the army to Anxi and was marching towards Shenyang, why did he appear here?

There are more than 10,000 soldiers in southern Liaoning and cavalry in western Liaoning, plus Liu Xingzuo's army, in terms of numbers, it is almost the same as the strength in Liaoyang City.

Amin originally wanted to annihilate the Liaonan and Liaoxi soldiers with twice the force, but now he has lost the advantage of troops, and even if he can win, I am afraid that he will suffer heavy casualties, after all, this Ming army has shown extraordinary combat effectiveness.

When receiving the news that Liu Xingzuo appeared at Shimen Pass, Amin ordered 3,000 cavalry and rushed towards Shimen Pass, Amin knew that since Liu Xingzuo could appear at Shimen Pass, the 300 defenders of Shimen Pass would definitely not be able to stop Liu Xingzuo's army. Then, when Liu Xingzuo had just come out of Shimen, he launched a surprise attack, and maybe he could defeat Liu Xingzuo's army in one fell swoop! According to intelligence, Liu Xingzuo's army did not have cavalry, and 3,000 cavalry was enough to crush his army!

However, when Amin arrived near Shimen Pass, he found that Liu Xingzuo's army was not far away from Shimen Pass, but set up a position with his back against Shimen Pass. This frustrated Amin's plan to attack while Liu Xingzuo was marching.

Attacking the infantry formation of tens of thousands of troops with cavalry, even if it can win, the casualties will be large, and Amin naturally will not make such a stupid choice.

And at this moment, Tan Ma came to report that the cavalry of Liaoxi was galloping here.

Seeing that there was no chance to attack, Amin could only lead his troops back to Liaoyang City.

With the protection of Cao Wenzhao's cavalry, there was no need to be afraid of being attacked by the Jiannu cavalry during the march, Liu Xingzuo led the army to leave Shimen Pass, all the way west to Anshan Station, two Ming troops, three teams, to achieve the division.

Liu Xingzuo brought 15,000 people, Cao Wenzhao and Zhou Yuji's combined army had 12,000 soldiers, and the two armies combined had a total of 27,000 troops, which was not much worse than the Jiannu army in Liaoyang City.

Of the 27,000 men, there were more than 4,000 cavalry, including 500 heavy armored iron cavalry, 1,800 wall cavalry, and 2,000 auxiliary cavalry. The remaining 23,000 people are infantry, but Zhou Yuji and Liu Xingzuo each have a battalion of Praetorian Guards, and the 6,000 people of these two battalions of Praetorian Guards are the absolute main force, and the remaining 17,000 soldiers are the original Dongjiang Army, and their combat power is very ordinary.

There are 27,000 people, divided into three teams, including the Liaoxi Iron Cavalry, the Praetorian Guard, and the Dongjiang Army, and the Dongjiang soldiers are divided into Guanglu soldiers and Pidao soldiers, and the composition is too complicated.

Moreover, the leading generals of the three armies were all commanders-in-chief, with comparable positions, and there was no justifiable commander-in-chief.

Zhou Yuji was easy to talk and had no intention of fighting for command, while Cao Wenzhao and Liu Xingzuo were not convinced by each other. Cao Wenzhao has the rank of general, and he has repeatedly made great contributions to Jiannu in the past, so he naturally looks down on Liu Xingzuo, who has been in the Jiannu camp for many years. And Liu Xingzuo has more troops in his hands than Zhou Yuji and Cao Wenzhao combined, and he is not willing to lose his command.

Liu Xingzuo knew very well in his heart that most of the remaining troops of Jiannu were contained in Liaoyang, and Lu Xiangsheng would definitely be able to attack Jiannu's lair successfully, and this battle would inevitably be a battle that would go down in history. Whoever holds the command of these 27,000 troops now will have the greatest credit in the future. So I know that my qualifications are not as good as Cao Wenzhao, but I have to try my best to fight for it.

The matter of command could not be discussed, and the army could not launch an attack on Liaoyang, so it stopped at Anshan Station for several days. And this is also in line with Liu Xingzuo's mind.

As long as the Jiannu left-behind army can be contained in Liaoyang, when the news of Lu Jingluo's attack on Jiannu's lair comes, Liaoyang's Jiannu will inevitably be in a dilemma. If he didn't go to the rescue of the nest, he could only watch countless Jiannu people being killed by the Praetorian Guard, and if the Liaoyang Jiannu army went to rescue the nest, his own army could just take the opportunity to attack Liaoyang.

In Liaoyang City, Amin was a little confused, the two Ming armies had been meeting in Anshan Post for several days, why didn't they come to attack Liaoyang?

To be honest, Liu Xingzuo led the army to Liaoyang to Liaoyang, which was indeed unexpected by Amin, but he could also figure it out, after all, without Liu Xingzuo's troops, it would be difficult for the two Ming armies in southern Liaoning and western Liaoning to add up.

Now, according to the normal way of thinking, the Ming army should attack Liaoyang, even if it can't capture Liaoyang City, it should also loot around Liaoyang, burn and loot, burn Tun Village, and create a momentum, so as to spread the news to the territory of the Ming Kingdom, to the ears of Huang Taiji, and force Huang Taiji to withdraw from the territory of the Ming Kingdom.

And if the Ming army attacked Liaoyang, it was exactly what Amin wanted, and he was hoping that the Ming army would attack.

There are 30,000 troops in Liaoyang City, and there are city walls to defend, taking advantage of the exhaustion of the Ming army to attack the city, it will suddenly launch a counterattack, and it will definitely be able to easily defeat the Ming army in one fell swoop.

What annoys Amin the most is that the Ming army is so motionless, not coming to attack the city or looting, so that he can't find any chance to defeat them.

Abandon Liaoyang City and take the initiative to attack Anshan Station? Amin would not have made such a choice.

During this period of time, the loss of bannermen has been enough, Amin doesn't want to fight hard with the Ming army anymore, and he doesn't want to have any more casualties!

Just when Amin was guessing what Anshan Yiming Army was thinking, news suddenly came, which shocked Amin.

A few days ago, suddenly a Ming army of tens of thousands of people crossed the Yalu River from the territory of North Korea, and suddenly attacked Kuandian, within two days, the five forts of Kuandian were captured by the Ming army, and then the Ming army went north from Kuandian, along the foothills of Changbai Mountain, and was attacking the city of Hetuala!