The movement in the Jiannu camp at night was quite noisy, which naturally woke up the Ming army in the Weining camp.

Cao Bianjiao ordered to be careful to prevent Jiannu from attacking the city at night.

It's just that Jiannu can't attack the city wall at dawn during the day, and he can't see anything clearly when he is blind at night, so what can he do? Cao Bianjiao suspected that Jiannu would have other plans.

In the dark night, Cao Bianjiao climbed the wall of the West Gate, looked out, and saw a team of fire dragons winding to the west, and it seemed that Jiannu was going to retreat at night.

It stands to reason that attacking while the enemy is retreating is the best time. How many great wars in history have been won in pursuit. But Cao Bianjiao was a little worried that this was Jiannu's ploy, in order to lure him out of the city, and secretly ambushed soldiers and horses waiting for him.

Therefore, Cao Bianjiao waited until dawn to endure the commotion, and then sent troops to the Jiannu camp to investigate, and then found that Jiannu had indeed retreated.

Since this is the case, there is nothing to say, Cao Bianjiao immediately led his subordinates to leave the Weining camp and continue to move forward. The Weining battalion will be handed over to the arriving rear army to take over, Li Chongzhen is ordered to lead the 3,000 Praetorian Guards who stayed in Hetuara City to support, and Lei Shisheng and Li Yangeng are also coming with 5,000 Guiyi troops with grain and grass.

Cao Bianjiao led his subordinates along the mountain road all the way to the west, and when he was about to walk out of the mountainous area, he met the secret agent sent by Jinyiwei, and only then did he know what was happening around Liaoyang City.

knew that Zhou Yuji, Liu Xingzuo and his uncle Cao Wenzhao would join the three armies, and the troops were under the city of Liaoyang.

Knowing that his uncle Cao Wenzhao once again defeated the Jiannu cavalry, he was riding the wind and waves in the Liaohe Plain with Liu Xingzuo.

I finally knew why Jiannu no longer attacked the Weining battalion and chose to retreat, it turned out that there was a fire in the rear yard.

Zhou Yuji brought a message to Cao Bianjiao, suggesting that he lead his army to Liaoyang City to join his own division and jointly seek to capture Liaoyang City.

After a big defeat, there were less than 10,000 bannermen left in Liaoyang City, and it was the emptiest time, which was the time to try to capture Liaoyang.

After thinking about it carefully, Cao Bianjiao decided to go to Liaoyang.

At present, the remaining forces of Jiannu retreated to the two cities of Liaoyang and Shenyang, for the Ming Dynasty, Liaoyang was the former Liaodong capital where the capital was located, and it was also close to Liaoxi, and if he controlled Liaoyang City, he could connect with the Dingliao Right Guard where Liaoxi, Liaonan, and even the Phoenix Town Jiangbao was located, which was much more important than Shenyang.

Therefore, if Liaoyang and Shenyang want to attack, it is natural to attack Liaoyang first and then Shenyang.

However, Cao Bianjiao did not join the camp with Zhou Yuji, but led the army to set up a large camp twenty miles outside the east gate of Liaoyang City, and chose to be horned with Zhou Yuji.

There was also an advantage to camping in the east of Liaoyang City, which could be used to counter Cao Wenzhao's army, which was ravaging north of Liaoyang. Once the Jiannu in Liaoyang City had the intention of sending troops, the army could quickly attack and intercept it.

In the next few days, Li Chongzhen, Lei Shisheng and Li Yangeng respectively led the army to arrive, and the strength of Cao Bianjiao's camp reached more than 10,000 people, including more than 8,000 people in three battalions of the Praetorian Guard, and 5,000 Guiyi battalions formed by Baoyi Hannu.

Zhou Yuji personally rushed to Cao Bianjiao's camp, and after the two brothers greeted each other, they began to discuss the strategy of attacking the city.

"There are thousands of Jiannu bannermen in Liaoyang City, and there are hundreds of thousands of people, and at least twenty or thirty thousand people can be mobilized to participate in the defense of the city, and it may not be easy to capture it." Cao Bianjiao said.

After experiencing the attack and defense of Weining Camp, Cao Bianjiao became more familiar with siege warfare. Liaoyang City is much bigger than Weining Yingcheng, and it is too strong, the city wall is high and the moat is deep, there is Weng City, there is a horse face that protrudes the city wall, and the defense is extremely strong.

Such a city does not have ten times the number of troops, and it does not take a few months, and it is too difficult to capture it. And even if it can be captured, the casualties will inevitably be heavy!

There are 20,000 troops in Zhou Yuji's camp and more than 10,000 people in Cao Bianjiao's camp, adding up to more than 30,000, of which more than 10,000 are elite Janissary Guards, and the rest are soldiers with poor combat effectiveness such as the Guiyi Battalion of the Dongjiang Army.

"It's best to wait for Lu Jingluo to lead the army to arrive, plus my uncle and them, our strength will reach seventy or eighty thousand, and then it will be possible to capture Liaoyang." Cao Bianjiao concluded.

"That's good, it's very thorough." Zhou Yuji had a smile on his face, "But by then, there won't be much time left before the main force of Jiannu has withdrawn from the territory of Daming." ”

The Praetorian Guard made such a big move in Liaodong and captured most of the territory of Jiannu except Liaoshen, how could it not alarm the main force of Jiannu who looted in the territory of Daming? So where is Huang Taiji still in the mood to loot in the territory of Daming?

Therefore, Zhou Yuji concluded that there was not much time for the main force of Jiannu to come back.

Cao Bianjiao frowned, in that case, I'm afraid it would be really troublesome.

Don't look at the current Praetorian Guards attacking cities in Liaodong, it seems that the successive battles and victories are like a bamboo, but in fact, Jiannu's domestic troops are empty, and they are caught off guard by killing Jiannu.

The current strength of the Praetorian Guards is not much different from that of ordinary bannermen, and compared with the elite Jiannu Eight Bannermen, the combat power is probably still inferior.

Cao Bianjiao and Zhou Yuji have both fought with Jiannu's Eight Banners soldiers, and they are very clear about the other party's combat power.

"Do you have a way to take Liaoyang City? Otherwise, I wouldn't be in a hurry to come to Liaoyang to meet the teacher. Cao Bianjiao looked at Zhou Yuji suspiciously and asked.

They are all brothers who are crawling together, and they know each other very well, and Cao Bianjiao knows that Zhou Yuji must have something in mind.

Zhou Yuji laughed: "There are some ideas, but I don't know if I can do it." ”

"Don't be verbose, let's talk about it." Cao Bianjiao hurriedly urged.

If Liaoyang City can be captured, this attack on Jiannu's lair will be complete!

And with Liaoyang City, the army can defend the city, and there is no need to be afraid of the main force of Jiannu to kill back!

Zhou Yuji said with a smile: "Brother Cao, don't worry, this matter is still being planned." ”

Seeing that this guy is still selling Guanzi, Cao Bianjiao is a little angry, if he wasn't the main general of the first army now, he would have pressed this guy to the ground and blasted it.

"This matter still has to fall on the Jinyiwei brothers." Seeing that Cao Bianjiao was a little anxious, Zhou Yuji stopped teasing him.

"Jin Yiwei?" Cao Bianjiao frowned. Jinyiwei and those people may be good at engaging in intelligence and catching spies, how can they know how to fight on the battlefield?

"Brother Cao, the reason why my Praetorian Guard has gone so smoothly this time is thanks to the intelligence that Jinyi Wei probed, and Commander Tian has really made great contributions. And this time, it was also Commander Tian who proposed to me to send Jinyi Wei spies to infiltrate Liaoyang City to persuade the Han soldiers in the city to surrender. Liaoyang City is too strong, and it is difficult to take it by hard attack, but if someone in the city cooperates with us to quietly open the city gate, or take advantage of our siege to create chaos, it will be different. Zhou Yuji said with a smile.

ps: Thank you to the league leader Liu Nima SB, what I didn't say, I will add more!