Even if there are Han army spies on the city wall, even if the Ming army takes the opportunity to climb the city wall, Amin is still insisting, because in his opinion, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army in the city is really average, and he only needs to survive this wave to drive the Ming army out of the city, Liaoyang City is still his own, or Dajin Guo!

You only need to mobilize bannermen from all cities to kill all these rebellious Han troops, and you can drive Minggou off the city wall!

But when the news of the loss of Xicheng came, Amin was really shocked, and then feared again. I didn't expect that there were rebellious Han troops on other city walls. How many of the 20,000 Han soldiers in this city were persuaded to surrender by the Ming people, and how many were trustworthy?

Amin regretted a little, regretting that he shouldn't have transferred too many bannermen from Xicheng, so that the emptiness of the garrison was taken advantage of by those Ming people and spies. But regret is useless at this point. Xicheng was lost, and the Ming army outside the city would soon enter from Xicheng, and then outflank the southern city. Amin immediately made a decision and retreated!

The retreat was not to abandon Liaoyang City, but to retreat from the southern city and retreat to the city, and Amin was ready to use the northern city as the foundation to fight street battles with the Ming army in the city.

In Amin's view, the loss of the city wall was purely accidental, not that the strength of the Ming army overwhelmed the Eight Banners, even if a part of the banners was lost, there were still nearly 10,000 bannermen in the city, and everything was okay. And the Ming army is only 30,000 people, and among these 30,000 people, there are not too many elite troops.

Therefore, even if they fight in the streets, they may not lose, and the Ming army may not succeed in taking Liaoyang.

Of course, the most important reason is that Amin did not dare to abandon Liaoyang at all.

The vast mountainous area of Liaodong around Kuandian, Phoenix City and the border with North Korea is gone, and the former hometown of Jianzhou of the Eight Banners was also burned by the Ming army.

And there are more than 100,000 people in this Liaoyang city, most of them are Qiding families, if Liaoyang is lost, these more than 100,000 people fall into the hands of the Ming people, and it will be a fatal blow to the Dajin Kingdom. Without most of the population, even if Huang Taiji led the main force of the Eight Banners to rush back, what could he do?

Without the support of hundreds of thousands of banner people and ordinary people, no matter how strong the remaining army is, it will be rootless and will die out sooner or later.

Therefore, Liaoyang must be defended, and these more than 100,000 people must be saved!

After making up his mind, Amin quickly evacuated the southern city wall, withdrew to the city, and relied on the northern city wall to assign troops to guard the streets and alleys of the northern city, preparing for a bloody battle with the Ming army.

At this moment, Amin can still mobilize more than 7,000 bannermen, and some of the remaining bannermen were killed by the Ming army, and some lost contact.

Amin took the Liaoyang Mansion as his line, assigned troops to guard the streets, and at the same time sent people to deliver letters to the streets and alleys in the city, and ordered the Han soldiers to guard the streets and alleys, preparing to fight with the Ming people. Amin sent someone to tell the Han soldiers that the Ming army was extremely brutal, and after breaking the city, it would inevitably slaughter the city, and in order to save the lives of their families, everyone fought with the Ming people!

At the same time, Amin sent someone to tell the Han army that the Great Khan Huang Taiji had returned to Shenyang with his army, and was leading the army to Liaoyang, which would arrive in the next two days. As long as everyone can hold on for a day or two, and wait until the Great Khan and his army arrive, they will be able to drive the Ming army out of Liaoyang!

Although there were many Han soldiers who were persuaded to surrender by the Ming, in Amin's opinion, it should only be a small number, and more Han soldiers could still be persuaded, after all, these people have lived in Dajin Country for more than ten years, and many people have become accustomed to the current life. Moreover, once the Ming people enter the city, they will inevitably loot on a large scale, and many Han soldiers have family members in Liaoyang, how can they not worry about this?

I have to say that Amin's guess is quite accurate, the Han army persuaded by Jinyi Wei to surrender is only a few hundred, although many Baoyi are deeply oppressed by Jiannu, but in fact, his heart is still on the side of the Eight Banners, one is that he is very afraid of the Eight Banners in his heart, and then he is used to being ruled by the Eight Banners.

Unless the Ming army occupies an absolute advantage and defeats the Eight Banners soldiers and drives them out of Liaoyang City, these Han army coats will be like the Han slaves in other places, and they can only choose to return to the Ming Dynasty.

And now, all the bannermen also realized that the situation was critical, and realized that the Dajin Kingdom had reached the brink of life and death, and under the command of Amin, they acted very decisively, quickly drove to various streets and alleys, made defensive preparations, and soon fought with the Ming army that attacked the city.

As the saying goes, the mourning soldiers will win, and these bannermen broke out with powerful combat power on the verge of life and death, and even defeated several Ming troops who entered the city in a row.

Especially on the main street leading to the palace, the main force of more than 1,000 Praetorian Guards was defeated, Amin personally commanded, and the Eight Banners drove the defeated Janissaries to the south gate, until they were bombarded by the Ming artillery from the city wall, and the Eight Banners retreated.

In half a day, there were many major battles in Liaoyang City, and the Eight Banners successfully thwarted the offensive momentum of the Ming army, and the situation was stabilized. The Ming army captured the southern and western cities, while the eastern and northern cities were firmly controlled by the Eight Banners.

Cao Bianjiao was very surprised. He didn't expect that Nancheng and Xicheng had already been taken, and Jiannu was obviously gone, so he still resisted so tenaciously!

I have to say that at this time, both Cao Bianjiao and Zhou Yuji were a little carried away.

Since he led his troops into Liaodong, the war has been very smooth. Zhou Yuji successfully repelled the Jiannu Belle Dege class in Haizhou, and Cao Bianjiao also defeated the attack of the Dege class again in the Weining camp.

And just now, the Praetorian Guard once again defeated the Jiannu cavalry who went out of the city to attack and successfully attacked Liaoyang City.

In the eyes of the two, the combat power of the Eight Banners is like this, and there is nothing remarkable. Since the southern and western cities of Liaoyang have been occupied, it will not take much effort to completely eliminate the Eight Banners soldiers in the city and capture the entire Liaoyang.

Therefore, after entering the city, Cao Bianjiao and Zhou Yuji sent troops to attack the east and south cities along the city wall, and sent more than 1,000 Praetorian Guards to attack the Liaoyang Mansion along the main street.

In the eyes of the two, Jiannu has been defeated, and the low morale will inevitably be invincible, and Amin will inevitably lead the remaining Eight Banners soldiers to escape from Liaoyang and flee to Shenyang. With the strength in the hands of the two, it was difficult to leave all the Eight Banners soldiers in Liaoyang City, so the two did not plan to leave Amin, but prepared to leave Amin to the superintendent Lu Xiangsheng to deal with.

Therefore, the two did not send troops to block the north gate of Liaoyang from outside the city, but left a gap for Amin to escape from the north gate.

But he didn't expect Amin to run away at all, but instead led the remaining Eight Banners soldiers to resist stubbornly, but he didn't expect the attacking Praetorian Guards and Dongjiang soldiers to be defeated one after another. After half a day, more than 1,000 people were lost, and it took so many days to attack the city!

When night fell, Liaoyang City, which had been fighting for a day, quieted down, whether it was the Ming army or the Eight Banners, they were extremely tired, so they guarded their own territory to recuperate.

A big mansion in Nancheng, the Qiding family in it has been emptied, and it has become Cao Bianjiao's temporary station, and Zhou Yuji, who guards Xicheng, also came here to discuss the next step.

"It's careless," Cao Bianjiao sighed, "I didn't expect Jiannu to resist stubbornly, and there was a problem with the arrangement of troops after entering the city." ”

"yes!" Zhou Yuji also nodded, "Many troops, especially the Dongjiang soldiers, only care about attacking the mansions to plunder the property of the bannermen, so that there are too few troops sent to attack the mansion. The artillery was useless in the city, and the Jiannu archers occupied the roofs and walls, and the firecrackers could not suppress them at all. ”

The Praetorian Guards are the best at fighting in formation, relying on strict formations and skillful coordination, relying on a large number of firearms and artillery, even if they fight head-on with the main force of Jiannu, they are not afraid, but fighting in the streets and alleys is completely different.

In the streets and alleys, there was no array at all, the artillery was useless, and the fire gun had no advantage in the face of Jiannu's bow and arrow. The archers were placed on the roofs and walls, and their bows and arrows fired at a much faster rate than firearms.

The Jiannu Eight Banners were familiar with the terrain of Liaoyang City, and when the two sides were fighting, there would often be Eight Banners soldiers who would go around behind the Praetorian Guards, or appear on the walls on both sides of the Praetorian Guards' streets.

If it weren't for the large number of grenades in the Praetorian Guard, it would not be as simple as losing more than 1,000 people, and it would be possible to be driven out of Liaoyang City by Jiannu.

And when they first attacked the city, everyone didn't expect that Jiannu would resist stubbornly, except for the main force of the Praetorian Guard, most of the soldiers of the Dongjiang Army were sent to attack various streets and alleys, and raided the houses of the bannermen according to the custom. The Dongjiang soldiers couldn't tell the difference between the two sides at all, maybe they didn't want to distinguish at all, so in the process of plundering, a large number of Han army clothes were plundered, so that some Han army clothes who were originally going to surrender no longer surrendered and began to cooperate with the flag to resist.

All in all, there are a lot of problems that arise.

Of course, the most important reason is that the past attack was too smooth, except for Liaoyang City, the Praetorian Guard did not fight a fierce siege battle at all, because the main force of Jiannu was not there, because the remaining bannermen were transferred out in various ways, and the Praetorian Guard did not encounter fierce resistance at all along the way, even attacking Jianzhou and attacking Hetuala. Without the Eight Banners as backers, those Han soldiers naturally did not dare to resist, and naturally surrendered.

Now that they have encountered a hard nail in Liaoyang City, the two of them know that it is not easy to attack the city. However, since they have already invaded the city, they want to completely take Liaoyang City, and the two don't want to be driven out of the city by Jiannu and become a joke of the world.

After analyzing the various problems that arose during the day and making a positive summary, the two agreed on the next countermeasures.

No longer plundered the houses in the city, but actively wooed the Han army to rob the clothes, based on the Han army that was surrendered by the Jinyi Guard, with the Jinyi Guard's secret agent Shen Tong as the main general, imitating the past practice to form the Guiyi Army, and then the Han army screened the city houses to plunder the bannermen.

Whether it is the Praetorian Guard or the Dongjiang Army, stop any plundering, and use all their forces to fight street battles, capture street by street, and kill every Eight Banners who resist!

"I heard that Lord Sun, the Governor of Jiliao, is going to lead troops to Liaodong, we must take Liaoyang before he arrives!" Cao Bianjiao gritted his teeth and said.

Zhou Yuji didn't speak, but nodded heavily.

Liaoyang, the capital of Liaodong and the first important town on the nine sides, is of great significance and is a great merit to capture Liaoyang. Now that they have successfully entered the city, they are naturally reluctant to share the profits with others!

The next day, under the command of Zhou Yuji and Cao Bianjiao, the Ming army launched a fierce attack on the streets occupied by Jiannu, and the battle was extremely fierce from the beginning, with the roar of guns and cannons, and the sound of fighting resounded throughout the city. The Ming army and the Eight Banners fought fiercely around every house and every street, and many people died every moment. As for the families of Jiannu and other people who died in the city, there are countless people.

The strength of the two sides is almost the same, each has a reason to attack and defend, the battle is extremely fierce and extremely anxious, after a fierce battle, Cao Bianjiao and Zhou Yuji found that the army did not advance for long, and did not occupy a few more streets.

Not only in the city, but also on the city wall of the battle also fell into anxiety, one night of hard work, the Eight Banners in the east city and the north city wall on the wall of more than ten thick walls, relying on these walls to successfully block the Ming army attack, so that the Ming army's powerful firearms are useless, can not take the east city and the north city gates.

For a while, the battle between the two sides fell into a stalemate, whether it was Amin or Cao Bianjiao and Zhou Yuji, they all found it difficult to drive each other out of the city.

In this case, it can only be relied on external forces. Even if Cao Bianjiao and Zhou Yuji didn't want to share the credit with others, there was no way, because the two found that with the troops in their hands, they didn't know when they wanted to completely take Liaoyang City.

Cao Bianjiao and Zhou Yuji had already received definite news that Sun Chuanting's army had passed Haizhou, and the vanguard had arrived at Anshan Station. And Amin also got the information that Huang Taiji led the army back to Shenyang, but there was a Ming army between Shenyang and Liaoyang, and no one knew when Huang Taiji would be able to arrive in Liaoyang.

However, now that he learned the news of Huang Taiji's return to the division, Amin had hope, and the remaining bannermen in the city also had hope, and their morale would not be low.

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A fierce battle was taking place in Liaoyang, and outside the city of Shenyang, the air was extremely tense.

Thirty miles south of Shenyang, it is the camp of Lu Xiangsheng in Liaodong, and the camp at this moment is full of slaughter.

In the days when he arrived outside Shenyang, Lu Xiangsheng did not try to capture Shenyang, because Shenyang is not as good as Liaoyang, it is the capital of Jiannu, and it is inhabited by banner people and their families, and the families of Jiannu Shangsanqi all live in Shenyang City.

There are also coats in the city, but they have followed Jiannu for many years, and they are loyal to Jiannu one by one. Jinyiwei also sent some spies to infiltrate Shenyang, not only did not convince a few Han troops to do it anyway, but was quickly detected by Jiannu in the city, and almost all of the spies were captured and killed by Jiannu.

There was no internal response in the city, and it was almost impossible to capture Shenyang with the 20,000 horses in Lu Xiangsheng's hands. Although there are only more than 10,000 banners in Shenyang, there are more than 100,000 bannermen, many bannermen and women can use bows and arrows, and the Han army in the city is also loyal to the bannermen.

If you want to take Shenyang, unless you use 100,000 troops, or bring in a large number of Hongyi cannons, but Lu Xiangsheng has neither of these, you can only give up Shenyang and not fight.

So Lu Xiangsheng's strategy was to lead his army to approach Shenyang to deter the defenders in the city, and then send the army to plunder everywhere, raid Jiannu villages, burn Jiannu houses, plunder the Jiannu people, and reduce the strength of Jiannu as much as possible. As long as the thousands of miles of Liaohe Plain are burned and plundered, the foundation of the Jiannu country will be completely burned, and from then on, Jiannu will no longer pose a threat to the Ming Dynasty!

But now, Lu Xiangsheng knew that the burning had to be stopped, because according to the intelligence, the main force of Jiannu was coming back.