Huang Taiji was very anxious, because Liaoyang City was of great significance to the current Dajin, and only by holding Liaoyang City could he hold the plains hundreds of miles north of Liaoyang, and only then could he hold the most fertile land in Liaodong.

Sometimes, though, it's useless to be in a hurry. Since he led the main force of the Eight Banners to return from the territory of the Ming Kingdom, in the past ten days, more than 20,000 troops have traveled thousands of miles, and they have long been exhausted.

Moreover, the winter in Liaodong, especially at night, is too cold, even if it is as strong as the Eight Banners, the night march cannot stand the severe cold, and even if it can barely reach Liaoyang, it cannot directly participate in the battle. Considering that there was still a fierce battle in Liaoyang City, Huang Taiji had to hold back his eagerness and ordered to camp and rest for the night.

As soon as the sky was bright the next day, the army continued to march, forty miles away, and it only took half a day to reach Liaoyang City.

However, before the army arrived in Liaoyang City, Huang Taiji received news again that the reinforcements of the Ming army had also arrived in Liaoyang, and it was Sun Chuanting's department who was fighting with the Eight Banners Army in the territory of the Ming Kingdom!

All of a sudden, the situation became severe!

The Ming army in Liaoyang originally had 30,000, and with the arrival of Sun Chuanting's department, the strength of the Ming army reached as much as 50,000.

Moreover, Huang Taiji only has the left four banners and the guard camp in his hands, with more than 10,000 troops, and the right four banners are chasing and killing the Ming army retreating with Han people on the plain.

The strength in his hands, plus the flag in the hands of Amin in Liaoyang City, the total strength is only more than 20,000 people, which is too different from the strength of the Ming army.

Of course, if Liaoyang City is still in the hands of the Eight Banners, no matter how many troops the Ming army has, Huang Taiji is not afraid, with his back to Jiancheng, and there are more than 20,000 elite Eight Banners in his hands, even if there are 100,000 enemy troops, it is not enough to be afraid. And now, half of Liaoyang City has been captured by the Ming army, and the geographical advantage no longer exists.

How to fight this battle, whether to bypass Liaoyang City and attack Sun Chuanting's department first, or enter the city from the north city to support Amin and the Ming army in street battles and recapture Liaoyang City?

For a while, Huang Taiji was very hesitant.

It stands to reason that Sun Chuanting should be defeated first and then attack Liaoyang, but when he was in Guannei, Huang Taiji and Sun Chuanting fought fiercely repeatedly, knowing that Sun Chuanting's strength was not bad, especially the Yansui army under Sun Chuanting, whose combat power made Huang Taiji a little afraid.

During the Battle of Yongping Mansion, Sakhalian led 2,000 elite Eight Banner cavalry to attack the infantry formation of the Yansui army, but he did not survive for a moment, and was defeated by him, losing more than half of his troops. and the Xuanfu soldiers, who almost wiped out Li Yongfang's troops. Sun Chuanting has such two armies under his command, and he is backed by the defense of Liaoyang Nancheng, attacking Sun Chuanting will be attacked from both sides above and below the city, and it is not easy to defeat Sun Chuanting easily.

Without directly attacking Sun Chuanting's department, the whole army entered Liaoyang City and drove the Ming army out of the city through street fighting?

If he enters the city by himself, Sun Chuanting will also lead his troops into the city, which means that the two sides will regard Liaoyang City as a battlefield.

The battle inside the city is not as good as the field battle outside the city, and the large army cannot be arranged, and can only be fought by small forces street by street.

The Ming army was good at fighting in arrays, and the individual combat strength of the Ming soldiers was far inferior to that of the Eight Banners. Fighting in the streets and alleys, the Ming army's large number of artillery was useless, and the fire gun was far less convenient than the bow and arrow.

After thinking nervously, Huang Taiji quickly made a decision, gave up the diplomatic battle in the city, entered Liaoyang City with the whole army, took Liaoyang City as the battlefield, and relied on the strong personal combat power of the Eight Banners to kill and injure a large number of Ming troops and drive the Ming army out of the city!

"Great Khan, I'm guilty......"

Amin personally greeted Huang Taiji into the city at the north gate, knelt in front of Huang Tai Jima, and said with great shame.

Huang Taiji led the main force of the Eight Banners to attack the Ming Kingdom, and Amin was ordered to defend the mainland. In everyone's opinion, guarding the old home is the easiest thing to do. The power of the Dajin Kingdom is unparalleled, and neither the Korean nor the Mongols dare to touch the tiger beard of the Dajin State. And the Ming Kingdom is being attacked by the Eight Banners, so naturally it will not and dare not have thoughts about Liaodong.

After receiving the left-behind errand, whether it was Amin or Dege, they were very careless, and they didn't think that there would be a war in Liaodong.

However, no one expected that the Ming army would brazenly send troops to Liaodong despite the attacks at home, and that a powerful army was ambushed on Phi Island.

And the Ming army's strategy was exquisite, first from southern Liaoning, captured the three states of southern Liaoning, forced the Derge class to send troops from Liaoyang, and then Cao Wenzhao led the Liaoxi Iron Cavalry to suddenly appear, with the Liaonan soldiers defeated the Derge class, forcing Amin to recruit all over the flag to Liaoyang, to prevent the Ming army from attacking from the south road, and at this time, the Ming army actually sent an army from Phi Dao to capture Zhenjiang Fort and attack Phoenix, all the way like a bamboo. Amin had to continue to recruit Qiding to resist the Ming army led by Liu Xingzuo.

Most of the bannermen left behind in the Dajin Kingdom were requisitioned and went to resist tens of thousands of Ming troops on both sides, but no one thought that the Ming army would have one more way, and it was the strongest one, quietly from North Korea into the territory of Kuandian, easily captured the five forts of Kuandian, and then broke through the mountains for hundreds of miles to Jianzhou, and then it was the current situation......

In Amin's view, the responsibility for all this should not be entirely borne by himself, after all, if Huang Taiji had not insisted on making a detour to Mongolia to attack the Ming Kingdom, but also chose to attack Liaoxi, the situation would definitely be very different, and the Ming army would never have had a chance to carry out a sneak attack.

However, after all, he is responsible for staying behind and is directly responsible, and there is no shortage of responsibility.

Not to mention anything else, it is definitely his responsibility to let the Ming army enter the city when Liaoyang City is lost, so Amin has to bow his head and admit his mistake.

Huang Taiji looked at Amin coldly, and had the idea of killing this fight with a knife, but he finally held back.

Dajin Kingdom has fallen into this situation, the soldiers have lost too much, Amin, as one of the four major Baylors, has made great achievements in the past, and the strength in his hands is not weak, at this time, it is no longer suitable for internal fighting.

Even if you want to kill Amin, you have to kill silently, or let no one have anything to say!

"Brother doesn't need to say any more, now is not the time to hold him accountable." Huang Taiji dismounted, picked up Amin with his own hands, and sighed, "Now that my Dajin Kingdom has reached the time of life and death, our brothers should work together and try our best to save the decline!" ”

"Everything is at the command of the Great Khan!" Amin said respectfully. No matter how dissatisfied Huang Taiji was in the past, he didn't dare to show it now.

Huang Taiji inquired about the situation in the city, and Amin took out a map and pointed out the situation of the two sides in the city, after repeated battles between the two sides, the two sides now basically maintain the balance of power, the Ming army occupies most of Liaoyang City, and the Eight Banners soldiers control the northern city and the eastern part of the city.

After understanding the situation, Huang Taiji immediately ordered to replace Amin's banners with the main force of the Eight Banners, and immediately launched a counterattack against the Ming army.

For a time, the offensive of the Eight Banners was like a tide, and the battle was fierce.

A group of Eight Banner soldiers marched through the streets and alleys and launched a fierce attack on the Ming army.

......

"Report, Dingliao Street is lost, our army has lost more than 200 people, and Jiannu is killing at the south gate!"

"Report, Jiannu came out of Hulu Lane, our army was defeated, and we are retreating to Xicheng."

A big mansion in the southern city is where the Ming army is located, and one after another war reports are sent to the house and sent to Sun Chuanting.

From the moment Sun Chuanting arrived in Liaoyang, he took over the command from Cao Bianjiao.

Sun Chuanting is the governor of Jiliao, nominally in charge of all the troops of Jiliao, Lu Xiangsheng, the Liaodong Jingluo, is not there, Cao Bianjiao and Zhou Yuji have to obey Sun Chuanting's command. Although Cao Bianjiao was a little reluctant, he had no choice, he didn't have a single list to disobey Sun Chuanting's order.

Sun Chuanting had more infantry under him, so he hurried and hurried, but he still couldn't reach Liaoyang in front of Jiannu, but to his surprise, Cao Bianjiao and Zhou Yuji actually attacked Liaoyang City!

Although it only entered the city together and did not completely take it, it was very different from not attacking.

did not enter the city, and could only fight with Jiannu in the field. Jiannu had a strong city to defend, and powerful cavalry, so there were too many ways to deal with the Ming army coming from afar. Just sending cavalry to cut off the Ming army's food route could make the Ming army return defeated. After all, there are still one or two hundred miles from Liaoxi to Liaoyang, and the grain and grass needed by the army must be transferred from Liaoxi.

And now that Liaoyang City has been captured, the food and materials in the city will be shared between Jiannu and the Ming army, and the Ming army does not need to transfer grain and grass, and Jiannu has no strong city to back up, and the two sides are even.

Sun Chuanting and Huang Taiji arrived in Liaoyang almost front and back, and naturally knew the news of the other party's arrival. At the beginning, in Sun Chuanting's opinion, Huang Taiji would most likely choose to lead his troops to the south of the city and launch an attack on himself in the wild.

And Sun Chuanting was also prepared, the army set up a large camp with its back against the Liaoyang city wall, if Jiannu came to attack, the artillery on the city wall could be supported, and it would be attacked from both sides above and below the city. Unexpectedly, Jiannu didn't expect to come, Huang Taiji actually led the army into Liaoyang City.

In that case, the battlefield was placed in the city, and Sun Chuanting also hurriedly entered the city and took over the command from Cao Bianjiao.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Huang Taiji entered the city, he launched a fierce attack, and for a while, the Ming army in the city was defeated and retreated.

"The order went down, and ordered Huang De's power army to replace the original army under the replacement of Nancheng, build barricades, open up the houses on both sides, and rely on the barricades to resist Jiannu."

"The order went down and ordered Zhang Shize to lead his troops to Xicheng to replace Zhou Yujibu, and Zhou Yujibu temporarily withdrew to rest."

One after another orders came out, and the new forces that had just entered the city were dispatched one after another, replacing Cao Bianjiao and Zhou Yuji's troops who had been fighting fiercely for a day and night.

Although Cao Bianjiao and Zhou Yuji originally had an army of 30,000, there were less than 10,000 Praetorian Guards, and the rest were all Phi Dao soldiers and the Guiyi Battalion.

With the dispatch of the new force, the Ming army gradually stopped the decline, and fought fiercely with the Eight Banners, and launched a fierce battle street by street.

However, the development of the war was as Huang Taiji expected, and this kind of brawl in the city was what the Eight Banners with strong personal combat strength were good at. Fighting in the streets and alleys, there is no way to use artillery, and the rate of fire of the guns is far inferior to that of the Eight Banners, Huang Taiji's subordinates are the most elite Eight Banners, all wearing thick armor, especially the white armor soldiers in the guard camp, one by one wearing three layers of armor, like a humanoid tank, it is simply unstoppable.

After an hour of fierce fighting, the Ming army was killed by more than 1,000 people, the defense line retreated greatly, and the west was about to retreat to the city of Xicheng. Sun Chuanting had to give an order to order the artillery on the city wall to fire at the territory controlled by Jiannu, but it only had an intimidating effect and did not pose much threat to Jiannu.

In the courtyard next to the Chinese army camp, Cao Bianjiao and Zhou Yuji, who had retreated to rest, sat together, looking at each other speechlessly.

Originally, the two of them were eager to make meritorious contributions, thinking about conquering a complete Liaoyang City, but they didn't expect the battle to become like this. If Liaoyang City was not completely captured, there was no merit of recovering the land, Sun Chuanting led the army to come and took over the command, even if Liaoyang City was conquered in the future, the first merit of capturing Liaoyang City became Sun Chuanting's.

"If I knew that this was the case now, it would be better to burn Liaoyang City with a fire!" Cao Bianjiao hated the way.

Zhou Yuji shook his head: "What has happened, what's the use of regretting?" ”

I didn't think about setting it on fire, but I only thought about it a little at the time. After all, when attacking the city, there was only one step left before taking the whole city. As long as Liaoyang City is taken, the hundreds of thousands of people in the city and countless material wealth are all their own, in this case, who is willing to burn it?

Besides, the entire city is covered in snow and ice, and there are streets separating the city from each other, so it is not so easy to set fires. During the siege, the Jinyi guards also set fire to the city, but they were quickly extinguished by the people of the city.

Of course, if tens of thousands of troops were to set fires, it would be different.

"I'm not sorry. Instead, I was thinking, with the current situation, can we still take Liaoyang City? Cao Bianjiao asked.

Zhou Yuji was silent. The main force of the Eight Banners is too fierce, and even the Praetorian Guard is not its opponent in small-scale army combat. And since the main force of the Eight Banners entered Liaoyang City, the attitude of the Han people in the city has changed, and many Han army Baoyi who had decided to return to the Ming Dynasty were not in contact with the Jinyi secret agents, and many Han soldiers also obeyed the dispatch of Jiannu and joined the battle against the Ming army.

Although there are 50,000 Ming troops in the city, there are more than 30,000 Jiannu troops, and if you add the Baoyi Han army and the people in the city, the number is more than the Ming army.

And according to the current trend, it is very difficult to drive Jiannu out of the city.

And once the Ming army is not supported and is driven out of the city by Jiannu, it will cause a rout, and I don't know how many people will die in this Liaoyang city.

"The slaves are fierce, and the damned people in this city are unreliable, so what's the use of rescuing them?" Cao Bianjiao said angrily.

Many of the original Liao people have lived under the rule of Jiannu for a long time, and their feelings for the Ming Dynasty have been very weak. In fact, people in this era have no concept of family and country at all, and many people have no loyalty to the monarch and patriotism at all.

And sometimes I have to admit that the Han people living under the control of Jiannu have a better life than in the Ming Dynasty......

In the Ming Dynasty, most of the Liao people in Liaodong were military households, but the fields had long been occupied by officers and generals, and most of the military households were reduced to hired farmers by the generals, who were cattle and horses for the generals, and they had to send troops to fight during the war. Living under the control of Jiannu, he is also farming, and the rent collected by the banner man is even less than that of the Ming Dynasty, and he does not have to be a soldier to fight.

In this sense, many Han people under the rule of Jiannu were not very willing to return to the Ming Dynasty at all.

But in Cao Bianjiao's view, these Han people are helping to abuse the loyal and traitorous, and they are traitors and bastards.

In that case, you're welcome!

"Since I can't take Liaoyang City, I will burn it down and leave nothing for Jiannu!" Cao Bianjiao said viciously.

"Such a big thing, do you want to tell Inspector Sun?" Zhou Yuji said with some worry.

Cao Bianjiao shook his head: "Inspector Sun is a scholar, and he can't make the decision to set fire to more than 100,000 people, so let's make this decision for him." Tonight, you and my brother will each bring their subordinates, prepare gunpowder and oil rockets, and set this Liaoyang City on fire! ”

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