"Woo~~~~"

"Enemy attack!"

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At three o'clock in the morning of the tenth day of the third month of the first year of the Apocalypse, with the melting of spring water, the entire land of Liaodong was completely thawed, and Nurhachi, who had been waiting for a long time, finally ordered to send troops!

The head of Shenyang City and the iron bell were constantly ringing, and the horn was blown repeatedly.

Soon, the 6,000 white pole soldiers and 7,000 Liao soldiers who were guarding the base of the city wall early put on their armor with the help of the auxiliary soldiers and climbed the city wall one after another.

Two thousand auxiliaries began to carry all kinds of gunpowder, stone bullets and other materials for defending the city.

Some of the city's defense equipment was also moved to the aisles of the city wall and to the horse faces and corner towers.

A cannon was placed on the horse's surface, and the wolf's tooth beater, the yakshatra, the rolling log, the rolling stone, and other objects were ready.

Not long after, Qin Bangping and others, wearing fish scale armor and a hood on their heads, climbed the city wall and stood behind the female wall and looked out into the distance beyond the moat.

I saw that it was four miles away from the Yongning Gate in Dongcheng, where rows of black and oppressive people were standing, like one mountain after another.

It's not a tall figure, it's a majestic momentum, and it's shocking.

They stood there, indifferent as an abyss, and the soldiers standing in the front row were wearing cloth masks, and some bloated could be seen under the armor, but it was too far away to see the specifics.

At this moment, the suspension bridge of the moat has been lifted, the four-foot-thick city gate has also been closed, the thousands of catties of jacks have been lowered, and Shenyang City has entered a state of alert.

Looking at Shenyang City, Nurhachi on horseback and his sons were silent.

After a long time, between the spacing of the various groups of men and horses, heavy shield carts were pushed to the front of the formation.

Immediately afterwards, a heavy cannon was also pulled to the front.

This is a great general cannon made by Houjin craftsmen, but it is not only heavier than the artillery made by the Ming court ordnance, but also far inferior to the Ming army's artillery, and even the number is extremely rare.

"Dai Shan, lead the red flag to besiege the north gate."

"Yue Tuo, Lingzheng Blue Flag besieges the West Gate."

"Du Du, you take the white flag to Fengji Fort and defeat the Ming army that Fengji Fort is trying to support in vain."

"Mang Gurtai, you bring the blue flag to stop the soldiers and horses of the Wujing battalion."

"Huang Taiji, you take the people with white flags to the south of the Taizi River, if the Zhejiang soldiers in Liaoyang go north, don't fight with them, lead them to the north, I will defeat them on the south bank of the Hunhe River!"

"Command, Great Khan!" With Nurhachi's order, the large array of men and horses retreated to the east, and then after retreating a few miles, they divided their forces to besiege the city.

As for Du Du, Huang Taiji, and Mang Gurtai, the three of them led the soldiers and horses with white flags, blue flags, and white flags to the south.

Unlike in history, perhaps because of the garrison of the white pole soldiers, Nurhachi has been holding back until now.

It's stupid to attack a city, especially an important town like Shenyang.

After the population of Kim, could not afford such losses.

Nurhachi has been a dog in the Ming Dynasty for nearly forty years, and he knows very well the reasons for the failure of Yang Yinglong and others.

He couldn't put his limited elite into the tug-of-war of siege, and he had to find a way to lure the Ming army out of the city to fight, or completely annihilate the soldiers and horses supporting Shenyang from all over the country.

Especially the Zhejiang soldiers in the southern Liaoning direction, as long as the Zhejiang soldiers are eaten, the rest of the things will be simple.

Even if you can't attack Shenyang, as long as Liaoyang and Liaonan are taken, it will be enough to sweep the Liaonan Peninsula.

Thinking of this, Nurhachi looked at Shenyang City in the distance, and at the same time, Qin Bangping on Shenyang City also spoke.

"The old slave wants to besiege Shenyang, perhaps to annihilate the reinforcements who came to support us."

"General Qin, why don't you take advantage of the old slave to divide the troops now, and I will lead people to break through and tell the people of each army the news?" He Shixian is still a little straight-tempered.

Just in the face of his proposal, Qin Bangping shook his head:

"At present, after Xiong Jingluo and Qi Zongbing's grain transfer, the military food in Shenyang City is 190,000 stones, and the position is 690,000 stones."

"The people in the city were also evacuated to Shenyang and Quang Ninh, and there were only more than 80,000 people left, and there should be no problem in holding out until winter with the grain stocks of Chang Ping and the grain merchants in the city."

"So after sending the grain, I sent a message to the soldiers and horses of Fengji Fort and Wujing Battalion, once Shenyang is surrounded, they don't need to support, they just need to stick to the stone fort."

"No reinforcements?" You Shigong was stunned, and then without waiting for him to think about it, He Shixian patted him and said:

"Shigong, you can rest assured, with the soldiers and horses under our command, as well as the Sichuan soldiers under the command of General Qin, if the old slave dares to attack the city, he will give us silver."

He Shixian laughed without conscience, and subconsciously touched his waist to take a sip of wine, but it turned out to be empty.

As for You Shigong, he was in a heavy mood and felt that things would not be so simple.

However, Qin Bangping asked someone to take out the map, walked into the city tower and spread the map on the table, and then pointed to various places in Liaodong:

"Shendan Fort, Fengji Fort, Wang Datun, Wujing Camp, Liaoyang, Weining Camp ......"

"If you want to crush the morale of our army, unless the old slave uproots all the stone forts except Liaoyang, you can only besiege our army for a long time."

"With the strength and grain and grass of Jianlu, it is completely impossible to support it until winter, but it is not ruled out that the barbarian Beiyu will sell cattle and sheep to Jianlu."

Looking at the map, Qin Banghan said: "With the barbarian people and horses, if you sell cattle and sheep, I am afraid that there will be thousands or even tens of thousands at most. ”

"Anything else, it's going to be hard for them to survive the next winter."

"There are also a lot of thousands of cattle and sheep, enough for the army to eat for a month." Qin Bangping looked at the map and sighed.

If the captives can hold out for one more month, they will be in danger for one more month.

With the size of the Liao River, coupled with the fact that it will soon enter the dry period, the grain ships of Guangning will not be able to transport it to Shenyang at that time, and the soldiers and civilians of Shenyang City can only defend it.

"Big brother! Good news! ”

Just when Qin Bangping was worried, he didn't want Qin Minping to take people into the city tower, and then took a handwritten book and said:

"This is a letter sent by someone in Xicheng just now, and it was sent by His Royal Highness the Fifth Highness!"

"I'll see!" When Qin Bangping heard this, he hurriedly took the letter and opened it in front of everyone.

In the letter, Zhu Youzhen analyzed the situation and said that Nurhachi would encircle and send reinforcements.

He gave a message, and that was to hold on.

As long as he held on to the wet season in July, Zhu Youzhen would order Sun Yingyuan to lead Wu Xiang, Teng Xiang and other seven guards to transport grain from Tianjin to the north.

At present, Guangning and Liaoyang have each sent a lot of grain, and there is no problem for Shenyang to hold on.

In July, as long as Shenyang City is still there, Xiong Tingbi and Qi Jin will cooperate with Sun Yingyuan's seven guards and horses to march towards Shenyang together.

Not only that, at the end of the letter, Zhu Youzhen also said something about replenishing the source of troops.

Man Gui and Sun Yingyuan had already recruited 9,000 thistle soldiers for them in Yongping Mansion and Shuntian Mansion, and they would cooperate with Sun Yingyuan and rush to Shenyang by land during the flood season.

"Good, good! With this army coming, does the old slave have a reason not to retreat? ”

Qin Bangping laughed happily, which also attracted everyone's curiosity.

Seeing that everyone was curious, he explained everything, and then said:

"In this way, as long as we hold out until July, then Yongping Mansion will send 9,000 troops, Shuntian Mansion will send nearly 40,000 troops, plus Guangning Xiong Jingluo, Liaoyang's Qi General Army, nearly 80,000 soldiers and horses, do you think the old slave will retreat?"

"That's good!" Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they heard that they would only be able to stay until July.

Guarding for four months and guarding for seven months are two kinds of difficulties, and if you keep for four months, the grain in the city does not need to be rationed, and you can sell grain at a regular settlement according to the price of grain on weekdays.

Although the people are asked to pay, this also shows in disguise that the matter is not so serious.

But for seven months, then a rationing system must be introduced.

Once this practice is implemented, it is difficult to keep the Liao people in the city from taking refuge in Jianguo and creating riots in the city.

One represents controllable and the other represents uncontrollable, the difference between the two is well known to Qin Bangping and others.

And because of this, they breathe a sigh of relief.

It's just that while they are relieved, Nurhachi also knows the difference between the Ming army and the previous defenses under the continuous reports of Tanma.

The Houjin army outside the city has already set up camp, and it looks like it is going to besiege the city for a long time.

In the Khan's tent, Nurhachi sat on the main seat, and the other banner lords and Han generals sat below, and there were constantly scouts coming to report.

"Returning to the Great Khan, Li Bingcheng, the guard of Fengji Fort, could not hold out, Du Du Beizi besieged Fengji, and the Han merchants reported that there were more than 3,000 soldiers and horses in the fort, and there were more than 30 artillery pieces on the fort, so they didn't get too close."

"Hui Great Khan, Wujing camp guard Jiang Bi led 3,000 troops to defend the Wujing camp fort and did not leave the city."

"Returning to the Great Khan ......"

One message after another, but it was not good news for Houjin.

"Khan Ama and the Ming army seem to be preparing to defend us to the death and drag us until winter."

Dai Shan, who had arranged for the siege of the city with soldiers and horses, had already returned to the camp, so after hearing the information from the Tang Cavalry, he immediately told Nurhachi what he thought.

In this regard, Nurhachi bowed slightly, his brows furrowed, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

However, at this time, the Blue Banner Banner Master Mang Gurtai saw that he did not speak, so he took the initiative to speak:

"Khan Amma, why don't you let me attack it."

"No, our artillery is not as good as the Ming army, and if you take the liberty of attacking the sheep, you will lose the shield car, and you can't just know how to fight to the death." Nurhachi was disgruntled and reprimanded Mang Gultai.

This Prince of the Eight Banners, who was very arrogant during the reign of Huang Taiji and Dolgon, closed his mouth like an obedient hound at this moment.

Nurhachi's majesty was so deeply rooted in the hearts of the people that no one dared to challenge him.

But in the current situation, if you can't think of a cracking point, then Houjin's military operation of dispatching 40,000 soldiers and horses, and consuming tens of thousands of stone beans and tens of thousands of stone meters, can only end in vain.

"Amin!"

"Great Khan ......"

Suddenly, Nurhachi thought of a little, and suddenly said: "You take the blue flag to invade the Tiger Skin Station, Shendan Fort, Baitapu, and Zhangyi Station."

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"Liu Aita and Li Yongfang, the Han soldiers in your army followed Amin to attack the city, broke through Hupiyi, Shendan Fort, Baitapu and Zhangyi Station, and drove Han people from all over the country to Shenyang."

"Yes, Great Khan!" In the tent, two tall Han men suddenly stood up and waved at Nurhachi.

The two of them are Nurhachi's Han sons-in-law, and they are also the Han foreheads of Houjin, and Nurhachi trusts them very much, especially Liu Aita.

Therefore, after he gave the order, Amin immediately ordered the ten blue-flaged Niu Lu who went out with the army this time, and took thirty Niu Lu Han soldiers to each of them to Hupiyi and other places.

As soon as the team of nearly 12,000 people set out for the battle, Nurhachi's battalion was instantly reduced to the strength of fifteen Niu Lu each of the Zhenghuang Banner and the Yellow Banner.

It seems that there are only 9,000 people, but if He Shixian and they dare to fight, Nurhachi is sure that He Shixian and them will be left behind.

Speaking of which, Nurhachi only brought 46,000 soldiers and horses this time.

It's not that he doesn't pay attention to Shenyang, on the contrary, he attaches great importance to it.

But there was one problem that limited him from bringing in other soldiers and horses, and that was grain and grass......

At present, the Houjin is completely unable to capture the Liaodong Peninsula and can gather a large number of troops and horses to launch an uninterrupted attack on the Ming Dynasty.

In the first battle of Salhu, Nurhachi used 100,000 troops, almost emptying Houjin's family funds.

According to Jianyu's own record of the "Manchu Old Files": "On April 13, Yinri, Jike, when the 100,000 soldiers of the Eight Banners set out to conquer Nikan. "It is not difficult to see that the war potential of Houjin is up to 100,000.

It's just that after the battle of Sarhu, Nurhachi's attack on Shenyang failed, and hundreds of thousands of stones of grain and grass were wasted in vain.

At present, it is still cultivated in the remaining veins of Changbai Mountain, plus the cultivated land in Tieling, Kaiyuan, Fushun and other places, Houjin will not be able to pull 100,000 people to fight at all.

There was not enough food to eat, so we could only let some young children and the old and weak be reclaimed in the rear.

But this also shows in disguise that at present, Nurhachi is coming with enough strength and vowing to take Shenyang.

Nurhachi sat in his tent and waited quietly, and after a moment he spoke again:

"Ask a few teams of sentry to go to the trench under Shenyang City to reconnoiter the sheep attack, and see if they can tempt He Shixian and You Shigong out of the city."

"Command!" Hearing the order, Dai Shan called more than 60 horsemen with yellow flags to go to Shenyang City to reconnoiter the sheep attack.

After receiving Dai Shan's military order, they wore triple armor, and then rode on the military horses of the barbarian tribute, and immediately rode out of the camp and cautiously touched Shenyang City.

The defense of Shenyang City is very simple, but it is an impregnable wall.

In the city, artillery fire, wolf tooth beating, yaksha beating, rolling wood, and boiling water are all available.

Wooden fences protruding out of the forty-five degrees below the city to prevent the crossing of the river were sharpened, and if anyone dared to force their way across the river, these wooden fences could hold them back, enough for the artillery to adjust their position and bombard them.

Outside the wooden fence is a moat six or seven zhang wide, and outside the moat, there are trenches, earthen pits, spikes, horses, firearms, shield carts and other objects.

Outside the city, the outermost part is a ditch five zhang wide and two zhang deep, and then it is divided into chariots, firearms, wood and stone, and the city defense is strong.

In front of each of the gate drawbridges, there were between 500 and 800 troops, and the guns at the head of the city were already aimed at the trench in front of them.

The iron wall of the city made Houjin's sentry frown.

However, just as they were observing, He Shixian, who was waiting for the battle on the city wall, was anxious, and said to Qin Bangping next to him:

"General Qin, let me Lao He take three hundred horsemen out of the city, slaughter this group of sentry horsemen, and buy wine for my brothers in exchange for military salaries!"

"No!" Qin Bangping directly refused, and then frowned:

"Your Highness has already instructed us how to defend the city, as long as we follow His Highness's instructions to defend the city, it is enough!"

"Eh!" Hearing Qin Bangping's words, He Shixian hurriedly hammered the female wall with his hand, looking at the sixty sentry horses outside the city, as if he had seen the moving silver of the white flowers.

He watched dryly like this, but after a quarter of an hour, the sentry saw that he could not lure people out of the city, so he took the initiative to leave, leaving He Shixian distressed and said:

"One hundred taels per person, this is six thousand taels of silver for white flowers......

"Don't think about it, Lao He, the most important thing right now is to defend the city." You Shigong patted He Shixian on the shoulder and signaled him not to make trouble.

He Shixian also complained verbally, of course he knew that defending the city was the most important thing at the moment.

So he closed his mouth, and Qin Bangping next to him also nodded when he saw this, and said in his heart that He Shixian was still fine when he didn't drink.

"Is there a rumor in the city?" Qin Bangping asked You Shigong, and You Shigong sighed and said:

"Naturally, there is, the people in the city don't care about the battle between us and Jianyu at the moment, it seems that for them, it doesn't matter who Shenyang City is."

"They are just concerned about whether the price of food will rise, no accident, if the price of food rises, or we will collect and distribute the grain in the whole city, I am afraid they will help Jianyu to fight us."

"! These Liao people are white-eyed wolves who can't be fed! When you go to the battlefield, you are cowardly, but you are quite arrogant to your own people! He Shixian scolded dissatisfiedly.

Not only him, but also some Liao generals also had very ugly faces, and some felt ashamed.

However, Qin Bangping, who has experienced the exploitation of mining tax eunuchs, can understand it very well, and he said to everyone:

"The Liao people don't trust us, it's the fault of Gao Huai's exploitation, and it has nothing to do with the people."

"If it weren't for the pickled Gao Huai exploiting Liaodong, how could the people rather surrender to thieves than to the imperial court?"

Speaking of this, Qin Bangping sighed and said:

"Many of you are also Liao generals, you know how hard Gao Huai exploited back then, and Liao Zhen was corrupted, and the first thing to bear the brunt of it was Gao Huai's cholera in Liaodong."

"That dog eunuch! That is, he is dead, otherwise he must have asked the Fifth Highness to slaughter him to repay his brother-in-law's spirit in the sky! Qin Min scolded angrily.

In his eyes, Ma Qiancheng is such a qualified general and brother-in-law.

It can be said that he has just embarked on the right track of his career, but because of poor reception, he was falsely accused by Qiu Chengyun of being imprisoned, and then in prison, he could not be treated and recuperated, and died of serious illness.

On the other hand, the dead eunuch Qiu Chengyun had nothing to do, and finally died of illness after living peacefully for a few years.

Therefore, when he thought of these eunuchs in the cholera world, Qin Minping couldn't wait to pick up a knife and hack them to death!

However, no matter how much he said, he was just complaining, so after scolding for a while, Qin Minping closed his mouth.

But it was his attitude that made many Liao generals change their attitudes towards Sichuan Bing and Qin Bangping and others.

If nothing else, at least they will not think that the Liao people are simply evil, just like the princes of the court.

If there is no cause, where can there be effect?

If it weren't for the fact that Emperor Wanli used the wrong method to collect mining taxes and used the wrong people, the current situation in Liaodong would not be worse than the other nine sides, and Nurhachi would not dare to oppose it at all.

But it was useless to say this now, so after a while, Qin Bangping arranged for the generals on duty at night, and then asked the other generals to rest.

In this way, the generals dispersed, and the whole army was divided into three squads, and they continued to inspect the head of the city and the inside of the city.

Qin Bangping and the others have been waiting for Nurhachi and others to attack the city, but for three days, Nurhachi had no intention of attacking the city at all, which can be regarded as coping with the conjecture of "encircling the point and sending reinforcements" in Zhu Youzhen's letter.

However, this situation was broken on the fourth day.

With a noisy sound appearing on the edge of the sky, Qin Bangping and the others were quickly called to the city wall by the generals on duty.

"What happened?"

After the sleepy-eyed Qin Bangping came to the city, he took the time to mix the boiling water and cold water in the city and wash his face.

"Damn! The old slave is really a brute! ”

Qin Bangping's words were not answered, and He Shixian, who arrived first, had already cursed.

Immediately afterwards, Qin Minping, Qin Banghan, You Shigong and others came to the city, and after Qin Bangping wiped his face, he also leaned on the female wall and looked outside the west city.

I saw the crowd on the edge of the sky, and the black pressure came towards Shenyang, which made them nervous.

But when they saw it clearly, there was endless anger.

The crowd that was suppressed by Wu was the people who had been driven away, and some of the people who were locked up in the prisoner car were the generals of the Ming army who had been stripped of their stomachs.

Many of them, after being killed in battle, were built to erect a cross and nail people to a wooden stake for public demonstration.

"Old slave!"

He Shixian's forehead was bruised, and he couldn't wait to lead the men and horses to rush out, snatch back the corpse of the Ming army, and slaughter a few real prisoners by the way.

However, he knew that this could not be done, because at the present time the scale of the tens of thousands of people was not like the scene of one or two forts being breached.

"Tiger Skin Station, Shendan Fort, Baitapu, Zhangyi Station is lost!"

Qin Bangping saw the flags planted behind the dead bodies, so his heart sank.

These four places have been lost, and according to the current size of the people, there are at least about 20,000 people.

What does the old slave want? Do you want to drive the people to attack the city, or do you want to ......

"Look! They let people go! ”

Suddenly, Qin Minping shouted, and Qin Bangping also came back to his senses and looked into the distance.

I saw that all the Houjin soldiers and horses were withdrawn, leaving more than 20,000 people to rush towards Shenyang City.

"Open the door! Commander! ”

"Master Jun open the door! We are not Jianlu, we are the people of the Ming Dynasty! ”

A group of people rushed to the camp in front of the drawbridge with tears in their eyes, and opened the door with snot and tears.

"General Qin! You can't open the door, and it's hard to guarantee that there will be real captives mixed in inside. He Shixian persuaded.

"But if you don't open the door, and the people of the Metropolitan Procuratorate know about it, I'm afraid we will all ......" As soon as You Shigong spoke, everyone was silent.

More than 20,000 people of the Ming Dynasty were under the city without opening the door, and if this kind of thing was known by the imperial history of the Imperial Procuratorate, all of them would probably be exiled after the war.

Therefore, no one spoke anymore, and everyone looked at Qin Bangping, hoping that he would make up his mind.

At this time, Qin Banghan walked to Qin Bangping's side and whispered:

"Big brother, if more than 20,000 people enter the city, let's not mention whether there are real captives for the time being, but the pressure on Chang to close the position will be too great."

Qin Banghan was worried that the reinforcements in July would not be able to arrive, and the 20,000 people would have to eat at least 60,000 or 70,000 stone of grain for four months.

Qin Banghan's words, Qin Bangping knew, but what others said was also right.

Either opening the door or not opening the door is not the best choice, rather than tangled, it is better to ......

"Open the door!" Qin Bangping spoke in a heavy tone.

"Chief Qin!" He Shixian was anxious, but Qin Bangping said:

"Tell them all to take off their hats, line up to enter the city, and after entering the city, arrange them in the barracks, away from the powder magazine, with two catties of millet per person per day."

"This ...... Alas! He Shixian sighed after being entangled, and then gave the order.

Then, under the order, the soldiers of the camp in front of the drawbridge began to open the camp gate and told people to take off their hats and enter the city.

During this period, Qin Bangping and others at the head of the city kept watching the outside of the city, for fear that the Houjin army in the distance would rush to kill.

But it turned out that they thought too much, and Nurhachi only wanted to drive the people into Shenyang in order to achieve the purpose of consuming Shenyang.

At present, he has not taken Liaodong, and he does not dare to tear his face with the Liaomin, let alone create a large-scale massacre.

But if Liaodong is captured, the three million Han people ......

"State affairs are ...... hard"

Seeing the people under the city crying bitterly, and constantly bowing their hands to express their gratitude to his party at the head of the city, Qin Bangping was very tired.

The opponent he faced this time made him exhausted, and he already felt a headache before the battle began.

Right now, he only hopes that there will be a happy battle for him, or that Sun Yingyuan's soldiers and horses will rush to Shenyang as soon as possible.

He, Qin Bangping, has never fought such an aggrieved battle in his life!