The journey from Jinzhou to Liaoyang was more than 400 miles, and the army marched for more than ten days and settled down at Anshan Station, which was dozens of miles away in the south of Liaoyang.

They were 5,000 cavalry and 5,000 infantry led by Zhao.

Mangui's 8,000 cavalry, 12,000 infantry.

Zu Dashou's 5,000 cavalry and 10,000 infantry.

With tens of thousands of troops marching, it is naturally impossible to hide from Huang Taiji.

After more than two years of recuperation, he has accumulated 30,000 soldiers who can fight. Although he was still unable to launch an attack on the Ming Dynasty, he was still sure enough to hold Liao Shen.

In his opinion, the Ming army only relied on sharp firearms to win in the field, as long as I don't go out of the city, you can still kill me across the city wall?

Huang Taiji had also heard about everything that happened on the Korean battlefield, and knew that the Ming army had invented something called an explosive bag, which was so powerful that it could destroy the city gates. But he keenly discovered a disadvantage of the explosive bag, that is, the explosive bag must be sent to the designated place to ignite.

In response to this situation, Huang Taiji made a special deployment. He knew that sooner or later the Ming army would come to fight him.

Liaoyang is a large city, divided into the southern city and the northern city.

The circumference of the southern city is sixteen miles, two hundred and ninety-five zhang, and the height is three zhang and three feet. There are six gates.

The circumference of the northern city is four miles, and there are three city gates.

He first ordered the moat to be widened outside the city, widening the moat to twenty zhang wide, leaving only one zhang wide passage at the city gate. He dug a circle of trenches outside Liaoyang City. The ditch is two zhang wide and one zhang deep, and there are five or six circles around Liaoyang City like mosquito coils.

He also built a long passage on both sides of the city gate, with city walls on both sides, and only at the end did he really enter the city. Both cavalry and infantry, as long as they entered the passage, had to withstand the blows on the walls on both sides. Boulders, fire oil, just ask you if the invincible armor of the Ming army can withstand it.

This move was inspired by the battle of Ningyuan, but the walls of Ningyuan City were protruding outward, and he designed them to extend inward.

The moat made it difficult for the Ming army to run to the foot of the city wall to place explosives packs, and the trenches made it difficult for the Ming army to use cavalry to advance quickly.

"The Sword Comes"

In addition, Huang Taiji sent another 10,000 elite cavalry to garrison Chang'an Fort in the west of Liaoyang, waiting for an opportunity.

This is all the experience he summed up from Amin's rapid rout on the Korean battlefield.

Ming Jun, come on.

Come hit me, I'm ready.

When Zu Dashou and the three of them led the army to the outside of Liaoyang City, they were stunned by the scene in front of them.

What is this?

How is this city attacked?

As the commander-in-chief of this campaign, Zu Dashou called Man Gui and Zhao Shujiao together.

"Two, this Liaoyang City is repaired by Huangtai Ji like a king and eight shells, how can you fight?"

Both were silent.

With the fortifications in this way, it may not be easy to storm the city.

"Didn't Your Majesty send someone to send a bag of explosives? Let's try to see if we can blow the door open? The outside trench allows the soldiers to dig up the earth and fill it in. You just need to fill out a path. ”

Zhao Shujiao thought about it and expressed his opinion.

After hearing this, Zu Dashou felt that it made sense, so he nodded in agreement.

Early the next morning, Zu Dashou ordered the demolition team to go and blow up the city gate.

The leader of the demolition team is a general named Yan Zhangzhi.

He had already guessed it at the first sight of Liaoyang City, and he was afraid that the enemy had already learned that he had explosives packs, and it was estimated that the bombing of the city gate would not go smoothly this time.

After receiving the order of Zu Dashou, fifty people were divided into two explosive bags on their backs and rushed over in the direction of the city gate.

In Liaoyang City, the person in charge of defending the city was Jierharang, who was standing at the head of the city and building a pergola at the moment, looking at the fifty demolitionists who came out of the Ming army's camp. He had already ordered the drawbridge to be demolished, and he couldn't think of any way for the Ming army to break into the city.

This is the soldier with the explosive bag on his back, right?

Zilharang thought to himself.

He wanted to see how powerful the explosives bag could be, and his brother Amin ran out to sea in embarrassment.

Fifty soldiers carrying explosive bags climbed over the trenches to the range of Jiannu's bow and arrows, and were immediately covered by a rain of arrows. But he was easily stopped by the Demoman with an explosion-proof shield.

Looking at the arrow that bounced off the shield, Zilharang's face changed slightly.

This transparent shield, he had seen it for the first time, looked like glass, but why was it so strong.

The demolition team outside the city didn't talk nonsense, and directly lit ten explosive bags and threw them at the city gate. The gates were blown open with a bang, and dozens of Demomen stared at each other.

Is it that easy?

Now that the city gate has exploded, it is natural that you can go back to your life.

Zu Dashou was organizing people to dig and fill the trench by hand, and after hearing a loud noise, he saw the city gate that had been blown open. He shook his fist happily and shouted.

"Hurry up and dig! The gates have been blown open! ”

When the soldiers heard this, they also sped up.

The outer trenches were easily filled, as they were not within the range of the bow and arrow.

By the third floor inside, it was already within range of the bow and arrow.

The Jiannu soldiers defending the city naturally would not watch them fill the pits, draw their bows and arrows and shoot them.

Although he hid behind the shield as much as he could, he was inevitably shot to death by several hundred people. Zu Dashou didn't think about building a bridge with wooden planks. But how thick can the planks withstand the trampling of tens of thousands of infantry and cavalry?

By this time, the gates were gone, but the drawbridge had been torn down.

Seeing that victory was in sight, Zu Dashou waved his hand and gave an order.

Fill it in!

What are dead people afraid of? He doesn't care.

A large number of defenders gathered on both sides of the city gate tower, bending their bows and arrows, and shooting one at a time. After paying more than a thousand casualties, the slightly narrower moat at the city gate was filled.

The infantry quickly moved out of the way, and the five thousand cavalry under Zu Dashou, who had already been ready to attack, immediately rushed to the city gate with a roar. The leader of the troops is the second madman Zu Dabi.

At this time, he took the lead, and shouted excitedly.

His eldest brother is the supreme commander of this battle, and the credit for being the first to enter the city naturally cannot be taken by others.

Seeing this, Man Gui and Zhao Shujiao were naturally not to be outdone, and after asking Zu Dashou for instructions, they each sent 3,000 cavalry and rushed towards the city gate.

The moment he rushed into the city gate hole, Zu Dabi was overjoyed.

It's so simple, there's not even a single resistance.

But I reacted in an instant.

No, why didn't there be resistance?

Forget it, don't care, rush in first.

He galloped his horse, as if Huang Taiji's head was waiting for him to cut off.

When I got out of the city gate, I found that I had entered a passage that was nearly twice as wide as the city gate, and the city walls on both sides of the passage were full of soldiers guarding the city. At this time, the bow was fully drawn, facing himself and the cavalry behind him. And ahead, there is a city gate.

"Not good! Hurry back! ”

In this stunned effort, he has already rushed forward dozens of steps.

Zu Dabi screamed, wanting to restrain his war horse.

But it was too late.

The general at the head of the city gave an order, and bows and arrows rained down. It was accompanied by a stone larger than a head.

Zu Dabi turned around and saw the cavalry rushing in behind him, and a wave of despair surged into his heart.

Fuck it! It's the first time I've seen a city like this when I've grown so big!

At this time, thousands of cavalry had already rushed in, and before they could react to what was going on, they collided with the oncoming arrows and stones.

The cavalry outside the city did not know what was happening and still wanted to rush inside.

The cavalry in the city shouted that there was an ambush and wanted to run out.

The two sides were blocked inside and outside the city gates.

Zu Dabi was hit by six arrows in his body, fell off his horse, and did not know whether he was alive or dead.

The cavalry entering the passage were either killed by bows and arrows, or stoned to death. Very few can get out.

The soldiers who were blocked outside the city were also targeted by the defenders at the head of the city, and they didn't even need to aim, they drew their bows and fired.

Although Zu Dashou didn't know what was happening in the city, he saw that the cavalry who had already entered the city wanted to rush out, and he guessed that there must be an ambush inside. His face was gloomy, and he hurriedly gave the order to retreat.

I knew that let their troops enter the city first.

Man Gui and Zhao taught the same example, and also ordered the cavalry that rushed out to retreat. But the problem was that the trench was so wide, and for a time the troops outside the city were in chaos.

If it weren't for Zu Dabi's rush to attack, it would not have been the case if he sent a vanguard into the city to explore the way.

But there are so many ifs in the world, when the results come out, no one looks at the process.

Just as the three of them were desperately directing the soldiers to retreat, something even more terrible happened.

The sound of rumbling horses' hooves sounded in the rear, and 10,000 elite Jianbaqi soldiers roared in!

Leading the way was Mang Gurtai.

At this time, he was gritting his teeth and staring at the phalanx of the Ming army.

Back and forth, I was beaten back and forth, this time there was no original firearm, I see what you can do to resist the Eight Banners Warriors! Mang Gurtai's ideas represented the thoughts of a large number of Jiannu soldiers, and they were all ready to be disgraced.

Zu Dashou and the others naturally couldn't be defenseless, and when they saw the Jiannu cavalry rushing towards them, they immediately lined up to meet the enemy.

The chariot men were in front, the musketeers and infantry were in the rear, and the cavalry was divided into the left and right flanks.

The first battle of the Ming army to regain lost territory.

It's fired.