On the distant horizon, a small black dot suddenly emerged, they were like a swarm of foraging ants, mighty, full of intimidation and oppression.

As the distance got closer, the figure of the cavalry gradually became clear.

The armor on their bodies and the spears in their hands shimmered with cold light, and the unique face armor revealed their unique identity.

Huang Taiji sighed, what should come is still coming after all.

Azig, who had just entered the battlefield, looked very excited, and he said: "Sibeile, I see that the number of cavalry in the Ming army is not much, it should be less than 10,000 cavalry. ”

"Although we have lost more than 2,500 people in our attack on the Ming army in the past few days, there are still 26,000 people, it is better to defeat this Ming army in one fell swoop and completely relieve the crisis in Hetuala."

Huang Taiji looked at Azig like a fool at this time.

Counting the hundreds of horsemen who fled back just now, there were 26,000 people in Hetuara at this time.

But half of these people are Han Army Niulu, and even Jianzhou Niulu has many Koreans.

Isn't it boring to fight against the most elite Liaodong Iron Cavalry of the Ming Army?

Even if you are lucky enough to win, if you lose 10,000 people, how can you deal with the same generation?

Fortunately, those Franc machine guns have been moved to the city before, and there is nothing to be nostalgic for outside the city at this time.

Huang Taiji said: "The Liaodong Iron Cavalry of the Ming army is very elite, and now most of the Ming army in the camp has been annihilated by our army, so there is no need for us to take any more risks." ”

"Order, all return to the city, there must be no mistake!"

Soon the Eight Banners outside the city retreated to several city gates, but fortunately, the Ming army was still a certain distance away from them, otherwise they could only be forced to fight with the cavalry of the Ming army under the city.

Li Xianzhong dispatched a total of 9,000 horsemen.

Among them were the 3,000 Liaodong Iron Cavalry led by Li Sanshun, the 3,000 assault battalion led by Zhao Shujiao, and the 3,000 Pingyu Guards led by Man Gui.

Although the Pingyuwei were infantry, Li Xianzhong still equipped them with war horses and used them as dragoons.

Even the 6-pounder Franc field guns they used were pulled by horses.

Of course, these cannon-pulling horses were still behind the large army.

Seeing the Tartar cavalry who were returning to the city, the Ming army couldn't help but scold: "This group of Tartars is really a thing without eggs, and they are also known as the invincible Eight Banners Iron Cavalry in the world, and I saw that Lao Tzu actually ran faster than rabbits!" ”

At this time, the camp of the Ming army erupted in enthusiastic cheers!

Many Ming soldiers even hugged each other and cried, and the joy of the rest of their lives after the catastrophe was simply indescribable!

At this time, Wang Huazhen was already in tears, and said to Li Xianzhong: "Thanks to Ning Yuanbo's timely help, otherwise we would have to sacrifice our lives for the country!" ”

Li Xianzhong glanced at the governor of Liaodong, who was covered in dirt and embarrassed, and said: "The Tartar Mardun village is very strong, if the Governor Wang and I attack this city before and after, and then besiege Hetuara together, the Tartars have no chance of winning. ”

"Why is there such a big defeat?"

Wang Huazhen also blushed, this is indeed his utilitarian heart is at fault, whether it is the generals under his command, or the governor of Jiliao, Yan Mingtai and Li Xianzhong, they all told him to go north to attack Mardun Village first.

But he insisted on going his own way, resulting in the loss of 16,000 men of the Ming army under the city of Hetuala.

This made the "Wang Shen Doctor" who took the task of curing diseases and saving people as his own became an executioner.

Why is he called the king divine doctor?

Because Wang Huazhen is an official in the court, the most famous thing for him is not his political achievements, and the second is not his ability, but his medical skills.

He can be said to be a very skilled doctor, so many dignitaries and dignitaries come to him for treatment.

Wang Huazhen took the "Compendium of Materia Medica" as the blueprint, based on his many years of clinical practice experience, and divided various unilateral prescriptions and test prescriptions into more than 150 categories according to the name of the disease, such as stroke, tetanus, typhoid fever, plague, etc., each category listed prescriptions according to a number of specific disease syndromes, and wrote the medical book "Pumen Medical Products", which has a total of 48 volumes.

That is, when Emperor Taichang Zhu Changluo was seriously ill, Doctor Wang was guarding Guangning.

Otherwise, Li Kezhuo's "Red Pill" wouldn't even have a chance to make a move.

It was also with his medical skills that he became a disciple of Shoufu Ye Xianggao, making his career smooth and becoming the governor of Liaodong.

His medical skills are not only well-known in the capital, but also have gained many henchmen in the army.

At the beginning, the old mother of the deputy general of Guangning, Luo Chengyi, was seriously ill, and the other doctors asked Luo Zhengyi to prepare for the afterlife, but they didn't expect that Wang Shenyi would let Luo's mother turn the corner with a few decoctions.

Therefore, Luo has always tried to protect Wang Huazhen even if he loses his life.

Seeing that Governor Wang was quite embarrassed, he hurriedly played a round and said: "It was the incompetence of the last general who did not withstand the cavalry of the Tartars that led to the defeat of our army. ”

The reason why Li Xianzhong saved this Wang Shenyi was mainly due to two considerations.

First, Doctor Wang's ability is limited, and he is not too much of a threat to himself in the position of governor of Liaodong!

The second is that this guy has no temperament, after the defeat of Guangning in history, Wang Shenyi immediately betrayed the Donglin Party and took refuge in Gonggong Wei in order to save his life.

However, it turns out that Doctor Wang did not misunderstand the Donglin Party, and he has more vision than Xiong Tingbi in this regard.

After the loss of Guangning, Xiong Tingbi, who was abandoned by the Donglin Party, ended up with a "head and nine sides", but Wang Huazhen, who took refuge in Wei Zhongxian, was still alive and well.

But now that the troops are coming to the city again, if they don't make an offensive gesture, they will definitely be said by these people to raise their own self-respect.

At this time, the Ming army only had 6-pounder Franc machine guns pulled by Pingyuwei with horses.

Soon, thirty Franc cannons were lined up in the original artillery positions of the Ming army.

In order not to expose the firepower, the Ping Yuwei still used solid bullets.

The artillery crews of the Pingyuwei were well trained, and in the first round of test firing alone, seven or eight shells hit the city walls.

However, with the power of a 6-pounder gun, it is difficult to collapse the city wall.

But what the Ming army didn't expect was that the Tartars in the city actually fired back.

It is clear that the gunners of the Tartars did not have much experience, and most of the shells fell on the perimeter of the Ming artillery positions, only to kick up a puff of dust.

But by coincidence, a solid bullet actually hit the powder keg of the Ming army directly, and the gunpowder explosion detonated the flowering shell on the side, sending a nearby Franc machine gun directly into the sky.

It also killed three gunners of the Pingyuwei.

The angry Li Xianzhong almost ordered the Pingyuwei to change to a flowering bomb to attack the city, but in the end he still held back his anger and asked loudly: "How can there be so many Franc machine artillery in the city of Tartar?" ”

At this moment, Doctor Wang's face turned red, and Luo on the side said with some embarrassment: "The cavalry of the Tartars raided our artillery position, although we have lit the powder kegs, but most of them are solid shells, so the artillery has not been completely destroyed, and some of them have been captured by the Tartars. ”

"Uncle Ning Yuan, rest assured, the mortar you left in Wuji Pass has been blown up!"

After hitting the artillery of the Ming army, the morale of the Tartars in the city was even higher.

So the two sides launched an artillery exchange of fire.

To be honest, it took a lot of luck for the cannons of this era to accurately hit targets on the city walls hundreds of meters away.

Therefore, the only way to make up for the lack of accuracy is to use quantity.

A fortified city like Hetuala, even with the Hongyi cannon, would take a lot of talent to collapse the city walls.

It is estimated that the small-caliber Franc machine artillery will really have to bombard for a month before it is possible to achieve results.

Li Xianzhong, who suffered a small loss, still decided to teach the Tartars in the city a lesson, so the Ming army's firecrackers were dispatched.

With the advantage of 120 steps, the Ming army's Lu Mi Gong has been crushing the Tartars in various ways.

Soon, the firecrackers of the Pingyuwei came to the outside of the city under the cover of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry.

After all, the cavalry of the Tartars could attack at any time, and the Ming army did not dare to take it lightly.

"Bang, bang, bang"

With a puff of white smoke rising, the Ming army's firearms soon shot into the city.

Huang Taiji had already made up his mind, and he shouted: "Iron Shield!" ”

Since the last time the Ming army's fortress was frustrated in Gule Village, Huang Taiji has been thinking about ways to restrain the Ming army's guns, and inspired by the reinforcement of the chariot with iron plates, he made this thickened iron shield.

And to carry out shooting experiments with firearms, it is absolutely impossible to penetrate such a thickened iron shield, except at a very close distance.

Although the lead bullets fired by the Ming army continued to hit these iron shields with a loud noise, the tartars behind the shields were unharmed.

Then Huang Taiji said: "Prepare to fire!" ”

Soon the Han gunners in the city put lead bullets and gunpowder into the tiger squat cannons.

At this time, there were many musketeers and cavalry of the Ming army under the city, although the accuracy of the Tartar tiger squat cannon was not good, there were still a lot of lead bullets that hit the Ming army under the city.

Hearing the painful groans of the Ming army being hit by the tiger squat artillery, the Tartars in the city were excited,

For a long time, they had been suppressed by the artillery and guns of the Ming army, and now they could finally take a good breath of evil, so that the Ming army could also taste the power of these weapons.

In fact, the Tartars captured the tiger squat cannon of the Ming army very early, but they didn't defend the city very much, so they never remembered to use it.

This time, the Ming army had already reached the doorstep, and Huang Taiji had to dig out the captured equipment from the warehouse.

The Ming army's attack this time was not cheap at all, but dozens of people were killed and wounded.

At this time, Li Xianzhong's face was very ugly, he glared at Wang Huazhen on the side, and then unwillingly spit out four words: "Mingjin withdraws the troops!" ”

It seems that these methods of defending the city have been learned by the Tartars.

Originally, I just wanted to play a play in front of Wang Huazhen, but I didn't expect it to really overturn, and this was the first time I was frustrated in attack.

Wang Huazhen's defeat of the capital enemy led to the Tartars now being equipped with a large number of artillery, which greatly increased the difficulty of the siege.

I definitely have to join the king again!

The Ming army had to rest outside the city, and in order to prevent the night attack of the Tartars, they even ambushed outside the camp for the night.

However, Huang Taiji seemed to be aware of the intentions of the Ming army, and had no intention of sending troops out of the city at all.

Just as the Ming army was looking for a way to break the city, the next day came the battle report of Kuandian Fort.

The red flag smuggled across the Yalu River and conquered several fortresses including Sudian Fort one after another.

The Tartars in Kuandian Fort also took the opportunity to kill, and the Tartars outside the city should join forces to attack the Ming army, and the Ming army suffered heavy casualties.

At this time, the Raven Falcon army was empty, and the veteran Liu Wei led more than 1,000 remnants to retreat to Changdian Fort in order to hold the Tartars.

Due to the disparity in troops, after killing more than 1,000 Tartars, Changdian Fort was still lost, and the veteran Liu Wei was killed.

Now that the Tartars have come to the Yahu Pass, Yan Mingtai, the governor of Jiliao, urgently ordered Li Xianzhong to return to the Yahu Pass, so as not to attack the hinterland of Liaodong.

After hearing the news, all the generals were shocked.

Doctor Wang's face was as pale as earth at this time, and it was obvious that Kuandian's defeat was caused by his failure to attack Hetuara after capturing Kuandian Fort as originally planned.

Now there are only more than 3,000 of the 30,000 elites of the Ming Army on the South Road, and this pot can only be carried by him.

Li Xianzhong was shocked by the death of the veteran Liu Ling, and he had asked the Intelligence Department to inform Liu Wei of the news of Liu Ling's smuggling of the Yalu River in advance.

Although he didn't advance much, he should still have time to escape back to the Raven Pass.

Li Xianzhong didn't expect that Liu Wei finally chose to trap the Jedi Changdian Fort to hold the Tartars.

This old general is really awe-inspiring, and another star of the Ming Dynasty has fallen.

However, this is not the time to be sad, after the army pulled out of the camp, he ordered Li Sanshun to lead the Liaodong Iron Cavalry to break off.

Fortunately, at this time, the battle situation in Kuandian had not yet been sent to Hetuala, and Huang Taiji thought that this was a trick by the Ming army to lure the enemy, so he did not send troops to pursue, but only sent some sentinels to reconnoiter the situation of the Ming army.

When the news came, the Ming army had already retreated to Mardun Village.

Although the northern city of Maldun Village has been bombarded beyond recognition by the Ming army, the southern city is still intact.

Li Xianzhong will naturally not spit out the meat that has already eaten in his mouth, this is less than 30 miles away from Hetuala, and to occupy this place is to choke Jianzhou's throat.

After leaving Mangui's Pingyu guards to guard here, Li Xianzhong personally led 3,000 Liaodong iron cavalry to aid Yahu Pass.

Fortunately, Yan Mingtai, the governor of Jiliao, had personally rushed to the Yahu Pass at this moment, although the Buddha Lang machine artillery on the gate was transferred away by Wang Huazhen, but there were still a lot of tiger squat cannons.

At this time, Shan's energy was mainly focused on receiving the Eight Banners in its entirety, and he had no intention of further attacking Liaodong.

This time, if it weren't for Liu Wei holding back the main force of the Tartars with a small number of troops, the consequences would be unimaginable.

After Li Xianzhong led his troops to arrive, he discussed with Yan Mingtai and decided to exchange Du Du's corpse for the corpse of the veteran Liu Ling.

The old general fought for the Ming Dynasty for decades, resisted Burma, pacified Luoping, participated in the anti-Japanese aid to Korea, pacified the rebellion of Yang Yinglong in Banzhou, and finally fell on the way to conquer Jianzhou.

In the four major expeditions of Wanli, he participated in it three times, and finally wrapped his body in horse leather, and he couldn't let his body fall into the hands of the Tartars.

Therefore, Li Xianzhong would rather risk being suspicious of the imperial court and exchange it for Liu Ling's corpse.

Then he ordered someone to build a good coffin, transported Liu Ling's body back to his hometown, and buried it in Jiangxi.

On the day of the coffin of Liu Wei, almost all the civil and military officials in Liaodong rushed to Liaoyang to see him off.

Li Xianzhong's move undoubtedly won him great prestige, and hundreds of surviving Liu Ling's remnants knelt on the ground and expressed their willingness to follow Ning Yuanbo to exterminate Jianzhou.

Li Xianzhong once again made clear his position that he was inseparable from the Tartars.

At the same time, Wang Huazhen, the culprit of the defeat of the Southern Route Army, was unanimously despised by the military and people of Liaodong.

Under the propaganda of the Intelligence Department, Wang Huazhen adjusted the route of the troops without authorization, and was greedy for merit; As a result, the old general Liu Wei was killed in battle, and the news that the Southern Route Army was almost wiped out spread far and wide.

He was defeated under the city of Hetuala, and sent a large number of artillery to the Tartars, and the news that Ning Yuanbo failed to capture Hetuara completely ignited the people of Liaoyang.

The extremely angry people of Liaoyang gathered in front of the yamen of the governor of Liaodong several times, demanding that the national thieves be punished, and Wang Huazhen, who was engaged, almost became a rat crossing the street, and everyone shouted and beat him.

Of course, the public opinion of the people will not affect the final judgment of the imperial court on the matter.

Li Xianzhong conquered the Mardun village and annihilated more than 8,500 Tartars.

and the rescue of Wang Huazhen under the city of Hetuala, naturally, also reported.

As for Wang Huazhen's unauthorized change of the route of the Southern Route Army's march, the military department will naturally find out, and Xiong Tingbi will definitely not bear this pot for him, after all, the plan for the north-south attack was formulated by him, the secretary of the military department.

Next, it depends on how the cabinet deals with this "king miracle doctor".

As for attacking Hetuala, Li Xianzhong has no idea for the time being, and now Daishan and Huang Taiji will definitely fight for the Khan throne.

After recovering the six forts of Kuandian with the red flag, He Heli directly read out the last order of the Great Khan.

Ao Bai Tong Ji Bi Long and others were only at this time, and the Great Khan Nurhachi had already died.

Kubilong's mind is still spinning very fast, they are undoubtedly choosing a side at this time, and it is naturally not a problem for Ao Bai to have military merits and promotion.

For him, a young man who had just died and had not had much military merit, this was definitely a good opportunity to follow the new Great Khan.

So he said: "Uncle rest assured, the five founding ministers are in the same breath, although Ama is gone, I will worship with my uncle and the horse." ”

"The Yellow Banner is willing to obey the leadership of the Great Khan."

Ao Bai on the side also hurriedly said: "Ji Bilong also said my thoughts, the five ministers have always advanced and retreated together, and Ao Bai is only the head of the uncle." ”

He Heli was very satisfied with the attitude of these two people, although there were not many of the 1,200 people with the yellow flag, but it showed the attitude of the yellow flag.

Although Fei Yingdong and Yidu have passed away, their influence on the yellow flag is huge, and there are still many subordinates.

With their support, even if Azig is unwilling to hand over the yellow flag, it will not work.

At least now the first step has been successful.

The second step is to look at Azig, as long as you can say that Azig can be moved, then Huang Taiji will be alone.

Soon he took Shuoto and five hundred red flags north to Hetuala.

Daishan is the heir to the throne designated by the Great Khan, and he did not go to Hetuara to meet in the army this time, and it is useless to bring too many soldiers and horses.

Even if all the 10,000 horses with red flags were brought to Hetuala, the number of troops would not be as large as Huang Taiji.

Originally, he wanted to persuade Du Du, who was inlaid with a white flag, to support Dai Shan first, after all, Du Du and Dai Shan were relatively close, and he also said that he would support Dai Shan.

It's a pity that now he has exchanged Du Du's corpse from Li Xianzhong.

After entering Hetuala, He Heli expressed his intention.

He said: "The Great Khan Daishan decided that Hetuala, which was under the command of the Ming army at any time, was no longer suitable to be the capital of Dajin, and decided to move the capital to Pyongyang. ”

"Take advantage of the fact that Hetuara is not yet surrounded by the Ming army, and quickly transfer Hetuala's property and population."

He Heli's words were like a bolt from the blue, and Daishan wanted to give up Hetuala?

Huang Taiji said: "Hetuala, it is the foundation of my Dajin, how can I give up easily? ”

"The bones of the Great Khan are not Khan, and the Great Bel Daishan does not come to Hetuara to worship the Great Khan and inherit the ancestral inheritance, but he only wants to favor North Korea, which is not good!"

Huang Taiji's words were immediately supported by An Fei Yanggu!

He said: "Although the Great Khan intends to let the Great Bel Daishan inherit the throne, he has no intention of giving up his ancestral land. ”

"Besides, according to the rules, the Great Belle should come to mourn the Great Khan in person, and then officially inherit the throne."

"Only when you become a Great Khan can you give orders, and if you give orders directly like now, you forgive me for not being able to obey my orders."

He Heli secretly said that it was not good, and An Fei Yanggu's attitude now was obviously bought by Huang Taiji.

So he said: "The Great Belle is now too ill to come to Hetuara in person, so he sent Shuto to welcome the Great Khan back to Korea. ”

"Besides, moving the capital is not to give up Hetuala, it still needs to be held here. It's just that this place is now a dangerous place, and it will be attacked by the Ming army at any time. ”

"If the Ming army builds a fortress and slowly blockades Hetuala, as it did in Gule Village, how can we hold on?"

"I dare to ask Four-Belle, with the current population of the city, how long can Hetuala's food supply last?"

"The Great Khan transferred the surplus population to North Korea in order to better hold on to Hetuala."

He Heli simply didn't pretend, now that food is the lifeblood of North Korea, you stay in Hetu Ara, but you are waiting for death.

Sure enough, as soon as these words came out, many people fell silent.

He continued: "The Great Khan has an order to withdraw to Korea first with two flags inlaid with blue and yellow flags. He has prepared the city and land and the cloak for you in Hamgyong Province. ”

"Sibeile continues to lead the two banners of Zhengbai and Huang to hold Hetuala, and if they are willing, the families of the two banners can also withdraw to North Korea together, and if they are not willing, the Great Khan will not be reluctant."

At this time, everyone's eyes were focused on Azig.

After all, now that he is in control of these two flags, as long as he loosens his mouth, they can hide together in North Korea for refuge.

Azig is now also in a dilemma, he is only 16 years old after all.

Huang Taiji had promised before that as long as he supported him, then the Yellow Flag would always be in his charge.

The two of them can be called Baylor together like the two of Yehe's Jintaiji and Feiyangu, and they will be in charge of Jianzhou together.

But now Hetuara is a dead land, even if he can control the two flags, it is useless.

It's better to go to North Korea to live happily, even if there is one less flag, at least there is land and a city.

Fan Wenyu saw Azig's hesitant look and knew that he might be about to turn back.

So he said: "Moving the capital is a big deal, you can discuss it slowly, I don't think there is a need to rush for a while." Now that the Great Khan has been dead for several days, it is a top priority to mourn the Great Khan first. ”

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