Huang Taiji was very anxious because Liaoyang City is of great significance to the current Dajin. Only by defending Liaoyang City can we defend the plains hundreds of miles north of Liaoyang and protect the most fertile land in Liaodong.

But sometimes, it is useless to be impatient. Since he led the main force of the Eight Banners back from the territory of Ming Dynasty, in the past ten days, more than 20,000 troops have been traveling thousands of miles, and have been exhausted.

Moreover, the winter in Liaodong, especially at night, is too cold. Even if it is as strong as the Eight Banners soldiers, it cannot stand the cold at night. Even if you can barely reach Liaoyang, you cannot directly participate in the battle. Considering that there is still a fierce battle in Liaoyang City, Huang Taiji

I had to resist my anxious mood and ordered the camping to rest for a night.

The next day, just as the sky was clear, the army continued to advance, and it took only half a day to reach Liaoyang City.

However, before the army arrived at Liaoyang City, Huang Taiji received news again that the reinforcements of the Ming army had also arrived in Liaoyang, which was Sun Chuanting's troops who fought against the Eight Banners Army within the Ming Dynasty!

The situation suddenly became serious!

The Ming army in Liaoyang originally had 30,000, and the Ming army had reached 50,000.

Moreover, Huang Taiji only had the left four flags and the guard camp, with more than 10,000 troops. The right four flags were chasing the Ming army that was retreating with the Han people on the plain.

The total strength of the troops in his hand, plus the flag heads in Amin's hand in Liaoyang City, was only more than 20,000, which was too different from the Ming army's strength.

Of course, if Liaoyang City is still in the hands of the Eight Banners, Huang Taiji would not be afraid no matter how many troops the Ming army has, and if he is on the back, he has more than 20,000 elite Eight Banners main forces, it is not afraid of even if he has 100,000 enemy troops. And now,

Half of Liaoyang City was captured by the Ming army, and the geographical advantage no longer existed.

How to fight this battle? Should we first bypass Liaoyang City and attack Sun Chuanting's troops, or to enter the city from the northern city to support Amin and the Ming army's street battles and regain Liaoyang City?

For a moment, Huang Taiji was very hesitant.

Logically speaking, we should defeat Sun Chuanting first and then attack Liaoyang. However, when we were in the pass, Huang Taiji and Sun Chuanting fought fiercely, 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 Prefecture, Sahalian led two thousand elite Eight Banners cavalry to attack the Yansui Army infantry formation, but he didn't last for a moment. He was killed and defeated by him, and more than half of the troops were damaged. There was also the Xuanfu Army.

, and almost wiped out Li Yongfang's troops. Sun Chuanting had two such troops under him, and he was defending against Liaoyang South City. Attacking Sun Chuanting would be attacked from both sides of the city and below. It was not easy to defeat Sun Chuanting easily.

If we don’t directly attack Sun Chuanting’s troops, the entire army will enter Liaoyang City and drive the Ming army out of the city through street fighting?

If you enter the city by yourself, Sun Chuanting will also lead his troops into the city, which means that both sides will regard Liaoyang City as a battlefield.

The battle in the city is not as good as field battle outside the city. The army cannot be arranged, so small groups of troops can only compete for the streets and alleys.

The Ming army was good at fighting in arrays, and the individual combat power of the Ming army soldiers was far inferior to that of the Eight Banners soldiers. Fighting in the streets and alleys, the large number of artillery in the Ming army was useless, and the muskets were far less convenient than bows and arrows.

After nervous thinking, Huang Taiji quickly made a decision to give up fighting outside the city. The entire army entered Liaoyang City, took Liaoyang City as the battlefield, and relied on the powerful personal combat power of the Eight Banners soldiers to kill and injure the Ming army in large quantities and drive the Ming army out of the city!

"Khan, I'm guilty"

Amin personally welcomed Huang Taiji into the city at the north gate, knelt in front of Huang Taijima, and said in great ashamedness.

Huang Taiji led the main force of the Eight Banners to fight against the Ming Kingdom, and Amin was ordered to guard the local area. In everyone's opinion, guarding his hometown was the easiest thing. The Great Jin Kingdom was unparalleled, and neither the North Korean nor the Mongols dared to solve the tiger beard of the Great Jin Kingdom.

The Ming Dynasty was attacked by the Eight Banners soldiers, so naturally it would not and dare not have any ideas about Liaodong.

After receiving the job of staying behind, both Amin and Dege were very careless and never thought that there would be war in Liaodong.

However, no one expected that the Ming army would send troops to Liaodong despite the attacks in the country, and even an ambush of a powerful army on Pi Island.

Moreover, the Ming army was ingenious. First, it sent troops from southern Liaoning to capture the three prefectures of southern Liaoning, forcing Degele to send troops from Liaoyang. Then Cao Wenzhao led the cavalry in western Liaoning to appear suddenly and cooperated with the defeat of the southern Liaoning army.

Forced Amin to recruit flag directors from all over the country to Liaoyang to guard against the Ming army's attack from the south. At this moment, the Ming army actually launched another army from Pi Island to capture Zhenjiang Fort and attacked Phoenix City, and the road was unstoppable.

Min had to continue to recruit flag soldiers to resist the Ming army led by Liu Xingzuo.

Most of the flag-dogs left by the Great Jin Kingdom were recruited to resist tens of thousands of Ming troops from two groups. However, no one expected that the Ming army would have a whole journey, and it was the strongest one, quietly entering Kuandian from North Korea.

In the territory, easily seized Kuandian Five Forts, then broke through hundreds of miles of mountains and killed to Jianzhou, and then the current situation was

In Amin's opinion, all this should not be borne entirely by himself. After all, if Huang Taiji had not insisted on taking a detour to Mongolia to attack Ming, but chose to attack western Liaoning, the situation would have been very different, and the Ming army would have no chance to launch a sneak attack.

But I am responsible for staying behind and being the direct person responsible, and I have no guilt at all.

Not to mention anything else, it is definitely his own responsibility to let the Ming army attack the city, so Amin had to bow his head and admit his mistake.

Huang Taiji looked at Amin coldly, and had the idea of ​​fighting with one knife, but he still held it back.

As the Great Jin Kingdom fell into this situation, the soldiers and generals suffered too much. As one of the four major belles, Amin has made great achievements in the past and has great strength in his hands. At this time, it is no longer appropriate to fight in the internal struggle.

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

"Brother, don't say anything more. Now is not the time to hold the blame." Huang Taiji dismounted and helped Amin up with his own hands, sighing, "Now that our Great Jin Kingdom is at a time of life and death, we brothers should work together and try our best to restore the decline!"

"Everything is followed by the Khan's orders!" Amin said respectfully. Even if he was dissatisfied with Huang Taiji in the past, he would not dare to show it now.

Huang Taiji asked about the situation in the city, and Amin took out a map and pointed out the situation in the city. After repeated struggles between the two sides, the two sides have basically maintained a balance of power. The Ming army occupied most of the Liaoyang City, while the Eight Banners soldiers controlled the North City and the East City.

department.

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

For a moment, the Eight Banners soldiers attacked like a tide and the battle began fiercely.

Teams of Eight Banners soldiers walked through the streets and alleys and launched a fierce attack on the Ming army.

"Reported that Dingliao Street has fallen, our army has more than 200 people killed, and Jiannu is coming to the south gate!"

"Reported, Jiannu broke out from Hulu Lane, our army was defeated and was retreating to the west city."

A large mansion in the southern city was where the Ming army was located. The battle reports were sent to the house and in front of Sun Chuanting.

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

Sun Chuanting is the commander of Ji Liao, nominally in charge of all the troops of Ji Liao. Lu Xiangsheng, the Liaodong governor, was not there, and Cao Bianjiao and Zhou Yuji had to obey Sun Chuanting's command. Although Cao Bianjiao was a little reluctant, he had no choice. He had no choice but to disobey Sun Chuanting.

command.

Sun Chuanting had many infantry soldiers under him, so he rushed to the scene, but he still couldn't arrive in Liaoyang in front of Jiannu. However, to his surprise, Cao Bianjiao and Zhou Yuji actually attacked Liaoyang City!

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

Without attacking the city, he could only fight with Jiannu in the wild. Jiannu had a strong city to defend and had powerful cavalry, and there were too many ways to deal with the Ming army that came from afar. Just sending cavalry to cut off the Ming army's food route

A little bit of it can make the Ming army defeated. After all, there are still one or two hundred miles from western Liaoning to Liaoyang, and all the food and grass needed by the army must be transported from western Liaoning.

Now that Liaoyang City has been captured, the quality of the food in the city will be shared by Jiannu and the Ming army. The Ming army does not need to transport food and grass, and Jiannu has no strong city to support it. The two sides are considered equal.

Sun Chuanting and Huang Taiji arrived in Liaoyang almost in a row, so they naturally knew the news of each other's arrival. At the beginning, in Sun Chuanting's view, Huang Taiji would probably choose to lead troops to the south of the city and launch an attack on himself in the wild.

Sun Chuanting was also ready. The army was backed by the Liaoyang city wall to build a camp. If Jiannu came to attack, the cannons on the city wall could support him and would be attacked on both sides of the city. Unexpectedly, Jiannu did not expect that Huang Taiji would lead his army to lead him.

Entering Liaoyang City.

In that case, the battlefield would be placed in the city, and Sun Chuanting quickly 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. For a moment, the Ming army in the city was beaten and retreated step by step.

"If you pass the order, you will be ordered to force Huang De to replace the original army in Nancheng, build barricades, open up the houses on both sides, and rely on barricades to resist Jiannu."

"I'll send an order to lead my troops to Xicheng to replace Zhou Yuji's tribe. Zhou Yuji's tribe temporarily retreated and rested."

After a series of orders, the new forces who had just entered the city were sent out one after another, replacing Cao Bianjiao, who had fought fiercely for a day and night, and Zhou Yuji's troops.

Although Cao Bianjiao and Zhou Yuji originally had 30,000 troops, there were less than 10,000 imperial guards, and the rest were Pidao soldiers and Guiyi Camp. They could originally rely on their number of troops to defeat Amin, but when Huang Taiji was

After investing in the main force of the Eight Banners, he couldn't stand it all at once.

With the dispatch of the new force, the Ming army gradually stopped its decline and fought fiercely with the Eight Banners soldiers, and fought fiercely from street to street.

However, the development of the war was as Huang Taiji had expected. This kind of chaos in the city was good at the Eight Banners soldiers with strong personal combat power. They could not use cannons when fighting in the streets and alleys, and the firing rate of muskets was far inferior to that of the Eight Banners soldiers. Huang Taiji's subordinates were the most powerful.

The elite Eight Banners were all wearing thick armor, especially the white armored soldiers in the military guard camp, each wearing three layers of armor, like human-shaped tanks, which was simply unstoppable.

After an hour of fierce battle, the Ming army was killed more than a thousand people, and the defense line retreated greatly. The west side was about to retreat to the city of Xicheng. Sun Chuanting had to order the cannons on the city wall to open fire on the territory controlled by Jiannu, but it only had a threatening effect.

It poses little threat to Jiannu.

In the house next to the Central Army camp, Cao Bianjiao and Zhou Yuji who had retired to rest were sitting together, looking at each other speechlessly.

Originally, the two of them were eager to make contributions and wanted to conquer the complete Liaoyang City, but they did not expect that the battle would be like this. Without completely capturing Liaoyang City, they lost their merits of restoring the land. Sun Chuanting led his army to take over the command.

Even if he conquers Liaoyang City in the future, his first contribution to conquers Liaoyang City will become Sun Chuanting.

"If I had known this was the case, it would have been better to burn Liaoyang City in one go!" Cao Bianjiao said hatefully.

Zhou Yuji shook his head: "What's the use of regret that has happened?"

It was not that I had thought about setting fires, but I just thought about it for a while. After all, when I attacked the city, I was only one step away from taking over the whole city. As long as I took over Liaoyang City, there were tens of thousands of people in the city, countless people.

Materials and wealth are all your own. In this case, who is willing to burn it?

Besides, the entire city was covered with ice and snow, and there were streets between the squares and the squares, so it was not that easy to set fire. When siege, the spies of the Jinyiwei also set fire in the city, but were soon extinguished by the people in the city.

Of course, if tens of thousands of troops set fire, it would be different.

"I'm not regretting it. I'm thinking, in this situation, can we still capture Liaoyang City?" Cao Bianjiao asked.

Zhou Yuji was silent. The main force of the Eight Banners was too strong, and the small-scale army was the Imperial Guards, which was not their opponent. Moreover, since the main force of the Eight Banners entered Liaoyang City, the attitudes of the Han people in the city changed, and they had already decided to return.

Many Han soldiers in the Ming Dynasty were not in contact with Jinyi's spies, and many Han soldiers obeyed the orders of Jiannu and joined the battle against the Ming army.

Although there were 50,000 Ming troops in the city, Jiannu had more than 30,000 troops. If the Han army in Baoyi and the people in the city were added, the number would be greater than that of the Ming army.

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

Once the Ming army is not supported and is driven out of the city by Jiannu, it will cause a defeat. I don’t know how many people will die in this Liaoyang City in battle.

"Jiannu is fierce, and the damn people in this city are not reliable. Since that's the case, what's the use of rescuing them?" Cao Bianjiao said angrily.
To be continued...