Chapter 54: Siege and Pretend
The Ming army under the city was looking for an opportunity to shoot arrows on the city, but suddenly saw a few people jumping down from the top of the city, and they were stunned for a moment.
Then he saw the Tartars on the city wall shooting arrows at these people, and immediately understood.
"Arrowman! Hit the arrow!"
A thousand-house officials from the Ming army shouted loudly, and then took advantage of the opportunity when the Ming army archers fired arrows and rushed to the city with a small team of soldiers, carried the Ming army gunners and ran back.
"Ruble, rub, rub" dozens of feather arrows chased the Ming army. With a "bang", a Ming army was shot and fell to the ground, and their bodies were instantly filled with feather arrows.
"Shoot these bright dogs to death!"
The Bayala in the city roared loudly and kept firing arrows at the fallen Ming army and the gunner he was carrying.
"Brother, brother, I have implicated you."
The fallen gunner looked at the Ming Jun who was lying motionless next to him and murmured.
"In the next life, we will kill the Tartars together."
After saying that, his head tilted, and a feather arrow on his head penetrated straight from the forehead.
After the Ming army carried the other three gunners on their backs, they saw a messenger waiting behind the shield car.
"Shi Shuai Zhao has an order to quickly send these heroes to the Central Army's tent, and take good care of the doctors and make sure to save their lives."
The walls of Guangning were more than two meters high, and the city was covered with mud loosened by shells, so the gunners did not suffer fatal injuries after jumping off, but the feather arrows that followed were chasing them seriously injured the gunners.
One of the gunners seemed to be shot in the heart and lungs, and was dying at this time.
After picking up the gunners, the Tiger Cannon on the city fired another round of more violent shotguns, and the Ming army suffered many casualties.
Taking advantage of the gap between the charge, the Ming army was about to continue to advance, but at this time he heard the sound of gold sound of "Dangdang".
Hulala, the Ming army and civilians who were coming like a tide in an instant retreated like a tide.
"Is this feint today still realistic?"
Looking at the retreating Ming army, Man Gui proudly said to Zhao Rujiao.
"It's so realistic. After 30,000 people attacked for a day, they touched the outer edge of Guangning City. Fortunately, our Ming army rarely attacked the city in Liaodong, and Yue Tuo could not see the truth for a while."
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"Then continue shelling tonight?"
"Well, the messenger in Guangning City had already left last night. It would take at least two days and two nights to reach the tiger squatted in the rabbit. Even if the little slave chief immediately led the army back after receiving the news, it would take at least five days. If he led the vanguard of the light cavalry to return first, it would take three days."
"From this point, Your Majesty ordered me to wait two days to go down to this city, and I must not miss His Majesty's orders. The city must be broken the morning of the latest."
After Zhao Rujiao finished speaking, he punched the table.
"Well, last night, two groups of messengers had arrived in Guangning City, at least one of which reported the movements of our middle army, indicating that His Majesty has arrived or approached Liaoyang, and it is urgent to break the city. Let's give him a shock tonight, and then act according to plans tomorrow night."
That night, head coach Man Gui and deputy coach Zhao made a plan to bombard Guangning City at night.
That night, a team of knights rushed to Guangning. Under the deliberate omission of the Ming army, three Tartar soldiers braved the rumble and shelled to the city of Guangning.
After some verification, the three of them were dragged onto the city wall by hanging baskets.
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On the evening of the second day of the revival of Xiping Fort, under the city of Liaoyang.
After running wildly for five days, killing various small forts along the way, he finally arrived at the city of Liaoyang. Zhu Youjian looked at the towering city wall under the setting sun, and his expression was inspiring for a moment, so he wrote a poem.
The group of Hu tied up his canes and died in the sky, and abandoned armor and scattered all over the battlefield.
The officers rushed to the horses on the snow, and the officials entered Liaoyang in the middle of the night.
"Your Majesty, what a poem!"
Zu Dashou next to him flattered him very in time.
"Well, it's indeed a good poem. This poem by Lu Fangweng is very suitable for this situation. I will enter Liaoyang in the middle of the night tonight."
Zu Dashou was shocked when he heard this.
The horse team attacked the city and went off overnight. Your Majesty is just a fool.
Cao Wenzhao next to him was also surprised.
He was afraid that Zhu Youjian would get hysterical and forced the cavalry to attack the city. After some psychological struggle, Zu Dashou decided to persuade Zhu Youjian.
"Your Majesty is so bold, but we are all cavalry and we have not brought siege equipment. Liaoyang City is high and strong. It is wrong to attack the city rashly. I hope your Majesty thinks twice."
When Cao Wenzhao heard this, he also rushed forward and clasped his fists and said politely.
"Your Majesty, what the Zumaster said is very true. We are cavalry, and there may be something wrong with attacking the city. It is better to lead the defenders out of the city to fight. The last general will kill the general and seize the flag for His Majesty."
Zhu Youjian looked back at the two generals who were accompanying this time, and then laughed.
"Haha, the two generals don't have to worry about breaking the city. When the soldiers were ordered to camp and rest early and gather at dawn, the city would naturally break down."
Speaking of this, Zhu Youjian smiled strangely again.
"As for the destruction of the city, I have my own tricks, so the generals don't have to worry. But when the city is broken, the generals need to enter the city first and kill him without leaving any armor."
When the other generals heard this, they were all shocked, but when they heard that Zhu Youjian's words were so conclusive, they did not dare to refute them. They all bowed and took the order and left.
"General Cao, Wu Xiao General, I heard that the old slave chief's grandson, Fushun's son-in-law Li Yongfang lived in this Liaoyang City. On the day of the city breaking, I wonder who two generals can capture this beast alive for me?"
"I'm willing to go!"
"I'm willing to go!"
Cao Wenzhao and Wu Sangui both bowed and accepted the order.
Li Yongfang was from Tieling, Liaodong. He was originally a guerrilla army in the Ming army. In the 46th year of Wanli, Nurhaci attacked Fushun. Li Yongfang killed the Fushun garrison king Zhiyin and surrendered without fighting.
At this point, Li Yongfang became the first Ming general to surrender to the Jurchens, and Fushun became the first Ming Dynasty city captured by Nurhaci.
After that, in order to win over Li Yongfang, Nurhaci married Li Yongfang the daughter of his seventh son Abatai and appointed him as his prince.
After Li Yongfang surrendered to the Jurchens, he not only personally led his troops to participate in Nurhaci's subsequent major military operations against the Ming Dynasty, but also played an extremely important role in the spy war work of the Later Jin Dynasty against the Ming Dynasty.
Li Yongfang surrendered Jin Yuhe, Wang Yiping, Sun Degong, Shi Tingzhu and other Ming generals. In the war between the Later Jin and the Ming Dynasty, he sent traitors to steal intelligence and shake the morale of the army to help the Later Jin win.
Especially in the battle of Nurhaci attacking Shenyang and Liaoyang, Li Yongfang used his old relationship to send spies to sneak into the city secretly, colluded with the generals, and opened the city gates privately. The Later Jin Dynasty successfully won the two cities without fighting hard.
During his lifetime, Nurhaci attached great importance to intelligence work. Under his instructions, Li Yongfang established a very powerful spy team for the Later Jin Dynasty, and sent spies to infiltrate. In the capital alone, the Jinyiwei Intelligence Department arrested four spies in one month.
Zhu Youjian's surprise attack on Liaoyang was, one to shock the Later Jin Dynasty and led Huang Taiji back to help quickly, and the other to kill Li Yongfang.
As the first Ming general to surrender to the Later Jin Dynasty, Li Yongfang was willing to become a traitor and made great contributions to the Later Jin invasion of the Ming Dynasty.
This person's symbolic meaning is too bad. It can be said that it sets the precedent for the Ming general to surrender once the enemy is not strong.
Therefore, the first thing Zhu You did after breaking Liaoyang was to kill Li Yongfang and eliminate the thoughts of those traitors in the future.
I am a traitor, and I will punish him!
Chapter completed!