Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 206 Killing the Liao Merchant
"Hey-"

"Go out, dog tartar!"

At the north gate of Weining Camp Fort, more than a dozen Ming soldiers are pushing a huge chariot, trying to block the gate, and this chariot is the terrifying Saimen sword cart.

The size of this object is not much different from the city gate corridor. The front is full of knives, and at this moment, there are disgusting flesh and blood hanging on these knives. On the ground are the corpses of war horses and Jianlu, which is extremely terrifying.

Outside the suspension bridge, Huang Taiji looked at the four-foot-tall chariot with numbness and sweaty palms.

Just now he wanted to ride his horse into the city, but luckily his horse was not fast, so he escaped the pincer attack of two saber carts in the inner city.

He clearly saw three mounted infantrymen being pinched to death by two saber wagons, so he quickly retreated.

"What's going on! Didn't you say that the North Gate has been taken down?!"

Huang Taiji cursed angrily, rarely showing his original temper, while Bai Jiabalaya, who had gone to report the letter before, knelt on it, lowered his head and said:

"It should be the reinforcements of the Ming army in the city who fought back and regained the city gate, but please rest assured, Baylor, the gate tower is still in the hands of the warriors of Dajin!"

"If you can't take down the city gate, it's useless to take down more towers!" Huang Taiji in the rain scolded angrily, then pointed at the city gate with a whip and said:

"Have someone release a thousand-jin gate to hold down the knife cart, and then order someone to hack the knife cart with an axe. Within a quarter of an hour, I will take down the city gate!"

"Yes!" Many Jiala foreheads really bowed their heads in response, and then the army outside Beicheng began to mobilize.

Almost at the same time, Lu Qin from the east gate also killed all Liao merchants and northern captives, and then followed the horseshoe imprint outside the city, his face changed drastically:
"Jianlu went to Beicheng, and five hundred soldiers are stationed here, and the rest will follow me to support Beicheng!"

After a fierce battle, the crowd had no time to rest. After the battle, more than [-] people followed Lu Qin to the north city gate, and the north city gate at this moment was also extremely tragic.

Jiala's true combat power is worthy of recognition, but Wang Chong's sacrifice of life is more likely to shock people.

The arrow wound on his face did not stop bleeding, which caused his strength to decline, and he gradually became unable to hold the pumpkin hammer tightly, but sometimes, the will is often stronger than the body.

Right now, he is in this state.

"kill!"

Exhausting his last strength, Wang Chong led his men into the tower. Seeing that the situation was not good, Hu Erhan found the saber cart in the corridor of the city gate, and hurried down to kill the Ming army at the gate.

After Wang Chong broke into the tower, he immediately saw Baijia Balaya who was stirring the turntable.

The lieutenant next to Wang Chong led people to kill him, and at the same time, the pumpkin hammer in Wang Chong's hand also fell, his eyes darkened, and he passed out...

"Commander!"

Seeing Wang Chong collapsed, the lieutenant hurried forward to help him, and was relieved when he found that Wang Chong had just passed out.

"Lieutenant General Li! This winch has been smashed, it cannot be put down, it cannot be twisted!"

Suddenly, it was two guerrillas shouting anxiously, and Lieutenant General Li gritted his teeth immediately when he heard this:
"The winch is broken, the city gate is safe to defend, the whole army withdraws!"

"Obey!" Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they heard Lieutenant General Li's words.

In the current situation, the city gate will definitely not be able to be defended. If Lieutenant General Li is as stubborn as Wang Chong, I am afraid that the army will be buried here.

Retreating in time is the best answer to Qi Wang Junling.

"If you save land and lose people, all people and land will be lost. If you save people and lose land, all people and land will survive."

This is the military order left by Zhu Youjian after the rectification of Liaodong. It refers to Liaodong. Except for Liaoshen and other important cities, if the rest of the places are in a critical moment, the army can retreat without defending to the death. There will be no mistakes after the war.

The reason why Zhu Youjian issued this order is that with the future artillery of the Ming army, it is a hundred times easier to attack a city than Houjin, so there is no need to lose tens of thousands of troops in order to defend a city.

The only thing the general needs to do is to burn all the supplies that cannot be taken away!
Baijiabalaya's elite level is astonishing, with three thousand battalion soldiers, one-third of the soldiers and horses have been lost right now, so if they don't leave, they really have no chance to leave.

If you leave, you still have a chance to counterattack. If you don't leave, you will only be dumped, and no one can pass the news out.

In this way of thinking, Vice General Li took advantage of the fact that Huang Taiji outside the gate had not completely broken through the city gate, and hurriedly withdrew to the east gate with the remaining troops, and after they left, Hu Erhan took people to retake it. He opened the city gate tower and the city gate, and let Huang Taiji in.

"Have the Ming army been wiped out?"

As soon as Huang Taiji entered the city, he looked at the corpses of the Ming army all over the place, as well as many corpses of Baijiabalaya, and his face became extremely ugly.

"No... more than a thousand people escaped..."

Hu Erhan also felt his face was burning hot, because he didn't expect that he led Baijia Balaya and was snatched back to the city gate tower by the Ming army.

"Go to the treasury and Changping warehouse first!"

When Huang Taiji heard that someone had escaped, he didn't have time to reprimand Hu Erhan, but anxiously led his people to close the warehouse and rush to the treasury.

Once the Ming army is defeated, it will burn supplies. This has been known to everyone in Houjin for the past two years.

For Hou Jin, any material is indispensable, so they can't care about the pursuit.

While they were rushing to the granary, the rain began to subside gradually, and when Lieutenant General Li led the remnant army and the fainted Wang Chong to the east gate, they also encountered more than [-] soldiers and horses led by Lu Qin .

"General! The North Gate has been lost, nearly half of the camp has been lost, and the number of prisoners exceeds [-]!"

Seeing Lu Qin, Lieutenant General Li seemed to have found the backbone, and when Lu Qin heard that there were more than [-] Jian prisoners and that the North City Gate had been captured, he immediately said to the hundreds of riders around him:
"Go! Burn the gunpowder depot, granary and Changping warehouse! Inform all ministries to withdraw from Ximen to Liaoyang!"

The post-Golden Horse infantry was stronger than the Ming army. Since the city gate was lost, there was no need to defend it. It would be better to withdraw to Liaoyang and counterattack with General Yanshan's cannon.

The rain was getting lighter, and the Ming army was retreating. At the same time, they set fire to Changping warehouse, gunpowder depot and treasury, and transported half of the thirty boxes of silver in the treasury.

By the time Huang Taiji led the troops, Lu Qin had already led his men out of Weining Camp Fort, and blew up forty-seven Francois artillery pieces on the east, south, and west walls.

"Fire out!"

Looking at the burning Changping warehouse and treasury, Huang Taiji anxiously commanded the army to put out the fire, and didn't even bother to pursue Lu Qin, after all, he had already set up an ambush on the way back to Liaoyang in Weining Yingbao.

Due to the rain, the burned food in the Changping warehouse and the treasury was not too much. The only thing that made Huang Taiji look bad was that most of the thousands of catties of gunpowder in the gunpowder depot were taken away, and the remaining hundreds of catties were all set on fire. up.

"Pfft..."

The sound of iron piercing into flesh and blood was heard, and half an hour later, the Weining camp had announced that the war had ceased.

On the top of the city, the broken bodies, armor, broken spears and weapons, as well as the "Ming" flags abandoned on the ground and washed by the heavy rain all indicate the fall of Weining Camp Fortress.

When Huang Taiji counted the casualties and captured battles, his face turned ugly. At this time, Nurhachi also led his army to the outside of Weining Camp...

"drive!"

The dense sound of horseshoes sounded, Huang Taiji and Hu Erhan led people out from the east gate, and saw horse infantry of various colors in coir raincoats.

There are so many of them that they almost fill up the eastern river valley where Weining Camp Fort is located, and there is not a piece of bare land in sight.

Huang Taiji led his men and rode out of the valley along the road the army had come from, and beyond the valley, there were soldiers and horses of various colors that could not be seen at a glance.

It's just that after marching in the rain for more than two hours, the faces of these soldiers and horsemen turned abnormally pale, and their lips even turned purple.

Fortunately, it is only June now. If the rain had been in September or October, the [-] miles would have been enough to cause thousands of people to fall down.

Huang Taiji glanced at it, and galloped for another two or three miles. At this time, a yellow tent appeared in the distance, and Huang Taiji also rode his horse to the front of the tent, got off the horse with Hu Erhan, and knelt on the ground with one knee.

At the same time he knelt down, the sound of footsteps appeared from inside the yellow tent, a figure in yellow armor walked into the rain, and behind him were generals in various armors, and a man in armor, but A young man with an angry book.

"Khan Ama, the Weining Fort has been taken!"

Huang Taiji knelt on one knee on the muddy ground in the rain, and standing in front of him was Nurhachi who personally led the army into Liao.

Behind Nurhachi stood an old general, Yang Guli, who was one of the five ministers with Hu Erhan, followed by Dudu, Yuetuo, Abatai, Jierhalang and other generals.

Under such a lineup, the young man in armor with an angry face was very unfriendly, but when Nurhachi heard Huang Taiji's words, he immediately turned his head and said to the young man:

"Fan Wencheng, your strategy is good. You can get credit for removing your status as a armored slave. From today onwards, you will be the commander-in-chief of the Fourth Han Battalion."

"Thank you Khan!" Hearing Nurhachi's words, Fan Wencheng knelt down excitedly, and this scene aroused the dissatisfaction of others.

However, due to the imminent event, no one said anything.

But Huang Taiji saw this and took the opportunity to say:

"Khan Ama, following Mr. Fan's strategy this time, he instigated rebellion against the Han merchants in the Weining camp, attacked the Weining camp from inside and outside, and seized more than [-] Fran cannons, more than [-] taels of silver, and [-] yuan Six thousand stones of grain."

Huang Taiji was talking about the seizure on the surface, but he was actually highlighting the importance of Fan Wencheng.

Sure enough, as soon as he said this, Nurhachi said to Fan Wencheng again: "Forget it, you lead a battalion alone."

"Thank you!" Fan Wencheng kowtowed excitedly again, and at this time Yang Guli, who was standing behind Nurhachi, also stepped forward and said:
"Khan, do you want to withdraw your troops now? The capture of more than [-] shi of grain and [-] cannons is not bad."

"Retreat?" Nurhachi twitched the muscles on his face, and looked at Huang Taiji with gloomy eyes:
"How many casualties in the army..."

"Uh... Balaya killed more than [-] people and injured [-] people. All the Han merchants and Mongols in the city were killed. The horse infantry killed more than [-] people and injured [-]. The Golden Warriors killed more than [-] people and seriously injured nearly [-] people, and all the Han merchants and Mongols in the city died in battle..."

Huang Taiji lowered his head and reported that Nurhachi's face twitched due to the death and injury of the Jin army, and Hu Erhan also took the opportunity to apologize and said:

"Great Khan, it is Balaya led by the servant, the servant is guilty!"

Ba Yala, the Chinese characters generally write Baijiabing, which is basically composed of the elite fighting forces of every Niulu in the Kingdom of Jin.

The Bannermen of the Eight Banners began to be assessed at the age of fifteen. Those who passed were given infantry armor, and those who were outstanding were given vests. Then they were promoted according to the number of kills on the battlefield. Among them, the one who is excellent in riding and shooting is selected as Balaya, also known as Baijia Balaya.

Right now Mingjin wars are far less frequent than in history, so the number of Baijiabalaya is very rare, it can be said to be one in a million.

These more than [-] Baijia Balaya were already the elite of the Jin Kingdom's family, and such an elite actually lost one-fifth of them in this battle, and two-fifths of them were responsible. seriously injured.

Is this because the Ming army's combat strength recovered too quickly, or was it caused by Bai Jiabalaya's underestimation of the enemy?
For a while, all the generals of the Jin Kingdom were thinking about this question, but Nurhachi didn't blame anyone, but suppressed his anger and said:
"Forty thousand soldiers and horses have left the customs, how can they be satisfied? Taking advantage of this rain, the Ming army will be turned into muddy water!"

After all, Nurhachi said:

"Pass my order, the soldiers who attacked the city changed their bowstrings, and the seriously injured soldiers were sent to Sanyangyu Fort. The army continued to march according to the plan!"

"Yes--"

As soon as the order was issued, the generals obeyed the order, and more than [-] Jin Kingdom horse infantry continued to move towards the city they were planning to attack.

After they left, the torrential rain continued. The black clouds in the sky were as thick as ink, as if a hole had been broken, and the rain was heavy...

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"This rainstorm is really not the right time..."

At the head of Liaoyang City, an official standing under the canopy sighed.

As the sky gradually brightened, his appearance was gradually seen by the people around him.

His stature was about five feet seven or eight inches. Although he was not as tall as Sun Chuanting and Xiong Tingbi who were nearly two meters tall, his height was considered outstanding among civil servants.

He looks like a young man with fair complexion. Although he is tall, he is a little thin, but his shoulders are very broad and his joints are large.

He stood quietly at the top of the city and looked into the distance, and outside the east of the city was a huge fortress that could not be seen at a glance.

They were soldiers and horses of the third army of Fuliao, with a total of [-] battalions and more than [-] people.

In addition to them outside the city, there are also three battalions of Liao soldiers stationed in Liaoyang City, which are well-defended.

On the wide horse path, from time to time, patrolling soldiers in armor walked behind the official. Every time a group of soldiers and horses passed by, they would look at the official a few times.

Perhaps they were curious why a civil servant should care about defending the city.

At this time, a twenty-seven-eight, not tall general walked towards the official, and then said:

"Prefect Lu, it's raining heavily, you stayed on the city wall all night, you'd better go back to the yamen to rest."

As soon as the general opened his mouth, Lu Xiangsheng turned around and bowed:

"Then there will be Soldier Rauma."

"In any case, defending the territory is what I and other generals will do." Ma Xianglin bowed back.

Seeing this, Lu Xiangsheng didn't want to say anything more, so he turned around and was about to get off the horse path and return to the city.

However, at this moment, the barracks outside the east gate suddenly became agitated. This change made Ma Xianglin and Lu Xiangsheng vigilant.

"Go! Go see what's going on."

Lu Xiangsheng and Ma Xianglin looked at each other, and then they got off the city wall, got on their horses, and rode towards the military camp outside the east gate.

After a cup of tea, when they arrived at the exit of the barracks, they only saw thousands of shattered soldiers and Lu Qin who was complaining to Hong Chengchou and You Shigong.

"What happened?"

Lu Xiangsheng and Ma Xianglin stepped forward to ask, and Lu Qin explained again.

"Last night, the old slave attacked the Weining Camp Fort unexpectedly. The Liao merchants and the northern captives in the fort rebelled. Under the attack from inside and outside, the old man had no choice but to lead the troops to retreat."

"Afterwards, at the Sanchakou, Jianlu intercepted halfway. The army had no choice but to retreat ten miles, and then forced the Taizi River, took the mountain road on the south bank, and returned to Liaoyang after a night."

Lu Qin finished his explanation, but all the generals knew that this time the Weining camp was lost, and Lu Qin would inevitably be held accountable by Zhu You after the war.

Without him, the Jin army used the same method last time at the alkali field fort, and now the Jin army used the same method again. In this case, Luqin actually lost the Weining camp fort.

It is also fortunate that the General Yanshan Cannon in Liaoyang was not transported to Weining Camp Fort. If the General Yanshan Cannon is lost, Lu Qin may lose his head...

"How big is the Jianlu army?"

Hong Chengchou didn't care whether Lu Qin would be held accountable. He cared more about Nurhachi's movements, so he frowned and asked, and Lu Qin also said:
"No less than [-] people, just intercepting our soldiers and horses, there are [-] people."

"If that's the case, then they should have arrived in Liaoyang by now..." Lu Xiangsheng frowned and said:

"It's faster to walk from the Weining Camp to the north bank of the Prince's River. Even if it's dragged down by luggage, it's faster than the Lu Zong soldiers. But right now, even Jianlu's Tang Qi has not appeared, so the old slave must turn to attack. He's gone somewhere."

Suddenly, Hong Chengchou frowned, as if he had thought of something, he clenched his fist and said:
"Fengji County! The old slave has gone to attack Fengji County!"

"Fengji County?" Hearing this, all the generals tensed up.

Yang Zhaoji's [-] battalion is currently stationed in Fengji County. If Lu Qin's [-] battalion can't stop the old slave, then if the same trick is performed in Fengji County, then Fengji Fort...

Everyone didn't dare to imagine, but Hong Chengchou's eyes lit up and he said:

"Since the old slave is out of customs, I will stop him on his way back!"

"Command the army, bury the pot and make food. At three o'clock, the army marches towards the Weining camp! At the same time, report to the king of Qi that the army is marching, and send a message to Shenyang that the old slave may attack Fengji, and then communicate with the Qin general in Kuandian. Now is a good time to take back Raven Pass!"

Hong Chengchou wanted to take credit, because he was keenly aware that this time, the old slave was not doing a siege to help the Ming army to wipe out the vital forces of the Ming army.

The old slave is looting this time, in preparation for the loss of Liaodong.

That being the case, the Weining Camp will definitely not stay with too many soldiers and horses, because Liaobei is open, and horse infantry can bypass Shenyang with high mobility and return to Tieling, Fushun and other places from various places.

Regarding Hong Chengchou's actions, everyone could see that he wanted to take credit, so they were slightly critical, but he was the main general, so no one refuted for a while, but took over the military order.

Several horses rode out on horseback and ran towards Guangning, Shenyang, and Kuandian. However, compared to Luqin, who had to drive a hundred miles to return to Liaoyang, he took the mountain road from Weiningyingbao to Nurhachi in Fengji. , but only need to catch the seventy-mile mountain road!
Therefore, when the news reached Shenyang, Xiong Tingbi in Shenyang had already received the news of Fengji asking for help, and was coordinating the army, preparing to encircle and suppress the army of Nurhachi.

Qi Jin, He Shixian, Yang Wenyue, Wu Aheng, Xiong Tingbi and other five people organized the [-]th Battalion, and more than [-] soldiers and horses rushed towards Fengji. The required military rations had been prepared half a month ago. A general offensive will also be launched after the rainy season ends in half a month.

Therefore, at present, both the Ming and Jin armies are fully prepared to fight in Fengji, and Shenyang is only more than fifty miles away from Fengji.

"Order Hong Chengchou to attack Weining Camp Fort and cut off the old slave's escape route from Weining Camp Fort."

"General Qi Yuanbi and Da Lai (surname Yuan Yingtai) led five battalions of soldiers and horses to guard Shenyang, and killed all the Liao merchants who had northern captives in the city and in their courtyards!"

Xiong Tingbi showed his ruthlessness at this moment, or in other words, the matter of killing Liao merchants has already been settled.

Xiong Tingbi had discussed this matter with Zhu Youjian long before the Liao business was discussed, and the two also knew that if they wanted to take action against the Liao merchants, they had to have a reasonable excuse.

What is this excuse?It is nothing more than that before the war of restoring Liao Dynasty, Liao merchants made actions that harmed the army's restoration of Liao Dynasty.

Xiong Tingbi and Zhu Youjian had waited for this behavior for a long time, and now they can finally blatantly confiscate the leader and family property of the Liao merchants!
"Jinglue, do you need to attack Fushun?"

At the same time as Xiong Tingbi's military order was issued, Sun Chuanting of the second army also asked his own questions.

There are currently two armies in Shenyang, one is the [-]th Battalion of Xiong Tingbi and others, and the other is the [-]th Battalion of Three Guards of Sun Chuanting.

Since the old slave has come, in Sun Chuanting's opinion, he should be the one who beat him, and the Ming army beat the Ming army.

Taking advantage of this opportunity to take Fushun, Shenyang will have a gateway to the east, and it can also block the old slave's idea of ​​returning from Fushun.

However, Sun Chuanting's thoughts were still a little simple. Seeing him asking, Xiong Tingbi in the barracks shook his head and said:

"Since the old slave dared to send troops, he must have made plans to defend Fushun and Tieling to the death."

"It's raining heavily, even if there is a canopy, the disadvantages of firearms are very obvious. Without artillery to attack the city, the army will inevitably suffer heavy casualties."

"The old slave will not go back to Weining Camp Fort. He has already given up Weining Camp Fort and Qinghe Fort. It is enough for Jianlu to guard the Yahu Pass."

"Yahuguan, Tieling, and Fushun, these three places must have gathered heavy troops, and they cannot be attacked until the sun clears."

"What I am worried about now is that when I send troops to encircle and suppress the old slave, the Jianlu troops in Fushun and Tieling will send troops to attack from the north and the south. Therefore, I want to ask the three generals to defend Shenyang and at the same time cut off the Jianlu reinforcements that may go to support the old slave!"

Xiong Tingbi's thoughts were dense, and he knew that Nurhachi's strategic purpose this time was to plunder, and after the plunder, the mobility of the army would be greatly reduced, so reinforcements were needed to support it, so that the Ming army would not dare to easily fight against the Jin soldiers.

In this case, instead of taking Sun Chuanting's army, which is basically full of firearms, to encircle and suppress Nurhachi, it is better to let them wait for the weather to clear up and block the Jin army's reinforcements.

"Since this is the case, the general understands!" Sun Chuanting made it clear, and immediately expressed with Sun Yingyuan and Cao Wenzhao that they would stick to Shenyang and block all reinforcements.

Seeing this, Xiong Tingbi nodded immediately, and then led Qi Jin, Yang Wenyue, Wu Aheng, He Shixian and others to mobilize the first army.

Seeing Xiong Tingbi and the others go out, Yuan Yingtai hesitated and said: "This is to kill Liao merchants..."

"Don't worry, the chief envoy, leave it to the last general..."

Qi Yuanbi stepped forward and took the initiative to undertake this task.

He knew that Yuan Yingtai wasn't ruthless enough for this kind of thing, but he was ruthless enough!
He didn't care whether the imperial court would pursue responsibility after killing the Liao merchants, he only knew that he would rather kill a thousand by mistake than let one go, not to mention that the roots of the Liao merchants have long since rotted.

With the support of His Royal Highness King Qi, even if the civil officials impeach him in every possible way, so what?Qi Yuanbi is no longer the ignorant martial artist he was three years ago. He knows that except for the emperor who blames him, under the protection of His Highness King Qi, no one can bring him down.

On the contrary, if you can replenish military funds in the process of raiding your home, you will be rewarded after the war.

Therefore, after Qi Yuanbi took on the task, he commanded the fifth battalion of the first army to stay in the city, and began to search from house to house.

"Yuan Dalai! You will die! What crime are we guilty of killing merchants without permission?!"

"Yuan Dalai, you will suffer retribution!"

"My son, Zhu Youjian, who kills merchants without permission, will surely be defeated!"

The house was broken into and ransacked, and many Liao merchants were dragged out of their homes by soldiers and horses commanded by Qi Yuanbi, and they were still cursing before they were dragged to the head of the Xishi lord.

It wasn't until they were beheaded that the noisy voices quieted down, and Qi Yuanbi in the rain didn't feel guilty about the rolling heads one by one.

This group of people... should have died long ago!
(End of this chapter)