Paper Maker: This is the end of the Ming Dynasty in Liaozhai

Chapter 225 10 taels of silver to buy your Shenyang City

An hour later, Mang Gurtai, Huang Taiji, and Azig left Shenyang City with [-] Jurchen cavalry.

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Naturally, the movements in Shenyang City could not be concealed from Tang Xiangjin and the others.

On the building car, Tang Xiangjin and the others looked at the large cloud of smoke and dust in the distance, it was obvious that the Jurchens were reorganizing the army.

"Beat the drums, prepare for battle!"

Tang Xiangjin said in a deep voice: "This time it will be a tough battle, everyone be careful, don't let the Jurchens break through the camp easily."

They were already prepared for a protracted war, and they also put in great effort when building the camp. A qualified military camp is equivalent to a simple city. In addition to wooden walls, there are also arrow towers and watchtowers.

In addition to the gate of the barracks, trenches as deep as six or seven feet were dug all around. The soil dug from the trenches was used to reinforce and heighten the wooden walls. There are staghorn wood outside the horse trap, and a lot of barbed wire is sprinkled on the outermost edge.

All this is to prevent surprise attacks like the Fire Bull Formation and cavalry charges. You must know that the most feared thing in a military camp is a surprise attack at night. Sometimes a small surprise attack will trigger a terrifying camp roar .

After all, war puts a lot of pressure on people. Some timid soldiers may collapse instantly when encountering a surprise attack at night, or flee or attack their comrades around them. The defense of a military camp that needs to be stationed for a long time will never lose to that of an ordinary small town.

Now they are guarding the camp and taking advantage of the terrain. As long as the camp is not broken, the Jurchens can only kowtow and break their blood.

After a while, a large number of Qi soldiers appeared on the wooden wall. In the ditch outside the wooden wall, there was a huge fort in the center of the camp. There, hundreds of chariots blocked the gate tightly.

When Tang Xiangjin was getting ready, Huang Taiji and the others had already led the troops to a place three miles away from the Qi army's camp.

"Get on the horse!"

With Huang Taiji's order, tens of thousands of Eight Banners cavalry got on their horses and began to march towards the Qi army's camp.

Just two miles away from the camp, there were dozens of loud noises, and then 38 solid shells smashed into the cavalry group with piercing screams. In an instant, the 38 solid shells plowed through the cavalry group. In the face of solid shells, no matter whether it is a man or a horse, the road of blood is instantly broken.

However, Huang Taiji and the others did not stop, but continued to move forward. The advantage of cavalry over infantry lies in speed. Circling cavalry is the biggest killer of cavalry against infantry. Unless it is a heavy cavalry in full armor, it is rare Some cavalry charged forward.

But at a distance of hundreds of feet from the camp, cannons rang out one after another. This time it was the tiger squatting cannon that fired, and thousands of stones and iron beads rained down on the Jurchen cavalry.

For a moment, more than a dozen Jurchen cavalry fell off their horses, but the other Jurchen cavalry did not stop. The galloping horses trampled the wounded and fallen cavalry into a puddle of flesh.

Fifty feet!
Forty feet!
Thirty feet!
At this time, the leading Jurchen cavalry turned their horses and advanced along the wooden wall, while bending their bows and shooting arrows upwards. The rain hits the wooden wall.

The rain of arrows landed on the wooden wall, and there was a muffled sound. It was obvious that some people were still injured by the rain of arrows, but after all, there were not many people who were actually injured by the rain of arrows because of the wooden wall as a cover.

And the archers of the Qi army are not vegetarians. They bend their bows and throw their arrows outward. They don't need to aim much. It is enough to throw them directly to the sky. The Jurchen cavalry are roaring past, not to mention how many they can shoot. But the lethality cannot be underestimated.

However, in the face of tens of thousands of Jurchen cavalry roaring past, the archers of the Qi army were beaten so hard that they did not dare to show their heads after only a few counterattacks. In a short time, thousands of arrows were thrown towards a wooden wall, and the Qi army with only a few hundred people on a wooden wall, how could it be possible to hold it.

boom!boom!boom!
At this time, the tiger squatting cannon fired again, and thousands of stones and iron beads rained down on the Jurchen cavalry again. In a short time, dozens of hundreds of people fell off their horses.

After shooting in a circle, the Jurchen cavalry drifted away, leaving only the dense arrows on the wooden wall and a few Jurchen cavalry who died in battle.

On the building carriage, Tang Xiangjin looked at the Jurchen cavalry going away with an extremely gloomy expression. What the infantry feared most was the cavalry's diffraction tactics.

Although he still has nearly [-] "swarm rockets" in his hand, these are the trump cards at the bottom of the box. They can only play the greatest role in the face of enemies in a dense formation. Now that they are all used up, the future battle situation will only be worse. Disaster.

"Let's count the battle damage."

Tang Xiangjin turned to look at Pan Pingdao at the side.

"Yes, Governor!"

Pan Ping nodded in response, then turned and left.

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"Captain, the battle damage has been counted."

Half a day later, Pan Ping returned to the building car: "We killed 380 people and injured 620 people."

"Where is the Jurchen?"

Hearing this number, Tang Xiangjin couldn't help but frown. Under the cover of wooden walls and shields, there was still such a large loss. The Jurchens would definitely not attack this time only. If there were too many casualties, there was no guarantee that the soldiers would not collapse.

"I don't know."

Pan Ping shook his head: "Those Jurchen cavalrymen who fell from their horses were trampled into flesh, and the rest of the wounded soldiers were also rescued. It is impossible to count the exact number, but it is estimated that the casualties should be around three to four hundred."

"Do your best to treat the wounded."

After a moment of silence, Tang Xiangjin said, although their casualties were more severe, but in terms of losses, the Jurchens were still greater. It is several times more difficult to train a cavalryman than an infantryman, and the horses injured in this attack by the Jurchens are absolutely Not too little, the value of a war horse is much more expensive than a person.

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Time passed day by day, and every one or two days, the Jurchens would attack once, and the two sides entered a mode of fighting for consumption.

As the battle losses of both sides increased, the frequency of the Jurchens' attacks became less and less, from once a day or two at the beginning to once every two or three days or even four or five days, and it has not been half a month recently. Attacked.

"It seems that the Jurchens can't hold on anymore."

Looking at Shenyang City in the distance, Luo Yi breathed a sigh of relief. In the past two months, the Jurchens have attacked nearly 2 times, and nearly 160 people have been killed or injured on their side. There are only more than 23 tiger squat cannons left, and only [-] Hongyi cannons left, but the Jurchens obviously suffered a lot of losses, otherwise they wouldn't have not attacked for half a month.

After a pause, Luo Yi continued: "Old Tang, why don't you let Yan Xia go to Shenyang City again?"

"Not for now."

Tang Xiangjin shook his head and said, "If it's over now, maybe the Jurchens will think that we're going to lose it."

"Beat the drums, go to battle!"

"Take all the swarming rockets and beat them so hard that they have to give in!"

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Soon, with the sound of war drums and thunder, Qi soldiers gathered again, and then marched towards Shenyang City ten miles away.

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Naturally, such a big movement by the Qi army could not be concealed from Huang Taiji and others in Shenyang City.

On the city tower, Huang Taiji and Mang Gurtai looked at the approaching Qi army, and everyone had serious expressions on their faces. The Qi army was more tenacious than they imagined. During the attack for more than two months, they all With seven or eight thousand cavalry casualties, the Qi army's casualties will only be greater than theirs. Unexpectedly, the Qi army still has the strength to attack now.

"What should I do?"

Mangurtai said in a low voice, "Do you want to attack?"

"I'm worried that the opponent will bring the previous swarm of rockets this time."

Huang Taiji's face was gloomy. He thought that the two months of attack would force the opponent to use up that kind of firearms, but in the past two months, the opponent would rather use the lives of soldiers to fill it than take out those firearms .

"Could it be that you just watched the opponent attack the city?"

Hearing this, Mang Gurtai frowned. The artillery in the city was almost destroyed by the opponent before. They were not capable of defending the city, so they could only be beaten passively. less than.

The bows and arrows of the top-level experts can be shot, but the top-level experts must also guard against the other side's experts, otherwise the loss of one high-level expert will be more distressing than the loss of dozens of ordinary soldiers.

"If you attack, what should you do if the loss is too great?"

Hearing this, Huang Taiji frowned and said, now he doesn't have much confidence in defending Liaodong, the Qi army can't be defeated after more than two months of attack, and in Liaoyang City, Daishan has sent several times for help Without Mang Gurtai and the others to restrain them, the attack power of the Ming army soared, and Daishan and the others would not be able to last long.

Hearing this, Mang Gurtai was also speechless. In the past two months of attack, Zhenglan Banner suffered a lot of losses, not even many arrows.

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No Jurchen went out to attack. After attacking the city wall, Tang Xiangjin chose Mingjin to withdraw.

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The next day, Yan Xia came to Shenyang City again with two men.

"The envoy Yan Xia has seen the Great Khan."

Seeing Huang Taiji in sweat suit, Yan Xia bowed his hands.

"Why are you still here?"

Although he knew Yan Xia's intentions, Huang Taiji still asked knowingly.

"Khan, now that our two armies have been fighting for several months, we have already suffered heavy casualties. If we continue to fight, we will only lose."

Yan Xia clasped his hands and said: "At that time, Da Ming will only take advantage of it. Presumably the Great Khan doesn't want the Jurchen clan to perish."

"Are you threatening us?"

Before Huang Taiji could speak, Mang Gurtai said gloomyly.

"It turned out to be Erbaile."

After taking a look at Mang Gurtai, Yan Xia said indifferently: "Yan has no such intentions, just telling the truth, I, Da Qi, don't have much enmity with your Jurchen clan, there is no need to fight to the end with the Jurchen clan, but Daming is different, if Daming comes to Shenyang City, the Jurchen clan will want to retreat completely, and I am afraid it will not be so easy."

Hearing Yan Xia's words, Mang Gurtai fell silent. Yan Xia was right, if the Ming army came here, their Jurchen clan would not want to leave easily.

"Then how much are you going to spend to buy our city of Shenyang?"

At this time, Huang Taiji said with a gloomy expression that he no longer had the confidence to defend Liaodong. The previous battles have shown that the Qi army is not weak. If they want to repel the Qi army, they will die at least another 2 people .

The previous battle in the Guannei had suffered heavy losses, and then they fought with Daming for two years, and even fought with Lin Danhan. Their nearly 6 disciples of the Banners had killed and injured more than [-] people, and the battle with the Qi army killed and injured another [-]. There are less than [-] people in the Eight Banners who can fight now.

With the current strength, they can still suppress the tribes in Monan and gain a foothold on the grassland. If another 2 people are killed or injured, the Jurchen clan will not be far from being wiped out. After all, the tribes in Monan don’t want to have more than one head Father, he would never want them to gain a foothold on the grassland.

"We, Da Qi, are willing to buy Shenyang City with 10 taels of silver."

Hearing Huang Taiji's words, Yan Xia cupped his hands and said.

"Three million taels of silver!"

Hearing this, Huang Taiji couldn't help laughing back angrily: "Are you Daqi humiliating Ben Khan?"

"The Great Khan calm down, I, Daqi, have absolutely no intention of humiliating the Great Khan."

Yan Xia calmly said: "After Da Qi captured Shenyang City, we also had to stop the Ming army for Da Khan. 10 taels of silver is already quite a lot."

Hearing this, the atmosphere in the entire Dazheng Hall instantly became dead silent.

"One million shi of grain."

After a long time, Huang Taiji said coldly: "If you want Shenyang City, then exchange it with 100 million shi of grain!"

"Khan, you are making things difficult for others."

Yan Xia gently shook his head and said: "The terrain in Liaodong is complex, and it is difficult to transport grain. It will take nearly a year to transport 100 million shi of grain to Shenyang, and wait for the grain to arrive here." I am afraid that Shenyang City and Liaoyang City have already fallen into the hands of the Ming army."

"Then how much food can you produce?"

Hearing this, Huang Taiji gritted his teeth and said, he doesn't value silver very much. If he went to those Shanxi merchants to buy grain with 10 taels of silver, he might not even be able to buy [-] shi of grain, so he only wanted grain.

"This Yan needs to go back and ask the governor for instructions."

Yan Xia clapped his hands back.

"Go."

Huang Taiji waved his hands expressionlessly.

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After Yanxia and the three left, the entire Dazheng Palace fell into dead silence. No one thought that Nurhachi led them to conquer Liaodong and moved the tribe from the bitterly cold Nuer Gandusi to Shenyang City.

But now, just a few years after Nurhachi's death, they have been reduced to the point where they want to sell Shenyang City cheaply.

But no one blames Huang Taiji for making this decision, because now, they have no other choice, either trade Shenyang City for a large amount of food, and then withdraw to the grassland, or fight Da Qi to death, and finally die.

"I will go to my father's spirit to plead guilty!"

After glancing at Mang Gurtai and the others, Huang Taiji sighed. He didn't know whether he was right or wrong in fighting for the Khan position. If it was true that Dorgon would inherit the Khan position as his father wished, perhaps The Jurchen clan will not fall into this situation.

(End of this chapter)