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Volume 6: The whip points eastward to the end of the world. Chapter 498: The city is broken and the army is dead.

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    "You are very talented and aware of current affairs. Our country is looking for talents. If you are not enough to prepare an envoy, I will use them and marry you. How can you not be favored and honored to be ranked with my first-class ministers? If you are  If you want to fight, how can my arrow recognize you? If you can't win, what's the point of dying? If you leave the city and surrender, our troops will not come back, and your soldiers will be safe. If my army enters the city, the men, women, old and weak will be shocked and defeated.  It¡¯s not good for your people. Don¡¯t say that I¡¯m yelling at you, and I¡¯m sorry if you miss this great plan. You know how to decide whether to surrender or not. Don¡¯t be unable to bear the anger of the moment and do something contrary to my words!¡±

    Fushun City guerrilla Li Yongfang, who was nearly forty years old and physically strong, stood on the crenellations of the south gate in full armor. Looking at the Eight Banners Army in the mountains outside the city, he ordered his sergeants to prepare equipment to defend the city while folding Nurhachi's surrender letter.  So he kept it in his arms, and asked the Han citizen who came with the surrender letter to go out of the city and tell Nurhachi that Li Yongfang was willing to surrender.

    A cunning rabbit has three burrows to be prepared. Nurhachi was right when he said that Li Yongfang knew the current affairs. Li Yongfang did not expect that Nurhachi would dare to attack the city with great fanfare, but he knew that Nurhachi was a person who never stopped doing anything.  Now that the army has been raised, it is a complete break with the Ming Dynasty. Li Yongfang is dead or alive. Today, there are only 1,200 sergeants in Fushun City, and the 800 infantry stationed at Shilima City in the east of the city have been killed by the emperor.  Taiji's Zhengbai Banner Army was defeated, and the leader of the army, General Zhang's head, was now being held high on a wooden pole by Sergeant Houjin and displayed outside the city.

    Li Yongfang knew that the Eight Banners Army was good at field battles and bad at attacking cities, so although the enemy was outnumbered, he still had to defend. Who wouldn't want to be a loyal minister and leave his name in history? Moreover, his family members were still in Liaoyang, so he wanted to try  Whether you can hold on for a while, as long as you can hold on for one day.  Reinforcements should arrive from Shenyang, which is eighty miles away.  Reinforcements from Kaiyuan and Liaoyang, two hundred miles away, will also arrive soon.  However, looking at the Jurchen infantry and cavalry flags outside the city, which are divided into eight colors, it can be seen that Nurhachi's Eight Banners Army has been mobilized. Even if the Liao and Shen reinforcements can arrive in time, they will not be able to resist the fierce Jianzhou Jurchen. Li Yongfang  Having served in the army in Liaodong for many years, I am quite familiar with the combat effectiveness of the Ming army.

    Fushun's garrison king Mingyin has ordered the only ten squatting tiger cannons in Fushun City to be pushed up to the top of the city to bombard the Hou Jin army outside the city. However, these tiger squatting cannons are in disrepair and it rained heavily last night.  The barrel of the gun was still intact, and the sergeant was busy preparing gunpowder projectiles. He finally fired a cannon, but it failed to hurt the Hou Jin army below the city. Then the Jin army had launched a tidal wave of offensive, and more than a hundred ladders were set up towards the city wall.  Houjin armored soldiers with swords and shields climbed up quickly.

    Fushun City was built in the 17th year of Hongwu. At first, the city wall was only three miles in circumference. Over the past two hundred years, it has been gradually expanded and now it is a large city with a circumference of ten miles.  The city wall made of bluestone is not weak, but there is a huge disparity between the number of people defending the city and the number of people attacking the city.  Nurhachi was determined to win, and he would attack with 12,000 cavalry and a thousand soldiers guarding the city. If he still could not capture Fushun City, he would have no choice but to immediately lead his troops to retreat to Huerha.

    Fushun garrison Wang Mingyin was a fierce general. He commanded the sergeants to block the Jin army from ascending the city with stones. Although the Ming army did not have enough training on weekdays, they also knew the consequences of the city being broken. They fought bravely, using bows, arrows, muskets, stones and excrement.  It was used, but the Hou Jin soldiers had no choice but to set up more than a hundred ladders and attack fiercely, and the archers of the Hou Jin army were extremely accurate. The Ming army defending the city showed its head at the crenel, and shot an arrow with a "swish", hitting its head.  was penetrated

    A brave warrior in armor from the Houjin Dynasty jumped up from the ladder to the top of the city. With two "Clang Clang" sounds, he used his shield to block the two knives of the Ming army defending the city. The ladder knife in his hand slashed backwards like lightning, killing a Ming soldier.  He screamed, his waist was cut off, and blood spurted out. Three Ming soldiers surrounded him. One of them stabbed the Houjin armored soldier in the back with a spear. Unexpectedly, the tip of the spear was blocked by the cloth armor and could not penetrate.  Stab with force again, then the golden armored soldier twisted his body, smashed his shield back, and broke the gun pole. When the soldier who was guarding the city couldn't help but rushed forward, the golden armored soldier chopped off his head with one sword.  It flew up in a "puffy" manner, and the blood in the neck was splashing and spraying.

    This Houjin armored soldier is Niulu Zhangjing under the Zhengbai Banner. He wears three layers of heavy armor. The innermost layer is expensive chain armor, then a layer of iron armor, and the outermost layer is covered with a layer of iron.  He was wearing cotton armor. Ordinary muskets and arrows could not hurt him with such heavy armor. In just a moment, four Ming soldiers who defended the city died under his sword. Behind him, a group of gold-clad soldiers were quickly filing in from the ladder.  And up.

    Wang Mingyin roared and led several soldiers to rush here. Now that the enemy has boarded the city, the defense line has been torn apart. The enemies who boarded the city must be eliminated as soon as possible and the ladder must be blocked, otherwise the situation will be over.

    At this moment, an arrow shot from the city, hitting Wang Mingyin's neck without a word. Wang Mingyin fell to the ground and twitched to death without saying a word. The soldier beside him was rushed up by Zhang Jing, the white-flag Niulu Zhangjing, and died in the blink of an eye.  Killed two people.

    In such a short period of time, seven or eight armored soldiers of the Hou Jin Dynasty had boarded the Fushun City Wall. The defenders on the city wall were in chaos. The fifty soldiers of the Hou Jin Dynasty who had sneaked into the city disguised as horse merchants were already burning and killing people everywhere.  The fall of Fushun City was inevitable.

    Li Yongfang is wearing the official uniform of a Ming Dynasty general.Riding out of the city and surrendering to Houjin, when he saw Nurhachi, Li Yongfang dismounted and knelt down by the roadside, saying: "Surrender Li Yongfang to pay homage to Yingming Khan."

    Nurhachi rode his horse over with a smug look on his face. Li Yongfang, who was the Fushun guard before, could stand up to him, but now Li Yongfang knelt in front of him, and the authority of the Ming Dynasty was trampled under his horse's hooves.

    For the Hou Jin Dynasty, Li Yongfang was the first general to be demoted in the Ming Dynasty. Nurhachi decided to give him preferential treatment. He bowed his hands in response to the gift on the horse and comforted him with gentle words. He immediately ordered the soldiers and civilians in Fushun City to kill anyone who dared to resist, and those who did not resist.  They were all registered and adopted, and all their belongings were plundered.

    On September 29, the Eight Banners Army of the Later Jin Dynasty captured more than ten large and small towns and more than 4,000 small villages in Fushun and the surrounding areas. They captured 300,000 livestock and distributed them to the banner owners on the spot. Huge material benefits were given to the Later Jin Dynasty.  The army was overjoyed. The destruction of Fushun City greatly expanded Nurhachi's ambition to invade.

    On September 30, when the Eight Banner Leaders were distributing prisoners, there was a student named Fan Wencheng who came from Shenyang to Fushun to visit relatives. Unable to bear the humiliation and being tied up, he shouted that he was a descendant of Fan Zhongyan, a famous official in the Song Dynasty. Huang Taiji heard about his fate  His subordinate Zhang Jing treated Fan Wencheng kindly.

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    The alarm of the fall of Fushun City reached Beijing on the fifth day of October. Emperor Wanli was shocked when he received the report from Li Weihan, the governor of Liaodong, and responded very quickly: "The cunning pirates are planning to trap the border city, and all prevention and suppression matters shall be handled by the local officials.  The military pay will be stepped up and troops will be mobilized to support them, and the ministry will discuss and implement them accordingly."

    After the sergeants in the capital learned about the news about the slaves, they were surprised, but they still thought that the slaves were just a temporary show of power. The major generals of the Fushun city soldiers were inferior and neglected defense. When the soldiers from Liaoyang and Shenyang arrived,  The slave chief would tie his hands, so the people of the Ming Dynasty did not take the border police to heart. They had a heated conversation after tea and dinner, and continued to live their own lives.

    On October 16, another emergency warning was sent from Liaodong: Zhang Chengyin, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, led his army to rescue Fushun, and all the troops were killed.

    This news shocked the city of Beijing. The general died in battle. This was shocking. Some rumors about the brutality of the slaves had also spread to the capital. The people of the Ming Dynasty finally felt the threat from Hou Jin. For a time, alleys and squares were everywhere.  Talk about Liaodong.

    On the morning of October 17, Zhang Yuan read the latest issue of the Dibao in Zhan Shifu. This issue of the Dibao was all about the military situation in Liaodong. The full text of Nurhachi's "Seven Great Hatreds" was recorded. This made Zhang Yuan  Zhang Yuan was a little surprised. Wasn't this propaganda for Nurhachi? After seeing that "there was a drought in Jianzhou in the past few years and the people had no food. I sent my envoy Nalan Baksh to borrow food from North Korea. Zhang Yuan, the envoy of the Ming Dynasty, actually sent me  The envoys were taken captive to Beijing, and the humiliation was extremely intolerable. Therefore, Zhang Yuan understood the intention of publishing these "Seven Hatreds". This was obviously a premeditated plan by Yao Zongwen and his party to attack him.  It seems that it won't be long before some officials will impeach Zhang Yuan for irritating Nurhaci and causing the war in Liaodong.

    Zhang Yuan shook his head and continued to read the report in the newspaper about the annihilation of Zhang Chengyin, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong. Zhang Chengyin received the urgent report of the fall of Fushun on the first day of October, and immediately led his deputy general Po Tingxiang, staff general Pu Shifang, and guerrillas  Liang Rugui led 10,000 troops to rescue Fushun. The army set out from Liaoyang on the second day of October and arrived at Fushun on the fourth day of the lunar month.  Then they set fire to everything, and there was no one alive in the city. There was no human habitation for hundreds of miles around. The Han people who dared to resist were killed, and the remaining 300,000 livestock were on their way back to Jianzhou.

    Zhang Chengzhuan immediately ordered his troops to be divided into five groups to pursue them. They caught up with Nurhaci¡¯s Eight Banners Army at Xelidian, twenty miles away from the border. It was the sixth day of October. The Ming Army¡¯s Fifth Group was on a hill outside Xelidian.  They gathered around and set up camps in three places. They secured the mountain dangers, dug trenches, and lined up firearms. They were fully prepared. However, when the Eight Banners Army of Hou Jin attacked, the Ming army found that the first round of artillery and musket fire did little damage to the soldiers of Hou Jin.  The enemy's bows and arrows posed a great threat to them. The camp that they thought was impregnable suddenly collapsed. Once the camp was broken, there was a one-sided massacre. The leader Zhang Chengyin and the general Pu Shifang were killed in the battle, and the deputy general Po Tingxiang and the guerrillas in the back mountain camp were killed.  Liang Rugui originally had a chance to lead his 4,000 soldiers to break through, but when he heard that General Zhang was trapped in the front mountain, he bravely led his troops to rescue them. Then they all fell. Only a few hundred of the 10,000 Ming army fled back to Liaoyang, and the 100 soldiers he brought with him  Cannons, 800 small cannons and 3,000 muskets all became the spoils of the Jin Army. 9,000 horses and 7,000 pieces of armor also all belonged to the Eight Banners Army. Zhang Chengyin sent troops from Liaoyang to rescue Fushun in order to pursue the enemy as soon as possible.  Army, all the Liaoyang war horses were requisitioned. In this battle, most of the strength of the entire Liaodong Ming Army was lost.

    After reading the newspaper, Zhang Yuan felt sad: Zhang Chengyin, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, died in the battle. Three months ago, Zhang Chengyin personally sent him and the envoy out of Guangyuan City.
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