On September 27, the forty-seventh year of Wanli, Huang Taiji and Jierhalang led the main forces of Zhengbai Banner and Xianglan Banner respectively, setting off from Fushun Pass and quickly entering the Songliao Plain from the west and north directions.
Huang Taiji did not choose to rescue Tieling directly, but rushed to Kaiyuan City, Liu Zhaosun's hometown.
Since Kaiyuan's soldiers and horses came out of the city to attack Tieling, the city must be empty, just in time to break it in one battle. By then, Liu Zhaosun would have lost his foundation and would truly become a lost dog.
This was a plan to encircle Wei and save Zhao.
Huang Taiji was well versed in the art of war and was known for his intelligence and erudition. After he succeeded to the throne, his ability to govern was far superior to that of his father Khan.
Huang Taiji's troops came to Kaiyuan City, preparing to surprise Liu Zhaosun;
Liu Zhaosun prepared the Hongyi cannon and prepared to surprise Huang Taiji.
Since both parties want to give each other a surprise, let's see whose surprise is the real surprise.
"Conquer this city within half an hour!"
South of Tieling City.
Under the banner of the general commander who was one foot and two feet tall, Kaiyuan chief military officer Liu Zhaosun stood on his horse and pointed at the city ahead with his whip.
The Chinese guards immediately raised a blue flag.
The three messengers held the order flag and rushed to the two thousand generals and conveyed the general's order to the two thousand generals.
General Qian waved the flag of General Qian, and the commanders of each battalion immediately ordered the captains of each flag to organize the soldiers to advance.
The flute players of each battalion played the bolo (1), and the soldiers stood upright with their guns in hand, and there was a clicking sound of armor and iron scraping around.
Then, the drummer beat the pacing drum, and the majestic drum sound echoed through the wilderness.
Thirty-six hundred soldiers marched in order and slowly towards the moat.
These 3,600 elites are all veterans who followed Liu Zhaosun and fought all the way from Hunjiang. They are all elites who are equal to ten.
This is Liu Zhaosun's entire family fortune. Of course, Liu Zhaosun still had more than 4,000 soldiers stationed in Kaiyuan, but most of those soldiers were newly trained trackers and Liao civilians. Although the training was also very rigorous, their combat effectiveness was definitely not as good as these veterans.
Yehe's cavalry and Kaiyuan's cavalry battalion were arranged on the left and right sides of the soldiers. They used the superiority of the cavalry to cover the smooth advancement of the soldiers and defend against possible threats on both wings.
Burhang Gu stood on his horse and looked up at the tall and solid Tieling City three hundred steps away.
As far as the eye could see, Tieling City's towering watchtowers and wide moat all frightened General Ye He.
He inserted the three-eyed gun back into the belt around his waist and adjusted the speed of his horse.
"Can you beat me in half an hour?"
At this time, the top of Tieling City was already in chaos. The soldiers guarding the city pointed at the city, talked a lot, and asked the people around them about the identity of this Ming army.
When they heard that coming towards the city wall were the Kaiyuan soldiers who had defeated the Hou Jin army and killed more than 3,000 Tatars, many soldiers had begun to retreat unconsciously.
Tieling is only more than thirty miles away from Kaiyuan. Many people around Tieling have personally seen or heard about the bloody battle in Kaiyuan.
Few people who had witnessed the bloody battle in Kaiyuan were willing to fight against Kaiyuan soldiers.
Because in everyone's opinion, these soldiers are not people, but puppets. Of course, unlike puppets, puppets cannot kill people.
In order to "reinforce" Shenyang, General Ding Shen took away 4,000 troops, and all his elite servants were taken away by him.
No one would have expected that Liu Zhaosun, who had been staying at home all this time, would suddenly attack, not to aid Shenyang, but to turn around and attack Tieling.
At this time, there were only two thousand defenders in Tieling City. They were basically old and weak soldiers and auxiliary soldiers. These soldiers were poorly equipped and usually had insufficient food and pay. At this moment, many of them were not even wearing armor, and their morale was extremely low.
Under Ding Bi's confidant, a guard named Jiao was searching for young men in the city with his servants, and asked these people to drive them to the city wall to resist the Kaiyuan soldiers who were trying to take advantage of the fire.
In front of the street, I saw a stout, middle-aged man who looked like a vendor from a distance, walking around on the street with a few companions.
Jiao Shoubei chased after him on horseback, whipped the vendor, and said angrily:
"Run your mother, stop for me, where are you from?"
The vendor had a smile on his face, and slowly pressed his fingers on his waist. A small man appeared next to him, grabbed the man, and said in a Sichuan voice:
"Master Jun, we are tea merchants from Chengdu. What happened?"
"Didn't you hear my order just now? Why are you running around? Hurry up and defend the city. If the thief escapes, I'll give you a reward!"
Jiao Shoubei waved to the servants, and several servants rushed forward, pushing and pushing the tea sellers towards the city.
The two generals of the cavalry battalion rode their horses to the foot of Tieling City, across the moat, and shouted to the defenders at the head of the city:
"According to the order of Xiong Jinglue, the Minister of War, General Ding Shen died in the battle at Hunhe yesterday. The slave bandit Zhengbai Banner is invading Tieling. Now General Xuanwu Liu Zongbing leads an army of 30,000 to take over Tieling. Please open the city gate as soon as possible!"
Someone at the top of the city soon stuck his head out and cursed loudly:
"Nonsense! Ding Shen will be alive and well. Where did Liu Zhaosun get the 30,000 men? Also, whose order are you following? Hand over Xiong Jinglue's handwriting!"
"They don't have handwriting. Quickly let me shoot them with arrows!"
"Who dares to shoot an arrow? He will be punished for treason!"
The two cavalry commanders ignored the man at the top of the city. They took two steps under the city and said to the soldiers at the top of the city:
"Brothers from Liao Town, listen up. The men and horses of the Xianglan Banner are at Jingan Fort fifty miles away. They will be here in an hour. This Jiao Shouwei has already colluded with Jiannu to get you all to Hetuala. Bao Yi! Be a slave! General Liu and his army are here to save you! Open the door quickly! We Kaiyuan soldiers can even kill Amin, let alone a few rebels. If you want to kill the nine tribes, come and try try!"
Two light arrows flew down from the top of the city, neither of them accurate. The two generals pointed at Jiao Shouwei, who was shooting arrows from the top of the city, made a beheading gesture, and then rode their horses back to the camp.
At this time, the Kaiyuan soldiers' formation had advanced to less than a hundred steps away from the city wall, and the defenders at the top of the city could already see the Franco cannons set up under the city and aimed at the city.
At this time, the city was even more chaotic. Those strong men who were temporarily pulled to throw stones had never seen such a formation. Hearing the order from Xiong Jinglue and seeing the soldiers from Kaiyuan, many people turned around and were about to run away. Jiao Shoubei led several servants to block the city wall and slashed two of them with a sword.
"If you stop this group of thieves, each of you will be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver! If you can't stop them, you will all die!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard two loud bangs from below the city, two Fran cannons roared angrily, and two iron balls weighing one pound and seventy taels flew towards the city head, hitting the masonry of the crenels until stone fragments flew everywhere. There was a scream.
Jiao Shouwei ordered the gunners at the city head to fight back. These Liaozhen gunners had almost no training at ordinary times. In panic, they started loading more slowly, with trembling hands, and stuffed lead into the barrel before the gunpowder was completely discharged.
"You're useless, I'll beat you to death. What do I do to support you? Hurry up and reload, aim at the commander's flag, and beat Liu Zhaosun to death for me! Hurry up!"
Rong Touqiang slowly stretched his right hand into his left sleeve, held the scorpion tail hook, glanced at Peng Yong, the white-poled soldier standing next to him, and nodded slightly to him.
Peng Yong turned around and smiled at a few wolf soldiers dressed as traders. He hid a three-eyed gun in his wide sleeves and walked towards Jiao Shouwei with a smile.
The wolf soldiers also walked quietly to a few servants, pretending to be watching the fun with their feet up.
Jiao Shouwei turned his back to several people and was still beating the unlucky gunner while urging the other gunners to reload and aim quickly.
"General Ding Shen is very good. He was still killing Tatars in Shenyang yesterday and has killed thousands of Tatars. Don't panic, everyone. Liu Zhaosun and Sun Qiong are crazy and want to rob our Tieling. Don't let them enter the city. These Kaiyuan soldiers are worse than the Tatars. They will rob and kill all your families. Tieling is stronger than Kaiyuan and the moat is wider. Let’s hold on first. Ding Shen will soon..."
Suddenly there was an explosion, Jiao Shoubei's riding whip was raised in the air, and half of his head was missing.
Almost at the same time, Jiao Shoubei's five servants spurted blood from their necks, covering their necks and walking around in the crowd.
"I am the commander of Xiong Jinglue's Biao Barracks. I entered the city yesterday. Do you want to rebel? You are not letting General Liu enter the city! Are you waiting for the Tatars to come and massacre the city later? Open the city gate quickly!"
"Open the city gate quickly! Whoever opens the city gate first will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver and promoted to commander in chief! Whoever dares to shoot arrows randomly again! This is what will happen!"
Peng Yongyong cut off Jiao Shougui's head and threw it into the group of gunners. The gunners who had been intimidated just now were so frightened that they fled in all directions. Several firecrackers nearby also dropped their firecrackers and knelt down to kowtow.
The remaining servants gathered around him one after another, raising their swords to kill Peng Yong.
"I'm going to grab your old man instead of your old man!"
When everyone looked back, Rong Touqiang put the scorpion tail hook on the neck of a commander and walked slowly towards this side.
Although he couldn't understand what Rong Touqiang was saying, the boss could feel that his neck was about to be cut open, and he quickly called the servants to step back.
At this time, the sound of the Franco cannons below the city became more intensive, and more Franco cannons entered the bombardment of the city. The city gate was hit and sawdust flew everywhere.
The people who had been recruited could no longer bear it, so they dropped their weapons and fled.
A group of old and weak Liao soldiers saw that there were only a few hundred people left around them and all the gunners had fled, so they fled one after another.
The last few dozen remaining servants, unable to hold on any longer, threw their weapons on the ground and knelt on the ground to surrender to the group of pacesetters who were facing Xiong Jinglue.
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Burhangu opened his mouth and stared blankly at the slowly descending suspension bridge in front of the moat. Watching the groups of soldiers entering the urn city through the suspension bridge, Ye Heren had an incredible expression on his face.
"God of longevity, it really only takes half an hour."
Liu Zhaosun rode past him and said loudly:
"Xicheng Baylor, take your people into the city quickly. If you don't accept the report just now, Huang Taiji has surrounded Kaiyuan City. I want to give him a surprise!"
North of Kaiyuan City.
Under the protection of several soldiers, the supervisor Qiao Yiqi endured the pain in his leg and walked up the tower.
Behind the crenellations at the city head, Mao Yuanyi personally pulled off a piece of black cloth, revealing a black barrel underneath, pointing towards the Zhengbai Banner Camp outside the moat.
In front of the main tent of the Zhengbai Banner, Ba Yala, with the pennant behind him, was constantly coming and going, organizing the wrappings to continue filling the trenches.
The wise and knowledgeable Huang Taiji sat down in the big tent.
The motionless Supervisor Qiao came to the two gunners, picked up one of them, and shouted:
"Fire! Fire my officer quickly!"
Note: (1) According to "Jixiao New Book", when playing boluo, each soldier must stand up and stand with his instrument in hand.
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