Blood from Daming

Chapter 396 The Urn City
Less than five miles outside the Taihe Gate in Liaoyang City, the leaders of the Liaodong East Route Army gathered. Bing Zhao Ledjiao, Jingying General Xue Polu, leader of the Xue family army, and other generals.

Mao Yuanyi, the commander of the Liaodong East Route Army, looked anxiously at the dark Liaoyang City in the distance. Yu Anxing, the governor of Shanhaiguan, comforted Mao Yuanyi and said, "Mr. Mao, with such confidence in Polu, there shouldn't be any problem breaking Liaoyang City."

However, Mao Yuanyi is not as optimistic as Yu Anxing. After all, he does not understand Xue Polu and Xue Jiajun as well as Yu Anxing. He is very worried that Liaoyang City will not be able to enter. He has 4 Ma Dun soldiers under Jiancheng. At that time, he will be in a dilemma. As soon as Jianlu's reinforcements arrived, the East Route Army had no choice but to be defeated.

Mao Yuanyi said: "Zhongqing, Xue Polu always likes to take risks, and this is a gamble on the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers. My command went to the city of Liaoyang. If I don't succeed, I will be benevolent. If Liaoyang city does not fall, I, Mao Yuanyi, will commit suicide here." .”

Seeing that Mao Yuanyi was so fierce, Yu Anxing was about to speak to persuade Mao Yuanyi, when Xue Polu who was not far away rode towards Mao Yuanyi and Yu Anxing, and Yu Anxing hurriedly asked: "Polu, are you ready?" how's it going."

Xue Polu said: "Sir, everything is ready, please command the general attack with your lord and Mao."

Mao Yuanyi heard Xue Polu trembling with excitement and said: "Polu, are you going to destroy Liaoyang City tonight?"

Xue Polu said solemnly: "The final general will not destroy Liaoyang City, and he is willing to die to thank the court."

Mao Yuanyi said excitedly: "Okay, okay, okay, Polu, you have made great contributions to the court, and this commander will definitely recommend you in front of Mr. Jinglue."

Xue Polu said: "Commander Mao, Liaoyang Jianlu has not noticed our movement so far, and the general will attack immediately."

Mao Yuanyi said: "General Xue, go ahead and give it a go. The command will do its best to support you. The guards will inform you that all teams will enter the fighting state, and the whole army will attack the city under the banner of blowing up the city."

Xue Polu said to the nearby soldiers: "Go and inform General Lu to act when you are ready."

Mao Yuanyi and Xue Polu's subordinates hurried to pass the message, Xue Polu said: "Commander Mao, Lord Yu, I will go to the front to command the battle." After saying that, Xue Polu bowed and rode away.

Xue Polu came to the place where the former enemy was commanding. Man Gui and Zhao Shijiao had been waiting there. Seeing Xue Polu coming, Man Gui said: "Brother Polu, the information on Liaoyang City has been roughly sorted out. It is Jianlu. Nurhachi's Xianghuang Banner is guarded, but there are only six Jurchen Niulu in Xianghuang Banner, and there are six Mongolian Niulu and twelve quasi-Niulu composed of soldiers from the Ming army and Liao people."

Xue Polu said: "Brother Man's information is reliable."

Man Gui said: "After dark, more than 100 spies and people near Liaoyang City were arrested. One of them identified himself as a secret agent of the Jingshi Jinyiwei and revealed the military information of Liaoyang City. This soldier confirmed the confessions of other prisoners. The general defense situation of Liaoyang City."

Xue Polu asked: "Brother Man, why does Liaoyang City only have such a small force?"

Man Gui said: "After Nurhachi moved the capital to Shenyang, a large number of beile princes and ministers went to Shenyang, the new capital, Shengjing. There are still many guards and servants left in the mansion of the prince and minister of Beizi, which is not a small armed force."

Xue Polu said: "In any case, now is the time when Liaoyang City's defense is very weak, which will be more beneficial for us to break through Liaoyang City."

Man Gui said: "Brother Polu, the self-built captive Nurhachi broke Liaoyang, and many people were killed in Liaoyang. Later, Nurhachi enforced the policy of shaving heads, and most of the people in Liaoyang who refused to follow were drowned in the Taizi River. Now Liaoyang City passes by. After the capital was moved, the population was only 7 to [-], but these people were all Liao people who had their hair cut and were determined to defect to Mongolia, and almost the whole city was full of soldiers."

Xue Polu pondered for a while and said: "Brother Man and Brother Zhao, our principle of entering the city is not to keep any prisoners. As for the mansion of the prince and minister of Bei Le Bei Zi, as long as the resistance is fierce, our Ming army will set fire to the house. What we are talking about now is The south wind, the unlucky one must be the Jianlu in the north."

"boom"

Xue Polu, Man Gui, and Zhao Lijiao swayed, and after swaying several times in a row, the three stood firm, and faintly saw a large puff of smoke rising from the Urn City of Taihe Gate in Liaoyang City in front of them.

"Rush" "Kill"

The Ming army ambushing outside Taihe Gate Urn in Liaoyang City surged like a tide and rushed in. Qiao Guoliang, the diving guard leader of the Xue family army, led Liu Mandun, Song Kui and the blasting team to the main gate of Taihe Gate with explosives. The first attack team led by the youngest cooperated with the blasting team to fill up the explosives that bombed the main gate of Taihe Gate.

Nearly 3000 people from General Xiao of the Sichuan Army and Liu Guoyong of the Shaanxi Army swarmed into the city and began to snatch the city wall of Liaoyang City Taihemen Wengcheng. The Tartars, who had just woken up from the Ming army's explosives, were still asking each other what happened in a panic. The Tartars reported that after the Ming army attacked the city, these Tartar soldiers who just got up hurriedly went to get their weapons to prepare for the battle.

Xue Polu, Man Gui, and Zhao Ledjiao saw that the vanguard had attacked Liaoyang City Taihemen Wengcheng, and immediately commanded the headquarters to move forward. At this time, a sentry came back quickly to report the military situation.

The sentry shouted: "Report to all generals, the troops of General Xiao Shen and General Liu Shen have already boarded the Wengcheng, and are now fighting fiercely."

Xue Polu asked concerned: "Do you know how many Tartar soldiers there are in Wengcheng?"

The sentry replied: "It is estimated that there will be no more than one Niu Lu."

Man Gui was overjoyed when he heard this, and said, "Xiao, it should be no problem for the two generals Liu to take down the Urn City at the South Gate of Liaoyang."

At this time, the impatient Mao Yuanyi and Yu Anxing also rushed over. Man Gui said kindly: "My lords, there are many cannons in Liaoyang City, and seven of them weigh [-] to [-] catties each. They are very powerful. There is one on the Taihe Gate Two doors, my lord should dodge quickly."

Mao Yuanyi said with a smile: "It's really gratifying that the army has entered the Taihemen Wengcheng. As for the Jianlu's artillery fire, it is impossible to fire at all. At that time, the entire Wengcheng would have fallen."

At this time, another sentry came to report: "General, Xiao and Liu, the two generals, have captured the entire Wengcheng and killed more than a hundred Tartars. Now only a few Tartars in the gate tower of Wengcheng continue to resist."

Mao Yuanyi hurriedly asked, "How is the situation at the main entrance?"

The sentry replied: "Captain Yan is confronting the Tartars on the Taihe Gate, but Xiao and Liu's troops are attacking the Taihe Gate from the wall of the Weng City."

Mao Yuanyi murmured anxiously, "Why hasn't Taihe Gate exploded yet?"

Qiao Guoliang led Liu Mandun, Song Kui and the soldiers of the blasting team to brave the feather arrows, rocks and trees on the city, and pile up explosives in the city gate. The large wooden cabinet built at the main entrance of the Taihe Gate contained at least two thousand catties of explosives.

Xue Jiajun's explosion in Wengcheng has awakened the entire Liaoyang City. Although most Liaoyang soldiers and civilians don't know what happened, the Tartars of Taihe Gate do know what happened. Niu Lu Ezhen, the guard of Taihe Gate, led his men immediately The city wall defended, and the Wengcheng, which made a loud noise, had already fallen.

Niu Luerzhen of Taihe Gate looked at the Jurchen warriors and Ming soldiers fighting on the Wengcheng, and knew from the disparity in the number of people on both sides that he would not be able to take back the Wengcheng. Niu Luerzhen of Taihe Gate quickly divided his troops to resist.

Then Niu Luerzhen of Taihemen took the remaining 100 bannermen to attack the Ming army under the city. For a while, feather arrows, stones, rolling logs, lime and even tiles were thrown from the city. In short, what did they get? What to throw, pick what to throw, the defenders who have not fought for several years are still very flustered.

(End of this chapter)