Around the evening in the Northeastern summer, the sunset glows like blood and is magnificent and brilliant, painting the sky into a most beautiful picture.
On the earth, it is a completely different scene.
A sad and miserable scene.
The originally green velvet-like grass was dug up by a group of skull-shaped creatures like wild dogs.
During the daytime siege of the city, the armored soldiers drove the packers who were transporting the ladders to the front row, resulting in the most serious casualties.
With the weather in May and June, the bodies must be buried as soon as possible, otherwise the epidemic will spread quickly.
Therefore, when today's battle ended and the surviving Jin army slaves went to collect the dead bodies, even the Ming army who was watching eagerly on the city would not release another arrow.
Huang Taiji stood in front of a temporarily nailed coffin, looking at the corpse inside.
That was the famous warrior of the Zhenghuang Banner, and also the bodyguard who was deeply loved by Nurhachi: Huerhan.
When Huerhan was thirteen years old, he followed his father and other tribe members to submit to Jianzhou Jurchen, and was adopted by Nurhachi as his adopted son.
He was unparalleled in bravery. When the Jianzhou people conquered Wula, Ye He and other tribes, he would rush to the front line in every battle and made countless achievements.
During the Fushun campaign, Hu'er Khan had just recovered from smallpox and stayed in the city of Hetuala. Afterwards, he heard that Huang Taiji and Ma Xianglin were defeated in a battle. Hu'er Khan even laughed at Huang Taiji at a banquet in his drunken state.
He said that if he were present, with one man and one horse, he would be able to kill the Sichuan Barbarian General in front of the battle.
On the day when Guangshun Pass was captured in this expedition, Huang Taiji brought up the old matter again, patted Hu'er Khan on the shoulder in front of Nurhachi and said: "There is also a Ming general named Ma in Kaiyuan City, Hu.
Are Brother Erhan going to take the lead?"
The Jin army, from the Great Khan to several banner leaders, did not expect that the intelligence was wrong, and cannons were actually installed on Kaiyuan City. Several rebel leaders of the Ming Army were frightened and swore to heaven that they had not deceived the Great Khan. Perhaps the imperial court
It was only recently shipped to Kaiyuan. After all, cannons also appeared in Shenyang.
Nurhachi had no time to study carefully in front of the formation, and hoped that the Kaiyuan guards bribed by Huang Taiji could respond from inside the city. However, the Jin army attacked fiercely all day long, and there was no sign of defeat at any of the four gates of Kaiyuan City.
On the second day of the siege, Huerhan took the lead, wearing silver armor and wielding a mace. He climbed up the city on a ladder like a god descending from heaven. Seeing that the mace was about to hit the Ming army defending the city, the nearby city
On the notice, a lead bullet was fired, hitting Hu Erhan in the chest.
The Manchu warriors fell like broken tiles under the city.
The entire arm that was blown off was pulled out of the pile of dead people by a wrapper after the armistice.
At this moment, Huang Taiji personally sprinkled the embalming lime on Khurhan's body, and then ordered the two wrappers standing aside to nail the coffin and carry it to the bullock cart.
Huang Taiji was actually more worried than the two coated slaves.
His father, Nurhaci, was close at hand and watched him doing these actions with an expressionless face.
Huang Taiji was very afraid that when his father finally spoke, he would question him: "Sibeile, where is the Kaiyuan guard you bribed?"
Yue Tuo, the leader of the banner with a red flag, came to the rescue at the right time: "Great Khan, sentry cavalry came to report that Du Du's main force is less than a hundred miles away from us."
"Where's Marin? Have you left Shenyang?"
Yue Tuo called to the sentries behind Gong Li to come forward: "You slaves, come and report to the Khan in detail."
The few red-armored knights, who were as powerful as the Ming army at night, all lay down at Nurhachi's feet. The leader said: "Back to the Great Khan, Dudu Beile with the white flag first turned south and out of the border wall, and then went north. Come. Lord Baylor said that Marin only has three thousand cavalry. When the slaves left Shenyang, the Ming army cavalry was still camped outside Shenyang City."
After hearing this, Nurhaci looked at Huang Taiji and Yue Tuo: "No wonder Kaiyuan is not as easy to fight as we thought. It turns out that Marin only took half of the troops and hid cannons in the city. This old general of Xuanda, Naoguazi seems to be more thieves than Li Chengliang's sons. Therefore, Lao Ba, the Ming army's detailed work that you bribed was probably discovered by him."
The old chief's last words were not serious, and he did not seem to mean to blame Huang Taiji.
Huang Taiji hurriedly said: "Ama Yingming, Du Du followed your military order and knocked out Ma Lin, so he didn't dare to leave Shenyang for a while."
Nurhaci raised his eyelids: "But Kaiyuan is not that far away from Shenyang after all. I'm afraid tomorrow, the news that we surrounded Kaiyuan will reach Shenyang. Ma Lin will definitely not wait for that nerdy Governor Yang to speak. Come back for rescue. What do you think, should we leave or stay?"
"Amma, of course we have to continue fighting!"
Behind Nurha's naked body, the voice of a young man whose voice has not completely changed sounded.
It's the Fourteenth Belle Dorgon.
Seeing the most lovable son born to Abahai, Nurhachi's depression after being frustrated in his attack on the city became a little less intense.
"Xiao Shisi, tell Ama, why don't we leave? As you have seen in the past two days, Kaiyuan is very difficult to shoot. The cannons on the city are more powerful than ours. Your brother Huerhan , also died for Dai Jin.”
"No one will die in a war," Dorgon looked up at his elderly father, "Amma, I heard Bago say that Tieling in the south is much closer to the original than Shenyang, and it is also the hometown of the Li family. , there are many brave men, but since we entered Guangshun Pass, how could the Ming army come to Tieling to help? My son guessed that Li Rubai and Ma Lin were not on good terms, so they just sat back and watched Kaiyuan besieged."
The twelve-year-old child's analysis made sense, and Nurhaci became even more pleased. And because he heard Dorgon mention Huang Taiji, he couldn't help but smile and said: "Well, it seems that Sibeile has taught you how to judge the military situation this time."
He didn't want to, but Dorgon said bluntly: "The Li family will not have reinforcements. It was Zaohua Ezhen and I who thought about it."
"Oh?" Nurhachi was surprised and saw Mu Zaohua standing not far away, and said coldly, "You slave, come and talk too."
Mu Zaohua hurriedly came up and knelt down.
Nurhaci asked: "Are you familiar with the situation of the Li family in recent years?"
"Back to the Great Khan, I had stayed in Liaoyang for a while with the evil woman surnamed Zheng, so I knew that Li Rubai and other generals in Liaodong had some grudges. This time there was no movement in Tieling, so I went with Fourteen Belles I did some research."
Nurhaci stared back at Dorgon again: "Didn't you follow Sibeile's Zhengbai flag? Why did you go to Zaohua'e Zhen?"
Huang Taiji quickly caught up with the conversation: "Back to Ama, my fourteenth brother is smart and particularly likes the awesome firearms of our Golden Crow. My son is afraid that Wu Xia will look after my fourteenth brother when we attack the city and charge into battle, so I asked Ao Bai to protect him these days. Follow him and join the firearms team of Zaohua slaves."
Nurhachi nodded lightly and continued to ask Dorgon: "Have you finished telling me the reason why we don't leave? Just one?"
"No, Ama, it's better if Marin divides his troops. Even if he rushes back from Shenyang, what are three thousand elites? Our warriors of the five banners are several times more than him. What's more, we still have Xiao Tong If the artillery can't hit Kaiyuan's city wall, how can it kill Marin's cavalry? So, my son thinks, if we don't retreat, we'll fight Marin here."
Yue Tuan on the side always wanted to make amends for his uncle Huang Taiji in front of the Great Khan. While listening attentively, he grasped the essence of Dorgon's words and boldly interjected: "Great Khan, what Fourteen Baylor said is reasonable. This is what Si Baylor calls the strategy of encircling the point and attacking with reinforcements."