Mou Rongtian rode out of the city alone and went to Jin camp to declare war. He walked eastward for more than thirty miles along the north bank of the Hun River and arrived near Xinglongdian. He saw an endless Jin army camp in front of him. He didn't wait to get closer.
The camp was stopped by the Jin army, and only one person shouted: "Stop! If you move forward again, open your bow and release arrows!"
The other party spoke Jurchen language, which Mou Rongtian could understand, so he reined in his horse and shouted in Jurchen language: "I am the envoy of the Ming Dynasty. I have come to declare a war and take me to see Nurhaci."
Someone in the camp shouted: "Just wait and don't move!"
Mou Rongtian saw a Jurchen soldier running towards the camp, guessing that he was going to report to Nurhachi. After waiting for a while, he heard someone in the camp shout: "Put the horses and weapons where they are, and you can come over by yourself."
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Mou Rongtian dismounted without weapons and walked into the camp. Several golden soldiers gathered around him, and one of them shouted: "Raise your hands."
Mou Rongtian did as he was told. The Jin soldier searched his body and when he touched his crotch, he wanted to grab a handful of his crotch. Mou Rongtian stepped back and shouted, "What are you doing?"
The Jin Bing smiled and said, "I want to see how big your butt is."
Mou Rongtian glared at him and shouted: "If you do this again, I won't be polite."
The Jin Bing said: "You are still pretending to be big when you come to us. Do you want to die? If you want to die, just say it and I will help you." He said "choking" and pulled out the scimitar.
Mou Rongtian said proudly: "As for you, even one hundred and eighty people are no match for me. I have official duties and I am not as knowledgeable as you. Take me to see Nurhaci quickly."
Mou Rongtian was the envoy, so how could the Jin soldiers dare to fight with him? They were just trying to scare him, but when they saw that he was not frightened, they said bitterly: "Follow me!"
Mou Rongtian followed him to the outside of the Chinese army's tent, and saw hundreds of golden soldiers lined up on both sides in front of the tent door, each with a shining scimitar in his hand, crossed and held high.
Mou Rongtian thought to himself: "Who are you trying to scare by setting up a sword array?" He walked over with his head held high, holding a pair of scimitars above his head, but he showed no fear. He had an iron cloth shirt to protect his body. Even if the scimitar was cut down, it would not hurt him.
Can't reach him.
After entering the tent, he saw Nurha sitting in the middle wearing a naked animal skin winter coat, and one person stood behind him. It was Beiwu Sheng Nitianxing. There were more than a dozen people sitting on both sides. Mou Rongtian glanced at them, except for Yan Jun, Huang Taiji, Shenggu and Emei
Apart from Shenni Daoxin, no one else is known to him.
Huang Taiji said: "Mou Rongtian, I didn't expect that the messenger who issued the letter of war turned out to be you."
When Mou Rongtian saw that Huang Taiji had shaved his hair and had it braided, he said, "I never thought that Yan Jun was actually the eighth son of Nurhachi."
While they were talking, a soldier took the letter of war from Mou Rongtian and handed it to Nurhaci.
After looking at it, Nurhaci snorted and said, "Okay, the decisive battle will be the day after tomorrow. You can go back!"
Just as Mou Rongtian was about to leave, Huang Taiji stood up and said, "Wait a minute!"
Mou Rongtian looked at him and asked, "What do you want?"
Huang Taiji walked over slowly and said: "That day in Baiyi'an, you took advantage of the large number of people and captured my brother. My brother was very dissatisfied. Mou Rongtian, do you have the guts to fight my brother alone? My brother Ben."
I want to see how capable you are as an iron tiger."
Mou Rongtian saw that the other party was openly shouting, and if he refused to fight, it would damage Daming's face, so he said: "Since you have such intention, I can play with you. Huang Taiji, how did you escape that day in Ningbo Mansion?"
?Who saved you?"
Huang Taiji said: "It doesn't matter if I tell you." He spread his right hand towards Dao Xin and continued: "It was this Dao Xin shrine who rescued my brother."
It turned out that Dao Xin was also in Baiyi Nunnery that day. Hearing that there was a fight across the courtyard, he secretly went over to check. I wonder who Mou Rongtian and the others were arresting? So he asked Jingxiu, the master of Baiyi Nunnery, to go and inquire. In order to fight against Jin Yiwei, he was arrested.
They rescued Yan Jun and Saint Aunt from prison. Yan Jun saw her strong martial arts skills and asked her to be the protector of the Hell Gate. Dao Xin wanted to use the power of the Hell Gate to deal with Pudu, so she happily agreed.
Mou Rongtian had seen Dao Xin and Huang Taiji hanging out together before, and had already guessed that the person who saved Huang Taiji and the holy aunt was her, but he was not sure. When Huang Taiji said it himself, the mystery in his heart was finally solved.
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Mou Rongtian opened his fists, opened his posture, and said: "Huang Taiji, please!"
Huang Taiji saw Mou Rongtian's bare hands and thought that if he used weapons, even if he could win, he would not be able to win with force, so he started a fight with Mou Rongtian with fists and kicks.
Mou Rongtian was greatly impressed when he saw the opponent's sharp and strange palm skills. In the blink of an eye, the two of them exchanged more than thirty moves. Mou Rongtian felt that it was difficult to win with the gun boxing and pool leg skills, so he wanted to use the anger magic skill to defeat the enemy, so he sold
He found an opening and took a slap from Huang Taiji to the chest. He used his iron cloth shirt to defend himself, then raised his hand and shot out a wave of anger.
Huang Taiji tried to dodge again, but it was too late. He was knocked to the ground by a wave and vomited blood. He thought he could win and wanted to be embarrassed, but unexpectedly he lost. He felt shameless and embarrassed. He felt that he could win.
I thought: "If I had known this, I would have shown off." If he had fought with an iron umbrella, Mou Rongtian might not have won him.
Huang Taiji got up, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, raised his thumb towards Mou Rongtian, and said: "Mou Rongtian, you are good. That's it for today. Let's fight with you again, my Japanese brother. Come on, send me off.
Lord Mou is leaving the camp."
Mou Rongtian returned to the city and informed Li Chengliang that Nurhachi had accepted the challenge. Li Chengliang smiled and said: "I expected that the wild boar skin would challenge." It turns out that Nurhachi means wild boar skin in Jurchen language.
Most of the Jurchens are uneducated, and they name their children casually, including cats and dogs. Nurhaci's father, Takshi, hoped that his eldest son would be as tough as a boar's skin, so he gave him this name.
Li Chengliang went to Zhu Changluo and said, "Your Highness, the day after tomorrow our army will have a decisive battle with the Jin soldiers. Just in case, I would like to ask Your Highness to leave first."
Zhu Changluo nodded in agreement, leaving Mou Rongtian and Li Tianmu here to protect Li Chengliang.
Seeing that Mou Rongtian refused to leave, Li Jiaoyue also stayed, followed by Shengming, Hu Kan and Guo Jin.
In a blink of an eye, the day of the decisive battle came. On this morning, 60,000 Ming troops deployed a long snake formation outside the east gate of Shenyang City. The snake head was in the north and the snake tail was in the south. If the enemy attacked the snake head, the snake tail bag would come up to respond; if
If the enemy hits the snake's tail, the snake's head will respond; if the enemy hits the snake's body, both the snake's head and snake's tail will respond. This formation has been around since ancient times. If the soldiers have strong combat effectiveness and cooperate tacitly, it will be difficult to defeat.
Li Chengliang was commanding at the top of the city, and Mou Rongtian was standing beside him. He saw that there were only a few hundred soldiers guarding the east gate, and he expected that there would not be many defenders at the other three gates. He thought: "In case of a sudden attack, the Jin soldiers will take advantage of the opportunity to attack the city."
, how can we defend it with just such a small number of people?"
The Jin soldiers formed a formation opposite the Ming army, with the cavalry in front and the infantry behind. Amidst the sound of horns, they rushed to the center of the snake's body like a tide.
When Li Chengliang saw the enemy troops attacking the snake body, he ordered the flag bearer to wave the flag and ordered the snake head and tail to come over and surround the Jin soldiers.
The Ming army was well-trained, and they surrounded the Jin soldiers in the blink of an eye. The shouts of killing were loud. The Jin soldiers were extremely powerful in combat, especially the cavalry. As soon as the horses and scimitars passed by, large areas of the Ming army were I lost my head.
In less than two-quarters of an hour, the Jurchen cavalry broke out from the west, turned around and fought back, cutting off the Ming army's return route into the city.
Mou Rongtian saw that his side's combat effectiveness was not as good as the opponent's, and the formation would undoubtedly be broken. If the Ming army could retreat and hold on to the city, Shenyang City could still be saved, but now that the retreat was cut off, it would be difficult for the Ming army to return to the city. The entire army would be annihilated in the 19th century. , in this case, Shenyang City cannot be saved.
Seeing this scene, he became anxious and shouted: "Oops, our army's retreat has been cut off! Commander, what can we do?" Li Chengliang said calmly: "Young man, I'm not in a hurry yet, you I'm so anxious, please be patient and don't be impatient."
Mou Rongtian thought to himself: "My commander-in-chief, at this moment, you can still say such things, how calm you are."
About an hour later, Li Chengliang saw that most of the Ming army was dead and wounded, and ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops.
Mou Rongtian thought to himself: "The escape route is blocked, Ming Jin is of no use at this time."
There was a huge gong hanging on the tower, and the soldiers struck it with a sledgehammer. The sound of the gong sounded, deafening everyone nearby.
Mou Rongtian saw the Ming army retreating to the north and south respectively, and thought: "Why don't they retreat to the city? If they work together to rush back, the Jin soldiers may not be able to stop them." At a loss, he only listened to Li Chengliang say: "General Xiong Bing , I leave this to you, I will withdraw first."
Mou Rongtian was startled and thought: "The commander-in-chief would abandon the city and flee. It is simply unreasonable."
Li Chengliang said again: "Rongtian, Tianmu, you two are responsible for protecting General Xiong's retreat. I will take the first step." After that, he left with his soldiers.
Seeing that Shenyang City was losing its hold, Li Tianmu said, "Why did this battle end like this? Mr. Xiong, if the commander-in-chief was willing to listen to you and rely on the city to resist the enemy, there would be no such defeat."
Xiong Tingbi smiled slightly and was noncommittal.
Hu Kan shouted: "The commander is really old and confused."
Mou Rongtian glared at him and shouted: "Old Hu, don't be so presumptuous."
Guo Jin didn't want to risk his life here, so he asked: "Master Xiong, when will we withdraw?"
Xiong Tingbi said: "When the Jin soldiers attack the city, it will not be too late to retreat."
Guo Jin thought to himself: "You are so damn stubborn. We are going to evacuate anyway, so why not evacuate early? If we delay for a moment longer, we will be in more danger."
After about half an hour, the Jin soldiers stopped chasing the retreating Ming army. The siege horn sounded, and the Jin soldiers set up ladders and began to attack the city.
Xiong Tingbi led the 500 soldiers who defended the city, as well as Mou Rongtian and others, using ash bottle cannons, rolling logs, thunder stones, bows and arrows, muskets and other equipment. They held on for a stick of incense before giving the order to retreat.
Under the protection of Mou Rongtian and others, Xiong Tingbi rode towards the south gate to leave the city from there and walked to the Central Street. He saw a large number of golden soldiers charging from the south.
Xiong Tingbi said: "No, it seems that the south gate has been lost. Let's go to the east gate." Everyone urged their horses to gallop eastward, and not far away, Jin soldiers came towards them. It turned out that the east gate had also been lost.