Mou Rongtian chatted with Wu Xiang and Zu Dashou, and when they talked about Lin Ba, Zu Dashou said: "When the three of us came to Liaoyang to join the army together, Mr. Liu read Mr. Luo's letter of recommendation and took great care of us. He gave us a job to defend the city.
It was a good job, not to mention the work was relaxing, and the pay was pretty good. But my junior brother got used to being wild outside and couldn't stand restraint, so he resigned after only a few days of working."
Lin Ba was originally the leader of the third village in Fenghuang Mountain, Liaodong, nicknamed "Bingli Rhino". Together with Cai Baoqi, the leader of Dazhai, the "three-foot earth spirit demon", and Wang Xuan, the leader of the second village, "Sick Tai Sui", they were collectively known as the Phoenix Sanyi. That year Mou Rongtian
Escorting Pang Xian to Beijing to treat the empress, Fenghuang Sanyi assassinated Pang Xian under Tian Ergen's bribery.
At that time, Lin Ba didn't know the bounds of the world and dared to insult Mou Rongtian, saying that he was not an iron tiger but a urinal. Mou Rongtian was so motivated that he made a bet with Lin Ba that if Lin Ba couldn't kill him with an axe, he would kneel down and kowtow and worship him as his foster father.
In the end, Lin Ba lost and actually recognized him as his adoptive father. For this reason, the other two Phoenix Sanyi broke up with Lin Ba.
Mou Rongtian just wanted to embarrass Lin Ba, and later took the initiative to cancel the adoptive father-son relationship with him.
After Zu Dashou finished speaking, Mou Rong added: "Do you know where Lin Ba went? Could it be that he returned to Fenghuang Mountain and became a bandit?"
Mou Rongtian really guessed that Lin Ba had indeed returned to Fenghuang Mountain. Zu Dashou and Wu Xiang knew this but were unwilling to tell them. Wu Xiang said: "We don't know where he went. We haven't seen him for more than a year."
Got him."
The three of them chatted for a while, and Mangui came over and said, "Report to Lord Mou, a thousand soldiers are ready to go."
Mou Rongtian said "hmm" and said, "I understand."
Mangui saw Wu Xiang and Zu Dashou beside Mou Rongtian and asked, "Why are you two guys here?"
Mou Rongtian said: "These two are my old friends."
Man Gui smiled and said: "It turns out he is a friend of Master Mou. Hey, why didn't you two tell me earlier? This matter has caused a fuss."
At midnight, the army in the valley came out in full force. Except for Mou Rongtian's small team, the large army went to attack Shenyang City.
Li Chengliang had already sent people to secretly dig a tunnel leading to the outside of the city near the four gates of Shenyang City. The army poured into the city from the tunnels at the four gates. As Li Chengliang expected, the Jin soldiers were drunk and their legs were weak.
After that, his strong spirit no longer existed, his combat effectiveness dropped sharply, and he was killed by the Ming army until he lost his helmet and armor, and his men fell on their backs.
Just when there were loud shouts of killing in Shenyang City, the small team led by Mou Rongtian secretly came to the west gate of Fushun City, set up ladders, and began to attack the city. The defenders at the head of the city discovered the enemy's situation and blew their horns to ask for help.
Li Tianmu stepped on the wall, took the lead on the top of the city, shouted "Kill!" and brandished the Vine Dragon Sword, knocking down more than a dozen Tatar soldiers in one go.
After a while, Shi Yi and Li Jiaoyue also stepped onto the wall to climb the city, and started fighting with the Tatar soldiers. Mou Rongtian, Baiyun Shuangjian, Shengming, Hu Kan, Wu Xiang, Zu Dashou, Man Gui and others climbed up the city one after another on the ladder.
There were only eighty Tatar soldiers guarding the city, and they were all killed by Li Tianmu and others in a short time. Mangui led his men to open the west gate, and the Ming army entered the city. Mou Rongtian led the crowd to kill the general's Yamen.
The guard general of Fushun City was named Shuerhaqi, who was Nurhachi's third brother. Shuerhaqi learned during the day that Nurhachi had defeated the long snake formation and captured Shenyang City. He was very happy and hosted a banquet for his generals.
To celebrate, I never dreamed that the Ming army would launch a sneak attack tonight.
Shuerhaqi received the report and learned that the Ming army had entered the city. He was shocked and led more than 200 personal guards to go to the rescue. As soon as he left the general military office, he met Mou Rongtian and others, and the two sides started fighting in the streets.
Mou Rongtian recognized the man as Shuerhaqi and chopped off his head with a knife. To celebrate Nurhaci's capture of Shenyang City, the thousand Tatar defenders in the city were all so drunk that most of them lost their heads in confusion.
After more than an hour of fighting, the battle ended with a complete victory for the Ming army. Mou Rongtian was afraid that the Tatar soldiers would pretend to be civilians, so he ordered a house-to-house search. Anyone who had their hair shaved or braided would be killed without mercy.
Not long after Mou Rongtian captured Fushun City, Li Chengliang also captured Shenyang City. The Jin army was defeated and almost completely wiped out. Under the protection of Ni Tianxing, Huang Taiji, Dao Xin and other martial arts masters, Nurhaci fled in panic. At dawn, when I arrived outside the west gate of Fushun City, I saw no one on the top of the city.
Huang Taiji shouted: "Where are the defenders at the top of the city? Open the city gate quickly!"
Suddenly a bloody human head with long braids was thrown down on the city. Huang Taiji flew up and grabbed it in his hand. He was shocked when he recognized it as his third uncle Shuerhaqi.
At this time, hundreds of archers suddenly appeared on the city, and the leader was Mou Rongtian. He only heard him shout "shoot the arrow!" For a moment, arrows rained down, and the sound of "swish" could not be heard.
Huang Taiji shouted: "No, there is an ambush!" He jumped on Nurha's red horse, sat behind him, opened his Tianluo umbrella, and blocked the carved feather arrows.
Nurhachi and others abandoned dozens of corpses, and the rest fled toward their hometown of Hetuala City.
Mou Rongtian ordered Mangui to guard Fushun City, and he and Li Tianmu and others returned to Shenyang City to resume their duties. When Li Chengliang learned that he had captured Fushun City, he smiled and said: "Yes, you have some skills. I will start to discuss the merits with the emperor." Reward."
Mou Rongtian bowed and said: "Thank you, Marshal."
A few days later, Mou Rongtian received a secret report from the local Jinyi Guards and learned that Li Chengliang had falsely reported his military exploits. He originally killed 21,000 enemies, but reported 35,000, which was more than one-third of the total. The number of enemies killed needed to be supported by human heads. Li Chengliang He ordered people to cut off the heads of the fallen soldiers of the Ming army, shave their hair and braid them, and pretend to be Jurchens.
Mou Rongtian conducted verification in secret, and after obtaining conclusive evidence, he wrote a secret letter and sent someone to the capital to report to Luo Sigong.
A month later, the imperial edict came to Shenyang City and promulgated an imperial edict, conferring Li Chengliang the title of Ning Yuanbo, Li Rubai as the Commander-in-Chief of Shenyang, Li Rumei as the Commander-in-Chief of Fushun, and all other generals were rewarded.
Mou Rongtian was rewarded with one thousand taels of silver for his contribution to the capture of Fushun City, and was handed over to the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Li Tianmu, Li Jiaoyue, Shengming, and Hu Kan were each rewarded with two hundred taels of silver. Baiyun Shuangjian and Shi Yi were rewarded with fifty taels of silver, and were handed over to the Ministry of Civil Affairs. The Ministry of Personnel was promoted to small banner officials. Wu Xiang and Zu Dashou were promoted to small banner officials.
Mou Rongtian was very dissatisfied when he saw that the imperial edict did not mention Li Chengliang's false report of military exploits. He guessed that Luo Sigong had not submitted his secret report to Wanli at all.
The imperial edict required Li Chengliang to capture the city of Hetuala and annihilate Nurhaci and his followers in one fell swoop. Li Chengliang had already made preparations to march into the city of Hetuala. After receiving the order, he personally led an army of 50,000 people to Hetuala the next day. city.
The Ming army marched out of Shenyang City, passed Fushun, and left the Great Wall. They successively captured the four small cities of Sarhu, Jiefan, Gule, and Xema, and set up a company camp ten miles southeast of Hetuala City.
Hetuala City is located about 150 miles southeast of Fushun City, on the southeastern hills at the confluence of Suzi River and Erdao River. The terrain is steep and easy to defend but difficult to attack. The moat is wide and deep, and is led by river water.
There are two cities, inner and outer. The inner city has a circumference of five miles and the outer city has a circumference of nine miles. The city wall is not very high and is made of earth and stone. The inner city is home to Nurhaci’s family and relatives, and the outer city is stationed with Eight Banners troops. Tens of thousands of people live outside the city.
Jurchen civilians who are plotting.
Nurhachi learned that the Ming army was attacking in a large scale and was unable to defend small cities such as Sarhu. He concentrated all the troops in Hetuala City and moved all the civilians outside the city into the city, preparing to fight the Ming army to the death.
Nurhachi learned that the strength of the Ming army was 50,000. If he had 5,000 cavalry, he would have dared to go out to fight. However, he only had 3,000 cavalry left. He was not sure of victory and did not want to take risks. On the one hand, he decided to hold on to the city and on the other hand, he would attack the city.
Tens of thousands of civilians were armed and trained intensively.
The Jurchens are all good at riding and shooting, and their physical fitness is very good. With a little training, they can become qualified warriors. Li Chengliang knew this, and expected that Nurhaci would train civilians, and did not want to leave him any room to breathe, so the army just set up camp.
A siege was launched.
Under the cover of catapults, crossbows, and wells, the Ming army rushed towards the city of Hetuala like a tide. They built bridges with crossing tools, rushed across the moat, and set up ladders to attack the city. The Jin soldiers used bows, arrows, and wolf fangs to attack the city.
Use oil pans, ash bottles, cannons, rolling logs, thunder stones and other equipment for defense.
The siege lasted from dusk to dawn the next day. The Jin army put up a tenacious and desperate resistance and repelled the Ming army's attacks one after another. Both sides suffered heavy casualties.
Seeing that Li Chengliang could not capture the enemy for a long time and the morale of the soldiers was low, he ordered the troops to retreat. After returning to the camp, he cursed: "What a shame, it's just such a small town. I attacked it for six or seven hours and still couldn't take it down. It's trash. It's all useless."
It’s trash.” He took off his helmet angrily and threw it to the ground.
After the army had eaten, Li Chengliang sent an order to rest and prepared to launch a second round of siege tonight. The prince was sleeping in the commander's tent. Mou Rongtian was afraid that Yan Shoufeng would send assassins to assassinate the prince, so he did not dare to take it lightly and guarded outside the tent in person.
After a while, an old man suddenly jumped out in front of him. He was wearing a soldier's horn and holding an iron umbrella. He was none other than Northern Martial Saint Ni Tianxing.
Mou Rongtian was taken aback, and he quickly pulled out his tiger-headed knife and shouted, "There's an assassin!" He slashed with the knife. Ni Tianxing used an iron umbrella and landed on his left palm, knocking Mou Rongtian to the ground. Mou Rongtian raised his hand.
Shoots a wave of anger.
Ni Tianxing dodged sideways, opened the door curtain, and was about to break into the tent when he saw two shock waves coming towards him. He quickly opened his umbrella to block it, and with two booms, the shock wave hit the iron umbrella, shaking Ni Tianxing backwards.
Count steps.
Ni Tianxing let out a sigh and said in his heart: "Fang Bo is a man of pure inner strength and is not inferior to me. I didn't expect there to be such a master in the Ming army. Who is this? Could it be Old Man Ye, the sloppy Taoist of Xiwu Saint?"
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He felt that the only people with such skill could be the other three martial saints, and Ye Jinquan had helped Jin Yiwei in the state crown competition, so he thought the other person was Ye Jinquan, but he did not know that there was someone like Li Jinzhong in the world.