Chapter 295 of the main text of the Ming Dynasty, the most ruthless bandit, saw Rentou Shu again. On June 27, the seventh year of Chongzhen, Dai Shan led an army of 10,000 to Shanyin County.

Originally, there were only 500 defenders in Shanyin County. Cao Wenzhao took office as the general of Datong. After returning to Datong Town, he urgently transferred the guerrilla general Ma Jie, the West Road of Datong, to lead 1,000 troops into Weishanyin, and to transfer Cao Gui, the garrison of Jingping Fort, to lead 800 troops into Weimayi County.

As soon as Ma Jie arrived in Shanyin, he immediately mobilized the young and strong people in the city to participate in defending the city, mobilized all the wealthy families in the city to donate money and grain, and seconded the family's descent and the people, and finally got 4,000 soldiers and civilians to defend the city.

Jiannu's actions in Desheng Fort and many military forts on the side wall have been spread to Shanyin County. These 4,000 soldiers and civilians were afraid that Jiannu's massacre, so they defended the city and bravely blocked several attacks by Jiannu's army.

Because it was an expedition spanning more than a thousand miles, the Later Jin army did not carry large artillery, but only a small number of small artillery seized after breaking through the Ming army's fort.

In Daishan's army, there were only a dozen tiger squat cannons and four Fran machine cannons of different sizes, which could not suppress the city. The four door holes in the city were sealed again, and the rushing car could not play a role. There were many rocks and rolling wood on the city, so it was difficult for the warriors of the Great Jin Kingdom to climb the city along the cloud ladder. It was not easy to attack Shanyin City.

However, this place is already very close to Shuozhou. Huang Taiji's order was to ask them to capture Shuozhou and wait for Huang Taiji's army to arrive. After the two armies met, they attacked Ningwu Pass.

Now, Gushan Ezhen in the Enanghongqi Gushan has already captured Daiyue Town in the north and is leading an army of 10,000 to advance towards Shuozhou. Huang Taiji's army is still ten days away, so Daishan decided to take some time to capture Shanyin City first, and then go to Shuozhou.

Shanyin is a rich and wealthy county, and the surrounding gentry and gentry have all hid in the city, and there must be a lot of food and young laborers in it.

So Daishan's army set up camp outside Shanyin City, with some soldiers attacking the city every day, while the other soldiers attacked from all directions, looting villages and towns within a radius of dozens of miles.

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Forty miles south of Shanyin, Yue Tuo encountered a lot of trouble at Maying Fort.

Maying Fort is a military fort built against the mountain. It is adjacent to Hengshan in the south and a small river to the east. The river was not deep, but before they came, it had been widened to three zhang by the military and civilians of Maying Fort, which was nearly one zhang deep.

But the direction of the attack is only the west and north, and these two sides are gentle slopes, making the terrain easy to defend but difficult to attack.

The gentry and people nearby hid in the fort with money, grain and finance, and filled a military fort with less than four miles in circumference. There were as many as four or five thousand soldiers and civilians participating in the defense.

The first attack launched by Yue Tuo lost more than 300 bannermen and soldiers, and then he did not dare to attack rashly.

When his father Daishan stopped in Shanyin City, Yue Tuo also asked the army to camp outside Maying Fort to siege Maying Fort, slowly consumed gunpowder, arrowhead and rock rolling wood in the city.

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Compared with the stagnation of Daishan and Yuetuo, the pace of Gushan Ezhen, Yechen, was much smoother than that of Daishan and Yuetuo.

On June 23, Ye Chen conquered Daiyue Town.

Hundreds of old and weak and young children in the town were slaughtered, all the money, food, and property, young and strong, and women were plundered.

After only one day of rest, Wanyan Yechen led a large army to escort more than 6,000 young and strong men and women who had been plundered along the way, as well as more than 18,000 stones of grain, more than 30,000 taels of silver and countless cloths, cattle, sheep, mules and horses, and so on, along the Sanggan River, heading towards Shuozhou.

After a day of march, several horses suddenly rushed from Shuozhou, and when they arrived in front of Ye Chen, they turned over and dismounted, and took out eight heads from behind the horse.

As soon as he saw those heads, Ye Chen frowned.

Because the top of those heads was bare, with only a small braid on the back of the head.

This is the head of their Great Jin warriors.

"What's going on?" Ye Chen frowned before he could speak.

The leader of the horse hurriedly knelt down and said, "Report to the elders, when the young man arrived at Mayi City, he found these eight heads on a tree five miles away from the east of the city. It seemed that he had died within one or two days, and I don't know who did it."

After hearing these words, Ye Chen's face darkened.

Galayizhang Jinglaosa, who was beside him, was furious: "It must be those hateful Nikans who dared to kill my Great Jin warriors and hung their heads on the tree!"

"This is a letter of war to our Great Jin Kingdom. Lord Erzhen, please transfer me two thousand warriors. I will go and defeat Mayi City, kill all Nikan in the city, and avenge my Great Jin Kingdom warriors!" Yanyan E-book

"Brothers, don't worry."

Wanyan Yechen calmed down and asked to the horse, "How is the guards in Mayi City? How many troops are there? How many artillery?"

"Report to the master, there is no one outside the city of Mayi ten miles. The young man did not catch the Ming army's provocate and could not find out how many defenders there were in the city. However, there were not many artillery on the top of the city, less than twenty, and most of them were tiger squatting cannons."

"Um."

Ye Chen nodded, then lowered his eyes and fell into deep thought.

A moment later, Ye Chen suddenly spoke, "Lausa obeys the order."

"I am in a humble position."

"I ordered you to order five Niulu Banners, as well as five hundred cavalry each of the Ordos tribe and the Tumote tribe, and go to Mayi City first."

"But you can't attack the city. You can only block Mayi, prevent anyone from leaving the city, and clear all the Han people within a radius of twenty miles of Mayi."

"If you encounter a strong enemy, you should not fight in a hurry. You just need to restrain the enemy. When our army arrives, you will join forces to sweep away the enemy and attack Mayi City to avenge the lost warriors."

"Slag."

Lausa knelt down and took the order, and then took his followers to order his troops.

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In Mayi City, the garrison Cao Gui and the magistrate Liu Wenyuan stood at the top of the city, looking at an army coming from the west uneasy.

The army had two general flags, one with the word "Li" written on it and the other with the word "Feng". The number of people was not large, with only three thousand people. Except for a few generals, the rest were all infantry, but the army was in a strict manner and had a moderate manner. They walked slowly through the city, and then stopped by the Sanggan River five miles east of the city.

Judging from the appearance, this army is going to camp here.

Liu Wenyuan wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and asked, "Cao Shoujie can tell which friendly army is this?"

Cao Gui swallowed his dry throat and replied solemnly: "Sir, this should be Qin Chuan's army."

Liu Wenyuan's face changed: "That traitor in Luliangshan?"

"Well, Shanxi guerrillas Qinchuan, the last general heard that His Majesty the Emperor had sent an order to Ningwu Pass and ordered him to go north to fight against Jiannu."

"Ah?" Liu Wenyuan was stunned, "Isn't he a traitor? Why did His Majesty pass an order to him?"

"The last general dare not speculate on the superior intention. Now that Jiannu has invaded, Qin Chuan can go out of the pass to fight the enemy, it is a good thing for us."

"But... by the way, were they hung those heads in the east of the city?"

"It should be."

Hearing this, Liu Wenyuan's face changed drastically: "It's bad, it's bad. This traitor wants to lead Jiannu to Mayi, and he wants to hurt me."

Cao Gui didn't say anything, but frowned and looked at the camping army.

At this time, a horse from the army rode his horse towards Mayi City.

When he got closer, the man held up a bright yellow scroll and shouted: "We are soldiers under the command of the guerrilla general Qin in Shanxi. We were ordered to fight the enemy north and ask the gentry in Mayi to provide 1,000 stones of food and 100 cattle and sheep to work hard."

"ah?"
Chapter completed!