Chapter 37 Soldiers approaching the city
In history, Sun Degong scared away Wang Huazhen and captured Guangning City with more than a thousand rebels. It should have really surprised and unbelievable Lao Nu.
"King Khan, the vanguard has arrived at the city of Guangning, and there is no movement in the city." The communication soldier rode his horse and jumped down and knelt on one knee, reporting respectfully.
The old slave seemed not surprised by this and said, "First set up the formation and check it out clearly. By the way, tell Mangourtai not to rush to attack the city."
"Yes." The communication soldier responded, turned over and left.
The old slave raised his eyes and looked at it, reached out and greeted, "Yongfang, come here."
After Li Yongfang rebelled against the Ming Dynasty and joined the gold medal, he was very respected. The old slave also married his granddaughter, the daughter of his seventh son Abatai, to him, which also made Li Yongfang the first Han "E-sun" in the history of the Qing Dynasty.
Because Li Yongfang was born and raised by Liaodong and was a general of the former Ming Dynasty, she was very familiar with the situation in the Ming Dynasty and had many connections.
Therefore, the old slaves used their talents to make Li Yongfang the "spy chief" of the Later Jin Dynasty, engaged in intelligence and rebellion.
Li Yongfang also did a very good job. He sent spies throughout Liaodong, some of whom were internally responding, some surrendering, some created chaos, and some helped to instigate the rebellion. Even the movements in the capital could be found.
When the Later Jin army captured Shenyang City, the internal forces should have made great efforts. "The Liao people's giant clans had more than a hundred families who were in line with Li Yongfang." These "giant clans" were all influential families in the local area, which shows Li Yongfang's ability between the lines.
The Ming Dynasty also knew Li Yongfang's potential threat and spared no effort to win over Li Yongfang and give various promises, but none of them could shake Li Yongfang.
For example, Wang Huazhen sent Sun Degong to rebel against Li Yongfang. Not only did he fail, Sun Degong was bribed and rebelled by Li Yongfang. It was really a big loss.
The great traitor Li Yongfang came close and bowed respectfully, "King Khan, what are you going to ask for a humble position?"
The old slave smiled and raised his hand to signal Li Yongfang to go hand in hand with him.
Li Yongfang dared not. He was half a horse's head behind, bowed slightly, waiting for grandpa's instructions.
"Can Sun Degong escape back to Guangning? Can Wang Huazhen be trusted again?" The old slave asked without looking back with his horse whip.
Li Yongfang replied cautiously: "Wang Huazhen was the confidant of Sun Degong, and followed his advice. Although Shaling was defeated, the general and general were dead. Sun Degong had the highest title. Even if someone pointed it out, Wang Huazhen might not believe it."
After pausing, Li Yongfang continued: "Besides, the humble official has sent an inner commander to Guangning. Sun De cannot do anything, and the inner commander can create chaos."
The old slave smiled slightly, and said, "The elite troops of the Guangning Army have been defeated in Shaling, and the combat power of the remaining troops is weak. Seeing that our army is approaching the city, people must be panic, and if there is internal support, it will be easy to break the city."
"King King Yingming." Li Yongfang bowed and praised: "It's ridiculous that Wang Huazhen was arrogant and said unpretentiously. He also came to write letters to persuade Khan Wang to surrender to Ming. He was extremely stupid."
Hahahaha, the old slave heard the funny thing and became happy. After a while, the old slave said with a smile: "If you can capture Wang Huazhen alive, you will be asked to read the letter again. There are few such joys in the world!"
"King Khan said so well." Li Yongfang also said with interest: "I couldn't help but laugh when I thought of the letter from the Governor Wang, who was a prisoner, who was thinking of the letter from the Khan.
The old slave imagined the scene described by Li Yongfang again, laughed out loud again, and urged his horse to run towards Guangning City.
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The flags and drums in Guangning City seemed calm, and only the governor's flag was fluttering in the wind. However, the city was ready and basically had the arrangements.
In view of the fall of Shenyang and Liaoyang, Xiong Tingbi closed the city gate after entering the city, and refused to leave, blocking the news in case the Later Jin army learned about it and came to attack the city.
The heads of rebel generals such as Sun Degong and hang their heads to the public were just a deterrent method. The investigation of traitors and the removal of hidden dangers also began to unfold after the city was locked down.
The granary, government treasury, armed treasury, gunpowder treasury and other key places have been strengthened to guard and sent elite troops to protect them.
The residents in the city selected the people to be brave and brave according to the Baojia, and were led by the government yamen runners to maintain public order and supervise inspections. All suspicious persons were detained.
The people stranded in the city were the focus of investigation and identification, and were interrogated by the Jinyiwei. Even if they were innocent and unsuspected, they were still concentrated and sent to guard them.
Not to mention, after this series of measures, more than a dozen spies from the Later Jin Dynasty were found. Some Han and some Mongolians were all beheaded in public and hung in various parts of the city.
There must be some fish that misses the net, but it is unlikely that they will cause trouble in the heavily guarded city.
Xiong Tingbi also closed the city gates with bricks and stones, and clearly told the military and civilians in the city that it was impossible to escape from the city and escape. If you want to survive, you had to defend the city's path.
The so-called death is what is said to live by death. This is not the case that the military and civilians in the city cannot arouse the determination and will to fight to the death.
The food and grass in Guangning City were sufficient, with more than 200 artillery guns alone. Some were made of European-made Franchise machines improved during the Zhengde period, and the other was domestic tiger squat cannons.
Of course, these artillery are not as powerful as the Red Barbarian cannons, and can also play a great role in defending the city.
In addition to artillery, there are also many of the Ming army's favorite three-eyed guns and the bird guns that they dare not use very much.
In the past two or three days, Xiong Tingbi has worked hard for several days and has only slept for more than two hours a day. Finally, he feels that Guangning City has the confidence to stick to it.
In the city tower, looking at the surging Later Jin army, Xiong Tingbi's face was calm and calm.
The reason why he did not raise his banner was of course to injure the Later Jin army, so that the Later Jin army would underestimate the enemy and kill more people in the attack.
As an old army, Xiong Tingbi could see clearly that the Later Jin army seemed aggressive, but did not carry siege equipment. Or, the siege equipment was in the rear team and had not yet been transported!
There is nothing scary about this. Even if the Later Jin army is a monkey, it will be difficult to climb up the towering city wall.
His eyes flashed, and Xiong Tingbi saw the Jinyiwei family with the surname Ma walking up the city wall, followed by two Jinyiwei subordinates carrying quiveres.
What interested Xiong Tingbi was that Ma Baihu was carrying a strong bow, which was a standard crossbow of the Ming army, and should have been picked from the arsenal.
Xiong Tingbi secretly praised the Eight Stone Bow, at least this Ma Baihu is very strong. You must know that the biggest bow in the Ming Dynasty army was only Eight Stone.
Ma Chengfei, a hundred households of Jinyiwei, did not know that Xiong Tingbi was interested in him, so he walked to the battlement of the city wall and looked up at the distance.
Chapter completed!