Two days after Zhu Youjian led the Guanning Iron Cavalry to set off, Man Gui led 30,000 Ming troops and 40,000 civilians to leave the Daling River and headed straight towards Guangning City.

More than ten large and small guard forts were captured along the way. Three days later, the army arrived in Guangning.

Guangning City faces north and south, wide in the south and narrow in the north. The city circumference is fourteen miles long, the city wall is two feet high, and there are city gates around it, including two of the South Gate.

There is also a moat outside the city, which is more than two meters wide. However, due to the severe drought in Liaodong this year, the water is dry in winter and there is no water in the river.

Outside the moat, you can see the holes just dug and the thorny things that were set up to prevent horses and thorns. They were urgently excavated by the defenders in the city when they heard that the Ming Dynasty's army arrived.

At this time, the city was guarding the son of Daishan, one of the four major belles, and Yuetuo, the master of the red flag.

After Huang Taiji advanced westward, he ordered Yuetuo to station in Guangning and left three thousand eight banner elites to help him defend the city to defend Huang Taiji's rear road.

A day ago, Yue Tuo learned from the remnants of the army that fled back to Yizhou Fort that the Ming army had formed a large army of 30,000 and headed straight for Guangning.

Yue Tuo sent someone to verify the authenticity of the information, and ordered someone to strengthen the city wall, and then sent someone to inform Huang Taiji of the matter.

At this time, on the Drum Tower in Guangning City, Yue Tuo looked at the 30,000 Ming army and 50,000 civilians, and was also surprised to speak.

According to previous and later Jin spies, when the Later Jin Dynasty went to war half a month ago, the Ming army did not make any moves.

Why did the Ming army organize such a huge army in just five days?

Before the Later Jin Dynasty sent troops to Huduntu, based on spy information, the four major Beile and the four young Beile had a fierce discussion on whether the Ming army would dispatch troops to cut off their retreat.

Finally, Huang Taiji, who is known for his wise plan, believed that the new emperor of the Ming Dynasty ascended the throne and the court was not stable, and the ministers would never agree to send troops rashly. As for the 16-year-old young emperor, Huang Taiji believed that it was even less worth mentioning.

Then he decided to make a decision and believed that the Ming Dynasty would not send troops, so he later launched a large army to conquer the Hu Duntu.

Moreover, based on the infiltration of the spies of the Later Jin Dynasty into the high-level leaders of the Ming Dynasty, Huang Taiji's speculation was also confirmed.

Despite this, Huang Taiji, who was known for his scheming and carefulness, arranged ten Niulu troops in Guangning and sent Yue Tuo, a confidant general who was known for his stability, to take on this important task.

Huang Taiji believed that with Yue Tuo's stability and the 3,000 elite troops in the city and 20,000 Aha, even if the Ming army set up a large army to attack, it would take more than one month to get into the city.

A month later, the war between Huduntu was already over, and the Ming army was not worth worrying about.

Yue Tuo looked at the vast and boundless Ming army flag battle, although he was shocked, he still felt confident in winning.

Until he saw a bright yellow sun, moon, golden dragon flag.

"The Emperor Ming was in charge of the army?"

Yue Tuo couldn't believe it, rubbed his eyes and looked at the big flag again.

But I saw a bright umbrella under the Sun and Moon Golden Dragon, and a brown horse was sitting next to a man in bright yellow clothes.

Because the distance is far, I can't see the person clearly, but Yue Tuo didn't know what happened, but instead felt that it was a Ming Emperor.

So Yuetuo's hand, who was holding the awning, began to tremble.

In fact, if Zhu Youjian was by Yue Tuo's side at this time, he would definitely know Yue Tuo's mental activities very well.

As for Murphy's Law, the more you fear, the more you will be.

"Go and send someone to verify. Is the Ming Emperor's commander in person?"

Yue Tuo then ordered, then went down the Drum Tower and headed towards the south wall.

After climbing the south wall, he was closer to the Ming army at this time. Yue Tuo could see the figure clearly and was sure that he was a young man. However, whether he was the Ming Emperor or not, Yue Tuo still needs the information of the spies on the Ming army.

"Yuetuan's son, my emperor is in charge of the army, but he won't be able to surrender."

The troops shouted together, and the sound was like a bell, which immediately scared Yue Tuo.

"It must be the Emperor of Ming, undoubtedly."

Yue Tuo said to his younger brother Shuo Tuo nervously.

As a result, the younger brother Shuoto was even more nervous than him and said as he heard this.

"Brother, let's run."

When Yue Tuo heard this, he almost became petrified on the spot and was even more speechless about this younger brother.

Shuotuo was the younger brother of Yuetuo's mother. His father Daishan didn't like their mother very much, so he didn't like their brothers either.

Moreover, after his mother's death, Dai Shan abused the two brothers even more violently.

In the end, even his father Nurhaci couldn't bear to see, so he brought the two brothers to his concubine Meng Guzhezhe to raise him.

Meng Guzhezhe was Huang Taiji's biological mother, so Yuetuo has had a good relationship with Huang Taiji since he was young.

After becoming an adult, Nurhaci ordered Yuetuo Heshuo to build a government office and build a mansion.

Because the mansion built by the two brothers was better, Dai Shan became jealous, so he told Nurhaci that his mansion was too small and he wanted to change to a larger one, so Yuetuo's two brothers would be good.

He made Nurhaci angry, so he picked up a whip and drove Daishan out.

But because Shuoto was afraid that his father would be uncontrollable since he was a child, his house was eventually taken away by Daishan.

Shuotuo, who could not stand Dai Shan's long-term abuse, suddenly disappeared after being taken away from his house.

At that time, everyone was rumored that Shuo had sent a letter to Ming, and Daishan was the initiator of this matter.

Before he could figure out whether Shuotou was convinced, Dai Shan insisted that Shuotou had decided to win.

After finding Shuotuo, after he made it clear that he had not defected and defected to Ming, Daishan still knelt down to Nurhaci five or six times and demanded the execution of Shuotuo, but naturally he was rejected by Nurhaci.

Moreover, Nurhaci realized that he had doubts, so he ordered someone to investigate the abuse of Dai Shan's ex-wife and two sons.

After the investigation was confirmed, Nurhaci was very angry and beat Daishan on the spot, causing him to return Shuotou's house, and ordered Yuetuo, Shuotou and Daishan to split up.

Since then, although the two brothers escaped Daishan's clutches, the shadow of their original family has created Yue Tuo's tenacious character and Shuo Tuo's somewhat cowardly nature.

Yue Tuo looked at his brother who had been beaten by his unlucky father as he beat him a little, although he was speechless, he was also a little pity.

"I haven't figured out whether it's Ming Emperor yet. Don't panic, and the Ming Emperor is here. We have many soldiers and a wide range of generals and a strong city. It's no problem to guard him for a month."

"A month later, the fourth uncle led the army back. At that time, he will definitely tell the Emperor Ming to come and never come back."

Yue Tuo cheered Shuo Tuo, but in fact he was also cheering himself up.

Although the Ming army was weak and had more defeats and fewer victory in the battle with the Eight Banners of Manchuria, the long-term power of the Ming Dynasty was still there.

Even though Yue Tuo was not afraid of the Ming army, he was still a little timid about the Ming Emperor who was in charge of the army.

On that day, the Ming army set up camp under the city and sent civilians to cut down trees everywhere and began to build siege equipment.

That night, in Guangning City, Yue Tuo also learned from the spy that Emperor Ming had indeed come to Jinzhou.

However, it is unknown whether the spy was the real Minghuang or his substitute when the Ming army general Man Gui attacked Guangning, but the Minghuang was indeed gone in Jinzhou City.

"The Emperor Ming is really here."

Yue Tou murmured to himself.

Then, a team of Manchu cavalry took advantage of the night to leave the city and head west.

But in the second half of the night, several more cavalry entered Guangning City from the east gate. After a stick of incense, they came out from the west gate of Guangning City and galloped westward.
Chapter completed!