The first battle I fought was to take Fushun City, which had been pressing on our heads, and it was not difficult to do so. Because since I was a child, I often brought my younger brother here to participate in the horse market. But for the sake of safety, I still carried out a lot of pre-war deployments, and sent a lot of spies and nei ying into the city to find out the news. Then I ordered my men to prepare weapons and siege equipment, chariots, ladders, and bows and arrows of all kinds. In order to prevent leakage of information, I also had more trees cut down and repair the stables to cover people's eyes.
When the time is ripe, I personally led the four banners on the right wing to attack Fushun, and asked my generals to lead another line of four banners on the left to attack Ma Gendan and Dongzhou City. In this way, you can not only take the two cities to contain the local forces, but also support each other.
In order to reduce the loss of soldiers and horses, I sent people to the city first to tell others that thousands of Jurchens were coming to the market. For the merchants of Fushun, this is undoubtedly a big deal. After seeing the effect, I sent some people to disguise themselves as merchants to exchange markets but did not enter the city, but led the merchants and people in the city to the outer city, which not only avoided hurting the innocent, but also prevented the elite of the Eight Banners from falling into the enemy's encirclement. Sure enough, the plan succeeded, a large number of merchants and people were lured out by our people, and the city gates were opened, and then I immediately asked the Han people who had descended early to bring people into the city to continue to respond. I saw Li Yongfang, the defender of Fushun City, walking down from the city wall. I will immediately send people to attack Fushun City.
There was chaos in the city, and some people wanted to close the city gate, but they had already been killed by Tong Yangxing and others, and the city gate was opened. I led my troops into the city, and Li Yongfang was caught before he could even put on his armor. The lieutenant general Wang Mingyin was killed. I took Fushun City almost effortlessly, I climbed the city wall to accept Li Yongfang's surrender, I didn't embarrass him, after all, he was the first general to surrender, I want to take him as an example, if the next city will be much easier. Li Yongfang doesn't have any great skills, but he is not a bad person, and he is not bad to the people. The reason why he surrendered was also because he was afraid that my men and horses would be detrimental to the people.
Actually, I didn't intend to disturb the people of the city at all. I'm here to expand my territory and build a foundation, not just to grab food. We are different from the Jurchens and Mongols before us. Therefore, long before the siege of the city, I gave orders not to disturb the people, not to rob people of money, and not to commit adultery with their wives and daughters. To do autumn without committing any crimes. Sure enough, Li Yongfang was so moved that he opened the granary of Fushun City for the Eight Banners soldiers to eat.
However, in half a day, someone came to report that Dongzhou and Ma Gen Shan Ercheng also easily won. But the Ming Dynasty still got the news, so the governor of Liaodong, Li Weihan, ordered his general soldier Zhang Chengyin to chase and kill us. Zhang Chengyin felt that the opportunity had been missed, and it was unpredictable to send troops to win or lose at this time. But Governor Li is a layman, and he doesn't know much about our Dajin. issued military orders in succession, but Zhang Chengyin had no choice but to bring his soldiers and horses to chase us. I had already learned the news, so I sent the big Baylor to do good, and the four Baylor Huang Taiji and the two of them were paired on the hill to wait for work. Sure enough, the Ming army was easily defeated, and thousands of men and weapons were obtained.
Zhang Chengyin, the commander of the Ming army, and others were killed on the battlefield. I also sent my subordinates Eyidu and others to break through some Ming army fortresses near Fushun City. Daikin gained a lot from his first military dispatch. We took these things back to Hetuala. Fushun City was still under the management of Li Yongfang, but we were sent to oversee him to prevent him from rebelling against the Ming Dynasty.
After taking Fushun City and the rest of the castles, I opened my horizons and found the next target is Qinghe City, Qinghe City's location and strategic location are more advantageous than Fushun, it is an important city connecting Shenyang, Liaoyang, Kuandian and other castles. Then it was like opening a door to the Liaoxi Corridor. So I continued to send soldiers and horses to accompany me to Qinghe, and the army went out of the crows and hooves to Qinghe City, and the guard of Qinghe City was called Zou Chuxian, this person is a fierce general, but his mind is not enough to be a reckless man, and he is a hard thorn. I asked Li Yongfang of Fushun City to persuade him to surrender, but he didn't expect it to have no effect, and he planned to cooperate with the outside but it didn't work, so he had no choice but to attack hard, which was a last resort.
After all, my Eight Banners soldiers and horses are invincible in the field, but the siege is slightly difficult. Sure enough, Zou Chuxian stuck to the city and defended it with rocket artillery. The soldiers and horses of the Eight Banners lost a lot, and Li Yongfang proposed a strategy to dig up the wall. I think it's pretty good. So he called back the soldiers and horses who were besieging the city. Stay until the evening and send a group of men to dig the city. Because of the rain a few days ago, the soil under the city wall was moist and soft, so the effect of digging the wall was achieved. The next day, we continued to attack the city, the Ming army was still defending the city, suddenly the city wall not far away collapsed with a bang and collapsed a big gap, the eight banners who were ambushed nearby rushed into the gap, opened the city gate, I led the troops to attack, two ways to attack. The general Zou Chuxian and the general Zhang Peili died in battle, and Qinghe City was captured again.
Qinghe, the fall of Fushun is absolute good news for our Dajin, but it is like explosive news for the Ming Court. The Ming court dismissed Li Weihan, the governor of Liaodong, and transferred Yang Hao as the governor of Liaodong to strictly defend the cities of Liaodong. I'm going to give us a general encirclement. But I know that the emperor of the Ming court, Wanli, is a faint monarch, who has not been in court for many years, and treats the people very harshly, so for his own money, he let his eunuchs go around to collect taxes and make people angry. It was a good time when I wasn't expanding, and he missed it. Now I'm not going to give him that chance again.
To be continued...