Shengjing.

The bearded man and more than a thousand servants spent a whole day sank hundreds of thousands of taels of gold, more than five million taels of silver and countless rare antiques into the Hunhe River. The remaining tens of thousands of jin of ginseng and dozens of boxes of Dongzhu, and the animal skins prepared hundreds of Euro horses to carry them. Seeing that it was getting late, and the servants were exhausted, Wang Pu had to order the entire army to stay in Shengjing for another night and wait for the next day to recover and then head towards North Korea.

It took a delay this night and the situation took a sharp turn.

The next morning, before Wang Pu and his servants had time to have breakfast, Scarface, who was in charge of the alert, ran over nervously and shouted: "General is not good, a large group of Jiannu cavalry are found outside the city!"

"Jiannu Cavalry!" Wang Pu was shocked and said anxiously, "This is impossible. All the cavalry and infantry troops of Jiannu have gathered in Songshan. There are only children and elderly people left in Liaodong. Where did the cavalry come from?"

Wang Pu's shock is conceivable.

According to his speculation, all the military forces of Jiannu had gathered on the Songshan front at this time, and those who stayed in Liaodong were only the elderly, weak, sick and disabled. Even if the remaining Jiannu soldiers who escaped from Shengjing the night before yesterday sent the news to Songshan, Jiannu would then transfer cavalry from Songshan to counterattack Shengjing, it would take at least five or six days. This is also the reason why Wang Pu dared to stay in Shengjing for one more night.

Now just one or two nights have passed, and Jiannu’s cavalry appeared outside Shengjing City? Could it be that they flew over with wings?

"That's right." Scarface gasped, "It's Jiannu cavalry, there are at least three thousand cavalry!"

"Three thousand riders!?"

Wang Pu's face changed again, and his heart couldn't help but begin to sink.

If Wang Pu was just guarding the city, he would not be afraid of the 3,000 Jiannu cavalry outside the city. If these 3,000 Jiannu cavalry really dared to attack, he would be seeking death. The red cannons on the top of the city were not vegetarians. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the power of firearms was already quite powerful. The flowering bullets fired by the red cannon were bombarded and three thousand cavalry were not enough to bombard a few cannons.

But the problem now is that Wang Pu doesn't want to defend the city or cannot defend the city. Not only can he not defend the city, but he also has to try his best to leave Shengjing as soon as possible. Wang Pu didn't want to stay in this Shengjing city for a moment. The reason is very simple. Wang Pu and his servants are a completely lonely army. They have no reinforcements at all, and the court cannot send reinforcements.

Holding Shengjing to the death may lead to a large number of enemies, and may even cause heavy damage to Jiannu, but in the end, Wang Pu and more than a thousand servants under his command could not escape death. Wang Pu was not an ancient scholar who was stupid in his moral articles. He was a modern man who traveled through the past. He did not have the so-called loyalty to the emperor in his mind at all. Moreover, he was still very young. He didn't want to be a martyr for Master Chongzhen or the Ming Empire!

Being obsessed with Shengjing will only be a dead end.

So, go out of the city to fight with Jiannu? The enemy outside the city is the Jiannu cavalry who has experienced many battles, not to mention that the Jiannu cavalry still has three times the advantage in military strength, and the chance of victory is really slim.

what to do?

If you want to survive, you must first find a way to deal with the three thousand Jiannu cavalry outside the city! And it must be as soon as possible, otherwise, once the Jiannu army in Songshan comes back, everything will be over.

Wang Pu calmed down and said in a deep voice: "Let's go, go to the city tower first."

Scarface brought Wang Pu and Zhen Youcai to the south gate of Shengjing. Standing on the enemy's building and looking out, he saw the black Jiannu cavalry. Wang Pu roughly estimated the distance. The Jiannu cavalry was at least several thousand meters away from the city gate, and always wandered around a distance of about several thousand meters, and never approached easily. It seemed that Jiannu had a clear understanding of the power of the Red Barbarian cannon.

He turned his head to look at the Chaoyang in Dongfang Chusheng. Wang Pu's eyebrows were already twisted together and asked Scarface: "Have you found Jiannu Cavalry in the other three directions?"

Scarface said: "No, but there is Jiannu's rafting on patrol."

"These cunning Jiannu." Wang Pu cursed hatefully, "It seems that they are deliberately trying to trap us in Shengjing."

Scarface punched the city wall fiercely and shouted: "General, then we won't leave. Anyway, the city has sufficient ammunition and food, which is enough for brothers to support it for a year."

"Nonsense." Wang Pu scolded, "I don't want to die here. I must find a way to leave here, and I must be as soon as possible!"

Scarface said, "Then wait until it's dark, put a horse's mouth on the horse's hooves and sneak out of the city."

"It's not that simple." Wang Pu shook his head and said, "The last time we were in Songshan, it was because Jiannu focused all his attention on more than 100,000 troops, so we took advantage of the loopholes. But this time, Jiannu's ranger will definitely wander outside Shengjing City day and night, and will never leave any loopholes for us."

Scarface said, "What should I do?"

"General." Zhen Youcai suddenly came over and whispered, "The villain has an idea."

Wang Pu asked without looking back: "What do you think?"

Zhen Youcai said: "Jiannu arranged the main force of the cavalry at the south gate, leaving only a small number of rangers in the other three directions, using the strategy of using static brakes. If we don't leave the city, they won't move. Once we leave the city, they will follow us and chase and fight hard. The villain thinks we can use the tactic of "speaking east and attacking west to crack Jiannu's "Jiannu's "Still"."

Wang Pu frowned and said, "How can you attack the east and west?"

"This sound attacks the west is not simply a sound attack, but a plan, and there are also a series of plans inside the sound attacks." Zhen Youcai said proudly: "The general can send someone to collect the big carts and horses in the city first, first load hundreds of barrels of fire on the cart, and secretly exit the east gate after dark. When the Jiannu cavalry chased after it, the soldiers who drove the cart ignited the fuse and retreated back to the city. Because of the threat of the red cannon, Jiannu would definitely not dare to chase them. They would intercept the big carts. At this time, the hundreds of barrels of fire on the cart exploded and bombed..."

"Okay!" Scarface slapped his thighs suddenly and shouted excitedly, "This is a good idea, it's poisonous."

Wang Pu asked expressionlessly: "What about?"

Zhen Youcai said: "Then the general sent a decent general to lead a few soldiers to drive hundreds of horses out of the West Gate. In order to confuse Jiannu's eyeliner, he had to tie a puppet on the back of each horse, and put on the Ming army's battle robe. After leaving the West Gate, he ran forward and fled to the west of Liao. Jiannu outside the South Gate would definitely believe it and chase it around the city. When Jiannu's large cavalry chased far away, the general led his army out of the city from the east gate. Our army had just failed to break through the east gate. Jiannu must have never expected that our army would break through the east gate again, so that he could get rid of Jiannu's entanglement without knowing it."

"Okay!" Scarface shouted, "Zhen Youcai, you are so fucking talented!"

Wang Pu turned around and looked at Zhen Youcai deeply, thinking that this old guy was really a little bit intestinal. The word "dog-headed military advisor" suddenly broke out in Wang Pu's mind. Yes, Zhen Youcai is a dog-headed military advisor. Look at his nod and bowing look, and his two dog-tatted beards, he is just like the standard image of "dog-headed military advisor".

"Scarface." Wang Pu said to Scarface, "Immediately send someone to collect the big carts and horses in the city, and then move out all the fires stored in Jiannu's warehouse to put them on the big cart. Don't forget to put more sacks on the big cart. Lime, iron nails, broken porcelain and stones should be placed in the sacks. We will set up a super big firework for Jiannu."

"Yes, the villain will do it now."

Scarface took the order and Wang Pu shouted at his back again: "You see the bearded man, let him come to see me immediately."

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One hundred miles southwest of Shengjing, Huang Taiji's tent was held.

Ebilong entered the tent and reported: "Emperor, three thousand Mongolian cavalry have arrived outside Shengjing before dawn, and have set up camps five miles outside the south gate according to your will. More than a dozen groups of explorers have been sent to patrol day and night in the other directions of north, west and east. The Ming army in the city is already hard to fly."

"Well, okay." Huang Taiji nodded tiredly and said weakly, "The three thousand Mongolian cavalry of Man Zhu Xili came very timely and did not disappoint me."

"Emperor." Ebilong said with concern, "Now the Mongolian cavalry has arrived, Tulai and Oboi have also rushed to Shengjing to meet with Prince Manzhu Xili, so you can rest with confidence, Your Majesty."

Huang Taiji frowned and pondered for a moment, then suddenly shook his head and said, "No, no."

Ebilong said in surprise: "Master, what's wrong?"

Huang Taiji's fat body moved twice, stretched out his hands to Ebilong and Ta Zhan who were standing beside him and said, "Ebilong, Ta Zhan, help me up quickly."

Ebilong and Tazhan hurriedly stepped forward and helped Huang Taiji up.

The imperial physician next to him wanted to stop him but did not dare, so he had to persuade him: "Your Majesty, you are weak now and need more rest."

"No." Huang Taiji shook his head gasping for breath. His fat body made him pant when he moved. "I can't rest. I have to rush to Shengjing to command this war himself."

"Ah? Your Majesty, are you going to Shengjing?" Ebilong hurriedly advised, "I thought there were Man Zhu Xili and Tulai, Obai and the others, and there were three thousand Mongolian cavalry. It would be not easy to clean up less than one thousand Ming army remnants in the city. How could you do it for the emperor to personally lead the expedition?"

"You don't understand." Huang Taiji shook his hand weakly and gasped, "The leader of this Ming army is not simple. With just a small group of Ming army, he dared to go deep into the hinterland of Liaodong and launch a surprise attack on the capital of our Qing Dynasty. This is something that has never happened in decades since the early Khan started his army. This person's courage and strategy should not be underestimated. Just in terms of courage and military use, this person is even above Yuan Chonghuan and Hong Chengchou!"

"Ah?" Ebilong said in shock, "Better than Yuan Chonghuan and Hong Chengchou?"

Huang Taiji nodded and said with a serious expression: "Yuan Chonghuan is both literary and military, and he is rigorous in his army. Xian Khan and I have been defeated by him twice. This person can be said to be the only talent of the general I have seen in my life, but this person is good at talking big, and he is too arrogant and is unwilling tolerate the rulers and ministers of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, I just used a little trick and used Chongzhen to get rid of him. Hong Chengchou was also rigorous in the military, and was low-key and good at being a human being. However, he used his troops too much and lacked the ambition to make progress. As soon as Chongzhen urged him, he was disastrous. He was defeated in my hands. He was not wronged."

"That's that's it." Ta Zhan and Ebilong on the side quickly flattered, "The emperor is wise and powerful, and no one can match."

Huang Taiji continued: "Although I don't know who the leader of this small Ming army is, this person is brave, knowledgeable, brave and resourceful, and can lead a small Ming army to attack the capital of our Qing Dynasty and succeed in one fell swoop. This alone will be a hundred times better than Yuan Chonghuan and Hong Chengchou. If this person is not eliminated, he will definitely become a major concern for our Qing Dynasty in the future!"

Ta Zhan and Ebilong had a look of expression, and Huang Taiji's far-sighted vision made the two admire him.
Chapter completed!