Chapter 55: Talking about the Principle of Knife [Seeking Follow-up Reading]

At 3:30 am on the 5th, at the west gate of Gaizhou City.

"Attack us if you can!"

Gou Quanzhong, hiding behind the city gate, used Manchu to lure the Plain White Banner Tartars outside the city.

Wu Sangui and two other teams of fierce generals and brave soldiers led a hundred or so Han people from Liao to guard this section of the city wall and the inner circle of the city wall.

The situation this morning is the opposite of last night. The ones defending the city are the Ming army, and the ones attacking the city are the Tatars who fled last night.

"Men with guts should go out of the city and fight."

There were bondservants in the Tartar army outside the city, who provoked the Ming army inside the city in Chinese.

Both sides were afraid of each other, so there was no fierce fighting near the city gate.

Da da da!
"Whoa~" Li Hao, wearing brand new armor, rode up on horseback and stopped at the main gate.

"My dear son Sangui, what's going on outside the city? Is that Baiyintu still refusing to give up?"

Wu Sangui, who was standing on the top of the city wall, heard his godfather's question and immediately stuck his head out from the city gate tower and replied:
"Godfather, the leader of the Tartars cannot afford the responsibility of losing the city. It looks like they will never give up until they have a fight."

Last night, Li Hao killed all the soldiers of the Plain White Banner who were gathered near the east city wall in one fell swoop, then led his subordinates into the city and completed the occupation of the banner lord's mansion according to the previously agreed process.

But the Baiyintu who stayed behind in the city was really hateful. He was the third son of the old slave's younger brother Aisin-Gioro Bayala. He had a relatively low status among the old slave's relatives and did not dare to abandon the city. So he fled for a distance in the city and gathered some Tartars, and then went to seize other city gates.

Adhering to the belief of finishing today's work today, Li Hao chased Bai Yintu and killed him two or three times along the cross street of Gaizhou City. He kept chasing him until three o'clock in the morning and finally drove away Bai Yintu and his armored flagmen at home.

Unexpectedly, this group of Tartars gathered again this morning. I don’t know where they gathered some new Tartars from, but they gathered more than 300 people and surrounded the west gate.

After General Li received the news, he did not even play the elimination game with Huang Taiji's nine clans, but ran to observe the situation and see how to deal with this group of blood-enhancing treasures.

After dismounting, he ran toward the city wall carrying his Qing bow and quiver.

These Plain White Banner Tatars have no shield carts for defense, so now is a good time to practice archery.

"Look, Godfather, there are blue armors. They are the Tartars from the two blue flags. I don't know why they came so quickly."

The main bases of the Bordered Blue Banner were on the east side of the Liaonan Peninsula, which is facing Dongjiang Town. The situation of the Plain Blue Banner was worse, as the entire banner was stationed on the west side of the Yalu River, in Kuandian.

I walked to the enemy tower battlement next to the city gate tower and observed the situation first.

The first two rows were bondservants holding spears, without war horses and incomplete armor. They were probably recruited by the Plain White Banner Tatars from nearby villages and manors.

Behind them were the armored soldiers of each banner, mostly in white and blue armor. Judging from the flag held by the flag bearer, the blue-armored Tartars should be from the Bordered Blue Banner. The group of soldiers under Baiyintu didn't even have a flag and looked very shabby.

Li Hao, who understood the situation, pulled out a beryllium arrow, drew the bow and aimed at a blue-armored Tartar on horseback.

call out!
The beryllium arrow hit the Tartar's right arm steadily. The Tartar was frightened by the sudden attack, but he did not fall off his horse. He just turned his horse's head with his right arm hanging down and retreated.

The entire Tatar army under the city began to stir. Some flagmen without horses immediately ran back. They did not dare to bet whether a rain of arrows would be shot out in the next second, so they hid at a safe distance first.

Several Tartar minor officials rode their horses left and right, wielding whips to maintain order, and finally led the army to within sixty steps of the city wall.

During this process, the nearly 100 blue-armored Tatars outside the city performed very well, at least they were able to maintain their position when they turned backwards.

"This is a complete camp Niulu. They are not from the old slave camp, but one of the twenty or so Niulu under Amin's command. This Niulu was supposed to deal with the harassment of Dongjiang Town, but I don't know how it was transferred to Gaizhou."

Li Hao came to his own conclusion.

Wu Sangui, who was holding the quiver for his godfather, took a deep breath and shouted with a red face: "Godfather, please take me with you just once! I have never fought against the Tartars side by side with you."

He has been very anxious these days. He has been witnessing his godfather killing various Tartars, but he has never been able to charge into battle with him.

"Don't be in a hurry. Sharpening the knife does not delay the chopping of wood. Kill Huang Taiji's nine clans before going out to fight." This group of Tartars did not have a big ladder, and with Baiyintu around, they did not dare to rush in and die with such a small number of people.

General Li's plan was to shoot a few arrows from the top of the city wall first, then return to the city to deal with miscellaneous matters, and wait until enough Tartars gathered outside the city before going out of the city to defeat them in one fell swoop.

This was to prevent the small groups of Tartars that came later from knowing how powerful he was and then hesitating to move forward, neither fighting nor running away, and swarming around this group of Ming troops like flies.

Zu Kuan and others in the city are quickly gathering the living people in the city. This is the most important thing. For those residents who fail to be persuaded to surrender, Li Hao needs to go to their homes and talk some sword talk.

Under the city.

After raising his hand to his forehead to block the rising sun, Bai Yintu finally got a clear look at the hateful Ming general on the enemy platform.

"It was this man who climbed up to the top of the city wall alone last night and drove away my bannermen."

He explained to Ezhen Tongjia Nuyan, the Niulu of the Bordered Blue Banner, who was beside him.

Nuyan curled his lips, looking unconvinced. How could there be such a powerful general in the world?

But Baiyintu was the old Khan's nephew after all, and he, the master of the Niulu, did not dare to mock him openly.

"Amin Beile has known about this group of Ming troops for a long time, so he transferred several Niulu from our Bordered Blue Banner here. The weather today is much better than yesterday. I estimate that the remaining bannermen will arrive in an hour or two. Once they arrive, we will attack the city and help the master take back Gaizhou."

Baiyintu was overjoyed and said quickly: "In that case, I'll trouble you, General. We will stay here and wait for all the bannermen to arrive."

This place is sixty steps away from the city wall. With the support of the soldiers of the Bordered Blue Banner camp, the remaining soldiers of the Plain White Banner only dared to approach to about thirty steps from the city.

After a bannerman was hit by an arrow, these people did not dare to be arrogant and retreated obediently to a place sixty steps away from the city. From time to time, they sent a few cavalrymen to the foot of the city to shoot a few arrows to show their presence.

"Although some of these Ming soldiers can use our longbows, at this speed, even if there are sharpshooters among them, they can't shoot through the iron armor."

Nuyan has been in battle for a long time and is familiar with these things.

Things turned out just as he expected. The Ming army on the city wall could no longer hit the bannermen. The few arrows that were occasionally shot were avoided by the target and fell weakly to the ground.

On the city wall, after adjusting with a few arrows, General Li finally became familiar with this Qing bow that he had taken out from the armory.

"Is this Baiyintu really my old slave's nephew and Huang Taiji's cousin?"

He asked Xiao Wu beside him.

"Yes, it's genuine, but his position is a bit low, just the deputy leader of a small flag, Meile Ezhen."

Wu Sangui told his godfather the information he had obtained from the Han people in the city.

"I see. This is a member of Huang Taiji's nine clans. Now he owes me a life. Tell me, I have an arrow that can hit that Bordered Blue Banner Niulu Ezhen and Baiyintu. Who should I shoot first?"

Once this arrow is shot, the Tatars will retreat again, and then no one else will be shot.

Wu Sangui blinked his eyes and said, "Shoot Baiyintu first. This is my nephew. His head is valuable."

Li Hao chuckled, pulled the bowstring to its full length, and shot an arrow steadily at the face of Niulu Ezhen of the Bordered Blue Banner.

The Tartar fell to the ground immediately after being shot by the arrow, and it was obvious that he was dead.

"Good shot!" Wu Sangui flattered his godfather first, then asked, "Why did you shoot this Tartar first?"

Li Hao threw the bow to Xiao Wu and walked away, answering with his back to him: "If we shoot Bai Yintu to death, maybe the Tartars of the Plain White Banner will run away. With him around, the Tartars nearby will slowly gather around us."

He was counting on this deputy flag chief to transfer more second-class Tartars.

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