My life skills in Daming Liver - Chapter 670

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Li Ruzhen led his troops and stood outside the city, looking at the Jurchen soldiers who had entered Liaoyang City, with a smile on his lips.

Finally captured Liaoyang!

Li Ruzhen did not stop the soldiers from burning, killing and looting. Instead, he ordered the soldiers to rob the city for one day as a reward for working hard these days.

Of course Li Ruzhen knew that after doing this, the Han people and Jurchens in Liaodong would form a deadly feud, and there would be no possibility of resolving it from now on.

But now Li Ruzhen could not think about so much anymore. While he ordered soldiers to rob the city, he also asked people to take over the artillery and musket warehouses in Liaoyang City and move the Han artillery away.

With these artillery and Han craftsmen, Li Ruzhen thought that even if Li Chengliang and Southeast came to kill him, and he led his troops to hide in the cold northern mountains, the other party would be unable to do anything to him.

When the Jurchens accumulate strength in the north, the troops from the Central Plains will always withdraw. That will be their opportunity.

Just when Li Ruzhen was still holding on to his Spring and Autumn Dream of escaping into the northern mountains and forests, a violent explosion sounded. Li Ruzhen looked at the collapsed east city gate and fell completely into a daze!

How is this going! ?

Just when Li Rushe was hysterical and sent his personal guards to inquire about the situation, more explosions sounded and the entire Liaoyang City shook.

Li Ruzhen looked inside the city again, and the Jurchens who had been burning, killing and looting just now screamed in pain, and Li Ruzhen’s face suddenly turned pale.

Back in time when the east city gate was broken, the veteran general and his men stood near the city gate, waiting for the Jurchens to enter the city.

The Jurchens entered the city arrogantly, without any doubts about the veteran generals. After they disarmed the surrendered Ming army, they began to enter the city to rob and have fun.

The veteran general was imprisoned near the east gate. Even the Jurchen soldiers guarding him couldn’t sit still. They wanted to get a share of the screams in the city.

The Jurchens stationed hundreds of people near the east gate, and the veteran quickly found an opportunity to light the fuse buried in the east gate arsenal.

“Go to hell! Jurchen dog!”

A violent explosion sounded, and the east gate of Liaoyang collapsed instantly. All the Jurchen soldiers stationed near the east gate were wiped out. The veteran general who did not leave his name was also blown to pieces.

The explosion at the east gate was a signal, and soon there were explosions one after another in Liaoyang City. Explosives had been planted in gunpowder warehouses, military camps, and granaries in the city. These places were all targeted by the Jurchens for robbery. Violent explosions rang out in the area. The Jurchens, who did not suffer much losses during the siege, suffered heavy losses during the robbery.

By the time Li Ruzhen came to his senses and asked the Jurchens who had entered the city to withdraw immediately, the city was completely out of control.

At this time, the Ming army was not as miserable as it was in the late Ming Dynasty. Many of the officers and soldiers who surrendered were forced to surrender because Li Rusong escaped and the city could no longer be defended.

After the surrender, many Ming soldiers were filled with anger after seeing the atrocities committed by the Jurchens in the city.

These explosions ignited the anger, and these Ming soldiers discovered that this seemed to be the case with the fierce Jurchens. They would also be blown to pieces by gunpowder, and they were all mortal bodies.

When all this happened, the disarmed Ming soldiers launched riots one after another, and those Jurchens who stayed to guard the Ming soldiers were the lowest-ranking and least combat-effective troops in the army, because those with combat effectiveness all went to the city. Went to robbery.

Fighting broke out at the four city gates almost at the same time. Li Rushe’s cronies circled around the outside of the city, but in the end they could not find a place to enter the city.

The city fell into chaos, and the whole city was red-eyed. Li Rushu broke his riding whip in a hurry, and personally led the most elite soldiers to rush into the east gate, and then opened the passage into the city.

“Retreat! Retreat!”

Li Ruzhen issued orders frantically. When he saw the charred Jurchen bodies on the roadside, his heart felt like a knife was cutting through him.

These Jurchen warriors are his most important asset. All Jurchens are soldiers, but the number of Jurchens is too small compared with the Han people.

When a Jurchen warrior dies, a prime-age labor force is lost, and a large family of children will starve to death in the winter snow.

When the chaos in the city was over, Li Ruzhen counted the number of people and found that three thousand Jurchen cavalry had been lost in Liaoyang City. Li Ruzhen almost fainted when he heard the result.

Bad news came one after another. After North Korea’s Yi Sun-shin’s army broke through Jianzhou, they immediately began to attack Fushun and Shenyang westward, preparing to cut off Li Rushe’s retreat to the north.

The Haixi Jurchens, who were originally hesitant, saw that Jianzhou was defeated, and after the Ming Dynasty and Dongnan attacked Jianzhou Jurchens together, they immediately raised their flag and began to attack Jianzhou Jurchens.

Seeing this result, Li Ruzhen quickly led his soldiers to retreat northward, trying to break through the blockade and escape into the north.

Shen Guanyi was sitting in the Haixi Jurchen tent. Looking at the flattering elder of the Haixi Jurchen tribe, he stretched out three fingers.

“Our conditions in the southeast are very simple. First, send troops to kill the rebellious Jianzhou Jurchens. The heads of every Jianzhou Jurchen can be exchanged for money.”

“Second, follow us to attack Fushun and Shenyang.”

“Third, from now on, northern goods will be sold to southeastern merchants.”

Seeing that Haixi Jurchen was still hesitating, Shen Guanyi said:

“Hmph, don’t you still know Li Chengliang’s style? When he comes back, do you think Li Chengliang will let you go just because you don’t send troops to help Li Rushe?”

“Don’t forget, you are also Jurchens, and when Li Rusong asked them to send troops for rescue, you were all watching from the side.”

Hearing what Shen Yiguan said, the elders of the Haixi Jurchen tribe no longer hesitated. They immediately declared their allegiance to Southeast and prayed for Southeast’s protection.

When Shen Yiguan heard that the Liaoyang defenders had planted explosives after Li Rusong abandoned the city and severely damaged Li Ruzhen’s Jurchen elite, Shen Yiguan let out a long sigh and said:

“There are also loyal people in the Ming court. If they can die for the Ming court with the blood of foreigners, they can be considered worthy of death.”

The ensuing battle situation completely exceeded the expectations of the war instigator Li Rushe.

Originally, he just wanted to segregate the territory outside the customs, but it triggered a chain reaction and caused a series of consequences.

With the intervention of the two major forces, the Ming court and the Southeast, the entire situation outside the pass has undergone earth-shaking changes.

Li Shunchen, in response to the Haixi Jurchens, captured the two cities of Fushun and Shenyang. Together with the previously captured Jianzhou, they cut off the southeast and north of Liaoning and occupied the northeastern part of Liaoning.

Li Chengliang led his troops to regain Liaoyang, and the two sides began to build fortifications for a confrontation with the Hun River as the boundary.

The Jianzhou Jurchens were completely crushed in the friction between the two major forces.