Half a month later, the weather around Shenyang gradually improved.

Although the temperature is still very cold, it is not biting. The Jurchens living in Liao areas have long been accustomed to this cold.

Mingjun felt it was very cold at the current temperature, but the Jurchens already felt warm.

It is precisely because of this that Nurhaci's cold gradually changed from severe to mild symptoms. Whenever he remembered the opportunity he missed when he fought with Xiong Tingbi last time, he would regret it.

Not long after, the whistle cavalry came to report that the Ming army in Liaoyang was fortified layer by layer, and the farthest one had already penetrated into Fengji Fort.

Nurhaci still believed that the Ming court had captured his own strategy of attacking the east and the west, so he did not dare to easily move troops before a large number of reinforcements arrived.

But this does not mean that he dare not go out and compete with the Ming army under Xiong Tingbi. After all, he always felt that he was invincible in the world.

Now there are almost no generals and generals of the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong and Ming dynasties who have caused him to suffer repeated losses like this.

Nurhaci decided to use small-scale troops against the Ming army in Liaoyang without affecting the established plan, rub their spirits and regain the last place.

On March 18, 2018, the third year of the Apocalypse, Gushan Ezhen Iran, who had two blue flags, received this job because of his outstanding performance in the last battle.

He led about 300 cavalry in the blue flag, 1,100 Zhenglan Banner Armor, and more than 3,000 forcibly recruited Liao people to launch a raid on the Fengji Fort camp.

Fengji Fort is a newly established outpost by the Ming army in Liaoyang in recent days, and is one of Xiong Tingbi's most peripheral defense lines.

Originally, the Liaoyang Ming army was not defensed enough compared to the Later Jin army. Normally, no one would take the initiative to attack.

Xiong Tingbi already knew that he would suffer casualties when he did this, but this just proved to Nurhaci that he had some support, that is, the army that was out of the pass as stated in the manifesto.

He concluded that Nurhaci would not advance in the overall situation in the short term, so he dared to take the initiative.

Xiong Tingbi understood that if he did not do this, it would make Nu Ke feel suspicious and discover the true intentions of the Ming Dynasty in advance.

For Nurhaci, although Xiong Tingbi was good at managing the army, Liaoyang was already as solid as an iron barrel after his three years of operation.

However, the strength of the Liaoyang Ming Army was somewhat different from the overall strength of the Later Jin Dynasty.

Although it is unrealistic to make up for a big battle and completely annihilate Xiong Tingbi, it is not impossible to eliminate Guangning and Songjin's reinforcements on the front line.

The order Iran received before leaving was not to go to war with the Ming army, but to test and plunder the people and materials.

The two blue flag infantry soldiers led by Iran and Azerbaijan marched from two routes.

The cavalry slaughtered villages and destroyed villages near Fengji Fort, and captured more than 400 local Liao people.

The infantry attacked the Ming army camp at night, defeated the troops of Liu Chun, the general general of Ming Qian, who was still sleeping soundly, beheaded more than 200 people, and plundered all the supplies and military rations.

After hearing this news, Nurhaci was overjoyed and found some places.

When the news came back to Liaoyang, Xiong Tingbi immediately promoted the tent to summon the generals to lead the army. In the shocked eyes of everyone, he proposed to summon the Ming army to guard the Ming army and go out in full bloom.

This scared the civil and military officials in Liaoyang.

In their opinion, Xiong Tingbi made the mistake of Wang Huazhen back then, but he had to raise troops to attack when it was incorrect.

The opposition of the crowd failed to stop Xiong Tingbi from summoning the Ming army of Liaoyang to advance to Chenyang on his own initiative.

Nurhaci received this news without any surprise, but he did not intend to start a large-scale war with Xiong Tingbi before the Ming reinforcements arrived.

The Ming army in Liaoyang City was not afraid of it. What he really cared about was the 200,000 army that had come out of the pass, which was almost half of the northern military force that the Ming Dynasty could gather at present.

If this reinforcement army can be defeated, Guangrou's Liaoshen Plain will be in your hands.

At this time, the fight with Xiong Tingbi was so bloody that it was not very meaningful.

But after all, Xiong Tingbi made a decisive momentum, so Nurhaci could not remain indifferent. He immediately took Beile, the banner owner of the four banners, to go.

On March 22, Xiong Tingbi met Nurhaci at Fengji Fort.

The Ming army in Liaoyang falsely claimed 50,000, while Nurhaci claimed 80,000. The armies of both sides gathered in the small Fengji Fort. For a time, the flags were blocked and swords and guns were terrifying.

Nurhaci personally led Zhu Beile to the front of the army and saw the Ming army in the distance, with clear armor and a blood-stained head hanging on the flag, so he did not dare to act rashly.

He stopped Zhu Beile's remarks about his request for battle, and suddenly saw a team of people galloping out in front of the Ming army.

I saw the Ming cavalry who were all energetic and majestic, and their combat effectiveness should be no less than that of their Eight Banners Iron Cavalry.

A general who moved forward was shining armor and a figure of more than seven feet. He was a high-profile flag behind him, with a big and round waist, and an extraordinary demeanor.

Needless to think, this general whose eyebrows showed a solemn murderous aura and was so heroic that he was far away, was Xiong Tingbi, the current Liaodong governor.

Nurhaci looked around and said with a glance:

"The person who came should be Xiong Tingbi."

"Returning to my father's Khan is Xiong Tingbi, the Liaodong governor!" Dai Shan also showed deep fear when he spoke, and did not feel that the person in front of him was easy to deal with.

Dai Shan has always been conservative, and he also felt that if he fought Xiong Tingbi before the decisive battle with Ming reinforcements, he would have lost the battle before it could be fought.

Their bannermen could not withstand consumption than the Ming army.

Nurhaci nodded, and was truly amazed. This lean camel in the Ming Dynasty was bigger than a horse, and there were such powerful people under the command of the Little Emperor of the Apocalypse.

Although I didn't say it on my face, anyone could tell the meaning in my expression.

While the Later Jin banner owners Beile and Nurhaci were looking here, Xiong Tingbi also looked at the old slave with a thousand-mile mirror from afar.

He sneered:

"These barbarians are all born ugly in appearance, and the old slaves are even more so. The so-called Jurchens' money rat tail is vulgar and ugly, and they are really well-known!"

As the words fell, the generals of the Ming army burst into laughter.

"Come and get the arrow!"

Shaoqing, a personal soldier presented a powerful bow and a powerful arrow.

Xiong Tingbi concluded that Nurhaci would not fight with him first. The stronger he was now, the more he could believe the old slave and bring an advantage to Fuyuwei.

He took the bow and arrow, tilted the arrow, aimed it at Gushan Ezhen Iran, who had a blue flag in front of the two armies, held his breath and let it go suddenly.

"ah--!"

Iran's face was still sneering disdainfully the moment before, but the next moment, he fell down with a sharp arrow in his chest.

This scene made all the cavalrymen inlaid with blue flags around him panic and shocked.

"Swoosh--"

Immediately afterwards, another sharp arrow roared into the air with the sound of breaking through the air.

A blue-flag Niu Luezhen next to Iran screamed and fell off his horse. The arrow was still impartial and hit the chest.

Immediately, the third arrow arrived.

Due to the previous two examples, the leaders of the Later Jin army with the blue flag were all learned to be the best and retreated to the back formation. This time, only one ordinary vest was killed.

"Good arrow!"

Huang Taiji was stunned at first, then exclaimed involuntarily.

Nurhaci was furious, but he still had some reason.

He knew that Xiong Tingbi's move was undoubtedly a stimulus to advance his troops so that he could fall into the full set that had been prepared long ago.

He thought about it over and over again, but instead ordered the troops to withdraw and led the four flags to retreat to the camp outside Shenyang City, leaving only a part of the people to guard Fengji Fort to stop the Ming army in Liaoyang.

After Xiong Tingbi's provocation, Nurhaci still chose to calm down the situation and deployed the main force of the Later Jin army to fight against reinforcements within the pass.

Xiong Tingbi's inference was confirmed again.

The Ming army of Liaoyang killed a Gushan Ezhen and a Niu Lu Ezhen in the field. Without any loss of one soldier and one soldier, he forced the Later Jin army back to Shenyang.

As soon as the news came out, both inside and outside were shocked, and the morale of the army was greatly boosted.

Xiong Tingbi said that he had sent troops without authorization this time, and at most he had made unsuccessful achievements. This action has been praised by the government and the public.
Chapter completed!