Chapter 393 The sound of war drums rises again

It was already three o'clock. Tang Feng, Chu Buer and other leaders of the East Factory and the Jinyiwei all mentioned carefully and looked at the people below, but did not notice any abnormal movement. At this time, except for Ni Wenhuan, dozens of White Lotus Sect's disciples had been pressed to the ground by the executioner behind them. As the prison officer above threw the already hooked bamboo sticks on the ground, the ghost-headed swords were raised one after another.

These people showed real fear at this time. Even Li Ze, who had always been very tough, couldn't help but tremble. However, their appearance did not make the executioner behind him feel any pity. After shouting, dozens of knives slashed straight into the back of the people's necks, and their heads were still wide and wide, and they fell to the ground.

Seeing Li Ze being cut off with one knife, Li Pushi still did not appear, Tang Feng and Chu Buer exchanged glances, and they both saw a little disappointed look in each other's eyes, but they felt relieved. If someone had done anything on this execution ground, I was afraid the situation would not be so easy to control.

"It seems that Li Pushi must have escaped from the capital, but after this encirclement and suppression, the White Lotus Sect has been greatly damaged, and it is difficult to have the previous power." Afterwards, Tang Feng said with regret.

"In the past two days, Ni Wenhuan has been cut so many times, but Li Pushi has not come forward to rescue him. It seems that he will not appear again." Chu Buer also sighed. He also felt a little unacceptable.

So where is Li Pushi at this time? For nearly a month, he has been hiding in the Ni Mansion. He not only heals his injuries every day but also rests, while also reviewing his previous mistakes. While staying here alone, he thought a lot and figured out the reason why he failed this time - he was too anxious.

After all, the White Lotus Sect is just a small sect. When the world is still unified, their power is very limited. Even though he almost did something big while in Shandong, he was still easily broken by the court. This time he and Li Ze went to Beijing to kill the imperial officials, which was even more wrong. The capital city is different, so how could this little force deal with it? Now he regrets what he had done before and has already made plans to change his original style after leaving this place.

On the day when Li Ze and others were beheaded, Li Pushi had completely recovered from his injuries and was about to leave the capital. That night, Li Pushi, wearing black clothes, left the Ni family mansion and headed straight to the south of the capital. At a certain street corner, he saw the official's post that had passed. After seeing everything written on it, Li Pushi felt a tragic look: "I didn't expect that in just one month, the world had changed so much, even Ze'er..." He wanted to go to prison to take a look, but after weighing the pros and cons, he resolutely chose to leave. The previous failure had taught him a lesson. This time he would not just show off his courage. He would make the entire White Lotus Sect silent, waiting for the moment when the time came. Anyway, the White Lotus Sect had been waiting among the people for hundreds of years, and it was not a short time.

When Li Pushi returned to Shanxi and saw Li Yan, he was thinking about how to rescue his father who was unknown. Now that he suddenly saw him back, Li Yan and Wang Tigan were overjoyed. Later, Li Pushi summoned the elders and the masters of the hall in the name of the leader and told them the decision he had made: "The White Lotus Sect temporarily stopped all movements and waited for the real opportunity to come!"

Although few people in the religion have a lot of opinions about this, after experiencing the disaster for nearly a month, these people have to accept the fact that the current Holy Church is not an opponent of the huge monster of the imperial court.

The imperial court's encirclement of the White Lotus Sect continued, but with the implementation of Li Pushi's method of keeping low profile, it became difficult for the government to easily find those senior White Lotus Sect who were hidden deeper. At this time, the imperial court's attention was attracted by another more important thing, that is, the war broke out in Liaodong again.

A year after Huang Taiji ascended the position of Khan, he finally unified the conflicted Jin Dynasty. However, he also knew that this was just a temporary calm. Judging from the usual character of the people in the Jin Dynasty who held military power, they were likely to cause trouble again. In order to avoid the previous situation of disarray in the Jin Dynasty, after learning that Sun Chengzong had been completely removed from his post by the court, he finally decided to use troops to the Ming Dynasty again. In addition to transforming internal conflicts into external forces, this would consolidate his status in the Jin Dynasty. If he could defeat Liaodong, which his father could not conquer, more people would be completely loyal to him. Therefore, on the day in early May, the Jin people who had not used troops to the outside world in the summer raised again. The troops invaded Liaodong. This time Huang Taiji used all the Jin Dynasty's troops, totaling 85,000 troops, and claimed to be a 200,000 army... Although Yuan Chonghuan of Liaodong was very dissatisfied with the court's dismissal from Sun Chengzong's dismissal, he also knew his responsibility. So after obtaining this enemy situation, he immediately took corresponding defensive measures. In addition to distributing the previous effective artillery and other firearms to the soldiers, he also made new mobilizations of his troops. The defender of Jinzhou City was replaced by Zhao Lujiao, who had many years of fighting in Liaodong and had rich defensive experience, and also transferred half of the troops who had guarded Shanhaiguan to Jinzhou City. He knew that in terms of defense ability, Jinzhou City was not inferior to Ningyuan City he built, so if he wanted to defend Liaodong, the Jin people had to easily take Jinzhou.

Because Ningyuan City had the experience of blocking more than 100,000 Jin soldiers with 20,000 troops last time, Sun Chengzong paid special attention to the equipment of artillery in the year when he was running Liaodong. Jinzhou also obtained more than 20 general cannons and five more powerful red artillery cannons. In addition, those fire guns also had a lot of equipment. In this way, although he only had only 20,000 troops in his hands, Zhao Shujiao was still full of confidence.

While the Ming army was ready, the Jin people also rushed to the city of Jinzhou. Based on their previous experience, they did not think that Jinzhou City was difficult to break. However, when they saw the cannons on the city, the Jin army, who had suffered a great loss in Ningyuan, was still shocked. However, when they thought that Jinzhou City could still be captured every day, they took a night off, and launched an attack on Jinzhou City early the next morning.

Huang Taiji learned from Ning Yuan's previous defeat. When attacking Jinzhou City, which seemed to be higher than Ning Yuan, he did not let someone kill him, but used soldiers who could block the rain of arrows on the city as soon as he came up. However, this time the guard was Zhao Shujiao, and he did not waste the full amount of artillery on the city. As soon as he saw the Jin soldiers under the city breaking into the artillery range, he ordered the artillery to be fired.

Come and have flower bullets, solid bullets... The varied shells exploded in the middle of the Jin soldiers when they were still rushing to the city. Although they were not enough to kill due to distance, they were extremely deterred to the Jin people. Some people who still remember the battle of Ningyuan two years ago were even more frightened.

When Huang Taiji saw this, he was furious and immediately ordered the two generals who did not dare to step forward, which rekindled the morale of the army. However, because of their previous miscalculation, the soldiers who should have been very useful were broken, and most of the car was destroyed, which forced the Jin army to brave artillery and sharp arrows that fell from the sky as before.

The Ming army on the city was all veterans who had been through war. Although the troops were much different between the two sides, they did not feel any fear at all. This made it even more difficult for the Jin people to get close to the city.

After four or five days of stalemate, Huang Taiji had to admit one thing. Jinzhou is now completely different from Jinzhou in his memory. The current Jinzhou City is not only taller than Ningyuan City, but also has artillery, and it is not easy to capture it. However, he would not give up the decision to attack Liaodong because of this. After weighing the pros and consolidation for a night, Huang Taiji issued an order that neither the attacking nor the defense did not expect: "Abandon the attack on Jinzhou City as a siege, and divide the troops to attack Ningyuan City."

Many people in the Jin army disagreed with his decision, thinking that it would be difficult to capture a city with the strength of the entire army, let alone divide the troops. Huang Taiji gave his own explanation: "Following the actions of the defenders of Jinzhou, they should be the elite of the Ming army. These people must be allocated from various places in Liaodong. You can imagine that the forces of the other cities must be empty. Why do we have to fight with the main force of the enemy instead of taking the others first? As long as the city south of Jinzhou is taken by us, even if the city in Jinzhou has a million troops, it will become an isolated city hanging out without any help. At that time, it will be easy to take him."

With the order of the Khan, the Jin soldiers gathered at Jinzhou City left and continued to go south, except for the 20,000 Jin soldiers who were left by Huang Taiji along the way and were besieged under Jinzhou City.

At the moment when the Jin soldiers abandoned the attack on Jinzhou, Yuan Chonghuan, as the current commander of the Liaodong military, received a letter, which made him feel a little embarrassed and he didn't know what to do. This letter was written to him by Wang Zhichen, who is now the governor of Liaodong, in order to let him send troops to save the danger of Jinzhou.
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