In Shenyang City, those clan relatives who originally encouraged to flee east now finally know that it was too late to escape.

They can only fight with their backs.

The whole city was plunged into a desperate terror.

But at the same time, the instinct to survive also makes them more ferocious.

Fight to the death with the Ming army!

This is their only belief!

The 45,000 elite soldiers of Houjin have now abandoned all the important places, except for more than 12,000 cavalry who are hiding outside the city, and the remaining more than 33,000 elites have all entered the city, intending to defend the city with a strong fortification.

There is really no way to fight, there is no danger outside Shenyang to defend, if this point of troops goes to block the Ming army along the way, it will only be eaten by the Ming army a little bit, it is better to concentrate and fight.

The princes and nobles in the city also contributed to the family and the courtyard, and organized an army of 10,000 people, barely making up the number.

Coupled with the soldiers in the city, the soldiers and horses guarding Shenyang now can be claimed to have 100,000 people.

Huang Taiji strictly blocked the news that the Mongols would submit to the Ming Dynasty, which on the one hand was conducive to boosting the morale of the army, and on the other hand, it could prevent the more than 10,000 Mongol soldiers from rebelling.

The city of Shenyang is ready for battle.

Qin Shuhuai's army continued to advance, and soon found that there were almost no enemy troops coming to stop them along the way.

He guessed that Huang Taiji was going to defend Shenyang City!

On the eighth day of November in the sixth year of Chongzhen, in addition to leaving a small number of Ming troops to garrison several important cities, the Northern Expeditionary Army led by Qin Shuhuai surrounded Shenyang City with a total of 70,000 troops.

Shenyang City is the base camp of the Tartars, and the natural city has thick walls, which is stronger than any city, and it will inevitably pay a heavy price if you want to attack it hard.

However, Qin Shuhuai was not in a hurry to attack, the first thing he had to deal with was the remaining more than 10,000 cavalry of the Tartars.

Because there were 15,000 cavalry in the Battle of Kaesong, Qin Shuhuai knew that there were at least more than 10,000 cavalry in the Tartars.

It is impossible for so many cavalry to be placed in the city, fools know.

Let them wander outside, that is definitely a huge threat to the army.

While besieging the city and looking for cavalry, Qin Shuhuai naturally did not forget to fight a psychological battle.

He asked people to shout to the city every day, saying that as long as they handed over several "war criminals" such as Huang Taiji, Daishan, and Dolgon, and let all the Aixin Jueluo clan kneel at the city gate to welcome the Ming army into the city, the Ming army would not commit any offense against Shenyang Chengqiu, and all soldiers could go home.

Naturally, there will be no response to such a request.

The Ming army set up camp outside the city of Shenyang.

After shouting for two days, from the third day, the city of Shenyang was bombarded.

Of the thirty red-coated cannons that were brought, only ten remained.

But at that time, Shenyang City was not as big as later generations, but only five or six square kilometers.

The firing range of the redcoat cannon, if it is not accurate, can reach a maximum of about three kilometers.

It can cover almost half of Shenyang City.

As a result, the entire city of Shenyang was shrouded in the rumbling sound of cannons all day long.

Rows and rows of buildings collapsed and burned, and the city was on fire and corpses everywhere, like a human area.

What worries the defenders even more is that Qin Shuhuai will copy the attack on Ash Niulu, use the sound of artillery as a cover, and then dig a tunnel.

Now, the walls of Shenyang are full of deeply buried water tanks, and every day a group of Tartars pouting their butts to listen to the movement underground—although the sound of artillery can easily disturb them, if the movement is loud, it can be heard more or less.

In fact, Qin Shuhuai didn't dig any tunnels at all this time.

The same tactic has been used once, and the enemy still doesn't know how to crack it?

However, he was not in a hurry, and if he wanted to attack Shenyang City, he had to destroy the more than 10,000 Tartar cavalry outside the city first.

If you want to say admiration, Qin Shuhuai also admires these Tartar cavalry.

There were more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, but they were hidden tightly, and they couldn't find it for several days.

As a result, the Ming army increased the scope of the search and invested a large number of troops to conduct a dragnet search.

Still can't find it.

But it doesn't matter, as long as the high-intensity search is maintained, those horsemen must cut off all contact with the outside world in order to hide - otherwise, how could the Ming army not find out that their people are coming in and out, are they really blind when the factory guards, the White Lotus Sect and a large number of martial arts experts are blind?

On 18 November, an urgent report came from Ash Niulu that 22,000 reinforcements from Jinzhou, Shanhaiguan, and Ningyuan had arrived in Ash Niulu.

Qin Shuhuai immediately ordered them to arrive at night seven days later.

On the night of November 25, 20,000 reinforcements quietly arrived in Shenyang.

After some deployment, Qin Shuhuai ordered to attack Shenyang City immediately!

The Ming army, which had long been ready, immediately launched a fierce attack on the city of Shenyang.

Huang Taiji, who was still asleep, was woken up by Dai Shan, who was running over.

"Great Khan! The Ming army is attacking the city!"

Huang Taiji's back was wet, and then he turned over and got out of bed, and asked while getting dressed, "Where is the main attack?"

Dai Shan replied, "The main attack is on all sides! Qin Shuhuai mobilized at least 40,000 horses, divided into three echelons!"

Huang Taiji thought for a moment and said, "In a quarter of an hour, summon Dolgon to come with cavalry to help in the battle!"

Dai Shan took the order and retreated.

Huang Taiji sneered, "Forty thousand people attacking the city? Qin Shuhuai, are you so confident?"

Soon, signal fireworks were set off in the city.

When Qin Shuhuai saw the fireworks, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Hehe, it looks like the last card is about to be played.

Sure enough, a quarter of an hour or so later, a large force of cavalry came over.

It was 12,000 cavalry led by Dolgon!

These cavalry came from the north, divided into three groups of 4,000 each, and killed in three directions: north, west, and east of the city.

It seems that they are not far away, but it is unknown where they are hiding.

But the most important thing is that they, who cut off all contact with the outside world in order to hide, did not know that the Ming army had 20,000 new reinforcements.

Of the 20,000 reinforcements, there were 7,000 cavalry.

The 12,000 cavalry was violent, the sound was like thunder, and if they were unprepared, they would definitely be able to rush the Ming army that was besieging the city, just like the war in Kaesong.

But now it's in Shenyang, not Kaesong.

Qin Shuhuai's attack tonight was to lure out these 10,000 cavalry, how could he not be prepared?

To the north of the city, nearly 4,000 cavalry of the Northern Expeditionary Army, who were lying in ambush in the shadows, immediately rushed out and rushed towards the oncoming 4,000 Tartar cavalry - the last remaining cavalry of the Northern Expeditionary Army. They were joined by more than 5,000 infantry.

In the west of the city, the 7,000 cavalry from Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan also galloped out and killed the 4,000 Tartars who were rushing wildly. Again, more than 5,000 infantry joined them.

In the east of the city, it was to meet the 4,000 cavalry with an unusually dense firepower network, and Qin Shuhuai deployed two-thirds of the Fire Banner and Qingshui Banner in the east of the city, and also equipped 8,000 shield grabbing soldiers!

What's more, the east of the city has already quietly dug countless horse traps by the thick earth banner, these horse traps are covered with a layer of wooden planks, and covered with dirt, the cavalry in front of them rushed in and it was fine, but when all the cavalry entered the horse trap area, the thick earth flag people at the bottom of the pit immediately moved the planks.

So, the Tartar cavalry suddenly found that there were pits everywhere!

What a pit!

Some of them fell at that time, and some of them were the war horses that ran two steps before they fell, in short, let alone charge now, it would be good to let the war horses stop in place and not enter the trap pit!

The Tartar cavalry couldn't move, so the long-range firepower of the Ming army was powerful.

At the same time as the Ming army harvested the Tartar cavalry, the besieging troops immediately withdrew.

The city of Shenyang is too strong, even the guards can cause damage to the Ming army, and if it is attacked, it will definitely suffer heavy losses, and Qin Shuhuai does not need to spend his troops here now.

Dolgon didn't expect that the Ming army would have 7,000 more cavalry and so many infantry.

According to the information obtained in advance, the Ming army still has more than 4,000 cavalry at most, and once there is an attack on the city, his 12,000 elite horsemen will come out and wreak havoc, which is an absolutely terrifying existence.

But now?

The Ming army not only has more than 10,000 cavalry, but also has a lot of infantry, and it seems to be very well prepared, how can this battle be fought?

Seeing that something was wrong, he immediately ordered a retreat.

But how easy is that?

Come and go as you want, do you think this is a restaurant?

Now, the part of the Ming army that originally besieged the city has also joined the ranks of the encirclement and suppression of the Tartar cavalry.

12,000 cavalry fell into the vast sea.

The Tartar soldiers in the city looked anxious.

Do they dare to rush out now?

Can't!

With their little elite, if they dared to come out, Qin Shuhuai would be crazy.

Didn't you see that in addition to the more than 40,000 cavalry, there were more than 50,000 elite soldiers of the Ming army lined up in a neat formation, looking at the city with fierce eyes?

Now they have more than 90,000 soldiers!

The fierce battle lasted for more than an hour.

The Tartar horsemen in the east of the city were almost wiped out because they entered the "big array" of the horse pit.

In total, the Tartar cavalry in the north and west of the city fled about 3,000, but it was no longer a problem.

Unfortunately, Dorgon ran away again under the protection of a group of masters.

On the other hand, the Ming army, in order to exterminate these cavalry, also paid a lot of price.

More than 3,000 were lost during the siege and more than 8,000 during the extermination of the cavalry, totaling more than 11,000 troops.

But in any case, the problem of the Tartars' cavalry has been solved.

After this battle, Qin Shuhuai still had more than 89,000 troops left in his hands, while Huang Taiji only had more than 30,000 elites, and 890,000 soldiers and miscellaneous troops.

The contrast in strength between the two sides is very obvious.

If it is attacked, Qin Shuhuai will still be able to take Shenyang City.

However, the very next day, something unexpected happened.