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Matsuyama Castle, where the dotted torches illuminate the entire castle as if it were daylight. Zu Dale stood at the head of the city, his eyes blank in a daze. It still seems that the daytime battle is still echoing in my mind.

Hong Chengchou swore an oath on July 26 and arrived at Songshan City the next day, camped between the north of the city and Rufeng Mountain, set up seven infantry battalions, and the cavalry was stationed on three sides of Songshan Mountain.

The fiery battle flag hunting and hunting exhibition, Jinzhou City and can be seen, for a time the morale was greatly boosted.

At this time, the Qing army was divided into three routes, besieging Jinzhou all the way, resisting the Ming army all the way, and all the way to the two yellow banners led by Huang Taiji as the main force, supplemented by the Wuzhen Chao Ha soldiers led by the king of Sanshun, but they were still in Shenyang City and did not go south.

The Qing army had few major generals and was demoralized, and although Yang Guozhu was killed, he was repulsed again and again in the ensuing battle.

Helplessly, although there is a problem with the combat strength of the Ming army, there is more than one person on both sides and one person is less, and now it is fighting for attrition, and the Qing army can't hold it.

Dolgon hurriedly asked Shenyang for help, and then the reinforcements of the Qing army did continue to arrive, first the king of Sanshun, then the Jierharang army that was withdrawn from Jinzhou to rest, and the Mongolian vassal army, and finally the two yellow banners led by Huang Taiji.

In this process, the two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties faced each other, and it was the Qing army that suffered. Otherwise, how could this Huang Taiji rush to the old nest and gallop five hundred miles in the starry night? From this we can see a thing or two.

More than 200,000 troops of the Ming and Qing armies in the front were fighting fiercely, and I don't know how many wounded soldiers were sent back to Songshan in a few days.

As the main general of the Ming army, Zu Dale seems to have been reused by Hong Chengchou, but in fact? Zu Dale, who heard the screams in his ears, was very annoyed and annoyed.

Hong Chengchou is a very skillful person. Zu Dashou has a history of the battle of Dalinghe, and now he has been besieged in Jinzhou for a long time, who dares to say that he is brave and loyal? But he did not dare to put his brother in the array.

"Boat, ship, there is a ship on the sea! General, look, there are ships at sea......"

Zu Dale came back to his senses, looked at the sails floating on the eastern sea, and his mouth opened wide. How could a fleet come at this time?

Since the wild boar skin attack Ningyuan was frustrated, and then launched a battle on Juehua Island, it was the middle of winter, the sea was frozen, there was no danger to defend, the Ming army was a naval army, "chiseled ice and cold, neither armor, weapons, but also sailors, could not withstand the war, and was outnumbered", and finally all the people died, more than 80,000 stones of grain and grass and more than 2,000 ships were burned, the sea logistics base outside the Ming Dynasty was completely destroyed by the Tartars.

At this point, the imperial court's sea transport grain and salary only entered Shanhaiguan and Ningyuan City, and there was no one who went to Songjin!

On the bow of the ship, Zheng Sen looked at the shore from afar, not knowing how far apart he was, he could already clearly hear the sound of gunfire and the shouts of fighting.

Hong Chengchou was leading the army to fight with the Qing army, and Huang Taiji pondered for a long time on the night of the 17th, and came up with a solution that he didn't know if it worked. But it was not to fight a quick battle with the Ming army at all, but to cut off the enemy's food route.

He had already seen the flaws in the arrangement of the Ming army - top-heavy.

Hong Chengchou's army of more than 100,000 gathered in one place, and it was difficult for the Qing army to eat it in one fell swoop, but it also made his rear defense much more fragile.

Huang Taiji set the method of digging trenches to besiege and cut off the enemy's grain route. Let the Qing army start from the southwest of Jinzhou City, take a straight line, pass through the passage between Songshan City and Xingshan City, and arrive at Haikou, and dig three large trenches in a row—the trench is eight feet deep, one zhang and two feet wide at the top, and extremely narrow at the bottom, which can only accommodate toes, horses cannot cross, people cannot climb, and there are fallen people, and there is no place to foot, and they are not allowed to jump—to surround the Ming army, cutting off all communication and food supply from the rear.

Then he sent Zierharang to lead the army to attack Tashan (south of Xingshan), and after capturing the city, he did not pursue and kill the defeated army, but directly took the place where the Ming army hoarded grain and grass on Bijia Mountain, and burned three granaries.

With such a big move by the Qing army, Hong Chengchou certainly wouldn't fail to see it. Not to mention the gains and losses of Beacon Mountain, it is only said that it is impossible for him to sit back and wait for the Qing army to dig trenches before launching an offensive. The current strategy of the Ming army is to fight a quick battle?

If so, when the Qing army was struggling to dig the soil, Hong Chengchou led the troops to attack.

The Qing army resisted hard, and Huangtai Jidu came to the front line in person and patched up the two yellow flags directly under the central government. The two sides fought fiercely again and again, and the Ming army fought very bravely, but after all, it failed to defeat the enemy, and naturally failed to break through the trench.

Especially today, the Qing army's two red and blue three flag soldiers lost the battle, and the two yellow flag guards under the direct jurisdiction of Huangtaiji also performed poorly. The artillery on both sides bombarded incessantly, blood flowed all over the ground, and corpses were strewn all over the field.

The Ming army fought very bravely, but if it didn't win, it didn't win. Moreover, the Ming army also suffered heavy losses in fierce battles for several days.

The war was raging during the day, and Hong Chengchou naturally would not come to see Zheng Sen.

But when the war was called, Hong Chengchou remembered the news that Zu Dale sent people to report, "Providence, providence." ”

The grain and herbs in the army are about to be exhausted, that is, the army retreats to Songshan, and the food and salary in the city are not much.

Songshan City is the most important stronghold in the south of Jinzhou, and then to the south is Xingshan, then Tashan, and the Bijia Mountain of Hong Chengchou's grain is just behind Tashan. The Ming army experienced the lessons of the Battle of the Daling River, hoarded a lot of grain in Songshan, and stationed three or four thousand defenders on weekdays. If it is only the main army that is fed, it can last for years. And if you add the guest army, hundreds of thousands of mouths, plus war horses and livestock, it will only be a month.

At this time, Zheng Sen brought 20,000 stone of grain, how? Not much. It's just a ten-day ration for the army. But it gives confidence!

It's like hope in the midst of a difficult situation!

It's not that Hong Chengchou is still on the front line at the moment, and he hasn't turned back to Songshan, he will definitely thank Zheng Sen well!

It's just that although Hong Chengchou thought of everything, he couldn't figure out everyone's hearts.

Seeing that it was difficult to win quickly, he convened a meeting of generals and proposed a decisive battle with the Qing army, after all, the Qing army was divided into Jinzhou, and at this moment the Qing army was small and the Ming army was numerous, and it had the advantage of firepower. 130,000 Ming troops, hundreds of large and small artillery, even if the decisive battle is lost, they can retreat to Songshan and hold on. There is grain and grass transportation by sea, which can be guaranteed without worry. Then he said: "The generals should fight with their headquarters, and they should carry out the drums and drums, and break the enemy and break the siege in one fell swoop." But the generals were timid, and they didn't want to fight to the death, but advocated fleeing back to Ningyuan first.

Zhang Ruoqi's birdman tried his best to fight before, but now he also wants to withdraw to Ning Yuan. He is an important member of the Ministry of War, a confidant of Emperor Chongzhen's favorite minister, Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and a supervisor sent by Emperor Chongzhen. The weight of the army can be imagined. His remarks further weakened the morale of the soldiers.

So, Zheng Sen, who was in Songshan City and was still waiting for Hong Chengchou to summon him, saw a scene that made him stunned. The army of 130,000 collapsed before his eyes overnight!

"This ......, this ...... How can it be? Zheng Sen couldn't believe his eyes.

But that's just the way it is.

In the darkness of the night, the Ming army suddenly started a commotion, and then he saw a large group of soldiers running south with torches at the head of the city, and when it was dawn, he could see the corpses of the Ming army all over the mountains.

It wasn't until Hong Chengchou's troops withdrew outside Songshan City that the news spread to the city, and the cadres inside understood what was going on.

In the first battle on the 21st, the two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties were not decided, and Hong Chengchou's proposal to fight to the death in the coming day was denied, and the strategy formulated instead was to rush the horse infantry army to break the siege and eat, in order to facilitate the internal and external attacks in the future.

To be precise, it is to let Wu Sangui and other six general soldiers lead the army to break through the siege and get food, and after they have eaten their stomachs, they will turn around and attack the Qing army inside and outside with the rest of the Ming army that is holding on inside, and defeat it together.

However, as soon as Wang Pu, the commander of Datong, returned to the camp, he led the men and horses of the headquarters to break through the siege and escape by night, so that the Ming army was in chaos, "the commanders competed for gallops, and the horses trampled on each other", in the dark night, the Ming soldiers were like a group of headless flies who only knew to the south, and they were chaotic, and the various departments were scattered, and the army was no longer visible.

And Hong Chengchou could only lead his own soldiers and Cao Bianjiao and Wang Tingchen, and fought and retreated, and turned back to Songshan City.