At this time, outside the pass, in the sea area between Xingshan City and Songshan City, hundreds of corpses could still be seen floating on the sea, all of which were Ming troops.

The corpses were all naked, and the diligent soaking had already turned white, floating in the blood-red water, which was chilling to watch. Sharks have been attracted to blood for many days, and they have been lingering, weaving through the sleek floating corpses, feasting on them.

This has been going on for days. In the first battle of Songjin, more than half of the 130,000 troops of the Ming army were lost, and although many people were taken prisoner, it was obvious that more people died.

After the Qing army cleaned up the battlefield, they took everything they could. There was even a sleek corpse left in the mountains. Those two Tartars, together with the coated minions who were requisitioned, not only packed up all the swords, guns, and armor, but also did not let go of the clothes that covered their bodies.

In the winter outside the gates, the temperature is extremely cold. A piece of clothing is precious. Not to mention the coating, even the two tartars of the Han army flag may be frozen.

However, Huang Taiji, who already regarded Songjin as his own territory, would not watch tens of thousands of corpses fall into his own field and ignore them. By the time it comes next spring, it will be able to cause a disease.

Therefore, in addition to digging a deep pit and burying it, it is to throw the body of a Ming army soldier into the sea......

In fact, there are many, far fewer floating corpses in the sea now than there were back then. The original war has been a long time coming.

"Hit, hit, hit me hard!"

On the Beizi No. 1 boat, Zheng Sen, who was stunned, pulled out his waist knife in one hand and pointed at a group of Qing troops on the shore who rushed to the beach to guard and shouted.

He had heard a lot of tragic things outside the gate and the ferocity and cruelty of the Tartars in Qilu, and he had also seen the big battle in Songshan before, but it was just a battle formation, and no matter how many casualties he had, he could only blame himself for not being angry, but the current scene made him absolutely unable to accept it. "Tartars are real beasts."

A few days ago, he loaded the wounded soldiers and transported them back to Jinmen, and met Shen Tingyang, who hurriedly led the fleet, and automatically came under his command. Shen Tingyang shipped tens of thousands of stones of grain and grass to Jinmen, first delivered a small part of Yu Ningyuan, and then arrived in Songshan. But I don't want to see such a scene on the road!

"Hit, hit me!"

Although the Beizi No. 1 ship at Zheng Sen's feet was a large bird ship, it was much worse than the big blacktail ship equipped with sixteen small cannons on the middle and upper decks of the Zheng army and eight Hongyi cannons on the lower plywood. But if there is a cannon on board, then it must be fired!

And Shen Tingyang on the other big sand boat was also screaming at this time, "Open the cannon, open the cannon, fire the cannon for me!" ”

The big sand boat he was in was the leader of the entire sand boat fleet, and at the sound of an order, the entire fleet, dozens of big sand boats, all opened fire on the Qing army on the shore.

There are also shotgun guns on the sand ships, but they are smaller than those on the birds.

The range is limited, and many of them can't reach the shore at all!

The shooting of the flotilla is more of a vent, a kind of hysteria, than a real attack on the enemy, killing the enemy!

The Tartars and Coated Minions on the shore were startled at first, but soon realized the mystery inside. Although from time to time three or two iron bullets flew overhead, there were still bold people who made some humiliating movements against the sea.

"Cannons?"

At the head of Songshan City, Wang Tingchen looked up to the south, the war had been over for many days, and Wu Sangui and his ilk had fled, how could there still be cannons?

The scene of the fiasco of the six general soldiers that day is still engraved in his mind, how many people died in the belly of the fish, and he knew that so many soldiers died in vain, it was really better to fight to the death with the Tartars.

Now, it's too late to regret it!

And what worries him even more is that with the defeat of the six general troops who broke through, Hong Chengchou's plan was completely frustrated. What should be the solution to this Songjin dilemma?

"Isn't there still a loyal soldier holding on?" Jiang Zhu, the deputy commander-in-chief of Liaodong, said dryly things that he didn't believe himself.

Now there are 20,000 or 30,000 Ming troops in Songshan City, and there are two general soldiers below Hong Chengchou, Cao Bianjiao and Wang Tingchen, and then five deputy generals such as Zu Dale, Jiang Zhu, Yao Xun, Zhu Wende, and Xia Chengde, plus Liaodong Governor Qiu Minyang, Zhang Ruoqi and other civil and military officials.

On the 22nd, Hong Chengchou saw that a large number of Qing troops had gone south to pursue and intercept the Sixth General Army, and the number of Qing troops in front of him was very small, and it seemed that only two yellow flags remained.

Huang Taiji's Daxu could be vaguely seen, and he immediately ordered Cao Bianjiao to lead his troops to attack the Qing army in front of him.

Cao Bianjiao is the nephew of Cao Wenzhao, a good general in the late Ming Dynasty, with courage and courage. led the army all the way forward and went straight to Huang Taiji's imperial camp.

It's a pity that Cao Bianjiao was injured in battle and couldn't really hit Huanglong, losing a great opportunity to turn the tide.

At this point, the Ming army completely retreated into Songshan City. Everyone at the top is worried.

"Ship, ship ...... of the sea"

"It's my ship!"

"Reinforcements have arrived. Reinforcements, reinforcements ......"

Suddenly, there was a sudden noise in the city, and soon a passionate cry came from far and near to the ears of the royal courtiers and others at the head of the city.

Whoever hears it, from top to bottom, is full of joy.

From the word 'boat', they thought of Zheng Sen, and then they thought of food. As long as there is food, the defenders are not afraid. With more than 20,000 officers and soldiers in the city, as long as there is food, give the Tartars another ten years, and Huang Taiji will not recruit them!

Hong Chengchou's reaction was very fast, and before the royal courtiers could run to the east of the city, they heard a high-morale shout from the city gate. The city gate was wide open, and Zu Dale led the Ming army to kill it.

Songshan four gates, the Qing army in the north, south and west three sides of the station, especially in the west, stationed in the army, the north and south also have their own elite. Only in the east, facing the sea, there is no way to go. Huang Taiji didn't arrange troops and horses there at all! That is, to the south of the three trenches, some police soldiers were arranged.

It must be known that the Qing army fought a big battle, and the losses were not small. Coupled with the division of troops in Jinzhou, Huang Taiji does not have many troops available now.

As for the matter of boats and ships at sea, Huang Taiji didn't care about it at all.

The time has entered September, and it is already winter outside the pass, so the coast will soon be frozen, even if the Ming Kingdom has tens of millions of ships, what can it do?

I didn't expect that because of Zheng Sen's incident, Emperor Chongzhen's self-help was much faster than in history. Shen Tingyang arrived in time with the boat, not to mention that the sea has not yet been frozen, and there is not even a single ice cube on the coast now.

This time, Shen Tingyang transported more than 50,000 stone of grain, which was far more than the grain and grass that Shen Tingyang delivered in Ningyuan. The reason is very simple, this time the grain and grass were delivered, and it is uncertain whether it will be delivered in the next Year of the Monkey.

Not to mention whether the Qing army will completely encircle Songshan, only to say that once winter comes, the sea will be frozen for hundreds of miles, and it will be difficult to open this sea route until March of the following year.

Ships unloaded grain and grass, and before the Qing army could react, a lot of grain was transported ashore, and then quickly transported back to Songshan City.

Matsuyama Castle was not a port, nor was there a trestle bridge, and the sacks of grain were transported ashore repeatedly on the rafts carried by the big sand boats and the three bird boats.

Huang Taiji hurriedly transferred troops to harass, but the Matsuyama Ming army broke out at this time with a high will to fight. Because they all know how much they need this food. And when everyone knows that fighting means their own lives, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army is beyond the helplessness of the Qing army.

The two armies fought for two days and nights, until the last grain was sent to Songshan City, and the Qing army failed to break through the Ming army's defense line.

However, the grain was transported into Songshan City, which was one of the two major tasks that Shen Tingyang shouldered, and he also had a figure to load a large number of soldiers onto the ship and transport them away at the next time. The loading capacity of hundreds of sand ships was enough to transport the Ming army in Songshan City away.

But this is also obviously impossible.

The Ming army must hold Songshan, otherwise Jinzhou will be equivalent to giving up, and once Songshan is lost, Xingshan, which is in the corner of the city, and Tashan behind Xingshan, will be difficult to hold. After the Tartars swept these cities, they not only completely cut off the hope of Jinzhou to break the siege, but also directly threatened Ningyuan.

Furthermore, in order to prevent the offensive of the Qing army, a large number of Ming army headquarters were also needed to defend the defensive line.

In the end, Hong Chengchou decided to remove the wounded and let Cao Bianjiao's department go on board.

There are two reasons, the first is that Cao Bianjiao was seriously injured, and Huang Taiji's imperial camp was not so easy to break through. Second, Cao Bianjiao's troops were all Qin troops.

In the eleventh year of Chongzhen, the Qing army entered the customs, that is, the time when Lu Xiangsheng died in battle. Hong Chengchou was summoned to join the Weijing Division, and Cao Bianjiao followed him. His soldiers and horses are all Qin.

After the Qing army left the customs, many of his subordinates fled because they missed their hometown.

And another general soldier, Wang Tingchen, as the general soldier of Liaodong, most of his soldiers are Liao.

Even if an idiot chooses, he will let the guest army go and leave the main army behind.

Also walking with Qiu Minyang, the governor of Liaodong, and Zhang Ruoqi, the staff of the Ministry of War, Langzhong, and Hong Chengchou himself sat in Songshan City, and the army's heart would not be chaotic. Just like when he asked Wu Sangui and other six general soldiers to break through, he led Cao Bianjiao and Wang Tingchen to stay behind.

"Mr. Hong is really the pillar of the country!" After Zheng Sen heard Hong Chengchou's decision, he admired it in his heart. Whatever the reason, such courage is not something that anyone can have.

"When I return to Fujian, I will definitely persuade my father to raise troops to help." Zheng Sen said secretly in his heart.