Two days later, Ningyuan transported clothes and grain, and the person in charge of transporting grain to Jinzhou was Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Liaodong, who intercepted the Huangzhuang income of the Apocalypse in the first half of the year. Seeing that the conditions in Jinzhou were so difficult, Yuan Chonghuan also had some sympathy, and told Mao Wenlong that there were more things to be transported this time in Ningyuan City, if it was not enough, just say that Ningyuan can be transported again, which made Mao Wenlong grateful for a long time. Before leaving, Hou Sui quietly explained to Mao Wenlong, that is, he could drag tens of thousands of people and tens of thousands, and when the main force of Huang Taiji came, the imperial court would use a series of artillery boats to transport them all away in a big boat.

Mao Wenlong was in good spirits in the past two days, and the arrival of food, medicine, clothing, quilts, tents and other things allowed the soldiers to eat and dress warmly and sleep soundly, and the wounded soldiers could no longer only sit aside and wait for death, but could receive effective treatment and care. Now there are new tents one after another in the city of Jinzhou, and there are steaming cauldrons at the mouth of the tents, and the meat stewed in the middle of the pot is fragrant everywhere with the wind, which makes the soldiers who have been fighting for half a month relax. Looking at the smiling soldiers eating meat and drinking soup around the pot, Mao Wenlong's heart was extraordinarily hot, and the camp tent of the Jurchens in the distance seemed to be much smaller in his eyes.

Liu Xingzuo looked at Mao Wenlong, who was slightly excited, and said softly: "This carbon stove is said to be a new product of the big iron company, it is made small, so the carbon block must be made of the same size and shape, in order to be good for transportation and good combustion, there are also a lot of small eyes, what is the name of honeycomb coal, these people really think." ”

Mao Wenlong said: "Merchants are profit-seeking, these things need military funds to buy, fortunately this thing is better than firewood and grass, otherwise how can we make a fire in this cold weather?" As long as it is useful, let them make some money. ”

Liu Xingzuo saw that Mao Wenlong was constantly looking into the distance, and said jokingly: "The word of the handsome is Zhennan, and in the future, the emperor who drives away the Jurchens will make you the Marquis of Liaonan, which shows that these two southern characters really deserve it." ”

After Mao Wenlong heard the news that Hou Sui revealed that the Apocalypse would seal himself as the Marquis of Liaonan in the future, he was full of enthusiasm for the past two days, and when he saw Liu Xingzuo saying that his character also had a southern character, he took two deep breaths and said: "I hope our brother can wait until that day." ”

Although Hou Sui did not bring reinforcements, only used gunboats to forcibly open the road and transport some supplies into Jinzhou, Amin and Dolgon were also able to notice the different changes in the Ming army, although they could not enter the city to see what the Ming army had added, but from the perspective of denser artillery and more high-spirited fighting spirit, Jinzhou City was even more difficult to capture. Amin consulted with Dolgon and Yue Tuo, and decided to stop the attack for the time being, and report to Huang Taiji first.

Huang Taiji has become more and more depressed in the past ten days, originally thinking that he would use Jinzhou as a bait to drag Ning Yuanming's army, and he would attack the north and south to occupy Phi Island and eliminate Mao Wenlong, and from the perspective of the process, he also initially achieved the goal. Most of the people who occupied Mao Wenlong on Phi Island were also destroyed, and the rest were also besieged, but Ning Yuan's Ming army really surrounded Jinzhou, and Dayou must eat Jinzhou's frame, as if the big fish had bitten the hook and had to swallow the bait. Huang Taiji originally thought that after quickly eliminating Mao Wenlong, he would wave his army to the north, and the Ming army, which had always been weak and would only rely on the city to defend it, would definitely retreat back, who knew that this time the Ming army under the city of Jinzhou would put on a decisive battle posture.

In this case, Huang Taiji is faced with a difficult choice, either abandon Jinzhou and let Sun Degong and Li Yongfang become bait completely, or rescue Jinzhou and let Mao Wenlong live for a few days, anyway, Phi Dao has already let himself occupy it, and he is not afraid of what tricks Mao Wenlong will do. There are cannons made in Jinzhou City in this year, although they are bulky and difficult to carry, but they are still effective to use, and it is believed that the Ming army must pay a certain price to attack Jinzhou. After dragging the Ming army in Jinzhou, his side used the power of thunder to eliminate Mao Wenlong and completely eliminate this scourge that had harassed him for many years.

After thinking about it for a while, Huang Taiji hesitated, he didn't want to give up Jinzhou and didn't want to lose Mao Wenlong's fat meat, so he made a somewhat bold decision, that is, to let Dolgon on the Gaizhou side assist Amin in annihilating Mao Wenlong, and go to support Jinzhou on his own side. His idea seems to be perfect, but in fact there is a problem, and it is very likely that both sides will not be able to manage it well, because it involves a problem of dividing troops. When fighting a war, the boss must either attack or defend and have a decision in his heart, and the strategy of attacking or defending is a taboo with troops, and a lot of time and opportunities are likely to be lost in hesitation.

However, Huang Taiji didn't care so much, he thought that even if the combat effectiveness of the Ming army was improved to a certain extent, it was believed that it would not be possible to attack Jinzhou and defend his own attack, and maybe he could take advantage of the field battle this time to avenge the great revenge of the battle of Ningyuan. After careful calculation, Huang Taiji first stationed troops in Guangning and Xipingbao to guard the gates of the Liaohe Plain, and then ordered the newly formed Mongol and Han armies to march towards Jinzhou.

In the past two years, Huang Taiji listened to Ning Wan's suggestion, and selected some more loyal people from the Mongols and local Han people to be incorporated into the army. In order to test the combat effectiveness of these newly joined soldiers, Huang Taiji asked people to lead 10,000 Mongol soldiers and 10,000 Han soldiers to Jinzhou, a total of 20,000 people. After 20,000 people went for a day, they brought back news the next day, indicating that the army had about 20,000 people blocking in Youtun, and it was said that there were still 30,000 people in Dalinghe Fort behind Youtun, which means that a total of about 50,000 Ming troops were blocking their way to Jinzhou.

If the Ming army wants to capture Jinzhou, it must be afraid of being attacked from both sides, so it is not surprising that the army has troops to block it, but what makes Huang Taiji feel strange is that the intelligence obtained from the front shows that the army does not want to fight hard. Because the right tun is a sentry fort, the place is not large, and the surrounding terrain is relatively flat, and it does not have the conditions to defend according to the danger, and the Ming army of the right tun neither fortified the city nor dug trenches, and only released guns and cannons when encountering an attack, and slowly retreated a distance under the cover of the cavalry after it was released, and began to stop again. The 20,000 people in charge of going to Jinzhou wanted to rush up and cut indiscriminately, but found that the Ming army had sprinkled a lot of thistles when retreating, so they had to move forward slowly while clearing the obstacles.

Huang Taiji didn't know what the Ming army was doing, but he analyzed from the fact that the Ming army sprinkled tribulus terrestris in the retreat and found that the Ming army had no intention of advancing eastward for the time being, and he could also conclude that Jinzhou had not been taken by the Ming army, so he ordered to continue to move forward but carefully pay attention to the ambush. In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the Jurchens saw many examples of besieging cities without fighting reinforcements, and later they were very handy when they actually used it, for fear that their side would also be surrounded by the Ming army to send reinforcements. Fortunately, the Ming army didn't seem to have seen the Three Kingdoms, but just kept firing artillery and then kept retreating, although it caused some trouble to the 20,000 horses and horses supporting Jinzhou, but it couldn't stop its footsteps.

About ten days later, when the 20,000 reinforcements came to the front of the Dalinghe Fort, they found out the reason why the 20,000 people kept making trouble and did not fight at the beginning. The wall facing the east is thick but not too high, but because the ground below the wall has been dug low, it appears that the wall is of a certain height. The frozen ground in the winter is harder than iron, I don't know how these Ming troops dug up, and the reason why the Ming army in Youtun slowly retreated is probably because this protective wall has not been completed, and now I don't know if it has been completed and is waiting to withstand the attack.

The Mongols were more anxious, and they wanted to rush to the wall and climb up first, but the accompanying Han soldiers were more thoughtful, and they told the Mongols who were eager to make meritorious contributions to climb the wall before they had to go down, so that many soldiers would die in the wall and should fill in the deep hurdle first. When the Mongols heard this, they were deeply impressed, and the Jurchens who accompanied them to see the Three Kingdoms also nodded again and again, and they pointed out that when Zhuge Liang pacified the south, he saw a low city that was not too tall, so he first filled in the soil and then went to the city.

As the saying goes, there are many people and great strength, and after thinking of a way to attack, everyone immediately divides the labor, some people go to pry the soil, some people carry it, and some people are ready to lift these frozen soil blocks to throw. If you want to throw the frozen soil blocks into the big ditch under the protective wall of the Ming army, you must first cross the river, and after crossing the river, you can run a few steps to throw the soil to fill the ditch, and the soldiers responsible for throwing the soil have just run to the middle of the river, and the Ming army has begun to launch.

I only heard a few "knock knock knocks", dozens of Franc cannons began to fire, if these shells are aimed at people, don't worry, because in winter the ground is full of ice and snow, shells will not bounce up and hurt people, where they are smashed is a hole, will not bounce up to cause secondary damage. However, these shells were not aimed at people, but at the surface of the Daling River, and the frozen surface of the river was smashed by dozens of cannons, and countless holes were smashed in an instant.

The attackers were inexplicably smashed by this artillery, it seems that the firing points of these cannons are calculated, all of them are aimed at the river surface and smashing, the problem is that the effect of smashing a few holes in the river should not be very ideal, at most let the attackers accidentally stumble on their feet, except for the unlucky ghost who happened to be stoned to death, there is not much lethality. These Mongols and Han Chinese, who had just joined the army at Huang Taiji, had not yet figured out the intention of the Ming army to shoot artillery into the river, and the real offensive of the Ming army came, only to see that countless water dragons suddenly erupted from the iron pipe at the head of the protective wall, and when they encountered the cold wind, they immediately turned into cold water dragging white mist, and constantly sprayed the soldiers on the river.

The main reason for the Franco cannon to smash people is to intimidate and block, after all, the people who can really smash are a very small number of unlucky eggs, these sprayed water dragons are the deadly things, because the sprayed tubes have a large range and can also be sprayed left and right, so no one can avoid being sprayed all of them. In the extremely cold winter of Liaodong, the body was sprayed wet, and it was likely to freeze into popsicles immediately, and the soldiers who were drenched in water were shocked and immediately turned around and ran, and many of them reacted slowly and drenched a lot of water on the spot and became icemen, and several died when they were carried back, and those who did not die also lost their combat effectiveness.