After several big victories on the Houjin side, Huang Taiji naturally praised the leading generals such as Azig, Shuotuo, and Yanguli, as well as the officers and soldiers who were wounded in this battle.

Then Huang Taiji led the army back to the barracks, Zhu Beile, Taiji, Brother, Gushan Ezhen out of the camp for several miles to meet, Huang Taiji informed the ministers of the news of the victory, Zhu Beile, Taiji were all extremely excited.

Later, when the officers and soldiers of Jin heard that their army had defeated the Ming reinforcements in a row, they were all overjoyed, and they became more and more confident in the siege of the Daling River.

On the other hand, looking at the situation in Jinzhou City, Qiu Hejia has undoubtedly been frightened, he repeatedly wrote to Sun Chengzong, and even said that Houjin has a lot of troops, if his own troops are insufficient, sending reinforcements in a hurry is no different from sending them to death, hoping that Sun Chengzong can send more troops, and also send a capable future to lead the troops.

Sun Chengzong also knew that what Qiu Hejia said was true, Liaodong sent reinforcements three times and were defeated, this kind of refueling tactics are really not very clever, their own side always fights more with less, so that Houjin has a local advantage in strength, this is a reversion of the Battle of Salhu.

Considering this situation, Sun Chengzong collected troops everywhere and sent them to Jinzhou in a steady stream.

On the official road from Shanhaiguan to Jinzhou, people shouted horses and neighed, and there were many vehicles, which naturally attracted the attention of the Houjin secret agents, and the information was like snowflakes, flying to Huang Taiji's imperial case without paying a price.

As of September 23 of the fourth year of Chongzhen, there were 24,500 reinforcements sent to Jinzhou in the Guannei, and it was estimated that the reinforcements in Jinzhou City that could be used to reinforce the Daling River should be between 30,000 and 40,000 people.

Later, on the Jin side, the total strength is about 80,000, and the foreign vassal Mongolia, which is not strong in fighting spirit and combat power, and always wants to preserve its own strength, and the Aha soldiers who are not very reassuring to Zhushen, and the armor people with complex composition, and the bannermen who can fight are about 40,000 or 50,000.

If the whole division of the Ming army came to save the Daling River, it would be a vicious battle.

Huang Taiji ordered all armies to be ready to meet the Ming army at any time.

On September 24, Ah Shan, the chief officer of the outpost, came to report that more than 40,000 Ming troops had marched out of Dalinghe City and came straight to Dalinghe City.

Huang Taiji saw that the number of Ming troops coming to help was extremely large, and guessed that it might not be easy to deal with, so he led the Houjin and Mongolian departments together with his elder brother Dabeile Daishan, Sanbeile Mang Gurtai, Derge Taiji, Azige Taiji and other generals, a total of 20,000 elite soldiers, and waved his division to the west to meet this large-scale Ming reinforcements.

On the way to the march, Huang Taiji asked the outpost: "Who is the commander of the Ming State reinforcements on this road?" Can you know it? ”

"Back to the Great Khan, the minions and others looked at the commander of the Ming army, the handsome flag was embroidered with the word 'Zhang', and the face was tight, I had never seen it, but the generals around the main general, the minions and others had seen it, it was Song Zongzhen and Wu Zongzhen." The sentinel replied.

"Song Wei and Wu Xiang?" Huang Taiji asked.

"Exactly." Then the golden whistle replied.

"It's just a defeat, so there's nothing to worry about. I don't know what Zhang Chun's talent is, and it depends on his situation in leading the troops, and then I will make calculations. ”

Huang Taiji didn't know anything about Zhang Chun, and it was difficult to make judgments, so he could only look at Zhang Chun's ability to lead troops before deciding on a defensive strategy.

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On the official road from Jinzhou to the Daling River, 40,000 Ming troops stretched for several miles, marching on the road.

Walking at the front of the team was Zhang Chun, the commander of Yongping, and beside him were Song Wei and Wu Xiang, two powerful generals in the Liaodong Military Town.

This Zhang Chun in the Apocalypse years did the Yongping military preparation road, in charge of the people in a good way, regardless of the people and gentry are praised, when the eastern Liaodong border is serious, Zhang Chun once trained more than 20,000 people in the countryside, all of them are elite warriors, ready to pull down Liaodong to fight the slaves.

In the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the Mongolian Minister of Harashen, Wangyao Taiji, led the troops to invade and wanted to break through the Taolinkou and enter the land of Gyeonggi to kill and plunder. Zhang Chun led his troops to capture Changwang Baked Cake Taiji, and so far, his leading talent is known to the world.

In the first year of Chongzhen, the king of the military department heard rumors in Jin that Zhang Chun liked to kill people.

Zhang Chun felt that he was very wronged, so he hurriedly wrote to defend himself, and the gentry and people of Yongping spoke for Zhang Chun, and the matter was over.

Wang Zaijin's face was greatly damaged, and he felt that he was a dignified soldier in the army, but he couldn't handle a soldier's preparation, so he sent someone to falsely accuse Zhang Chun of being attached to the eunuch party and deducting military salaries.

Shi Chongzhen vigorously set up a reverse case, and the people who were involved with the nine-thousand-year-old Wei Gonggong, no matter the big officials, small officials, flies and tigers, as many as they wanted, they would not be tolerated, so Zhang Chun was locked up and taken out of prison to be dealt with.

After he was imprisoned for a year, that is, in the second year of Chongzhen, the three law divisions determined that Zhang Chun was absolutely innocent with the eunuchs after careful reconnaissance, so he was released from prison.

In the first month of the third year of Chongzhen, when Yongping was lost and the imperial court was short of soldiers, he suddenly remembered that there was a former Yongping soldier named Zhang Chun who had trained 20,000 villagers and had a very strong combat power, so he decided to enable Zhang Chun to be Yongping Bingdao again, and he listened to it under the account of Sun Chengzong of the cabinet department, and participated in the battle to recover the four cities in Guannei.

Zhang Chun received an order from the imperial court, and without saying a word, he immediately recruited the villagers who had been trained, and together with Zu Dashou, Ma Shilong, and Liu Kexun, he recovered the four cities in Guannei and made great military achievements.

His deeds were known to Emperor Chongzhen, and Emperor Chongzhen thanked him for his merits, so he promoted him to be a servant and a young secretary, but the actual position was still to prepare for Yongping, and when there was a vacancy in the governor's place, let him fill it.

Now, Daling River is besieged, must send troops to rescue, the military situation is urgent, the imperial court searched around the Beijing Division, and found that only Zhang Chun is not only a civil official, but also knows the soldiers, and the most important thing is that he has a victory in the fight against Jiannu, so it was decided to use him as a supervisor to supervise the military operation to rescue Dalinghe.

The two generals who walked beside Zhang Chun were Wu Xiang and Song Wei, these two were local generals in Liaodong, who had been fighting with Jiannu for many years and were very experienced, so Zhang Chun specially called the two of them to go on the expedition together.

Song Wei and Wu Xiang knew that Zhang Chun was a civilian official who knew the soldier and had made military exploits on the battlefield, and was much more powerful than Qiu Hejia, who had strong theoretical knowledge and poor practical ability, so these two Liao army generals were also convinced of Zhang Chun, and the military orders were quite smooth.

On the 24th, Zhang Chun led 40,000 reinforcements to set off, walked for a day, and arrived at Xiaoling River on the 25th.

Zhang Chun immediately made a decision, ordered his officers and soldiers to quickly dig deep trenches, arrange rejecting horses, ring shields, place guns, and form a hard village, waiting for the Houjin soldiers to attack.

Huang Taiji led 10,000 troops to Zhang Chun's camp before, immediately observed for a long time, then looked around and said: "This Zhang Chun is a person who knows the soldiers, his camp is very strict, if our army attacks, I am afraid of many casualties, now our army will not attack first, the purpose of his coming here is to rescue Daling River, he must continue to march, and when he leads the troops to advance and the array is loosened, it is not too late for our army to attack." ”

After he said this, he led the army to retreat in the direction of the Daling River.

"Zhang Bingbei, that is the slave chief Huang Taiji, he saw that our army was strong, so he retreated."

Wu Xiang saw that Huang Taiji had retreated, so he said to Zhang Chun with great excitement.

"Jiannu is nothing more than that, continue to advance towards the Daling River." Zhang Chun said a little proudly.