"What did you say?!" Mo Liden was a spirit, and asked loudly.

The guards repeated it again.

Mo Li suddenly lost his mind. He knew that after this year in history, the Golden Emperor Taiji would personally lead a large army to besiege Dalinghe City, but the specific date was not clear.

Moreover, due to his arrival in this era, he is not sure whether this history will happen as it was originally, so although he has been asking the court to go out of Liaodong, the court has not approved, although he is a little anxious, but there is a trace of luck, hoping that this Huang Taiji will not come to besiege the city again.

But I didn't expect history to happen as it was, and it didn't seem to have changed because of his turmoil.

"Quickly order all the officers above the guerrilla level to come to the county office to discuss the military situation, go quickly!" Mo Li said loudly.

After the Jinzhou War last year, although the Later Jin army withdrew, it did not completely retreat to their traditional sphere of influence in Jianzhou, and still attacked and harassed the villages and towns of the Ming Kingdom on the border from time to time.

After the battle, Zu Dashou and He Kegang originally wanted to organize manpower to rebuild Dalinghe City, but the Tartars often sent cavalry to attack and harass, so the progress has been slow. In the early years, Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan also built this city many times, but they were repeatedly attacked and damaged by the Houjin side.

Dalinghe City is located more than 30 miles east of Jinzhou and is an important line of defense to shield Jinzhou. If the Ming army wants to consolidate Liao, it must build this city; Then if Jin wants to attack Ming, he must also demolish this city. Since the time of Yuan Chonghuan, the competition between the two sides for the two cities of the Great and Small Linghe has been very fierce.

When Sun Chengzong negotiated with Mo Li, Mo Li told him to pay attention to the recent movements of Hou Jin, and they were likely to invade Jinzhou and Daling River again, so that Zu Dashou and He Kegang could prepare for defense in advance.

Sun Chengzong felt that Moli was reasonable, and he was even more determined to rebuild Dalinghe City, so after the negotiations, he immediately urged the imperial court to raise manpower and materials, and Zu Dashou and He Kegang personally led the troops to supervise the construction of the guards and rebuild Dalinghe City.

After some discussion, Huang Taiji decided to divide the troops into two routes, one route was led by Beledeg, Yue Tuo, and Azige, and lived between Jinzhou and Daling River through Yizhou to cut off the connection between Jinzhou and Daling River.

The other road was led by Huang Taiji, Da Bel Dai Shan, and Bel Zir Harang, and pressed towards Da Linghe City from the front through Montenegro and Guangning.

On July 27, the Houjin army set out from Shenyang and crossed the Liao River on the second day, opening the prelude to the Battle of the Daling River.

On the eve of this war, Huang Taiji also requisitioned thousands of cavalry from various tribes in southern Mongolia to participate in the battle, claiming to be an army of 100,000, but in fact the total strength was between 50,000 and 60,000.

On August 6, the two armies converged at the foot of the city of Dalinghe, and the battle of Dalinghe began.

Zu Dashou, He Kegang, Zhang Cunren and others led more than 18,000 troops to be stationed in Dalinghe City to supervise the construction of the guards. He Kegang got a hint from Mo Li last year and tried his best to urge the people to speed up the construction progress, and at this time all the city defense projects had been almost completed, and only some finishing work had not yet been completed.

When the Houjin army gathered under the city, Zu Dashou and He Kegang hurriedly ordered all the soldiers and civilians to withdraw into the city, close the city gates, and prepare to hold Dalinghe City. He Kegang saw that Mo Li was not bad as expected, and couldn't help but admire Mo Li's foresight in his heart.

In the battle of the Daling River in this time, Huang Taiji changed his previous tactics of hard attack to encirclement. He ordered the soldiers of the Eight Banners to dig four trenches around the city, and built a wall more than one zhang high, surrounding the small Linghe City like an iron bucket.

The Ming army never expected that the Jin soldiers would make such a ruthless move, as soon as the trench was dug and the soldiers were surrounded, it would be extremely difficult for the Ming army to rush out. The grain and grass in the city were only enough for a few days, and the city ran out of food after a few days.

The generals in the city were all terrified, and when the Houjin army began to besiege the city, He Kegang, Zu Dale and other generals suggested to Zu Dashou to lead their troops to break through and withdraw to Jinzhou.

Zu Dashou organized several breakouts, but due to the outnumbered enemy and the lack of sharpness of the Ming army, they were all killed by the Jin soldiers.

Although the Ming army has advanced weapons such as Flame Tyrant and grenade developed by Moli last year, due to the lack of materials, the number of Flame Tyrants in the Jinzhou military camp has not increased by many in the past year. Because the Pyroman consumes a lot of fuel and does not have enough fuel, no matter how much it is made, it is useless. And the number of grenades is not much.

He Kegang did not fail to ask the imperial court for the allocation of materials, but the imperial court did not meet He Kegang's request out of suspicion and concern about Zu Dashou's family.

Moreover, because the Flame Tyrant was dragged by a war horse, Jin Bing also thought of a strategy to break the enemy, which was to destroy the road and set traps, making it difficult for the Flame Tyranton to exert its due effectiveness.

In desperation, he had to sit in the city of sorrow, looking forward to the arrival of reinforcements.

Ten days later, Shi Dayong, the garrison of Songshan, led 2,000 defenders of Songshan to come to the rescue, only to take the battle, and the Houjin army easily defeated the Songshan reinforcements without much effort. It is conceivable that the 2,000 Ming army against the tens of thousands of Houjin army is tantamount to sending sheep into the tiger's mouth, and it is not enough to stuff the opponent's teeth.

Zu Dashou and the generals saw from a distance at the head of the city that the Songshan army was like an egg hitting a stone, and they were scattered and fled, and their hearts couldn't help but be even heavier.

There are few people in Dalinghe City, there is not much food reserves, and the grain of the army and the people are transported from Jinzhou and Songshan, and now the Jin army is besieging the city, and the grain cannot be transported in, and more than 30,000 people in the city soon fell into a panic of hunger.

Sun Chengzong, who was sitting in Shanhaiguan, received a military intelligence report and hurriedly sent Wu Xiang, the chief military officer of Liaodong, and Song Wei, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, to lead the troops to the Daling River to rescue.

On August 26, Wu Xiang and Song Wei led 6,000 troops from Jinzhou to the Daling River to rescue Zu Dashou and He Kegang, who were trapped in the lonely city. More than 40 generals, including deputy generals Liu Zeqing and Pei Guozhen, staff generals Zu Kuan, Xia Chengde, Lu Pinqi, Ma Ke, guerrilla Li Fuming, Jin Guochen, Zu Dabi, Zhang Tao, Zhang Kefan, and Han Dongliang, accompanied the aid.

During the march, Wu Xiang looked at the thousands of soldiers and horses around him, and his face was worried. His subordinates know that although this Liaodong soldier is not weak in combat effectiveness in the Ming army, but in the face of the Tartar cavalry, it is still not a little worse. Wu Xiang was very uncertain about his help this time, but Sun Chengzong's order could not be disobeyed.

Song Wei didn't have so many thoughts about him, in his heart, obeying orders is the duty of a soldier, not to mention that this time the Tartars attacked in a big way, as a general of the Ming Border Pass, he naturally couldn't watch Zu Dashou and others, who were also robes, being trapped in a lonely city, as a friendly army, they must rescue each other and resist the enemy's insults.

This time, because of the haste of the incident, the financing was not in time, and although the number of troops was a little less, if it could get in touch with the Zu Dashou Department in the city, it might not be possible to rescue the Zu Dashou Department.

Wu Xiang said worriedly: "It is said that this time it is the Nanu chief Hongtai who personally led 100,000 troops to surround Dalinghe City, Chief Song Bing, how sure do you think we are in this rescue?" ”

Song Wei is in his thirties, but he has been in battle for a long time, and when he heard this, he said with a deep sigh: "General Wu Bing, the slave chief Hong Taisu is used to bluffing, saying that it is an army of 100,000, but in fact there are only half of them at most, and the Tartars want to divide their troops to besiege the city, and the troops will inevitably be scattered, so General Wu does not have to worry about it." ”