Chapter 470: Jinzhou

On the night of 29 February, Dolgon abandoned Dabi Mountain and fled north. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Dabi Mountain was in a mess, Li Zhi led his troops to search the mountain, found more than 500 Tartar corpses, and cut off the head.

The mountain barrier of Dabi Mountain was pulled out, and the 400-mile road between Shanhaiguan and Jinzhou was completely opened. The morale of the 150,000 troops of the Ming army was like a rainbow and went to Jinzhou to support the past.

The Qing army was nearby, and the Ming army marched in armor, released countless scouts, and walked very slowly, walking forty miles from Dabi Mountain to Jinzhou for two days.

The Qing army was newly defeated at Dabi Mountain, and its morale was low, so it did not dare to engage the Ming army, and withdrew the encirclement of Jinzhou and fled to Yizhou. Yizhou is fifty miles north of Jinzhou City, and it is the place where the Tartars have been stationed for this year. The Tatars are entrenched in Uiju and are reluctant to leave, and they seem to still have some ideas.

No matter what the Qing army planned, the Ming army at least lifted the siege of Jinzhou and achieved the strategic goal of the great war -- to relieve the siege of Jinzhou.

When the army arrived in Jinzhou, they found that the outside of the city was full of trenches and high walls built by the Qing army. The city walls of Jinzhou are full of craters after the bombardment of Hongyi artillery. Jinzhou was surrounded by Tartar iron buckets for four months, and it was really in a difficult situation. That is, there are too few Tartar cannons. If the Tartars could have a hundred heavy cannons, they would have to break the Jinzhou city wall.

The Ming army camped outside the city and built a camp. After repairing the camp, the generals rode into Jinzhou.

Now Li Zhi's identity is higher than Hong Chengchou, and Li Zhi is the leader in the army. Li Zhi played the marquis's guard of honor, with fifty personal guards holding golden fans and gourds, and with flags and generals, riding in front of the generals. Hong Chengchou walked behind, and then there were eight general soldiers.

Walking to the south of the city, Li Zhi saw Zu Dashou, the chief soldier of the forward, leading the officials and people of Jinzhou to line up on the road outside the city to welcome the arrival of reinforcements.

Zu Dashou is a middle-aged man in his forties, with a thin face full of wrinkles and vicissitudes on his face.

The ancestral family has a deep foundation in Liaodong, and there are nearly ten soldiers, generals and guerrillas in the family, which can be described as the generals of Liaodong. Zu Dashou fled after Yuan Chonghuan was killed, and was later recalled by Yuan Chonghuan's letters. He once surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, but after surrendering, he fled back to the Ming Kingdom under the pretext of surrendering. The Son of Heaven summoned Zu Dashou many times, but he did not go to the capital to see the Son of Heaven, and he was a warlord-like figure in Jinzhou City.

After Huang Taiji surrounded Jinzhou City, in order to persuade Zu Dashou, he gave Zu Kefa, the adopted son of Zu Dashou of the Qing Dynasty, an official and a deputy commander. The ancestral family plays a pivotal role in western Liaoning, and if Zu Dashou is cleared, it may drive the entire dominoes, and perhaps the entire Guanning army will be cleared one after another.

That's why the siege of Jinzhou has so much affected the situation and attracted the attention of the whole country.

Seeing Li Zhi's guard of honor, Zu Dashou hurriedly greeted him and shouted: "The chief soldier of the forward, Zu Dashou, has seen the Marquis of Xingguo!" Xingguohou thousands of miles to aid Jin to kill the enemy all the way, and I thanked Xingguohou on behalf of the people of Jinzhou who were saved! ”

After Zu Dashou said this, thousands of people behind him knelt on the ground and saluted Li Zhi.

After Li Zhi repelled Dolgon at Dabi Mountain, the Qing army withdrew from the siege of Jinzhou. News from the front continued to reach Jinzhou, and the people knew that Zhongxing Guohou was the mainstay in this war. Without the Marquis of Xingguo, it is possible that the army has already lost several battles. If there is no Marquis of Xingguo, the Tartars capture Jinzhou City, I don't know how many people will be slaughtered and how many people will be destroyed.

Several old men walked up to Li Zhima with a pot of turbid wine and said: "Xingguohou saved the people of Jinzhou, and we have nothing else to do but Jingxingguohou with a glass of turbid wine!" ”

Li Zhi looked at the turbid wine and was a little afraid to drink it. This Jinzhou is very close to Shenyang, and there are the most spies in the city, who knows if there is poison in the wine?

The scene was a little embarrassing for a while, and Li Laosi, who was behind Li Zhi, walked out, took the bowl of turbid wine and drank it, shouting loudly: "Old man! Wine! ”

Zhong Feng grabbed it diagonally and said loudly: "Let's drink a bowl too!" ”

Only then did everyone smile. Zu Dashou laughed and said: "The dry city of the rejuvenating country and the marquis of the country, it is understandable to be cautious. ”

He rolled up the sleeves of his official robe and said loudly: "I will lead the horse into the city for the Marquis of Xingguo!" ”

Under the guidance of Zu Dashou, Li Zhi's honor guard marched into Jinzhou City. The city of Jinzhou was besieged for four months, and the city was very depressed. The doors and windows of the families were torn down to make use of the city's defense equipment, and the houses on both sides of the road were in tatters. The people have not eaten enough for several months, and they are skinny and skinny.

However, now that the hard days have finally come to an end, the king who rescued him drove away the Tartars. When the people in the city heard that the reinforcements had entered the city, they were very excited and crowded on both sides of the road to watch.

As soon as the Tartars withdrew the day before yesterday, the news that the Marquis of Xingguo had killed the Tartars in all directions spread throughout the city. Now that the people saw Li Zhi's gorgeous marquis honor guard, they knew that this was the Marquis of Xingguo, and they knelt on the ground and didn't dare to speak loudly.

On both sides of the road, only a head of black pressure was seen, and it was very quiet.

Zhong Feng drank some wine and was very excited, and rode on his horse and shouted to the people on both sides: "All the people assisted the officials and soldiers to defend the city for four months, and guarded the territory of my Ming Dynasty, they are all heroes!" ”

"They're all heroes! No formality! ”

Hearing Zhong Feng's words, the people dared to raise their heads to look at the appearance of the Marquis of Xingguo. When they saw Li Zhi's young appearance, they were secretly frightened one by one, and secretly said that the Marquis of Xingguo was really a heroic boy.

Under the guidance of Zu Dashou, everyone crossed Jinzhou City and entered the General Military Mansion.

A banquet has already been set up in the lobby of the General Soldier's Mansion. Jinzhou City was besieged for four months, and the pigs and sheep had already been killed. But there are still bacon and rice wine pickled cabbage, and Zu Dashou said that he had gathered a big table, which can be regarded as a reward for the generals who support Jinzhou.

Everyone sat at the table, Li Zhi sat on the main seat, on the left sat the governor Hong Chengchou, and on the right sat the prison army Zhang Ruoqi. Then on both sides sat the other eight chief soldiers according to the size of the official position, and Zu Dashou himself sat at the end of the seat.

Everyone hadn't drunk for a long time, and when the siege of Jinzhou was finally lifted after two months of the war, they were all very happy and drunk.

Yang Guozhu, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, had some good wine, and others respected him, and he did not refuse to come, and he had nothing to do to find a reason to drink with others, and his face was flushed when he was drunk. Datong General Wang Pu's amount of wine is excellent, and after drinking two catties of rice wine, there is still nothing on his face. Wu Sangui seems to be extremely good at this kind of scene, and from time to time he toasts others with a glass just right, which makes people feel good.

Cao Bianjiao couldn't drink any alcohol, and his hands and feet became red after drinking two glasses, and Li Zhi knew that it was an alcohol allergy.

Hong Chengchou drank very gracefully, stroking his long beard and drinking one cup at a time, he toasted Li Zhi and Zu Dashou. When Hong Chengchou honored his ancestors, he praised Zu Dashou's stubborn dedication, and Zu Dashou was so excited that his face was flushed.

After three rounds of drinking, Hong Chengchou cleared his throat and said, "Everyone, now the Tartars have been killed and injured by us in four consecutive defeats, killing and wounding nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses, and retreating to Yizhou!" Support the battle of Jinzhou, my Ming Dynasty won a complete victory! ”

When the crowd heard this, they applauded.

When everyone quieted down, Hong Chengchou said again: "But the Tartars have not retreated, according to our detailed reports, the Tartars seem to be still increasing their troops and are going to attack the whole country." Needless to say, there is still one final battle to fight! ”

"Now our army is gathered in Jinzhou City, with the Marquis of Xingguo, and nine general soldiers, a total of 170,000 troops. Do you think we should fight this battle with the Qing army? ”