In the early spring and February of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the ambush of Dongjiang Town last year was unsuccessful, but it also eliminated most of the main force of the Qing army in Dongjiang Town, taking advantage of the opportunity of Dongjiang Town's lack of time to harass the inner abdomen, led by Dolgon, Ao Bai and other generals who originally attacked the soldiers of Dongjiang Town, more than 100,000 troops, went south in one fell swoop, and occupied Songshan almost effortlessly.

Choked the important place of Songshan, and also cut off the connection between Jinzhou and Ningyuan, and the only two important towns outside the Ming Dynasty fell into an isolated situation. （

Hong Chengchou, the governor of Liaoliao, after the Jurchen movement in the winter of last year, came to Jinzhou with a division and placed on the front line as a governor to boost the morale of the soldiers.

Although the Qing army blocked the line of communication between Ningjin and Jin, which was extremely important for the defense of the Ningjin defensive line, at this time, due to the suspicious plan of the last year, the elite Ming army in the eastern border pass of Liaodong also gathered here, such as Cao Bianjiao, Wang Tingchen, Zu Dashou and other generals, also gathered here.

When Wu Sangui was the head of the Ningyuan regiment training at the age of last year, he was still a pivotal figure among the generals of the Ningjin defense line, but now he is a second- or third-rate general under the command of Inspector Hong Chengchou, and his status and reputation are higher than those of others, and he can't count them on ten fingers.

With such a strong army gathered between Ning Jin, Hong Chengchou, the governor of Liao, at least in terms of self-confidence in guarding the city, did not mean cowardice at all.

And the Ningjin defense line also has a big advantage, because the year before last, there were Dongjiang Town soldiers in the hinterland of the Qing Dynasty to make trouble and invade, so that the Qing army in the first few years of the plan to plague the Ningjin grain belt failed, at this time in the two cities of Ningjin not only have enough food, but also there is no shortage of materials, that is, they were besieged by the Qing army for more than half a year, they can hold on at night.

At that time, the 30,000 iron horsemen who invaded the Ming Dynasty from the Xifeng Pass finally retreated to the Mongolian steppe before the spring of this year, and returned to the Qing Dynasty territory by way, and with them returned, there were countless kinds of materials looted from the Ming Dynasty's territory, as well as more than 100,000 young and strong people.

This is an insult to the powerful kingdom, but it is also a helpless thing, Emperor Chongzhen and the imperial court heard that the 30,000 Qing lone soldiers were in a no-man's land in their own land, and they were helpless against them, who did not feel that this dynasty had reached a time of danger.

However, they have no soldiers, no food and no money in their hands, and the empty treasury can starve to death of rats, and the continuous natural and man-made disasters and homeless riots in various places have been continuously consuming the foundation of the powerful kingdom, forcing them to use more military and material resources on it.

Although the emerging and powerful rising kingdom in the north knew that it was his own henchman, Emperor Chongzhen was suffering from the turmoil of the country, and he had more than enough strength but could only passively defend against this strong enemy from the north, devouring his own territory step by step and weakening his own strength.

From the end of February to the end of March, the Qing army continued to exert pressure on the Ningjin defense line and attacked the city, but in the end it was blocked back by the Guanning army led by Hong Chengchou.

In April, suddenly Dongjiang Town broke out again, taking advantage of the main force of the Qing Dynasty to attack the Ningjin defense line, with 10,000 soldiers from Dongjiang Town, as well as 15,000 soldiers from the Ryukyu Navy Xiao Xiurong, suddenly attacked from the wicker side of the Qing Dynasty, shelled the border fort from the sea with powerful fleet artillery, and then took the wicker side in one fell swoop, opening the door to the hinterland of the Qing Dynasty.

In the battle, more than 5,000 Jurchen defenders and Han troops and Korean soldiers were all annihilated and captured by the Dongjiang Town army.

After capturing the wicker side, while the Jurchen Ren had not yet reacted, more than 20,000 soldiers of Dongjiang Town and the Ryukyu Navy Division immediately marched north to attack Phoenix, and three days later, Phoenix fell, and the soldiers of Dongjiang Town paid all the materials in the city.

Dabao, Tongyuan Fort and other castles have fallen, under the attack of more than half a month, the army of Dongjiang Town has successively taken down several cities, defeated and exterminated three or four Jurchen tribes of more than 5,000 people, and the small and medium-sized tribes are not counted, and the soldiers are directed at Shengjing, the imperial capital of the Qing Kingdom, and finally make the Jurchen nobles and officials in the imperial capital of the Qing Dynasty angry.

However, the biggest shortcoming of the Jurchens has always been the number of people, before Duoyi led 30,000 iron cavalry to invade the interior of the Ming Dynasty and has not returned, and then there are Shuotuo, Yue Cha and other departments to lose troops, and then by Dolgon, Ao Bai and others led a large number of Eight Banners to coerce the Ningjin defense line, its troops in the inner belly of the Qing Dynasty are too weak, although there are many Han army, North Korean soldiers, but its strength is compared to the Jurchen elite and subordinate to the Hongtang team of the Dongjiang and Ryukyu sailors, but it is too different, and repeated battles with the soldiers of Dongjiang Town have ended in failure.

No one thought that Dongjiang Town had just experienced a war that could be called a big defeat, and there was still the strength to take the initiative to attack again and harass the Qing Dynasty's territory.

A momentary loss put the Qing Dynasty into a dilemma, and wanted to issue an order for the Eight Banner Banners to mobilize troops, which was not something that could be done in a day or two, after all, the Qing Dynasty's current system still maintained the tribal alliance system, and many times Huang Taiji's control over other banner owners was not strong enough, and he might not be able to make the other party obey his orders.

The final result was to call back the Jurchen army besieging the Ningjin defense line, let it rush back as quickly as possible, and strangle the Ming Dynasty army that had penetrated deep into the territory to prevent future troubles.

When the Jurchen army that blocked the Ningjin defense line returned to the country, not only did all their previous efforts come to naught, but the Ningjin soldiers led by Hong Chengchou only held on to the city for more than a month and relieved the siege of the forced city, and the price paid by Dolgon and others for countless sieges of the city was not much supplement.

During this period of time, the soldiers of Dongjiang Town marched all the way, marching at a high speed around the Qing Dynasty, although they were not as mobile as the cavalry of the Qing Army, but when they were in the Hongtang army, they had been training in the arduous mountain march, and it was not very difficult for them to travel 100 miles a day, just to preserve their physical strength and deal with the ice and snow in Liaodong that had not yet been unsealed, they just maintained a marching speed of fifty or sixty miles a day, which was enough to play other teams in the Qing Dynasty except for cavalry.

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