This is a big problem, can you eat raw food without firewood? Fortunately, the guards are equipped with cotton clothes, so after that, they can only be wronged and everyone wears cotton clothes to support themselves.

At this time, the scout came to report that Jiannu had surrounded the city, and the garrison was at least three hundred steps away from the city wall, and it seemed that he had been frightened by artillery. And when they found out that they were camped, they began to dig trenches.

Lu Qin was in a hurry, and hurriedly said to the generals: "Everyone go back and fill everything that can hold water." ”

The Guards filled all the jars, basins, buckets, and other containers they could find with water from the well, and then they were relieved that even if no more water could be fetched from the well, they could survive at least ten days and a half months with this water.

The Later Jin army dug a trench not to cut off the well water in the fort, they dug up the excavated soil into a long earthen wall, so that even if the guards rushed out, they had to pass through a long wall first, and then through a deep ditch, which basically cut off the possibility of the Guards breaking through.

In this way, the lack of ammunition for the Guards was no longer important, since the Houjin army was not ready to attack at all. But without foreign aid, the Guards themselves would not have been able to break through.

Zhou Yuji of Jiulian City had already received the news of the scouts, and about 30,000 Jiannu besieged Xin'anbao, and immediately spread the news to the first and second divisions and Dongjiang Town.

After the news broke, Zhou Yuji personally led a cavalry battalion to Xin'anbao for reconnaissance. When he was still more than ten miles away from Xin'anbao, he met Houjin's scouts.

The Houjin scouts fled far away, Zhou Yuji relied on his horse fast, continued to advance to Xin'anbao, three miles away from the city, you can already see the siege wall of Houjin, at this time a large number of Houjin cavalry rushed over, Zhou Yuji ordered the cavalry to set off a fire and began to retreat.

At most, the firecracker had a frightening effect on the horses of the enemy cavalry, causing several Houjin cavalry to fall off from the horses, but it also hindered the charging posture of the Houjin cavalry. Zhou Yuji led the people to turn around and run, came to the side of a hillside, and saw that the hillside was full of bushes, so he ordered to go up the hill and dismount to build a defensive line.

The Houjin cavalry was only about 2,000, and when he saw the guards going up the mountain, the cavalry leader did not dare to follow, but he did not leave, so he stayed at the bottom of the hillside. Zhou Yuji led the cavalry with firecrackers to lie down along the bushes, and then suddenly stood up, and a row of firecrackers spared, sweeping the Houjin cavalry down.

The Houjin cavalry had no choice but to leave more than a dozen corpses and turn around and flee, Zhou Yuji did not chase, Shi Shiran slowly retreated to Gushan Fort with the cavalry.

As soon as the 2nd Division received the news, the General Staff immediately transmitted the message to the Beijing Division. Zhu Youxiao inspected the Ordnance Bureau, and immediately summoned the cabinet monk to come to Yuntai for discussion after receiving the news.

Huang Kezhang said happily: "Lu Qin was besieged by Jiannu with a large number of troops, so we just happened to attack Jiannu from other places, and it was best to take Liaoshen in one fell swoop." ”

Fang Congzhe and Ye Xianggao also felt that this was a good opportunity, and Xu Guangqi asked, "Your Majesty, how long can Lu Qin hold out there?" ”

Zhu Youxiao said with a smile: "According to Zhou Yuji's speculation, the grain should be able to support about two months, and Jiannu is not ready to attack now by building a wall." ”

Xu Guangqi breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Then you can send more troops, southern Liaoning can capture Haizhou, western Liaoning can set out to recover the first line of Guangning, and Dongjiang can also go straight to the old land of Jianzhou, not seeking to occupy the city, the focus is to take the Liao people away and destroy the production of Jiannu." ”

Zhu Youxiao said with a smile: "There is another point, those Han soldiers, this is an opportunity, if the Han troops from all over the country have surrendered, then let Jiannu have no one to use, really with their eight banners, it is good to be able to keep their stomachs from hunger." I will turn all the surrounding areas occupied by Jiannu into a no-man's land. ”

Huang Kezhang asked unwillingly: "Then won't Liao Shen take it back?" ”

Xu Guangqi said: "Liao Shen always has to be recaptured, but it is completely unnecessary to pay a great price to regain it, and after it is recaptured, it will face Jiannu's crazy counterattack." It is better to compress the space for building slaves step by step, so that they have no food and no supplies, and then they will not be slaughtered by us. ”

Zhu Youxiao said: "Mr. Ye wrote an order, respectively to the first division, the second division and Dongjiang Town, there is no need to set tasks, just to attack the Jiannu place, take away as many Liao people as possible and eliminate the Han army, if the Han army is willing to surrender, it must be accepted and quickly transferred to the interior." It is emphasized that the casualties of the soldiers should be minimized, and not to be greedy for merit. ”

Ye Xianggao wrote down three holy decrees, and after the clerk read them again, Zhu Youxiao said: "Use the seal, quickly send it to three places, I want to make Jiannu collapse after this battle." ”

The Second Division was the first to receive the holy order, and after discussion, the General Staff felt that it should send troops to Xiaolinghe, and use this place as the center to sweep away the surrounding Houjin Han soldiers. At the same time, through the sea route, he directly sent troops to Donghai Fort to attack the right guard of Quang Ninh.

After the first division received the order, Cao Wenzhao led the troops to directly attack Haizhou City, Cao Wenzhao led two infantry brigades, an artillery battalion, surrounded Haizhou on three sides and started fighting, three days later, Yue Tuo began to doubt life, and sent a distress letter to Nurhachi, thinking that there were no reinforcements within five days, and Haizhou would not be guaranteed.

On the Dongjiang River, Mao Wenlong personally led his troops to attack Yunyang Fort from Kuandian, intending to cut off the back road of Jiannu.

In this way, Nurhachi had no way to continue to besiege Xin'anbao, he sent Mang Gurtai to reinforce Yunyang Fort, and then asked Huang Taiji to go to Haizhou, so the number of besiegers in Xin'anbao was significantly reduced, and the encirclement was already self-defeating.

At this time, Chen Qiyu and Chen Jisheng brought 3,000 people and came directly to Yinshan Fort, and after meeting with Zhou Yuji, they gathered 7,000 troops and rushed to Xin'an Fort.

To the south of Xin'anbao, it was Du Du's inlaid white flag that was responsible for the siege, and the Ming army did not give him time to react at all, and directly set up a cannon to start attacking, and for a while the inlaid white flag was beaten to disgrace.

Du Du didn't dare to retreat, he knew that Nurhachi was in a very bad mood, and he was afraid that he would not be able to keep his position as the banner owner when he retreated, so he could only let people report the news while resisting desperately.

Flesh and blood against the shells, and it was a dense cannonball, and the Houjin army suffered heavy losses. The Ming army did not charge at all, and only fired cannons where the Later Jin Army could not reach them, and a wall of earth in the Later Jin Army had no defensive effect at all.

Soon the Ming army tore a hole in the defensive line. At this time, Lu Qin also let people attack from the inside, and under the attack from both sides, Du Du could no longer hold on, so that the two Ming armies would join together.

Chen Qiyu asked Xue Boling, who was leading the team in the city, "What supplies are missing in the city?" ”

Xue Boling said: "The ammunition is worse, especially the artillery ones. Everything else is fine. ”

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