However, not long after Huang Taiji left, Dolgon noticed that something was wrong.

Azig had been chasing the Ming army with 5,000 iron horsemen for a while, but he did not send any information back except for the news of his death at the beginning.

With doubts in mind, Dorgon ordered the white-flagged probe to search along the road.

Even he was taken aback by the news this time, and the white flag Tanma found a big fault in front of an unnamed village, and there were people and horses lying down with the red flag Qing soldiers.

A few miles further, the Qing army is even more shocking, it seems that a major battle has been experienced here not long ago, and the mountains are full of the corpses of the Qing soldiers and the Ming army.

But the most shocking thing is still to come, most of the corpses of the Qing army are concentrated in a small circle in the middle, and even stacked into a small mountain.

Although these are the soldiers and horses of the Red Banner, even if it is said that the entire Azig army has been annihilated at this point, there are still not many Baylors who are willing to believe it.

But it didn't take long for the definite news to come out, saying that the white flag Tanma saw a headless corpse that was extremely similar to Azig when he was reorganizing the battlefield, and found a token, as well as the Red Banner cavalry? of corpses.

At this moment, the news has been confirmed, and the 5,000-year-old Red Banner Iron Cavalry carried by Azig was actually annihilated by the Ming army, and no one escaped.

It is also strange to say that the Ming army is often rewarded by the head theory, but this part of the Ming army that ambushed Azig only took the heads of a small number of banner people, including Prince Azig of England, and even all of them? The bodies are all intact.

The feeling in Dorgon's heart at this moment is indescribable, on the one hand, Azig has always been estranged from him, so it is a good thing to have a political opponent in this way.

But in terms of the overall situation, Azig is Prince Heshuoying, with a noble status, and if he dies like this, the news will inevitably cause a sensation in the Qing army, which will affect the morale of the army at least and affect the battle situation, so that the Ming army will have a chance.

Therefore, after careful consideration, after discussing with a few ministers such as Jierharang, Dolgon decided to conceal the news for the time being, and in connection with Huang Taiji's current physical condition, this news will not reach Shengjing for the time being, but it is still unknown how long it can be hidden.

Just when Dolgon's side was busy blocking the news and besieging Songshan, the defense of Jinzhou City began again.

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Jinzhou, the whole city is divided into two layers, the outer city because the defender Wu Bashi was rebelled by the traitor Fan Wencheng, and now it has been captured by the Qing army.

The inner city of Jinzhou is the last place of refusal of the Liaodong army of Zu Dashou and the department, the whole city wall is square, like most of the cities of this era, the city wall of Jinzhou is made of blue bricks outside, and the stone blocks are piled up inside, there are city gates on all sides, and the corners are equipped with corner platforms, which are used for commanding and dispatching soldiers and horses in battle.

At this moment, on the southeast corner of the inner city of Jinzhou, a towering corner tower stands on it, named "Kuixing Tower", which is full of distinctive features of the architecture of the Han era.

Downstairs in Kuixing, a sturdy general wearing old iron armor was wielding a steel knife and shouting:

"Ke Yong, you take your family to the north gate to reinforce you, you must not let the Tartars break the city!"

Hearing this, another Ming general hugged his fist at him, waved his hand and led dozens of family members down to the city, and trotted all the way north without hesitation.

Watching them leave, Zu Dashou suddenly felt a strong wind from the side, and swung a knife behind him, just in time to kill a Qing soldier who had just climbed the city wall, but before he could breathe a sigh of relief, another Han soldier landed on the city again.

"When is this a head?"

The Qing army didn't know what was crazy, since three days ago they had been attacking Jinzhou City day and night, and the Liaodong Army in the city was struggling to resist under the leadership of Zu Dashou and others, and now they are also exhausted.

However, the Qing army seemed to be unable to kill at all, and when they looked down at the city, all the Qing soldiers the size of beans rushed towards Jinzhou City, and even Zu Dashou felt a sense of powerlessness in his heart.

From March of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, until now, the Qing army has besieged Jinzhou City for more than a year, and in this more than a year, the grain and grass of the Ming army in Jinzhou City have long been exhausted.

Half a year ago, Zu Dashou gave a very painful military order to kill horses and eat, but tens of thousands of people in the Liaodong Army, these thousands of war horses looked a lot, but they couldn't eat for long at all, and now in addition to the necessary transport mules and horses, almost all of them have been killed.

Since he was forced to kill the horse, Zu Dashou no longer had the ability to raid the Qing army from a distance, and the recent breakthroughs were all to cooperate with Hong Chengchou's actions, and he didn't dare to leave the city wall too far.

The existing part of the Liaodong Army is actually only a small part recruited by Sun Chengzong, the governor of Hebei Liao, many years ago, with the policy of "guarding the Liao land with Liao people", but they are all locals and are the most heroic in battle.

Now the people of the whole city have taken out their own little food to supply the Liaodong army, it can be said that the whole city of the army and the people work together, which is the same as the Central Plains people to help the thieves into the city, the contrast is stark, in fact, in the late Ming Dynasty in the Liaodong region to defend the city is not uncommon.

Each time the Qing army conquered a territory, the severity of the massacre was determined by the intensity of local resistance, and the local population was often dispersed at the end and forcibly relocated to distant places to prevent threats to their rule.

But in this way, Jinzhou City will be able to hold out until next year at most, and if the reinforcements from the imperial court don't come again, Zu Dashou doesn't know what he should do, and he can't let the soldiers and civilians starve to death one by one, right?

"Retreat, Tartar retreat!"

I don't know who suddenly shouted, the Liaodong soldiers on the city wall looked down the city, the Qing army's attack that lasted for three days and three nights finally stopped, and now it is receding like a tide.

"Go and search these corpses for anything to eat!"

"Hey!"

None of the soldiers of the Liaodong Army smiled, either they threw down their swords and guns and sat on the ground in a dejected state, or they went to carefully search for the dead Qing soldiers' corpses with hope, just like the people who had just shouted.

It stands to reason that it is common sense to defeat the search for materials, but what the Liaodong soldiers are looking for is not swords, guns, clothes and armor, there is only one thing, that is, food.

Now the little thing they can eat is enough for them to hide in their arms like treasures.

"I found it, jerky, it's jerky!"

A Liaodong sergeant with chapped lips lifted a small piece of Mongolian jerky in surprise, and the people around him immediately surrounded him, and many generals and thousands of generals walked over and looked at this piece of jerky with envy.

From time to time, there was such a sound of surprise on the city wall, and the soldiers of the Liaodong Army who did not find it were not discouraged, and they flipped around with a breath, anyway, there are so many corpses, and they can always find a little.

Hearing the surprised voice of the soldier who had just found the jerky, Zu Dashou glanced at it, and he also swallowed his saliva, but quickly looked away.

Zu Keyong, who noticed this, thought that he was a little angry, and was about to go down to stop it, but was stopped by Zu Dashou, and only heard him say astringently:

"It's all here, save your effort! For these soldiers, what maintains military discipline is bullshit, and it is not as important as eating! ”

Zu Keyong sat on the stone steps panting, nodded weakly, obviously hadn't eaten for a long time, and after a while, he spoke:

"I heard that a while ago, Inspector Hong suffered a defeat in Songshan, Wang Putou, the chief soldier of Datong, fled with people, and Wu Sangui also fled back to Shanhaiguan, hundreds of thousands of troops, I don't know what happened now, let's ......"

Although Zu Keyong didn't continue to say this in the end, Zu Dashou could also understand it, and he was about to answer, but he heard a sudden shout from the city wall below.

"Second son, second son, what's wrong with you, don't scare me!"

It turned out to be the Liaodong sergeant who had just found the jerky, because he was too anxious to eat, and his throat was dry after not drinking water for too long, he was directly stuck in it, and he couldn't swallow it, and now he rolled his eyes, his body twitched, and he looked like he was going to run out of gas.

Zu Dashou walked down the corner tower quickly with a few generals, and when he saw this scene, he instantly understood, turned around and shouted:

"What about water, quickly bring water to Lao Tzu!"

Hearing this, the surrounding Liaodong soldiers all faced each other, and there was silence for a long time, and a soldier came out crying and shouted:

"General, where is there still water, it has been used up very early, everything outside has been poisoned by Tartars, and the brothers are drinking it now, all of it is ......"

In the end, the soldier wiped the corners of his eyes with his rough big hands, and there were actually some crystal tears, and Zu Dashou shouted hurriedly:

"What about pee, as long as you can save people!"

Several soldiers were about to turn around and untie their belts, but they saw that the soldiers of the Liaodong Army had closed their eyes peacefully, and another person hugged him and cried.

Zu Dashou was silent for a long time, and suddenly like a fierce tiger, he patted the brick wall and roared in the direction of Jingshi:

"Lao Tzu's soldiers, these are all brothers who were born and died with Lao Tzu, they didn't die on the battlefield, but he was choked to death by a piece of meat, where is the rescuer, where is the rescuer!!"