In July of the fourth year of Chongzhen, the Ming Jingshi was shaken by one urgent message after another from Liaodong.

The Later Jin army is in the Daling River...

After the Jin soldiers came to Jinzhou...

After the Jin soldiers Lin Ning Yuan...

Later, the Golden Whistle Rider has been haunted in the Shanhaiguan area...

The court can be said to be a few shocks a day, no one has forgotten the bad situation of the Jin people in the second year of Chongzhen's entry into Kou Jinggi, up to Emperor Chongzhen, down to the common people, there is a feeling of panic.

It wasn't until a war report came, saying that Houjin stopped in Ningyuan, that the court breathed a sigh of relief, and judging from the current situation of Houjin, it should not be repeated and detoured to Mongolia again.

As for Shanhaiguan, the Ming court was extremely confident that it would not be so easy for Jiannu to break through.

When the Ming monarchs heard that Houjin was in Jinzhou and Ningyuan, even the city was not fenced, only a small number of heavy horses were guarding the city, and the rest of the people were all busy collecting the grain outside the city, they were more at ease, it seemed that Jiannu was short of food, and the grain was coming, and it seemed that this battle could not be fought for a while.

The Daling River was surrounded by water, and no one could successfully break through the messenger sent by Zu Dashou, and the dead soldiers who went from Ning and Jin also went and did not return, and no one knew what the situation of the Daling River was.

Sun Chengzong, the governor of Jiliao, sat in Ningyuan, and under his supervision, the Ming army went out of the city to fight with the Houjin Xiao, but the results were not ideal, and could not pose any threat to the Houjin soldiers who were robbing the grain.

In the Battle of the Four Cities two years ago, the reason why Sun Chengzong was able to defeat Amin was because of the outnumbering of many Qin Wang's divisions, the power of siege artillery, and the lack of fighting spirit of the soldiers with blue flags, so he reluctantly expelled Amin from the pass.

Nowadays, although there are not many soldiers led by Azig, but they do not attack the city, the camp is far away, and the artillery can't hit at all, if the Ming army wants to make achievements, it can only fight hard in the field, and this is the weakness of the Ming army.

can only watch Jiannu take away the grain they planted outside the city, Sun Chengzong still feels a little lucky at the moment, fortunately he did not follow Xuanfu and the three sides to plant the sweet potatoes, otherwise Jiannu's harvest this trip would be too big.

In late July of the fourth year of Chongzhen, two pieces of news, one good and one bad, reached Jingshi again.

The good news is that the Jiannu in Ningyuan and Jinzhou, after harvesting the grain, have returned north, and the crisis in the two places has been eliminated.

The bad news is that Houjin has no intention of withdrawing the army, and the two groups of men and horses returning to the north, together with the military horses that stayed in the Daling River, will besiege the Daling River to the death, and it seems that they will not stop if they do not take the city.

In the midst of the compromises, Sun Yuanhua repeatedly begged the imperial court to issue an edict ordering other border towns to go to Liaodong for assistance, so that Dalinghe City, which had spent a lot of money, food and manpower, could not be destroyed again, nor could he watch the Guanning elite in the city fall and not save him.

Originally, the Xuanda border army, which was the closest to Liaodong and the most combat-powerful, was the most suitable to go out, but Chongzhen and the cabinet thought about it again and again, and they were afraid that Jiannu would attack the west, so they would detour elsewhere again and break through the barriers.

By mistake, the truth that the Xuanda Border Army was hollowed out by the Zhuolu Trading Company is not aware of it for the time being.

Fortunately, the current Jin and Shaanxi are not like the original history, and the Liukou have not formed a climate at all, and the imperial court finally decided to take the border armies on the three sides as the main force and ordered them to rush to Liaodong to fight.

In addition, Chongzhen did not forget the two generals who defected to Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, from Dongjiang Town, Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming, and specially issued an order to order these two military leaders who made him a little embarrassed to lead the army to Liaodong to participate in the war.

These two people are veterans of Dongjiang Town, and the Guan Ning Army of the same Jiliao line has old grievances because of the unfair distribution of military salaries, and after Mao Wenlong was killed, the grudge was deeper, and he was unwilling to help the old enemy, under the pretext that the sea was stormy and unsuitable for traveling by sea, and went to Liaodong, dragging his feet for half a month, and there was no movement.

In the end, it was Chongzhen's strong order, and the governor Sun Yuanhua begged for good words, and the two had to take military horses to the west from Dengzhou to the west, by land, and to the distant Liaodong.

Ludong's reinforcement army was as slow as a snail, and the border army on the three sides was not much better, and the governor of the three sides, Yang He, finally had some food in his hands, and the Liukou had basically disappeared, and the border army still had some food because of the good, and there had been no mutiny during his tenure.

However, as soon as I heard that I was going to Liaodong to work hard, but I didn't do it anymore, the soldiers were in a hurry, and they asked for military pay before leaving, and the generals said that they couldn't get sick and became turtles with shrunken heads, and their subordinates and officials did not help each other.

Yang He was helpless, and hurriedly reported to the Beijing Division, and finally asked for 200,000 taels of silver from the household department, so that this urgent need was solved.

This back and forth delayed a lot of time, and after getting the silver, the border troops began to slowly assemble eastward and rush to Liaodong.

It was like this, and until mid-August, these two reinforcements were still on the way, and even the Beijing division had not yet been seen, let alone Liaodong.

The imperial court had to issue an order to Sun Chengzong, telling him to guard the city, and as for Da Linghe, let him act with the camera, and if possible, inquire about the battle situation there.

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The main force of Houjin, who stayed in the town of Dalinghe, after harvesting the surrounding grain, had more than enough manpower, and did not wait for the forces of Jinzhou and Ningyuan to turn around, and changed the strategy of only besieging and not attacking Dalinghe, and began to make official moves.

However, Huang Taiji's order at the beginning not only made the generals of Houjin unclear, but also the ancestor of the city, and he couldn't see what this Jiannu leader wanted to do.

Under his orders, the elite of the Eight Banners still kept an eye on the Daling River, continuing to maintain a posture of besieging but not attacking, and the Han people who had finished harvesting the grain put down their sickles, took hoes, shovels, and baskets, and began to dig trenches outside the city of Dalinghe City, surrounding the entire city.

Zu Dashou is not a straw bag, he knows that he can't defend the city, although he doesn't know what Huang Taiji's move means, but he still goes out of the city to harass from time to time as before.

There are a lot of forts outside the city, relying on the high wall and thick walls, although it is only a small fortress, the number is very small, but because it is equipped with artillery, it can also echo with the main force in the city, and then the Jin army only hits the Ming army that withdraws from the attack, to ensure that the Han people who dig trenches are not disturbed, and they do not exert much force, for a while on the battlefield, the Ming army is also fighting impressively, and it does not seem to fall behind.

Although the Ming army was not able to harvest the grain outside the city, the food hoarded in the city was sufficient, and the army's spirit was stable, and there was no intention of surrendering.

Speaking of which, this is due to the slaughter of Amin in the Guannei in the second year of Chongzhen, which made the Ming army feel that they would die if they surrendered, and they would die if they did not surrender.