After arriving at the Daling River, most of the Han slaves who were captured by the Jin people were gathered here, and it was obviously more convenient to find people, Liu Cai and Nannan both felt that this was a good opportunity, so Zhiwen in addition to doing logistics in the morning and evening, the rest was to find people with Nannan.

It's still the same as in Jinzhou, and they can find people to disperse in their own groups, but their grandparents, because no one has seen them, and the Wang father and daughter can't help, so they can only rely on themselves.

Zhiwen walked around with his Nannan, wearing Mongolian clothes and armor, and did not arouse suspicion, Zhiwen Mongolian spoke very slippery, even if he was a Jurchen, he could also speak a few words, and when he met a Mongolian or even a Jin person, he thought that the two of them were the descendants of a certain tribal leader, and they didn't look very old, so no one would ask them to work.

"No, you don't." After drinking the water, Nannan's mood was obviously much better, "Dalinghe was completely besieged by the Jin, and I don't know how long the Ming army can hold on, if the action is slower, maybe the city is broken, we haven't finished the place yet, so let's hold on." ”

Nannan's worries are not unreasonable.

With the completion of the trenches and earthen walls, there were also trenches dug one after another, and the Houjin army faced the direction of Dalinghe City, forming a defense system with depth, and Dalinghe became a completely isolated city, and the surrounding mounds were also cut off.

To be honest, the area around the Daling River at this time does not look like an ancient war scene at all, but is somewhat similar to the trench battlefields crisscrossed in the later world wars.

At this time, Huang Taiji finally showed his killer weapon - Wuzhen Chaoha and his artillery team.

Wuzhen Chaoha is an army composed of Han soldiers selected by Huang Taiji, specializing in the newly built artillery, to put it bluntly, it is the artillery newly formed by the Later Jin.

After successfully harvesting the grain, the initial results of the southward expedition to the Ming can be regarded as realized, and next, Huang Taiji naturally wants to take the Daling River as the goal, and the newly built artillery as the guide, and sharpen the ability of the Houjin army to attack fortifications.

This time, there are three Hongyi cannons that were built in Dalinghe this year, and were named the Hongyi cannons of the general of Tianyou Cheering as the main force, in addition, there are more than 20 old cannons captured from the Ming army.

Subsequently, Wu Zhenchaoha pushed the cannon and began to pull out the various trenches outside the Dalinghe City one by one, and for a time the cannons rumbled, and the smoke and dust were billowing out, because most of the trenches were outside the trenches, and the Ming army in the city had nothing to do.

At this rate, at most half a month, the periphery of the Daling River can be cleaned up, and when the time comes, it will depend on how long the Ming army in the city can hold out.

That's why she braved the heat and the threat of shelling in the city, and traveled everywhere.

It was precisely because he wanted to find relatives and friends that Zhiwen temporarily extinguished the idea of secretly breaking into the camp of Houjin Khan alone and making trouble with Huang Taiji.

Later generations' understanding of this period of history, coupled with the actions of the Later Jin Dynasty witnessed in recent years, Zhiwen believed that Huang Taiji was a real man of great talent, and it was unlikely that the Later Jin would have entered the Central Plains without him.

Although it was Dolgon who led the troops into the customs and laid down the Beijing Division, it was the foundation laid by Huang Taiji during his lifetime, and Dolgon alone could not do this step.

As for Nurhachi, who was boasted of his bravery, he just had a set of wars, and in his later years, he estimated that his brain was wrong, and he blindly slaughtered the Han people in Liaodong, so that the Houjin industry withered, if he died a few years later, maybe the Jin country he founded with his own hands would be so poor and die of poverty.

It was Huang Taiji who came to power and stopped his Amma's tyranny in time, began to reuse the Han people, and invited the people of the Han people in Liaodong to buy, which saved Houjin.

It can be said that without Huang Taiji's foresight and the successive attachment of the Han people in Liaodong, it would be impossible for Jianzhou Nuzhen to replace the Han family.

With this understanding, Zhiwen naturally wanted to take this opportunity to put Huang Taiji to death and strangle the vigorous Houjin in the cradle.

As long as Huang Taiji died, Houjin would inevitably fall into chaos, and the siege of the Daling River would most likely collapse, and the Ming Dynasty would be able to get a good chance to breathe, and the Zhuolu Trading Company would naturally be able to develop calmly in the grassland, so that it would not be a trip to Liaodong in vain.

It's just that as soon as this person dies, if Jin and Meng withdraw their troops because of this, it will not be easy to find someone again, so Zhiwen temporarily released Huang Taiji and his horse.

Of course, Zhiwen didn't tell anyone about the idea of assassination, if he let others know, Tai Ban would probably oppose him to take the risk, especially Nannan, it is the best choice to forbear, and tell them when the matter is completed.

"Okay, let's go." Zhiwen put away the water bladder and was about to lift his feet, when a dull sound of firecrackers suddenly sounded in his ears, followed by a strange whistling sound.

Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at the head of Dalinghe City, where a circle of white smoke rose.

"Be careful!" Zhiwen hurriedly hugged Nannan and jumped into the trench at his feet.

This is the Ming army in the city shelling outside the city, these days Zhiwen they are walking around outside, and they already have a lot of experience.

"Bang!" With a loud bang, a black solid cannonball fell, shaking the ground a few times, and then rolled towards Zhiwen and them, and after breaking through the foundation of the earthen wall that had been laid, they were stopped by the first trench and hung on the trench and no longer moved.

The trench is narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, just enough to block the shells from falling into the ditch.

With the continuous construction of earthen walls and more and more trenches, it is difficult for cannonballs to pose a threat to Houjin, unless it is a person who is really unlucky and is hit by the cannonball.

However, the earthen wall here has only just laid the foundation, and if you are lucky, the cannonballs may fall between the trenches and kill and injure the people in between, so it is the right thing to do if you jump into the trenches in time like Zhiwen.

"Okay, right?" Nan Nan stretched out his head from Zhiwen's arms, poked out of the trench, saw the black ball that was still dripping and spinning on the first trench, and spit out the floating soil in his mouth, "The Ming army only dares to hide in the city and set off artillery, and it is boring." ”

This kind of scene, the brother and sister have experienced a lot together, not to mention Nan Nan at the beginning, even Zhiwen was a little frightened, no matter how high his martial arts are, he is also afraid of kitchen knives, let alone cannonballs, although it still looks very backward, but it can still kill and hurt people all the way.

However, after seeing more, they got used to it, and they mostly walked behind the third trench, so it was not easy to be hit, and if they jumped into the ditch in time, they would be even more fine.

"Mouse!" Nan Nan screamed, broke free from Zhiwen's embrace, and chased after a small black shadow in the ditch.

It's just that it was soon in vain, in addition to them, there were many people in the trench, who couldn't run at all, and the small body of a mouse jumped three times and two times, and soon disappeared.