Penghu was fighting slowly, and Yang Tingjian had already waited in the open sea of Penghu with more than a hundred main warships, waiting for Zheng Zhilong's fleet to appear, this time Yang Tingjian planned to deal with Zheng Zhilong's pirate group in one go.

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Since Yang Tingjian hit Huang Taiji hard, in the past year or so, Huang Taiji has indeed converged a lot, and generally does not take the initiative to provoke, because there is no drag of war, and Houjin's strength recovers quickly, especially Huang Taiji launched the Eight Banners to the deep mountains to capture the Jurchens, these people are natural warriors, and their combat power is more terrifying than the mature Jurchens under Huang Taiji.

In order to arouse the enthusiasm of the Eight Banner Owners, Huang Taiji also specially ordered that whoever catches it will be counted, and it is okay to use money and food to lure them to submission. As soon as this order was given, the Eight Banners Banner Master played with all his might in the deep mountains and old forests, and the methods and means were exhausted, just to get more raw girls.

Even Huang Taiji sent his son Haoge to rush into the deep mountains and old forests with more than 20,000 horses, and the footprints of these Eight Banners have reached the central region of the Far East.

These 3,000 miles were not short in ancient times, and the Later Jin built settlements on some transportation arteries, and those submissive tribes were settled in these settlements, which virtually enabled the Later Jin to establish political power in the Far East.

This was one of Huang Taiji's greatest achievements, and it laid the political foundation for China to incorporate the Far East into its territory in the future.

After more than a year of arrest operations, Houjin not only made up for the strength of the three losses of entering the customs, but also strengthened, just when Huang Taiji was about to enter the customs again to take revenge, Daming took the initiative to send it to the door.

The Ming Dynasty began to build the Dalinghe Castle for the third time.

In the first month of the seventh year of Chongzhen, he once again took command of the military affairs outside the Guan, and rushed to build the Daling River for the third time according to the established policy.

After Zu Dashou fled back to the border. After being reprimanded by Sun Chengzong, he returned to Guannai and made meritorious contributions in the battle to recover Yongping, but from then on, Zu Dashou was very careful and never left the barracks alone. For fear of calling the spies of the East Factory to arrest them. This time, the task of repairing the Daling River fell on the head of Zu Dashou.

Yuan Chonghuan had built the Daling River twice, but Huang Taiji didn't let him finish it. Dalinghe City is in today's Linghai City, Linghai City used to be called Jinxian, Dalinghe was called Yushui, Longchuan, White Wolf Water in ancient times, and was renamed Linghe (Linghe) and Dalinghe after the Liao Dynasty. With a total length of 398 kilometers, it is the transportation hub of the Northeast and the Central Plains in ancient times, the Northern Expedition of the Qi State to the Shanrong, the Cao Wei conquest of Wuhuan, the former Yan into the Central Plains, the Northern Qi attack on the Khitan, the Sui and Tang Dynasties to pacify Goryeo, all to the Daling River Valley as the main road for the march.

Linghai City is located more than 30 miles east of Jinzhou. It is an important line of defense to shield Jinzhou. If the Ming army wants to consolidate Liao, it must build this city; Then if Jin wants to attack Ming, he must also demolish this city. Since the time of Yuan Chonghuan, the competition between the two sides for the two cities of the Great and Small Linghe has been very fierce, and it has been two constructions and two demolitions.

Of course, Huang Taiji could not sit idly by and watch the rebuilding of the Ming army, and he immediately requisitioned a large army, including the Mongol soldiers. On the 27th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, it departed from Shenyang. The Liao River was crossed on the day and opened the prelude to the Battle of the Ling River. Before every major war, Huang Taiji has to emphasize military discipline, and this time is no exception.

On the first day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, Huang Taiji set up a feast to entertain the Mongolian troops who came to participate in the war, and then once again declared military discipline. The troops were divided into two routes, one was led by 20,000 troops from Beledeg, Yuetuo, and Azig, and settled between Jinzhou and Daling River through Yizhou, cutting off the connection between Jinzhou and Daling River. Huang Taiji personally led the army through Montenegro and Quang Ninh to press towards Dalinghe City from the front.

On the sixth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the two armies converged under the city of Dalinghe. The Battle of the Daling River began

Although Dalinghe City was destroyed by the Jin soldiers many times, the original wall foundation was still there, so the progress of repairing the city was relatively fast. Taiji didn't give Zu Dashou enough time, and when he cultivated for less than half a month, he came to the city. The city wall has not been repaired, and Zu Dashou has no choice but to close the city gate and rush to the battle.

In the battle of the Daling River in this time, Huang Taiji changed his previous tactics of hard attack to encirclement. He ordered the soldiers of the Eight Banners to dig four trenches around the city, and built a wall more than one zhang high, surrounding the small Linghe City like an iron bucket.

The Ming army never expected that the Jin soldiers would make such a ruthless move, they looked down from the city, and saw: "The reverse slaves surrounded the Ling, dug four trenches in a row, bent and difficult to walk, the equipment was complete, and the plan was the most cunning." "The grain and grass in the city were only enough for a few days, and after a few days of siege, the city ran out of food. The soldiers in the city were all terrified, and Zu Dashou made several tentative breakthroughs, but they were all killed by the Jin soldiers. In desperation, he had to sit in the city of sorrow, looking forward to reinforcements.

In the siege of Huang Taiji, the Ming army in the city can only sit and wait to die, if you want to get out alive, one is to rely on reinforcements to relieve the siege, and the other is to surrender. And when reinforcements come, they must fight with the golden soldiers outside the city.

Huang Taiji was very fond of Zu Dashou, and after ten days of siege, he began to persuade him to surrender. But Zu Dashou was unmoved, and ignored Huang Taiji at all.

After less than half a month, on the 16th day of August, 2,000 defenders of Songshan came to reinforce them, but due to the disparity in numbers, they were defeated by the Jin soldiers without much effort, and the first rescue failed.

The general soldiers Wu Xiang and Song Wei led 6,000 Jinzhou soldiers to the rescue, and Azig led the troops to meet the enemy. On this morning, the fog was so heavy that it was impossible to see people from a few feet away. Azig was rewarded by Huang Taiji for his victory. The second reinforcement of the Ming army also failed.

In the ninth month of the lunar calendar, the Jin soldier sentry reported that the general soldiers Wu Xiang and Song Wei led the troops to help again, and Huang Taiji led the army to meet them. Huang Taiji and his younger brother Duoduo walked in front, marching quietly along the mountain, the Ming army also had sentinels, they found this small force, 6,000 troops covered up, Huang Taiji led 200 personal soldiers around him rushed over, more than 6,000 people of the Ming army were killed by 200 people and could not be defeated, and then the army arrived, and it was a victory pursuit, 6,000 people were defeated and fled. The third rescue failed even worse.

In order to further consume the strength in the city, Huang Taiji took advantage of Zu Dashou's eagerness to wait for reinforcements, and carried out a fake reinforcement, and the Jin soldiers put on the clothes and armor of the Ming army and played the banner of the Ming army, shouting and killing the Jin soldier camp. When Zu Dashou saw it at the head of the city, he was overjoyed and forgot to leave, and immediately led his troops to rush out, wanting to join forces with the outside and highlight the encirclement.

How did he know that Huang Taiji had set up an ambush and was bent on capturing him alive. When he was out of the city and was about to join the reinforcements, the reinforcements suddenly turned into golden soldiers and came directly to him. Zu Dashou was shocked, and then he knew that he had fallen into someone's plan to lure the enemy, and hurriedly retreated. But he was surrounded by the Jin soldiers, but fortunately, his subordinates were extremely brave and fought desperately, and finally they were not captured alive, and fled back to the city in a wolf manner, never to leave the city again. (To be continued......)