From the siege of the sixth day of the eighth lunar month to the false reinforcements of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, Dalinghe City has been besieged for forty-eight days, and the city has long been out of food. A merchant named Zhang Yifu who escaped from the city said: "In the city, they first killed war horses and ate horse meat, and when the horses were almost killed, they began to eat people, of course, first the unarmed city builders, and also those soldiers who starved to death. Only a few high-ranking officials still have one or two liters of rice. The history of the city is "boiling bones and dissecting remains, unheard of in ancient times." "What does it mean, it is to use human bones as firewood, cut off human flesh and roast it and eat it? The whole city is full of human remains, burning human flesh everywhere to eat, at this time the Daling River has become a living and gloomy underworld in broad daylight.

On the 7th and 9th of October in the lunar calendar, Huang Taiji successively sent a letter to Shuzu Dashou, He Kegang, and deputy general Zhang Cunren, urging them to descend quickly. But he was still rejected by Zu Dashou. At this time, more than 30,000 people in the city had starved to death, and more than 10,000 had died, but Zu Dashou and the army had persevered. The most direct reason was the massacre of the city by Amin. He Kegang thinks: surrender is also death, not surrender is also death, rather than surrender and be killed, it is better to starve to death, starvation can also leave a good reputation of loyalty.

He Kegang also believes that Huang Taiji is a person who has no great ambitions, and he has already entered Gyeonggi, but he has withdrawn back, and he has no ambition to dominate the world at all. The purpose of the Jin soldiers' conquest is nothing more than one word "robbery", which is no big difference from the robbers who occupy the mountains as kings, and such people who surrender will never end well in the future. He Kegang's point of view was unanimously agreed by everyone, which was the most fundamental reason why the Ming army insisted on not surrendering in a desperate situation.

In this regard, Huang Taiji personally wrote to Zu Dashou, he explained: "In the past, it was true that the Liao people were killed, and I deeply regretted it, we had not done that for a long time. As for Yongping's massacre of the city, it was done by Erbel Amin, and he was also severely punished for this, I hope you will not have this prejudice. But Zu Dashou and others still didn't believe it.

The 24th day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar. Reinforcements from the Ming Dynasty of 40,000 men finally arrived. Leading this force was Zhang Chun, the superintendent of the army. Zhang Chun, born in the four cities of Yongping, stood out for Sun Chengzong, and this time the Daling River was besieged. Sun Chengzong strongly recommended him to be in command, and the imperial court sent him as the supervisor of the army. On the 27th day of the ninth lunar month in 1631 (the fourth year of Chongzhen), the army crossed the Xiaoling River and approached the Dalinghe City, and met the Jin soldiers when it was fifteen miles away from the Dalinghe City. In order to restrain the cavalry, Zhang Chun used many chariots, which were equipped with firearms, and the battle between the two sides began, and the Eight Banners suffered some losses. After several unsuccessful attempts, the chariot array slowly moved forward.

The Jin soldiers already had the powerful red-coated cannon, and they were in the middle of the avenue at this time, waiting for the arrival of the Ming army. When the Ming army entered the firing range, forty cannons were fired one after another, and the camp of the Ming army was in chaos at that time, Huang Taiji led the army to rush up, and the Ming army was killed and retreated. Zhang Chun saw that the situation was not good. When he saw that the wind was blowing eastward, he attacked with fire. The fire was fierce and rushed towards the Jin soldiers, who were forced back by the fire. The defeat was like a mountain, Zhang Chun wanted to curb the rout, but it was useless, and in the end, even he himself was swept into the tide of defeat and retreat.

Huang Taiji had already laid an ambush on the way to the retreat of the Ming army. When the fleeing Ming troops encountered an ambush, most of them gave up resistance and chose to surrender. Zhang Chun and more than 30 of his generals were captured alive, and the commanders Wu Xiang and Song Wei only escaped with a few dozen people. The army of 40,000 reinforcements collapsed, and since then, the imperial court has never sent reinforcements. The fourth reinforcement was almost completely annihilated.

The two sides of Ming and Jin killed earth-shatteringly. But Zu Dashou did not move in the city, did not reflect at all, some history books say that Zu Dashou was scared of the fake reinforcements called Huang Taiji, and he couldn't tell whether it was true or false, and he was afraid of being fooled again. The city has been without food for nearly two months, and everything that should be eaten and everything that should not be eaten has been eaten, and there is nothing left to eat except people. Zhang Chun was defeated again, and Da Linghe was completely in a desperate situation.

More than 5,000 Qi soldiers who took the initiative to rescue Zhang Chun were also surrounded on a small hillside by the Daling River.

(Falling leaves write about this great army, hoping that the brothers can like it - the heroes who died for the Chinese nation are immortal, and the soul of the Qi family army lives forever.) ）

In the seventh year of Chongzhen, a small hill thirty miles west of Dalinghe New Town in eastern Liaodong;

The air is full of fog, occasionally a few times the sun pierces the sky, obliquely to the ground, the ground is full of corpses of the Ming army, there are also countless corpses of Tartars and horses, stumps and broken arms, disemboweled, this is hell on earth, even the air is wafting with a strong smell of blood, blood flows like a stream to the foot of the mountain.

"General Qi Shao is about to wake up, and the Tartars are attacking again." A soldier shouted while shaking Qi Haoxuan who was fainting on the ground.

Qi Jin's eldest son, Qi Haoxuan, opened his hazy eyes and looked at the people in front of him, looking at the flesh and blood battlefield around him like hell on earth, full of dead corpses and stumps and severed arms in ancient armor, as well as internal organs that had been disemboweled.

Qi Jiajun was originally to assist Wu Sangui in defending Jinzhou, but when the news of Zhang Chun's defeat came, Jinzhou was terrified, and no one dared to rescue Zhang Chun. Qi Jin took the initiative to go to Sun Chengzong to ask for help, and went alone to rescue the defeated Zhang Chun.

Huang Taiji previously sneered at this army of less than 5,000 people, thinking that sending 3,000 cavalry could easily wipe out this Ming army, but the 3,000 cavalry suffered heavy casualties, and they were not able to eliminate the Qi army, which caused Huang Taiji's great attention, the Jurchens were originally few, if the morale was lost, it was definitely looking for death, saying that if the Ming army suddenly appeared a particularly capable force, it was impossible for the eloquent Huang Taiji to let him slip out of his hands, so as not to raise tigers, and the tiger army had already made Huang Taiji frightened.

Huang Taiji left Dolgon to lead an army of 70,000 to continue to besiege Zu Dashou, and he personally led 50,000 elite cavalry to attack a mere 5,000 Qi family troops. In the previous battle with 3,000 Tatar cavalry, although more than 2,000 Tatar cavalry were annihilated, his own casualties were not small, with nearly 1,000 dead and wounded.

The 50,000 elite cavalry of the Tartars rushed straight in, and Qi Jin seized a small hill nearby under the construction of Qi Haoxuan, with a slope of less than 100 meters and a slope of about 30 degrees, but finally there was a little geographical advantage, which could slow down the charging speed of the Tartar cavalry, and the cavalry without speed had no advantage in front of the Mandarin Duck Formation. After three days and three nights of bloody fighting, the arrows of the Qi family army were exhausted, and the twelve artillery pieces were discarded when they seized the small hill, because the Tartars did not have gunpowder and cannons, so they were useless.

Qi Haoxuan didn't have time to think about it, the desolate horn of the Tartar sounded into the sky, and the carnivorous Hai Dongqing hovering in the air was also frightened by the desolate horn and fled far away.

"Brothers, copy the guys, follow me" There was no need for Qi Haoxuan to shout, all the movable weapons were picked up and went to meet the enemy.

Tartars poured in from all directions, and under the urging of the desolate trumpet, they pounced fiercely on the hill, and the galloping momentum of ten thousand horses was breathtaking, and the ground shook violently. (To be continued......)