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Huang Taiji led troops to surround Jinzhou, this time in Jinzhou Zu Dashou did not panic, the imperial court got the information in advance this time to Jinzhou to transport grain and grass, finally did not have to starve, and the court promised to immediately send reinforcements to Jinzhou, which made Zu Dashou have great confidence in holding Jinzhou. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Jinzhou City Daming has been in business for many years, the city is high and deep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, Huang Taiji also understands that it is not easy to conquer such a city, so he adopted a siege strategy for Jinzhou.

Huang Taiji was not in a hurry to attack, he was more concerned about the reinforcements of the Ming army, once the Ming army left the city, they did not dare to fight the Houjin army at all. Therefore, the Houjin people not only surrounded Jinzhou City, but also crossed Jinzhou and established a defensive line south of Jinzhou, waiting for the Ming army led by Hong Chengchou to come to help.

Hong Chengchou received the holy decree of Emperor Chongzhen and hurried to the outside of the pass, gathered nearly 100,000 Ming troops, these Ming troops are the last mobile force of the Ming Dynasty's national defense, Hong Chengchou knew the strength of the Houjin people, led the army to fight steadily, slowly advanced to the Songshan area in the south of Jinzhou, and formed a confrontation with the Houjin army.

In this battle, the Ming army showed rare courage and won many skirmishes with the Houjin people, which made Huang Taiji very depressed, how the Ming army was different from before.

In order to discourage the morale of the Ming army, Huang Taiji ordered the brigade of the Houjin army to launch an attack on Songshan, where Hong Chengchou was stationed, and Hong Chengchou realized the importance of firearms in the process of repairing them back and forth by Zhang Chu. Desperately set up a firearms battalion and a special artillery battalion in their own ranks, and when the Houjin army attacked on a large scale, the firearms battalion showed its might, and the guns fired in unison, repelling several attacks of the Houjin people. The Ming army, including Hong Chengchou, seemed to see the hope of defeating the Houjin people, and the morale of the Ming army was greatly boosted for a while.

Huang Taiji couldn't help but frown a little in the big tent when he received the report of the battle situation ahead. This Hong Chengchou is worthy of fighting for many years, and he really has a clear eye when he fights, and it is not a way to waste it like this.

At this time, Fan Wencheng walked in and said, "Your Majesty is still worried about not being able to capture Songshan?" ”

"Tens of thousands of troops are gathered here, and the daily consumption is very huge, and we can't hold on for a long time." Huang Taiji understood that the soldiers of the various banners he brought with him were okay to fight with the wind, but if there was no progress for a long time, all kinds of dissatisfaction would arise.

"Your Majesty, don't worry, we already have a way to break through Songshan." Fan Wencheng said.

It turned out that a general of Hong Chengchou's army took refuge in Houjin and offered that the place where the Ming army hoarded grain was in Bijia Mountain. Huang Taiji, a veteran on the battlefield, naturally did not let go of this opportunity, and immediately sent Aji to lead troops to attack Beacon Mountain, burning the grain and grass of the Ming army, and the grain and grass were destroyed, and the Ming army was in chaos.

The generals of the Ming army on both flanks of Hong Chengchou abandoned their commanders and fled, and the news reached Songshan, and most of the Ming troops in Songshan also fled. Hong Chengchou held on and did not retreat, he knew that as soon as he retreated, the entire defense line of the Ming army would collapse, and he was ready to reorganize his troops and horses and fight a decisive battle with the Houjin people. Huang Taiji did not give Hong Chengchou a chance to breathe, and led his troops to surround Songshan, Hong Chengchou was in a situation where there was no food and grass inside and no rescue troops outside, and Hong Chengchou organized many breakthroughs that ended in failure. In the end, Hong Chengchou was defeated and captured, and the Ming Dynasty's operation to reinforce Jinzhou was a complete failure, and the troops led by Hong Chengchou were either killed or surrendered, and the last elite division of the Ming Dynasty was also lost.

Huang Taiji wiped out the reinforcements of the Ming Dynasty and turned back to continue the siege of Jinzhou, believing that Zu Dashou would run out of ammunition and food one day.

The news of the defeat of the Ming army reinforcing Jinzhou was transmitted back to the Beijing Division, Emperor Chongzhen really wanted to cry without tears, for this operation the emperor made a bloody investment, not only transferred all the elite forces of the Ming Dynasty, but also contributed food and money. Hong Chengchou's defeat can be said to have ruined all the Ming family.

The defeat of the Songshan army Hong Chengchou's life and death is unknown, the Ming army is no longer able to send reinforcements to Jinzhou, once Jinzhou is lost, the Houjin army can take advantage of the victory to attack Shanhaiguan, and the Houjin people break through the pass again and enter the Jingshi area is only a matter of time.

Seeing that the tragedy of the last time Houjin entered the Koujing division was about to happen, Emperor Chongzhen and the ministers were panicked now, and it is difficult to say whether the Houjin people entered the Koujing division again and could not defend it now. This time, there is really no team that can go to King Qin.

"What to do? What to do? What do you say? Emperor Chongzhen was angry and angry in the court. He no longer cared about the image of the emperor, got up from the dragon chair, and walked around in front of the dragon book case.

Naturally, the ministers would not touch this moldy head, and one by one they lowered their heads almost into the crotch of their pants, and no one dared to speak out.

"Waste, a bunch of waste." Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but speak ill of him.

"You say how to repel the Houjin army, if you can't say that this court meeting will not disperse, you all have to find a way for me here." After Emperor Chongzhen finished speaking, he sat back on the dragon chair angrily.

"Otherwise, we will invite General Zhang Chu back and let him attack the rear of the Houjin people, so that they will not dare to go south." Chongzhen's ministers stared at the court for a long time, dizzy, empty stomachs and weak legs, and some of the elderly ministers were even more shaky, and they were about to fall on this court. At this time, a young imperial historian who had just qualified to be at the bottom of the seat couldn't hold on anymore and stepped forward to say his thoughts.

As soon as the ministers heard this, they knew that this must have stabbed the hornet's nest, and they had already thought about letting Zhang Chu send troops, but there was no money for Zhang Chu to send troops, it was really a fool's dream.

"Can Tobe Shangshu still get money?" Although he knew that there was no hope, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but ask.

"No, not at all." Tobe Shangshu said with a crying voice.

"Can anyone figure out a way to find the money?" Emperor Chongzhen asked helplessly.

The ministers' heads were lowered, and they were all about to lie on the ground.

"I've got a way." Emperor Chongzhen suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and then said: "All the ministers of the court and the central government have donated money to fight against Houjin, and this matter will be handled by Wen Shoufu, and the silver must be scraped together within three days." Keeping the Ming Dynasty, you also have glory and wealth, and the Ming Dynasty is gone, and your lives are not guaranteed. ”

"Commandment. Wen Tiren sighed that the emperor's brain was opened, and this salvation could be carried out by the ministers' donations. At the same time, I also knew that I had taken on another hot errand.

Wen Tiren still tried his best for the emperor, and the donation to save the country was well known in Beijing. Wen Tiren also took the lead in donating 10,000 taels of silver, and he hoped that other ministers would learn from him how to donate 10,000 taels of silver, and that hundreds of officials in the DPRK and China and a large number of imperial relatives should have no problem donating a million taels of silver in the end.

Unexpectedly, the ministers who usually have fine clothes and food began to cry poor at this time, many of them not only donated dozens of hundreds of taels of silver, but also took out the tattered things at home to sell, and some even shouted to sell the houses in the house, saying that they could not survive.

This huge donation activity for saving the country ended in less than two days, and Wen Tiren only received more than 100,000 taels of silver for the emperor.

This is really a drop in the bucket, and it is even more difficult to use this little money to buy that money-hungry Zhang Chu. (To be continued.) )