Emperor Chongzhen figured out the situation of the thieves in Shanxi through Jinyiwei, and the aggressive emperor directly issued a battle order to Hong Chengchou. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Hong Chengchou had no choice but to mobilize an army to prepare for an attack on Wang Ziyong, the most powerful of the rebel army.

Wang Ziyong sent Wei Xue to Zhongyang to buy weapons in order to protect himself, Zhang Chu saw Wei Xue and talked about his theory of making money, Wei Xue didn't want to refute anything, the most important thing now is to find a way not to be eaten by the official army, and only by living can he be qualified to speak. Wang Ziyong was elected as the leader of the alliance by the righteous army, and now has an army of more than 100,000 people, which seems to be huge, but most of them are dependent hungry people, without armor and weapons, and can only be cannon fodder when fighting. So I had to endure the pain and take out the silver to buy weapons from Zhang Chu, but fortunately, Zhang Chu was very businessmanlike, and basically formed a fixed price in many transactions with everyone, and rarely took advantage of the danger of people to sit on the ground and start the price. As long as you have enough money, you can get a weapon that you are satisfied with.

After a few days of calm, the war in Shanxi and Henan resumed. Hong Chengchou understood that this time the emperor was staring at himself, and he didn't dare to slack off a little when he worked, plus the goal was clear, the emperor said when he would eliminate Wang Ziyong, so the effect of the attack was quite good. Wang Ziyong had never seen the official army attack so hard, so he had no choice but to use the old method, leaving the old and weak to escape. Although Hong Chengchou did not catch Wang Ziyong, he also achieved brilliant results and completed the emperor's task on time. Emperor Chongzhen was very happy and found that he was still very talented, but with such a simple command, the officials were obedient and dedicated to their work and won the victory of the thieves, and he saw the hope of exterminating the thieves. At the same time, his favorability and trust in Jinyiwei increased, and he ordered Cao Huachun to arrange manpower to continue to collect intelligence from Shanxi, and under his own guidance, the suppression of the thief rebellion was just around the corner.

The development of history is sometimes very strange, the demise of the Ming Dynasty is a very unreasonable thing, no matter from the financial and military strength of the entire Ming Dynasty is stronger than the rebellious displaced people, but also stronger than the bitter cold land outside the Houjin. But at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court was always stuck in a two-front battle that could not be taken care of. As soon as Chongzhen felt that he was going to quell the thieves who were in turmoil, something happened that gave him a headache, and Huang Taiji led his troops to attack the important strategic node of the Ming army to defend Liaodong, Dalinghe City.

There was no city in Dalinghe, because the strategic location was important, the Ming army hoped that there would be a city there, and the Houjin did not want a city to appear there, in this case, Dalinghe City came and went like that. As early as when Yuan Chonghuan was the superintendent, he had twice rushed to build Dalinghe City, and Huang Taiji sent troops to attack and won the final victory, and Dalinghe City was finally demolished by Huang Taiji.

After Jin joined Kou Jingshi, Yuan Chonghuan paid the price of his life because of his five years of Pingliao's words. Replacing Yuan Chonghuan in charge of Liaodong affairs was the old minister Sun Chengzong. Sun Chengzong was very loyal to the emperor and had strong ability, in the later period of King Qin, Sun Chengzong reorganized his troops and horses, recovered the three cities of Yongping occupied by the Later Jin army, and also picked up a Luanzhou that was burned into a scorched earth by Zhang Chu in vain, and stabilized the defense line of Liaodong. In January of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Sun Chengzong decided to send troops to rebuild Dalinghe City, which caused a series of major events.

Some of the things that happened in the four years of Chongzhen were directly related to the rise and fall of Wang Ming of the Ming Dynasty. These events were not very important at the time, but they were an important turning point in the fall of the Ming Dynasty.

The general sent by Sun Chengzong to restore Dalinghe City was Zu Dashou, Zu Dashou was famous enough in the late Ming Dynasty, if you want to make people more memorable, he can also have a relationship with the historical celebrity Wu Sangui, but their relationship is a bit complicated and needs to be carefully sorted out. Zu Dashou married Wu Sangui's aunt. Wu Sangui's father, Wu Xiang, married Zu Dashou's sister. Zu Dashou is Wu Sangui's uncle and part-time uncle, Wu Xiang is Zu Dashou's brother-in-law, and similarly, Zu Dashou is Wu Xiang's brother-in-law.

Zu Dashou was originally under Yuan Chonghuan, and he also followed Yuan Chonghuan when he entered King Jingqin. However, as soon as he walked halfway, he heard the news that Yuan Chonghuan was arrested and imprisoned, which frightened Zu Dashou and fled from Shanhaiguan with his soldiers, and later returned to the imperial court after Sun Chengzong's strong persuasion. Sun Chengzong knew that Zu Dashou had strong combat effectiveness, so he sent Zu Dashou to do the matter of rushing to build Dalinghe City to compete for strategic points.

Zu Dashou's combat effectiveness can refer to Cao Wenzhao on the battlefield in Shaanxi. Cao Wenzhao took more than 1,000 Guanning iron cavalry in Shaanxi and Shanxi without encountering the security army, and he did many times to chase and kill tens of thousands of thieves with more than 1,000 cavalry, and each time he won the victory. Cao Wenzhao relied on more than 1,000 Guanning iron horses that entered the customs with him. And Guan Ning Tieqi has tens of thousands of people under Zu Dashou.

Zu Dashou received an order from Sun Chengzong in January of the fourth year of Chongzhen, led more than 30,000 people to set off, and began to build Dalinghe City in the ice and snow despite the cold weather. Although Yuan Chonghuan's first two repairs to the city failed, and the city walls were demolished by Huang Taiji, he also left the foundation of the city wall for Zu Dashou. Zu Dashou spent half a month building the city wall of Dalinghe City on the foundation of the original city wall.

It is a pity that God only gave Zu Dashou half a month, and when Zu Dashou was preparing to further build the defenses on the city wall, Huang Taiji arrived with several times the Houjin soldiers of Zu Dashou. Zu Dashou could only order the city to retreat into the city and hold on.

The battle at this time fully exposed the weakness of Houjin's ability to attack fortifications. In the face of the newly repaired Dalinghe City with incomplete defense facilities, the Houjin army attacked many times but could not capture it.

Huang Taiji changed his strategy when the siege was unfavorable and used an extremely vicious move. Huang Taiji ordered people to capture the surrounding people, and drove the people to dig trenches around Dalinghe City to prepare for a long-term siege. At this time, Zu Dashou couldn't sit still, they didn't bring much grain and grass to repair the city, and more than 30,000 people in the city only had a few days of grain and grass. Zu Dashou was unwilling to sit still, and led his troops to charge several times but failed to break out of the encirclement.

Huang Taiji ordered people to persuade Zu Dashou to surrender, and Zu Dashou resolutely refused to surrender.

Huang Taiji is very cunning, sent people to pretend to be the reinforcements of the Ming army, deceived Zu Dashou out of the city to respond, when the two armies were about to meet Zu Dashou only found out that he was deceived, the soldiers and horses led suffered heavy losses, and returned to the city with the remnants of the army, so that the real Ming Dynasty reinforcements arrived, Zu Dashou did not dare to go out of the city to respond.

This siege besieged Zu Dashou for more than three months, and more than 30,000 people were besieged in the lonely city with a few days of grain and grass for three months, and they ate up everything that could and could not be eaten in the city. By the end of the battle, there were only about 13,000 people left in the city, and the rest were either starved to death or eaten.

The result of the battle ended with Zu Dashou being starved and unable to surrender, a person who was starved and lived by cannibalism and held on to the lonely city for several months, and finally surrendered really has nothing to blame. And Zu Dashou successfully deceived Huang Taiji after surrendering, saying that his wife and children were in Jinzhou City, and while Jinzhou did not know that he had surrendered, he was willing to take a group of soldiers and horses to Jinzhou, and take Jinzhou City as an internal response in the city. Huang Taiji agreed to let Zu Dashou go to Jinzhou City.

As soon as Zu Dashou returned to Jinzhou City, he organized a defense against the Houjin army.

This time Emperor Chongzhen showed a rare generosity, the governor of Liaodong Qiu Hejia to the imperial court to participate in Zu Dashou led a team to surrender the city, Emperor Chongzhen not only did not surrender, but promoted Zu Dashou to the governor of the left capital, leading Jinzhou. Zu Dashou has since stayed in Jinzhou for nearly ten years.

In this battle, the Ming Dynasty not only failed to rebuild the city of Dalinghe and lost the strategic location, but also lost tens of thousands of the most elite Guanning iron cavalry in the border army, and at the same time was frightened by the Houjin army, and never dared to confront the Houjin army head-on.

The impact of this campaign was also manifested in the blow of the Later Jin army to the Ming reinforcements. (To be continued.) )