When Huang Taiji led the Houjin army to besiege Dalinghe City, the Ming court could not sit idly by, and sent reinforcements to rescue Zu Dashou four times. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The first time was in Songshan's Ming army, although there were only more than 2,000 people, but they also took the risk to attack, and it was normal for the powerful Houjin army to be defeated, which can only sigh that the Ming official army was still bloody.

The second and third times were Wu Xiang with thousands of Guanning Iron Cavalry to help, but was defeated by the Houjin army, and the Guanning Iron Cavalry also lost its combat effectiveness at this point.

The largest reinforcement sent by Sun Chengzong was an army of 40,000 led by Zhang Chun.

Zhang Chunju was born, but he was not a dull scholar on paper, he contributed to the defense of Beijing, and performed well in the recovery of the four cities of Yongping, which was favored by Sun Chengzong, and the Daling River was besieged, Sun Chengzong strongly recommended him to take command, and the imperial court sent him to supervise the army.

On the 27th day of the ninth lunar month of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Chun led the army across the Xiaoling River to Dalinghe City, and met the Houjin soldiers when he was fifteen miles away from Dalinghe City. In order to contain 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 losses, and they failed to rush several times, and the chariot array slowly moved forward.

But the sky was going to perish, so Daming didn't want to leave him a way to live, and blocked the last glimmer of light on the future of Daming in advance. In the early years of Chongzhen, the Jin army transported these red-coated cannons to attack the city, but they did not have any effect when attacking the city, but they were used against Zhang Chun's chariot. Later, the Jin army arranged the cannon in the middle of the road, and when the Ming army entered the firing range, forty cannons were fired successively, 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, and saw that the wind was going east, so he used fire to attack, the fire was fierce, and pounced on the Houjin soldiers, and the Houjin soldiers were forced back by the fire, but the Ming army's position was chaotic, Zhang Chun could not control the situation of the rout at all, and finally encountered the ambush of the Houjin army when retreating, Zhang Chun was defeated and captured, the Ming Dynasty's reinforcements were annihilated, and the Ming Dynasty's reinforcements to the Daling River completely failed.

When Zhang Chu received the report on the Battle of the Daling River, he was very concerned about the defeat of Zhang Chun's chariot, and the Houjin had a powerful artillery and used it in actual combat, and the security army would have to face new problems in the future if it wanted to fight the Houjin army.

In addition to these four rescues, there was another reinforcement that did not arrive that had an even more far-reaching impact, involving many people and changing their fate.

The lives of many people such as Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai at that time, and Kong Youde, a general of the Ming Dynasty, took a big turn. And it was none other than a chicken that caused all this.

When Huang Taiji besieged Dalinghe City, Sun Yuanhua was serving as the governor of Deng and Lai.

Kong Youde was originally a subordinate of Mao Wenlong, after Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong, the old general of Phi Dao mutinied, and Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, took over the rebel generals Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, Li Jiucheng and others of Phi Dao. Kong Youde was appointed cavalry general, and Geng Zhongming was sent to the Dengzhou fortress.

Dalinghe was under the jurisdiction of Sun Yuanhua, and after receiving the news that Houjin was besieging Dalinghe City, he decided to launch a long-prepared offensive against Houjin, and by the way, rescue Zu Dashou who was besieged.

Sun Yuanhua personally designed and supervised the construction of hundreds of warships equipped with artillery, and formed the old unit of Mao Wenlong, who had pirate experience among the Liao people, into an elite marine corps, led by Kong Youde. This time, he urgently ordered Kong Youde to lead his troops to copy Yaozhou, the back road of Houjin, by sea, and decided to surround Wei to save Zhao.

God stretched out his black hand again, Sun Yuanhua's sneak attack plan was very good, and his actions were very resolute, but on the day of departure, a strong wind suddenly blew in Bohai Bay, which is not often subject to strong winds and waves, and the fleet that had just gone to sea was forced to return.

Sun Yuanhua lost his temper with Kong Youde for this reason, and strictly ordered him to lead 800 cavalry to gallop along the land route.

Kong Youde could only be ordered to go on the road with resentment. However, when passing through Wuqiao, the weather went wrong again.

Winter came very early this year, when a rare heavy snowfall suddenly came, and the supplies of the troops could not keep up. The local people also had prejudices against Kong Youde and these Liaodong soldiers, and as soon as they arrived, they closed their doors and boycotted the market, and these Liaodong soldiers were cold and starving, and they complained.

Hungry soldiers looked around for food, and a very hungry soldier snatched an old hen from the domestic servant of Wang Xiangchun, a member of the Donglin Party, and stabbed the hornet's nest at once.

At that time, the Donglin Party was gaining power above the court, and Wang Xiangchun put pressure on Kong Youde to severely punish the soldier. Under high pressure, the soldier who stole chickens was "pierced through the camp with arrows" and publicly humiliated. This incident angered the Liaodong soldiers who had long been dissatisfied and had nowhere to vent, Kong Youde knew that the anger was difficult to commit, and he could not appease the soldiers and could not complete the task, so he finally took the risk to launch a mutiny and led the rebels back to the Shandong Peninsula. Successively captured the four cities of Linyi, Lingxian, Shanghe, and Qingcheng, and led his troops to Dengzhou.

Kong Youde's mutiny had a far-reaching impact, and Dengzhou, Laizhou and Liaodong faced each other across the sea, which was an important stronghold for the Ming Dynasty to prevent the Later Jin. After Sun Yuanhua learned of Kong Youde's rebellion, he immediately transferred troops to quell the rebellion, and the two sides started a melee on the Shandong Peninsula.

Zhang Chu, who was far away in Shanxi, was very concerned about the major events that happened in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, and a few days after Kong Youde launched the mutiny, the news was put on Zhang Chu's desk. Zhang Chu, who knew history, knew that this matter was very important, and hurriedly sent someone to call Zhu Jishi and Guo Xiyuan over.

"Kong Youde launched a mutiny in Shandong, and now he should be attacking Dengzhou City, this is the information collected from all sides, you can take a look. Zhang Chu welcomed the two into the house, and said eagerly before they could sit down.

After reading the information Zhang Chu gave them, Zhu Jishi and Guo Xiyuan didn't understand why Zhang Chu was so concerned about this matter. Although Kong Youde's rebellion had a far-reaching impact on the Ming Dynasty, after all, the Shandong Peninsula was too far away from Shanxi to affect the security army, and the current strength of the security army could not do anything in this matter.

Zhang Chu saw their confused eyes, and said like a god: "This Dengzhou must not be able to hold it, Sun Yuanhua will soon be Kong Youde's prisoner, Kong Youde will not kill him, if Sun Yuanhua, who was released, returns to Beijing, he will definitely be killed by Chongzhen, and Kong Youde will finally vote for Houjin." A chicken actually caused Sun Yuanhua's death and Kong Youde's defection to Houjin. ”

Zhang Chu said so sure of these things that had not yet happened, and after speaking, he waited for Zhu Jishi and Guo Xiyuan to ask questions, and Zhang Chu was ready to explain it to them.

Zhang Chu didn't hear the voices of the two, and raised his head to see the expressions of the two of them as they continued. So they had to ask, "Do you believe that what I say will happen?" ”

"Believe, what do you say we're going to do about this?" Zhu Jishi and Guo Xiyuan didn't doubt Zhang Chu's judgment, they just wanted to know what Zhang Chu was going to do next.

After being with Zhang Chu for a long time, they sometimes really believed the content of the pamphlet made up by Zhu Jishi, thinking that Zhang Chu was not a mortal, and sometimes Zhang Chu's judgment was often very accurate.

Seeing that the two of them didn't ask the reason and only wanted the result, Zhang Chu no longer explained the reason for his judgment, and said directly: "I want to get this Governor Sun Yuanhua of Deng and Lai to our Zhongyang." (To be continued.) )