After that, the Jin soldiers stopped for two days, and the stragglers on both sides harassed each other during the night, and no major battles took place.

The sentinels of Dengzhou said that the Houjin soldiers were cutting down trees from everywhere, and as many as 20,000 or 30,000 people were dispatched, and even Yu Ding sent out to make zuò earthen bags, and the military command department believed that Jiannu would launch an unprecedented attack.

Chen Xin saw that Huang Taiji was really moving, and urgently transferred the 1,000th headquarters of the 1st Battalion to Lushun, and the 1st Battalion and the 1st Guards Battalion were all assembled in Dengzhou, ready to make up for the losses at any time.

All the personnel of Lushun were mobilized, including all the staff in Lushun, as well as the sailors who had non-critical posts on the ship. The Furlong planes on the sailors' ships were also brought ashore and operated by sailors and deployed on the second earthen wall, five of Dengzhou's largest twelve-pounder Red Yi guns were moved to the north wall of Arthur, and the combat engineer company and auxiliaries worked overtime to lay traps and mine guns.

On July 28, before Chen Xin's reinforcements arrived, the Houjin offensive began. After the 80,000 troops in Lushun, the entire Jin army was mobilized, and breakfast was raised before dawn. Such offensive preparations could not be concealed from the opponent, and the town of Dengzhou, which had been monitoring the opponent, immediately informed the armies, and the Lushun defense line sounded a clarion call, and the auxiliaries and firefighters also began to cook rice to cope with the offensive of the Houjin soldiers.

Chen Xin stayed in the north gate tower of Lushun, got up immediately after getting the alarm, the Chinese army blew the suona, several chief officers quickly came to the city tower to meet, Chen Xin divided the defense line into three sections, arranged for Liu Pojun to be in the north gate of Lushun to control the overall situation, directly manage the first division of the guards, as the reserve of the first line, Dai Zhenggang stationed on the left wing, under the jurisdiction of the second battalion of two thousand headquarters, one thousand auxiliaries, one of which is stationed in Xiguanshan, Zhu Guobin guards the middle road earthen wall, under the jurisdiction of the fourth battalion of infantry thousand headquarters, Lushun garrison, combat engineer company, 1,000 auxiliaries, Zheng Sanhu guards the right wingUnder the jurisdiction of the third battalion of two thousand headquarters, one of the divisions is stationed at the Golden Mountain. Dragoons garrisoned the second earthen wall line. The cavalry battalion is under the jurisdiction of Chen Xin and is the general reserve.

Several people knew that today would be a big battle, and after talking, they saluted each other and hurried to their respective defense areas. Chen Xin delegated all command to several battalion officers. He led the guards to Xiguan Mountain.

Everyone on the defense line was busy, groups of 10,000 enemies and thunderbolts were transported from the rear, and the auxiliaries were distributed to each section of the earthen wall, and bamboo baskets were placed on the anticline of the earthen wall. The soldiers who had finished their meal shouted their trumpets and went to the front. Officers at all levels were giving lectures to the soldiers in place, and some non-commissioned officers were setting up anti-arrow curtains, and there was a tense atmosphere.

When we reached the top of the mountain, it was not yet dawn, and the Houjin camp north of Lushun was full of lights. Stretching out far away, like the stars in the sky, there are bursts of horns in it. It shows that the Houjin soldiers are already gathering troops.

Chen Xin quietly looked at the sea of lights in front of him. Puffs of cooking smoke rose and drifted into the air, casting a hazy veil over the enemy camp. That is his biggest enemy, but also his biggest pressure, although the development of Dengzhou Town is now smooth, but the strength is far from being unshakable. The advantage of knowing history is sometimes a kind of inner trepidation. He doesn't know if the prophecy on the back chart is unchangeable, and if it can't, then he must be the loser.

The future is always in a fog, like an enemy camp in the smoke of a cooking stove in front of us. It always seems to be visible, but it can't be seen clearly. He can't say this kind of pressure to people, even if Liu Min has it, he hasn't mentioned it, Chen Xin has imagined countless endings in his heart, and there are countless possible variables, the biggest possibility is that he himself was killed by a cannonball from nowhere, and then Dengzhou Town disintegrated, turned into a cake divided by bureaucrats at all levels, and finally disappeared into the unspoken rules of the Ming Dynasty, and it is very likely that it will even become a chaotic army. So when Liu Min reminded him to keep Dengzhou Town united, he subconsciously agreed, if Dengzhou Town is always cohesive, in addition to the binding of interests, it also needs a successor who can achieve consensus, and when he has an accident, he can continue to maintain the stability of the main body and avoid fragmentation.

Chen Xin turned to look to the east, the junction of the sea and the sky appeared white with a fish belly, and the morning sun was about to rise......

In the thin morning light, the Houjin soldiers in the distance came out of the camp one after another, and the flow of people flowed into the sea of people outside the camp, and countless shield carts came to the front line under the impetus of the coat, looking down from the top of the mountain, like countless moving toys, they changed their previous practices, and groups of shield carts moved along the foot of the northern mountain to the direction of the Golden Mountain, and the follow-up echelon was directly arrayed on the southern slope of the big and small lonely mountains.

Under the command of various banners, the Houjin soldiers spread out along the defense line of Lushun, starting from Xiguan Mountain in the west and reaching the Golden Mountain in the east, discharging a long formation, the dense shield vehicles were like a moving wooden wall, and the various departments also discharged the follow-up echelon, which could be seen very clearly from Xiguan Mountain, and it could be seen that they would launch a continuous attack.

"My lord, they are indeed going to attack on all fronts." Dai Zhenggang said quietly after reading it with a telescope.

Chen Xin breathed a sigh of relief, although he had prepared early, but in the face of so many Houjin soldiers, the feeling was still very shocking, and the fact that Houjin was able to organize such an offensive also showed the effectiveness of their conquest system, although it was very primitive.

"Huang Taiji is still more careful, you look at the location of the two yellow flags." Chen Xin pointed in the direction.

Dai Zhenggang raised the telescope to look over, the yellow flag is under Xiguan Mountain, they are coming to the foot of the mountain, the yellow flag is in the direction of the Golden Mountain, they also have a small number of shield cars in front of them, but it is obviously not a posture of strong attack, after a few days of night attack, the fool also knows that he can't beat down Xiguan Mountain with a flag, not to mention the Golden Mountain, they are just pinning down the defenders of the two mountains, and there will be no fierce attack and defense, and the most tragic battle will only be in the middle.

Dai Zhenggang was reminded by Chen Xin, carefully observed the deployment of the Houjin flags, the two wings were two yellow, from the west were two white flags, black flags, Mongolian left and right wings, two red flags, two blue flags, most of the Manchurian soldiers were in the rear, the front was the Mongolian and Baoyi in different clothes, and the strangest thing was that there was a yellow inlaid man and horse in the middle of the black flag.

"My lord, there is a yellow flag in the middle, could it be Hauge?"

Chen Xin looked at it for a while and shook his head, where could he guess, he turned his head to the adjutant behind him and said, "Bring that Buck Mountain." ”

Buck Mountain, who had a broken leg, was locked up in the barracks outside Shuicheng, guarded by the Intelligence Bureau, and several guards soldiers quickly carried him over, Chen Xin had already met him once, and reassured him, Buck Mountain was very respectful when he saw Chen Xin now.

Chen Xin handed over the telescope, pointed to the yellow flag in the middle and asked, "Who will be the yellow flag in the middle?" ”

Buck Hill cautiously took the telescope. I was startled at a glance, and it took me a while to get used to this artifact, and after looking at it for a while, I said, "About five or six Niu Lu, it must be Abatai's." ”

Buck Hill explained to the two in detail. In fact, it was Abatai's self-managed cattle record, Abatai was the first to inlay the white flag, there were six self-managed cattle records, and Huang Taiji changed the color of the flag. He became a yellow flag, the owner of the flag is Haoge, this time Huang Taiji in order to show that the two yellows did not evade responsibility, so he followed Mang Gurtai's words. Backed Abatai in the middle.

Abatai also has bitterness and can't say, Houjin has three kinds of cattle recording system, namely self-managed cattle records and public cattle records. Coated cattle record. The self-management of the cattle is governed by the nobles themselves. For example, Azig, Sakhalian, Dege, Dudu and others who are not the banner owners, they all have their own Niu Lu, and the same is true for each Qigu Mountain, even the Houjin Khan cannot be deprived at will, even if there is a mistake that needs to be confiscated, it is also adjusted between their own traditional relatives and friends, Mang Gurtai was fined two Niu Lu in Daling River. It is handed over to his younger brother of the banner, Dege, and will not be directly punished to the two yellow flags of Huang Taiji, which is the consistent rule of Houjin and one of the foundations of the Eight Banners system.

Under the system of partial private ownership of Niu Lu, Huang Taiji cannot be completely selfless, and the struggle is very fierce, just like Azig and Dolgon with white flags, although Dolgon is the banner owner, but he usually can't control Azig's self-managed Niu Lu, the strength of the two is actually comparable, even Mang Gurtai is so rough, usually he can't take the blue flag and some Niu Lu, the Derge class and Gushan Ezhen in the flag, they have a few self-managed Niu Lu. This kind of private ownership is like the family of the Ming army. In the face of the more corrupt Ming army, everyone's casualties are not big, but there are a lot of benefits, there are not many times to play tricks, many times they are still fighting to fight, in order to obtain military merits, and now against the strong Dengzhou Town, the disadvantages of the Houjin system began to appear, Abatai is to bear the losses on behalf of the two yellow flags, and in fact, the core strength of Huang Taiji has no loss, and can seal the mouths of other flag owners.

Chen Xin and Dai Zheng just listened, they were a little disdainful of the primitive tribal system of Houjin, Dai Zhenggang shook his head again and again, he really couldn't understand why the Ming army would be defeated in front of such a tribal army.

The three Hongyi cannons next to them began to roar, facing the targets below, the accuracy of the Hongyi cannons that had already been calibrated was acceptable, and they could always hit a few people each time.

This casualty is not even a fur for the base of more than 70,000 in the Houjin, and the great qi of Huang Taiji appeared at the foot of the Beishan Gang, and the Houjin soldiers of each department withstood the artillery fire on the mountain and entered their respective attack areas, and the Houjin army broke out like a tsunami.

Chen Xin sent away Buck Mountain and said to Dai Zhenggang beside him: "Jiannu is desperate, I want to go back to Lushun Nancheng to sit in town." Just as you want to defend the left flank of the earthen wall, Xiguanshan can give up as a last resort, and the artillery fire of the Houjin soldiers is not strong, the key is the city and waterway of Lushun. ”

"My subordinates understand."

Chen Xin turned around and went down the mountain, checking the defensive preparations along the way, Chen Xin did not raise the flag, and the soldiers did not notice that he was passing by. The instructors of all the departments were talking, and the soldiers cheered passionately from time to time, and the most excited were the auxiliaries.

Most of them came from the original Dongjiang Town, when Chen sometimes and others left, after several screenings, the soldiers were cleaned out, and most of the rest were ordinary soldiers, after recruiting a group of tunhu in Dengzhou, the total number of 4,000 people, organized into four auxiliary soldiers and 1,000 headquarters, a small amount of training was mainly aimed at discipline and defending the city. They usually farm, and when the farm is not working, they dig trenches, in addition to taking care of food and housing, only five yuan of silver, and the part of the auxiliary soldiers from Dengzhou is given priority to the land in Denglai, which is cultivated by the family. Chen Xin's promise to them was to give each household 100 acres of land after recovering Liaodong, which was where their hope lies.

The people left behind in Dongjiang Town have a deep enmity with Jiannu, and they are instigated by the instructor every day to maintain their hatred. Although Chen Xin didn't give much, it was better than before without food or clothing, and Chen Xin also gave an upward channel, so that they could enter the soldiers with excellent results, and there was a realistic hope.

They also knew that today was a big battle, and they shouted loudly, and even Chen Xin was infected by them, and felt bursts of blood surging on their heads.

Chen Xin followed the defense line on the southern slope to the foot of the mountain, entered the earthen wall from the passage by the sea, and soon came to the north wall of Lushun and saw the busy Liu Pojun.

Chen Xin came to Liu Pojun's place and erected his own banner, Liu Pojun was the chief of staff in this battle, Liu Pojun stayed in Lushun for a year, Chen Xin believed that he would be more professional than himself......

After the completion of the Jin soldiers' formation, the horn outside the city of Lushun sounded the flag like the sea, the big drum under the big drum of Huang Taiji at the foot of the North Mountain, the whole army of the Houjin broke out like a sea tide of shouts, the sound shook the four fields, the sound wave hit the ear drum, the momentum was extremely amazing.

Chen Xin nodded to Huang Side next to him, Huang Side immediately asked the flag bearer to wave his chief instructor to recognize the flag, and the instructors scattered in various departments organized Dengzhou Town to sing the Dengzhou military song, and the singing gradually sounded, from the messy at the beginning to the chorus of 10,000 people.

"The yellow sand is reckless and does not see anyone, but when I hear the sound of battle, the rain of bullets and bullets is shocked, and my soldiers are full of anger and darkness, and they are shocked and frightened! Fight a hero's tears and sprinkle blood on the battlefield...... Sacrifice this shell to dry the city for our country; There is death in life through the ages, how can you be a soul! The name of the body is still listed, and the bones are rotten and the blood is still chime! Why not be afraid of arrows like rain, and the mighty pressure is collecting dust. ”

The majestic military song sounded, and the collective burst of power infected every soldier, Chen Xin nodded slightly, and sang in a low voice with the soldier excitedly. The neat organization overwhelmed the chaotic and grand roar of Jiannu, and the hoarse howl in the Houjin array for a while, but it could not cover the neat voice of Dengzhou Town, the military song of Dengzhou was clearly audible on the battlefield, and the majestic momentum of more than 10,000 people firmly suppressed the Houjin army. In the end, the voice of the Jiannu Great Array gradually subsided, and only the Dengzhou military song resounded on the battlefield.

Huang Taiji looked at the Lushun defense line standing in front of him with a complicated expression, he had seen the tenacious small city of Changli, he had seen the bloody battle to the last man Xiping Fort, and he had seen the Sichuan army in the bloody battle of the Hunhe River, but he had never seen such a momentum in front of him, although it was just a song, but the will it conveyed seemed so strong, which contained a lot of efforts behind it, and he even doubted in his heart that he would not be able to capture this fortress no matter what.

"Great Khan...... It's time to attack. Yue Tuo's reminder next to him came.

Huang Taiji closed his eyes for a moment, he knew that his determined will had been shaken by a song, although it sounded bizarre, but it was the truth. When he reopened his eyes, that firmness came back to him.

"Let's go."