On August 16 of the fourth year of Chongzhen, west of Dalinghe City, groups of Jurchen and Mongolian sentinels roared back and forth two hundred steps away from the city wall, provoking the Ming army, three miles away from the city wall, countless banners and men and horses covered the earth like a colorful carpet, and the ant-like coat began to camp in the distance, and on the road in the direction of Yizhou, there were endless oxen and carriages.

There were many fires near the city walls and in the hilly areas to the southwest, and in some places there was white smoke from the burning. The construction time of Dalinghe City was tight, and the Ming army had no time to cut down the surrounding trees, so they had to set fire everywhere before the arrival of the Later Jin army, burning the surrounding plants that could be burned, so that the Later Jin army had to go farther to collect firewood, grass and horse feed.

After saying that Zu Dashou said on the west wall of Dalinghe City, he looked at the Jiannu military power in front of him lightly, his heart was actually not too nervous, starting from the battle of Guangning, he participated in the battle of Liaoxi Xiangquan and Houjin, and he was not too afraid of Jiannu when he was in the city.

After the two battles of Ningyuan and Ningjin, he was quite confident in defending the city, in the battle of the entrance last year, the Guan Ning army had several small-scale field battles with Houjin, among which Cao Wenzhao, Liu Xingzuo, Zuo Liangyu and others were not left behind, Zu Dashou himself also ambushed Jiannu twice, and there were small gains, and the generals of the Ming army led the family Ding was also quite elite, and in this kind of small-scale field battles can be evenly matched with Jiannu, and once the battle is carried out, the whole army is often exhausted.

After these few times, he also had some confidence in small field battles, and in the past two years, Jiannu had fallen into the sand three times, and the morale of the Ming army in the entire Liaodong side had been raised, and Jiannu's invincible prestige had been greatly discounted.

Several Mongolian tribesmen held the reins in their hands, stood high on horseback, and were galloping past in front of their eyes, and He Kegang beside him said calmly to Zu Dashou: "Young Master." There are armored soldiers in the formation of red flags, looking in the direction they are facing. Yue Tuo's dog slave wanted to attack the third platform. ”

Zu Dashou nodded, it is very difficult to attack and defend the city, both sides are actually highly nervous, whoever can have a psychological advantage is more likely to consume the other party, so they all hope to give the other party a dismount at the beginning and seize the enemy's spirit, Yue Tuo is also an old opponent, this person is a good hand at fighting, and it is different from the vulgar barbarism of ordinary Manchurian nobles. In Zu Dashou's opinion. He is a more difficult person to deal with than the likes of Mang Gurtai.

Since he has made up his mind to defend the Daling River, he must be willing to pay the capital, and Zu Dashou, the old Qiu Ba, is not ambiguous, and said coldly: "There are less than 1,000 Jiannu who have been arrayed, and Yue Tuo'er is so arrogant. Zu Dashou said to the flag officer beside him: "Let Zu Kefa and Zhang Cunren move." ”

The flag bearer ordered the flag bearer to wave the flag. After seeing the South Gate Yingqi, he hurriedly ran to the female wall, he poked his head out, full of dazzling armor, in the urn city is more than 200 fierce cavalry, led by Zu Dashou's adopted son Zu Kefa, these people are Zu Dashou's family, among them there are also many Mongolians, these Mongolians who enjoy the treatment of the family are not under the Jiannu at all.

The gate of Weng City slowly opened. More than a dozen sentry cavalry rushed out first, spreading out to cover on the left and right, and two hundred cavalry rumbled out of the city, skillfully divided into twenty or thirty people, and began to take the initiative to attack the nearby Houjin sentry cavalry.

Jiannu's sentinels retreated one after another, and the Houjin rear formation reacted quickly. Divided the left and right two cavalry ready to copy the retreat of the Ming army, at this time the south gate of the Daling River also rushed out of a cavalry, it was Ningyuan's deputy general Zhang Cunren led the family ding, they came from the flank, the cavalry on the right wing of the Houjin may be flanked, the Houjin army turned its head to Zhang Cunren and rushed head-on.

A trumpet sounded, the scattered Zukefa cavalry gathered again, Zukefa only dealt with more than 100 people on the left flank of Houjin, both sides were their own elite soldiers, the horse speed quickly increased to the fastest, and the hedge came without flinching, the dense weapon exchange only lasted for a short time, after the two sides staggered, the ground was full of dead soldiers and wounded horses.

The Houjin Great Array did not send reinforcements, but just began to beat the war drums, and a tidal wave of shouts sounded among the surrounding Jiannu army to cheer for their side.

Zukefa shouted loudly, quickly turned his horse's head, and collided with the Jiannu again, leaving a corpse on the ground again, with almost equal casualties on both sides. Zu Dashou's family Ding Biao has a level far beyond that of ordinary Ming troops, in fact, as long as the army in the era of cold weapons is willing to work hard, the casualties will not be too disparity.

The two sides each lost about thirty people, the Jiannu did not dare to attack again this time, Zu Kefa also stopped, the two sides confronted, Zu Kefa looked at the wall, this family is Zu Dashou's elite soldiers, Zu Kefa is worried that the loss is too much.

Zu Dashou and He Kegang were unmoved by the dead and wounded all over the ground, and Zu Dashou was hesitant in his heart, and now he still maintains this evenly matched shape, but Zu Kefa has the advantage in numbers, as long as he forces the other party to withdraw, he will achieve his goal, but then he will need to lose some of the most elite family members.

His face twitched, and he was just about to raise the flag to let Zu Kefa attack again, but there was a burst of earth-shattering cheers on the city wall, He Kegang hurriedly pointed to the left, Zu Dashou hurriedly went to look, but was surprised to see that more than 200 copyists on the right wing of Jiannu were beaten and abandoned their armor and fled in all directions, and Zhang Cunren's family was chasing after him.

He Kegang was surprised: "It must be the Mongolian ministries." ”

Zu Dashou is estimated to be a Mongol, but as long as the enemy runs away, he doesn't care whether it is Zhenyi or not, he turned his head and said loudly to the flag officer: "Let the deputy general of Jinzhou lead the heavy troops out of the city and line up against the wall, ready to meet the cavalry." ”

After the order was handed down, groups of soldiers in black iron armor poured out of the gate of the urn city, and lined up under the city walls.

Zu Dashou saw the banner of the Houjin Rear Formation waving, more than 500 cavalry were mobilizing, and the red flag armor soldiers who began to dismount were also transferred back, the timing was just right, and ordered: "Let Zu Kefa and Zhang Cunren come back!" Red artillery, the general is ready for ammunition! ”

With a sound of gold, the most elite Jiading of the Guanning Army quickly gathered again, and retreated to the west gate, and more than 300 soldiers and horses had rushed out of the Houjin Rear Formation, and the remaining more than 100 Zhenyi on the left flank also closely followed Jiading.

"Tiger!" More than 400 ironclad infantry under the city wall shouted at the same time, and the formation began to move forward slowly, and a solemn aura arose.

Zu Dashou, who has been calm, finally showed a trace of pride in his eyes, which he stole from Wendeng Camp, since last year, there have been many nine-sided generals who have studied Wendeng Camp, but those who can learn that kind of momentum, Zu Dashou thinks that there is only his own family.

The Guanning army has done some homework for the Wendeng battalion, the operations of the Wendeng battalion in Gu'an and Luanzhou are all in plain sight, and there is a lot of information that can be collected, and the Guanning army understands through various channels, knowing that the Wendeng battalion is using Qi Jiguang's method to train the troops, although the generals in Guanning are corrupt, but after all, there is a threat of Jiannu, and it is also very important to save their lives, and it is always good to be able to train the soldiers to be stronger.

Qi Jiguang's military books they all have, the Mandarin Duck Array is not an uncommon thing for them, some generals tried it in their respective armies, and felt that the training difficulty was not low, if they wanted to reach the level of the Wendeng battalion, they would definitely have to give the family treatment, which would inevitably reduce the cavalry in the family, and they thought that in this place in Liaoxi, the infantry was always not as good as the cavalry, and finally most of them gave up.

Zu Dashou was quite concerned about the appearance of the Wendeng battalion, and felt that the Mandarin Duck Array was actually very useful for defending the city and street fighting, and was most suitable for the special defense of Liaoxi, so he trained in the ordinary battalion soldiers, and found that he did not have the spirit of the Wendeng Battalion in Luanzhou at all, and finally transferred the best veterans from his subordinate battalions, and engaged in more than 400 hoplites. It was not easy to feel that it was not easy, he didn't understand how Chen Xin trained so many strong soldiers in Wendeng County, where birds don't.

Zu Kefa is the most capable of fighting among Zu Dashou's nephews, so he is valued by Zu Dashou, even if he is chased behind by the Houjin soldiers, he did not panic, but turned a corner, diagonally to the front of the infantry formation, if the Houjin soldiers continue to follow, they will be in the range of the bird guns of this infantry formation.

Zhang Cunren's men and horses were not worried about being pursued because they had defeated the frontal enemy, and they were being attacked at this time, and the reinforcements of Houjin were still far away, and the Ming army could completely inflict heavy losses on this division before the arrival of Houjin reinforcements.

Zu Dashou's eyes flashed, seeing that there might be hundreds of Jiannu heads, but the chasing army cleverly ran away, two Hongyi cannons and more than ten generals and two generals on the city wall blasted out cannonballs, the sound boomed far and near, and more than ten iron balls smashed near more than 300 reinforcements in Houjin, stirring up the smoke and dust.

After Hongyi Cannon spoke, the Houjin rear formation made a golden sound, and all the cavalry they sent retreated to three miles away, giving up the plan to attack the third platform of Jia, Zu Kefa laughed, and led the cavalry to cut off the heads of the Jiannu people on the ground, totaling more than thirty, Zhang Cunren only killed more than twenty, because those Mongolian tribesmen ran too fast, and their riding skills were too good.

The Ming soldiers carried their heads under the city to show off, and several Mongolian soldiers used ropes to put ropes on the feet of several injured Jiannu, dragged them back and forth behind the horses, and the morale of the Ming soldiers on the city wall was high, cheering them in unison.

He Kegang said to Zu Dashou: "If you can fight and then defend, the morale of Jiannu has been taken, and the last general will assert that Jiannu has to return with a feather." ”

Zu Dashou agreed in his heart that although he was heartbroken by the loss of dozens of elite families, it was worth it compared to the nearby fertile land, and he was already confident of thwarting Jiannu's attack at this time.

Because of the great victory of Shenmi Island, and the evidence that the Beijing Office stole the history of the water palace, Liang Tingdong was not dismissed as the original history, although the construction of the city of Daling River was constantly criticized by the court officials, but it did not reach the point of the court discussion, during this delayed time, a large number of people and oxen and carriages came and went day and night between Jinzhou and the Daling River, Qiu Jiahe, the governor of Liaodong, had to transport sufficient grain to the Daling River in the past, and Liaozhen transferred 3,000 soldiers into the Daling River, and the Ming army invested nearly two cups of soldiers in the original history of the city defense soldiers and horses in the Daling River, And there were also hundreds of ancestral ironclad infantry imitating the Qi family's army.

Later, because of the blow of Shenmi Island, Jin delayed for some more time, giving the Daling River time to complete the construction, and the city defense was more solid than in the original history.

What Song Wenxian and others did in Beijing was a temporary decision, which basically met Chen Xin's overall requirements, but as the initiator, Chen Xin didn't know about it now, and he never thought that the small office he set up in Beijing would actually change the progress of the Dalinghe Campaign, and at this time, he was still preparing according to the original steps. rs