When the Wendeng camp went down to the Ming camp at night, the Chinese army hung three lanterns high, and it was not covered with black cloth, which seemed to be very indifferent to the Jiannu of Jinzhou. The Houjin soldiers did not attack at night, and they were safe until dawn.

Early in the morning of the second rì, the drums of the Wendeng camp continued, and the neat formations of soldiers left the camp one after another, lined up a mile away from the city wall.

Outside the north camp wall, there was a group of black presses, a total of five hundred, and they were divided into ten small piles and sat on the ground, each with fifty cents, devouring the steamed cakes in their hands, and when they heard the movement behind them, they all looked around at the four-pounder cannons that had been pushed by the grunt.

These are the Lushun military households mobilized to the city yesterday, some of them have participated in the Liaodong raid, and they are considered to have combat experience, they are all Liaodong Han people, and they have a deep hatred with Jiannu, and when they had no food or clothes to wear, they also had to follow Mao Wenlong to break the attack, and by the way, they fought the autumn wind.

In their eyes, this group of Ming troops from Dengzhou was strong, well-equipped, uniform, and very strong in marching, unlike all the Ming troops they had seen before. Although they couldn't tell how they felt, they finally knew that they were a rare strong army, and they were very confident in their actions, and they didn't seem to take the war with Jiannu seriously at all. So these bitter haha thought that maybe they could really win the Jiannu in Jinzhou, so they gritted their teeth and signed up as auxiliaries for food, and were led by some Wendeng soldiers to do chores, and the momentum on the march was like a rainbow, until the arrival of the Houjin cavalry.

When they fought yesterday, they had been at the back of the southern slope, and they heard the movement on the other side of the mountain, especially after the Houjin soldiers began to blow the conch and trumpet, the fear of the Houjin soldiers formed in their hearts for many years came up, and many of them wanted to flee for their lives, but there were dozens of Wendeng soldiers guarding, threatening those who wanted to escape with knives and guns, maintaining these fragile nerves.

After only a while, someone came in to inform them to clean up the battlefield, and there was the scene that Zhong Laosi and they saw.

Wen Dengbing's combat power made these into the admiration of the city, yesterday to the city, came to some instructors said that the reward for the city, as well as the temptation of priority recruitment in the future, these Dongjiang soldiers have signed up to participate in the battle of the city, a total of five hundred, among which the strong ones wear armor in front, they get weapons and armor, and suddenly feel that they are very powerful.

After Zhao finished preaching, Zhong Laosi walked in front of the two piles, and these hundred entries would attack the city in the area he was covering, and he would give a briefing to these entries. In front of him, a group of Dongjiang soldiers were wearing clothes that had just been plucked from the corpse of the Houjin soldiers yesterday, some snatched robes, some snatched underwear, and there were all kinds of flowers and greens, very similar to the beggar gang meeting. They sat on the ground and stared at Zhong Laosi curiously, very curious about this kind of pre-war briefing.

Seeing their jet-black faces and cord-like hair, Zhong Laosi suddenly remembered that he was like this five years ago, and it wasn't until he threw Chen Xin for a bowl of porridge by the Tongzhou River that his life changed. This group of soldiers fought bravely on blood, and they were thin and weak in battle, and their combat skills were mediocre, and they would be easily killed. Zhong Laosi didn't agree with sending them to the battlefield at this time, but he himself was still in the demote probation stage, and there was no way to build a lawsuit for Shangguan.

"You want a thousand things." Zhong Laosi said, "It is to climb the cloud ladder to the city wall, when you ascend the city, our white spoon artillery and musketeers will support you under the city, there are six battle flag teams under the city, as long as you occupy a small section on the city wall, the soldiers behind will rush up." Then you follow the soldiers to attack the towers, and then you have to open the gates, don't run around, you must remember to attack the gates......"

A quarter of an hour later, the ten doors and four pounds of the three thousand headquarters began to roar at the same time, and the three-pound iron bullet had no lethal effect on the city wall, and it was only a shallow pit when it hit it, but the momentum immediately came up, and the figure of the Houjin soldiers could not be seen on the city wall after changing the loose bullets.

Dozens of shield carts creaked slowly towards the south gate, pushing them white spoons were more than two hundred Houjin coatings.

There is no unified system for these shield cars, and when those Wendeng soldiers let them make zuò, they told sù these coatings, and whoever made the shield carts of zuò would push them themselves, so the coaters did not dare to be a little sloppy when they worked overtime, and gave full play to their ingenuity and came up with countless reinforcement methods, so as to give themselves a little more chance to survive, and the most creative Jingran paved a layer of soil on it. But what they didn't expect was that the strongest ones were arranged in the front row, and the slightly worse ones were arranged in the back row, providing cover for the musketeers, and the danger was greatly reduced. Sometimes it's not good to not understand the purpose, and it's not good to take it too seriously.

Behind the twenty shield carts in the front row were the Dongjiang soldiers carrying picks, which were filled with dirt, and behind the second row of shield carts were hundreds of musketeers drawn from the 4,000th headquarters, who would cover the Dongjiang soldiers who were filling the trenches.

Seventy paces away were the armored Dongjiang soldiers, they were divided into fifty into a team, each team with three ladders, this simple ladder had no equipment to cover approaching, only on the top of the iron hook, which could be hung on the battlements to prevent being knocked down by the defenders. There was also a bracket in the middle to support more entrants and climb the ladder, and they would start attacking when the moat was filled. In the last row were six warrior killer flag teams, commanded by Dai Zhenggang himself, who would immediately climb the city wall to support whenever they had the opportunity.

The front shield cart creaked, and soon came to the edge of the trench, and the rear shield cart stopped ten paces away, and a dense group of musketeers flashed from behind, aiming their guns at the wall.

Jinzhou originally had a wide moat, one zhang seven feet deep, six zhang five feet wide, but after the occupation of the Houjin Dynasty, the surrounding smoke was extinct, the number of Houjin soldiers stationed was not much, two or three hundred Baoyi had to feed the horses and farm, unable to maintain the moat, under the collapse of many years and the impact of rain, the moat became only as wide as it used to be, and many of them were blocked, and the water in the moat was only a few feet.

There are four gates in Jinzhou, the layout of the city is the same as most of the Ming Dynasty cities, the two main streets run through the north and south and the east and west four gates respectively, the main attack of Wendeng camp is the south gate, this gate is called Cheng'en Gate, and the city gate of many cities has the same name.

The Dongjiang soldiers who filled the trench shouted, flashed out from behind the front row of shield carts, and rushed to pour the earth and stones into the trench, and then went back to pick the second batch, and the more than 200 coats also began to run back, and they also had to participate in the work of filling the trench.

Hearing the movement at the head of the city, some figures came out, pulled out their postures and prepared to open their bows, hundreds of muskets under the city fired at the same time, the dense gunfire was deafening, the city plate at the head of the city was beaten to the ground of broken stones, several archers were hit, struggling to disappear on the city, the panicked cries of the Houjin soldiers sounded, and the musketeers who finished the shè immediately retreated, and the shield cart was replaced by a new batch of guns.

"Each stares at the city disc opposite, don't let you in, look at those who dare to take the lead, every time a Wu Qi shè, don't let it go." Zhong Laosi walked back and forth in the shield workshop, taking the opportunity of the artillery stop to remind the captains.

The reserve battalion had a thousand headquarters and a thousand into it, with only four hundred spearmen, and six hundred musketeers divided into three rounds, alternately covering those soldiers who filled the trenches.

After more than an hour, the moat was filled in with enough width, and the Dongjiang soldiers in the rear howled loudly and swarmed with ladders.

Chen Xin calmly observed the city wall a hundred steps away, his eyes were full of white smoke after the gunfire shè, and his vision was a little blurred, but he hadn't seen a shadow of the city for a while.

The Dongjiang soldiers have rushed through the moat, and hung the ladder hook on the city plate, the city is actually quiet, Chen Xin's heart is sweating, he doesn't know what the Houjin soldiers have, these Dongjiang soldiers are very desperate, and they will become firm soldiers after training, and Chen Xin does not want them to die in the siege battle.

The first batch of Dongjiang soldiers began to climb the ladder, Chen Xin's heart was unconsciously nervous, although he had fought a lot of battles, but every time it was time for battle, his feelings would still fluctuate.

The first Dongjiang soldier approached the city, and the soldiers under the city let out a cheering sound like cháo, only to see him stop at the mouth of the saucer, and then jump into the city with his sword.

Zhao Xuan shouted at a military judge not far from Chen Xin, "That's the Lushun soldier I mobilized, his name is Liu Liu, he is still wearing the jacket I gave him, he is the only one left in the whole village, he dreams of killing the Tartars, you have to remember that he was the first to enter the city, don't be mistaken!" ”

The second and third soldiers all jumped on the city wall, the city was full of joy, but there was no sound of fighting at the head of the city, Chen Xin didn't know what tricks Jiannu was playing, and when his mouth was dry, a Tang horse ran at high speed and reported loudly: "Zhu Guobin, the commander of the cavalry battalion, reported that the Yong'an Gate in the north was wide open, and hundreds of Jiannu fled on horseback, and some escaped on foot, and the cavalry battalion and sentry cavalry were pursuing. ”

Chen Xin's heart was relieved, after these Houjin soldiers were defeated yesterday, they should have been frightened, maybe the generals were worried about being punished, but they still held on for a while, and now seeing that the Wendeng camp was really attacking the city, they finally couldn't help but escape.

He hurriedly sent the Chinese army's own Tang Ma to deliver a message to the front, looked at the climbing figures, and muttered: "Good luck, after training, you will not die so easily." ”

"Liu Pojun!" Chen Xin shouted loudly.

"Here, please give me the command." Liu Pojun, who was more cautious, came over......

"You lead my guards and the rest of the Chinese light cavalry, scout along the Red Mouth Fort, and return to the Guifu Fort, the time shall not exceed three years, and a small group of enemy troops can attack, and a big enemy will be withdrawn."

Liu Pojun looked up in surprise, he was still in a state of guilt, and his prestige in the army plummeted, so Chen Xin arranged for him to lead the troops again. Immediately, he understood Chen Xin's intentions, and at present, only these colleagues in the Chinese army who get along day and night can still listen to his command with peace of mind, which is also to give him a chance to restore his prestige.

Liu Pojun lowered his head and said excitedly: "My subordinates thank you for your trust." ”

"Pick a few guides who can ride horses in those military households in Lushun, they will work, this time use rangers to break through the enemy's territory, you have to remember not to fight, whether you hit or not, it is a blow and retreat, come and go like the wind is the purpose of the ranger, listen to the opinions of those veterans before acting."

"Subordinates understood!"

"You go and prepare immediately, you bring a few more horses to transport beans from the horses captured yesterday, usually walk more, maintain horsepower, and show those Jiannu how powerful."

Liu Pojun saluted vigorously and turned to leave.

"Wang Mafu, send Tang Ma to the west bank to see if the fleet has arrived, if you arrive, let all the ships above the wave boat unload the grain and grass, and after getting off, all the ships will go north along the west bank, go around the coast of Fuzhou, and return to the northwest of Fuzhou to insert a row of stones, and moor Niangniang Palace to wait for orders." ……

In the city of Dalinghe, there is a scene of ashes and ruins, Zu Dashou's face is thin, the food in the city is exhausted, since the middle of February, the soldiers have begun to eat meat to satisfy their hunger, first eat the civilians who died of hunger, then eat the hungry faint, and then search for the merchants who are hiding.

There is no firewood in the city, there are no fruits and vegetables, a large number of scurvy, the original total of more than 40,000 soldiers and civilians in the city of Linghe, now there are less than 15,000 left, a large number of Jīng Rui in Liao Town was trapped in the city by several trenches, the remaining 15,000 into the middle, can still go to the city to fight less than 5,000, of which there are less than 3,000 family members and soldiers. The ancestral army, which was once strong and strong, now doesn't even have the ability to go out of the city to fight.

In the distance, the earthen city of Houjin is still standing, and since the siege of the city, the reinforcements that Zu Dashou has been looking forward to have never appeared, not even the messenger. The unchanged scene outside the city made Zu Dashou frown deeply, originally thinking that the Houjin soldiers would not be able to bear the difficult transportation in winter and withdraw, but they actually surrounded a winter.

"Father-in-law, Huang Taiji has written again." Zu Kefa's voice sounded, and Zu Dashou looked at this righteous son, who was originally tall and mighty, but now he was a little unsteady when he walked, and his eye sockets were deeply sunken. The arms bulged, revealing the half-cut arms.

Zu Kefa saw Zu Dashou looking at his arms, looked down at his hand and exposed it, and stuffed it back casually.

"What are you talking about?"

"It's still those words, all the generals are promoted to one level according to their original rank......"

"His official functions of Jiannu are the same as those of the Ming Dynasty, what Huang Taiji gives is just a name, and the power of the Tartars is in the hands of the banner master, so it is useless to make you a marshal."

Zu Kefa said in a low voice: "But if you go down any longer, you won't even have to eat the meat, and yesterday you have already started to eat the thin soldiers in the camp." Huang Taigu seems to be unable to leave without consuming us to death, there is no order to enter the camp, and we will have to come a few more ......."

Zu Dashou also knew that it was the truth, Huang Taigu had invested so much, but he didn't get the results, if he didn't return at the last moment, it would undoubtedly be a fatal blow to his prestige. If there were no more reinforcements, Zu Dashou would only have to take the road of surrender, even if he was unwilling in his heart.

"What does He Kegang say now?"

"It's still said that you can't be reduced to a slave, yesterday I met a general mention and was cut by him."

Zu Dashou's eyes were dark, he asked Zu Kefa to come over, and said in a low voice: "You prepare some family members, let them eat enough, and ask He Kegang to ...... at noon tomorrow."

Outside the city, there was a sudden sound of trumpets and cannons, and a family member next to him said loudly: "Look at it, the sweat banner of the Tartars is out of the camp." ”

Zu Dashou immediately stopped, walked to the side of the city, only to see that two miles away Houjin's Zhijin Khan Banner was out of the camp, the drums and trumpets of each camp were continuous, most of the Gushan Banner and the main flag were moving, and the movement of shouting horses and neighing could be heard far and near.

Zu Kefa said excitedly: "They are going south, most of the soldiers have been transferred, it must be Sun Dajin who sent an army to save us, we have been saved." ”

Zu Dashou nodded again and again, and he was also very excited, after Zu Kefa finished calling, he turned his head and asked: "Father-in-law, you said that I should prepare some family members, but I haven't said what to do." ”

"Well, nothing, wait a minute."