Chapter 188: Siege and Rescue

Not to mention half a month, even if it is a month's money and food, under normal circumstances, Song Yi should be able to take it out. Question, the Ming Dynasty is not normal up and down, is it? Now Song Yi has grain in his hands, isn't this a bumper harvest. The question is, whether he is willing to cheap Kong Youde, and whether he is willing to give this grain. Song Yi still has a layer of scruples, that is, he can't offend Zhang Yao and Chen Xie.

With such an abacus, Song Yi was unwilling. Fortunately, Sun Yuanhua also knows the trick of this, as long as he prepares half a month's food, Sun Yuanhua still has some money and food in his hands, and it is even sufficient. Didn't he build a city or cast a cannon, and the governor had a lot of silver in his hand.

A meeting broke up like this, Sun Yuanhua left Kong Youde, explained it, and allocated some silver to him, so that he could prepare without mentioning it. Kong Youde had no choice, so he had to pinch his nose to prepare. He really doesn't want to go, Houjin is not easy to fight, he knows this too well. Let him take 3,000 people to fight Yaozhou, but the number of war horses in his hand is not much, and it is estimated that he will not be able to come back if he goes.

This seems to have nothing to do with Chen Xie, but it is not. Chen Xie already knew the general process of this matter, so he naturally had to make some arrangements. Taking the sea route from Dengzhou to Yaozhou is actually very troublesome. First of all, you have to have a boat, and there are small-scale sailors in Dengzhou, which is not a problem. Then there is the preparation of money and food, and the assembly of soldiers and horses.

The Ming Dynasty's armies were slow to assemble, with the exception of Chen Xie's private army. Let's put it this way, the Ming army is a more diligent unit if it is done every three days. Kong Youde's army, even if it is a three-day exercise. Other Ming troops. The five-day exercise is diligence, and the ten-day exercise is the norm. Once a month, it's not new. It would be a joke to expect such an army to fight.

Kong Youde also spent a Mid-Autumn Festival in Dengzhou, sent someone to buy wine and meat with silver, and invited his soldiers to have a good meal. Then began to prepare for departure, first to concentrate the ships, and then to pay for the food. It took a long time to get to the end of the month, and it took half a month to set off. Sun Yuanhua didn't see this thing, and turned a blind eye. Expect people to go to war.

But what happened next. Sun Yuanhua was very annoyed. Half a month after Kong Youde sent troops, he came back. What's going on? He said that he encountered a storm at sea, and all the money and food were lost, and the war horses were also lost. There were only eight hundred cavalry left. This incident made Sun Yuan angry. Pointing at his nose and scolding for a long time.

Next. Sun Yuanhua still didn't let him go, and continued to go again, this time there was no boat. You go by road. Sun Yuanhua still had some silver in his hand, and asked Zhang Yao to help him raise half a month's military rations, and asked Kong Youde to lead more than 3,000 people to reinforce Liaodong. Because Kong Youde lacked horses, Sun Yuanhua also deliberately allocated some silver to Li Jiucheng and asked him to buy horses.

At the end of September, Kong Youde hit the road again, and at this time, Zu Dashou's side was about to die.

Huang Taiji did not forcibly demolish this time, but was ready to encircle the point and send reinforcements. He ordered the Eight Banners to dig four trenches around the city, and built a wall more than one zhang high, surrounding the small Linghe City like an iron bucket.

The Ming army never expected that the Jin soldiers would make such a ruthless move, Zu Dashou and He Kegang looked down from the city, and saw: "Reverse slaves surrounded Ling, digging four trenches in a row, bending and difficult to walk, complete with equipment, and the most cunning." "The grain and grass in the city were only enough for a few days, and after a few days of siege, the city ran out of food. The soldiers in the city were all terrified, and Zu Dashou made several tentative breakthroughs, but they were all killed by the Jin soldiers. In desperation, he had to sit in the city of sorrow, looking forward to reinforcements.

Huang Taiji has always wanted to recruit Zu Dashou, and he is very sincere. After ten days of surrounding, he sent someone to persuade him, this is Fan Wencheng. At this time, Zu Dashou's department had actually run out of food, but Zu Dashou and He Kegang did not waver. No matter what Fan Wencheng said, he didn't have the slightest intention of surrendering. Fan Wencheng returned with a feather, and Huang Taiji sighed and ordered to continue the siege.

At this time, it was seen that Sun Chengzong was reckless in this city building operation, such a heavy military operation, when Zu Dashou's department came to Houjin, he only had a few days of grain storage. This joke is really too big.

On August 16, Matsuyama reinforcements arrived, and the number was only 2,000, and I really couldn't understand how such a stupid decision could be made. Gather the army beforehand, and no one will die. As a result, it is conceivable that without much effort, the Songshan reinforcements were used as snacks, and it was not enough to plug the gaps. On August 26, the Jinzhou soldiers arrived, but they didn't fight much. Because of the thick fog, Azig didn't bother much, and the Ming army retreated.

In September, in the third rescue, a mythical story occurred that Huang Taiji and Duoduo led two hundred post-Jin troops and defeated six thousand Ming troops. Okay, the two generals, Wu Xiang and Song Wei, are not very good, but I still think that this is a mythical story. Because the name of the person who told this story was Yan Chongnian.

The third rescue failed, and it was only thirty miles, from Jinzhou to the Daling River, which was insurmountable.

What happened next was miserable, really miserable. There is no food to eat, there are more than 30,000 people in Dalinghe City, what should I do? Cannibalism! This is the true thing, the soldier eats the people. has come to this point, and the sincere Huang Taiji's persuasion to surrender has still been rejected repeatedly. Just don't agree, don't surrender alive or dead.

Huang Taiji saw that he could not persuade him to surrender, so he engaged in a fake reinforcement scheme. Zu Dashou was fooled, and when he came out, he saw that he was surrounded. This Nima is in trouble, what should I do? Hit! Guan Ningjun is not a vegetarian, so he beat him out like this, and then hid back in the city, and then he didn't come out alive or dead. Even if reinforcements came, they wouldn't be dispatched.

Then Huang Taiji continued to surrender, Zu Dashou came up with a new idea, how about we talk about peace? If it doesn't work out, let's talk about it first.

On the 24th day of the ninth lunar month, the reinforcements of 40,000 people of the Ming Dynasty finally arrived. Leading this force was Zhang Chun, the superintendent of the army. Zhang Chun, born in the four cities of Yongping, stood out for Sun Chengzong, this time the Daling River was besieged, Sun Chengzong strongly recommended him to take command, and the imperial court sent him as the supervisor of the army. On the 27th day of the ninth lunar month in 1631 (the fourth year of Chongzhen), the army crossed the Xiaoling River and approached the Dalinghe City, and met the Jin soldiers when it was fifteen miles away from the 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 some losses, and they rushed several times without success, and the chariot array slowly advanced.

The Jin soldiers already had the powerful red-coated cannon, and they were in the middle of the avenue at this time, waiting for the arrival of the Ming army. When the Ming army entered the firing range, forty cannons were fired one after another, 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 when he saw that the wind was going east, he used fire to attack, and the fire was fierce, and he pounced on the Jin soldiers, who were forced back by the fire. The defeat was like a mountain, Zhang Chun wanted to curb the rout, but it was useless, and in the end, even he himself was swept into the tide of defeat and retreat. Huang Taiji had already laid an ambush on the way of the retreat of the Ming army, and most of the fleeing Ming troops gave up resistance and surrendered when they encountered ambushes. Zhang Chun and more than 30 of his generals were captured alive, and the commanders Wu Xiang and Song Wei only escaped with a few dozen people. The army of 40,000 reinforcements collapsed, and since then, the imperial court has never sent reinforcements.

Just when everyone didn't have any hope for Da Linghe, Zu Dashou ran back to Jinzhou, and he was escorted by the Houjin army. Only before that, Zu Dashou killed He Kegang because he opposed surrender. And Zu Dashou's plan to get out must be seamless, so it can only be said that he is very helpless. The sincere Huang Taiji was deceived, and the deceiver Zu Dashou did not come out when he entered Jinzhou. Huang Taiji led his troops to ask for an explanation, and Zu Dashou answered him with a cannon.

"In the battle of the Great Ling River, the people in the city cannibalized each other, and the Ming people still defended to the death, and the city was surrendered." -- "Manuscript of Qing History".

The construction of the Daling River failed, the war came to an end, and Huang Taiji won again.

The Ming government's practice on this issue is consistent and it will be held accountable. This time, the person in charge was Sun Chengzong. The old gentleman went home again to care for the elderly, and in general, Sun Chengzong still had a good result. But the more heroic things of the old gentleman happened in the later history.

Kong Youde's march can be said to be very slow, slow and outrageously slow. Well, it's snowing. At this time, Kong Youde had no intention of rebelling, but when he walked to Wuqiao, something happened.

It's about a chicken!

Kong Youde's army discipline is very ordinary, and the people of Shandong look down on the Liaodong military Han. There are constant problems along the way. When we arrived at Wuqiao, the problem came again.

"The people in the county are all closed doors. There was a soldier who forcibly took Wang Xiangchun's family servant as a member of the Shandong Wang clan and the Donglin Party cadre (called "Langli Baitiao" in the "Donglin Point General Record"), and the Ding was "pierced through the arrow camp". So the soldier killed the servant, and afterwards the son of Xiangchun refused to give up and demanded to find out the truth. At this time, Li Jiucheng, who had spent all the money given by Sun Yuanhua, was returning from the city, and he was afraid of being criticized, so he took the opportunity to incite everyone to rob and mutiny. ”

It's ridiculous, just for a chicken, let a soldier parade with an arrow over his shoulder. And then this led to a series of consequences, but what is even more ridiculous is that the people who paid for these consequences are half of the people of Shandong.

This incident is known in history: Wuqiao Mutiny!

Kong Youde's idea is very simple, make some trouble, and then wait for the opportunity to recruit An. But the next process of development is not under his control. Li Jiucheng's father and son quickly overthrew Kong Youde and led the mutiny.

Linyi, Lingxian, Shanghe, Qingcheng and other counties were successively captured by the rebels, burning, killing, looting, raping and plundering, and doing all kinds of evil. This kind of evil reached its peak when it arrived in the new city, slaughtering the city!

After the incident, the entire Shandong officialdom was in chaos, and Governor Yu Dacheng was "sick"! The other officials also pretended to be deaf and dumb, and no one came up with a solution anyway, and no one thought of a solution to this problem. (To be continued......)