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In Songshan City, the torches reflected the entire city in the morning. Zu Dale stood at the top of the city, his eyes dazed in a daze. The fighting in the daytime seemed to still echo in his mind.

Hong Chengchou swore a swearing battle on July 26th, and arrived at Songshan City the next day. He formed camps in the north of the city, between Rufeng Mountain, and established seven camps, with cavalry stationed on the east and north sides of Songshan.

The fiery red battle flags were waving, and they could be seen in Jinzhou City, and their morale was greatly boosted for a moment.

At this time, the Qing army was divided into three groups, besieging Jinzhou and resisting the Ming army. There were also two yellow flags led by Huang Taiji as the main force, and the Wu Zhenchao Ha soldiers led by King Sanshun as the auxiliary, but they still did not go south in Shenyang City.

The Qing army had few major generals and their morale was frightened. Although Yang Guozhu was killed, they were repelled one after another in the battle.

Helplessly, although the Ming army had problems with its combat power, one person on both sides had more and one person with fewer people. Now even if it was fighting for consumption, the Qing army could not defend it.

Dorgon hurriedly asked Chenyang for help, and then the Qing army's reinforcements were indeed constantly arriving, first the King of Sanshun, then the Jiergalang army that retreated from Jinzhou, as well as the Mongolian vassal army, and finally the two yellow flags led by Huang Taiji.

During this process, the Ming and Qing armies faced each other, and the Qing army suffered the loss. Otherwise, how could Huang Taiji come to fight the old nest and run 500 miles at night? From this point of view, we can tell one or two.

The two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties were fighting fiercely, and in a few days, many wounded soldiers were sent back to Songshan.

As the main general of the Ming army's rear, Zu Dale seemed to be highly valued by Hong Chengchou, but in fact? Zu Dale, who was screaming with his ears, felt very annoyed.

Hong Chengchou is a very skilled person. Zu Dashou had a record of the Battle of Dalinghe. Now he has been surrounded by Jinzhou for a long time. Who dares to say that he is loyal? But he dares not put his brothers in the formation.

"Ship, ship, there are ships on the sea! General, look, there are ships on the sea..."

Zu Dale came to his senses and looked at the sails floating on the eastern sea, his mouth wide open. How could a fleet come at this time?

Since the wild boar skin was frustrated to capture Ningyuan, he turned to the battle of Juehua Island. It was in the middle of winter, and the sea surface was frozen and there was no danger to defend. The Ming army was all naval forces. "The ice was cold and cold, and there were neither armor nor weapons, nor sailors, and they could not stand the battle. They were outnumbered." In the end, all the members were killed in battle. More than 80,000 stones of food, grass and more than 2,000 ships were burned. This maritime logistics base outside the Ming Dynasty was completely destroyed by the Tartars.

At this point, the imperial court only transferred food and salary by sea to Shanhaiguan and Ningyuan City, and there was no one to go to Songjin!

On the bow of the boat, Zheng Sen looked out at the shore from afar, and didn't know how far the distance was. He could clearly hear the sound of gunfire and fighting shouts.

Hong Chengchou was leading the army to fight with the Qing army. Huang Taiji thought hard for a long time on the 17th night and came up with a cracking method that he didn't know whether it was effective or not. However, he was not going to fight quickly with the Ming army, but to cut off the enemy's food route.

He had seen the flaws in the arrangement of the Ming army - the top-heavy ones were light.

Hong Chengchou had more than 100,000 troops gathered in one place, and it was true that the Qing army could not eat it in one fell swoop, but it also made his back defense much more fragile.

Huang Taiji then decided to dig trenches to surround the enemy's food route. He asked the Qing army to walk a straight line from the southwest of Jinzhou City, through the passage between Songshan City and Xingshan City, and to reach Haikou. Three large trenches were dug out in a row. The trenches were eight feet deep, one twentieth feet wide, and the bottom was extremely narrow, and they could only accommodate toes, horses could not cross, people could not climb, and those who fell, had no footholds and could not jump up - surrounded the Ming army and cut off all connections with the rear and the supply of food and wages.

Then Jirgalang led his army to attack Tashan (south of Xingshan). After seizing the city, he did not pursue the defeated army, but instead took the place where Ming army's food and grass were hoarded in Bijiashan and burned three granaries.

Of course, Hong Chengchou would not have seen such a big move by the Qing army. He would not have mentioned the gains and losses of Bijiashan, but only said that he could not wait for the Qing army to dig the trenches before launching an offensive. Is the current strategy of the Ming army to fight quickly?

In this way, when the Qing army was digging hard, Hong Chengchou led his troops to attack fiercely.

The Qing army fought hard, and Huang Taiji went to the front line in person and supplemented the two yellow flags directly under the jurisdiction. The two sides fought fiercely, and the Ming army was very brave but could not defeat the enemy in the end, so naturally they could not enter the treasury.

Especially today, the Qing army's two red and three flag soldiers failed to fight, and the two yellow flag guards directly under Huang Taiji performed poorly. The cannons on both sides were rushing hard, bleeding all over the ground and corpses were everywhere.

The Ming army fought bravely, but if they didn't win, they didn't win. Moreover, the Ming army suffered heavy losses in the fierce battles for several days.

The war was in full swing during the day, so Hong Chengchou naturally would not come to see Zheng Sen.

But when the war ended, Hong Chengchou remembered the news that Zu Dale sent someone to report, "O God's will, God's will."

The army's food and grass were about to be exhausted, and even if the army retreated to Songshan, there was not much food and salary in the city.

Songshan City is the most important stronghold in southern Jinzhou. To the south is Xingshan, and then Tashan. Bijia Mountain where Hong Chengchou stationed grain is behind Tashan. After the lessons of the Battle of Daling River, the Ming army hoarded a lot of food in Songshan, and on weekdays, it is stationed at three to four thousand defenders. If it is just the main army to feed, it can last for many years. If the guest army comes, there are more than 100,000 mouths, plus war horses and livestock, it will be only one month.

At this time, Zheng Sen brought 20,000 shi of food. How much? Not much. It was just the army's ten-day rations. But this can give people confidence!

It's like hope in a dilemma!

It’s not that Hong Chengchou is still on the front line at this moment and has not returned to Songshan. He will definitely thank Zheng Sen!

However, although Hong Chengchou thought of everything, he could not figure out everyone's hearts clearly.

Seeing that it was difficult to win quickly, he convened a meeting of the generals and proposed a decisive battle with the Qing army. After all, the Qing army divided its troops in Jinzhou. At this moment, the Qing army had few soldiers and the Ming army was in large numbers, and it had the advantage of firepower. The 130,000 Ming troops and hundreds of artillery pieces of large and small cannons could retreat to Songshan to defend even if they failed the decisive battle. With the transportation of food and grass by sea, they could be safe. Then he said, "The generals should entrust their headquarters to fight hard, and they should hold a drum to engage in it. The defeat of the enemy will be able to rescue the siege." But the generals were timid and did not want to fight to the death, but advocated fleeing back to Ningyuan as the first priority.

Zhang Ruoqi, the bird man, had previously been strongly committed to fighting, but now he also hoped to withdraw to Ningyuan. He was an important member of the Ministry of War, the confidant of Emperor Chongzhen's favorite minister Chen Xinjia, and the military supervisor sent by Emperor Chongzhen. His weight in the army can be imagined. His speech further dispelled the fighting spirit of the soldiers.

So, Zheng Sen, who was in Songshan City and was waiting for Hong Chengchou to summon him, saw a scene that made him stunned. The 130,000 army collapsed in front of him overnight!

"This..., how is this... possible?" Zheng Sen couldn't believe his eyes.

But this is the truth.

In the dark night, the Ming army suddenly started a commotion. Then he saw a large group of soldiers running south with torches at the top of the city. When it was dawn, he could see the bodies of Ming army everywhere.

It was not until Hong Chengchou's troops withdrew from outside Songshan City that the news was reported to the city that the inside understood what happened.

In the battle on the 21st, the victory and defeat of the Ming and Qing armies was not decided. Hong Chengchou's proposal to fight to the death in the future was denied, and the strategy was to quickly launch the horse and infantry army to flee, in order to facilitate internal and external attacks in the future.

To be precise, let Wu Sangui and other six generals lead the army to break through and get food. After eating, they will turn around and attack the Qing army inside and outside with the remaining Ming army who are standing in the back, and work together to defeat them.

However, as soon as Datong General Wang Pu returned to the camp, he led his troops to break through the siege and escaped at night. The Ming army was in chaos, and "the generals competed and the horses and stairs were ravaged by each other." In the dark night, the Ming soldiers, like a group of headless flies, only knew to go south, and they were rushing and colliding, and all the troops were scattered, and the army was no longer in a state of chaos.
Chapter completed!