At this time, outside the pass, in the sea between Xingshan City and Songshan City, hundreds of corpses floating on the sea, all of which were Ming troops.

The corpses were all naked, soaked frequently, and they had already been pale and floating in the blood-red sea water, which made people feel heartbroken. The sharks had been attracted by blood for a long time. They had been lingering for many days, and they were still wandering around the corpses, feasting on the corpses.

This scene has lasted for many days. In the battle of Songjin, more than half of the Ming army's 130,000 troops were lost. Although many people were captured, there were obviously more people who died.

After the Qing army cleaned the battlefield, they took away everything and could take away things. There were even only bare bodies left in the mountains and fields. The two Tartars, together with the conscripted slaves, not only cleaned up all the swords, spears, and armor, but also did not spare the clothes that covered their bodies.

In the winter outside the pass, the temperature is extremely cold. A piece of clothing is precious. Not to mention coated, even the two Tartars on the Han army flag may be frozen.

However, Huang Taiji, who already regards Song Jin as his territory, would not look at the tens of thousands of corpses lying in his own field and ignore them. Then when the spring of the next year, it would cause the disease.

Therefore, in addition to digging deep into a large pit, it is to throw the bodies of Ming soldiers into the sea...

In fact, there are much fewer floating corpses in the sea than before. The war has been a long time since then.

"Blow, beat me hard!"

On the Beizi No. 1 ship, Zheng Sen, who was about to break his eyes, pulled out his waist knife with one hand, pointed at a group of Qing troops running to the beach and shouted.

He had heard a lot of tragic events outside the pass and the vicious and cruelty of the Tartars in Qilu. He had seen the war in Songshan before, but it was just a battle formation. No matter how many casualties were, he could only blame himself for not being successful. However, the scene at the moment definitely made him unable to accept it. "The Tartars are really beasts."

A few days ago, he loaded wounded soldiers back to Tianjin. He met Shen Tingyang who hurriedly led the fleet and automatically returned to his command. Shen Tingyang transported tens of thousands of stones of grain and grass from Tianjin, first delivered a small part of Yu Ningyuan, and then arrived in Songshan. But he didn't want to see such a scene on the way!

"Call me!"

Although the Beizi No. 1 ship at Zheng Sen's feet is just a big bird ship, it is still much worse than the big black-tailed ship equipped with sixteen small cannons on the middle and upper decks of Zheng's army, and the lower plywood is equipped with eight red cannons. But there are cannons on the ship, so the cannons must be fired at this time!

Shen Tingyang on another big sand boat was also screaming loudly at this time, "Fire the cannon, fire the cannon, fire the cannon for me!"

The big sand ship he was in was the leader of the entire sand ship fleet. With a command, the entire fleet, dozens of big sand ships, all opened fire to the Qing army on the shore.

There are also bird guns and cannons on the sand boat, but they are smaller than the cannons on the bird boat.

The range is limited, so many of them cannot get to the shore at all!

The fleet's shooting is more of an vent, a hysteria, rather than really attacking the enemy and killing the enemy!

The Tartars and the Baoyun slaves on the shore were startled, but they soon realized the mystery inside. Although three or two iron bombs flew over their heads from time to time, there were still some bold people making humiliating moves towards the sea.

"Bombardment sound?"

At the foot of Songshan City, Wang Tingchen looked up to the south. The war had ended for many days, and Wu Sangui and others had already escaped. How could there be a cannon sound?

The scene of the General Six's defeat on that day is still engraved in his mind. Many people were buried in the belly of fish. If they had known that so many soldiers were killed in vain, it would be better to fight the Tartars to death.

Now, it’s too late to regret it!

What made him even more worried was that with the defeat of the Six Generals who broke through, Hong Chengchou's idea was completely lost. How should Songjin's dilemma be solved?

"Is it because there are still loyal soldiers who are holding on?" Liaodong Deputy General Jiang Zhu said dryly what he didn't believe.

There are still 20,000 or 30,000 Ming troops in Songshan City now, and there are two generals below Hong Chengchou, Cao Bianjiao and Wang Tingchen, as well as five deputy generals including Zu Dale, Jiang Zhu, Yao Xun, Zhu Wende, Xia Chengde, and other civil and military officials, including Qiu Minyang, the governor of Liaodong, and Zhang Ruoqi.

On the 22nd, Hong Chengchou saw a large number of Qing troops going south to pursue and intercept the Six Generals. There were very few Qing troops in front of him, as if only two yellow flags were left.

The big flag of Huang Taiji could be seen vaguely. At that moment, the handsome general Cao Bianjiao led his troops to attack the Qing army in front of him.

Cao Bianjiao was the nephew of Cao Wenzhao, a good general in the late Ming Dynasty. He had bravery and fought bravely. He led his army forward and rushed straight into Huang Taiji's imperial camp.

Unfortunately, Cao Bianjiao was injured in the battle and failed to attack Huanglong, missing a great opportunity to turn the tide.

At this point, the Ming army completely shrank into Songshan City. Everyone in the senior management was worried.

"Ship, ship at sea..."

"It's my Ming Dynasty ship!"

"Reinforcements arrived. Reinforcements, reinforcements..."

Suddenly, a noise suddenly sounded in the city, and soon a burst of intense screams came from far and near to Wang Tingchen and his group of people on the city.

Anything you hear from top to bottom will be very happy.

From the word "ship", they thought of Zheng Sen, and then they thought of food. As long as there is food, the defenders will not be afraid. With more than 20,000 officers and soldiers in the city, as long as there is food, Huang Taiji will not be able to help the Tartars for another ten years!

Hong Chengchou's reaction was very fast. Before Wang Tingchen could reach the east of the city, he heard a loud shout of morale starting from the city gate. The city gate was wide open, and Zu Dale led the Ming army to kill him.

At the four gates of Songshan, the Qing army stationed troops on the north and west sides, especially on the west side, with large troops stationed on the north and south sides. Only in the east, facing the sea, there was no way to go. Huang Taiji did not arrange troops there at all! That is, some police soldiers were arranged south of the three trenches.

It should be noted that the Qing army suffered a great loss in a battle. In addition, the division of troops in Jinzhou, Huang Taiji does not have many troops to use now.

Huang Taiji didn't care about the boating matters at all.

September is coming, and it is already winter outside the pass, and the coast will soon be frozen. Even if the Ming Dynasty has tens of millions of ships, what can it do?

Unexpectedly, because of Zheng Sen, Emperor Chongzhen's self-rescue was much faster than in history. Shen Tingyang brought the ship to him in time. Not to mention that the sea surface has not been frozen, there is not even an ice cube on the coast yet.

This time, Shen Tingyang transported more than 50,000 stones of grain, which is much more than Shen Tingyang delivered in Ningyuan. The reason is very simple. This time, the food and grass are transported, and it is hard to say that it will be delivered next time.

It is not said whether the Qing army will completely surround Songshan, but only that when winter comes, the sea will be frozen for a hundred miles. It will be difficult to open up the sea route in March next year.

Ships unloaded the food and grass. Before the Qing army reacted, a lot of the food was transported ashore and then quickly returned to Songshan City.

Songshan City is not a port, nor does it have a trestle. The bags of grain are transported to the ashore by the large sand boats and three bird boats.

Huang Taiji hurriedly dispatched troops to harass him, but the Ming army of Songshan burst out with a high fighting will. Because they all knew how much they needed this batch of food. When everyone knew that fighting meant their lives, the combat power that the Ming army burst out was helpless by the Qing army.

The two armies fought for two days and nights until the last grain of food was sent to Songshan City, and the Qing army failed to break through the Ming army's defense line.

However, the food was transported into Songshan City, which was one of the two major tasks that Chen Tingyang was responsible for. Another person he had to load a large number of soldiers on board and take away at the next time. The loading capacity of hundreds of sand ships was enough to transport the Ming army in Songshan City.

But this is obviously impossible.

The Ming army had to defend Songshan, otherwise Jinzhou would be abandoned. Moreover, once Songshan was lost, Xingshan, which was at the horn of the city, and Tashan behind Xingshan, would be difficult to defend. After the Tartars swept these cities, they not only completely cut off the hope of Jinzhou's rescue, but also directly threatened Ningyuan.

Furthermore, in order to prevent the Qing army from offensive, a large number of Ming army units were also needed to defend the defense line.

Finally, Hong Chengchou decided to remove the wounded and release Cao Bianjiao's troops on board.

There are two reasons. First, Cao Bianjiao was severely injured, and Huang Taiji's imperial camp was not so easy to break through. Second, Cao Bianjiao's troops were all Qin troops.

In the 11th year of Chongzhen, the Qing army entered the pass, which was the time when Lu Xiangsheng died in battle. Hong Chengchou was summoned to the capital of the Guard, and then Cao Bianjiao followed him. All his soldiers and horses were from Qin.

After the Qing army left the customs, many of its subordinates fled because they missed their hometown.

Another general, Wang Tingchen, was the general of Liaodong, and most of his soldiers were from Liao.

Even if an idiot comes to choose, he will let the enemy army go and leave the main army.

The people who walked together were Qiu Minyang, the governor of Liaodong, and Zhang Ruoqi, the deputy chief of the Ministry of War. Hong Chengchou, who was in charge of Songshan City, would not be in chaos. Just like when he asked Wu Sangui and other six generals to break through, he led Cao to transform into Jiao, and Wang Tingchen stayed behind.

"The General Manager Hong is really a pillar of the country!" After hearing Hong Chengchou's decision, Zheng Sen felt great admiration for it. No matter what the reason is, such courage is not something that anyone can have.
Chapter completed!