nanming man

Chapter 888
At dusk, under the city of Jinzhou, there was a sound of "ding ding ding", and the attacking Wei army retreated.

The Wei army attacked for the first time and once boarded the city wall of Jinzhou, but in the end they failed to occupy it for a long time and were driven down by the Qing army guarding the city.

Li Dingguo looked at the soldiers of the Wei army retreating in the wild, and thought that the gun city was really not easy to attack, so he pulled the reins and returned to the camp.

Not long after, the curtain was lifted, Hu Dawei walked in with a look of displeasure, and threw his helmet on the chair, "If there is a mortar today, I will attack it!"

After Jinzhou City was transformed by Hong Chengchou, it was indeed more difficult to attack. In addition, the Wei army made a surprise attack on light cavalry without carrying heavy artillery, and was suppressed by the shocking thunder thrown by the catapult in the city, so it was difficult to make meritorious deeds for a while.

Li Dingguo stood up and said with a smile: "If you can attack today, you will be able to attack tomorrow. Jinzhou is in the bag, so the Tiger Commander need not worry."

Just as he was talking, another person rushed in, but it was Xu Heihu who came. Seeing the two of them, he said in a hurry: "Governor, the scouts report that Haoge and Horqin Mongolia in Liaodong have mobilized 4 troops. Gathered on the Shuangtaizi River line, another 3 Qing troops from Shanhaiguan entered Jinzhou, and the cavalry of the Qing army in the pass entered Chahar to harass, and forced the baggage team from Zhangjiakou back to Xuanda. [-] of us were hard to beat. Four hands, it's a bit difficult to deal with, so I came here to ask the governor to borrow troops!"

Hu Dawei frowned, "Tartars from the north and the south have sent troops, so Hauge and Dorgon are going to rescue Jinzhou."

Li Dingguo walked in front of the sand table, glanced at it, and then said in a deep voice: "This just shows that we have sent troops this time to capture the seven inches of the Tartars!"

As he spoke, he paused, and said in a deep voice: "Jinzhou City can defend the essence of Xiangcheng. Although there are only [-] troops in the city, it is not easy to capture. Hong Chengchou didn't want to surrender, probably because he saw us rushing forward with light cavalry, and there was not much food. And knowing that Hauge and Dorgon will definitely come to rescue him, so I decided to stick to it. From this point of view, if you want to win the city, you have to make the Qing army in the city desperate."

Hu Dawei asked: "What's the commander-in-chief's idea?"

"The idea is to let the defenders in the city know that foreign aid is cut off, and our army has enough food and grass." Li Dingguo looked at the sand table and said: "The elite Qing army in the pass was defeated by us during the Battle of Hedong. It is easy to deal with it. Haoge and Ji Erhalang still has some elite soldiers in his hands, and if Horqin Mongolia is added, we still need to deal with it cautiously."

Li Dingguo looked at Xu Heihu, "Duke Yu, I will assign more than [-] members of Wu Zhimao's tribe in Daninghe City to your command, and the Haoge and Horqin in the northeast will be handed over to Duke Yu to deal with."

Speaking of which, Li Dingguo picked up the wooden stick and pointed to Mobei Road: "I have a suggestion for the Duke. Wu Sangui and Babu are in the old place of the Chechen Ministry. After Horqin sent troops, Eastern Mongolia must be empty. This is a rare opportunity. The Duke can contact Wu Sangui, let him raid Horqin."

Xu Heihu frowned, but he didn't respond immediately, but asked, "What about the Qing army in the pass?"

Li Dingguo looked at Xu Heihu and said with a smile: "There are less than [-] soldiers in the pass, and the rest are local chickens and dogs. I will send [-] troops to the tiger commander, and send another [-] soldiers to escort the Qing army who have left the pass. It’s time to deal with it.”

It is impossible for the Qing army to send all the soldiers out to harass the grain road and rescue Jinzhou, but to fight outside the pass, the cavalry is the main force, and the green battalion infantry goes out of the pass, so they can only die.

Previously, the Qing cavalry had a huge advantage, but now the situation is reversed.

After the Battle of Hedong, the Manchu army suffered heavy losses, and the Mongolian soldiers escaped from the Qing army and fled back to the outside of the pass. Most of the tribes that had surrendered to the Manchu Qing no longer obeyed the Manchu Qing, and only Horqin and other tribes who were married to the Manchu Qing still obeyed.

The Manchu army suffered heavy losses, and the Mongolian cavalry no longer obeyed orders, so the Qing army did not have as many cavalry as the Wei army.

Xu Heihu nodded upon hearing the words, cupped his fists and saluted, "Then the north will be handed over to me!"

Hu Dawei also clasped his fists, "The birds in the pass dare to come out, let me kill them!"

Li Dingguo said to Hu Dawei: "I still have enough food for half a month. Let's split up. I will continue to prepare for the siege here. Governor Hu must bring the head of the Jinqing Army. When the head comes out, The defenders in the city must be shaken, and the army can break through the city in one fell swoop!"

At that moment, Hu Dawei solemnly clasped his fists together, and then the two of them withdrew from the big tent to prepare.

After they left, Li Dingguo took a look at the sand table. Dorgon obviously saw that the Wei army was running out of food and grass, and the flood thieves in the city did not surrender.

Thinking of this, Li Dingguo went back to the table and wrote another surrender letter, but it was not to Hong Chengchou, but to the Jinzhou garrison.

In the letter, Li Dingguo first recalled the precedent of Hong Chengchou being captured in Songshan, implying that the bandit Hong was limited and not an opponent of the Wei army, and then declared that the Wei army was about to sweep the pass, and that it was the general trend for the great Wei to rule the world. There was no reinforcements outside Jinzhou, and stubborn resistance would lead to death. The lives and property of the people in the city, and the Han army in the Qing army, could not bear to see the loss of life, so they persuaded the defenders in the city to kill Hong Chengchou and surrender.

In addition, a guarantee was made that as long as the city is opened, no matter Han or barbarians, they will be rewarded.

After writing the letter, Li Dingguo gave an order to the outside world. Not long after, Wu Guozhu came in with a bill, "The governor is looking for me."

Li Dingguo nodded slightly, "You find someone to copy a hundred copies of this letter, and then shoot it into the city at night."

Wu Guozhu took the letter and hurriedly saluted, "I accept my orders!"

After finishing speaking, he turned and left, but Li Dingguo stopped him, "Wait, there is one more order."

"Governor, please tell me!" Wu Guozhu hurriedly bowed his fists.

Li Dingguo said: "Tomorrow, you will arrange for those peasants to reclaim land along the Xiaoling River, where you can see from Jinzhou."

Wu Guozhu was slightly taken aback, and it was not the right season to reclaim the land.However, he quickly realized that this was a heart attack by the governor, so he hurriedly took orders again.

In the early morning of the next day, in Jinzhou Yamen, Hong Chengchou ate a few mouthfuls of breakfast indiscriminately, and ordered his soldiers to lead their horses to go to the city.

Just when he left the gate, he saw Li Chengdong rushing in, Hong Chengchou frowned, and asked from a distance: "General Li is not on duty in the city, why are you here?"

Li Chengdong looked strange, and took out a letter, "My lord, Wei Jun has shot the book again."

Hong Chengchou took the letter, opened it, and his face was immediately covered with a layer of frost. It was still a letter of persuasion, but this time he was not recruited, and instead recruited the Qing army in the city, and encouraged the defenders to chop off his head.

"This Wei thief's act of disrupting our army's morale is really underestimating our Jinzhou defenders. Li Zongbing, when you go back, you must warn the soldiers to stick to the city. With such a strong city, even a hundred thousand soldiers can't do anything about it, let alone The Regent and King Su will definitely send troops to rescue. I predict that the Wei thieves will retreat in less than a month, and the defenders in the city will be rewarded." Hong Chengchou looked at Li Chengdong and said, and then tore up the letter of surrender.

Seeing this, Li Chengdong didn't express any opinion. If the Wei army was really short of food and grass, then Jinzhou could still defend for a while, but is the Wei army really short of food?

Li Chengdong didn't mention the letter of surrender, but suddenly said: "My lord, I was patrolling the city and saw a strange thing. The Wei army is reclaiming wasteland by the river, and it seems to be preparing to farm."

"Absurd, Jiuyuetian, what does he plant?" Hong Chengchou's expression darkened, but he still said, "Let's go to the city!"

At that moment, Hong Chengchou got on his horse and came to the top of the city with Li Chengdong. Sure enough, he saw the Wei army reclaiming wasteland by the Xiaoling River in the distance.

Hong Chengchou glanced at the distance, and secretly scolded the Wei thief for his insidiousness. He looked around and saw many soldiers pointing out of the city with melancholy faces, and his heart sank immediately.

Li Yuanyin behind him clenched the handle of the knife with one hand, his face showing killing intent, but Li Chengdong on the side glared at him fiercely.

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