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In October, Chen Xinjia, the new Minister of War, wrote a letter to the emperor, believing that the situation in Ningjin was beneficial to the Ming Dynasty, and demanded that the three cities of Guangning, Yizhou and Youtun were recovered, and the city of Dalinghe was rebuilt. In this way, Jinzhou, Dalinghe and Youtun could become a pincer force, and they could rely on each other. After regaining these three strongholds, they could advance to the northeast in turn and regain the major city of Guangning.

If Guangning can be promoted smoothly and the Daling River triangular defense line can be stabilized, the court will greatly change the weak Guanning Jin defense line, which can advance and retreat or defend.

Control Guangning, backed by Jinzhou, Daling River, Yizhou, and stationed in Zhucheng on the right, then advance could continue to advance eastward, develop in depth to the hinterland controlled by the Qing army, and compete for the Liaohe Hetao Plain. Retreat could also stifle the Qing army into the Mongolian area and cut off the connection between the Qing army and Mongolia.

Guangning has always been a key place for the Ming and Qing dynasties. In the Battle of Guangning more than ten years ago, the Ming army was defeated and was particularly defeated. In the Battle of Daling River ten years ago, the Ming army wanted to build Daling River City and regain Guangning. When the Qing army heard the news, it launched a large attack. In the end, the two sides fought and the Ming army was defeated again.

Now, the Ming Dynasty, who had just lifted the siege of Jinzhou, can't wait to re-promote Guangning and build Daling River again. The officials of the Ministry of War headed by Chen Xinjia are even more ready to fight.

The plan of the Secretary of the Military Chief Chen Xinjia was actually the battle plan proposed by Sun Chengzong after Yuan Chonghuan was killed. From a military perspective, this plan was not a problem, and the direction was very right. Without Guangning, Jinzhou would be difficult to defend, and the defense line of Guanning was too thin. With Guangning and Daling River, it not only approached the hinterland of the Qing army and threatened the Liaohe River Hetao. It also cut off the connection between the Qing army and Mongolia. It was precisely because of Guangning that the Qing army was able to detour through Mongolia again and again, attacked the capital of the Yanshan area in Jizhen, and went south to Hebei and Shandong to rob.

Chongzhen approved this plan, just as he approved Sun Chengzong.

Hong Chengchou, the governor of Ji Liao, received the emperor's order and led the front to advance eastward.

The gray dawn.

In the dark and hazy morning light, the 200,000 troops of the Ming Dynasty drove into the front line of the Daling River. The red flag was swirling and the flew, and it was a majestic momentum that had not been seen in decades, and it was daunting to look at it.

Outside Yizhou City, Wu Sangui, Zu Dashou, Wang Pu, Liu Zhaoji and Ma Ke set up their troops outside Yizhou City.

Outside the city, there were Ming army camps everywhere, from Dading Fort and Dakang Fort at the foot of the Liaodong Great Wall to the west of Yizhou, to Dajing Fort and Taiping Fort on the north bank of the Daling River, as well as Zhenyi Fort and Tuanshan Fort on the east, there were Ming army red flags flying everywhere. It made a sound of banging in the north wind.

There are also many Ming army ships on the Daling River and the tributary of the Myanmar River. The Ming army's red flags are mounted on the bows of the ships, and the Ming army's archers are full of Ming army patrols.

Teams gathered under the city of Yizhou. Wu Sangui, the admiral of the western Liaoning and general of Ningyuan, could not wait for Hong Chengchou, and most of the people of Sun Chuanting and others arrived, and he was preparing to take the lead in launching an attack.

A large number of Ming soldiers lined up under the city were loud and loud. The patrol and cavalry teams patroled back and forth by the chaotic soldiers of various towns. A large group of civilians, led by craftsmen, were building equipment for siege. Trees were cut down from the mountains in the distance, and then processed into various ladders, shield chariots, siege rams, etc.

On the flat and vast low-lying land outside Yizhou City, countless flags are waving. Sun and Moon flags, commanding flags, general flags, and various flags, different sizes and different sizes. There are even five-color square flags representing various directions, etc.

More than 100,000 troops in the five towns relied on these various flags to command and mobilize.

In the camps of each town, many officers were cheering and cheering their subordinates. They spoke to them over and over again, "Roar up, climb up the city with force, and chop down the Tartars guarding the city with force. As long as there is still a breath, don't stop, rush hard, chop hard, and seize military achievements with force."

"Don't forget to cut off the Tartars' heads, that's your military achievements."

"Cut off a Tartar's head and turn around and exchange for twenty silver dollars."

"Remember, don't be compared by friendly forces from other towns!"

In the temporary battalions of the armies not far from the city, before the formal attack order was issued, the generals of the towns sent their personal soldiers to escort trucks of silver dollars.

These are the silver dollars just withdrawn from the Sihai Bank in Ningyuan. The imperial court now directly escorted silver notes and vouchers to Ningjin, and then the troops of various towns in western Liaoning made an appointment to withdraw cash from the Sihai Bank in advance. At that time, the silver can be directly withdrawn from Ningjin's branch, which is convenient and on time.

"Each soldier is two silver dollars, each non-commissioned officer is three yuan, each sergeant is five yuan, each officer is ten yuan!"

The officers stood behind the table beside the silver box and shouted loudly, "Each battalion lined up to collect it. These are pre-war silver rewards. Everyone has a share, and the reward is generous!"

This money includes the opening bank, the bank's grain and the pre-war rewards. Each ordinary soldier has two yuan, some team leaders have five taels, and some officers such as flag whistle have ten taels. They are all in stock. The town leaders and generals were extremely generous this time, and they took out so much real money to soar morale.

Many soldiers who received the money went to the other table, where there were literacy in the army. These were people who wrote letters for the soldiers. Many soldiers came to write letters, and many letters were equivalent to last words. Most of them sent the rewards and some of the money they had just received back home.

Everyone told Literature in detail about their home address, collected the person's name, and explained a lot of funerals in the letter just in case.

On the other side, there are many monks and Taoists who follow the army, who are doing rituals and praying for the soldiers who are about to go to war. The monks from Mount Wutai, Shanxi and Taoists from Mount Longhu, Jiangxi are constantly blessing the soldiers. The soldiers all believe that after receiving blessings and prayers from the monks, they will bring them good luck.

In the military camp, Wu Sangui was also kneeling in the tent, and a monk and a master were praying for him. After some prayers, Wu Sangui felt much more relaxed. He came to the central army, where he was tied up with one hundred and eight prisoners, all of whom were captured during the previous battle. Each of them had a shiny forehead and a thin rat tail of money was dragged behind his head.

Wu Sangui took the commander's flag in front of the soldiers and spread it on the ground. Then a Wu family servant took a large wooden pier and placed it in front of the flag, "Tartars, sacrifice the flag!"

The swordsman carried a machete and escorted the prisoners forward, took turns to press the prisoners to the flag, pressed their heads onto the wooden pier. Then he cut off their heads with one knife. Blood spurted his neck, which had lost his head, made the flag even more red.

After the blood of one hundred and eight Tartars was soaked, the commander became a blood flag.

Wu Sangui picked up the flag and raised it himself.

This was a great war. At the city of Yizhou and the periphery, there were 120,000 Ming troops gathered. At the city of Yizhou, there were 100,000.

Wu Sangui was extremely excited when he led such a large army. The great victory of Songshan, the victory of Jinzhou, and the successive victory made him extremely confident. He discovered that the Qing army was not that scary. Although these Tartars were fierce in cavalry, they were all flesh and blood when facing cannons and platoons. They would also collapse, escape, and surrender.

Wu Sangui mobilized hundreds of artillery pieces of various sizes and prepared to use shocking and fierce firepower to directly blow the Yizhou city wall and then seize the city in one fell swoop.

Among these hundreds of artillery guns, the main cannons were cannons purchased from Hubei, as well as those mortars that fired huge stone bombs. The Qing army in Yizhou City also had cannons, but their main red artillery cannons were only about ten, and the rest were just general guns, the number was far inferior to that of the Ming army.

"To borrow a sentence from Duke of Chu, now is the era of guns and cannons, and the cavalry and shooting of the Tartars has fallen behind. Today, we will use cannons and muskets to teach these damn Tartars a lesson!" Wu Sangui looked at the Qing army on Yizhou City and said confidently.

For the sake of today's battle, Wu Sangui brought all the cannons that could be transferred over. Since he earned the strength of guns and cannons in the Battle of Songshan, Wu Sangui has become more and more convinced of the saying that guns and cannons dominate.

Zu Dashou felt very complicated when he looked at his nephew. He was surrounded in Jinzhou City for more than half a year. As soon as he was rescued, his nephews had become admirals, and even he, the general of Jinzhou Town, was under his command. Zu Dashou was actually not Wu Sangui's uncle, Zu Dashou's sister was actually Wu Xiang's house filling and Wu Sangui's stepmother. However, Zu Dashou was still Wu Sangui's uncle.

Back then, Wu Xiang married his sister to Zu Dashou as a housekeeping service, and then Zu Dashou also married his sister to Wu Xiang as a housekeeping service. Since then, the two families have been closely united. Therefore, Zu Dashou is both Wu Sangui's uncle and his uncle.

Zu Dashou felt that he had a good vision back then. Although Wu Xiang was from a businessman family, he was deeply trusted by Li Chengliang. Zu Dashou had a keen eye and immediately married Wu Xiang. Not only did he take Wu Xiang's sister, but he also married his sister to Wu Xiang, making the alliance more stable.

Many years later, although Wu Xiang was dismissed, Wu Xiang's son Wu Sangui became the general at the age of 27 and became the admiral at the age of 28. This is a position that the ancestors have been unattainable for generations.

When Zu Dashou was proud of his accurate vision, he also lamented that he was not lucky. When Yuan Chonghuan was in charge of Liaodong, he fully supported Yuan and became one of the four generals of Liaodong under Yuan's command. But later Yuan Chonghuan was suddenly killed by the emperor. At that time, he also brought Wu Sangui and Yuan's sword-bearing officer to the capital with Yuan. After hearing the news, he was so scared that he quickly took Wu Sangui out of the capital and led his headquarters to break through Shanhaiguan and fight outside the pass, for fear that the emperor would kill him.

Fortunately, the emperor could not have Yuan Chonghuan, but he could not have Guanning Army. In the end, the emperor did not pursue him, which made Zu Dashou deeply grateful. But later he was ordered to build Dalinghe City, but he was besieged for several months. There was no food in the city. Zu Dashou relied on eating horse meat, rats, civilians, and old soldiers. He ate nearly 20,000 people, and was forced to surrender.

After Zu Dashou surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he found an excuse to return to Jinzhou to recruit surrender, and he was able to escape. After returning to Jinzhou, he began to resolutely resist the Qing Dynasty. But there was no one more unlucky in the world. After staying in Jinzhou for a few years, he was surrounded by the Qing army again.

Fortunately, this time, Jinzhou City was strong and had enough food, so she didn't have to eat horses and people. She thought he was going to be done this time, but she didn't expect that his nephew Wu Sangui was so powerful. He won a series of great victory and quickly retreated the besieged Qing army back to Yizhou. Now he even led himself to the city of Yizhou and surrounded the Qing army.

Zu Dashou actually advocated siege of Yizhou City, but he did not attack. He only used the Qing army in Yizhou City to fish for rescue and besiege the Qing army. Unfortunately, his nephew Wu Sangui was full of confidence in artillery fire and believed that Yizhou City could not stop his artillery fire at all. (To be continued.)
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