The shocked Nurhaci was worried that the Ming army coming from the upper reaches would destroy his encirclement and annihilation of Du Song, so he ordered the fourth son, Tang, the leader of the Yellow Banner of the Inlaid, to take the sixth prince Tabai, the ninth prince Babutai and others to lead troops to intercept.

At this time, after hearing the sound of artillery artillery on the other side of the river, the other Ming troops who had not crossed the river on the other side of the river, they also took action to push the artillery carts in the camp out and fired the artillery toward the other side.

Due to the night and distance, some of the shells fired by the Ming army before crossing the river fell on their own camps, but also caused certain casualties and impacts on the Jin army.

The rumbling sound of cannons gave the Ming army the courage and confidence to persevere.

Du Song, who was fighting the Jin army to death, found that there were soldiers coming upstream. He thought that it was Gong Niansui and others who had not crossed the river who risked their lives to rescue the floating bridge. He was very moved.

Seeing that the Jin army divided their troops to intercept them, they decisively seized the opportunity of the fighter and ordered the troops of Wang Xuan, Zhao Menglin, Zhang Daji, Chai Guodong and other generals to move forward and form a formation, and shouted the slogan "Catch Nurhaci alive", which created the appearance of the Ming army's response to the situation and turning the enemy on the front.

The first general Chai Guodong, who crossed the river, carried a large number of firearms, which were not affected by the flood. Although the army did not carry artillery, the Chai army, relying on the advantage of firearms, caused considerable losses to the Jin army that rushed to the battlefield.

Du Song's decisive command made the morale of the Ming army, who was initially thought to be defeated, become very strong. Although Jiannu attacked from all over the field, all the troops remained firmly in the camp. The generals of the leading troops also took the lead and fought bravely.

Late at night, although the Jin army was hiding very well, it also caused great trouble to the Jin army. Half an hour later, Nurhaci saw that the Ming army was still fighting to the death, and knew that the fighter had passed, and it was impossible to annihilate Du Song's tribe tonight.

However, he was not discouraged, so he ordered the flags to cover the retreat, luring the Ming army to a deeper point and then choosing the opportunity to annihilate the enemy.

The retreat of the Jin army made the Ming army jubilant. Each unit took advantage of the situation to advance for more than ten miles, successively capturing two camps hidden in the valleys of the Jin army, and capturing 14 Jin soldiers.

But the Ming army could not advance any further. At this point, the officers and soldiers were exhausted. Even though they were as brave as juniper, they felt aching shoulders and arms at this moment.

Du Song ordered all divisions not to advance recklessly, to be on guard, and to act after dawn.

After dawn, the Jin army was no longer visible in the fourth field. After counting, the Ming army and the soldiers washed away by the water last night, had more than 4,000 soldiers, but the Jin army left only more than 700 bodies.

The loss in the first battle made some Ming generals feel very heavy about the subsequent war.

But Du Song comforted the generals and said, "No need to do this. Our army fought against the water last night, and all the morale and strength were setbacks, but it could make the slave army return without success. It is enough to prove that our army's combat effectiveness is higher than that of the slave army. When you fight again, our army will definitely be able to destroy slaves in one fell swoop!"

Later, Du Song personally met Xu Xianchun, who forced the slave army to divide the troops with suspicion at a critical moment last night, and praised his brave actions last night, saying that after he defeated the slave thief, he should repay him with a merit.

Xu Xianchun thanked Du Song and told him that his troops and Gong soldiers had lost more than half of them last night. He did not ask for anything else, but only asked General Du to ask for help from the court for the fallen soldiers, so that the dead would not refuse to rest in peace, and the living would not be disappointed.

Juniper promised.

Xu Xianchun also said that now that Jiannu's army has retreated, his troops can immediately repair the floating bridge and cross all the troops who have not crossed the river.

In this way, the army could set up a camp on the east coast and immediately handed the information about the main forces of Jiannu gathering in Sarhu to the Malin division of the North Road and Liu Zhen's division on the East Road, requesting that the second division be able to advance towards Sarhu immediately.

After contacting the Second Department, the three families will act together to enable Jiannu to receive support from the other two groups no matter which way he deals with.

Xu Xianchun's opinion was supported by the army supervisor Zhou Tiexin and general Zhao Menglin and others. They didn't think that now was a good time to continue to go deeper.

Du Song led his men to observe the terrain. After thinking about it repeatedly, he decided to divide his troops into two groups, one by Wang Xuan and Zhao Menglin, leading the way into the area east of Jiefan Mountain to build a camp.

On the other side, he personally led the attack on Jilin Cliff, which was in danger of traffic between east, west, south and north. After Du Song took down Jilin Cliff, he could form a horn with the Sarhu Camp, and the initiative of the war would be controlled by the Ming army.

After hearing Du Song's decision, Zhao Menglin, Wang Xuan and others disagreed, but Du Song insisted on doing so. In his opinion, the terrain of Jilin Cliff was too important and must not be controlled by Jiannu.

"Don't say anything more. If our army gets Jilin Cliff, we can lock the main force of Jiannu to the east of Sarhu, so that his army will not be allowed to leave!"

When the military supervisor Zhou Tiexin saw Du Song not listening to the advice, he had to suggest that he could bring a group of troops to Dali Ahab, in the middle of Sarhu and Jilin Cliff, to prevent any loss of both sides from joining the troops, the troops could gather in time, and use this camp to ensure that the Hunhe floating bridge runs and keep the logistics and supplies.

Du Song only thought that Zhou Tiexin was a civil servant who was greedy and afraid of death, so he proposed to leave a way for him to escape. He felt ashamed, but he did not point it out, so he asked Wang Xuan to allocate 2,000 soldiers to Zhou Tiexin, and ordered Xu Xianchun to be under the command of Zhou Tiexin.

Two days later, after the Ming army crossed the river, Du Song, who was determined to occupy Jilin Cliff's main force, locked the main force of Jiannu, ordered Wang Xuan and Zhao Menglin to lead more than 18,000 troops to advance eastward, and forty miles east of Jilin Cliff. He led the generals Chai Guodong, guerrilla Wang Hao, Zhang Daji, guerrilla Yang Qin, Wang Hailong, Guan Fushun guerrilla Yang Ruda and other generals, and more than 12,000 troops to advance towards Jilin Cliff.

The military supervisor Zhou Tiexin led more than 3,000 troops to establish a defense camp at Dada Aha at the intersection of Sancha east of the Hunhe River. The large carts of the troops of the gang Gong Niansui were all here to prevent the camp.

On March 4, after discovering that the maximum number of defenders on Jilin Cliff was only three or four thousand, Du Song's troops began to attack Jilin Cliff.

Liu Xingzuo, deputy general of Jin Zheng Hongqi who was stationed in Jilin Cliff, could not resist it and asked the banner owner Dai Shan for help. Dai Shan ordered more than 1,000 troops from four Niulu to quickly reinforce Jilin Cliff.

Although the Ming army had made many preparations before the war, although they had the advantage of firearms, facing the condescending Jin army guards of Jilinya, all units were unable to capture them.

During this period, several younger brothers of the Jilin Cliff Guard Liu Xingzuo advised his brother to return to the Ming Dynasty immediately and present Jilin Cliff to Du Song in order to achieve great achievements in front of the formation.

However, Liu Xingzuo did not agree to surrender to Du Song. The Yu brothers made a secret message and presented the secret letter from Wei Liangchen, the eunuch of the Imperial Army that his third brother Liu Xingyi had just brought back.

In the letter, Wei claimed that the Liu brothers can only be the imperial army, not the Ming army.

The Liu brothers were puzzled. Whether it was the Imperial Army or the Ming Army, weren’t they all the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty? Why could they only serve the Imperial Army, not the Ming Army?

Liu Xingzuo was also puzzled, but his fifth brother Liu Xingxian listened to the Wei eunuch. He had been in contact with Wei eunuch before. All the evidence about the Liu brothers being in the Jin camp was also controlled by the Wei eunuch. Now he has suddenly surrendered to Du Song. It is hard to say that Du Song would believe them and use them.

Therefore, he could only defend the Jilin cliff, hoping that the imperial army of eunuch Wei could enter Heituara as promised and destroy Jianzhou's nest.

Liu Xingzuo's personal soldiers were a Jurchen named Astong. Although Astong was a Jurchen, his ancestors had always lived in Kaiyuan. Therefore, they had a good relationship with Liu Xingzuo since they were young, and later they also joined Jianzhou with Liu Xingzuo, so they were very trusted by Liu Xingzuo, and his idea of ​​returning to the Ming Dynasty was not hidden from Astong.

Astong was not interested in being a Ming or a Jin man, and he would go wherever Liu Xingzuo went. However, after listening to what Liu Xingzuo said, Astong said: "Brother, that eunuch named Wei is very vicious and has great ambitions."

Liu Xingzuo was puzzled and asked why.

The eunuch named Wei of Assandang did not allow us to surrender to Du Song, because he was afraid that Du Song would defeat Nurhaci by Jilin Cliff. In that case, eunuch Wei and his imperial army would not be able to gain credit in this war, and his prestige would be far inferior to Du Song who pacified Jianzhou. Therefore, eunuch Wei did not allow them to surrender to any part of the Ming army except him.

"Have you ever thought about it? These armies of the Ming Dynasty were transferred from the inner pass. If they were all defeated here, wouldn't the imperial army of Eunuch Wei become the only army that the Ming Dynasty could fight and rely on? By then, this eunuch Wei would be the only one who could say in the Ming Dynasty."

After saying that, Aston grinned and said, "As soon as the things that didn't have that thing are very bad. For his own interests, Eunuch Wei wanted to destroy all the soldiers of the court. He was even more poisonous than Pan Renmei of the Song Dynasty!"

"What does it have to do with us? As long as the eunuch of Wei guards his promise, the Imperial Army or the Ming Army, they all serve the court." Liu Xingjie said nothing after hearing it from the side.

"Too,"
Chapter completed!