At the beginning of the offensive and defensive battle of Dalinghe City, Zu Dashou, He Kegang and other armored servants fought back and forth with the invading Hou Jin army and did not suffer any losses.
But things changed after Huang Taiji's main force arrived on the battlefield.
In the following scout battle, the Ming army retreated steadily, and finally all retreated into Daling River City.
At the end of August, the Hou Jin Army dispatched 50,000 soldiers and civilians to surround Dalinghe City.
The Hou Jin Army also did good deeds and helped Guan Ning's army harvest all the tens of thousands of acres of farmland near Jinzhou, and obtained more than 50,000 shi of grain, mainly wheat, millet, and beans.
Generals such as Chief Military Officer Wu Xiang and Song Wei also had many troops and horses, but unfortunately they did not dare to go out of the city to fight in the field. Tens of thousands of Ming troops watched helplessly at the top of the city as the Hou Jin army harvested wheat.
Huang Taiji was in a hurry and sent troops before the autumn harvest. He was about to face a shortage of military rations.
Unexpectedly, the Ming army in Jinzhou did an excellent job in their field work. Later, the Jin army harvested directly without farming, taking advantage of it and solving the military ration problem on the spot.
The year before last, Huang Taiji went his own way, led the main force of troops, and combined with the Harqin and Horqin light cavalry to plunder the entrance and achieved a complete victory.
Today's Houjin is no longer the four Baylors who discuss politics, but is basically Huang Taiji's arbitrary decision.
Therefore, no one dared to say anything to shake Huang Taiji's determination to capture Daling River City.
At this time, the strength of the Jin Army is slightly different from history.
Mainly because of the ambush by Huang Yi, who was born out of nowhere, there were hundreds fewer Han craftsmen who were taken to Shenyang by the post-Jin army in history.
Of course, those are Liu Han, Wang Tianxiang and other great craftsmen who are good at casting cannons and making matchlocks from Santunying craftsmen.
After these people were rescued by Huang Yi, they became masters of the steel factory and musket and artillery factory in the base area.
Due to the serious shortage of technical talents for casting cannons, the time for casting cannons in the later gold industry was delayed.
When launching the Battle of Dalinghe, the Later Jin Army did not bring several newly minted "God Blessing General Cannons" as they had in the original history.
However, the Jin army still adopted the method of digging trenches, digging a trench around Dalinghe City and using the excavated soil to form an earth wall.
As a result, the Ming army stationed in Dalinghe City became a turtle in the urn.
If Zu Dashou, He Kegang, etc. want to break out of the siege, they will switch from the defending side to the attacking side.
The Liaodong War resumed, and Dalinghe City was besieged. Urgent memorials and official documents were sent to the imperial court and the Ministry of War.
Yuan Chonghuan, the former governor of Jiliao, was cut into pieces and his flesh was eaten by the soldiers and civilians of the capital. Now Sun Chengzong holds this post.
The emperor, Governor Sun, and Xiong Mingyu, Minister of War, could all see Huang Taiji's intention to encircle the point and fight for reinforcements.
But what if you can see it?
We have to send troops to rescue!
The Ministry of War issued an order to aid the Liao Dynasty, and Sun Yuanhua, the unlucky governor of Denglai, sent General Kong Youde of the Supervisory Biao Battalion to lead more than a thousand soldiers and horses on the road.
Because Governor Xuanda had received Huang Yi's warning in advance, on the day he returned to the Xuan Mansion, he presented official documents to the Ministry of War regarding the Tatar bandits of the Karaqin and Chahar tribes. Xuanda was in urgent need of replenishing gunpowder, artillery, and food and wages.
Within a few days, something really happened. It was not Tatar bandits, but rogue bandits who crossed the Yellow River and came to the border of Shanxi to burn, kill and loot.
Therefore, the Ministry of War asked Xuanda to send troops to aid Liao, but Geng Ruxi refused on the grounds that he was too busy to take care of himself due to internal and external difficulties.
Since Emperor Chongzhen came to power, frontier officials such as governors and governors are similar to the president of South Korea and have become a high-risk profession.
In July of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Yang He, the governor of the three sides who insisted on appeasing the bandits, was arrested by Tiqi and imprisoned.
Hong Chengchou finally emerged and became a frontier official of the Ming Dynasty. He was about to kill thousands of bandits and refugees to achieve the notoriety of "Hong's shaved head".
It is because of the "Hong Shatou" in Shaanxi that the rogue bandits in Shaanxi were frightened and fled in all directions.
Rogue bandits headed by "Dian Dengzi", "Sweeping King", "Xing Honglang", "You Li Hua", "Bai Jiu'er" and others entered the Luliang area of Shanxi Province.
At this time, the class contradictions in the Ming Dynasty were irreconcilable, and many people were so poor that they had no way to survive.
This group of bandits, who had been beaten to the sky and into the earth, caused trouble in new places, and the number of them increased like a snowball.
When they entered the prefectures and counties in Luliang, they were said to have 100,000 troops.
Liaodong and Shaanxi are in ruins, and the situation in Shanxi is tense. Huang Yi's territory welcomes the autumn harvest and people's hearts are at peace.
Huang Yi knows that in the last days and troubled times, he must strive for self-improvement, and of course he will not enjoy this rare stability.
After the autumn grain was put into storage, two mass exercises were conducted.
The purpose of the exercise is to let every soldier and civilian know how to retreat when encountering an enemy attack.
We must prevent the invading enemy from grabbing a grain of grain or capturing a single common person.
It is completely different from the Ming Dynasty's decree that does not leave the county. Every household in the base area knows which town governor should obey the management and which Bao Chief and Jia Chief should be under the leadership.
Night schools not only teach literacy and arithmetic, they can also propagate and seduce unified thinking, making all soldiers and civilians feel a sense of crisis.
With more literate people, management is much easier. No one was found running around aimlessly during the exercise. Every household knows who to follow, where to go and what to do.
It is important to predict the enemy first, because the base area has a relatively large sphere of influence. The cavalry patrols led by Hu Xiaochuan, Bi Daxi, etc. have returned from two days to eight, nine, or ten days before they can return.
The patrol team in the farthest direction went eastward and patrolled to the outer grassroots tribes more than 500 miles away from Xinghe City.
All cavalry participated in the patrol in a rotational manner. One team was basically a commander, carrying three eight-power monoculars.
There are many people and horses, the terrain is familiar, they can see far, and with the help of grassroots tribes, the patrols rarely return empty-handed when performing tasks, and they can always find and round up some scattered herdsmen.
After the autumn harvest, there was still no one idle in the base area, and production and troop training were in full swing.
Because military pay is paid to soldiers on time, wages are paid to workers, and farmers are cashed in money from selling grain.
Therefore, families who have been in the base area for more than half a year have some savings.
With money in the hands of the people, the commercial prosperity of Xinghe City is just around the corner.
However, because the investment was too large, the industrial products produced failed to open up sales, and the money earned was far from enough to produce military flintlocks and regimental cannons.
Therefore, the steel plants, gun and artillery plants, and cement plants in the base area are actually in the investment stage and do not generate profits.
It is so important to prepare for war and famine. Of course, Huang Yi cannot sell the two to three hundred thousand shi of grain that has been stored in the warehouse, and will face the dilemma of having no money to use.
On the second floor of the south gate building of Xinghe City, dozens of civil officials such as Zhang, Wang Baishan, Qi Dashan, Ye Huiling, Zuo Fanglian, Liu Shifu, Lan Jinkui, Qi Xiaoshan and so on were holding a meeting.
All participants were confident about the future of the base area.
However, Wang Baishan, Zhang, Ye Huiling, and Zuo Fanglian, several confidants who manage the base area's finances, are all worried.
