Ao Bai is not stupid. The Dongjiang Army is not on the ship, which means that the Dongjiang Army must have seen through the ambush here. And coming with such a big fanfare, he must be up to something!
At this time, although he didn't know what went wrong, he also knew that he absolutely couldn't wait any longer.
So, he rushed for eight hundred miles and asked people to rush to Shengjing to report the news. At the same time, he sent out detective horses to investigate the situation within a hundred miles. They even sent them farther along the Yalu River to find the main force of the Dongjiang Army.
So, where is the main force of the Dongjiang Army?
Daishan knows this issue best.
Just the day after he dispatched three thousand cavalry, while he was still basking in the sun, his men almost rolled into the yard where he was, and reported to him with a pale face: "Your Highness , Oh no, many Ming ships have appeared on the beach again, the Dongjiang Army is disembarking, and the vanguard is coming to Jinzhou!"
"What?" When Dai Shan heard this, Yi Gulu climbed up from the recliner. His skills were so strong that he could not tell that he was fifty-nine years old. However, his expression was ugly, and he stared at his subordinates and asked, "How many men and horses?"
"At least five thousand, but they are all infantry!"
At this time, Daishan finally understood. He immediately sent an order to put the whole city on combat readiness. Before the Ming army arrived, he immediately sent out fast horses to chase back the sent cavalry. At the same time, he also went to nearby cities to ask for help.
After giving these instructions, he kicked the maid away from his feet and roared: "My king's armor!"
Not long after, Daishan, who was wearing armor, had already climbed to the top of the city.
Sure enough, he could hear the shouts of the Ming army outside the city that would not stop at night; also, on the east side of Jinzhou, a Ming army was rushing toward Jinzhou City in the distance. Judging from the flags, it is undoubtedly the Dongjiang Army. The big flag with the word "Lu" fluttering in the wind is a good proof.
"Tune the tiger away from the mountain, this king has fallen into the trap of luring the tiger away from the mountain!" Seeing this, Dai Shan couldn't help but murmured to himself.
At this time, he couldn't tell whether Lu Xiangsheng realized something was wrong and took advantage of the situation, or whether Geng Zhongming really surrendered to the Ming army and staged such a scene. But these are not important anymore. The important thing is that Jinzhou City must be defended and must wait for the arrival of reinforcements.
However, the elite have been sent out, and with the remaining three thousand troops, it will be difficult to defend Jinzhou City.
On the Jinzhou side, the idea has always been to block the Liaodong Peninsula and prevent the Ming army from Lushun from having the opportunity to invade the Liaodong hinterland by land. At the same time, it can also serve as a bridgehead for the Qing Dynasty to attack Lushun.
Therefore, although Jinzhou's defense equipment is prepared, it is not that complete. After all, for the Qing Dynasty, no matter how hard they tried to defend, they always focused on offense.
In Jinzhou City, the sound of police gongs kept ringing, and the soldiers of the Jianlu Army were all waiting on the top of the city. Dai Shan had been fighting for a lifetime. Although he was worried, he did not panic. He immediately issued military orders one after another, instructing Jinzhou Jianlu to prepare to defend the city.
The incoming Dongjiang Army was indeed led by Lu Xiangsheng, and its strength was about five thousand. After surrounding Jinzhou City, they began to prepare to attack the city.
The Dongjiang Army began to assemble siege equipment within the sight of Jianlu at the top of the city. The racks of ladder trucks, watchtowers, arrow towers, etc. are slowly taking shape. Of course, artillery is also indispensable, and there are many Hongyi cannons.
All this made Chengtou Jianlu despair. If the cavalry army had not left, there would be no need to talk nonsense, and they could even go directly out of the city and attack the Dongjiang army proactively. However, with the current strength of the troops, it is impossible to fight!
With Jianlu on high alert, the Ming army quickly prepared to attack the city. However, they were sporadic probing attacks at most, and there was no full-scale attack.
Even so, the prisoners at the top of the city did not dare to relax their vigilance. If they relaxed and the Ming army turned their temptation into a forceful attack, problems would arise.
After dark, the Ming army did not stop, often shouting to kill, as if attacking the city at night, making a lot of noise, so that the prisoners on the top of the city did not dare to be careless.
Dai Shan knew with his toes that Lu Xiangsheng was bullying the city's few defenders and had few rotations, so he used the strategy of tiring the enemy, waiting for the Qing soldiers to be exhausted before attacking the city; or on top of the city If the defenders relax, they may suddenly switch from a false attack to a strong attack.
Although Daishan knew this, he did not have enough troops, so he had no choice but to hold on. Of course, there were also remedial measures. He mobilized the people in the city to defend the city together. Otherwise, after the city was broken, the Ming army would definitely massacre the entire city to avenge their people.
At the same time, Daishan also encouraged the whole city, saying that he had sent people to ask for help, and the previous cavalry could return soon. As long as they persisted and turned around to attack from inside and outside, they could break the Dongjiang Army!
It can be said that all possible means were used, such as intimidation and pie.
Jinzhou, which had been at ease for a long time, finally entered a very tense state of war.
To the north of Jinzhou is Xiaoheishan. There are two post roads going north from the left and right sides of Xiaoheishan, that is, near the two coastlines of the Liaodong Peninsula. The post road to the west leads to Xinjin via Shihe Post; the post road to the east leads up to the east seaside, to Hongzui Fort, Guifu Fort and up to the Yalu River.
These two post roads branched off about twenty miles away in the north of Jinzhou.
At noon on the third day when Jinzhou was surrounded by the Dongjiang Army. On the east side of the forked road, a group of Jianlu cavalry horses, about thirty or so, galloped past. They were the outposts of the Jianlu cavalry.
At this fork in the road, they heard the sound of cannons coming from the direction of Jinzhou. This made the group of captives and explorers even more anxious and continued to gallop towards Jinzhou.
Not long after, more than 30 Jianlu Detective Horses came galloping over. They were also Sentinel Riders. Just like the Sentinel Riders in front, when they heard the movement in Jinzhou, they took a cursory look at the movement along the way, and then hurriedly Rushed to Jinzhou.
After a while, these sentry riders returned and galloped away on the road they came in. They were going back and forth, but they didn't even notice anyone on the mountain.
About half an hour later, the thunderous sound of horse hooves came. A cavalry army came galloping from the post road on the left. Needless to say, it was the cavalry army sent out by Daishan.
Previously, this cavalry army had never rested in order to catch up with Li Dingguo's troops. Unexpectedly, before he could catch up, he would be overtaken by the messenger sent by Daishan, so he hurried back. It can be said that this cavalry army did not have a good rest at all these days.
Probably aware of the fatigue of his men, the leader of the Jianlu army ordered to stop and rest on this side of the Sancha Road. At the same time, he encouraged his men: "The Dongjiang Army only has five thousand people, and they are all infantry. They actually ate bears." I am so brave that I dare to attack Jinzhou. I will wait for the army to return, attack from inside and outside Jinzhou City, and defeat the Dongjiang Army. The great achievement will be before our eyes!"
That's what he said, but he was still worried in his heart.
Chen Shaozong, who was traveling with him before, got the news through his urine escape. At that time, he felt something was wrong. Now it seems that there are conspiracies before and after. In this case, would the Dongjiang Army really be so stupid and give the Qing Dynasty a chance to attack from both inside and outside?
He was very doubtful about this.
However, he would not voice this concern, otherwise it would definitely affect the morale of the army.
At this time, he was also exhausted. When I was working hard, I didn’t feel anything good. When I stopped to rest, I felt very tired. However, it’s not enough if we don’t rest. We will soon arrive at Jinzhou City, and there is a fight waiting there!
While he was thinking about it, he suddenly noticed something moving on the mountain and turned around to look.
When he saw this, he was so frightened that he jumped up, his face full of fear, and he shouted loudly: "There is an ambush!"
At the same time, the morale of the captives in Jinzhou City was greatly boosted, and they all shouted crazily: "The reinforcements are coming, the reinforcements are coming back..."
Daishan, who was older, was already a little weak due to the Ming army's strategy of exhausting the enemy. When Daishan, who was resting for a while in the arrow tower, heard this, he was overjoyed and hurriedly walked to the window to take a look.
Sure enough, in the distance, dozens of Qing Dynasty detective horses appeared, surrounding Jinzhou City, playing hide-and-seek with the Ming army at night, telling the city that they were back.
"Okay, okay, okay!" After seeing it, Dai Shan couldn't help but praise him repeatedly. Since the cavalry can come back, they will have more troops than the Ming army outside the city. Moreover, the cavalry coming back is the Jinzhou army. Now, it's Lu Xiangsheng's turn to panic outside the city, right?
I don’t know what happened to Lu Xiangsheng, but he dared to attack Jinzhou. Haha, Huang Taiji tried his best to annihilate your Dongjiang Army but failed. Unexpectedly, while he was lying in Jinzhou, the credit for annihilating the Dongjiang Army fell from the sky and fell into his own hands!
Daishan thought so, and looked at the handsome flag with the character "Lu" without malicious intent. Now, Lu Xiangsheng is probably going to run away, right?
Unexpectedly, no matter how he observed, the Ming army outside the city did not panic at all. They still surrounded the city when they should, and there was no sign of escaping. This made Daishan a little panicked.
Obviously, the Ming army outside the city must have something to rely on and is not afraid of the cavalry returning for reinforcements. But...how is this possible?
He was stationed in Jinzhou, so he certainly knew how many troops there were in the Dongjiang Army. With a little bit of estimation, he could estimate that almost all the Dongjiang Army's men and horses had come over, so what else could they rely on?
Thinking like this, he subconsciously looked to the north, thinking in his mind, could the Ming army have discovered that it was just these scouting horses, and the main force had not returned?
Of course Daishan couldn't see what he wanted to see at the top of Jinzhou City. However, he suddenly seemed to hear something. There were the sounds of shelling and shouts of killing, faintly coming.
The sound of the artillery was still very dense, and it was not a single sound. Judging from the sound, it was Hongyi cannons and Franco machine cannons.
After hearing this, Dai Shan suddenly remembered the Battle of Tashan. The Emperor of the Ming Kingdom suddenly appeared with his imperial army, only to kill Dorgon and wipe out the entire army.
When he thought of this, he was so frightened that his body shook and he couldn't stand still at all. At this time, he was basically certain that the reason why the Dongjiang Army did not panic outside the city was because the Ming Dynasty had increased its troops. Maybe the emperor of Ming Dynasty will come in person.
However, this is the Liaodong Peninsula, so where did the Ming Emperor come from? Isn't he afraid of the boundless sea? Aren't you afraid that a wave will knock him into the sea before he reaches Liaodong?
The sea is a terrifying existence for Jianlu, and they are very afraid of it. However, for Emperor Chongzhen, the sea was also something he wanted to conquer, so there was nothing to be afraid of! The concepts of both sides are completely different!
Thanks to his personal guards, he was supported in time. However, in Daishan's heart, he had already fallen. He was in despair: Jinzhou only had three thousand troops. Even if he mobilized the whole city to defend the city, he could only barely deal with the Dongjiang Army outside the city. Once the Ming Dynasty The emperor led his imperial guards outside the city, and the morale of the defenders inside the city was bound to collapse.
Hearing the cheers of the defenders at the top of the city, he was very sure that he would be very frightened after a while. I hope the subsequent disappointment will make them even more disappointed!
Daishan knew that if Jinzhou changed hands, he would end up like Dorgon! Thinking of this, Daishan seemed to have aged a lot, and he was also desperate!
On the top of the city, other Jianlu also heard the sound of cannons and shouts of killing coming from the north. Slowly, they also realized that the reinforcements they were expecting were fighting over there. From the dense sound of artillery, we can know that it must be the Ming army that has so many artillery. The Ming army is ambushing over there and is fighting with their reinforcements!
Most of the Jinzhou Jianlu didn't know the details of the Battle of Tashan, so they didn't think much about it. They looked north one by one, praying in their hearts, hoping that their reinforcements would win and appear like heavenly soldiers. Kill all the Ming troops outside the city without leaving any trace behind!
However, many of them, looking at the calmness of the Ming army outside the city, knew that there was probably danger there, otherwise, the Ming army outside the city would shrink their defenses even if they did not escape. However, most of the Jianlu were still wishful thinking and hoped that their reinforcements would win.
Not long after, the sound of the artillery gradually became quieter, and finally there was no sound. It must be that the war over there was over.
The Ming army outside the city did not attack the city, and the Jianlu on top of the city had no intention of looking at the Ming army outside the city. They all looked to the north, waiting to see which direction would the army appear?
This kind of waiting is torturous, especially for the many experienced soldiers on the city, who can probably guess the result, it is even more torturous.
In the arrow tower, Daishan even thought about seeking death, but his personal guards did not allow it and kept an eye on him to prevent him from seeking death. There are also personal guards who are trying to persuade Daishan to take a chance.
I don’t know how long it took, but there was finally movement in the north. Yingying Zhuozhuo, there is an army coming.
Without even looking clearly, the Ming troops outside the city cheered in unison, while the Jianlu on top of the city felt as if they were mourning for their heirs. Because there was a long red dragon coming from a distance. Needless to say, it must be the Ming army coming!
At this moment, Jianlu on the top of the city was desperate!
