In Jinzhou City, Jirgalang was staring at the map in front of him and thinking.
"Report!"
The scout came into the tent and brought the news about the Ming army's movements and Man Dahai.
"Are you sure that the main force of the Ming army is heading towards Songshan?" Jirgalang asked.
"Sure!"
"Then let's fight the Ming army in the Songshan City area!" Jirgalang sneered.
He had the confidence to sneer.
It was he who commanded the Battle of Songjin.
Huang Taiji rushed to the front line from Jinzhou and temporarily took over the command of the army when the war was going unfavorably.
Overall, there was no problem with the techniques and tactics he used in the Battle of Jinzhou.
Compared with Huang Taiji, he just lacked some adventurous spirit.
The tactical risks that Huang Taiji faced when digging trenches were not small.
Digging trenches consumes a lot of physical energy. If the army digging trenches is attacked by the Ming army during the process, it will inevitably be defeated.
Huang Taiji was lucky and did not encounter an attack from the Ming army.
Now both sides have stationed troops in Jinzhou again. Jirgalang wants everyone to prove that he can defeat the Ming army even without Huang Taiji.
"Go back and tell Man Dahai," Jirgalang continued, "ask him to send a small force to slow down the Ming army's attack. I will take this opportunity to deploy troops and wait for them to tire themselves out."
"Yes, sir." The scout left.
"Tunqi," Jirgalang shouted outside the tent.
"I am here!" Tunqi flashed into the tent and saluted Jirgalang.
Tunqi was Jirgalang's nephew.
Tunqi's father was named Tulun, and he was a brother of Jirgalang.
The former was Shuerhaci's fourth son, and the latter was his sixth son.
Shuerhaci is Nurhaci's younger brother, and his name means little wild boar skin...
At that time, he did not advocate the use of military force against the Ming Dynasty, but advocated paying tribute and establishing friendly relations.
As a result, he was imprisoned and died by Nurhaci.
His descendants, especially Jirgalang's line, were not implicated but were instead given important positions.
Jirgalang stared at Tunqi for a while, and asked in an angry tone: "Where are the Korean soldiers? When Hauge was in charge of the Battle of Ningyuan, they were ordered to go to Ningyuan. Now the Battle of Ningyuan is over, and Hauge has been abolished. Even if the Koreans crawl, they should be able to crawl to Jinzhou, right?"
"Your Highness, 20,000 Korean musket soldiers have arrived in Gaizhou area on foot," Tunqi replied.
"On foot?" Jirgalang was startled. "Why don't they take a ship?"
Tunqi smiled bitterly and said, "The Koreans said that the sea was rough and their gunpowder would be easily soaked by the sea water and lose its combat effectiveness, so they came here on foot."
"Who is the leader?"
"Yeonseonggun Lee Si-bang, the governor of Gyeonggi-sugujeong of Joseon." (Yeonseonggun is a title of nobility in Joseon under the Joseon Dynasty.)
"Li Shifang?" Jirgalang was a little surprised by the name. "This man can be said to be the right-hand man of Li Hao (then the King of Korea), and the soldiers under his command are all the elite of Korea. Korea has always been hypocritical towards our Qing Dynasty, either unwilling to send troops or sending troops without putting in any effort. This time, it actually mobilized its elite troops. It seems that it is sincerely helping our Qing Dynasty to fight. It is really rare!"
Jirgalang was very happy, but he was happy too early.
Although the Qing Dynasty conquered the Joseon Dynasty, the Joseon Dynasty continued to resist in various forms.
The ninth year of Chongzhen.
Huang Taiji named the empire Qing.
Korea, which had been conquered once, refused to recognize it, so Huang Taiji led his troops to invade Korea again.
The tenth year of Chongzhen.
The then King of Joseon, Yi Jong, fled to Namhansanseong Fortress. After being besieged for more than 40 days, he surrendered and signed a treaty under the city.
The alliance stipulated that Korea would "forever break away from the Ming Dynasty", pay tribute to the Qing Dynasty with grain, and send troops to assist the Eight Banners Army in attacking the Ming Dynasty.
In order to ensure that the Koreans fulfilled their oath, Yi Jong's crown prince and second son, as well as the eldest sons of all senior civil and military officials of Korea, were sent to Shenyang as hostages.
The following year, Huang Taiji recruited troops from Korea.
The North Koreans have taken the strategy of nonviolent noncooperation to an extreme.
When the King of Korea mobilized troops, he was opposed by all the civil and military officials in the court.
The military commanders either claimed to be sick or had conflicts with their colleagues, creating internal discord.
It was later stated that a large-scale plague had occurred among North Korea's livestock, making it impossible to transport supplies.
The army cannot fight without supplies, so this is used to delay the dispatch of troops.
Similar reasons include overflowing rivers, muddy roads, etc.
After being forced to send troops, North Korea used a new tactic.
The Qing Dynasty asked Korea to prepare 10,000 dan of grain for the Eight Banners Army. As a result, Korea's grain transport ship first encountered pirates and then encountered a storm.
When the grain was delivered to the Eight Banners soldiers, after counting it was found that there were only 633 stones.
The delivery rate is as low as six percent!
During the Battle of Songjin, the Qing Dynasty ordered Korea to send out its navy to blockade the sea area off western Liaoning, preventing the Ming navy from transporting grain, and at the same time transporting 10,000 shi of grain to the Eight Banners soldiers.
The King of Korea appointed Lin Qingye as the admiral of the navy, leading 5,000 naval troops and carrying 10,000 stones of grain to Jinzhou.
Lin Qingye is one of the three major military gods worshipped by the Korean people. At that time, he was known as the Yue Fei of Korea.
Like most Koreans at that time, he considered himself the people of a country rebuilt by Emperor Shenzong and a citizen of the country.
To put it bluntly, he is a little fan of Wanli and Ming Dynasty.
In order to respond passively, he sent a ship to the Ming Dynasty to inform it before the army set out.
Then the army set off.
The journey that was supposed to take eight days took him fifty-five days!
Even so, the fleet did not reach the mouth of the Xiaoling River as Huang Taiji requested, but stopped in the Gaizhou area.
When Huang Taiji sent people to inspect the goods, he found that 63 of the original 115 ships had sunk or disappeared.
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