Sure enough, after less than half a month, on the day of August 16, the Songshan defenders came to reinforce 2,000, but due to the disparity in numbers, they were defeated by the Jin soldiers without much effort, and the first rescue failed.

On August 26, the commander-in-chief Wu Xiang and Song Wei led 6,000 Jinzhou soldiers to come to the rescue. Moreover, Azig was also rewarded by Huang Taiji for winning the battle.

However, this time, Azig was gone, and it was the young general Yue Tuo who played. Under Yue Tuo's leadership, the second reinforcement of the Ming army also failed.

Twenty days later, the Houjin scouts found out that Wu Xiang and Song Wei, the chief military officers of the Ming Dynasty, once again led troops to help, and this time Huang Taiji personally led troops to meet them. Huang Taiji's command led the main force that came to besiege the Daling River this time, and the most elite Bayala battalion in the Houjin was also under his command, with so many advantages, the third rescue of the Ming Dynasty failed even more miserably.

Moreover, this reinforcement also made Huang Taiji see the opportunity, he took advantage of Zu Dashou's eagerness to see reinforcements, and made a fake reinforcement, and the Jin Tartars put on the clothes and armor of the Ming army soldiers and played the banner of the Ming army, shouting and killing the Jin soldier camp.

When Zu Dashou saw it at the head of the city, he was overjoyed and forgot to leave, and immediately led his troops to rush out, wanting to join forces with the outside and highlight the encirclement.

However, how did he know that Huang Taiji had set up an ambush and was bent on capturing him alive. When he led his troops out of the city and was about to join the reinforcements, the reinforcements suddenly turned into Tartars and came directly to him.

Zu Dashou was shocked, and then he knew that he had fallen into someone's plan to lure the enemy, and hurriedly retreated. But he had fallen into the siege of the Jin soldiers, but fortunately, his subordinates were extremely brave and fought desperately, and finally they were not captured alive, and fled back to the city in embarrassment, never leaving the city again.

And Huang Taiji, because of the fear of siege warfare, and also worried that once the reckless siege of the city could not be done, it would ruin the wise image that he had been trying to create, so he did not rush forward, but only persuaded Zu Dashou to surrender round by round.

Therefore, on October 7 and October 9, Huang Taiji successively sent Shuzu Dashou, He Kegang, and deputy general Zhang Cunren to persuade them to descend quickly.

But it was still rejected by Zu Dashou, and at this time more than 30,000 people in the city had starved to death, and more than 10,000 people had to starve to death. Human life has reached the limit of psychological endurance, but Zu Dashou and the army have always persevered, preferring to starve to death rather than surrender.

Why were these Ming armies, who had always been timid and afraid to fight, so resolute at the end of the dynasty? First of all, of course, it is the idea of loyalty to the monarch at work, how can they succumb to the Tartars.

But the most direct reason is that the various cruel slaughter of the city by the Golden Tartars before and after stimulated everyone's blood.

Many officers in the city thought that surrender was death, and not surrendering was death, and it was better to starve to death than to surrender and be killed, and starving to death could leave a good reputation as a loyal martyr.

Some of them also believe that Hwang Tae-gil is a man with no ambitions, who had already entered Gyeonggi but retreated, and had no ambition to dominate the world at all. The purpose of the Jin soldiers' conquest is nothing more than one word "robbery", which is no big difference from the robbers who occupy the mountains as kings, and such people who surrender will never end well in the future.

This view was unanimously shared by everyone in Dalinghe City, which was the most fundamental reason why the Ming army insisted on not surrendering despite its desperate situation.

Huang Taiji persuaded him to surrender several times and made all kinds of guarantees, but the credibility of the Tartars was like that, and no one dared to believe it, even if this person was Huang Taiji, the Great Khan of Houjin.

Time passed bit by bit, Huang Taiji did not dare to attack the city, and the Ming army in the city did not have enough strength to break through.

After another period of time, on the day of September 24, after being surrounded by Houjin Tatars and sent reinforcements several times, Daming finally accepted the lesson and formed a reinforcement army of 40,000 people to come to the rescue of Daling River.

Leading this force was Zhang Chun, the superintendent of the army. Zhang Chun, born in the recovery of the four cities of Yongping, outstanding performance, optimistic about Sun Chengzong, this time the Daling River was besieged, Sun Chengzong strongly recommended him to take command, and the court sent him to supervise the military road.

According to historical records, Zhang Chun should have been sixty-five years old when he led the army to Dalinghe City to rescue him.

On September 27, the army crossed the Xiaoling River and approached the city of Dalinghe, and when it was fifteen miles away from the city of Dalinghe, it met the Houjin Tartars. In order to contain the cavalry, Zhang Chun used many chariots, which were equipped with firearms, and the battle between the two sides began, and the Eight Banners suffered some losses, and they rushed several times without success, and the chariot array slowly advanced.

If you have a spear, I have a shield, and that's how war is. What the Ming army never expected was that the Jin soldiers had already possessed the powerful red-coated cannon, and they were in the middle of the avenue at this time, waiting for the arrival of the Ming army.

When the Ming army entered the firing range, forty cannons were fired one after another, and the camp of the Ming army was in chaos at that time, Huang Taiji led the army to rush up, and the Ming army was killed and retreated.

The defeat was like a mountain, Zhang Chun wanted to curb the rout, but it was useless, and in the end, even he himself was swept into the tide of defeat and retreat.

In this battle, Zhang Chun and more than 30 of his generals were captured alive, and the commanders Wu Xiang and Song Wei only led dozens of people to escape by chance. The mighty army of 40,000 reinforcements collapsed in this way, and since then, the imperial court has never sent reinforcements. The fourth reinforcement was almost completely annihilated.

Next, it entered the third stage of the Battle of the Great Ling River.

Zhang Chun came to help, and the Ming and Jin sides killed earth-shattering, but Zu Dashou did not move in the city and did not reflect at all.

There is no way, it has been nearly two months since Dalinghe City cut off food, everything that should be eaten has been eaten, and everything that should not be eaten has been eaten, except for people, there is nothing to eat anymore.

Zu Dashou has lost the ability to organize and cooperate with reinforcements. And now, Zhang Chun has been defeated again, and Da Linghe is completely in a desperate situation.

At this time, there was already a group of dying hungry men in the city of Dalinghe who could be blown down by a gust of wind, and if the Jin soldiers took advantage of the victory to launch an attack on the city, they could raze the Dalinghe to the ground without much effort.

But Huang Taiji didn't do this, anyway, at this point, Da Linghe is already meat on the board, whatever he wants, so it is best to maximize the benefits.

Huang Taiji believes that he can take this opportunity to redeem the impact of the massacre of cities by various departments of the Later Jin Dynasty in the past ten years.

Moreover, he admired Zu Dashou very much, plus the Guanning Iron Cavalry, who was known as the elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.

As early as the year of the death of Emperor Wanli, Zu Dashou became a guerrilla and was rewarded by Xiong Tingbi for his merits.

In the second year of the Apocalypse, he served as a guerrilla in the Chinese army under the command of Wang Huazhen, the governor of Guangning. Quang Ninh fell, and he fled with his troops to Kyaw Hoa Island.

In the Battle of Ningyuan, he personally commanded the Fujian soldiers who were good at using artillery, killing hundreds of Eight Banner soldiers, making the Eight Banners soldiers frightened.

Huang Taiji ascended the throne and attacked Jinzhou and Ningyuan again, and Zu Dashou made military exploits under Yuan Chonghuan's account.

Yuan Chonghuan went to Liaodong for the second time, reused Zu Dashou, promoted him to the general army, and served as the general of Liao Qianfeng.

The ancestral family has lived in Liaodong for generations, is the local Wang people, and is a prominent figure in the Liao army.

Zu Dashou himself is very talented, won Yuan Chonghuan's respect, and together with He Kegang and Zhao Shujiao, Yuan Chonghuan called the three heroes of Liaodong, and he has a huge reputation in Liaodong.

Because of this, Huang Taiji is very fond of Zu Dashou and thinks that this person can be used as the object of buying horse bones.

In order to maximize his interests, Huang Taiji has achieved patience that ordinary people can't do, he wants to show Zu Dashou, the Ming army outside the Guan, and the people of the world, and see him Huang Taiji's generosity and benevolence.

The soldiers and civilians in Dalinghe City struggled in hell for ten more days, and on the seventh day of the tenth month, Huang Taiji once again sent Shuzu to celebrate his birthday, and two days later sent Jiang Xin, a general, to the city for an interview.

This time, Zu Dashou was finally tempted.