The Siege of Songshan
Songshan then suffered the same fate with Jinzhou, running out of food supply and reinforcement. Hong Chengchou tried to break the encirclement for many times, yet always failed. His desperate sub-ordinate, Xia Chengde then secretly surrendered to Qing and promised to open the city gate. At the 18th day of the second lunar month at the following year, Qing troops succeeded to rush in, and captured Hong Chengchou along with xunfu Qiu Minyang and some other generals. Qiu was then executed by Huangtaiji, along with Cao Bianjiao and Wang Yanchen, while Hong was taken alive to Shengjing.
Hopeless, Zu Dashou was forced to surrender at the 3rd day of the following month. The defense lines in Tashan and Xingshan were crushed at the 4th month, and the battle of Songjin ended.
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