The Jurchens are very intelligent, and they are said to be very smart because they like to learn, and a people who like to learn can definitely be considered smart. I think that when Nurhachi was still a junior brother under Li Rusong, the general soldier of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty, he admired Li Rusong's amazing tricks, which is why Nurhachi had to be a man with his tail between his legs when his strength was stronger than that of the Ming army in Liaodong, because he knew that although Li Rusong was old, he was not an opponent when he played tricks. After Li Rusong's death, Nurhachi immediately raised an army against the Ming, and before rebelling against the Ming, he first learned one thing from the Ming Dynasty, that is, how to use the art of war when fighting.

When Nurhachi picked up the military books purchased from the Ming Dynasty and looked at them, he was immediately stunned by the people in the book, if he found two sour Xiucai to explain these military books to him, it was not very difficult, but Nuerhachi knew that 'a single branch is not spring', he needed an easy-to-understand military book for all generals to read, to achieve the effect of both elegant and vulgar appreciation, and later he really found such a book, this book is the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" written in the early years of the Ming Dynasty. After watching "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Nurhachi admired the strategy in it so much that he threw himself into it, and he pondered how to use it practically.

When attacking Fushun, Nurhachi tried his hand at using his granddaughter to perform a 'beauty trick', but Fushun's guerrilla Li Yongfang immediately fell under his granddaughter's pomegranate skirt, which made Nurhachi understand the truth that knowledge is power, and he immediately ordered all generals to be familiar with the Three Kingdoms. After Nurhachi's death, this kind of practice of learning from the Three Kingdoms and using the Three Kingdoms was still very popular, and Amin with the blue flag was very good at learning and using it, and changed the clothes of the Koreans to outwit Phi Dao and borrowed the allusion of 'Lu Meng's white clothes crossing the river', and now in Jinzhou, Amin is ready to use the strategy of 'stepping by step to fight against customers', that is, Amin is ready to build ice and soil walls like Mao Wenlong.

Huang Taiji knew that Amin did not intercept Mao Wenlong in time because of Wang Jing, who attacked North Korea, and after being angry for a while, he brought two sentences to Amin and Yue Tuo, who was inlaid with red flags, one is that their own mistakes are to be made up by themselves, this time their task is to occupy Phi Island and eliminate Mao Wenlong, and now they are only half completed, and they will do it themselves next to see what to do. The second sentence is that there are due punishments but meritorious awards, in the past two years, Daikin has been often harassed and has no place to do business, it is a food crisis and an economic crisis, so they cannot be rewarded, but after knowing that Amin is interested in North Korea, Huang Taiji agreed that he would go to North Korea to do whatever he wanted after eliminating Mao Wenlong.

Amin was immediately excited when he heard about Huang Taiji's condition, although it was a cold winter, he also felt a stream of heat gushing from the soles of his feet to the tips of his hair, and he came to observe the enemy situation outside Jinzhou City under the wind and snow, and almost wanted to discuss with Mao Wenlong to see if he could borrow his head. In Yue Tuo's congratulations, Amin came up with a good idea, that is, to block the Ming army's bows and arrows and strong bullets with a sturdy chariot first, and build one ice wall after another under the cover of the chariot. Amin found that there was no powerful general cannon on the Ming army's position, and he was ready to continue to push forward the construction of the ice wall to the bottom of Jinzhou City, and if possible, he could build a few steps.

Seeing that Amin was so good at learning and built an ice and earth wall for protection, Mao Wenlong was very angry but helpless, and rushed out with cavalry to stop it, the other party also had cavalry, and he might not be able to please him if he collided with each other. The light Franc machine cannon has limited damage to the enemy, unlike the invincible general cannon, and the damage of the tiger squat cannon to the ice wall is simply negligible, in this case, you can only watch Amin repair it.

However, it didn't take long for Mao Wenlong to be anxious, he hoped that Amin Xiu would hurry up, because he found that although he couldn't use artillery on his side after the armies on both sides approached, the Jurchens couldn't charge on horseback, and everyone's advantage was gone, so let's rely on their strength to have an open-air street battle. In Mao Wenlong's eyes, Jinzhou City itself was so big, no matter how fierce the Jurchens were, it was impossible to withstand the double blows of the city and the city, and they would inevitably start a war at the end of the protective wall. If this is the case, there will be only a limited number of places where the two sides can directly confront, and the 40,000 people on their side can fight for a long time with the enemy, and the court will definitely not care.

But Mao Wenlong still underestimated the ruthlessness of the Jurchens, when the two armies came into contact with each other, they immediately began to fight with flesh and blood, and the soldiers who left the protective wall knew that the best means of protection was to attack, and only by killing the other party could they save themselves.

This theory is somewhat useful if it is a one-man fight, but it is untenable in a large-scale battle, because no one can do it with 10,000 enemies. In the case of the continuous investment of troops by both sides, for the soldiers fighting in front, victory is only a temporary death, and the real result is either killed by the opponent in front of them or cut down by the next or next enemy, and no one can escape this fate. The open space between the protective walls on both sides is a slaughterhouse, where every soldier arrives as a butcher wielding a knife and a lamb to the slaughter, and next to the city of Jinzhou is a hell on earth.

Amin did not fail to see the disadvantages of this form of street fighting, but he analyzed and judged that this situation was more advantageous in comparison. The strength of the Jurchen soldiers is that the cavalry is fast and brave in combat, if the Ming army retreats into the city, he can still slowly find a way to besiege, with infantry digging cavalry to kill those who go out of the city, as long as there is tenacity, the city is broken is a matter of time. But now the Ming army not only occupies Jinzhou City, but also extends several protective walls in the east of the city, like a behemoth stretching out a few arms to block the road, and the cavalry has no room to maneuver and cannot play an advantageous role.

The advantage of the Ming army is musket artillery, even if people have thick armor but horses will be injured, which is why Amin does not want to use cavalry as the main force, and he also found that if he also uses protective walls to cover his side, the Ming army's muskets and small artillery will have no effect, and they will also lose their advantage. Of course, Amin also has a consideration that the protective wall he repaired has the same effect as the protective wall repaired by the Ming army, that is, to protect himself while preventing the other party from rushing over quickly, Huang Taiji wants him to destroy Mao Wenlong but there is no specified time, as long as Mao Wenlong is blocked with the protective wall, he is not afraid of him escaping into the mountains.

Mao Wenlong had no intention of escaping into the mountains at all, he only wanted to hold Jinzhou City now and wait for the next instruction of the imperial court. In this case, since there is no advantage, then only by the most primitive means, the strong will win, the weak will lose, there is no way to take tricks, in this situation of hand-to-hand combat, any strategy, skill is useless. As a soldier, you only look at the speed and number of slashes and stabs when you pick up a weapon, and as a commander, you only look at who has the tougher will, and the tenacious and tenacious will of both sides combined with almost mechanical movements makes the soldier's life constantly ended.

In less than ten days of fighting like this, the forces of both sides have lost half of their strength, early this morning Mao Wenlong received a report that the Jurchens were preparing to attack, he had just arranged for the person in charge of facing today, the deputy general Liu Xingzuo came in, Liu Xingzuo looked at Mao Wenlong's somewhat tired eyes and said: "Dashuai or withdraw to Huangcheng Island, one is to urge reinforcements to the imperial court and the other is to stay useful, Amin, this madman wants to fight everyone to the death here, we can't afford to accompany this kind of madman to be stupid here." If Jinzhou City is strong, we can withdraw into the city and hold on, but now this city is an earthen fortress and water will not be protected for a long time, and Mao Shuai still made up his mind early. ”

Mao Wenlong looked at Liu Xingzuo and said: "You and I are brothers in life and death, I will tell you the truth, I can evacuate by boat, but the remaining 20,000 brothers cannot be withdrawn, as soon as I leave, the army will be disheartened, then it will really be over." Phi Dao is gone, and the people on the island are almost dead, once these brothers here are killed, do you think those people in the court who look at me unpleasantly will let me go when the time comes? A military general who has lost a soldier is not entitled to live. ”

Liu Xingzuo said: "Then you have to think of a way, it's not a way to passively defend and fight for consumption." ”

Mao Wenlong said: "A few days ago, I found a problem, our side originally had three protective walls, and later added two more, and I found that whenever the Jurchens rushed through the three protective walls, their attack power would decrease. Later, when I thought about it, after rushing through the three protective walls, they would have to withstand the flank attack after being resisted by the front, so I simply stopped repairing the wall that they broke down, do you think this would reduce casualties? ”

Liu Xingzuo thought about it carefully and said: "Maybe I made a mistake at the beginning, I shouldn't have built the protective wall so long, and the length of the eastern protective wall shouldn't exceed the shooting distance of the bird's gunners on the city wall." You see, Jinzhou City is now in the northwest position of this choke point leading to Lushun, and the attacks launched by the Jurchens are in the southeast direction, because they do not want to bear the double blow of the city and the ground. If we had now retreated to the city walls and allowed the Jurchens to pass through the last two walls, we would not have been under so much pressure. ”

Mao Wenlong said: "Wouldn't this be allowed to pass by the Jurchens? Let them occupy Lushun? Where will the imperial court's reinforcements come from to support us? ”

Liu Xingzuo said: "It doesn't matter if the Jurchens leave a road in the southeast, and there are no people in Lushun, and there are no things to defend or not, the northwest of Jinzhou is the sea, we can build a few protective walls in the northwest, and if we can't hold on to it, we can retreat from the sea." To put it mildly, the imperial court has not sent reinforcements in the spring of next year, and no one can say anything if we retreat by boat, at least we have held out for a few months, and the people are all dead, and the fault is not ours. ”

Mao Wenlong thought for a while and nodded, "It's the only way to do it now, but in this way, it is equivalent to letting the Jurchens surround us, and the only way out is that the beach has to wait for spring to evacuate, what will we eat in the next two or three months?" ”

Liu Xingzuo was silent for a while before he said: "I didn't bury or burn the dead soldiers, and when I can't get by, human flesh can fill my stomach." ”