Mao Wenlong was not a timid person, and it was not his character to be afraid of an enemy just because of some analysis that he felt was abnormal, but it was these unusual analyses that alerted him, and he knew that Huang Taiji had the motives and reasons to do whatever it took to deal with him. Since Mao Wenlong gained a firm foothold in Phi Dao, it was like a thorn pierced on the vest of the Jurchens, and he couldn't reach it when he wanted to pull it out, and he felt uncomfortable if he didn't answer, and as long as he made a move, he would be stabbed immediately. Every time the Jurchens attack to the west or north, they must leave enough troops to be on guard, and if they are not careful, Mao Wenlong will send people to make trouble, and they hate Mao Wenlong Emperor Taiji to the core.

Mao Wenlong made a two-handed plan, he did not follow Liu Xingzuo's suggestion to let him go to Dachangshan Island to avoid danger, but gathered troops to stand by in the same place at Hongzui Fort, and asked people to inform the 5,000 people on Dachangshan Island to load the supplies on the ship again. Mao Wenlong meant that Gaizhou's attack was a test, and if the quick defeat meant that the main force of Huang Taiji was really aiming at him, then it was only right to get on the boat and leave immediately. If the quick victory captures Gaizhou, you can immediately lead your troops across the Liaohe River to cooperate with the siege of Jinzhou, whether you can fight it or not has merit and is very safe, of course, if you are not defeated or not, it means that the Jurchens have not yet arranged a set, you can retreat to the south of Jinzhou to see what is going on and then make plans.

After Liu Xingzuo arrived in Jinzhou, he first took a closer look, and saw that although the walls and houses of Jinzhou City were demolished and incomplete, the bricks and stones were still there, and he immediately ordered the soldiers to chop wood nearby and make a fire. The soil under the fire and the bricks and stones encircled next to the fire were baked and used to repair the city. The masonry and earth had not been tamped and was not very strong, but after a while of splashing water, it froze and hardened, and the city was safe and durable, at least until the ice melted in the spring.

After the city wall was repaired, Liu Xingzuo had just ordered the soldiers to clean up the houses in the city, when he heard that Mao Wenlong had led the men and horses over, and Liu Xingzuo immediately went to meet and report the process of repairing the city. Mao Wenlong looked at Jinzhou City in front of him with a gloomy face and said: "Brother has worked hard, although it is not as high as the previous city wall, it is rare, your speculation is right, three days ago on the night of the Huang guerrilla they attacked more than 10,000 people to capture Gaizhou did not take it, and the day before yesterday during the day attacked again for another day and did not get the wish." ”

Liu Xingzuo asked: "Then Mao Shuai thinks that the enemy deliberately wants to drag us down?" ”

Mao Wenlong said: "Early yesterday morning, the guerrilla Huang came back in person and said that there was something strange, several cannons opened fire together and blasted the city gate down, but he still did not rush in, the enemy's bows and arrows on the city shot too much and too intensively, the closer the soldiers rushed closer, the greater the blow, nearly 2,000 people died, and they did not rush to the city gate. What makes people suspicious is that the enemy has not gone out of the city to chase and kill, even when our army was defeated and retreated, according to the soldiers close to the city gate were defeated and said that the city gate was knocked off the wall, the faces of the Jurchen soldiers on the wall could not see panic, as if they were confident and did not take our army in their eyes, which is the most suspicious. ”

Liu Xingzuo said: "It seems that we have to withdraw from the army, what is Mao Shuai going to do next?" ”

Mao Wenlong said: "Yesterday, I asked Huang Guerrilla to immediately go back and organize people to attack again at night, and let the redundant people retreat while attacking, and all of them will be withdrawn in the second half of the night, and it is estimated that they will withdraw here in a while." I am now bringing people over to immediately organize a line of defense with Jinzhou as the center, early tonight, late tomorrow morning, the Jurchens will show their true colors, the ships of Dachangshan Island are already transporting supplies, because some ships have been taken to Phi Island, so they have to be transported twice, and the situation is clear, we are holding on while asking for help from the imperial court, and we can't take care of the life and death situation. ”

Liu Xingzuo said: "The ice is not hard in the offshore sea of Dachangshan Island, will it be safer for us to go there?" ”

Mao Wenlong looked into the distance and said: "If the Jurchens really capture Phi Island, then those ships on Phi Island may be used by them, in case they sneak attack, we have nowhere to maneuver, even if we keep holding on, as long as they destroy our boats, it will be a situation of catching turtles in an urn." ”

In the afternoon of the same day, more than 10,000 people who had been stationed in Fuzhou and attacked Gaizhou came back one after another, all of them were very embarrassed and seemed to be running in a hurry, and some soldiers who did not know the inside story were complaining about how to attack and flee. Because the city wall is not wide, so you can't go up the cannon can only stand people, Mao Wenlong also asked people to build three ice and soil walls on both sides of Jinzhou City, which can not only block the wind but also block arrows and install artillery, and the soldiers will set up camp and garrison in the ice and soil wall. The extra people arranged to find firewood and food behind Jinzhou City, and by the way to receive the materials transported from Dachangshan Island, after everything was arranged, everyone worked in an orderly manner, and Mao Wenlong's psychology was no longer so irritable.

Dozens of people who were sent by Mao Wenlong to Phi Dao to investigate the situation drove two large boats to Phi Dao, but because of the wind and snow, their vision was blurred, and they drove very carefully, and only came to the departure place outside Phi Dao two days later. When the weather is cold, the sea freezes, but the further you go to the sea, the thinner the ice becomes, and before departure, a channel was dug out because of the cargo, and now it is blocked by thin ice and floe ice that are connected to the shore. Looking at the gray sky and the faint hills above the Phi Island in the small snow of rice grains, Mao Wenlong's personal captain watched silently for a long time, and his mood seemed to have become gloomy.

The captain of the pro-soldier is Mao Wenlong's nephew and surname Mao, and when he saw that he didn't speak, someone came up and asked: "Captain Mao, should we go up a few people first to find out the truth or call people directly?" ”

Captain Mao said: "Don't do either, now let's go to Yuncong Island and call Huang Lao Liu over." ”

Huang Lao Liu is the captain of the musket team, usually very respectful to Captain Mao, heard that Captain Mao was looking for him and immediately ran over, Captain Mao asked: "I remember that those boats on Phi Island are outside Yuncong Island, do you know where they are?" ”

Yuncong Island is the sub-island of Phi Island, because the location is more than Phi Island to the sea, so in winter for fear of being frozen so the boat that is not used are towed on Yuncong Island, Huang Lao Liu said: "I know, one of my fellow villagers is watching the boat on Yuncong Island, Captain Mao wants to drag the boat out of use?" ”

Captain Mao shook his head and said, "How can we drag so many people?" I just want to see where you know to bring the boat over. ”

The two boats brought by Captain Mao pushed away the ice floe and broke the condensed thin ice all the way, and when they arrived at the edge of the island, they saw wooden boats everywhere and crowded together, and they didn't see anyone guarding them. Because they haven't been to the sea for a long time, these boats are very dry, and I don't know whether it is the salt that comes out or the snowflake particles that have gathered, and the white on them is boundless, Captain Mao pointed to these boats and said to Huang Lao Liu: "You are here to prepare, I will take another boat to Phi Dao, if you don't come to call you tomorrow morning, you will light these boats and take people back to Dashuai to say, just say that Phi Dao is already someone else's." ”

Huang Lao Liu said nervously: "Since there is danger, Captain Mao, don't go, let's go back to Dachangshan Island now." ”

Captain Mao said: "The marshal called us here to find out the truth, how can we go back now that the situation is unknown?" Don't worry, I'll be careful, you tell the brethren to get their muskets ready to meet me, but if I can't come back from a problem here, you should light these boats before you run, lest anyone chase you. Now there is no one on the island anyway, you can ask someone to pour some oil on the first boat, and if you light one, the others will all burn. ”

After Captain Mao gave the order, he took a dozen people to drive another boat to Phi Dao, came to the outside of Phi Dao and thought about it, and then ordered his subordinates to shout with him: "Da Shuai return to the island!" Come and open the way! ”

After shouting more than a dozen times, I saw that about hundreds of people ran over, and I heard someone shouting from afar: "Where is the big handsome?" Get the boat over. ”

Captain Mao took a closer look at the staff general Geng Zhongming shouting, and when Geng Zhongming approached, Captain Mao said: "The marshal didn't come back, only let me come back to ask for a question, where is General Geng and Vice General Mao?" The marshal has something to say to him. ”

Geng Zhongming said: "It turned out to be Captain Mao, Vice General Mao is a little busy, what do you have to say, Captain Mao will go ashore and talk about it." ”

Captain Mao shook his head and said: "The marshal knows that I like to drink and is afraid that I will go ashore and be greedy for a cup and make a mistake, so I am strictly not allowed to go ashore, otherwise, I will be cut off on my left leg and my right leg will be cut off on my right leg, and I will trouble General Geng to find Vice General Mao." ”

Geng Zhongming scratched his head and said, "Vice General Mao seems to be sick and has to be mixed with people when he walks, let me convey anything you have to say." ”

Captain Mao said: "Do you want to listen to the private words between other fathers and sons? Even if you dare to listen to me, I don't dare to say it, so please trouble you to mix Vice General Mao here. ”

Geng Zhongming knew that he couldn't help it, so he said, "Then please wait for Captain Mao." With that, he turned around and went back.

After a while, I saw Geng Zhongming coming over with Mao Chenglu, as if he was really sick and covered his face and mouth with a handkerchief, although he covered half of his face, Captain Mao also recognized that this was really Mao Chenglu, so he said: "The marshal said that most of the Koreans outside Phi Island are pretended to be Jurchens, so let Vice General Mao strengthen his vigilance to avoid a sneak attack by the Jurchens." ”

Mao Chenglu nodded and then shook his head again, seeing the two soldiers mixed with Mao Chenglu's two hands, Captain Mao pointed to the two soldiers and said, "What do you two mean by letting go of Deputy General Mao's hand, shaking your head and nodding again?" ”

The two soldiers did not let go, but turned their faces to look at Geng Zhongming, Geng Zhongming said with a smile: "Vice Admiral Mao is sick and doesn't speak loudly, Captain Mao can hear clearly when he gets closer to the boat?" ”

At this time, Mao Chenglu took advantage of the two soldiers not paying attention, and suddenly stepped on the foot of a soldier, and the soldier holding his hand was in pain and raised his foot to let go, Mao Chenglu took the opportunity to tear open the handkerchief covering his face and the cloth covering his mouth with his hand, and then shouted: "Run!" They are ......"

Before Mao Chenglu's words could be shouted, another person cut his throat with a knife, looking at Mao Chenglu who slowly fell to the ground, Geng Zhongming shook his head and said, "It's a pity, it's a pity!" If you want to surrender, why do you have to change your hexagram halfway? ”

After Mao Chenglu surrendered with Geng Zhongming, he quietly contacted some people, and Geng Zhongming, who saw that he was suspicious and surrendered in the past, reported to Amin, so Mao Chenglu was taken into custody, maybe he regretted it after surrendering, maybe he faked surrender at the beginning, but it doesn't matter anymore.

Captain Mao looked at Geng Zhongming expressionlessly and asked, "Mao Shuai treats you well, why are you doing this?" ”

Geng Zhongming said: "Mao Wenlong is good to me, but my life is more important, tell us to be careful, what did he do earlier?" I already knew that you were suspicious and talking or something was an excuse, and you didn't want to go ashore just because you wanted to leave at any time, but now you look at you next to you, do you think you can still get away? Hahahaha! ”

Captain Mao first asked his subordinates to erect the prepared long shield to prevent Geng Zhongming from releasing cold arrows, and then turned his head to look, only to see two boats coming around from the west, although not as big as his own boat, but there were more people on the boat, and there were still two, seeing that its frame was a ship sent out in a hurry, it was to block his way back.

Captain Mao sneered twice and ordered the ship to sail eastward, Geng Zhongming laughed even more, and laughed loudly: "There is no road to the west, you go east, tell you, there is no way to go to North Korea, now the north of Wangjing in North Korea are all Dajin people, you are difficult to fly!" ”