Salhu Xindu, wafting wisps of cooking smoke, it's already time for dinner, the winter in Liaodong, it gets dark early, and the ugly time will be dark soon after. At about 16 o'clock, it was already dark. An obese man of about thirty years old with two goshkha was walking through the prison at night.

HIS NAME IS AIXIN JUELUO ABAHAI (HUANG TAIJI, HUANG TAIJI), AND HE IS ABOUT 175CM TALL. He is said to be the highest emperor of the Qing Dynasty. Although the Manchus originated in the northeast, they were generally not tall, Nurhachi 170cm, Dolgon 172cm, Shunzhi and Kangxi were both 170cm, and the emperors behind them did not exceed 170cm. And the concubines they are looking for are all about 12-13 years old, and their height is not even 1.5 meters tall (the height cannot be higher than the emperor), so everyone should not expect too much from the princesses and Gege, and basically do not have long legs.

The jailer respectfully opened a cell, the dim and cold cell had no windows, because it was a newly built city, it had just been opened, and the sanitary conditions were acceptable, a wooden bed with straw in the wooden fence, a small table next to it, lit with an oil lamp like a bean, and a young man, coughing and writing intently. The defeat, five days of escape in the snow and ice, severely damaged his lungs.

Hearing the cell door open behind him, he didn't look back, put his frozen fingers to his mouth and sighed, and continued to write. He continued to cough, and as he coughed, the paper was splashed with a sparkling red.

"Is the time come, don't worry, give me some more time, let me finish writing this recital, you will transfer it to the eighth master for me, and my father will reward you." This is the lesson of the blood of 8,000 people, and if it is buried, they will die in vain. ”

"Sakhalian, don't write it, you need Lang Zhong to come and treat me, I have interceded with my father Khan, forgiven your sins, and allowed you to serve in front of our army." Abahai said with some emotion.

Sakhalian suddenly turned around, but he didn't expect Babel to come here. His face flushed, he turned over and fell to the ground, and said ashamedly: "The slave is sorry for the cultivation of his master, he has lost his teacher and humiliated the country, and he cannot atone for his sins by death." He choked up and cried.

"I've already understood the situation these days, it's not all your fault, the only variable is the small southern army that suddenly appeared. If it weren't for them, you would have not only defeated the Tiger Skin Post at this time, but I am afraid that even Tashan Mountain City and Fengji Fort would have been defeated. Get up, let's change places and talk about it. ”

Yingkou Daying, surrounded by migrant workers piling up soil, the city walls on all sides are piled up with frozen soil in the shape of ladders, and explosions in the south are heard one after another, which is blasting to dig the river and take soil. Now the labor force has increased to 80,000. Everywhere there are scenes of labor in full swing.

Newly built timber drying cellars and brick-burning brick kilns are smoking green smoke and there is plenty of wood and clay and coal. Because there was no time to wait for the wood to dry on its own, it had to be dried slowly by burning sawdust using the cellar method. Although this is not as effective as shade drying, it is also acceptable.

More than 3,000 carpenters wield saws, axes, chisels and other tools to make wooden components according to the design drawings and use them to assemble the gate tower and other buildings. More than 2,000 brick-burners are firing bricks in a large-scale brick kiln designed by Li Jing in the style of later generations. The top of this kiln is densely covered with small holes with lids to observe the firing of the bricks inside, and coal can be added.

Li Jing chatted with the craftsmen for a few days and learned that it turned out that the bricks were constantly poured with water during the firing, and what was burned was green bricks, and if water was not added to keep burning, it was red bricks. Now that it's freezing cold, you can't sprinkle ice and snow through the holes. All the properties are burned into red bricks, anyway, the Ming Dynasty has fire virtue, and there is nothing wrong with using red.

Li Jing looked at the finished product, a two-foot-long, one-foot-wide, and three-inch-thick city wall brick. It was very heavy, struck with a hammer, and the temperature was much higher than this era due to the use of coal firing coupled with advanced and huge brick kilns. The hardness is very high. Considering that there are pulley cranes and water on all sides, it is easy to ship, and it is not a big problem to be heavier.

The third-class staff officer next to him was reading the information that had just arrived.

"At noon yesterday, the enemy chief Nurhachi led more than 54,000 regular troops of the Eight Banners to cross the border wall in eight ways, one of which was led by the chief general of the Sibel Abahai and Sakhalian as the deputy general, leading 25 Niu Lu of the Zhengbai Banner, 7,500 regular soldiers, and more than 4,000 slaves and miscellaneous soldiers and new annexed troops, to move towards Fengjibao."

"Isn't Sibeile Huang Taiji, when did it become Abahai." Li Jing wondered.

Back to Dashuai, Sibeile was respectfully called "Huang Taiji" (a Mongolian transliteration of a foreign word for the Chinese prince, used to describe a person whose status is second only to the prince). His real name is Aisin Jueluo Abahai. “

Li Jing understood that Huang Taiji was modified according to Huang Taiji when the Qing Dynasty revised the history of the Ming Dynasty in later generations. Not his original name.

"Immediately go back to the staff office and convene a meeting of the battalion commanders and staff group members," Li Jing said.

A quarter of an hour later, Li Jing and the others gathered around the sand table in Liaodong to discuss the enemy's situation. On a shelf next to it, there is a topographic map of the surrounding area of Fengji Fort, and Sun Dewei is introducing the details of Fengji Fort.

"Fengjibao has a long history. The geographical chronicles of Liao history recorded: "Jizhou, Huaizhong Army, Xia, Assassin History." …… Tongxian one, Fengji County, Bohai Zhi. According to the Jin Historical Geography, there are two counties in Guide Prefecture, one of which is "Fengji, Huaiyuan Army in Liaoji Prefecture." Fengji County is the old county of Bohai, and there is the Hunhe River". In the Ming Dynasty, Bi Gong's Liaodong Chronicles recorded: "Fengji Waste County, eighty miles northeast of Liaoyang City,...... Now it is a fort". Gu Zuyu read the minutes of history and said: "Fengji City is in the southeast of Wei (in Shenyang). …… Jin Waste State, with Fengji County belongs to Guide Prefecture, Yuan Waste County, now Fengji Fort. ”

Fengji Fort City, forty-five miles southeast of the city, four miles around, due south gate, that is, the former site of Fengji County in Liaoshi. It can be seen that Fengji Fort is Fengji County of Jizhou in Liao Dynasty, is attached to Guo in Jizhou, and builds a city, the data records that the city is square, the side length is 500 meters, there are corner platforms at the four corners, there are horse faces on the outside of the city wall, and the earth is built. The Jin Dynasty was changed to Fengji County, Guide Prefecture, the Yuan Dynasty was abolished, and the Ming Dynasty placed Fengji Fort. ”

"Fengji Fort is not big, but it has been a strategic point in the Liaoshen region since ancient times. In his reports to the Cabinet and the Ministry of War, Xiong Tingbi, the Liaodong Economic Strategy, repeatedly emphasized the importance of Fengjibao's strategic position. Fengji Fort once garrisoned nearly 10,000 troops, and there were 100 blacksmiths in the city. Fengji Fort has a very sharp weapon - the Luzon Bronze Cannon (Hongyi Cannon). Huang Kezhang, the secretary of the Ministry of War, asked his nephew Huang Tiaohuan to recruit 14 people from Tong'an County, Quanzhou Prefecture (Tong'an was under the jurisdiction of Quanzhou at that time) who were good at casting "Luzon Bronze Cannon" (Hongyi Cannon) to Beijing, and cast 30 cannons for the first time, known as "invincible gods in the world", and transferred 6 from the middle to the northeast front, one of which weighed 3,000 catties. Li Bingcheng, a staff general at the time, was brought to Fengji Fort, a military stronghold. These cannons are so powerful that they are equivalent to a twelve- to eighteen-pounder cannon,"

"How is the situation of the defenders of Fengji Fort?" asked Li Jing.

At this moment, a third-class staff officer suddenly broke in. "Dashuai, Tongzhou emergency, Shizhu Tubing and Qi's army are fighting in Tongzhou City, and both sides have also used artillery,"