Hearing that he might one day fill his stomach with dead corpses, Mao Wenlong couldn't help but feel a little sad in his heart, but the form no longer allowed him to continue to be sad, so he immediately ordered someone to send an order to the troops guarding the protective wall outside the city, so that they could shrink to the side of the city wall and no longer block the Jurchen soldiers from moving south. Desperate to fight to the death, the final outcome will only be desperate, this is not the requirement of the imperial court and does not meet the wishes of the soldiers, if you want to kill the enemy, you must first save yourself.

Seeing the Ming army shrinking to the edge of the city, Amin felt a burst of ecstasy in his heart, and tears were about to come out of his excitement, he knew that the Ming army had retreated in this contest of strength and will, as long as he worked harder, he could completely sweep away these obstacles on the edge of Jinzhou City, and then block all the Ming troops in Jinzhou City. Because the troops on both sides were the same, and the casualties were about the same, it was impossible for Amin's troops to complete the siege of Jinzhou City, but he knew that if it went on like this, the victory would belong to him sooner or later, because he had just let Geng Zhongming and other rebel generals sneak attack and burn Mao Wenlong's ship, and his own side would not worry about food and clothing, and the Ming army would immediately face the problem of lack of food.

Just as Amin's troops were pressing to squeeze the Ming army outside Jinzhou City back into the city, a dense musket shooting sounded at the head of Jinzhou City, and more than a dozen Jurchen soldiers fell in response, and the fierce offensive was also slowed down. Because the bird gun has a crosshair and a door to aim, and the slender barrel can make the projectile shoot farther, so compared with the three-eyed firegun, its lethality is much greater, the three-eyed firearm has no lethality if it exceeds thirty steps, but the bird's gun can penetrate the armor at eighty steps, and it is the most terrifying firearm for the Jurchen soldiers.

This burst of gunfire woke Amin awake, and when he saw that not only did he not return to the city, but some soldiers with three-eyed firearms were added from the city to go out of the city, he took a look and immediately understood what Mao Wenlong meant. In the past ten days, both sides have lost about 20,000 people, the Ming army obviously does not want to divide a piece of land and only wants to hold a city, and now the Ming army has no worries about the seaside with its back, and has formed a three-dimensional defense system in Jinzhou City. Dozens of bird-gunners were condescending in the city, fire-gunners, archers, and tiger squat cannons shooting at close range, and a few Franc machine guns were bombarding indiscriminately at random points to create a panic atmosphere, all hiding the arrows of the Jurchen soldiers behind the protective wall.

If Jinzhou City is like a hard walnut, then with these fortifications around the city, it will become like a hedgehog that explodes thorns, so that Amin, who wants to eat the Ming army, has nowhere to put his mouth. After careful thinking, he gradually calmed down, and his strength was lost half of it in just ten days, so even if he really killed the Ming army in the end, he didn't have the capital to go to North Korea to do whatever he wanted. After figuring out this, Amin immediately ordered the troops to be collected, and while reporting the results to Huang Taiji, he asked for instructions on what to do next.

In the letter to Huang Taiji, Amin said that after more than ten days of bloody battles, more than 20,000 people of Mao Wenlong were annihilated, which dealt a great blow to the Ming army. However, his own blue flag and Yue Tuo's red flag army also suffered large casualties, and they were unable to attack the city, so they could only temporarily block the Ming army, and then if they wanted to completely eliminate the remnants of the enemy in the city, they needed to increase their troops.

Huang Taiji was also unable to divide his forces at this time, and under the great temptation of eliminating Mao Wenlong, an old enemy, he ordered Dolgon of Gaizhou to lead his troops south to assist Amin in seizing Jinzhou and eliminating Mao Wenlong. Dolgon's heart is to pick up cheap, so he happily led more than 20,000 people to the city of Jinzhou, and when he got to the city and fought two battles, he realized that he did not eat soft persimmons but gnawed hard walnuts, and it was a prickly walnut. Secretly counted Amin's army, only to know that there were not large casualties, but more than half of the casualties, and after knowing the truth, Dorgon did not break it, but pretended to be stupid and refused to rush ahead.

Dolgon's no longer attacking does not mean that he will not besiege, he and Amin each blocked Mao Wenlong to death, there were still a few boats that could be used, but after being burned by Geng Zhongming's sneak attack, the boat was gone, only sitting in the city and waiting for a miracle to appear, the imperial court will send a large army to rescue. The Ming court did not disappoint Mao Wenlong, and in mid-December, the overseer Hou Sui personally led four extra-large ships to support.

These four extra-large ships are the serial ships that Yuan Keli tested on Juehua Island in the summer, and they have been useless on Juehua Island after the test, and the hulls of these boats are made of two large boats put together with wooden planks and connected with iron chains, and the wooden planks are covered with iron armor and each has a big general cannon and a few Franc machine guns, and when they encounter Geng Zhongming's ship to intercept it, only a tea time will wipe out the entire army of the sailors just formed by the Jurchens. After destroying Geng Zhongming's ship, Hou Sui ordered the fleet to break through the ice floes and reach the city of Jinzhou, and shelled the north and south directions of the shore respectively, opening a passage out.

Mao Wenlong saw that Hou Sui led reinforcements to the rescue, and happily went out of the city to greet him, and insisted on letting Hou Sui sit down after arriving at his tent and thanked him repeatedly, and his gratitude was overflowing. On the contrary, Liu Xingzuo was not so excited, he said to Hou Sui: "Thank you for waiting for the prison army to come to the rescue, otherwise we will really die without a place to be buried, but I see that the ships brought by the prison army are all chain boats, and the Jurchens are familiar with the Three Kingdoms, be careful that they draw gourds to burn the chain boats." ”

Hou Sui laughed and said: "It's winter now, and the north wind is blowing, and the wind is blowing from north to south, and my ship can't burn in the north Jurchens." ”

Liu Xingzuo coughed and said, "I remember that Cao Cao said the same thing back then. ”

Mao Wenlong laughed and said: "Brother Liu has seen too much, the things in the romance can't be taken seriously, I don't know how many people Lord Hou brought with the ship this time?" Do you want them to go into the city and take a break? ”

Hou Sui also coughed lightly and said: "There are only more than 200 people in total, all of them are rowers and gunners, they can't enter the city and have to stay on the boat." ”

Seeing the disappointment in Mao Wenlong's eyes, Hou Sui asked, "It is said that Phi Dao was lost, did anyone run out?" ”

Mao Wenlong sighed and shook his head and said, "No, the people on the island, including Chenglu, either surrendered or were killed, and my own soldiers saw Chenglu killed with their own eyes." However, there are still 20,000 people here, and we will definitely not be afraid of these enemies, as long as there is food and reinforcements, Jinzhou is an impregnable wall. ”

Hou Sui said: "If you lose Phi Island, you will lose it, the emperor said that if you lose it, you don't have to think about going back, the soldiers worked hard to guard the country for the Koreans, but they also colluded with the Jurchens to plot against us, so simply come back and let them find their own way, we just need to deal with it here." Jinzhou is a very good place, a little south only more than ten miles wide, after the beginning of the spring, Zhao led to teach Zhao General Soldiers will come to build a strong city to connect the bay on both sides of Jinzhou, then there will be hundreds of thousands of fishermen moved here, of course, in the name of the members of the big iron company, because the ban on the sea has not been lifted, then the soldiers can solve the problem from the immigrants. ”

Mao Wenlong was both happy and worried when he heard this, and he was happy that in the future, he could take root in the wide areas south of Jinzhou, including Lushun, and that supplies such as food and clothing could be replenished in time, and he would no longer have to go to the small place of Phi Dao to suffer. After more than ten days of hard fighting, the soldiers have been working very hard, and I don't know if they can support themselves in the case of lack of medical treatment and medicine, and the enemy will increase his troops.

Mao Wenlong thought about it and decided to talk about the difficulties, and asked, "Why can't Mr. Zhao come now?" Also, can you draw some troops from other places? The soldiers in the city were tired and needed to rest. ”

Hou Sui said: "General Zhao has very important things to do now, and besides, it is not easy to repair houses and city walls in winter, and in spring, when the ice melts, the things that are repaired will bear fruit." It's not impossible to send tens of thousands of people here, but the emperor is afraid of scaring the Jurchens away, so he doesn't increase his troops, and the emperor thinks that you can hold Jinzhou City and drag the Jurchens. I'm here today to explore the way, and tomorrow someone will bring food from Ningyuan to help, and there will be a doctor from the medical school with him, so you can relax. ”

Mao Wenlong also understood when he heard it, it turned out that the meaning of the apocalypse was mainly to drag Amin's army on his side, because he gave the Jurchens the idea that they might be able to eat it, so not only Amin and Yue Tuo's army was here, but even Dolgon's army guarding Gaizhou was also mobilized. If the increase in troops will make the Jurchens retreat and put pressure on the fighting troops in other places, as for where there is a battle Mao Wenlong didn't ask, his ** was still bleeding, and he didn't care who had hemorrhoids.

Liu Xingzuo smiled at this time: "It's great that Lord Hou can really bring food, and I won't tell you that we are all ready to gnaw on the dead corpses." ”

Although Hou Sui was a scholar, he was not intimidated by Liu Xingzuo's words to gnaw at the dead, he smiled and said: "When An Bangyan besieged Guiyang City, the city not only ate the dead but also the living. The book says that when Zhang patrolled the city and ran out of food during the Anshi Rebellion of the Tang Dynasty, he also killed his concubine and stewed soup for the soldiers to eat, which shows that it is okay to eat people without food. ”

Hou Sui's words made Liu Xingzuo startled, he only said that he gnawed on the dead corpse, who knew that Hou Sui actually talked about eating living people, it seems that this scholar is much more ruthless than ordinary people. He suddenly remembered that Hou Sui seemed to have been a governor in Guizhou back then, and he didn't know if this Hou Yushi had ever tasted human flesh, so he thought about it and didn't dare to ask, so he had to laugh dryly and not speak.

Hou Sui said to Mao Wenlong at this time: "The emperor promised General Mao that he would give you a knighthood as long as you made meritorious service, does General Mao still remember?" ”

Mao Wenlong said: "Remember, but the emperor said that he would wait until the Jurchens were driven away." ”

Hou Sui said: "I don't know how to seal the Jurchens when they get rid of them, but before leaving, I heard the emperor inadvertently say a word, the emperor said that Mao Wenlong occupied the Jinzhou region in the southeast of Liaoning, and it was worthy of the name to seal the Marquis of southern Liaoning." ”