About two months after the battle of Haizhou, more than 50 miles south of Liaoyang City, north of Dongshan, south of Wanshui River, within a radius of more than ten miles, was already covered with the camp tents of the Ming army.

This time, the Ming army used more than 100,000 troops, Zhang Bin not only brought the Qijia army, Tianxiong army, Sichuan army, Fuguang army and other original people who participated in the battle last time, but even the Qin army in Haizhou City and the Guanning iron cavalry who returned from Bashu were all brought.

At this time, Liaoyang City also gathered a large army, Huang Taiji not only gathered the seven banner foot soldiers such as the yellow flag, the white flag, the inlaid white flag, and the red flag, but also forcibly recruited all the young and strong men of the Han Eight Banners, and made up 60,000 cannon fodder, and at the same time ordered 40,000 cavalry of the Eight Banners to gather in Zhangtaizi, more than ten miles north of Liaoyang City, ready to attack the Ming army at any time.

Another decisive battle seemed to be about to start, but after the Ming army arrived south of the Wanshui River, it suddenly stopped, stuck there motionless, and did not know what it wanted to do.

In order to find out the intentions of the Ming army, Huang Taiji sent thousands of scouts, but none of them were able to break through the blockade of the Ming army, close to the Ming army camp within ten miles, because the Ming army blocked the Wanshui River with chariots, and set up tiger squat cannons and flintlock guns behind it, and to cross the river, they had to detour beyond the Great Wall outside the Guanwai, and the Ming army also scattered the entire camp of the Guanning Iron Cavalry everywhere, and the scouts ran over, and they were accidentally killed!

What did the Ming army want to do by blocking the news like this?

Could it be that this Zhang Bin wants to learn from Sun Chengzong, build a city or fortress, and he can't lead the cavalry to sneak attack!

He really guessed right, Zhang Bin was building the city.

At midnight that morning, Zhang Bin ran out of the Fuguang army camp with a team of personal guards as usual, climbed all the way to the highest peak of Dongshan along the newly dug mountain road, and came to the temporary pavilion on the top of the mountain.

This amount of exercise is naturally nothing to the guards of the special operations battalion who have experienced devil training, they are just a little sweaty and gasping for breath, but Zhang Bin is already sweating profusely and panting, he has been exercising for a while, and his physical strength has increased a lot, but mountaineering like this is still a bit difficult for him.

He held his hands on his knees and gasped for a moment, feeling his breath stabilize a little, then straightened up, took the telescope from Zhang Pan's hand, and looked down at the morning light.

This is the Anshan of the later generations, but, there was no city here before, not even a village, due to the perennial war, here is in the Ming and Jiannu war area, the common people here have long run out, and the farmland is also a barren.

However, at this time, this place is full of life, more than 100,000 Ming army soldiers and more than 50,000 prisoners of the Jiannu coalition army are scattered on the south bank of the Wanshui River, digging soil and quarrying, building city walls, within a radius of more than ten miles, there are busy figures everywhere, and a medium-sized city covering an area of tens of thousands of acres is slowly taking shape.

The reason why Zhang Bin built a city here was not because he wanted to learn Sun Chengzong's technique of advancing a fortress, because at this time, the elite under his command did not scare the Jiannu cavalry at all in the field battle, and there was no need to rely on the fortress to resist the Houjin Iron Cavalry.

This is also a decision he made after careful consideration, because although the original Haizhou City chokes the avenue leading to the south and west in the northeast of Liaodong, it cannot block all the paths to the south and west, if Jiannu wants to sneak attack, he can still send light cavalry to bypass Haizhou City and go straight to Gaizhou or the Liaohe River Valley, so that he not only has to station heavy troops in Haizhou, but also the Liaohe River Valley and Gaizhou Wei must also send heavy troops to garrison, and the troops he can gather are less than 50,000.

It would be different if the place of Anshan could be stuck, because the east side of this Anshan Mountain is Fengshui Ridge, the west side is the Great Wall outside the Guanwai, the width of the middle passage is less than 30 miles, and there is this Dongshan more than 10 miles wide in the southeast, and there is a Wanshui River in the north, that is to say, as long as a city several miles wide is built in the northwest of Dongshan and on the south bank of the Wanshui River, Jiannu will not want to pass from here.

Because the east mountain is more than ten miles wide in the horizontal direction, and the firing range of the Franc machine gun of more than 1,000 catties is more than five miles, the artillery control area in the city is enough to reach more than ten miles to the left and right, so that once it is added up, the passage of less than 30 miles is basically blocked.

After this passage is blocked, if Jiannu wants to go south to attack Haizhou City or attack Gaizhou and the Liaohe River Basin, he can only go to the Liaohetao area outside the Great Wall, where the rivers are vertical and horizontal, the roads are muddy, and the transportation of grain and grass is inconvenient.

I'm afraid they can't afford to spend it at this time, so as long as they hold the land of Anshan, the Liao River valley in the west, Gaizhou, Fuzhou, Jinzhou in the south, and even Haizhou are almost safe, there is no need to send heavy troops to garrison it, and he can gather more troops to fight a decisive battle with Jiannu.

It has been almost half a month since he led the army, and the city wall of Anshan City has also revealed its approximate prototype, some places are less than one person high, and some places have been as high as zhangxu, especially in the north, the city wall of five or six miles wide has basically reached the height of one zhang.

The total height he set is one zhang five, the main body of the city wall below is one zhang, and the height of the female wall and the arrow buttress above is about five feet, that is to say, the main body of the city wall in the north is almost completed, even if Jiannu finds it at this time, rushes over, it will not be able to get good, because the north city wall is less than a mile away from the Wanshui River, as long as the thousand catties of Buddha Lang machine guns are put on the city wall, it can completely cover the area of about three miles on the other side of the river, and even, the tiger squat cannon can borrow the height of the city wall to bombard the other side of the river, at this time, Even if Jiannu wanted to cross the river, it would be difficult.

Seeing that the soldiers of the Fuguang Army were hoisting a thousand catties of Buddha Lang machine on the north city wall, Zhang Bin couldn't help but show a smug smile on his face, hehe, Huang Taiji wants to find out that such a big city has been built here, and it is estimated that he will be so angry that he will spurt blood.

He was laughing there, when suddenly there was a faint sound of horses' hooves from the south, and the intensity of the hoofs was at most, at most, forty or fifty horsemen, which general should have come with his men.

Zhang Bin turned his head, raised his binoculars and took a closer look, and sure enough, it was Mao Wenlong, the commander of the Dongjiang Army, and his generals.

This guy, did he get up quite early, he rushed over before the hour, he should have rushed to Haizhou first and rested for the night, otherwise, it would be impossible to get here so early.

Zhang Bin was not in a hurry to go down the mountain, because he had summoned not only the generals of the Dongjiang Army but also the generals of the Liaodong Army, and this Anshan New City also had a certain defensive capability, so it was time to start mobilizing the army.

It didn't take long for a faint sound of horses' hooves to sound in the southwest again, he raised the binoculars to see, sure enough, it was Zu Dashou, the chief general of the Liaodong Army, and a group of generals under him, he couldn't help laughing, threw the telescope to Zhang Pan, and then waved his hand: "Go, go back to the camp for a meeting." ”