In Zhenjiang Fort, who were waiting for the Ming army in Jiangdong to come to cross the river to attack, Jierharang and others heard the news and almost fainted in fright.

There were more than 12,000 troops stationed on the eastern front of the road, including more than 2,000 heavily armored guards, 6,000 infantry archers, axemen, and spearmen in foot armor, and 4,000 cavalrymen in horse armor.

Speaking of these numbers is indeed a lot, the so-called Jurchen is not more than 10,000, full of 10,000 invincible, with such more than 12,000 people in armor, whether it is Huang Taiji who went west to Chahar, or Dai Shan, who stayed in Shenyang, they all feel that there is no problem.

Including Jierharang and others, who were stationed in Zhenjiang Fort and defending the eastern front of Dajin Kingdom, also felt that there was no problem.

However, the Jurchens, who had always been accustomed to attacking and fighting in the field, once they began to learn from the Ming army to build walled cities along the river and garrison them, they immediately found that the number of more than 12,000 people stationed along the line of the Yalu River immediately became overstretched.

Except for a few key places, such as Zhenjiang Fort, Dadonggou, Kuandianbao, Yalu River City, Donghe City, and Zhusheli City, in other places, Jierharang really can't spare more men and horses to garrison.

Even in these places, Zhenjiang Fort and Kuandian Fort are the focus of garrison.

As for the place north of the city of Zhusheri, it can only be garrisoned by the Varkha tribe led by Buzhantai and Buqidai.

During the Nuer Hachi era, the Jurchens had a rule that all hostile tribesmen and horses captured through war were included in the sequence of the Eight Banners, regardless of whether you were a Jurchen, Korean, or Mongol.

However, all the tribes that took refuge in the annexation basically maintained their relative integrity and independence.

This was the case with the Uliangha Mongols under the command of Buzhantai, Bu Dai and others.

Although it was also organized into Niulu, Jiala and Gushan in the way of the Jurchens, it was not included in any of the Eight Banners as a whole.

This rather exceptional situation lasted until Huang Taiji's decision to establish the Eight Banners of the Mongols and the Eight Banners of the Han Army.

In the areas west of the Yalu River and the Douman River, especially the areas that originally belonged to the four Jurchen Hulun tribes in Haixi, such as the Ula (Jilin Yongji), Hada (Jilin Panshi), Yehe (Jilin Siping), Huifa (Jilin Huadian) four divisions, and others such as the Wanyan Division, the Wula Division, etc., after the conquest and elimination of the Jurchens in Beijianzhou, the people and horses were incorporated into the Jurchen Eight Banners.

After these people were incorporated into the Jurchen Eight Banners, most of them were brought back to the Jianzhou Jurchen region, and the place where they stayed was gradually occupied by the Mongol Ulianghabu fugitives Buzhantai, Bu Dai, and even the Nawen Horqin Mongols.

But on the whole, this vast area is very sparsely populated, and apart from the villages where the tribes live together, fishing and hunting, there are neither large fortified cities nor many well-trained standing armies.

If there is any weakness in the Jin State after the establishment of the captivity, then this weakness is in the rear of the Jin State after the establishment of the captivity.

This large rear area is not yet in the direction of southern Liaoning or Korea, but in a vast area that landed from the mouth of the Douman River to the west.

After Chen Jisheng, Kong Youde, and Yuan Doubi landed on the shore at the mouth of the Douman River, their troops marched towards Varka City, an "important town" in the upper reaches of the Douman River, with guns and cannons.

Along the way, they killed people when they saw them, regardless of men, women, old and children, and burned the houses in the villages when they saw them, regardless of whether there were people or not.

The guns, artillery, thunderbolts, and fierce oil bombs carried by Chen Jisheng and Kong Youde's subordinates made Yuan Doubi both envious and afraid.

Fortunately, there were more than 500 people from the Luo Shouzhong Department of Yingzhou Town, who followed him along the way, and they were also equipped with five 100-person musket teams with thunderbolts, which made the Koreans, who were scared to death when they saw the Jurchen braided soldiers, also rarely burst out with ferocity in their bones.

In the action of abusing and killing the old and weak of the Jurchens in the villages encountered along the way, they were more cruel and ruthless than the troops under Kong Youde, which were mainly composed of Han people in Liaodong.

In this way, at the same time when Li Xingzhong led the main fleet of Dongjiang Town to bombard Zhenjiang Fort City on the Yalu River, Chen Jisheng, Kong Youde, and Yuan Doubi barely encountered any strong resistance, and came to the city of Valkashan along the Douman River.

On the morning of the second day after the siege of the city of Varka, Buzhantai, who had been named Ulabbel by Nuerhachi and was actually a Mongol, led 1,500 cavalry in armor from the rescue men and horses of his division back to the vicinity of the castle of Varkashan.

Although there were many people and horses besieging the mountain city in Buzhantai, they were all Koreans, so they didn't take it seriously, and immediately led the cavalry under his command to attack the large array that Yuan Dou couldn't stop.

As a result, of course, they were surrounded by Chen Jisheng and Kong Youde, who were ambushed in the mountains and forests near the mountain city.

Fifteen hundred, mixed with the Jurchens, Mongols, and Korean cavalry of Buzhantai, were surrounded by more than 10,000 men armed with muskets and grenades, and in less than an hour they were all wiped out.

Buzhantai, a Mongol who guarded the old land of the Haixi Jurchens for the wild boar skin family and constantly plundered the Koreans, pretended to be the savage Jurchens and presented them to the masters of the Eight Banners as bannermen, and was also shot to death by the musket team under the command of Chen Jisheng, a middle-aged in the charge.

By the time more than 1,500 infantry who had followed Buzhantai to reinforce them arrived near the city of Varkashan, not only had the cavalry front team led by Buzhantai who had arrived first been wiped out, but even the city of Varkarshan had been bombarded by Kong Youde's department with more than a dozen Francophone cannons.

And the infantry of more than 1,500 people, in the face of tens of thousands of Ming troops and Koreans under the city of Varka Mountain, and the city of Varka Mountain, which had been bombarded with a section of the city wall, immediately revealed that in addition to the characteristics of being Mongols in their bones, they quickly turned around and fled, and scattered in a hurry.

Chen Jisheng and others went up the Douman River to attack the city of Varkashan, not only mobilizing Buzhantai and others who were originally in the city of Odori, and the troops with blue flags stationed in Kuandian, Yalu River City, and Zhusheli City, but also mobilized the Zhenghongqi troops stationed in Dong He (Tonghua) and Olehui City (Huanren).

Ye Keshu, one of the two solid mountains of the Zhenghongqi stationed in Dong Yi, and Boerjin, one of the Zhenghongqi Meile Ezhen stationed in Olehui City, on the one hand, quickly went to Shenyang City to report the news, and on the other hand, mobilized troops to the north to intercept and eliminate the Ming army that launched a sneak attack from the mouth of the Douman River.

However, all these dazzling troop movements only provided a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for one person to avoid reality and smash the Yellow Dragon.

On the evening of the second day of the first day of November, Shang Kexi, the deputy general of Dongjiang Town, who had been stationed in Changzhou City and had been guarding himself without any movement, suddenly mobilized a large number of men and horses and appeared on the side of Changzhou City on the east bank of the Yalu River.

The garrison of Yongdian Fort, which had been on alert on the other side, also quickly approached the west bank of the Yalu River to prevent the Ming army from suddenly crossing the river.

However, the brothers Shang Kexi and Mao Kejin did not lead the army to cross the river, but only kept observing the situation on the other side while holding binoculars, and stopped from time to time to direct their men and horses to push one big ship after another into the river with a layer of ice floe.

Whether it was the war in the north or the battle in Zhenjiang Fort, the brothers Shang Kexi and Mao Kejin, who were stationed in Changzhou, keenly smelled an opportunity.

If he had seized this opportunity, the miracle of Mao Wenlong's promotion to the general army with a guerrilla war would also have befallen him!

At that time, Mao Wenlong, as a guerrilla, led the elite army, and when Jianlu and the Ming army fought in Guangning and Liuhe in a series of battles, he took a boat from the Yalu River upstream, and then abandoned the boat and landed in the upper reaches of the Yalu River, and suddenly attacked the back road of Jianlu.

Burning, killing and looting in the heart of the captives, as if entering a no-man's land.

Although the Ming army led by Wang Huazhen, Xiong Tingbi and others was completely defeated in the area of Guangning, it was precisely because of Mao Wenlong's deep penetration behind enemy lines that the rear road of Jianlu was unstable and could not pursue the Ming army too far, giving the Ming army that was defeated under the city of Guangning the opportunity to retreat south.

It was precisely because of this merit that Mao Wenlong was promoted to the chief soldier in World War I.

These past events are the envy of people like Shang Kexi.

Such an opportunity suddenly appeared in front of me now, how could I not grasp it!

What he's doing now is he's scuttling a huge ship full of boulders through the bottom of the boat and pushing it into the freezing Yalu River.

Then the giant trees cut down from the Yalu River were made into the proposed wooden raft pontoon bridge, and also thrown into the river, so that the river surface could be frozen faster, and at the same time, the frozen river surface could withstand the cavalry under his command rushing through.

In this way, that night, Shang Kexi commanded a large number of foot soldiers and thousands of militiamen under the jurisdiction of Changzhou City, and fought for half a night on the banks of the Yalu River.

On the other side, the garrison of Yongdian Fort with blue flags had no other way than to harass with bows and arrows.

In the early morning of the third day of November, the brothers Shang Kexi and Mao Kejin, who had been waiting for this opportunity, finally waited for the opportunity they wanted.

The Yalu River is covered with a thick layer of ice, and the section of the river where shipwrecks and giant trees have slowed down the flow of water is even more solid.

Just after the end of the day, the brothers Shang Kexi and Mao Kejin led the 3,000 cavalry under their command that had been ready for a long time, roaring across the frozen river, and did not hesitate to kill or wound all the barricades set up by Yongdian Fort with blue flags to garrison Niu Lu the night before.

At the same time, more than 900 people who heard the news of Yongdian Fort with blue flags and garrisoned Niulu were scattered in one fell swoop, and then hundreds of their own soldiers who rushed into battle and fell off their horses were left alone, and galloped all the way west along the mountain road towards Kuandianbao.