In 1621, after making full preparations in political, economic, diplomatic, military and other aspects, Nurhachi decided to attack Shenyang and Liaoyang after making full preparations, taking advantage of the change of commander in Liaodong, the discouragement of the army, the disorder of border defense and the lack of military knowledge of the superintendent Yuan Yingtai, and launched the second decisive battle between Ming and Jin. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Nurhachi made full preparations before the battle, so on February 11, the sixth year of the Mandate of Heaven (1621), he personally led a large army to attack Fengji Fort at the gateway of Liao and Shen in eight ways, which opened the prelude to the battle of Liao and Shen. At this time, Li Bingcheng, the general soldier of the Ming Dynasty, heard that the Houjin soldiers were coming to attack, and led 3,000 horsemen out of the city to meet the battle. Nurhachi led the army to garrison Gaogang, three miles away from the north of the city, there were more than 200 Ming soldiers not far away, he ordered the right wing soldiers to attack, the Ming army was defeated and retreated, chased to the place where the Ming soldiers gathered, there were more than 2,000 people of the Ming army here, Zhu Wanliang, the deputy general of the Ming Dynasty, saw that the Houjin army was strong, could not resist, and fled without a fight. The Ming Dynasty stationed heavy troops in Fengjibao, but they did not dare to fight against each other, and they collapsed when they heard the wind, thus enhancing Nurhachi's confidence and determination to attack Shenyang.

On March 10, Nurhachi led the army of the Eight Banners, set off from the Sarhu oath division, and carried the battle equipment of the Tiyu camp gate in the boat, and marched along the Hunhe River by land and water to attack Shenyang. On the 11th, the Houjin soldiers marched west across the Hunhe River at night, and were discovered by the Ming army scouts who lit a beacon fire to give an alarm. He Shixian and You Shigong, the commanders of the Ming Dynasty guarding Shenyang, learned that the Houjin soldiers were coming, and immediately mobilized urgently to prepare to meet the enemy. On the 12th, Nurhachi led his army to Shenyang, stationed in Zhumu City on the north bank of the Hunhe River, seven miles east of the city, and sent elite troops to Henan to reconnoiter the Ming army's defense.

Shenyang "The city is quite strong, the moat outside the city is dredging, the logging is a fence, and the artillery is ambushed". There are ten traps equal to the human body dug outside the city, the bottom of the well is densely inserted with sharp wooden piles, there are four big trenches dug after the traps, the sharp piles are densely covered, and the big fence is set up again, the chariots are arranged along the inner moat, each car is equipped with two large cannons and four small cannons, and five cannons are placed between the two cars. Fengji Fort and Hupi Station also opened the river and built sluices, repaired solidly, and Shenyang became a horn.

In the city of Shenyang, there are He Shixian, You Shigong two general officers, each with more than 10,000 soldiers, the chief military officers Chen Ce and Dong Zhonghua led more than 10,000 soldiers from Sichuan and Zhejiang to come to the aid from Liaoyang, and Li Bingcheng, the general soldier of the fort guarding Fengji, Zhu Wanliang and Jiang Bi, the chief soldiers of the Wujing battalion, also led 30,000 troops to help. In terms of the total number of troops, the Ming State had a slight advantage, and the city of Shenyang was strong and deep, and there were many guns, so it was difficult for the Ming army to conquer if the city was held to the death.

If the war dragged on, after Chen Ce, Li Bingcheng and other more than 40,000 troops and other reinforcements arrived, the situation would be very sinister, so he took the opportunity to respond and decisively decided to lure the enemy out of the city, give full play to the strengths of his own army in field warfare, set up an ambush, and take the opportunity to annihilate the enemy.

On 20 March, Nurhachi first sent dozens of cavalry "trench detectives", but they were pursued by the chief soldier You Shigong, and four people died. He Shixian, the brave and unscrupulous general soldier, "brave and light, is easy to be a slave with", so he changed the original policy of "sticking to it" and "decided to fight". On the second day, Nurhachi sent a small number of old and weak soldiers to challenge, He Shixian drank and got drunk, led more than 1,000 people out of the city, boasted of Haikou, and said that he would "fight against the enemy". Soon after the Jin soldiers descended from the sky, "fine cavalry quadrangle", when he knew that the plan was ambushed, it was too late, had to fight and but, to the west gate of Shenyang, the body has been hit by four arrows, although the iron whip struggled to resist the pursuers, but the body was hit by several arrows, fell off the horse and was killed. You Shigong led troops to the West Gate, wanting to save He Shixian, but was intercepted by the Houjin soldiers, and also died in battle. At the same time, Nurhachi personally supervised the siege of the city. "The Jianzhou soldiers filled the trench with new soil from the northeast corner, and the city fired artillery in a row, and the heat was sprayed, and the Jianzhou soldiers swarmed through the trench and attacked the east gate urgently." The Ming army defending the city learned that the main generals He Shixian and You Shigong had been killed, and they had lost the commander who organized the battle, and the dragons were leaderless, so they "fled violently". At this moment, the hungry people in Inner Mongolia in the city responded internally, opened the city gate, cut the bridge rope, put down the drawbridge, and then the Jin soldiers crossed the trench into the city, quickly eliminated the Ming army in the city, and occupied the city of Shenyang.