In 1627, Emperor Apocalypse seized this important town on the Liaohe Plain from Nurhachi, who was in the ascendant period of the Later Jin Dynasty. And personally named Fengtian, taking the auspicious saying of Fengtian carrier, so far the city has been named after Fengtian, and it has been used to this day.

And this city that was taken from the hands of Houjin Nurhachi is now back in the hands of the Jin Emperor Yehe Haolian, and the most important thing he has to think about now is how to defend this prosperous city that has just arrived under the revenge of the angry Ming Empire.

For this matter, the Jin State, which was far from the Ming Empire in terms of comprehensive national strength, had to once again recruit troops from the whole country and deploy hundreds of thousands of troops on the banks of the Liao River, hoping to use this defense line, which had been mostly built very strongly, to hold the land that had been plundered from the Ming Dynasty.

"Boom!" With a deafening explosion, a huge explosion set off a column of water nearly 100 meters high, and the soldiers of the Jin Kingdom even completely blew up the railway bridge over the Liao River for the sake of safety. In order to prevent the troops of the Ming Empire from crossing the Liao River, the Jin army even laid mines on the relatively wide section of the Liao River, and these mines were all wartime materials provided by the Japanese without exception.

On the east bank of the Liao River, on a position that is being transformed into a permanent fortification, a group of Jin soldiers are trying to use their shovels to fill the sandbags under their feet into the sandbags in the hands of their companions. The entire defense line is now like a construction site, everyone is busy, in short, the people above speculate that in less than a month, the counterattack troops of the Ming Empire will be in place, and at that time it will depend on the fruits of these days' labor.

Sandbags were built inside the walls of the trenches, and fishing nets and wooden stakes were fastened, and the trenches were as deep as two and a half meters, and the passages up and down were built like stairs, and ladders were erected in some places. Directly in front of the trenches laid out in this way were areas of treacherous mines and dense barbed wire, and ordinary infantry would have to pay hundreds of men if they wanted to climb over these obstacles.

This does not include the casualties caused by the Jin soldiers who took the opportunity to open fire, you must know that behind these obstacles, the Jin army also built hundreds of various machine gun defensive positions, and most of these machine gun positions were hidden, and in some places they were even reinforced with concrete and steel bars.

At intervals, covered trenches were reinforced with wood, sandbags and mud, which served as headquarters for the front line and for soldiers to shelter from shelling. Of course, some of them also store ammunition in them, or they can be converted into machine-gun bunkers. Such a hidden bunker can be a mortal threat to the attacking side at any time, and the attacking army will not be until they open fire.

"A month ago, our General Todeltay swore to us that this time we could take Jinzhou." A panting soldier who threw his sandbag on the fortifications complained to the soldier who was loading dirt next to him: "Now we are back to where we were and filling our trenches." ”

The friendly soldier who heard what the other party said sneered, then shook his head and sighed: "You are okay, you only went to Tai'an, and you were forced to retreat." I heard that the cavalry troops really went to Jinzhou, and many people were killed. ”

As he spoke, at the rear of the position, on a high platform made of wood about a few kilometers away from the Liao River, several Taoist priests accompanying the army were chanting their complicated scriptures, and under the high platform, thousands of Jin soldiers wearing officer clothes were kneeling. This is a ritual of the Jin Kingdom, and unlike the Ming Empire, the slightly insulting etiquette of kneeling has always been popular throughout the Jin Kingdom.

"But isn't it, I heard that the cavalry troops who came back cried loudly, and every family had young people who couldn't be found, and many people went to the official office in Changchun to make trouble, and I heard that this time the pension was at least 10 million gold coins." The soldier propped up a new sack, and then said to the soldier who was loading the soil: "The people from the 2nd battalion said that they had seen the finished tablets, and I heard that there were tens of thousands of them with names and surnames. ”

Directly in front of the high platform, in a small open space, as the highest symbol of power in the Jin country, Ye He Haolian stood in front of the tablets densely stacked under the wooden high platform, silently waiting for those Taoist priests to finish reciting the scriptures in their mouths. For Jin Guo, although this kind of loss can be bearable, it will also be distressed for a while, not to mention that the benefits of this war so far in his empire are actually not much.

The iron ore mines in Anshan had been mortgaged to Japan, and even the miners in them were used by the Jinguo, and large forests were sold cheaply to Japan and the United States, as well as Ceylon in the south. Not to mention luxury goods such as ginseng and deer antlers, everything that can be exported has been cashed out, and in order to prepare for this war, Yehe Haolian even signed a treaty and gave the Liaodong Peninsula to Japan.

It's a pity that although the Ming Empire has declined, it is not so fragile that any cat or dog can bully it. The war had reached this point, and Ye Hehao had only obtained one Fengtian City, and there was no way to expand his gains. And Japan and Ceylon finally had to admit with difficulty that they alone could not defeat such a behemoth as the Ming Empire.

"When will this ritual end? I've got a myriad of things to ask about, and you're leaving me standing here, stupid? Yehehaolian finally became impatient in the long eulogy, his patience was never limited, and it was impossible to waste it on the scene in front of him.

"Your Majesty, this is the best time to boost morale and strengthen the morale of the army." Ye He Haolan didn't raise his head, knelt half a step away behind Ye He Hao Zhan, and reminded his emperor softly: "What should be done has been arranged, Your Majesty, please rest assured." ”

Ye Hehao snorted, he wanted to reply, "The hundreds of thousands of troops of the Ming Empire are almost at the doorstep, how can I rest assured", but he didn't say it in the end, just continued to stare at those tablets, feeling more and more uncomfortable.

The ritual is still going on slowly according to custom, and in order to distinguish it from the Ming Empire, the Jin State is also happy to make this nondescript ritual to highlight the particularity and independence of its empire - although it uses the currency of the Ming Empire, although it uses the script of the Ming Empire......