Wanghai Fort is located in the northeast of Jinzhou thirty miles, Ming Jinzhou Wei once set up a hundred households here, after the Jin army occupied Jinzhou, out of the precaution against Dongjiang Town, also stationed troops in Wanghai Fort. However, there are not many soldiers and horses, only 200 people in the Han military banner, and thousands of Han people who were originally fishermen and are now eight banners of Aha. There are also two small forts between Wanghai Fort and Jinzhou, and there are more than 700 Ming soldiers and soldiers who were captured in the Guangning War. (Author's note: Aha, Manchu contemptuously referred to the Han people who were subsumed into slavery)

Different from the Manchu Eight Banners, although the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty were also recorded by oxen, the system of the Ming army was still used in the banner, such as Ge Mingchang and Li Peiguo, who were stationed in Jinzhou, were the leaders in front of the Manchus, but they were thousands of commanders in front of their subordinates and the Han people. Zhou Wuchang, the general stationed in Wanghai Fort, was a subordinate of Li Peiguo, who was reduced with Li Peiguo after the defeat of Guangning in the second year of the Apocalypse, and his subordinates were also Ming troops who participated in the Battle of Guangning.

For the battle of Guangning ten years ago, Zhou Wuchang, who had personally experienced it, was reluctant to say more, because they couldn't say anything, and if they had to say something, it might be resentment for Sun Degong's betrayal

After Liaoyang and Shenyang fell in the first year of the Apocalypse, the Ming court sent Xiong Tingbi, a member of the Donglin Party, and Wang Huazhen, a "eunuch party", out of the customs to clean up the situation. Wang Huazhen is enterprising, anxious to recover, and strategically focuses on attack; Xiong Tingbi insisted on focusing on defense and had no interest in offensive ideas. From a purely defensive point of view, Xiong Tingbi's deployment was undoubtedly more reliable, but Xiong Tingbi ignored a problem, that is, the expectation of the three million Liaodong Han people for the Ming army to regain the lost territory and the blood of unwilling to be a slave of a foreign race.

After the Jin army captured Liaoshen, Nurhachi implemented a high-pressure policy of slaughtering the Han people, and those Liaodong Han people who did not want to be the ghosts of the Jin army took up arms to resist the Jin army. The old and weak women and children who were powerless to resist were looking forward to the rescue of the officers and soldiers day and night. In the massacre that lasted for several months, no less than one million Han people in Liaodong were slaughtered, so Xiong Tingbi's main defense was undoubtedly to abandon all those Han people who were still resisting and let them be killed. Wang Huazhen, on the other hand, insisted on attacking for the purpose of rescuing these people of the imperial court who were in dire straits, and at that time he sent no less than dozens of envoys to contact the Han people who started the uprising.

In the first month of the second year of the Apocalypse, Nurhachi struck first, and 50,000 Jin soldiers crossed the Liao River and attacked Xipingbao. Xiping Fort is an important barrier on the periphery of Guangning, and Zhenwu Fort and Luyang Post are in the shape of "product" to jointly defend Guangning, and the deputy chief soldier Luo has always led troops to garrison here. The Jin soldiers came to attack, and Luo consistently ordered the general Heiyunlong to lead his troops out of the city to meet the battle, but he was outnumbered, and the Heiyunlong soldiers were defeated and died. The Jin soldiers surrounded Xiping Fort and launched a fierce attack on the south gate, Luo Yi led his troops to hold on, fired artillery and returned fire, and the Jin army suffered many casualties.

Li Yongfang, who surrendered to the Jin army, tried to recruit Luo Zhengyi, but he waved the banner of surrender and sent envoys into the city to persuade him to surrender. Luo has always been loyal, and he angrily rebuked the envoy: "Don't you know that I am a loyal person? After ordering the future envoy to be beheaded, and a-for-tat banner of surrender was raised in the city, Jin was angry and angry, and the attack became more violent.

Wang Huazhen ordered his henchmen Sun Degong and general Zu Dashou to lead the Guangning soldiers to rescue Xipingbao, and at the same time ordered the general Qi Bingzhong to lead the Luyang post soldiers to the rescue, and Xiong Tingbi also ordered the general Liu Qu to lead the Zhenwu Fort soldiers to the rescue. Wang Huazhen originally wanted to use Sun Degong's original Ming Fushun to fight against Li Yongfang after surrendering, but he didn't expect Sun Degong to be rebelled by Li Yongfang, and he had already surrendered to Houjin.

The three-way reinforcements of the Ming army encountered the Jin army near Shaling, and Liu Qu led his troops to engage in a fierce battle with the Jin soldiers, fighting three times in a row, and the Ming army had a slight upper hand. At this time, Sun Degong stepped forward and shook a shot, and shouted defeat, and the general Bao Chengxian led his troops to turn around and flee, and the Ming army was suddenly in chaos, and the soldiers fled one after another, and the soldiers were defeated like a mountain. Ge Mingchang, Li Peiguo, Zhou Wuchang and others were captured in this battle and surrendered to Jin, and it was only then that they learned that their every move had already been known by the Jin army.

Liu Qu, who was engaged in a battle with the enemy, saw that the situation was not good, hurriedly retreated, fled to Shaling, and was killed after falling off his horse. Qi Bingzhong fought with illness, was hit by two knives and three arrows, escaped from the siege with the support of his family, and died of injuries on the way to escape. Sun Degong rushed all the way to Guangning, shouting that the Jin army was coming to the city, and the city of Guangning suddenly exploded, and the soldiers and civilians rushed to seize the door and fled. Wang Huazhen had just gotten up at this time, and was reading the documents, when the general Jiang Chaodong kicked open the door of the bedroom, and couldn't help but say, he ran away with Wang Huazhen, Wang Huazhen was like a frightened bird, and fled west in a hurry under the protection of Jiang Chaodong.

After the Jin army defeated the three-way reinforcements, they continued to besiege Xiping Fort, and Luo always maintained a consistent style, responding to the persuasion of the Jin with cannons and stones, and dealt a heavy blow to the Jin soldiers, and the Jin soldiers suffered heavy casualties. Later, the gunpowder and arrows were exhausted, and the Jin army took the opportunity to erect a ladder to attack the city.

After the death of Luo Zhengyi, the 3,000 soldiers in the city continued to resist, engaged the enemy in hand-to-hand combat, and finally all of them were killed, and none of them surrendered. At this time, Xiong Tingbi led his troops to Luyangyi, and when he heard the news of Wang Huazhen's defeat, Senator Xing Shenyan asked for a quick rescue, but was stopped.

Wang Huazhen fled to Luyangyi and met Xiong Tingbi, and cried bitterly at Xiong Tingbi, but Xiong Tingbi was in schadenfreude and sprinkled salt on Wang Huazhen's wound, he said: "Aren't you going to lead 60,000 horses to level Liaoyang in one fell swoop, how is it now?" ”

Wang Huazhen was ashamed, but he did not lose his mind, he suggested that Xiong Tingbi immediately send troops to defend Ningyuan and Qiantun, but Xiong Tingbi said: "Hehe, it's too late, I can only return to Shanhaiguan with the refugees." ”

At this time, Gao Bangzuo, who participated in the political process, arrived and reported to Xiong Tingbi that the Jin army had not entered Guangning City, and Guangning was still an empty city, so he asked Xiong Tingbi to lead his troops back to garrison, but Xiong Tingbi did not listen. Gao Bangzuo said, since you can't go back to garrison in person, can you borrow my 5,000 men to garrison, Xiong Tingbi still refuses to allow it, and insists on withdrawing into the pass.

He gave Wang Huazhen 5,000 men and horses, ordered him to be in charge of the palace, burn grain and grass, and took his deputy envoys Gao Zhu and Hu Jiadong to retreat into the customs first. Gao Bangzuo couldn't bear to throw away the great rivers and mountains in vain, but he couldn't do anything, he didn't want to die and didn't want to enter the customs, and when he walked to Xingshan Station, he was angry and committed suicide to protest.

At this point, the Battle of Quang Ninh ended with Xiong Tingbi giving up all the land of the Ming Dynasty outside the Guan. Although the two people involved were both executed by the Ming Court at the very least, their performance in this battle made future generations sigh: Who is right and who is wrong?

Wang Huazhen was the main war, but at the critical juncture, he was as timid as a mouse, and fled from the wind, but he had the courage to do things and was aggressive, which was really commendable when everyone regarded Liaodong as a daunting road at that time.

On the other hand, Xiong Tingbi, who was brave in civil war, timid in foreign wars, brave in civil fights, and cowardly in martial arts, he himself was stationed at the Shanhaiguan in the rear, and he had no desire to regain the lost land to save the Han people, but instead regarded the Jinxiu rivers and mountains outside the Ming Dynasty and the safety of millions of Han people in Liaodong as a stone to attack the political enemy Wang Huazhen. When Wang Huazhen was defeated, he rejoiced in disaster, obstructed Xing Shenyan to rescue Wang Huazhen, and refused Gao Bangzuo to return to defend Guangning Empty City.

Ten years have passed, and the parties involved in the "Jingfu Dispute" have already gone to Huangquan, and those bloody Han people have also been slaughtered, and everything is irreparable. If there is anything left in this battle, I am afraid that it is Zhou Wuchang, the Ming army soldiers, and the white bones that are still scattered in the land of Liaodong and no one has gathered them.

For Sun Degong, Zhou Wuchang also hated him in their hearts, but the other party is now the third-class Meler Zhangjing of the Dajin Kingdom, what can they do if they hate him. What they can do is to be a monk for a day and beat the clock for a day, and honestly defend the Liaodong coastal defense for Dajin. They didn't dare to think of the idea of escaping, and they had already experienced the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners Army, and no one wanted to fight those murderous demons again.

This Wanghai Fort has also been stationed in this fort for more than four years, and during the four years, the wind and waves were calm, and I originally hoped that maybe the Ming army of the Dongjiang River would come ashore to rescue them, but in four years, not to mention the figure of the army, even the ghost shadow could not see a single one.

Ten years is enough to wipe out the unwillingness in anyone's heart, and now, Zhou Wuchang is ready to take this Wanghai Fort to death, after all, the king of Khan has opened his grace and carried them into the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, so that they can continue to be soldiers and eat, isn't this much better than those Ahabs who serve as slaves of cattle and horses?

Li Qian also sympathized with their old brothers, and selected some women from Ahari to be their daughters-in-law, and the daughter-in-law gave birth to a big fat boy for herself the year before last, Zhou Wuchang had no idea, and it is difficult to say whether there are relatives in the distant hometown.

When he was free, Zhou Wuchang liked to go out to sea to fish, but he didn't dare to go too far, after all, the sea was still the world of the Ming army, so he only cast a few nets in the near sea, and he could return with a full load every time. Sending larger, rare fish to Jinzhou can always be exchanged for the praise of the Lord of Manchukuo and Mr. Qian, and sometimes he will enjoy some wine and food and silver, which makes Zhou Wuchang very satisfied, if there is nothing to ask for in life.

Yesterday morning, the general manager of the city sent someone to tell Zhou Wuchang that the day after tomorrow, there were Manchurian high-ranking officials in Jinzhou City who would come to Wanghaibao, saying that they were going to welcome a general of the Ming Kingdom, and the other party had brought a lot of warships and cannons. The Manchurian lords are very concerned about this matter, and they want him Zhou Wuchang to pack up the fort, and don't dislike the Manchurian lords after they come. Xu is Zhilu Dao Zhou Wuchang is also difficult here, and the city also sent people to help, hundreds of cattle and sheep were sent at once, and a lot of gongs and drums were also sent. Today, Li Peichang also personally came over to inspect and praised Zhou Wuchang for doing a good job, which made Zhou Wuchang very happy. But no, in order to welcome the Manchurian lords, he took out all his belongings, and even sent his daughter-in-law to help, if this is not satisfactory to Mr. Qian, he Zhou Wuchang has to bang his head on the door.

The next night, a team of Eight Banners cavalry came to the city, Zhou Wuchang thought it was a Mongolian soldier, but he didn't want the other party to be a real Manchurian, and the leader was the leader Balla, so frightened that Zhou Wuchang hurriedly stepped forward and kowtowed. But Bala ignored him, led the people to inspect the fort, and asked Zhou Wuchang to clean up the place for the Manchu cavalry to live.

The Manchurian lords lived in their own small castle for one night, but it was a good thing that Zhou Wuchang couldn't think of, and he hurriedly led people to vacate the best house in the fort, and his own one was also cleaned up and invited to live in Lord Balla.

After the good wine and good food were brought in, the Manchurian lords made a fuss for a long time, and they were drunk one by one, and Zhou Wuchang was busy sending people to send hot water into for the Manchurian lords to wash, and they were busy until the second half of the night before the masters were settled, and then they returned to the house where their daughter-in-law lived with excitement and happiness to rest.

Before dawn the next day, Zhou Wuchang was awakened by the movement outside, and when he came out, he saw that Ge Mingchang and Li Peiguo, the two thousand generals in the city, were talking with a Manchurian general on horseback, and there were three people who looked like Han officials next to the Manchurian general. Outside the fort, hundreds of cavalrymen with eight banners were standing on their horses waiting for orders.