The Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty traversed the northern frontier of the Ming Dynasty and extended to Uiju in the east, near the mouth of the Yalu River. The Daming control area in eastern Liaodong is also under the protection of the border wall (Great Wall), within the border wall, there are many important military towns, from north to south, there are Kaiyuan, Tieling, Shenyang, Liaoyang, Haizhou, Dingliao, Gaizhou, Fuzhou and other guards, and there are many guards under it, forming a defense system of the guards.

After Nurhachi raised his army, he broke through the Fushun Pass, occupied the Fushun City in the pass, and directly threatened the important towns of Shenyang and Tieling in Liaodong. Fushun is directly east of Shenyang, on the same bank of the Hunhe River as Shenyang. The Hunhe River flows east-west in this section, with Shenyang on the north bank and Fushun on the south bank.

The purpose of Yuan Yingtai's battle plan this time was to recover Fushun City, control Fushun Pass, remove the threat of Shenyang Wei and Tieling Wei, turn defense into attack, and threaten the land of Jianzhou through Fushun Pass. For this operation, Yuan Yingtai mobilized 60,000 elite troops of the Juniper Department for the main battle, and at the same time, with the Shenyang garrison and the Tieling Malin Division as an echo, he mobilized more than 100,000 troops to prepare for this battle, and was determined to win Fushun and other places.

Yuan Yingtai first built a bridge over the Hunhe River south of Shenyang, and arranged for Juniper's march route to cross the Hunhe River first, and then advance to Fushun from the south bank, so as to avoid the Jianyu refusing to defend the river. At the same time, the army was transferred to control the line on the north bank of the Hunhe River, so that the left flank of the Juniper Department was completely safe.

Zhang Wen and his staff discussed Yuan Yingtai's battle plan, and Shen Jing, including Shen Jing, believed that the plan was stable and feasible. Zhang Wen was unwilling to miss the opportunity of this battle, so he went to the governor's line and asked to go to Juniper's army to watch the battle. Yuan Yingtai disagreed and asked Zhang Wen to sit in Shenyang with him and participate in the overall situation. But at Zhang Wen's insistence, Yuan Yingtai reluctantly agreed.

At this time, Juniper was unhappy again, and for a civil official like Zhang Wen, everyone seemed to want him to get involved. Zhang Wenhao said that in the end, he promised not to interfere with the military aircraft, nor to mess around, Juniper reluctantly agreed, but asked Zhang Wen not to take those women with him, it was still troublesome if he was useless. Zhang asked what kind of Xuanyi guard he was thinking about, it was really not very useful, but it was trained and played on weekdays, when the real knife and real gun were done, ordinary women used it for a fart, so they only took Zhang Ying and Xuanyue to go. Although the two of them are women, they are very good.

Everything was ready, Juniper's army formed a camp, prepared to cross the Hun, and began to advance eastward. Along the way, the banner covers the sky. Nearly 100,000 people and troops in charge of logistics acted under the unified mobilization of Yuan Yingtai, transporting grain, grass and ammunition, building roads and bridges, and building fortifications.

When the army was marching mightily, Qin Yulian's figure slowly appeared on the city wall, witnessing the carriage surrounded by the army, this heroic female general on the battlefield is now like an ordinary weak woman, her nose is slightly sour, tears are rolling in her eyes, but she can't bear it and not let it fall.

Qin Liangyu, who was behind him, sighed when he saw this: "There are many good men in the world, Yulian, you just let it go." ”

Qin Yulian raised her hand to wipe away her tears, but her tone was unprecedentedly firm: "He is the best." ”

Zhang Wen sat in the carriage, looking at such a spectacular scene, he was really enthusiastic and excited. The weather is clear, the sky is clear, and on this vast land, there are earth-shattering stories of ghosts and gods, which will surely go down in history.

After a day's march of the army, it approached Fushun, and Juniper ordered the whole army to be on alert, form an effective battle camp, and slowly move eastward, ready to enter the battle at any time. At this time, the sentry rider came to report, Fushun ignited a fire, and Jiannu burned the city and left. Juniper angrily ordered the army to rush to Fushun, but the fire had already burned into the air, and it was useless to fight the fire, so he bypassed Fushun City and continued to approach Fushun Pass to the east.

Zhang Wen pondered that since this Jurchen rebellion, he had won successive battles in the early stage, and his combat effectiveness should not be weak, but he had not even fought the mercenaries composed of Mongolian herdsmen in Sancha'er Fort. Maybe it is deliberately luring the enemy to go deeper, and then looking for fighters to fight a war of annihilation, and it is necessary to guard against it.

Yuan Yingtai read Juniper's report, and the first order was to order Juniper to send sentinels to work carefully to find out the deployment of Jiannu's troops, and other matters to be decided after the governor consulted. As for Zhang Wen's letter, Yuan Yingtai only read it roughly, and judged that it was not the content of the complaint, so he immediately threw it aside. A civil official in his twenties, relying on the emperor's favor to ascend to the throne, what ability can he have, don't waste Lao Tzu's time.

The generals and officials of Shenyang discussed for a day and a night, and the Ming side alone had 60,000 combat troops, and it was an elite division, twice as large as Jiannu, and it could take an offensive as much as possible. One of the reasons is that Shenyang has been preparing for this war for so long, but it has not been fought, and it is indeed very unwilling.

So Yuan Yingtai quickly ordered the Juniper Department on the front line of Fushun Pass, and ordered Juniper to lead the main force out of the pass, first occupy Sarhu and other places, control the Suzi River, and prepare for sweeping the villages of Jiannu along the river and advancing to the old nest Hetuala.

Juniper was overjoyed when he received the order, praised Yuan Yingtai for his foresight in front of the left and right generals, and then led the army out of the customs, and arrived at Salhu the next day, that is, on the twelfth day of the winter month. Unexpectedly, the weather was not beautiful at this time, and it began to rain.

Zhang Wen remembered the experience that Wang Lao Gong talked about, and said that it would rain after a long time of sunshine, and when the rain stopped, there would be heavy fog, and the fog would not be conducive to the operation of the firearms army. Zhang Wen hurriedly rode to Juniper's car and said: "General Du, the fog will fall after the rain, which is not good for our army, and we must guard against the attack of Jiannu, why don't you retreat to Fushun Pass first, and when the weather is good, prepare for the attack again?" Juniper laughed dumbly when he heard this, and then remembered Zhang Wen's official position and identity, stopped smiling and said, "My lord's words are also wrong." When the army goes to war, there will always be such and such accidents, if you encounter such a little rain and have to retreat, then everyone must not laugh at me Juniper for being cowardly? ”

Juniper's implication was that Zhang Wen was timid and cowardly, and Zhang Wen listened to it, but he didn't care, but just persuaded: "The general's army is the elite of the Ming Dynasty, and it is better to be stable and cautious." ”

After discussion, Juniper immediately arranged the deployment, and led 40,000 horses across the river to attack Jiefan, leaving 20,000 guards in the village. Zhang Wen always felt that this matter was not very stable, and he said the opposite: "Since our army has a strength advantage, why should we divide our troops and deploy them to create fighters for Jiannu?" The general thinks twice. ”

Juniper defended himself, and he didn't ask questions, so he led the Salhu Mountain army with his deputy general Ma Wanliang, and brought 40,000 soldiers and horses across the river to attack the mortal city.

On the fifteenth day of the winter month, the Juniper army all crossed the Suzi River, and in the afternoon, sure enough, the water surface rose sharply, but it failed to break the Ming army into two sections, and the Juniper army had all crossed the river at this time. At this time, Lu Yuan's communication almost relied on fast horses, and it was indeed very difficult to break the army just right.

The next day, the rain stopped, and the fog in the mountains was filled. At this time, the sentry cavalry suddenly came to report that a large number of slaves were built under the mountain, and the army was shocked. Ma Wanliang immediately ordered the whole army to be on alert and stick to the cottage.

The foggy mountains were so white that nothing could be seen, except for the sound of horses' hooves, and the shouts of slaughter echoed in the valley in the early morning. People are always afraid of the unknown, and now the Ming army can't see the situation, people are panicking, and the situation is very bad.

Ma Wanliang listened to the sound and estimated the distance and ordered an artillery bombardment of the valley. However, the air was humid and the gunpowder was not easy to ignite, so the army made torches from pine branches and other materials, dried the gunpowder, and fired cannons at the valley. Other sergeants also lit torches to ease fear.

"Do you want to be a live target with a torch like this? Destroy them all for me! As soon as Zhang Wen saw that there was a fire in the camp, he couldn't help but burst into flames, raised his eyebrows, and without saying anything, he snatched the torch from the nearest soldier and threw it on the ground, and trampled on it a few times to extinguish it.

Ma Wanliang hurriedly ordered to extinguish the torch, but because of the unclear vision, everyone had just gotten up, the military camp was very chaotic, the scheduling was not effective, and the horsemen who gave the order shouted everywhere, and the fire was extinguished somewhat, but there were still many people lit it.

Zhang Wen stood in the camp, his face was pale, he didn't have much fear, as if he had never had the feeling of fear, Zhang Wen was just very depressed, and he felt very bad. Because the screams of the Ming army were everywhere in the fog, those who carried torches became the living targets to illuminate themselves, and suffered heavy casualties, while the Ming army could only fight against the dense fog with firearms.

He clenched his teeth, and this situation was not good.