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Tomorrow, in the sixth year (AD 1626, eleven years after the appointment of the late Jin Dynasty), the army of the late Jin Dynasty swept the seven cities of Youtun, Daling River, Xiaoling River, Songshan, Xingshan, Tashan and Lianshan with thunder, and it was really invincible wherever it went.
As the first person, this person looks "neither fat nor thin, with a strong trunk, a straight and big nose and an iron face." Of course, he is not an idle person. He is the man who frightened the monarch, ministers and people of the Ming Empire-Aixinjueluo Nurhachi, the great Khan of the State of Jin.
At this time, Nurhachi was in the most proud and domineering time in his life, and the development of the war was as he hoped: wherever he went, the troops of the Ming Empire abandoned their helmets and fled. With the tacit cooperation of the Ming imperial army, the latter Jin army attacked smoothly, like nobody's business. On the 23rd, the mighty army of the late Jin Dynasty took Ningyuan City directly.
Ningyuan, now Xingcheng County, Liaoning Province, lies 200 miles north of Shanhaiguan. Like Jinzhou, it is located in a long and narrow strip with mountains in the north and the sea in the south. From a strategic point of view, holding one of these two cities will block the throat of Shanhaiguan. But now, the defenders of Jinzhou City have been ordered by the new Liaodong to run high and have retreated to the mountains. ...