Qinghe City has a natural barrier that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, how did Nurhachi w

In ancient wars, both sides were extremely concerned about the terrain of the war, and if one side was in a position that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, then it must have a great advantage, and the probability of winning was much higher than that of the other side. But in ancient times, there was such a war, that is, the war of Qinghe City, which had a natural barrier terrain that was easy to defend and difficult to attack. Despite occupying such a superior terrain, Nurhachi won the Battle of Qinghe as an attacker, so how did he win?

First of all, this starts with the Battle of Fushun before the Battle of Qinghe, which took place three months before the Battle of Qinghe. It was also in the Battle of Fushun that the defender Li Yongfang was defeated, and the precedent for the surrender of the border generals was opened. Li Yongfang was even recruited by Nurhachi as a fast son-in-law of Chenglong, and Nurhachi married the eldest daughter of his seventh son Abatai to Li Yongfang.

Based on the lessons of this defeat, the Ming court has begun to send troops to reinforce the border.

However, after the three major conquests, the troops and expenses have become extremely scarce, and the situation is very worrying, their losses in troops are serious, and the financial aspect is also very scarce, and the consumption of military expenses is as high as 11.6 million taels**. At that time, the defender of Qinghe City was Zou Chuxian, the deputy general of Liaodong, and his men were only 5,500 people at this time, including the troops drawn from all over the country, and the people who supported it barely managed to get together less than 10,000 people, but the people could not directly participate in the battle, they could only help the defenders to carry the rolling logs.

It was at this time that Nurhachi began to march towards Qinghe City, and it took them only one day to surround the Raven Pass. Zou Chuxian, who received the information, made a fatal mistake, that is, he gave up blocking Nurhachi at the dangerous location of Yahu Pass, because the main reason for the construction of Qinghe City at that time was that its periphery was dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. If it only relied on the defense of the city wall and gave up the geographical advantage, then Qinghe City lost its strategic significance.

This also created certain conditions for Nurhachi to win the battle of Qinghe City later.

Qinghe City has a natural barrier that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but unfortunately it was given up prematurely by Zou Chuxian, and he will not win the battle of Qinghe in Nurhachi so easily.

Qinghe City is a natural barrier that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, so Nurhachi won by attacking through the tactics of roundabout attacks. ，

At that time, Qinghe City was garrisoned by a man named Zou Chuxian, but according to historical records, this benevolent brother was too timid and finally fled prematurely, but Nurhachi also used many new siege methods.

Although the city was easy to defend and difficult to attack at that time, Nurhachi did not attack very directly, but chose to take a detour, and finally won the victory.

Nurhachi marched from Hetuara to Qinghe City, and in one day's journey besieged the Yahu Pass, Zou Chuxian, who had obtained military information, made a fatal mistake, and the reason for the construction of Qinghe City was that the terrain on the periphery was dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Nurhachi summed up the lesson, asked the troops to protect themselves with wooden planks, and after eight charges, finally dug the corners of the wall, the city wall collapsed, and the Jin army was able to enter the city.

Although Qinghe City was easy to defend and difficult to attack, Nurhachi did not harden steel from the front, but chose the tactics of feints from the front and outflanking in a roundabout way.

Before the battle of Nurhachi Qinghe officially began, Zou Chuxian left behind the tactical advice of Yang Hao, and did not focus on blocking the small road and dangerous road, but directly resisted the enemy in Qinghe City, and the terrain advantage was gone, and Nurhachi led more than 10,000 people to attack the city directly.

Although Qinghe City had a natural barrier that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, they did not use this natural barrier to lose this excellent advantage, so they were defeated.