At this very moment.
The 7,000 men led by Adopted Son A were rampaging through Jurchen lands across Liaodong, burning, killing, and plundering.
They sent out one small detachment after another.
They swept through the surrounding area.
They smashed Zhuangzi, burned the fields, and seized the Booyi, taking everyone away regardless of whether they were old or young.
Meanwhile, Second Beile Amin, who had received word early on, had already begun making arrangements.
From the more than 10,000 men left behind, he scraped together 2,000 cavalrymen.
Then, urging their horses onward at full speed, with each man riding with two horses, they rushed over to stop the enemy, while ordering the infantry to follow at a slower pace.
After receiving news that the enemy had deployed cavalry on a large scale, Wenren Sheng's adopted sons swiftly began pulling their Soldiers back.
They also began withdrawing step by step.
The actual window for burning, killing, plundering, and abducting people had only been ten days.
Yet during their retreat, they now held a tremendous advantage: they had Western artillery accompanying the army.
The Jurchen now had cannons as well, but they could only use them to defend cities. They were cannons captured from Ming Army cities, far too cumbersome.
The Jurchen did not yet possess this kind of field artillery.
Once they had assembled, they began retreating swiftly.
They withdrew all the way to the bridge over the river where they had previously been blocked.
Then they retreated south of the river and burned the bridge.
Even the weaker force of 300 men had not burned the bridge, yet they had done so.
This made the pursuing Amin realize that the enemy was a group of novices lacking confidence.
Amin immediately ordered his cavalry to gather boats upstream and downstream, search for