Battle of Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties

The Battle of Salhu The Battle of Salhu was in February and March of 16 19 (forty-seven years of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, appointed four years later). In the war between Ming Dynasty and Jin Dynasty, Nurhachi defeated the Ming army in Salhu (near Dahuofang Reservoir in Fushun, Liaoning Province) and near Salhu, which was a strategic decisive battle in the Liaodong War between Ming Dynasty and Jin Dynasty. The battle of Salhu took place in the form of the Ming Dynasty attacking Houjin and then defending Houjin. In this battle, the late Jin army adopted the principle of concentrating its forces and dividing them one by one in operational command. In five days, it broke three Ming armies, annihilated about 50 thousand Ming troops and seized a large number of munitions. The battle ended in a fiasco of the Ming army. This campaign is an important turning point in the history of Ming and Qing wars, a decisive war in the history of the rise and fall of Ming and Qing dynasties, and a typical war example of winning more with less.