More than a month after the Battle of Guanjin, the Ming army descended the mountain like a tiger, won successive victories in the Liaodong battlefield, and fought all the way to the Mudanjiang River, defeating the Manchu defenders in Ningguta.

Thirty-six years ago, Nurhachi sent troops to Ningguta and used it as a base to conquer the Jurchen tribes in Beiqinhai, Sanchakou, Ussuriysk, Muling, Ning'an, Mishan, Hunchun and other places.

Ningguta is very well located, the military, political and economic center of the vast area of Heilongjiang and Jilin under the control of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, controlling hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of territory around it.

The emperor of the Qing Dynasty ran away, so what else did he fight, the Qing army had no will to fight, and was quickly defeated, and the Ming army took back Ningguta without difficulty.

After the recovery of Liaodong, there are still a lot of follow-up things to deal with, and Zhu Cihong is sitting in Shenyang and has been busy with these things.

Post-war statistics, including the number of Qing troops annihilated, captured, and surrendered, the Ming army's killed, wounded, wounded, wounded, wounded, etc., also includes the dispatched people, consumed food, ammunition, materials, captured booty, and so on.

Zhu Cihong naturally doesn't have to do these complicated work, he is only responsible for seeing the results.

After the war, the most important thing was how to establish a long-term rule in Liaodong, the establishment of administrative institutions, the appointment of officials, and the stationing and transfer of the remaining troops.

In the ninth year of Yongle, the Ming Dynasty set up a Nuer Gandu command envoy in Liaodong, which governed the vast area from the Nanhe River in the west, Sakhalin Island in the east, and the Outer Xing'an Mountains in the north.

There are Mongolian, Jurchen, Jirimi, Kuyi (Kuwu), Daur and other ethnic groups in the territory of Nuer Gandusi, and the Ming Dynasty has set up more than 400 guards here, appointing the leaders of each ethnic group to take charge of each guard, giving a seal letter, still its customs, unifying its belonging, and paying tribute at the time.

Now that Zhu Cihong has abolished the guard system, it is natural that the Nuer Gandu Division cannot continue to be reinstated, and he is not willing to use the leaders of various ethnic groups as the new administrator.

Zhu Cihong thought about it for a few days, and finally decided to refer to the revision of the frontier policy of the Han and Tang dynasties, and set up the capital protection mansion in Liaodong, and set up a government under the capital protection mansion, such as Jinzhou Mansion, Shenyang Mansion, and Jinzhou Mansion, and completely incorporated Liaodong into the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

The meaning of the capital protectorate is to garrison and guardianship, strengthen the rule of the frontier, deal with ethnic relations, and carry out comfort, requisition, meritorious service, and punishment for the surrounding ethnic groups.

The name of the capital protector in Liaodong, Zhu Cihong named the Zhengdong Metropolitan Protectorate, set up a Dadu Protector, and Mao Yuanyi served as the first Dadu Protector of the Eastern Metropolitan Protectorate, with the rank of second grade.

Qiu Minyang, the governor of Liaodong, was the deputy protector of the capital, and from the rank of the second rank, there were four deputy protectors, two of the civil and military officers, and the rank of the third rank.

The majority of the protectors are served by military generals, who are the leaders of the metropolitan protectorate, responsible for military operations, conquest of the surrounding areas, and where to fight if they are not satisfied.

The deputy metropolitan protector is a civil official, responsible for comfort, meritorious service, reassurance, production, logistics, etc., and then negotiate and reason after the fight.

In Zhu Cihong's planning, the conquest of the eastern capital is only the first capital of the Ming Dynasty, and after the territory is expanded, it will also set up the northern capital to protect the country, the south to conquer, the west to protect the country, and the sea to protect the country......

Chen Zhenhui, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, suggested that the Duhufu should not take the word "Zheng", and it is better to imitate the Tang Dynasty with the word "An", and the Andong Duhufu is better to appease the border people.

Zhu Cihong immediately vetoed it, and he said with a straight face: "My Ming Dynasty's territory was defeated by the soldiers, not by appeasement. ”

Without strong strength as a backing, the word "appeased" is equivalent to the word "joke"!

When the Qing court sent an embassy to negotiate peace, Zhu Cihong was repeatedly weighing his next military action.

Is it to enter the dynasty in one go and destroy the Manchu Qing Dynasty, or to conquer Mongolia in the west and completely incorporate Monan into the territory of the Ming Dynasty?

Zhu Cihong was in a dilemma, it was difficult to choose, Monan Mongolia surrendered and returned, it was impossible not to fight, and it was relatively easy to fight Mongolia.

The Three-Alliance Coalition led by the Horqin Department was driven back by the Longwu Army like a duck after a few days of tossing out of the Great Wall.

The strength of Mongol in southern Mongolia is not much, and the combat effectiveness is not strong, and the difficulties of the Ming army's westward expedition to Mongolia are mainly logistics and supply, and the water and soil are not adapted.

Zhu Cihong first ruled out the strategy of using troops on two fronts, and with the strength and combat strength of the Ming army, it could support two-front operations, but the war was fought on logistics and material supply, involving a series of problems such as requisition and civilian service.

Two-front operations in different regions consume far greater manpower and material resources than a single battlefield, and it is necessary to set up two logistics supply centers, and everything needs to be supplied with two sets.

Especially in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen and the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the Songjin War drained all the elites of the nine sides, hundreds of thousands of Ming troops were blocked in Liaodong to fight the Manchu Qing, and hundreds of thousands of troops from the Central Plains provinces gathered in Kaifeng Mansion to fight the Battle of Zhuxian Town, fighting Li Zicheng, one south and one north completely exhausted the last strength of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, when Chongzhen was fifteen years old, Chongzhen in history already knew that the Ming Dynasty was going to end, and often mentioned the word qi, but he still struggled for two years.

Zhu Cihong thought that if he parachuted into Chongzhen in the fifteenth year of the two wars, he would not be able to save the Ming Dynasty, so he could only stare dryly.

After all, the ruthless Sun Chuanting has proved that he can't play at all, it's too late for anything, the logistics are not continuous, and it's a fart battle!

Even if Chongzhen did not urge the army, the Ming army would sooner or later be hungry to mutiny and collapse without a fight.

The lesson of history is painful, and Zhu Cihong will try his best to avoid any form of two-front warfare.

The more Zhu Cihong thought about it, the more headache he felt, it was now June, and the cost of logistics and supplies in winter would be greater and more difficult, and if he wanted to fight, he had to fight as soon as possible, and he had to end the use of troops when the weather was cold in October.

Thinking of this, Zhu Cihong consulted the cabinet in Nanjing.

Hearing that the emperor was ready to continue to use troops, the cabinet recital flew to Shenyang like snowflakes, and most of them were opposed, and everyone said that the logistics supply, food, ammunition, and materials of the front-line army were seriously insufficient, and it was no longer enough to support the next war.

For this Northern Expedition, Jiangnan has accumulated sufficient supplies over the years, but the Ming army has fought continuously, and the supply line is too long.

The supply of the Tianwu Army and the Jingwu Army was good, and the coastal areas that had been walking, the Battle of Guanjin after leaving the customs was also fought in the Liaoxi Corridor near the sea, and the consumption of sea supplies was small.

However, since the recovery of Shenyang, the Ming army continued to go north, and the supply line was far away, coupled with the weather and terrain factors, the logistics of supply and transportation brought great difficulties.

In addition to the war situation in Liaodong, there are also the Central Plains battlefield, Shaanxi, Shanxi and other places, far from the south of the Yangtze River, with many mountains and rivers, and the logistics are quite difficult.

Although the Central Plains region was recovered by the Ming army, due to the disaster in many places for more than ten years, and the war caused a large number of people to be displaced, it is necessary to pacify and relieve the victims.

Yang Tinglin, the first assistant to the cabinet, said in a letter: "Shaanxi and other recovered places have not yet stabilized, and there is a trend of some people transforming into gangsters and thieves. ”

Zhang Guowei, the secretary of the household department, also opposed the post-war reconstruction, saying that the Central Plains region had been in war for a long time, and now it has been very deserted, and now it has just been recovered, and it is urgent to appease the residents and resume production, and if the army continues to be used in the north, the autumn sowing in the Central Plains will have a certain impact, and the restoration and reconstruction work will have to be postponed.