Two years ago, the Ming Emperor's pro-army led by Wei Gonggong "Kuandian Attack" made the Kuandian Six Forts become a "no man's land" that could not be garrisoned, which was to some extent a historical regression and a tragic stroke in the history of Kuandian's development, but it greatly limited the pace of the reactionary separatist group in Jianzhou to open up to the south, and effectively safeguarded the territorial sovereignty of the Ming Dynasty.

One of the four ministers of the pseudo-Jin also gave Nurhachi a note - "The loss of the six forts is like the loss of a guard." ”

Equating the six forts of Kuandian with one of the left and right guards of Jianzhou, it can be seen that Eyidu and others attach great importance to the six forts.

After the loss of Liubao, the Jianzhou side did not want to recover again, but the Ming army took away all the soldiers and civilians of Liubao, leaving only a vacant land, and they could not be stationed even if they invaded and occupied it, let alone develop the land of Liubao, so they could only swallow this bitter fruit.

On the one hand, they symbolically sent troops to Liaoyang to strongly condemn the "cross-border" behavior of the Ming army, and on the other hand, they focused their troops on the Mongols and Yehebu in the northwest.

In addition to the daring horse bandits lurking in the Kuandian area today, there are some Korean fugitives who have crossed the river to make a living, and the total number of people in the Kuandian area is only a few hundred, and if there are no people in the Kuandian area of several hundred square miles, it is difficult for outsiders to find people in this vast land unless special attention is paid to it.

However, these horse bandits and North Korean fugitives have also been rare recently, and these guys who are struggling on the death line at all times are particularly sensitive to the movements of the outside world, and they have long fled when the Ming and Kim sides used troops in a big way.

Some of the unlucky ones with slow feet and legs were either forcibly requisitioned by the Ming army, or were taken captive by the Jin army that arrived later, and it was difficult to stay alone under the general situation.

In the middle of the year, the troops in Yongdian Fort got accurate news - the Ming army of Yizhou marched out of the city.

Zhen Ying, who had been waiting for many days, happily said to his master Gong Zhengliu: "The master is really right, this time Wei Gelding is finally going to take the bait!" ”

However, just as Zhen Ying was about to lead the main force of the two white flags south to cut off the back road of the Ming army in Yizhou, he was surprised to find that the Ming army was not heading towards Songshan Fort, but directly went north to run to his Guangluo Dabeile.

Regardless of whether the Ming army is running to Songshan Fort or running to themselves, as long as they go out of the city!

Zhen Ying didn't have time to think about it, he had been holding back in Yongdian for too long, and he urgently needed a big victory to prove himself and appease the various dissatisfaction of some people in Heituala.

On the 21st, Zhu Ying personally led the main force of the white flag out of Yongdian Fort to the south, and ordered his younger brother Abai to lead the white flag from Changdian to the south, and the two armies agreed to meet in Sanlipu in the middle reaches of the Zhuang River, and then formed an encirclement of the Ming army and encircled and annihilated it in one fell swoop.

In order to ensure the victory of this decisive battle, Zhu Ying also ordered the Yellow Banner Ilhan Division, which was acting as a decoy, to attack Yizhou as much as possible to force Wei Gelding to divide his troops or shake his military morale.

However, what happened next made Zhen Ying and his younger brother, the white flag lord Abai, feel very tricky - the Yizhou Ming army was out of the city under the leadership of Wei Gelding, but like a turtle, they camped every ten miles, and built a camp like a hedgehog, so that the two white flags, who lacked siege equipment, knew that the opponent was there, but they couldn't do anything, so they could only look at the camp and sigh.

The Ilkhan Division, which was used as a partial division, could not pose a sufficient threat to the Ming army, and was even defeated by the cavalry of the Ming army once, losing a Niu Lu.

The Ming army carried a large amount of grain and grass, and the camp it built was not abandoned after use, but was accompanied by a different number of soldiers to guard the camp, which was equipped with a large number of firearms, forming a situation of one fortress along the way.

Zhu Ying once ordered his younger brother Abai to lead a white flag to tentatively attack the Ming army camp with only a small number of soldiers, trying to seize one or two fortresses for his own use, and at the same time cut off the communication channel between the Ming army and Yizhou. But as a result, not only did they fail to occupy the camp of the Ming army, but they lost more than 100 armored men.

At the meeting of the two white flag armies, the generals of the Eight Banners unanimously made a view that the Ming army camp should not be stormed, and Abai also insisted that if the Ming army must be stormed, it must wait for the siege equipment of Heituala to arrive.

The Eight Banners are not without the ability to attack fortifications, since Nurhachi raised the army, the Jianzhou army has fought a lot of siege battles, and they attach great importance to the manufacture of siege equipment such as ladders, ladders, and shield vehicles.

Only this time, the two white flags were urgently transferred to the south, and in order to reach the front line as soon as possible, they did not carry too many siege equipment. Moreover, Nurhachi, who was far away in Hetuala, also forbade Zhenying to storm the city of Yizhou, which made the two white flags have no ideological preparation for attacking the fortification.

After Gong Zhengliu proposed to go south to settle Liaowei to attract the Ming army of Yizhou out of the city, and then fight a decisive battle with it, Zhu Ying did not ask Heitu Ala for siege equipment.

In his opinion, as long as Wei Gelding is out of the city, the decisive battle between the two sides will be a field battle, and there is no need for siege equipment.

What I never expected was that the Ming army was out of the city, but that Wei Gelding became a turtle with a shrunken head!

Looking at the camps that could rise from the ground in almost an hour or two, Zhen Ying really regretted that he didn't allocate siege equipment earlier.

By the end of the year, the situation was no longer a stalemate, but completely unfavorable to Zhenying.

Gonggong Wei carried forward the Turtle Fortress tactics to the extreme, and continued to advance at a speed of ten miles every day, with the obvious purpose of forcing Zhen Ying to completely withdraw from the Six Forts of Kuandian.

Zhen Ying is in a dilemma, the two white flags of grain and grass that cannot be supplied have been depleted to a dangerous number, and he must choose between fighting or not fighting.

At the same time, the Ming army also began to take the initiative to provoke the Eight Banners, taking the initiative to attack with elite soldiers and horses from time to time, and retreating immediately after achieving certain results, not giving the two white flags time to react at all.

There are all kinds of signs that the Ming army is also looking for fighters for a decisive battle, but both sides have no bottom in their hearts about where and when the fighters will appear.

After a fierce quarrel with his master Gong Zhengliu, Zhen Ying made a decision that shocked his younger brother Abai, he would never withdraw his army, even if he killed horses to satisfy hunger, he must fight to the death with Wei Liangchen's dead turtle.

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The Danghe River, which runs through the entire Kuandian area, was the main source of water for Liubao in the former Tuntian, but now except for the wild ducks and the red-crowned cranes returning to the north, there is not a single boat on the river.

However, in the night, there was a faint sound of wood pulp paddling through the flowing water in the river, which was usually not seen at all, and under the moonlight and starlight, which was half covered by dark clouds, a raft was moving forward quickly.

After the raft had rowed three or four miles, a fork appeared in front of it, and the people on the raft rowed to the tributary on the right without hesitation. After another half an hour, the raft suddenly approached the shore, and a man dressed in black quickly jumped ashore, tied the rope to an old willow tree on the shore, and then squatted on the ground, sniffing his nose at the air.