There is a small castle on the bank of the Hala River, a tributary of the Liao River, called Hara Fort, which is stuck on the official road leading to Shengjing. A wide official road passes through the castle, and on both sides is a sea of golden wheat that makes people anxious to look at it.

It's time for the autumn harvest to be busy, but less than a quarter of the ripe wheat in the field has been cut, and it seems that most of this season's wheat is going to rot in the ground as fertilizer...... This is because most of the strong laborers in these farms on both sides of the Liao River have followed Doni to fight!

The low Hara Fort Castle has been raised at this time with a white flag fluttering high - this is the Da Xuan of Doni, the regent of the Qing Dynasty, and it is also the highest symbol of the great Qing state of Sanxing.

In the small castle, there is only one street, and at this time there are large groups of Qing army infantry in white clothes and white armor, as well as bronze cannons imported from Spain or Vladivostok arsenal pulled by mules and horses, rumbling through the Hara Fort. From officers to ordinary soldiers, they all walked profusely, but they didn't mean to stop.

The white procession, stretching from the end of the great plain to the south of Harraburg to the end of the plain to the north of the castle, seemed to have no end.

It was as if they were the only ones left on the great plains around Haraburg. With only a quarter of the wheat field in sight to be seen, and no smoke from the villages near the fort, Dhoni's army seemed to be passing through an abandoned land.

The regent Doni himself, also dressed in a white arrow suit with narrow sleeves, stood at the head of the castle of Haraburg, holding a telescope and looking around, his face becoming more and more blue.

The reason for his blue face was that the banner people around Hara Fort (in fact, most of them were Han farmers from Guannei) had fled to Shengjing in groups a few days ago because of the appearance of the Ming cavalry, and they didn't even harvest wheat...... They didn't eat when they went to Shengjing? What are these people afraid of?

And why did the Ming cavalry drive the people here? Aren't they the imperial court? Isn't it an officer and a soldier? If you drive the people away like this, aren't you afraid of impeachment by the imperial history?

Oh, the current imperial history doesn't care about this.

Doni remembered that the current imperial history only arrests corrupt officials...... But you can't watch the officials and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty toss the people like this!

Just when Doni was distressed by the corruption of the Ming army's military discipline, the leader of a white-armored soldier received the latest information, rushed to the city, and reported loudly to Doni: "Lord Wang, Niu Lu, who stayed at Liangfangkou Pass, reported that two or three hundred large ships sailed into the mouth of the Liaohe River two days ago, and carried out a landing operation less than 30 miles away from Liangfangkou Pass...... At least 10,000 troops came ashore from the mouth of the Liao River, and our army was outnumbered, and after giving the Ming army a certain number of casualties and killing more than 100 people, they took the initiative to retreat to the Niu Pressing Post to wait for reinforcements! ”

"!" After listening to the report of the white-armored soldier, Doni couldn't help but scold, "I also killed and injured a hundred or dozens of people...... We only have two hundred and fifty people in one Niu Lu, and can we kill and injure more than 100 in the Ming army? Isn't it supposed to be killed? ”

"Lord Wang, I'm so happy!"

As soon as Doni's words fell, someone had already congratulated him. Doni turned his head to see that it was Tuhai who had just run from Dalinghe Fort.

As soon as Tuhai and Kupilon arrived at Dalinghe Fort, they found that something was wrong...... The Ming army didn't chase after them at all! And there is no sign of outflanking Jinzhou, which means that they are very likely to go to Shengjing!

That's a big deal!

50,000 Ming troops rushed straight to Shengjing! If Shengjing is captured, it will really be over...... Therefore, Tuhai and Kupilon did not dare to stay in Dalinghe Fort any longer, and immediately led their troops to Shengjing, and when they arrived at the Hara River, they met an army of 70,000 led by Doni.

Dhoni glanced back at him, "What are you happy about?" Did they kill and wound more than a hundred Ming soldiers, or were they killed and wounded more than a hundred? ”

"Lord Wang," Tu Haidao said, "the Ming army that landed at the mouth of the Liao River will be more than 10,000 people at most, and there will not be many cannons and cavalry...... We have seventy-three thousand here, five times as many as the enemy! ”

Doni was stunned, yes! Troops landing by sea generally do not carry many horses and artillery - unless there is a good port to use, it is difficult to load and unload horses, artillery.

And the advantage of the Ming army, isn't it cavalry and artillery? Thinking of this, Doni was a little deflated again. Although Manchuria is not a steppe tribe, the ability on horseback is not weak, and the Horqin grassland supplies good horses, which can definitely have the upper hand over the cavalry of the Ming army.

However, the Ming Dynasty introduced a large number of Tianzhu Orier horses and Arabian horses through overseas trade...... Compared with those large ocean horses, the Mongolian horses ridden by the Manchurian warriors were almost like little donkeys. Although the "little donkey" also has advantages, it can endure hardships and stand hard work and have enough energy, and can consume horsepower to fight long distances.

But the Ming army has made black spear and mule soldiers...... The use of flexible horse-mounted tactics to deal with the Qing army's ranger sentry horses put the Qing army in an extremely disadvantageous position in the war of attrition of the light cavalry - there was not much left in old Manchuria, how could it fight with the almost infinite number of Ming troops?

At the same time, when a large number of new Manchurias, who were actually Han Chinese farmers, joined the Qing army, the Qing army became an army dominated by Spanish infantry phalanxes. Mobility has dropped dramatically, and the ability of large corps to run long distances has basically been lost......

Tuhai saw Doni's brows furrowed again, thinking that he was worried about Shengjing, so he persuaded again: "Youao Bai led 10,000 forward battalions to aid Shengjing, and Shengjing will not be lost no matter what." The problem now is that the fertile soil around Shengjing is likely to be ravaged by the Ming army...... Our soldiers are all sustained by the land, and once the surroundings of Shengjing are destroyed, they will be as poor as the officers and soldiers of Liaozhen who lost Shenyang, Liaoyang, Guangning and other places back then! ”

The army that is rooted in the land is most afraid of losing land income!

Don't think that if the land is divided, the soldiers will be able to scream and fight desperately to defend the land...... After the distribution of land, the soldier is a self-financing business entity!

If the land is not profitable, the soldiers will have to pay for their own military service, and they will soon die of poverty.

In history, the prosperity of the Ming army in Liaodong during the period of Li Chengliang was actually because Li Chengliang happened to encounter Zhang Juzheng's reform during his tenure as the general soldier, so he was able to seize the opportunity to clear the fields and reclaim the tuntian.

That is to say, before the Ming army in Liaodong lost Liaoyang, Shenyang, and Guangning, it did not need the imperial court to spend money to support it, and it could support itself by relying on Tuntian.

After losing the interests of Liaodong Yingtian, with the ability of the Ming Dynasty to collect taxes, it was impossible to loot from all over the country enough to make up for the economic losses of Liaozhen...... The Liaojia faction and the Liaodong military expenditure on the rest of the military expenses became a heavy burden that crushed the Ming Dynasty.

Now, the same situation is about to happen on Dhoni's side!

"Lord Wang," Tu Hai said, "the 50,000 Ming army can be fed around Shengjing...... As long as they scavenge enough food, and then dig deep ditches and high bases, let the war around Shengjing be protracted, let our people not be allowed to cultivate, and let the fertile soil on both sides of the Liao River turn into white land, at most in a year or two, we will be destitute!

For today's plan, the only way to do this is to seize the fighter plane, fight a Salhu, and ignore the Ming army brigade that is directly approaching Shengjing, but concentrate on annihilating the Ming army at the mouth of the Liaohe River. Then wait for the opportunity to attack the enemy who is advancing from Xiaoling River to Jinzhou, and then turn back and fight to the death with the enemy who is attacked by Lushun...... As long as these enemies are defeated, the main force of the Ming army approaching Shengjing will feel isolated and will retreat. ”

Dhoni nodded heavily, "Yes! This battle is my Salhu...... If I win, I am Emperor Taizu, and I can't win...... We will become the Liaozhen Army of the past! ”

Tuhai said: "Lord, the minister has a plan, and he will definitely be able to annihilate the enemy who landed for the prince!" ”