Mao Wenlong suffered a lot in the hands of Jiannu, except for occasionally sending light cavalry to disturb the rear of Jiannu's village, occupying a bit of surface prestige, Mao Wenlong did not dare to engage with Jiannu at all, and he would suffer a loss!

Therefore, although Mao Wenlong has nearly 50,000 troops in his hands, there are no more people with combat experience who can be called elite divisions than the border army in Liaodong.

Zu Dashou has at least 20,000 troops in his hands who have been fighting for a long time and have a certain combat effectiveness, and in Mao Wenlong's hands, such troops are at most 10,000!

This 10,000 elite division has been hidden by Mao Wenlong on Phi Island for a long time, and he is reluctant to use it.

The army is getting more and more powerful, and the reason why these 10,000 people can be regarded as elite is mainly because they have been in the army for a long time, most of them are Mao Wenlong's adopted sons and grandsons, and there are a lot of grandsons, with high loyalty, training time for a long time, and no other strengths.

Like Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi and Kong Youde, those traitors who are more famous in later history, in fact, there is nothing to praise.

It's not how powerful they are, but in the later stage of the Ming Dynasty, the generals and skilled soldiers are almost dead, these traitors have a long-term run-in and trained army in their hands, and when they deal with their own people, they are all thieves, that's all.

Therefore, it can only be said that Mao Wenlong's role is very great, but the actual strength cannot be compared with the Liaodong Border Army and Jiliao soldiers and horses!

If Zu Dashou and Mao Wenlong each lead 50,000 people to fight, Mao Wenlong's people may kill 20,000 people and horses after 50,000 deaths, and it will be difficult to kill 20,000 people and horses, this is the gap.

It is not unreasonable for people outside the Dongjiang River to generally look down on Mao Wenlong.

Wei Baojun repelled Jiannu's attack, which is already very surprising, Wei Bao took Liaoyang City in the early days of the war, which is also very surprising, but these can't catch up with Wei Baojun's shock to Mao Wenlong by taking four Jiannu cities in a row in one go!

The most important thing is that Wei Bao took Xiuyan, Xuancheng, Tangzhan and Dangerous Mountain Fort, which is equivalent to sealing Zhenjiang Fort in a small area, and it is completely impossible for Mao Wenlong to expand his territory in the Liaonan Peninsula!

Especially the Dangerous Mountain Fort!

The dangerous mountain fort can be controlled by Mao Wenlong's Sanyang Fort, Xindian Fort, Kuandian Fort, Dadian Fort, Changdian Fort, and Yongdian Fort. These dense castles are all separated from Zhenjiang Fort!

Make Zhenjiang Fort an isolated city.

"We can't let Wei Bao take advantage of everything, we must take Phoenix! Otherwise, in the future, Liaonan will have no share of us at all! Mao Wenlong said to the map.

"Fight Phoenix?" Mao Wenlong's general, You Jinghe, looked at Mao Wenlong in surprise.

Several other generals beside Mao Wenlong almost all had the same expression, all surprised and shocked, they didn't expect Mao Wenlong to be so radical all of a sudden?

Wang Fu, Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi, Kong Youde, these are all generals.

This is not all, although the strength of Mao Wenlong's subordinates is not good, but the famous generals do not need to have fewer people in the Liaodong Border Army and Jiliao.

In the area of senior generals and resources, Marshal Mao Wenlong can be regarded as a real tyrant.

"General, then we're going to start the war with Jiannu." Kong Youde reminded.

"So what? Wei Baojun can take down four cities in a row! They're not afraid, what are we afraid of? Mao Wenlong said: "Do you know? Wei Bao doesn't have much strength, all of them are ordinary people who have recently come from Liaodong! The territory is our territory! Why can Wei Bao win all the way, because Jiannu has no one to defend! As far as I know, Xiuyan, Xuancheng, Tang Station, and Dangerous Mountain Fort, each city has only 200 defenders! Otherwise, Wei Baojun can win all the way? And such an important city as Phoenix City only has 200 Jiannu defenders! If we don't eat this piece of fat quickly, we will be eaten by Wei Bao soon! ”

"That's what the big marshal said! We should have been a little more aggressive with Jiannu a long time ago! Why did Jiannu come to our place to burn, kill, and plunder, and do all kinds of evil! We can only watch every time, we can only hide, we can only retreat? General Wang Fu said with a voice in his urn.

When several other generals heard this, they hurriedly signaled to Wang Fu that he had said the wrong thing.

Sure enough, after listening to Wang Fu's words, Mao Wenlong's face was very ugly.

Mao Wenlong's strategy is very simple, very unified, very coherent, it can be said that it has never changed, that is the real guerrilla warfare policy!

From the first year of the Apocalypse to the second year of Chongzhen he was killed, about eight years or so, Mao Wenlong has been entrenched in Phi Island, this historical stage of Mao Wenlong for the Great Wall of the sea in Liaodong, so what are Mao Wenlong's combat exploits at this time?

In fact, there is nothing worth taking credit for.

Even if Jiannu came, he would resolutely withdraw, and Jiannu would fight the Ming Dynasty, and he would send a small force to attack and harass, that's all.

And then dozens of times, hundreds of times to exaggerate the record.

Of course, if the marshal Mao Wenlong has not fought against the Houjin, it is also wronged him, but Mao Wenlong's own boasting of the record in the Tang newspaper cannot be confirmed much in the records of the Houjin and North Korea.

In fact, Mao Wenlong's several small-scale military operations, the effect is very limited, in the apocalypse years, Nurhachi and Huang Taiji commander Houjin launched two consecutive attacks on Guanning, and also launched several attacks on Mongolia, Mao Wenlong contained An Zai?

Mao Wenlong is very strong in diplomacy, and even secretly wants to work with Houjin to "make big things".

And this kind of major event is "you take Shanhaiguan, I take Shandong", it turned out that he tried in vain to collude with Houjin to attack the Ming Dynasty and plot to secede overseas.

President Wei knew some information about this, but President Wei didn't take it seriously, and with his contact with Mao Wenlong, he felt that Mao Wenlong was just using diplomacy to supplement his 'guerrilla warfare'.

Speaking of guerrilla warfare and war behind enemy lines, Marshal Mao Wenlong can indeed be called the originator.

Mao Wenlong also raised many subordinate generals who "worked hard and made high achievements".

After killing Mao Wenlong, three years after Chongzhen, Yuan Chonghuan was executed by Sizong.

Now that Yuan Chonghuan is dead, Mao Wenlong's generals should obey the constraints of the imperial court, right?

In fact, on the contrary, the Dongjiang generals staged mutinies one after another, reflecting the true face of this army, which was arrogant and domineering, and was accustomed to blackmailing the imperial court with mutiny.

Phi Dao staged a mutiny after the death of Mao Wenlong.

In April of the third year of Chongzhen (1630), Liu Xingzhi, the general of Phi Island, was mourned by his brother Liu Xingzuo, who died in Jizhen, and all the generals of Dongjiang Town went to mourn, and Liu Xingzhi took the opportunity to kill Chen Jisheng at the memorial service because of his hatred of the imperial court, and took the opportunity to kill Chen Jisheng at the memorial service, and Phi Dao was under the control of Liu Xingzhi, and later under the intervention of Shen Shikui, the general of Phi Island, Liu Xingzhi was killed, and the rebellion ended.

In August of the fourth year of Chongzhen (1631), the Guanning Junzu Dashou Department was trapped in Dalinghe City by Houjin. Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Mingdenglai, urgently ordered the Dongjiang generals Kong Youde, Li Jiucheng and others stationed in Denglai under his command to rush to the front line for reinforcements, but the Liaodong soldiers of Dengzhou were at odds with the Shandong soldiers, and when Kong Youde arrived at Wuqiao, due to heavy rain and spring snow, the troops were not well fed, and when the troops arrived at Wuqiao, there was a conflict with the locals. In Dongjiang, Mao Wenlong's nephew and deputy commander-in-chief, Mao Chenglu, also immediately rebelled in response to the rebels. The rebels captured the cities of Linyi, Lingxian, Shanghe, and Qingcheng in Shandong, and led their troops straight to Dengzhou.

Chongzhen five years (1632) in January Dengzhou fell, Sun Yuanhua was attacked by the imperial court and was executed, the Ming court transferred from outside the Guanhai to Zu Dabi, Zhang Tao and others commanded the Guanning army to quell the rebellion, in Yuan Chonghuan trained the Guanning iron cavalry under the severe blow, the rebels were defeated and retreated. In April of the sixth year of Chongzhen (1633), Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming descended from Zhenjiang Fort (near the mouth of the Yalu River) to descend to Jin, and Huang Taiji went out of the suburbs to meet and give him good treatment.

Shang Kexi mutinied.

Shang Kexi was an important general in Dongjiang Town, his father and brother had died on the battlefield for the Ming Dynasty, and Shang Kexi himself became a guerrilla on Hiroshima and was stationed on Hiroshima. In October 1631 (the fourth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty), there was a mutiny on Phi Island, and Huang Long, the general soldier of Dongjiang, was detained by Geng Zhongyu and Wang Yingyuan, and Shen Shikui took care of him. After hearing the news, Shang Kexi rushed back to Phi Island to suppress the mutiny, killed Geng Zhongyu, Wang Yingyuan and other leaders, and helped Huanglong to make a comeback. Promoted to guerrilla. After Huanglong died in battle, Shen Shikui took over as the commander-in-chief of the Dongjiang River, and the Shen family held a grudge against him and waited for an opportunity to retaliate.

In October 1633 (the sixth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty), he wanted to deceive Shang Kexi to Phi Dao, intending to murder him on false charges. This matter was detected by Shang Kexi's subordinates, on the first day of the first month of 1634 (the seventh year of Ming Chongzhen, the ninth year of Jin Tiancong), Shang Kexi took advantage of the New Year's Day meeting to plunder more than 10,000 soldiers and civilians from Guanglu, Daxiao Changshan, Shicheng and the five islands of the ocean, and sailed back to gold in February. On April 10, Shang Kexi came to Shengjing, and Huang Taiji went out of the city for 30 miles to greet him, and he was treated the same as when Kong and Geng returned to surrender in the previous year.

Shen Zhixiang rebelled. In the ninth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, Huang Taiji called the emperor to change the name of the country to Qing, formally established the Qing Empire, and then sent troops to invade Korea, which did not recognize him as emperor, and forced Korea to submit. Subsequently, the Qing army pointed directly at the Phi Island garrisoned by Shen Shikui, the chief soldier of Phi Dao, and after the battle, the Dongjiang River finally fell, and Shen Shikui was killed in battle.

At this time, the decaying Ming Dynasty government was at the time of the alternation of the military department, and the newly appointed military secretary Yang Sichang arrived in April of the tenth year of Chongzhen, and knew almost nothing about what happened in Dongjiang and Korea, and although the Ming Dynasty had ordered Chen Hongfan, the general of Denglai Town, to go to sea to aid North Korea, Chen Hongfan was slow for various reasons, and did not approach North Korea until April of the following year, at this time North Korea and Dongjiang had fallen, and Chen Hongfan retreated to Changshan Island. Shen Shikui's nephew, Shen Zhixiang, led a part of the Dongjiang soldiers to escape from the encirclement of Houjin and fled to Changshan Island by boat.

At this time, Shen Zhixiang not only did not want to avenge his uncle, but had a conflict with Chen Hongfan, Shen Zhixiang vainly tried to inherit the position of his uncle's general soldier, and forcibly occupied the general army seal without the order of the imperial court, and killed the deputy general soldier Bai Dengyong and others to launch a mutiny, the decadent Ming Dynasty army was unable to suppress, Shen Zhixiang led the whole army to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, with Shen Zhixiang to return to the obedience of nine deputy generals, eight to join the army, eighteen guerrillas, thirty-one commanders, thirty garrisons, forty thousand generals, two Zhusheng, 2,500 soldiers and civilians. Huang Taiji awarded Shen Zhixiang as the chief military officer, and in the first month of the fourth year of Chongde, Shen Zhixiang was named the Duke of Xushun, which was the duke of the "Three Kings and One Duke" in the early Qing Dynasty.

Anyway, what Mao Wenlong is thinking, his subordinates know it very well, and it is no wonder that Mao Wenlong proposed to fight Phoenix, and several of his generals were so surprised.

Mao Wenlong didn't get angry with Wang Fu, knowing that Wang Fu was a rough man, and a rough man had the advantage of being a rough man, he was brave in battle, and he had to rely on him to fight.

"Since General Wang Fu thinks so, then you will lead 5,000 armor soldiers to attack Phoenix City tomorrow!" Mao Wenlong immediately ordered.

"Yes, Dashuai!" Wang Fu was overjoyed when he heard this, and originally thought that Mao Wenlong was just talking casually, but he didn't expect to really make up his mind.

"Marshal, although Jiannu does not have many defenders, he is inseparable from Wei Baojun at this time, should we wait a little longer?" Geng Zhongming said.

"If you wait, the whole of southern Liaoning will become Wei Bao's! Jiannu has been defeated in consecutive battles, which has never been done before! I don't care why! Our Dongjiang people are no less than Wei Bao, and there is no reason to give Wei Bao all the cheap! Mao Wenlong said.

A person who has a very good abacus is really better than doing business as a general.

Mao Wenlong is such a person, in the face of interests, he can no longer see danger in his two eyes.

Everyone saw that Mao Wenlong had made up his mind, and they were all looking forward to expanding their territory, being able to divide half of southern Liaoning, and even expanding their forces in southern Liaoning again, and driving Wei Bao out of southern Liaoning!

Compared to the expansion of the territory of influence, a large number of people can be obtained, and the first to profit are these generals.

The next day, Wang Fu took a few partial generals and 5,000 soldiers to attack Phoenix City.

The battle was very smooth, Mao Wenlong's 5,000-strong army, the combat effectiveness was obviously higher than Wei Bao's 10,000-person brigade, or even the 20,000-person brigade, Phoenix City was taken in one fight, and Mao Wenlong's army did not die many people, their strategy was also correct, they went up to drive people, and did not surround and kill Jiannu to the death, only lost less than 500 people.

This victory is a good deal, although this is not the first time that Mao Wenlong has directly attacked the city guarded by Jiannu, but Phoenix City is an important town! Behind is Qingtaiyu, and then there is Lianshan Pass!

Whoever captures Lianshan Pass will control the barrier in and out of southern Liaoning, so Huang Taiji is generally stationed in Lianshan Pass in person, and occasionally goes to Liaoyang City, and now Liaoyang City is occupied, and it is in Lianshan Pass for a long time.

"I said it wasn't a big deal, right?" Although Mao Wenlong didn't dare to go to Phoenix City in person, he was still very happy to get the news in Zhenjiang Fort! "Where does Wei Baojun have any combat power? There must be something big wrong with Jiannu! ”

"Dashuai, will we attack Qingtaiyu tomorrow?" Geng Zhongming saw that Mao Wenlong was on the rise, and he added fuel to the fire.

Mao Wenlong didn't answer immediately, although he was very happy, but the long-standing fear of Jiannu would not disappear as soon as it disappeared.

"Although it is rumored that Qingtaiyu only has 200 defenders, it is too close to Lianshan Pass! Lianshan Pass must be heavily guarded by Jiannu! If Qingtaiyu is taken, it will become a situation of direct confrontation with Jiannu! Mao Wenlong said.

"Dashuai, Lianshanguan was originally ours!" You Jinghe said: "Just take this opportunity to take it back!" Increase troops to defend Phoenix City, Phoenix City and Qingtaiyu rely on each other, and Jiannu has no way to break it! ”

Several other generals also asked for orders to go on the expedition, and the great joy of taking Phoenix City made everyone feel that a great opportunity to make meritorious contributions had arrived.

"Good! Mobilize another 4,000 people from Zhenjiang Fort! Mobilize 4,000 men and horses from Phoenix City to form an army of 8,000 to march to Qingtaiyu! 500 people to guard Phoenix City, 1000 people to guard Zhenjiang Fort! Mao Wenlong ordered, confident that with 5,000 people can break through Phoenix City, this time dispatch 8,000 troops, and it should be a matter of course to break through Qingtaiyu.

"Dashuai, there are only 1,000 people left in Zhenjiang Fort? If we lose Zhenjiang Fort, we will have no support in this area. Shang Ke said happily.

"It doesn't matter! As long as Qingtaiyu can be taken, with Qingtaiyu and Phoenix City in front, Jiannu will not dare to bypass these two places and directly attack Zhenjiang Fort! Besides, there is Tangzhan Fort in front of Zhenjiang Fort, and if you want to fight, you must fight Wei Baojun first! Hehe. Mao Wenlong said easily. The easy result of taking Phoenix City made him a little inflated now.

Everyone listened to what Mao Wenlong said makes sense, and there is no objection.

The next day, You Jinghe and other generals set out with 4,000 troops transferred from Zhenjiang Fort in accordance with Mao Wenlong's previous arrangement, and then transferred 4,000 troops to Phoenix City, with a total of 8,000 men and horses.

At the same time, Huang Taiji asked Dai Shan to go out with an army of 2,000 troops, increase troops in Qingtaiyu, and wait for an opportunity to recapture Phoenix!

Qingtaiyu and Phoenix City are important towns on the periphery of Lianshanguan, and they are so close to Lianshanguan, Huang Taiji will never let go.

You Jinghe's life was very bad, on the periphery of Qingtaiyu, before the siege of the city, he encountered Daishan's soldiers and horses.

Dai Shan was ambushed by Wei Baojun outside Gaizhou City, and had no chance to take revenge, it was when the raging anger could not erupt, not only the ruthless Wei Baojun, but also hated all the Han soldiers and horses. Immediately order the whole army to storm!

You Jinghe looked at the Jiannu army that suddenly appeared, suddenly lined up, and launched an attack on himself in a blink of an eye, and the whole person was stunned, didn't he say that there were only 200 defenders?

You Jinghe didn't have time to think about it, so he dared to let the army fight.

It only took half an hour for 2000 Jiannu to destroy and injure most of Mao Wenlong's soldiers and horses, and You Jinghe retreated with more than 3,000 remnants of the army.

Where is Dai Shan willing to let go of this kind of opportunity, the rise of the killing, naturally let the army follow and pursue.

"Cheer up! There is a heavy reward for killing Han people! Dai Shan ordered loudly: "Kill them all, not one will be left!" ”

The Jiannu soldiers roared and echoed, although there were no war horses, they all killed the enemy on foot, and their momentum was still stable against the Han army.

The main thing is that there are too many poor individual soldiers.

Whether it is archery or hand-to-hand white-knuckle combat, Jiannu is much higher than the training level of Mao Wenlong's army.

I won two games in a row just now, and at this time, I saw that the opponent threw away his armor and collapsed, and the mentality of beating the water dogs was even more explosive.

You Jinghe originally had a war horse, but at this time, he was afraid that the target would be too big, so he abandoned the war horse and hid in the infantry team.