Lin Yi has long had a plan to attack the Manchu Tartars, he knows that if the border troubles are not eliminated, the Ming Dynasty will not be safe, and in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the biggest threat to the Ming Dynasty is not the domestic thieves, nor the Donglin Party, let alone natural disasters, mainly the Manchu Tartars outside the Guan.

Don't look at it, Li Zicheng broke through Yanjing, Chongzhen hanged himself, and the Ming Dynasty perished. This is only a superficial phenomenon, in essence, it was the Manchu Tartars who destroyed the Ming Dynasty.

If you say it from the root, it was Emperor Chongzhen himself who destroyed the Ming Dynasty!

Now Lin Yi feels that the time is ripe, and he also has this strength.

Now in essence, the Ming Dynasty is already in his hands, and there are more than 500,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, that is, at least 500,000 horses now, under his command and dispatch.

These include Ma Shiying's father and son who hold the Fengyang soldiers, Yuan Shu who holds the Henan soldiers, Liu Zhaoji, the chief military officer stationed in Yongping, and the iron whip general Huang Degong, the chief eunuch Lu Jiude, etc.

In addition, Zuo Liangyu, who was entrenched in Wuhan, and Liu Zeqing, Liu Liangzuo, Gao Jie, etc., the warlords of Shandong and Huainan.

These four warlords didn't dare to make a mistake at least on the surface, but now they all listened to Lin Yi's command and recognized his status as the crown prince and prince. Because they didn't dare to blatantly break with the prince, they led their soldiers and horses up the Yangtze River and entered Sichuan to attack Zhang Xianzhong.

Not to mention, the actual number of soldiers and horses in Shanhaiguan is close to 120,000, and now there are more than 100,000 soldiers divided into two routes, and they have gone to Sichuan to clean up Zhang Xianzhong.

The power in Shangjing was handed over to those upright civil officials to take care of temporarily, and the machine of the Ming Dynasty could still move forward first, and if you want to govern the country, you must first secure the state, clean up the disobedient warlords, punish corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and benefit the people, which is of course a matter of the future.

Here, Li Zicheng's group has also been destroyed, and the main enemy of the remaining Ming Dynasty is the Manchu Tartars, and it is time to show their swords.

In front of him, he gathered heavy troops in Shanhaiguan, taking advantage of the Manchu Tartars outside the pass to attack Shanhaiguan first, the big traitor Wu Sangui surrendered to the Manchu Tartars again, this time it can be regarded as a famous teacher, and he will not return to Shengjing if he does not fight Shengjing!

After cleaning up the battlefield at Shanhaiguan, reorganizing the thousands of prisoners obtained, and taking care of these spoils, Lin Yi started to send troops, and there was no need to replenish ammunition supplies, and the booty obtained from this battle was more than enough.

At this time, someone came to report that a large number of Qing troops were gathering from Shengjing, Ningyuan, Jinzhou, Yizhou and other places, so Lin Yi decided to send troops outside the pass to engage the Tartars on a frontal battlefield.

Lin Yi used to fight with the Tartars, and they all relied on sneak attacks to win surprisingly and rely on passive defense to find fighters, but this time he was going to take the initiative.

This is because his strength was not good in the past, and his soldiers were outnumbered, and in the face of the powerful Manchu Eight Banner soldiers, there was no way to start a frontal battlefield with them.

But now it's different, you have to have soldiers, you have to have generals, you have to have money. He can even use the power of the whole country to fight against the Tartars in the name of the Ming Dynasty, and he is about to turn to a counteroffensive, which Emperor Chongzhen will not be able to do in his life.

When Chongzhen was alive, although the Ming Dynasty had several large-scale battles against the Manchu Tartars, the two sides won and lost each other.

But it was all forced defense, and basically no active attack. In other words, it was all the Manchu Tartars who came to invade, and they had to fight back, and they had to rise up and resist.

It's different now, he is now going out of the customs, going abroad, first recovering Ningyuan and Jinzhou and other places that belong to the Ming Dynasty, and then settling accounts with these Manchu and Mongolian Tatars.

In these years, the Ming Dynasty is like a sleeping lion, if the Mongolian Tartars don't come, the Manchu Tartars will come, how can the Ming Dynasty let these border barbarians bully?

From the Qin and Han dynasties to the Tang Dynasty, and then to the Ming Dynasty, the Han people have been in the country for thousands of years, and those who violate my territory will be punished even if they are far away, which has always been such a rule, and now at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it is still the world of the Han people, how can you be slaughtered by these Tartars?

The tiger is not powerful, you think it is a sick cat!

When Lin Yi imagined this, he was full of spirit and enthusiasm.

To clean up the Tartars outside the gate, he felt that these hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers were enough, and of course he couldn't take them all out.

The terrain of Shanhaiguan is dangerous, the Great Wall passes, and must be heavily defended.

Now the strength of the Manchu Tartars should not be underestimated, in addition to a few Mongolian tribes, the vast southern Mongolia and northern Mongolia all belonged to the Qing Dynasty, and the western Mongolia heard that it was also good with the Qing Dynasty, plus the powerful Manchurian Tartars, in addition to a large number of traitor lackeys, followed by these Tartars, including the hardcore traitors Fan Wencheng and Ning Wanme, the old traitors Kong Youde, Shang Kexi, Tong Yangjia, and the traitor rookie Hong Chengchou, Zu Dashou, Wu Sangui, etc., these people are either literary or martial, are not idle.

If you underestimate any of them, you may suffer a big loss.

Therefore, Lin Yi asked Ma Shiying and his son to stay and garrison Shanhaiguan City, of course, including a Shiguan City, and more than 20,000 Fengyang soldiers were under their command.

Then let Yuan Shu lead 10,000 Henan soldiers, responsible for supervising the transportation of grain and grass, and replenishing ammunition for the troops.

Then Lin Yi led an army of 100,000 troops out of Shanhaiguan, mightily, and drove towards Ningyuan.

When Lin Yi went out of the customs, he also thought of several Mongolian tribes outside the Saiwai, these tribes had broken with the Qing Dynasty and formed an alliance with the Ming Dynasty a few years ago, and they signed a military mutual assistance agreement with Emperor Chongzhen, and now it was time to use them.

Lin Yi sent Zhezhe to take a Mongolian cavalry and bring his own handwritten letter to the Mongolian steppe. Let her go back to her mother's house first, that is, the city of Wengniut, to see her father-in-law Bayanbushal, and then go to the Chahar Department to find her sworn brother Barun, and then go to the right wing of Tumer to meet the owner of the village, Bashan, and ask them to contact these Mongolian tribes to send troops to assist the Ming in attacking the Qing Dynasty.

After Zhezhe received the order, he took two personal maids and led a Mongolian female soldier to set off.

Lin Yi took Xiao Ying and Gao Guiying, the deputy general of the women's battalion, out to see each other, Zhezhe secretly pulled Xiao Ying to the side and advised: "Sister, it will take at least a month to leave, and you have to serve Brother Lin well during this period."

Xiao Ying pursed her mouth, flashed her eyes a few times and said disdainfully: "Hmph, do you still need to say this?" Worry more about the journey and take care of yourself! ”

After Xiaoying finished speaking, she turned around and left, who knew that Zhezhe stepped forward to stop her, and said very seriously: "Sister, this time I'm not joking with you, Brother Lin drinks water at night, you must ensure that there is boiling water at night, and Brother Lin is good at drinking, you have to accompany him to drink, and you can't let him drink more, the wine hurts his body."

After saying these few words, Xiao Ying stared at Zhezhe like a thief, and said secretly, so careful, no wonder Brother Lin likes her so much, and then nodded vigorously as if he understood something.

"Sister has written it down, you can leave with confidence."

"That's my good sister."

Zhezhe said, smiled, flew on the horse and waved his hand to Lin Yi and Gao Guiying, and then whipped the horse and took more than 100 horses and galloped away.

Lin Yi looked at her beautiful back, and finally disappeared on the horizon, and then he and Xiao Ying, Gao Guiying, Song Xiance and others turned their horses and walked back.

Xiao Ying came over with a horse, approached Lin Yi, and said slowly: "Brother Lin, don't you want to know what the two of us muttered just now?"

Lin Yi smiled indifferently, "That's your secret." ”

"Well, you don't want to hear it, I don't want to say it yet!" ……

"Report to the Taishi, the army of the Tartars, about 30,000 horses, was found 20 miles ahead, and it was heading towards us."

"Oh, who is the commander of the troops?"

"If you go back to Taishi, you are two young generals who are typing, and you don't see the banners of Hauge and Dolgon, but there are the shadows of traitors Wu Sangui and Kong Youde."

Lin Yi nodded, sent the probe horse away, and looked at Song Xiance.

Song Xiance smiled slightly, "This is their forward troops, this is to open a field battle with us, attack the enemy's shortcomings with their own strengths, Taishi should be careful, in addition, the Tartars are cunning, and they must be cautious that Dolgon has small movements behind his back." ”

Lin Yi laughed: "Field battle? Hehe, what Mr. said, it is exactly what I want, this time this Taishi will compare the length with them, come, form a battle formation, and prepare to meet the enemy! ”