According to Xu Shiyang's arrangement, the front-line garrison in southern Liaoning should launch more than two sabotage operations on the Liaozhong Plain every year, so that they can not only train their own soldiers, but also continue to weaken the Tartars.

Li Jinghuai, the commander-in-chief of the Qi army in southern Liaoning, chose to launch an offensive at the end of March and early April in order to delay the spring ploughing of the sorghum of the Tartars, and he believed that affecting the harvest of the Tartars was the best way to weaken the Tartars.

In this attack, the participants were mainly cavalry units in southern Liaoning.

Among them, 10 cuirassier companies, 6 flying artillery companies, and some infantry units served as the main force to deter Yaozhou, and other units, including 50 chaser companies and musketeer companies, were responsible for attacking all Jurchen villages on the front line of Yaozhou and Haizhou.

Li Jinghuai's demand is to attack at least 100 villages and affect the spring plowing work in more villages.

In order to maintain the mobility of the troops, in this operation, Li Jinghuai hoped that all troops would try not to loot, whether it was population or property, kill if they could, burn if they could, and burn them if they could, so as not to carry too many things that delay the march and be glued by Allah and not be able to leave.

The hesitation began to pry a hole in the thin cordon of the Jurchens, and the main force of the Qi army quickly poured in from this gap for a long time before the Tartars realized that something was wrong.

At this time, the main force of the Qi army's infantry and cavalry had begun to try to uproot the beacons of the Tartars one by one and expand the breakthrough.

The Tartars were very inexperienced in defense, and the hundreds of beacons on the line between Niangnianggong and Yaozhou were basically out of sight of each other, and as long as there was no smoke of gunpowder, the beacons could not transmit warnings between them, let alone cover each other with bows and arrows or firearms.

Therefore, all the beacons were isolated strongholds, and there were only 20 to 30 armor soldiers on each beacon, and in the face of the attack of thousands of Qi cavalry and infantry with magic cannons, all the beacons fell within half an hour.

In the first two days of the battle, the Qi army successively uprooted more than 50 beacons, cutting off half of the Jurchen army's forward cordon, and there were thousands of armor soldiers in these beacons, which were permanent losses for the Jurchens.

What's even worse is that the Beacon Sui, which was quickly uprooted, had very little information coming out through the beacon smoke, and the Jurchens stationed in Yaozhou had no way of judging the direction and scale of the Qi army's main attack - the strategic advantage brought by the change of hands in Gaizhou was emerging.

In order to find out the movements of the Qi army, the Jurchen army had to send a large number of sentinels scattered on the vast and flat Liaozhong Plain, and the infantry with weak mobility concentrated in the direction of Yaozhou, preparing for another decisive battle with the main force after the cavalry captured the main force of the Qi army.

At this time, the cavalry of the Qi army was no longer the Wuxia Ameng of the past, and the chassars who acted in company units wore helmets, leather armor (only used to prevent cavalry shooting), sabers and at least two flintlock pistols, and had a strong firepower advantage in long-range and close-range attacks, and some even carried short cavalry rifles, which could be dismounted and fired on foot.

The cavalry company galloped across the Liaozhong Plain, and as soon as they found the village, they dismounted and fired at it, suppressing the Tartars who remained in the village with pistols or rifles, and then entered the village and killed as many Tartars as they could, whether they were young or old.

The light cavalry of the Qi army took only the lightest gold, silver and jewelry, and did not take any other supplies, and finally set fire to the entire village.

On the contrary, the Aha slaves in the village who voluntarily surrendered could take all the food and cloth they could bring with them, and retreat in the direction of Gaizhou on their own - anyway, their master died, and if they took their master's belongings, they would definitely die if they fell into the hands of the Jurchens.

Anyone who can go to Gaizhou will be for nothing for the Qi army.

If you encounter a Tartar scout, the enemy is small, and the Qi army will rely on the advantage of firepower to attack.

The enemy is outnumbered, and the Qi army, which is full of light cavalry, can easily get rid of it, or use signal fireworks to gather other cavalry companies around to besiege the enemy army.

This kind of battle in which their core territory was plundered and they had to rely on mobile forces to desperately pursue and find opportunities, which made the Jurchens, the master of plundering, very uncomfortable.

The scattered cavalry suffered many big losses, but if the cavalry was concentrated, the efficiency of pursuing the Qi army with no more than 100 horsemen was terrifying.

All of a sudden, most of the areas south of Haizhou were full of smoke, and Wanyan Zonggan and Wanyan Zongwang, who were still stationed in Liaoyang, and Wanyan Zongbi, who advanced to Yaozhou to command nearby, only continued to receive a large number of requests for help, as well as the occasional news of the total destruction of cavalry units.

It wasn't until the tenth day of the start of the Qi army's offensive that Wanyan Zongbi realized that the Qi army's attack seemed to be dominated by cavalry, with the aim of weakening Dajin's national strength.

Because the Jin army's sentinels have not been able to find the Qi army's escort and capture of the population, they have captured many of their own Aha who fled south with food and cloth.

These minions confessed that the Qi cavalry killed all the Jurchens in the village, and then burned the village, leaving the Ahabs to carry their own food and go south.

During the whole process, no Qi infantry appeared.

"The cavalry plundered ......, no, it was either a raid or an attack, they did not rob people and things, it seemed that they were worried about delaying the speed of the march."

Wanyan Zongbi sat in his temporary residence in Yaozhou City, thinking carefully:

"So they don't have many troops, they don't have many cavalry in the first place, and the horses they have captured over the years plus what they have obtained from the Mughal may be able to equip five thousand cavalry? A thousand of them were still heavy cavalry unsuitable for such operations, well, and artillery on horseback. ”

"That is to say, at this time, there are thirty teams of men and horses and about three thousand cavalry in the Han dogs who are making trouble everywhere, and there may be a large group of heavy cavalry and infantry in the rear to respond, but that is only to respond, they should not take the initiative to attack - otherwise they should have arrived in Yaozhou a long time ago."

"So, what I should do now is not to follow the Hangou cavalry around, but to find a way to concentrate my forces and eliminate a few teams of Hangou's cavalry."

"If you can wipe out more than a thousand people, with the speed at which their cavalry is replenished, it is estimated that they will not dare to let the precious cavalry go wild like this next time!"

The idea was good, but it meant that the Jin army had to gather as many cavalry and infantry as possible to fight together, and the Qi cavalry would have more time to attack more villages.

Moreover, it is also difficult to replenish the grain and grass consumed by the large-scale mobilization of the Jin army - this year's spring ploughing south of Haizhou seems to have been completely ruined.

There's no way around it.

When the defending side lacks the support of geographical advantages, it can only choose to let the enemy in the strategic offensive stage suffer heavy losses again and again, and the gains outweigh the losses, so that it is possible to get a respite.

If you think about your own strategy, you can't hesitate, hesitation will only give the enemy more time to wreak havoc.

Wanyan Zongbi quickly wrote a letter, passing on the news he had obtained and the analysis to his two brothers who were still in Liaoyang, asking them to immediately bring troops to Yaozhou to join him.

At the same time, he called Tang Ma to recall all his own troops chasing the Qi cavalry, and prepared to round up the hungry wolves scurrying around in his house.