Winter is coming, the temperature in Liaodong is getting lower and lower, and Huang Taiji's heart is getting cooler and colder, because the scouts he sent have not been able to break through the blockade of the Ming army so far, and the situation on the south bank of the Wanshui River is even more terrifying, the Ming army from all over Liaodong is still gathering on the south bank of the Wanshui River, and the number is probably more than 200,000!

At this time, he really wanted to lead the army to Dingliao Right Guard to go around and threaten Zhang Bin, or go to the vicinity of the capital of Daming to loot and let Chongzhen clean up Zhang Bin.

However, these can only be thought about, because he has limited troops in his hands, if he leads the army to leave Liaoyang, Zhang Bin will definitely take the opportunity to raid, if Liaoyang is lost, the consequences are unimaginable, besides, at this time, the Mengyuan Chahar Department has also betrayed, and he wants to use the channel from there to sneak attack the capital of the Ming Dynasty, which is basically impossible.

He could only continue to collect materials to defend the city in Liaoyang City, constantly strengthen the city defense, and at the same time desperately cast Hongyi cannons, in order to make a comeback and break the myth of Zhang Bin's invincibility.

This kind of thing was not his wishful thinking, because the myth of their invincibility in Houjin was shattered in Ningyuan, and at that time, Yuan Chonghuan, who was defending the city, did not have as many men and horses as him.

Huang Taiji was actively preparing for war in Liaoyang, and Zhang Bin, who was more than 50 miles away, was not idle, and he was also constantly mobilizing troops and materials to prepare for the attack on Liaoyang City.

At this time, there were indeed more than 200,000 Ming troops gathered in Anshan New Town, to be precise, the Ming army gathered in Anshan New Town had reached a terrifying 250,000.

Although the Fuguang army lost 10,000 in the battle of Haizhou, and transferred 10,000 horses to supplement the Guanning iron cavalry, its number was still terrifying 80,000, and Zhang Bin mobilized them all this time.

After Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao were transferred, Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu and other young generals just commanded 10,000 horses, but at this time, Zhang Bin has not yet set up a general army to command the Fuguang army, because Li Dingguo's qualifications are still a little shallow, although he has made great achievements, but the time to lead the troops to fight is less than three years in total, and he is just twenty years old at this time, so young to be promoted to the general army, Chongzhen is estimated not to agree, Xue Guoguan and Chen Xinjia are estimated not to agree.

Zhang Bin could only let him temporarily lead the Fuguang Army as a general, anyway, Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi were all obedient to him, and whether or not he was a general soldier did not have much impact on him.

In addition to the Fuguang Army, the most people and horses are the reorganized Guanning Iron Cavalry, at this time the Guanning Iron Cavalry has returned to its peak of 50,000 horses, under the training of Cao Wenzhao, its strength has also begun to slowly recover, if coupled with Zhang Bin's light armor for it, its strength to recover or surpass the peak, it is only a matter of time.

Next is the Qin army, the 40,000 Qin troops led by Sun Chuanting did not suffer much loss in the Battle of Haizhou, at this time Zu Dashou had already taken over the defense of Haizhou City, and Sun Chuanting had already pulled all the 40,000 Qin troops over.

There are also a lot of Sichuan army and Dongjiang army, 30,000 Sichuan army white pole soldiers all the way from Shanhaiguan to follow Zhang Bin to Haizhou, in the battle of Haizhou, their casualties are not very large, there are still 30,000 horses at this time, the Dongjiang army originally landed only 25,000 men and horses, at this time Zhang Bin has led the army to force Liaoyang, Huang Taiji is not able to play any moths, so he simply ordered Mao Wenlong to pull the five thousand garrisons of Phi Island over, leaving only hundreds of people stationed there.

The rest are the Qi family army and the Tianxiong army, although these two strong forces only have 10,000 horses, their combat power is comparable to 20,000 or even 30,000 elites.

Gathering 250,000 elite divisions at one time This is also a rare move in the history of the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that only in the Hongwu Dynasty and the Yongle Dynasty have such a grand event, Zhang Bin in order to defeat Huang Taiji, recover the entire Liaodong is also a bloody capital, these teams are all his descendants, he is equivalent to using his own family background and Jiannu desperately.

Although this army was assembled, Zhang Bin did not rush to attack, because winter was coming, the winter in Liaodong was notoriously cold, and during the Xiaoice River period, the winter in Liaodong was even colder, and he did not want to be trapped outside Liaoyang City by more than 200,000 troops, in a dilemma.

More importantly, the strategic materials of this war were not yet complete, in order to minimize the casualties of his soldiers, he not only ordered the Dongfan Arsenal to cast hundreds of 2,000-pound Franc cannons and gun carriages, but also ordered the Dongfan guards to mobilize with all their might, make light armor, make new chariots, and strive to add one or two layers of protection to each soldier.

The pace of winter is approaching, Anshan New City is also gradually taking shape, when the four walls are almost built, Zhang Bin ordered, 250,000 troops, all into the city camp, collect firewood and charcoal, ready for winter, at the same time, he also ordered Yu Chenglong to lead people to directly escort all the captives of the 50,000 Jiannu coalition army to Dongfan, anyway, this city is almost repaired, in order to avoid these people from making trouble when the war starts, it is better to send people away, besides, he also has no time to prepare winter materials for these more than 50,000 captives, send them to Dongfan, It also saved him an unknown amount of trouble.

At this time, the scouts sent by Huang Taiji finally saw Anshan New Town, and the Ming army actually built a city five or six miles wide on the south bank of the Wanshui River!

Huang Taiji received the news, and his heart was even more cold, this Zhang Bin was even more difficult to deal with than Sun Chengzong, when Sun Chengzong was building the city and fortress, he could still find out the news and lead the army to harass him, but Zhang Bin directly blocked the news, so that he couldn't judge what this guy was doing.

If he finds out that Zhang Bin is building a city, he will definitely find a way to harass him, but he can't find out the exact news at all, so he won't dare to bring people to harass him.

It's not that Zhang Bin hasn't done this kind of thing, Huang Taiji is afraid of the pit, where do you dare to attack casually, now it's okay, people have almost repaired the city, and there is no chance to harass him, he can only be careful and wait for the cold winter to come.

Zhang Bin didn't play any tricks anymore, he just took a group of guards to the battalions every day to check the cold protection measures, the winter in Liaodong is not a joke at this time, if the cold protection measures are not done well, even strong soldiers can freeze to death!

Huang Taiji and Zhang Bin had no intention of provoking a war, and Liaodong ushered in a rare period of calm, as the cold winter quietly came, the two sides were nested in the city, hiding in the camp tents, and even the scouts were too lazy to send out.

At this time, the winter in Liaodong is really cold, if you don't wrap it tightly when you go out, the exposed skin will freeze and die directly in half an hour, who will be bored to attack others in such bad weather.

In this way, the two sides spent a New Year's festival and a winter, waiting for the arrival of spring.