In March, the earth warmed up, the flowers in the south of the Yangtze River opened, the ice and snow in Liaodong began to melt, the spring flowers bloomed strongly, the spring was stronger, and a great war between the Ming Dynasty and the Later Jin Dynasty was about to begin.

On the side of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the Liaodong Army, Guanning Army, Dongjiang Army and Qin Army originally stationed in Liaodong, Chongzheng Emperor Zhu Cijiong was also ready to bring the Tianxiong Army and the First Legion of the Praetorian Guard Army to march in person, and the entire 600,000 army can be said to have gathered all the elites of the Ming Dynasty at this stage, just to defeat Jiannu and recover Liaodong.

An army of 600,000 went to clean up a tribe with a total population of more than one million, and it is estimated that the vast majority of people will think that Houjin is finished, and the Ming Dynasty will easily take Liaodong.

If you dare to despise Houjin so much, then be ready to lose!

Looking back on the history of the late Ming Dynasty, you will find a very terrifying fact, a tribe with only four or five hundred thousand people at the time of the founding of the country, it took less than 30 years to die a total of less than 100,000 people, and completely defeated the Ming Dynasty with a population of hundreds of millions and an army of millions!

This is an undeniable fact, from the Later Jin Dynasty to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it was like opening a cheat, magically defeating the Ming army again and again, turning the impossible into a fact.

Like the battle of Salhu in the rise of the Later Jin, at that time, the Ming Dynasty's Liaodong Jingluo Yang Hao gathered 180,000 Ming troops, as well as 20,000 Jurchen Yehe soldiers, 20,000 Korean soldiers, a total of 220,000, known as 470,000, and the total population of Houjin at that time was less than 470,000, and the total number of adult men who could fight was less than 100,000, but they actually won, and it was a big victory! Is it magical? In fact, it is not magical at all, the Ming army is a joint attack in separate ways, and Houjin just used a trick to concentrate superior forces to break through, it can only be said that their tactics are used well, and the tactics of the Ming army commander are too rubbish.

Later, when they met Sun Chengzong, the commander of the Ming army who could use tactics, they took a break, and a Ningjin defense line was attacked for more than ten years, but they were stunned and did not take it.

The generals of the Ming army after Sun Chengzong were like a demon, and were played by the Later Jin and later Manchu Qing in the palm of their hands, like the battle of Songshan that decided the fate of the Ming and Qing dynasties, Huang Taiji only used two moves, one move to encircle the point to help, and surrounded the main force of the Liaodong Army in Jinzhou, and the Ming army really gathered the elite of the whole country to come to the rescue; With one move to cut off grain, the main force of more than 100,000 troops of the Ming army immediately fell apart and fell apart.

Later, the Qing army entered the customs, drove the tiger and devoured the wolf with one move, and beat the peasant rebel army, the remnants of the Ming army and the Southern Ming army behind all the way with the surrendered Ming army. After the surrender, the Ming army of Jin and even the armies of the Mongol tribes did not know how much they lost, but the losses of the Jurchen tribes were almost negligible!

Therefore, looking back on history, it can be seen that the Later Jin and the later Manchu Qing are good at using tactics, good at preserving strength, and good at defeating the strong with the weak, especially Huang Taiji, saying that he is good at strategy, saying that he is good at playing conspiracy and tricks, in short, this Lord of Houjin is not simple, if you underestimate him, you will definitely be beaten by him and can't find the north.

Like this time, the Ming Dynasty gathered an army of 600,000 troops, and just waited for the ice and snow to melt before waving the army to Liaodong and smashing the Yellow Dragon, is Huang Taiji afraid? He's afraid, it's weird!

Not only is he not afraid, but he thinks that this is a great opportunity, as long as the tactics are used properly, Houjin will achieve a brilliant victory like the Battle of Salhu, a big victory of Salhu, Houjin has obtained thousands of miles of fertile land in Liaodong, if this victory is won, wouldn't it be possible to smash the Ming Jingshi!

Huang Taiji is full of desire for this battle, and he is also ready for tactics, first come to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, let the Mongolian departments entangle the main force of the Ming army, and then come to intercept the grain, he led the Jin Tie cavalry to intercept the grain of the Ming army, and the Ming army will be defeated!

The war was about to begin, first of all, it was natural to drive these tigers of the Mongolian tribes, so as soon as the ice and snow in the land of Liaodong began to melt, Huang Taiji led his army to the Chahar Department to discuss with the leaders of the Mongolian tribes about 'equalizing the land of Liaodong'.

He got straight to the point and pretended to be generous: "Leaders, my Emperor Taiji counts, now that the ice and snow in Liaodong have begun to melt, you can prepare to go and take over the land in Liaodong, and all the land south of the first line of Haizhou Wei and Dingliao Right Guard is yours." ”

The leaders of the Mongol tribes, you look at me, I look at you, my eyes are full of banter, do you think we don't know anything? Da Ming has gathered such a pair of troops, and he wants to clean up your Houjin, and you came here to deceive us to be cannon fodder, when we are fools?

Of course, you can't say that, they have all been defeated by the hands of Houjin, and they are considered to be the vassals of Houjin, and if they dare to talk to the lord of Houjin like this, they can't clean up the Ming Dynasty, and it's still very easy to clean them up.

One of the leaders pretended to be frightened and said, "Great Khan, so many Ming troops are gathering in Liaodong, and we are going to receive the land, don't we just hit the muzzle of the gun?" ”

When Huang Taiji heard this, his face turned blank, and he said coldly: "Then you mean that you don't want any land, right?" It's okay, you don't want the land I laid down by Houjin in the future, even if we seize the entire Daming country, you don't want to get a piece of land. ”

The people sitting here were all old oilers, and his words couldn't provoke anyone at all, and the other leader said in a strange way: "Great Khan, I heard that the Ming Dynasty has assembled a full 600,000 army, I don't know how many soldiers and horses the Jurchen tribes have now?" ”

Huang Taiji glanced at him disdainfully, and sneered: "Is the army of 600,000 terrible? Have you forgotten the Battle of Salkhon more than ten years ago? At that time, I had only a lot of territory in Houjin, and only a few people, and the Ming Dynasty entangled Ye Hebu and North Korea, which claimed to be 470,000 troops, to attack, and what was the result? You all know that, right? The Yehe Department has been wiped out by us, and Korea has now become a vassal state of our Houjin, and the Ming Dynasty has lost almost the entire Liaodong! After more than ten years of development, my Houjin is more than twice as strong, and the 600,000 Ming army came at the right time, and when I Houjin destroyed the 600,000 army, the number of Ming Qi is about the same, and who else can compete with my Houjin at that time? ”

The leaders looked at each other in disbelief, and their hearts beat drums, and one of the leaders asked the biggest doubt: "Great Khan, according to what you say, my Houjin should have destroyed the Ming Dynasty a long time ago, why has it been more than ten years and there has been no progress?" ”

Huang Taiji said indignantly: "Yes, if it weren't for Sun Chengzong's old dog constantly reinforcing his turtle shell, my Houjin would have destroyed Daming a long time ago." But now it's okay, their little emperor doesn't know whether he is alive or dead, and he wants to run out of the turtle shell to fight me, hum, when he gets to the wild, what can he do even if he has a million Ming troops, and I can make him annihilated by 100,000 iron horses! ”

When these leaders thought about it, this was really the case, when they got to the field, let alone the army, their Mongolian iron cavalry was not the opponent of the Houjin iron cavalry, and one of the leaders asked tentatively: "Great Khan, do you mean that the Ming Dynasty is dead this time?" Da Ming is so vast, can we destroy him? ”

Huang Taiji asked rhetorically: "Is the great of the Ming Dynasty a powerful one?" This big is big fat meat, right? Hahaha. “

Seeing that Huang Taiji was still thinking about joking, the leaders finally let go of the doubts in their hearts and laughed with him.

Huang Taiji took the opportunity to say: "Now everyone can rest assured, hurry up and gather soldiers and horses to eat meat with Ben Great Khan." “

Having said that, there was still no way to let them be cannon fodder, and one of the leaders shamelessly suggested: "Either wait for the Great Khan to defeat the Ming army, and then we will go to take over the land of Liaodong." “

Huang Taiji sneered: "I don't have any strength and still want land, why should I give you land?" You guys slowly nest here, and when I Houjin has laid down the Ming Dynasty, don't blame me for not giving you a sip of soup at that time. “

All the leaders showed hesitant expressions, and one of the leaders said hesitantly: "Great Khan, this, this, we are not unwilling to contribute, but if we want to go head-on and fight the 600,000 army of the Ming Dynasty, we are really, really ......." “

Finally took the bait, Huang Taiji was overjoyed, he pretended to be displeased and said: "If I gather all my troops to clean up the Ming army, the city will be unguarded, so let's go, you all go to defend the city to prevent the Ming army from sneaking attack, you don't have to go to war, just stay in the city and watch, now you can rest assured, right?" “

All the chiefs were happy, and they thought that it would be safe to stay in the city, so they went to see what they were afraid of, so they were willing to send troops one by one.

Huang Taiji was afraid that they would be perfunctory, so he threw out a bait, and in the future, the land will be divided according to the number of people, and how much land will be divided into one soldier, that is to say, whoever will send more troops this time will have more land divided by the country.

Now these leaders are more active, almost all the people in the tribe who can carry knives and guns, anyway, they just stay in the city and watch, there is no danger, they are going to travel! With such a random move, they actually gathered more than 300,000 horses, of course, it is unknown how many of them can really have combat effectiveness.

Huang Taiji didn't care about their indiscriminate refill, but just let their sons and daughters lead them to defend the city lively, while he himself gathered all the Houjin cavalry and prepared to intercept the food of the Ming army.

Huang Taiji was almost ready, and Zhu Cijiong was naturally not far behind, as soon as he heard that the ice and snow in Liaodong were beginning to melt, he began to dispatch troops.

First of all, he transferred all the thieves and prisoners of Tianjin Wei to Zunhua, and prepared to take them to Liaodong to build a city and open up wasteland, and Tianjin Wei let the original guard garrison, anyway, it is still an empty city with only a city wall, and he is not afraid of others robbing it.

Then he asked Shi Kefa to lead the Second Legion of the Praetorian Guard back to the capital, while the First Legion of the Praetorian Guard was ready to accompany him on the expedition.

The defense of Zunhua City was also arranged, so Lu Xiangsheng stationed the 50,000 defenders from all over the country that he had brought over, and the Tianxiong army would also accompany him to the expedition.

Just when everything was ready, Zhu Cijiong only waited for the ice and snow in Liaodong to melt before he could move his army north, but the Jinyi Wei secret agent suddenly sent a secret letter from Sun Chengzong.

Zhu Cijiong opened it and saw that Sun Chengzong wrote in the letter:

Emperor Taiji, the chief of Chenwennu, has requisitioned more than 300,000 Mongolian troops to come to help, if they are allowed to complete the defense, it will take time to take any city in Liaodong to take, and it will be protracted at that time, and the minister is afraid of change. If the emperor immediately ordered Mao Wenlong to lead the Dongjiang army to take the right guard of Dingliao with lightning speed, so that the cities in the southeast of Liaodong will lose support, and it will be just around the corner.