At the end of July, the advance of the Houjin army led by Dai Shan and Huang Taiji arrived near Tieling, and Li Hongyu, who was sitting in Tieling, immediately made a decision and ordered the panicked Tieling defenders to withdraw to Shenyang.

Before leaving, Li Hongyu left a letter on the table in the reception hall of the Tieling General Military Mansion, and the letter was naturally addressed to Nurhachi.

Li Hongyu told Nurhachi in the letter that Kaiyuan and Tieling would temporarily borrow Nurhachi, and he would definitely take back Kaiyuan and Tieling within two years, so that Nurhachi could enjoy the good times of the year.

The letter first fell into the hands of Dai Shan and Huang Taiji, and the two naturally gave it to Nurhachi, who frowned tightly after reading the letter, and his expression was extremely solemn.

A few months ago, after Du Du's chief of staff Aqige was killed by the Liaodong Iron Cavalry who suddenly attacked in front of the Yaque Pass, when he returned to Hetuala, he once brought Nurhachi a message that he would take Hetuala.

Now, Nurhachi was forced to abandon Hetuala and move the capital to Kaiyuan, and gave Hetuara to the Ming army, which made Nurhachi feel very jealous of Li Hongyu.

Unlike other officials of the Ming Dynasty, Li Hongyu not only had high military attainments, but also was good at dealing with people, and did not despise the Jurchens and the Mongols, so that Yehebu and the Mongols gave him his life and won the Battle of Tieling, which in turn reversed the unfavorable situation of the Ming army in Liaodong in one fell swoop.

Nurhachi's greatest fear is naturally to fight a protracted war with Li Hongyu, the commander of the Ming army who replaces defense with offense, which obviously will compress the living space of the Houjin and gradually weaken the power of the Houjin through war.

Therefore, in order to avoid being suppressed by Li Hongyu, Nurhachi had no choice but to expand his power by expanding his power by expanding his strength by annexing more ethnic minority tribes, including the Mongols.

In fact, Li Hongyu originally wanted to burn Tieling City, which was the most beneficial to the Ming army, so that the Houjin army had to gather in Kaiyuan.

However, Tieling is different from Hetuala, Tieling is a city under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, Li Hongyu will definitely cause a lot of trouble after burning it, not only is there a suspicion of fearing the enemy and avoiding war, but also can not explain to the people of Tieling City, the people still want to return home one day.

At the beginning of August, Li Hongyu, Wang Keshou, Zhou Yongchun and other civil and military officials of Shenyang City went out of the city to greet Xiong Tingbi, the supreme commander of the Ming army in Liaodong.

"Governor Li, you have contributed a lot to Liaodong to such a stable situation!" After Xiong Tingbi greeted the officials, he said to Li Hongyu with a smile, full of praise for his little fellow.

Originally, Xiong Tingbi thought that with the end of the Battle of Sarhu and the fall of Kaiyuan, the people in Liaodong would panic and there would be a wave of refugees.

But with Li Hongyu's successive victories in Yaque Pass and Tieling, especially the victory in the Battle of Tieling, the market in Liaodong was pacified by the governor, and the people did not panic, which greatly surprised Xiong Tingbi's expectations.

Not only that, when leaving the capital, Wu Liangsi and Huang Yanshi of the Chu Party, as well as Yang Lian of the Donglin Party, these high-ranking officials of the Huguang imperial court, favored Li Hongyu and were extremely important, which made Xiong Tingbi also full of curiosity about this young Ming champion.

"Lord Jingluo praised it falsely, it is the colleagues and soldiers in Liaodong who work together to bring about today's situation." Li Hongyu smiled disappreciatively when he heard this, and replied with a humble expression.

"Lord Xiong, the city has prepared a reception banquet, please." Wang Keshou saw that Li Hongyu was very humble, with an approving look on his face, and stretched out his hand to Xiong Tingbi to make a gesture of invitation, inviting him into the city.

Because Xiong Tingbi was the supreme commander of Liaodong sent by the imperial court, there were thousands of empty alleys in Shenyang, and the people flocked to the roadside to watch the excitement, and the scene was noisy.

In fact, when Li Hongyu withdrew from Tieling City to Shenyang City, the welcoming crowd on the street was even more lively than now, because it was Li Hongyu's stand-in who entered the city last time, so everyone wanted to witness the true face of the governor of Liaodong who had won two big victories in succession, and wanted to know what the youngest new champion of the Ming Dynasty looked like.

Xiong Tingbi's reception banquet was set up in Shenyang's General Military Mansion, presided over by Wang Keshou, the governor of Jiliao, and Li Hongyu and Xiong Tingbi sat on his left and right lower seats.

The people who could share the table with Li Hongyu were naturally high-ranking officials and dignitaries in Liaodong, including Zhou Yongchun, deputy governor of Liaodong, Chen Wangting, Liaodong Inspector, Li Wentao, Liaodong Supervisor, and Li Ruzhen, the chief soldier of Zhenliao.

The rest of the officials could only sit at other drinking tables, and the officialdom was strictly hierarchical, and officials of all levels had their own positions in social situations, and everyone was self-aware, and no one would trespass.

Because Li Hongyu, Wang Keshou and Xiong Tingbi, the three giants of Liaodong, are all Huguang people, so the atmosphere of the banquet is very harmonious and brisk, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the township party has a pivotal role in the imperial court, officials of the same origin take care of each other, usually have common interests in the officialdom, will not fight for power and profit.

Although it is said that it is the three giants of Liaodong, in fact, the people in charge are Li Hongyu and Xiong Tingbi, Wang Keshou is old and in poor health, and he is not in charge of things, and he plans to ask Emperor Wanli to resign, return to his hometown, and retire for the rest of his life.

Don't look at Xiong Tingbi's qualifications are deeper than Li Hongyu's, and he has been patrolling Liaodong for many years, but most of the generals in Liaodong are troops from various places transferred from other places, plus Li Hongyu reorganized the Southwest Road Ming Army led by Li Rubai and dominated by the local army in Liaodong.

Therefore, with the two great victories at Yaque Pass and Tieling, Li Hongyu has already established his prestige in the hearts of these generals in Liaodong, and he has more weight than Xiong Tingbi when he speaks.

What is particularly important is that Li Hongyu loves his subordinates and the people very much, and has the courage to take responsibility, so he naturally won the trust of the generals.

If Li Hongyu and Xiong Tingbi fight for power, then the generals of Liaodong will definitely choose to support Li Hongyu, especially the Yaque Guan Ming Army under Li Rubai, who will take Li Hongyu as the leader, since Li Hongyu came to Liaodong, they have jumped from a defeated army to the victorious army that captured Hetuala, and naturally chose to stand on Li Hongyu's side.

However, it is impossible for Li Hongyu to compete with Xiong Tingbi for power and profit in Liaodong, in the final analysis, he is just a passerby in Liaodong, and after the war situation in Liaodong is stable, he will definitely be recalled by Emperor Wanli, and Liaodong will rely on Xiong Tingbi to govern in the future.

Besides, Li Hongyu has achieved the merits and prestige he wants in Liaodong, enriching his resume, and there is no need to toss anything.

"Governor Li, Kaiyuan is an important military town in northern Liaoning, and he is in charge of the gateway to the north in eastern Liaoning, and now it is very unfavorable for my Ming to be occupied by Jiannu."

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Xiong Tingbi, who was talking and laughing with everyone, suddenly changed his voice and asked Li Hongyu, "I don't know how Governor Li plans to deal with the Jiannu of Kaiyuan." ”

It stands to reason that Xiong Tingbi, as the economic strategy of Liaodong, did not need to ask Li Hongyu, a hairy boy, for the opinions of Li Hongyu in public on the military affairs of Liaodong, but Li Hongyu won two battles in a row in just a few months, which greatly reversed the unfavorable situation of the Ming army in Liaodong, and it was likely to capture Hetuala, the capital of Houjin.

Therefore, Xiong Tingbi admires Li Hongyu quite a lot in his heart, thinking that Li Hongyu is capable and steady, and he is talented in both literature and military affairs, so as a newcomer, he naturally wants to see Li Hongyu's next plans.

After all, Li Hongyu, the governor of Liaodong, was also sent by Emperor Wanli, and he held the Shang Fang Sword like him, although he was restrained by him, but if Li Hongyu did not give him face, he would have no choice but to deal with Li Hongyu at all, and could only impeach the emperor.

This is also why there will be a disagreement between the governor and the governor in Liaodong later, although the strategy is greater than the governor's authority, but both sides are the emperor's difference, once the governor is powerful in the court, then it is enough to compete with the strategy and even overhead the strategy.

Moreover, Xiong Tingbi has been away from Liaodong for many years, and the situation in Liaodong has undergone tremendous changes, and Li Hongyu knows more about the current battle situation in Liaodong than him.

"Lord Xiong, Jiannu also knows the importance of Kaiyuan, and he will do his best to stick to it."

Li Hongyu knew that Xiong Tingbi valued the military value of Kaiyuan and Tieling very much, so he pondered for a while and said:

"Jiannu is good at bow shooting, fierce and abnormal, according to the opinion of this official, if you want to recapture Kaiyuan, you should ally Mongolia so that Jiannu can not develop northward, so that North Korea will block it in the west of the Yalu River, and the official army will hold the road of Jiannu to the south so that it can not advance westward, so that Kaiyuan will be recaptured within two years."

It is worth mentioning that Li Hongyu did not give a two-year deadline for no reason, and now the combat effectiveness of the Liaodong army is not as good as that of the Houjin soldiers, and the reinforcements of the Liaodong army from all over the Ming Dynasty need time to drill and run-in, adapt to the combat mode of the Houjin army, and also set up an intelligence network, etc., so it will take at least two years for the Ming army to gain an overwhelming advantage on the battlefield.

"That makes sense!" Xiong Tingbi bowed slightly when he heard this, and said thoughtfully.

In view of the strength of the Later Jin army, Xiong Tingbi advocated that defense should be the main defense in Liaodong, so that Kaiyuan and Tieling, which had important military and strategic value, were the key to the elimination of the Later Jin.

As long as Kaiyuan and Tieling were controlled, it was equivalent to holding the road of Houjin to the north and west, so that Houjin had to retreat outside the border wall of eastern Liaodong and could not invade inside.

When Xiong Tingbi left Beijing, he once said to Emperor Wanli that Liaozuo is the shoulder of the capital, Hedong is the henchman of Liaozhen, and Kaiyuan is the foundation of Hedong.

Therefore, for Xiong Tingbi, it is natural that the sooner Kaiyuan is recaptured, the better, Kaiyuan and Tieling are in the hands of Houjin, then Shenyang City is the first to fall into the trap, and Liaoyang is also in the area threatened by Houjin, like a sword hanging over the heads of Shenyang and Liaoyang, which can fall at any time.

Li Hongyu saw that Xiong Tingbi agreed with his opinion, he was not happy in his heart but shook his head a little helplessly, he knew that Xiong Tingbi could no longer recapture Kaiyuan and Tieling, this did not mean that Xiong Tingbi did not have this ability, but there were many, many external factors restricting him.

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