The construction of Yizhou City since June, as well as the abnormal movement of the Ming army around Ningyuan City at the end of July, especially the reorganization and reorganization of the army in Liaodong Town since August, naturally did not hide the meticulous work of the spies of the Jianjian prisoners. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

First of all, the news of the Ming army's construction of Yizhou City reached Huang Taiji.

Huang Taiji previously concluded that after the resignation of Bi Zisu, the governor of Jiliao and the governor of Liaodong, Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty would definitely transfer Yuan Chonghuan back to Liaodong, but in the end, he did not expect that it was Lu Shanji, who was previously unknown to take office.

After that, Huang Taiji immediately sent a large number of meticulous works to extensively collect information about the new Jiliao Governor Lu Shanji by bribing Ming Dynasty merchants and even going deep into the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty to inquire about the news.

As a result, not to mention the loss of a group of capable manpower in vain, and in the end he did not get much valuable news, but learned from the mouths of some Ming Dynasty scholars and generals who surrendered in Shenyang and Liaoyang that this Lu Shanji once served in the Jiliao Governor's Mansion during the Apocalypse, and served as the military affairs staff of Sun Chengzong, the then superintendent and now the Ming Dynasty Minister of Military Aircraft.

Later, I heard that this Lu Shanji helped Emperor Chongzhen rectify the salt affairs in Jiangnan after Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, and it is said that it was because he helped the young emperor copy a lot of salt merchants and got a lot of silver, so he was reused by the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

These messages are disorganized and fragmented, and they can't spell out a complete true situation about Lu Shanji. Therefore, Huang Taiji, who has always been shrewd as a fox, finally carelessly and did not continue to stare at Lu Shanji in Ningyuan City to investigate.

As a result, since June, there has been news that the Ming army has mobilized a large number of soldiers and young people to build Yiju City.

This move was also a bit unexpected by Huang Taiji and other high-level big Baylors in the upper echelons of the Later Jin, who originally thought that even if the Ming army repaired the city, it should also go to build Guangning City or Dalinghe City, and they would not run to build any Yizhou City, after all, Yizhou was far away from the rear of the Ming army, and did not face the threat of the Houjin Eight Banners.

So although they are suspicious in their hearts, they are a little confused. And because of the deep into Yizhou, it is necessary to pass through the defense lines of Guangning, Daling River and Jinzhou one after another, if you don't want to make a big move and restart the war with the Ming army, then you can only send a few elite scouts to find out the news.

As a result, the news that came back from the investigation naturally relieved Huang Taiji and other bigwigs of Houjin.

Because the sentinels of Houjin were not interested in the widening and thickening of the walls of Yiju City, and they were not even interested in the eight additional fortresses built around Yizhou City that were connected with the city walls.

These Houjin sentinels were interested in why the Ming army was building the city of Yizhou at this time.

And the few deserted and lazy Ming army sentry scouts and soldiers they caught one after another naturally had one thing to say, and all of them told them the truth, that is, the new superintendent of the Ming army decided to withdraw to Guangning, and maybe even withdraw to the Daling River, and in the future, the Ming army will shrink the front in western Liaoning.

For several days in a row, the captured Ming army patrol guards all said so, and the golden sentry detectives couldn't help but believe it.

After the news was passed back, the post-Jin bigwigs headed by the so-called Tiancong Khan Huang Taiji, such as Dai Shan, Amin, Mang Gurtai and other Baylor ministers, were all overjoyed when they heard the news, thinking that the new governor was so cowardly and unenterprising, which was really another lucky star of the Dajin Kingdom.

Although Huang Taiji still had doubts, he did not want to restart the war with the Ming army in western Liaoxi, so he did not take any further measures except for the Jin Sentinel who ordered Houjin to continue to monitor the construction of Yiju Castle.

Because at this time, Huang Taiji, the lord of Houjin, was thinking of destroying Dongjiang Town as soon as possible. Only by destroying Dongjiang Town first, or first giving Mao Wenlong's troops in Dongjiang Town a memorable enough lesson, can he rest assured that he will be able to go west, conquer the Mongolian tribes, and then make a detour through Mongolia and go straight to the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty.

As for the rock-solid Ningjin defensive line, Huang Taiji no longer dares to hold on to the hope that it can be easily defeated.

After all, the lesson around July of the seventh year of the Apocalypse was very painful for the Houjin Eight Banners. Although now the Yuan manzi who created the Ming Dynasty's so-called Ningjin Great Victory is no longer in Ningyuan, the completeness of the Ningjin defense line still makes him have a headache when he thinks about it.

Huang Taiji's understanding of the strength of the Houjin army is still very sober, the bow and horse riding of the Eight Banners are naturally second to none in the field battle, and the Ming army is not an opponent at all, but once it faces the strong city, most of the time it is helpless, except for rebellion and surrender, there is no better way.

Huang Taiji, who had followed the old slave Nuer Hachi to attack everywhere since he was a child, knew very well that the fortified city on the Ningjin defense line was completely different from the walled city built by the Jurchen and Mongol tribes outside the border wall of Liaodong.

The reason why Houjin was able to capture Fushun was because the defender Li Yongfang surrendered, and the reason why Liaoyang and Shenyang were able to capture was because the city should play a role, including the capture of Guangning later, which was also the result of the defender Sun Degong taking the initiative to open the door and surrender.

In this era, the post-Jin had not yet learned to cast European-style cannons, that is, the so-called Hongyi cannons learned in the Ming Dynasty.

It was not until four years after Chongzhen in history, that is, five years after Tiancong of the Later Jin Kingdom, that Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and others, the former generals of Dongjiang Town and Denglai Town, crossed the sea from Dengzhou to Houjin, and began to gradually learn.

Correa, a Portuguese artillery technician who was coerced by this group to go to Houjin to work for? Teixeira, who is now on the construction site of the Yiju City Fort, is designing and building a new type of urban defense fort for the batch of Hongyi cannons purchased by Sun Heding and others from Haojing Ao.

As for Liu Han, the Han craftsman who built the first imitation Hongyi cannon for the Later Jin Governor, he was in the Ming Dynasty's armament courtyard at this time, designing and manufacturing new artillery for the Ming army.

Therefore, for a long period of time, or forever, if the Houjin army wants to attack the Ningjin defense line, it can only rely on human lives to fill in.

However, even if the Houjin army finally took Jinzhou, Songshan, Xingshan, Tashan and other cities at the cost of casualties, and even took Ningyuan City, behind Ningyuan, there is also a Shanhaiguan known as the world's first Xiongguan.

So, how many lives of the Eight Banners can Houjin take out to fill it? Whenever Huang Taiji thought of this, he felt a burst of frustration in his heart.

In his opinion, one of the Achilles' heels of the Houjin Eight Banners is that the population of the Jurchen tribes in Jianzhou is too small, especially the adult Dingkou who can serve as soldiers and fight, and there are less than 200,000 people when they are full, and most of the remaining population are slaves of various ethnic groups captured by the Jianzhou Jurchens for many years.

Even if you count these slaves of all races, if you take your life to fill in one city after another in western Liaoning, and finally want to go on an expedition to the Southern Ming Dynasty through the western Liaoning corridor, this population is still far from enough.

If you can't get a large number of adult Dingkou in a short period of time, the pattern of this Dajin country will be like this, and now you can occupy the land of Liaoshen and dominate the northeast corner, which has reached the limit of the strength of the Houjin country.

Therefore, in his heart, the best strategy is to conquer the Mongolian tribes as soon as possible, through conquest and marriage, to firmly tie the Mongolian tribes to the chariot of the Jurchens of the Later Jin Eight Banners, and then go south, conquer all the way, plundering Dingkou and property, so that after more than ten years, there may be a chance to chase the Central Plains and conquer the Southern Dynasty.

In order to conquer the Southern Dynasties, you must first conquer Mongolia, and in order to conquer Mongolia, you need to first stabilize the back road of the Dajin Kingdom.

Now that the battle of Ding Mao has passed, North Korea has called the minister Nagong, and there is no need to worry about it anymore. However, Mao Wenlong's headquarters in Dongjiang Town, which was strisscrossing the North Korean side and above the Liaohai Sea, did not surrender.

Especially since June, there have been signs of increasing activity, if we can't get rid of Dongjiang Town, how can Houjin Eight Banners be able to rest assured that they will move westward?

After entering the second half of July, Huang Taiji continued to pay attention to the frequent movements of the Ming army in western Liaoning while preparing for the western expedition.

Finally one day, Huang Taiji received accurate news, saying that the abnormal movement of the Ming army before was due to a mutiny in Ningyuan. The two battalions of the Ming army stationed in Ningyuan City, taking advantage of the opportunity of Jiliao's Governor to go north to supervise the repair of Yizhou City, launched a mutiny in the name of asking for arrears, robbed the official office, burned the market, and the city of Ningyuan was in chaos.

When the news reached Shenyang, the big Baylors of Houjin were even more jubilant, and they were naturally more optimistic about the situation in western Liaoning, knowing that for a period of time after that, the Ming army in Liaodong Town was unable to attack northward, and it was a God-given opportunity for Houjin to eliminate Dongjiang Town.

However, a few days later, just after entering August, the Houjin magnitaries in Shenyang received news that the rebellion in Ningyuan had subsided, and that all the rebellious generals and officers had been killed, and some of the two battalions of rebels had been massacred, and the remaining ones who had not been slaughtered were also punished with hard labor for life, and now it is said that they had been sent to Juehua Island to build a city.

Although this result was not as ideal as Huang Taiji and other post-Jin bigwigs expected, the news that came back from the next details made Huang Taiji and others very relieved.

Man Gui led the army back to Tashan, and then supervised the soldiers and the people, and continued to build Tashan City, it seems that the Ming Dynasty's Jiliao Governor is really going to shrink behind the Ningjin defense line and not want to forge ahead.