Emperor Chongzhen stood in front of the terrain sand table that was becoming more and more complete on the side of the Wuying Palace, staring at the position of Guangning City north of the Ningjin defense line, and was silent for a long time.

A long time ago, before Lu Shanji took over as the governor of Jiliao, now the Chongzhen Emperor has made a real deal with him.

The Ningjin defense line is the front line of the imperial court in Liaodong, as for Guangning north of the Ningjin defense line and the Daling River east of the Ningjin defense line, they are all tasteless chicken ribs, which can be guarded by the code and not discarded.

The cities that the imperial court focused on renovating were also Yizhou to the west of the Ningjin defense line, as well as Songshan, Xingshan and Tashan behind Jinzhou, which already had cities.

As for Quang Ninh and the Daling River, as well as a large number of forts along the two places, such as Youtun and Qiantun east of the Daling River, there is no need and cannot invest a lot of manpower and material resources.

Because of this, the siege of the Daling River, which was originally caused by the rebuilding of the Dalinghe City by the Daming Jiliao Governor's Mansion in history, did not happen again in the spring of the second year of Chongzhen.

Why did the renovation of Dalinghe City and the castles such as Youtun and Qiantun east of Dalinghe cause Jianyu to come and destroy and attack?

Because after the end of the Apocalypse, the situation in Liaodong has been greatly deteriorated, and the Liaodong cities east of the Daling River have basically all fallen into the hands of Jianguo, and the Daling River has basically become a de facto territorial dividing line between the Ming army and Jianguo in Liaodong.

To the east and north of the Daling River, it belongs to the actual control area of Jianyu, and the west and south of the Daling River are on this side of the Ming Dynasty.

As for the existence of this line of actual control bounded by the Daling River, the side of the Ming court naturally refused to admit it.

Therefore, the rebuilding of Dalinghe City, especially the rebuilding of the Dalinghe defense line, the most important Qiantun and Youtun, in the eyes of the Ming court, is a sign of forging ahead in Liaodong.

Therefore, in history, whether it was when Sun Chengzong was in charge of Liaodong, or when Yuan Chonghuan was in charge of Liaodong, whether it was out of his own willingness to forge ahead, or out of the will of the imperial court to be unwilling to accept the status quo, they all chose to cross this line of actual control and build castles step by step to the east.

As soon as the Ming Dynasty built a city east of the Daling River, of course, the Houjin State couldn't sit still, so they sent troops to destroy it.

In this way, Dalinghe City and its Qiantun and Youtun dozens of miles to the east were repaired and destroyed, which not only cost a lot of money, food and manpower, but also did not hold it in the end.

In history, Zu Dashou killed He Kegang for the first time and surrendered to Jianyu with tens of thousands of defenders, which was that the imperial court rebuilt Dalinghe City, and Zu Dashou took the army to inspect and supervise the progress of building the city.

Dalinghe City went deep into the front of the enemy alone, the Ming army not only could not break the siege, but also because the supply line was too long, there was no way to transport grain and grass into it, so more than 10,000 Liaodong elites were surrounded for half a year, and finally reached the point of killing horses and eating horses, and eating people after the horses were eaten.

The final result was that the reinforcements sent from Jinzhou and Ningyuan were all defeated, and the Dalinghe City and the Qiantun and Youtun built at great expense to the east were not saved, the general He Kegang was killed, and Zhang Cunren was forced to surrender to Jianyu with the old and young of the ancestral family.

Not only did the countless efforts and money spent before be wasted, but also the troops were defeated and suffered heavy losses.

Now that the superintendent has been replaced by Lu Shanji, Dalinghe City has not increased and stationed heavy troops, and the first-line fortresses of Qiantun and Youtun, which have reached the vicinity of the Liao River dozens of miles east of Dalinghe, have not been rebuilt, which is actually equivalent to giving up.

Therefore, in this time and space, since Lu Shan succeeded him as the Jiliao Governor, except for the small-scale encounters between the patrols of the two sides that occurred from time to time, the direction of the Daling River of the Ningjin Defense Line has always maintained relative calm.

In September of the first year of Chongzhen, when Jianyu conquered Dongjiang Town, Liaodong, which was under the rule of Lu Shanji, was in the process of adjusting and deploying, and there was no more action except for sending an additional group of men and horses to Guangning City and Dalinghe City to attack.

Soon after, Jianyu failed to attack Dongjiang Town, and Lu Shanji quickly withdrew the men and horses sent to Guangning City and Dalinghe City, and only retained Cao Wenyao's 1,500 cavalry in Guangning as the northeast outpost on the Ningjin defense line, and at Dalinghe, which was a little closer to Jinzhou, Jin Guofeng was given 2,000 cavalry, which was the eastern outpost of the Ningjin defense line.

At the beginning of the year, the Jinyi Wei spy under the command of Sun Chan of the Qianhu Thousand Households in Liaodong brought back news from the city of Shenyang, saying that the chieftain of Jianyu Nu led a large army out of the north of the city and did not know where to go.

While Lu Shanji stepped up his defense, he ordered Cao Wenyao in the direction of Guangning to send a sentinel to investigate, and in March, he finally figured out that Jianyu had gone north to conquer other savage tribes that had not been in the city.

While Lu Shanji hurriedly reported this news to the imperial court, he also asked Emperor Chongzhen for instructions on whether to take advantage of this opportunity to launch an attack on the hinterland of Jianyu with Dongjiang Town.

However, it was the time when the thieves were ravaging Shanxi, and it was also the time when the envoys sent by Emperor Chongzhen were in Korea to coerce the Korean monarchs and ministers to cede the land and city of Hamgyong Province and Pyongan Province, so after thinking about it, Emperor Chongzhen still felt that the time was not ripe, and vetoed Lu Shanji's opinion.

On the issue of dealing with Jianlu, since the strategy of attacking the east and defending the west has been decided, it cannot be easily changed, unless the time is really ripe for the Jin to be destroyed in one fell swoop, otherwise the war in Liaodong Town will continue, and the result will only be like the war on the northwest, southwest, and northeast fronts as in history, and in the end the mistake of the defeat of the Ming Dynasty will be repeated.

For the Liaodong front, Emperor Chongzhen's idea is very simple, that is, to maintain the current relatively balanced and calm situation as much as possible, and try not to be in the direction of the Liaoxi Corridor, but also in the direction of Ningjin, to take the initiative to provoke Jianyu.

Instead, from the direction of Dongjiang Town, which was a little farther away from the Ming Jingshi, he kept tossing and consuming the strength of Jianyu.

At this time, standing in front of the topographical sand table of the Wuying Palace, Emperor Chongzhen looked at the position of Guangning City abruptly and conspicuously, about four hundred miles away from Shenyang, the capital of Jianyu, the head of Guangning City on the sand table, there was a small flag on it, which marked the name of the guard Cao Wenyao, and indicated the troops under Cao Wenyao's command - but 1,500 cavalry, and then look at the strength of the Jianyu just marked by the Ministry Division - the two flags of Zhenghuang Banner and Zhenglan Banner totaled 40,000 cavalry, Emperor Chongzhen knew that it was time to give up Guangning.

I know it's a pit, so why bother jumping?

Emperor Chongzhen can understand Lu Shanji's reluctance to carry the black cauldron, after all, for the civil officials in the late Ming Dynasty, there are still many blind and hard-line main battle factions, as the Jiliao Governor did not fight, he abandoned the land of more than 200 miles north of Jinzhou without authorization, which is a very serious crime.

But for the current Emperor Chongzhen, the issue of reputation has long been disregarded as so important, and the previous notoriety of greed for money and murder has long spread all over the country, and now he doesn't care about the infamy of abandoning Guangning.

On the night of the same day, the reports from Jinyiwei Liaodong Qianhu Institute and Dongchang Liaodong War were also sent to the Qianqing Palace by Gong Yonggu and Fang Zhenghua.

The situation on the front line of Guangning and the controversy within Liaodong Town fell into the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen in more detail, which made him more firm in his own judgment.

Early the next morning, the Jinyi guards carried the will of Emperor Chongzhen to abandon Guangning and Dalinghe City, and were urgently sent to Ningyuan outside the customs with an expedited post level of 600 miles.

The Jianguo army surrounded Guangning City on three sides, but besieged but did not attack, the intention was very obvious, but it was just to encircle the point and send reinforcements, which was the old way of Jianguo to deal with the Ming army.

On top of the original history, under the moral kidnapping of the civil officials of the blind main battle faction of the Manchu Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Chongzhen, no matter how much the front-line generals objected, even if he knew that there was a pit in front of him, he still made the front-line generals jump into the pit again and again.

Again and again, in order to rescue the Daling River, in order to rescue Jinzhou, in order to rescue Songshan, Xingshan, etc., a large number of Ming troops were annihilated because they were ambushed by the Jianyu cavalry in the field battle.

Behind all this, there is a very important reason, that is, no one is willing or dares to stand up and take the responsibility of losing the city and land, and no one is willing to stand up for the emperor to bear this black pot of compromise and retreat, cowardice and incompetence.

And the Chongzhen Emperor in history also only knows how to advance, does not know how to retreat, blindly strong, does not know how to show weakness, does not know that sometimes you need to withdraw your fist, in order to attack more powerfully, I don't know that the husband must be able to bend and stretch, and when necessary, he must also bear humiliation and humiliation, lying on the salary to taste the truth.

But in this life, it is different, and now this Chongzhen Emperor wants to see what tricks Huang Taiji will make next when the Ming army of Liaodong Town retracts the two fists that stretched out, that is, after abandoning Guangning and Daling River.

If he dares to take the army of Zhenghuang Banner and Zhenglan Banner who have returned from victory to attack Jinzhou City and Yizhou City, which have now built a large number of fortresses, then what awaits him will be another unforgettable lesson.

And this is exactly what Emperor Chongzhen wanted to explain to Lu Shanji and the chief military officer of Liaodong Zhulu in the holy decree he wanted to explain to them, withdraw the outstretched fists, and then rely on several fortified cities on the Ningjin defense line to carry out a large number of effective killings on Jianyu.