Qi Liao smiled and looked around at everyone: "Actually, after coming to Guanwai for so many years, I have been thinking about a question. ”

Everyone looked at him in confusion, not understanding what he was looking at.

Qi Liao continued: "Since the fight between my Ming and Houjin, the soldiers have been constantly fighting each other, and I have had an absolute advantage over Houjin, but today, Houjin is no longer a moss, but has become a separatist force that can confront my Ming head-on, I don't know if you think so?" ”

As soon as the words fell, Fang Yichen snorted sullenly and said dissatisfiedly: "Lord Qi is too alarmist, right?" How can a mere Jurchen Tartar be compared with my heavenly * kingdom? ”

"It's just some barbarian, uncivilized savages in the forest, why don't you respect them so much. As long as I do my best, the Tartars will be defeated! Guarding Deng Ju, Fang Yichen continued.

Qi Liao sneered, looked at Deng Ju and said: "What you said is easy, since Houjin is so vulnerable in your eyes, why did my Ming Dynasty return after three or four times of rejuvenation, not only lost Liaoyang, Shenyang, Guangning and other places, but now he is forced by Houjin to only shrink into Jinzhou?" Why did Lord Yuan have hundreds of thousands of troops, but he didn't dare to send troops to rescue Jinzhou? Since Liaozuo Junzhen ignored the Houjin Tartars, why did they avoid fighting as soon as they saw the Tartars, and achieved the so-called nonsense that 'the Tartars are less than 10,000, and the 10,000 are invincible'? ”

This series of questions made Deng Ju speechless, and he stood there with a face full of indignation, not knowing how to refute.

Qi Liao saw that no one could answer, so he continued to speak: "Therefore, I think that today's Houjin is no longer the original Houjin, and has become a military force that can compete with my Ming Dynasty. ”

Sun Yueling nodded and said, "That's right, the fourth brother continued." ”

Now that Sun Yueling opened his mouth, no one dared to contradict him. So Qi Liao continued: "Since Houjin can compete with my Ming Dynasty, then it is impossible to defeat each other easily in a war between the two sides.

Although the front of our army is very long, the front of the Houjin is not short, from this point of view, the two sides will definitely fight a protracted war in this war of hundreds of miles in western Liaoning, and the war of attrition will ......"

Speaking of this, not only Sun Yueling, but even others began to nod their heads frequently, agreeing with his statement.

Qi Liao's tone was aggravated, and he said, "Therefore, I think that in this protracted war, which side can hold out longer, which side can win the final victory." It is even said that whichever side can fight for its own continuous consumption will not give up, until the other party is consumed to death, consumed to the point that it can no longer hold on, and which side can really go to the end. ”

After a pause, he said very seriously: "To put it simply, the dispute between the two armies is only in the grain road, and whichever side has no food, which side will fail!" ”

Hearing this, Sun Yueling was extremely surprised, Qi Liao's words fell into the ears of others, but he was a person in later generations, so he naturally knew the forward-looking nature of his statement.

In the Songjin War in history, Hong Chengchou took this method, wanting to drag Houjin to death until the moment when the enemy retreated. But Huang Taiji actually sent Azig from Jinzhou to detour the Ming army's belly and back, and captured the Ming army's Bijia Mountain and Tashan grain road in one fell swoop, resulting in a shortage of food for the soldiers in front, and had to discuss the method of retreating the army to get food, which greatly affected the morale of the Ming army, and finally lost in the hands of Houjin.

At the moment, Qi Liao could see the crux of this problem, which really surprised him and had to accept it.

But what surprised him was more than that, Qi Liao then said: "Now that Huang Taiji is going to fight Ningyuan, Yue Tuo and Haoge are going to stay and besiege Jinzhou, and Houjin's place of hoarding grain is in Youtunwei."

According to our Jinyi Wei secret detectives, the right guard not only hoarded the grain brought by Houjin himself, but also a lot of grain that Houjin snatched from the guards of our Ming forts, because the amount of these grains was too large, no less than one million stones, so Houjin sent a large number of auxiliary troops to transport grain. ”

Speaking of this, he sneered and said: "As long as we can wipe out all these grains that are stockpiled on the right side of the guard, and cut off the enemy's grain route, then the enemy will definitely collapse without a fight, and will no longer be able to invade the cities on the left side of Liao." ”

Zhang Zhiqi's eyes lit up and praised: "What Master Qi said is very reasonable, this is a wonderful method." ”

When the people heard this, they all started to talk about it, some for it and some for it, and there was no agreement.

Sun Yueling frowned and said: "Fourth brother, although you are right, if you want to break through the right guard, you must pass under Jinzhou City, and now that the enemy is under Jinzhou City, how can our army go around behind them?" ”

Qi Liao smiled incomprehensibly and said, "This is why I said that Yue Tuo was arrogant and Haoge was cowardly at the beginning. Now that Houjin has taken the initiative, Yue Tuo must not have guessed that our army would dare to make a detour behind them and sneak attack their grain hoarding place; Although Haoge is cautious, as long as Zhao Shujiao in Jinzhou can give him a certain amount of pressure, then it will be difficult for him to take care of other things, and the chances of our army sneaking through Jinzhou will naturally be greatly increased. ”

"Sneaking through Jinzhou?" Even Yan Nantian, who had always been calm, couldn't help it anymore and asked, "How to sneak over?" ”

Qi Liao smiled and said: "The south of Jinzhou City is Rufeng Mountain, and Houjin is bent on attacking Jinzhou, and there are not many troops placed in their backs. As far as I know, the only ones stationed in the southwest of Rufeng Mountain are the three Niu Lu of Houjin, as long as we can kill this small group of enemy troops, and then sneak through the south of Rufeng Mountain, and make a detour from Songshan Fort to the right to hoard guards, then there is a chance that this sneak attack on the enemy army will be successful. ”

"Great idea!" Yan Nantian praised vigorously and said to Sun Yueling, "My lord, this is indeed a good method, Lord Qi is worthy of being the commander of the Jinyi Guard, this trick is really a draw from the bottom of the kettle, if it is successful, it will make the Tartar advance and retreat, and there will be no return!" ”

Sun Yueling was silent on the surface, but he thought in his heart that his fourth brother was really "black-bellied", no wonder he could survive in the complex Jinyi Guard system, and such an insidious trick could only be thought of by him.

He smiled slightly, and said: "The fourth brother's strategy is really good, but although the enemy's forces are not much, they are not a lot, if we can't take it for a while, it will inevitably alarm most of the Houjin's people, what if they come to support at that time?" ”

Qi Liao laughed and said: "At this time, it is the time for Zhao Shujiao to send out the horse, and it is not a waste to put nearly 30,000 troops without it?" ”

Sun Yueling smiled and said, "You mean to let Zhao Shujiao drag the main force of Houjin, and then our army can sneak through Jinzhou smoothly?" ”

Qi Liao said: "Yes, that's it." ”

Everyone exploded again and began to discuss, unexpectedly Qi Liao would give them such an idea.

However, under some controversy, most people still agree with this view, thinking that this method is feasible, although this behavior is a bit risky, but if it is successful, it will undoubtedly bring a fatal blow to Houjin, not only will their plan to attack Ning Jin be aborted, but also Houjin will not want to recover in the next few years when it is a disaster year.

Of course, Sun Yueling also knew the importance of this matter, after all, Houjin was able to survive the famine in the next few years by relying on the food and materials looted from the Ningjin defense line, if they didn't get anything this time, then they were still too busy to take care of themselves, and where could they have the ability to invade the Ming Dynasty?

If he really came to this point, he could take advantage of the unstable situation in the Later Jin Dynasty to appease the Mongolian ministries and Dongjiang Korea, re-establish the momentum of the tripartite advance, and once again form a strategic encirclement of the Later Jin.

Thinking of this, Sun Yueling was also excited in his heart, Qi Liao was really a person with vision, and what he expected was exactly the same as him.

So he clapped the board and said: "This strategy is very good, and this book has decided to do it according to Lord Qi's method." ”

said to Qi Liao: "Since you have decided, you must hurry up and do it, otherwise Huang Taiji will return to Jinzhou, and all plans will be aborted." Without further ado, this matter will be handed over to the fourth brother to handle, and I have to ask you to go back to Jinzhou again and inform General Zhao of the situation here in detail. ”

Qi Liao hugged his fists and said, "Everything is up to the orders of the adults." ”

Soon, Sun Yueling made a battle plan for sending troops this time: Qi Liao sneaked back to Jinzhou City, informed Zhao Shujiao of their plan, and asked Zhao Shujiao to find a way to drag down the main force of Houjin under Jinzhou City. Then Sun Yueling personally led his troops to Rufeng Mountain, took advantage of the rush of Houjin to kill the enemy guarding the southern foot of Rufeng Mountain, and then led his troops to attack the enemy's grain depot on the right.

It is related to the success or failure of rescuing Jinzhou, Sun Yueling did not dare to be careless, and ordered the army to rest and prepare for the departure at the right time, especially the cavalry under the command of Wu Wenyao, which gave them a lot of time to recuperate, and those war horses also prepared good rice beans to feed, so that they could eat enough, and they could play the strongest horsepower at night.

When everything was ready, Sun Yueling stood at the head of the city and looked south.

At this moment, Huang Taiji should have arrived at the foot of Ningyuan City and was ready to launch an attack on Ning Yuan. Yuan Chonghuan's attack is not good, but the defense should not be a problem, in history he not only held Ningyuan, but also dealt a certain blow to the main force of Houjin, and injured many generals of Houjin.

As long as the battle of Ningyuan is still developing according to history, Huang Taiji should not have time to stop what they are doing, once the grain depot of Houjin is burned, not to mention the Eight Banners troops, the entire Houjin country will fall into panic, so that Huang Taiji will either be forced to withdraw his troops, or desperately attack Jinzhou again.

At that time, no matter which move Huang Taiji chooses, it will become a subordinate matter, and maybe the Ming army will still have the opportunity to take advantage of it and taste the feeling of beating the water dogs.

However, the premise of all this must be based on the success of tonight, Sun Yueling thought of this, his face became more and more resolute, under the sunlight, his face like a marble carving was full of solemn aura, calm as a mountain.