In the eyes of outsiders, the troops in Wang Jue's hands are simply a ragtag army, he has a division of the 29th Army in his hands, and the rest is the main force of the 3 divisions of the New Army, plus a division of the Praetorian Guard, and the newly replenished 3 divisions that have just been mobilized recruits.

However, the general cultural quality of the Janissaries was relatively high, so after a short period of training, their actual combat effectiveness was only slightly inferior to that of the new army. Wang Jue split the 3rd Division of the New Army, which had not yet been formed, and dispersed these soldiers into the reserve forces to use them as the skeleton of these troops.

So three days later, when the Ming troops of the other two divisions reached the front line, and the overall strength of the Ming army had exceeded 150,000 people, he finally had the strength to basically resist the counterattack of the Japanese army and the Jin army.

"Whoa!" In Fengtian City, the traces of war have not completely faded, and ruin and depression are still the main theme of this originally prosperous border city. In the office that originally belonged to the governor Wang Nu, the emperor of the Jin Kingdom, Ye Hehao Lian, smashed the water glass in his hand on the opposite wall.

He had just known for sure that the strength of the Ming army on the opposite side had never exceeded 200,000, and that the war of national fortune that he had launched as the emperor of the Jin State had missed the best decisive moment because of the caution of his general Todeltai. This is how he can not be angry, how can he not drop the cup because of anger.

"Rice bucket! Idiot! Those Japanese fools retreated to Tai'an in order to preserve their strength, and you didn't want to flee back with your tail between your legs? He stared at Todel Tay with a pair of eyes that seemed to breathe fire, and scolded: "They Japanese will flee back to the island of Japan in a big way, what about us? Where to flee to? ”

You must know that when Panjin was just recaptured, the actual strength of the Ming army did not exceed 70,000, and the Japanese army and the Jin army that retreated from Panshan and Panjin were almost 200,000 - Todeltai misjudged Wang Jue's strength, so much so that he gave up the city of Panjin to Wang Jue, who had insufficient troops.

Until two days ago, Todeltai still judged that Wang Jue's troops exceeded 150,000, and according to the intelligence analysis that could be collected from various channels, it was impossible for Wang Jue to have more than 100,000 troops in his hands. As a result, this contradiction attracted the attention of the whole country, and a more vigorous investigation began.

First of all, the ammunition of the Ming army was almost consumed, and this information was relatively accurate. "It is impossible for the Jiliao area to have ammunition for large-scale activities of the Ming army." This was the original words of Zhang Baiting's report, so Yehe Haolian finally believed that it was Todeltai who miscalculated the number of the Ming army after the defeat in Jinzhou.

"It's too late to say anything now, from Haicheng all the way to Tai'an, and then from Tai'an all the way to Montenegro, including Fuxin, we have to invest troops to defend." Yehehao bitterly told a fact that he did not want to admit, he started the war in order to shorten the defense line, although he was very happy to obtain the vast plain land, but in the end the defense line was not shortened, but became longer.

"Your Majesty...... Lao Chen saw that since we have missed the best opportunity to attack, we should seize the time and make the defense watertight. "Ye He Haolian is beside the prime minister of the Jin State and Ye He Haolan, Ye He Haolian's think tank. The prime minister of the Jin State has always been known for his resourcefulness, and this time he also rushed to the front line in Mukden from Jilin with Ye He Haolian.

This was the second set of operational guidelines drawn up by Yehehaolan before the start of the war, and when he said it at this time, Yehehaolian couldn't bear to hesitate for a long time. The main content of this second set of operational policies is that once the battle against the Ming Empire falls into an unfavorable situation, then retreat to the defensive line that relies on the Liao River.

Relying on the direction that the Jin Kingdom has made every effort to build, coupled with the fact that the nail of Fengtian has been smoothed, this Liaohe defense line can definitely achieve the purpose of delaying the counterattack of the Ming army, and it can also use the terrain to reduce the length of the entire defense line.

However, this plan is not a way to get the best of both worlds for the current Jin State: first, once this plan is implemented, it will also mean that the Jin State will give up the large areas of the Liaohe Plain that it has already acquired, which are good cultivated land, and it is really unbearable to give up in vain.

"It's heart-wrenching to give up so much land. Am I not the king of Zhongxing? Aren't you the ministers of Zhongxing? Ye He Haolian finally spoke, it seemed that he was not willing to give up the vast plain area he had just occupied, after all, Jilin was still a little too far north, and in any case, it could not compare to the Liaohe Plain in the south of the Yangtze River, which made people look comfortable.

"Your Majesty! The old minister has a sentence that he has to say. Ye Hehaolan clenched his fists, coughed and then opened his mouth to persuade: "When the emperor was here, the Ming army was strong, and every time the Ming army attacked, we had to retreat to the deep mountains, and even if it was Xing'an Mountains in the north, we all avoided ......."

In the early years, when the Jin State did not have a national name, their main means of dealing with the encirclement and suppression of the Ming army was the tactic of hitting and running. At that time, even the so-called old nest Jilin was discarded casually, and the Wuthering Mountains forest was almost no different from bandits. In the end, the Ming army raised bandits in Liaodong to make the current situation, but drilling into the mountains and forests is indeed a life-saving trick from top to bottom of the Jin Kingdom.

After Jilin established itself as the Jin State, the defense line of the two sides was fixed little by little, and the Jin Emperor Yehe Haolian, who had enjoyed more than ten years in Changchun, Jilin, did not have the tenacity to follow his father in the forest. He looked at Yehe Haolan, and finally asked with some hesitation: "Is it true that we can't hold these places in Fuxin, Montenegro?" ”

"Can't hold it, Your Majesty!" Yehhao Lan pointed to the map and said: "All we can count on is the time difference between the mobilization of the Ming army, and now these favorable conditions have been lost, if we are greedy for land again, then it will be too late for the Ming army to entangle the main force of our army." ”

After speaking, he pressed his hand on Mongolia and the northern Liaobei region: "In case the Mongolian Ming army and Wang Futong's Liaobei army attack from the flank and rear, and the Ming army in the front is pressed again, the Liaohe defense line is out of business, and we will vomit back the Fengtian that has just arrived." ”

When Ye Hehaolan said this, he walked up to Ye He Haolian and whispered: "Your Majesty, if there is a problem with the Liaohe defense line, Anshan will be in danger...... The mine in Anshan is where we are fundamentally ......"

At this point, Ye He Haolan stopped, he stared at Ye He Haolian, Ye He Haolian knew that the other party was waiting for his decision, so he had to sigh and command angrily: "Let the whole army return to the Liaohe defense line!" ”