In September of the third year of the Apocalypse, the Ming army poured out.

More than 280,000 regular troops appeared in the Liaohe Plain, among which Mao Wenlong held Fushun and relied on the mountainous area to establish the Fushun defense line. The Central Army launched an attack on Liaoyang, while the Liaodong Army led by Sun Chengzong launched an attack on Shenyang.

The morale of the Ming army in the great counteroffensive was very high, and they shouted the slogan of 'fighting to Shenyang for the Mid-Autumn Festival'.

The battle situation is completely out of Zhu Youxiao's control.

But these are no longer important, the situation of the Ming army's counteroffensive has been formed, and the arrow is ready to be launched. Facts have proved that in this great counteroffensive, the Ming army easily won the victory.

Wild boar skin did not dare to confront the Ming army head-on, and after learning that the Ming army was pouring out, he immediately ordered to abandon Shenyang and Liaoyang, and retreat to Tieling.

The combat effectiveness of the Ming army has already made the wild boar skin feel frightened.

The first few encounters have already scared the wild boar skin, the wild boar skin is very calm, he is fully aware that at this time and the Ming army head-on, the end will only be a defeat, there is no second possibility.

This Ming army's major counteroffensive was not the Battle of Sarhu, and the Ming army at that time did not have so many troops, let alone such sharp artillery and cavalry.

Fighting head-on with the Ming army, which was equipped with a large number of firearms, on the plain terrain had proved to be a dead end in the previous Yaozhou War.

But if you retreat to the mountains, the old city of Hetuara will also be served by the Ming army. In order to temporarily avoid the edge, the wild boar skin could only lead people to retreat to Tieling.

This retreat is like a fight, not just a simple withdrawal of troops to Tieling. There are also the families of the Jiannu soldiers, which are more than 200,000 people.

Mao Wenlong entered the rear of Jiannu and conquered Hetuala. Tens of thousands of people have been slaughtered. Many more Jiannu fled into the mountains.

And the Jiannu who lived on the Liaohe Plain. That's about 300,000 people.

At this time, Jiannu did not have such a large population, especially after the guerrilla warfare of the Ming army was in full swing, many people moved to the mountains.

Tieling is just the first stop on the escape, and it is too close to Shenyang.

Without encountering much resistance, the Ming army successfully recovered Liaoyang and Shenyang. Before Jiannu left, it was not even too late to destroy the city walls.

According to the habit of Jiannu, the fortifications of these Ming troops were directly destroyed. But when Shenyang and Liaoyang were first captured, Jiannu had the idea of occupying them for a long time. The walls were preserved.

It's just that when the Ming army entered Shenyang and Liaoyang, they found that all the Han people inside had been killed. The streets and alleys are littered with the corpses of freshly killed Han Chinese. And the houses, supplies and other things were all burned by Jiannu.

What was left for the Ming army was a piece of scorched earth and corpses.

Many of these corpses were even Han soldiers who had given their lives to Jiannu, and were also slaughtered by order of wild boar skins.

Wild boar skin understands very well that after the Ming army reoccupies the initiative of the Liaodong battlefield, these Han soldiers are completely unreliable, and they may rebel against the water at any time, and it is extremely likely, after all, these Han people cannot really be willing to flee with them. And the retreat was too hasty. I didn't bring much food or anything, and then there would be all kinds of contradictions. It is even more impossible to keep these Han people to share food and other materials with them.

Instead of staying by your side and becoming a time bomb, it is better to kill it directly.

Before ordering the retreat, the wild boar skin killed almost all the Han people who could be killed, and burned everything that could not be taken away.

After Sun Chuanting entered Liaoyang, he saw a piece of scorched earth and corpses, and trembled with anger, "These Jiannu are simply crazy, they should be killed, they should be killed!" ”

A group of officers were also furious when they saw such a scene, and they excitedly asked Sun Chuanting for his life to fight.

"Go to Shenyang first to join the Liaodong Army, and then return blood for blood and tooth for tooth." Sun Chuanting slapped the table and ordered everyone.

"Yes, sir."

Before the arrival of 15 August, the Ming army successfully joined forces in Shenyang, realizing the slogan of celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival in Shenyang. But a group of Ming soldiers were extremely angry, and they were full of energy to seek revenge on Jiannu.

In the same way, the heads of Jiannu are all military merits.

After Sun Chengzong and Sun Chuanting met in Shenyang, they quickly agreed on the next battle plan.

Both of them understood that at this time, the Ming army lacked large-scale cavalry, and simply annihilated the main force of Jiannu. Therefore, the Ming army should not advance in a hurry.

"We just need to advance slowly, and recovering Tieling will be easy. After driving Jiannu away from Tieling, Jiannu could only go to the cold and bitter places further north, without enough output to support them, and soon Jiannu would face collapse. Sun Chuanting said firmly.

"Yes, now we have recovered Liaoyang and Shenyang, and we have also conquered Hetuala, the old nest of Jiannu. Then drive Jiannu away from Tieling. Without a foundation, Jiannu will only scatter and fall apart. Sun Chengzong nodded, "But Jiannu is likely to launch a big counterattack because of this." ”

After Jiannu withdrew from the Liaohe Plain, it was destined that Jiannu could no longer maintain his current strength. They don't produce anymore, and they can't take advantage of the Ming army now. You can't grab anything through robbery, after all, the production of the Liaohe Plain has been completely withered, and before the Ming Dynasty organized immigration, there were no ordinary Han people here at all, who did Jiannu rob?

At that time, it will be a problem for Jiannu to even eat, so the only solution is to split. Only by dividing into various places can we have a full stomach. After all, even if it is to survive by hunting, the population density cannot be too large.

For the bandit gang Jiannu, the reason why they were cohesive in the past and did not break out internal contradictions was mainly to lead the contradictions to the outside, and through continuous robbery, a bandit interest group was naturally formed after success.

Such bandit groups are often the most vulnerable in the face of failure.

"Fight back? It's possible! After listening to Sun Chengzong's words, Sun Chuanting nodded in agreement after thinking for a moment. After all, the wild boar skin still has a certain prestige, and the wild boar skin is likely to play a game before the group splits. If you lose at that time, it will not be worse than splitting. But if you win, it's a jackpot.

However, Sun Chengzong and Sun Chuanting are now faced with how the emperor will react to this counteroffensive. Whether or not to agree with the next battle plan.

The great counteroffensive launched by the Ming army this time was completely unexpected by Zhu Youxiao.

When the good news of recovering Shenyang and Liaoyang was placed in front of him, Zhu Youxiao was still in a daze.

"Shenyang is now recovered?" Zhu Youxiao was a little confused, feeling that this was too easy!

"Your Majesty, it is normal for the officers and soldiers on the front line to recover Shenyang. After all, the number of troops deployed by the imperial court in Liaodong was already about three times that of Jiannu. And from the last few battles, our casualties are lower than those of Jiannu, and sometimes the casualties of Jiannu are even several times that of ours. It can be seen from this that the combat effectiveness of the officers and soldiers of the imperial court has completely surpassed that of Jiannu. With such a huge military advantage, as long as we fight steadily and advance all the way, Jiannu will not dare to fight with us at all. Lu Xiangsheng analyzed.

"That's right." Zhu Youxiao nodded, if the strategy formulated by Zhu Youxiao before was a plan with a winning rate of more than 90%, it was the most stable strategic plan. However, the fighters seized by Sun Chuanting and Sun Chengzong launched a counteroffensive in advance, and the victory rate was also extremely high.

If you still lose with such a high win rate, it's not the decision-maker's problem.

Recklessness and heroism have never been clearly defined, just to see if there is enough capital to fight. If the country is strong enough to make up for the losses after the failure of the adventure, then the failure of the adventure can be called a heroic move, but it did not succeed. If you don't have any money to lose, and you have to take risks in a headwind situation, you will be reckless after failure.

If you want to talk about the capital, Zhu Youxiao has a small amount of capital in his hands at this time. Even if the Ming army was frustrated in its attack, it was practically impossible to defeat miserably, so the risk of launching a counteroffensive was still bearable.

As for Sun Chengzong's disobedience to his will or something, Zhu Youxiao chose to ignore it very interestingly. I have to say that although there is a distinction between high and low status, there is absolutely no personality level, and sometimes I don't think of my title as the emperor so absolutely supreme.

Therefore, Sun Chengzong's behavior of 'resisting the decree' is really impossible. After all, there will be no disapproval of the foreign monarch's order, of course, this sentence needs to comply with certain principles when it comes out, and Sun Chengzong's behavior this time is not too much, he just seized the fighter to be flexible. Even if the counterattack is frustrated, it will be difficult for Zhu Youxiao to attack.

What's more, if the war is won, it is impossible to hold anyone accountable.

This victory actually made Zhu Youxiao breathe a sigh of relief, and found that the situation was suddenly much brighter. Obviously, Jiannu is not terrible, as long as Jiannu is not given a chance, they will never be able to ride the Central Plains.

To achieve this goal, even if the Ming Dynasty is really going to perish, he, the emperor, can be regarded as making a contribution to the entire nation.

"Immediately send people to the front line to verify military merits and prepare a reward plan." Zhu You instructed Lu Xiangsheng, and Lu Xiangsheng bowed down to receive the order and began to deal with the aftermath. If the battle is won on the front line, it is natural to give a big reward, and it is absolutely impossible to pick the door at this time.

After returning from Wuyingdian, Zhu Youxiao asked Yang Guang to inform the ministers that an early court would be held the next day to discuss the restoration of the administrative problems of Liaodong. (To be continued......)