Mid-September, Liaodong Bay.

A fleet of five three-masted warships and more than a dozen large sea-going ships sailed quietly on the sea, and on the deck of the three-masted warship Mingyang in the middle of the fleet, Li Yuntian looked at the blue sea in front of him with a stern expression.

In order to break the stalemate in the war in Liaodong, Li Yuntian prepared to win by surprise, leading the Xiaowu army to bypass the Mongol army at Xining Fort by sea, and then landed on the right guard of Guangning and led his army to attack Daning City.

The strength of Daning City is now very weak, only 5,000 Uliangha soldiers, originally stationed in Daning City There are not many Uliangha soldiers, only 20,000 people, and the rest of the troops are basically deployed in front of Shanhaiguan to block the road of the Ming army to the north, so that Shanhaiguan has 60,000 Uliangha soldiers.

Adai Khan twice transferred 40,000 troops from the Wuliang Ha Department to fight against the Liaodong Ming army, and the command of the Wuliang Ha Sanwei drew 10,000 troops from Shanhaiguan and 15,000 from Daning City, and the rest were collected from their respective tribes, and finally gathered 15,000 people.

Therefore, the forces of the Uliangha Department were concentrated in Shanhaiguan and Xiningbao, and there were only a small number of troops in some areas, so there was no need to be afraid at all.

In this sneak attack on Daning City, Li Yuntian brought 5,000 Xiaowu troops, 3,000 Jurchen soldiers and 2,000 Mongolian soldiers, of which there were three musket battalions in the Xiaowu army, which was Li Yuntian's killer weapon.

According to Li Yuntian's plan, he originally attacked Daning City in early October, but while he was handling military and government affairs in Haizhouwei, Zhang Fu sent people to cross the sea by boat and risk death to send the matter of Guanxi Qiwei Tong Guò Reverse Horse Pass into Beizhili to Lushunkou of Jinzhou Zuowei at the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula.

The people of Jinzhou Zuowei did not dare to slack off, and immediately reported the news to Li Yuntian, Li Yuntian was taken aback, and immediately realized that there was a traitor in the Fallen Horse Pass, otherwise with the steepness of the Fallen Horse Pass, even if there were 200,000 people and horses of the Guanxi Seven Guards, they would not be able to cross the thunder pool.

Due to the sudden loss of the Fallen Horse Pass, Li Yuntian had to change his original plan and attack Daning City in advance, in order to solve the war in Liaodong as much as possible.

In Li Yuntian's view, the unexpected fall of the Fallen Horse Pass completely disrupted the deployment of the Ming army in the Wanquan Division, making the Wanquan Division fall into a dilemma of defending the city or attacking.

To be honest, although Li Yuntian also thought that defending the city was the most correct choice, no Ming army general could sit idly by and ignore the Mongol army after it really attacked Jingshi, otherwise he would be guilty of bullying the king, and he would definitely be impeached by the official afterwards.

Li Yuntian knew that Zhou Zheng was now in command of the army of Wanquan Dusi, and with his understanding of Zhou Zheng, Zhou Zheng would not be in Arutai when he rescued the Beijing division after the Juyong Pass was broken, but when the Beijing division was really attacked by the Mongolian army, Zhou Zheng had to send troops to it even if he knew that there was an ambush of the Mongolian army on the road, which had nothing to do with tactics and strategy, and was completely to do his duty as a courtier.

Therefore, in order to avoid Zhou Zheng passively sending troops, and then making the Ming army die in vain, Li Yuntian must do his best to end the war outside the pass, and then lead the army into the pass to relieve the siege of the capital.

To be honest, Li Yuntian didn't have imagined that the Seven Guards of the Kansai would come all the way from the Western Regions to participate in the war, and he didn't expect that the originally impregnable Fallen Horse Pass would become an ornament, which complicated the battle situation.

"General Wind and Thunder!" Looking at the unfazed sea, Li Yuntian couldn't help muttering to himself, he always felt that the Northern Yuan's southern invasion was different from before, as if someone was planning and manipulating this qiē behind the scenes, and the Wind and Thunder General who had appeared in the Tiger Skin Camp Post City was undoubtedly the most suspicious candidate.

After drying Darru for more than a month, Darru, who was in an anxious mood, finally became honest and told Li Yuntian what he knew.

According to Darlu, General Fenglei found Arutai five or six years ago, and not only helped Arutai to co-opt several large tribes on the grassland, but also persuaded Arutai to invade the Ming Dynasty in the south and restore the glory of the Great Yuan.

As for the origin of General Fenglei, Darru is not very clear, but he knows that General Fenglei seems to be a military attache of the Ming Dynasty before, and he knows the situation of the Ming army very well.

Later, under the coordination of General Fenglei, Arutai met with his old rival Warat, and the two reached an agreement after some secret discussions, which led to the southern invasion of Tatar and Warat, sharing the territory and spoils obtained from the Ming Dynasty.

The reason why Arutai and Tuhuan were able to form an alliance was that in addition to General Fenglei, there was another person who was very important, and that person was also a member of the Ming clan, named "Ah Qiu", who was a tall and indifferent Ming man, and he was deeply respected by Dehuan.

After the alliance between the Tatars and the Warats, Ah Qiu was appointed by Adai Khan as one of the three governors of the Northern Yuan Privy Council, and General Feng Lei was appointed as a deputy envoy, and both married the daughters of the Mongol nobles and had children each.

In the past, both the Tatar and the Warat invaded the south and left after a plunder, but this time, the Tatars and Warat uncharacteristically provoked wars in Shanxi Xingdu Division and Guanwai, and General A Qiu and Fenglei played a key role.

Li Yuntian thinks that General Fenglei is Wen Yongbo Guchen nine times out of ten, but he can't guess who the mysterious "Ah Qiu" is because there is too little information, but judging from the name of the other party, it seems that he has a deep hatred for Da Ming, and then planned this series of wars, almost forcing Da Ming into a desperate situation.

"Master Hou, why did you let Mu Du go?" Just as Li Yuntian was standing on the deck of the bow of the ship and fell into deep thought, Halbara came over and asked puzzled beside him.

The army led by Mu Du and Fan Cha was ambushed by the Ming army in Shaling Town, 4,000 Mongolian cavalry were almost all annihilated, and 6,000 servant troops surrendered without much resistance, and the Ming army won a great victory in Shaling Town, and Mu Du and Fan Cha were captured alive.

Before Li Yuntian left Haizhou City, he ordered the release of Mu Du, who was imprisoned in Liaoyang City, and asked Mu Du to bring a sentence to the Bald Polo, telling him that Emperor Xuande must have been furious after experiencing this, and once the Ming army defeated the Mongol army in Liaodong and Gyeonggi, it would inevitably drive them out of the Mongolian plateau, and they would only be displaced in the northern and western khanates of the Mongol Empire.

However, Li Yuntian also pointed out a way out for the Vulture Polo, which can be regarded as throwing out an olive branch, and clearly promised to bring the Vulture Polo, as long as the people of the Vulture tribe led by the Vulture tribe are returned to the Ming Dynasty, then the Vulture Polo will still be the king of peace in the Ming Dynasty.

Halbara was puzzled by Li Yuntian letting Mu Du go again, in his opinion, this was undoubtedly letting the tiger go back to the mountain, and it was better to kill it.

"There is a cloud in the art of war, the upper army is strategic, the second is the enemy, the second is the army, and the city is attacked." Li Yuntian knew that Harbara was puzzled by what he was doing, so he explained with a smile, "It is useless for Mu Du to stay with us, it is better to put him back." ”

Hearing this, Halbara's eyes showed a puzzled look, and he didn't know the meaning of what Li Yuntian said, since Mu Du was useless, it seemed that there was no point for Li Yuntian to let him go, did he not want Mu Du to waste food in prison?

"Although Mu Du is a nobody, his father is one of the three leaders of Warat, if he can be subdued, then it will be of great benefit to our future wars." Li Yuntian smiled slightly when he saw this, the reason why he released Mu Du twice was naturally to take the Bald Polo, and he wanted to force the Bald Polo to surrender in the future.

The Mongolian Plateau is a little too far away for the Ming Dynasty to be managed like the two capitals and thirteen provinces and Jiaozhi, so in Li Yuntian's view, if the Ming Dynasty wants to ensure the peace and stability of the Mongolian Plateau, the only way to govern it is to use the Tatar Department and the Warat Department, so defeating the Tatars and the Warat in this war with the Northern Yuan Dynasty is not the ultimate goal, and subduing them is the top priority to solve the northern border troubles that have plagued the Ming Dynasty for a long time.

"Vancha will soon be free, but unlike Mudu, he 'escaped' on his own." As he spoke, Li Yuntian's gaze once again turned to the sea in front of him, and said meaningfully.

Mudu and Fancha were locked up together, but the treatment of the two was very different, Mudu enjoyed special care, every meal had good wine and good food, not only Mudu, but also the captured Warat generals, including the Huite Ministry, were treated preferentially, and the food was obviously one or two grades higher than the captured Tatar Mongol generals.

Mudu was accompanied by several generals from the Warat tribe, while others such as Darru and Fancha were to be taken to Kaiyuan to work and build canals and roads.

However, Fancha's luck was very good, and he managed to escape due to the "negligence" of the guards on the way to Kaiyuan City, and when he returned to Xining Fort, he would definitely succeed in provoking the conflict between the Tatars and the Warats, and then divide the enemy forces in Xinin Castle from within.

It is worth mentioning that Skynet was restored but not leaked, and Hulegen, the Mongolian general of the Waraweirat Department who had done evil in Yinzhou City, was captured after the battle in the Tiger Skin Camp.

Speaking of Hulegen, he was also unlucky enough, he had almost escaped from the pursuit of the Ming army, but he was tied up after being discovered by several rebels of the Mongolian army, and after dedicating it to the pursuers of the Ming army, he asked for a reward from the Ming army, and they heard that Li Yuntian offered a reward of 100 taels of gold for the capture of Hulegen.

Li Yuntian fulfilled his promise, gave the Mongol soldiers a hundred taels of gold, and placed them in Kaiyuan as overseers, supervising the work of Darlu and other Mongol generals.

Hu Legen was escorted to Yinzhou City afterwards, and the guards of Yinzhou City held a public trial meeting according to Li Yuntian's order, and after confirming Hu Legen's crime, he was beheaded on the spot, and justice was given to the bitter master who had cried to Li Yuntian in Yinzhou City about Hu Legen's crime.

This matter has always been talked about by the people in Yinzhou City, which has made Li Yuntian's reputation in Liaodong rise to a new height.

What is particularly important is that Li Yuntian took advantage of the war in Liaodong to restore the people's livelihood on the grounds of restoring the people's livelihood, and vigorously encouraged the people to open up wasteland, and established a perfect tax system, which made the economy of Liaodong develop rapidly after the war, and at the same time attracted a large number of people to migrate in the Guannei, making Liaodong a solid barrier in the north of the Ming Dynasty.

After the war, the capital of Liaodong was abolished by Emperor Xuande and changed to be directly governed by Jiangwutang, which became the second area of the Ming Dynasty to implement the new policy of Jiangwutang after Jiaozhi.

Because Li Yuntian turned the tide in the battle of Liaodong and made great achievements, coupled with the disappointing performance of the Ming army in Liaodong on the battlefield, and the need for the imperial court to deal with the relationship between the Jurchens and Mongols in Liaodong who joined the Ming army to fight against the Northern Yuan, coupled with the development of the local economy in Liaodong, and no one in the Ming Dynasty except Li Yuntian could solve a series of problems faced by Liaodong.

Therefore, the affairs of Liaodong were related to the safety of the northern region of the Ming Dynasty, so no one in the court opposed the abolition of the Liaodong capital, so Jiangwutang took control of Liaodong and further expanded its power.

In fact, because Liaodong implements military management, and there is no local capital and county, the abolition of the Liaodong capital is mainly an internal affair of the Ming Dynasty, and it has little to do with the civilian clique, which makes this matter a lot less resistant.

After all, the generals of the Liaodong Metropolitan Division owed Li Yuntian a lot of favors in the war in Liaodong, and Li Yuntian promised that after the Liaodong Metropolitan Division was abolished, they would be incorporated into the Liaodong Suzaku Camp of the Xiaowu Army, which exempted them from worrying, so no one in the Liaodong Metropolitan Division came out to oppose it.

This made the biggest obstacle to the abolition of the Liaodong capital division have been eliminated, and the matter will naturally come to fruition, and the Suzaku Legion of the Xiaowu Army has developed rapidly, and has gradually become an important military force guarding the northeast region of the Beijing Division.