"Huang Taiji, this old thief, is really good at picking time."

Hong Chengchou, who was standing at the head of Jinzhou City, seemed to be muttering to himself, or talking to the group of senior generals gathered around him, his tone was flat, but there was a faint confident smile on the corner of his lips.

The old army has undergone a major reorganization, and the morale of the army is a little unstable, and the combat strength of the old and new armies has declined significantly, and the strength of the army has seriously declined, but he is full of confidence in holding the nine-border defense line, and those old thorns who are in charge of the military power have been transferred, and the study and study have all been taken away, and it is easier and convenient for him to command, which is the source of his greatest confidence.

After the reorganization, the officers no longer dared to arbitrarily deduct the soldiers' salaries, the food was greatly improved, coupled with the efforts of those political and industrial officers placed in the army, military discipline, military appearance and military appearance have changed greatly, giving people a new and comfortable feeling, the people's hearts are cohesive, the army is equipped with a large number of muskets and artillery, and a large number of cold weapons such as swords have been eliminated, and they only rely on the defense of the fortified city.

"With the Governor in charge, the Nine Frontier Defense Line will be impregnable."

Zu Chengxun on the side smiled and presented a high hat, he didn't know if other border forts could hold it, but he had full confidence to hold Jinzhou Jiancheng, and the ancestral army after accepting the reorganization and completing the change of clothes was not comparable to the past, although the combat power has not been significantly improved, but only relying on the defense of the strong city, not fighting field battles, unable to hold him to cut off his own head, as long as he is given another year, he will be able to train into a wolf battalion that is not inferior to Cao Bianjiao and other elites.

Mao Wenlong, He Renlong, and other generals who were newly appointed as Liaodong guards also have the confidence to defend their own defensive ground, Mao Wenlong has been refrigerated for several years, and now it has been reactivated, of course, he must perform well, and He Renlong is a rocket promotion, with the idea of repaying the grace of the saint, he also wants to perform well, in short, it is to fill with human lives, and he must also hold the defensive line without losing.

Hong Chengchou smiled very happily, the soldiers served their orders, worked together, and changed a large number of firearms, defended the fortified city, and did not go out of the city to fight field battles.

At the time when the tribes outside the Guanxi were assembling and preparing to invade the border, while the old army was all reorganized, the Liaodong Arsenal had been ordered to work overtime day and night, desperately rushing to make paper bullet shells and thunderbolts, and transport them to the forts and fortifications of the border to be stockpiled, and military supplies such as grain and grass were also desperately stockpiled, and a large amount of cement was also being stockpiled in order to repair the city walls damaged during the war.

What Hong Chengchou is doing now, in addition to sending a large number of scouts to spy on the enemy, is to order all armies to step up training, so that they can practice one more day and count one day, and wait for the Jin army to attack the city.

In addition to a large amount of grain, grass and ammunition, there are countless sand and gravel, yes, it is sand and pebbles and gravel, these Dongdong have turned the wasteland of Shanhaiguan City into one sand mountain after another.

On the official road leading to Shanhaiguan, there are full of round-trip convoys carrying sand and gravel, like two long dragons, endlessly, doing these dirty and heavy hard work are either prisoners of war or criminals in hard labor, under the threat of the leather whips and steel knives and spears of the officers and soldiers, no one dares to be lazy, and if they don't want to starve, they have to work honestly, and some people can't bear the hardship and escape, but in the end they are chopped into meat by the pursuing officers and soldiers.

In order to prevent the prisoners from escaping, the prisoners practice joint sitting, a group of ten people, one of whom escapes, the whole group clicks, so that there are few people who dare to escape, you are a little abnormal, you will be reported by the same group of inmates, the whistleblower has merit, turned into a supervisor foreman, no longer have to do dirty and heavy physical work, the food is better than others, more, everyone wants to compete to be the official and military traitor.

Zhu Jian knew that prisoners of war and prisoners were the best free labor and wealth, and repeatedly warned his subordinates not to cut off their heads indiscriminately, nor to abuse them, that the food should be better, and that there were also military doctors stationed to help those who were sick or slightly injured to be treated.

Prisoners of war and criminals set up a point system, those criminals who committed crimes, depending on the length of the sentence, various performances during the service, can be commuted, after the expiration of the sentence can be released, give a sum of money to go home, prisoners of war to serve more than ten years of hard labor, if alive, and repentance, good performance, will also be resettled, become a legal citizen of the Ming Dynasty, because of all kinds of lenient policies, so that those prisoners of war and prisoners see hope, the vast majority of no longer think about running away all day long, resisting, passive sabotage, striving for performance, in order to get points rewards, Sentence commutation and release as soon as possible, and return home to reunite with family.

Zhu Jian spent a lot of money and grain to accumulate sand and gravel in Shanhaiguan and other forts on the border of the fortified city, and naturally he had his purpose, and his current strategic layout was still to hold the nine-border defense line, step up recuperation, and accumulate strategic materials, so as to prepare for the expedition to the Horqin steppe in the spring of next year.

The Horqin grassland is too vast, rich in war horses, the cavalry of the Guanwai tribes, and everyone is born a warrior, and what the Central Plains lacks is the war horses of the majestic horses, most of them are mainly army, even if they defeat the tribal coalition, but it is difficult to completely annihilate or hit hard, people are scattered, they can't catch up at all, and they can only watch them fly away.

With cavalry against cavalry, the cavalry of the Ming Dynasty is forgotten, the whole battle is five scum, only the part of the abuse, and the cost is too great, it costs a lot to train a qualified cavalry warrior, and it is not cost-effective at all, so he suppressed the cavalry troops and wolf thieves of Mangui at the number of five thousand, and would rather ride one person and two horses, or use the extra horses as logistics transportation, and the number of battle losses will be replenished, so as to save a lot of money.

The prairie is a flat river, conducive to the galloping of the cavalry, not conducive to defense, and so the army withdraws, those outside the Guanxi clan will come back, and when they recuperate for a few years, it will become a big disaster for the Ming Dynasty, rather than the back and forth toss of the people and money, it is better to do it once and for all, even if it cannot occupy the entire Horqin grassland, in the current situation, at least a small half must be divided into the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Jian's method once and for all is to build several city fortresses on the Horqin grassland, and use each other as horns with Shanhaiguan and other fortified border forts, forcibly enclose a large piece of grassland, and become a military horse farm of the Ming Dynasty, raising some war horses, cattle and sheep or something, even if the modern Dongdong of tanks and cars is eliminated in the future, and the war horses are eliminated, cattle and sheep can also be raised to improve the lives of the local people.

The cement has been created, and it is much easier to build buildings such as fortresses and houses in the city, and it is OK to mix sand and gravel, cement and lime as soon as it is stirred, and the purpose of building materials such as sand and gravel is to accumulate sand and gravel behind the forts of Shanhaiguan and other forts, in short, it is right to make various preparations in advance.

Of course, to build a few city fortresses, you have to spend a lot of manpower and money and food, fortunately, the cement is sold to the moats in various places, which can offset a small part of the expenses, and you can also attract investment or something, if you want to buy a pasture, you have to invest in advance, all kinds of miscellaneous funds offset some expenses, the Ming treasury paid some, and finally the insufficient funds were taken out of Xiao Zhu Jian's treasury.

A month later, nearly 300,000 tribal coalition troops finally slaughtered under the city of Jinzhou.

Thanks for the love tip of the sunset.