"The last general will knock to see Your Majesty, long live my emperor, long live, long live!" As soon as Li You led the army into the territory of the Guanning Army, he felt that something was wrong, and the soldiers and horses he saw everywhere he went were old, weak, sick and disabled, and the core generals of the Guanning Army and the civilian officials stationed here were also gone, until they entered Ningyuan City, only a few low-status guest generals came out to greet Li You, and Yuan Chonghuan, Zu Dashou and others were all gone. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Get up, what's going on?" Li You called the guest generals to his side and asked, the soldiers and horses under his command quickly took over the city defense of Ningyuan City under the leadership of Lu Xiangsheng and others.

"Your Majesty, the last general heard that the chief of the slave Hongtai led the troops south again, and the Governor and General Zu said that His Majesty urged them to go north to meet the enemy, and now is a good time to fight a decisive battle with Jiannu, so he led all the soldiers and horses under his command out of the city to meet Jiannu, leaving only the last general to wait here to guard the city." They replied tremblingly.

Zu Dashou's excuse is good, I asked them to go north to meet Jiannu, they didn't go out to play for a long time, but they waited until I led the soldiers and horses to Liaodong to fight, if there is no problem, it is impossible, Li You asked questions such as the whereabouts of Zu Dashou and others, the situation of the troops and horses led by Huang Taiji, etc., but these guest generals are not the locals of Liaodong who have always been excluded by the Guanning army, where they can figure out this, but keep shaking their heads.

"Your Majesty, the last general has searched all the warehouses in the city, and all the grain, grass, firewood, ordnance, gunpowder, etc. have been emptied." Just after letting this person retreat, Lu Xiangsheng brought back a piece of bad news, "The defenders in the city just saw that the last general came to ask for grain and grass, but now the grain and grass brought by the army is only enough for our own use, I'm afraid we won't be able to help them." ”

Zu Dashou played ruthlessly, did he want to force me to withdraw automatically after the grain and grass ran out? If the people stationed in the surrounding cities are all old, weak, sick and disabled, but there are quite a few people, if the grain and grass in the Beijing camp are distributed to them to enjoy, I am afraid that it will not take long to run out, and even if the grain and grass are reallocated from the capital, there must be those court officials who obstruct them, and they will not arrive on time, Zu Dashou and others have a problem for Li You.

"Immediately count the number of people in the surrounding cities, arrange and manage them according to their residences, strictly investigate the spies of Jiannu, and then distribute daily rations according to the population, so as not to give local officials a chance to be corrupt." But these are the people of the Ming Dynasty after all, Li You has absolutely no way to verify and watch them starve to death fairly, but he will never distribute food without scruples.

"In addition, send someone to send a letter to Jingzhong, asking them to quickly transport the next batch of grain and grass." No matter how the civil officials in the rear dragged their feet, what should be done was always done, if they could get the best food as scheduled, if they didn't, they would wait until they went back and then settle accounts with them, and then there would definitely be another group of court officials to be guests in the imperial prison.

"The last general commands!" Lu Xiangsheng hesitated, but he still didn't say anything to persuade him, because he couldn't do anything to let these people starve to death, and could only try his best to ensure that the food could really be distributed to the people in need.

"If I send someone to find out the whereabouts of Guan Ningjun and Jiannu, I won't believe it, and more than 100,000 horses can disappear without a trace?" Liaodong is a bitter cold land, and if there is no city to protect them from the cold, these people will definitely not be able to live in the wild for too long, so they will not be too far away from Ningyuan City.

"Yes!" Lu Xiangsheng judged the same way, he immediately went down to receive the order to arrange, and in a short time, a group of elite cavalry, led by local guides, spread out in all directions except for the city gate, searching for the enemy's movements in different directions.

And Li You stayed in the city to carefully check the nearby terrain, this Ningyuan City is located in the key point of the defense of Jiannu, and the common materials used for city defense are also solid, which is very different from the several cities that he has stayed in before, presumably Jiannu will not come over to die hard, then their plan must be to use the problem of food and grass to force themselves out of the city to fight a decisive battle, and then introduce their own soldiers and horses into the terrain that is favorable to them, and then start a decisive battle.

This is indeed a good way, Jiannu's field skills are still quite good, and he is familiar with the climate and geographical environment of Liaodong, coupled with the help of the Guanning army, the situation is much more favorable than the original battle of Zunhua, and the Hongyi cannons that should have been placed at the head of Ningyuan City are all gone, maybe they have been placed in a suitable place by Zu Dashou, ready to use the artillery of the Song army, it seems that if you go out of the city to fight a decisive battle, Liu Wan's army led by Li You is afraid that it will face an extremely difficult battle.

It's just that everything has advantages and disadvantages, leaving the city wall of Ningyuan City to resist the cold wind, how long can the Guan Ning army hold out in the wild? And the Jin Shang Group, which did not have much harvest in this entry and supplied them with grain, grass and ordnance, was uprooted by Li You, and how much grain does Jiannu have now for the army to use?

At present, both sides have reasons to fight a decisive battle as soon as possible, but neither is willing to act according to the rhythm of the other party, Jiannu and Guan Ningjun want to force Li You out of the city as soon as possible and enter their ambush ground; But Li You wanted to wait for a while, continue to consume the grain and grass of Jiannu, and wait for them to be tired before fighting a decisive battle.

"Great Khan, now there is not much food and grass in the army, but the emperor of the Ming Dynasty is staying in Ningyuan City and refusing to send troops, if we wait any longer, we are afraid that we will run out of food!" Yue Tuo said to the Emperor Taiji.

"Don't worry about this, Zu Dashou and they are more anxious than us, they have food, send someone to ask them for some, just tell Zu Dashou, if they don't give it, we will withdraw our troops back to Shenyang." Huang Taiji now pinched Zu Dashou's mind to death, knowing that they would not dare to give up this only chance of life no matter what, so he simply dragged the hope of supplying food to Zu Dashou.

Anyway, they don't dare not give it, take out this food, they will save the hope of continuing to live, if this battle is won, they can still occupy Liaodong, enjoy millions of taels of Liao; If Huang Taiji leaves, they will have to face Li You's anger alone, not only themselves, but even their family will be uprooted by Li You.

In desperation, Zu Dashou and others had no choice but to agree to Huang Taiji's request, and a cart of grain was transported out of the camp of the Guanning army and sent to the military camp of Jiannu.