Outside Ningyuan City, Sun Chuanting was stationed in Mashangang, looking at the busy military people in the distance, with a solemn expression.

It was the mid-autumn season, when the crops were harvested, but Jiannu came to attack at this time. Of course, it is already customary for Jiannu to always choose to attack in autumn and winter. The autumn offensive was naturally to plunder and burn the autumn grain of the Ming army and consume the combat power of the Ming army in western Liaoning.

The winter attack is because Jiannu is the most idle and difficult in winter, and he must grab some food to survive.

When the old slave was alive, he implemented a high-pressure policy against Liaodong, massacred the Liao people, and abandoned Jinzhou, Gaizhou, Liaonan and other places. Liaodong, which used to have a million household registrations, now only has the two or three hundred thousand Liao people left in Liaoxi. Of course, there are still tens of thousands of people on Phi Island, and the rest of the Liao people have already become the ghosts of Jiannu. Therefore, although Jiannu took all of Liaodong and occupied the vast plains of Liaoshen, the population under his rule was really small, and there were not many Han slaves at this time.

The Eight Banners are professional soldiers, who fight all year round, how can they have time to farm? Although Jiannu is strong, the economy is poor, coupled with the economic blockade imposed by the Ming Dynasty on Jiannu, Jiannu is now very poor.

The old slave died, and Huang Taiji was on the throne for less than a year, although he had the heart to implement Huairou to the Liao people, but the time he sat on the throne was still short, and his position was not stable, and the effect was really little.

For Jiannu, who lacked everything, the winter was really difficult, and Huang Taiji sent troops to Liaoxi this time in order to grab some autumn grain from the Liao people.

Although Sun Chuanting was very confident in saying that he could defend Liaoxi, he was actually very nervous in his heart. He knew that his time in operating Liaoxi was really short, less than half a year. These generals in Liaoxi were obedient to him on the surface, but it was unknown what their sincerity was. If you fight Jiannu head-on, it is difficult to say whether you can work together and whether you will escape from the battle.

Therefore, Sun Chuanting adopted the strategy of clearing the wilderness and sticking to the city.

As soon as he received the invasion of Jiannu, Sun Chuanting ordered the castles to clear the walls, harvest the grain that could be harvested in the fields, and burn the ones that were too late to be harvested, and then return to the city to hold on.

During this period of time, as the grain from the south of the Yangtze River has been transported to Tongzhou one after another, and then transferred from Juehua Island by sea through Tianjin, there is no shortage of grain in western Liaoning, and the grain stocks in Jinzhou and Ningyuan and other big cities are enough to support more than half a year, at least until next summer.

The food is worry-free, and you only need to stick to the wall. Before the Liao army was completely integrated, Sun Chuanting did not plan to fight a large-scale field war with Jiannu. If you can rely on a strong city to consume the enemy's strength, why do you fight hard in the field?

Moreover, Sun Chuanting had studied the past battles between Jiannu and the Ming army, and knew that Jiannu was accustomed to besieging the city for reinforcements, which was also one of the reasons why he did not ask the imperial court for reinforcements.

The strength of Liaoxi is more than enough to defend Jinzhou Ningyuan and other castles, and he doesn't expect to annihilate the main force of Jiannu now, so why ask for reinforcements? As for whether Jinzhou and other castles will be lost, let's let Jiannu surround it for half a year, as long as the food in the city is not exhausted, the possibility of losing is not big.

Jiannu storming the city? That is exactly with Sun Chuanting's intentions, Jiannu does not have artillery to attack the city, and the siege can only be filled with human lives, how can it be possible to build a city without losing tens of thousands of lives?

If it can consume 20,000 or 30,000 Jiannu, what if Jinzhou and other cities are lost?

And the families of Zu Dashou and other generals have been sent to Jingshi, and these generals will not surrender easily, in this case, why worry about it?

However, having said that, as the governor of Liaodong and the highest official outside the Guan, how could Sun Chuanting not be worried?

He personally went out of the city to urge the military households to harvest the autumn grain, and if he could collect some more grain and return to the city, he would be able to hold on for an extra day after the Jiannu attack.

"Futai, Beacon Fire!" At this moment, the soldiers beside Sun Chuanting pointed to the northeast and shouted.

Sun Chuanting Huo Ran looked at it, and saw a straight pillar of smoke rising into the sky on the dock fort a few miles away, which represented the attack of Jiannu, with a scale of about 1,000.

There are more than 1,000 Jiannu, do they dare to go deep into Ningyuan? Sun Chuanting sneered.

"Cao Wenzhao, you take 3,000 standard battalion cavalry to destroy this group of Jiannu!" Sun Chuanting said coldly.

More than 1,000 Jiannu cavalry should be the outpost sent by the slave chief Huang Taiji, in order to burn the grain of the Ming army along the way and spy on the situation of the Ming army.

At present, only more than half of the autumn grain outside Ningyuan City has been collected, and Sun Chuanting naturally does not want these more than 1,000 Jiannu to affect the autumn harvest plan.

Cao Wenzhao led 3,000 cavalry to the northeast along the avenue, and after walking for more than ten miles, he saw the Jiannu cavalry in the distance.

Cao Wenzhao tidied up the queue a little and immediately went to the slave cavalry in the distance.

"Ming Army?" In the distance, Li Sizhong looked at the approaching Ming cavalry and sneered.

Li Sizhong was originally the grandson of Li Chengliang, who surrendered to Jiannu in the 46th year of Wanli, and because of Li Chengliang's relationship, he was deeply used by the old slaves, and now he has become a guerrilla general.

More than 100 miles from Jinzhou to Ningyuan, Li Sizhong arrived in only one day, slaughtering thousands of Liao people who harvested autumn grain along the way, frightening other Liao people to hide in the castle. Li Sizhong also ignored those castles, and led a thousand cavalry to kill Ning Yuan. It was his task to create panic for the Ming army and force the Liao military households to give up the food outside the castle.

After more than ten years of surrendering to Jiannu, Li Sizhong had long regarded himself as a Jurchen, and the Han army banners under his command were all battle-hardened elites, how to put the Ming army on the opposite side in his eyes, even if the opponent's troops seemed to be better than his own, he immediately took the lead in rushing towards the Ming cavalry, and the 1,08 banner soldiers followed closely behind him.

When the two sides were dozens of paces apart, the Jiannu cavalry drew their bows on their horses and shot, and the feathered arrows were like dark clouds towards the Ming army.

The Ming army could only shrink their bodies on their horses and let the feather arrows fall. Although these 3,000 standard battalion soldiers were the elite recruited by Sun Chuanting from all over Liao, their riding and archery skills were much worse than those of Jiannu. Moreover, most of the cavalry were not equipped with bows and arrows, but used three-eyed firearms, which had a much worse range than bows and arrows.

A round of feather arrows fell, at least seventy or eighty Ming cavalry fell off their horses, and the others rushed through the rain of arrows and rushed towards the Jiannu cavalry. The distance between the two sides was already very close, and the Jiannu cavalry did not have time to shoot the second arrow, so they threw away their bows and drew their sabers.

"Boom Boom"

The two sides were more than ten steps apart, and when they saw that the war horses were about to collide, the Ming cavalry opened fire with three-eyed firearms, and countless projectiles flew towards the Jiannu cavalry with an extremely high rate of fire, and more than a dozen Jiannu cavalry fell off their horses.

This kind of three-eyed firearm is loaded with scattered bullets, and the armor-piercing ability is limited, and the Jiannu are all wearing thick armor on their upper bodies, unless they hit the throat and other vital points, it is too difficult to shoot the Jiannu. Although the cavalry of the Ming army was numerous, there were only more than 100 people who rushed in front of Jiannu and were in short arms, and the cavalry in front of them was the back of their colleagues, and the three-eyed firearm could not fire at all.

In the blink of an eye, the two sides were close to each other, the Jiannu cavalry sabre wheeled, the Ming cavalry used the three-eyed firearm to smash, and the brave Ming army behind ignored the sachet and fired directly at the cut Jiannu face door.

In a moment, the two sides hedged each other, each sorted out the queue, and left more than 100 corpses on the battlefield, with many corpses of the Ming army and few corpses of Jiannu.

At this moment, the cavalry of the Ming army was in the northeast, and the Jiannu cavalry was in the southwest.