In the strategy of building slaves with three imaginaries and one reality, the Praetorian Guard led by Lu Xiangsheng undertook the important task of "real".

Liu Xingzuo, Zhou Yuji, and Cao Wenzhao's Liaoxi cavalry played a role in attracting Jiannu's remaining troops and making the hinterland behind Jiannu as empty as possible. And Lu Xiangsheng took the opportunity to lead the Praetorian Guards to raid the hinterland of Jiannu and smash Huanglong!

Of course, Liu Xingzuo, Zhou Yuji and Cao Wenzhao are suspicious soldiers, and it is very likely that they will be defeated by Jiannu's remaining troops in one or even two ways, and they will suffer heavy losses, after all, Jiannu is not a fool! But as long as they fulfill their role of attracting the remaining troops of Jiannu, everything is worth it.

Redeem the child! It is a pre-formulated strategy against Jiannu!

is still the same sentence, the population of the Ming Dynasty is hundreds of times that of Jiannu, and the real strength is far beyond that of Jiannu, no matter how big the loss is, it will be lost!

As long as you can copy the nest of Jiannu, kill all the women and children of Jiannu, and burn the hinterland of Jiannu into ruins, even if there are still tens of thousands of troops left in Jiannu, even if its main force is still there, it will become a tree without roots and a source of water, and it will die sooner or later!

To reach a country, as small as a tribe, the foundation of strength lies in the strength of the army, but also in every ordinary people. Without the hard work of ordinary people and ordinary people, hard farming, and hard production of all kinds of resources, how can a strong army be maintained?

Turning the rear of Jiannu into ruins, even if Huang Taiji successfully brought back the main force of the Eight Banners from the Ming Dynasty, there are no hundreds of thousands of Jiannu people, who farms the land to produce food, who sews clothes, and who makes and repairs armor? What white-armored soldiers and red-armored soldiers, they are all unparalleled in combat power, but they may not be good at farming, if they spend most of their time on trivial tasks such as farming, fishing and hunting, what energy do they have to temper their strength?

Therefore, don't look down on the old and weak women, don't look down on the ordinary people, they are the real backbone of society.

And Jiannu has lost most of the old and weak women and people, and at that time, I am afraid that the strength will not even be as good as that of a Mongolian tribe like Horqin, what qualifications do you have to become the enemy of the Ming Dynasty!

As long as this strategic goal can be accomplished, even if Liu Xingzuo and other three-way partial divisions are all defeated, even if tens of thousands of troops are lost, it will be worth it!

In order to complete the strategic goal, Lu Xiangsheng has been forbearing, 30,000 Praetorian Guards have been quietly guarding Phi Island, until Liu Xingzuo captured Phoenix, until Zhou Yuji also sent troops to capture Lushun Jinzhou, feeling that Jiannu's eyes were attracted, Lu Xiangsheng quietly left Phi Island with 30,000 Janissaries and landed on the North Korean National Tieshan Peninsula on the other side.

The Praetorian Guard then marched all the way through the territory of Korea, from Cheolsan to Uiju, and then all the way northeast to Soju.

Along the way, it is inevitable to encounter the Korean people, and it is inevitable to come into contact with the local government of the DPRK.

Such a huge Ming army naturally frightened the Korean people.

The Ming Dynasty has always been the suzerainty of North Korea, although in recent years the Korean state was conquered by Jiannu, forced to form a brotherly country with the Houjin of Jiannu, but from the Korean court, down to the ordinary Korean scholars and people, still think that the Ming is the mother country, still think that Jiannu is a barbarian country, and despise Jiannu very much.

The Koreans still have feelings for the Ming Dynasty, but they are very annoyed by the Ming army, whether it is Li Chengliang guarding Liaodong, or Mao Wenlong sitting on the Dongjiang River on Phi Island, the army of the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong bullied the Koreans.

In particular, Mao Wenlong bullied and bullied the Koreans, and the Dongjiang soldiers robbed the Korean people and intercepted and killed Korean merchants. Mao Wenlong even had the idea of sending troops from Phi Dao to completely destroy the Korean state!

How can the Koreans not be afraid of such a Ming army?

However, this time the Ming army they saw was different from the Dongjiang army. The Praetorian Guards traveled one or two hundred miles from Tieshan to Shuozhou, and they did not commit any crimes in autumn, and no robbery happened!

Of course, this is not only because the Praetorian Guards have good military discipline, but also because they want to make a surprise attack on the nest of Jiannu, and Lu Xiangsheng has no time and ink for the Koreans.

For the speed of the march, the army set off with half a month's ration, which was the fried noodle bag that each soldier carried diagonally on his shoulder, which contained about twenty catties of fried noodles.

But this is the last reserve, and if you can, don't use it. On the march in Korea, food supplies must of course be solved by the Koreans.

How to fix it? Robbery is definitely not good, naturally it is a public sale!

Every time they went to a village or town to rest, the Janissaries would sell grain from the Korean people at a price higher than the market price, and the Korean people were naturally happy.

The Praetorian Guard's attitude of not committing any crimes in the autumn and buying and selling in the public naturally also made the Korean officials and people admire, and they all said that they were worthy of the officers and soldiers of the Celestial Empire! Many North Korean people even took the initiative to take out their own pickled kimchi to work in the army.

As for the purpose of the Praetorian Guard, the Korean people naturally knew in their hearts that they were definitely going to fight Jiannu, but no one would report to Jiannu.

It is the true wish of all the Korean people to destroy the brutal Jiannu barbarians and make Korea bathe in the sunshine of the Celestial Empire again.

Of course, even if someone reported to Jiannu, Lu Xiangsheng was not afraid, because at this moment, the hinterland of Jiannu was empty, because the speed of the Praetorian Guard was fast enough!

Starting from Phi Dao and arriving in Shuozhou, it took only four days along the way, and then crossed the Yalu River from Shuozhou to Kuandian territory.

Kuandian, located in some broken basins surrounded by mountains, adjacent to the Korean State across the Yalu River, originally belonged to the Ming Dynasty Dongning Wei Territory, but is located outside the border wall of Liaodong, in fact, it belongs to the Ming Dynasty to abandon the barbaric land!

In the first year of Wanli, in order to cope with the rise of the Jurchens in Jianzhou, the Ming court decided to build a castle in the Kuandian area.

In the fourth year of Wanli, five fortresses of Kuandian, Yongdian, Tandian, Changdian and Hedian were built one after another. Kuandian staff general plus the rank of deputy chief soldier, moved the Liao right guard sergeant and warehouse officer in Kuandian Fort, founded a school temple, opened a tile city, and reclaimed the land of the army, from a barren area, to become an important town in eastern Liaodong.

In the first year of the Apocalypse, Jiannu captured the Kuandian area, incorporated the original Ming Dynasty military households into the Han Army Banner, and moved in some banner people, appointed the former Ming Dynasty officials as the reserve, and jointly managed Kuandian with the Jurchen Niu Lu Ezhen. However, it didn't take long for Mao Wenlong to come, first raiding Zhenjiang Fort and establishing Dongjiang Town, and the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty in Kuandian naturally did not want to be ruled by Jiannu, so they contacted Mao Wenlong and cooperated with Mao Wenlong to kill the flag and rebel, so that Kuandian returned to the rule of the Ming Dynasty.

However, the good times did not last long, and Jiannu sent a large army to attack Mao Wenlong and forced Mao Wenlong close to the territory of Korea. Most of the Han people in Kuandian went to Phi Island with Mao Wenlong, and those who stayed were bloodily slaughtered by Jiannu to get rid of future troubles.

By now, in the territory of Kuandian, the original Ming army and ordinary people have long been gone. Now in Kuandian, all the Jianzhou Jurchens are all Jiannu people.

Of course, there are also some Han enslaved slaves in Jiannu's family, and there are also some Koreans in Kuandian, who fled here when they couldn't survive in Korea, and then became Jiannu's coated envelope.

All in all, the people in Kuandian are too scarce, far less than in the Wanli period, it is too remote here, and it is all mountainous, except for the bannermen and their families sent by the Jiannu court to guard, other bannermen do not want to come here. In this group of mountains and remote lands, where is it comfortable to live in the Liaoshen Great Plain?

In the entire Kuandian area, there are only one or two thousand banners, and there will be no more than 20,000 slaves with their families, mainly living in five castles. In each castle, there were three or four hundred bannermen, and a total of three or four thousand people including their families.

Lu Xiangsheng led an army of 30,000 to fight in, and with Jiannu's strength here, he naturally couldn't stop it.

At the beginning, the defenders of Kuandian thought that it was the Dongjiang army on Phi Island that killed them, after all, a few years ago, Mao Wenlong led the Dongjiang army to harass here, and they were not afraid of the Dongjiang army.

But soon, the bannermen here found out that it was not the Dongjiang Army called Huazi, but a real elite, and their weapons and equipment were even much better than those of the Eight Banners.

The defenders of Kuandian no longer had the idea of taking the initiative, and shrank in the city, trembling, trying to resist stubbornly.

Lu Xiangsheng didn't give them the slightest chance, and directly divided his troops to attack the five castles in five directions.

From Korea to Kwandian to Hetuala, it was mountainous area, and in order to increase the speed of the march, the Praetorian Guards naturally did not carry stupid Hongyi cannons, but the Praetorian Guards had their own way to quickly break through the castle.

Thousands of Praetorian Guards approached the castle walls, firing fire at the walls from time to time with firebolts, and a dozen or so Lumi guns aimed at a battlement, shooting at the same time as long as Jiannu dared to show his head. Although there were three or four hundred Jiannu defenders on the city wall, they did not dare to show their heads under the powerful firepower of the Praetorian Guard.

When the city wall was suppressed by firearms, the gunners of the Praetorian Guard pushed several small cannons weighing only more than 100 catties to a distance of ten zhang from the city gate, so that the barrels were flattened, and then fired at the city gate.

Ten zhang distance, how can there be no reason to hit the city gate?

With just one round of fire, the city gate was smashed, and then the Praetorian Guards swarmed in, smashed into the castle, surrounded and killed all the bannermen who defended the city, and seeing that they were cornered, many bannermen threw their weapons and surrendered.

The five forts of Kuandian, each castle, did not take an hour from the siege to the breakdown, and the difference in strength between the two sides was too great!

After the city was broken, how to deal with the women and children of Jiannu and the bannermen who surrendered, Lu Xiangsheng formulated a method from the beginning. All adult slave men were executed, regardless of the old and weak, and only women, girls and children were plundered back to the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, all the people in Jiannu are soldiers, as long as they are adult bannermen, they are all soldiers or former soldiers, and their hands are stained with the blood of the Ming people, and they will not lose if they are killed one by one!

But the surrendered and captured Jiannu bannermen cannot be easily killed, and there are still some uses.

Most of the Jiannu families have coated slaves, there are one or two poor Jiannu families, and there are dozens or even hundreds of wealthy Jiannu families, such as those Niu Lu families. These coated slaves include Han Chinese, Koreans, and many have followed Jiannu for many years. Many of the clothed men even fought with the Ming army as pawns. The treatment of these coated slaves is different from that of the Jiannu.

Most of the coats were forced, and most of them were Ming people, so it was natural to give them a chance to return to the Ming Dynasty.

In view of the fact that many of the clothed soldiers followed Jiannu and killed the Ming army, Lu Xiangsheng ordered that these clothed soldiers kill their former masters in order to wash away their past sins, and then accept their surrender and let them live.

At the moment of life and death, these wrappers were also ruthless and rushed towards their former masters.

Jiannu was brutal, and he didn't treat the clothed slaves as human beings at all, but completely used them as livestock. In Jiannu Qiding's house, all the dirty work is done by wrapping clothes, eating pig food, and sleeping in a firewood house and horse shed. Not to mention freedom, they can't even keep their wives and daughters, and the banner man can insult their wives and daughters at any time......

Now, Lu Xiangsheng has given them a chance to take revenge, and they are naturally willing to listen.

Slashed, stoned, and even bitten with teeth, killed those bannermen, and tore the bannermen who once oppressed them to pieces!

After killing, these coaters felt refreshed, as if the shackles on their bodies had been removed.

Many Bao Yi looked at the wives and women and children of the flag man who were trembling with fright, their eyes showed a green glow, and they wanted to return what the flag man had done to their wives and daughters, but they were stopped by Lu Xiangsheng.

Lu Xiangsheng is a Jinshi background, a standard reader, he naturally has a standard of good and evil in his heart, and a psychological bottom line, Jiannu is a beast, but the Ming army is not, so naturally he can't learn from Jiannu.

Lu Xiangsheng ordered 500 people to be selected from these clothed soldiers, organized into a battalion, called the Guiyi Battalion, and continued to attack with the army. Left behind a hundred Janissaries, commanding the remaining clothed soldiers, with their families, escorting the women and children of Jiannu, and retreating to Phi Island.

Lu Xiangsheng requisitioned and transferred all the horses of the five forts of Kuandian to carry the supplies of the army, and as for the wealth of cattle and sheep and grain, let them all bring them back to Phi Island, and then burned the five forts of Kuandian, leaving nothing to Jiannu!

Lu Xiangsheng did not delay in Kuandian, and the day after he captured Kuandian, he led his army to continue to march towards Hetuala, the former nest of Jiannu.

From Kuandian to Hetuala, the distance in a straight line is more than 200 miles, but there are mountains everywhere in between, only the mountains and valleys can be marched, the army walks all the way more than 400 miles, the mountain roads are difficult to walk, and it takes about seven or eight days to arrive.

As for the route of the march, Lu Xiangsheng had already prepared.

During his stay in Beijing, Lu Xiangsheng reviewed the old files of the Ministry of War and read all the documents related to the Battle of Sarhu.

In the battle of Salhu, the Ming army attacked Jiannu in four ways, one of which was led by the general soldier Liu Wei, who marched from Kuandian and attacked Hetuala, the old nest of Jiannu. Lu Xiangsheng read the route of Liu Wei's march, and during his days in Phi Dao, he found a few Phi Dao soldiers who lived in the Kuandian area and arrived at Phi Dao with Mao Wenlong, learned about the situation in Kuandian in detail, and brought these Phi Dao soldiers with him in the army as guides.

Now, Lu Xiangsheng knows the route to Hetuara inside out!

This road is mountainous, there are only a few Tun villages, when Liu Wei marched into the army, the people of these Tun villages were killed, and now it is estimated that all the way through is a deserted place, there is no need to worry about being found by Jiannu The traces of the army.

Besides, even if it is discovered, Jiannu has few bannermen in Hetuara now, how can he stop the march of the army?