In Liaodong, 60,000 Ming troops drove out of Liaoyang City and attacked Shenyang rapidly.

On the frozen black earth, the Ming cavalry galloped across the country, and the Jiannu cavalry fled frantically.

Unable not to flee, Huangtai Jixi took most of the troops with him, and only a small number of troops remained in Shenyang, and the number of Jiannu sentinels was far less than that of the Ming cavalry.

After learning that Jiannu had sent troops to the west to Chahar, he waited for a few more days to determine that the main force of Jiannu had gone far, and Lu Xiangsheng sent troops from Liaoyang.

In this battle, we must capture Shenyang and recover the entire Liaodong.

Only by recovering Shenyang can we rebuild a complete defense line in Liaodong and completely recover Liaodong, and can we devote all our energy to construction and development, instead of setting up a garrison of 100,000 troops all year round.

After establishing a complete defensive line, only 50,000 or 60,000 troops are needed to defend Liaodong, and the garrison can use more local armies, instead of deploying the most elite Praetorian Guards.

Over the years, Daming Hua's military salary in Liaodong is too much, and after conquering Shenyang, he can be greatly relieved. The savings can be used elsewhere in the country.

To this end, Lu Xiangsheng ordered the mobilization of a full thirty Hongyi cannons! It is to go down to Shenyang in a war.

However, from Liaoyang to Shenyang, a distance of more than 100 miles, there was no resistance from Jiannu along the way.

Except for a small number of Jiannu rangers who were driven away by the Ming cavalry, there was no Jiannu brigade.

After the army arrived outside Shenyang, Lu Xiangsheng ordered to encircle on three sides, leaving only the west side to allow Jiannu to escape.

Next, set up a fort to place the Hongyi cannon, and then start bombarding the city.

With the Hongyi cannon in his hand, Lu Xiangsheng will not cost the lives of his soldiers to storm the city.

The city of Shenyang is very strong, the city is high and the pool is wide, but no matter how strong the city is, it can't withstand the repeated bombardment of the Hongyi cannon. And although the moat is wide, it has been frozen for three feet, and it will not play a role.

After two days of heavy bombardment and thousands of shells, Hongyi finally took the lead in destroying a city wall of about 20 zhang in Nancheng.

Lu Xiangsheng gave the order to immediately attack from the gap.

The 3,000 elite soldiers, led by the lieutenant general Li Chongzhen, served as the vanguard and fought along the gap, but did not encounter fierce resistance from Jiannu.

"Lord Jinglu, Jiannu has escaped." Suddenly, a sentry came to report that the west gate of Shenyang City was wide open, and thousands of Jiannu cavalry passed through the west gate and fled westward into the vast wilderness. Because of the lack of one of the three sieges, no troops were deployed in Xicheng, so it could not be intercepted in time.

Lu Xiangsheng frowned slightly, he really didn't expect that Jiannu would run away without a fight, could it be that after a series of defeats, Jiannu's morale was so weak that he gave up the family population in the city and chose to flee?

"Order, order Cao Bianjiao to pursue with cavalry! Ordered Zhou Yuji to take the headquarters to seal the west gate. After thinking for a while, Lu Xiangsheng said in a deep voice.

Since Jiannu has escaped, he naturally has to chase and kill. And the Jiannu bannermen and their families in the city can no longer be allowed to escape. However, Lu Xiangsheng already had a bad premonition, it was really the Jiannu cavalry that fled too fast, which made Lu Xiangsheng instinctively feel that there must be something strange in it.

The news soon came from the city, and Li Chongzhen led his troops all the way to the Jiannu Palace, without encountering a trace of resistance. Other Ming troops also invaded the city one after another, and the whole city was Dasuo, but there were no Jiannu people in most of the houses in the city.

The whole city seemed to be empty, and Lu Xiangsheng was really shocked. This Shenyang city turned out to be an empty city, when did Jiannu transfer the more than 100,000 people out, and where did they go?

Lu Xiangsheng suddenly remembered that in the summer and autumn of this year, in the past half a year, Jiannu frantically sent a large number of cavalry to attack and harass between Liao and Shen. After conquering Horqin and other tribes, Jiannu had many cavalry, there were tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry alone, although the Liaodong Janissary Army also trained one or two thousand cavalry, but it could not be compared with Jiannu, whether it was riding or horse combat, after all, cavalry could not be trained overnight.

Lu Xiangsheng did not want the cavalry to lose too much, so he ordered the cavalry to retreat, give up the plain between Liao and Shen, and garrison in Liaoyang City to temporarily avoid the edge of Jiannu.

In Lu Xiangsheng's view, Jiannu must have an attempt, most of them with the idea of recapturing Liaoyang and even the entire Liaodong, after all, with the Mongolian cavalry joining, now Huangtaiji is strong and strong. However, the whole summer and autumn passed, but Jiannu never attacked, which surprised Lu Xiangsheng.

Now he finally understands that the reason why Jiannu sent a large number of cavalry to block the battlefield was to cover the retreat of the Jiannu people and children in Shenyang, and it took several months to evacuate more than 100,000 people in Shenyang City one after another, leaving an empty city. Because of the blockade of its cavalry, he was unaware. This made Lu Xiangsheng very annoyed.

Where did the evacuated Jiannu people go? Did they all go to the steppe to graze? How can more than 100,000 people be fed by grazing alone? Lu Xiangsheng really couldn't think of it.

However, since Jiannu gave up Shenyang, it means that the entire Liaodong has returned to the embrace of the Ming Dynasty, which can be regarded as a happy event. At the same time as Lu Xiangsheng reported the victory to the imperial court, he began to prepare to deploy the entire Liaodong defense line.

With Shenyang, and then send troops to occupy Kaiyuan Tieling in the north, the entire Liaohe Plain is under the control of the Ming Dynasty. In the next time, it is necessary to rearrange the defense line of Liaodong, renovate the side wall, and reset the Fengtai Bunker. With the finished border guards, the next step is development.

In Zhu Youzhen's planning, Liaodong, which had been occupied by Jiannu, would be a special area, where there were no gentry and landlords entrenched, and there were no border towns where warlords were intertwined.

Here, the cultivators have their own fields, and the vast fields are distributed to each family, and land transactions and annexations are not allowed. A complete armor protection system will be set up here, and the imperial power will go directly to the village, and the emperor's will can be transmitted to every household. A complete military service system will be established here, all young and strong are peasant soldiers, and strict training will be carried out in the slack season, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers will be able to explode if needed in the future!

Although only one season of grain can be produced here every year, if the vast plain is fully developed, tens of millions of acres of fields can be reclaimed, the black soil is extremely fertile, the Liaohe River is convenient for water conservancy, and there are a large number of livestock recaptured from the Jiannu and the Mongols, it will not take two years for the grain to be self-sufficient, and even a large amount of grain can be left to feed the imperial court, and it is not impossible to change from a bottomless pit that costs millions of taels every year to pay taxes to the imperial court.

Of course, this is all long-term planning, and the most important thing now is to strictly prevent the slaves from being killed, so it is necessary to reorganize the side wall.

Of course, the best defense is to attack, and if you can find out where Jiannu retreated, and send a large army to conquer and defeat Jiannu, that would be the best.

What Lu Xiangsheng didn't know now was that the people of Jiannu did not retreat to the grassland, but went north into the colder Songnen Plain. From the Liaohe Plain to the north, over several mountain ranges, you will enter the broader Songnen Plain.

It's just that the Songnen Plain is more primitive, more cold, full of dense forests, completely out of undeveloped state, there are many wild Jurchen tribes in the wide plain, living by fishing and hunting, but distributed in the vast plain of the forest and snow fields, it is not easy to find them.

It is colder than the Liaohe Plain, and much colder than the old land of Jianzhou, and it is winter for almost half of the year. If there was a choice, Huang Taiji would definitely not choose to move the Jianzhou Jurchens here.

But Huang Taiji had no choice, the Ming army was getting stronger and stronger, and in Liaodong, it was obvious that the Jianzhou Jurchens could not stay.

If the fight continues, the population of the Dajin Kingdom will have to be wiped out. Return to Jianzhou, which was abandoned by the Ming army? No, that would be attacked from three sides by the Ming army. To the prairie? The Jurchens made a living from farming, fishing, and hunting, and were not adapted to the nomadic life at all.

So they had to move north, to the colder Songnen Plain. Although it is very cold here, it is good to be able to farm, and the land here is still very, very fertile, and it is still possible to survive here, but it will be more difficult to reproduce.

However, if you put your family here, you don't need to worry about the Ming army attacking, this Songnen Plain is extremely vast, it is really not good, more than 100,000 banner people are scattered into the dense forest, and it is difficult for the Ming army to find it. And in such a cold place, presumably the Akito is not interested.

And the Eight Banners soldiers can continue to plunder with the Mongolian cavalry, relying on the looted food and supplies of the Mongols' cattle and sheep, there is no problem for the Jianzhou Jurchens to live here. Moreover, there are many savage Jurchen tribes in the dense forest, which can capture the savage Jurchens and expand the strength of the Jianzhou Jurchens. After twenty or thirty years, the strength of the Dajin Kingdom will be restored, and then the Ming Kingdom will be attacked and the old land of Liaodong will be recaptured, which is Huang Taiji's plan.

Of course, many times, things may not be as expected, although more than 100,000 bannermen in Shenyang City successfully withdrew, and also settled in the Songnen Plain, but at least this year there is no way to farm. To feed more than 100,000 banner people for a year, too much food and material is needed.

This is also the reason why Huang Taiji had to send troops to attack the Chahar Ministry, he really counted on plundering a large number of cattle and sheep from the Chahar Ministry, and if possible, then attacking the border wall of the Ming Kingdom, plundering a large amount of grain and sending it to the bannermen of the Songnen Plain, so that the migrated bannermen could survive this winter. After all, it is not easy to feed more than 100,000 banner people just by hunting in winter.

However, many Chahar tribes fled, and the city of Guihua was slow to be captured.

But it can't be in vain, and after thinking about it carefully, Huang Taiji decided to abandon the siege and instead pursue the fleeing Chahar tribe.

According to the report of the tracking traces of the sentinels, a large number of Chahar herdsmen went west to the Yellow River, crossed the frozen Yellow River and entered the Hetao.

This naturalized city is not far from the Hetao, and Huang Taiji naturally wants to take his troops to the Hetao. If you can't defeat the Naturalization City, at least you have to gain something.

In order to prevent Lin Dan Khan from leading his troops out of the city to pursue, Huang Taiji left a full 10,000 troops outside the city of Guihua, relying on a trench enough to block the Mongols in the city.

Then Huang Taiji took the remaining 20,000 cavalry and quickly killed towards the Hetao.

The army arrived at the wide Yellow River, and at this moment, the mighty Yellow River was extremely calm, and the ice was thick enough to pass through the chariots and horses.

Huang Taiji ordered the army to cross the Yellow River in batches.

A large number of sentinels were sent out to investigate the traces of the Chahar tribe who had fled to the Loop. The Hetao area is thousands of miles in circumference and a vast area, but for Huang Taiji, who has 20,000 cavalry, it is not too difficult to find the Mongol tribes here.

Soon, the sentinels found out where the Mongol tribes were one by one, and Huang Taiji immediately sent troops to conquer them one by one. 20,000 soldiers of the Eight Banners of Mongolia penetrated deep into the wide Hetao Plain and began to plunder and kill.

Of course, killing is not indiscriminate killing, in order to pacify the Mongolian tribes, Huang Taiji set the rules at the beginning, only to the tribal leaders and nobles, all the men of the Mongolian nobles were killed, the women were distributed to the Eight Banners warriors, and then a part of the cattle and sheep wealth was distributed to the poor herdsmen in the tribe, and the remaining cattle and sheep wealth was seized.

The Mongolian tribes are hierarchical, most of the wealth of the tribes belongs to the head people, and the ordinary herdsmen are poor, and their lives are not as good as the peasants in the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, the Mongolians at this time believed in Lamaism, believed in the reincarnation of cause and effect, and had the suffering of this life and would live a good life in the next life, so ordinary herdsmen did not want the Ming people to take the initiative to resist.

Of course, faith is not as important as a hungry belly, and most of the Mongolian herdsmen still decisively accepted the rule of the Eight Banners with the cattle and sheep distributed to them by the Eight Banners.

It doesn't matter about loyalty, the tribes on the steppe have always been divided and combined, and it is normal to be annexed, and Mongolia is not a pure tribe, it is a combination of countless tribes. And although the Jurchens are not Mongolians, they are no different in the eyes of ordinary herdsmen.

Just when the Eight Banners were sweeping across the Hetao Plain, suddenly the Eight Banners Sentinel Cavalry reported back, and a Ming army appeared in the south, numbering as many as 20,000.

The Ming army actually sent troops to Hetao to rescue the Mongols, which was completely unexpected by Huang Taiji, and he hurriedly ordered the gathering of troops to regather the troops sent to attack the Mongol tribes. In order to attack the Mongols scattered in the Hetao, Huang Taiji also chose to divide his troops.

However, what Huang Taiji didn't expect was that the Ming army actually had horses and horses, and the speed was extremely fast, and it successively stopped several gathered Eight Banners, and then defeated three Thousand Eight Banners with strong firepower, showing strong combat effectiveness.

After gathering 10,000 cavalry, Huang Taiji immediately led his troops to meet the Ming army, but the Ming army retreated.

The Ming army was all cavalry, and even if they chased after them, they might not be able to catch up.

Just when Huang Taiji was undecided, suddenly another cavalry came to report, and a Ming army appeared on the Yellow River behind him, defeated a Eight Banners soldier with captured cattle and sheep, and took away tens of thousands of cattle and sheep.

According to the cavalry report, the Ming army numbered only more than 3,000 people, coming along the Yellow River, everyone stepped on skis under their feet, and the speed was fast, and the ice was too slippery, and the horses of the Eight Banners could not run on the river at all, and could not contain this Ming army.

Huang Taiji was almost crazy, he never thought that dealing with the Mongolian tribes who fled into the Hetao was originally a matter of hand, but now it was because of the stirring of the Ming army.

According to the report, these two Ming armies were equipped with powerful firearms and had good combat power, which reminded Huang Taiji of the elite Praetorian Guards on the battlefield in Liaodong.

It is clear that the Ming Dynasty has decided to participate in the battle between the Eight Banners and the Chahar Ministry. This Hetao is not far from Xuanda and Yulin of the Ming Kingdom, and the Ming army and Lin Dan Khan are united, and their 30,000 cavalry may not be able to please them.

Whether to continue the battle or withdraw his troops, Huang Taiji hesitated.