By the time the Ming Dynasty implemented the reform of the law, the treasury had already been full, and the imperial court's own soldiers and horses had also increased a lot, and even many officers and soldiers had already been tempered into the backbone of the empire with good combat quality and command ability in the actual battles in southern and southwestern Liaoning.

In this, Liaonan refers to the battle with Jiannu.

And the southwest is the rebellion of the southwest Tusi.

The conversation turned back.

Because of this, for the rulers of the Ming Dynasty, it is indeed time to put the settlement of the Liao affair on the agenda.

And solving the Liao affair is not just about solving the Jiannu.

Today's rulers of the Ming Dynasty have a consensus, that is, in addition to solving the Liao affairs, they must also solve the Liao generals who have disobeyed the discipline of the imperial court.

Therefore, Yuan Keli said that to solve the Liaodi Jiangmen, we must first solve the Jiannu.

Apocalypse etc. have no objections either.

So, next, the Ming began to prepare in an orderly manner for the battle to recover the two fortresses of Shenyang and Guangning.

The Guards directly under the Son of Heaven began to be transferred to southern Liaoning more often, and other guest troops, such as the white pole soldiers in Sichuan, were also transferred to southern Liaoning one after another.

Wars are fought for money.

As the saying goes, if you are poor, you will be interspersed with tactics, and if you are rich, you will be covered by firepower.

Daming is very rich now, so Daming didn't use any tricks to fight this battle, just a large number of troops and artillery.

In the rear, the War Department kept taking money from the treasury to get the Industrial Division to produce more firearms and artillery.

With this money, the Department of Industry frantically expanded the scale of production, set up training schools, set up literacy and arithmetic classes, and used food and shelter as bait to absorb a large number of displaced people to receive training and become new workers.

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It just so happened that there was a severe drought in Guanzhong, and many displaced people in Guanzhong moved to Beijing, which gave the Department of Industry sufficient human resources.

Moreover, in the case of the piecework system, a large number of skilled workers in addition to sleeping, eating and going to the toilet, almost continuously forging out the barrels of guns.

As a result, many firearms and artillery were produced, and basically a Guards recruit could receive a flintlock gun as soon as he joined the army, and the key was to exchange it for a new gun when he went to battle.

This is still under the condition of controlling the rate of mute fire.

Once a centralized government with a population of hundreds of millions has abundant financial resources, if we add to this the fact that the internal government has just been rectified and the top-level rulers are not rotten or intimidating, the war ability that will break out will naturally be amazing.

At least the superiority in population and technology can be directly reflected in the war.

What's more, in this era, the population of the Ming Dynasty is incomparable to other regimes in terms of literacy rate, the proportion of technical talents, and the number of young and strong people.

At the front, this advantage is even more pronounced.

Sun Chuanting, who was directly responsible for commanding this battle, didn't need to rack his brains too much to think about how to fight.

This advantage makes the war less demanding of the commander's commanding ability.

Therefore, the current Sun Chuanting chose to continue to organize this battle in the way of fighting a dumb battle and forming a hard village, so that all the officers and troops under his command advanced to the territory of Jiannu step by step, and built a new fort every time he marched a certain distance, and then continued to advance when the rear troops were assembled.

And the new forts built are all the fortresses promoted by Zhang Gui, so that the Ming officers and soldiers, who mainly use firearms, can better guard against the sneak attack of the Jiannu guerrillas.

The advancing Ming official army is more than 50,000 in size, with flintlock pistols lined up to advance, encountered a small group of Jiannu without dividing the army to pursue, encountered a large group of Jiannu directly stationed in place, build a decisive battle.

In this way, the total number of troops is less than 60,000, and the Jiannu can neither use tactical interspersed methods to eat a part of the Ming official army, nor can they lure the enemy to go deep and eat a part of the Ming official army, and can only watch their living space being compressed step by step.

For the generals of the Ming official army who specifically commanded a Ming official army at the front, they also fought with Jiannu many times, and gradually learned how to skillfully use their firearms advantage to suppress Jiannu, and even used new firearms to improve tactics.

Zhou Yuji has already learned to give in to the artillery to fight together, instead of the traditional musket array, directly to the grassroots combat units at the flag level are equipped with a few guns and a team of artillery, at the same time, his own Fangzhen, but also directly equipped with an artillery battalion with cavalry protection, as soon as a large number of Jiannu appeared, he first directly relied on his own firepower, and sent the shells out without life.

For the Jiannu, they could only rely on their Jurchen talent in archery as a fishing and hunting people and their bloody courage to fight against a Ming Empire with increased organization and stronger industrial capacity.

The key is that the current Jiannu has lost the two prestigious figures of Nurhachi and Huang Taiji, and there are already many contradictions within its ruling group, and the prestige of Haoge, the eldest son of Huang Taiji, is not enough to subdue other banner owners with real power, so that Ye Bushu, the fourth son of Huang Taiji, who is two years old, has become the new Great Khan.

All this is naturally because Dolgon, the powerful banner masters, are unwilling to let the sons of Huang Taiji also dictate to their own people, and letting Ye Bushu, an unweaned baby, become the new Great Khan, is just the result of a compromise between the various banner owners.

In addition, within Jiannu, the contradiction between the ruling class and the ruled is also intensifying, because the strength of the Ming Dynasty makes the Manchurian military aristocracy can no longer maintain the stability of internal rule by plundering the Ming Dynasty, and a large number of banner people starve to death or cannot produce because they cannot get enough food and salt and other necessities, which makes many banner people within Jiannu have begun to become the Ming Dynasty's meticulous work because of their livelihood.

Especially because they could not bear the oppression of the Han military aristocracy in Liaodi, the Han people who fled to Jiannu to do clothing, were mostly bought by the Ming Dynasty.

To sum up these factors, the Ming official army commanded by Sun Chuanting successfully recovered Liaoyang in March of the ninth year of the Apocalypse.

In May of the ninth year of the Apocalypse, the Ming official army surrounded Shenyang and concentrated hundreds of cannons to break through Shenyang City.

And the banner owners of Jiannu because they were still quite talented people in this era, so they did not choose to resist the Ming officials and troops in Shenyang City, but decisively moved the capital back to Hetuala, and even Guangning took the initiative to give up.

This is undoubtedly a better choice for the banner owners of Jiannu, after all, in their Jianzhou is mountainous, which can largely offset the firearms advantage of the Ming official army, and it is easier to defeat the Ming official army.

After recovering Liaoyang, Shenyang and Guangning, the Ming army did not take the liberty of marching in the direction of Hetuala.

Because the real purpose of the Ming Dynasty is not to completely eliminate Jiannu, but to cut off the connection between Jiannu and Liaodi Jiangmen, and take the opportunity to solve Zu Dashou and other Liaodi Jiangmen first.

For Zu Dashou, he has actually been in contact with Jiannu during this time, but he neither chose to take refuge in Jiannu, nor did he choose to directly rebel, and he did not even establish himself as king.

Because Zu Dashou really didn't know what choice to make, he was even on the eve of the Ming official army recovering Liaoyang and Shenyang, he was still counting on Jiannu to defeat the official army, so as to stop the offensive of the Ming court in Liaodi, and so that he, a military landlord who was only willing to guard Liaoxi, could continue to be raised by the imperial court with high-ranking officials and Liaoyu, and on the other hand, he could not worry about what the imperial court could do to himself by taking advantage of the momentum of Jiannu.

However, after the Ming official army had recovered Shenyang, Liaoyang and even Guangning, there was actually no way back for him to make any choice.

In order to paralyze Zu Dashou, and also to test whether Zu Dashou was willing to lose his interests, the Ming court first issued an order to transfer Zu Dashou as the chief soldier of Shenyang, and at the same time, other Liaodi generals also held the positions of military attachés in Liaoyang, Guangning and other newly recovered cities, and Ningyuan, where Zu Dashou was located, was taken over by Ma Xianglin, who led the white pole soldiers to southern Liaoning and made contributions.

Zu Dashou naturally guessed the true intention of the imperial court to do this, so he made arrangements overnight, and made up his mind to sacrifice his land to Jiannu and join Jiannu.

That's right, after weighing the pros and cons, Zu Dashou still chose to recognize Jiannu as the master rather than establish himself as the king, because he was not sure that he could defeat the Ming official army after establishing himself as a queen.

Unless, he, the big military landlord of the Han people in Liaodi, is willing to give up his interests to ordinary Han people in Liaodi and mobilize more Liao people to defend his land.

Obviously, this is what Zu Dashou is unwilling to do.

Even if he wanted to, most of the other Liaodi generals wouldn't allow him to do so.

Therefore, Zu Dashou can only choose to betray the country.

In front of rentiers, there is nothing not to sell.

Therefore, when Ma Xianglin led his white pole soldiers to Ningyuan City and prepared to hand over to Zu Dashou, Zu Dashou suddenly ordered to seal the inner and outer city gates, and surrounded the white pole soldiers of Ma Xianglin's department in the urn city.

Seeing this, Ma Xianglin shouted loudly: "Zu Dashou, what are you Liao people going to do?!" ”

Zu Dashou said with a smile: "Naturally, I was ordered by the Great Khan to take the head of the Ming dog!" ”

As he spoke, Zu Dashou instructed the families on the city wall: "Do it! ”

"Who dares to do it!"

He Kegang shouted at this time, and ordered his subordinates to raise their fire guns and aim at Zu Dashou's family.