"Moo......"

"Jingle ......"

In mid-June, in the vast grasslands, a large river lies horizontally in a meandering and rugged area, flowing from north to south.

On both sides of the river, you can clearly see the cleared flatlands.

The mud of these meanders was cut by people and then truckloads of sand were brought from the sand dozens of miles away, and poured into it.

Too much silt will be dug up and loaded into trucks and transported to sandy land dozens of miles away.

Some of the lush reed fields were set on fire, while the heavy meadows were ploughed into squares with iron ploughs tied to three oxen, and finally ploughed out with iron ploughs.

The ploughed meadows would be sent to the sandy land, where water had been diverted south from the Laoha River, and more than a dozen simple canals three feet deep, one foot wide, and more than ten miles long had been dug.

With water and the meadows piled up and burned, the soil of the sand will change within two years and become cultivable.

And now is the second year of the establishment of Daning Sanwei in the Ming Dynasty, under the work of more than 100,000 people and tens of thousands of horses and cattle, the cultivated land of Daning Sanwei has expanded from more than 20,000 mu at the beginning to 160,000 mu.

However, the extra 140,000 acres of this cannot be cultivated for the time being.

In the past year, the lazy people of the sanatorium who have moved here have simply burned the meadows, dug up stones, and filled them with silt to change the quality of the soil.

This year, they will repeat the above links, and by the way, they will continue to expand the area of cultivated land.

This process is repeated for three years before cultivation can begin.

But no one complains about that.

After all, no one wants to go to a nursing home to be a lazy person, not because they don't have a land, and they have some congenital disabilities, or they don't have parents and can't read.

Therefore, when Mangui promised them that all the fields cultivated by the Daning Sanwei would belong to them, and that the Imperial Horse Supervisor would provide food, everyone took out the strength to cultivate their own fields.

Compared with a bowl of porridge a day in a nursing home, the food that can not starve people to death is much more comfortable in Daning Sanwei.

Each person can receive four catties of rice, one catty of vegetables, half a tael of oil and salt every day, and the days are very moist.

Working during the day and resting at night, the lazy people in the nursing home have become accustomed to this kind of life after a year of comfortable life.

"Zhao Daring! How many acres of land have been carved out in your village?! ”

"One or two thousand acres are there!"

"That's not yours either!"

"Lao Tzu opened four acres by himself! This year, it will definitely be able to open up to six acres of land! ”

Sitting on the muddy wagons by the Liao River, some men chatted and joked, while the horses pulling the wagons bowed their heads and graze.

Overlooking from the sky, the Liaohe River has been reclaimed from north to south, with more than 3,000 horse-drawn carriages, running back and forth twice a day, bringing four or five hundred catties of sand and taking away four or five hundred catties of silt and meadows.

While cultivating the cultivated land on both sides of the Liao River, people restored the ecology of the sandy land to cultivate, and lived a very comfortable life.

Some ordinary barbarian herdsmen who came and went to trade were also allowed to join the ranks of transporting land, and could exchange it for one or two salts a day, and of course they could also exchange it for their own land.

As long as you work together with the local construction village for a year, you can have three acres of your own basic land, which is the collective villagers of the construction village, and if you want more land, you can only take the tools to cultivate it alone when the construction village rests.

The barbarian fried flowers and other tribes did not come to plunder the Daning Sanwei, the first was because they couldn't beat it, and the second was because the cost was too high.

At present, the three guards of Daning basically rely on the fleet of the Imperial Horse Supervisor to transport grain and blood, except for manpower and livestock, all oil, salt, iron and coal are tightly supplied.

Three cities, twelve forts and sixty villages, each of which was built with earthen walls, and there were a large number of artillery at the head of the city.

These cannons were all eliminated after the change of equipment of the Ming army in Liaozhen, but even so, it was enough to cause damage to the Mongols who did not have siege equipment.

In addition, each village has a force of 100 households, and what the people want is relatively open, except for the relatively tight supply of iron, so they have no reason to fight Daning Sanwei.

Even at some point, they needed to send troops to help the Ming army defend the city in order to defend this good place where they could exchange markets.

However, on the territory outside the pass, there is no force at all that needs the barbarian and Ming army alliance to defend the city.

The mutual markets of Chahar and Transkhalkha are also here, and the only people who are not allowed to come to the Daning Sanwei mutual market are the Horqin tribe allied with the Houjin.

For the Mongols, they have been fighting with the Han for hundreds of years, and when their power is weakened, it is not surprising that they are soft.

Mobei, Monan, and Moxi are all Mongolians, and it's not the first time that they have been the younger brothers of the Ming Dynasty.

Even Moxivara, who captured the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was first, and then he did not obediently accept the canonization.

So if you think about it carefully, there is nothing to serve the soft Han people, and you can fight when the strength is strong.

However, compared to the Han people, the tribe of soft Jurchen will be ridiculed, just like the current Horqin tribe, everyone is laughing at them.

But despite saying this, whenever Baylor, who was in the five major tribes of the barbarians, saw the Daning Sanwei, which was gradually becoming prosperous, his heart was still a little itchy.

Especially after Man Gui took away 6,000 cavalry a few days ago, this mind became even more active.

Fortunately, the fried flowers held a conference in time and restrained them.

Fried Flower is not a fool, he can see that if the five major tribes of the barbarians dare to attack the three guards of Daning, then the five major tribes of the barbarians will not survive for three months.

Tuban and Hetao are different, Hetao is beyond the reach of the Ming Court, but Tuban is close to the end.

Conquered the barbarians and occupied all the places south of the Laoha River, which was beneficial to the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, fried flowers have always been quite honest, because he knows that the current Ming army's ability to get out of the jam has been greatly improved.

However, although Fried Flower doesn't want to invade Daning Sanwei, it doesn't mean that others don't want to.

On June 12 of the second year of the Apocalypse, when Man Gui was still assembling the soldiers and horses of the sixth battalion of Yongping Mansion, accompanied by several Mongols rushing into the Qinghe Pass, Man Gui led his troops south, and the news of the emptiness of Daning Sanwei also reached Nurhachi's ears.

In the summer, Hetuara is in the mountains, which is cool and pleasant, but under the coolness, it is anxious.

Nurhachi asked the Eight Banners Banner Lord and many Han generals to sit in the palace that had been renovated this year, quietly waiting for Nurhachi's speech.

Nurhachi looked at the people in the hall before speaking:

"Previously, the herdsmen of Engdel scattered in other tribes sent news to Qinghe Pass, and Man Gui, the guard of the Daning Sanwei, took the six thousand cavalry of the Sanwei south."

"The only ones who can mobilize him are the little Qi king and the little emperor of the Ming court, judging from the previous behavior of these two boys, I am afraid that they are going to attack Liaozhen."

"Khan Amma, why do you say that?" Mang Gurtai was a little puzzled, while Dai Shan explained:

"Since the beginning of the year, some people in the Ming court have advocated the use of troops against Liaodong, and if they want to use troops against Liaodong, then it is inevitable that the soldiers and horses in Liaodong, which are seriously empty, should be reorganized and abolished."

"If the Ming court is really preparing to dismantle the soldiers and horses of Liaoxi, it means that they are really ready to use troops against Liaodong."

The words were spoken, which made the hearts of everyone in the hall heavy.

The strength of the Ming army in Liaodong is particularly terrifying, and if the soldiers and horses in Liaoxi are dismantled, it will obviously be stronger to a higher level.

"Green Sword Fairy"

The key is the quality of the soldiers and horses in Liaoxi, everyone knows it, and leaving them to survive is absolutely beneficial and harmless in terms of the current situation.

If the soldiers and horses of Liaoxi are dismantled and rectified, then the entire Liaodong will be monolithic.

Fighting a battle with the monolithic Liaodong is definitely not a wise move.

"Khan Ama ......"

Suddenly, in a heavy atmosphere, one of them spoke, and everyone looked at it.

I saw Huang Taiji say to Nurhachi:

"At the moment, no matter whether the Ming army wants to dismantle the soldiers and horses in Liaozhen, we should have people send letters to Zhu Wanliang, Jiang Bi and others."

"Don't ask them to cause chaos, but just ask them to drag the attention of the Ming army."

"At the same time, you can send soldiers and horses to use troops against the Daning Sanwei and the barbarian Zai Sai Department!"

"Even if you can't break through the Daning Sanwei, as long as you plunder the Han people and grab a lot of food, you will benefit Dajin."

"And Zai Sai is now the pawn of Daning Sanwei, the last time Qinghe Pass was attacked, it was he who led 2,000 people to knock on the pass as a pioneer."

"The news from the grassland came, it is said that after plundering the pass, the little Qi king of the Ming court rewarded him with a lot of things, and now the two thousand soldiers and horses under his command are all iron horses wearing iron armor."

"If you don't take this opportunity to destroy the Zai Sai Department, it's not hard to imagine that this guy will definitely continue to use troops against me in the future."

"Well......" Huang Taiji's analysis and judgment are very right, Nurhachi pondered for a moment after listening to it, but added:

"It is important to destroy the Zaisai Department, and the other tribes of the barbarians should not attack."

"Destroying the five major tribes of the barbarians will only allow the Ming court to expand north after the war, which is not good for Dajin."

"Yes!" The people should order, and Nurhachi also ordered:

"Mang Gurtai, Amin, Liu Aita, Li Yongfang, Engdeer, you lead the soldiers and horses of the two blue banners, the two battalions of Meng, and the fourth battalion of the Han Dynasty to go out of the original fortress, and you must destroy the slaughtering department and bring their cattle and horses back!"

"Yes!" The five of them got up and responded, and the number of soldiers and horses dispatched this time was also very large.

The two blue flags plus the servant army of the six battalions of Menghan and Han, nearly 34,000 soldiers and horses, was definitely the first large-scale use of troops by Dajin after the last battle of Shenliao.

Although the 4th Han Battalion was responsible for artillery and transporting baggage, it should not be underestimated.

That night, the five began to give orders, ordering soldiers and horses from all over the country to go to Kaiyuan, and they also set off towards Kaiyuan lightly.

Nurhachi stood at the head of the city of Hetuara and watched them leave, with Daishan and Huang Taiji behind them.

"Ming Ting's changes are taking effect, and the strength of the next big war will definitely not be less than ours, and even twice as many as ours."

"Our only advantage is the geographical advantage, but the geographical advantage is not absolute, the Ming Court has endured it for more than a year, and the money and food accumulated is enough to make the next battle long enough, what do you think?"

When his words came out, Dai Shan and Huang Taiji in the sunset thought for a while, and finally Dai Shan spoke first:

"Hui Khan Amma, you can set up a hard village, fight to the death, recruit enough Han soldiers, build stone forts in various mountain roads, order them to garrison at the same time, detain their relatives, and use stone forts to consume the Ming army."

"Hmm......" Nurhachi responded calmly, and it is not difficult to see that he is not satisfied with Dai Shan's method, and can only be said to be decent.

Compared with him, Nurhachi focused on Huang Taiji, and Huang Taiji did not live up to Nurhachi's expectations, but said:

"Stay on guard, light troops raid!"

The simple eight words made Nurhachi and Daishan's eyes shine, and Huang Taiji also continued:

"Liaodong is ironclad, and there is no way to start."

"So what you have to do, it's best to leave heavy troops to defend to the death, and light troops to make a detour and attack the rear!"

"But it's not so easy to attack the rear, our artillery is not as good as the Ming army, plus once the war starts, the rear of the Ming army will inevitably be an important baggage line, such an important thing, Xiong Tingbi will definitely send heavy troops to defend it." Dai Shan frowned and asked, but Huang Taiji said:

"There is no need to impress them, it is enough to move them with cavalry, to disorderly their deployment, and then to muddy the rear and delay until winter."

"But to do this, this light cavalry must be able to change horses without changing people, and run hundreds or even thousands of miles."

Liaodong's plate was very large, enough for a large cavalry to rush left and right, disrupting the deployment of the Ming army.

As long as the deployment of the Ming army is chaotic, then in front of the Jin army who is stubbornly defending the stone fort, the offensive of the Ming army will only decline and be exhausted.

Huang Taiji's idea is to drag it out until winter, as long as it is delayed until winter, in the snow season of Changbai Mountain, the Ming army dares to enter the Changbai Mountain Range, and it will face the situation of being divided and strangled.

This is also the reason why Zhu Youzhen has always been jealous and has been accumulating troops.

The terrain of the Changbai Mountains is destined to make it impossible for multiple troops and horses to accompany them, especially those who are not familiar with mountain roads.

There are dozens of mountain roads leading to Hetuala, but the wide ones are no more than 100 meters, and the narrow ones are only more than 10 meters.

With such a width, if a large army of soldiers and horses takes one path at a time, it will only be easily sneak attacked, divided, blocked from the beginning to the end, and trap everyone in it.

Therefore, in the Ming army's many attacks on Jianzhouwei, they all divided their troops and marched, whether it was the Chenghua Liting or the battle of Salhu commanded by Yang Hao, there was no problem in the planning of the route.

There is only one thing that is problematic, and that is the coordination of the ministries.

The reason for the success of Chenghua Plough Court is that in addition to the fact that the Jianzhou Wei was not strong at that time, the more important thing is that all the departments are moving forward little by little in accordance with the steps planned in advance.

The reason for Sarhu's failure was that there was a problem in coordination, and he misjudged the ability of Nurhachi's troops and horses to march quickly.

In just five days, tens of thousands of troops traveled hundreds of miles, and such a rapid ability could only be achieved by four of the 16 Guards.

Therefore, what Huang Taiji wanted was to restrain the Ming army, as long as it dragged on until winter, then the roads that could enter Hetuara would change from the original dozens to four.

These four are the four roads that Yang Ho originally formulated.

Each road can march more than 30,000 or 40,000, less 10,000 or 20,000, with the geographical advantage of the Ming army to separate, gather heavy troops to encircle and suppress.

It can be said that Huang Taiji's tactics were divided into two parts, one part disrupted the Ming army, and the other part held until winter, waiting for the opportunity to divide and encircle the Ming army, and severely damage the main force of the Ming army.

This tactic was upgraded from Nurhachi's tactics in the Battle of Sarhu, but in order to do this, it was necessary to have internal responses, understand the deployment of soldiers and horses in various parts of the Ming army, and then send a person to lead the light troops to rush into the hinterland of Liaodong by small road.

The difficulty of this point is no less than how to defend the Ming army's attack, so the three of them thought of it.

However, Nurhachi said:

"If you want to enter the hinterland of eastern Liao, you must have Liao people to lead the way."

"I'll prepare for that." Dai Shan volunteered, and Nurhachi also said:

"Today's events, you can't let the fourth person know."

"Yes!" Hearing this, Huang Taiji and Dai Shan both responded.

At the same time, a number of carrier pigeons flew south from Hetuala.

After these carrier pigeons flew south, they were acquired by some Han merchants, and with the help of selling commercial goods, they were blatantly sent to various places in Quang Ninh.

"Lao Tzu said that King Qi will do it sooner or later!"

On 15 June, in the residence of the commander-in-chief of the Houtun Guard in Quang Ninh, a group of Liaozhen generals sitting in the hall had ugly faces accompanied by the sound of hammering tables.

Sitting on the throne was a stocky general in his fifties with a three-inch black beard, and a general in his forties, with a meaty face.

Under them, there are more than a dozen generals of all sizes in Liaodong Town, basically all of whom hold official positions above the rank of general.

The first three-foot black beard on the left is Zhu Wanliang, and the first one on the right is Jiang Bi.

These two people are the generals who aided Shen Liao in history who sat idly by and ignored the Zhejiang soldiers and the Sichuan soldiers.

Right now, their faces are dark, and their minds are constantly calculating.

"After all, this news came from the old slave, so it's not very credible."

Zhu Wanliang pondered for a moment, then said such a sentence, and continued:

"Ask some people to secretly go to Daning Sanwei to investigate, if the cavalry of Daning Sanwei and Man Gui are really gone, then you can make some plans first."

"Planning? How? Jiang Bi next to him frowned, but Zhu Wanliang said:

"Even if the imperial court wants to abolish Liaozhen, it is impossible to abolish all the people who have real quotas."

"Look at the three towns of Shanxi and the previous Liaodong soldiers and horses, there are basically no people who have been beheaded."

"According to King Qi's methods, at most, the vacancy will be removed, and then we and the family under his command will be disrupted."

"Isn't that enough?" One of the generals below was dissatisfied:

"Without a family, his subordinates were stuffed into the guest army, although he didn't lose power, but he wanted to raise his ......"

"That's it!" Zhu Wanliang was afraid that this person would say something rebellious, so he hurriedly interrupted:

"That's why I said I had to plan ahead."

"If Man Gui is really gone, then he must attack my Liao Town."

"Then we can lay off the family and return home in advance, and then recruit Liao people to join the army and wait to be dismissed."

"This ...... If we all lay off our families and return home, how can we afford to raise them? Jiang Bi next to him hesitated, but Zhu Wanliang said:

"After the abolition of Liao Town, do you think the next step for Banzai and King Qi will be?"

"Naturally, it's ...... attacking the old slave," Jiang Bi replied subconsciously, but his eyes lit up halfway:

"You mean that later, taking advantage of the death and injury of the soldiers and horses, the family members were re-recruited into the barracks?"

"Clever!" Zhu Wanliang smiled contemptuously:

"The imperial court wants to repeal, but it is so easy to dismantle?"

"Attack the old slave, you all know where the old slave is."

"It's okay to say that Tieling and Kaiyuan in the north can be taken by Fushun and Salhu City, but what about from Salhu to the east?"

"The mountains are high and the forests are dense, the roads are rugged, even if you really recover the entire territory of Liaodong, you will lose a lot of soldiers and horses."

"At that time, not only can you re-recruit Liao soldiers in the name of losing soldiers and horses, but you can also get a pension, why not do it?"

"This is also ......" Hearing Zhu Wanliang's words, everyone bowed their heads, and Zhu Wanliang also waved his hand and said:

"Go back and wait, I'll let you know when there's news, don't worry."

"Since this is the case, then we will retire ......" Jiang Bi heard this, so he got up and thanked him, and then led many Liaozhen soldiers and horses to withdraw from the General Military Mansion.

It's just that their actions have long been recorded by the Jinyi Guard of the Liaodong Thousand Households Office of the Fusi of Beizhen, and then they were sent to Manshakou, Lulong County, Yongping Prefecture, at an expedited speed of 800 miles.

When the news arrived, it was already the afternoon of June 16, and at this moment, Manshakou in the south of Lulong County could be said to be full of people and traffic.

Six battalions of soldiers and horses gathered outside the city, and the cavalry of Xiao Caiwei, Yulinwei, Longxiang Wei and Daning Sanwei camped at the mouth of the sea not far from the salt field.

On the sea in the distance, there were newly launched armed merchant ships, more than 40 of them, enough to transport 40,000 troops north.

Zhu Youzhen wants to dismantle the soldiers and horses in Liaozhen, so naturally he will not go by land stupidly.

From Lulong County to Quang Ninh via the Liaoxi Corridor, a journey of more than 500 miles, it would take at least ten days for the army to arrive.

This time was enough for Zhu Wanliang and them to make preparations, but they took the sea route, from Manshakou to the mouth of the Daling River, and then put the baggage into a merchant ship of 1,000 materials, and walked 140 miles north of the Daling River to reach Guangning Getun.

It has to be said that the survival of human beings is too great for the transformation of nature.

In his previous life, Zhu Youzhen never imagined that the Big and Small Ling Rivers could be navigable, but in Daming, the Daling River was more than 100 meters wide on average, and the Xiaoling River was also seventy or eighty meters.

The most central part of the two rivers is navigable, just look at the tonnage of the ships.

It is rumored that in the Tang and Song dynasties, Daling River could still take 2,000 or 3,000 large boats, but now it can only go 1,000 materials.

In a few hundred years, I am afraid that I will not be able to go even five hundred materials.

Therefore, the existence of the Daling River helped Zhu Youzhen to dismantle the soldiers and horses in western Liaoning.

He thought of the route of the march, the number of soldiers and horses, the number of artillery, and the resistance of Zhu Wanliang and others in the face of the retrenchment, but he did not expect that Nurhachi actually guessed that he was going to dismiss the soldiers and horses of Liaoxi by virtue of Mangui's departure, and asked someone to send a letter to inform Zhu Wanliang.

What General Liao talked about in Zhu Wanliang's mansion, Zhu Youzhen did not know.

However, judging from the investigation of the news of the Liaodong Thousand Households Office of the Fusi of Beizhen, the content of their conversation must be related to the abolition of Liaoxi.

At the speed of a sea ship, 40,000 soldiers and horses traveled northward, and each hour traveled a maximum of 40 miles by sea, from the mouth of Mansha to the mouth of the Daling River, at least 460 miles.

In other words, it only takes less than twelve hours to send the soldiers and horses to Liaoxi.

"Time is running out ......"

Thinking of this, Zhu You's inspector called Man Gui, and after Man Gui in military uniform came, he immediately asked:

"Is the grain ready?"

"Back to Your Highness, it's ready." Man Gui responded honestly.

When Zhu Youzhen heard this, he immediately handed the news of Beizhen Fusi to Man Gui, and then said with a serious face:

"Order the whole army to set off immediately, the day after tomorrow at the latest, I want to hear the news of the dismantling of Liaozhen!"