Nurhachi's march was very fast, and by noon on June 28 he had already broken through six villages around Fengji County, sacking them while not forgetting to leave troops to monitor Fengji County.

At the same time, Xiong Tingbi led the army out of Shenyang City, and abandoned all firearms, because he knew that the heavy rain would not stop for a while, and the heavy firearms would only drag down the mobility of the army.

The rain continued, and after the Jin army walked out of the mountain road, it divided into six and began to sweep the vast area south of the Hunhe River and north of the Taizi River.

It's just that for this area, Zhu Youzhen has already made arrangements, and at present, the people of Liaodong are mainly concentrated in the area south of the Taizi River, and the people north of the Taizi River are less than 100,000, and each market town has earthen wall artillery.

Therefore, while sweeping, every time a market town is captured, it will bring tragic casualties to the Jin army.

"Put!"

"Boom-"

At the head of Hupiyi Town, when a staff general opened his mouth to give an order, the soldiers next to him under the canopy lit a fire, and suddenly thirty-six Franc machine guns and seventeen five-pound Yanshan general cannons were fired.

Fifty-three stone bullets blasted out, a distance of two miles, and the three stone bullets successfully broke the shield cart, and the stone bullets sank into the shield cart, causing no damage to the subsequent Jianyu.

"They're done, get on the artillery!"

Nurhachi peered into the battlefield with his binoculars clairvoyance captured from the Weining Camp fort, and then waved his hand to give the order.

Twenty-five Franc cannons captured from Fort Weining were pushed up, and after the rain shelter was arranged, the guns were wiped with cotton and a dry cloth, and then the guns were placed in the mother guns and ignited.

"Boom!"

The artillery rang out in unison, aiming at the walls of Tiger Skin Town, and stone bullets smashed on the city walls, cracking the wall bricks and leaving white marks.

Nurhachi saw this scene clearly with binoculars, and then said decisively:

"Collect the troops, order all departments, no longer attack the county and town, and go all out to sweep the village!"

"Yes!" When Yanguli next to him heard this, he immediately asked people to send orders to all departments.

Obviously, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Zhu Youzhen has turned the counties and towns in eastern Liaodong into an iron hedgehog.

The difficulty of capturing a market town is several levels higher than that of the previous battle of Shenliao.

This time, Dajin entered Liao in order to collect materials, food, and population, and to conduct efficient sports warfare, and to consume the Ming army field army in the movement warfare.

If they stubbornly attack the county towns, it will only slow down the speed of the army, so that nearly 200,000 soldiers and horses in Liaoshen, Guangning and Guangning will surround them.

It is necessary to move, mobilize the Ming army to move with them.

Thinking of this, Nurhachi returned to the army with a horse, and even ordered people to abandon the shield cart directly, turn over on the horse, and run to various villages.

Such a rush was carried out on the land of hundreds of miles in the middle of this Liaoshen, where dozens of villages were destroyed, and the people and livestock were plundered, and at this time, the Ming army's forward soldiers and horses in the land of Shenyang also exchanged hands with Jianyu.

In the rain, on the rammed earth road, He Shixian's six battalions of vanguard horse infantry arrived at the periphery of Fengji Fort, and in the rain, the Jin army cruising not far away could be seen in Mohu.

"The three battalions of cavalry will gather and solve the Jiannu cruising on the periphery first!"

He Shixian was brave and courageous, and with 18,000 people in his headquarters, 9,000 of whom were cavalry and 9,000 were foot soldiers on horses, he was not afraid of building an ambush at all.

If Jianlu really dared to ambush, then these 18,000 people only needed to hold them off for half an hour, and the rear army would be able to arrive!

"Drive!"

The three battalions of iron cavalry in the army rode out, and under the leadership of He Shixian, they killed the cruising Jin Guotang cavalry.

The group of pond horsemen was not stupid, and when they saw a large number of Ming troops, they immediately beat their horses and withdrew.

At the same time, one of them quickly rode his horse to the south, apparently to inform the general of his headquarters that the Ming army had arrived.

The iron cavalry quickly whipped his horse, and while He Shixian was chasing Jin Guotang to ride, he brought the news to the white tent of the Jin army in the south of Fengji County.

Turning over and dismounting, the war horse braked sharply to lift up the sewage, and Tang Qi replied unhurriedly:

"Baylor and the Ming army are going south, and the vanguard who takes the lead should be He Shixian, with less than 20,000 soldiers and horses, it should be the fifth or sixth battalion of soldiers and horses!"

"Got it!"

Hearing the words outside the tent, the people inside the tent opened the big tent and walked out of Huang Taiji, who had rested for a while.

At this time, Du Du, who was next to Huang Taiji, spoke:

"Our two white-flag soldiers and horses are here, maybe we can eat He Shixian's five or six battalions."

"No, this battle can't be defended, you have to fight and go." Huang Taiji vetoed Du Du's proposal, saying:

"Although the Ming army is numerous, most of them are marching foot soldiers, and we are horse infantry, and we are faster than them."

"They must be mobilized, and when they are exhausted, they must be sent in to inflict heavy damage on them!"

After that, Huang Taiji said to the Gushan Ezhen on both sides:

"Mobilize the army, kill to the northeast, bypass the advance of the Ming army, and attack the village of Baitapu in their rear."

"Yes!"

When the two Gushan really heard this, they immediately went to mobilize the troops and horses.

Because they have been in a state of preparation for war, everyone is preparing for war, and the looted grain is transported to Fushun by people on mountain roads, and only the beans are left.

Each raid is fed with bean feed, and hundreds of thousands of military horses and horses have to eat a huge amount of bean feed.

However, under the feeding of a large amount of bean feed, the horsepower of the horses recovered quickly, so at the same time as Huang Taiji gave the order, the army began a movement war.

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At the same time, Huang Taiji also sent Tang cavalry to inform the soldiers and horses of the banners.

Based on the strength of five or six battalions of He Shixian's vanguard, it can be inferred that there are at least 20 battalions of the follow-up Ming army, that is, Shenyang dispatched no less than 70,000 soldiers and horses.

As soon as such news is delivered, all the banners and soldiers know what to do.

The captive people, as if they were driving livestock, tied their hands and necks with ropes, and left them outside the city, delaying the pursuit of the Ming army.

But the cartloads of grain and iron were also taken away, as were the craftsmen among the people.

Perhaps for the other people of the Ming Dynasty, this group of people living in northern Liaobei is already very bitterly cold.

But for Jianyu, even if it is a bitter cold people, the family is still a treasure.

Every village had blacksmiths, carpenters, and masons, all of whom were scarce in the building.

Worn-out clothes can be sold to the Korqin Ministry to survive the winter, and the same goes for iron pots.

It's just that the building is moving, and the Ming army can't be elm.

He Shixian pursued Huang Taiji, and at the same time sent a message to Xiong Tingbi, informing Huang Taiji of the signs of fleeing to Fushun.

"Yang Wenyue of the Left Army commanded the six battalions, cooperated with He Shixian to intercept the captives, and ate their soldiers and horses first!"

"Order the general army of the Hou Army Qi to stay in Baitapu, and then order the right army Wu Aheng to lead the army to rush to the Wujing camp."

"Ordered Shenyang, ordered Sun Yingyuan to go west to Zhangyi Station, prevent the old slave from crossing the river and Zhangyi into Tieling, and finally ask Guangning for help, and ask His Highness to send Mangui Commander Iron Cavalry to cross the Liao River and sweep away Jianjiao!"

On horseback, Xiong Tingbi calmly ordered, he was arranging a net of heaven and earth, trying to encircle and annihilate Nurhachi's 40,000 soldiers and horses on this plain on three sides of the Hunhe River, the Liao River, and the Taizi River.

There are three key points in this plan, one is to prevent Nurhachi from escaping north across the river, one is that Hong Chengchou must take Weining Yingbao and cut off Nurhachi from returning to Qinghe Fort by taking the mountain road, and the last is to block the Jianyu reinforcements from Tieling and Fushun.

This must be completed by these three key points, and then the 40,000 soldiers and horses of Nurhachi's department can be annihilated on the Liaoshen Plain!

Thinking of this, Xiong Tingbi's breathing was a little short, and the Tang cavalry in the army also hurriedly ordered the various departments.

"Yang Wenyue takes the order!"

After receiving the order, Yang Wenyue immediately commanded the six battalions of soldiers and horses, marched eastward from Baitapu, and went to intercept the Huangtai Jibu who tried to "escape" to Fushun.

Wu Aheng led the fourth battalion to the Wujing camp, and half an hour later, Sun Yingyuan in the direction of Shenyang set off and led the three guards and horses to Zhangyi Station.

The entire Ming army in northern Liaobei was in action, and such an action was in Nurha's arms.

Twenty miles north of the wicker village, outside Beihezhuang, at this moment, after four hours of looting, the army has transported the materials to Magendanbao and Sanyangyu Fort by mountain road.

Although these mountain roads are only one or two zhang wide and cannot be marched, it is still no problem to take the baggage carts of these supplies.

Nurhachi gathered all the troops except Huang Taiji, and now there are 60 Niu Lu with the Yellow Banner and the Yellow Banner, 30 Niu Lu with the Zheng Red Banner and 30 Niu Lu with the Red Banner, 27,000 horse infantry, and 3,000 Han soldiers and auxiliaries, totaling 30,000 people.

On Huang Taiji's side, there were many casualties due to the attack on Weining Camp Fort, but there were still tens of thousands of horse infantry.

That is to say, after the moment, most of the middle-aged men are gathered on the Liaoshen Plain.

All of them only had these soldiers and horses, firstly, they needed Fushun and Tieling to help attract the attention of the Ming army, and on the other hand, the current Jin army could not do 80,000 horse infantry.

40,000 horse infantry is already the limit of Nurhachi, and this is still the number of horses that can only be reached after destroying Zai Sai and making a deal with Korqin.

The mobility of the 40,000 horse-mounted infantry is much higher than that of the nearly 300,000 troops, but most of the infantry soldiers of the Ming army.

In other words, the Jin army was commanded, and it was completely possible to mobilize the Ming army to the place where they expected the Ming army to go.

"Huang Taiji mobilized the Ming army, and now the Ming army is scattered to try to outflank and encircle us, which means that they have divided their forces."

In the rain, under the canopy, Nurhachi looked at the map on the table, his mind spinning.

"Great Khan, this time we have captured more than 800 craftsmen, as well as more than 300,000 stone grains, 2,000 cattle, horses, and livestock, such results seem to be enough, right?"

At this time, Huerhan put forward the idea that the Jin army should be withdrawn, and Yanguli also said:

"After all, there are many people in the Ming army, once they are encircled and suppressed, I am afraid that we will ......"

He didn't say it too clearly, but everyone knew what it meant.

The field armies and defenders of the Ming army in Liaoyang, Shenyang, and Guangning had already reached 200,000.

This is still fighting on the territory of the Ming army, if the command of the Jin army is slightly wrong, or it is dragged by any part of the Ming army, then 40,000 troops will be buried in the Liaobei Plain.

However, they underestimated Nurhachi's judgment, and Nurhachi did not reprimand them, let alone explain anything, but continued to order:

"Now that there are no Liao merchants to send us news, it seems that the Ming army has already attacked Liao Shang."

"In other words, we can only rely on judgment to predict the movement of troops and horses of the Ming army."

"If Xiong Feibai wants to encircle and suppress us, then he must besiege us on the plains of northern Liao."

"That is to say, the mobilization of soldiers and horses of the Ming army should be focused on the north and south of the Hunhe River, as well as the east of Baitapu Fort."

"Shenyang has more than 100,000 troops, and they have plenty of troops, but they still need to defend Tieling and Fushun, and the number of soldiers and horses dispatched will not be higher than 100,000."

"100,000 soldiers and horses are divided again, then these three should not exceed 30,000 troops each."

"With the addition of Xiong Tingbi's headquarters, then the strength of these three places will not exceed 20,000 in each place."

"The Ming army in Liaoyang has not moved, which means that they should counterattack Weining Yingbao and cut off our back road."

"There are many cavalry in Guangning, and under the attack, they can reach Huangnibao in a day and night, and they will be the main force that the Ming army can encircle and intercept us."

Nurhachi's analysis was very terrifying, and he understood that what Xiong Tingbi and Zhu Youzhen had always wanted to do was to completely annihilate the Jin army, or severely damage the Jin army, and then seek peace for a few years.

Therefore, their troop deployment will definitely be based on siege, and the soldiers and horses responsible for total annihilation must be the four cavalry guards of Quang Ninh and the nine thousand cavalry of Mangui.

As soon as the cavalry arrived, the Ming army could carry out encirclement and suppression.

"In this case, we must break through as soon as possible!"

"No, just return to Weining Yingbao, then Liaoyang Hong Chengchou didn't fight a hard battle with my Dajin, maybe it's a soft persimmon!"

"Weining Camp Fort is one hundred and thirty miles away from here, then Hong Chengchou from Liaoyang should have left last night, and I am afraid that it is less than a hundred miles away from Weining Camp Fort right now."

Nurhachi's explanation, instead of stabilizing people's minds, allowed the generals to put forward their own opinions, and their opinions were different, and they almost quarreled.

This is a sign of internal division after repeated defeats.

The reason why Nurhachi wanted to bring this sign out was to reassert his authority.

"The army set off, go to Fushun, and tell Huang Taiji that there is a stalemate with the pursuing Ming army, and I will take the army there immediately."

"Eat this Ming army first, and let the Ming army mess up!"

After that, Nurhachi looked up at the sky, I don't know if it was an illusion, he always felt that the dark clouds above the sky had become a little more transparent.

"It is necessary to eat a Ming army before the heavy rain, and then retreat with troops and horses."

He thought so in his heart, and Hu Erhan and the others also hurriedly sent a message to Huang Taiji.

It's just that when they passed the message, Liaoyang's Tang Cavalry finally ran to Guangning City after a day and a night of galloping, and Man Gui, who received the news, could not suppress his excitement, trotted into Guangning's Jingluo Mansion, and said loudly outside the study:

"Your Royal Highness, Jianyu really took advantage of the rain to move troops, Liaoyang came to the news, the Liao merchants of Weining Yingbao were rebelled by the old slave, and attacked from the inside out, the general soldier Lu Qin retreated with soldiers and horses, and the old slave rushed to Fengji."

"Hong Chengchou ordered Lu Qin, Lu Xiangsheng and others to stay behind, and he and You Shigong and Ma Xianglin personally led the army to Weining Yingbao to cut off the old slave's retreat."

Man Gui's voice attracted the attention of Zhu Youzhen, who was deducing the sand table in the study, and Zhu Youzhen also frowned when he heard the news of Lu Qin's defeat and retreat.

Although the heavy rain only fell yesterday, and Nurhachi attacked at night, with the strength of the Weining camp fort and the city's artillery, as long as it was steady and steady, it would not be breached, and it was obvious that Ruchin had made a mistake in the arrangement of defending the city.

However, at this time, Zhu Youzhen is not interested in holding him accountable, what he should do now is how to deal with Nurhachi.

Therefore, after a while, he walked out of the study, and said to Man Gui with the same face as usual:

"Prepare to prepare, the commander of the four cavalry guards and your Daning's cavalry are ready to support Liaodong."

"If nothing else, Xiong Tingbi should trap the old slave's soldiers and horses to death in the Liaobei Plain, you must inflict heavy damage on Jianyu before the old slave gets out of trouble."

"But ......," Man Gui hesitated:

"This rain, firearms can't be used......"

"......" Zhu Youzhen heard this, looked up at the dark clouds that had become thin, squinted his eyes and said:

"According to the calculations of the officials of the Qin Heavenly Prison, the rainstorm has passed last night, and the remaining three days will dissipate at most, and you only need to bite Nurhachi to death for four days."

"Yes!" Man Gui responded, and then said:

"In that case, the general will go with his troops."

"Let's go......" Zhu Youzhen explained, and then returned to the study.

When Man Gui saw Zhu Youzhen leaving, he also turned around and went to mobilize troops and horses.

As for the study, Zhu Youzhen was watching the sand table, although he wanted to personally lead the troops to participate in this battle, but he also knew that he was still too little actual combat at the moment.

What is it to fight some rogues in the Central Plains? The elite of those rogues are too far behind the old camp of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong during the Chongzhen period.

If he wants to fight the old slave now, even if he can win, I am afraid that the four cavalry guards will also suffer heavy casualties.

Professional things should be handed over to professional people, and his main battlefield is not here for the time being.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen turned his head to look at the "Complete Map of Da Ming Kunyu" hanging in his study.

On the map, Liaodong and Hetao were circled into two big circles, and he couldn't participate in Liaodong, but it was his turn to perform......

"Your Highness! Shenyang bear is a letter! ”

When Zhu Youzhen was thinking about the Hetao, after half an hour, Lu Xian, who was in charge of supervising the Liaodong Imperial Store, trotted into the courtyard and presented the letter with both hands, while Zhu Youzhen opened the window when he heard this: "Read." ”

"Yes!" When Lu Xian heard this, he immediately read out Xiong Tingbi's letter.

The content of the letter is nothing more than the torture and arrest of Liao Shang and the arrangement of sending troops to besiege Nurhachi.

In particular, the letter emphasized the importance of guarding the Hunhe River, taking the Weining Camp Fort, and holding back the old slaves, as well as the important news that the old slaves had 40,000 troops.

After these news came out, Zhu Youzhen squinted his eyes slightly.

At the moment, Nurhachi seems to be mobilizing the Ming army, but even if the Ming army's forces are dispersed, the Ming army of 10,000 or 20,000 people per unit will not be something he can eat in a short time.

As long as Jianyu was held back for more than an hour, the Ming army in northern Liaobei would be enough to crush Nurhachi and inflict heavy losses.

For Zhu Youzhen, as long as he can inflict a heavy blow on Houjin and cause it to lose tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, even if the Ming army pays a price of 20,000 or even 30,000 or 40,000, he can accept it.

What if it rains? No matter how brave Jianyu is, what about it? Employ people, and also pile up the gold to death!

The only thing that made Zhu Youzhen have some conscience was the soldier who died in battle.

It's just for the sake of Daming and the people, or for Zhu Youzhen himself and his own royal brother, all this is worth it.

"Pass my order, the first battle of the Liao War, the war dead, the imperial horse supervisor out of the silver, for the bereaved families of the soldiers who died in the war to buy ten acres of pension land in the local area, one hundred taels of silver, the heirs sent to Yanshan Academy, after the completion of the official position! In addition, behead the real captives at the first level, reward 100 taels of silver, and spread the word to the whole army! ”

The autumn harvest is imminent, and Zhu Youzhen can get this silver, and this is Zhu Youzhen's little compensation for the dead soldiers.

"Humble command!" Lu Xian responded, and Zhu Youzhen continued to cheer up after a short period of sorrow:

"Send a message back to the capital and tell the imperial brother and the courtiers above the court that the battle for the restoration of Liao has begun."

"In addition, all the Liao merchants in western Liaoning were killed on charges of being captivators!

"Uh...... Your Royal Highness, if this is the case, then the courtiers will probably ......" Lu Xian reminded him, but Zhu Youzhen said:

"In the past, when the alkali field fort was used, they said that it was only some illegal Liao merchants, and now the Liao merchants are committing again, is it difficult to repeat it again and again?"

Zhu Youzhen frowned and replied, Lu Xian could only respond when he saw this, and then withdrew from the hospital.

The crisp sound of horses' hooves sounded in the city of Guangning, and a team of soldiers and horses were transferred outside the city.

Three quarters of an hour later, the soldiers and horses were assembled, and thirty-one thousand four hundred iron horsemen were in the rain, and the horses under their crotches had been fed enough beans.

Man Gui summoned all the generals who were garrisoned by various departments and more than 1,000 households, and said to these dozens of people:

"Give you two quarters of an hour to announce that the army will go out of the Great Wall at Xixingbao, enter the Great Wall at Changsheng Fort, and pursue the Jianjiao who invaded Liaodong."

"In this battle, the Liaodong army, all the war dead and bereaved family members will be given a pension of ten acres of land and a pension of one hundred taels of silver by the Imperial Horse Prison in their hometown, and their heirs will be sent to Yanshan Academy, and they will be awarded official positions after completing their studies!"

"In addition, behead the real captive at the first level, and reward one hundred taels of silver!"

"Ten acres?!" Hearing this, all the thousand households looked at each other.

You must know that the land annexation in the late Ming Dynasty was very powerful, and the soldiers and horses in Liaodong, even if it is local to Liaodong, the land price has reached seven taels of silver per mu, and in North Zhili, Shanxi and other places it is twelve taels and one mu, and South Zhili and Zhejiang are twenty taels of silver per mu.

That is to say, the price of ten acres of pension land ranges from 70 taels to 200 taels, plus pension silver, which is equivalent to being a big soldier for more than ten or twenty years.

Of course, the most important thing is that the heirs can enter the Yanshan Academy, and after completing the school, they will be awarded official positions, which is the most important thing!

Even if you don't have an official position, you can only act as an official, which is a great existence.

In addition to the soldiers who died in battle, the soldiers who survived also had rich rewards, beheading one hundred taels, and this high reward made many generals breathless.

It can be said that Zhu Youzhen has made a bloody capital, and this bloody capital is enough to make some older soldiers go crazy and crazy.

No one doubted that the words of the Imperial Horse Supervisor and the King of Qi would not be counted, because of the Battle of Shenliao and the Battle of the Central Plains Rebellion, the King of Qi handed over a complete answer sheet for the aftermath.

No one doubted whether the Imperial Horse Supervisor could take out this silver, after all, the soldiers north of the Yellow River were all paid by the Imperial Horse Supervisor, and it was impossible for the Imperial Horse Supervisor not to take out this silver.

"King Qi Chitose! Daming Wansheng! Kill, kill, kill—"

When the news reached the ears of the grassroots soldiers, as everyone expected, the rich reward made everyone shout the slogan they knew.

The slogan was very messy at the beginning, but in the end it became uniform, and the voice was so loud that even Zhu Youzhen of the Jingluo Mansion in the city could vaguely hear it.

"Let's go!"

On the platform, Man Gui waved his hand, then turned over his horse, pulled the reins of the horse, and commanded the army to kill the sinking land.

At the same time, Tang Qi, who carried the news of rich rewards, also went to various places in Liaodong.

Zhu Youzhen would rather pay for the first battle of the Liao Dynasty for a few years, and even hollow out the Ming Dynasty, but also break the backbone of Jianyu in this battle!