"The Ming army is out of the fortress, and the various departments are transferred out of the men, and tomorrow we will go to the south to fight the grass valley! The subordinates followed the uncle and fainted the Taishi Beimu. ”

At dusk, with the continuous running of the Lingqi and the order, soon the Chahar tribes and subordinates knew that Lin Dan Khan was going to organize a large army to go south to fight the grass valley.

"Beimu Beimu, how can there be so many things without fighting!"

"The Ming army hasn't been out of Beisai for many years, and I don't know how many people came."

After Ling rode away, some of the Chahar tribesmen began to curse, but after scolding, everyone began to pack up their things and prepare to flee north, although this so-called northern escape was called "Beimu".

It's just that compared to the scolding of the Chahar tribes, many lords of Karaqin returned to their big tents, found the Jinyi guards hidden in the tribe, and told them about Lin Dan Khan's actions.

The Jinyi guards who learned the news pretended to be the sentinels of Karaqin and went south, and on the third day, the news that Lin Dan Khan was going south and Bo Huang went north was told to Zhu Youzhen, who had just led his troops out of the Yanshan Mountains.

"He's brave......"

On the vast Duolun grassland, more than 20,000 vanguard Shangzhima infantry had already gone north under the leadership of Cao Meng and Saihan, and Zhu Youzhen turned his head to look at Sun Shoufa after hearing the news of Jinyiwei and laughed directly.

He really thinks that Lin Dan Khan is very brave, and the three major departments of the Hetao Beile Taiji were all caught by him to dance in the capital, and this Lin Dan Khan also thinks that he can go south to try the blade of the Ming army.

"Your Highness, just let me take Long Xiangwei and go directly to the main force of Tiger Rabbit Dun for a decisive battle."

Sun Shoufa rode on horseback, eager to try, and it seemed that he did not take Lin Danhan's more than 30,000 cavalry in his eyes.

In this regard, Zhu Youzhen smiled and didn't say anything, then unfolded the map, glanced at the map, and then glanced at the Duolun grassland terrain in front of him.

Located on the southeastern edge of the Mongolian Plateau, the Duolun Steppe is sandwiched between the Yanshan Mountains and the Haravan Mountains.

Among them, the south is slightly higher, the north is slightly lower, and the plateau gradually lowers from southwest to northeast, forming a wide and gentle semi-circular basin.

In other words, the Ming army is now slowly descending, and Lin Dan Khan's cavalry is slowly ascending.

In this case, it seems that sending cavalry is enough to defeat Lin Dan Khan.

But defeating Lin Dan Khan is not good for Zhu Youzhen for the time being.

Lin Dan Khan is still alive, so he can at least nominally unite Mobei Khalkha and Mo Nanbo.

If he died, maybe the Khalkha in Mobei and Mo Nan would rush to the hospital in a hurry, and take the initiative to seek refuge in Huang Taiji like Lin Dan Khan in history when he moved westward.

There are nearly 200,000 people from Karaqin and Transkhalkha, and 780,000 men.

If such a force becomes Huang Taiji's subordinate or ally, this will obviously be unfavorable to the Ming army's subsequent sweep war.

Besides, after defeating Lin Dan Khan, the places occupied were all grasslands with precipitation of less than 400 milliliters, what did Zhu Youzhen do?

Graze? Within two years, the Xiaoice River was in drought, and at that time, many tribes in southern Mo either migrated to the Hetao or the Horqin grassland in the eastern part of the Harawen Mountains, and even Lin Dan Khan moved to Qinghai for various weather and political reasons, and it was impossible for Daming to build a city here.

Because, judging from everything, what Zhu Youzhen needs is to repel Lin Dan Khan, and then take the Duolun grassland, and then include all the places west of Harawen Mountain into the territory of the Ming Dynasty, which is enough.

As long as these things are done, Daming can safely gather all his strength to fight against the Xiaoice River disaster.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen said to Sun Shoufa next to him:

"Send someone to tell Cao Meng and Saihan that if they encounter the sentry riders of the Tiger Rabbit Dun, they will all be killed."

"If Hutudun personally leads the cavalry to come, tell them not to worry, and use artillery and infantry to fight the enemy."

"When the casualties come, he will withdraw himself, and there is no need for us to waste our strength against him."

"Yes!" Sun Shoufa responded, and then sent a hundred households to lead a hundred cavalry and spread the news to the vanguard army.

Similarly, after arranging the pioneer matter, Zhu Youzhen said:

"This Duolun grassland is easy to be attacked, the four cavalry guards can't move for the time being, let Man Gui guard the baggage line, if the follow-up troops are insufficient, then send Ying Yangwei, Shenwu Wei, and Lu Longwei to pick up."

"The last general commands!" When Sun Shoufa heard this, he arranged for someone to pass the news back to the rear army again.

After doing all this, Zhu Youzhen turned his head to look at the Chinese army.

At this moment, the Chinese army is basically only more than 5,000 people of Long Xiangwei on the march.

They had five horses, one horse, and four horses.

The horses carried cloth armor and ten days' worth of military rations and horse feed.

The lighter things such as bullets, gunpowder, and weapons were hung on the backs of four military horses.

The soldiers of Long Xiangwei were wearing mandarin duck jackets and cotton armor, and the half-body armor was walking on the grass, and the weight of the armor was thirteen catties, which was not very heavy.

Their marching speed must be faster than that of the horse infantry of the vanguard army, after all, the tired people can also distribute things to the war horses, and then ride the horses for more than ten miles.

This will not wear too much of the physical strength of the war horse and the horse, and it can also reach the speed of marching 80 miles a day.

After all, this battle is not a rush battle, there is no need to wear armor all the time, it is a waste of physical strength.

Not only them, but even the rear army and the vanguard army marched like this, the difference was the strength of the pond cavalry outside the army.

In general, a range of thirty miles is a relatively safe time, and even if the enemy is found, and then the headquarters is notified, the headquarters will have two or three quarters of an hour to be armed.

Of course, the standard for going straight is fifty li, which is different from other outer guard battalions.

Retracting his gaze, Zhu Youzhen calculated the time.

In three days, they walked nearly 250 miles, and Lin Dan Khan's side was full of light horses, probably about 300 to 350 miles.

That is to say, counting the distance between the Tang cavalry and the sentinel cavalry, the distance between the Tang cavalry of the Ming army and the sentinel cavalry of the Beiyu should be less than 300 miles.

According to this posture, at most, the two sides will be able to fight the day after tomorrow, and the main force of the vanguard will be able to meet two days later......

"There is still plenty of time, it is still the third day of the first month of March, and Sun Yingyuan should go to Liaodong."

Thinking so, Zhu Youzhen looked at the skyline, his eyes seemed to have crossed more than a thousand miles, and he saw Xiong Tingbi, who was mobilizing troops and horses and coordinating the people......

"Sift the military rations carefully for me, don't mix with any mud and sand, if you are caught by the old man, you should pay attention in the next life!"

"Yes—"

When Zhu Youzhen looked at the same time, Xiong Tingbi and Sun Yingyuan's actions could be said to have exceeded his prediction.

The two men did not prepare supplies in Kaiyuan in the Great Wall, but directly set the starting point of the army at Jiadao Station, thirty miles north of the Great Wall.

On this vast Liaobei Plain, the last group of people to do this were Feng Sheng, Fu Youde, Lan Yu, Zhao Yong, Wang Bi, Hu Hai, and Guo Ying......

Even Li Chengliang most of the time gathered soldiers and horses at Qinghe Fort in the Great Wall, and prepared grain and grass before leaving the fortress.

But when it came to Xiong Tingbi and Sun Yingyuan, not only did they not prepare in the Great Wall, but they even went to the north of the Huer River next to Jiadao Station to hoard soldiers and horses, arrange people's husbands, and transport grain and grass.

You must know that the north of Hu'er Hebei is a boundless grassland in northern Liaobei, and if tens of thousands of cavalry are killed at this time, its danger is no less than the battle of Sarhu.

But the problem is that these two people not only arrived in Hebei, but also didn't bother to station the camp, and simply surrounded the army and the people with baggage trucks.

This scene, if it was placed in the middle of Wanli, Wanli would have kicked Li Chengliang with one kick and supported the two as the chief soldier and governor of Liaozhen.

However, the two of them followed Zhu Youzhen, which was much more comfortable than following Wanli.

At present, the two of them are commanding tens of thousands of people, washing, steaming, and baking rice on the banks of the Hu'er River, and preparing for military rations several times.

Not far away, someone boiled a pot of vinegar, put strips of coarse cloth in a boiling cauldron, and then began to let the cauldron boil.

In addition to these, there is a hut not far away, which is full of fresh cabbage, and under the shed is a constantly burning firewood.

The distance between the two is one zhang, and the fire cannot burn the vegetables, but it can bake out the moisture of the vegetables.

In short, under Xiong Tingbi's arrangement, a complete set of military rations was formed on the north bank of the Huer River, and the soldiers of the 12th battalion and more than 36,000 Gongwei battalions were stationed in the north of the Huer River, and the sentinels were also released for dozens of miles.

"100,000 catties of dried vegetables, 30,000 catties of vinegar cloth, and 110,000 buckets of military rations, enough for the army to go out and eat for three months."

Xiong Tingbi looked at the hot scene and couldn't help stroking his beard, and Sun Yingyuan also smiled heartily:

"These military rations prepared by Jingluo, not to mention that the old slave is contained, it is enough to go north to conquer Shinshu City."

Xinzhou City is the stone fort of the Ming army in the early Ming Dynasty, 200 miles away from the Great Wall, and 170 miles away from the Huer River.

Since it is impossible to disturb Houjin in winter, Xiong Tingbi and his team have been comforting the victims who have migrated from the locust plague in Shandong.

Finally, when the winter snow melted, they found out that Nurhachi had actually sent Mang Gurtai to station at Xinzhou City Station with two blue flags, and changed it to Yidong River City.

Not only that, Nurhachi also sent people to strengthen Huifa City, sent Yue Tuo to lead 8,000 troops to station, and sent Daishan to lead 6,000 or 7,000 troops to station in Yimihe City (Changchun), which is at the gate of Ula City.

As for the old slave himself, it stands to reason that there should be more than 10,000 troops stationed in the city of Ula.

Such an arrangement is enough to show that Nurhachi most likely predicted that they would carry out the battle of sweeping the north, or attack Houjin.

However, even if they arranged it like this, Xiong Tingbi was not afraid at all.

Don't look at the current Liaodong after being transferred and dismantled, only 27 battalions remain.

But Xiong Tingbi can pat his chest and pack tickets, the combat effectiveness of these 27 battalions and less than 82,000 people is stronger than the combat effectiveness of the 300,000 Ming troops in the original battle of recovering Liao.

This is not a boast, but a process that every governor's office is taking.

At the time of the Battle of Futao, the Ming Dynasty's troops on paper were as high as 2 million, but the current Ming Dynasty's troops were less than 800,000.

However, the latter can sweep the former several times, and even the casualties will not reach 20%.

Three years of equipment changes, sufficient military salaries and meals, so that the combat effectiveness of the Ming Army's governors' mansions has been greatly improved, especially the Eastern Army's governor's mansions.

In addition to their way this time, there is also Lu Xiangsheng from Jianzhou County.

All of them add up, the total strength is more than 42,000 people, but Lu Xiangsheng's part is mainly a slow march to attract the attention of Huifa City Yuetuo.

It's their part, which is said to be a sheep attack, but whether the sheep attack can become the main attack depends on themselves.

Therefore, Xiong Tingbi's idea is to attack the sheep as the main attack, and it is best to knock down the Xinzhou City Station first.

The reason why he thinks this way is not because he wants to take credit, but because of the victims of the disaster in Shandong.

Beginning with Zhu Youzhen's order, the continuous migration of victims in Shandong led to the population of Liaodong beginning to move north.

At present, the population of Liaodong has exceeded 5 million, and according to the number of victims reported by Shandong, the population of Liaodong may reach 6 million by the end of the year.

A large number of people have entered Liaodong, and in addition to replenishing the labor force and carrying out large-scale reclamation in Liaodong, they have also brought advanced production technology, production tools, and new species into Liaodong.

Taking Henan immigrants as an example, after the Henan people went to the reclamation, they did not listen to the words of the local officials and farmers in Liaodong, but groped for planting various crops by themselves, and finally made the first year of simple land reclamation, and then planted buckwheat.

In the second year, they planted wheat after burning weeds and straw.

By last year, many Henan people who had come to Liaodong for the third year had already begun to plant millet.

This year's spring planting has already begun, and after seeing the Korean immigrants in the Zhenjiang area planting rice, they have abandoned the traditional methods of planting wheat, millet, and millet in eastern Liaodong, and began to release water into the fields on a large scale to plant rice.

Before them, basically no Liao people knew that rice could still be grown in this part of Liaodong.

Not only that, but they know how to determine the dryness of the land, and distinguish between the seeds of the crops, so that the soil is not wasted, and the harvest is full of good results in the autumn.

With the spread of these advanced production and planting technologies and new crop varieties, the immigrant migration has increased the crop yield in eastern Liaodong, the varieties have become more and more abundant, and the agricultural yield per mu has also begun to gradually increase.

It is only due to the lack of information that although some hungry people in Henan and immigrants from Beizhili wrote letters back to their hometowns after tasting the benefits of the black soil, the hometown people still remained skeptical.

Such suspicions, coupled with Zhu Youzhen's lowering of food standards after the relocation to Liaodong, led to difficulties in local relocation.

However, Xiong Tingbi still chooses to believe in the people, not to mention anything else, as long as they build Xinzhou City, then the tens of millions of acres of plains from Xinzhou City to the Great Wall can be developed.

Therefore, Xiong Tingbi chose to set out from Jiadao Station, because the millions of acres of plains south of Jiadao Station have ushered in their new masters, nearly two million hungry people in Shandong......

Thinking of the gradually prosperous Liaodong, Xiong Tingbi couldn't stop the smile on his face, and Sun Yingyuan saw this and talked about the sheep attack:

"This time, we have more than 36,000 soldiers and horses, more than 600 five-pound cannons, and more than 200 ten-catty cannons."

"According to the old slave's temperament, he is afraid that he will make Mang Gurtai abandon Shinshu City Station."

"Not necessarily." Xiong Tingbi shook his head and said:

"How much the old slave's strength has recovered, we can only judge it based on the news of Jinyiwei before."

"Now that the news of Jinyiwei has not been continued after it is broken, the specific strength of the captives may be counted more."

"I estimate that the number of their true captives has recovered to about 50,000, plus some northern captives and a small number of Han soldiers, there are more than 80,000 people."

"So many people, can they feed?" Sun Yingyuan was a little puzzled, after all, in his opinion, it was impossible for Jianyu to feed so many people.

It's just that his doubts were blocked by Xiong Tingbi's words.

"If you don't count the lives and deaths of the hundreds of thousands of forcibly relocated people, and they follow the example of the victims in Henan Province to plant buckwheat one year, wheat two years, and millet three years, how much arable land do you think they can reclaim in a short period of time?"

"This ......" Sun Yingyuan hesitated slightly, while Xiong Tingbi shook his head and said:

"I estimate that even if hundreds of thousands of acres are cultivated, it will not be a problem."

"Those people who have been forcibly relocated are probably also more auspicious......

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"Ahh

！ ”

When Xiong Tingbi sighed, as he expected, more than five hundred miles away from him, outside the city of Wula, a vast cultivated land appeared on this plain.

On some of the cultivated land that has been fully developed, there are some Jurchens who are busy planting in the spring, and if you look out, the edge of the cultivated land has been hastily sorted out by people, the roots of the trees have been dug up, and the buckwheat has been planted.

Outside the cultivated land where buckwheat is planted, there is a group of scrawny Han people who are cutting down trees, cleaning tree roots, and digging out stones.

With sunken cheeks, thin limbs and swollen bellies, they resemble the demons in the illustrations, numbering less than three thousand.

Next to them were two yellow flagmen with whips, and their number was only about a dozen.

With a dozen or so men guarding three thousand, this sounds incredible, but it really happened outside the city of Ula.

At the end of the long winter, before the Ming army launched the Northern Expedition, it was impossible for Nurhachi and them to stop the pace of cultivating the fields and cultivating the fields.

This Han people, who are less than 3,000, still forcibly ordered Huang Taiji to be brought to the city of Ula before the winter.

In just one winter, they have lost dozens of pounds, and some of them even starved to death and died of exhaustion on the reclaimed land.

And their corpses are often buried on the spot by other Han Chinese sent by the guarded banner people to become fertilizer in the new farmland.

On the hundreds of thousands of acres of cultivated land outside the city of Ula, a bipolar picture of great differences has been formed.

On one side is the flag man who has no one to urge and works by himself, and on the other side is the Han people who are tired like evil ghosts, which is embarrassing......

"This batch of Han people is also going to run out, Khan Ama, it's better to find Huang Taiji for another 10,000 or 20,000, his reclamation speed in the north is too slow."

When the barbaric language appeared, Abatai spoke to Nurhachi, who was in a wheelchair next to him, and the scene was very eerie.

Nurhachi's situation makes people feel a little worried, although he is in a wheelchair at this moment, he is as skinny as wood, and he has lost the demeanor when he entered Liao three years ago.

After suffering a severe leg injury, it became difficult for him to stand, and he had to rely on crutches to walk.

I thought this would be enough, but it seems that the medical methods are too barbaric, causing his legs to be painful every rainy season, making him unable to eat and irritable.

Maintaining such irritability for a long time made him hate the Han people, constantly oppressed the Han people, and exhausted more than 100,000 Han people alive and died in just two years before the more than 400,000 acres of cultivated land were reclaimed......

Looking at the cultivated land in front of him, Nurhachi rarely suppressed the discomfort in his legs and calmly analyzed everything.

Since the beginning of winter last year, Huang Taiji has moved to him, and it is possible that the Ming army will sweep the north with the goal of Horqin, and then seek to encircle Dajin, and finally after the total annihilation, Nurhachi began to arrange.

Even though he was half cut into the ground, Nurhachi's brain could still function, and he could still judge how the Ming army would fight Korqin.

To this end, he has made a series of responses.

The first is to strengthen the forces of the outer cities of Ula City, and send several people such as Daishan and Mang Gurtai and Yuetuo, who have been fighting in the house, leaving behind Abatai, who is the least likely to become the Great Khan.

In this way, even if his authority is not as good as before, no one will dare to disobey him.

People can feel that he doesn't seem to live long, and he may die in a few years.

What he wanted to do most was to ensure the stability of Dajin before he died, and to elect a qualified Great Khan to prevent Dajin from dying quickly after his death.

In fact, the person he likes has never changed, and the other party has never disappointed him.

This person is Huang Taiji, and for everything he has done in Shangjing, Nurhachi has seen it in his eyes.

In three years, he has pulled his soldiers and horses from more than 10,000 to 26,700, and I have to say that some of his methods have impressed Nurhachi.

It's just that with this little force, it still can't make him a Great Khan safely, and the reason is very simple.

Huang Taiji's men, except for the two white flags of more than 6,000 people, the other 20,000 people were Han Chinese and Mongols.

On this matter, many Baylors and Beizi under his knees laughed at him less.

Perhaps they all think that Huang Taiji, who was sent to Beijing, is actually an exiled guy.

They may not have imagined that the dispatch to Shangjing was a means for Nurhachi to protect Huang Taiji.

Except for Huang Taiji, Nurhachi did not look down on other heirs.

Thinking of Huang Taiji, Nurhachi ordered in a weak voice:

"Order, transfer Amin to Shangjing, and return to Huang Taiji to control ......"

"Tell Huang Taiji...... Horqin's affairs, he will handle it......"

"If the Ming army really attacks Horqin, it is best to return to Shangjing after annexing Horqin......"

Nurhachi spoke with great difficulty, and Abatai did not show any impatience when he heard the voice, as Nurhachi expected, but turned his head and ordered the others to send a fast horse to inform Huang Taiji and Amin.

Nurhachi was very satisfied with this, and he also came up with a charter for the arrangement in the south.

"Send someone to tell Dai Shan, let him take over Yidong River City, and then order Mang Gurtai to take the soldiers and horses of the two blue flags, bypass the Liao River and go south, and go to Daning to knock on the ......"

"Once ...... Once the Ming army returned to help...... Immediately lead the troops to take a detour back to Xingjing ......"

"If the Ming army didn't have ...... and plunder Daning, and gather up enough food for us to survive the winter......"

"Khan Amma, I know, you can rest well." Abatai said, and Nurhachi was sweating profusely in his wheelchair.

Clearly, another rain was coming, and he was no longer able to suppress the pain in his legs......