Daming Military Empire

Chapter 175 The Sleeping Lion Has Awoke
Unknowingly, it has been more than a year since Liaodong was recovered. How is Liaodong now?
Liaodong has not changed much this year, except for the line from Guangning to Ningyuan, where people can be seen, other places are still wilderness.It's not that Zhu Cijiong doesn't want to develop Liaodong, but because Jiannu is still alive, the hinterland of Liaodong is not very safe.

Jiannu may not have dared to organize a large-scale counterattack after last year's big defeat, but if the hinterland of Liaodong is developed, there will be food everywhere and civilians everywhere, and it is impossible for Jiannu not to come to fight the autumn wind.After all, most of the eastern part of Liaodong is a plain, and it is not necessary for Jiannu to go through Fushun Pass if they want to plunder from Jianzhou to the hinterland of Eastern Liaodong. Just leave, they can come out wherever they want, grab them and run away, what can you do?
Therefore, Zhu Cijiong simply gave them a wilderness, so that they could not get a single grain, and directly cut off their thoughts.As for the development of Liaodong, we will have to wait until Sun Chengzong wins Jianzhou.

By the way, it has been more than a year, how is Sun Chengzong's "Fortress Advance" doing?
In fact, Sun Chengzong did not advance the fortress a few years ago, because at that time it was only two months before the heavy snow blocked the road. It was basically difficult to advance from Fushunwei to Jianzhou within two months. Closing the road, neither entering nor retreating, would be troublesome, so he simply repaired the team from Guanning to Fushunwei, prepared tools, and waited until the ice and snow melted in the spring before starting to advance to Jianzhou.

Sun Chengzong's biggest characteristic is "steadiness". Although he has 40 troops under his command, even though Fushun Pass is only two hundred miles away from Jianzhou, he is not in a hurry, but is advancing steadily and slowly.

If you want to say that the reason why the Ming army was defeated in Saerhu, it was mainly because of the terrain near Saarhu, because after passing Fushunwei to the west, it is not a plain terrain, but a hilly terrain. This hilly terrain you If you are not familiar with it, running into it is like getting into a maze. There are mountains, forests, ravines, and narrow paths everywhere. It is not bad if you don’t get lost in it. They were defeated by Nurhachi, who was familiar with the terrain, and fled in defeat.

Sun Chengzong is not Yang Gao, of course he will not engage in any kind of combined attack, he has stabilized to a certain level, stable to a certain realm, hills, labyrinths, it doesn’t matter, just dig over it, he has prepared for more than half a year But not only waiting there, there are many things to prepare.

For example, the soldiers' equipment, now every soldier not only holds a weapon in his hand, but also carries a hoe on his back. There are all kinds of plank hoe, strip hoe, and pickaxe. The army dug up directly from Fushun Pass.

He only left the Dingliao army to guard the front lines of Guanning, Tieling, and Liaohai, and the remaining 30 troops gathered near Fushun Pass, dispatched troops in turn, and dug directly towards Sarhu.

Fushunguan is only thirty or forty miles away from Sarhu. The speed of digging roads with 30 troops is terrifying. If there is any small hill, just dig a gap; All those in the way were cut down, and the narrow path that could only accommodate one or two people was dug by them into a broad avenue that could accommodate more than ten or 20 people walking side by side!
The so-called fortress advancement is naturally not just digging roads. After digging for about 2 miles, he will move all the troops there, and then start to build the city. Cannons, grenades, and landmines are all available. Even with Jiannu's 1 troops, [-] guarding them, it is impossible to break through within a day or two. As long as the road is open, even if the Ming army runs from Fushun Pass to Haotuala In less than a day, if they dare to come and besiege the fortress, let them come and go!

Faced with Sun Chengzong's rogue methods, Huang Taiji spurted blood directly. This blood spurting is not an exaggerated rhetorical trick, but real spray. According to historical records, Huang Taiji had nosebleeds in the later period, and sometimes he had to take it while fighting. A bowl catches blood.I don't know when his problem started in history, but this time he was directly erupted by Sun Chengzong.

The reason why he took the initiative to retreat to Jianzhou was to use the terrain of Jianzhou to slow down the Ming army.After the disastrous defeat in Liaodong, he had to admit that he was no longer able to defeat the Ming army equipped with new muskets and cannons, whether on the plains or in the city, but it would be hard to say if he went to Jianzhou, where he started as a Jurchen. .

To be honest, in Jianzhou, even if the Ming army's 60 troops rushed over, he wouldn't be too afraid. This is not the Liaodong Plain. Come in, and his opportunity has come.

If the Ming army divides into a joint attack, he can learn from his father Khan Nurhachi and use the familiar terrain to defeat each.It doesn't matter if the Ming army advances in groups. On the winding trails of Jianzhou, 60 to [-] troops can't gather together, at least they have to pull out a long line of hundreds of miles. It is still a headache for the Ming army to rob food after it is cut off.

Perhaps, with luck, he can reproduce the glory of the Sarhu War, defeat the Ming army in one fell swoop, occupy Liaodong again, and continue to threaten the pass!
However, now, with Sun Chengzong's way of doing things, he can say that he has no chance at all.

how to spell?People's advance in a group is really a group. When the 30 troops gather together, they don't go on the narrow path at all, they just dig the road and move forward.
Ambush?The mountains were almost dug up by them, and the trees were cut down by them, so how to ambush!

Sneak attack?There are 30 troops waiting there in a group, and they are looking for death in the past!
Huang Taiji had no choice but to retreat with blood spurting, and he retreated again and again, from Saerhu to Jiefan Village, then from Jiefan Village to Gule Village, then from Gule Village to Maldun Village, and then to Here he can't retreat, Haotuala is behind him, and if he retreats again, the last city of his Houjin, the capital where his Jurchen started, will be occupied by the Ming army!
In desperation, Huang Taiji had no choice but to take the risk of copying the Ming army's back route and sneak attacking robbery.

Will Sun Chengzong give him a chance?That was naturally impossible, not to mention 5 to [-] people were dispatched every time the food was transported, and there were scouts all around. As soon as Huang Taiji's army approached, the food transport team ran directly to the nearest fortress.There is a fort every twenty miles, which means that the army can run into the nearest fort in an hour at most. By the time he catches up, he has already hid in the fort. Have obediently retreat.

Seeing that this fortress is about to practice Haotuala, is Huang Taiji finished like this?of course not!How could a generation of heroes be finished so easily? He still had one last resort, but he didn't want to use it until it was absolutely necessary.

What is Huang Taiji's last move?When Sun Chengzong worked hard for half a year to build the fort near Haotuala, and then led an army of 20 to Haotuala, what he saw was not the face of Jiannu struggling to death, full of hatred and fear, but It's a smoking city!

36 Walking is the best strategy. Huang Taiji's last move is to run away. If Jianzhou can't stay any longer, he should run quickly. Do you want him to stick to the lonely city and wait to be killed?That's impossible, they are nomads, okay!
Seeing that nothing could be done, Huang Taiji asked Dorgon and Duoduo to move northward with more than 100 million Jurchen people first, while he led an army of 20 to bluff in Hetuala.When Sun Chengzong's army assembled [-] troops to attack Hetuala, he directly burned the city, led the army to catch up with the tribesmen who set out first, and led them over the vast hills, bypassing Tielingwei and Liaohaiwei, across the border. After crossing the Liaohe River, we went directly to the Monan Mongolian Grassland!
When Sun Chengzong sent people to find out where they were, Huang Taiji and his people were almost at Chahar!

After a lot of hard work, the fortress was finally built to Hetuala, but none of the Jian slaves were caught. Sun Chengzong could only look up to the sky and sigh: "Boy, you are running fast!"

When the news was sent back to the capital, Zhu Cijiong scolded his mother angrily. This gang of slaves is simply too shameless. No wonder they killed less than 20 children of the Eight Banners who conquered Ming Dynasty with a small tribe of millions of people. Is this him? A combination of a group of foxes and wolves, if you beat them, you will be extremely vicious, if you can't beat them, you will run away, what can you do to him!

But there is also an advantage of them running away, that is, the entire Liaodong is now considered safe, and it can finally engage in large-scale development.

There are tens of millions of acres of fertile land in Liaodong, and it has not been affected by the severe drought. It can be said to be a natural big granary. If it is managed well, there will be no shortage of food in the entire north of Ming Dynasty.

You must know that there have been severe droughts in the Northwest for many years. Although Zhu Cijiong moved most of the victims to nearby provinces that were not affected by the disaster, and introduced high-yielding crops such as potatoes and sweet potatoes to them, the surrounding provinces only have so much arable land. The common people can only get enough food and clothing. Now that the population has doubled suddenly, it is not bad for them to guarantee their own rations.

Therefore, the northern provinces have not had any food surplus in recent years. Liaodong and the capital have assembled nearly a million troops in recent years. Where does the food come from?All shipped from the South!
How terrifying is the food and grass of a million-strong army?One million shi of grain and nearly 100 million catties of fodder will be consumed in a month. In the Ming Dynasty, the transportation of grain was all carried by horse-drawn carts, and people ate and chewed by horses. As much grain and grass were transported from the south, how much grain and grass would be consumed on the way. That is to say, the transshipment cost is more than 1000 million taels a month. If Liaodong can guarantee the consumption of military rations for millions of troops, the shipping cost will be saved. For this item alone, it will cost tens of millions of taels a year.

Of course, this population migration does not mean that it can be relocated. There is a lot of preparatory work in the early stage. In addition, Liaodong will be in a world of ice and snow in two months. Population and arable land, calculate the number of migrants, prepare materials for migration, and wait for the ice and snow in Liaodong to melt in the coming year before moving people there.

While Zhu Cijiong was busy arranging population migration, news came from Dongdaying that the first batch of first-class sailing battleships had been built, and he was just waiting for him to preside over the ceremony, open the gates and release the water, pull the warships out of the dock, and drive into the the sea!

The battleship has finally been built. Now Liaodong has been pacified, and the northwest is under control. The economic development momentum in various parts of Ming Dynasty is good. It can be said that the great army of Ming Dynasty has awakened. Next.

At the end of this volume, what will happen next, let's see the decomposition of the next volume.

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