Before I knew it, it has been more than a year since Liaodong was recovered. How is Liaodong now?

There has been no change in Liaodong this year. Except for the people you can see from Guangning to Ningyuan, other places are still wilderness thousands of miles away. It is not that Zhu Cijiu did not want to develop Liaodong, but because Jiannu had not yet been destroyed, the hinterland of Liaodong was not very safe.

After suffering last year's defeat, Jiannu might not dare to organize a large-scale counterattack. However, if the hinterland of Liaodong was developed, there were food everywhere and civilians everywhere, it would be impossible for Jiannu to not come to fight Qiufeng. After all, most areas of Liaodong are plains, and Jiannu did not have to go to Fushun Pass to plunder from Jianzhou to Liaodong's hinterland. There was no natural danger from the area thousands of miles from Fushun Pass to Dingliao's Right Guard, but the road was not easy to walk. They would run out wherever they wanted to come out, and they would run away if they grabbed it. What could you do to him?

So, Zhu Cijing simply gave them a wilderness thousands of miles away, so that they could not even get a grain of food, which directly cut off their thoughts. As for the development of Liaodong, it will be said until Sun Chengzong took down Jianzhou.

By the way, it has been more than a year. How has Sun Chengzong's "fortress advancement" been going on?

In fact, Sun Chengzong did not promote the fortress before the New Year, because it was only two months before the heavy snow was blocked. It was basically difficult to advance from Fushun Wei to Jianzhou within two months. When the road was blocked with heavy snow, it would be difficult to advance or retreat. So he simply repaired the team from Guanning to Fushun Wei, preparing tools. When the ice and snow melted in the spring, he began to advance to Jianzhou.

The biggest characteristic of Sun Chengzong was "stability". Although he had an army of 400,000 and even though Fushun Pass was only about 200 miles from Jianzhou, he was not in a hurry, but instead made steady progress and slowly advanced.

The reason why the Ming army was defeated in Sarhu was actually mainly due to the terrain near Sarhu. Because after passing Fushunwei west, it was not the plain terrain, but the hilly terrain. If you are not familiar with this hilly terrain, running in is like a maze. There are mountains, forests and gullies everywhere, and there are paths everywhere. It would be good if you don’t get lost inside. Yang Hao, the chief general of the Ming army, actually came to a joint attack. In the end, he was naturally defeated by Nurhaci, who was familiar with the terrain, and was defeated and fled.

Sun Chengzong is not Yang Hao, so of course he won’t do any division and joint attack. He has reached a certain level and reached a certain level. Hills are right, mazes are right, it doesn’t matter, just dig them up. He has been preparing for more than half a year, but he has not only been waiting there, but there are many things he has prepared.

For example, the equipment of soldiers, now each soldier not only holds weapons in his hands, but also carries a hoe on his back, such as hoes, hoes, and pickaxes. The army dug up directly from Fushun Pass.

He left only the Dingliao army to guard Guanning, Tieling and Liaohai. The remaining 300,000 troops gathered near Fushun Pass and took turns to send troops to dig directly towards Sarhu.

It was only 30 to 40 miles from Fushun Pass to Sarhu. The speed of the 300,000 army digging roads was terrifying. They dug out small hills directly; they filled in small hills directly; they all had dense forests and sparse forests, as long as they blocked the road, they could only allow one or two people to pass to become a smooth road that could accommodate more than ten or twenty people walking side by side!

The so-called fortress advancement is naturally not just digging a road. After digging about twenty miles, he moved all the troops and started to build the city. It was not too big, and it could accommodate 100,000 or 20,000 people. Anyway, the Ming army is full of muskets, artillery, grenades, and mines. Just Jiannu’s ten thousand troops, and ten thousand people guarding them, they can never imagine breaking them within one or two days. As long as the road is built, it will not take a day to run from Fushun Pass to Haotuala. If they dare to siege the fortress, they will directly make it impossible for them to come and go!

Faced with the rogue method of Sun Chengzong, Huang Taiji directly squirted blood. This squirting blood was not an exaggerated rhetoric technique, but a real squirting. Historical records record that Huang Taiji had a nosebleed in the later period, and sometimes he had to take a bowl to catch blood while fighting. I don’t know when this problem started in history, but this time he was directly squirted out by Sun Chengzong’s squirting blood.

The reason why he took the initiative to retreat to Jianzhou was to use the terrain of Jianzhou to drag the Ming army. After the crushing defeat in Liaodong, he had to admit that he could no longer defeat the Ming army equipped with new muskets and artillery, but it was hard to say that he had run to Jianzhou where he started his career in the Jurchens.

To be honest, in Jianzhou, even if the Ming army 600,000 troops rushed over, he was not afraid. This was not the Liaodong Plain. No matter how many Ming army came, it could only be submerged in the vast hills and gullies. As long as the Ming army rushed in, his chance would come.

If the Ming army advances and attacks in one after another, he can learn from his father Khan Nurhaci and use the familiar terrain to defeat them. It doesn’t matter if the Ming army advances in groups. On the winding path of Jianzhou, the army of 500,000 or 600,000 troops could not gather together, and at least a hundred miles long team would have to be pulled out. By then, whether it was ambushing or harassing or robbing food, it would be a headache for the Ming army.

Perhaps, if he is lucky, he can still reproduce the glory of the Battle of Sarhu, defeat the Ming army in one fell swoop, occupy Liaodong again, and continue to threaten the pass!

However, now, Sun Chengzong's approach, he can say that he has no chance at all.

How to fight? The group is really a group. The 300,000 troops gathered together and didn’t go on the path at all. They just dig the road and went forward. When they saw that there was a chance to stretch the front line, they moved them over to build a fortress!

Ambushed? The mountains were almost dug up by them, and the trees were cut down by them. How can I ambush them?

Are you sneak attacking? The 300,000 troops are waiting there, going to seek death!

Huang Taiji had no choice but to squirt blood and retreat, and retreated again and again, retreated from Sarhu to Jiefan Village, then retreated from Jiefan Village to Gule Village, and then retreated from Gule Village to Maerdun Village. He could not retreat when he retreated here. Behind him is Haotuala. If he retreated again, he was the last city in the Later Jin Dynasty. The capital where his Jurchens really started was occupied by the Ming army!

In desperation, Huang Taiji had to risk his retreat from the Ming army and attack and rob the grain.

Will Sun Chengzong give him a chance? It is naturally impossible. Not only does it send 40,000 to 50,000 people to transport grain every time, but it is also full of scouts. As soon as Huang Taiji's army approaches, the grain transport team runs directly to the nearest fortress. Every twenty miles a fortress, which means that the army can run into the nearest fortress at most an hour. When he catches up, the people have already hid in the fortress. Looking at the dense muskets and cannons on the fortress, Huang Taiji had no choice but to retreat obediently.

Seeing that the fortress was about to practice Taoism, was Huang Taiji finished like this? Of course not! How could a generation of heroes be so simple? He still had his last move, but he didn't want to use it unless he had no choice.

What was Huang Taiji's last move? When Sun Chengzong spent half a year to build the fortress near Haotuala, and then led a 200,000 army to attack Haotuala, what he saw was not Jiannu's desperate struggle, full of hatred and fear, but a smoked city!

Thirty-six strategies are the best. Huang Taiji's last move is to run away. If Jianzhou can't stay, run away quickly. Do you want him to defend the lonely city and wait for death? That is impossible. They are nomadic peoples, okay?

Seeing that things were not done, Huang Taiji asked Dorgon and Duoduo to move northward with more than one million Jurchens, while he bluffed in Hetuala with a hundred thousand troops. When Sun Chengzong's army gathered 200,000 troops to attack Hetuala, he directly burned the city and led the army to catch up with the tribesmen who set out first, took them over the vast hills, bypassed the Tielingwei and Liaohaiwei, crossed the Liao River, and ran directly to the Mongolian grassland in the south of the desert!

When the Sun Chengzong sect found their traces, Huang Taiji and his tribe were almost at the Chahar tribe!

After working hard, I finally built the fortress to Hetuala, but I didn't catch a single Jiannu. Sun Chengzong could only sigh to the sky: "Boy, you can run fast!"

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When the news came back to the capital, Zhu Cijiu was so angry that he cursed. These Jiannu were so shameless. No wonder they defeated the Eight Banners of the Ming Dynasty with a small tribe of millions. In total, less than 200,000 of them died. Is this purely a combination of a group of foxes and evil wolves. If they can beat them, they will be extremely vicious. If they can't beat them, they will run away. What can you do to him?

However, there is also one advantage that they have run away, that is, the entire Liaodong is now considered safe and can finally carry out large-scale development.

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

You should know that the northwest has been drought for years. Although Zhu Cijing migrated most of the victims to provinces that were not affected by the disaster, and also introduced them high-yield crops such as potatoes and sweet potatoes, there is only so much arable land in the surrounding provinces. Originally, the local people could only have enough food and clothing, but now they have suddenly migrated twice as much as their population is in. They can ensure that their own food rations are good.

So in recent years, the northern provinces have not had any surplus of food. Liaodong and the capital have gathered nearly one million troops in recent years. Where did the food and grass come from? All of them were transported from the south!

How terrifying is the food and grass of a million troops? One million stones of grain will be consumed in a month, and nearly 10 million kilograms of grass. At that time, the transfer of grain was only carriages, and people ate horses and chewed. How much food and grass transported from the south will be consumed on the way. In other words, the transportation cost will be more than one million taels per month. If Liaodong can ensure the consumption of military food for a million troops, the freight will be saved. This item alone will be tens of million taels a year.

Of course, this population migration does not mean that it can be moved by relocation. There is a lot of preparations in the early stage. In addition, Liaodong will be in ice and snow in two months, and there is nothing to do when moving people. Zhu Cijing simply ordered northern provinces to count the population and arable land in the past few months, calculate the number of migrant populations, prepare for migration materials, and wait until the ice and snow in Liaodong melts next year before moving people over.

Just as Zhu Cijing was busy arranging population migration, news came from Dongdaying that the first batch of first-class sail battleships had been built and were just waiting for him to preside over the ceremony, open the gate and release the water, pull the battleship out of the dock, and drive into the sea!

The battleships were finally built. Now that Liaodong has been pacified, the northwest is under control. The economic development momentum of various parts of the Ming Dynasty is in good condition. It can be said that the powerful army of the Ming Dynasty has woken up, and next...
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