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Zhu Youzhen called Wang Chengen: "Wang Chengen, come and see this Tang newspaper, is this a mistake written by Jin Guogong, or is it a misunderstanding?" The Duke of Jinguo sent troops to Liaodong for a month and a half, and then captured Shenyang, the lair of Dongnu? ”

Wang Chengen shouted and came up to pick up Li Zhi's Tang newspaper. He looked at it carefully, and after reading it, he watched it again, and couldn't help but take a breath.

"Shengshang, you read it right, Jin Guogong said that he has captured Shenyang."

"Jin Guogong said that outside the city of Shenyang, he broke the horse army of the Tartars and beheaded 2,377 corpses. The Tartars did not dare to fight with the Jinguo Bus, abandoned the nest that had been in operation for more than 20 years, and fled all the way to the north. ”

Zhu Youzhen heard Wang Chengen's words and asked, "The Dongnu who has plagued my Ming Dynasty for decades is so vulnerable?" Wang Chengen, do you think the Tang newspaper of Jin Guogong is true? ”

Wang Chengen thought for a while and said, "There is no need for the Duke of Jin to lie, I'm afraid this is the truth." Jin Guogong also said that the Tartars carried out the materials in Shenyang City, and I am afraid that this was the Tartars' initiative to retreat, so the progress of the Jin Guogong was so rapid. ”

"But, Holy Lord, this is a great victory anyway. This entry into Shenyang can be regarded as the recovery of the entire Liaodong! Shenyang fell in the Apocalypse Dynasty, lost for twenty-seven years, and now it has been recovered. ”

Zhu Youzhen thought about it, and gradually became happy. A smile gradually appeared on his face, and finally he simply looked up and laughed.

"In the second year of Chongzhen, the slave chief Huang Taiji was killed outside the capital, how arrogant? Unexpectedly, today, my Ming soldiers and horses actually captured Dongnu's lair. Unexpectedly, I worked hard day and night to finally move the ancestors of the first emperor, and the gods knew that I had the martial arts to open up the territory and restore the land! ”

Wang Chengen looked at Zhu Youzhen's face, knelt on the ground with a puff, and shouted loudly: "Although it is on the surface the military exploits of the Duke of Jinguo, in fact, this is all caused by the Son of Heaven's Ten Heavenly Sacred Heart Rule, and the supreme power of Heaven. ”

When the eunuchs and maids in the palace saw such a scene, they also knelt down one by one and sang loudly: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" ”

Zhu Youzhen stood up, stomped a few steps in the Qianqing Palace, and said with a smile: "Okay! What a Li Zhi! ”

After laughing a few times, Zhu Youzhen sighed again.

"If it weren't for Li Zhi's defeat of Shenyang, but for the new army of Beijing to build this miraculous feat, how good it would be."

Shaking his head, Zhu Youzhen waved his sleeves and said: "Feng Li Zhi is the general of the expedition to the north!" Spread my will, so that Li Zhi must cut down the grass and eradicate the roots this time, and the head of the chief of Tinu Dolgon will come to see me. ”

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On the first day of the sixth month, Li Zhi led an army of 44,000 to 30,000 Wei.

Sanwanwei is one of the northernmost guards in Liaodong Town, and the place is about the Kaiyuan City of later generations. Ming set up a guard in this place and established Anle Prefecture. After the revocation of Anle Prefecture, only 30,000 guards remained. After the Tatar Qing occupied Liaodong, a large number of Han Chinese fled from the Acropolis. The population of the original acropolis became smaller and smaller, and gradually it became an empty city.

The bricks wrapped around the walls of the 30,000 guards seem to have been pried away, and none of them remain. The rammed earth walls beneath the bricks have collapsed in many places under the rain, and are no longer defensive. The wooden buildings in the city were probably used as firewood by the nearby Tartars, but they were all demolished and taken away, and what was left was no longer a building.

In the whole guardhouse, only the high and low houses are left with rammed earth foundations.

After the Tatar Qing occupied Liaodong, they implemented a massacre-style reign of terror. Most of the Han towns in Liaodong were dilapidated and abandoned, and Sanwanwei was just one of the small cities. But this small city is enough to prove the brutality of the Tatar Qing.

Li Zhi stayed in this abandoned city for several days, until the fifth day of the sixth month, and did not continue to advance.

It's not that these 30,000 guards have any special military value, but Li Zhi found that if he rushes forward, the logistics will not be able to keep up.

Li Zhi had been fighting on the inner front before, and even if he conquered Japan, he was only attacking the seaside cities, and the logistics line was easy to protect. But when it comes to the vast Northeast Plains, the problem of transporting supplies is completely different from before.

Supplies were disembarked from Jinzhou and transported to Sanwanwei via Shenyang for 800 miles by land. Li Zhi's convoy was transported by horse-drawn carriage and could travel more than 40 miles a day. It takes 20 days to travel from Jinzhou to Sanwanwei. If Li Zhi's soldiers and horses advanced at a speed of thirty miles a day, by the time the supplies carried by the army were finished, the supplies behind them would still not be delivered.

Li Zhi had to slow down his march in order to get grain and grass in the rear.

In the big tent of the Chinese army in the 30,000-guard city wall, the generals stood in front of the two-meter-long and wide "Northeast Topographic Sand Table", frowning one by one.

Li Zhi made a large sand table in advance of this expedition outside the pass. The sand table is made of river sand, rice and glue, and the mountains and rivers of the northeast are simulated according to the intelligence of the scouts, so that people can see the geography of the war at a glance.

The generals looked at the sand table and found that they had only penetrated two-fifths of the way into the Great Plain of the Northeast. After walking hundreds of miles, logistics has become a problem, and the situation will be more complicated if you go any further, and everyone can't help but worry about logistics.

Staff officer Hong Chengchou said: "According to my estimates, this time Dolgon has fled all the way north, and it is likely that he is already thousands of miles away. The Jurchens have an Alchuka fortress on the shore of the white mountain and black water, which is the capital of the Jin Kingdom. Since Dolgon blindly avoided the war this time, it is likely that he has fled to Alchuka with hundreds of thousands of people. ”

Hong Chengchou said: "If our army does not go north to kill the main force of the Tartars this time, I am afraid that after my army returns to Tianjin, the Tartars will go south to plunder the people outside the city of Liaodong, and Liaodong will never have peace." Therefore, if we can't annihilate the Tartars this time, we will have to station a large number of soldiers and horses in Liaodong in the future. And even if we have a large number of soldiers and horses, we will be tired of defense, and we will be repeatedly tug-of-war with the Tartars, and we will not be able to safely reclaim the vast land of the Liaodong Plain. ”

"If the situation becomes like that, Liaodong will have no economic value and will become a heavy burden for the grandfather."

"So I suggest that we kill Alchuka this time and fight the Tartars between the white mountains and black waters."

Zheng Kaicheng looked at the sand table and asked, "Staff Officer Hong, Alchuka is a thousand miles away, how can we guarantee our logistics?" ”

Hong Chengchou replied: "We can set up a camp every 300 li, and build three camps between this place and Alchuka. Each camp was guarded by 10,000 Liao Ding people to store food in the camp. ”

"At the same time, we used 10,000 soldiers as a food transport team to transport food between the various camps. In this way, even if the Tartars send tens of thousands of cavalry to attack our logistics routes, we can afford it. ”

Zheng Kaicheng thought for a while and said: "In this way, we will build a camp all the way and wait for grain and grass, and this northern expedition may take a few months." If it drags on until winter, our soldiers will not be able to fight in this bitter cold place, and we will have to retreat. ”

Hong Chengchou nodded and said, "Dolgon also thinks so, so he is willing to abandon Shenyang and retreat all the way to the extreme north." All he wanted was to drag the war on until winter and let us return in vain. ”

"But that's the only way we can solve the logistics."