After the beginning of spring in the fifth year of Tianyuan, as the temperature in Liaodong gradually warmed up, the war in Liaodong, which had been stagnant for a winter, began to start again.

After the melting of the northern sea ice, at the end of March, the ships that had rested in the harbor for the winter began to fill up again with cargo, and once again set sail.

Sea ships loaded with all kinds of supplies began to dock at the docks on the east and west banks of the Liaodong Peninsula again, and then began to replenish the Liaodong army.

At the same time, in addition to batches of new soldiers and horses, groups of new immigrants began to appear in Liaodong with the ships.

After last year's war, a large number of Jiannu controlled territory was cleaned, the land was abandoned again, became a terra nullius, these lands were naturally nationalized by the Great Middle Kingdom, became official land, in the winter Xiao Tianjian and the cabinet ministers considered the actual control of Liaodong in the future, after deliberation launched the Liaodong immigration plan.

The new immigration policy, the most important of which is the distribution of land, the Dazhong Dynasty to the densely populated areas of the country openly recruit immigrants to the north, all the immigrants who agree to settle in Liaodong, the imperial court each family to give a certain amount of cash, as a settlement fee, for the construction of houses in Liaodong, the purchase of agricultural tools, at the same time according to the population of each family to give each immigrant five acres of free official land, for farming, but also exempt them from two years of field tax, the third year of the field tax is also given half of the collection, in the event of a disaster, It is also possible to extend the period of reduction and exemption of land endowments.

In addition to the private land granted to them, if the immigrants had the strength to expand their cultivation, they could also rent the official land from the local government in Liaodong for cultivation, and the tenant rent paid for the cultivation of the official land they rented was also exempted in the first year, and halved in the second and third years.

In addition, all the peasant households who are willing to immigrate to Liaodong, on the way to Liaodong, all the food and drink expenses are borne by the imperial court, each person is given two catties of grain every day, and each person is given half a catty of salt every month, and if they bring their own ploughing cattle, they are also given a certain subsidy, and the imperial court is responsible for providing them with ships to transport them across the sea, and sending troops to provide protection for their cantonment in the first year.

The conditions for recruiting immigrants were very generous, and some bold peasants, who did not have much land in their hometowns, agreed to apply for the recruitment after learning the news, and began to embark on the road to the north under the unified organization of the local government with their families.

Along the way, the government would provide them with temporary shelter and food, and even set up a medical post to treat them along the way, and provide them with coffins and land for their relatives to bury if they died.

After the New Year, these immigrants from all over the country began to arrive in batches in the Jiaodong area, or the Shanhaiguan area, and then went to various cantonment sites in Liaodong by boat or under the protection of the military for resettlement, accompanied by a group of newly appointed officials, and a group of officials arrived in advance to make arrangements.

Therefore, after the beginning of the spring of the fifth year of Tianyuan, a new wave of immigrants was set off in Dazhong and North Korea, and a large number of immigrants began to migrate to Liaodong.

Of course, because the war in Liaodong has not yet ended, the number of immigrants at this time is not possible, and the number of immigrants in the first batch is only about tens of thousands, but for the Great Middle Dynasty, it is the seed to control the entire Liaodong in the future, with the end of the war in Liaodong, there will be more immigrants out of the customs to Liaodong, only the number of Han people in Liaodong continues to grow, China can firmly control the entire Liaodong in its hands, in this regard, Xiao Tianjian and the cabinet ministers naturally have a clear understanding.

In the future, according to Xiao Tianjian's plan, the Great Middle and North Korea will also migrate to the south of the Mongolian steppe or even to the north of the desert, on the one hand, to subdue those Mongolians by military high-pressure means, and on the other hand, to protect the immigrants by force and move into their places of existence, only in this way can the north be stabilized.

In addition, now Xiao Tianjian still can't take into account the Yili Jiangli region in the northwest, that is, the Xinjiang region in the future, and after the battle of Liaodong is over, the next step is to launch a crusade against this area, anyway, in his opinion, as long as it is China in the future, it must be taken back.

Of course, it is also indispensable to control the land of Wusi Tibetan Dusi and Duogandusi, but fortunately, after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the Tibetans in these two places have already expressed their submission to the central government, and the living Buddha of Tibetan Buddhism has also expressed his willingness to accept the canonization of the Great Middle Dynasty.

In Xiao Tianjian's planning, the territorial scope of the Great China and North Korea should be far from the current scope, in addition to the current jurisdiction, the northern border of the Great China and North Korea should be greatly expanded in the next step, at least from the vast area east of the Ural Mountains, should be Chinese, even if it is unrealistic to immigrate to the north in large numbers in the short term, at least nominally get hands on it first, and let the province let the old Maozi rob it, and become the great enemy of northern China in the future.

The most important thing is the resources of the entire Far East, for China hundreds of years later, this vast land that is still a barren land in this era is too important for the Chinese, and he now has this opportunity to bring this land into the pocket of the Chinese in advance, how can he miss this great opportunity!

At this point, Xiao Tianjian has also communicated with the cabinet, and the cabinet ministers did not expect Xiao Tianjian's appetite to be so big, and he actually set his sights on such an extreme north, and he would also be included in the pocket of Dazhongchao.

However, for Xiao Tianjian's ambition, their ministers are still very happy, people live a lifetime, meet such a hard-working holy monarch, it is also a blessing for them, just such a way to expand the territory, it is enough for them to shine in the world in the future, and leave a name in history, so the cabinet ministers also agreed that once the war in Liaodong is over, they can send an elite advance army to continue to expand the territory to the north.

But this is all later, and now the most important thing for them is to solve the big trouble of building slaves first, and then talk about other things.

With the gradual warming of the weather and the replenishment of various materials, the Liaodong armies began to attack Jiannu again on the eastern and western fronts under the leadership of Diao Zheng and Luo Li.

This winter, for Jiannu, is like a nightmare, many Jiannu returned to the state of life decades ago, last year's war, the year before last's drought, led to a serious food shortage in Jiannu last winter, many Jiannu did not have much food to reserve for wintering, and there was no food in winter, which only meant one result, that is, death!

Under the severe cold torture of Liaodong for nearly half a year in the Xiaoice River era, many Jiannu, including their slaves, were starved to death because they could not find anything to eat, and even in the Shengjing of Jiannu, some Jiannu nobles had starved to death, not to mention the Jiannu tartars at the bottom, after a winter passed, they almost even killed and ate their war horses in order to survive.

This winter's severe cold has become the best helper of the Dazhong Army, devouring the lives of countless Jiannu, and after the arrival of spring in Liaodong, as the Dazhong Army launched its action again, the Dazhong Army found that many Jiannu who resisted fiercely last year no longer have the will and ability to resist.

When the Dazhong army appeared outside some walled forts, I only saw some Jiannu standing on top of the walled fort with dull eyes, full of numbness, yellow muscles and thin faces, staring blankly at the arrival of the Dazhong army.

After April, the large Chinese armies on the eastern and western fronts moved very quickly, and in mid-May, they jointly broke through Gaizhou, an important town in eastern Liaodong, and the men and horses of the two lines successfully converged in Gaizhou, and then turned around and began to attack in the direction of Liaoyang.

Dolgon also made his efforts, mobilizing nearly 20,000 slave troops as much as possible and stationed them in the areas of Yaozhou and Haizhou, trying to stop the continued offensive of the Dazhong army, and also gathered more than 5,000 elite cavalry, trying to invade the Jinzhou area to grab food to maintain their consumption.

However, all his efforts were turned into ashes in front of the superior Dazhong Army, which practiced the tactics of clearing the field step by step along the attack, passing through one place, burning all the materials that might be looted, and the military stations set up along the way were also fortified, and the hoarded materials were taken care of by special personnel.

Although Jiannu's grain grabbing operation was launched, but after paying a huge price, although several military stations and Zhuangbao were breached, the defenders of these military stations set themselves on fire before the military station was broken, and burned the materials stored in the military station, so that Jiannu, who finally broke through the military station, could not even get a single piece of food, and could only pay the price of countless lives in vain.

The old way they used to deal with the Ming army was now useless, and the Dazhong army did not leave them a chance at all, while constantly launching fierce offensives, they adopted a starvation strategy to stifle all possibilities for Jiannu to obtain food.

At the same time, the Great and Medium Dynasty once again drove a large number of Mongols to go deep into the controlled areas of Jiannu in small groups to burn, kill and loot, and destroy the villages and pastures of Jiannu.

The Mongolian Tatars are best at doing this kind of thing, doing this kind of thing is familiar to them, they used to follow the Jiannu to loot the Han people, now they turn around and help the Han people to loot the Jiannu, and this kind of action is also a good thing for them, the large Chinese army allowed them to leave the cattle, sheep, mules, horses and various property that they robbed from the Jiannu, under the stimulation of the material, they were even more energetic, and countless Mongolian cavalry roared into the control area of the Jiannu.

The entire Liaodong began to tremble under the iron hooves of the Great Chinese Army, and the Jiannu were defeated in successive battles, and there was a serious shortage of materials, so they had to fight and retreat to shrink their front.

At the end of June, under the attack of Luo Li's department, Yaozhou and Haizhou were broken one after another, and Jiannu became the defender at this time, and the Dazhong Army completely grasped the initiative in the war, and chose their battlefield without any scruples, forcing the Jiannu Army to act according to the dispatch of the Dazhong Army.

More than 20,000 Jiannu were beaten by Luo Li's department in this month, and the corpses were scattered all over the field, and in the end, only a few thousand Jiannu retreated into Liaoyang City in a hurry.

At the same time, after Diao Zheng cooperated with the Western Front to defeat Gaizhou, he once again began to attack in the direction of Jiannu's Shengjing from the Eastern Front, and at this time, Jiannu was really embattled.

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