On February 10, the sixth year of the reign of the Communist Party, the sky was just dawning, but the alarm bell suddenly sounded on the wall of Shenyang, and the sleepy Ming soldiers only thought that the Mongols had raided, and they rushed to the city with their weapons, but they did not see the Mongols attacking the city at all, but found that the Mongolian camp in the distance had been emptied.

Zhang Jiayu and Xie Qian hurried to the city, and they were still a little anxious, because after repelling the Mongol attack yesterday, they were all a little lax, so they were really a little worried that the Mongols would steal the city.

When they came to the city wall, a hundred households immediately stepped forward to report, "Futai, Junmen, the Mongols seem to have withdrawn." ”

Xie Qian was slightly stunned, hurriedly walked to the city wall, and looked out with his support for the battlements.

Because there was no heavy artillery in the city of Shenyang, the Mongol camp was very close to the city, and at this time, the originally crowded camp was no longer a single figure, leaving only some ladders and stone throwers that had not been manufactured, as well as tents that had not had time to be dismantled, left in the open space.

"What's going on?" Zhang Jiayu and several officials looked at each other, they were still attacking the city yesterday, why did they suddenly disappear this morning? Everyone has the same question on their faces, how did the Mongols just withdraw?

Xie Qian frowned, he always felt in his heart that this battle had not yet been fought, and it ended so suddenly, which was a bit abrupt, but it was not strange to think of the habits of the Mongols.

At that moment, he smiled and said that Zhang Jiayu and others said: "I see that the Mongols withdrew their troops, there are two possibilities, one is that they suffered heavy losses, and they saw that the siege was hopeless and unprofitable, so they retreated, and the other is that they received the news of our reinforcements, so they fled in a hurry." ”

For the sparsely populated Mongols, they were really not suitable for a storm. Because the consumption is too great, too many deaths at a time, I am afraid that it will take more than ten years to recover, so it is best for them to fight if they can, and if they can't fight, they will use the advantage of cavalry to bypass the strong fortress and attack the weak points of the Ming army.

It's just that this time on the Liaohe Plain, the Ming army has such a valuable stronghold as Shenyang, they have no choice but to attack, but they can't attack so many times, and the more rational ones should have retreated long ago.

Zhang Jiayu couldn't help but nod when he heard this, but the Ming army was not careless, Xie Qian asked the soldiers to open the city gate, sent nearly 100 men and horses, divided into several teams to check, and tracked the traces of the Mongols to make sure that the Mongols had indeed evacuated.

At noon, the soldiers sent out to track the Mongols did not return, but a large group of men and horses suddenly appeared outside the southern city, and the first few cavalry galloped to the city.

The defenders had already discovered them, hundreds of soldiers hurriedly climbed the city wall, and a deputy Qianhu poked his head out, saw the army waving a bright flag, and immediately exclaimed: "Which of you are men?" ”

When they arrived at the city gate, the cavalry stabilized the war horse spraying white gas, raised a bamboo tube, and replied loudly: "My department is the Hujie Battalion of Zhongzhen Town, and on the orders of Wang Zhongtang and Gao Guogong, gallop to the aid of Zhang Futai and Xie Junmen!" ”

The city sergeant hurriedly dropped the bamboo basket and took the bamboo tube up, and at this time, Zhang Jiayu and Xie Qian, who received the report, had already hurried over.

Zhang Jiayu took the bamboo tube, poured out the documents inside, and unfolded it to check, it was indeed the seal of the governor of Beizhi, so he waved his hand busily, "Open the city gate and enlarge the army into the city!" ”

Soon after the vanguard troops entered the city, Liu Tichun, Jiang Youguang, Yang Yanchang and others led the main force to arrive.

At this time, Xie Qian and others knew that it was because the reinforcements had arrived, and the Mongols retreated in a hurry.

In fact, with the current strength of the Mongols, even if they take Shenyang, it will be difficult to gain a firm foothold, but if the Mongols enter the Liaohe Plain once every winter, the Ming Dynasty's strategy of filling the Liao will not be implemented.

Fifteen thousand Ming army reinforcements marched into the city, Zhang Jiayu and others personally greeted Liu Tichun and others into the city.

The army camped in the city, and everyone gathered together in the governor's yamen, Zhang Jiayu first hugged his fists and said: "You have come from afar, and I am in Shenyang City, which is really bitter." Tonight, Ben Fu will hold a banquet to give the generals a reception, but the conditions are limited, and a few generals are asked not to dislike it. ”

"How dare you!" Liu Tichun arched his hand and said: "We didn't help much, and before the battle was fought, the Mongols ran away." ”

Although the Mongols retreated, there was such a hidden danger, and Liaoning was uneasy for a day.

The Ming Dynasty originally had a Great Wall in Liaodong, but now it has long been costed, the Mongols want to come, they want to go, and then move the people to fill Liao, and the officials in Liaoning will also be afraid, they are afraid that they will be fortunate for a year, and the Mongols will come to destroy it again.

Although Liaoning has a province, it is obviously unable to deal with the Mongols by its own strength, so it has to rely on the support of Beizhi, and even Shandong and Shanxi.

Zhang Jiayu immediately smiled and said: "Without Wang Zhongtang and Gao Guogong sending troops, and several generals crossed the sea, how could the Mongols retreat easily." ”

After speaking, he looked at Liu Tichun and hurriedly asked, "Liu Junmen, I don't know how long the army has been stationed in Shenyang this time?" ”

This problem is a problem that Zhang Jiayu is worried about, after all, they are not Liaoning's army, they are the people of its province, if they stay for a short time and do not solve the Mongolian problem, then once they leave, Liaoning will be more dangerous.

"Zhang Futai rest assured, he shouldn't be leaving for the time being, he will be stationed for a while, maybe there will be other armies coming over soon."

When Zhang Jiayu heard him say this, he felt a little relieved, and the officials in Liaoning were also relieved.

At this time, Liu Tichun suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly took out a letter from his chest, handed it to Zhang Jiayu and said: "This is what Lord Zhongtang asked me to bring to Zhang Futai, and please take a look at Futai." ”

Zhang Jiayu hurriedly took it over, took out the letter paper and watched, Wang Fuzhi's handwriting was very beautiful and clear, and he read the content on it in a moment.

Wang Fuzhi said in the letter that he would open and close the people out of the customs at the end of February, so that he could prepare for resettlement, and in order to ensure the smooth progress of the resettlement of the people, he would persuade the imperial court to carry out a sweep of Mongolia outside the customs.

The Ming armies in Beizhi and Shanxi would take the initiative to go out of the customs to attack the Mongol tribes, and inflict heavy losses on the Mongols who were unwilling to submit, so that they would not dare to invade the border for at least ten years.

Liaoning is alone outside the pass, and if the imperial court attacks Mongolia on a large scale to ensure the safety of Liaoning, then he can breathe a long sigh of relief, and the burden on his shoulders will be reduced by at least half.

After all, it is difficult to build, but it is very simple to destroy the construction, let the Mongolian, the destroyer, settle down, then his construction in Liaoning will be much easier.

He originally thought that after Liaoning was established as a province, he would not get much support from Beizhi, and he didn't want Wang Fuzhi to be so concerned about Liaoning's affairs.

This is actually thanks to Wang Yan's reform of the cabinet, Wang Fuzhi wants to return to the central government to pay respects to the prime minister, and there must be political achievements, and they are not ordinary political achievements.

Because Yan Qiheng and Gu Yuanjing, who were put in the local government, are only in their forties, it is impossible to stay in the place with peace of mind, and they must also want to return to the central government.

The relocation of the people to fill in the Liao is done, which is to consolidate the political achievements of the thousand-mile territory, and Wang Fuzhi is naturally interested.

The Ming Dynasty was a big empire, and it took about ten and a half days and a half to communicate from Beijing to Nanjing, and the connection with the southwest was even longer.

Therefore, the central government gave the local governor a certain right to transfer troops, and at the same time as the direct transfer of troops from the north, Wang Fuzhi's report also arrived in Nanjing.

In Nanjing, in the cabinet hall, Wang Yanzheng and several cabinet ministers were watching the beating report from Beizhi.

Some time ago, he already knew the news that Wu Keshan was called Khan in Horqin, and he was furious at that time, preparing to clean up Wu Keshan after the beginning of spring, but he didn't expect that he was still making a plan, and Wu Keshan had already started to attack Shenyang first.

At this time, Wang Yan looked at Beizhi's beating report, stood up and looked at the map hanging on the wall for a while, turned to several cabinet ministers and said: "Beizhi suggested that after the beginning of spring, launch an attack on Mongolia, I think it is feasible, do you have any opinions?" ”

Several cabinet ministers in the hall discussed for a while, and Chen Bangyan got up and said, "Prison country, the minister agrees with Wang Zhongtang's proposal, it is time to fight a dozen, not to let the Mongolian tribes be unified, and pose a threat to the northern Xinjiang, and if they are not beaten, the imperial court's plan to relocate the people and fill the Liao cannot be implemented." ”

Chen Zilong pondered for a moment and said: "Prison country, the minister thinks that it is easy to defeat the Mongols, but the key is how to solve the peace of northern Xinjiang for a long time." ”

It is easy to defeat the Mongols, but it is more difficult for the Central Plains Dynasty to rule the Mongolian steppe, because the environment in the Central Plains is more comfortable, and there will not be many people willing to go to the steppe, and few people will go to the steppe, but they will be Hu.

This problem is relatively big, the Central Plains Dynasty has defeated the nomadic herdsmen in the north many times, but because the Central Plains people are not accustomed to the climate in the north, and the grassland cannot be cultivated, so after a few decades, there will often be new tribes rising, causing new border troubles, and this problem has not been solved.

Wang Yan also fell into contemplation, but Du Yinxi said: "For this, the minister has some ideas, one is to learn from the Song and Liao, open the border market, and export all kinds of items from the Central Plains, especially to send books and other items to the upper class of Mongolia, pearls, agate, ivory, jade and other valuables, you can sell them at a low price to consume their will, and learn the strategy of this dynasty, help the Mongols build cities, and let them settle down, then it will be much easier for our dynasty to conquer." ”

Du Yinxi paused as he spoke, and then continued: "But before that, the imperial court has to fight a battle to exterminate the unsatisfied Mongolian tribes before the above two strategies can be implemented." ”

After listening to this, several people in the hall couldn't help but nod their heads after discussing a few words. These two methods, one is to rely on advanced culture to invade, just like the historical Song Dynasty did to Liao and Jin, the other is to fix the nomadic herding on a piece of land, with the city, the Ming army is easy to find and fight, when the Ming Dynasty supported Altan Khan and Sanniangzi to build a naturalized city, it maintained the peace between the Ming Dynasty and the Tatar border for decades.

Wang Yan thought about it for a while and couldn't help but bow, and then said: "I think the strategy of blocking the cabinet is feasible, but in addition to helping Mongolia build a city, we also have to build a city ourselves." Li Dingguo recently sent a beating report, which suggested that I build a fort in Java to confront Heyi, and I saw that the fortress he mentioned was the Xiyi Ridge Fort that was respected by the Xu Pavilion Department back then. ”

There are so many rivers and pastures on the grassland, and Wang Yan wants to build some military forts in the center of important rivers and pastures for the army to be stationed, just like those Xiyi, drive a nail there, and then rule the surroundings, and even collect taxes.

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