At the time of the country's employment, Cheng Da Da had just been promoted to the governor of Liaodong, and he was very relied on by Hong Chengchou, and when the imperial court urged him to send troops, Cheng Da Da who had served in Liaodong for a long time calmly analyzed the situation.

Cheng Da Da believed that the hasty promotion of the army was to send them to death, and at least they should follow the example of the Southern King to relieve the siege of Jinzhou, and they must wait until the spring of the next year to force back the Qing army besieging Jinzhou with the tactics of digging trenches and gradually advancing.

Hong Chengchou's strategy is to prepare to exchange time for space to continuously encroach on the Qing army, and the plan is not at all a decisive battle with Jiannu next spring, but the plan cannot keep up with the changes, and the imperial court is urging very urgently, so it can only be so.

Liu Yingkun, the eunuch of the supervising army, had already taken refuge in Huang Sheng, and he had already looked down on everything when he came to Liaodong again, and he cooperated happily with the officials of the "God of War" department. Of course, he agreed with the tactics of achieving great things, and the three top leaders of western Liaoning reached an agreement.

Hong Chengchou, Cheng Da and other civil and military generals did not have the illusion of destroying the Manchu army, they were quite sober, knowing that it was an impossible task for the Ming army assembled in Liaoxi, and they only needed to give the Manchu army a hard blow, so that Jiannu knew the difficulty and retreated.

Liaodong Jingluo, the governor of Liaodong, and the eunuchs of the supervising army jointly reported to the Son of Heaven, unanimously requesting that they could not fight a decisive battle with the Qing army this year, and that they would lead their men and horses and Jiannu to fight under the city of Jinzhou next spring.

The last emperor was not good, Li Zicheng rose rapidly, and several cities in the Central Plains of the Ming Dynasty fell every month.

The Emperor can't afford to wait! A more severe edict urging the soldiers was sent to Ningyuan City.

Seeing that Liaodong was already cold, there was no time and place to send troops at this time, although the quality and morale of the Ming army were better than history, but it was not enough to fight with the Qing army in the field.

Hong Chengchou adopted the trick of procrastination, verbally coped with the emperor's edict urging the decisive battle, and secretly struggled and did not move.

Under the command of the governor of Liaodong, there is a real staff general and a guerrilla general that he has tried to promote, and these two people have cooperated with him for more than ten years, they are the "God of War" Ding Yao Shanshou and Zhou Fang.

These two people are from the surviving Ming army on Juehua Island, and they are the heroes of the change of their own lives and sticking to the small city of Funing against the thousands of troops and horses of Jiannu, and they have fully possessed the quality of a new army general after more than ten years of study and experience.

Although the vast majority of their subordinates are Ming soldiers who receive Ming military salaries, too many grassroots officers are agents of the Military Intelligence Department.

Yao Shanshou's battalion was formerly a reinforcement battalion, and now it is the Liaodong Governor's Standard Battalion, although the number is only more than 3,000, but more than half of them are firearms troops, they are not equipped with the Ming Dynasty to make Lu Mi guns, but to use the "Nanming" to make smoothbore guns.

Zhou Fang's guerrilla battalion has more than 2,000 men and horses, and half of the firearms troops, and its mental outlook is very different from that of the soldiers of the "God of War."

Therefore, although there were only 10,000 horses guarding Ning Yuan, his combat effectiveness was undoubted, and he was not worried about being besieged by Jiannu at all.

Ning Yuan had been in business for many years before he came to serve as a soldier, and it has been the location of the Liaodong Economic Strategy Office, which is the first important town outside the Guan, and there are 10,000 or 20,000 households in the surrounding Tuntian, which is only 50 miles away from the nearest place in the Zhongmingbao Tunken District run by the Southern Wang.

Since more than ten years ago, the Red Gangster suffered a loss in the West Liaoning Corridor, and has always been obsessed with there, and has sent traitors to Gaotai Fort to go undercover countless times, but unfortunately no one has returned.

The stupid method of only allowing people to enter but not to leave in the Zhongmingbao Reclamation Area is not clever but effective, as long as they find suspicious people, they will all be arrested and sent to "Huaxia Island" from afar, and they will slowly screen whether they are traitors while doing coolies.

Jiannu didn't have the intelligence of a 200-mile radius of Gaotai Fort, and he didn't know how many "God of War" people were left there, so he hadn't even been to Ning Yuanxi all these years.

Cheng Da is a hardcore official of the Ming Dynasty's "God of War", and others are afraid to come to Liaodong to be an official, but he is rushing because he is in the chest.

He knew that if Ning Yuan was surrounded, the "God of War" garrison would not sit idly by, and Juehua Island and Huangjiawan Island would not turn a deaf ear, Ning Yuan had the advantage of being close to the sea, as long as the Qing army dared to come, they would not let them get out easily.

Cheng Da left 3,000 infantry and Xiang Yong young and strong to hold Ningyuan, and he also had the ability to organize 7,000 men and horses to counterattack the enemy with firearms superiority and open the way to the seaside dock.

Therefore, theoretically, Ning Yuan could not be encircled, and the red gangsters also knew how to weigh the pros and cons, so they did not choose to set up a battlefield in Ningyuan, but chose Jinzhou, which was far away from the sea.

The straight-line distance between Jinzhou and Ningyuan is only about 160 miles, but there are dangerous places such as Lianshan, Tashan, Xingshan, Songshan and so on along the way, and it is ...... for the Ming army to pass through these areas.

Alas! Fighting a war is actually a comparison of national strength. Daming no longer has the leisure and elegance of using time for space to trap Jiannu.

If the national strength of the Ming Dynasty is still there, Hong Chengchou can adopt the strategy of exhausting the enemy and adopt the tactics of a decisive battle on the battlefield that must be preset by himself.

Hong Chengchou can completely set up a battlefield in Ningyuan and not go to Jinzhou, anyway, Jinzhou is fully prepared with materials, and the main general He Kegang is good at defending the city, and it is impossible to make a short time with the ability to build slaves.

Besides, even if Jinzhou is lost, it is actually insignificant, as long as it is done to give Jiannu a large number of kills and injuries to the Ming army, it will not be a loss, after all, the proportion of Han and Jurchen populations is too large.

The Qing army mobilized more than 100,000 men and horses to confront each other for a long time, and they would definitely not be able to bear it first, and their choice was only to retreat, come to Ningyuan for a decisive battle, or storm Jinzhou.

Choose one of the three, no matter what Jiannu does, the Ming Dynasty will not suffer, and the Qing army will always lose a lot.

Hong Chengchou and Chengcheng Da expected Jiannu to come to Ningyuan for a decisive battle, but unfortunately the opponent also knew the stakes, and the red gangsters were besieging Jinzhou to the point that they could not get through, but Tashan came to Ningyuan.

There was a shortage of food in the imperial court, and there was no reserve of military food in western Liaoning.

Chengda responded to the call of the king of the south, and stockpiled enough food and coal in Ningyuan for three years for the army and civilians.

However, these reserves are calculated based on 40,000 or 50,000 soldiers and civilians guarding Ningyuan for three years, and now there are more than 100,000 troops, and there are more than 50,000 people who have taken refuge nearby, and there are also many people who have fled from the direction of Tashan.

The battlefield in western Liaoning was opened, and the persecution of the cantonment around Ningyuan stopped, and in a year and a half, two or three hundred thousand soldiers and civilians sat on the empty mountain, and of course consumed a huge amount of grain.

The imperial court gritted its teeth to supply military rations, but how could hundreds of thousands of ordinary people survive without output, and they also need food to satisfy their hunger!

Cheng Da Da and Yao Shanshou would of course work together to deal with the invasion of Jiannu at this time, and they personally went to Funing to find He Guilan to help solve the problem of grain and grass.

He Guilan and Jiannu are not in the same day, knowing that the Ming army is fighting with Jiannu in Liaodong, of course she will do her best to help.

She immediately mobilized the masses to take out the grain reserves, buy them with enough silver coins, summoned the villagers to transport the grain, and organized more than 100,000 stone of grain in ten days, but it took half a month to send the grain to Ningyuan City by merchant ships and horse ships.