Since the 12th year of Chongzhen, after the Yujia army defeated the Jiannu army in the Guannei, the Jiannu outside the Guanguan have become a lot of stops, and the strategy has begun to shrink in an all-round way, and their defense line has been withdrawn to the north of the north bank of the Daling River.

This also made the situation outside the entire Guanxi much easier, and the Guanning Army was almost the most comfortable two years in the past few decades.

Zu Dashou did not think of taking advantage of this opportunity to recover some of the lost territory in Liaodong, at least to recover Guangningwei and Yizhou.

At the end of the spring of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen last year, Zu Dashou also summoned a group of Guanning troops and launched an attack on Yizhou, trying to recapture the city of Yizhou, but when Zu Dashou led the troops to Yizhou, he found that Jiannu was very well defended over there, and the Jiannu defenders of Yizhou did not know when, and they were also equipped with a lot of Hongyi cannons.

As a last resort, Zu Dashou had to give up the idea of Kefuyizhou and led the army to withdraw to the Jinzhou area, and the two sides once again returned to a state of confrontation.

Jiannu obviously also lost the ability to take the initiative to attack, and put on a posture of strict defense and death, the Guanning army did not provoke them, and they no longer sent troops to provoke the Guanning army.

In the past two years, the two sides have often clashed with dozens of people and up to one or two hundred people, and basically have never fought any large-scale major battles.

Therefore, in the past two years, it can basically be said that it has been the most peaceful period in recent years, and the Jiannu side has completely changed from an offensive to a defensive position, losing its previous arrogance.

After Yu Xiaotian listened, let people hang a fairly detailed map of Liaodong in the big tent, Zu Dashou and others looked at it, they were secretly taken aback, in this era, the map is a very precious thing, it is generally difficult for private individuals to have, and it will not be printed in batches, basically drawn by hand.

Only the government had the ability to mobilize manpower and material resources to draw maps, and because of the limitations of cartographic technology, the maps of China in this era were relatively rough and very inaccurate.

And even so, only high-ranking generals or high-ranking officials may have maps in their collections, and it is difficult for ordinary generals to get a very detailed map.

But the map that Yu Xiaotian hung out today is quite detailed, the scale of the map is very accurate, in addition to marking various towns and villages with various colors, mountains and rivers are also marked, and even in some places a lot of lines are drawn circle by circle, marked with numbers, I don't know what it is for.

Moreover, many places on the map are marked with different colors, and after Yu Xiaotian's explanation, they know that these places with different colors represent forests, hills, cultivated land, grasslands, etc.

The detailed process of this map far exceeds all the maps they have seen before, including the terrain and towns of the entire eastern Liaodong, and the scale is also marked below, you only need to use a ruler to measure the distance on the map, and according to the proportion, you can basically get the approximate distance between the two places.

Such an accurate map is something they have never heard of before, and how much manpower and material resources need to be invested to map such a detailed map!

As generals of Liaodong, they have not made such an accurate map for so many years, but they didn't expect Yu Xiaotian to draw such a map at hand.

Even if these Guanning generals thought with their butts, they could guess that Yu Xiaotian had already secretly sent someone to investigate the situation in the entire Liaodong, which not only included the occupied area of Jiannu, but also the area they controlled, and knew the situation in the entire Liaodong by heart.

Fortunately, they didn't make a move to confront Yu Xiaotian outside the gate this time, otherwise Yu Xiaotian would definitely be able to clean them up easily.

Yu Xiaotian didn't care what these people were thinking, and after hanging out the map, he began to study with the generals the specific combat matters of this expedition against Jiannu according to the map.

After inquiring Zu Dashou and others in detail about their understanding of Jiannu's situation, and then based on some information detected by Yu Xiaotian's own intelligence system, after printing and combining with each other, they basically came up with the current military arrangement of Jiannu.

Yu Xiaotian didn't say anything polite to Zu Dashou and others, and directly began to arrange the next battle plan against Jiannu.

Yu Xiaotian mocked these Guanning generals and ridiculed their incompetence, Jiannu has lost a lot of strength after the twelve years of Chongzhen, but the Guanning army basically maintains the integrity of its strength, but after nearly three years, the Guanning army can be said to have not made an inch, and in the case of the loss of more than half of the strength of the Jiannu army, it has not been able to recover an inch of land.

Although Yu Xiaotian said it more vaguely, Zu Dashou and the others still heard the meaning of his words, and couldn't help but feel a little ashamed.

Yu Xiaotian actually didn't lose them, Yu Xiaotian led more than 30,000 soldiers, fought the Jiannu army of 100,000 in the Guan, and beat the Jiannu army to a loss, almost annihilated them in the Guan, but in the past three years, they have basically enjoyed a peaceful life outside the Guan, but they have not been able to recover even an inch of old land.

The Ming court spent a lot of money to support them, and after Yu Xiaotian ascended the throne, in the past three years, at least nearly one million taels of silver have been allocated to them, but they only spent money and did nothing, just kept the current territory and did not be taken away by Jiannu, which is really not good.

Now they still have to lead the army to march in person and come to the border to fight for Jiannu, and they can also see that Yu Xiaotian went out of the customs this time, in fact, the number of soldiers and horses he brought is not very large, and it is not even as strong as their Guanning army, but they are coming to recover the entire Liaodong.

It's really uncomfortable to say this, but it's also true, their Guanning army has not done what they should have done outside the pass for decades, and the entire Liaodong has been gradually encroached upon by Jiannu, and they are retreating step by step, if it weren't for the Yujia army in the 12th year of Chongzhen in Guannei to kill the 100,000 army of Jiannu, it is estimated that even they here now, they can't stand it and have been taken away by Jiannu.

So although they heard that Yu Xiaotian was mocking their incompetence, but because of Yu Xiaotian's force, each of them didn't even dare to let out a fart, bowed their heads and kept silent, which was regarded as acquiescing in Yu Xiaotian's accusations against them.

That night, Yu Xiaotian left Zu Dashou to talk with Zu Dashou for a long time, and Yu Xiaotian did not hide Zu Dashou, and directly explained his consideration and arrangements for the status of the Guanning army general in the future.

Yu Xiaotian told his ancestors that after he destroyed Jiannu this time, the Guanning army must also be reorganized, and under his majesty, he would never allow a group of semi-privatized warlords like the Guanning army to survive, and the army was the army of the state, not belonging to anyone, which could not be challenged.

But for them, the old generals of Guanning, who are in charge of the army, remember that they have been guarding the border passes for Daming Town for so many years, which can be regarded as a high level of hard work, and the previous things will not be investigated, and they will be allowed to unload their armor and return to the field, and return to their hometowns to raise their honors, but those who take the initiative to give up their military power and hand over their military rights can give each person a settling-in allowance of 5,000 taels of silver, and after returning to their hometowns, they can be given 200 acres of private land for their pension.

But if someone refuses to hand over the military power and tries to support the army and confront the court, then the consequences are at their own risk, if someone wants to try, they can give it a try, he Yu Xiaotian will not care.

As for Zu Dashou himself, Yu Xiaotian said that he attaches great importance to him, and he can let Zu Dashou enter the military department to do things afterwards, and he will never bury Zu Dashou's talents.

Zu Dashou was silent for a long time after hearing this, shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Thank you for the love of the prison country, since this is the case, then Zu has nothing to say, and suddenly asked me to wait so much to give up these brothers under his command, it really makes me wait for a bad time."

But since the people of the prison country have made up their minds, then we can only act according to orders, as for the last general, he is old, and he has no enterprising heart, and he is willing to return to his hometown to retire, and I hope that the people of the prison country can treat us well for the sake of our loyalty to the Ming Dynasty for decades!

In addition, those soldiers and generals under our command, although they have not made many contributions, but they have also guarded the border for Daming for so many years, and when the Lord of the Prison Country reorganizes the Guanning Army in the future, I hope to treat them well! ”

The reason why Zu Dashou agreed so happily was also out of helplessness, if he still had a little way, he would not agree to Yu Xiaotian's conditions.

His ancestral family has been a heavy general of the Ming Dynasty for generations, and several of his brothers, Zu Dale, Zu Dabi, Zu Dacheng and others are all important generals of Guanning, and it can be said that they control a large number of Guanning troops, and almost no one can control their ancestral family outside the Guan, and their sons and nephews also serve in the army, and they also control a large number of soldiers and horses, and the power is so great that almost no one can match it outside the Guan.

But the reason why he agreed to hand over the military power was also because he saw the changes in the Guannai in the past two years, although Yu Xiaotian has not openly moved their Guanning army, but in various parts of the Guannai, he gradually took out the military power of those local heavy generals and replaced them with his Yujia army.

Many heavy generals in the customs did not refuse to submit lightly, and there were not a few who raised troops to rebel, but none of them succeeded, and they were often suppressed by Yu Xiaotian as soon as they joined the army, and as a result, they were all destroyed.

Especially this time, after he saw the prestige of the Yu family army under Yu Xiaotian, he sighed and felt ashamed, compared with the Guan Ning army under his command and the Yu family army, he did not have the ability to compete with it at all.

Even if he didn't agree and finally led the troops to rebel, the end is predictable, not only will he not end up in a good end, but he may also implicate the entire ancestral family, and in the end he will be martyred with him.