However, it is useless to confuse the reasons for the time being. Huang Taiji continued, "Everyone knows that from the winter of the previous year to the spring of this year, they spent most of their time fighting in the Ming Dynasty. During this period, they also fought with our Great Jin Kingdom for Dongjiang Town, and defeated our Great Jin army at the fishing port. In May, Kong Youde sent troops to Korea, deposed Li, supported Li Hui to take the throne, and then led his army to attack Japan. After returning from victory, he began to prepare for the war. Unexpectedly, he went to deal with Zheng Zhilong and the so-called Red-Furious Yi in the south of the Ming Dynasty.

Our Great Jin Kingdom also took this opportunity to send troops to attack Jinzhou, hoping to eliminate the forces of the Tiance Army in western Liaoning, but unexpectedly, Kong Youde still took a risky gamble when the sea was frozen and led more than 30,000 troops to reinforce. Today's battle will make our Great Jin army lose all its achievements."

"I know that some of you want to withdraw their troops just now, but think about it, if our Great Jin Kingdom withdraws now, as long as the sea ice melts tomorrow spring, the Tiance Army can use warships to transport troops and horses continuously. At that time, in addition to the Tiance Army in western Liaoning, there are also Jiuliancheng, Yizhou City, Gaizhou Guards' Tiance Army, and Bayartai, which penetrates from the coast of the East China Sea to the north of our Great Jin Kingdom, will rush towards our Great Jin Kingdom. How can our Great Jin Kingdom resist? At that time, our Great Jin Kingdom will be attacked by enemies on all sides and within two years, they will be eaten up step by step."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone took a breath, but they didn't expect that the matter would be so serious.

In fact, they didn't think so long at all. In their impression, the Tiance Army was just a relatively capable army, but they did not realize that the Tiance Army poses such a great threat to the Great Jin Kingdom.

Yes, with the strength shown by the Tiance Army today and Kong Youde's hostility towards the Great Jin Kingdom, he will inevitably continue to launch an attack on the Great Jin Kingdom. Moreover, it occupies Shandong, and it has tens of millions of Dingkou. It can be said that there is no shortage of troops at all. Even if it loses tens of thousands of people, it can be replenished in less than a year.

Not to mention, Bayartai in the northeast continued to expand, and the Yalu River was also occupied by the Tiance Army. The Aohan and Zarut also surrendered to the Tiance Army. The Mongolian tribes in the north of the desert were also ready to move. The current Great Jin Kingdom is full of enemies on all sides.

It was during this year that the Tiance Army had no idea why they went to fight against Li from North Korea, and they also went to fight against Hongmao Yi and Zheng Zhilong from the south of the Ming Dynasty, temporarily slowing down their attack on the Jin Dynasty. Even so, a series of cities such as Yizhou Wei were still captured by the Tiance Army stationed in Jinzhou, and even allowed the two Chahar tribes of Aohan and Zarut to surrender.

If the Tiance army on the front line of the Yalu River and Bayartai's troops will no longer be blocked by the wind and snow, they will inevitably launch a new round of offensives. The Tiance army on the front line of the Jinzhou will launch a large-scale move, and the Jin Kingdom will be in danger by then.

Huang Taiji said this to tell the ministers in the account not to think about retreating. If you can hide, you can't hide at the first day of the lunar month and you can't hide at the fifteenth day of the lunar month. There is still a chance to fight now. If you retreat, when the Tiance army comes to the door, you will just sit back and wait for death.

However, although this move can eliminate differences and fight against the enemy unanimously, it still caused some generals of the Han and Mongolian military flags to have strange intentions.

Especially for the Han army flag, some generals surrendered without any help. They did not really seek refuge with the Tartars. However, their treatment in the Later Jin Dynasty was indeed better than that in the Ming Dynasty. In addition, the Ming army was weak, even if they escaped, they would not only have to pass the imperial court, but they would definitely have to fight with the Tartars in the future, so they stayed.

Now there is a powerful Tiance Army ahead and the intention of taking over the Ming Dynasty, then surrendering to the Tiance Army is not a good choice.

Then, the ministers in the tent began to discuss how to defeat the Tiance Army.

After two days of cleaning, the battlefield has been cleaned up.

After this battle, the Tartars lost nearly 40,000 troops and their troops were no longer sufficient. In addition to giving up Changling Mountain and the siege of Songshan Fort, on the next day, Maojialing, Songshan and other places also gave up.

Now, south of the Dale River and west of the Daling River, except for Rufeng Mountain and Shimen Mountain, all are under the hands of the Tiance Army. Most of the enemy soldiers who have scattered in this area have been captured.

However, because the place is too large, there are still a small number of remaining soldiers hiding, and the total number should not exceed 300. However, they no longer pose any threat. Except for arranging a small number of troops to investigate, the rest of the troops were all put into preparation for the next battle.

Apart from the blood that could not be cleared, there were no traces of the battle at this time. The soldiers resumed their daily training and were on duty, preparing to welcome the arrival of the next battle.

The work of replenishing new recruits is also underway. This time, Kong Youde specially upgraded the original standard line. He would rather be short than messy. If the recruits were not qualified and the troubles occurred during the battle, it would be more than worth the loss.

Unexpectedly, there were quite a few people joining the army, and more than 30,000 people were going to participate on the first day.

Actually, this is not surprising. There is a large amount of arable land around Tashan, which is actually part of the Liaoxi Corridor, but these lands originally belonged to the Guanning Army.

Since the establishment of the Guanning Army, the Liaoxi generals have begun to enclose a large number of land, such as Zu Dashou, and Zu Dale, who was defeated by the Tiance Army, as well as generals such as Wu Xiang and Wu Sangui, all have a large number of servants, who are composed of family children, relatives, etc.

Every servant has a lot of land in his hands. It can be said that the Guanning defense line is their own property, so he is extremely concerned about defending the Guanning defense line. This is why the Tartars never conquered the Guanning defense line head-on for more than 20 years from the third year of the Tianqi period to the seventeenth year of Chongzhen.

It also explains why the Guanning Army performed so strongly in defensive operations, but never took the initiative.

After all, you have your own land, delicious food and drink, and have no worries about life. You can't help but fight. It's a different matter if the enemy comes to kill you.

On their land, tenants were responsible for farming, and they only needed to collect rent and had no worries about food and clothing. In addition, the military pay paid by the court every year, when there was no war, everyone was like a rich man.

After the Tiance Army entered the Tashan line in Jinzhou, it did not recognize the ownership of the land by these Guanning troops. The Guanning troops still had no temper. After all, they could not defeat the Tiance Army and were not under their jurisdiction.

So these lands became the tenants' own, and they only needed to pay 20% of the tax to the Tiance Army, instead of handing over as much as 50% or even 70% of the output to the Guanning generals who were originally landlords. Naturally, they were grateful to the Tiance Army.

In this war, all the military and civilians saw the strength of the Tiance Army. News that Tiance Army planned to recruit troops on the spot spread. Whether it was for the sake of making achievements or encircling their homes, a large number of people wanted to join the army.

Kong Youde set the concentration and training location of the new recruits south of Xingshan Fort, which is not far from the battlefield. Once the situation changes, you can replenish them at any time.

According to his plan, the training time for the recruits is only fifteen days. During these fifteen days, they should develop the habit of obeying orders absolutely. Once there are those who cannot stand the training, they should directly remove the team.

In fifteen days, they will be directly organized into several battalions with severely damaged troops, and then participate in training with the veterans to carry out tasks so that they can grow up quickly in actual combat.

After dealing with the matter of recruiting new recruits, Kong Youde began to consider dealing with the issue of prisoners. There were more than 20,000 prisoners of this war, a large number, including Han people, Tartars, Mongolians, and Koreans. If they were not handled properly, it would be easy to make a mistake.

Just as he was pondering, Huang Guizhong came in and reported, "Sir, the enemy's heads have all been dealt with!"

“How many are there in total?”

"Ten thousand four hundred and fifty!"

Kong Youde nodded. This number is very short of money, much smaller than the 16,000 people who actually killed the enemy, but it is normal.

In this battle, there were many flowering bullets, landmines and rockets. Many Tartars' heads turned into watermelons, and it was useless to cut them down. It would be better to bury them.

"Good job, go and call Zhao Lijun!"

"Sir!" After a while, Zhao Lijun came in.

"How are you prepared?"

"The final meeting has been prepared and can set off at any time!"

"Okay, let's go now and promote the military power of our Tiance Army to the people of the Ming Dynasty!"

"I will obey the order!"

The task assigned to Zhao Lijun this time was to take these heads and some prisoners to the capital to take a walk, report the victory to Emperor Chongzhen, and take a look at the Ming people along the way, how many Tartars had been killed by the Tiance army.

In this mission, in addition to the two brigades of cavalry responsible for safety work, Zhao Lijun also brought two thousand civilians to carry the heads and escort slave chiefs. These heads were loaded with ten donkey carts.

On the morning of December 14, Zhao Lijun escorted the ten chariots, plus more than 500 real Tartars, more than 40 slave chiefs of Niulu Zhangjing, including Du Du, the leader of the Inlaid Yellow Banner, set off from Xingshan Fort and headed westward.

The next day, the escort team passed Lianshan Post and entered the territory of Guanning Army.

Although the news of the Tiance Army winning a great victory and killing more than 30,000 prisoners of the Tartars had long been heard, many Guanning Army and even the people in western Liaoning did not believe this matter because it exceeded their understanding.

Even though there was a victory in the battle at the Fishing Port last year, due to the relationship between the Tiance Army and Ma Shilong and Zu Dashou in a head deal, this part of the credit was much smaller, saying that the Tiance Army only defeated more than a thousand Tartars.

Ordinary people and soldiers didn't know about these, but only knew more than a thousand people told them. At that time, the Tiance Army transported these prisoners and heads to Tianjin. The soldiers and people in western Liaoning did not see those prisoners and heads with their own eyes. They also thought that the army had always had exaggerated practices, so they felt that the Tiance Army had indeed won a battle, but could not eliminate the Thousand Tartars, at most, only one or two thousand.

And this time, when they saw the car full of donkey carts with Tartar heads passing by themselves, they were completely shocked.

They originally thought that the Tartars were invincible. Even if they had a great victory in Ningyuan and Ningjin, they would only repel the Tartars' attack, and the Tartars would eventually make a comeback.

The heads in front of me were 70 cars, and there were more than 100 heads in this car, and there were probably tens of thousands of heads in total. It seems that the Tiance Army destroyed 40,000 lands in one battle, which was not bragging, but real.

They didn't expect to witness such a spectacular scene once before their death.

The original concept of invincibility of the Tartars gradually began to shake and collapse, and at the same time, the concept of the Tiance Army being stronger than the Tartars began to gradually rise in their hearts.

A day later, when Zhao Lijun brought his team to Ningyuan City, Zu Dashou, who was the host, personally led people out of the city to greet him and congratulate him.

All the senior generals and officials under his command were present, and countless people and soldiers came to watch.

After expressing his congratulations to Zhao Lijun for the victory of the Eastern Territory, Zu Dashou lowered his figure and personally invited Zhao Lijun to enter the city, and personally arranged a banquet to welcome the Tiance Army who was escorted.

Zu Dashou's move, on the one hand, wanted to continue to do business in the head office, and on the other hand, he wanted to find out the process of this battle. He had to consider how to get along with the Tiance Army in the future.

In fact, he did not expect the great victory of the Tiance Army, and even found it very incredible that he could have so many results.

Although there was a precedent in the First World War last year, he believed that Yuetuohaoge and his men were young and frivolous, and did not know the Tiance Army, and they were careless and underestimated the enemy. In addition, the real Tartars led by only 6,000 people, and the Tiance Army had warships to assist in the sea, and finally defeated the arrogant Yuetuohaoge and his men.

But this time it was different. Huang Taiji came prepared and invested more than 100,000 troops in advance. Moreover, Kong Youde continued to increase his troops after landing. With such a huge military force and sufficient preparations, he was still on the defensive, and he would end up in a great defeat, which made him very puzzled.

Therefore, he wanted to get relevant information at the dinner table so that he could have a clear understanding of the true strength of the Tiance Army.

Zhao Lijun did not refuse Zu Dashou's invitation, so he went to the banquet happily. He didn't have a few good meals all the way. It was rare that Zu Dashou invited him warmly, so I'm sorry for his belly if he didn't go.

Before the banquet, after Zhao Lijun sought Zu Dashou's consent, he sent someone to set up an exhibition area outside the city, gathering the carriages and prisoners escorting the heads of the Tatars for people to visit up close.

But in order to avoid someone stealing the head, a cordon was set up, and the soldiers took turns to guard the war, and were not allowed to get within three meters.

At the banquet, the generals of the Zu family toasted one after another, while Zu Dashou personally poured wine for Zhao Lijun to congratulate the Tiance army on their great victory.

Of course, congratulations, they only know what they think.

Zhao Lijun refused everyone. When these generals asked about the details of the war, he knew everything. Even if he had not participated in the Battle of Changling Mountain, he was still talking vividly, as if he had participated in it himself.

This is another task that Kong Youde gave to Zhao Lijun. He told Zu Dashou the generals of the group of generals to how the Tiance Army defeated the Tartars with dignity, so that they could have a clear understanding of the strength of the Tiance Army.

Except for the rocket, the big killer weapon, all other information was revealed to the ancestral general without reservation, just saying, "Our Tiance army can even destroy the Tartars. You Guanning army are honest and don't cause trouble, otherwise you will be destroyed!"

Everything said is a warning to Zu Dashou that some things cannot be done.

Kong Youde could guess the situation when Huang Taiji secretly contacted Zu Dashou, otherwise with Zu Zerun's qualifications and strength, he was not qualified to lead the banner. This was just a means to win over Zu Dashou, so they must be allowed to see the facts clearly and not think about colluding with the Tartars.
Chapter completed!