There is a small castle on the banks of the Hala River, a tributary of the Liao River. It is just stuck on the official road leading to Shengjing. The wide official road passes through the castle, and both sides are golden wheat seas that are so anxious that they are irrelevant.

Now it is the time for the busy autumn harvest, but the ripe wheat in the fields has been cut less than a quarter. It seems that most of the wheat in this season will rot in the ground as fertilizer... This is because most of the strong laborers in these farms on both sides of the Liao River have followed Doni to fight with the army!

The low Hala Castle Castle had raised a high-flying white flag at this time - this was the banner of Prince Yu, Prince Yu, the regent of the Qing Dynasty, and it was also the highest all-out symbol of the three-restoration Qing Dynasty.

There was only one street in the small castle. At this time, there were brigades of white-clad Qing army infantry, as well as bronze cannons imported from Spain and imitated by mules and horses or Vladivostok arsenal, rumbling through the Hala Fort. From officers to ordinary soldiers, they were all sweating, but they didn't mean to stop at all.

The white team extended from the end of the Great Plain in the south of Hala Castle to the end of the plain in the north of the castle, as if there was no end.

There seemed to be only them left on the entire plain around Hala Fort. Only a quarter of the wheat fields were harvested, and there was no sound of smoke from the villages near the fort. Doni's army seemed to be passing through a piece of abandoned land.

Regent Doni himself, wearing a narrow-sleeved white arrow suit, stood at the head of Halaburg, holding a telescope and looking around, his face getting bluer.

The reason why his face turned blue was that the bannermen and people around Halabao (in fact, most of them were Han farmers from the pass). A few days ago, because the team of Ming cavalry appeared, they fled to Shengjing in groups and stopped collecting wheat... They stopped eating after going to Shengjing? What are these people afraid of?

And why did the Ming cavalry drive away the people here? Are they not the court? Are they not the official army? Are they not afraid of impeachment by the censors in this way?

Oh, the censors now don't care about this.

Doni remembered that the current censor only arrested corrupt officials... but he couldn't watch the Ming Dynasty's official army torture the people like this!

Just when Donni was heartbroken by the military discipline of the Ming army, a white-armored soldier leader received the latest information and ran up the city and reported loudly to Donni: "Prince, the Niulu report, who stayed at Liangfangkou Pass, two days ago, about two or three hundred sea ships sailed into the mouth of the Liaohe River, and carried out landing operations less than 30 miles from Liangfangkou Pass... At least 10,000 troops landed from the mouth of the Liaohe River. Our army was outnumbered. After giving the Ming army certain killing and wounding, killing more than 1000 people, he took the initiative to retreat to Niuyiyi to wait for reinforcements!"

"Nonsense!" After hearing the white-armored soldier's report, Doni couldn't help but curse, "I still killed and injured dozens of people... We only have 250 Niulu, and can we still kill and injured dozens of people among the Ming army? Could it be that we were killed and injured?"

"Prince, I'm so happy!"

As soon as Doni finished speaking, someone had already congratulated him. Doni turned his head and found that it was Tuhai who had just run from Daling River Fort.

As soon as Tuhai and Ebilong arrived at Daling River Fort, they found something wrong... The Ming army did not chase after him at all! And there was no sign of encirclement at Jinzhou, which means they were very likely to go to Shengjing!

This is a big deal!

Fifty thousand Ming troops rushed to Shengjing! If Shengjing is captured, it will be really done... So Tuhai and Ebilong dared not stay in Dalinghe Fort again, so they immediately led their troops to Shengjing. As soon as they arrived at Halahe, they met the 70,000 army led by Doni.

Doni turned around and glanced at him, "What are you so happy? Should you kill and injure more than 100 Ming troops, or were you killed and injure more than 100?"

"Prince," Tuhaidao, "the Ming army landed at the mouth of Liaohe River for a maximum of more than 10,000 people, and there would not be many cannons and cavalry... We have 73,000 here, five times the enemy!"

Doni was stunned, yes! The troops landing from the sea generally do not carry many war horses and artillery - unless there is a good port to use, war horses and artillery will be difficult to load and unload.

The advantage of the Ming army was not just cavalry and artillery? Thinking of this, Doni was a little discouraged. The bow and horses were originally the special skill of the external tribes. Although Manchuria was not a grassland tribe, its horseback skills were not weak. There was also the Korqin grassland supplying good horses, which would definitely have the upper hand against the Ming cavalry.

However, the Ming Dynasty introduced a large number of Indian Folding horses and Arabian horses through overseas trade... Compared with those oceanic horses, the Mongolian horses riding by Manchu warriors were almost the same as small donkeys. Although the "little donkeys" also had advantages, they were hard-working and could consume horsepower to fight long-distance raids.

But the Ming army formed a black-gun mule soldier... and used flexible horse-drawn tactics to deal with the Qing army's ranger whistle horses, leaving the Qing army in an extremely unfavorable situation in the attrition war of light cavalry - there are not many old Manchus left, how can they fight for consumption with the almost unlimited number of Ming army?

At the same time, after a large number of Han farmers' new Manchus joined the Qing army, the Qing army became an army dominated by Spanish infantry phalanx. The mobility decreased significantly, and basically lost the ability of large corps to raid for long distances...

Tuhai saw Doni's brow frowning again, thinking that he was worried about Shengjing, so he persuaded: "With Oboi leading a 10,000 vanguard battalion to assist Shengjing, Shengjing will not be lost anyway. The problem now is that the fertile soil around Shengjing may be ravaged by the Ming army... Our soldiers are all maintained by land. Once the surrounding area of ​​Shengjing is destroyed, they will be as poor as the officers and soldiers of Liaozhen who lost Shenyang, Liaoyang, Guangning and other places back then!"

The most feared thing for an army that has roots in the land is to lose its land income!

Don’t think that if the land is divided, soldiers can fight desperately to defend the land... The soldier after the land is distributed, he is a business entity that is responsible for his own profits and losses!

If the land cannot be profitable and the soldiers have to bear the expenses of military service by themselves, they will soon die of poverty.

The prosperity of the Ming army in Liaodong during the Li Chengliang period in history was actually because Li Chengliang happened to meet Zhang Juzheng's reform during his tenure as general, so he was able to seize the opportunity to carry out the clearing of fields and reclamation. According to Xiong Tingbi's "Repair of Military Fields", more than 100,000 horse and infantry troops in Liaodong were not given in a year, and they all depended on military fields to harvest and supply.
Chapter completed!