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The situation was tense and chaotic.

While Lu Cheng was working hard to manage the four guards in southern Liaoning, other parts of Liaodong were not peaceful. The reason was simple: the court had no money to pay the soldiers in Liaodong.

Xiong Tingbi repeatedly applied to the court for food and wages, but the ministers in the court kept making excuses and did not want to continue to provide food and wages to Liaodong.

At the same time, some officials in the court also believed that Xiong Tingbi only knew how to defend, not attack, and wasted money and food, which was unworthy of the trust of the court.

It was at this time that Wang Huazhen, the governor of Liaodong, wrote to the court, suggesting that he use a million treasury gold to entertain the Mongols, join forces with the Mongols, and attack the Later Jin together. As long as the Later Jin could be completely resolved, there would be no need to support hundreds of thousands of troops in Liaodong for a long time.

Many ministers in the court were opposing Xiong Tingbi, and now they all stood up to support Wang Huazhen's strategy.

So the court pieced together hundreds of thousands of taels of silver and sent envoys to the grassland to meet with Lin Danhan on the grassland.

Lin Danhan was short of money at the moment. When he saw the silver sent by the Ming Dynasty, he immediately accepted it and promised to send 400,000 troops to help the Ming Dynasty attack the Later Jin.

When the news reached Kyoto, it immediately caused a stir in the court. Many officials were excited and shouted that they wanted to fight to win Liaodong.

In order to ensure victory, many officials in the court also suggested that troops should be drawn from all over the country again, all concentrated in Liaodong, to join the Mongolian army on the grassland, and to pacify the Jianzhou Jurchen in one fell swoop.

When the news reached Liaodong, Xiong Tingbi also sighed. He knew that it was not the time to fight a decisive battle with the Jurchens, but the court had reached a consensus. Even if Xiong Tingbi did not want to go to war, he could not stop it.

In the following period, Emperor Tianqi ordered the guards across the country to mobilize troops to the north, and Wang Huazhen, the governor of Liaodong, unified the command and dispatch.

At this time, the strength of the Later Jin Dynasty has been further improved after recuperation and development in the past six months.

After a series of setbacks in Liaodong last year, Nurhaci changed his development strategy. On the one hand, he continued to oppress the Lee Dynasty of Korea and plundered various food supplies from the Lee Dynasty of Korea. On the other hand, Nurhaci further strengthened his exchanges with the Khorchin tribe on the grassland and recently formally formed an alliance.

At the same time, with the help of last year's grassland natural disasters, the Later Jin Dynasty also gathered a large number of grassland cavalry who had fled there.

With enough troops and food, the Later Jin Dynasty was also brewing a new war.

However, this time the target of the Later Jin Dynasty was not Liaodong, but the Chahar tribe of Lin Danhan.

If the Later Jin could annex the Chahar tribe, it could encircle Liaodong from the east, north and west, and even cut off the connection between Liaodong and the interior of the country from outside the Great Wall.

After learning this information, Lu Cheng was also somewhat helpless. With the troops and weapons and equipment Lu Cheng currently had, he could not fight against the Later Jin army in the field.

If it was a city defense war, any city in the four guards of southern Liaoning could not be captured by the Later Jin.

But if it came to a field battle, Lu Cheng's men were basically infantrymen, and could not win the initiative in the war.

Thinking of this, Lu Cheng asked the logistics department to step up the production of new firearms, and at the same time made plans for the worst.

If the Later Jin attacked Lin Danhan, Lin Danhan would definitely not be able to defeat him. If the Ming army went north to the grassland and went to war with the Later Jin, it would definitely be gradually eliminated by the Later Jin cavalry.

In the event of the worst situation, Liaodong lost most of its troops, and the Later Jin annexed the Korchin and Chahar tribes, Lu Cheng's supply line with the interior of the country might be threatened.

In order to deal with this situation, Lu Cheng sent more people to Jiangnan, bought as many ships as possible, opened up a sea transport line, and strengthened the connection between Jinzhouwei and Dengzhoufu through Bohai.

Of course, these are just the worst-case plans. Lu Cheng will also try his best to create some troubles for the Later Jin, so that they can't attack the Chahar tribe with all their strength.

When necessary, Lu Cheng will also let the special forces take out new rifles, wait for the opportunity to assassinate some senior generals of the Later Jin, or even kill Nurhaci directly, to buy time for his own development.

As time goes by, the troops dispatched from all over the country to Liaodong are gradually gathering outside the Great Wall.

However, at this time, the guards in various parts of the Ming Dynasty had already been corrupted, and the situation of the relocated households eating empty salaries in various places had already exceeded half, and not many troops could be dispatched at all.

After a period of assembly, a total of more than 40,000 troops were assembled from the two lakes, two Guangdongs, Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas and dispatched to the outside of the Great Wall.

As for the troops in the Central Plains, the southwest and the northwest, they are still rushing to

Come.

A war is about to begin, and Lu Cheng's firearms workshop is also working hard to produce new rifles.

After several months of running-in, the firearms workshop has trained a group of skilled craftsmen. In addition to the optimization of the production process, it can now produce 100 rifles and 160 lances every month.

Of course, those lances are just shorter barrels and have a shorter range, and can be used as rifles.

At the same time, Lu Cheng also sent a group of people to occupy some islands along the coast to form a pirate group, often entering the occupied areas of the Later Jin and the Lee Dynasty of Korea to plunder and harass.

Jinzhouwei in southern Liaoning has also established a stable route with Penglai in Dengzhou Prefecture, which can transport various materials from Dengzhou Prefecture to Jinzhouwei to provide supplies for southern Liaoning.

Of course, these are all retreats.

In August of the first year of the Tianqi reign, the Later Jin assembled 50,000 troops of the Eight Banners, plus more than 30,000 Mongolian cavalry, claiming to be an army of 150,000, and marched from the Khorchin tribe in the northeast of Liaodong to the southwest.

Lin Danhan of the Chahar tribe immediately summoned the troops of the various tribes on the grassland, preparing to fight a decisive battle with the Later Jin on the grassland.

However, at this time, the various tribes on the grassland no longer wanted to obey Lin Danhan's command and were unwilling to actively cooperate.

In the end, Lin Danhan mobilized all the troops of the Chahar tribe, plus part of the troops of the Khalkha tribe and the Tumed tribe, and the total number was only more than 40,000.

Facing the aggressive Later Jin army, Lin Danhan had to ask for help from the Ming Dynasty.

Wang Huazhen, who was receiving troops from various places in western Liaoxi, immediately submitted a petition to the court, requesting troops to assist Lin Danhan.

The court also agreed to Wang Huazhen's request for troops at the first time, and asked Xiong Tingbi to mobilize the troops from Liaodong to cooperate with Wang Huazhen to fight a decisive battle with the Later Jin army.

It must be said that the Ming court's operations are really one after another. Before I fully recovered, I was thinking about a decisive battle with the enemy.

After receiving Xiong Tingbi's transfer order, Lu Cheng could only draw troops from the four guards in southern Liaoning and prepare to go north.

However, Lu Cheng was not prepared to let his troops participate in a head-on decisive battle.

After this period of accumulation, the firearms workshop has produced another 300 rifles, 400 lances, and eight simplified mortars.

Lu Cheng is not ready to expose the mortar, a killer weapon, for the time being, but just keep it in the warehouse of Haizhou Guard and keep it strictly confidential.

As for those new rifles and lances, except for some equipped with special forces and reconnaissance teams, the rest are all used to equip infantry, forming a 500-man musket team.

The original 100-man special forces team, after forming a mature combat capability, has been further expanded to 300 people, and divided into two-level special forces teams, A and B, to meet different mission requirements.

Before the emergence of pistols, semi-automatic or even fully automatic rifles, even if the special forces were excellent, they needed a certain number of people to complete various extremely difficult tasks.

For example, if there is a high-precision sniper rifle to kill a target at a long distance, one or two people can complete the sniping task.

However, due to the limitations of rifles, even if you are sniping a target at a distance of 300 meters, you need several or even more than a dozen accurate shooters to shoot at the same time to ensure a high success rate.

In close combat, the firing rate of the Land Rifle of two or three rounds per minute also greatly limits the power of the musket.

Therefore, although the special forces under Lu Cheng are equipped with rifles, bows and crossbows are still very important weapons.

Now, the 200-man special forces were also assigned to perform various tasks. Some assisted the intelligence department, some assisted the pirate group in development, some performed reconnaissance and sabotage tasks in the grasslands and Houjin, and some assisted in defense work in the four guards of southern Liaoning, etc.

This time, Lu Cheng only brought 50 special forces, 500 cavalry, and 4,000 infantry drawn from the four guards of southern Liaoning, a total of less than 5,000 troops, to participate in this battle...