Now that Wang Yan had met, he no longer divided his teams. He took a group of his subordinates around to the rear of Shengjing and began to attack the area at the junction of present-day Liao and Ji Provinces toward Changchun in the north.

Attacking is far easier than defending, especially when someone like Wang Yan leads a small team of elite troops to cause damage. Liaodong is such a large territory, no one knows where he will kill or where he will fight out.

And this Huang Taiji did live up to his expectations, and it was still heavily guarded near Shengjing. As the saying goes, what is imaginary is real, and what is real is imaginary. Wang Yan was defeated and crippled last time. According to normal thinking, he would probably not go to Shengjing again but go to some remote places to cause destruction.

But a player like Wang Yan, who had ruined them all winter and played with them, would definitely not do that. After all, I suffered such a big loss and almost died there, no matter what, I have to get this place back. If Huang Taiji were Wang Yan, he would definitely attack Shengjing again. I don't believe there is an ambush. So Huang Taiji did the opposite and laid another ambush.

There was so much to say, but Huang Taiji was betting that Wang Yan would come again based on some past information.

But Wang Yan was on the third level, and he had never expected Huang Taiji to be so determined to kill him before. This time, he didn't even bother to study what Huang Taiji's thoughts were, how to arrange it, and then exchange moves in the air.

What he thought was very simple. If the later Jin Dynasty raised 40,000 troops to attack Korea, it would inevitably be empty internally. The last time he was defeated, no matter whether Huang Taiji was a master tactician or simply cherished his life, he could not have put himself in danger. Power is poison, and no one who has only been in power for four months dares to bet on himself. After all, he really went there last time and killed many of them with explosives. Wang Yan didn't believe that Huang Taiji didn't see the power, and he didn't believe that the old boy dared to play the empty city trick with them.

In this case, internal rebellion is also taken into account, which requires a part of the stability maintenance troops, so the troops will inevitably be dispersed, and Shengjing will concentrate most of the remaining troops. Counting one by one in other places, the serious and capable troops stationed there are estimated to be only about 300 people, just a small number. If they are exhausted, they will only have less than a thousand people at most.

He won't touch those with too many people, and if there are too few, he won't kill them. He can't play with them to death.

In fact, even if thousands of people chased him to do it, Wang Yan would be killed if he led guerrillas and flew kites. As long as he was not surrounded and fell into a desperate situation, there was basically no big problem.

Therefore, Wang Yan's attack was like entering an uninhabited area. He didn't divide his troops, he took the lead and led the charge, and there were dozens of younger brothers who had not changed jobs before. There was such a large framework to ensure that the battle formation would not break up. In short, it was just four words: whoever is caught will be killed.

In fact, Huang Taiji had recruited a lot of new soldiers in the four months since he took office, but he had not experienced a major war and was unable to form an army. It's hard to say that such an army is too different in the eyes of Wang Yan and the five hundred people. After all, his reputation is there, and the heads flying with the horses on the horses are also there. Looking at the murderous Few people are not afraid of the team coming back to themselves.

Of course, those who are not afraid will not live long, and the less afraid they are, the faster they will die. Wang Shoubei pointed his two-stone strong bow and shot wherever he wanted, greeting them by name. He wanted to destroy the morale of these people.

After Huang Taiji is done with North Korea, he will do Ming Dynasty immediately, and then Zhu Youxiao will have to play with water. So this time Wang Yan didn't hold back any more. If he encountered any plundered Han people who dared to follow him on horseback to fight, he would take them all with him. So in the front, they killed people and beheaded them and captured the horses and armor, and in the back, they armed a group of Han people who had enough life and led them to charge.

It's not that Wang Yan uses these people as cannon fodder, they have really had enough of life and there is no point in it anymore. The reason why we didn't revolt before was just because the cowardice in our hearts gained the upper hand, and we were all afraid of being killed. Now that Wang Yan is here, he has been causing trouble here all winter. As long as Wang Yan is not from Houjin, no matter where the rest are from, it depends on how good he is at killing. As long as he recruits people, there will be people who will risk their lives to fight with him.

This group of people was not good at the beginning, mainly because they lacked self-confidence. But once you survive one or two rounds and participate in one or two victories, it goes without saying that you will rush forward without saying a word. Those who joined later saw how fierce they were, and their status improved.

Of course, these people are in the minority after all. Most of them have lost their vitality early and choose to live on.

However, even if they are only a few, there are still hundreds of thousands of Han people in Houjin's territory. After all, they have plundered people several times before and used them as cattle and horses to serve as slaves.

Wang Yan's men and horses were getting more and more numerous as they fought, and they were all soldiers who had gone through battle formations with real swords and spears. He has no shortage of experience. The only thing he lacks is that he has been here for too long and his health is a bit weak. If he can go back with him alive and make up for it for a while, he will definitely be an elite.

When Huang Taiji knew that Wang Yan had come again, it had been three days since five villages had been massacred, and a small thousand soldiers had been lost.

Without saying a word, he immediately sent out all the forces except those guarding Shengjing City. Of course, he also knew that this was in vain. After all, they hadn't done this before, so it had been a winter.

But he had to do this. Once he allowed Wang Yan to kill like this, he might as well wait until the battle in North Korea was over and Wang Yan would finish killing all the adult bannermen. Those flag owners who have gone out will definitely not be able to let him go when they come back, and they will not escape death.

One side sent people to hunt down Wang Yan, and the other side quickly gathered their subordinates to carry out the merger of villages and towns that they had previously planned to do. To put it simply, it was early urbanization.

Although doing so will consume a lot of materials, their finances will be very tight, and it will also delay spring plowing. If they don't finish North Korea, it won't be enough for their next move. The city may not be built, but the population must be concentrated so that the troops and horses can be concentrated so that the enemy will not dare to invade easily.

And similarly, if the population is concentrated, resources are concentrated, and development is concentrated, it can indeed boost their economy to a certain extent. As for delaying spring plowing... they now rely more on robbing. Even for plowing, the Han people work as oxen and horses for plowing...

Again, he had to do this. There was really nothing he could do to Wang Yan. After all, even if he had a way, Wang Yan would not be able to escape until now. It was the most successful last time, but it was hit by dimensionality reduction. Damn, the power of an explosive pack is really enough, and it will explode in one go.

Affected by this, Huang Taiji has found some craftsmen to study firearms. In addition, in view of the situation of Wang Yan and Mao Wenlong before, and the sharp conflicts between the bannermen and the Han people that broke out from time to time, he also deliberately promoted the development of firearms in his own territory. The integration of Manchu and Han people gave the Han people some leniency to a certain extent, but they still acted like cows and horses...

After explaining these things, Huang Taiji could no longer control Wang Yan and personally took his troops to the front line to supervise the battle. They must finish the war with North Korea quickly and achieve fruitful results. Otherwise, the logistics will be so fucking broken.

Wang Yan didn't know so many things, so he took his men and horses to sneak away a group of Houjin soldiers who were chasing him. From time to time, the kite flies for a moment, and he is well versed in the way of enemy advancing and we retreating, and enemy retreating and harassing us.

This time he came out and did not go back until mid-April, taking with him more than a thousand men and more than 3,000 heads. This brilliant result was mainly due to the fact that Wang Yan relaxed the restrictions and many Han people who had lived here enough cannon fodder joined in. Firstly, he leads the way accurately and hits accurately every time. Secondly, these people are not afraid of death. It is quite brave to have him take the lead in fighting.

With such a result, it wasn't that he wanted to go back, but that he couldn't run away and Huang Taiji went crazy.

Due to the double pressure of Wang Yan from behind and tight logistics, in three months, Huang Taiji directly knelt down, declared himself a vassal, and paid tribute to North Korea, and then came back to arrest him with a group of people who had won the battle. In addition, this month, Huang Taiji's policy of merging villages and towns has indeed been implemented relatively well. It is difficult to find isolated villages, and people have issued weapons and armor to adult men to organize town guards...

In addition, after Huang Taiji came back from Korea this time, it was estimated that he would have to take a rest for a few weeks before sending troops to conquer the Ming Dynasty with the power of victory.

Wang Yan tormented Hou Jin like this. On the one hand, he was playing guerrilla Niubi, but on the other hand, Hou Jin was far from being as powerful and invincible as he imagined.

No matter how good Wang Yan is in fighting, he will be an enemy of a hundred people if he is defeated. The main reason why he has caused such a big impact with hundreds of people and horses in a winter is because Hou Jin's foundation is not strong.

The reason why the Ming Dynasty was beaten by others and even Liaodong was defeated was mainly because of the intertwined internal interests of the Ming Dynasty itself and the mess.

In fact, the Gonggun princes in the court did not pay much attention to the issue of Hou Jin. At this time of party struggle, how could they care about a group of uncivilized and uncivilized barbarians? All parties are holding each other back, and coupled with serious corruption, they will feed the tiger and make the back money bigger.

Just like here in Liaodong now, the Donglin Party's forces and Wei Zhongxian's forces are just doing whatever they have to do, and a lot of bad things happen day by day.

In fact, it was Wang Yan who killed all the Houjin Banner people, so the Ming Dynasty probably didn't. It is related to Houjin, but it is not decisive.

Of course, that's what he said, it was impossible for Wang Yan to do that. If it wasn't straightened out and the wings were fanned out, Zhu Youjian would go up and poke some nonsense, but in the end he'd get it right, and Daming would stand up with vitality. Where would he be able to reason? It's better not to ask for trouble.

After returning to the station and resting for a night, Sun Fugui and others completed arrangements for the hundreds of people who came back with him, as well as pensions for those who died in battle. The next day, Wang Yan led a convoy of people carrying heads to the Shanhaiguan General Military Mansion.

"Did the trip go well? No more injuries, right?"

After seeing the ceremony, Mangui looked at Wang Yan with a smile.

"Everything went well. This time my subordinates captured more than 3,000 heads."

"Huh?" Man Gui looked at Wang Yan in surprise: "Why are there so many this time?"

"That's it, sir, because Huang Taiji raised 40,000 troops..."

Wang Yan briefly told Man Gui about the situation in Houjin's territory and the situation under his men. After all, this thing couldn't be hidden as long as it was under someone else's hands.

After finishing speaking, Wang Yan looked at Man Gui who nodded repeatedly and changed the topic: "It is precisely because of this that I estimate that they cannot wait too long. Huang Taiji will send troops to attack our country in the near future. Your Excellency, it is better to prepare in advance." For the best."

Mangui frowned and said, "Is that really the case?"

"It's absolutely true, my lord."

"If this is the case, then now they are merging villages and towns, building large-scale construction projects, and issuing weapons to adult men. With their current strength, they cannot last long, so Huang Taiji will definitely use force. There are only two goals, one is for One of the Chahar tribes in Mongolia is our Ming Dynasty. And our Ming Dynasty’s supplies far exceed those of Mongolia, and with the defeat of North Korea this time, morale is at its peak. From this point of view, attacking our Ming Dynasty is almost inseparable."

Man Gui analyzed it to himself, looked up at Wang Yan, and said in surprise: "You kid amaze me more and more. I didn't expect that your mind can think of so many things..."

These words are somewhat outrageous. Wang Yan secretly cursed in his heart, scratching his head with a smile on his face: "It's all just nonsense, nonsense. The adults are still right in being logical, and they are far worse than you. I have to rush eight hundred years anyway."

"I really want you to wait for eight hundred years, but I won't live until that time." Man Gui shook his head and made a little joke, then straightened his face: "I know this, other things Don't worry about it. As for the heads this time, I will send someone to the capital to present them to the emperor soon."

"But if there really is a fight this time, you have to perform well. I can't say victory, but as long as you can't lose, with your previous military exploits, I have to make you a general and a guerrilla this time. This is so much How long? Just over a year. If you weren't too young and couldn't convince the public, the emperor might have appointed you as a general. It's really... tsk tsk... you have such strength and destiny..."

Wang Yan smiled and clasped his fists: "It's all the adults who show their love and support..."

Man Gui glanced at Wang Yan and said nothing. He knew exactly what he had done. To say that his biggest help to Wang Yan was to establish a line with the emperor in the capital. As for the rest, forget it.

What I can barely calculate is that in the battle of Ningyuan, Wang Yan was promoted to a hundred households, and he had to kill himself to get the position. After that, it was Wang Yan who took care of him. Of course, to put it nicely, it was called mutual benefit. Even if Man Gui is not here as the commander-in-chief, someone else can still succeed.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Wang Yan knew that it was okay. He immediately stood up and said, "Do you have any other instructions, sir? If not, then I will leave first."

Mangui waved his hand: "Go."

Wang Yan clasped his fists in salute, turned around and left. Go outside and call the younger brother who came with you, and rush to the station quickly.

After Wang Yan left, Mangui thought about it for a long time.

What he was thinking about was defeat and beheading. He was not without brains. How could he not understand this matter? At first, Wang Yan had no problem with a few dozen people making little noise, but then hundreds of fucking people were dispatched. This time it was even more extreme. More than a thousand people came back. Who should they think is a fool?

After thinking about it for a while, Man Gui skillfully picked up the pen and started writing the secret report, which was just a normal report on Wang Yan's achievements.

This time is the last secret message to report victory. If this message can be kept, Wang Yan's position at that time will not require this anymore. If they didn't hold on and were beaten by Jian Nu, then both of them would be dead, and there would be no secret secret.

So when Man Gui was writing, his mood was still very complicated. Whether he would be rich or beheaded all depended on this. His wealth and life depended on this battle.

After reading it one last time to confirm that it was correct, he put it in an envelope and sealed it, stamped it with a secret code, and found a confidant to send him away with the heads of several cars.

Man Gui looked at the group of confidants heading south in silence...

Since he left early in the morning, the return trip was a fast one. When he returned to the station, Wang Yan was in time to have lunch.

Finding a place where a group of officers were eating, Wang Yan, Sun Fugui and others started eating.

The officers under him all have small stoves, and the food is not much different from that of the big-headed soldiers, it just has more fresh vegetables.

He, Mr. Wang, is not just playing the trick of eating and sleeping together and loving soldiers like his son. If there are no conditions, forget it. If there are conditions, what is he doing with that useless thing? The money is sufficient and the treatment is adequate. This is so real. And such small differences can also stimulate the competitiveness of other big-headed soldiers, which is the best of both worlds.

Besides, most of the officers under his command were promoted step by step from the ranks of big soldiers, and the others had nothing to complain about. As for the few people like Sun Fugui, they have all followed Wang Yan until now, and their abilities have been improving and they have not fallen behind. It is appropriate for him to be promoted all at once.

Appointing people to be relatives and virtuous people, everyone has such a balance in their hearts. Although Wang Yan doesn't care about anyone, if he really wants to say it, he will still be more tolerant to Sun Fugui and others, which is inevitable.

The food was nothing special, just chicken, pork, some fish caught in the nearby river, and some green vegetables. This is the best that Wang Yan can do at the moment. After all, supplies are not very abundant now, so it would be nice to be able to do this. The same Liaodong soldiers and horses, only these five thousand people can eat meat. For other armies, it would be good if they could only see a smell of oil in half a month.

Wang Yan's large-scale purchases had a considerable impact on nearby and even distant places. The price of meat on the market increased a lot for him. As far as he knew, the people outside the Pass raised pigs if they could afford it, and also raised a lot of chickens and ducks if they could not afford it, and then sold them to them when they were grown...

While eating, he saw Wang Yan sitting down and followed the seed player who had not changed jobs during the war and asked: "Sir, we got so many heads this time, what do you think, Commander-in-Chief?"

"What else can I say?" Wang Yan muttered with his mouth full of rice: "I've been cheering myself up lately. Jiannu is going to call me soon."

Sun Fugui frowned and said, "Weren't there just peace talks in the first month of the year? Why is there going to be a war now?" He was busy arranging for those who came back and casualty pensions yesterday, so he didn't have much time to understand.

"Zhang Si, tell him." Wang Yan looked at the person who asked the question.

"Sir, that's what happened. Didn't we and the guards kill a lot of people on Jiannu's side...Jiannu was afraid of being killed...he damn moved all the people together...this It’s not like we are going to attack our Ming Dynasty now.”

"I was so busy yesterday that I forgot to ask." Sun Fugui nodded to show understanding, looked at Wang Yan and said, "Sir, how should we arrange it?"

"Reduce the training volume a little and recuperate your energy." Wang Yan muttered: "This time we probably have to go into battle."

As soon as these words came out, except for some people who went out to fight with Wang Yan and ate and drank indifferently, everyone else fell silent. The good life now is hard-won. I never dared to think that I would be here today. As a result, we are now going to fight again, so we can't help ourselves.

Although their positions are basically quite high, after following Wang Yan for such a long time, they must have made great contributions. Undoubtedly, under the current circumstances, a beautiful field battle deserves the greatest credit...

Wang Yan didn't care about them. Anyway, he had given the money and that was all he had said. He would kill anyone who ran away.

No one needed to remind them, these people just thought about it for a while and then they came to their senses. They are fucking soldiers. How can soldiers not fight? Unexpectedly, the guard has been fighting all winter, and he has been injured for a month to recuperate. If Wang Yan can ascend to power, then those of them who follow him will be able to get promoted and make a fortune. Otherwise, it depends on them? If he had that ability, he wouldn't have been able to work for a seventeen-year-old boy.

At that moment, everyone recovered and began to eat vegetables.

Wang Yan saw all this, but he was obsessed with Cai Mi and couldn't bear to live an easy life. If the big soldiers outside knew about this, they would definitely scream and go into battle to kill the enemy. Even with daily training, the rewards from the garrison master are so many. If you kill a few Jian slaves, is there any need to say that?

In the next few days, Wang Yan didn't go anywhere. He just wandered around the military camp, waiting for the war to come.

And the big soldiers also knew the news, and the entire military camp seemed a bit depressed, it was the calm before the storm...

As for how Zhu Youxiao received the news, I won't mention it. After all, after sending the heads several times, Zhu Youxiao has developed a big heart, and he will not be surprised when he sees the news.

Moreover, Wei Zhongxian had been paying attention to Liaodong and the establishment of slaves. Zhu Youxiao knew what Wang Yan was doing and what impact it had.

In fact, Wei Zhongxian had already sent someone to contact Wang Yan. Wang Yan's seven-orificed and exquisite one, Wei Zhongxian didn't have many good days to begin with, so it doesn't matter if it expires.

So he licked Wei Zhongxian's hand respectfully and gave him a lot of money. Just point this old boy to do some personal things at critical moments and play a role.

As for the money... After Zhu Youxiao is gone, when the plot begins, all of Old Wei's things belong to him and Wang, so they will be stored temporarily...

On April 19, the fourth day after Wang Yan returned, there was an urgent report from the front that Huang Taiji had sent 120,000 troops southward. Of course, this is definitely a bragging statement. In fact, it is like sixty, seventy, seventy, or eighty thousand.

Yuan Chonghuan immediately communicated with the imperial court several times to no avail, and at the same time carried out a series of military maneuvers. Wang Yan's troops followed Man Gui's maneuvers and moved forward.

Three days later, on April 22, Huang Taiji's troops divided into three groups and captured two cities. The three armies met outside Jinzhou City.

It was indeed an easy victory, because the city was not repaired and the defenders simply ran away...

Historically, Huang Taiji launched his troops on the ninth day of the fifth lunar month, a full twenty days later. At this time, Jinzhou City had not yet been repaired. However, as an important town, Jinzhou was naturally the first to repair it, with a large number of manpower. Moreover, there was another general, Zhao Shujiao, guarding it with more than 20,000 people. Therefore, although the city was not completed, the problem was not serious in a short period of time. big.

At the same time, Governor Yuan Da, who had more than 100,000 and nearly 200,000 troops, dispatched soldiers and horses from Jizhen, Xuanfu, and Datong to leave the customs...

On April 26, Jinzhou City was besieged for seven days, and the city had been attacked for several days. Zhao led the army to fight to the death...

Yuan Chonghuan had to send troops to rescue. Otherwise, even if he defended, there would be no good results. Immediately give orders to Mangui and others to lead the army to rescue Jinzhou...

Wang Yan looked at the more than 3,500 people who were waiting in neat military formations and waved his hand.

A messenger waved his flag: "Let's go."

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