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Chapter 849

Sun Chuanting, a native of Dai County, Shanxi, can also be said to be a person near the important town of Jiubian. Their hometown has been suffering from the Mongols' invasion of the Border since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

Officials from other places were preparing to pass the exam and manage their families and govern the country and pacify the world, and win reputations before and after death. However, Sun Chuanting's idea was relatively simple, that is, after he decided to become an official, he began to lead the border troops, destroy the desert, seal the wolf's house, and tie the stones to Yanran, and create a permanent peace for the border of the Ming Dynasty.

In his opinion, this is that only fighting foreign enemies is interesting, and fighting bandits has no meaning at all. It is because of this that he has been studying the tactics of fighting against the Mongols and Jiannu, which has made him ease in dealing with bandits, just like governing a big country like cooking a small freshman, easily lifting it up and taking it easy.

The biggest temptation of the Liu family surrendering him was not to save his life and give his family wealth, but to promise him that as long as he joined the Liu family, he would arrange to go to southern Liaoning to be responsible for dealing with Jiannu.

Such a temptation was something he could not refuse. He defected to the Liu family, two ministers and traitors. It is estimated that the reputation of the Sun family in Daizhou was lost, and he could not meet his ancestors after his death, but he obtained one, which was what he had always dreamed of: dealing with Jiannu! After thinking about it for a while, he finally agreed.

A person will die, realize his long-cherished wish, pacify the dangers of the border, and build great achievements that have not been seen in a century. His merits and demerits will be judged by later generations.

After coming here, he had an idea, that is, to come to the border, come to a barbaric land, and work hard for the Han family. Who knew that after coming here, he realized that this was not a barbaric land, and it was also a place with fertile land. At least in terms of the fertility of the land, it was not under Shaanxi.

Moreover, the Liu family supported him very much. Although the Liu family did not give more money and food to Liaonan than the court had shown it, the actual income was far more than what the court had given him. Such a great support also made Sun Chuanting think that he could let go.

Sun Chuanting is indeed a capable person. After he tossed here for several months, he was tossing Jiannu and everything was back on track.

Not to mention anything else, after Sun Chuanting came a few months ago, they began to change from strategic defense to strategic offense, making Jiannu unable to sleep or eat.

Originally, Sun Chuanting was worried that once he came to southern Liaoning and made major moves, he would be limited by the logistics and food and military issues, so he dared not let go. After all, the Liu family's focus on attack is the south, and they have also formulated a strategy of first south and then north.

They are also preparing to hold a decisive battle in Shandong. In this case, it is reasonable to draw troops from them to Shandong for support, but they did not do so.

The Liu family's fleet brought ships of grain one after another, and on the docks in Jinzhou, their grain was piled up like mountains.

Sun Chuanting bribed the chiefs of the Mongolian tribe, and it didn't take much quarrel at all. He just took these people to the dock in Jingzhou to take a look and let them see the cannons that were thicker than their waists, as well as the piles of grain, which made the chiefs have a choice in their hearts.

The current policy of the Chinese army is to start from south to north, and Shandong organizes a decisive battle in Shandong, so they really cannot mobilize more troops to the Liaodong direction, but in terms of weapons and logistics supply, they still provide very good supplies, which made Sun Chuanting have to find a way to recruit more troops by himself.

Sun Chuanting's strength was not that he charged and killed the enemy on the battlefield, but that he was training troops and formulated strategies. Sun Chuanting immediately began to recruit more refugees to join their army, and they all obtained mercenaries from Mongolian tribes through trade.

He could even reach a secret agreement with the Mongolian tribes, and once a war broke out, they could quickly gain support from Mongolia.

Of course, some officials also pointed out that it was very inappropriate to use the Mongols in large quantities. The fall of Chenyang City was because of the general He Shi's large number of use of the Mongols. As a result, these Mongols changed their responsibilities when they saw the wind and the two ends of the rat. When the Ming Dynasty was strong, they obediently became the guard dog of the Ming Dynasty. However, when the war was unfavorable, they immediately opened the city gate to welcome Jiannu. As a result, the huge Chenyang City, with 70,000 soldiers and civilians guarding the city, fell in one day, causing hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians to die under the Jiannu's butcher knife.

However, Sun Chuanting was mentally prepared for this. He knew that these Mongolians were working hard for their money and food, either to be loyal or righteous or to defend their country. To put it bluntly, it was just a piece of money.

Since this profit can allow them to abandon their traditional allies and deal with Jiannu, they can also abandon the Chinese army, and join hands with Jiannu to deal with the Chinese army.

Therefore, Sun Chuanting was also very smart. He did not let these Mongolian mercenaries enter the core area, but instead let them fight the wind war on the periphery as support, mainly for sneak attacks and attacks the rear of Jiannu, making them exhausted. The ones guarding major cities and major transportation routes were still elite soldiers of the Chinese army. In this way, they actually greatly reduced their pressure.

Their loyalty and righteousness of these Mongolian mercenaries has to be tested with time.

Anyway, Sun Chuanting would not let them enter the core area. The second is that these mercenaries should not think that they can live a life if they come to the Chinese army. They joined the Chinese army's mercenaries and only obtained food that can make them starve. If they want to eat something that is delicious and drink something spicy, they have to exchange military merits and Jiannu's head for it. If you want to live a life of mercenary, this is not possible.

In fact, in Sun Chuanting's eyes, the Ming Dynasty, that is, China, the biggest enemy was the Mongols. Since the Mongols rose two hundred years ago, they have always been the biggest enemy of the Central Plains dynasty. Sun Chuanting's greatest wish is to wipe out the Mongol Empire, permanently eradicate its threat to the Central Plains dynasty, and make the people on the border suffer endlessly.

Jiannu can only be said to be the younger brother who came from behind, but the younger brother's power is getting stronger and stronger than the old Xiaoqiang Mongols. But if Sun Chuanting is relieved to them, it is impossible.

In Sun Chuanting's eyes, Jiannu should be damned and Mongolian Tartars should be damned. They are all the targets they want to destroy. If you want to take advantage of him, you have to exchange for military merit. Of course, if you can use military merit, you can exchange it for a very generous reward, so that everyone can be worth a hundred times the price, and you can eat delicious food.

Moreover, these Mongolian soldiers are not without hope. They are now just outsiders. If they can truly join the Chinese army, they will be treated quite well. For example, Burigude, one of the six major generals of the Chinese army, was born in Mongolian mercenaries. He now has tens of thousands of soldiers and owns countless property. This is regarded as an idol by countless Mongolian soldiers and wants to become the second Burigude.

This also has constraints on these people in some aspects and dare not act randomly. The Chinese army is not a place where they fire one gun and fire one cannon. If they make a mistake in the Chinese army, they will be put on the blacklist. If they want to do this business next time, it will not work.

Sun Chuanting's strategy was extremely successful. Not to mention, they had already entered the strategic offensive from strategic defense, which forced Huang Taiji to dispatch more troops to Liaonan to confront the Chinese army. This means that they did not have enough troops to deal with other people, such as the Chahar Mongols, the North Koreans, and the Jurchens who were born outside the white mountains and black waters.

It is because of this situation that Huang Taiji has a more urgent hope to cooperate with the Ming Dynasty and obtain the supply of money and grain in the Ming Dynasty, so that they can do their best to deal with the Chinese thieves.

In the past, it was difficult for them to cooperate with the Ming Dynasty. This was because both sides did not have the common enemy of the Chinese thief. Now that both sides have the common enemy of the Chinese army, can they carry out more in-depth cooperation?

At this moment, the Ming Dynasty also sent an envoy to contact them and talked about the possibility of joining forces to deal with the Chinese army, which made Huang Taiji very happy.

The person who sent the envoy this time was Xu Jianqiang, the newly-rise eunuch of the Ming Dynasty. Although this person was from a eunuch, he was very capable. Because he had done several big things, he became the emperor's new favorite.

Huang Taiji has always paid great attention to the collection of information on the Ming Dynasty and will not miss this important news. Xu Jianqiang sent an envoy to come, although it was just his personal intention. If both sides were interested, he could tie the bridge and set up a line to promote cooperation between the two sides, which made the other party very happy.

Moreover, the other party brought a large amount of money and property, which made him very happy. Xu Jianqiang brought 200,000 taels of silver as soon as he made a move, and he was full of sincerity.

But Huang Taiji was thinking that if the other party brought various supplies, he would be even happier. Now the Chinese Army and the Ming Dynasty were very strict in blockade of Jiannu. He could no longer obtain a large amount of supplies through large-scale trade. He could only obtain some property through smuggling on small trails. This was far from satisfying their needs. Nowadays, Jiannu had some money, and most officials had a large amount of money in their hands. These money could even be used as toys for children, because it was quite difficult for them to buy supplies from the Ming Dynasty through silver, and the value of the money dropped on a large scale.

After all, silver cannot be eaten or drunk. If he has no ability to buy, it is actually not much different from ordinary stones.
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