However, Xu Shiyang believes that the most important thing in this battle is actually the suddenness of the battle.

Now that we are forcing the Shanxi and Shanxi Han Army to take the team, it would be fine if they can definitely vote on their side. If someone makes the opposite choice, they may remind the Mengwu people to be vigilant, and this attack may turn into a disaster.

Xu Shiyang wanted to give the Mengwu a profound lesson, not to give himself a ruthless move.

"Contact them after this attack and let them make a choice."

Xu Shiyang said:

"If I can win this time, I think no matter how stupid a person is, he will see the overall situation."

The Han army of the Shanxi and Shaanxi generation had a deep connection with the Mongolians before the Great Zhou migrated south, and at that time it was just economic exchanges.

When the Great Zhou Dynasty collapsed in Jiangbei, the Han army's emperors even betrayed the Western Army, which had the strongest combat effectiveness among the Zhou army.

After that, the vassals of the Shanxi and Shaanxi Han Army always followed the steps of the Mongolian people - even if the Mongolian people were in poor condition and were bullied by the Jurchens in a very miserable manner, they did not change.

According to Xu Shiyang's view, these people are just a bunch of traitors, which is not much different from the Shanxi merchants in the late Ming Dynasty. Xu Shiyang will sooner or later clean up these guys.

However, he did not want to start a large-scale battle with these traitors, because the people at these traitors were also Han people, so these ordinary people naturally had to treat them differently from those of the dynasty.

More importantly, in the past (now) years, the hordes completely ignored the resentment of their people. No matter what happens, they would just give in to the Mongolians. Although this is embarrassing, it did not suffer a massacre like other Jiangbei provinces, with a sharp decline of more than 90%.

Therefore, the population in the Shanxi and Shaanxi areas is relatively large. The General Staff of the Qi Army estimates that the population of Han people in the two provinces is about 1.3 million households, and the population should be more than 6.5 million, which is more than twice the total population of Qi.

Xu Shiyang didn't care about the Han army's emperors, but he really wanted to absorb this huge population and wealth as completely as possible.

Therefore, Xu Shiyang thought of trying his best to force the other party to compromise with him by showing his strength and avoiding civil war with them.

Then, the sins of the emperor will be liquidated in other ways.

...

In May of the fifth year of Longdao, the Qi army launched a large-scale spring offensive against the Jurchens on the front line of Shanhaiguan and southern Liaodong.

The main target of the attack is still to interfere with the Jurchens' spring plowing, eliminate the Jurchen population as much as possible, kill livestock, burn stored grain and villages, and weaken the Jurchens' war potential.

At the same time, with infantry as the main force, Shanhaiguan advanced to the Guangning line, and southern Liaoning to the Tashanpu line, and built garrison fortresses and trestles along the way, gradually eroding the scorched earth area established by the Jurchen Tatars and approaching step by step towards the Liaozhong Plain.

In order to achieve this, the Qi army mobilized more than 80% of the cavalry and half of the new army infantry to cover two thousand immigrants in each strategic direction to advance.

The Qi army actually dispatched more than 50,000 troops, and most of the remaining troops were defending in various places. All the surrounding forces concerned about the situation in Liaodong felt that the mobile forces that the Qi army could dispatch were very limited.

However, Xu Shiyang chose to launch another large-scale attack at this time.

First, Xu Shiyang ordered a large-scale mobilization of reserves and militias in mid-May, requiring Hebei Province to mobilize 150 reserve companies, 350 militia companies, a total of 500 companies and 500 companies.

Qi Province mobilized 200 reserve companies and 400 militia companies to a total of 600 companies and 600 companies.

The direction of southern Liaoning remains unmoved.

In this way, Qi State immediately added 110,000 troops. These troops are not suitable for attacking, but there is no problem in using them in local defense.

Xu Shiyang used these second and third-tier troops to replace 85 Shenmao companies, 35 selected vanguard companies and 10 artillery companies from the armies of Hebei Province and Qi Province, a total of 130 companies and 13,000 people, plus more than 1,000 people from the Guards, engineers, two thousand people from the Blue Army, two thousand soldiers in the battle, and two thousand horse-mounted bandits from Wang Qienian, a total of 20,000 troops.

Field troops drawn from various places went to Yanjing to gather, then divided into three groups and launched an attack at the same time.

Among them, 7,000 Western Army troops were commanded by Lin Chong, set out from Yongning, and headed north along Tanghe.

The Central Army was personally commanded by Xu Shiyang, with a total of 6,000 people. They set out from Miyun and attacked Hushiha along the Chaohe River, Hadang and Mantaur and other Mongolian settlements. They planned that the Central Army and the Western Army would meet in Mantaur and then continue northward.

The Eastern Route Army acted alone, and the commander was Gongsun Sheng, the Minister of War of Qi. He had a force of 7,000. He left the pass from Xifengkou and followed the Luanhe River to the north to attack Chengde.

The strategic goal set by Xu Shiyang was to destroy or expel all the Mengwu tribes within a thousand miles north of the Great Wall. If possible, they would destroy all the cities occupied by the Mengwu people they encountered along the way.

...

At the end of May, the Qi army suddenly came out of seclusion, and three armies rushed to the traditional nomadic sites of the Mongolians under the leadership of the horse thieves.

Without any worries about getting lost, the nomadic Mengwu tribes scattered all over the country had no resistance at all.

Most of the time, just a few hundred horse thieves, supported by a few Qi cavalry, can disarm a medium-sized tribe through one assault.

When encountering a large tribe with thousands of Dingkou, the cavalry will be restrained and the infantry will follow up and eliminate it.

Each Qi army infantry carried dry food for five days, forced a force to attack, and eliminated a tribe, kill all the cattle and sheep of the Mongolians to supplement food, and strengthened the horses to each unit to increase their mobility.

During this attack, the Qi army did not retain the prisoners at all. Except for the captured Han people, all the Mongolians, regardless of gender, age, and age, were executed to avoid increasing the burden of marching.

...

In just over twenty days, the three Qi troops had arrived near the Hanhai. During this period, they destroyed hundreds of large and small Mengwu tribes, and the results of the various tribes were:

At least 12,000 entries of Mengwu were eliminated, with a population of about 60,000.

Rescue more than 10,000 Han people (including Shanxi Han people and a small number of slaves from other ethnic groups) and obtain 20,000 horses, kill or seize more than 500,000 cattle, sheep and livestock.

The desert south of the vast sea was almost killed by the sudden Qi army.

It was not until early June that Mongolian Gurhan Jamukha, who was in Hara and Lin, realized how fierce the Qi army's attack was. He hurriedly summoned the Mongolian troops, assembled 70,000 cavalry, set out from Hara and Lin with June 12, approaching the south, and preparing to fight the Qi army.

But at this time, the Qi army had achieved all strategic goals and returned to the local area on the tenth day of June.

On June 15th, near Hushiha near Miyun, the Western and Central Army, who met together, dispatched the Qi cavalry and horse-mounted bandits led by Lin Chong and Wang Qien to launch a counterattack against the Mongolian army vanguards who were following closely behind the troops.
Chapter completed!