Li Qin, at Shanhaiguan, looked at the letter in his hand that had just been delivered by Zhang Hengshuo, the garrison commander of Liaodong.
Wanyan Jian has agreed to come to their aid and has already led a large army through Liaodong to provide support.
There are currently only about ten thousand cavalrymen in Wanyan Jian's stronghold.
Wanyan Jian has already led his army away, and Liaodong is now out of danger.
He wrote to ask if he should bring a large army to Shanhaiguan to provide support.
After pondering for a moment upon receiving Zhang Hengshuo's letter, Li Qin wrote a letter to Zhang Hengshuo on the spot.
Tell him to wait a bit longer, in case the Jurchens launch a surprise attack.
At the same time, he instructed Zhang Hengshuo to send scouts again to investigate the whereabouts of the Jurchens.
After confirming that the Jurchens had indeed left Liaodong and that Liaodong was no longer in danger.
He then led a large army to Shanhaiguan to provide support.
After Li Qin looked at the letter he had finished writing and confirmed that there were no mistakes, he...
After resealing it, he ordered it to be sent by fast horse to Liaodong for Zhang Hengshuo.
This is not because Li Qin is timid or overly cautious.
However, he had to be cautious when dealing with the problems in Liaodong.
Liaodong is his foundation, and it is also the foundation of his current army of over 100,000 men.
The families of his more than 100,000 troops were all in Liaodong.
If problems arise in Liaodong, his current army of more than ten troops will likely be demoralized and collapse.
Therefore, in order to prevent the Jurchens from playing the trick of pretending to leave, luring away your main force, and then launching a surprise attack.
He had to be cautious.
After finishing writing the letter, Li Qin took out another piece of paper and began to ask Zhang Hengshuo if there was anything unusual about Goryeo, east of Liaodong.
They were a vassal state of the Great Wu, and were known as a model vassal state.
Now that they have rebelled, and Goryeo is to their east, will they launch a surprise attack from the east?
Therefore, he wrote to Zhang Hengshuo again, urging him to also be wary of Goryeo.
It also drew his attention to the prefectures and counties in southeastern Liaoning, where the vast coastline posed a constant threat from the Eastern Wu navy.
So you have to be careful.
After writing down all the instructions regarding Liaodong, Li Qin instructed the messenger to deliver them to Zhang Hengshuo in Liaodong by fast horse.
Then Li Qin picked up his nephew Li Xuanshang's military report, saying that the military fortresses basically surrendered at the mere sight of his army.
In just a few short days, he pacified most of the military fortresses and cities in western Liaoning.
When he encountered any soldiers who fought desperately to defend their positions, he would send his surrendered troops from Jinzhou to launch a strong attack.
He led 20,000 Liao soldiers to supervise the battle from behind, letting these surrendered soldiers of Wu attack Wu's cities on their own.
The final result was also exceptionally significant.
In order to survive, those surrendered soldiers transformed from surrendered soldiers into ordinary Liao soldiers, and were able to leave the filthy and chaotic surrendered soldier camp, which was a desperate siege.
He showed no mercy when beating his former teammates.
Their fearless fighting swiftly wiped out all the fortified positions that were resisting.
Li Xuanshang is currently in Liaoxi. When he encounters a city that surrenders voluntarily, he treats the surrendered generals well and incorporates the soldiers in the city into the surrendered troops to attack the city's military fortresses that are unwilling to surrender.
For military fortresses and cities that refused to surrender, once the city fell, the city was immediately massacred, and the heads were piled up into a mound to intimidate other cities that were unwilling to surrender.
Fortunately, there were no large cities in western Liaoning, and with the fall of Shanhaiguan...
They also cut off his reinforcements, turning them into isolated cities.
At this point, with a large army pressing in, most of them knew that holding out meant certain death.
They basically all surrendered voluntarily.
Li Xuanshang's progress in western Liaoning can be described as very smooth.
After putting down Li Xuanshang's military report, Li Qin also picked up a military report from the side.
The above is a military report sent by Dugu Yue, the newly appointed garrison commander of Jinzhou by Li Qin.
In the military report, Dugu Yue said that there was a force of more than a thousand men fighting guerrilla warfare around Jinzhou.
They constantly harassed their supply lines from Liaodong to Shanhaiguan.
The leader of that force of over a thousand men was very likely You Chu, the garrison commander who had fled Jinzhou.
He led over a thousand men who were willing to go with him and broke out of Jinzhou during the lull in the city's surrender.
We should start guerrilla warfare against them near Jinzhou now.
However, the deputy commander had initially allocated all the troops from Jinzhou to Li Xuanshang to sweep through western Liaoning.
Jinzhou is currently extremely vulnerable, barely able to defend the city, and has no troops to go out and eliminate You Chu's army.
Li Qin saw the intelligence report from Jinzhou sent back by Dugu Yue, whom he had just appointed.
He also frowned.
His younger brother, Li Wenqi, also mentioned You Chu during their candlelight conversation.
They said they were unwilling to surrender and took advantage of the moment when he took over Jinzhou and his defenses were lax, so they rushed out of Jinzhou.
He then ordered Wang Taihe to send out a group of cavalry to pursue them, but unfortunately they still managed to escape.
Faced with Dugu Yue's military report.
Li Qin could only write to him, telling him to hold Jinzhou and not to think about eliminating You Chu.
Because he knew very well that You Chu was currently playing guerrilla warfare against them.
Even if he were to send a portion of his troops there, You Chu would probably run away as soon as he saw them.
He knew that these guerrilla fighters, especially the more than a thousand men fighting alongside him, were all local soldiers from Jinzhou.
They are very familiar with the local terrain.
Eliminating him would take a considerable amount of time and require the mobilization of a large army.
However, his greatest threat now is the impending attack by the imperial army.
He now has to do everything in his power to face the imperial army's hundreds of thousands of troops.
He simply doesn't have the time or the extra troops to deal with You Chu behind him.
I can only let him harass the supply lines for now.
In any case, with his thousand-plus men supplying him, they could only harass him as much as possible, but they had no ability to cut off his supply lines.
After all, the You Chu who is now fighting as a guerrilla is not the same threat level as the You Chu who occupied Jinzhou back then.
When he occupied Jinzhou, he was afraid that if he were to be defeated in the future, Jinzhou would block his way and prevent him from returning to his hometown in Liaodong.
However, with the surrender of Jinzhou, Youchu now only has a little over a thousand men, and can only harass others.
It posed no fatal threat to him whatsoever.
Even if he was defeated at Shanhaiguan, he would run back to his hometown in Liaodong.
You Chu's thousand or so men had no chance of stopping him.
So Li Qin wrote to Dugu Yue, telling him to guard Jinzhou well and protect the gateway for their retreat to Liaodong.
Don't take your already limited forces out to fight some random battle.
What if You Chu ambushes him?
If he takes Jinzhou back, I will absolutely not let him off the hook.
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