Throughout the three years of Tianyuan, Xiao Tianjian spent his time in a busy manner, and this year was also a crucial year for the Great Middle Dynasty.

During this year, the Great Chinese Dynasty pacified the entire southern provinces, completed the reorganization of the Great China Defense Army, and divided new control areas.

In addition, Xiao Tianjian also redivided the original administrative division of the Ming Dynasty in this year, and divided Huguang into Hubei and Hunan provinces according to the administrative division of later generations, and Nanzhili was also divided into Jiangsu and Anhui provinces, as for Beizhili, the original Shuntianfu was divided from Beizhili, renamed Beiping Mansion, under the jurisdiction of the original Shuntianfu and Yongping Mansion, and the rest of the Beizhili land was also renamed Hebei Province.

As for administrative management, it turned out that the Ming Dynasty implemented the system of undertaking and announcing the political envoys, and the three divisions of the inspection and the command of the envoys were jointly managed.

However, now that the Great China and the DPRK have changed to a military region system, the jurisdiction of the army is all listed separately, and the civil and military are separated, so there is no need for the command of the envoys.

So Xiao Tianjian changed the original local political envoys to the province, restructured the administrative management system, each province temporarily retained the title of governor, in fact, it is the governor, in addition, under the governor, set up several deputy positions, under the governor in charge of various affairs such as industry, agriculture, commerce, and justice, among which the judiciary is directly subordinate to the imperial court, as a separate department, local officials have no right to interfere in the affairs of the judicial department.

As for the original administrative divisions such as the prefecture and county of Feizhou, they will be retained in principle and their subordinate relationships will not be changed for the time being, and the official posts of prefect, prefecture, and county will continue to be temporarily retained.

In short, the military and the government of the two countries are separated, the civil administration is not in charge of the army, the military does not interfere in the administration, and each performs its own responsibilities, and the provincial government is in charge of the military as before, and the military generals interfere in local affairs, and as a result, it has developed into a warlord group, and the civil and military officials are all doing what they have to do, changing the previous method of grasping the beard and eyebrows of the local civil officials, and doing everything is more pure.

Throughout the three years of Tianyuan, all parts of the Great Middle and Korean Dynasty gradually calmed down, although it was impossible to make all the people eat and clothe at once, but with the pacification of the place, all kinds of affairs began to recover, and the common people at least no longer had to live a precarious and frightened life as before.

The recovery of agriculture has gradually alleviated the problem of grain shortage in many places, coupled with the open-mindedness of the imperial court, which has responded quickly to the difficulties existing in the localities, and has introduced various policies to benefit the people, reduced the burden of the peasants, persuaded agriculture to rejuvenate business, and opened schools and mines in various places, so that the people have seen hope, and under the peace of mind, there will naturally be much less trouble when they have nothing to do.

In short, under the efforts of Xiao Tianjian and a group of ministers, the Dazhong Dynasty began to enter the road of rejuvenation, and the previous chaos is gone, which is the greatest contribution to the country since the establishment of the Dazhong Dynasty.

But Xiao Tianjian then set his sights on the land of Liaodong in the north again.

Just after the New Year of the fourth year of Tianyuan, Xiao Tianjian held an enlarged cabinet meeting in the Nanjing Palace, and in addition to the cabinet ministers, there were also military chiefs from all over the country who rushed to Nanjing City to attend the meeting during the New Year.

However, there was only one topic on the agenda of this meeting, that is, to launch the Second Northern Expedition, to completely dig out the cancer of Jiannu, China, from the body of the giant of China, and eliminate the trouble of this confidant of the Great Middle and North Korea.

Since the first Northern Expedition in the first year of Tianyuan, after defeating the Jiannu army at Shanhaiguan, because of the strength and materials, the Dazhong Army had to give up the pursuit of the Jiannu army at the beginning, and could only turn around and return to the Guannei, attack Beijing City and destroy the Ming Dynasty first, which made the generals who participated in the war all feel suffocated.

In the next two years, the Great Middle Dynasty focused on the south, unable to look north to the Jiannu outside the pass, and now in the fourth year of the Tianyuan Dynasty, the Great Middle Dynasty finally solved the rebellion in the south, and could free up their hands to completely solve the big trouble of Jiannu.

When they learned that Xiao Tianjian was going to launch the Northern Expedition again to clean up Jiannu, all the generals immediately became excited, especially Shi Ran, Li Xuanzhu, and Liu Bao, who were unable to participate in the Northern Expedition, and immediately asked for orders to go north to participate in the battle of Liaodong.

But Xiao Tianjian said with a smile: "Among the three of you, except for Liu Bao, Li Xuanzhu and Shi Ran, the two of you have to sit in the southeast and southwest, especially Li Xuanzhu, now that your Southwest Military Region is using troops against Burma, let's keep an eye on Zhu Youlang's matter first!" I'm sure you didn't almost participate in this Northern Expedition!

Moreover, your subordinates are basically southern soldiers, and they are not used to the northern climate, water and soil at all, and if you go, you will also cause trouble for this Northern Expedition! As long as you keep an eye on the south, don't make any big mess in your jurisdiction when you send troops to Liaodong this time, it will be considered a great achievement!

However, Liu Bao needs to undertake the mobilization and transfer of logistics materials in the north this time, but you can transfer an elite division of the original military region to the north to participate in the battle of Liaodong, the pressure will not be too small, and Liu Bao will also be in the Central Plains, so don't think about going to Liaodong anymore.

In the past two years, you have fought a lot of battles, and it's time for Luo Li and Wang Chengping and others to contribute! Therefore, this time the troops were dispatched to Liaodong, mainly with the Liaodong Military Region as the mainstay, supplemented by the Northern Military Region and the Garrison Military Region, and supplemented by an elite division from the Northwest Military Region and the Central Plains Military Region to complete the final blow to Jiannu!

Li Xin, first of all, let's talk about the deployment of troops by the staff headquarters of your military department for this battle! ”

When Shi Ran, Li Xuanzhu, and Liu Bao heard this, they were all greatly discouraged, but thinking about it, it was not suitable for them to leave what they were doing at hand and participate in the battle of Liaodong this time, so they could only nod and accept the order.

After Li Xin heard this, he took out a battle plan, opened it and said: "This Northern Expedition, as the Holy Lord said, with the Liaodong Military Region as the main force, the Northern Military Region and the Guards Army as the auxiliary, to carry out the final blow to Jiannu outside the Guanwai!"

The Liaodong Military Region will use all its strength this time, including 10,000 cavalry of the newly formed First Cavalry Division, plus the Ningyuan Second Infantry Division (formerly the Second Guards Division), the Liaodong 16th Infantry Division, the former Third Guards Division, the Liaodong 18th Infantry Division, the Liaodong Independent Artillery Regiment, the Independent Engineer Regiment, and the Independent Baggage Corps, all of which have a total of four divisions and three independent regiments, with a total strength of 50,000 troops, and will be the first echelon to go out to fight.

The Eighth and Ninth Infantry Divisions of the Northern Military Region will be transferred to participate in the battle, and the Independent Artillery Regiment and the Baggage Battalion of the Northern Military Region will also participate in the battle, with a total strength of 23,000 troops.

The 1st Guards Division, the 4th New Guards Division and the Garrison Regiment participated in the Northern Expedition, with a total of 25,000 troops.

In addition, the Second Cavalry Division of the Northwest Army, the Third Infantry Division of the Central Plains Army, and the Independent Engineer Regiment of the Central Plains Army should also prepare to participate in the battle of Liaodong.

At the same time, the Northern Naval Division will cooperate with the whole army in the battle of Liaodong, mainly responsible for providing transportation and logistics support for the soldiers and horses participating in the battle in Liaodong, and the four marine battalions stationed in Dengzhou and Fushan will also cooperate with the army division to participate in the battle!

In total, in this Northern Expedition, we mobilized a total of two cavalry divisions, a total of nine infantry divisions, plus each independent regiment, as well as the marines and sailors of the naval division, with a total strength of about 150,000 troops, which is enough to deal with Jiannu! ”

After hearing this, everyone showed joy on their faces, such a force is more than double the total strength of the first Northern Expedition three years ago, and in terms of equipment, the quality of weapons and equipment of today's armies has exceeded that of the first Northern Expedition after continuous refitting and replenishment.

Moreover, under the advantages of one another, the Jiannu in Liaodong could no longer mobilize 200,000 troops at this time, at best, even if all their available troops were added together, they could barely reach more than 100,000 people, so the strength of the Dazhong Army this time could be said to have an overwhelming advantage over the Jiannu side.

Originally, according to the original plan of the Ministry of War, this time only the entire Liaodong Army and part of the Northern Army need to be used, there are about 60,000 or 70,000 people, as long as the material guarantee can keep up, this time it will be enough to deal with Jiannu, but Xiao Tianjian raised objections to the initial opinion of the Ministry of War, and asked not to do it, this time as long as it is done, the Dazhong Army will do its best to launch the most fatal blow to Jiannu, to ensure that Jiannu does not have any power to fight back, and it will be solved by Dazhong and North Korea, so the Ministry of War has revised the battle plan. The elite of the military regions north of the Central Plains were mobilized to participate in this operation, and this new troop deployment plan was born.

After listening to Li Xin's words, Fu Deming and Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help but gasp a little, they didn't expect Xiao Tianjian to make such a big deal about the Northern Expedition together with the military department this time, and mobilized more than 100,000 horses to participate in this operation at once, especially Fu Deming, the financial director of China and North Korea, almost became anxious when he heard it.

If only the men and horses of the Liaodong Army and the Northern Army are used, the household department can still accept it, but the number of men and horses used by the military department this time is too much, more than 100,000 people go out to fight, people eat horses and chew under the chew, just the daily consumption of grain is astronomical for the Great China and North Korea, when the combat marches and fights, each soldier needs two catties of grain a day, and the war horses and mules and horses have to be added several times, roughly calculated, at the end of the day, only 150,000 people are not counting mules and horses, according to the calculation of 200 catties of grain per stone, and they will eat 1,500 stone of grain.

At the end of a month, 45,000 stone of grain is needed, and if you count the food eaten by mules and horses, at least 60,000 stone of grain will be needed for the rear to provide the army every month, which is basically impossible to achieve for the current situation of the Great Middle and North Korea.

So Fu Deming, who was very fast in mental arithmetic, shook his head like a rattle, and as soon as Li Xin's voice fell, he immediately said: "No! This is absolutely not a no-go! You can't use so many people to deal with Jiannu, your military department really doesn't know the price of firewood and rice, so many soldiers and horses are dispatched at once, this has to be solved by our household department, you have not calculated, at the end of the day, you will eat a large boatload of grain, where will our household department transfer so much food to you at a time?

Although the domestic situation is gradually stabilizing, after the autumn grain was harvested in various places last year, only two or three million stone of grain was stored in various places, and your military department did not count it, even if all the two or three million stone grain was allocated to the Northern Expeditionary Army, it would not be enough for you to maintain it for half a year, and counting the grain consumed on the way, it would only be enough for you to last four or five months.

You can't mobilize so many people at once! You have to reduce the number of them! Otherwise, our household department will close down directly! ”

(Today, I would like to thank General Mao Mao, Brave 1023, and Asdsee for their generous rewards!) Thank you! ）