"Qi Qi Sheng, the last general's Liaodong Army has all reached the level of full strength, and they can start to move troops at any time!

Two of the divisions have already arrived in Ningyuan City, one division is ready at Shanhaiguan at any time, and two divisions have already arrived at Yongping Mansion from Laizhou, and they can also get out of the customs soon!

In terms of materials, it is also gradually hoarding at the moment, and Tongzhou now has a total of 300,000 stone military rations in reserve, and a lot of ammunition has also been stored!

Sea ships arrived every day on the Shanhaiguan side, unloading a large amount of grain, ammunition and other materials, and some ships went directly to Juehua Island to unload, so that the supplies on the Ningyuan side were also replenished a lot, plus the reserves on the Tongzhou side, it was enough for the Liaodong Army under the command of the last general to use for two months! Therefore, the preparation of the Liaodong Army is enough to take the Jinzhou area, and if it goes well, the last general thinks that within two months, we can still take Yizhou and even hit Quang Ninh! Luo Lixing replied excitedly.

"What is the state of preparation of the Northern Army and the Northwestern Army?" Xiao Tianjian nodded and asked.

After Diao Zheng heard this, he immediately replied: "Qi Shengshang, the last general has strengthened the defense force in the Xuanda area in accordance with the order, and at the same time transferred the two divisions to Dengzhou and Weihaiwei to be stationed in the area, and they can set off at any time!"

As for the cavalry division of the Northwest Army, it has now arrived in Jizhou Chen, and it can also cooperate with the Liaodong Army at any time!

It's just that the two divisions under the command of the last general are currently fully staffed, but the number of ammunition and flintlock guns has not yet reached the requirements, and they are continuing to be replenished, and it is estimated that they can be refurbished within ten days at the latest! ”

"What about the Guards?" Xiao Tianjian set his sights on Liu Yaoben again.

"Qi Song Sheng, the two divisions of the Guards plus a baggage regiment are now fully equipped and all have arrived, and at present, one division has been ordered to take over the defense of the Beijing Division, and the remaining division has arrived at Weihai Wei Cantonment!"

"So the current army build-up has been completed?" The expression on Xiao Tianjian's face relaxed.

"If you go back to the Holy Place, according to the plan, the Central Plains Independent Cavalry Regiment has also arrived in Dengzhou a few days ago, and all the troops and horses have been in place, and they can start after the materials meet the requirements!" Li Xin nodded and replied.

Xiao Tianjian thought for a while, and then asked, "What about the Northern Sea Division?" How prepared are they? ”

Li Xin immediately replied: "Qi Qi Sheng, Xiao Rufeng, the Northern Naval Division, is now personally sitting in Weihaiwei, and their naval division has gathered more than 280 ships of various kinds in Dengzhou, Laizhou, Weihaiwei and other places this time, most of which are large ships of about 400 materials, as well as more than ten large ships with thousands of materials newly built by Dengzhou Shipyard in the past two years, plus three Western-style plywood ships, plus civilian ships that can be temporarily requisitioned, the transportation capacity is enough to ensure that our army can transport the troops of one division to Xuanzhou Wei and Phi Dao and other places at a time!"

Within a month, 50,000 horses can be transported to Liaodong! Please rest assured!

However, Weichen thinks that if we want to launch, it is best for the first batch of men and horses to be transported to Lushun to land in the middle of Jinzhou! If you do so, you can ......"

Xiao Tianjian raised his hand to interrupt Li Xin's words, and said: "There is no need to say anything about this matter, it is an established thing to attack Phi Dao first, I think that taking Phi Dao and Yizhou, Xuanzhou, Zhenjiang (now Dandong) and other places is very important for this use of troops against Jiannu, not only can you lay a wedge on Jiannu's waist first, but also can deter the Koreans, so that they can't wait and see the direction of the wind at both ends!"

Moreover, after the first capture of Phi Dao, our army can to a certain extent order the DPRK to take out some grain to help the war, which can reduce our logistical pressure! As for playing Lushun, it's the second step!

How many defenders of Jiannu are there on Phi Island now, has the military department found out clearly? ”

After Li Xin listened, he didn't say more, in terms of hitting Phi Dao or Lushun first, the opinions of the General Staff of the Military Department and Xiao Tianjian were a little conflicting, but Xiao Tianjian was the emperor, although he was not the commander-in-chief of this war, but he still had the right to decide, after all, it was not bad to fight Phi Dao, but it could achieve the goal of giving Jiannu a look at the waist first, and for North Korea, it was also a means of pressure.

So Li Xin immediately replied: "Qiqi Shengshang, the sea division has sent ships to investigate many times, and now the defenders of Jiannu on Phi Island are less than 2,000, and most of them are Han troops, and there are only more than 400 Tartar soldiers on the island, as long as the troops are mobilized, there is no problem in taking Phi Island in one fell swoop!" Please rest assured!

In addition, Jiannu has 3,000 men and horses in Yizhou Chen, and there are more than 2,000 soldiers and horses in Xuanchengwei Zhenjiangbao, they have not increased their troops, and it is estimated that we still did not expect that we would start here, but in the area of Jinzhou, Jiannu is stationed with a lot of men and horses! ”

Xiao Tianjian nodded: "Jiannu forgot the pain after the scars, and they forgot the lessons of Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang Army at the beginning!" Therefore, I think that it is better to fight Phi Dao first than to fight Jinzhou first, once Phi Dao, Yizhou and Xuanchengwei are taken by our army, their men and horses in Jinzhou will be transferred back, and it will be much more convenient to fight Jinzhou again! By the way, what is the strength of Jiannu's sailors? ”

Li Xin laughed when he heard this, shook his head and said, "These Tartars who are Jiannu, where will they build a sailor!" Their ships are still some old ships of the Dongjiang Army that were confiscated back then, and there are only a few dozen of them, which is not enough for our naval division to clean up! So don't worry, as long as the sea master moves, those broken ships of Jiannu will not be able to pose any threat to the landing men and horses of our dynasty at all! ”

Xiao Tianjian was in a good mood after hearing this, and said with a smile: "Tartar is Tartar, I don't know what the sea is!" It's time for them to suffer this time!

The key to this battle is the cooperation of the soldiers and horses of the east and west, if you want to fight, you must start on both sides at the same time, and you will be caught off guard by Jiannu, so that they can't take care of each other.

But the most critical thing is the East Road, this is the first time that my two divisions of the sea and land have worked together, and after the East Route Army landed, it is estimated that it will not be able to get much replenishment from the local area, and it must rely on ships to transfer supplies for it to ensure their use! Whether it can be done well on the East Road depends on the ability of the sea division to organize transportation this time! It also depends on whether God is beautiful or not, as long as there are no big storms, then the Eastern Route Army can take the life of Jiannu!

The two armies attacked in a pincer shape, and marched towards Shengjing of Jiannu at the same time, what else could Jiannu do at that time! Hehe! This battle can't be delayed for too long, once started, it must be before the winter, basically the battle is almost the same, the time is only half a year at most, once it cools down, with the climate of Liaodong, our army will not be able to continue to attack!

So you have to fight harder and faster, and what is the situation on the Mongolian side? ”

"Qi Song Sheng, several other tribes on the Mongolian side have agreed, once our dynasty uses troops against Jiannu, they are willing to send troops to cooperate with our dynasty to attack Jiannu, in short, this is an opportunity for them to take revenge, they are happy to help!" Li Xin replied with a smile.

"Huh! The Mongolian tribes have been suppressed by Jiannu over the years, and there is no cheapness to take advantage of following Jiannu as a dog's leg, so they turned around and acted as our dog's leg, since it is a dog's leg, we must let them take advantage of it cheaply, tell them that as long as they work hard, then the captured property and slaves can give them thirty percent, as a reward for them!

Also, have the conditions for Dolgon and Huang Taiji to negotiate peace with us been spread? Xiao Tianjian asked one by one.

"It has already been spread, when Weichen was in Nanjing, he secretly arranged to spread the conditions for the slave chieftain Emperor Taiji and Dolgon to send people to negotiate peace with me, and now according to the detailed report, Huang Taiji and Dolgon learned that the other party tried to use our dynasty to get rid of each other, they were extremely angry, Huang Taiji has decreed to remove Dolgon and Prince Duoduo, and take back control of the two white flags, but Dolgon refused to accept the order to return to Shengjing to be punished, but announced that Huang Taiji must abdicate, in short, the two sides are now tense, If we don't do it, they probably have to fight first! Li Xin then replied.

"Good! Dog bites dog hair! It's better for them to knock out the pig brains themselves and pull them down! However, Jiannu is not a fool, although they are fighting among themselves, but Huang Taiji and Dolgon will not do it now, they must have learned that our dynasty is gathering troops and preparing for the Northern Expedition, so now I think that although they are making a lot of trouble, they will not immediately fight themselves.

We don't expect them to kill each other, we have to rely on ourselves to solve them, now it's April, time can't be delayed any longer, once it snows in winter, if we can't defeat them, our army will not be able to continue large-scale operations in winter, and before winter, we have to hoard supplies for winter, so the sooner we start, the better! Xiao Tianjian laughed for a while, and then said to them with a straight face.

"Weichen (the last general) obeys the order!" The generals immediately replied in high spirits.

"Give you another ten days to prepare, and we'll start in ten days!" Xiao Tianjian waved his hand and said loudly to the generals.

On the day of April 13, which was set by the General Staff Headquarters as the day of the start of the Northern Expedition, Xiao Tianjian worked tirelessly and personally rushed to Shanhaiguan to participate in the oath of the Dazhong Army assembled at Shanhaiguan, and publicly killed more than a dozen fine works of Jiannu who had recently been caught sneaking into the pass, and announced the start of the expedition after sacrificing the flag.

After Xiao Tianjian slammed the wine bowl on the ground, he pulled out a sharp waist knife from his waist and raised it high above his head, the sharp tip of the knife pointed straight at the sky, the blade reflected a cold light, and shouted: "Kill the slave!" ”

Tens of thousands of large and medium-sized troops gathered in Shanhaiguan shouted like a tsunami: "Kill slaves!" Kill slaves ......".

A group of men and horses made rumbling footsteps, stepping on the drumbeat of the marching drum strode out of the Shanhaiguan, all kinds of helmets gathered on the road outside the pass, the flag covered the sun, the iron armor was shining, the bayonets like a forest flashed a little cold light, like the scales on the dragon's body glittering, a cannon of all types, under the drag of mules and horses, the wheels of the gun carriage rumbled over the road, towards the outside of the pass, several columns like several dragons meandered towards the outside of the pass......

After Xiao Tianjian swore an oath, he came to the gatehouse of Shanhaiguan, and stopped on the gatehouse to watch his soldiers walk from here to the battlefield outside the gate.

He knew that these generals were not the first men and horses to be recruited, and in Ningyuan City outside the pass, at this time, the first batch of two infantry divisions and one cavalry division of the Liaodong Army had already pounced on Jinzhou City under the leadership of Luo Li this morning, and first launched an attack on Jiannu entrenched in Jinzhou.

However, whether it was the Dazhong Army from Shanhaiguan or the Dazhong Army from Ningyuan City, all of them belonged to the Left Route Army of the Northern Expedition, and the commander was Luo Li, who was responsible for launching an attack on Jiannu in Liaodong by land.

At the same time, in Dengzhou, Laizhou, Weihaiwei three ports, at this time there are also batches of soldiers and horses of the big Chinese army, are at the wharf fish to board a sea boat, they will be the East Route Army, will launch an attack on Liaodong from the sea, the first target of the attack is the Dongjiang Army founded by Mao Wenlong Phi Island, and then the follow-up men and horses will be in the first batch of people to land on Phi Island, capture Xuanchengwei and Yizhou, from these ports, land at Lushunkou, attack Jinzhou, an important town in eastern Liao.

The two large Chinese armies of the east and west will be like two fists, and if you describe it as a move in Taijiquan, it is a double wind piercing the ears, and at the same time launching a fierce attack on Jiannu from the east and west.

In fact, this tactic is not new, if the civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty did not have so many selfish intentions, the Guanning army stationed in Ningjin strategically cooperated with Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang army, Jiannu could not concentrate forces to defeat them individually, and the results proved that because of the various selfishness of these civil and military officials in the Ming Dynasty, the two armies were never able to cooperate with the use of troops against Jiannu, and as a result, Jiannu was often able to concentrate his forces to defeat the Ming army.

Later, the self-righteous Yuan Chonghuan actually overstepped his authority and deceived Mao Wenlong, which led to the disintegration of the Dongjiang Army, and finally eliminated one of Jiannu's henchmen, and finally led to Jiannu being able to safely and boldly let go of the customs and approach the capital, so whether Yuan Chonghuan was a traitor or not, just killing Mao Wenlong, even if Chongzhen cut him a thousand times, it was not considered to have wronged him.

However, there is no problem of the two armies not cooperating with each other, although the communication of this era makes it impossible for them to quickly contact each other to cooperate with each other tactically, but strategically both sides have only one task, that is, to continue to attack and attack again and again, until they reach the Shengjing City of Jiannu.

Therefore, the Northern Expedition of the Great Chinese Army is destined to make Jiannu no longer able to concentrate his forces to deal with the Great Chinese Army like the Ming Army all the way back then.

Under the military system established by Xiao Tianjian, the Dazhong Army has transcended the ordinary army of this era and has become a powerful modern army.

There are so many soldiers who dare to fight hard to get out of the customs, this time it is doomed to the fate of Jiannu, the fall of Jiannu is only a matter of time, Xiao Tianjian has no doubt that Jiannu will turn over and continue to become a nightmare for the Han people.

On the contrary, this army, which he had built with his own hands, was destined to become a nightmare for Jiannu after leaving the customs, and from then on they would tremble when they thought about it.

Tens of thousands of horses and horses went out of the customs, which lasted for most of the day, and during this half of the day, Xiao Tianjian has been standing on the tower of Shanhaiguan, watching his soldiers and generals go to the battlefield.

Every Dazhong soldier who went out of the customs knew that their saints were watching them at this juncture, so they took out the best state one by one and rushed to the future battlefield, and everyone turned their heads to salute the position of the dragon flag of the Dazhong Dynasty at the juncture, and in the roar of the officers, they let out cheers, expressing their respect to their respected emperor.

Xiao Tianjian didn't relax his tense body until the last group of centaurs walked out of the gate far away, and gradually couldn't see their backs, and slowly said, "Go!" Go ahead! Go and return all the humiliation of our Han people to the children and grandchildren of wild boar skins! I will be here to meet your triumphant ......"