Mao Yuanyi finally added: "If Houjin can break through the barrier, it will inevitably boost morale. After all, this is the first time that a slave soldier has penetrated into the interior of my Ming Dynasty, and it is something that the old slave has not been able to do when he was alive.

Even after the General Staff Headquarters and the Military Department rectified the Jingying, Jizhou Town, and Liaoxi Town last year, our army may not be able to engage in field battles with the slave soldiers who are in full swing.

Therefore, the minister thought that the people near Zunhua should be evacuated, the strategy of clearing the wilderness with strong walls should be implemented, and then the morale of the slave soldiers should be consumed with Zunhua City-Santun Camp-Qianxi City as the core.

After the veterans of the slave division are tired, and then send troops from Jizhou and Qian'an to counterattack, even if they can't leave all the slave soldiers behind, they will definitely be able to greatly frustrate the spirit of the slave soldiers. ”

Chongzhen did not have much opinion on the battle plan drawn up by the General Staff, and he also agreed to the plan that Sun Chengzong would once again serve as the deputy commander of the wartime base camp and preside over the front to fight against Houjin, while he himself sat in Beijing as a backup.

After deciding on the strategy of the battle, Zhu Youzhen immediately added: "Let the general army of Changzhen lead the troops to Miyun to prevent Houjin from sending a small number of troops to break through the Great Wall pass near Miyun in order to plunder the rear of our Jizhou defense line."

In addition, someone was sent to inform the Xuanda Governor's Mansion and asked Yuan Chonghuan and Cao Wenzhao to pick out a cavalry unit and prepare to sweep the pastoral area of the 36th Department of Guanmen.

Their task is only the same, to relocate all the tribes north of the Great Wall at Xifengkou to the area around Longshan-Xiaolinghe in Liaodong.

No matter what method they do, this area will become a no-man's land where Jiannu will not be able to get supplies within two months.

In addition, the border army generals in Shaanxi and Xuanda were notified to take precautions and be vigilant against Lin Dan Khan taking advantage of the Houjin army's invasion of our Ming Dynasty to take advantage of the fire to rob. ”

Mao Yuanyi hesitated for a moment, and then said: "The Mongols have always valued small profits over righteousness, since Your Majesty is worried that Lin Dan Khan will have some changes during this time, it is better to send an envoy to directly invite Lin Dan Khan to send troops to plunder the 36 gates, and reward him with a city reward, the minister thinks that Lin Dan Khan will definitely be tempted." ”

Zhu Youzhen was silent for a moment before replying: "I will let Liu Jingting handle this matter, originally I was a little worried, and invited Lin Dan Khan to plunder the 36 closed doors, will it cause the disgust of the Shunyi king, so that the 36 closed doors will completely surrender to Houjin."

However, for now, the main task is to repel the Houjin army, and other issues will be left to later. As long as Lin Dan Khan can send troops, then the northwest defense line of my Ming Dynasty will also be settled. ”

This military meeting was not held for a long time, and the definite news that the Houjin army had not knocked on the pass came to the news, and now it can only formulate a general battle strategy. However, after the meeting, the staff officers of the General Staff began to get busy, and they began to operate themselves like a sophisticated machine.

Here there is no longer a need for the superior to give specific orders, they can do things. Some began to plan the distribution routes of food and military supplies, some began to study the order of the transfer of troops and the marching routes of the garrisons in various places, and some began to copy detailed maps of the northern region of Beizhili for distribution to the staff officers.

Mao Yuanyi and several staff officers will set off in the afternoon to set up a forward station for the wartime base camp and set up a front-line command center in Jizhou City to take over the operational command of the front-line armies.

The Gyeonggi Governorate has six regular divisions and two recruit divisions. This time, a chariot division of Zuo Liangyu and an artillery regiment will be sent to follow Mao Yuanyi and others to Jizhou to stabilize the defense of Jizhou City.

Needless to say, the 4th Gyeonggi Division led by Zuo Liangyu said that after more than half a year of training and redressing, this cavalry battalion, which was only transferred from Liaodong to the Gyeonggi Governor's Office, was completely different from what it used to be.

When Zuo Liangyu served as the capital of this chariot and cavalry battalion in Liaodong before, he had a good conscience when he ate empty quotas, so there were still half of the soldiers and horses in the first battalion. Of course, this also has something to do with the fact that he is not from Liaoxi Jiangmen, and he does not dare to be too unscrupulous.

The army transferred to the Gyeonggi region from other places is also called the squad army, and to be honest, this is a very hard errand. Just letting the sergeant be responsible for the travel expenses himself, and having to deal with the officials after arriving in the capital to get provisions, is enough to make a sergeant bankrupt.

Yes, when I heard that I was going to be transferred from western Liaoning to Gyeonggi, at least a third of the Liao people under Zuo Liangyu ran away, and only some soldiers who had no way and were too honest resigned themselves to follow Zuo Liangyu to the name of the Gyeonggi Governor's Office.

Zuo Liangyu, who was worried, originally wanted to take Hou Sui's way, but after arriving in the capital, he found that he didn't have to run around much this time to enter the Beijing class. After the General Staff sent someone to check his men and horses, it not only transferred a group of non-commissioned officers to fill the gap in the battalion, but also redressed the cavalry battalion.

Zuo Liangyu was naturally very elated when he encountered this unexpected good thing, but he soon knew that the General Staff treated them so favorably because they wanted to transfer their army out of the customs to fight the Mongols.

Although the sergeants in the camp were a little dissatisfied, they were from Liaoxi Town, but they were going to go out for the border army of Xuanda, but seeing that the imperial court not only changed their equipment, but also paid them half a year's military salary, these Liaodong soldiers decided to be loyal to the emperor for a while.

Although the battle of Fengzhen caused the cavalry battalion to lose a lot of men and horses, after returning to Gyeonggi, the Gyeonggi Governor's Office still replenished the lost vacancies in the battalion at the first time and compensated the casualties.

The preferential treatment given by the imperial court to this Liaodong army made this army quickly acquiesce to the fact that it was included in the establishment of the Gyeonggi Governor's Office.

The soldiers of the chariot cavalry battalion were veterans who came out of the sea of blood in the corpse mountains of Liaodong, and after receiving the training and redressing of the General Staff sparing no effort, Zuo Liangyu's chariot cavalry battalion soon became the first armed force in Gyeonggi below the Wuhuai cavalry unit.

Seeing that the troops he led began to grow stronger, even no less than those who were around the disciples, Zuo Liangyu suddenly became a little arrogant. I felt that I could rely on this force to win a knighthood on the battlefield in Liaodong.

However, he did not have long to be proud, and soon the cavalry battalion was divided into two divisions, and two riders with a quota of 5,400 people were formed respectively. Although it seemed that he had more troops, Zuo Liangyu knew that this was not a good thing.

He brought more than 1,000 old troops from Liaodong, and there were only 2 or 30 real cronies. After two expansions, these people were quickly submerged in two divisions of tens of thousands of troops.

In the past, in Liaodong, when colleagues in the army mentioned his troops, they would say: How is the left battalion. But now, even his direct subordinates are a mouthful of the 4th Division.

Zuo Liangyu was very sad about this, and he knew very well in his heart that although the army in his hand was far more powerful than in the past, it was no longer his left battalion.

Even those cronies and generals who used to be around him all day long, after attending the training class of the military academy for a few days, in front of him, there was a mouthful of Principal Sun, Instructor Mao, and His Majesty.

They are villains who are proud of their faces, because they are afraid that others will not know that they have gone to military school for a few days.

When Zuo Liangyu stood outside the camp and thought like this, a burst of dust was lifted from afar on the black cinder road opened up outside the camp.

Zuo Liangyu immediately straightened up, and soon several knights ran out of the dust, and Mao Yuanyi ran in front of him.

As soon as Mao Yuanyi pulled the reins outside the barracks, he saw a fair-skinned and tall military attache greet him, and pulled his reins with a smile on his face.

"Instructor Mao, you are here, after the student receives the order from the General Staff, he is waiting for your arrival."

Mao Yuanyi dismounted, and said casually to the military attaché: "You are Zuo Kunshan of the 4th Division, why did you come to the camp gate to pick me up, is this a bit overdone?" ”

"What the instructor said is not right, I am still a cadet of the ninth phase of the military academy, and I am also your student. Come out to greet the division commander, how can it be regarded as overstepping? ”

Mao Yuanyi glanced at Zuo Liangyu, and finally showed some smile on his face, and then said: "Even in the army, we still get along with each other as officials, and we will talk about other things in private." This officer was ordered to go to Jizhou to form a front-line command, and your department is now under the command of this officer, can this order be received? ”

Zuo Liangyu followed behind Mao Yuanyi and said busily: "Two hours ago, Xiaguan had already received an order that it was about 220 miles from the capital to Jizhou City, and the General Staff asked the headquarters to arrive within 3 days.

However, if you want to transport all the baggage of the division to Jizhou City, I am afraid it will have to be 5 days. Therefore, Xia Guan prepared to divide the division into three parts, the first part was the forward force, a horse team of 540 people, one man and two horses, and set off in two hours, striving to arrive at Jizhou City tomorrow evening.

The remaining troops were divided into the main force of 3,500 people, and the rearguard force of more than 1,000 people. The main force marched along the official road, and the rearguard troops escorted the baggage to the horse-drawn railroad tracks from the capital to Jizhou.

These two troops will set off early tomorrow morning after packing their bags today. The main forces arrived in three days with a rapid march of 80 miles a day. As for the rearguard, they will arrive no later than 5 days at the speed of the horse-drawn rails..."

After Mao Yuanyi listened, he nodded and said: "This arrangement is very appropriate, this official set off with the forward troops, you urge the main force to follow up, and be sure to arrive in Jizhou City within 3 days..."

When Mao Yuanyi and Zuo Liangyu were discussing the matter of sending troops, the head of the three major banks in Beijing had not yet been ordered to be summoned by the head of the three major banks in Beijing at a cabinet meeting in the morning.

After Wang Fengyuan of the Central Bank heard the news of the issuance of war bonds, he had already hurried to the office of Wang Yuansi, a member of the Tobu Division, and patted his chest to subscribe for 3 million yuan of war bonds.