636 Spring Session

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Three days later, Zhou Qing sent back news from Tamna Island again that the Korean king Yi Kui and all his members of the Korean royal family were hunted down by the Tatars on the southernmost coast of the Korean Peninsula and all of them were killed.

After Li Zixiao got the news, he just said lightly: "Okay, since the Li royal family of North Korea is all dead, in a few years, we will be able to divide North Korea into a province." ”

At this time, Li Zixiao was convening a meeting of the generals of the White Dragon Army, and he said these words in public, which made Wei Hong, Luo Chao and others around him smile.

"Okay, the North Korean matter is not our focus now, now that spring has begun, we still have several big battles to fight next!

One of them is that Benjue promised Lord Lu that he would use troops against Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, two thieves, and Lu Xiangsheng had already sent someone to urge Benjue yesterday.

On Li Zicheng's side, Benjue was ready to hand over to Xu Wei's army to conquer the west, anyway, this time the governor of Shaanxi, Sun Chuanting, was the main force to encircle and suppress Li Zicheng, and let Xu Wei assist him.

And Zhang Xianzhong's side, Benjue also plans to send someone, at this time Zhang Xianzhong, the thief, is wandering around Luzhou, just got the news, he just beat Luzhou half a month ago.

Ben Jue is thinking about who to bring the troops to Luzhou, and how many men and horses should he bring? There are really not many troops that can be mobilized in Benjue's hands now! ”

As soon as Li Zixiao's words came out, more than a dozen generals of the White Dragon Army around him exchanged in low voices, and the eyes of Qi Wei and Luo Chao and other generals flashed even more.

And Li Yan next to him didn't speak all the time, and he always had a smile on his face.

Last night, in fact, Li Zixiao had already discussed it with him alone.

The Jiangbei occupied by Li Zixiao at this time, and Henan, which had just arrived, happened to be sandwiched between Anhui, that is, Fengyang Mansion and Luzhou Mansion at this time, and several state capitals in the south.

Li Zixiao wants to merge the territory of Jiangbei and Henan under his command into one and completely open up, so Fengyang Mansion and Luzhou Mansion are the next thing he wants to seize.

At the same time, Li Yan knew that the reason why Li Zixiao agreed to Lu Xiangsheng this time and was willing to send troops to chase down Zhang Xianzhong, the thief, was mainly to prepare to get involved in Jiangnan.

At this time, the territory of the White Dragon Army was all concentrated north of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty, and there was no territory south of the Yangtze River.

And Li Zixiao this time, he plans to send a White Dragon Army to Luzhou to encircle and suppress Zhang Xianzhong in the name of chasing and suppressing Zhang Xianzhong, maybe he can first lay a ground in Luzhou and nail the next nail.

Luzhou Mansion is on the verge of the Yangtze River, and when you cross the Yangtze River, you can enter the boundary of the south of the Yangtze River.

And Li Zixiao believes that Zhang Xianzhong will not stay in Luzhou all the time, and soon he will kill back to Huguang, and then cross the Yellow River and kill to the south of the Yangtze River.

At that time, the men and horses sent by Li Zixiao had every reason to pursue Zhang Xianzhong across the Yangtze River.

Just like before Li Zixiao sent the Western Army to settle down in Ruzhou, first occupy a point, and then see the opportunity to slowly expand around.

At this time, Luzhou, which had just been defeated by Zhang Xianzhong, was favored by Li Zixiao, and Luzhou was Hefei, Anhui Province in later generations.

However, at this time, there was no Anhui, and Anhui and Jiangsu were called Nanzhili.

"Sir, let your subordinates go down this time, look at Qi Wei, Xu Wei, Liu Chong, Zhou Dazhu, they all led an army alone.

Sir, you have to give your subordinates a chance, this time to pursue Zhang Xianzhong's combat mission, no one should rob me Luo.

Otherwise, you will be blamed for Luo Mou's ruthlessness, especially you, Qi Wei, don't rob me this time. ”

After a while, Luo Chao was the first to stand up and ask Li Zixiao for his life, with a posture that whoever grabbed me, I would give him a hurry.

"Okay, I won't rob you."

Seeing Luo Chao's eagerness, Qi Wei smiled slightly and said.

This time, Qi Wei really didn't mean to take the initiative to ask for his life, because he knew that at this time, he had just stepped down as the commander of the Western Legion, and it was not appropriate for him to serve as the commander of a similar Alien Legion.

Moreover, just like Luo Chao said, among the earliest generals who followed Li Zixiao's side, basically all of them were sent out to lead an army alone.

He is the only one who has never had such an opportunity.

Last year, he and Li Zixiao went to Tartar Pass to kill fiercely, but it was still Li Zixiao who led the army that time.

Therefore, Luo Chao is very eager to lead an army to fight alone, and he is bound to win this combat mission.

"Except for Luo Chao, there is no one who takes the initiative to ask for battle?"

At this time, Li Zixiao looked at the eager Luo Chao, with a smile on his face, and deliberately asked everyone around.

As a result, many of the generals of the White Dragon Army around them all laughed, and no one took the initiative to stand up and ask for battle.

On the one hand, don't look at the many generals of the White Dragon Army here, but there are really few generals who are really qualified to take the initiative to stand up and lead an army alone and fight against thieves like Luo Chao.

This also depends on qualifications, among the generals of the White Dragon Army present at this time, only Wei Hong, Qi Wei, Luo Chao, and Li Tianba have such qualifications.

Even Zhao Zilong, who has been in the limelight in the White Dragon Army recently, does not have this qualification.

And Wei Hong, as the deputy commander of the White Dragon Army, has always guarded the rear for Li Zixiao, and he is obviously not suitable for this kind of mission.

Qi Wei didn't have a chance this time, although Li Tianba had enough qualifications, but when it came to strategy, he was really not suitable to be the coach.

In this way, the task of conquest of Zhang Xianzhong's thieves this time is none other than Luo Chao, which is also the common opinion of Li Zixiao and Li Yan last night.

"It seems that no one takes the initiative to ask for war anymore, so in this case, Ben Jue announced that he would form a southward army on the same day, with Luo Chao as the commander and Li Tianba as the deputy commander, commanding 20,000 troops, and sending troops to Luzhou three days later."

"Yes, the subordinate takes the order." Luo Chao knelt down excitedly and shouted.

"Hehe, there is another battle, and I will also take the order." Li Tianba, a belligerent maniac, also said excitedly.

"Luo Chao, among the 20,000 horses you commanded this time, there are only 6,000 elite people in our White Dragon Army, and the rest are all city defense soldiers.

And Zhang Xianzhong was winning at this time, and he had tens of thousands of thieves, and he himself was known as the '300,000 army', in the area of Luzhou in Nanzhili, the Ming army was bitter.

After you arrive in Luzhou, you must be cautious in using troops, Zhang Xianzhong is not easy to deal with, so you must not be careless.

Moreover, when you went south this time, it was not to completely exterminate Zhang Xianzhong as the main task, but to choose a suitable city to take root like the previous expedition to the west.

Preserve your strength, develop secretly, and chase and suppress thieves as a supplement, you have to distinguish between priorities and priorities! ”

At this time, Li Yan, who had been watching from the side, finally stood up and warned Luo Chao.

Li Yan's words have been said very clearly, and after Luo Chao heard it, he also nodded again and again, and promised: "Don't worry, Luo understands." ”

"Okay, after the meeting is over, you will follow Wei Hong to the barracks, 20,000 horses have been assembled, and the food and other materials will be collected soon.

In three days' time, you will set out with your army, and I will make a meal for you. This brings me to the next topic. On the question of whether the Navy will send troops to the East China Sea? ”

Li Zixiao quickly threw out the second question, which directly made Lu Yuan, who rushed to the meeting, stand up straight excitedly.

"Sir, let's send troops to the East China Sea this time, are we going to war with the Zheng family, or are we going to fight the red-haired ghosts?" Qi Wei asked.

"This is not necessarily, it is certain to fight the red-haired ghosts first, they invade the Ryukyu Island, the land of my Ming Dynasty, and it is natural for us to recruit them as Ming officers and soldiers.

As for whether there will be a war with the Zheng family, it depends on the Zheng family, if they dare to attack us first, then we don't have to be polite, of course we have to fight back. ”

As soon as Li Zixiao spoke, the discussion of the surrounding White Dragon Army generals became louder, and they knew that Li Zixiao was preparing to make a move against the Zheng family.

"Sir, you don't know much about the current situation of our navy, and I don't know if there is a war with the Zheng family, our navy has a chance of winning.

If you want to recruit the red-haired ghost, do you need the assistance of our army, you should ask General Lu to come out and explain this. ”

Li Yan stood up at this time and said to Li Zixiao, looking at Luo Chao, Qi Wei and the others around him, he saw these people nodding one after another, they really didn't know much about the situation in the navy.

"Okay, Lu Yuan, you can come out and talk about it." Li Zixiao nodded, this was also something he had discussed with Li Yan.

"Yes, sir." Lu Yuan suppressed the excitement in his heart and said.

Immediately, Lu Yuan swept over the many White Dragon Army generals present, and at this time, more than two-thirds of the White Dragon Army generals here were army generals.

There were only six or seven naval generals who followed Lu Yuan, and at this time in the White Dragon Army, the reputation of the navy was really not very high, and they really hadn't been able to get a record until now.

Last year, Li Zixiao achieved proud results in the first battle outside the Pass, but that battle was basically fought by the army, and their navy only acted as a transport brigade.

In the White Dragon Army, if you don't have a record, you don't have the right to speak, and only by being able to fight can you be respected in the White Dragon Army.

Therefore, Lu Yuan is looking forward to Li Zixiao's march into the East China Sea, it is not a day or two, before their strength was not enough, but now their strength is enough.

"Sir, strategist, generals, it has been almost four years since the establishment of our navy, and during this time, my lord has spared no effort to support the development of our navy.

At present, our navy has a total of five fleets, one of which is a fleet that has just been formed, with nearly 200 seagoing ships and a total tonnage of about 1.8 million materials (that is, 600,000 tons).

Our navy has more than 11,000 men, more than 2,000 large and small artillery, and more than 5,000 flintlock guns......"

With the overall strength of General Lu Yuan's White Dragon Army Navy at this time, after saying it, the surrounding generals of the White Dragon Army, such as Qi Wei and Luo Chao, were all stunned.

"Oh my God, our navy is already so powerful!" Luo Chao couldn't help but exclaim.

Seeing the surprised expressions of the White Dragon Army generals around him, Lu Yuan showed a proud smile on his face and continued: "At the same time, we got information about the Zheng family's fleet from General Zhang's intelligence bureau.

Compared with the Zheng fleet, we are still less than the Zheng family in terms of the total number of warships, but in terms of total tonnage, it is almost the same as the Zheng family's fleet.

That is to say, there are many Zheng family warships, but their tonnage is small, and the firepower of our warships is generally stronger than that of Zheng family's sea ships.

The first improved three-masted gunboat we built could carry a 64-pounder gun (about 200 mm caliber), which the Zheng fleet could not do.

It can be said that if our fleet fights with the Zheng family fleet at sea at this time, our victory rate will be even greater.

However, the advantage of the Zheng family's fleet is that they have been in naval battles for a long time, and their sailors and soldiers are more proficient in the operation of warships one by one.

If we really want to go to war, who wins and who loses, now Lu doesn't care about nonsense, I can only say five or five. ”

"Don't worry, at this time, the Zheng family is still at war with the red-haired ghost, I think as long as Zheng Zhilong is not in the water at this time, it is impossible to start a war with us at this time."

After Lu Yuan finished speaking, Li Zixiao added.

"Sir, my subordinates feel that General Lu should be allowed to lead our fleet into the East China Sea, and at this time, when the Zheng family has no time to separate, it is the best time.

Even, we can let General Lu lead our navy, practice with red-haired ghosts, and train the actual combat ability of our naval officers.

In order to compete with the Zheng family at sea in the future, prepare in advance. ”

After Lu Yuan and Li Zixiao finished speaking, Qi Wei was the first to stand up and express his opinion.

"Qi Wei is right, although I don't understand naval warfare, but I think there should be a reason with our land warfare, the weapons and equipment are excellent, it is not enough, and the soldiers must go through harsh training.

Only in this way, when it comes to the battlefield, can the enemy be defeated.

At present, General Lu's naval fleet is equivalent to our army having sophisticated weapons and armor, and what is lacking now is actual combat training.

Therefore, his subordinates also supported this time to let General Lu lead the naval division into the East China Sea. ”

Wei Hong followed closely behind Qi Wei and also spoke.

"My subordinates agree." Luo Chao nodded and said.

"We agree with that." The surrounding generals of the White Dragon Army also echoed.

Moreover, Wei Hong, Qi Wei and others could also clearly see that Li Zixiao hoped that the White Dragon Army Navy would enter the East China Sea, so they simply pushed the boat along the way.

"Well, since you all agree, then the matter is settled.

Lu Yuan listened to the order, and gave you another half a month, and at the end of this month, you led the naval fleet from Yangzhou Port to the East China Sea, and the first destination was to go to the Ryukyu Islands.

After the meeting is over, I will let the military advisor inform you. In the end, Li Zixiao decided.

"Yes, the subordinate takes the order." Lu Yuan responded excitedly.

"In addition, I asked Wei Hong to select two thousand non-seasick soldiers to supplement your naval fleet marines, and I am afraid that you will have to carry out a lot of landing and offensive tasks when you go to sea this time.

Your existing 3,000 marines are still too small, so I will replenish you to 5,000.

When the time comes, if you really want to fight the red-haired ghosts on Ryukyu Island, I will ask Wei Hong to organize merchant ships and transport some of the soldiers of the White Dragon Army to Ryukyu Island to assist you in the battle. ”

Immediately, Li Zixiao added to Lu Yuan.

Li Zixiao has formed a marine corps since he was preparing to build his own naval fleet, and Li Zixiao asked Lu Yuan that their naval fleet can not only fight naval battles at sea, but also be responsible for landing combat missions.

It can be said that the meeting of the generals of the White Dragon Army held by Li Zixiao at the beginning of the spring of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen basically determined that the war that the White Dragon Army would take the initiative to launch this year was called the 'Spring Meeting'.

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