The Spring Festival has finally passed, and all departments of the Far Eastern Company are busy. Because the company is going south to the Central Plains this year, the work is more arduous than in the past. Just after fifteen, the various departments were busy as if they were clockwork.

Li Ming and Song Tao took an airship to the Hetao base area and formed the Central Plains Campaign Command.

The newly formed Central Plains Campaign Command, with Song Tao as commander-in-chief, Shi Mingfeng, political commissar, and Lin Hua, chief of staff, was divided into three attack directions, namely the Northern Corps, the Northeast Corps, and the Southern Corps.

The main force of the Northern Corps will consist of 10 new cavalry divisions, four field divisions, and one garrison division, as well as 12 armed police detachments, a large number of grassroots musket militia units, and a large number of combat logistics support units.

The direction of attack was the northern region of the Ming Dynasty, including the northern border wall guarded by Jizhou Town, Xuanfu Town, Datong Town, Taiyuan Town, Yansui Town, Ningxia Town, Guyuan Town and Gansu Town.

The main force of the Northeast Corps is composed of two field divisions, two garrison divisions, four armed police detachments, and a large number of combat logistics support detachments. The direction of attack was Liaodong Town, where the Guanning Army was stationed, and it penetrated into Shanhaiguan through the coastal areas of western Liaoning. It will also land in the coastal areas of Hebei and Shandong, with the support of the Admiralty.

The main force of the Southern Corps was composed of four overseas divisions and eight armed police detachments, and the direction of attack was the coastal area of Nanzhili in the Ming Dynasty. They will enter the Yellow and Yangtze River valleys in steam-deck barges and river engine sailing ships, supported by the Admiralty, to occupy and control key areas.

The Air Force Department will also set up three air boat wings, which will concentrate most of the Air Ministry's airships to provide all-round air support to the Far Eastern Army in the three attack directions.

The Intelligence Department of the Military Commission has also done a lot of work, and as early as two years ago, they basically completed the real-time mapping of the map of the northern region of the Ming Dynasty, and collected all kinds of basic information of the Ming Dynasty, such as local administrative organs and garrisons.

Moreover, the intelligence station of the Ministry of Intelligence stationed in the Central Plains has also used various means to buy officials from all parts of the northern Ming Dynasty and the military leaders of the Jiubian Military Town in the past year, and has achieved extremely fruitful results.

In recent years, the Central Plains Intelligence Station has established a strict intelligence network in the northern region of the Ming Dynasty, and the intelligence stations in various places have also trained a large number of supernumerary intelligence officers, and after the main force of the Far Eastern Army launched an attack, there are Far Eastern intelligence personnel in various places responsible for guiding, and many cities and towns will also open the city gates when the Far Eastern Army arrives, or strive for local officials and garrisons to revolt directly.

The company also completed the formation of armed forces last year in more than a dozen base areas in the north of Daming. On the basis of a guerrilla detachment, each base area was strengthened by a battalion-level combat unit of the main force of the Far Eastern Army. The base areas also armed the young and strong displaced people under their rule, and formed a large number of militia detachments.

After the Central Plains Campaign of the Military Commission began, all base areas in the north of the Ming Dynasty would also launch attacks at the same time. Control of major towns and vast rural areas in the vicinity of the base areas.

In addition, more than a dozen displaced armed forces affiliated with the Far East Company will also lead the main forces of the old battalion to the south and withdraw to the area on the north bank of the Yangtze River to assemble. They were transported by the inland river detachment of the Southern Corps into the Daming Jiangnan region.

After the Far Eastern Army's Central Plains Campaign was launched, the Far Eastern Company would carry out a large-scale crackdown on thieves from all over the northern Ming Dynasty. As much as possible, the displaced armed forces scattered throughout the Ming Dynasty were collected, carefully screened and purified, and all of them were sent to various controlled areas in the overseas Far East for proper resettlement.

However, for several relatively large armed forces of thieves, the Central Plains Intelligence Station of the Far Eastern Intelligence Department will get in touch with them, hoping to negotiate with them and reach an agreement with these armed bandits as much as possible.

Now the exile army led by Li Zicheng is the largest armed force of exiles in the north of the Ming Dynasty. He is currently fighting the Ming army led by Sun Chuanting in Shanxi for several months.

If Li Zicheng agrees to the Far Eastern Army's plan, the company will not only devote its strength to transport the main force of their old battalion across the river, but will also rely on the Yangtze River waterway to provide them with necessary support in the future.

During this time, the Far Eastern Company became extremely busy, and a large number of grassroots cadres went home for vacation after several months of training. Just after the Spring Festival, they rushed to Shenyang from all over the country and reorganized them according to the establishment of detachments, brigades, and squadrons.

The total number of grassroots cadres trained in Shenyang will reach more than 300,000. Most of them will soon travel to the Hetao base areas and areas

Then they will brave the bitter cold in the north and march mightily to the northern regions of the Ming Dynasty, such as Bayannur, Ulanqab, Guihua, Zhangjiakou and Chengde. There they will converge with the main forces deployed there, and after the campaign is launched, they will follow behind the main forces into the Central Plains.

Because of the help of Song Tao, Liu Degui and others, Liu Degui and others have achieved relatively good results in the final assessment. After the Spring Festival holiday, when the grassroots cadres were reorganized, he became a detachment leader as he wished.

He walked towards his home with the supplies and equipment he had just distributed. Each of the grassroots cadres who went to the Central Plains this time received a complete set of equipment and supplies.

All the rank and file cadres will be equipped with weapons, each squadron cadre will be equipped with a front-loading rifled fire cap pistol, and the cadres above the brigade level will be equipped with a revolver. In addition, each person is equipped with a self-defense dagger.

Because they had to march for a long time, and after the battle began, they had to follow the main force into the Ming Dynasty, so each cadre was also equipped with a war horse as their means of transportation.

They were also equipped with a complete set of Far Eastern military uniforms, including spring, summer and winter uniforms, overcoats, suede boots, military water bottles, marching bags, armed belts, steel helmets and goggles. Personal items include a crossbody bag, watch, flashlight, notebook, iron whistle, first aid kit, cutlery, toothbrush, and more.

In addition, there is a complete set of bedding, a single felt, raincoats, mosquito nets and other materials and equipment for camping. Anyway, there were a lot of them, Liu Degui was carrying a marching bag, his hands were not idle, and he was already tired and sweating when he got home.

War horses have not yet been allocated, and they will walk to the military horse farm in the north of the Liao River to apply for war horses, as well as a full set of harness and concentrate feed. In this year's training, the subject of horseback riding was specially added, although they could not do it on horseback, but it was not a problem to march on horseback.

The Tartar woman knew that he was going to leave in the next few days, so she simply stayed at home to accompany him. The Tartar woman saw Liu Degui walking into the house with his equipment, and hurriedly greeted him to help him put his things away.

"Lao Liu, where were you assigned this time?"

Liu Degui sat down on the sofa, took out a cigarette and took a puff and said, "Don't worry about it, this is a military secret, why are you old ladies asking about this." ”

The Tartar woman pursed her lips, and then said disdainfully: "What kind of military secrets, I already know." You're going to the Central Plains, I've been told a long time ago. ”

Liu Degui glared and said angrily: "Even if you know, you are not allowed to go out and talk nonsense, did you hear it?" ”

When the Tatar woman saw that the gentlemen in the family were angry, she hurriedly walked over, stuck to Liu Degui's side, and said coquettishly: "I know, big lord...... I really didn't say it to anyone else. Actually, it was a group of chiefs chatting in a restaurant, and I overheard it. ”

Liu Degui glared at the Tartar woman again, and then said with a straight face: "In the future, listen less to those things that you shouldn't know in the hotel, it's not a good thing, and you will do your business separately." ”

"Hmm...... Got it, big man......"

Seeing the virtue of women, Liu Degui also felt a little unbearable, they went south to the Central Plains with the main force this time, and they couldn't stop it for the past two years. There was no time or energy to manage the house, and the family's business and the two children all had to be pointed to by the Tartar woman.

Thinking of this, Liu Degui put his arms around the Tartar woman and said with a smile: "I went out this time, and I may not be able to come back for a year, so the family will be all up to you." ”

The woman gave him a blank look, and then said faintly: "Who makes our eldest lord so busy, I don't care who cares, or the eldest lord should yell at me again." ”

Liu Degui smiled when he heard it: "Where did I yell at you, I was reasoning with you, hehe...... When I stabilize over there, I'll take you mothers over, and then you can simply open a few black soil restaurants in the Central Plains. ”

When the woman in her arms heard this, she suddenly came to her senses. She sat up straight and said excitedly, "yes, why didn't I remember this stubble." When the time comes, I will open a restaurant in the area where you work, and I will open another one wherever you transfer. ”

Liu Degui frowned when he heard this and said: "That's not good, you are doing business in the area under my management, how bad the impact is." Besides, you can open a family, so you don't have to get up early and get dark every day, and you can't even take care of your home. ”

The two hugged each other and talked, and as they spoke, they went to bed and tossed for most of the night. Liu Degui was almost killed by the Tartar women these days, and the two of them snapped late every night.

A few days later, Liu Degui received an order to set off. The Tartar woman got up early to make breakfast for him and helped him to get dressed. The two of them were still crazy for most of the night last night, and when Liu Degui got up, his old waist was about to break.

The two sons also asked for leave from school yesterday, and the family had a reunion dinner. The two sons also got up early today to help their mother do what they could. Liu Degui sat on the sofa smoking cigarettes one after another, watching his mother busy outside, his heart was also very uncomfortable.

The family sat down for breakfast together, Liu Degui put on his marching bag, and his two sons helped their father carry other luggage. The Tartar woman prepared a lot of things for men, almost filling several large bags.

Out of the house, Liu Degui smiled and said to the Tartar woman: "Don't go, just let the two of them follow." ”

The Tartar woman nodded, and then wanted to say something, but in the end she didn't say anything, just waved her hand at the man in the family. Liu Degui smiled, then turned around and left the house with his two sons. (To be continued.) )