Soon after Li Ming and Song Tao returned to Vladivostok, the Central Military Commission held a military meeting, the theme of which was the work arrangements for the second phase of the Pingliao military plan in the spring of next year.

The company has invested a large number of resources and sufficient manpower support, and the railway and highway projects from Yanhe Town to Mudanjiang Town are progressing rapidly, and it is expected that they will be basically guaranteed to open to traffic before the winter of this year. This winter, the huge amount of materials that have been hoarded in Yanhe Town will be transported to Mudanjiang Town by guò railway.

The Logistics Department of the Central Military Commission has set up three temporary logistics subdivisions in Ningguta, Maolianwei, and Tawinburg, and a large amount of materials can be stored before the winter. At this point, the material preparation work for the Eastern Front theater will be completed by next spring.

The land attack force from Ningguta to Maolianwei and Tawingburg will advance westward from three directions of attack. Sweep all the towns and villages of the Tartars along the way.

The first is to attack from Ningguta to the Baldu Hewei and Wuyewu Weifang, www.uuxs.cc and the second is to attack from Tawen Fort to Helan Chengwei and Zhudong Hewei, and the third is to attack and advance from Mao Lianwei to Tanzhou Station and Nadanfu City, and the main attack force in each direction is composed of a field regiment, a daredevil's army, supplemented by a large number of indigenous militia and indigenous youth.

All three of these attacks were in complex mountainous conditions, and the troops would have been very difficult to march and fight all the way, but the resistance encountered along the way was relatively small. Because of the slow pace of the troops, all three troops involved in the battle had to leave early.

The waterway unit consisted of three garrison brigades, a daredevil's brigade, and fifty musket militia companies. The vanguard was sent from Mudanjiang Town to the north by boat through the Huerha River, Songhua River, and Gray Pai River, all the way to Fangzhou City. An advance base will be established there, and after the arrival of the follow-up main forces, an attack in the direction of Shenyang will be quickly launched.

The Eastern Front Theater Command will also send two garrison battalions to form a fast column. At Binzhou Station, they entered the Danhe River and landed at Donghewei in the south, and quickly attacked and advanced southwest along the official road post road in a truck.

The operational plan of the Western Front Theater Command has also been drawn up, because the Military Commission does not yet know about the defense situation of the Liaodong Tartars, and a lot of information has not been implemented. After Li Ming arrived in Lushun, Song Tao and the special combat team could land in Liaodong. A detailed field reconnaissance of Houjin's defense can be finalized.

After the military meeting of the Military Commission, the two theater commands began to be formed. Commander of the Eastern Front Theater Gao Jianguo, Deputy Commander Gao Qiang, Qiang Sheng, Political Commissar Qiao Haipeng, Chief of Staff Li Wei. Commander of the Western Front Theater of Operations Li Ming. Deputy commanders Song Tao, Wang Yaowu and Hao Changfeng, political commissar Shi Mingfeng, and chief of staff Lin Hua.

Li Shaokun stayed in Vladivostok and was responsible for the coordination of logistical support, communications, and intelligence between the two theaters. The Admiralty formed two naval support fleets, with Luchambo in Vladivostok in charge of the Eastern Theater Fleet. Zhou Cheng was in charge of the Western Front Theater Fleet. The Air Department formed two air support detachments. Li Yuancong was in charge of the air support detachment of the Eastern Front, and Ding Weiguo was in charge of the air support detachment of the Western Front.

The Intelligence Department of the Central Military Commission also set up a wartime intelligence center, with Zhou Bili as the director of the intelligence center and Qian Bing and Ding Xinghao as deputy directors. During this time, the Ministry of Intelligence successively sent more than a dozen intelligence officers to Liaodong. has already connected with the intelligence officers lurking in the mansions of Fan Wencheng and Aobai.

During this time, several radio stations deployed in eastern Liaoning constantly sent back all kinds of information to Vladivostok. Ever since the Far East wiped out the two elites of the Tartars in the east and west, Huang Taiji has been unable to sleep and eat. Although Fan Wencheng and many banner lords of Houjin Baylor all agreed that the Far East did not have any intention of getting involved in Liaodong, Huang Taiji always felt that the Far East had no good intentions.

But Fan Wencheng also has a point. If the Far East wanted to get involved in Liaodong, when he entered the customs, he could have taken advantage of the situation to seize Liaodong. The Far East definitely has this strength. At that time, most of Houjin's main force left, and most of the remaining armor soldiers were also on the front line of Ningjin to defend the Guanning army.

If the Far East wanted to raid Liaodong at that time, it could be said that it was easy to capture. However, the Far East only took advantage of the emptiness of the hinterland of Houjin, went ashore and plundered and ran away. How can this mean to plot to seize Liaodong.

Although the truth is this truth, Huang Taiji is not at ease. He once again requisitioned the banners in each Niulu, and even the Eight Banners and the Mongolian Banners reached one out of two. For the slave Han people five Ding draw one Cheng dù.

Each flag of the Houjin Eight Banners has a total of 25 cattle records, that is, the five-five system. 300 people per cow. There are 7,500 people in each banner and a total of 60,000 people in the eight banners. The number of people here is not the total population. Rather, it means "ding", which means a man between the ages of 16 and 60. According to the usual ratio of one to five, it shows that the total population of Houjin at that time was about 200,000.

The Tartars are a tribe where all the people are soldiers, and one person from the Eight Banners and Three Dings is a soldier, which is a typical example of not distinguishing between soldiers and people. There are also some slave soldiers in the Houjin army, they are also combative, often go to the battlefield, and those who have made meritorious contributions can get rid of slave status.

The Mongolian Eight Banners have not yet been formally established. However, most of the Mongol tribes who defected to Houjin before were compiled as Niulu, and most of them were under the Manchu Eight Banners. In the third year of Tiancong (1629 AD), Huang Taiji expanded the Mongolian Five Cattle Records into two Mongolian flags.

When Nurhachi entered the Liaoshen region, a large number of Han Chinese were plundered into slavery and incorporated into the Eight Banners of Manchuria, where they became domestic slaves or slaves engaged in production in the tractor (farm). In order to expand the source of soldiers, some strong men were also drawn from the Han people who were enslaved (one person for every 20 people was selected to serve as soldiers), and the horses and equipment needed for them were purchased by 20 Han people.

Therefore, Houjin's ability to regenerate blood is still quite strong, and in less than half a year, the guards (swinging teeth), armored soldiers (marching battalion soldiers), and infantry (non-armored soldiers) have all been replenished. But in this way, the strength of the Later Jin regime has also been weakened a lot.

In order to defend the Far East, Huang Taiji did not hesitate to mobilize the elite who defended the direction of Ningjin, and stationed heavy troops in Kaiyuan, Tieling, Fuzhou and Gaizhou. But for more than a year, the Far East has not changed in the slightest, and has generously started trading with them, and a large number of Far Eastern commodities have been transported to Lianyun Island in Gaizhou.

Several Baylors even joined forces to trade with the Far East, so that the commodities of the Far East suddenly opened up the situation in Liaodong.

The banner lords of Houjin, Baylor, and many generals have plundered everywhere for so many years, but all they have is silver. Therefore, all kinds of beautifully packaged strong liquor, health care drugs, glass products, and various luxury goods in the Far East. and goods such as cloth and silk, which suddenly became sought after by the banner lords, Baylors and generals of the post-Jin regime.

After trading for more than a year, the Far East now sends several Chinese-style junk ships every month to Lianhua Island in Gaizhou to trade with the Tartars, earning a lot of money alone. There are also a large number of Dongzhu, mink, old ginseng and other precious specialties of Liaodong.

Huang Taiji was also a little uncertain, and he couldn't figure out what Far East thought. Dongjiang Town is currently in chaos, and the Far East obviously has the strength to take the Dongjiang River, but they don't want to let Lushun go, but they just build a lot of warehouses in Lushun. It's strange that there aren't even a single city wall.

These people in the Far East only recognize silver, and last time, in order to redeem Yue Tuo's corpse, the Great Belle Daishan let the Far East knock thousands of war horses, but for the corpse of his son. Dai Shan only broke his teeth and swallowed it in his stomach. It is said that in order to redeem his grandson, the patriarch of the Suwan tribe, Solguo, was also slaughtered by the Far East.

This means to conquer the world, it is simply a businessman who gets into the eyes of money. If he Huang Taiji had such strength, he would have waved his troops to the Central Plains, fought all the way to Beijing, captured Chongzhen, and won the Ming Dynasty.

Huang Taiji was also gradually shaken, and Fan Wencheng was bewitched every day by his side. Huang Taiji gradually let down his guard. But he still did not withdraw his heavy troops, and still defended the Far East.

In the fourth year of Chongzhen (1631), the old minister Sun Chengzong was appointed to serve as Liaodong Economic Strategy again. July. Ling Zu Dashou and others led 4,000 troops to guard the Daling River, and requisitioned 14,000 people to build the city.

The Daling River was called Yushui, Longchuan, and White Wolf Water in ancient times, and was renamed Linghe (Linghe) and Daling River after the Liao Dynasty. With a total length of 398 kilometers, it is the transportation hub of the Northeast and the Central Plains in ancient times, the Northern Expedition of the Qi State to the Shanrong, the Cao Wei conquest of Wuhuan, the former Yan into the Central Plains, the Northern Qi attack on the Khitan, the Sui and Tang Dynasties to pacify Goryeo, all to the Daling River Valley as the main road for the march. Dalinghe City is located more than 30 miles east of Jinzhou. It is an important line of defense to shield Jinzhou.

In the face of the Ming army's rebuilding of Dalinghe City, Huang Taiji certainly couldn't sit idly by. He immediately transferred back the elite heavy troops stationed in Kaiyuan, Tieling, Fuzhou and Gaizhou to defend the Far East, and also requisitioned a large number of Mongol soldiers. In 1631 A.D. (the fourth year of Chongzhen) the seventh lunar month. Starting from Shenyang, crossing the Liao River kicked off the Battle of the Daling River.

The Tartar soldiers were divided into two routes, one was led by Beledeg and Azig with 20,000 troops, and settled between Jinzhou and the Daling River through Yizhou, cutting off the connection between Jinzhou and the Daling River. Huang Taiji personally led the army through Montenegro and Quang Ninh to press towards Dalinghe City from the front. On the sixth day of the eighth lunar month in 1631 (the fourth year of Chongzhen), the two armies met under the city of Dalinghe, and the battle of Dalinghe began.

Although Huang Taiji couldn't beat the Far East, it was still like playing against the Ming Dynasty, besieging the city and sending reinforcements, and successively destroyed several reinforcements from the Ming Dynasty. Huang Taiji successively sent Shuzu Dashou, He Kegang, and deputy general Zhang Cunren to persuade him to descend quickly, but Zu Dashou still refused.

But the Tatars besieged Dalinghe City for more than a month, and the city had already run out of food. More than 30,000 people in the city starved to death, and more than 10,000 died. In the city, "the bones and bones are dissolved, which is unheard of in ancient times." "It is to use human bones as firewood, cut off human flesh and roast it and eat it. The whole city is full of human remains, burning human flesh everywhere to eat, at this time the Daling River has become a living and gloomy underworld in broad daylight.

Zu Dashou still didn't hold on in the end and surrendered to the Tartars. This battle of the Daling River destroyed one of the most effective armies of the Ming Dynasty outside the Guan, the so-called 'Guanning Iron Cavalry', and the elite of the Ming army outside the Guanxi no longer existed. More than 10,000 people of the Guanning Iron Cavalry were absorbed, which strengthened the strength of the Houjin army.

This victory finally made Huang Taiji regain some self-confidence, and this time Houjin sent troops to Dalinghe, and the Far East still did not make the slightest move. He finally let down the guard in his heart, and once again placed the elite main force of Houjin on the front line of Ningjin. Of course, he still arranged some heavy troops in Kaiyuan, Tieling, Fuzhou and Gaizhou, but at this time, Huang Taiji's heart had already recognized that the Far East would not touch Liaodong.

In September 1632, Lee Myung arrived on Jeju Island by boat with the Western Theater Command and all the troops participating in Vladivostok. Countless warships are gathered in Jeju, and the entire Jeju Island is like a huge military camp. The most elite units in the Far East, such as the 1st Field Division and the Death Army Wing, as well as several overseas brigades mobilized from various places, have all gathered here.

In order not to arouse the vigilance of the Tartars, Lushun did not send heavy troops. However, all kinds of war materials in the Western Theater have already arrived at Lushun, Hayang Island, Jeju Island, and other places. The preparation of war materials can be completed before the onset of winter.

When Li Ming arrived on Jeju Island, he summoned the troops participating in the battle and once again carried out an intense large-scale military training activity. At the same time, three special operations teams led by Song Tao, Liu Baoguo, and Wang Xiaojie have already set off. They will secretly land in Liaodong from different locations to conduct field reconnaissance. (To be continued)

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