Lu Xiangsheng had already started to prepare, and after receiving Su Tiancheng's letter, he felt shocked, and he also understood that what Su Tiancheng asked for must be done well, and do his best to do it.

In his letter, Su Tiancheng made it clear that the Houjin Tatars stationed in Guangning are very likely to evacuate, break through and cross the Liao River, and join the Zhenglan Banner stationed on the north side of the Liao River.

Because of the limitation of troops, Lu Xiangsheng did not encircle the entire Guangning City, besides, Guangning City covers a large area, and it is impossible for the 60,000 troops to completely surround Guangning City, which will make the Houjin Tartars in Guangning City break through, so the army is mainly stationed at the South Gate, which is the main passage in and out of Guangning City.

According to Su Tiancheng's request, Lu Xiangsheng did not launch an attack, and the place where the army was stationed was still close to ten miles away from Guangning City. This also allows Zilharang in Quang Ninh City to know all the news from the outside world.

Su Tiancheng said very clearly in the letter that Jierharang broke through in two directions, the first was to break through in the direction of the Liao River, and strive to meet with the Zhenglan Banner stationed in the Liao River, and the second was to break through in the direction of Yizhou, enter the grassland, and meet the Khalkha tribe or the Han tribe. In these two directions of breakthrough, Su Tiancheng explained very definitely that Jierharang would definitely choose to break through from the direction of the Liaohe River.

The reason is also very simple, after entering the grassland, the climate is getting colder and colder, which is very unfavorable to the march of the army, and the army wants to return to Shenyang, the detour is very long, what losses will be made on the way, it is not clear, unless it is a last resort, Zilharang will choose to break through from the direction of Yizhou. In addition, Yizhou and Xipingbao were occupied by the Liaodong Frontier Army and the Jiangning Battalion, but the direction of the Liao River behind Quang Ninh was still a blank area, and Zierharang had no choice.

The army marched half an hour after receiving the letter, this time. The direction of the army is the Liao River, they want to bypass Guangning City, garrison in the direction of the Liao River, waiting for the Houjin Tartars to break through, Lu Xiangsheng is determined this time, he must leave Jierharang in Guangning, and wait until the Jiangning battalion arrives to annihilate this group of Houjin Tartars.

Lu Xiangsheng's confidence is unprecedentedly high. He didn't expect that in just one day and one night, Su Tiancheng led the Jiangning battalion to take Xiping Fort, and completely annihilated the 60,000 Houjin Tartars stationed in Xiping Fort. Even if Zilharang has wings, he can't escape.

How to arrange the troops, Lu Xiangsheng also thought about it for a long time. In the end, he decided that the army would be divided into two groups, the first group of troops with a total of 40,000 soldiers, led by him personally, was at the forefront, and was responsible for directly blocking the Houjin Tartars who broke through. The second group of 20,000 horses, commanded by Zu Dale, was five miles away from the first group, and was responsible for blocking the scattered Houjin Tartars, as for the distribution of artillery. One hundred gates are used by the first army, and fifty are used by the second army.

This is a very normal arrangement, it is impossible for the 60,000 army to be gathered together, there is no second line of defense, if it is broken through by the Houjin Tartars, it will be completely over.

It's a pity that Lu Xiangsheng ignores the fact that the combat effectiveness of the Houjin Tartars is very tenacious, and the strength is not weak at all, and the Liaodong Border Army led by Lu Xiangsheng should put itself in a weaker position, take into account all aspects as much as possible, and how to prevent the breakthrough of the Houjin Tartars to the greatest extent.

It is impossible for Lu Xiangsheng to take into account this aspect, after all, Lu Xiangsheng basically did not follow Su Tiancheng to fight, and he is not very proficient in how to do a good job of defense in modern warfare.

Lu Xiangsheng didn't think of doing a good job of defensive fortifications, in fact, in this regard, Zierharang has done it in Quang Ninh and Xiping Fort, so many ditches, widened moats, is the best explanation.

Su Tiancheng was also negligent in this regard, and did not remind Lu Xiangsheng in the letter, so that after receiving Lu Xiangsheng's letter, Su Tiancheng looked up to the sky and sighed, knowing that this time the decisive battle in Liaodong could not end perfectly, Lu Xiangsheng opened the formation and fought with the Houjin Tartars, don't you know that the Houjin Tartars thought of breaking through the encirclement and crossing the Liao River as soon as possible, how could they fight you directly, unless there is something wrong with Zilharang's head.

Lu Xiangsheng led the army to start the operation, and everything was clearly grasped by Zilharang.

In fact, Jierharang can retreat quickly, if the order is issued immediately, the army can immediately withdraw from Guangning City and rush to the Liaohe River, without any obstruction, but after careful thinking, Jierharang did not do this, he still has to fight with the Liaodong border army, time is in time, the Jiangning battalion led by Su Tiancheng did not arrive so quickly, the army is only facing the Liaodong border army, before the evacuation of Guangning, Jierharang has to be angry, to fight desperately, only in this way, not to appear too cowardly.

This kind of thinking of Zilharang, Sony, Li Guohan and Wang Shixuan all understand, but Zierharang still handed over the main offensive task to Li Guohan, Li Guohan is nominally to cover the retreat of the army, in fact, the key task is to attack the Liaodong border army, and try to disrupt the deployment of the Liaodong border army in the shortest possible time, and then the army will all rush out and fight with the Liaodong border army.

Of course, this must be grasped well, Jierharang knows very well that Su Tiancheng will definitely lead the Jiangning battalion, day and night, if he is entangled by the Liaodong border army, he can't get out, causing the Jiangning battalion to arrive, and the consequences are unimaginable.

Fighting a war is gambling, it is impossible without danger, Zilharang knows this, so he made a very cautious arrangement, and even Li Guohan and others don't understand the meaning of this.

Lu Xiangsheng led the deployment of the army, this is the most concerned issue of Zilharang, he asked the scouts to keep an eye on the whole process, at any time, if Lu Xiangsheng took the practice of building strong fortifications, then Jilharang will no longer have any illusions, will order the army to immediately start to break through and evacuate, to avoid the Liaodong border army to build fortifications, so that the army will cause huge casualties.

To the delight of Zilharang, Lu Xiangsheng did not pay attention to the construction of fortifications, and divided the army into two parts, according to the scout's report, Lu Xiangsheng did not plan to build fortifications at all, and was ready to fight the army led by himself.

After investigating the situation, Zilharang finally made up his mind and no longer hesitated.

At three o'clock, many officers gathered in the house, and the army was ready for everything, these actions were very secret, and the people living in the city did not know that the army was about to evacuate.

The army was about to set off, and at this time, Zilharang decided to tell the truth, so as not to panic when the battle was approached because the officers at all levels were not clear about the deployment of the campaign.

"The battle situation of Xiping Fort, you all know the Dao, it is precisely because of this situation, so we want to evacuate Guangning, for my Great Qing State to preserve the strength of the force, you must think that what I said about evacuation, is the meaning of retreat, if you understand it this way, then you are wrong, my warriors of the Great Qing Kingdom, have never been so nested."

"The Ming army outside the city has been deployed and is ready to prevent us from evacuating, they are afraid of the task, we are already panicked, and we are bent on evacuating, but unfortunately their ideas are wrong, don't say that outside the city is the Liaodong border army, that is, the Jiangning battalion, our warriors of the Qing Kingdom, also have the courage to face it."

When Zilharang said this, the room quickly fell silent, and everyone felt extraordinary from Zilharang's words, it seems that the arrangement of the army is not just as simple as retreating.

"The reason why we want to evacuate Guangning City is to prevent the two large forces of the Ming army from meeting, and then our situation will be extremely dangerous, so it is our ultimate goal to withdraw from Guangning City and rush to the north of the Liao River to meet with Zhenglan Banner."

"As for how to evacuate, I have thought about it, we are not evacuating, it is a decisive battle with the Liaodong Border Army, we must show momentum and completely defeat the Liaodong Border Army, so we are leaving Guangning City in an offensive posture."

After Zilharang said this, the officers began to commotion, and Li Guohan was even more excited, unexpectedly that he was actually shouldering the mission of attacking, and he was attacking as the vanguard.

Seeing the enthusiasm of the crowd, Zilharang quickly changed his tone.

"You all want to fight happily and completely defeat the Ming army, I can understand this mood, to be honest, I think the same way, but you have to remember that our situation is very dangerous, this attack, the time can not be too long, controlled within an hour, we must not fall in love, even if the Ming army has a rout, if we are dragged by the Ming army, and finally suffer the fate of destruction, I am afraid it will be us."

"This is what I would like to remind you in particular, if anyone disobeys the military order, I will not show mercy."

"Okay, the specific operational deployment is as follows, Li Guohan led the 20,000 soldiers with the blue flag, as the vanguard force, to attack first, no matter how difficult it is, to break through the defense line of the Ming army, and start a face-to-face battle with the Ming army, you have to remember that 20,000 soldiers launched a charge at the same time."

"Sony led the rest of the 40,000 soldiers to launch a general attack when Li Guohan broke through the Ming army's defense line, and the action should be fast, we don't have much time, and strive to give the Ming army a big kill in the shortest possible time."

"This attack is when the warriors of the Great Qing Kingdom show their abilities, I don't want to see anyone retreat, all the soldiers must try to charge, and the officers charge at the front."

"Alright, you all go and prepare, and the army will start attacking when the time comes." (To be continued......)