"What does Jiang Ning say about the war in Yanbei?"

Lin Jian put down the charcoal in his hand and asked Lin Mengde gently.

Lin Jian is so in a high position, he is given the reward of purple, and he is also one of the few people in Jiangdong County who holds authority, that is, the entire Dayue Dynasty, and there are few powerful ministers who hold tens of thousands of elite soldiers.

Lin Lian has a bad reputation in the Qingliu scholars, but there will not be any uneyed people who come to him to annoy him, and at the same time, he also decided that he can't hear Jiang Ning's Qingliu style discussion - when the imperial examination is a scholar, the scholar coexists with the Zongjia, the eunuch, and the Shixun, and above the temple, the power of the scholar is stronger, and the Qingliu wind discussion is precisely the vane of the temple.

Lin Jian couldn't hear the sound of the wind, but he always kept an eye on it.

The war in Yanbei has always been a matter that he can't let go, and in the East Yaguan Hall, in addition to the Jianghuai situation map, what is hung is the Yanbei situation map - on the contrary, the Huaisi and East China Sea situation maps directly related to Huaidong are not hung on the wall.

Lin Jian was eager to hear what Jiangning's Qingliu thought of this matter, and hoped to see any hints of a change in the imperial court's attitude towards this matter.

"......" Lin Mengde smiled bitterly and said, "It's not a fake ...... scholars who mislead the country."

Zhang Xie, Yue Lengqiu and others are quite optimistic about the situation in Yanbei, and Lin Lian is clear about this situation - Gu Wuchen, like Lin Lian, is not so optimistic about the situation in Yanbei, after all, he has been in the border for ten years and has a deep understanding of the situation in Yandong and Yanxi Zhuhu.

"Tell me about it......" Lin Jian said.

"Di Shutang copied the abbreviation of more than 100,000 cavalry of Zhuhu to surround Datong, Jiangning Shizi generally thinks that more than 100,000 cavalry have drained the combat strength of the eastern captives, as long as the Li military department moves faster in western Liaoning, it will inevitably force the eastern captives to withdraw from Datong, and even many people are optimistic that a battle in western Liaoning can completely solve the situation in Liaodi!" Lin Mengde said.

"......" Lin Jian did not speak.

Lin Mengde said again: "If the powerful ministers above the temple are generally knowledgeable with the scholars of Jiangning, the situation in Yanbei is really dangerous. ”

Hu Zhiyong sat down and pulled Lin Mengde's clothes, and said in a low voice: "The princes of the court, you may not be much better than Jiang Ning Shizi......

"Huh?" Lin Mengde was slightly stunned.

"The military meeting submitted to the Ministry of War last month has been responded," Hu Zhiyong said, "and there is nothing good to say......

Lin Meng saw that Lin Jian was in a bad mood, so he didn't say anything more.

In order to understand the basic situation of Yandong and Yanxi Zhuhu, the Military Intelligence Department sent a number of sentry agents to sneak into the north disguised as captured Dingkou, and it took a lot of effort to find out the general situation.

At the time of Su Hu's border guard, Yandong Zhuhu, which was under the Yeji Department, had less than 200,000 adult strong men, which pressed the border army at that time to raise their heads, and the number of Ding Zhuang would only decrease but not increase for ten years.

In the past ten years, the Yandong Zhuhu, headed by Ye Jibu, has raised several fierce battles and mobilized about 100,000 troops.

In Yandong Zhuhu, where the military system of the Xing clan and the integration of soldiers and civilians are one, this is almost the limit.

Its standing elite army, also known as the king's tent army, is only 10,000 people.

The dynasty has always used this to estimate the strength of Yandong Zhuhu.

The actual situation has changed a lot, first of all, among the captives, in addition to the regular soldiers who draw the bearded people and Ding Zhuang, there are also slave soldiers to which the regular soldiers belong, also known as Hu soldiers. There were even a large number of Goryeo people who were willing to be driven south by the Zhuhu to plunder and other Hu people who conquered the Yeji tribe, and this part of the people was also called "driving the mouth" among the captives - in the past twenty or thirty years, the Yandong Zhuhu led by the Yeji tribe have conquered the east and the west, and captured and directly attached Ding Zhuang nearly a million.

In order to transform these Ding Zhuang into the combat power of the Donghu people, the captive king Yezier carried out the attachment and restructuring of some of the slave soldiers who had been fighting with the Donghu for a long time, so that they could take root in Liaodong as a soldier of the world, and they were incorporated into the army to distinguish them from the regular soldiers, and called them deputy soldiers.

After this restructuring, the Yandong military system was changed to organize the cavalry team in the ratio of "one regular soldier, three horses, and one deputy soldier and one soldier". It also ensures that the Donghu people can easily mobilize 100,000 cavalry under normal circumstances and 300,000 cavalry under extreme circumstances.

In addition, in addition to the elite cavalry of the king's tent army, the captive king Yezier also chose more than 10,000 people who surrendered Jianyong to form the Han camp as a standing army.

Now the Donghu people maintain more than 100,000 cavalry in the direction of Datong - among these more than 100,000 cavalry, in addition to the main soldiers, deputy soldiers, and subordinates recruited by Yandong Zhuhu internally, Yanxi Zhuhu, who belonged to the Yeji Department, also sent cavalry to participate - which means that at this time in Liaodi, in Liaoyang, Donglu seems to be empty, but there is still a strong military mobilization ability, which should not be underestimated.

For this point, Lin Jian fully communicated with Li Zhuo through Gao Zongting - even if Donglu can mobilize 300,000 soldiers and horses, but if it takes a little longer, the economic damage to Dongyu will be great, and most of the men will go to war, and production will be wasted.

Donghu was huge at this time, and the east and west were subject countries, so that they could no longer live entirely on plunder.

In fact, after the Dongyu took control of Liaodong, their social production structure gradually changed from fishing, hunting and plundering as the main thing and agriculture as the supplement, to farming and plundering as the main thing, and fishing and hunting as the supplement.

In the ninth year of Chongguan's Dakoubian, one of the most fundamental purposes of the conscription of the Dongju clan was to snatch a sufficient amount of farming from the border.

Li Zhuo led his troops northward, cautiously, walking on thin ice, and also wanted to drag it by dragging. Even if the Dongyu did not withdraw from Datong, they would be forced to mobilize more troops and take the lead in economically dragging down Donghu, and they would never have the intention of hastily fighting or even fighting to the death in western Liaoning.

Li Zhuo's idea has no market above the temple and is isolated.

In order to support Li Zhuo, Lin Jian and Gu Wuchen both wrote to discuss the situation of Yanshan Zhuhu, hoping that the imperial court could reassess the strength of the Eastern Prisoners and make appropriate military deployments.

Lin Jian and Gu Wuchen's submission was naturally in the lake, and there was a ripple, and it gradually fell silent.

From the mouths of others, Lin Jian heard Zhang Xie's evaluation of the military discussion he presented: "Huaidong Xiaoer, I was lucky enough to get a few military merits, so I talked about state affairs in vain!" As for the existence of the deputy soldiers and the soldiers in the captive soldiers, Zhang Xie and others in the temple directly denied it. In their opinion, the captive Dingkou should think of resisting and fleeing, how can there be a reason to act for the tiger in turn and follow the alien race to plunder the Central Plains?

In the last days, there are always a few sober people, always isolated, and those who steal temples and Emperor Chongguan think they are wise, and now it is an edict after an edict urging Li Zhuo to fight quickly in Liaoxi - there is no detailed and full understanding of the huge and profound changes in Yandong Zhuhu in the past ten years, not to mention knowing oneself and knowing the other, and being invincible in a hundred battles, it is difficult to ensure the Yanshan defense line.

Hearing Lin Mengde say that Jiang Ning's discussion was the same, Lin Lian felt that the future was even more bleak, and with a wave of his hand, he ended the discussion, asking everyone to go back to rest first, and he still stayed in the official hall to meditate.

Song Jia first helped Lin Jian draft a reply letter to Jiang Ning, and it was drafted in a moment, seeing Lin Jian frowning and thinking about things, he said softly: "Should Huaidong make some preparations for the complete collapse of Yanbei's defense line?" ”

"What do you think you need to prepare?" Lin Jian asked.

Song Jia said: "If Li Zhuo is defeated, the imperial court will not be able to move the capital in a hurry, and it is bound to summon all the troops into the king of Jingqin, and Huaidong will not send troops?" Looking at Lin Tie with a flickering gaze, Orr asked boldly and presumptuously, "Are you willing to sacrifice the blood of General Huaidong for the Yuan clan again?" ”

Lin Jian looked up at Song Jia, looking at her charming gaze, with a strange light that ordinary women's eyes could not see, indifferent to her bold and presumptuous temptation, and only asked, "Are you sure that Li Bingbu will be defeated in Liaoxi?" ”

"When Li Zhuo was in Eastern Fujian, he had Chen Xinbo's support in the imperial court, so he was able to make a draw with Wenzhuang Gong; Now the enemies standing opposite Li Zhuo, except for the Donghu people, Zhang Xie, Hao Zongcheng and others, none of them want to push him into the fire pit, isolated above the temple, he wants to fight another draw, it's difficult! Song Jia said.

"What do you think of Huaidong's attack on Mindong?" Lin Jian suddenly changed the subject.

"The collapse of the Yanshan defense line and the imminent southward movement of the Zhuhu Iron Cavalry, if Huaidong asks to survive, Jiangning cannot die, and it is necessary to take the first step to defeat the ability of Zhejiang and Fujian to advance northward. This is something you will do, no matter how cruel it is, what can I think of a little woman? Song Jia said, "Even my father would never approve of the decisive battle between the Zhejiang-Fujian Navy Division and the Huaidong Navy Army." It is useless to win narrowly, but if it is defeated, the Minjiang River Estuary, the Qianjiang River Estuary, and the Yongjiang River Estuary will be nothing in the eyes of Huaidong, and will become the backyard of the Huaidong Naval Army...... When you come back this time, I think you should be expanding the second and third water camps, and the blows to eastern Fujian and eastern Zhejiang will be even more violent! ”

"Oh!" Lin Jian sighed deeply and nodded again, admitting that she had guessed correctly.

Huaidong attacked eastern Fujian and southern Zhejiang, and would not miss the Song family alone, obviously, before Huaidong showed enough strength, the Song family had no possibility of abandoning the luxury family and defending itself.

He thought that Song Jia would be uneasy, but he didn't expect her to see it, women, women's minds are really hard to guess.

"When I come back this time, I'm going to go north for a walk first, and you will accompany me?" Lin Jian asked.

Song Jia glanced at Lin Jian and said, "Okay." ”

The Guanyintan Shipyard is making every effort to build warships, and the second and third water battalions will be expanded to six battalions, with a full complement of 5,000 soldiers, and the total strength of the Huaidong Navy will reach 15,000.

The Haidong Battalion will also be equipped with 1,000 additional troops, mainly to increase the strength of the naval forces in the Haidong region.

In this way, 5,000 Jianrui will be transferred from the workers' camp.

However, at the same time, the workers' battalion will supplement some Ding Zhuang from the resettlement of displaced people, ensuring that there is sufficient manpower to defend the seawall construction, and also ensuring that the reserve soldiers of the Huaidong Army are sufficient.

Compared with the short-term rotational training of the militia, in addition to fighting without weapons and high-intensity training, the formation, organization, and camp work and rest of the soldiers are no different from those of the regular army, and they will also spend five days a month for military training.

In addition to a part of the officers of the workers' battalion, a part of them were selected from various armies, and some of them were also selected from the army, and the officers had plans to send them to the combat training school for military training.

Even as a reserve soldier, the whole equipment and armor are better than the so-called elite soldiers in the exile army.

Of course, most of the soldiers in the current camp are former exile army generals who have joined the army.

Although the food of the soldiers is not good, it can still ensure a full supply of two catties of meat, four catties of fish, four catties of eggs, and rice every month.

When tens of thousands of soldiers came to Chongzhou, all of them were skinny, yellow-faced and thin, and for more than a year, although the intensity of training and repairing the embankment was very high, but under the sufficient food supply, almost all of them could be called brave. The long-term camp work and rest also made them accustomed to the establishment and discipline of the Huaidong Army.

Even if the armies are replenished on a large scale, as long as the initial adaptation period is passed, the combat strength of the armies will not drop too much.

Huaidong is to be systematic, and the significance of defending the seawall, which is scheduled to be completed before next summer, is not trivial. Lin Jian always had time to take a break to see the construction of the seawall, hoping that if there was any problem, he could solve it quickly.

On the other hand, Lin Jian hoped to take the opportunity of repairing the seawall to expand the number of workers and camps to 100,000 people; There is no need to wait for the construction of the seawall to be completed, and part of the troops can be mobilized at the same time to increase the intensity of reclamation and planting.