Fortunately, a few years before Chongzhen, Yu Xiaotian had led his troops north to Denglai to quell the rebellion, although he only led 8,000 soldiers and horses at the beginning, but he had accumulated considerable experience in large-scale transfer of troops and materials through the large-scale northward activities.

This time, when he ordered a large-scale northward march, there was no problem between the various departments of the sea wolf.

However, the long-distance transportation of troops and horses for long-distance mobile transportation, during this period for the army generals who are not good at going to sea to fight, is undoubtedly a severe test, closed cabins, dirty air, and cramped ship space, so that the army generals during the sea crossing, a lot of body loss.

Therefore, these army soldiers and horses who have been transferred to the north must have a period of rest and recuperation after arriving at their destination before they can gain the ability to carry out large-scale military operations.

And Yu Xiaotian also faced a difficulty, that is, although he occupied a lot of bridgeheads in the Denglai area, including Fushansuo, Zhifu Island and other places, he lacked a large place to gather troops, and before he started, he didn't want Daming to prepare in advance.

Therefore, after he led his army to the area of Denglai, he could not concentrate all his troops together, and could only temporarily place them in a few places for rest and recuperation.

Fortunately, over the years, he has laid out in advance in Shandong, and now most of the areas around Denglai have become his secret sphere of influence, especially Fushansuo, Zhifu Island, Yangma Island, Changdao Islands and Weihaiwei, all of which are now controlled by the sea wolf openly and secretly.

Every day, ships enter the harbor and dock beside the piers, where large quantities of supplies are unloaded onto the docks, where they are loaded onto wheelbarrows or horse-drawn carriages by ant-like men and transported to storage sites.

And from time to time, troop carriers will arrive at the wharf, and a group of well-equipped Yu family soldiers, carrying rucksacks, rolling a roll of felt mats and a thin quilt on the knapsacks, wearing new military uniforms, walked down the trestle from the ship in a row, and gathered on the wharf, and then quickly took them out of the wharf as a company and went to their temporary camp for rest.

The first batch of supplies arrived at these places, but the logistics personnel of the various departments of the Sea Wolves, after arriving at their designated positions in advance, quickly gathered the people to build various temporary warehouses at these temporary assembly points, as well as columns of barracks assembled with prefabricated wooden planks in advance, ready to meet the large army and various large quantities of supplies that swarmed below.

The soldiers and generals of the Yu family, who had the status of training in the local village brave regiment, received orders in advance and arrived at these places in batches, on the one hand, to impose martial law on these places, and on the other hand, to assist in the preparation of various houses.

The winter in Denglai is very cold, and by November, it can already be said that the water has turned into ice, so many troops have come over, if they do not prepare the barracks in advance, it is very likely that a large number of personnel will suffer frostbite at night, and in addition, they must also prepare sufficient firewood to make a fire for heating, if these things are not done in advance, the General Staff will definitely not be able to spare them at that time.

Many army generals who were transferred from the south, when they came out of the cabin, inhaled a breath of cool air, suddenly shivered, quickly tied the belt around their waists, pulled the collar, covered their necks, and cursed secretly, this north is really fucking cold!

Standing on the deck and waiting for a while to get off the ship, many people felt that they were frozen, and quickly took out their gloves from their arms and put them on, and from time to time took a breath of hot air to warm their hands, and the hot air from their mouths rose up in the crowd, showing a dense mist, and soon condensed on people's eyebrows and mustaches, forming hoarfrost.

It can be seen how cold the winter in the north is, after many soldiers get off the ship, they are not very adaptable, but fortunately they are well prepared here, after getting off the boat, everyone can get a bowl of hot ginger soup, and put some pepper and chili noodles, boiled out with pork bones or beef and sheep bones, and the body will be much warmer and more comfortable when poured down.

After being placed in the makeshift camp, the soldiers will be allowed to rest for the whole day without doing anything, and after the next day, they will begin their rehabilitation training.

Under normal circumstances, after five or six days, the soldiers gradually recovered from the fatigue of the long voyage and gradually adapted to the temperature.

Unlike the soldiers transferred from the south, six or seven battalions of the army were also transferred from Jeju Island this time, and most of these soldiers were mainly people from Shandong, Liaodong and even Beizhili in the north.

Therefore, these northern soldiers are much better than the southern soldiers in adapting to the climate here, and the time of moving from Jeju Island to this side is much shorter, so that after they arrive at their temporary destination, they can recover faster than the southern soldiers, and they will soon be able to be put into combat use.

Yu Xiaotian has visited the Fushan Institute in November, and now the Jiaozhou Bay around the Fushan Institute has become the most important military base of the Sea Wolf Group in the north, and it is also the home port of the North Sea Fleet, with the most complete facilities, and it has also become Yu Xiaotian's intelligence base in Shandong.

After Yu Xiaotian arrived here, he immediately ordered the collection of various information about the Jiannu army and the Ming army, and a professional intelligence officer was responsible for combing and analyzing it, and finally submitted the report to him every day.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian basically grasped the recent activities of the Jiannu army in Shandong and the southern part of Beizhili, and did not dare to say that he knew the deployment of Jiannu's troops well, but he was still quite clear about their activities.

After careful analysis by Yu Xiaotian and the staff officers of the Army and Navy, the General Staff and the officers of the logistics department, coupled with his understanding of the southward invasion of Daming by Jiannu in another time and space, Yu Xiaotian believed that Jiannu would gather his troops and horses before the end of the first month and start to embark on the road back.

And Jiannu's return to the customs this time, the biggest possibility is not to go to the Zhuozhou area, bypass the Beijing division and exit the customs along the Great Wall, but it is very likely to go to Hejian Fu, pass through Tianjin Wei, and then choose a place to go out of the customs.

Then he made a move this time, and only in the area of Tianjin Wei could he block all the Jiannu army in the pass, prevent them from leaving the pass, and intercept all the goods and goods they had obtained during this trip, as well as the people and livestock they had plundered.

This point will be of great help to the next military action of the home army, if these Jiannu troops who entered the customs are released, it will cause great trouble to the future strangulation of the Manchu Tartars.

In fact, the reason why Yu Xiaotian chose to have a showdown with the Ming court at this time this time was not the best time, for no other reason, that is, this time Jiannu entered the customs, and he had not completely destroyed the main force of the Ming army in the north.

Now the Ming Dynasty still retains a lot of military strength in Jiangbei, especially Hong Chengchou, who also controls a fairly elite Hong soldier, that is, the Shaanxi official army.

For so many years, Hong Chengchou has been leading troops into the suppression of the Liumin Army, and he has many generals who are relatively capable of fighting, and he has a number of elite soldiers with tens of thousands of troops, and has quite rich combat experience, and is a relatively effective Ming official army.

In addition, although the Guanning army was defeated with Gao Qiqian this time, in the Shanhaiguan and Jinzhou areas, there are still a number of generals such as Zu Dashou and Wu Sangui, and there are still many Guanning iron cavalry on hand.

Moreover, Chen Xinjia still has a large number of elite soldiers from Shanxi trained by Lu Xiangsheng in the past, and the number is also about tens of thousands.

Coupled with the three major battalions stationed in the Beijing Division itself and the garrisons in Baoding and other places, the number of elite soldiers and horses available to the entire Ming Dynasty in the north is at least hundreds of thousands.

On the other hand, although he used most of the army forces and part of the navy this time, the entire navy will not be put into the frontal battlefield, and the army has only gathered more than 30,000 troops, even if you add some of the troops that have been lurking in Shandong before, as well as the 7,000 new troops that have been trained on the spot, the strength is only about 40,000.

And this time he has to face not only the hundreds of thousands of officers and troops garrisoning Gyeonggi, but also the army of more than 100,000 Jiannu.

So this time he went north to have a showdown with Daming, and he was at an absolute disadvantage in terms of troops.

But he still chose to raise troops at this time, for no other reason, because his current relationship with the imperial court has reached the verge of collapse, and it is no longer interesting to continue to maintain it, and time is running out, he really can't wait, the most important reason is that although Jiannu has been established at present, it has not yet reached the full-fledged Cheng Dù, and now to do it, at least the strength of Jiannu can be weakened a lot first.

As long as he cripples the Jiannu army in this battle, then the Jiannu will not be able to recover for a long time, and although the Mongolian tribes are now subservient to the Jiannu, they have not reached a close relationship between them, and the biggest problem of the Mongolian tribes is that they are not unified with each other, so they cannot fight against the Jiannu.

But many people in the Mongolian tribes are not necessarily really of the same heart and mind with Jiannu, the two sides can be said to be in the same bed and different dreams, as long as he can cripple the Jiannu army that entered the customs in this battle, then the Mongolian tribe should be able to see the weakness of Jiannu's side, and whether they will continue to listen to Jiannu's greetings in the future, it is not certain.

If in the next period of time, he gives a small favor and provokes the relationship between the Mongolian tribes and Jiannu, I believe that for a long time in the future, Huang Taiji will be busy! As long as Huang Taiji Jiannu has something to do in the future, then give him time to solve the problem of Daming.

Therefore, for the sea wolf, success or failure is in one move, success is to dominate the world, defeat is to flee back to Fujian, and then slowly grind with Daming!

Yu Xiaotian continued to analyze all kinds of information with his subordinates for several days, and when Yu Xiaotian saw that Lu Xiangsheng led his troops south and had arrived in Shunde Mansion, Yu Xiaotian sighed.

(It's going to be a showdown with the Ming Dynasty!) Let's support it! ）