When Lin Feng kicked the door of the peace talks, the front line that had been silent for a few days immediately broke out fierce battles, the Han Army Cavalry First Army and the Fifth Infantry Army were originally tightly embellished with the tail of the Jungger East Road Army, with little resistance all the way, with the momentum of breaking bamboos from Daizhou and Baode all the way south, the soldiers did not bloody Lianke Suzhou, Ningwu, Xuangang, Yuanping dozens of cities, along the way the Qing army, the Mongolian new annex army and even local bandits, peasant army, landlord Xiangyong, Wubao cottage all looked forward to the wind and surrendered, tens of thousands of troops did not stop, went straight to the city of Xinzhou, The spirit of the dragon and tiger is high, however, the good fortune ends here.

After receiving the report from Iled, Geldan quickly reacted, and dispatched a large number of elite cavalry from his sweat tent to rush to Xinzhou, and the local garrison troops and the eight stabbing troops of the East Route Army that had fled here, and requisitioned a large number of Xinzhou residents, and rushed to build fortifications overnight, and at the same time rode out in all directions, colliding head-on with the forward cavalry units of the Han army, with the arrival of the main force of the Han army, the scale of the battle rose from a small entanglement of more than a dozen or dozens of people to a large battle of hundreds or thousands of people, and the troops participating in the battle gradually expanded from the cavalry as a single branch of the army, musketeers, artillery have been involved, the battlefield area has gradually extended, from the Xinzhou city line to the front, to the east and west, to Zhao Liangdong, Zhao Guangyuan led the Chinese army brigade to gather on the front line, Xinzhou line has become a pot of boiling water, the battlefield is long, the Mongolian army to Xinzhou as the center, completed from Yijing to Sanjiao nearly 100 miles of defense system.

Battles happen all the time, and now there are about 26,000 enemy troops in front of Zhao Liangdong and Zhao Guangyuan's corps, and these troops are all elite cavalry units of the Junggar Khanate, with neat fortifications and strong defenses, and what makes the two generals even more headache is that this enemy army is equipped with a large number of artillery, and many places have even set up lifting and arquebus positions, while the Han army has lost large-caliber artillery to Lin Feng's Chinese army because of the light cavalry pursuit along the road, and now they can master it at hand, Except for a few small field guns that could be carried on horseback, there were only shoddy spray canisters and pine cannons captured along the way.

Rash attack is of course very stupid, Zhao Liangdong and Zhao Guangyuan were not carried away by the previous victory, the two of them carried out several small-scale feints and reconnaissance on the front line of Xinzhou, and immediately had a clear understanding of the current battlefield situation, in this case, the front of the Han army had to stop the pace of attack, and sent a military report to the rear army, asking Lin Feng to send a brigade of artillery support.

At this time, Lin Feng's Chinese army brigade had already set out from Daizhou and marched in the direction of Taiyuan - this is a march route carefully planned by the General Staff, since the troops entered Shanxi, the staff officer corps headed by Mu Tianyan of the Guards Army began to enter the state, and formulated a response plan for this campaign, and the reason why this route was chosen was because this route coincided with the flow of the Hutuo River, and the main force of the Han Army, except for the Second Guards Cavalry Army, was mostly musket troops and artillery units. In addition, there are many civilian organs and several Langzhong battalions (field hospitals), non-combat personnel are as high as thousands, and the movement is extremely slow, so if you take this road, the army can collect ships in Daizhou, Zaolin, and Daying, and let the infantry and artillery go south by boat, and rush to the front line smoothly.

In fact, there were still different opinions within Lin Feng's base camp for this operation, and most of the staff and civilian officers did not agree with Lin Feng's decision to reject Geldan's truce proposal, and when Lin Feng received the Zhungar envoy, Lin Feng's important adviser Wang Shirong had personally advised Lin Feng to accept the armistice conditions of the Junggar Khanate and avoid a decisive battle with the Mongol army. From their point of view, Lin Feng's decision is undoubtedly very irrational, although the current Han army has won many battles and has strong strength, but Geldan is also a strong army, well-equipped, and all of them are fierce cavalry troops, and the Han army's new victory in Liaodong is the same, they are also from Qinghai to Ordos, stepping on the entire Uriya Sutai, it is foreseeable that such a decisive battle will be extremely tragic.

What's even more suffocating is that there is no irreconcilable contradiction between the Han and the Junggar Khanate - in the eyes of the strategists, Geldan will not have the possibility of a large-scale invasion of the Central Plains before the unification of Mongolia, and Lin Feng's goal should be in Shandong, Henan and even Anzhejiang, and the unification of Shenzhou is the primary task of the Han Dynasty, and the desert to deter the barbarians should be a matter after the peace of the world, the history books make it clear that whether it was the Eastern Han Dynasty or the Western Han Dynasty, it was in this way to reconcile the princes and the world, Therefore, there was no need for the Han army to fight with the Western Mongolian army of Junggar at this time.

Lin Feng is not incomprehensible to their thoughts, since coming to this era, Lin Feng's mentality has changed a lot, and at the same time he has a deep understanding of the contemporary Confucian scholars, in Lin Feng's era, later generations generally do not have a high evaluation of these Confucian officials, thinking that they talk about misleading the country, fearing the enemy like a tiger, but in fact this is not the case, these people are very rational politicians, the so-called "Confucian loyalty", "broadband friends" are actually some slogans and pretenses, these Confucian students are definitely not the pedantic people imagined by the angry youth.

The vast majority of them understand the economy, have a deep understanding of the small peasant economy in the natural state, from the court up to Li Guangdi, down to the small officials, are very good at agricultural planting, admirable, these people can even like the prophets, often before the summer harvest can judge the country's approximate income, and before that to draw up the country's income and expenditure plan, so whenever the country is facing war, they usually very rational analysis of military operations consumption and expenditure, Look at the issue of war from an economic point of view.

Just this battle as an example, just to drive the Junggar army harassing Shanxi out of Shanxi, the Han army mobilized almost all the elite troops, and even risked the risk of waste spring ploughing, requisitioned nearly 500,000 people to transport baggage, in order to carry out this war, the Han Empire almost emptied all the grain and ordnance savings, that's it, the Han army may not occupy an overwhelming advantage, the victory is still between the two, and their enemies are only a small half of the nomadic people's strength, it is conceivable that if they really want to go to the desert steppe, To completely subjugate those unruly and fierce peoples, how many troops will be invested, how many people will be mobilized, and how much wealth will be consumed?!

In most cases, this kind of thing is almost impossible, and the few in China's thousands of years of history that have been able to accomplish this vast strategy are not because later dynasties did not have this desire, but because they simply did not have the power to do so.

The so-called "Heavenly Empire" and "Confucian Loyalty" are just a pitiful fig leaf in the final analysis, just like Lin Feng went to the store to buy things, when he encountered goods he couldn't afford, he would not say "I can't afford it", but would say "This thing is not suitable for me" - this is the mentality of the Confucian scholars under Lin Feng, especially represented by Wang Shirong, who is Wang Shirong?! When he conquered Liaodong and invaded Shenyang, he was so crazy that he didn't even let go of the graves of Nurhachi and Huang Taiji, and such a fanatical and angry youth now did not agree to a decisive battle with the Mongols.

What really prompted Lin Feng to make up his mind to gamble on this was Geerdan's strength. In the history books he knows, Geldan is just a tyrant in the northwest frontier, and when he was the most powerful in the Kangxi era, he was only 30,000 or 50,000 cavalry, and the territory under his jurisdiction was only Qinghai, Gansu, Xinjiang, and Tibet, and there were many pro-Qing tribes around him to contain him, but now he took advantage of the decline of the Qing court, and swelled up sharply like a dough, and now his territory spans the Altai Mountains, according to Qinghai Ganliang, annexed Outer Mongolia Uriya Sutai, including Ordos, and the territory is millions of square kilometers, nearly 1 or 200,000 iron cavalry, the front of the army is approaching Shaanxi, Gansu and Shanxi, such a huge trouble, how can he continue to swell?!!

Lin Feng flapped his wings a little in Beijing, but he didn't expect to cause a storm in the northwest desert, Geldan was a disaster created by himself, Lin Feng didn't settle him, who would settle him?! In the past, Lin Feng had always used that "sense of historical responsibility" as bullshit, but this time he really felt this pressure.

And even if it is purely from the position of interests, Lin Feng has to fight him in a decisive battle, because he is not sure that he will unify China faster than Geerdan, originally Korqin's Buryagema should be Geerdan's good opponent, but unfortunately, the old fox is still old after all.

Although the strategists and staff officers under his command did not quite agree with Lin Feng's determination, under the conditions of feudal autocracy, they had no other choice, if they didn't understand, then understand it in the implementation! When the military report from the front line came, Lin Feng immediately issued an order, and the Rick Department of the First Guards Infantry Army of the Chinese Army Brigade and the Zhao Yingkui Department of the Second Army of the Guards Cavalry Board the ships in Daizhou and Daying respectively and headed south, and the Sixth Army of the Cavalry Ma Yingbu of the Outer Cavalry Arch Guard immediately pulled out from Xinkou and headed northwest to respond to the front-line combat troops and cut off the passage between the enemy army in Taiyuan and Ordos.

Geerdan's sweat tent was originally stationed in Yangqu, commanding his sweat tent Xue Timid to besiege Shanxi, but with the arrival of the main force of the Han army, the pressure in the direction of Xinzhou is increasing, and Yangqu City is becoming more and more dangerous, the situation is obvious, Taiyuan City is strong, food and equipment are sufficient, and it is absolutely impossible for the Mongolian army to capture the city before Lin Feng arrives, so if he continues to stay here, there will definitely be the danger of being attacked by Yu Chengchan and Lin Feng from the north and south, and what is even more worrying is that this place is almost Fenshui, and now it is the turn of spring and summer, and the water volume has risen sharply, If the situation is urgent, the mobility of the Mongolian cavalry will also be affected, so after many considerations, Geldan under the advice of the tribal elders, led the army to move north, and set up the sweat tent in a small town called Xilingjing in the northwest of Taiyuan.

This provided great convenience for the Han army to contact the Taiyuan defenders, originally in Wang Shirong's plan, Lin Feng's secret envoy should be difficult to mix into the city in the besieging army, so the military command department bought a number of traitors in advance to translate as an internal response, but now Geerdan's withdrawal, this difficulty no longer exists, the Han army envoy is very smooth Taiyuan Nancheng and the Qing army got in touch, after repeated identity verification, the Taiyuan defenders put down the basket, the messenger hung in.

For several months, Taiyuan City was attacked by the Mongolian army, and the city was almost broken several times, the situation was critical, the envoy had been psychologically prepared, but after entering the city, he was still frightened by the miserable situation of the soldiers and civilians in the city, and only after Yu Chengchan met that Taiyuan City had been out of food half a month ago, and only the soldiers and officials above the seventh grade in the city could drink a bowl of vegetable porridge every day to hang their lives, in addition, because of the weak body of the army and the people, many dead bodies could not be handled, and the plague in the city was also rising, every day because of hunger, Hundreds of people have died of disease, and the number is still growing, and hundreds of thousands of lives in the city are dying in the same vein.

Although Yu Chenglong is a famous official of the Qing court and enjoys a clear reputation in Shilin in the north, but in such a situation, it is of course very ridiculous to talk about what integrity, and the reason why the people in the city have not all starved to death is because after the Han army marched westward, the Mongolian army relaxed the siege, and the defenders had to let the people pick green (pick green, that is, dig wild vegetables) in the field every day for half an hour. Therefore, after receiving the envoy, without waiting for the lobbyist to speak, Yu Chengchan immediately took the initiative to ask for surrender, the only condition was that he hoped that the Han army would send a batch of food as soon as possible.

This message quickly reached Lin Feng's Chinese army, at this time his main force of the Chinese army had passed through Xinkou and arrived at the battlefield, and the Han Wang's tent was only dozens of miles away from the Xinzhou front, and the garrison was undecided, so Lin Feng sent envoys out to convene generals at all levels to discuss.

Hundreds of thousands of troops gathered in Xinzhou, and the decisive battle was about to break out.

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