The sudden intervention of the Kim family in Gyeongju made the outcome of the negotiations in Kaesong confusing.

After meeting with Jin's father, Lu Ning felt that it was not bad to divide Han Di into three points, so that the forces of the three parties would be more balanced, and Daqi only needed to be the arbiter, and there was no need to intervene in the conflict between them at all.

However, the opposition of the Park family is extremely fierce, but it is the Wang family, if it can accept the southwest corner of An, then the independence of the Kim family in Gyeongju weakens the power of the Park family, and has little impact on the Wang family, but will balance the aggressive state of the Park family.

The peace talks reached an impasse for a while.

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In the felt tent, Lu Ning, who was wearing thin clothes and pants, even felt a little hot, leaned on the soft couch, and looked at the secret report in his hand, the urgent secret report from Beihaiwei (Vladivostok).

Actually, the secret report was sent from Wonsan on the east coast of Goryeo.

However, it was the Jurchen tribe of the East China Sea who took in Yelu Gangsage and escorted Yelu Gangsage to Beihaiwei in exchange for a bounty, and the soldiers and civilians who fled to the Jurchen tribe in the East China Sea with Yelu Gangsage for refuge were basically killed.

Yelu Sage was then sent to Kaijing by sea to Wonsan on the east coast of the Goryeo Peninsula, and then by land.

The so-called Kuaima Rush came from Yuanshan, and in fact, it should not be a few days faster than the brigade that escorted Yelu Gangsage.

The secret report in his hand also revealed a secret, according to the closest guard officer around Yelu Gang Sage, the sleeping king was killed by his close attendants, and it was indeed Yelu Gang Sage's staff who controlled it behind the scenes.

Seeing this, Lu Ning shook his head, in fact, is there anyone behind the scenes, the sleeping king's style, it is also a matter of time before he is killed by the attendants, in history, isn't it also too cruel to the attendants, and is killed by the unbearable attendants?

Thinking about it, Lu Ning said, "Go and call Xiao Xijun and Yi Lazy." ”

Hu Dugu on the side hurriedly responded.

In fact, the imperial tent brought by the sea ship is naturally not so elegant, but it is slightly larger than the ordinary handsome tent, Lu Ning usually rests in the front tent, and the female dependents live in the back tent, but it is very compact, separated by a cloth curtain, after all, it is wartime, everything is simple.

Empress Xiao and Yi Lazy walked out of the back tent, and Lu Ning passed the secret report to the two of them, and said: "Yelu Gang Sage has been captured, and the so-called Liao State is already in the past, you can clean up your mood and be my Daqi people seriously." ”

Indeed, the "Liao State" has been wiped out in a physical sense, and the temporary legal basis of the Northern Liao, which is still breathing, comes from the canonization of the Great Qi, and Yeluqi was canonized as the king of the Northern Liao.

Moreover, Northern Liao has lost the momentum of the Khitan enterprising in the past, and no matter whether it is the eastern Jurchen tribes or the western steppe tribes, they are no longer subject to him.

Although Lu Ning did not extinguish Northern Liao in one go, it was a soft knife to sharpen his muscles and bones, although it took a lot of time, but the cost was the lowest.

Empress Xiao and Yi Lazy read the secret report, with different expressions.

Lu Ning also felt that he had let go of a matter in his heart, but in fact, he was already thinking about the Eastern Crusade.

The Kaesong Peace Conference, whether the two Koreas are tied or the three Koreas are made peace will not have much impact on Daqi, and let the three forces solve it themselves.

Even Park Shouqing and Wang Zhao have already received an edict from the Central Plains, one was named the king of North Korea and the other was named the king of South Korea.

The Gyeongju Kim family, Lu Ning had an idea to make him inherit the throne of East Korea for generations, so that the status was nominally lower than that of the Park family and the Wang family, but in essence, it was still an independent kingdom.

Han Derang was also instructed to guide the three parties in this line of thought, but it doesn't matter what will happen in the end.

I don't have to support the self-reliance of the Kim family in Gyeongju, I really can't talk about it, and I still follow the original script of the two Koreas standing side by side, if the Kim family is not convinced, the Park family and the Wang family crusade against him, and it is none of my business.

The priority now is naturally the preparation for the Eastern Crusade.

Conquering Toei from the north and south, and landing in the northern part of Honshu Island, first of all, it was to capture Akita Castle as a foothold, and with Akita Port here, at least there would be a way out of retreat after defeat.

Nowadays, the northernmost provinces of Dewa and Mutsu on the northernmost island of Honshu in Japan, the Japanese tribe has built castles as strongholds and has a country to garrison, but there are still not a few Ezo people living in these two areas, and they are also divided into three categories, divided into three types: one is the so-called "barren Ezo" who does not submit to the imperial court; the second is the so-called "cooked Ezo" that returned to the imperial court; The third is the most ripe so-called "prisoner" in Ezo.

In fact, 200 years ago, the "prisoners" of Ezo were forcibly "transferred" to Kyushu, Shikoku, and the central and western regions of Honshu on a large scale, and placed under the strict supervision of the local national department, who was required to educate and supervise these "prisoners".

Ironically, it was these unruly prisoners who often rioted, and social turmoil became more and more intense, so that the Japanese government had to gradually rely on local powers, and the original law system of learning from the Tang Dynasty gradually existed in name only, and gradually developed into a special local lord system.

In order to ensure their possession of the land, the owners of large and small manors appeared, so they added their own names to the land they occupied, called "XX name", which was "Mingtian", and its owner was called "Mingtian".

The rich peasants, who owned less land, were the lesser lords, and those who had more land were the big lords.

This is where the "daimyo" comes from.

In Dewa and Mutsu countries, there were also Japanese tribes who migrated from the southern region to reclaim the land, and naturally there were also classes such as daimyos, small names, sakujin, and famous sons.

"Being a man" is similar to a hired farmer, and "name", as the name suggests, is actually no different from a serf.

However, in Dewa and Mutsu provinces, the scope of the activities of the Wazu clan is still limited, and they are mainly attached to the vicinity of Wato strongholds such as Akita Castle, Taga Castle, and Kyoto Castle.

The landing in the northern part of Dongying Honshu was to drive the barren Ezo and liberate the cooked Ezo and the Ezo prisoners to help capture these strongholds of the Japanese tribe in the north.

In many strongholds, even in the event of an emergency, the samurai and armed peasants who organized the daimyo estates, plus the soldiers who guarded the castle, were only a few hundred, and it was not a problem to destroy them one by one.

After all, their usual duty is to expel or exterminate the rebellious Ezo, and these rebellious Ezo are often in groups of three or five people, or even dozens of Ezo can be organized, which is considered a very strong force.

Only Shonai Castle, which served as the garrison of Dewa Province, and Taga Castle, which was the garrison of Mutsu Province, may be slightly stronger, but they are also extremely limited.

Dongying people, have not experienced large-scale wars for a long time, often broke out of small-scale conflicts, so that its war miniaturization, individualized direction development, the main general's "one horse" prevailed, that is, each other's main generals single-handed, because the local battlefield on both sides was originally mostly dozens of people, at most hundreds of people beat each other, the role of the main general infinitely expanded, the main general wearing big armor, defeating the other side wearing big armor of the main general, then, defeating the other party's dozens of hundreds of light steps without armor, it has become a foregone conclusion.

Two hundred years later, with the increase in population and the great division of the magnates, each of them gathered and supported the powerful to participate in the war for the supreme power, which broke out the Genpei War, which made the Japanese have a record of more than 10,000 people fighting together, and even the Japanese side recorded that one of the sides claimed to have 100,000 soldiers and horses.

Of course, compared with the Central Plains, which often claims to be hundreds of thousands, or even millions, but the actual decisive force is only tens of thousands of elites, its record of 100,000 horses participating in joint battles can be imagined.

And this Eastern Crusade of Great Qi will be two hundred years in advance, so that the Dongying people will face the cruelty of the battle of 10,000 people.

The first stage is the blitzkrieg, gaining a firm foothold in Dewa and Mutsu, and then, waiting for the Dongying people to gather troops and come to the expedition from afar, the army of the Eastern Expedition will mainly oppose the guest and wait for work.

The structure of the Crusade Army has also been determined.

In the battle in the northern part of Dongying Honshu Island, the large army could not be used at all, that is, the Zhendong Army, the 10,000-strong army, also had to be divided into several routes, and because in addition to the initial supplies will be transported by sea ships, the long-term combat considerations in the future are that it is advisable to solve the problem locally if there is no supply, so it is likely that the Zhendong Army will act as a battalion, attack the strongholds of the Wazu clan in Dewa and Mutsu, and loot food as military rations.

Then, they were stationed in various places and turned the Wa tribe and cooked Ezo into people under their rule.

In addition, it was originally planned to recruit 3,000 Ezo slave troops from Hokkaido and Sakhalin.

When I did, I realized that I was still overestimating the number of people in today's harsh conditions.

In Hokkaido, there was a Ezo leader who had long since returned to Daqi, and the navy also relied on his tribe as a guide to capture slaves.

But in fact, in the entire Hokkaido and Sakhalin regions, the Ezo people may have a population of tens of thousands, and thousands of slaves have been captured to serve in Beihaiwei, and there was once a fleet full of captured Ezo slaves who died in the belly of the fish.

In the end, the share of the 3,000 Ezo slave army was reduced to 600 people, and all of them followed Lu Ning.

In this Eastern Crusade, Lu Ning, as the Eastern Crusade Propaganda Envoy, led an armed force alone.

Two hundred archers, three hundred heavily armored foot soldiers.

Two hundred archers, one hundred of whom were horsemen, and the most deterrent force that could pretend to be a god and a ghost should be brought with them.

However, Yu Linwei and the remaining 100 light bowmen returned to Beijing to repair, and they had been fighting for more than a year, and they still took the time to go back, but Yu Linwei has not had to rest.

What's more, in Dongying, he can't give full play to Yu Linwei's biggest advantage.

Yu Linwei, not only each person needs two servants, but also one person and three horses, plus the servants, is one person and five horses, and the war horses under his crotch are thousands of choices, sea shipping, not to mention the wind and waves, it is a pity to suffocate a few heads, if you are infected with disease, but also infectious, at most most of them die of illness, but do not make people feel distressed to death.

Moreover, the terrain on Dongying Island is not suitable for heavy cavalry long-distance raids, which is still based on the terrain of later generations that I know, not to mention that now, there is no map of the island, and this Eastern Expedition does not need some cavalry tactics of heavy cavalry running.

In addition, Lu Ning even thought of the defeat of the army, if it was the worst result, that is, the Yulinwei were all lost on Dongying Island, and these Yulinwei had many noble children, and there was no shortage of chieftain successors who stayed by their side with the "proton" nature of the tribe, if they died, it would cause the biggest crisis after they became emperors.

After all, although no one objected to his own crusade, in fact, the courtiers thought that the benefits of the dangers far outweighed the risks, and there were many people.

As for himself, the worst result, the annihilation of the whole army, is that there is no naval army to respond, before the destruction of the guards, he will smash all the horse pistols, and then disguise himself as a Dongying person to Kyushu Island, from the Tsushima Strait to the territory of Goryeo.

Although it is said that the possibility of this kind of total army annihilation and not even waiting for the naval division to respond to the defeat is very small, Lu Ning still plans for the worst.

Even the Zhendong Army, originally conceived that all battalion commanders, capital heads, and squad leaders would use Central Plains generals, just taking the opportunity to promote a large number of generals with military merits, but considering that if it failed miserably, it would be an extremely serious loss for the new generals of the Central Plains, in the end, only 20 battalion commanders were newly promoted young generals in the Central Plains.

Of course, the first battalion of the Zhendong Army, that is, Yang Ye's pro-soldier battalion, is still the same Central Plains soldiers.

And Lu Ning's pro-army was temporarily named "Zhengdong Xuanfu Battalion".

Two hundred archers, in addition to one hundred musketeers, the other hundred archers were all selected to recruit the marksmen in the tribal army.

Three hundred heavy armor foot soldiers, three main capital heads, three deputy capital heads, and twenty-seven squad leaders are all recruited from the Beijing garrison camp to promote new talents, and 270 foot soldiers are all the most burly wrestlers among the recruited brave warriors.

The three capital foot soldiers of the "Xuanfu Camp in the East of the Expedition" are the same as the military system of other forbidden armies, the first class of each capital is the most elite soldiers, and it is regarded as the personal guard of the head of the capital, with nine brave soldiers of the deputy capital leader as a class.

It is one of ten classes, but nine of them.

At the same time, the 600 Ezo slave army was actually a heavy foot soldier, with two Ezo auxiliaries, who took turns to help the foot soldiers carry heavy armor and other baggage when they were on the march, so that the heavy infantry could join the battle in the best condition at any time.

Therefore, although there were 500 soldiers in the "Xuanfu Battalion of the Eastern Expedition", the actual number was 1,100.

On Toei Island, this is also an extremely bloated and huge force.

Lu Ning did not lead Yu Linwei, also because of the needs of the war, so that Hu Cong's army was simplified and miniaturized, and it was more suitable to carry out military operations on Dongying Island as a surprise soldier.

Although, I vaguely feel that this huge army of 1,100 people is really a very large and exaggerated military force for the scale of most of the conflicts that have broken out on Dongying Island today.

At present, the selection of the personnel of the "Xuanfu Battalion for the Expedition to the East" has been basically completed, and the officer corps from Bianjing, as well as the archers and giants from Pyongyang, are all marching towards Kaijing, and after arriving in Kaijing, it will naturally take a period of training and running-in.

The 600 Ezo slaves in Hokkaido are also ready to come, and when the Eastern Expedition fleet departs, these slaves will be sent to Akita Port in Dewa Province to join the Eastern Expeditionary Army.

This expedition to Japan, although it also somewhat consumed the Southern Song Dynasty's new military horses, but at the same time, at least the Yongjian of the various brave soldiers in the "Eastern Xuanfu Battalion" was tempered into a hundred battles loyal to the Great Qi and loyal to the royal army, and it was not in vain to serve under his own command.