If you count the time alone, although the Houjin army was already besieging the capital at the same time as crossing the meeting, it was still too late for King Qin's action.

The historical Battle of the Siege of Houjin lasted from mid-November of that year to early February of the following year; In early February 1630, the Emperor Taiji led a large army to return north.

In the process of returning north, the Later Jin army would occupy a series of military towns along the way, such as Yongping, Qian'an, Luanzhou, and Zunhua, and arrange Manchuria and Mongolia to garrison them.

In the next month or two, these military towns will be "recovered" one after another by the armies of King Qin who have been rushed from all walks of life. Yes, after the remaining Eight Banners soldiers burned, killed, plundered, and looted, they took the spoils of war and swaggered away before the Ming army slowly besieged the city.

That is to say, when the last team of Eight Banners withdrew from the wall, it was in May 1630.

Therefore, there is still plenty of time to cross the crowd, and if it is simply to cut off some "real Tartar" heads in exchange for credit, the intervention army only needs to rush to Tianjin Wei in February next year.

The strategy was very simple, after arriving in Tianjin, General Cao Da could hide in the Acropolis and watch while preparing for battle. When the main force of Houjin withdraws, it will be time for the special combat team to show their skills - those broken Manmeng Eight Banners are the fat sheep in General Cao's mouth.

In short, the sparsely numbered intervention army will not collide with the main force of the Houjin. Using the advanced equipment and weapons and ammunition of later generations, it is the king to find opportunities to sneak attack and annihilate small groups of enemy troops.

After the general strategic direction is determined, a series of subsequent operations begin.

On the evening of the enlarged cabinet meeting, the encrypted telegraph signal flew from the senior to Hangzhou and Shanghai. Xiong Dao got some instructions and left him alone, and the order that Hangzhou Lu Cheng got was very clear and informed the major agents that Cao Zongbing would personally come to Tianjin Wei in the near future.

The soldiers and horses did not move the grain and grass first. In the future, when the Wang army arrived in Tianjin by sea, whether it was the food, horses, auxiliaries, guides, or vital local intelligence needed by the troops, it was impossible to count on the local government and guards in Tianjin.

So on the day when it was decided to go north to King Qin, Hangzhou Station received an order. Nowadays, anyone who is qualified to become a "big agent" must be a powerful person with business all over the north and south. After receiving the notice, these people will soon spread the news to their own buyers and sellers or related households in Tianjin.

As the node of the Grand Canal, Tianjin was a transportation hub for wealthy merchants in the Ming Dynasty. And once the local snakes there learned that the God of Wealth was going to arrive, they would naturally prepare the materials and manpower specified in the news in advance, and these local wealthy merchants were 10,000 times more reliable than the government, and the original capitalists were also capitalists, as long as they wanted to underwrite someone's industrial products in the future, they would definitely do a good job in reception.

After the telegram was sent, preparations were made immediately after the army was made. This operation is a joint operation of the "three services", and the army will use 200 soldiers to be responsible for daily tasks such as garrison, escort, guarding supplies, and defending the city.

And the navy also began to mobilize ships. Since there is no combat mission this time, most of the fleet will be transport ships. It is planned that there will be a maximum of three combat vessels, and this will be done for the purpose of training troops and surveying the waters of the DPRK.

On the side of the special combat team, all members are dispatched. In addition to the 50 combatants, 10 other logisticians also joined the team. These people are not useless, and a large number of equipment and weapons brought from the afterlife need to be cared for and maintained, not to mention transported and cared for.

Due to the relatively high difficulty of this expedition, it was the first time since crossing the Zhongcheng Army that there was no rear operation, so after Xia Xianze's approval, the three artifacts of guerrilla warfare, including RPG, infantry mines, and TNT, were all taken out this time.

Of course, some people are not so generous because of the needs of the expedition, there is also an element of "commodity depreciation".

The above good things were actually bought blindly by Emperor Cao when he bought arms. And it turns out that the three artifacts are a bit unaccustomed to the water and soil here in the traversal, in other words, it is a bit high and not low.

In addition to being able to use RPGs to shoot two shots in the early days of wasteland, as the regular army became stronger and stronger, the traversers suddenly found that the three artifacts could not find a place to use.

It's the seventeenth century, and no matter what kind of enemy on land and sea, you can get it with artillery + musketeers + diatomaceous earth explosives packs.

This cheap, replicable method of warfare soon became king, and the three artifacts that needed to be imported became museum fixtures.

There are no high-value targets that need to be jerked off to RPG, and the Ming Dynasty does not have a half-meter-thick vault gate that needs special forces to sneak in and blast with TNT. As for the mines, they are all used by the Dick Silk Dirt Eight Roads, and the Imperial Army has always been just frontal, and the scene of being beaten into a guerrilla has not yet appeared.

Therefore, taking advantage of this opportunity, Xia Xianze gave all the three artifacts in stock to the special combat team, and it also costs manpower and material resources to maintain them in the arsenal, and these dangerous things will fail and self-destruct after a long time, which is equivalent to slowly depreciating.

This Qinwang mission is the last chance for the three artifacts to reflect their value. After learning the lessons, in a few years, the King of Crossing Zhongqin will send out a large army, and the value of the three artifacts will be completely depreciated.

While the military was preparing for war, the industrial sector was not idle. For example, the quilt factory received an order for 1,000 sets of military coats.

It was now mid-November, and the planned departure of the intervention force was set for early December. Half a month later, the fleet will depart from Taiwan, and on the way, it will rest for a period of time in Shanghai Port. Then, roughly in early January, the intervention forces arrived in Tianjin.

After arriving in Tianjin, the troops will spend about 1 month preparing and adapting, in other words, they will sit and watch the melee between the two armies at the foot of the capital. Then wait until February, when the Huang Taiji army withdraws, and then consider the issue of sorties.

In this way, the order received by the clothing factory became 1,000 sets of coats, cotton pants, hats and gloves, and the leather shoe factory also received an order for the same number of cotton leather shoes.

There is still half a month before departure, and the small processing factories in Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the future, as long as the personnel and materials are complete, these orders can be made within a few days, and at most they will pay an expedited fee.

Although the equipment of the kiln quilt factory is not so advanced and belongs to the semi-mechanized production mode, the kiln area is rich in human resources, and one or two thousand female workers can be mobilized at any time to work in three shifts.

There was a reason for ordering an excess of cold zone equipment, and when the intervention army arrived in Tianjin, it was necessary to recruit local guides and auxiliaries, and these equipment would be available at that time.

In addition to military supplies, a large number of light industrial products were also loaded. Previously, the northern magnates used to distribute goods from the Grand Canal in the south, and this distribution method often caused shortages, incomplete varieties and sharp price increases, just like pork in later generations.

This time to interfere with the king of military service, the manufacturer sent the regional president with samples to open up the market, so a large number of samples are essential. Once this trade route is opened, the vast number of bigwigs in the capital will be able to use a steady stream of kerosene and glass mirrors in the future.

At the same time as issuing a series of orders to prepare for war, the cabinet immediately convened a meeting on the expansion of the army. The meeting lasted one day, and after the meeting, a "Armament Adjustment Plan for the Year 1630" was produced.

This military expansion plan mainly involves the army and navy.

As for the Army, the plan is to recruit 2,000 recruits in the coming year, a move that will bring the total number of troops to 5,000.

In this process, the army will be reorganized, and next year it will form a pattern of two main regiments plus a part of the reserve force.

The new regiment consisted of 3 battalions of infantry + artillery company + logistics troops, with a total number of 2,000 people.

With regard to the deployment of troops, a battalion of 500 troops will be deployed in Xiamen and Guangzhou at present, and the rest of the troops will remain in Taiwan for training.

In the army's long-term plan, it will continue to expand its military in the next two to three years. Eventually, the army will deploy a standing battalion of 500 troops in Xiamen, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Shandong, Tianjin, and other places, and then maintain a mobile force of no less than four battalions in Taiwan to be on alert for possible war in the north and the south at any time.

The Army was followed by the Navy.

The Navy's new resources are mainly tilted towards ocean-going shipping. Considering that in this mission, the fleet will not only cross 2,000 kilometers of continental coastline, but will also continue to send fleets to expand this route in the future, the navy decided to increase the number of large-tonnage ocean-going ships in the coming 1630 year.

The "large tonnage" here mainly refers to transport ships of more than 800 tons.

The five or six hundred tons of new lock ships will be used as short-distance cargo ships on the Fujian-Guangdong-Taiwan triangle route in the future; For cargo ships in northern regions such as Shanghai, Tianjin, North Korea, and Japan, it needs to be increased to at least 800 tons.

As for the combat ships, the navy is generally quite satisfied with the current 500-ton Yuguang-class gunboats and 150-ton Taijiang-class frigates.

These two types of warships not only come and go freely along the coast of the mainland with chaotic winds and complex terrain, but also successfully solve all Chinese pirates, and the navy has not found any need to adjust them at present.

And for the European colonial ships that will definitely clash in the future, off the coast of Taiwan at this moment, there is already a huge verification warship in the state of sea trials. Soon, the traversing enemy will be able to test the power of the large naval guns.

While a series of preparations were being carried out intensively, Zhang Dongdong was also anxiously waiting for the telegram from the direction of Fuzhou.

Now if the governor of Fuzhou wants to contact General Cao, he only needs to send someone to deliver the news to the merchant inn in Fuzhou City. Therefore, Zhang Dongdong, who was far away in Taiwan, could receive the telegram as soon as possible.

Finally, on the sixth day after the meeting, the man's news was sent to Fu Ya, and he was in a hurry!