Lu Xiangsheng took his personal guards, and it only took a while to return from Haizhou City to the current temporary station of the Qinglong Legion: Lianshan Pass and Caohe Fort.

Here in Caohe Fort, Chen An, the chief of staff of the Qinglong Legion, and Lu Xiangtong and Xiong Ba, the two division commanders, have made all the preparations for the expedition.

This time, Lu Xiangsheng's attack target was the Gushan Fort area.

In the afternoon, he led 90,000 soldiers and 10,000 logistics soldiers of the Blue Dragon Legion to form a veritable army of 100,000 and immediately set off.

He will lead this brigade called "Lu Jiajun" by the soldiers of the Ming New Army, go straight to the front line of Gushan Fort, and launch an overwhelming attack on most of the Tartar Zhenglan Banner and the two yellow flags entrenched here.

Lonely Mountain Fort, sounds like a military fort.

Actually, it is not the case, it is made up of two military forts.

Gushan New Fort, built in May of the second year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, the so-called Gushan New Fort is for the old fort.

The old fort is ten miles southwest of the new fort.

Today, these two military forts have been renovated and are now important castles for Huang Taiji to defend the area north of the Liaoshen Great Plain.

The original new Gushan Fort, before it was captured by Huang Taiji, the city was three feet high and five feet high, the bottom was two feet thick, there were nine enemy platforms at the corner of the door, all of which were covered with bricks and stones, and the residence of the fort guard officer together with the sergeant's barracks was one hundred and seventy-three.

The old fort is much more important than the new fort, and it has been largely abandoned.

However, since the army of the Ming Empire pressed the border, these two old and new military forts were ordered by Huang Taiji to be demolished and rebuilt, and great efforts were made to expand and reinforce.

Today's two large military forts, after spending a lot of materials to rebuild, their scale is not below Ningyuan City, and they can easily garrison 100,000 troops.

In addition, the two large military forts, watching and helping each other, formed a horn trend, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Today's two lonely mountain castles are crossed by a small river, and then go around the city, forming a moat.

This medium-sized river continues to flow in a northwesterly direction and finally joins the Zheng of the Taizi River

This Gushan Fort is also one of the easternmost fortresses within the Great Wall of the Ming Empire, and its geographical location is very important.

The army marched rapidly in a northeasterly direction, and the closer it got to its destination, the more mountains there were along the way.

Here, the plains were a little scarcer, which was not very conducive to cavalry warfare.

If it was in the past when the Ming Empire's war horses were scarce, it would definitely be beneficial to the Ming side.

But today's Ming New Army, in terms of war horses, is basically not lacking, but it is not conducive to the march of the army.

is like Lu Xiangsheng's Blue Dragon Legion, which is now almost all one person and one horse, as well as those logistics soldiers, who are also equipped with horses and vehicles.

"Well, it seems that some veteran craftsmen must be sent in at once to form a new royal building team."

Riding on the war horse, looking at the logistics troops and horses in the rear, they are all staggering, it is very difficult, Lu Xiangsheng frowned and thought.

Although the current Ming New Army is powerful, its dependence on logistics materials is also unprecedented

Units that have initially been firearms are more dependent on logistics.

When fighting a war, it is logistics that is fought.

This sentence still can't be wrong.

And now the road in the north of the Liaoshen Great Plain, the road conditions are really speechless, except for those plain areas, the rest of the roads are rugged and difficult, uneven.

This is very unfavorable to the new army of the Ming Dynasty, which has been fully equipped with new four-wheeled carriages.

He is now the governor of the Liaodong region, and although the military and government have been completely separated, he can still directly suggest to Yan Yingyuan, the prime minister of the empire.

And Yan Ying Yuanyue will inevitably put his suggestions into action as soon as possible, and vigorously promote the implementation of the two basic national policies in this vast area that is about to be occupied and controlled by the Ming Empire.

The army marched all the way, and Lu Xiangsheng was a commander-in-chief, and of course he would not make low-level mistakes.

He knew that when the four armies of the Ming Empire came out together to attack Huang Taiji's Houjin, the most important thing was to cut off the information on the battlefield if they wanted to achieve their strategic goals as soon as possible.

The most important thing is that the Tartars are more familiar with the terrain than their own, and once they know in advance that they are leading a large army to attack, they will inevitably be prepared, and they will also take advantage of various favorable geographical environments to harass and sneak attack their own Blue Dragon Legion.

Although I'm not afraid, it's going to be annoying.

Moreover, there will be a loss of the opportunity to take the lead and gain a favorable advantage.

So, he ordered all the scout brigades of the Blue Dragon Legion to be sprinkled out in one go, and launched the first wave of military strikes against the Tartars: battlefield covering.

"Attention division commanders! This battlefield masking operation is extremely important for our Blue Dragon Legion's northward battle! ”

Lu Xiangsheng stressed at the emergency military temporary meeting, "The captains of all divisions and regiments must receive military orders, and they must turn those villages into no-man's land where our Qinglong Legion passes, and wipe out all the Tartar sentry spies and scouts!" ”

He issued another order, "The army passed by, all the villages it saw along the way, carry out a sweep along the way, demolish all the villages it encountered, and bring back even those who surrendered without missing a beat, and temporarily form a royal building brigade and a labor camp!" ”

"The engineering team of the logistics corps led these two brigades, supported by Liu Zongmin's vanguard division, immediately carried out the task of opening roads in the mountains and building bridges in the water, and accelerated the pace of the army's actions!"

"No one shall disobey this order, and those who violate it will be dealt with by military law."

In order to achieve the results of his Blue Dragon Legion as soon as possible in this major counteroffensive, Lu Xiangsheng was unusual, and issued two military orders in a row with extremely strict conditions.

He hasn't caught a big battle for a long time, and now he's a little anxious.

You must know that now the 280,000 army and 60,000 logistics troops are divided into four routes to attack at the same time.

If you delay the fighter plane, you can watch the other three-way armies, like broken bamboos, easily capture a large area of territory, and surpass their own Blue Dragon Legion in military achievements.

It is estimated that even if he is calm and steady, he will be so angry that he vomits three liters of blood!

Especially Xiongba, it is estimated that he will jump to his feet.

Xiong Ba, the fluffy, savage-like guy, after losing the bet with Liu Zongmin, not only lost the perfect banquet at the "Yuelai Hotel" in the capital, but also lost the position of the commander of the regiment, and continued to be a division commander with grievances.

After his third division was merged into the Blue Dragon Legion, this guy began to work hard and do his best to train the soldiers of the third division.

It's a pity that due to various unexpected reasons, the Blue Dragon Legion didn't get any big battles to fight at all, which made Xiong Ba hold back his anger, but he couldn't vent it.

Therefore, in the past three months, during the period when Lu Xiangsheng ordered to take Tartars for actual combat training, the most desperate was Xiong Ba's Third Division.

Of course, because he was too desperate, and Lu Xiangsheng did not allow the soldiers to use muskets and artillery, in the past two or three months, the third division of the Qinglong Army suffered the greatest casualties.

And now that there is such a good opportunity, if the performance of the Blue Dragon Legion is not as good as the two legions of the Brave Guard, Xiong Ba's anger will become inevitable.

Therefore, at the opening of this war, the most nervous thing is Lu Xiangsheng and Xiong Ba.

With three divisions and regiments, a total of three reinforced battalions, and a total of 9,000 rao scout brigades, the road was opened in front, and after a sweep along the way, a large number of people from Liaodong were recruited, and the scale of the newly formed construction team and labor reform team also expanded rapidly.

Therefore, the movement of the army, not only did not slow down by the sorties, but in the early afternoon it crossed the fort of Samagi en masse.

The Samaji Fort was not able to block Xiongba's third division at all, and it was successfully taken.

Lu Xiangsheng left 1,000 logistics soldiers and 1,000 soldiers to deal with the aftermath in this military fort, and continued to lead the army all the time, heading towards the former colonel of Gushan Fort in the northeast

Just a short distance out of Samaji Fort, the scout teams became very busy.

It is only about a mile away from Gushan Fort.

Therefore, there are more and more scouts and sentinels of the Tartars.

Once, a group of scouts even encountered a Tartar grain collection brigade of nearly 1,000 people, but fortunately there were binoculars that had just been issued to each scout brigade by the military headquarters, so they avoided it early.

Otherwise, you will have to startle the snake.

This abnormal situation was immediately reported, and Xiong Ba, who had been itching in his heart for a long time, learned about it, and without saying a word, he led a 3,000-rao cavalry brigade to rush towards the Tartar grain collection team.

The result was obvious, the soldiers quietly surrounded the Tartar brigade, which was walking slowly because they were guarding nearly a hundred grain carts, and wiped them all out with just three rounds of crossbow volleys.

And because of winning the jackpot, Xiong Ba's dark face, which had always been gloomy, showed a long-lost smile.

He was unlucky before, but now he has a good omen, and he thinks in his heart: "Lao Tzu estimates that things will be reversed, and it will be time to operate!" ”