May of the first year of Chenghua.

Emperor Chenghua issued an order to use Zhao Fubai, the governor of Zhongfu, to worship the general of Zhengyi, and lead the army to conquer the rebellion of the Yao people in Datengxia, and serve as the chief military officer.

Immediately afterwards, Emperor Chenghua ordered Zhu Yong, the commander of the 3,000 battalions and the Shenji battalion, to lead the army to pacify the Jingxiang thieves.

When the news came, Liu Zi'an also gathered the situation of Zhao Fu and Zhu Yong and sent it to Liu Juntao.

"Zhao Fuzi Liangzuo, a native of Fengyang, came from the court, inherited the post of commander of Jiningwei, and was promoted to command the affairs of the department, and served as a general on the left. In the early years of Tianshun, he was enlisted in the right mansion to do ......"

"Zhu Yongzi Jingchang, a native of Xiayi, Henan, and the son of Zhu Qian, Funingbo. In his early years, he fought with his father, made many military exploits, and in the second year of Jingtai, he was awarded the title of Fu Ningbo. After the change of seizing the door, he led the forbidden army of the Xuanwei battalion, and then commanded the 3,000 battalions, and also led the Shenji battalion. After His Majesty succeeded to the throne, he changed the military ...... of the regimental battalion"

"It seems that there are not too many deviations in the direction of history."

Liu Juntao clearly remembered that the generals who put down the rebellion of Jingxiang thieves and Yaomin in Datengxia in history were Zhao Fu and Zhu Yong, who were also cadres of the Chenghua Emperor's dynasty, and they were still very capable.

In this way, Liu Juntao's heart was also a little relieved, with Zhao Fu and Zhu Yong leading the army to quell the rebellion, he didn't have to be distracted from the south, and he could concentrate on dealing with Jia Silan.

However, Liu Juntao still has a string in his heart, after all, the current development has deviated a lot from the course of history, and it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no earth-shattering reversal.

And Liu Juntao is most worried about the Dongping Island Navy, after all, the opponent is the Dutch, and he is the overlord of the sea at this time!

"These dog mongrels have even learned to secretly Chen Cang, and they have actually transferred warships from the mainland and other places!"

Thinking of this, Liu Juntao was also secretly ruthless in his heart.

At this time, not only was the imperial court already fighting in the north and south at the same time, forming an embarrassing situation of fighting on two fronts, but Liu Juntao himself was also fighting at the same time from east to west, and began to meet the enemy on both sides, which is not a good thing!

"Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty at this time is not the Chongzhen Dynasty, the Jiasilan is not the Manchu Dynasty, and those shantymen and Yaomin are not Li Zicheng!"

At this time, Liu Juntao's heart can be said to be anxious to fight, at this time the Ming Dynasty has been fighting on all sides, even if the national strength is strong, it can't withstand a long period of attrition, so it must be a quick decision.

Liu Juntao also decided to launch an attack on the headquarters of the Tartar in advance to annihilate the 100,000 vanguard of the Tartars in advance in order to prevent the Ming Dynasty from falling into a multi-front attrition battle!

In the middle of May of the first year of Chenghua, Jiayuguan.

Liu Juntao left Yan Hu, the chief military officer of Taiyuan Town, to lead the Yingyang Army and the Guancheng garrison to garrison Jiayu Pass, and he led the troops of the Tiance Army, the soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp, and the soldiers and horses of Shaanxi to march westward.

The army was divided into three ways to attack, Liu Juntao personally led the soldiers and horses of the Tiance Army to march west along the official road, and advanced to six miles away from the camp of 100,000 Tartars, before setting up camp, 100,000 Tartars saw this and suddenly their morale plummeted, and they retreated five miles to re-encamp, and the morale of all units of the Ming army was greatly boosted for a while.

At the same time, the 40,000 soldiers and horses of the Shaanxi troops in the north and the 30,000 soldiers and horses of the Beijing battalion in the south also secretly marched until they advanced to the mountains more than ten miles northwest and southwest of the Tatar camp, waiting for Liu Juntao's attack order.

At this time, Liu Juntao received a report from Lan Siqi, the head of the rear center, that the imperial court had shipped the latest batch of baggage, and the shogunate departments were urgently transporting all kinds of materials, which were expected to take two days to transport to ensure the combat consumption of the 170,000 army.

So Liu Juntao ordered: All the armies will rest for a day, and after a day, the various units of the Tiance Army will attack first and start a decisive battle with the 100,000 Tartar army!

The words are divided into two ends, one for each table.

Just when the wolf smoke was everywhere outside Jiayu Pass, the Dutch fleet had blocked the sea area around Andongwei off the coast of Shandong, making it impossible for ships along the Shandong coast to go to sea normally.

For a time, people in various parts of Shandong were panicked, and Hu Dexing, the governor of Shandong, was also anxious when he saw this.

But Hu Dexing understands that Liu Juntao is now in charge of the military department, and all his attention is on the northwest and south; Moreover, the sailors of the Ming Dynasty are basically in Jiangnan, and they will never be transferred to the north easily, after all, Jiangnan is the important financial and tax area of the Ming Dynasty, and its status in the heart of the imperial court is more important than that of Shandong, even if the total commercial tax of Shandong has exceeded the provinces in Jiangnan at this time, it is still the case!

The reason why Hu Dexing played was just a procedure, and he still needed to face it himself.

Fortunately, Liu Juntao had already ordered that the Dongping Island Navy be temporarily transferred to Hu Dexing's command, and Hu Dexing would command the trapping army and the Dongping Island Navy in a unified manner, and Zhang Xiaojun, the chief military officer of Shandong Town, and Feng Xiang, the commander of the Dongping Island Navy, would be assigned to him.

Liu Juntao allowed Hu Dexing to act cheaply, but also put forward two demands: first: the Dutch would never be allowed to land, even if the Dongping Island Navy was exhausted, the Dutch would be severely damaged and unable to fight again; Second: a quick solution, not a long delay!

For Liu Juntao's first request, Hu Dexing is still confident.

At this time, the naval strength of Dongping Island increased greatly, although it could not be compared with the Dutch fleet that had transferred two first-class battleships, eight third-class battleships, twelve fourth-class battleships, and thirty-five large armed merchant ships, but it also had three second-class battleships: Daqin, Dahan, ten third-class battleships, in addition to the previous Qin Shihuang, Han Gaozu, and Han Wen Emperor, the four Han-class battleships Guangwu Emperor, Han Xuan Emperor, Han Yuan Emperor, and Han Jingdi were newly added, as well as the improved Tang Gaozong, Tang Taizong, Tang Gaozong, three Tang-class battleships.

In this way, there are twelve main battleships of the Dongping Island Navy, and the rest of the fourth-class battleships have twenty and fifth-class battleships twenty-five!

At this time, the Dongping Island Navy was on par with the Dutch in terms of the number of warships: fifty-eight against fifty-seven, but the number and combat power of the main warships were much worse, and the only thing stronger than the Dutch was that the artillery technology was better, but the quality of the sailors was much worse.

This is also the reason why Feng Xiang, the commander of the navy, has never been able to make up his mind to start a decisive battle with the Dutch, even if the Dongping Island Navy fights to the death, it is more defeated and less victorious, and after the Dutch are seriously injured, they can still cover the sea route, and the Dongping Island Navy can only sigh in the short term.

Now the navy of Dongping Island could not defend it by relying on the batteries of Andongwei and Dongping Island, and the Dutch roamed freely in the waters off Shandong, and the maritime trade routes along the southern coast of Shandong were cut off, and the situation was very grim for a while.

In order to open up the situation, Feng Xiang rushed to Jinan Fucheng non-stop to discuss countermeasures with Hu Dexing, the governor of Shandong, and Zhang Xiaojun, the chief military officer of Shandong Town.

After the three of them discussed for a long time, they decided to concentrate all the sea forces in Shandong and fight a decisive battle with the Dutch!

Hu Dexing believes that the reason why the Dutch are so tough is because the Ming Dynasty occupied the maritime trade routes and cut off the financial routes of the Dutch! Although these Dutch ships are strong and artillery, they are still merchants at all, as long as the Daming sailors are determined to fight to the death, the price of this big battle The Dutch will definitely not be able to afford it, and even if the Dutch win, they will be greatly damaged.

"In this battle, I want to do all the sailors in Shandong, and go to sea with the Dongping Island Navy for a decisive battle, if this battle is defeated, then I will issue a plunder order to all the maritime merchants in Shandong, and the War Bureau will let go of selling guns and artillery to those maritime merchants, and use these maritime merchants to bite the Dutch to death!"

Hu Dexing gritted his teeth and said, Zhang Xiaojun and Feng Xiang were also enthusiastic: "I immediately order: order the Admiral of the Shandong Navy Division to go south to Andongwei and obey Feng's command!" ”

Feng Xiang said loudly: "The last general listens to the order!" Please rest assured, my brothers and I are going to die in this battle, and we must let the Dutch leave most of their lives! ”

This time, the main battlefield was on the vast sea, and Zhang Xiaojun was also powerful and had nowhere to go, so he immediately said loudly: "Feng Commander boldly fights, I will immediately mobilize the soldiers of the trapping army to strictly guard the coast, and never give the Dutch a chance to land!" ”

Since the three of them set the tone of this battle, they began to plan the specific details, and placed the scheduled battlefield of this battle on the sea 100 miles northeast of Dongping Island, which is relatively close to Andongwei, and once the war is unfavorable, the Dongping Island Navy can be replenished nearby.

Four days later, Zhang Xiaojun, the commander-in-chief of Shandong Town, ordered the whole army to be on alert, and all the coastal batteries were on alert, and Hu Dexing, the governor of Shandong, also went south to Andongwei to take the town, and handed over the battlefield command of the battle to Feng Xiang, the naval commander of Dongping Island.

At the same time, Dai Yongchao, the commander of the Shandong Naval Division, led 120 warships, large and small, to the south and arrived at the Andongwei Naval Base.

Although the number of these warships is huge, there are more than 20 large ships, and according to the division of the navy's combat power, they are not even fifth-class battleships, they are all lucky ships, at best, they are on the same level as the large armed merchant ships of the Dutch.

As for the remaining dozens of warships, they are all big sand ships and big green heads, which do not play a role in the open sea.

Feng Xiang also frowned when he saw this, even if it was too late to urgently replace the artillery for these battleships of the Shandong Navy Division at this time, let alone not so many gunners.

However, Zheng Cheng, the deputy commander of the left, made a move and said: "Commander, if these big sand boats and big green heads are all loaded with fire starters, and then use them as fire boats......

Feng Xiang suddenly came to his senses when he heard this, and after thinking about it for a while, he laughed.

At this time, Dai Yongchao, the commander of the Shandong Navy Division, was striding after cooking his subordinates. Suddenly, Dai Yongchao saw Feng Xiang, the commander of the Dongping Island Navy, and Zheng Chengzheng, the deputy commander of the left, staring at him and laughing, his expression was as if two hungry and thirsty strong men were staring at the disheveled girl, and he suddenly felt a thrill.

Four days later, an urgent report came from the sentinel ship: The Dutch fleet was dispatched again, swimming on the sea surface of 270 miles east of Dongping Island.