Ma Peng's most troublesome thing was watching Wu Sangui's army wander back and forth on the Yangtze River, but he was powerless to annihilate it. First of all, he Ma Peng has no navy, and there are several broken ships, but they can't be compared with Wu Sangui's navy.

Wu Sangui also knew that it was impossible to attack the Kuiwolf Army in the north at this time, so he focused on defending the Yangtze River, so that the Pingbei Army could not cross the Yangtze River and attack him.

Wu Sangui had heard about Liu Xia's construction of the navy, but the navy was in Jiaozhou, which was 108,000 miles away from him Wu Sangui, and he was not too worried now.

According to Liu Xia's strategy, Liu Xia wanted to first annihilate the threat from the north, that is, the Tartars, and then free up his hands to recover the south. The north is hungry for wolves, and the south is nothing but sheep. After annihilating the Tartars, Liu Xia could free up his hands for several warlords in the south and clean them up.

Moreover, there are many waterways in the south, so if you want to completely conquer the south, you need a large number of naval troops.

"General, don't we have a navy, why don't you let the navy come to the Yangtze River and destroy Wu Sangui's broken ships. I heard that the equipment of the navy army is quite powerful. One of the generals muttered.

Ma Peng actually asked Liu Xia to send some sailors to him and let him clean up Wu Sangui's sailors on the Yangtze River, but Liu Xia did not reply to him. After that, he played many times. In the end, Liu Xia told him that the navy now had a secret mission, so it couldn't be transferred. As for what the task was, Liu Xia didn't say, and Ma Peng didn't dare to ask.

As for the issue of Wu Sangui's navy blockading the Yangtze River, Liu Xia directly said that he asked Ma Peng to wait for some days, and when the task of the navy is completed, there is the death date of Wu Sangui's navy.

Ma Peng waited for months, but the navy was nowhere to be found.

"What the hell are the trolls doing?" Ma Peng really couldn't figure it out.

However, Liu Xia will definitely not deceive him, since he said that the navy has a secret mission, it must be a secret mission.

"The navy is not fully formed yet, so it can't come. We'll have to wait a few more days. "Ma Peng didn't dare to say that the navy had a secret mission, so he didn't come. He didn't dare to guarantee that there would be no gaps in the enemy among these generals under his command, if it was said that the navy had a secret mission, if it was spread out, then something would definitely happen. Secret missions, that must be against the enemy. At present, there are only a few enemies, either against Wu Sangui or against Tartars. No matter who it is, if Wu Sangui knows, and Wu Sangui tells Tartar again, wouldn't it be a bad dish?

"It's been a long time since the navy was formed, and it's almost September now, almost a year ago. What are they doing, can't even get a decent army in a year? At the beginning, the water army was not less than looking for people with good water in our Kuiwolf Legion. Which one of them we sent to the water army is not an elite warrior. These warriors are also soldiers of a hundred battles, and there will be no problem in going to the battlefield. ”

Ma Peng's words immediately aroused the resentment of the generals, and the navy had sucked away a lot of their good seedlings, which made them heartbroken, but because of Liu Xia's backing, they didn't dare to stop it. Now there was an opportunity, so I began to vent.

Ma Peng coughed dryly in embarrassment, one of his lies actually made such a chain reaction.

"Everyone be quiet, the navy is different from other armies, and the training time may be a little longer."

"There is one more thing to call everyone over today, and that is the problem of recruitment."

"Recruitment?"

"Don't we have the right to recruit? What kind of soldiers? ”

Ma Peng explained: "We don't have the right to recruit soldiers, but in order to enable people from all over the country to join the army on the spot, the prince set up a new barracks in Xinyang. Xinyang is not far from us, so the Logistics Department asked us to cooperate with the commander of the Xinyang Recruit Battalion who will come over soon. ”

"Just a boot battalion commander—"

It is true that everyone who is now by Mapeng's side is higher than the commander of the recruit battalion, even if the rank of the commander of the recruit battalion is equivalent to the regimental level. But now these people around Ma Peng are also the deputy commanders of Wei at the very least. The one who is high is the deputy commander of the legion. I don't know how many times higher than this regiment commander, Yang Yongxiao.

However, the battalion commander of the recruit battalion is a popular position, and when he comes out of the recruit battalion as a battalion commander, he mixes very well. Don't look at the fact that he is just a battalion commander now, after a few years of seniority, it is possible to directly become a brigade commander.

It's really not to bully the poor boys.

Ma Peng, as a corps commander and a cavalry general, naturally would not deign to greet the battalion commander of a new battalion. He had a lot to do, so he needed to find someone to go on his behalf, and he just listened to him, "Ship, and you will go and receive him." ”

Fu Yunai is the deputy commander of Qianniuwei, and his rank is Yang Yongxiao, which is the same rank as the battalion commander of the recruit battalion. This is also the reason why Ma Peng asked Fu Yun to greet him, if the high level is not very good, the low level is not around him now, and the lowest is the deputy commander of the guard.

Shipment apparently did not expect that Ma Peng would let him receive the battalion commander of this so-called recruit battalion. But then he thought about it and understood that his position was about the same level as the battalion commander of the new barracks, so this errand fell on his head.

"Yes, his subordinates will help him arrange it"

Yarkand

After a few days, Liu Dazhuang remained camped under the city, which made the people in Yarkand City very puzzled, and they couldn't understand what Liu Dazhuang wanted to do.

In fact, the reason why Liu Dazhuang did not attack Yarkand City for a long time was actually the nobles who were secretly in contact with the heads in Yarkand City, Liu Dazhuang naturally did not want to let his soldiers and horses lose too much, so it would be better if he could surrender the soldiers without a fight.

Or rather, it would be better to let the people in Yarkand fight on their own.

In the past few days, the envoys of the Yarkand nobles who came to the barracks were endless, but they obviously came secretly and sent a large number of precious things to Liu Dazhuang. Of course, Liu Dazhuang immediately handed over these things to the logistics personnel in the army, and these things received would be registered and then transferred to the logistics department, and the logistics department would then hand over these things to the financial department. These were attributed to the trophies, and Liu Dazhuang had no right to deal with them.

In Yarkand City, it seems that all the officials are betraying the Great Khan of Yarkand, and the big man is probably stupid at this moment thinking that his subordinates will fight a decisive battle with him and the Northern Army.

In the end, the people of the city did not fight on their own, and it was clear that the nobles did not want to clash with the Yarkand royal family. They chose to leave this matter to the Ming army.

So Liu Dazhuang sent an order to those people with avatars, telling them to open the city gates as soon as their army reached the end.

Liu Dazhuang was naturally not afraid of them making small moves, because after those nobles discussed the surrender with Liu Dazhuang, they handed over part of their family members to Liu Dazhuang, which was considered a hostage. If they rebel, the heads of these families will fall to the ground.

Liu Dazhuang believes that these officials will not care so much about the interests of the Yarkand royal family. As Liu Dazhuang expected, many of the officials in the city of Yarkand gathered together at this moment, discussing privately how to facilitate the military march in Pingbei.

Liu Dazhuang promised them some official positions according to their previous positions, so that they would not be displaced, of course, most of these official positions were fictitious, or deputy. There are basically no rights. It's just an honor.

But it's already good to have these, naturally there are those who don't want to, then Liu Dazhuang won't leave them, you just have to go, and when the city is breached, it will be your death time. When those people heard Liu Dazhuang's threat, the leaders quickly returned to Liu Dazhuang's side and asked Liu Dazhuang for forgiveness in a low manner.

Liu Dazhuang brought all the soldiers and horses of the two brigades to Yarkand City, and today was the final decisive battle between their Pingbei Army and Yarkand City. Liu Dazhuang looked at the ruined city wall with a telescope and showed a sneer.

The rows of swarthy muzzles of cannons were facing the Yarkand city, and the Yarkand soldiers guarding the city turned pale with fright and trembled.

"The enemy is coming!"