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Whether it is to fight Liaodong first, solve the Ministry of King Hui and the Ministry of Chahar, or continue to fight directly with Altan Khan, and then drag down Altan Khan and then fight with King Hui and Chahar, it is inseparable from the army!

The key to this matter is not what those civil servants think, but what the army thinks, or the ability of the army.

Then Li Xuan will combine various conditions and make the best decision!

At this time, the person who can speak on behalf of the army is naturally the head of the Privy Council Operations Department and the Minister on duty in the Imperial Study, Lieutenant General Revan.

Seeing that the Son of Heaven turned his gaze to himself, Lieutenant General Lei Wan organized the language slightly, then Lang Lang spoke: "Whether it is to unite with Altan Khan to attack the Puppet Ming Hui Wang's department and Chahar's department first, or to continue to fight with Altan Khan, drag Altan Khan down first, and then free up his hands to clean up King Hui's department and Chahar's department, the army has not considered this matter!" ”

At this point, Lieutenant General Raven paused and raised his voice slightly before continuing, as he had done in the past, as he had done in the past, "But! ”

"In the northern concept formulated by our colleagues in the War Department, the strategy in North China in the next few years will mainly rely on the Shanhaiguan, Youzhou, Xuanfu, and Datong Great Wall defense lines to hold the northern defense line, with strategic defense as the mainstay, and then on the basis of sticking to the Great Wall defense line, advance eastward to the Liaodong Dusi, control the Liaohetao region, and deter the Jurchen tribes, Chahar tribes, Duoyan Sanwei and many other tribes in the northeast.

To the north, it is to seize naturalization, continue to advance along the Yellow River, and plan to build three to five military fortresses in the Hetao area, Gongwei Hetao area, and even the entire area south of the Yellow River! ”

Lieutenant General Raven continued: "In other words, before and now, our army has a strategic concept of going east and north.

In addition, the Ministry of Military Intelligence of our army has already reported on the contact between the remnants of Liaodong and the Jurchen tribes of the puppet Ming Dynasty, and although the scale is larger than we expected, strictly speaking, it has not deviated from our expectations.

However, our army does not believe that the remnants of Liaodong in the puppet Ming Dynasty will have a decisive impact on Hebei's strategic security after uniting with the Chahar Department!

Even if they were united, our army deployed a whole Third Army in Hebei, with 10,000 troops in Shanhaiguan and hundreds or thousands of troops stationed in other major border towns and cities. With the combat strength of our army, if you take the initiative to attack the pass, you think that it is more difficult to lack horses and lack mobility, but it is not a big problem to defend!

And even if there are many pseudo-Ming Hui kings, but the alliance with foreign races is at most temporary, and it is impossible for Duoyan Sanwei, Chahar and other tribes to sincerely cooperate with the pseudo Ming Hui king, the union between them is possible in a short time, but after a long time, the contradiction will inevitably break out again.

In addition, our army also has another strategic concept, that is, to bypass the Shanhai Pass, use the absolute superiority of sea power, directly land on the Liaodong Peninsula, and directly destroy the foundation of the puppet Ming Hui King in the Liaodong region!

Let me ask, under such circumstances, how can the pseudo-Ming Hui King pose a threat to my Datang? ”

"On the contrary, our army believes that the threat of Altan Khan is greater, according to the intelligence of our military intelligence department, although Altan Khan lost in the south, which had a certain negative impact on his prestige, but this person is a strong suppression of the opposition of other tribes, and at the same time, there is intelligence that in order to divert internal contradictions, but also to recover the negative impact of the defeat in the south, Altan Khan will relaunch a large-scale expansion in a short period of time, as for whether it is aimed at the Chahar Department or Warat, this needs to be further determined!"

"If Altan Khan completely defeats the Chahar Department or Warat, he will truly unify the entire steppe, then at that time, we will face a unified steppe, and hundreds of thousands of cavalry will become a sharp blade hanging over our heads, which will fall at any time!"

When Lieutenant General Lei Wan said this, he basically made it clear that the army's opinion was not agreed to adopt the method of alliance with Altan Khan in order to eliminate or prevent King Hui.

The armistice was not opposed by the army, but it cooperated militarily, and even sat back and watched Altan Khan defeat and annex the Chahar and Warat, and the army was resolutely opposed!

After Li Xuan listened, he also nodded slightly, for the situation in the north, although the pseudo-Ming King Hui is very powerful, but it is far from being a confidant, it is impossible for King Hui to truly unite the various ministries in the Northeast and the grassland, because the entanglement of interests between them is also very complicated, unless King Hui can completely defeat the other ministries, but this possibility is very small.

From this point of view, the pseudo-Ming Hui King is a fart!

However, if Altan Khan is allowed to annex Chahar and Warat, then Altan Khan really has a great possibility of truly unifying the northern steppes, and at that time, a unified Mongolia will pose a major threat to the Tang Dynasty.

On the steppe, there must not be another hegemon!

After figuring this out, Li Xuan also made his decision: "Since the Tatars want to pay tribute, it is okay to accept it, and it is okay to negotiate peace with the armistice, as long as they take out the horses!" ”

Immediately, he looked at Lieutenant General Lei Wan again, and then said: "In order to prevent the Tumut Department from completely unifying the grassland, the army must be prepared now, and if necessary, I need to see the army march towards naturalization. ”

"There is also the matter of Liaodong, it can't be delayed for too long, the landing on the Liaodong Peninsula must start preparations now, I hope that the Tang Dynasty will appear in the Liaodong region next year!"

"For the situation in the north, grasp Liaodong with one hand, grasp the grassland with the other, grasp with both hands, and be hard with both hands!

Li Xuan's words basically declared that the negotiations with the Tatars can only be a false and unreasonable negotiation, and they are all going to fight a war anyway, and it doesn't matter if they agree to some inconsequential conditions, and even in order to confuse the Tatars, they can make certain concessions.

The key is to exchange for horses to lay the foundation for subsequent in-depth operations in the grasslands, and if there are no horses, then pull it down.

As for what to do if you are going to start a war again after signing the agreement, what else can you do, tear up the agreement and fight directly!

No matter what the agreement is, for the empire, the importance will not be more important than a piece of papyrus, Li Xuan thinks so, and the courtiers of the Tang Dynasty also think so: You are a barbarian, and you also want us to abide by the agreement, just kidding!

Li Xuan made a decision, and the officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs quickly restarted negotiations with Tagri!

Except for artillery, as long as there are horses, everything else is easy to talk about!

In Tagri's view, this is because of the change in the situation in Liaodong, and the Tang Dynasty is afraid that the puppet Ming Hui King and the Chahar Department will unite, but what he doesn't know is that the senior staff officers in the Privy Council have begun to formulate relevant war plans for the attack on Altan Khan!

The core content of the plan is not to seize certain areas, although the areas to attack are naturalization and the Hetao area, but the real core purpose is to destroy the unified grassland of Altan Khan, as long as Altan Khan dares to send troops to Chahar or Warat, the Tang Dynasty will stab him in the back at any time!

Li Xuan didn't believe it, when Altan Khan conquered the Chahar Department or Warat, when the tens of thousands of troops of the Tang Dynasty went north to naturalize and seize the Hetao, he could still sit still.

If he can sit still, let the Tang Dynasty seize the Hetao and even the entire Monan, and then continue to attack Chahar and Warat on his own, Li Xuan can only say that you are awesome!

In addition, the army and navy also temporarily formed a staff group to jointly discuss the landing in Liaodong!

For the landing in Liaodong, the navy actually has no feelings, anyway, now the Bohai Sea and even the entire northern sea area are under the control of the Datang Navy, if you want to land there, you can land there, all you need to do is to be responsible for sea transportation, which is not a matter.

On the army side, it is not easy to launch a sea-crossing landing!

However, the army did not expect to invest tens of thousands of troops to land at once, because it was unrealistic, not to mention whether it could organize tens of thousands of troops to land, and the army alone could not draw tens of thousands of troops.

Although the strength of the army is increasing day by day, there are more and more places that need to use troops, and a large number of troops are needed in the north, northwest, and southwest, and the garrison task in the interior is not light.

Besides, now the southwest direction is the strategic center of gravity of the Tang Dynasty, attacking Hubei, seizing Sichuan, and completing the basic reunification is the most important task of the Tang Dynasty at present.

Therefore, many of the war resources of the Tang Dynasty are still concentrated in the southwest direction, and on the Yangtze River, there are ships going up the river every day, sending a large number of strategic materials and soldiers to Anqing, Jiujiang, and Wuchang.

In order to launch the Southwestern Campaign, the army intends to concentrate at least 150,000 troops in this area!

The main forces were the First Army and the Second Army, with the First Army attacking mainly from the direction of Hunan, and the Second Army attacking from the direction of northern Anhui.

The 4th Infantry Division in Yunnan and the 7th Mixed Regiment in western Guizhou will also launch offensives one after another.

A number of reserve divisions in northern Anhui, Henan, Hunan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangxi, and other regions will also carry out coordinated operations, mainly to maintain logistical supply lines and participate in auxiliary battles on some secondary fronts.

And the strategic reserve is the newly formed Fifth Army!

The Fifth Army has under the jurisdiction of the 11th Infantry Division, the 12th Infantry Division, and a number of independent heavy artillery regiments, assault battalions, and other auxiliary units.

After the Fifth Army was transferred to the southwest front, the defense of the Jiangnan region would be handed over to the newly established Sixth Army, which also had two newly formed infantry divisions, namely the 13th Infantry Division and the 14th Infantry Division.

As for the Guards, they are still the same, Li Xuan does not personally recruit, their main force will not be dispatched, and most of the troops are stationed in Jinling City and the surrounding areas.

However, in the wave of army expansion, the Guards also took the opportunity to expand a new infantry regiment and an artillery battalion.

In this way, the Guards Army was increased to four infantry regiments, one baggage regiment, one four-battalion system, a Guards artillery regiment with seventy-two field guns, a large battalion with twenty-four heavy short-barreled howitzers, and a large cavalry regiment with six cavalry teams of one hundred and fifty cavalry each, totaling nearly 1,000 cavalry.

The total number of troops reached 23,000!

In the Southwest Campaign, the Guards Army will also send a temporary brigade to participate in the battle in accordance with the previous practice, with an infantry regiment with an infantry battalion of 3,000 men, a field artillery battalion, a baggage battalion, and two cavalry teams, with a total strength of about 5,000 troops.

The total strength of the above-mentioned First Army, Second Army, Fifth Army, Fifth Infantry Division, Seventh Mixed Regiment, and Guards Provisional Brigade has reached 120,000!

If you count the reserve divisions in the surrounding provinces that cooperate with the main forces to fight, then in order to launch the Southwestern Campaign, the total number of troops prepared by the Privy Council is definitely more than 150,000!

In the past, the Tang Dynasty had few troops, regardless of big and small battles, and never had an advantage in terms of troops, and basically fought more with less.

And this time, the strength prepared by the Privy Council does not dare to say that the Tang Army has an advantage in troops, and it is not even possible to achieve a level of strength, but at least it will not be too less, and on some key fronts, through strategic and tactical cooperation, it may be able to take advantage of some troops.

Even if it can only occupy a certain military advantage on certain fronts, this kind of thing is the first time for the Datang Army!

And compared with the large-scale and influential Southwest Campaign, the affairs in Liaodong and the grassland are just small things!

But even if it is an hour, the army and navy will not relax, because His Majesty said that the situation in the north must be grasped with both hands, and a large-scale battle will not be fought for a while and a half, because the current Tang Army is still busy with the southwest campaign, but a small-scale battle can be fought a dozen.

For example, if you land on the Liaodong Peninsula first to see the situation, anyway, there is the Tang Navy, even if the situation is not good after landing, you can directly get on the ship and leave.

Therefore, after discussion, the army and navy decided to send 1,000 men to the landing to see the situation, and the army side sent an infantry battalion, and in the case of artillery, the navy side directly brought the naval guns ashore to make up the number, and then the navy sent two more marines.

So, it didn't take long for a small fleet to set off from Dengzhou and then kill it towards the Liaodong Peninsula!

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