At the beginning of July of the seventh year of Xuanping, the first army of the Tang Army officially entered Chengdu Prefecture, and when the Second Infantry Regiment under the command of the First Infantry Division of its forward force arrived at the outskirts of Chengdu Prefecture, before they could test the siege of the city, the Ming army in the city mutinied, and the rebels killed Queen Jing and surrendered to Cheng.

Chengdu Mansion was taken by the Tang Dynasty without a single soldier, and the rest of the state capitals were mostly passed on, and a few stubborn ones were also in vain, they simply could not resist the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty.

The war in Sichuan ended completely in just two months, and the last thing left was just good news!

In August, Li Xuan received the good news that the whole territory of Sichuan and Yunnan had been pacified, and he was immediately in a good mood!

Because with the complete capture of Sichuan and Yunnan, now the southwest has been completely recovered, and after a while, Liaodong will be taken, and the unification of the world can be completely declared!

How can you be in a bad mood if it's such a good thing!

Immediately, a holy decree was handed down that it was necessary to do a good job in rewarding the meritorious soldiers of the war in the southwest, and to do a good job in dealing with the aftermath of the casualties, and to give the bereavement compensation as soon as possible.

The Tang Dynasty can have today, all of which relied on the Tang Dynasty to fight.

And Li Xuan's unification of China, and even the basic plate of subsequent rule of China, is also in the military, so everyone can be treated badly, and the soldiers cannot be treated badly!

At the same time, Li Xuan ordered the Ministry of Industry to choose a suitable place on the outskirts of Jinling City to build a cemetery dedicated to the martyrs, and said that he would personally take his ministers to worship the martyrs every year.

As soon as this news came out, it boosted morale, and many generals cried and shouted that the Son of Heaven was shengming!

Although since ancient times, the status of the soldiers in the founding era is not bad, but often it can only last for a short period of time, and even so, the discrimination against soldiers in the entire social environment is still very serious.

And now, Li Xuan is going to change this concept!

Military personnel must have a high social status and ensure the treatment of military personnel, so as to attract more talents.

Of course, there is also Li Xuan's own selfishness here, after all, the army is his basic plate, and at any time, he puts the army in an important position for consideration.

Treat the army well, that is, treat your own descendant forces, if you encounter any messy things in the future, the civilian officials may turn back at any time, but the army, he must ensure that he will not casually turn against the water.

The construction of the soldiers' cemetery is just one of many measures.

The Southwest Campaign ended, and Li Xuan also held a meeting of the Imperial Army and Navy at the right time, and began to discuss how to recover the last lost territory of Liaodong and completely complete the unification, well, at least to restore the territory before the Ming Dynasty was overthrown.

At this strategic meeting, both the navy and the army showed great confidence, and the navy said that the navy had already made good preparations, and the fleet could ensure that none of the sailors on the Liaodong side could go to sea with a sampan.

It is possible to effectively ensure the safety of sea transportation, as well as provide fire support to the army in the coastal zone.

The army said that the army is now transferring troops, and in three months, they will be able to assemble 50,000 reinforcements in Shandong, Hebei and other regions.

These 50,000 reinforcements naturally cannot include the Third Army, because the Third Army was originally stationed in Hebei!

These 50,000 reinforcements, if nothing else, should be the Sixth Army!

Because according to the strategic deployment plan of the Privy Council, after the end of the Southwest Campaign, some of the troops participating in the Southwest Campaign will be stationed in the local area, some will go to the northwest, and some will return to the south of the Yangtze River.

The specific arrangement is that the Fifth Army will rush to the northwest and take over the northwest defense area, so as to reduce the tremendous pressure on the Fourth Army and enable the Fourth Army to more effectively deploy troops in northern Shaanxi and some areas in northern Shanxi, especially the Yulin and Ningxia fronts in the Hetao region, which is the main direction of the Fourth Army's combat readiness.

The specific defense areas of the Fifth Army will be the western part of Shaanxi and the northwestern part of Shaanxi, mainly the Xingdu Division of Shaanxi, such as Suzhou, Liangzhou, Xining, and Lanzhou.

The First Army will return to defend Jiangnan!

The Second Army will continue to be stationed in the Sichuan region, and at the same time part of the defense of the western part of Huguang, after all, this place has just been defeated, and the local area has been controlled by Zhang Yue for many years, and there is no large number of troops stationed to maintain high pressure, and it is easy to cause chaos.

As for the two independent units, the Fourth Infantry Division was still stationed in Yunnan, and the Seventh Mixed Regiment returned to Guiyang.

In other words, in this series of troop adjustments, only the First Army will be freed up to defend the four provinces.

After arriving in Jiangnan, this army will be stationed in Zhili Sidao and assume the heavy responsibility of defending Gyeonggi, and the newly formed Sixth Army will go to the north.

However, the strength of the Sixth Army is still a little worse, only the 13th Infantry Division and the 14th Infantry Division, according to the predetermined plan, the 15th Infantry Division, which is being organized, will also join the combat sequence of the Sixth Army.

At that time, the total strength of the three infantry divisions, plus the 1st Lancer Regiment and some independent artillery units, will reach about 60,000 people.

This new unit will also become the main reinforcement of the Liaodong Campaign, and together with some units of the Third Army, it will jointly undertake the main operations of the Liaodong Campaign.

At the same time, according to the usual practice, the Guards Army will also send a temporary brigade to participate in the Liaodong Campaign, and this temporary brigade is also an old scale, about 5,000 people, no more, no less.

Lieutenant General Lei Wan said that in about three months, the army will assemble four infantry divisions, one cavalry brigade, one lancer regiment, a number of independent heavy artillery, baggage and other auxiliary units for the Liaodong Campaign, with a total of more than 70,000 combat troops.

These 70,000 people, but in strict accordance with the calculation method of the Tang Army, are all front-line main combat forces, excluding the people in the transport regiments of the reserve division and the logistics department, and also excluding the local militia in Hebei and Shandong.

If all of them are counted, then it is not easy to calculate, because it is estimated that there will be more than 100,000 people just to supply the front-line troops, and at the same time, it is estimated that there will be 20,000 or 30,000 reserve divisions to guard the logistics supply lines in the rear.

In short, this is a lot of troops!

Although there are still not as many Liaodong Ming troops!

According to the report of the Military Intelligence Department, King Hui incorporated the Ming army in the eastern Liaodong region and formed a pure Ming army of about 50,000 people.

However, King Hui not only had these 50,000 Ming troops under his command, but also many Jurchen tribes, Tatar tribes and even Korean troops to help, according to statistics, the cavalry on the Tatar tribe alone may exceed 30,000 horsemen.

It is not an exaggeration to have a total strength of more than 100,000 troops!

But among these 100,000 people, how many of them can fight is worth putting a question mark.

The 50,000 Ming army under the command of King Hui himself, although they are all border troops, is a serious lack of guns, King Hui is not King Jing, although King Jing is a puppet in Sichuan, but Sichuan has Zhang Yue, Zhang Yue has a superintendent, the guns are very complete, and the Tang Dynasty is a headache to fight.

Otherwise, I don't know how long the fight will be delayed.

But on the side of King Hui, at most, there were only some guns that drove the northeast back then, and then it is estimated that some of them were made in the past few years, but judging by the intelligence of the Intelligence Department, their equipment level is not to mention compared with the superintendent, that is, it is incomparable with the Jiangnan New Army or the New Forbidden Army led by Zhengde himself.

And a series of battles in the Liaodong Peninsula and the local Ming army of the Liaodong Provisional Regiment also confirmed this, and the Ming army in Liaodong was seriously short of guns.

The Ming army under King Hui is like this, and the Korean army, the Jurchen army, and the Tatar army that help are even worse!

However, attacking Liaodong, the main enemy of the Tang Dynasty's division was not these Ming troops or other infantry armies, but the cavalry of the Eastern Tatars such as Duoyan Sanwei and Chahar Division!

The 30,000 Tatar cavalry estimated by the Military Intelligence Department is the biggest threat to their eastward march into Liaodong!

Otherwise, the Third Army would have been able to defeat Shanhaiguan by itself, and then fight all the way to Guangning to capture Jinzhou.

Why not fight, on the one hand, it is because the strategic center of gravity of the Tang Dynasty has shifted southward, and the support for the Third Army in the north is insufficient, and the ammunition and soldiers are insufficient, but on the other hand, in fact, the main concern is that when the main force of the Third Army is advancing eastward, Duoyan Sanwei will be moved south from the north, and then directly cut off the logistics supply line and even the retreat route of the Third Army.

Therefore, this forced the Third Army to divide troops to garrison all parts of the Great Wall, to prevent the Tatar cavalry such as Duoyan Sanwei who had been attracted by King Hui to break through the Great Wall and move south, and if the troops were divided and garrisoned, it would also lead to the shortage of troops of the Third Army in the direction of Shanhaiguan.

In the early days, the Third Army could still garrison nearly 10,000 people here, but with the shortage of troops and the completion of the fortifications on the inside of Shanhaiguan, the Third Army simply only stationed 5,000 troops here, and transferred the remaining 3,000 troops to other places.

Today's Third Army seems to be strong, but it is pinned down by various Tatars, and the troops that can be drawn up for the war in Liaodong are actually not much, and the main force for the follow-up attack on Liaodong is actually the newly formed force of the Sixth Army.

It sounds a bit unreliable to let a new army attack Liaodong, but the staff of the Privy Council are not stupid.

What is the most important thing in fighting Liaodong? It is not to attack the 50,000 Ming troops under King Hui and the chaotic tens of thousands of Korean, Jurchen and other infantry, but to prevent the Tatar cavalry such as Duoyan Sanwei, well, and at the same time, it must also include Altan Khan's intake advantage.

Therefore, the main force of the Third Army cannot be easily moved, and must be firmly nailed to the border towns in the north of Hebei.

As for whether the Sixth Army can defeat the Ming army of King Hui of Liaodong, the staff officers of the Privy Council expressed confidence in this!

Although the Sixth Army is a new unit, the officers, non-commissioned officers, and other backbone troops in it are not new recruits, they are all elite backbone forces drawn from various units, and the new troops are just saying that there are more new recruits in it.

But even these recruits have gone through a full three-month recruit training, and then they have gone through a few months of military training, purely from a training point of view, these recruits are no longer recruits, I feel that most of them have served for more than half a year, but they have not been on the battlefield, and when they go to the battlefield, after seeing blood, they can naturally grow up quickly!