On the same night, the yamen of the Generalissimo's Mansion in Tangquan Town was brightly lit.

Including the military advisor Wu Sanfu, the envoys under the Generalissimo's Office, as well as the lower-level staff officers, are working overtime tonight to prepare the draft of the Northern Expedition plan!

After the news of the Korean national change came, the middle and high-level leaders of the Generalissimo's Office already knew that the Northern Expedition was going to be advanced!

And the lord of the Ming Dynasty in the Laoshan Palace, who is particularly good at making money, may have to ask about the Northern Expedition strategy when the court meeting is held tomorrow, but he can't be without a little preparation!

In the middle hall of the Generalissimo's Mansion, at this time there was a very strong fragrance of tea, Wu Sanfu sat at the top, Yan Yingyuan, Xu Ermo, Qi Yuanbi, Sun Fugui, Zheng Jiangong, Zhu Chunjie and other officials of the guards were seated, all holding tea bowls, drinking refreshing strong tea, while discussing the general strategy of the Northern Expedition.

"In my opinion, it is impossible to make a quick decision in the battle of Pingliao this time, and it would be good to win it in three years...... This Pingliao still has to fight for a long time and consume financial resources. As long as the financial resources of Manchuria can be exhausted, the Battle of Pingliao will be a complete victory. And to exhaust Manchuria's financial resources, there are two key points, one is the sea blockade! They must not be allowed to export furs and pearls to New Spain. The second is to have long-term contact, and it is best to be able to fight all day and day, without stopping for a moment, so that the farmers in Dongyu will not be able to cultivate, the land will be barren, and all industries will wither, and after two or three years, it will naturally collapse. ”

Now the person who is expressing his opinion is Wu Sanfu, he is from Liao, and he is from Liaozhen, and he is familiar with the matter of camping and plowing - Liaozhen also engaged in tuntian back then, but he couldn't rely on tuntian to feed the soldiers at all, and the imperial court had to feed it with millions of dollars and grain every year.

Since Liaozhen can't survive on Tuntian, it is impossible for Dongyu to maintain a large army by farming. Therefore, as long as the trade is cut off, and the continuous attack is carried out, so that the people of the eastern captives will be running around on the battlefield for a long time, without rest or farming, then after three or two years, the natural people will be exhausted.

At that time, Doni's Manchurian soldiers will be mixed up like the hungry guards of the Ming Dynasty, and they will naturally perish!

"It is impossible for fur and eastern pearls to be completely blocked," Zheng Jiangong immediately objected, "There is a huge demand for fur pearls in the southeast and Europe...... If we block the furs and Dongzhu outside the customs, then the Rakshasa Kingdom will be profitable. The Rakshasa Kingdom has a lot of contradictions with us in Mongolia and the Mughestan area, and they have an advantage in transportation, so it is difficult to defeat them completely. If the Rakshasas were allowed to increase their financial strength through the trade of furs and eastern pearls, the problem of the northwest and north would be difficult to solve. ”

Of course, he was not telling the truth 100% - the reason why he opposed the blockade of the trade between furs and Dongzhu was because Zhu Cihong had already begun to regard fur and Dongzhu as a growth point for maritime trade between China and Europe.

With tea temporarily unavailable and silk and porcelain monopolized by the Dutch, if you want to get involved in the maritime trade between China and Europe, you have to find new trade goods. Fur and Dongzhu are two luxury goods that can undoubtedly support the shipping routes.

And having a long-distance maritime trade route can greatly promote the development of the navy!

Zhu Chunjie knew that Zheng Jiangong's meaning was Zhu Cihong's meaning, so he hurriedly spoke: "What Xingguo Gong (Zheng Jiangong was promoted to the knighthood after the Battle of Kagoshima) is extremely true. A complete blockade of the silk and porcelain trade is not necessary and unlikely...... How many warships are there in the Navy? Now you have to transport people to the New World, you have to hunt down Spanish pirates, and you have to transport troops to Siam, where can you be busy? ”

Yan Yingyuan, the envoy of the General Staff, said: "Then we have to take Liaodong and Liaoxi quickly...... Although it took several years to develop Manchuria, the real granary outside the Guanxi was the Liao River Valley. As long as we can quickly take the fertile soil on both sides of the Liao River, the general trend of Doni will go. ”

"How do I get it quickly?" Wu Sanfu asked.

"It is possible to land in the area of the mouth of the Liao River!" Zheng Jiangong said, "The navy can't draw many ocean-going ships, but there are still sand boats, and it is not a problem to transport one division at a time to land at the mouth of the Liaohe River." As long as you run a few more round-trips, you can transport tens of thousands of people ashore. ”

"It's a way to go ashore by sea, and if you go all the way from Shanhaiguan, you can't go fast." Wu Sanfu waved his hand, "But the Guangyun infantry is not good, the banks of the Liao River are very open, and they are the battlefields of the cavalry...... We have to plan it well, we have to plan it well, and we have to come up with a feasible strategy. ”

Qi Yuanbi, the generalissimo's envoy to the infantry army, said: "Shanhaiguan also has to send troops to attack!" There is also a dozen Jinzhou Passes, otherwise how to attract the main force of Dongyu? ”

"Shanhaiguan, Jinzhou Pass, Liaohekou...... This is the third way," said Sun Fugui, the cavalry envoy, "and don't add two more roads!" Da Ling River all the way, Xiao Ling River all the way! ”

"Divide the troops into five ways?" Artillery envoy Xu Ermo frowned a little, "Isn't this the deployment of Salhu?" Salhu marched in four ways, but because the two armies of Liu Wei and Jun Song were too far apart, they were actually five routes, and the five-way army was difficult to cope, so that they were broken one by one by tens of thousands of elite soldiers of the Eight Banners in the east. We've split five ways now, will it ......?"

"No, no," Yan Yingyuan waved his hand and said with a smile, "How could it be?" How could the officers and soldiers of Salhu at that time be compared with the current new army? Although we are divided into five roads, each of them has the ability to defeat the main force of the Eastern Capture alone.

Moreover, the five-way march will definitely make the eastern captives overwhelmed and tired of coping, either abandon Liaodong and Liaoxi and go away, or stick to the city to delay time, no matter what kind of countermeasures, our army will win the battle!

If the East is desperate, they must learn from Nurhachi's method...... Hehe, the defeat will only be worse! ”

Sun Fugui also said: "If you concentrate your forces on the road, you can only go through Shanhaiguan and the Liaoxi Corridor to march into the army." Dongyu has been preparing there for several years, more than 300 miles between Shanhaiguan and Jinzhou, has long been fortified and cleared, all the land along the way is abandoned, the villages and towns are all empty, the castles that are not guarded by soldiers are all destroyed, the ports and bridges are also demolished, and only a few castles such as Shanhaiguan, Ningyuan, Jinzhou, and Songshan are left to garrison heavy troops. Among them, Ningyuan, Jinzhou, and Songshan have all been transformed into fortresses.

If we were to march from the Western Liaoning Corridor, we might be blocked from the fortresses of Jinzhou and Songshan when winter came. ”

When Duoduo was alive, he knew that Zhu Cihong would not let go of this piece outside the border, and he didn't fight for the time being just because Hebei, Henan, Shandong (west), Shanxi and other places had just recovered, and it would take time to rebuild - Zhu Cihong's reconstruction was not only about building bridges, roads, and houses, but also about the actual control of population and land!

There are many conflicts of interest involved, which is not a good thing for the local snakes in the above-mentioned areas. Therefore, Emperor Zhu's army must always be ready to suppress the resistance of the snakes in the north!

Taking advantage of this respite, the Anton Army was pushing for eastward migration, while abandoning western Liaoning—in the area of present-day Xingkai Lake, except for the old Eight Banners from the Second Ring Road in Beijing, the people who had moved over from the Western Liaoning Corridor.

Therefore, the western Liaoning corridor is now basically in ruins, and the attacking Ming army is basically unable to supply on the spot.

But what Duoduo and Doni were able to move away was the people in the western Liaoning corridor, and the Liaohe Plain to the east of Jinzhou could not be moved.

The Liaohe Plain, especially the eastern part of the Liaohe Plain, is a good place for rich oil, the economic center and the most densely populated area under the jurisdiction of the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, and it is also the granary of the Anton Metropolitan Protectorate. This is a rich land that was developed by the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, and there is no way to give it up, otherwise the days of Andong Protectorate will not pass!

Wu Sanfu was too familiar with the terrain of western Liaoning, and he knew what was going on even with his eyes closed, so he nodded and said: "It is impossible to march all the way, you must divide your troops...... Let's divide the troops into five ways! The Chief of Staff will work harder, take out the draft first, and present it to His Majesty after tomorrow afternoon. ”