"I didn't expect us to be able to return to western Liaoning after just a few years."

"This time it's a completely different story."

On the coast of western Liaoning, with Liu Yi's order, the officers and men of the government army of more than 50 armies, including the officers and men of the naval division of more than 30 armies, the officers and men of the land division of more than 20 armies, and the heavy armored cavalry of three armies, began to land on the seaside.

Li Xingwu and Dong Ruixiang each received a carriage, and Tian Heng and Lu Sihai and other generals are now commanders of the carriage.

Liu Yi is the head of the camp in western Liaoning, and his status is the same as that of the Taiwei of the Great Wei, and it is also equivalent to the status of the privy deputy envoy, and his shoulder is already a huge gold star, which is different from the silver star of the commander of the Xiangdu, which is also the highest peak of the military rank system of the government army, and the highest honor of the shogunate general of the Qin King of the Great Wei Dynasty.

The expedition to western Liaoning together with more than 200,000 logistical engineering baggage personnel, mobilized more than 400 capital ships, more than 1,000 auxiliary ships, 1,500 warships carrying 300,000 sailors, and a large amount of grain and grass, which not only burdened the logistics of the soldiers and horses on the road, but also supported the supply of grain and grass from more than half of the camps in Shandong and Hebei.

Sea freight is just too hassle-free and economical.

Shandong, Hebei camp commander is Qin Dongyang, this road is also the main force of the Northern Expedition, mobilized more than 120 armies, including the first army, the number of troops plus logistics personnel is more than 450,000 people, the large carriage alone mobilized more than 30,000 horses, mules, donkeys more than 100,000, per capita is three people.

The number of mules and horses seems to be amazing, but in fact, according to the Tang military regulations, there is one fire for every ten people, six horses or donkeys for each fire, and nearly 200,000 mules and horses for an army of 450,000 people.

The government army also has a lot of mules and horses, but if you want to meet the logistics of the army is still insufficient, the main reason is that a large number of materials were transported by sea, after the army attacked Shandong, several ports on Shandong Road established supply points, and transported nearby, although it still has to take a detour of hundreds of miles, but it is definitely more trouble-free than the army starting from the south of the Yangtze River.

Second, a large number of carriages were prepared, the Shandong Hebei camp was set off from Jiangning to cross the river, it was not difficult to cross the river, the sailors controlled the Yangtze River, Yangzhou was close to the riverbank, the Donghu people did not send heavy troops to garrison at all, only a small number of surrendered northern forbidden troops, the front of the army arrived, these northern forbidden troops either surrendered, or fled in defeat.

From Yangzhou to Chuzhou, and then to Xuzhou on Shandong Road, along the way to the north, it is the official road from Jingshi to Jiangning, which is the widest and best maintained in the north and south.

In addition, a large number of civilian ships were collected and went north with the army along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

The camp in western Liaoning was mainly based on the sailors, and the task was to go ashore from western Liao, lay down Yuguan and Ningyuan, control the Songta Forts, go to Jinzhou, and capture them all, and then garrison them along Yushui.

There was no requirement to go ashore directly from southern Liaoning, although the plan of the General Staff Headquarters was to go ashore from southern Liaoning, attack directly from southern Liaoning to eastern Liaoning, lay down Liaozhou and other places, and end up the old nest of the Donghu people.

This plan was rejected by Xu Zi first.

I have to say that the plan drawn up by the staff officers is quite bold and direct and effective, but Xu Zi first thinks about the overall situation, and it is not difficult to defeat the Donghu people, but to completely eradicate this hidden danger, we must be prepared to continue to go north in the future.

Along the Liaohe River, the Nenjiang River, and the Heilongjiang River, continue to move northward, do a good job of steady and steady progress, and take the opportunity of pursuing the remnants of Donghu to continue to go north, and take the three northeastern provinces and localities in the future, and continue to go north, reach the ice ocean in the north, and completely get the millions of square kilometers of land in the outer northeast.

The vast territory is not only the wilderness in the Arctic Circle, but also the incomparably precious forestry resources, oil, natural gas, minerals, this is not a desert and barren land with no development value, but a treasure land.

Even now, you can obtain a large number of pearls, ginseng, dried fruits, deer skins and other rare products, you can build post stations along the way, establish military offices in some suitable places, and build supply points along the river roads.

In addition to the camp in western Liaoning, the march in Shandong and Hebei, there are also Jingzhou, Henan, Hedong, and Qinfeng Zhulu camps with Ge Cunzhong as the commander.

There were more than 80 armies along the way, with 350,000 main forces and logistical personnel.

The three-way camp army of more than 900,000 people, is a completely real million army, the shogunate issued in Jiangning, by Li Yi, Wu Shizhong, Fang Shaoqun three people, many Confucian writers, after Xu Zi first approved in the Jiangning palace, promulgated the world.

Then the three-way army set off one after another, along Jingbei, Jiangning, Fuzhou and other important places mobilized and set off, since the fall of Yanjing in the nineteenth day of Chongde, Hebei, Henan, Hedong, Qinfeng, Shandong, Zhulu fell, and fell to Huchen, less than a year later, Xu Zixian announced that he was the supervisor of Jiangning as the prince of Kaifu of Great Wei, and did not announce his succession as the Son of Heaven at the first time.

The army of one million people went on a three-way northern expedition, the Donghu soldiers fought with the government army in the north of Henan Road, and were defeated, fought with the government army in Xuzhou, and then defeated, when Liu Yi led the army to land in western Liaoning, preparing to go down to Yuguan and Ningyuan, and cut off its main force when he returned, the government army had successively defeated Donghu, although it was not defeated by its main force, Donghu still had 1560,000 cavalry in hand, and more than 100,000 attached to the northern forbidden army, but the discerning people could see that such a little soldier and horse was simply unable to defend the vast territory in the north of the Great Wei, and the three-way army, Any way has the strength to fight the Donghu soldiers head-on, or even defeat them in a dignified manner.

The sailor seems to be weaker all the way, but directly across the sea from the sea, the Donghu soldiers are only a few thousand people in Yuguan, and there are only thousands in the area from Ningyuan to Songta, after the army is launched, Yuguan to the northwest of Liaoning has become a key place, want to break through, facing the government army of 200,000 troops, it is impossible at all, the Donghu people want to go, not only can not pass the Yuguan, even the grassland at the northwest end of Liaoning is dangerous, can only make a detour for thousands of miles, from the dense forest by the Hulun River, there is no logistics and no supplies, a detour of thousands of miles, One can imagine how many more people will die.

Moreover, after the Liaoxi army has established a firm foothold, it will not let it escape from under its nose, Xu Zixian has given the Liaoxi army three armies of iron cavalry, and there are also a considerable number of light cavalry, if the Donghu soldiers are defeated and flee, they are no longer a formation, under the impact and harassment of a large number of cavalry, how many can cross thousands of miles and escape back to Liaodong in the dense forests and grasses, that is, it is difficult to say.

"The army is preparing to attack the city under Yuguan." Liu Yi's expression was relaxed, with a freehand face, he said to everyone: "A few years ago, we took back the defeated and escaped forbidden army here, those forbidden army soldiers escaped their lives in the sea of corpses and blood, in today's army, my Great Wei Taiwei Yue Taiwei is my deputy commander of the march, and the cavalry is commanded by Deputy Chief Yue, when the time comes, it is time to report back and report!" ”

After Yue Zhi arrived at the shogunate, he served in the martial arts hall for more than a year, and then directly commanded the military capital of the palace, he was a lieutenant in the Great Wei, after all, he was a foreign guest general in the army, and the shogunate also regarded it as an equal reuse, after all, there was no general manager of the road or all roads at that time.

At the time of the Northern Expedition, Xu Zi originally took into account Yue Zhi's face, and planned to set up the head of the camp on Qinfeng Road or Hedong Road, and gave several boxes led by Yue Zhi to lead the troops to the north of Shanxi and Shaanxi, but Yue Zhi went to Jiangning in person and refused to meet Xu Zixian...... His only idea was to return to western Liaoning with the army, recapture Yuguan, Ningyuan, Songta, and then build Yushui and Jinzhou.

"After Li Youde broke the city of Jinzhou, he led more than 100 elite horsemen to flee all the way to the north." Liu Yi looked at Yue Zhi and said, "Taiwei intends to continue to the north, maybe he can see his old friend again?" ”

"Only if I wish, but by providence." Yue Zhi's expression was also extremely excited, where he went ashore, he also persuaded Liu Yi to deliberately choose the place where he fled at the beginning, the main force of the army was further west, and these generals had to walk dozens of miles more, but all this was undoubtedly worth it.

Yue Zhi couldn't help but step on the ground hard, feeling the solidity of the ground, even too hard, and the surface of his feet was a little painful.

These Yue Zhi didn't care, he turned to look at the sea, and then looked in the direction of Ningyuan, the same valley and dense forest, where I don't know how many forbidden army soldiers died, and now he is back, behind him is an army of 200,000 armed to the teeth, as well as inexhaustible countless military supplies.

More than 10 million copper coins, a perfect welfare and pension system, high salaries, extremely high-quality armor and weapons, a large number of bows, crossbows, firearms, quite excellent high-war horses, as well as countless grains, and even meat, more than 100 ships have been prepared, and more than 100 ships will be prepared in Jiangning and Dengzhou, which will be enough for a million troops to use for several years without feeling the slightest hardship.

This army has surpassed Yue Zhi's fantasy, as a front-line general, he wants to complete the armor of his subordinates, use better long swords, horizontal swords, and better divine arm bows, and the number also wants to increase.

I wanted to increase the salaries of the soldiers of the forbidden army, and I wanted to make my brothers and sisters eat better, but these were not done.

The soldiers and Yue Zhi can also understand that the imperial court has done its best, and there is really nothing they can do. Compared with the Xiang army, their treatment is quite good compared to ordinary people, and the soldiers of the forbidden army are also satisfied.

As long as you can give some reward money before going to war, and ask the soldiers to send it home to settle down in their families, those loyal and brave men will be

can work hard, for the Great Wei, for the ethnic group, for their own generals.

Yue Zhi's eyes were a little moist, he originally thought that he would not be able to set foot on this land again in this life, who would have thought that in just a few years, the Qin King Shogunate and the government army would be so strong, not only did the Donghu people fail to go south, but now it is extremely difficult to protect themselves.

"The army is attacking Yuguan." Liu Yi's expression was firm, not as sentimental as Yue Zhi, the 200,000 troops would come ashore one after another, in front of him, a car and horses were transported off the ship, carrying a large number of supplies, the heavy soldiers wearing military robes and light armor were responsible for logistics and transportation, and a large number of engineering soldiers were responsible for maintaining the smooth roads, and would also help build fortifications and barracks on the battlefield.

A group of soldiers in armor appeared on this piece of land, long as a forest, the long line could not see the edge at a glance, countless military flags fluttered high, countless knights began to gallop on horseback, a small number of Donghu Whistle appeared on the horizon, and avoided it from a distance.

This piece of land will change hands again in a matter of days, and once it is recaptured, no one will be able to take it again!

……

"Chang'an, the garrisons in the Jinyang area have all withdrawn."

Chechen Khan already looked old, and in the midst of the wrinkles, he couldn't hide his tiredness.

At the same time as the Liu brothers attacked the Beijing division, the Donghu people swore to go south and take Yuguan directly, and the Yuguan garrison was already quite empty, so they fought a battle, and then rode straight to Yanjing.

Under Yanjing, the Liu brothers and other leaders of the Liukou were all killed in battle, and then Donghu Tieqi went south, to Hebei, Shandong, Henan, then northern Jin, northern Shaanxi, Guanzhong, and then peeped into Sichuan, preparing to go south in Jingbei.

Just when it was at its strongest, the news came that the government army was swearing north.

At the beginning, the Donghu nobles were unimpressed, no matter how strong the government army was, as long as it was not on the boat, the southerners would become an army, what was there to be afraid of?

However, in the first battle of Xuzhou, hundreds of thousands of Donghu main forces and tens of thousands of servants were defeated by the main force of the Northern Expedition, and in the battle from Jingbei to Henan, Ge Cunzhong steadily defeated more than 300,000 troops to crush the north, and the tens of thousands of Hu cavalry and more than 100,000 servants stationed in the army were not his hands at all.

The news spread, the northern Shanxi Guanzhong was full of Han people who had risen, and the Eastern Hu Xinzhi, with the northern Han ethnic group to the blood debt of the Hu people, no one really attached to it, and the Wei army that surrendered in every war was either defeated or changed flags directly on the battlefield.

When the smoke rose everywhere, the Donghu people found that there was nowhere to be safe, no one to supply grain and grass, no one to pay taxes, no officials to supervise, and the generals who had joined the army fled one after another, not daring to continue to serve the Donghu people...... Chechen Khan was shocked, and after feeling a serious threat, he quickly ordered the army of Xuzhou to retreat, and the Donghu soldiers on Shandong, Henan, and Hedong Zhulu all quickly retreated.

According to Chechen Khan's original plan, the Wei army was strong, the soldiers were well fed, if they could not confront head-on, they would withdraw from Yuguan to Liaodong, although they would inevitably be threatened and exterminated in the future, but there would be a few years of buffer time.

If they are still invincible, they will disperse and flee to the forest, and scatter and flee to the north for thousands of miles, so that on the whole it is still a dead country, but it can be dispersed into hundreds or thousands of small groups, surviving in the ice and snow, and waiting for the opportunity.

The Han people will decline once every few hundred years, and then become stronger, Chechen Khan believes that the Great Wei is in a period of decline, which may last for decades or even a hundred years, this is a great opportunity for the Donghu people, seize it, the best result is to become the lord of China, which is the peak that no barbarian can reach for thousands of years.

Chechen Khan never imagined that the decline period of the Han dynasty this time would be so short, which was really unexpected.

When the army was all withdrawn to Hebei and Yanjing, the bad news came, Yuguan was conquered by the government army, according to the defeat of the deserters and horses, there were more than 200,000 government troops to attack, the vast and boundless, unable to resist at all.

Yuguan is lost, the back road is cut off, more than 200,000 government troops can not stay in the Yuguan area honestly, leaving tens of thousands of elite guards, hundreds of thousands of Donghu main force do not want to break through, Yuguan after two hundred years of repair and reinforcement of the Great Wei, the frontal hard attack is extremely difficult to succeed, if it is not for the loss of Yanjing before, the main force of Yuguan returned to the division to rescue the Beijing division, and it is absolutely impossible for the Donghu iron cavalry to break through the pass head-on.

As soon as Yuguan was lost, the government army spread all the way, to Yushui Jinzhou and capture Yingzhou, and continue to go north to control the grassland is a logical thing, all of a sudden, the back road is cut off, and if you want to return to Liaodong, you can only make a detour of more than 1,000 miles, 200,000 soldiers and tens of thousands of family members, who can return to Liaodong alive, I am afraid that there are very few.

Thinking about it like this, it really made Chechen Khan feel cold to the bone......