With Chen Xian's order, a large number of materials were transported from Liaodong and Shandong to the Liaohe River, and the fortresses appeared on both sides of the lower reaches of the Liaohe River at an astonishing speed.

With the natural waterway of the Liao River, the transportation of materials and people has become relatively easy for Chen Xian, who has a large number of ships.

After adopting a steady and steady strategy, Chen Jun had two great advantages: fortress defense and artillery, and there was no need for Chen Xian to continue to stay on the battlefield in Liaodong.

After leaving the Liaodong battlefield to Zhang Bai, the commander of the First Infantry Division of Liaodong, Chen Xian left Liaodong by boat

After leaving Liaodong, Chen Xian did not return to Shandong, but went directly to the Lingbao District, which is located at the mouth of Lugou.

Located at the mouth of the Lugou estuary, this fort area is the northernmost point of Chen Xian's coastline plan.

Lugou is the Yongding River of later generations, along this river.

After receiving the news of Mu Huali's defeat and abandonment of Zhongdu, Chen Xian quickly made up his mind to change his plan, no longer pursuing the castle advance in Hebei and fighting steadily, but quickly taking Hebei before Genghis Khan's possible reinforcements!

Soon after Chen Xian arrived in the Lengbao district at the mouth of the Lugou Sea, his warrants were sent to various parts of Shandong.

In just half a month, a large number of ships arrived at the port at Lugoukou, bringing a large number of supplies and soldiers.

This fort area of Lugoukou was occupied and built under Chen Xian's attention, and the port here was built very wide at Chen Xian's request, and it could berth dozens of large ships at a time, in Chen Xian's original plan, this was a general node for the decisive battle with Mu Huali in the future, but I didn't expect that this node had not been used, and Mu Huali had already been defeated.

However, for a quick capture of North China, this port is still an excellent starting point.

The port of Lugoukou could become a continuous supply line for Chen Xian's army.

Going upriver along the Lugou and attacking Zhongdu, you can not only get a long period of shipping convenience, but also get plenty of water.

Chen Xian transferred two regiments of infantry from the southeast and western fronts.

A newly built infantry brigade was transferred from Goryeo.

A brigade was transferred from Li Shi's command on the northern front.

One horse infantry brigade, one assault cavalry brigade, and two chasseur regiments were transferred from Yang Miaozhen.

In addition to these regular regiments, Chen Xian also transferred thousands of reserve officials and tens of thousands of militia troops from Shandong.

In just over a month, a huge military camp appeared in the northwest of the fortress district.

After more than a month of preparation, Chen Xian sent troops from Lugoukou and advanced along the Lugou River towards Zhongdu, along the way he divided his troops and took the county towns along the way.

After taking the county seat, the team of reserve officials who followed behind the army would lead the militia to garrison the county seat.

In addition to the land offensive, Chen Xian also sent a navy to land in Lulong County, landing near the mouth of the Tang River, which is about today's Qinhuangdao, to establish positions.

Chen Xian asked Wang Sheng to send sailors to establish simple positions in the port on the one hand, and recruit merchant ships to transport personnel and materials to the place on the other hand, and the navy's sailors needed to protect the engineers to build Lulong Port and the harbor fortress in the area.

After the establishment of the port and the fortress, the navy also needed to protect the engineers to build a belt of fortresses on both sides of the Tang River, all the way to the foot of the northwest mountain, which would completely block the western Liaoning corridor.

At the same time that Chen Xian was advancing from Lugoukou to Zhongdu, Li Shi and Yang Miaozhen would also advance westward from Hejian Province.

The two of them, like Chen Xian, led a large number of reserve officials transferred from all over Shandong, and they advanced all the way to the west, occupying the county seat all the way, and the occupied county seat was handed over to the reserve officials to take over with the militia.

The two advanced all the way to the Calm Mansion.

After arriving at Zhending, the two soldiers divided into two routes, Li Shi led the troops south, and Yang Miaozhen sat in Zhending Mansion.

Before dividing the troops, Li Shi transferred an infantry brigade in his hand to Yang Miaozhen to lead, and Yang Miaozhen handed over half of the cavalry in his hand to Li Shi's command.

After Li Shi left, Yang Miaozhen, who was sitting in Zhending, sent a partial division to attack north along the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain, and sent troops to occupy the Taihang Mountain Kongdao and passes along the way to Shanxi, leaving troops, officials, militia, copper coins, and grain at each pass, so that they could requisition the local people, and build a fortress on the Kongdao Pass to block the road for the Mongols to advance eastward.

Li Shi, who went south, was also doing the same thing, he led his army south along the eastern foothills of Taihang Mountain, aiming at the Daimyofu, but before that, he needed to occupy the county seat, passes, and Kongdao at the western foot of Taihang Mountain along the way, and also organized forces to build fortresses to block the Kongdao connecting Shanxi and Hebei in Taihang Mountain.

After arriving at the Daimyo's Mansion, Li Shihui sat in the Daimyo's Mansion and divided his troops to continue southward, eventually occupying Huaizhou.

The task of Li Shi and Yang Miaozhen was to lead an army of 100,000 and more than 100,000 militia to control the eastern foothills of Taihang Mountain, and build a fortress to block the way for the Mongols to cross the Taihang Mountain into Hebei.

And Chen Xian will do the same thing after the occupation of the capital.

Chen Xian, who occupied the central capital, took a short rest, and sent troops to occupy Xuanhua Prefecture, Zunhua, Danzhou and other passes leading to the grassland, and mobilized officials, engineers, militia, and soldiers to recruit local people to build a simple fortress system in these tunnels.

Due to the lack of supplies, these improvised forts were made of straw bags of sand, guarded by cannons, a small number of regular troops, and the militia.

For more than a year in the next year, Chen Xian sat in Zhongdu City, and he first ordered the construction of a road from Lugoukou to Zhongdu, and then all kinds of materials and people landed from Lugoukou and sent them to Zhongdu in a steady stream.

After gaining a firm foothold in Zhongdu, Chen Xian first rectified the Shanlu counties in the north and west of Zhongdu.

Rectifying the area has become a very familiar task for Chen Xian's subordinates, first the cannon broke the village, then the landlords in the village were cleaned, and then the officials took over the village with the militia......

After two years of successive wars, Chen Xian's strength has already penetrated into the hearts of the people in all parts of North China, and what has penetrated into the hearts of the people along with Chen Xianqiang is the cruelty of his methods.

In the past, no matter what kind of regime, as long as it wanted to rule a locality, it had to rely on and buy off the local power, even if it was the Jurchen, and a foreign nation like Mongolia could not escape this. Because in this era, because of the restrictions of transportation information, once a regime controls such a large place as the Central Plains, it becomes basically impossible to control the township, and once it is forcibly controlled, it will incur huge costs.

Even the Han Dynasty, which controlled the most powerful in the township, had to cultivate a strong clan of scholars for this purpose.

However, Chen Xian's grassroots democratic self-government system broke this iron law, and was able to control the township at a relatively small cost, without cultivating local wealthy clans, and the decentralization of power and the existence of the Supervisory Yuan, which was very self-righteous to maintain the political balance at the grassroots level and effectively mobilize the power of the grassroots.

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