Chapter 337: The Second Battlefield

While the army was slowly assembling in Jin, Chen Xian secretly mobilized three Praetorian Guard divisions to Liaodong, and gathered five divisions from Liaodong into the barracks in the northwest of Shenzhou.

Chen Xian prepared a total of two horse infantry divisions, two chaser divisions, three assault cavalry divisions, one infantry division and one artillery regiment for Yang Miaozhen!

Chen Xian appointed Yang Miaozhen as the commander-in-chief of the battlefield in western Liaoning, hung the marshal's seal, and secretly went to Liao to take office.

In the past two years, Yang Miaozhen entered the General's Mansion and often stayed by Chen Xian's side, and I don't know if the two of them are old and have a peaceful temperament, but the two no longer quarrel with each other, and respect each other like guests.

Chen Xian also intended to ease the relationship between the two and let his eldest son recognize Yang Miaozhen, who could not have children, as his mother.

His decision made Yang Miaozhen extremely grateful, in this era, women can not have children, it is a great sin, and according to feudal tradition, the imperial concubines who have no heirs often have no good end, although Chen Xian's reform of the East China Sea in the past two years has made Yang Miaozhen and the Yang family see another hope, but Chen Xian will inherit his eldest son who is most likely to inherit the throne to Yang Miaozhen, which is undoubtedly a great gift.

Chen Xian's eldest son was not born to Yang Miaonu, after Yang Miaonu gave birth to a daughter for Chen Xian, she never came out again, which once made Yang Yongwu extremely disappointed.

Over the years, people often suggested that Chen Xian choose a concubine because he had no heirs, but Chen Xian has been indifferent, and later even Yang Miaonu and Yang Miaozhen came to persuade him, but he delayed until after the establishment of the East China Sea Kingdom, and then selected four concubines to enter the palace.

This is not because of how clean Chen Xian is, but because Chen Xian knows that there are too many people with political goals who want to send women to his home, so he simply doesn't want any of them.

It wasn't until after the establishment of the East China Sea Kingdom that he became a general trend, and Chen Xian asked Yang Miaonu to help him find four women, at this time, Chen Xian could choose women purely based on beauty and character.

These four concubines are all stunning in the world, and at the same time they are gentle and lovely, and more importantly, they are all from small families and have no background power.

Before Chen Xian's political reform, there were still people who tried to follow the relationship between these four women, but after the political reform, people found that instead of spending their energy on Chen Xian's women, it was better to participate directly in the election.

Chen Xian's eldest son was born to Concubine Tang, one of the four concubines.

Chen Xian didn't bother to make his harem too complicated, he proclaimed himself the king, then his wife Yang Miaozhen is the queen, and the other concubines, including Yang Miaonu, are all princesses, Tang concubines, who believe in Tang, not any title.

Regarding the fact that she wants to talk about her two-year-old son to pass on to the future, although Concubine Tang is reluctant, she is also more happy.

His son is passed to the future, which is equivalent to adding an insurance to his son, as long as there is no accident, the king of the East China Sea Kingdom, Bacheng is his son's.

Although the son is nominally passed on to the future, this child is always the meat that falls from his own body, are you afraid of not being filial to yourself in the future?

Because of this, for Chen Xian's appointment, both Yang Miaonu and the Yang family are a little unhappy and puzzled.

However, contrary to others, after listening to Chen Xian's meaning, Yang Miaozhen suddenly looked radiant, took off her red uniform without hesitation, put on her military uniform, and lived in the barracks.

Chen Xian was not surprised by this, he knew that Yang Miaozhen's desire for the military camp had never stopped, the so-called content with the plain was mostly pretended, this woman seemed to be born for war, and it seemed that only war could trigger all the passions in his life.

In addition to the army of eight divisions and one regiment, Chen Xian also prepared a large engineering team for Yang Miaozhen.

Yang Miaozhen's mission was to protect this huge engineering team and build a fortress belt to the north.

The first phase of this fortress belt started from Shenzhou, attached to the eastern mountainous area, and extended to the north until Xianping Province, where it was seized from Wanyan Pingtao.

Nowadays, it is not easy to capture Xianping Mansion, because Wanyan Pingtao learned Chen Xian's method and built a defensive belt in the south of Xianping Mansion that is 100 miles wide and consists of fortresses.

If you want to occupy Xianping Mansion, Yang Miaozhen must knock down the fortresses along the way one by one, in this process, Wanyan Pingtao will definitely not be obedient, and it will definitely be a series of battles at that time.

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Just when the East China Sea army was assembling in the cities of Daimyo and Xuzhou, the Mongols also reacted immediately.

A large number of Shaanxi Mongol Han troops and Mongolian cavalry began to assemble near Tongguan.

In just over two months, 120,000 Han troops from Shaanxi Mountains and 80,000 Mongolian cavalry gathered in front of Tongguan.

At this moment, tens of thousands of cavalry led by Yang Miaozhen protected this infantry division and a heavy artillery regiment, and slaughtered the defensive fortress belt from Shenzhou and killed towards Xianping Mansion.

The Mongols who received Yan Pingtao's call for help were taken aback, they did not expect that Chen Xian would be able to organize an attack of 100,000 troops in Liaodong even if he had gathered 15 divisions and 300,000 troops in the Daimyo's Mansion and Xuzhou.

Genghis Khan, who heard the news, was silent for a long time, and ordered Chagatai, Okotai, and Tuolei to summon Chagatai to hold a military meeting.

During the military discussion, Genghis Khan appointed Ogedai as the commander-in-chief of the Jin expedition, leading 120,000 Han troops and 80,000 Mongol cavalry, as well as hundreds of cannons, out of Tongguan to fight Chen Xian's Jin-cutting army for the land of Jin.

At this time, the remnants of the Jin Kingdom only left most of Henan Province and Anhui and a small half of Shandong in later generations, a total of only two provinces, but these two provinces are the land of essence and anointing.

According to Chen Xian's estimates, at this time, there were still seven or eight million people in the remnants of the Jin Kingdom alone!

Its remnants of the land are flat and flat, and the cultivated land is not less than 50 million acres!

This land of the essence of the Central Plains, whether for Chen Xian or the Mongols, cannot be lost.

For Chen Xian, if he can get this land, the population and cultivated land under his control will immediately increase by a small half, and with these cultivated land and population, Chen Xian will be able to explode an army of 500,000 in three or five years!

For the Mongols, even if this land was destroyed, it must not fall into the hands of Chen Xian.

Temujin also ordered Tuo Lei to lead more than 10,000 heavy cavalry and 50,000 light cavalry who had been trained to launch a wall charge to Liaoxi to support Wanyan Pingtao.

He told him to only use light cavalry to attack and disturb, and not to fight Chen Xian's army head-on.

Tuo Lei led the light cavalry from the Mongolian steppe, detoured to Liaoxi, and recuperated in the grassland of Liaoxi for half a month to restore horsepower and manpower, and finally arrived at the battlefield in Liaodong, it was already three months later.

To Tuolei's surprise, when he arrived in Liaodong, Wanyan Pingtao not only did not defeat Liaodong, but even fought with the army led by Yang Miaozhen in the southern castle belt of Xianping Mansion.

With Chen Xian's strong rise, as cannons and muskets resounded across the battlefield, both the Mongols and the Song Kingdom tried to learn from Chen Xian.

But when it comes to learning from Chen Xian, Wanyan Pingtao can be said to be the first person in this world, and he has never fallen behind when he digs into the corner of Chen Xian.

And because he has rich learning experience, Wanyan Pingtao is also more superstitious about Chen Xian.

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