All the generals at the front, hinting to the General Staff, for the time being, the number of cuirassiers was sufficient, and there were surplus horses, which should be replenished with dragoons or chassars as much as possible.

If there are more horses, then form new hussar units.

The country of Qi does have horses.

This point is not very clear to the generals who do not have contact with the household department, but in the past, they liked to interfere in the work of other departments as Wang Shizi, and now Xu Shiyang, who is the justifiable prime minister, has a clear list of data:

By the beginning of August of the fifth year of Longdao, the number of horses in Qi was 62,000, including 12,000 war horses and pack horses used by the military, 5,000 horses for government service, and 22,000 private horses, totaling 39,000.

Among the remaining horses, there are 15,000 ponies and old horses that are not suitable for service, and there are still about 8,000 horses that can be served, so it is no problem to more than double the number of light cavalry in the current Qi army.

However, Xu Shiyang did not want to expand the cavalry troops so brainlessly.

In his eyes, the most important subjects of the Qi army at present are still infantry and artillery, and the focus of expansion after the unification of the world in the future should be the navy and militia system, and the cavalry in the standing army does not need to be too large.

What's more, Xu Shiyang had already hatched a new war plan, which required equipping the infantry with a large number of horses to enhance mobility.

Originally, this plan was just a whim of Xu Shiyang, but after the representatives of the Marquis of Shanxi gradually arrived, this plan completely lingered in Xu Shiyang's mind.

At the end of August of the fifth year of Longdao, Xu Shiyang submitted the general framework of his plan to the General Staff for review.

According to the process, the strategic plan proposed by the commander-in-chief or the chief of the general staff needs to be reviewed by the general staff, first to review the feasibility, if the staff considers it feasible, then the staff will issue instructions to the subordinate departments, formulate specific implementation plans, and finally the senior staff officers are responsible for finding and patching the loopholes in the plan.

The process is not complicated, especially since the staff still has not learned how to rationally overturn the strategic framework proposed by Xu Shiyang.

Therefore, Xu Shiyang's plan was quickly adopted: this year's routine autumn offensive will no longer be carried out, and a large-scale winter general offensive will be carried out instead!

Moreover, the main target of the attack is no longer a secondary city like Haizhou, but the ruling core of the Jin State, Liao Shen!

According to Xu Shiyang's requirements, the main objectives of this operation are:

First: through one or more strategic decisive battles, completely and irreversibly destroy the main force of the Jurchen army.

Second: occupy Liaoyang and Shenzhou, and drive the remnants of the Jurchens out of the Liaozhong Plain.

Third: to make the Jurchens no longer exist as a major strategic threat, so that the Qi State will gain the honor of pacifying Liaodong and have the reputation of rebuilding the Central Plains.

Non-strategic purpose: to allow all field armies to get actual combat training.

Xu Shiyang's plan actually overturned the three-year Pingliao plan, and directly fought a decisive battle with the Jurchens this winter, and then the six-year Liaodong War in Longdao was about to enter the final stage.

This plan seems ambitious, but it is a bit too radical.

In fact, however, after careful calculation and consideration, the staff officers found that there was a great possibility that the planned goal would be achieved.

The General Staff believes that the Qi army has advantages in the following aspects:

First of all, the standing army of the Qi army has exceeded 100,000, and if it enters the strategic general offensive, then the three provinces of Qi, Hebei, and Liao can mobilize 800,000 reservists and male and female militias!

To face this 900,000-strong army of Jurchen Tartars, there are no more than 40,000 capable soldiers, of which 10,000 are newly formed and unreliable Aha firearms troops.

The others can only serve as auxiliaries, and there are no more than 60,000 Aha who have no combat effectiveness at all.

And this 100,000 ding is already the limit of the Jurchen Tartars.

Then, the development of the textile industry of the Qi State had been able to allow the Qi army to launch an offensive campaign in the daunting winter of Liaodong.

Unlike most Tartars, who can only survive the winter in a house wrapped in a rag coat wrapped in wool grass, the Ministry of Industry of Qi can provide each front-line soldier with a woolen coat, a set of sweater pants and a set of cotton pants.

Add to that the fact that little things like ear protection and a lot of whale fat smear the exposed skin, and the colder the weather, the more the Qi army has an advantage.

Secondly, the combat effectiveness of the standing army of the Qi army has surpassed that of the Jurchen Tartars in all aspects, so the Qi army still has the ability to win the strategic decisive battle under the same force strength, let alone under the situation of such a huge advantage in troops.

Finally, the three Spring and Autumn offensives in the past two years may give the Jurchen Tartars a false impression that the Qi army will also adopt a conservative but safe approach, spending a lot of time advancing towards Liaoshen step by step, which may cause the Jin army to be strategically paralyzed.

Prepared to fight unprepared, the strategic advantage appears to be greater.

As a result, the General Staff spent five days perfecting the details of Xu Shiyang's winter general offensive plan, and then Xu Shiyang informed the entire report to Xu Muhe, the king of Qi.

When Xu Shiyang submitted the plan report, he said this to his father:

"The sooner we destroy the Jurchen Tartars, the sooner we will win the hearts of the people of the world, and the sooner we will have the opportunity to unify the world and become the real social masters."

So the plan successfully got the endorsement of King Qi and officially entered the preparatory stage.

At this time, it had entered the fifth year of Longdao, and according to the original plan, it should have been the time to launch a routine autumn offensive.

However, the General Staff Headquarters of the Qi Army only issued a series of mobilization plans, but did not order the cavalry units that were already ready to attack.

According to the order of the General Staff Headquarters, all the standing forces of the Qi army, except for some fortress garrisons and the guards of the Qi Palace, began to assemble in southern Liaoning, and the actual strength in place in the plan was 90,000 troops of the navy and army.

In addition, Hebei Province mobilized 32,000 reservists and 110,000 militiamen.

Qi Province mobilized 55,000 reservists and 150,000 militiamen.

Liao Province mobilized 20,000 reservists and 70,000 militiamen.

The Kingdom of Goryeo mobilized 10,000 new troops and 30,000 old troops.

Coupled with Wang Qinian's 1,000 cavalry thieves, the total mobilized strength is as high as 568,000!

In order to maintain the normal operation of such an army, Xu Muhe issued an order from the king of Qi to transfer 550,000 stone of grain and 850,000 bundles of pasture from the household department.

In addition, there are a large number of canned food and other strategic reserve food, meat (pork, mutton, whale meat), salted fish, sugar and other materials, and from the private procurement of fried noodles, flatbread and other ready-to-eat food.

The General Staff also specifically requested civilian feed mills to provide 100,000 servings of feed by December.

Textile factories in Qi have requested 150,000 sets of winter clothes by the end of October: each set of winter clothes includes a woolen coat, a set of sweater pants and a set of cotton pants.

After that, 20,000 units will be delivered every month, and it is expected to continue until March next year.

The Ministry of Industry also needs to organize the production of sleigh cars, so that fewer camels can be used to pull more supplies and troops.