After Kang Gaozhi received the holy order, although he was apprehensive, he quickly prepared the troops, and sent a reconnaissance cavalry force to the Yalu River to find a suitable place to cross the river.

Although it was said above that when crossing the river, a detachment of the navy would come to escort the troops, but the navy was only responsible for escorting, and they didn't care how the army crossed the river at that time.

The navy is also very busy now, and the warships and transport ships in the Bohai Sea are basically serving for landing operations and logistical supplies, and there are not many ships to help the army at all.

Of course, Kang Gaozhi didn't think so, he just decided that the group of turtles in the navy must have deliberately made excuses and refused to arrange a large number of boats for him to cross the river.

But dissatisfaction is dissatisfaction, and this river crossing still has to be crossed.

So he sent a scout to investigate the situation, but it didn't take a few days for the scout to return, saying that there were quite a lot of places to cross the river, but they searched several villages along the way, and they didn't find a single boat, and after asking, they learned that the boats on both sides of the Yalu River were basically taken to the other side by the puppet Ming Hui King when he crossed the river before.

This means that it is impossible to find a boat to cross the river on the spot.

And it is not very reliable to send ships from other places, and when the ships are ready, it is estimated that they will have to go in July.

In the end, he had no choice but to use the old method, without a large number of ships, so he directly erected a pontoon bridge.

Anyway, there is a naval escort, he is not afraid that the pontoon bridge will be knocked down, and he does not have to worry about the navy not working hard, if he does not care about the escort and causes a mistake, it is the navy's fault.

Although his 15th Infantry Division is also the main infantry division, it has not been established for a long time, and although there are engineering units inside, it is still not very professional in erecting pontoon bridges.

But even if he was unprofessional, he could only bite the bullet, and he personally went to the engineer battalion under the division and discussed with several main officers of the engineer battalion how to build a pontoon bridge.

Fortunately, the military headquarters probably knew that the strength of the engineer battalion of the 15th Infantry Division was a little poor, and a few days later, they took the initiative to reinforce a boat bridge battalion.

This kind of boat and bridge battalion is not an ordinary division-affiliated engineer battalion, an ordinary division-affiliated engineer battalion, which does miscellaneous things, digging fortifications, building barracks, and so on, but it is not good to say, because it does everything, so it is not professional.

There is also no way to do this, whoever makes the tasks of the division-affiliated engineer battalion onerous, it is impossible for the officers and men of the engineer battalion to master everything, and because of the shortage of military spending, it is impossible for the army to upgrade the division-affiliated engineer battalion to an engineer regiment, so as to reduce the pressure on the engineers so that they can master more professional skills.

The army only adopted a compromise method, and they directly set up these highly specialized technical units under the military headquarters of each army, and the Zhouqiao Battalion directly under each army is a typical example of this.

Although the Zhouqiao Battalion had only been formed for a few months and was not yet fully staffed, there were only more than 300 people in total, most of whom were still novices, but it greatly relieved the pressure on the 15th Infantry Division.

With this boat-bridge battalion, the plan for erecting a pontoon bridge was made and the actual preparation stage was carried out.

With the plan to cross the river, Kang Gaozhi was still not idle, he was busy taking a large number of officers to directly inspect every day to supervise the troops to carry out adaptive training, including the exercise training of crossing the river and the follow-up combat training.

In addition, he and his chief of staff, deputy division commanders, and several regiment commanders and battalion commanders pondered every day how to formulate a detailed attack plan.

Although his 15th Infantry Division also participated in the Liaodong Campaign, it had fought large-scale battles with friendly forces before, and if it fought alone, it had not been tried since it was formed, which was also a great challenge for a new unit like the 15th Infantry Division.

Therefore, it is reasonable for Kang Gaozhi and his team of officers to be cautious and cautious.

Compared with Kang Gaozhi's caution and encountering a lot of troubles and difficulties in the preparations, the preparations on the navy's side were much smoother.

There were two detachments prepared by the Navy for the Goryeo Peninsula Campaign, which belonged to the Second Fleet and the Third Fleet of the First Fleet.

At present, the Tang Empire has a total of four large fleets, namely the Yangtze River Fleet, the Pearl River Fleet, the First Fleet, and the Second Fleet, the first two fleets belong to the inland fleet.

Therefore, the presence of the Yangtze River Fleet and the Pearl River Fleet in today's navy is very low, and there are even calls for the establishment of these two inland river fleets to be reduced from the large fleet to the size of the sub-fleet.

At present, in the Datang Navy, the real Grand Fleet is the first fleet and the second fleet, the two ocean-going fleets, but the structure of the Datang Navy is somewhat special, whether it is the Yangtze River Fleet, the Pearl River Fleet, the First Fleet, or the Second Fleet, these four fleets are actually administrative establishments, not combat establishments.

For example, the 1st to 6th Fleets of the Ocean Fleet, the Ryukyu Fleet, the Luzon Fleet, the Yangtze River Fleet, the Huaihe River Fleet, the Dongting Lake Fleet, and the Poyang Lake Fleet of the Yangtze River Fleet, and the Xijiang and Dongjiang Fleets of the Pearl River Fleet.

The first squadron, which is used to control sea power in the East China Sea and guard the estuary of the Yangtze River, is the most powerful, with four cruisers and more than 10 frigates. However, the Second Fleet, which also belongs to the Second Fleet and whose home port is in Weihaiwei, Shandong, does not have a single cruiser, only three frigates to support it, and the main force of the battle is to rely on those more than 100-ton Guards patrol ships.

Except for the first fleet, whose commander is a vice admiral, the commander of each other detachment is a rear admiral and has the power to actually command operations.

At the same time, it is not the command of the four fleets that has the power to give them combat orders, but the command department of the navy!

The headquarters of the four fleets is actually a military and political body, not a military command body, and it is also not a staff body!

Those who participated in the combat mission on the Goryeo Peninsula were the Second and Third Fleets, which belonged to the First Fleet.

The third squadron was stronger, with a cruiser, and its previous mission was to blockade the coast of the Goryeo Peninsula, but now their main task was to cover the landing force of more than 3,000 people for landing operations and escort the subsequent supply and transportation of supplies.

The second squadron is weaker, and their main task is to enter the Yalu River, cover the crossing of the 15th Infantry Division, and also undertake part of the supply and escort tasks.

However, Kang Gaozhi was quite satisfied with the Second Squadron sent by the Navy, because he knew that there were not many large ships in the Second Fleet, and the main combat force was some small-tonnage offshore patrol ships.

However, he Kang Gaozhi is going to cross the Yalu River, not from the coast, and if the navy comes to support, if he sends those large ships of several hundred tons, it is estimated that he will not be able to get out of the Yalu River after entering the Yalu River.

The army of the puppet King Ming Hui is not stupid, seeing you running into the Yalu River stupidly with a big ship, people can just get dozens of fireboats down the river, and they can burn these giants on the sea to the ground!

Therefore, Kang Gaozhi would rather send some coastal patrol ships and inland river warships sent by the navy, so that they can be flexible enough and be able to provide sufficient cover for themselves.

After consulting with a colonel staff officer sent by the Second Squadron of the Navy, the two sides finally formalized the date of the scheduled crossing of the river: June 18, which was about the same time as the Holy Decree required, not too late and not too early.

At the same time, it can also cooperate with the landing operation of the Third Detachment of the Navy, because the Third Detachment of the Navy has already set a landing on 23 June.

The landing site is at the mouth of the Han River, and it can be seen from this landing site that the front of the landing force is directed at Seoul!

Logically speaking, this Seoul is the capital of the Goryeo Lee dynasty and should be heavily defended, but in fact, according to the report of the Military Intelligence Department, this is not the case!

Because the main opponent of the Tang Dynasty is not the indigenous people of Goryeo, but the puppet Ming Hui King, in fact, the Goryeo aborigines have been killed by the troops of the Pseudo Ming Hui King before, in the past two years, the army of the Pseudo Ming Hui King has entered the peninsula three times, the first time is to plunder, the second time is to kill most of the main forces of the Goryeo natives, and then force the Goryeo Li Dynasty to be loyal to him, and send troops to Liaodong to help the Liaodong Ming army fight, well, to be cannon fodder!

The third time, naturally, it was the time when the pseudo-Ming Hui King escaped a few months ago.

But for the Tang Dynasty, the pseudo-Ming Hui King is an escape, but for the local natives, it is not a good thing.

After entering the Goryeo Peninsula, the puppet King Myeonghye made his way to Seoul with little resistance, and then captured all the royal family and ministers of the Lee clan and headed north to return to Yogyeong, the capital of Pyongan Province, his stronghold on the Goryeo Peninsula.

People are not stupid, they know that Seoul is easy to be killed by the enemy landing from the sea, and it was broken by the puppet King Minghui once in the past two years, and the city walls have been dried up and rotten, and they have not been repaired until now, and this broken place is very dangerous.

Relatively speaking, Pyongan Dao Liujing is much safer, when the puppet Ming Hui Wang's department went south to the Goryeo Peninsula for the first time, although it also broke through the city, but it did not cause much damage to the city, and then simply left thousands of troops here to monitor the every move of the Goryeo Li Dynasty, and at the same time did not forget to requisition the local natives to build city defense facilities.

So in the past two years, Liujing in Ping'an Province has become an important city under the control of the pseudo-Ming Hui King!

The puppet King Myeonghye regarded Liujing as his base camp, and even directly forcibly brought the royal family and ministers of the Goryeo Lee Dynasty to Liujing, which means that in fact, the current Seoul has been abolished.

Although landing here may be intercepted by local natives, it will not encounter too much difficulty, which is conducive to ensuring the safety of the initial landing.

The navy is preparing to land at the mouth of the Han River and is preparing to attack Seoul, while the army is preparing to kill all the way across the Yalu River and go straight to Liujing!

As for the rest of the place, they didn't have much interest, at least in the early battle plan, they didn't plan to attack the rest of the Goryeo Peninsula, they only had two targets, one was Seoul and the other was Ryukyung!

As for other places, it is not too late to wait for the puppet Myeonghui King to be killed, and the Goryeo Li clan will wait for a cadre to wait and then slowly clean it up!

Anyway, it is said that the senior officials of the Imperial Cabinet who have bad pus in their stomachs are already thinking about how to deal with the local natives, and with the military's consistent understanding of the hypocrites in the cabinet, the military is more than eighty percent sure that the hypocrites in the cabinet must not have a heart for those natives.

When the time comes, there will be countless riots, rebellions, and so on, and the military has seen a lot of this kind of thing!

And they also know that in this case, the civilian officials are just moving their mouths, but their military is tired of fighting and killing, so now the army is simply saving a little effort and waiting until the future to come together.

It can't be just one of the first hits now, and then another one from beginning to end in a few months, it's so much trouble, it's better to do it together.

The military really doesn't know.,The bigwigs of the cabinet,This time I really didn't plan to make a big move.,They take into account that the sinicization of the Goryeo Peninsula is now very ideal.,Although there is a mess of indigenous languages and the like.,But the local natives are useless.,Whether it's a scholar or an ordinary person.,When writing, it's all in Chinese.,And the reader speaks.,Most of them can also use Chinese.。

This degree of sinicization,To be honest, it's much better than today's southwest provinces,Those areas that are still controlled by the Tusi,As well as the northwest,Tibet,The sinicization of the northern grasslands!

So they didn't plan to engage in any extermination policy, but were ready to use the integration policy, anyway, there were not many people on the peninsula, and there were only two or three million when they broke through the sky, and in recent years, they were tossed by the puppet Ming Hui Wang's department so many times, in addition to fighting and killing tens of thousands of Goryeo troops, he also forcibly recruited nearly 100,000 young men to go to Liaodong, of which tens of thousands were cannon fodder, and the rest were coolies.

And more importantly, the Ministry of the Puppet Ming Hui King has entered the peninsula three times, each time it is to loot a large amount of grain, this broken place has not much food, and the Pseudo Ming Hui Wang's Department has looted so much grain, and the resulting famine is quite serious, and the number of people who have starved to death in recent years is not one million, but it is estimated that there are two or three hundred thousand.

Therefore, the bigwigs in the cabinet pondered that there are only a million people left on this peninsula now, and there are only a few young and strong among them, all of whom are old and weak, women and children.

That way, things will be easier!

The Tang Dynasty soldiers who entered the dynasty, one person married one or so two or three, and it didn't matter if they married as wives or concubines, anyway, as long as they married, in this way, at least the number of local indigenous women of childbearing age can be directly taken away by more than half, and by the way, it can also solve the problem of local women of school age difficult to marry due to the loss of young people.

Then encourage and encourage the people in the country, if you can't marry a wife, go to the Goryeo Peninsula to marry, and the official encourages intermarriage!

If this is not enough, in addition to organizing normal immigration, it is completely possible to organize more than 100,000 or 200,000 bachelors to immigrate from the country, and it is absolutely possible to marry all the local women of childbearing age, anyway, there are more bachelors who can't marry wives in China, and I heard that you can marry a wife if you go to the Goryeo Peninsula, and it is estimated that everyone who signs up will have to line up from Jinling City to the Pacific Ocean!

After the bigwigs crackled with their abacus, they came to a conclusion: as long as the intensity of immigration and intermarriage is strong enough, it will only take 20 years, and the new generation on the Goryeo Peninsula will be all the people of the Tang Dynasty!

To completely conquer a region, it is the king to marry all their women, and in comparison, other means of cultural destruction, massacres and so on are weak!

Of course, Datang men are also stylish, not all women everywhere marry, such as those women in the Nanyang barbarians, Datang men don't look down on them!