Of course, Zuo Helin has been a maverick since he was a child, he went to the Mughal Naermu Conference, wrestled with the Muguls, and won back a Mughal Taiji's daughter plus a BMW.

He also once led his small army of heroes (in fact, his personal personal army) to the Western Regions to support the resistance of the Uighurs against Pars, and won a stunning victory—he brought back more than 300 horses, more than 100 camels, 500 sets of armor, and nearly 1,000 weapons from the Western Regions.

This incident is so famous that in recent years, every time the Mughul Gul Khan Zamuhe attacked, whether it was the unification of the steppe or the Eastern Expedition to the Jurchens, he had asked Zuo Helin to lead troops to participate in the war.

Now only 26 years old, Zuo Helin has been traveling north and south for ten years, and under Xu Shiyang, he seems to be the pinnacle of the military power of the Han people in Jiangbei (although completely overshadowed by the light of Xu Shiyang, who is two years older than him).

Zuo Helin must go to Quancheng, just like he went to the Western Regions to be a mercenary, and it is useless for his family to oppose it.

The young people of the other Shihou families looked at each other, Zuo Helin, who also had his own power in the family, really dared to disobey the fate of the parents, but they couldn't be so domineering.

Whether he can leave everything at home and follow Zuo Helin to Qi Country after two days is really a difficult question to make up his mind.

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In August of the fifth year of Longdao, Xu Shiyang inspected the situation of the newly developed land in Hebei Province.

In this year's expansion, the Hebei Province advanced all the way along the Bohai Bay to Ningyuan, and began to build a garrison fortress in Ningyuan.

The new fortress was still a new type of fortress, and although the planned garrison was less than 1,000 men, Xu Shiyang believed that the Ningyuan fortress was enough to hold out under the siege of tens of thousands of Jurchens or Mughurs until reinforcements arrived or food and water were completely exhausted.

In fact, with the supply capacity of the Jurchen and Mughal Tartars, tens of thousands of troops came, and it was simply a matter of not thinking much about who would run out of food first.

What's more, in addition to the Ningyuan Fortress, the Qi State also established a naval base on Juehua Island on the nearby Bohai Sea, where the Marine Corps and a fast fleet were stationed, and as long as the Bohai Sea did not freeze, this force was the most realistic threat to any Tartar flank besieging the Ningyuan Fortress.

At the rear of the Ningyuan fortress, near Shanhaiguan there was the main force of the Qi army's Hebei provincial garrison, as well as a series of small garrison beacon forts leading to Ningyuan, which were surrounded by a number of forts with walls and at least a hundred militiamen.

This means that the state of Qi has actually advanced the northern border line of Ji Province to the line of Ningyuan.

On the other hand, the Qi army in southern Liaoning had already taken advantage of the rush of the Jurchen Tartars in the spring offensive to advance all the way to Yaozhou, which, like the direction of Ji Province, was also a strong new type of fortress, plus a series of beacon forts and militia fort strongholds.

The slight difference is that because it is not close to the sea, it is relatively difficult to supply, and the garrison of Yaozhou Fortress has more than 2,000 people, and there are heavy artillery stationed, and there are relatively many Liaonan garrisons that can support Yaozhou at any time.

Yaozhou is about 100 miles away from Haizhou and only 250 miles from Liaoyang, the ruling core of the Jurchens.

The Qi army has in fact penetrated deep into the Liaozhong Plain and has begun to threaten the heart of the Yan Jin regime!

The General Staff was overjoyed, and after the successful conclusion of the spring offensive, the young officers began to work out their plans for the next step overnight:

After the start of the autumn offensive, the Ji provincial side advanced at least to the Quang Ninh line; the southern Liaoning direction for the occupation of Haizhou; Liaodong deters Fushun and Shenzhou, and it would be better if they could occupy it.

Then, in the spring of the sixth year of Longdao, the two strategic directions of western Liaoning and southern Liaoning met; During the offensive in the autumn of next year, we will strive to advance to Anshan.

In the end, Longdao was seven years and a hundred years, and Liaoyang was recovered, and then it took another year to completely solve the Jurchen Tartars by the middle of the eighth year of Longdao.

This is the so-called three-year Pingliao plan of the General Staff of the Qi Army.

However, after Xu Shiyang saw the summary of the battle reports of the various units of the offensive this spring, he suddenly felt that compared with the three-year Pingliao of a certain Tartar friend in the late Ming Dynasty, another plane, the plan of the General Staff of the Qi Army seemed too conservative.

The whole plan was actually based on defensive counterattack tactics - with economic advantages, build fortresses all the way and push them over until the Tartars could not retreat, forcing the Tartars to take the initiative to attack the garrison fortress.

Xu Shiyang couldn't say that this plan was bad, because it was actually a winning strategy, but he felt that it was too much delay, and the Jurchen Tartars would definitely be able to take this into account.

If they continue to retreat and make a scorched earth with all their heart, the Tartars will actually be able to delay even longer.

Set up a world, anything can happen after a long time - for example, the Jiangnan Imperial Court finally couldn't stand the independence of Qi and took the initiative to go north to help the Tartars contain the Qi army.

Don't say it's impossible, Xu Shiyang has no confidence in the discipline of the imperial court.

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According to the battle reports of the troops participating in the spring offensive, the Qi army had at this time completely suppressed the Jin army in all aspects, including cavalry.

The only problem now is that the number of cavalry is still not enough.

The advice of the front-line troops was that if there was a replenishment of more war horses, then the staff should ask the staff to increase the number of light cavalry, especially dragoon units, as much as possible.

Because the experience of real combat shows that dragoons have the greatest effect - not the strongest combat effectiveness, but the widest range of service use.

For example, the dragoons were equipped with carbines, and they could actually dismount and shoot on foot, and at this time, the Jin cavalry had no infantry support and could not shake the formation of the dragoons at all.

But the Jin infantry was not mobile enough to catch up with the dragoons on horseback.

Therefore, the Jin army had a strategic disadvantage against the dragoons that "those who can beat can't run, and those who can't run".

Moreover, the dragoons have a reconnaissance function, and can actually be used as a cameo hunter.

In terms of the breadth of its service, the dragoons were the best, so they also became the favorite cavalry unit of the Qi generals.

The Chasseurs were similar to the Dragoons in terms of mobility, but they were much worse in terms of combat effectiveness, which was not something that could be done by adding carbine equipment to the Chasseurs, because the Chasers had not been trained to shoot in infantry formations.

In order for the Chasseurs, who were accustomed to scouting and pursuit, to be able to dismount and crush enemy cavalry at close range with flintlock muskets, they had to be trained in more infantry tactics.

Of course, even so, the role of the chasseurs was much stronger than that of the cuirassiers, who could only charge in a cavalry formation.

In fact, according to the situation reported from the front, the existing cuirassiers have been regarded as a kind of burden by many generals - as cavalry, their supply consumption far exceeds that of infantry, but in fact they cannot play the role of cavalry tactical mobility, and strategic mobility is far lower than that of infantry.

It seems that it can only be used as some kind of deterrent - the Jurchens basically do not dare to hedge against the cuirassiers like the iron men, as long as the cuirassiers appear, the Tartars will basically take the initiative to retreat.