195 The Clarion Call of the Decisive Battle
In the Liaodong Theater, after Wu Chao was transferred back to Dayuan Island to preside over the affairs of the military department, the generals of the Hongtang Military Department in the Liaodong Theater were still strong.
Led by Wu Jie, Shang Kexi, Xiao Xiurong, Geng Zhongming and other miscellaneous generals, they were stationed in the not huge territory of the Liaodong Theater.
Wu Jie sits in Phoenix, an important defense town in the center, commanding various strategies from afar, and distributing logistics materials at the same time; Xiao Xiurong was in charge of the Shanhaiguan defense line, guarding against the nomads in the customs and the western grasslands; And Shang Kexi, Geng Zhongming and other generals sat on the front line of Liaoyang City and Gongchangling Castle to deal with the Jurchen army from the east and west.
When Hongmen's decision was conveyed to Wu Jie, it was already five days later, and with the issuance of this order, the deployment of troops in the Liaodong Theater began in an orderly manner.
After several years of rest and expansion, the soldiers who had lost in the Liaodong Theater are now also replenished, and now the number of soldiers under Wu Jie's command has reached more than 100,000, except for the necessary garrison force on the front line of Shanhaiguan, the 20,000 army cannot be mobilized, but the rest of the troops have begun to secretly mobilize the army to the front line of Gongchangling in the south of Liaoyang City.
"Another big war is coming!"
Wu Jie sat in Phoenix City, while secretly mobilizing people and materials to hoard around Liaoyang City, while starting to clean up and rectify the warehouses in Phoenix City, and then the base camp will be reinforced by countless materials and men for the battle.
"yes, who's to say it isn't?"
Beside him, Shi Lang, director of the Aircraft Division, held a thick pile of documents in his hand, waiting for Wu Jie's issuance.
"But after this war is over, the land of Liaodong will also become a peaceful place!"
Shi Lang's expression is optimistic, as a young man, he is eager to try and show his skills in the face of the upcoming war.
"Hopefully!"
Wu Jie is not so optimistic, perhaps as he gets older, he thinks about more things, and the more he has been stationed in Liaodong during these days, the more he has dealt with Jurchen, Mongolia and other ethnic minorities, the more he feels that it is not easy to maintain peace like Dayuan Island here.
It took Hongmen twenty or thirty years to completely subdue and accept it for its own use, and now Hongmen has established the main site of the Central Plains, every time it consumes more strength in Liaodong, there is one less chance of winning in the Central Plains.
Wu Jie didn't know why Li Tianyang insisted on strangling the Qing Dynasty, a force that had already sunset, and then trying to go south, in his opinion, this was a choice that outweighed the losses.
After several major battles with the Hongtang army, and later encountered the rebellion of the Yehe tribe, the strength of the elite of the Eight Banners of the Great Qing Dynasty can be said to be seven or eight out of ten.
In the winter of last year, in order to cope with the winter, the Great Qing Iron Cavalry swept away the Mongolian steppes in the west and the primeval jungles in the north.
Even so, last year, the Qing tribesmen and herds were also cold to death and starved to death because of insufficient grain, grass and fuel reserves, which made the situation of the Qing Dynasty even worse.
The only fortunate thing is that they secretly reached a peace contract with the Yehe tribe, and later Fan Wencheng personally sent the Yehe Yitong tribe several times, and through his words of the lotus flower, the Yitong Sakchi patriarch quietly supported some supplies to the other party.
But now that the base camp has made a decision, Wu Jie can only try his best to cooperate with the base camp and do his part well.
The abnormal movement in the Liaodong Theater of Hongmen made the Qing Kingdom, which had always been guarding against Hongmen, and the Yehe Yitong Department inexplicably worried, and they dispatched more people to inquire about the news and confirm the information.
"The division headquarters scout battalion and special operations battalion are all dispatched, and I don't want the cavalry of the Jurchen barbarians to appear within twenty miles of the front line."
Shang Kexi of Liaoyang City on the front line, together with Geng Zhongming and others from Gongchangling Castle, took the lead in laying out the battlefield and began to purge the Jurchen scouts who had infiltrated the frontline position.
The more the Hongtang army acted like this, the more worried and panicked the Qing Dynasty and the head of the Yeheyitong tribe became, and then began to issue a rallying order to the troops under his command.
On the tenth day of October in the twenty-second year of Chongzhen, the first batch of materials transported arrived in Phoenix, and then a steady stream of supplies and soldiers began to arrive one after another, making Phoenix City extremely lively all of a sudden.
Of course, the strength of the Hongtang army in the Liaodong Theater was sufficient, and the transportation of Dayuan Island was more in terms of materials and ammunition, so the total number of Hongtang troops going north this time was less than 10,000, but with the arrival of the materials first, Wu Jie could give the order to attack.
"The vanguard army is served by Shang Kexi's 1st Division, and the left and right flanks Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde's 3rd Division should support Shang Kexi's 1st Division and attack immediately."
As soon as Wu Jie's order from Phoenix City arrived at the frontline position, Shang Kexi's 1st Division and Geng Kong's 3rd Division, which had already been ready to go, increased their horsepower and marched towards the Great Qing Jurchen Land in the north in a surging and rapid manner.
Liaoyang is under the control of the Hongtang army, which means that between the Qing Shengjing division and the Hongtang army, there are few important towns that can be defended, and after easily uprooting the stronghold of the Qing Dynasty stationed between Shengjing and Liaoyang, it took five days for the Hongtang army to arrive at the largest city in the Qing Dynasty and the heart of the Qing Dynasty, where Shengjing is.
At this time, in the capital of the Qing Dynasty, there were already dense banners, although the changes of the Hongtang army before made the Qing people confused, but under the revelation of the killing intention, the Qing people did not carelessly, but in advance to recruit the children of the Eight Banners and the Han army to be stationed in the city, just in time for the attack of the Hongtang army.
Shang Kexi, who arrived first, was not in a hurry, facing the Qing Dynasty royal capital erected in front of the high city wall, Hongtang's most powerful siege weapon, but it was still lagging behind, and the Geng Kong Division that followed suit, followed by Shang Kexi's troops, was about to arrive at the merger with Shang Kexi's first division.
"Finally there is going to be a result!"
Shang Kexi was full of emotion in his heart at this time, when it came to the story with the Jurchens, I am afraid that Shang Kexi and Geng Kong can be said to be the most numerous in the Hongmen and the longest in history.
Since he followed his father to join Mao Wenlong's command when he was young, Shang Kexi's memory is full of scenes of swords and guns against the Jurchens, and you are alive and dead.
Once upon a time, their Han Chinese army could only hide shivering behind tall cities, or on islands outside the remote seas, confronting the Jurchens.
And now, their Han army can drive straight into the so-called Longxing land of the Qing people, and the soldiers are directly aimed at the royal capital where the Qing emperor is located, and a decisive battle to capture the thief and the king is about to begin.