When Feng Qirong led the fleet and began to encircle and suppress pirates and capture prisoners, Jinling City, the empire's mainland, had not yet received the news that Feng Qirong had taken Seed Island.

The distance between Tanegashima and the mainland is too far, even if the empire has developed the clipper ship, and uses this kind of fast ship as a communication ship, but the time to go back and forth is still very long.

Now the news from Fuso is at most delayed for half a month and a month, but if it is farther away, such as India, or even Africa and Europe, it is normal to have no news for a year and a half.

Li Xuan had no choice but to look forward to the Royal Institute of Technology getting the telegram out as soon as possible, regardless of whether it was wired or wireless, whatever it was.

But now, there is no way, and long-distance communication can only rely on ships or horses.

Li Xuan didn't know how things were going on in Fusang, but he still knew that the navy was already preparing to start operations on Fusang's side, because this was reported a few months ago.

In addition, Li Xuan didn't care much about the affairs of Fuso, the left and right were just an Osumi Islands, and the sea power on Fuso's side was so weak that it could be ignored, so it was impossible for the Ryukyu Detachment to have any accidents.

Now Li Xuan is more concerned about the problem in the north, and the Goryeo Peninsula has to be solved, and the army has prepared a full infantry division in Liaodong to prepare to cross the Yalu River from north to south at any time.

The navy is also ready to provide an escort fleet and a transport fleet, which can directly land and fight at any time and provide supplies for troops entering the peninsula.

According to the battle plan finalized at the Imperial Military Strategy Meeting, the peninsula battle plan will be fully launched in June, and the troops participating in the battle include the 15th Infantry Division of the Sixth Army, which is mainly responsible for launching an attack from the ground across the Yalu River and advancing from north to south.

The navy has prepared two detachments to completely control the coast of the Goryeo Peninsula, and to provide escort and fire support for the landing fleet and the supply and transport fleet.

The main body of the landing force was a temporary marine regiment formed by the navy, with a total strength of about 2,000 men, and the Guards also sent a mixed battalion of the Guards composed of an infantry battalion, an artillery corps, and other auxiliary units to participate in the battle, with a total strength of about 1,500 men.

That is, the total number of land troops of the landing force is about three and a half thousand people!

Together with the 15th Infantry Division of the Sixth Army, the total number of ground combat forces will reach 19,000.

When necessary, the navy will also directly draw marines and sailors from the two detachments to fight ashore, and this aspect is expected to be able to provide about 1,000 men.

Therefore, if necessary, the total number of troops participating in ground operations will reach 20,000!

20,000 men against a small indigenous regime on the Goryeo Peninsula is enough for both the army and the navy!

In fact, if you just deal with the natives of the Goryeo Peninsula, you don't need 20,000 people, and you can only sweep the peninsula by sending a few thousand people in the past, the key is that the current Goryeo Peninsula is not only the local natives, in fact, the real masters of the Goryeo Peninsula today are not the local natives, but the pseudo-Ming Hui King.

After the defeat of the puppet Ming Hui King in Liaodong, he fled into the Goryeo Peninsula with the remnants of the army early, and he brought a lot of troops, at least twenty or thirty thousand people, these two or thirty thousand people are actually the real enemies of the Tang Empire this time.

As for the natives, to be honest, neither the empire nor the pseudo-Ming Hui Wang took them seriously.

The entire battle plan will be launched in June, and in fact, on the side of Jinling City, the specific battle plan has already been finalized in late April, and the rest is the time for specific implementation and transmission of orders!

After the decision was made on the Jinling City side, it would take at least half a month to convey the order to Liaodong, and then it would take time for the troops to prepare for battle, and the follow-up supply transportation would also take time to prepare.

Therefore, the official time of the battle is expected to be in mid-June, but there is no specific day, and the specific time of crossing the Yalu River will be freely grasped by the front-line generals.

In other words, the commander of the 15th Infantry Division, Major General Kang Gaozhi, will directly decide the time of the battle, as well as the specific tactics, etc., and the Jinling City side is only responsible for giving a combat goal and then making a general plan, and even the military headquarters of the Sixth Army is too far away for the army headquarters to remotely command the 15th Infantry Division.

In this battle of the peninsula, Army Major General Kang Gaozhi will have almost all the power!

As the saying goes, the greater the power, the greater the responsibility, when the holy decree was passed into the hands of Kang Gaozhi, he instantly felt the pressure!

Looking at this holy decree in his hand, Kang Gaozhi's first reaction was not the excitement that he could lead the army to fight alone and make meritorious achievements, but worried!

The reason why he was worried was because he had never led a unit to be in charge of a single front of operations, and he was a little worried that he would capsize in the gutter in the peninsula campaign and play it badly, which would lead to serious political repercussions.

Kang Gaozhi, like most of the middle and senior generals in the army, was born in the Imperial Academy, he joined the army relatively early, in the second year of Xuanping, he had already abandoned literature and martial arts, and directly entered the Tang Army, at first he was just an ordinary civilian officer, then as a staff officer, and then later, he went to study in the martial arts school.

After entering the martial arts hall, he then held a lot of grassroots positions, and then soon entered the imperial academy to study, Xuanping graduated from the imperial academy in five years, and then became the commander of an infantry battalion, at this time, he was actually on the road of the real field commander.

From a major battalion commander to a lieutenant colonel regiment commander, and then to a colonel and staff officer of the War Department, at the end of last year, he finally crossed countless obstacles that were difficult for colonels to overcome, became an army brigadier general, served as the deputy commander of the 15th Infantry Division, and became a member of the middle and senior generals of the army.

Then he participated in the Liaodong Campaign, and then later, his immediate boss, the former commander of the 15th Infantry Division, was recuperating for a long time because of his physical illness, and at the same time, it was also because he didn't get along with his colleagues very well.

Therefore, his predecessor was transferred back to the Privy Council of Jinling City in February to serve as a member of the West Idle Position.

This is naturally more tragic for the former commander of the 15th Infantry Division, but for Kang Gaozhi, this is an opportunity, he relied on the natural advantage of the identity of the deputy division commander at that time, and naturally became the acting division commander.

From brigadier general deputy division commander to major general division commander, it took him a total of four months!

If this promotion speed was placed under normal circumstances, it would never have happened, and it was only when the 15th Infantry Division was fighting in Liaodong at that time, especially Li Xuan, for the sake of the stability of the war, so Kang Gaozhi was given this opportunity.

However, he had just become the commander of the 15th Infantry Division, and he had not yet adapted to it, when he received a holy decree that he should lead the 10th Infantry Division to kill the Yalu River in mid-June.

You must know that before he served as the division commander, although he also acted as the deputy division commander to command the operation, but it was only two months before and after, and more importantly, the battle of the 15th Infantry Division has always been personally commanded by the military department.

He didn't know that the superiors chose to trust him so much, in fact, it was not because of how talented he was, but because the 15th Infantry Division was the closest to the Yalu River, and if he wanted to fight, he would definitely use the 15th Infantry Division.

Moreover, the 15th Infantry Division has just been replaced, and it has been changed again in less than two months, which is prone to turmoil in the army's morale and causing a bad negative political impact.

In addition, although this Kang Gaozhi is not good, he is also a general from a professional class, who has experienced the martial arts academy, the imperial academy, and has served as the battalion commander of the infantry battalion, the commander of the infantry regiment, the senior staff officer of the combat department, the deputy division commander and a series of other positions, and the necessary combat command experience must be there.

The bigwigs of the Privy Council are not very demanding, as long as you Kang Gaozhi does not mess around, just push steadily step by step, and I don't expect him to come up with any fanciful tactics at all.

If it is said that the bigwigs believe in Kang Gaozhi's strategic and tactical ability, it is not that they don't take the defeat of the 20,000 or 30,000 remnants of the puppet Ming Hui King to heart.

He is also the commander of an infantry division, but if you look at the commanders of several main infantry divisions of the Third Army against the Tatars, and then look at the commanders of the main infantry divisions of the Fourth Army and the Fifth Army on the Northwest Front, all of them are outstanding in battle.

Don't talk about the rest, just talk about their titles, these division commanders, all of them have titles above the viscount, and a few of them are counts.

The reason why the main generals on the northern front are all outstanding in battle is that both the Privy Council and Li Xuan believe that the Tatars, Warats, and Tibetans in the north are the troubles of their henchmen, and if the generals of the troops deployed in the above areas are mediocre in ability, they will be worried and will not sleep well.

However, in addition to the northern front, the generals of other fronts, including the troops deployed in Liaodong, the Goryeo Peninsula, the southwest, Jiangnan, and the Central Plains, are ordinary.

The level of emphasis is very different.

Today, the best generals in the army are mainly concentrated in two places, one is in the field troops stationed on the Great Wall defense line in the north, and the other is the Privy Council Operations Department.

As for Kang Gaozhi, he doesn't count any of them!

Kang Gaozhi naturally couldn't think of him, since the holy decree had come down, then he had to do it, he didn't want to be fired in a few months after the throne of the division commander that he had tossed so hard.

He also wants to take the peninsula like other famous generals of the army, make a great contribution, and win the title of a nobleman, even if it is just a baron!

However, the world is impermanent, Kang Gaozhi wants to make meritorious contributions, but within a few days, he found that this merit is not easy to achieve!