In the middle of summer, the news came from Tokyo, the officers and soldiers of the imperial court did not seem to have the intention of dispatching, Gu Haotian of course did not have the mood to stir up right and wrong, he wished that he could live a few days of leisurely life, so in the past ten days, it is rare to live a slow-paced life, calmly arrange some things at hand.

Hedong and Guanzhong brought back ten talents such as Wang Yan, Shan Shiqi, Wen Zhongrong, Cui Ye, Shi Jin, Zhu Wu, Chen Da, Yang Chun, Shi Ding, Wu Cheng, Gu Haotian's idea was to let Shi Jin and Shan Shiqi go to the infantry battalion, Wang Yan to go to the cavalry battalion, Wen Zhongrong, Cui Ye, Chen Da, Yang Chun, Shi Ding, and Wu Cheng could only act as deputy generals, and they could be arranged at the opportunity.

As for Zhu Wu, Gu Haotian had long wanted to set up another armament department. The number of escort troops has reached more than 50,000, and the pressure on logistics is getting bigger and bigger, and it is already very difficult for the logistics department to take care of both the military and the people.

With the establishment of the Armaments Department, there are five divisions in the Escort Force: Military Administration, Staff Officers, Military Law, Military Intelligence, and Armaments, and the organization is basically sound, and under the leadership of Wen Huanzhang, Xiao Jiasui, Xu Guanzhong, Wu Yong, Gongsun Sheng, and Zhu Wu each perform their duties, which is the ideal match in Gu Haotian's heart.

Zhu Wu's arrangement was not difficult, the manor management office announced the order, and then set up the organization, divided the functions, selected and transferred personnel, and soon began to operate. The ordnance workshop and the firearms workshop were transferred to the Armaments Division, and Tang Long and Ling Zhen were also appointed deputy directors of the Armaments Division. As soon as Zhu Wugang went up the mountain, he was entrusted with a heavy task, which shocked him, he was a person who had no intersection with Gu Haotian and anyone in Liangshan, although he had a certain degree of confidence in his talents, but he would never be arrogant enough to be able to stand side by side with Xiao Jiasui, Xu Guanzhong and others, at least he didn't dare to think so at the moment, so he was really a little afraid of the trust that Gu Haotian gave him, and he didn't care about the hot weather these days, and plunged into the affairs at hand.

Since Hedong and Kanto brought a total of more than 1,500 people, and there were no new recruits in Hebei recently, there was no source of soldiers in the manor for a while, Shi Jin and others all followed more than 1,000 recruits into the training camp.

In June, Liangshan Manor lived a relatively peaceful life, but the world of the Great Zhou was not peaceful. The intelligence department got a piece of information a few days ago, Fang La in Jiangnan seemed to have signs of trouble, Gu Haotian was going to see it himself, but the senior brother Lu Junyi said that he had nothing to do, so he would go first, he thought it would be appropriate to let him go, so he explained a few people to pay attention to, and went with him.

In the meantime, a major event also occurred in the north, in early June, the Jurchens and the Liao people fought a big battle in Wu'an Prefecture, the Liao people were defeated, and only 30,000 of the 100,000 army remained, and a large area of land in Wu'an and Chengzhou was also lost.

According to the news sent back by Zhu Gui, after the high-level officials of the imperial court received this news, the call for an alliance between Zhou and Jin rose again, and it was very likely that another delegation would be sent north in the near future.

After discussing with Wen Huanzhang and others, Gu Haotian believed that the Liao State was already at a complete disadvantage after this battle, and if the Zhou Dynasty attacked from the south again, it would not take long for the country to fall.

Therefore, the operation of Liaodong or North Korea must be put on the agenda as soon as possible, and the intelligence department has already sent Xue Yong and Yang Lin to lead people to the two places in the early stage, and they can only wait for them to send back the news before making a decision. Gu Haotian is now thinking about taking the string of islands at the exit of Bohai as a springboard for attack. And it was a very coincidence that Li Bao and Ruan Shuisheng, who were sent to explore the bottom a month ago, came back.

After listening to the report of Li Bao and others, Gu Haotian immediately summoned Wen Huanzhang, the five directors of the Military Administration Department, and the civil affairs and finance

The two Directors discussed countermeasures.

"At present, the situation in the north is changing rapidly, and as long as the time is ripe in the second half of the year, we will go north, but before that, we must take down these islands between Liaodong and Shandong as a springboard for advancement.

The situation in Liaojin had been discussed before, and when they saw Li Bao in the conference room, everyone already understood the theme of today's meeting, and it was not strange that Gu Haotian, who had heard this, proposed to seize the island, so they were more interested in the situation of Li Bao's reconnaissance.

"Those islands off the coast of Dengzhou have been to the Dengzhou Navy Division from time to time before, among which Da Xie Shu Island, Tuoji Island, Qin Island, Wuhu Island and so on are the largest, and now there are about 1 or 20,000 residents, and the rest are Heishi Island, Chenghuang Island and a few other relatively large ones. I walked around that area with my Aquatic Brothers, and found that it had now become a place outside the law, with various forces occupying the mountain, like an independent kingdom. The strongest in it, to the north is the black old four at the head of Huoji Island, who has about 1,000 people and more than 100 large and small ships. To the south is Da Xie Wu Island, which is the Black Mountain Island that was destroyed by petty officials the year before last, and now it has a gang of bandits. What's more, traces of Liao people and Jurchens were also found on several islands in the north. None of these forces are very powerful, and with the current strength of our manor, it will not be difficult to sweep them away. It's just that the island is barren, and if it is difficult to supply the garrison army, I have discussed with the aquatic brothers on the way to seize Dengzhou as a supply base. At present, Dengzhou's armament is deserted, and it is effortless to take it, and it has geographical advantages, even if the imperial army comes to attack, in case the enemy retreats to the island. If this move becomes a benefit, there are three advantages, one is to take the wealth of Dengzhou as a supply for the army and reduce the pressure on the manor, the second is to recruit the fishermen of the island and Dengzhou to strengthen the strength of the navy, and the third can be used as a place for the troops, whether it is north to Liaodong or east to Korea in the future, it is more convenient than Liangshan. ”

Li Bao is worthy of the famous general's embryo, and his words are reasonable, reasonable, and well-founded.

Xiao Jiasui immediately praised: "Camp Commander Li is so courageous, this Dengzhou is a must-have, but the imperial court doesn't need to worry at all, it has nothing to do with Tianhu and Wang Qing cutting land and becoming kings in Hedong, Huaixi and other henchmen, not to mention Dengzhou, a promontory land." Besides, if the imperial court attacks Dengzhou, how can it cross the hurdle of our Liangshan, in my opinion, it is better to take Mizhou and Laizhou as the foundation. ”

Everyone couldn't imagine that these two people had the audacity to make such a bold suggestion, but after thinking about it carefully, it was not unreasonable, the strength of Liangshan Manor was always several times stronger than Wang Qing, Tian Hu and others, so why should they do Liangshan! At one time, the main points of discussion were all focused on Dengzhou, and those islands seemed to be in the middle of nowhere.

Although Zhao Ding was a literati, his courage and vision were not inferior to military generals, and when he saw that everyone was talking about how to divide Dengzhou, he said:

"I thought Dengzhou could be taken, but it could be done in another way, now that the Yan Junqing brothers are serving in Muping, we just need to get the prefect away, and then try to push him up, and then slowly install the manpower of Liangshan Manor, so that we can control Dengzhou, and it won't be too eye-catching, why not."

"Director Zhao's method is very good, if it is directly occupied, although it will not be very difficult, but it will definitely cause friction with the surrounding states and counties, and it will involve the energy of the manor. If this method is successful, it can actually control Dengzhou without attracting the attention of the imperial court, which is really the best of both worlds. ”

Wen Huanzhang was calmer, listened to Zhao Ding's plan, and immediately spoke in favor.

Gu Haotian also agreed with this policy, Dengzhou not only had Yan Junqing at this time, but also his fellow disciple Sun Li, and he would create a pirate at that time

The attack on the city removed all the people who were in the way in the government, and then pushed this Wen Yiwu to the throne, and Dengzhou would not fall into his hands. So he set the tone and said:

"This matter will be done according to what Director Zhao said, Director Gongsun wants to bother you to go to the capital in person, find Brother Zhu Gui, try to put some effort on Cai Ying, and when we succeed in Dengzhou, let him go to the relevant yamen to help dredge it, so that Brother Yan Junqing can take over smoothly. In addition, let Shi Qian and Zou Run go to Dengzhou together, we also had some friends over there, let's find out first. The General Staff Office took the lead in drawing up a plan for operations in Dengzhou and the islands off the coast, and the operation was launched in early July. ”

Everyone saw that Gu Haotian had made a choice, so they no longer objected, but after all, this battle was not the same as before, but it was a real action to expand the territory, and it could be said that Liangshan Manor took the first step towards the goal, so everyone was extremely excited, and they surrounded Xu Guanzhong one by one to give advice.

After the establishment of the General Staff Office, with the conscious support of Gu Haotian and through several combat attempts, it has slowly begun to operate normally.

Gu Haotian did not participate in the discussion, but looking at the scene in front of him, he was relieved, he thought that when this mechanism matured, he would set up similar institutions in various battalions, but now there is a shortage of talents, including politics, logistics, etc. It is necessary to set up the martial arts hall as soon as possible, he thought to himself, but the master and his old man did not know when he would be able to come back. Then he returned to the office of Zhonghua Hall, wrote two letters to Sun Li and Yan Junqing, and called Shi Qian with Bian Xiang, explained carefully, and asked him to go to Lijiadaokou to call Zou Run to set off first.

As soon as the meeting in the Zhonghua Hall ended, the battalions outside immediately knew that there was another big war in the manor, and the battalion leaders went to the staff office one after another to inquire about the news, but all of them were closed, so some people turned to Gu Haotian without giving up.

Shi Wengong's reasons are very sufficient, he said that the island battle, the large army is useless, it is suitable for his special battalion, and they have been practicing for nearly two months, so they should also be pulled out to try. Gu Haotian also wanted this team to go to actual combat training, because the special forces themselves were set up to fight under special conditions, but he didn't know what their underwater skills were, so he said that after all, they fought in the sea, and if they could support them in the sea for half an hour, he would take them there. Shi Wengong patted his chest and went, and the next day the special battalion followed the fleet that went to Laizhou to transport salt and went to conduct sea training.

Within a few days, the General Staff Office put forward a plan for the operation, and then, after several discussions, the plan of action, called the "July Storm," was finally decided. Then the manor dispatched troops, and the soldiers attacked separately in two ways.

Gu Haotian personally led the way, Xu Guanzhong followed, including the personal guard battalion, the special battalion, the third infantry battalion of Ma Xun and Shi Xiu, the eighth infantry battalion of Wu Song and Lu Cheng, and the tenth infantry battalion of Li Kui and Bao Xu. Therefore, bringing two horizontal knife battalions is to consider island combat, which is conducive to the play of long knives. The two sailor battalions only transferred the third battalion of Ruan Xiaoqi and Bu Qing's sailors and the fifth battalion of Li Bao and Ruan Shuisheng, because the sailors of the seventh battalion now account for three and a half of the sailors at Lijiadaokou, Yinmachuan, Yanchang, and Beidi Maima, and the plan of the staff office is to transfer Li Jun's sixth battalion of sailors to participate in the battle after going to sea, so that it can reach three, which is barely enough.

The second route was led by Xiao Jiasui and Wu Yong, and led the three cavalry battalions of Xu Ning and Zhou Jin and the eight cavalry battalions of Luan Tingyu and Huang Xin to Dengyun Mountain by land, and then cooperate with the action.

On July 2, the auspicious day of the zodiac, Gu Haotian led the First Route Army to set off first, and nearly 10,000 troops went straight to the Liaohai Sea.

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