The Qing army began to press over like a black cloud, and Dongjiang also began to be like a sponge, trying its best to squeeze every bit of energy in his body to prepare for this upcoming big battle.

A huge sand table took a series of tea jars from the past and placed them on the large round table in the conference room, thanks to so many years of construction, the Dongjiang River is a third of an acre of land must be seen, and the horizontal lines that run through the Dongjiang River are full of small green and red flags.

On the corresponding road, there are also hundreds of thousands of people on the trek, the old and weak, women and children, students, shouting and driving oxen and carriages, pulling heavy boxes, all kinds of supplies, and food, and leaving the more rugged and barbaric Hamgyong Road in the northeast.

Just beside them, carrying the newly issued flintlock pistol, wearing the stamped cotton armor spit out by the industrial explosion, with an incomparable solemnity on their faces, one by one the men marched south with a solemn expression.

From the beginning of the crossing, every day is to prepare for this war, and when it really comes to the pressure of the Qing army, surprisingly, Mao Jue is not so nervous, his face is as cold as iron, he looks at the sand table in front of him, and inserts the flags one by one.

"General, do you want to mobilize people first and dig up the official road from Yizhou to Tieshan?"

When he said this, Fan Wenju's heart was bleeding painfully, the Dongjiang River transportation network extending in all directions is his proudest work, it is with these networks, in a short period of time, Mao Juefang can so quickly deploy materials in the territory, gather troops, but now, but now, it is necessary to destroy them with his own hands, now Fan Wenju has no children, but he really experienced what it is like to strangle his own children with his own hands.

Fortunately, looking at the map, Mao Jue shook his head.

"The official road can't be demolished! Indeed, the official road is extremely convenient for the horse army of Jiannu, but our bunker fortress is also built on both sides of the official road of the dangerous expenditure, once the Jiannu invades, with the official road, habitually they will also advance along the official road, just for my bunker group to snipe, if the official road is demolished, not to mention whether the road can be completely destroyed, just Jiannu does not know where to assault the cavalry, it is enough for us to have a headache! ”

"There is also Yizhou, the city wall of Yizhou does not have to be destroyed, the grain can be transported directly in the official warehouse, and the heavy silver cloth can also be thrown there!"

"Master General, isn't this cheap?"

All of a sudden, Wen Mengkong Youde's distressed faces twitched, but Mao Jue, who was picking a little, didn't even blink his eyelids this time.

"As long as the Dongjiang River, silver, and cloth are kept, there will be as much as we want in the future, and Jiannu, even if we allocate 5,000 men and horses to protect this silver, it will be beneficial to us!"

"The last general obeys!"

Even if it was a distressed direct pump, Mao Jue set the tone, and these subordinate generals had to comply, and several heavy generals bowed their heads one after another, especially what made them itch at the root of their teeth, after listening to Mao Jue's battle strategy, Fan Wenju, who was brightly eyed, then added.

"If the general is willing to do it, the lower officer feels that he can order the retreat of materials to slow down, and fill up some of the fortress stations along the way, and build slaves to plunder, and after knowing that there is wealth here, he will not use fire and artillery bombardment, which can be regarded as easing the pressure on the defenders along the way!"

"Yes, you can do it now!"

Holding his fists and saluting, in the eyes of a group of army generals looking at the loser, he saw Fan Wenju hurriedly go out.

"General, why don't you mobilize the soldiers of Kuye Town too! Relieve the pressure on the strength of our army! Luo Zhige, the commander of the Kuye garrison, also sent a letter of request for war!"

Even if he makes a big effort and mobilizes all the soldiers who can fight in the entire Dongjiang River, Mao Jue only has more than 77,900 horses under his command, which is more than one-third of the Qing army, less than half of the people, and there are still about 20,000 guards composed of the displaced people in Kuye Town, but listening to Kong Youde's suggestion, Mao Jue shook his head with great difficulty.

If the wise man does not win, he will lose first! To tell the truth, even if it has been vigorously developed to the present, in the face of the fierce and powerful bandit group that dominates Northeast Asia, especially the Qing army that is still coerced by the 400,000 Mongolian households in the grassland, Mao Jue has no bottom in his heart.

Bayonet flintlock pistol and cannon are not omnipotent, Napoleon's Russian war, the arrogant French infantry made the Russian Cossacks cry dad and mother, even when it came to the Opium War, cavalry was still an extremely important military force, not to mention now, if this battle is defeated and the Dongjiang River falls, then Mao Jue's last hope is only Kuye Town! Although it is difficult to turn the tables, once Jiannu clears Lee's Korea, Dongjiang can only surround an isolated island and rely on the fleet to fight guerrillas, but that is better than the annihilation of the whole army!

"Kuye Town can't move, Fan Wenju will come back in a while, let him prepare, organize the retreat of the old and weak, continue to retreat north, if ......"

"Just retreat to Bitterleaf Town!"

"Tell everyone that their wives, children and children will be in the safe rear, but whether they can make their wives, sons and daughters safe and healthy in the future and keep the land they rely on depends on how they fight!"

"Yes!"

With a sigh, Kong Youde retreated again.

However, Fan Wenju, who had just gone out at this time, was suddenly full of panic and anger, and hurriedly broke in again.

"General! Phi Island!"

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The muscles on Mao Jue's face kept twitching with anger.

What was once empty Phi Island is now empty again! Huanglong, run away!

Fleeing with him was also the military expenses given to him by Mao Jue, 600,000 taels, plus 20,000 stone of grain.

However, at this time, the loss of silver was secondary, and Mao Jue's most chilling thing was Huanglong's attitude.

Whether it is out of the grudge left by Yuan Chonghuan between the two towns, the jealousy of Liaodong Town, or the fact that these tofu soldiers who have been defeated repeatedly on the Guanningjin defense line are really afraid, Huanglong's attitude basically represents the attitude of Liaodong Town, even if they are finally forced by the emperor's order to support Dongjiang, these people are destined to be unable to work.

Mao Jue, I'm afraid I can't wait for reinforcements from Daming!

"General, and this bastard didn't have time to escape! I'm going to press you here, bring it up!"

In the angry voice, Wen Meng scolded and let his subordinates push and shove, but he pulled over a civil official in Tsing Yi, it was actually Qu Shiyun, and now, the eldest disciple of the Merry Sect Leader Qian Qianyi is still angry, being pulled and constantly beaten, and shouting angrily.

"What do you mean by not coming and running away! This official is the Dongjiang Supervisor of the Military Road! Let go of me!"

"Let him go! Why didn't you go!"

Mao Jue waved his hand, and Wen Meng's soldiers on both sides retreated, which can be regarded as allowing this scholar to be dressed properly, his face was full of indifference, Mao Jue was emotionless, and blurted out like a puppet, but Qu Shiyun shouted angrily again.

"This official is the Imperial History of the Prison Military Dao of the Fifth Rank Phi Island! General Mao, your subordinates are so rude! This official wants to impeach you and the Huang Long who escaped from the battle!"

How big is the right to supervise the military road? Look at the battle of Daling River and the battle of Songjin Xing, it can be seen, the battle of Dalinghe, a group of first- and second-grade general generals let a five-grade official Zhang Chun to drive the roar, alive and alive wave annihilation, Songjin War, even if the living Yama King Hong Chengchou, this fierce man also had to do things in the two military departments, Zhang Ruolin and Ma Shaoyu two sesame petty officials forced to take a risk, risked breaking into the boundary of Jinzhou, fell into the Qing army encirclement, and buried the last mobile corps outside the gate of the Ming Dynasty.

This Qu Shiyun was a hole card of Mao Jue before, as long as he said that he would be moved, the troops supported by Liaodong would be able to be dispatched, but now? Liao Bing can hardly count on it, what's the use of keeping him an empty shell?

Seeing that this thing was still bookish, Mao Jue simply waved his face in disgust.

"Come on, prepare a boat and send the Qu Jian army to Lushun!"

It was almost angry, and he was dragged backwards by a few pro-soldiers, and Qu Shiyun roared angrily.

"Mao Jue, you are presumptuous!"

"This official is the military officer who supervises the military and horse affairs under the command of the Ministry of War, if you dare to do this to me, this official will definitely impeach Huang Long with you!"

It's a pity that even if he screamed out his throat, Mao Jue's attention was not on him, looking at the Phi Dao Fortress full of vicissitudes, Mao Jue shook his head with a wry smile.

"The thief went to the empty building, don't be idle here! Ordered the fleet to dock at Phi Island and respond at any time. ”

"The last general obeys!"

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On the other hand, the dark clouds composed of the Qing army were also condensed in the sky, and they did not disperse for a long time, and at the beginning of May, the lively Yalu River side city was completely dispersed, and the movements of the Qing Dynasty were completely clear.

Dolgonhauge led the left wing of Manchuria as the vanguard, commanding the army of 30,000, Matafo, Duoduo, Yue Tuo and others led the scattered cavalry and multi-road division, and the Chinese army was led by Huang Taiji himself, and the previous intelligence was not much different, the three armies of Mongolia, Manchu and Han had a total of 150,000, plus the slave coats that did not count, more than 200,000 troops, and pressed towards Lee's Korea.

As for the reinforcements behind you? The military department quarreled first, Huanglong turtle shrank Lushun, Zu Dashou, who had a life-saving grace with Mao Jue before, and Wu Sangui, the apparent brother, all sent a message, and they were all in a hurry, but there was no order from the military department, "unable to send troops"! Let Mao Jue guard the tower by himself, waiting for the military department to order.

The messenger exchange was more than a month in advance, and the precious information that was detected early began to become worthless as every minute and second was wasted.

No wonder there have been repeated defeats, such friendly towns and friendly troops, it is estimated that Sun Wu is alive, and he has to cry out in vain.

On May 22, Huang Taiji's crusade was officially sent to Dongjiang, and when he received the text, Mao Jue was preparing troops in the Tieshan school field.

Seeing that he was looking at the text written in three languages, Meng Jue's face changed, Wen Meng and other generals did not dare to say a word, and they were silent there, who knew this kung fu, but there was a sudden uproar in Dayingkou.

This time it was really a bit of a shotgun change, and there were more than a dozen brocade guards around him to open the way, and the superintendent Dao Qu Shiyun actually went and returned, and broke in with a high spirit.

"Your Majesty has a decree, and Mao Jue, the deputy general of Dongjiang Tieyi, will quickly receive the decree!"

(End of chapter)