"Wu Jie, this guy, only now did he talk about the front line approaching the Yangtze River moat, which is really a bit undeserved!"

As the emperor who is the most unlike the emperor, Li Tianyang did not wear the dragon robes of all dynasties, and he never called anything in his mouth, which really made people like Hong Chengchou and Wu Sangui feel a little out of shape.

However, it is the original Hongmen capital personnel, but they are more comfortable, at least Li Tianyang is like this, which makes them feel more comfortable, and there are not too many changes.

"Your Majesty, Minister Wu, they have tried their best, and the strength of their first and second armies is only 100,000, and although the scale of the fight is getting bigger and bigger, the loss of the backbone force cannot be replaced by recruiting more soldiers from the captives and people."

"Moreover, the deeper we go into the hinterland and the farther the waterway, the more difficult it becomes for our army's heavy firepower transportation, and the time on the road is often delayed, even more than the time to capture a stronghold."

Wu Chao, as the vice minister of national defense and Wu Jie's deputy, although Wu Jie could not return to Beijing to preside over the overall situation of the Ministry of National Defense because he was on the front line, Wu Chao also did not want Li Tianyang to throw his complaints on Wu Jie and them, which was a misunderstanding of their front-line combat soldiers.

"The Ming Dynasty army, under the leadership of Sun Chuanting, a famous general, retreated step by step, and at the same time cooperated with Zhang Huangyan on the Eastern Front, and cleared the wilderness, so that although our army occupied a large amount of land on the south bank of the Yellow River, in fact, the population brought by the new land was not much, and the need to deploy new occupation points made their already small forces more and more dispersed."

"Hmm!"

Li Tianyang nodded, and also agreed that the situation played by Wu Chao was true: "Then after driving all the Ming Dynasty troops to the south bank of the Yangtze River, let me temporarily stop the army of the Ming Dynasty!" ”

The army of the Hong Dynasty marched on three routes, and the Western Route Army fought until Hanzhong, and the new provinces of Gansu, Ningxia and other provinces have become the territory under the jurisdiction of the Hong Dynasty; Under the leadership of Wu Jie, the middle army fought with the famous Ming marshal Sun Chuanting, competed with the soldiers, and finally forced the Ming army to retreat step by step until the mouth of the Yangtze River in Hubei.

As for Kong Youde's section on the East Road, after fighting a tough battle in the storming of Jinan Mansion, the next battle was under Zhang Huangyan's tactics again and again, and he ate turtles a few times.

After Zhang Huangyan's troops suffered a big loss in the decisive battle outside Jinan Mansion, he no longer fought head-on with the Hong Dynasty army after the retreat to Jining Mansion, but took the elite soldiers drawn from the army and the cavalry battalion to fight guerrillas everywhere, while the Chinese army in his headquarters was evacuating the people and town materials along the way, and on the other hand, relying on various strongholds to fight a stalemate with the Hong Dynasty army, not seeking to win a battle, but to do everything possible to weaken the Hong Dynasty army.

However, Kong Youde and they are not afraid of each other, as the so-called soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, the Hong Dynasty army has never played this kind of vain thing, as long as it is a frontal battlefield duel, they seize the opportunity, then it is bound to tear off a piece of meat from their opponent.

Although the guerrilla team arranged by Zhang Huangyan slipped and tore gaps in the defense line of the Hong Dynasty army again and again, as Kong Youde gradually contracted the defense line, the opponent's activity space was gradually compressed, until it finally converged with Zhang Huangyan's headquarters.

It's just that at this time, more than 60,000 soldiers of the Third Army of Kong Youde in the Hong Dynasty have changed almost again, and it seems that the strength of the army is still more than 50,000, but in fact, more than 30,000 troops are re-recruited from the battlefield.

Of course, the more than 70,000 soldiers of Zhang Huangyan in the Ming Dynasty have lost more than 50,000 so far, but the people are rich and wealthy, and the people who are recruited from the rear can be replenished in a short period of time no matter how much they lose, and they don't worry about the loss at all.

"In the name of the Ministry of National Defense, Wu Jie and the others gave an order to deal with the enemy on the north bank of the Yangtze River within a month, and then rest on the spot."

Li Tianyang is also very distressed about the loss of their army, every time a soldier is sacrificed, why is it not sacrificing the confidence of their Hong Dynasty, it is not too much population, if too many adult strong men are lost, then the pressure on the people below will be even greater.

At least, Li Tianyang is not the kind of person who doesn't know the suffering of the people, although he wants to solve the Ming Dynasty in one step, but he also needs to take into account the confidence of their Hong Dynasty, and he can't forcibly push forward the war regardless of his own strength, which may lead them to the abyss in the end.

"Obey the order!"

Gan Dabiao, Wu Chao and others responded one after another.

"Spring ploughing is imminent, all departments must do a good job of clearing wasteland and farming, I don't want to listen to all kinds of criticism and riots brought about by the people because they have no grain and no one to cultivate."

"The people take food as the sky, and cultivation plays an important role in stabilizing the people of my Hongchao, so I don't think I need to explain it to you one by one!"

"The ministers have already been prepared, and the population of the provinces has been registered, and we have given them land at the same time."

"At the same time, the shopkeepers of my Nanyang Money Village distributed in various counties and cities, with their men and the staff of my village committee and neighborhood committee, have traveled all over the villages and towns in the cold winter when the farmers are slack, and the loan policy of my money village to support spring grain planting and purchase farm tools has also been publicized."

"Our Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Finance have already prepared a budget for this matter, and have prepared more than 20 million silver dollars in advance, and at the same time there are 20 million banknotes in place.

"As early as three months ago, the Ministry of Industry has divided three percent of the steel to make various agricultural tools, which have been transported to the provinces of our country, and then the Provincial Department of Industry and the Department of Agriculture will cooperate to distribute them to the counties and cities in proportion."

"Our Ministry of Agriculture has purchased 1 million stone of grain seeds from Dayuan Island and Luzon Islands, and 700,000 stone has been put into the agricultural departments of various counties and cities in advance, and at the same time, we have contacted the commercial department and colleagues in Nanyang Qianzhuang, and we can start distributing grain seeds at any time."

"As for the remaining 300,000 stone grain seeds, they can also arrive before the thaw in the north, and it will definitely not delay this year's spring ploughing."

At this time, more than half a year has passed since the Hong Dynasty crossed the Yellow River to launch an offensive, and the Hong Dynasty has also arrived in February of the second year of Hong Xian, and it is not far from the footsteps of spring.

With Li Tianyang's inquiry, various departments hurriedly reported the things that had been prepared in advance for more than half a year to Li Tianyang one by one.

At least Li Tianyang now hears that the responsible people of the various departments below are diligent, and they don't need to remind themselves too much, and they have already made all the preparations for spring ploughing.