At this time, it was the time when the land of Tokyo Road in Liaoguo was the most frozen, and on the narrow corridor of Liaoxi, there was only a piece of snow white when you looked far away. Although the wind was as cold as a knife, the march was quite smooth. On this corridor connecting Yandi and the Great Plains of Liaodong, a long red dragon is rolling forward. Infantry, cavalry, baggage soldiers, and eight horses pulled a 1,300-pound bronze cannon equipped with a long-tail artillery carriage (this is the latest type, a field cannon with a truncated barrel and an iron hoop), and auxiliaries driving mules and horses, all the way to the northeast.

Although the weather was cold, the soldiers on the march were not afraid at all. They all wore old wool sheepskin jackets to protect them from the cold, rabbit fur ear caps on their heads, suede boots on their feet, and scarves around their necks. This outfit is probably the most reliable winter dress of this era. However, these clothes do not all come from the inventory of the Youzhou Republican Government, which has never thought of equipping an army of hundreds of thousands of people!

Most of these winter clothes were donated by 80,000 or thousands of Youzhou citizen households. Of course, there are also those who have been donated! However, most of them should be voluntary.

Now the whole territory of Youzhou is united in resisting Liao, and the newspapers are full of articles inciting hatred against Liao. The teahouse is full of storytellers with the theme of anti-Liao, and on the stage in the hook column, there are also various anti-Liao plays. There are also various charity performances and charity sales, and various donations. The whole is to work together, to hate the same enemy, to have money to contribute, and to make a strong contribution.

If anyone dares to contradict him, he will definitely be regarded as a Khitan spy...... The Lord and something, non-existent, the people of Youzhou are determined to destroy Liao!

Even the Senate Daxiangguo Temple faction, which has always been at odds with Wu Haogu, has behaved almost the same as the militarist faction this time.

Except for Patriarch Lu Zhishen, the rest of the patriarchs of the Great Xiangguo Temple faction sent at least one son or grandson to join the army! They bought more than half of the 10 million yuan war debt, and they didn't pay any interest. It's really patriotic, oh, it should be Aizhou!

It seems that a rudimentary civil society is still very powerful! And it exceeded Wu Haogu's own imagination...... Anyway, he had never seen such aggressive citizens of Beijing, Tianjin, and Tangshan in later generations.

Isn't it the 200 acres of black soil in Liaoning Province? As for that crazy?

Wu Haogu, who was shocked by the patriotic passion of the people of Youzhou, is now personally leading this great army that cannot be seen from the beginning to the end.

He wasn't worried at all that Youzhou would change after he left. Because of the more than 300,000 "volunteers," the General Military Machinery Division of the Youzhou Army is very relaxed in the allocation of troops. It is possible to leave enough reserve troops in Youzhou itself, and those who are left behind are mostly veterans - the veterans are already knights and government soldiers, and their fighting enthusiasm is no match for the "hungry" recruits, let alone the student army brainwashed by republicanism.

Moreover, knights and government soldiers had to pay money to go out to fight. From an economic point of view, the General Military Machinery Department will also mobilize as many recruits as possible to fight in Liaodong. At the same time, the four veterans, mainly the veterans, will stay in Youzhou to take care of their families.

Now following Wuhao Gu out of Yu Guandong are nine infantry generals who are mainly recruits and student soldiers, with a small number of veterans and officers as the backbone, a cavalry general who is mainly a second-generation fake knight and a young knight, plus an engineer department and an artillery department (the department is equivalent to a regiment). Because none of the nine infantry generals were equipped with cavalry battalions, engineer battalions, or artillery battalions, the total number of soldiers of the nine infantry generals was more than 42,000 men, and the total number of auxiliaries responsible for transporting baggage was about 60,000. The cavalry generals, the engineering department, and the artillery department were all fully staffed, with a total of 14,000 men.

Therefore, the ten generals who followed Wuhao Gu out of Yuguan had a total of 74,000 people and carried 27 cannons.

In addition, the troops sent to Liaodong by sea one after another also had eight infantry generals, two cavalry generals, and two independent artillery departments. Among the eight infantry generals, the artillery battalion and cavalry battalion are temporarily absent. Therefore, the number of troops (including auxiliaries) was only more than 55,000. Two cavalry generals and two artillery divisions were fully manned. Including them, the total strength can reach more than 78,000 people, with 54 cannons.

The total strength of the Youzhou Army this time has exceeded 150,000 people, and 81 cannons have been dispatched.

In this era, it can definitely be regarded as an unprecedentedly powerful force!

In addition to them and the four generals who stayed in Youzhou to watch their families (with a total strength of more than 30,000 people), there were nearly 200,000 people who were trained in the local barracks in Youzhou and were waiting for equipment. If they all complete their training and armament, they can form more than twenty generals...... Pingliao exterminated the Song Dynasty, I don't know if it's enough? But it is more than enough to eat the Liaodong Peninsula, the Liaohe Plain and the mountains and corridors of western Liaoning.

Wu Haogu rode on a horse, and braved the cold together with Zhao Zhongge, the head of the Liaoxi Soldiers and Horses Division, and a group of military machines. He was accompanied by two heavily armed women, Olga and Luohan. Although there was a lot of wind and dust along the way, and he also suffered a lot of wind and cold, he couldn't hide the radiance on Wu Haogu's face.

Around his column of soldiers and horses, there were all infantry marching with their heads bored, carrying heavy wagons and chariots. Now the weather was cold, but the roads were also frozen hard, and all the rivers were frozen, which made it easier for the artillery wagons and baggage wagons to move.

In addition to the sound of marching, I occasionally heard the voice of the officer mobilizing and cheering: "We beat Liaogou by surprise this time!" Let's work hard, let's pounce on the city of Laizhou today, don't let the Liao dog run away! ”

"We have a lot of soldiers, Liaogou dare not go out to greet them, and they can only defend the city if they don't have time to escape, and when the cannon bombards, the city will be ours!"

"Laizhou is a festival state, the state city is quite large, and there are rich reserves in it, if it is defeated, we can have a good Chinese New Year's Eve."

The queue sounded with the echoing voices of Yandi and Cangzhou accents, and the tone was all relaxed and happy. Just as the officer said just now, Wu Haogu went out of Yuguan in winter, and he did take the Liao soldiers who came to the state to return to the German army by surprise. Runzhou and Qianzhou (later Qinhuangdao), which were under the jurisdiction of the German army, were all surrendered by Kaicheng as soon as the cannon was fired. The reserves of the Liao army in the city were all returned to the republic. However, these two states are too small and do not have many troops stationed, so naturally there are no reserves.

But Laizhou is a state military station, and there must be a lot of reserves. If you can take it down, you can rest for a few days, and by the way, you can have a good year, and then go to Xizhou, Yanzhou (the state city is on Juehua Island) and Jinzhou in the spring of the third year of Zhenghe. After taking Jinzhou, he will be able to rely on the power of the Ma family to control Xianzhou and the Yiwulu Mountain Range. The Yiwulu Mountains are like a city wall facing the Liaohe Plain. If you control the Yiwulu Mountain Range, you will have a shape victory, which can block the six armies of King Xi attacking eastward from the Daling River Valley. It can also be relied on as a stronghold and go east to the Liaohe Plain.

The three horsemen with the "world for the public" flag on their backs galloped over, and the guards of the Soldiers and Horses Division Column exchanged orders, and then ran in the direction of Wu Haogu and Zhao Zhongge, and the three cavalrymen were smeared with antifreeze lard on their faces, and they were sticky with wind and dust, and they looked gray. The first to ride was a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy, who was Wu Yixin, the second son of Wu Haogu.

This kid is also the same as his brother Yiyong, who was raised by Ximen Qing to be a wild child (obviously the fault of the Six Arts Education System), only thirteen or fourteen years old, and he also thought about killing people and setting fires. However, Wu Haogu did not give him the opportunity to be a young murderer, and instructed Wu Tian to arrange an errand for him to pass on the horse.

The boy restrained his horse in front of Wu Haogu and Zhao Zhongge's horses, bowed his hand, and then reported loudly: "General Wu Zheng reported to General Zhao that the vanguard of the third general of the cavalry arrived outside the city of Laibin County (Laizhou's state rule) around the end of the day, and did not encounter the Liao people to stop the horses. The four gates of Laibin County are closed, and the city is fortified! ”

Although Wu Haogu is a pro-conquest this time, he will not break the command system and personally take care of the affairs of the Liaoxi Terracotta Division. If you win, you will not increase your prestige, and if you blindly command and defeat, you will be embarrassed. Therefore, the military command was given to Brother Zhao Zhong. Wu Tian, the general of the third cavalry general, according to the order, only needs to report to Zhao Zhongge.

Of course, Wu Haogu didn't come with him to travel.

In this battle of Liaodong, the military and politics were divided into five and five. Lushun's road is naturally military first, as long as Ma Zheng can play a record of stepping to the post, then everything will be easy to do.

And the road of Liaoxi and Liaohe has to give priority to politics. First, how to greet the Ma family of the doctor and the witch; The second is how to deal with the Bohai slaves in the Liaohe River basin - the territory that is said to be good cannot be divided, and it is necessary to fight the landlord with the right surname of Bohai, and the war is certain, but it must be fought justifiably; The third is how to deal with the yellow-headed Jurchen relatives of the arhat maid, which is the most troublesome.

The yellow-headed Jurchen of the Hosu Pavilion Department belongs to one of the three parts of Wanyan. The other two parts of the three parts of Wanyan are the Tiger Water Department and the Ye Lazy Road Department. Among them, the Ye Lazy Road Department has now surrendered to the Tiger Water Department, and the two together constitute the pillar of the Jurchen of the Wanyan Department. And because the place of residence is very close to Liaoyang Mansion, the Wanyan Department of the Suguan Pavilion has long been subdued by the Khitans into a mature woman, and now it has not been attached to the Hushui Wanyan Department.

If this part of the people is not handled properly, there will be a mess, and then it will involve the tiger water to complete the face, and the trouble is not small......

Of course, a military victory is the best solution to all troubles!

Wu Haogu's mind seemed to drift to the Lushun Mansion on the other side of the sea, and he whispered to himself: "It's almost time for a decisive battle, right?" ”

"It should be these days!" Brother Zhao Zhong replied, "Count the days, it should be around the Chinese New Year's Eve...... Ma Zhongfu knew that when we got out of Yuguan, we would set up a decisive battle! Less than 80,000 people fight 400,000, if he wins, Ma Zhongfu will go down in history! ”