Duan Fei had been preparing for this battle for two years, and had prepared a regiment of 3,000 soldiers, as well as 2,000 auxiliaries responsible for logistics and supply. Five thousand people looked like a few, but according to the poor traffic conditions in the northeast, this was already all the troops that Duan Fei could take.

Zhu Hongsan had a total of 75,000 soldiers in five divisions in the northeast, and these troops were all all-firearms troops, plus logistics auxiliaries, and there were a total of 120,000 soldiers in the northeast. At present, the entire population of the entire Northeast is about 2 million, but the Han people in Liaoning account for half, plus more than 500,000 Mongolians, in fact, the Northeast is still vast and sparsely populated.

More than 100,000 people were responsible for guarding the land that was three times larger than that of the Northeast in later generations, and the troops were really stretched. As a dignified general, Duan Fei only had less than 10,000 troops in his hands. These 10,000 people were stationed in more than a dozen guards along the Songhua River and Nenjiang River basins, such as Jilin City, Shuangchengwei, Jianluwei, Sachahewei, and Ta'er Hewei, so Duan Fei could only draw out 3,000 firearms troops.

Unlike other ethnic groups, the ethnic minorities in the Northeast have little resistance to foreign power, and the imperial court does not interfere in the internal affairs of various ethnic groups, so the ethnic groups still support the Han regime.

With the support of various ethnic groups, Duan Fei could send a large number of soldiers from various ethnic groups to fight for himself, these famous ethnic groups were all fishing and hunting peoples, and their combat effectiveness was not inferior to the Eight Banners of Manchuria, which was known as invincible. But it's easy to get people, but it's not easy to get logistical supplies.

According to the intelligence, the Russians are far away in the upper reaches of Heilongjiang, more than 3,000 miles away from Jilin City, and it is not realistic to go by land, not to mention the problem of distance, that is, the military food supply needed for a long-distance march is enough for Duan Fei, so Duan Fei can only take the waterway, that is, from the Songhua River outside Jilin City to the north, enter Heilongjiang, and go up to Yaksa City against the current, which is a good way to save time.

Because of the transportation capacity problem, coupled with the unorganized and undisciplined ethnic minorities, Duan Fei decided to use only one of his own musketeers, and waited for the order to set off after preparation.

In May of the twelfth year of Shenwu, Duan Fei had already been prepared, and the Yamen, the governor of the northeast of Shenyang, also sent the order document, Zhao Guodong ordered Duan Fei to be the chief general of this operation, and He Luohui, the general of Heilongjiang, to be the deputy general. This He Luohui is the He Luohui who was defeated by Zhu Hongsan's new army in Nanchang that year, this guy was idle for a few years after escaping back to Beijing, and was finally reactivated during Zhu Hongsan's Northern Expedition, no way, the mature generals of the Manchu Qing Dynasty at this time are gone, although He Luohui is not very good, but the ability is still there.

However, the defeat of the Manchu Qing Dynasty has been achieved, and Dolgon, the only one who can compete with Zhu Hong, is dead, and He Luohui is unable to return to heaven no matter how long he can fight. He Luohui was captured in the Battle of Jinan and once again became a prisoner of the Ming army. But this time he didn't have a chance to turn the tables.

In the seventh year of Shenwu, after Zhao Guodong occupied the Northeast, he found that it was unrealistic to kill all the Manchurians according to the orders of the imperial court, not to mention the vast territory of the Northeast, that is, Manchuria had been operating in the Northeast for hundreds of years, and it was deep-rooted. If the Han people can kill all the Manchurians today, will they kill all the Oroqen people who are related to the Manchurians tomorrow? So Zhao Guodong wrote to Emperor Zhu Hongsan, can he open up to ordinary Manchurians?

Zhu Hongsan was also very hesitant after receiving Zhao Guodong's recital, when he ordered the killing of all the Manchurians to show his legitimacy politically, but he did not expect that as the hometown of the Manchurians, in the northeast, if all the Manchurians were killed, it would definitely have a negative impact on other ethnic minorities.

At this time, Tong Yangjia, who was inextricably linked with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, also stood up to intercede for the Manchurians, so Zhu Hongsan also ordered to stop the massacre of the Manchurians, and at the same time select some capable people among the upper nobles of Manchuria to serve in official positions, so that He Luohui, as a surrender faction, would enter Zhu Hongsan's eyes.

can fight, have no bottom line, and have milk is a mother, this kind of person is really a suitable person who is full of traitors, so Zhu Hongsan immediately appointed He Luohui as the chief soldier of Shenyang, responsible for cooperating with Zhao Guodong to take over the strongholds of the former Manchus in the northeast.

Zhu Hongsan's measure was very popular, with the addition of the Manchu traitor He Luohui, the Manchu garrisons in various places who were originally hostile to the Ming Dynasty began to lay down their weapons and surrender to the Ming army, and the Ming army was soon able to occupy the entire territory of the northeast.

After the establishment of the three provinces in the northeast in the tenth year of Shenwu, Jilin and Liaoning were both Han Chinese as generals, but Heilongjiang Province, where the government was far away at the mouth of the Heilongjiang River, this choice of general became a problem.

The capital of Heilongjiang Province is in Telin, which has not been visited by Han Chinese for more than 200 years after it was abandoned in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, and now the entire lower reaches of Heilongjiang are the territory of the Oroqen people. The Oroqen people and the Manchurians had the same roots, and it was really inappropriate to send a Han Chinese as a general, so Zhu Hongsan decided to let He Luohui take this position after careful consideration.

He Luohui is a Manchurian, and he can naturally talk to the Oroqen people, plus He Luohui is not a Manchurian royal family, and his prestige among the Manchurians is not so high, so it is most suitable for him to serve as this Heilongjiang general. And the most important point is that Terin is located in the far north, and important materials such as grain and salt need to be transported from the mainland, which can control the ability of He Luohui to stand on its own.

With Zhu Hongsan's appointment, He Luohui took 5,000 Manchurians to Telin at the mouth of Heilongjiang to take office, and became the first high-ranking Manchurian official in the Ming Dynasty.

After Duan Fei reported the battle plan to Zhao Guodong this time, Zhao Guodong felt that the 5,000 people were really weak against the Russians, so he ordered the Heilongjiang general He Luohui to lead his 3,000 Oroqen soldiers to help in the battle. In this way, the Ming army has 8,000 people, although I don't know how many people there are on the Russian side, but Zhao Guodong estimates that it should be enough.

Zhao Guodong is the governor of the Northeast, responsible for the military and civil affairs of the whole Northeast, defending the local area and eliminating bandits, this counterattack is completely within the authority of Zhao Guodong, and the official troops mobilized are only 5,000 people, so Zhao Guodong did not ask the emperor Zhu Hongsan in Beijing, but only sent an official document to the Military Aircraft Department for the record, and then sent Duan Fei an order to act.

Zhao Guodong originally thought that there was nothing, and his authority had been stipulated in the military law, but he did not expect that his official document would cause a big storm after it was sent to Beijing.

Beijing's Military Aircraft Department received Zhao Guodong's official letter in June, and Chen Mingxia did not dare to delay it and hurriedly sent it to Zhu Hongsan for review.

At first, Zhu Hongsan didn't pay attention to it, it was nothing more than the Russians stirring up trouble and the border guards fighting back, and the mobilized army was only 5,000 people, plus the local troops of the Oroqen people were only 8,000 people, which was completely within Zhao Guodong's authority. So after reading it, Zhu Hongsan asked Chen Mingxia to pass the official document to the cabinet and asked the Ministry of Finance to prepare silver, after all, it costs money to fight a war.

However, when the official document arrived in the cabinet, it caused a big wave, and the first assistant Feng Ziyong saw that the border generals dared to engage with foreign countries without the approval of the cabinet and the consent of the emperor, which was a great crime of rebellion! Now that Zhao Guodong dares to privately organize an army to start a war with a foreign country, will he dare to privately transfer troops to attack the Beijing Division in the future?

In fact, this is not to blame Feng Ziyong for making a fuss, because in Chinese history, although the Central Plains Dynasty has always been under threat from the northern nomads, in the vast majority of the time, the northern nomads can only cause some harm to the Central Plains Dynasty in the border areas, but they do not endanger the fundamental existence of the Central Plains Dynasty.

The period when the northern nomads really posed a threat to the Central Plains Dynasty was only the Wuhu Chaohua at the end of the Western Jin Dynasty and the Jurchen tribe at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty.

In addition to the two Song dynasties, there will be large-scale rebellions and peasant uprisings in all dynasties, which dealt a heavy blow to the ruling foundation of the dynasty, some dynasties perished in the peasant uprising, and some dynasties will be greatly injured even if they can survive, and they will not last long, and there are countless examples of this kind in Chinese history.

Not to mention the rebellion of military generals, before the Two Song Dynasty, the generals of the army lost control and were added to the yellow robes by their subordinates, so in Chinese history, the internal precautions of the dynasties were far more important than the external troubles. And this is also the reason why the cabinet is not worried about the invasion of Russians on the northeastern border, but it is very nervous about Zhao Guodong's private deployment of troops without asking for instructions.

Feng Ziyong came to see Zhu Hongsan with a few stinky old men from the cabinet, and asked in the first sentence of the meeting: "Your Majesty, the ministers have discussed, Zhao Guodong dared to raise troops to fight against foreign vassals without the permission of the cabinet and His Majesty's consent, it is really a great crime to conspire against foreign domains, please give an order to your Majesty, let Jinyi Wei hurry to Liaodong, take Zhao Guodong's lock back to Beijing, and hand it over to the Three Law Divisions!" ”

Zhu Hongsan was stunned when he heard Feng Ziyong say this, why did Zhao Guodong break any law?

"Mr. Feng, why did you arrest my Northeast Governor? Did Zhao Guodong break any law? Did someone in the DPRK impeach him? ”

Feng Ziyong was really angry when he heard Zhu Hongsan say this, the old man did his best for your throne, what do you don't know, emperor?

Feng Ziyong bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, since ancient times, it has always been a great crime to lead troops without following the decrees of the imperial court to send troops without permission!" Your Majesty, the warlords of the late Han Dynasty, the warlords of the late Tang Dynasty for more than 200 years, and the frequent changes of emperors in the Northern and Southern Dynasties are all the consequences of the imperial court's loss of control over the generals, so this time Zhao Guodong sent troops privately without the permission of the imperial court, what did he want to do? Do you want to repeat the mistakes of the late Tang Dynasty? ”

After Feng Ziyong finished speaking, several other pavilion elders also endorsed Feng Ziyong, only Tong Yangjia stood aside and didn't say anything.

Zhu Hongsan now knows what Feng Ziyong means, isn't he afraid that Zhao Guodong will rebel!