On 26, 27, and 28 December, the General Staff Headquarters held three meetings in succession.

Zhao Chen, Yue Fei, Qu Duan, Wang Shu, Yu Yunwen, Wang De, Zhao Zhe and other high-ranking military leaders all participated in these three meetings, and the heads of various departments of the General Staff Headquarters also participated in these three military meetings! The final research, the final discussion!

This time the battle is very important, it is not under the battle of Western Xia, it must be treated with caution, and there can be no mistakes!

On December 29, an emergency mobilization order was issued again in the entire forbidden army! All the soldiers of the forbidden army have made their final preparations, and they all know that they are about to leave within ten days! However, except for the highest-level forbidden army generals, the rest of the forbidden army soldiers didn't know where they were going!

In the blink of an eye, Chinese New Year's Eve has arrived, and although Wugong County is also full of lights, you can see that there is a tense and solemn atmosphere everywhere! Whether it is the soldiers of the armies or the young people of the production and construction corps, they all know that the big war is coming!

It was snowing heavily, and it was late at night, but the officers in the staff headquarters still had no one to rest!

Today is the last day that Zhao Chen has decided, and it is also the time to finalize the battle plan.

Zhao Chen, Qu Duan, Yue Fei, Yu Yunwen and others were all in the battle area at the moment, and they were still standing in front of the huge map.

"Your Majesty, this morning we have just received a letter from Wu Jie, Wu Lan, Li Xianzhong, Liu Qi and others, who have put forward their opinions on the battle plan! But in general, they agreed with the plan drawn up by the General Staff Headquarters! North, we are going to launch the Northern Expedition! In the middle, we are mainly defensive! Jiangnan is a battle that determines the situation in the world! We can all lose in the north and in the middle, but we must not fail in the battle of Jiangnan! Yu Yunwen said.

"I naturally understand this!" Zhao Chen said.

"At present, the battle of Guanshan in the central part of the country and the battle of Jiangnan, all the details have been finalized! Now all that remains is the battle of the Northern Expedition, and according to the plan of the General Staff Headquarters these days, the battle of the Northern Expedition focuses on a quick word! We must take the important strongholds in the north by surprise and separate the two armies of the Jurchens going south from the armies of Hedong, Guanshan and other places! And the Jurchens had already begun to mobilize a month ago, and it would take about three months for them to come from the north! We must get ahead of them! Therefore, this requires extremely high mobility! So, we decided that this time the Northern Expedition was all made up of cavalry! At present, there are 70,000 cavalry in the forbidden army, and the cavalry of the forbidden army is the main force, converging with 40,000 cavalry of the Huanqing army, and a total of 110,000 cavalry is mobilized! These cavalry will go all the way north into Western Xia, and then attack Datong, Daixian, and Yanmen Pass along the grassland from Western Xia, and take all the important passes north of Hedong in one fell swoop! After that, Yue Fei, Liu Qi and others led the army to the north to block Yan Chang and Jin Wushu! If possible, occupy Yanjing! Yu Yunwen said.

Now the staff department is the operations department, the intelligence department, and the logistics department, Yu Yunwen is ostensibly in charge of the logistics department, but when Zhao Chen is not there, he is responsible for managing all the affairs of the staff headquarters! It's just that he is too young to give him the corresponding position! Now that Zhao Chen is here, it is Yu Yunwen who explains everything.

"Your Majesty, the current focus of the discussion is whether these 110,000 cavalry are a little too small and their strength is insufficient? My opinion is to send the 100,000 infantry of the Huanqing Army to the north together and go on a northern expedition together! In this way, the total strength of our Northern Expedition reached 200,000 people! These 200,000 people are enough to cope with the complicated situation in the north! According to the information we have received, although the Jurchens sent two armies to the south, many of their two armies were new annexes composed of Khitans, and some were savage Jurchen armies captured by them! According to the analysis of the Operations Department, the combat effectiveness of both the new annexed army and the savage Jurchen army is definitely not as good as the real Jurchen army, and our 200,000 people are enough to deal with their two-way army even on the frontal battlefield! It's just that in this way, the pressure on Guan Shaanxi is a little great! Therefore, please ask Your Majesty to decide! Qu Duan said.

"Compared with the north and the south of the Yangtze River, the war in Guanshan has been in a secondary position! In Guanshan, we even allow defeat, we can even cede all the territory east of Fengxiang Mansion! So, send more troops to the north! Even so, there are still 500,000 troops in Guanshan, and I think we can still cope with the pressure of the coming war. Zhao Chen said.

"Good! Then listen to Your Majesty. Qu Duan nodded.

"Northern Expedition, with Yue Fei as the main commander, Liu Qi and Zhang Xian as the deputy commanders!" Zhao Chen said again.

Regarding this, Yu Yunwen, Qu Duan and others did not object.

Yue Fei is the military god of this era, and Liu Qi is a famous general in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, and his achievements far exceed those of Zhang Jun, Liu Guangshi and others! If there was a list of famous generals in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, Liu Qi should be able to rank in the top five, second only to Yue Fei, Wu Jie, Han Shizhong, Wu Lan and others! Zhang Xian is the main general of the Yuejia Army, and his strength is also extremely strong!

With the three of them in command, there was great hope of victory in the Northern Expedition.

"In the battle of Guanshan, we still have 500,000 troops, with Qu Duan as the main commander, Li Xianzhong and Zhao Zhe as the deputy commanders!" Zhao Chen said.

Qu Duan is the first person in the Western Army after the cultivation of the Tao, a civil and military all-rounder, known to the world! Li Xianzhong was the first Han general in the middle of the Southern Song Dynasty! The two of them plus the staff headquarters were in Guanshan, and Zhao Chen was also very relieved.

"As for the battle of Jiangnan, it is natural that Wu Jie is the main commander and Wu Ling is the deputy commander! I'm just going to stabilize the situation in Jiangnan with the past! Zhao Chen said with a smile.

It took several whole days, until now, and a smile finally appeared on his face! His heart finally relaxed a little!

During this period of time, the situation in the world has changed, and even Zhao Chen has a feeling that the mountain is overwhelming! Now that he has a plan and a goal, he begins to relax.

"Your Majesty, the army of the Northern Expedition will also set off immediately!" Yue Fei stood up at this time and said.

"Good! I want to say goodbye to the soldiers in person! Zhao Chen said.

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Late at night, in the forbidden army camp in the middle of Wugong County and Fufeng County, the dull sound of war drums began to beat.

The moment the war drums beat, countless soldiers in the barracks got up from their beds.

Then they immediately put on their clothes, and the rest of the clothing, food, and grass they were going to carry were already ready! In the past few days, two emergency mobilization orders have been issued in the army, and the soldiers in the army have long been ready to go to war!

This time the forbidden army is out of cavalry!

At the earliest, Yue Fei led the forbidden army to defeat Wanyan Huonu and capture Guanshan, and more than 20,000 cavalry were formed at that time! After the end of the Western Xia War, Zhao Chen sent 100,000 war horses into Yue Fei's army, and Yue Fei formed 50,000 cavalry! Therefore, the number of cavalry in the forbidden army has now reached 70,000, but 50,000 of them are cavalry newcomers who have only been trained for half a year!

However, although they have only been training for half a year, they have worked very hard! They start training every day before dawn and don't come back until late at night! Each of them has two war horses, and the war horses can take turns resting every day, and they never rest! In later generations, even soldiers had weekends and holidays, but they didn't have any weekends and holidays in the past six months! It wasn't until the emergency mobilization order came down that their training began to decrease slightly, because they needed to conserve their physical strength and set off for battle as soon as the military order was issued!

In just a quarter of an hour, all the cavalry in the barracks were gathered together! All the grain and grass baggage has also been carried on the body of the locality!

After that, the 10,000 cavalry in this barracks began to move in the direction of Wugong County!

An hour later, all the 70,000 cavalry of the forbidden army were concentrated in the south of Wugong County.

At this time, Zhao Chen, Yue Fei and others came to the front of the army.

"Your Majesty is here!" Countless cavalry warriors cheered!

They rode on horses and saluted in the direction of Zhao Chen.

Zhao Chen stopped, his eyes looked around, and the cheers of those soldiers gradually quieted down.

"Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, and tomorrow is the first day of the sixth year of Xuanwu!" Time flies so fast, five or six years have passed in a blink of an eye, and the people of the Central Plains have also suffered for many years, my father, grandfather, and the two emperors of my Great Song Dynasty have also been imprisoned by foreign barbarians for five or six years, which is a huge shame that our Central Plains people have never suffered! Before that, there had never been a king of the Central Plains who had been captured by a foreign barbarian! Zhao Chen said slowly.

Hearing Zhao Chen's words, the soldiers of the forbidden army were silent, but many of them were clenched their teeth! The shame of Jingkang is indeed a huge shame that the Chinese nation has never seen before! Even after a thousand years, it is still infuriating to talk about the shame of Jingkang, let alone now?

"I've decided to put an end to this!" Zhao Chen took a deep breath and said suddenly.

"The last general swears to follow His Majesty to the death!" Yue Fei next to him shouted.

"Follow Your Majesty! We will follow Your Majesty! ”

"We must put an end to this!"

"Drive out the Tartars and restore China!"

There were countless angry voices from the forbidden army! Not only Zhao Chen has endured for many years, but every Chinese people and Chinese soldiers have endured for many years! As a Han Chinese, how can you put such a huge shame without revenge? How can we not drive out the Tartars and restore China?

"Your Northern Expedition this time, deep into the enemy territory, extremely dangerous! I hope that most of you will survive, and I will take you away the dust in the future, and I will drink your celebration wine! Zhao Chen said.

"Your Majesty, rest assured, we will never let Your Majesty down!"

"Your Majesty, we will definitely be able to win!"

"Your Majesty, we will definitely come back alive!"

The voices of countless soldiers were heard again below.

"Your Majesty, it's time for our forbidden army to show its edge! We want to prove to the world that our forbidden army has surpassed the Jurchens and become the most powerful and invincible army in the world! The Jurchens are invincible, and in the future, this sentence will be given to our army of the Great Song Dynasty! At the beginning, Huo Qubing led an army of 50,000 into the desert, and since then the Huns have been in a slump! Xue Rengui fixed the Tianshan Mountain with three arrows, and from then on, the Turks no longer dared to move! I, Yue Fei, also have such ambitions, I will not be under Huo Quzhi and Xue Rengui, and the strength of my soldiers and horses in the Great Song Dynasty is not under the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty! We can match or even surpass them! Yue Fei said.

"Brother Yue, are you okay?" Zhao Chen said.

More than two months ago, when he was in Zhongnan Mountain, Yue Fei was injured, and Zhao Chen didn't know how he recovered.

"I'm in good health! In addition, I am about to comprehend a deeper realm by killing enemies on the battlefield! Yue Fei said with a smile.

"Come, get the wine! I'll give Brother Yue a strong trip! Zhao Chen said violently.

At that moment, a soldier from the imperial camp brought two bowls of wine, and Zhao Chen put one bowl in Yue Fei's hand and took one bowl himself! Two of them in one bite!

Originally, alcohol was not allowed in the army, but Zhao Chen personally gave wine, and Yue Fei would not refuse.

After drinking this bowl of wine, Yue Fei led the army to the north without looking back!

Zhao Chen looked at the soldiers of the forbidden army who were gradually disappearing, but he couldn't help but burst into tears, these are good Chinese men, he knows that after they arrive in the north, they will inevitably have deaths and injuries! For the future of the Han people and the future of China, they are not afraid of life and death, they are willing to dedicate their lives to this nation and this country, they are the most respectable people in the world!

It was not until all the figures of the forbidden army soldiers disappeared that Zhao Chen led a group of people from the imperial camp towards the west.