Although an armed transport ship costs a thousand gold. However, for Jiangchuan, which has almost consumed almost all of his family money because of this expedition, it is still necessary to calculate carefully to see how many ships need to be built.

Of course, you can't do as much as in a game, because it's the real world.

When these ships are built, the personnel on board all need to eat and consume logistics, even if they don't need to pay military salaries, but the consumption of food, clothing, shelter and transportation is not a small amount.

Moreover, after the formation of the naval division is successful, if it fights, it will also consume shells and gunpowder, which also need to be replenished in time, and it costs money.

Jiang Chuan finally took stock of his family background, and finally decided to build thirty armed transport ships for the time being.

At the rate at which the shipyard could build three armed transports at the same time per day, each ship would take one day to complete, and thirty ships would take ten days to complete all of them.

Thirty ships, each of which can transport 400 people, and if you squeeze it, 500 people will be fine, then one batch can transport 15,000 people.

With 15,000 people landing first, it will be enough to open up a safe enough landing ground for the follow-up main force.

In ten days, according to Li Zicheng's advancing speed, it should not be possible to take the capital. Moreover, now, Di Qing's left army and the vanguard army of Shanjia marched together to attack Tianjin Wei.

Hao Shaoqi's 50,000 horses were destroyed, and even if Li Zicheng was sluggish, he would have a new understanding of the Jiang family's army, and he would definitely dispatch heavy troops to take revenge and defend Tianjin.

In this way, the pressure on the capital will be much less.

When the time comes, when the naval division is completed, his surprise troops will attack Jinan from the sea, and Li Zicheng will be attacked by the enemy on his back, and he will definitely be in a hurry at that time, and the troops besieging the capital will definitely be transferred again.

At that time, the right army of Baishan, which is still a reserve, can take the opportunity to attack the capital.

After making a decision, Egawa gave the order to build thirty armed transport ships.

After the system confirmed, Jiang Chuan's account was instantly missing 30,000 gold coins.

It would take ten days to build thirty ships, and Jiang Chuan planned to go back to Shanhaiguan first.

This military port was also named Shanhai Port by Jiangcheon.

On the side of Shanhai Harbor, Jiangchuan left 2,000 guards to guard it, and the engineering battalion was also carrying out some later construction.

It is only twenty miles from Shanhaiguan to Shanhaigang, and it is very fast to get on a horse.

As soon as he returned to Shanhaiguan, Hu Zongxian came over to report to Jiang Chuan on the military situation in the past few days.

"My lord, General Di Qing and General Shanjia have not encountered too large-scale resistance since they set out, and only some small-scale battles have occurred, which basically have no impact on the march of the army." Hu Zongxian sat on the chair opposite Jiang Chuan and prayed.

"What about Li Zicheng? Hao Shaoqi's 50,000 horses were all wiped out, and it was impossible for him to be without action. Jiang Chuan nodded and asked.

According to the report of the scouts of the two armies, after Li Zicheng knew that Hao Shaoqi's headquarters had been destroyed, he really stopped and marched towards the capital and began to make a guard in the direction of our army. In the past few days, the camp of the Dashun army has been heavily guarded, and there are horse exploration and rangers everywhere, and it is inconvenient for our army scouts to approach, so the specific situation is not known for the time being. Hu Zongxian said.

"Li Zicheng's side has stopped, and their Western Route Army from Jinzhou should still continue to approach the capital. Is there any news from the capital? Jiang Chuan pondered for a moment and asked,

"Just as I was about to return to my lord, the people from the Black Ice Platform sent a message from the capital just now. Now the defense of the capital is presided over by Meng Junze, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and was appointed by the emperor as the first assistant of the cabinet, fully presiding over the defense of the capital.

The original cabinet chief assistant Wen Tiren was dismissed, and the second assistant Zhou Tingru, cabinet minister Liu Kongzhao and other Donglin party members were all imprisoned by the emperor Jinyiwei. At the same time, a large number of Beijing officials were also dismissed and imprisoned. ”

"When the soldiers are approaching the city, when they are in danger, these Donglin parties are still making trouble because of their own party interests, and the emperor will not clean up who they will clean up. This Meng Junze is the one nicknamed Meng Cannon, the one who spoke to this king last time during the court meeting, right? This old man is worthy of respect, and it seems that he is one of the few loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty. The intelligence didn't say what the current defensive strength of the capital is? ”

"The defense of the capital is mainly 50,000 Beijing camp men and horses and 10,000 royal forest troops, as well as thousands of soldiers from the five city soldiers and horses, and even the soldiers of each yamen have been requisitioned to defend the city. According to the intelligence, the capital has even begun to issue a proclamation, preparing to requisition the people to defend the city. ”

Hu Zongxian replied in a deep voice, but Jiang Chuan frowned when he heard it.

"Fifty thousand Beijing battalions and 10,000 imperial forest troops, although not too much, should be enough to defend the city. Why do you have to levy the people? ”

Hu Zongxian shook his head and said, "The lord doesn't know anything. These 60,000 horses look like a lot, but they are actually embarrassing. There are many children of powerful people in the Beijing camp, and many of these people can't even pull the bow, so they join the Beijing camp just to mix up a qualification and send a good place in the future. In addition, it is said that there are 50,000 horses, but the situation of empty pay is very serious, and half of the actual number of people is very good. In addition, the Beijing camp has been in the land of Gyeonggi for a long time, and it has been peaceful for a long time, without a battle formation, the training is wasted, and the military discipline is lax, how much combat effectiveness can be left of such an army? ”

"Besides, the Imperial Forest Army, although it is claimed to be the pro-army of the Son of Heaven, the people who choose it are all Yingwu Erlang. However, it is a veritable embroidered pillow, which is only used for honor guards on weekdays, and has never experienced a battle array, which is typical and useless. I think Meng Junze understands this, so he is preparing to recruit people to help defend the city. ”

Jiang Chuan sighed after hearing this, and was silent, knowing in his heart that Hu Zongxian was talking about things. If these armies can fight, it will really hell.

"What else is in the intelligence?" Jiang Chuan continued to ask.

"The others are not mentioned for the time being, only that the eunuch Wei Zhongxian, who is the original Li Jinzhong, sent a message to the lord that he was loyal to the lord, and the lord would definitely do whatever he commanded." Hu Zongxian thought for a while.

"This old fellow is clever, and knows that now he has to hold the king's thigh. Where is the messenger now? Jiang Chuan asked with a smile.

"The messenger has come all the way around the Great Shun Army, and is now eating. The lord wants to see him, and the minister will let people pass on him now. ”

When Jiang Chuan was about to speak, Bai Mu hurriedly walked in and said, "Lord, General Di Qing sent someone to escort two people over, saying that they came from the capital and wanted to meet the lord." ”

Jiang Chuan paused for a moment, I don't know who sent it, could it be the emperor?

But he didn't think long about it, and ordered, "Bring it in." "Who sent it in, and when I asked, I would naturally know.