Jing Jie's military reports from Fengyang Mansion flew one after another like snowflakes, and Sun Chuanting in Shandong had already shown signs of leading his army south. Huai'an Mansion is still undefended, and if Sun Chuanting occupies Huaishui first, it will be very unfavorable to the Xuanjia Army going north.

In order to prevent Sun Chuanting from breaking through Huai'an Mansion, and he didn't have time to wait for Zhang Ying's arrival, he immediately transferred the first wave of 30,000 reinforcements, led by Ma Lin, the general soldier of Zhejiang who went north to support, and went to Huai'an Mansion to set up camp.

According to the suggestions of Zhu Yihai and Ma Lin, the best place to camp is in Shanyang County, the seat of Huai'an Prefecture, and the village is built according to Huaishui and the Grand Canal to resist Sun Chuanting who went south.

Zhu Yihai's idea is very simple, as long as the core economic area of Huai'an Prefecture is maintained, the Huaihe River and the Grand Canal Basin. As for Haizhou (Lianyungang), Pizhou, Suqian, Shuyang and other prefectures and counties further north, it doesn't hurt to lose them.

Malin, on the other hand, is relatively conservative, relying on the Huai River and the Grand Canal, and with the support of a strong naval division, the defensive situation is obviously more favorable. The so-called guarding the river must guard the Huai, and the generally selected garrison location is in the area south of the Huai River and north of the Yangtze River.

But Fang Yuan carefully looked at the map and knew that if the Xuanjia army was camped in the Huai River and the Grand Canal, then most of the Huai'an Mansion would be lost to Sun Chuanting. What's more, even the flank defense lines of Xuzhou Chigutai, Zhao Quanzhong's department, and Fengyang Prefecture's Jingjie department were all exposed to the Ming army's attack range. If Sun Chuanting adopts a big detour tactic, he can cut off the grain routes of Fengyang and Xuzhou at any time.

If he only defended Huai'an Mansion, Fang Yuan would naturally choose to camp south of the Huai River, close to the Grand Canal. However, the entire three battlefields of Fengyang, Huai'an, and Xuzhou are a whole game of chess, and the flanks of Fengyang and Xuzhou must not be exposed to Sun Chuanting for no reason.

Fang Yuan's choice of camping site was in Suqian, northwest of Huai'an Province. Suqian can not only hold the waterway of the Grand Canal, but also cover the flanks of Fengyang and Xuzhou, and can also form a mutual horn situation with the two places, which can be supported at any time. It is very favorable to the situation of the entire war situation.

Ma Lin received Fang Yuan's military order, and then took 30,000 soldiers to the north along the Grand Canal, passed through Yangzhou Mansion, and went to Suqian in Huai'an Mansion to camp down.

Ten days after Malin led his army to leave Suzhou for Huai'an, the Guangdong reinforcements led by Zhang Ying finally arrived in Nanzhili by sea.

It would have taken only one month to travel by sea from Guangdong to Nanzhili, but Zhang Ying and his entourage walked for nearly two months. Fang Yuan waited for Zhang Ying's reinforcements, and when they counted in the barracks, they were eight thousand less than the scheduled fifteen thousand sergeants, and only brought seven thousand.

If any of these two items are in accordance with military law, Zhang Ying, as the chief general, will be severely punished and even beheaded. Otherwise, why did Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rebel rather than take all the soldiers who missed the time and fled to their destination?

Fang Yuan saw it in his eyes, and silently ordered Zhang Ying to go to the Chinese military camp and ask the reason.

Zhang Ying hurriedly reported to Fang Yuan on the situation in Guangdong.

Because Fang Yuan had previously promised to cede three counties inhabited by the Yao and Dong ethnic groups to Guangxi Tusi, but these three counties, as well as the neighboring counties, still have many Han people living there. With this cession, the long-standing contradictions between the two sides suddenly erupted. The three prefectures west of Zhaoqing in Guangdong Province were all affected.

Zhang Ying originally planned to gather troops and horses to quell the rebellion in Sanfu, but after receiving Fang Yuan's military order to send troops north to support, he could only temporarily abandon the plan to send troops to quell the rebellion, and only went to arrest the barbarians of the Yao and Dong tribes who were making trouble in the counties of Zhaoqing Prefecture, and then led the army north to help the war.

In order to consolidate the defense of Guangzhou and Zhaoqing, it is necessary to leave a sufficient number of Xuanjia sergeants. Zhang Ying selected 7,000 elites from the 20,000 Xuanjia sergeants in Guangdong.

Zhang Ying truthfully informed Fang Yuan of the delay, as well as the reason for the uneven military appearance, and Fang Yuan was also very helpless. After all, it is not as stable as the one that is being talked about, and it is also expected that Guangxi Tusi, Yaomin, and Dong people will make waves in the Shaomin area. Moreover, the national contradiction has been a worldwide problem throughout the ages, and in the current environment, it is not yet the turn to solve the national problem in the south. We can only wait until the north is pacified and the world is dominated!

Fang Yuan pardoned Zhang Ying's sins, ordered the 7,000 soldiers to rest for three days, and then gathered 5,000 of the most elite special operations troops, a total of 12,000 soldiers, and secretly went north. Ten days later, it was stationed in Shanyang County, south of the Huai River.

This Xuanjia army entered Shanyang County, and it was also agreed by Zhu Yihai.

Fang Yuan ordered the 5,000 special operations army, which had the strongest combat power in the world, and the 7,000 elite sergeants brought by Zhang Ying, all of them changed into the military uniforms of the Lu army and handed them over to Zhang Ying.

This elite sergeant of 10,000 people was put into the battlefield as a surprise soldier in this battle, pretending to be the Lu army stationed in Dahewei south of the Huai River. In order to keep it secret and prevent the Lu army from leaking secrets, all the Lu troops of Dahewei were directly driven to Shanyang City, leaving no one behind.

At the same time, Shi Lang sent a small fleet of warships capable of fighting on the Grand Canal and the Huai River to garrison the fortresses along the river from the mouth of the Huai River to Suqian to protect the safety of the river defense. Shi Lang himself led an aircraft carrier artillery formation and began to move north along the coast, attacking the ports along the Shandong coast, and harassing the county towns of the coastal prefectures and counties from time to time.

Of course, if it is possible, it would be the best result to find an opportunity to annihilate the naval fleet built by Zheng Sen in Weihaiwei.

Fang Yuan arranged everything, and then took a thousand brocade guards to the north along the Grand Canal to meet with Malin and 30,000 Xuanjia sergeants in Suqian.

Ten days after he arranged the defense line of Huai'an Mansion, Sun Chuanting's army finally marched into Xuzhou and Huai'an Mansion in two ways as Fang Yuan expected.

The first route was led by Sun Chuanting himself, bringing together the general soldiers Gao Jie, Niu Chenghu, and 70,000 new-style Ming troops to attack Huai'an Mansion.

The new-style Ming army trained by Sun Chuanting was originally a carefully selected and strong man, and he was also equipped with a flintlock pistol that imitated the Xuanjia Divine Gun, and the armor equipment rate also reached 100%. Both in combat power and armament, it is the strongest combat power of the Ming army, and even surpasses the Guanning army.

The capital court allocated a small part of the money for raising troops, purchasing a large amount of equipment, and strategic materials, and the rest was prepared by Sun Chuanting himself.

The silver that Liu Zeqing robbed, as well as the silver obtained by Gao Jie's previous looting of Yangzhou Mansion, added up to at least eight million taels.

Because Shandong had already been devastated by several Manchu invasions, and because Liu Zeqing's land had been confiscated, Sun Chuanting confiscated a large amount of ownerless fertile land and returned it to the public during his four years in Shandong, at least 7 million mu.

Sun Chuanting directly brought these fertile fields into militarized management. In addition to raising 200,000 Ming troops, there is also a sufficient surplus of grain fields produced by these fertile fields.

Sun Chuanting took the opportunity to expand overseas trade and made deals with the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan.

Due to the fact that the Japanese Civil War was in full swing, with the barrenness of Japan's food resources, as long as there was enough food, more ronin samurai could be recruited to participate in the war.

The Shimazu family, as well as several princes of the Nishimori family, imported at least five or six million koku of grain from Kahara over the years. Due to the support of foreign food, almost only women were employed in the entire Kansai region, and the old, weak, sick and disabled men were cultivating and weaving, and almost all men of working age were drawn into the army to fight the civil war.

How could the Tokugawa shogunate, without foreign aid, afford such an expendable style of play? After a year or two, in desperation, he could only find the Ming court for help.

Sun Chuanting took the opportunity to propose the same aid plan as Fang Yuan to support the Shimazu family, exchanging grain, raw silk, and copper and iron ore for Japanese silver and Japanese swords.

Since the Battle of Sekigahara, the Tokugawa shogunate has taken possession of the Iwami Ginzan silver mine, which originally belonged to the Mori family. Over the past 50 years, the Tokugawa shogunate has scavenged at least 30 to 40 million taels of silver from Iwami Ginzan.

Previously, the Tokugawa shogunate had restricted the flow of domestic silver out of the country due to the future fortunes of Japan. But now that the situation of the civil war in the country is worrying, the Tokugawa shogunate can only choose to use the looted silver to start a large-scale transaction with the Ming Dynasty. Grain, raw silk, and copper and iron ore were bought on a large scale for use in the civil war.

In just a few years, the transaction volume between the two sides has also reached more than 7 million taels, and 50,000 swords have also been sold.

Sun Chuanting relied on more than 10 million taels of silver scraped together to create this new Ming army of 70,000 people from scratch.

This new-style Ming army of 70,000 people is the absolute main force of Sun Chuanting's department!

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