Jining Prefecture, the capital of Yanzhou, is close to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and as soon as it lands at the port of Jining Prefecture, it is less than two miles away from Jining City.

Before the huge naval division of the Xuanjia Army arrived in Jining City, the two Ming warships in the port flew north as if they were fleeing north. The 1,000 defenders who remained in Jiningwei only resisted slightly, exchanged a few arrows with the Xuanjia army, and then opened the gate of the guard and surrendered to the Xuanjia army.

Jining Prefecture is the military town of Yanzhou Prefecture, when Fang Yuan and Liu Zeqing broke the land of the Eight Banners of the Manchu Dynasty. Fang originally thought that Sun Chuanting would at least send part of his army to defend Jining City and defend the enemy south of the Grand Canal.

Unexpectedly, Sun Chuanting did not send troops to defend Jining City at all, and even without resistance, he directly abandoned this important town in southern Lunan with extremely convenient water transportation and transportation, and put the main force of the Xuanjia Army into the land of Qilu.

The first battle soldiers won without blood, Fang Yuan and Jing Jie led 70,000 Xuanjia troops to advance along the waterway and stationed in Jining City.

Because he might face Sun Chuanting's offensive at any time, Fang Yuan was careful to sail the 10,000-year-old ship, and arranged for 50,000 Xuanjia sergeants to be stationed in the Jining Wei military camp, and 20,000 sergeants to be stationed in Jining City.

Fang Yuan and Jing Jie had just arrived at the gate of Jining City, and the prefect and officials of the Jining Government Office were all in front of the yamen, waiting to welcome the arrival of Fang Yuan and his party.

Since they chose to surrender, Fang Yuan no longer pursued it, and pacified the officials with good words, and issued a military order in public, the soldiers of the Xuanjia Army who entered the city were not allowed to take a stitch from the people, but those who disturbed the people were punished by military law, and they were killed!

As soon as this military order was given, Liu Zhiyan, the prefect of Jining Prefecture, and the officials were relieved and praised Fang Yuan's benevolence again and again.

Governor Liu accompanied Fang Yuan and Jing Jie into the city, and the people of Jining City welcomed them, and they also took out the white-flour buns and wine at home to come to the army.

This kind of treatment of bringing the old to help the young and eating pot pulp was the first time Fang Yuan had encountered it, and asked Governor Liu, "These people were organized by the Jining government in advance?!" ”

Governor Liu looked at the crowd of people, and said with a smile, "No, Regent, the government has never organized it. This must have been the arrival of the regent Tianwei and the spontaneous welcome of the people! ”

Fang Yuancai didn't believe his sycophants, and said with a smile, "The people of Jining haven't seen me, maybe I'll kill as soon as I enter the city?!" Why do you want to come and greet you?! ”

Governor Liu hurriedly said, "The regent doesn't know that in order to reorganize the army and fight in recent years, Sun Chuanting has implemented militarized management in Shandong, and every drop of fat and paste of the people in Shandong has been transformed into military power. The people of Shandong have been suffering for a long time! For the arrival of the regent, it is a long drought and a sweet rain. After so many years of waiting, the regent finally set foot on the land of Shandong, and they naturally welcomed it. ”

Governor Liu's words, at least part of them are true, Sun Chuanting is not ignorant of cherishing the people's power, but only a corner of Shandong, and has been destroyed twice by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, if you don't implement militarized management, how can you raise 200,000 troops, and train a new Ming army of 70,000 people?

Governor Liu went to tell Sun Chuanting in a blink of an eye, which made Fang Yuan unhappy, but the people of Jining welcomed him so warmly, which can be regarded as a personal experience, Yue Wumu Northern Expedition, the people with the old to help the young, the feeling of eating pot pulp.

Jing Jie, who was beside him, suddenly said, "Boss, if there are spies among the people who welcome it, it is really too dangerous. ”

Governor Liu came to his senses at this time, if Fang Yuan died in Jining City, it was estimated that the officials of Jining City would be bloodied by the Xuanjia Army, and hurriedly said, "Regent, or I will order the officials to disperse them!" ”

Fang Yuan shook his head and said, "Governor Liu, if you send troops to disperse these people, it will chill their hearts!" The Xuanjia Army is the division of the king of the Heavenly Path, and it is only a charm and a ghost, how can the mantis arm be used as a car? ! ”

As for the fine wine and white bread sent by the people, Fang Yuan didn't want to refuse the kindness of the people, so he ordered the sergeant to accept all the orders and record them, and then went to the door one by one to compensate for the silver.

Fang Yuan and his entourage rode from the city gate to the Yamen of the Jining Prefect, and the journey was safe.

Fang Yuan's Xuanjia Army rested in Jining Prefecture for two days, and the military report from the front came again that Sun Chuanting had come to meet him in three ways.

On the way to meet Fang Yuan, it was the chief soldier Niu Chenghu, who had led a large army into Yanzhou City, separated by a hundred miles, and confronted Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan had estimated that Sun Chuanting might come in person, but he didn't expect Sun Chuanting to just send Niu Chenghu and a general soldier to come, does this mean that he looks down on himself, or does he have another plan?!

He found Jing Jie to discuss the next step.

Jing Jie digested the military report sent from the front, and his eyes fell on Yanzhou City on the sand table, "Boss, I think Sun Chuanting sent Niu Chenghu to Yanzhou Town to lure the snake out of the hole." If when we attack Yanzhou City, Sun Chuanting sends strange soldiers to copy Jining in the rear of our army, or burn our army's military rations, the consequences will be unimaginable. ”

Fang Yuan was almost in line with his judgment, and also thought that Sun Chuanting would have to send Niu Chenghu to come, and asked in a deep voice, "Third brother, if Sun Chuanting has a strange soldier, where will the strange soldier come from?!" ”

Jing Jie shook his head and said, "Boss, Yanzhou Mansion is a flat river, and it can attack the rear of our army from any point, which is really difficult to judge." ”

Fang Yuan looked at the terrain of the sand table, his thoughts had reached the entire battle situation, this was the largest battle commanded by Fang Yuan, and it was also a great battle that determined the ownership of the world, and its importance was no less than the Battle of Chibi of the Three Kingdoms.

If this battle is won, the road to the capital is a horse and a flat river, and no strong team can stop Fang Yuan's progress, and the unification of the world is just around the corner; If this battle is defeated and retreats to the south of the Yangtze River, the next time it wants to launch a Northern Expedition of a similar scale, it will inevitably be met with anti-war waves one after another in the south of the Yangtze River, and the reunification of the world will be far away.

Fang Yuan asked with a deep groan, "Third brother, we won't attack Yanzhou City?!" ”

Jing Jie thought for a while and said, "Yes, boss, we don't fight Yanzhou City." ”

Fang originally thought about whether to use white phosphorus bombs to tentatively attack Yanzhou City and force Yanzhou City and even Sun Chuanting to surrender. But when he heard that Jing Jie was referring to something else, he was really taken aback, looked up at him in amazement and said, "Third child, what do you think?!" ”

Jing Jie smiled and said, "Boss, this is a general battle in which each side invests 200,000 troops, and the battlefield is the entire land of Shandong. Our vision should not be limited to a corner of Yanzhou Mansion, but to use the entire Shandong as a chessboard and play this game of chess with Sun Chuanting. ”

Fang Yuan saw that he had another trick, and he was also interested, so he hurriedly moved a chair and sat in front of the sand table, and asked, "Third brother, how do you want to play this game of chess, let's listen to it." ”

Jing Jie said in a deep voice, "The art of war is cloudy, and those who are good at fighting should avoid the truth and make it false." Yanzhou Mansion is clearly a trap, and it is the hardest bone, why should we go to fight with Sun Chuanting for this corner? ”

He pointed to the boundary of Qingzhou Mansion and said slowly, "Among Sun Chuanting's three-way army, only this one is the weakest. Of course, Sun Chuanting also judged that Zhang Ying and King Lu were not strong on this road, so they sent Gao Jie, who had a bad reputation, to meet the enemy. ”

"Boss, if we send Zhang Ying another elite division with a small number of people but very strong combat power, and then let Zhang Ying attack Gao Jie, we may be able to win the battle, completely defeat Gao Jie, and break Sun Chuanting's right flank!"

Fang Yuan was slightly stunned, and blurted out, "Special Combat Army!" ”

Jing Jie stood behind him and said slowly, "Yes, boss, as long as you send the special operations army to descend from the sky, you can expect to defeat Gao Jie's troops in one battle." In this war, we cannot hope that the First World War will settle the country, but will gradually encroach on Shandong's territory. At present, he will eat Gao Jie's department first, weaken Sun Chuanting's military strength step by step, and then wait for the opportunity to fight Sun Chuanting's main force. ”

Fang Yuan had to admit that Jing Jie was sophisticated and mature, and this set of combat plans that gradually encroached on the real and avoided the real was enough to promote him to the first-class commander in the world. He may not be able to recruit and train troops a little less than Sun Chuanting, but it is more than enough to command a big battle of 200,000 people.

Fang Yuan didn't hesitate too much, and immediately approved Jing Jie's battle plan, "Okay, third brother, I will immediately transfer five thousand special operations troops, and send another fifty drones to secretly support Zhang Ying, and order Zhang Ying to take the initiative to attack and break the enemy!" ”

For Gao Jie's department, who had committed a lot of evil deeds, Fang Yuan was not ready to keep his hands, and directly decided to use the powerful white phosphorus bomb to verify the power of the battlefield.