After the general offensive of the Central Plains Campaign began, the offensive of the Northern Army was very smooth, and it easily broke through Jizhou Town, Xuanfu Town, Datong Town, Shanxi Town, Yansui Town, Ningxia Town, Guyuan Town and Gansu Town.

Although the border army of the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty is known as the first-class elite and strong army in the Ming Dynasty, it is nothing in front of the powerful Far Eastern Army.

The artillery preparation of the assault troops of the Far East Army was only one round, and the Ming border troops on the side walls of the castles in various passes were scattered in an instant, which made the officers and men of the assault troops of the Far East Army cry and laugh.

Many border troops, led by generals at all levels, took the initiative to open the city gates, then threw down their weapons and knelt in the city in an orderly manner, waiting for the Far Eastern Army to fall.

After the battle began, the Northern Army did not encounter decent organized resistance at all, which made the main cavalry unit of the Far Eastern Army as a surprise attack very fast.

The two newly built cavalry divisions of the East Route Army once again performed a miracle, and in just one day's effort, they rushed to the city of Daming and controlled the main communication arteries around the Beijing Division with the support of the Intelligence Department and the Air Boat Force. Not to be outdone, the troops of the West Road occupied Taiyuan on the first day, and on the third day, they interspersed under the city of Xi'an and completed the siege of the city of Xi'an.

A field division and a garrison division of the Eastern Corps, with the assistance of the Admiralty, landed on the coast near Tianjin, and quickly advanced westward along the Haihe River and the Yongding River in a large number of inland steam-deck barges, joined forces with the Northern Corps under the city of the Daming Jingshi, and controlled Tianjin and the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal.

The overseas divisions of the Southern Army Corps took a large number of inland steam deck barges and inland river engine sailing ships to land along the coasts of Shandong, Nanzhili and other areas.

The main assault force took the inland steam deck barge and the inland river engine sailboat, using the Yellow River, the Yangtze River and other rivers and waterways, all the way into the deep territory of the Ming Dynasty, cutting off the traffic between the north and south of the Ming Dynasty. Part of the assault force also moved north along the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal and took control of the area along the canal.

The Ming Dynasty went up to the court and down to the local government offices, although many people vaguely guessed that the Far Eastern Army was going to attack. But no one expected the speed of the Far Eastern Army to be so fast.

After all, the side wall of the Ming Nine-Border Military Town stretches for more than a thousand miles, and there are dense pass castles everywhere, even if the Far East is strong, hundreds of thousands of elite Ming border troops can always block it for a few days.

In fact, the gentry and officials, princes and nobles and merchants in the capital had already sorted out the gold and silver and purchased carriages full of supplies. As long as the situation in the Jiubian military town is bad, they can immediately take a carriage to Tongzhou, and then take a boat along the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal to Jiangnan for temporary refuge.

But after only one night's effort, the Far Eastern Army had already killed the city of the Ming Jingshi and surrounded the Jingshi. Now those powerful people in the Beijing division are stupid, they didn't calculate that the offensive of the Far Eastern Army was so fast.

Therefore, the Ming Jing Division is also a big chaos, although the Ming army of the Ming Jing Camp according to the nationality of the army of 110,000 strange, but all of them are half dead, the rest of the army, very tired, the arrow is missing, the sound of cannons covers the ears, and the horse does not gallop down. And Si Nong is short of salary, and he is not paid at the age of half a year.

The entire Beijing camp can only barely gather nearly 10,000 soldiers who can fight, but they are all old and weak. In addition, the military generals of the noble families in the city, the guards of the large families are young and strong, and the entire Daming Beijing Division only has a pitiful number of more than 10,000 soldiers and horses.

The offensive task of the Northern Corps is very heavy, after all, the frontal direction of the attack is too wide, and it is necessary to break through the border wall of the Ming Dynasty, even if the border army of the Ming Dynasty is rubbish, but the entire border wall is full of forts, if the Far Eastern Army bites it down one by one, the border army of the Ming Dynasty can always hold on for a moment and a half.

Who would have thought that the Ming border army was so unbearable, and the newly built cavalry divisions that served as the main assault force of the Far Eastern Army crossed the side wall without much effort, and even the theater command could not believe it.

In the middle of the night, along the Daling River, several Guanning iron horsemen were patrolling along the riverside with torches, closely observing the situation on the opposite bank. The Far Eastern Army was frequently mobilized during this period and had already stationed heavy troops on the other side. There are also a large number of flat boats cruising back and forth on the river, so that these nights are not careless.

Once the Far Eastern Army crosses the river, it will be reported immediately if it is not collected these nights, and if it is reported late, it will be killed.

"Han Tou, do you think these Far Eastern troops on the other side can cross the river this time?" A stout man turned his head to a middle-aged man next to him and asked.

The middle-aged man looked like an elite veteran of a hundred battles, and he shook his head with a solemn face and said: "I'm not sure, it is said that the Far Eastern Army can build a pontoon bridge on the river in one day, and our Guan Ning Army still wants to stop people, hehe......"

After he finished speaking, he turned around and shouted to several sturdy men in shabby jackets around him: "Keep an eye on the point, if the Far Eastern Army shows signs of crossing the river, we will withdraw immediately......"

Before he finished his words, he saw a night next to him pointing to the river and shouting, "Han Tou, boat...... Ship ......"

The middle-aged man turned his head to look at the river, and found that a dazzling beam of light swept back and forth in the distance, and a large number of Far Eastern flat-bed boats were heading here, and there was a dull roar faintly, and countless thick black smoke columns almost obscured the sky.

"Let's go...... Let's go...... The Far Eastern Army is going to cross the river......"

After shouting, he took the lead in turning the horse's head and galloped away in the direction of Jinzhou at great speed. The others also beat their horses and followed him. They knew that the Far Eastern Army was going to cross the river, which also meant that the Far Eastern Army was about to launch an offensive on the Guanjin defensive line.

As Guan Ningjun continued to rush back to Jinzhou at night, Wu Xiang's father and son were also woken up from their sleep. The entire Ningjin defense line was suddenly full of chickens and dogs, and bunches of beacon fires were lit, passing along the coastline along the west along the forts, Jinzhou, Ningyuan, Shanhaiguan and other acroplies, Guanyi and Tunbao were all closed with city gates, and a large number of border troops and Guanning iron cavalry rushed to the head of the city to be on strict alert.

The engineer units of the Northeast Field Army began to build pontoon bridges over the Daling River a few hours before the general offensive was launched. Through the efforts of the engineering troops, five pontoon bridges were successfully built over the Daling River before the general offensive was launched.

With the order of Qiang Quansheng, the two Outer Northeast Indigenous Cavalry Divisions temporarily transferred from ******** frantically rushed across the pontoon bridge and galloped towards Jinzhou.

Because Higashino's main force was transferred to the Northern Corps by the Theater Command, it also made Higashino's troops nervous. Most of the main forces participating in the battle landed on the coast of Zhili in the north of the Ming Dynasty on the ships of the Admiralty, so that there was only one garrison division for the attack on the Guanjin defensive line, and the strength was slightly insufficient.

So Qiang Quansheng transferred two indigenous cavalry divisions from the north to the north, and let them participate in the battle to attack the Ningjin defensive line. In fact, it is just to scare people.

The Eastern Corps did not want to fight down the acropolis forts along the Liaoxi Corridor, but still hoped to surrender without a fight, and used powerful cavalry units and fierce artillery fire to scare the Wu family and his son and the Guanning Iron Cavalry into peeing their pants. Of course, once the Shanjin defense line is resolved, the two Outer Northeast Indigenous Cavalry Divisions will not enter the pass. (To be continued.) )