Cai Huaze followed Billy Zhou every day and was instilled with all kinds of messy things by the head of the Far Eastern Special Agent. Xiao Cai looked extremely excited every day, as if he had been beaten with chicken blood.

A few days later, Zhou Billy sent Cai Huaze away, asked him to go to Shandong to recruit some henchmen, and then go to an island off the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which was a stronghold of Song Shiping at sea. Zhou Billy is going to set up a training base there, and he will personally train Cai Huaze and others, and will also brainwash them in all directions, and have the posture of exporting revolution to the Ming Dynasty.

Song Tao didn't care about this, and let Zhou Billy toss. With the seed of Cai Huaze, it is estimated that in the near future, Shandong will also be a state where a spark can ignite the prairie fire.

With the establishment of the Far Eastern Commercial Bank, it represents a complete success of the rescue team's operation. The Far Eastern Company has finally laid a nail in the hinterland of the Central Plains of the Ming Dynasty. Luoyang has a superior geographical location, convenient water and land transportation, west of Qinlong, north of Youlan, south of Jianghuai, east of Qilu. The establishment of an intelligence station here is of great significance to the Far Eastern Company.

Song Tao handed over the affairs here to the company's intelligence department, and then took the members of the rescue team to sail along the Yellow River by boat and returned to the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Returned to Vladivostok on two Cessna 208 amphibious planes.

At this time, it was already early winter in Vladivostok, and the weather was unusually cold. Gao Jianguo, Li Ming and others braved the bitter cold and personally went to the airport to greet the rescue team.

They came to the Military Commission, and Song Tao, on behalf of the rescue team, reported to everyone on the situation of their trip to Henan. After listening to Song Tao's report, Gao Jianguo said with a smile: "This rescue team has done a lot of work in Henan, and successfully established a foothold in the hinterland of Daming, which is of great significance to the company." Next. The Ministry of Intelligence will intensify its efforts to establish the Luoyang Intelligence Station, and on this basis, it will strive to establish a perfect intelligence system in Daming in the next few years. ”

Song Tao said with emotion: "This operation mainly relies on Zhou Billy's overall planning. That's what makes our actions so successful. He did not come back with us, but set up a training camp on the coastal islands of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to train Cai Huaze and other key members of the Shandong Wenxiang Sect, and was preparing to export the revolution to Daming Shandong. ”

Everyone laughed out loud when they heard what he said.

Li Ming also smiled and said: "If he does this, I'm afraid Shandong will be chaotic again." I just don't know if Cai Huaze can help him up. If he has this ability, he can really become a good knife for us in the Far East in the future. ”

Qiao Haipeng nodded and said: "Lao Zhou's idea is good, in the future, we will sweep away the Tartars in Liaodong, and the work of the eastern side of the Ming Dynasty will be particularly important." It's time to prepare for a rainy day. ”

Gao Jianguo nodded and said, "Shandong, let Zhou Billy toss." Anyway, we can rest assured that he is doing things. Let's take a look at the future battle plan against Liaodong. ”

Everyone walked to the sand table in the eastern Liaodong region, Gao Jianguo took a baton, pointed to several positions, and said in a deep voice: "The General Staff Office of the Military Commission is formulating a detailed battle plan. We named this battle plan the Pingliao Plan. The entire Pingliao plan is divided into two stages: preparation and implementation. In the spring of next year, the company will establish the Eastern Theater Command in Ningguta and the Western Theater Command in Lushun. After the establishment of the two commands, they officially entered the preparatory stage for the Pingliao War.

The Western Theater will be composed of the Far East Field Division, six overseas brigades, one Death Army Wing, and three Death Army Brigades, with the Navy Department, the Air Force Department, and a number of units directly under the Central Military Commission. As a combat and logistical support unit. The Eastern Theater will be dominated by the Mountain Brigade, three garrison brigades, 50 musket militia companies, and 30,000 indigenous militiamen, with the Air Force Department and a number of units directly under the Military Commission. As a combat and logistical support unit.

Strive to complete the preparatory stage of the plan next year, complete the deployment of all the troops participating in the war and all kinds of materials needed for the war, and enter the implementation stage of the plan next spring, launch an attack on the Later Jin regime in Liaodong, and strive to eliminate the main force of the Later Jin regime before the winter of 1633. Of course, this is only our preliminary plan, and we will supplement and improve it according to the actual situation. ”

Li Yukun thought for a while and said, "In September. Our logistics department joined several departments of the company's ethnic committee and went to Ningguta for inspection. Preparations are made for the establishment of a logistics branch next year. There we find the Huerha River, which flows through Ningguta, that is, the Mudanjiang River of modern society. The amount of water is much more abundant than in later generations.

Perhaps our Pingliao plan can make use of the waterways in the Outer Northeast to transport troops and materials in this era, which will greatly ease our logistical pressure. ”

As he said this, he turned around and took out a stack of papers from the briefcase behind him, and distributed them to everyone.

"This is the map of Liaodong and Nuergandusi during the Ming Dynasty that I recently found in the company's database. From the distribution of the rivers shown in the map, compared with the map of modern society, it will be found that there is a big difference in the distribution of rivers between the two eras. Modern society may not be able to meet the needs of a river for water transportation, and in this era it may be a river with abundant flow.

Please look at the Huerha River that flows through Ningguta, go north to Huerhawei and enter the Songhua River Basin, then pass through Hasansuo and Jianluwei, and then go south through Binzhouwei, you can go directly to Jilin Wula City. Further south, it enters the Gray Pao River Basin, and goes west to reach Huifa City, which is only more than 200 kilometers away from Shenyang.

This waterway is simply impossible to achieve in modern society, because the soil and water conservation situation in many places in modern society is very poor, resulting in many sections of the river can not meet the needs of ships, coupled with the various large and small hydropower stations along the road, making it impossible to take a boat from Ningguta to get there directly.

But in this era, it is completely different, and we are also trying to move west by water in the eastern theater. I roughly calculated that if this waterway can be opened, the whole journey will be between 1200-1500 kilometers. We can build a shipyard on the banks of the Huerha River in Ningguta to produce some steam-deck barges.

The tonnage of the deck barge can be determined according to the hydrological conditions along the way, and the speed of the steam deck barge on the water is 5 knots, and the whole journey only takes about 6 days at most to reach Huifa City. According to a steam tugboat, towing ten barges, each team of barges can transport dozens of tons of supplies. ”

Everyone listened to Li Yukun's words and was very excited. If this waterway can really be opened, it will greatly alleviate the various problems caused by the complex mountainous environment in the Eastern Theater, and the logistical supply problem will no longer exist.

Li Ming took the text and looked at it for a while, and then said: "We can also inspect the Hunhe River in the south of Shenyang and the Puhe River in the north in the Eastern Theater. You can take a boat from Yingkou to enter the Liao River, pass to Changdingbao to enter the Taizi River Basin, and enter the Hunhe River in the Chang'anbao area. You can also enter the Hara River and the Langpu River in the Pingshantai area, and enter the Pu River in the Changyongbao area.

In this way, the troops of the two routes can land in the north and south of Shenyang and form a flanking attack on Shenyang. We can also take a boat from the Hunhe River to Fushun, Deck, Salhu, Jiefanzhai and Qingyuan. From the Liao River to Tieling, and then from the Qingyuan Pass to the Daqing River to Kaiyuan, blocking the route of the Tartars fleeing north.

It's just that I don't know if the hydrological conditions of these rivers in this era can meet the navigation needs of ships. Lao Ding, you can arrange for the intelligence officers in Shenyang to investigate these rivers, and the numbers should be detailed, and it is best to hire a boat to walk on these two waterways. ”

Ding Xinghao nodded and said, "I will send a report to Shenyang in a while, and arrange for the intelligence personnel lurking in the mansions of Ao Bai and Fan Wencheng to conduct on-the-spot reconnaissance on the two waterways respectively to ensure the accuracy of the numbers." ”

Gao Jianguo said excitedly: "Lao Li's construction is very good, we really ignore this problem, most of the river conditions in modern society cannot meet the navigation of ships, but it is not necessarily in the late Ming Dynasty." The Grey Pao River will flow far west to Huifa City, and if the hydrological situation allows, we can take a boat all the way to the west of the mouth of the Mei River in later times. It is only a little more than 100 kilometers away from Shenyang.

Moreover, there are a large number of villages and tribes of the Houjin Tartars living in that area, and we can completely solve the supply of food and materials in the local area in the way of war and warfare. It was also possible to rely on captured horses and a large amount of horse material to create conditions for the suddenness of the battle for the eastern attacking forces.

Starting next spring, Song Tao will take the soldiers of the mountain regiment, disguise themselves as tartars, and take a boat in Ningguta along the Huerha River, Songhua River, and Gray Pa River. I brought a few staff officers from the staff office to inspect this waterway in detail. ”

Song Tao nodded and said: "If this waterway can meet the needs, should we establish a few coal supply points along the way, the steam tugboat will run down more than a thousand kilometers of waterway, and the coal carried by the ship will not be able to." ”

Li Ming nodded and said: "This is indeed a problem, just when you go to investigate, you should inspect it according to the location where the coal mines are located in various parts of modern society." You can also bring some goods and trade with the tribes along the way, looking for a few suitable places to stay. ”

Qiao Haipeng thought for a while and said, "Then this year, should we let the shipyard design the steam deck barge?" Next year, the construction of the Ningguta shipyard will also be accelerated, and once the hydrological situation allows, we will certainly need no less number of inland steam-deck barges. The deck barges in the Western Theater were built in Lushun, so that a lot of costs and time could be saved. (To be continued)

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