Liu Ji's letter soon arrived in Sun Yuankun's hands, and when he saw the matters mentioned in the letter, Sun Yuankun sensitively realized that this was not something he could decide, and he had to report to Su Tiancheng as quickly as possible, which was already the habit of the officers of the Jiangning battalion, no matter what happened, the first thing that came to mind was not to report to the imperial court, but to report directly to Su Tiancheng.

Sun Yuankun handed over the information that had been sorted out to the dark line, and it was not a piece of information, including Liu Ji's two letters, as well as some of the analyses he made, in this sense, Sun Yuankun believed that Su Tiancheng sent Yan Yingyuan, and let himself and Yan Yingyuan enter the Hetao grassland together, and the arrangements for commanding and coordinating the expedition of the Xibe tribe and the Daurian tribe may not work, and in the current situation, I am afraid that he will not be able to perform this duty.

There is a blessing in the dark.

The Jiangning battalion army plan set off at the end of November, but Su Tiancheng also took into account the influence of the climate, the temperature this year is very low, and if he really prepares for the winter expedition, he needs to make more preparations.

The battle between Taiwan and the grassland is equally important in Su Tiancheng's heart, but the officers below do not have this kind of understanding, most of them feel that the conquest of the grassland tribe is important, and the conquest of the grassland tribe is actually the golden tartar after the conquest.

It is precisely because the officers have such views that Su Tiancheng planned to personally participate in the conquest of Taiwan, and used such an action to tell the officers of the Jiangning battalion that the conquest of Taiwan is, to a certain extent, more important than the conquest of the grassland tribes.

From the current situation, the conquest of Taiwan is indeed not as important as the battle on the grassland, and Su Tiancheng's true thoughts in his heart will not be revealed. It's not that Taiwan isn't important, but the bigger threat comes from the Houjin Tatars.

Before Su Tiancheng set off with the warship formation, he received letters from Liu Ji and Sun Yuankun.

The letter aroused Su Tiancheng's high attention, and also made Su Tiancheng feel lucky.

Su Tiancheng carefully analyzed the letter and found major problems, and he quickly found Qu Qingze, Hong Chengchou, Yan Yingyuan and others.

After everyone read Liu Ji and Sun Yuankun's letters. Su Tiancheng spoke according to the old rules.

"Tell me what you want."

As soon as Su Tiancheng's words fell, Hong Chengchou spoke first.

"My lord, the lower officials think that the battle between the Xibe tribe and the Daurian tribe must not happen, and this will affect our Daming border pass, and even endanger the tranquility of Shaanxi and Shanxi. Xia Guan felt that he could send Lord Sun Chuanting to be directly responsible. ”

Su Tiancheng nodded, in fact, he had already made a decision on this matter, he must personally participate in the expedition of the grassland, and the letter written by Liu Ji and Sun Yuankun contained too much information.

Seeing Su Tiancheng nodding, Hong Chengchou continued to speak.

"Send 30,000 soldiers into the Mongolian steppe to conquer. It seems that the strength is a little weak, Xia Guan suggested. 50,000 men could be sent directly into Mongolia to fight, so that the force was much stronger, and the expedition was also fully guaranteed. Rushed to Uiju and directly attacked the Khalkha tribe and the Han tribe, but now the situation has changed, and the army should not attack from Uiju. Instead, it is necessary to enter the Hetao steppe directly from the direction of Anningbao, so that it is convenient to control the armies of the Xibe tribe and the Daurian tribe, and the three armies will be reconciled, with more than 100,000 people. ”

Speaking of this, Hong Chengchou looked at Qu Qingze, he had already said what he should say.

What Qu Qingze said is different from Hong Chengchou, what Hong Chengchou considered was the smooth progress of the battle, and what Qu Qingze considered was the sensitivity of the Houjin Tartar and the arrangements made.

"My lord, the lower officials are a little puzzled, judging from the content of the letters from Lord Sun and Lord Liu, it seems that the Houjin Tartars knew that our army was going to attack the Mongolian steppe, and I don't know how the Houjin Tartars knew about such arrangements as the Daoists."

After Qu Qingze said these words, a smile appeared on Su Tiancheng's face, this is the detail he needs to care about, judging from the information he has obtained, Jiang Ningying's arrangement this time was known by the Houjin Tartars, what is this for, there has never been such a thing before, it is necessary to find out the reason for the leakage of intelligence, it is possible to make the next arrangement, and from the perspective of time, it is not wise to continue to delay.

"The next step of the arrangement that Lord Hong said, there is no problem, it turns out that the plan is to plan a 30,000-strong army to conquer the Mongolian steppe, it seems that it is not enough, the army that entered the steppe has become 50,000, as for the line of attack, I agree to enter the Hetao area from the direction of Anningbao, and after the three-way army will be reconciled, a unified attack will be launched."

"Judging from the situation that Lord Qu said, the Jiangning Battalion's expedition to the Mongolian steppe, the news has been leaked out, this is for sure, it is precisely because the news leaked out of the Lu, so the Houjin Tatars want to provoke the fight between the Xibe tribe and the Dauria tribe, so that they will both lose, and let our expedition this time, in vain, this kind of strategy is good, now we have to think about how the news leaked out, from which direction it leaked, if we can't make a breakthrough from this aspectIn the future, all our arrangements will be known to the Houjin Tartars. ”

Hong Chengchou and Qu Qingze's faces changed.

Yan Yingyuan's face was still as usual.

Su Tiancheng looked at Yan Yingyuan.

"Lord Yan, what do you think, you might as well say it."

"My lord, the lower officials have some opinions, whether it is accurate, please decide, according to the judgment of the lower officials, the news cannot be leaked from Dengzhou, such a thing has never happened before, it is impossible to appear now, the lord led the army, starting from Dengzhou, recovering Fuzhou and Xuanzhou, such a major decision, did not leak the slightest news of the Lu, and now there is a sudden change, it is basically impossible, the lower officials think that Dengzhou can be ruled out."

"This expedition to the Mongolian steppe needs to start from the direction of Liaodong, so the Lord notified Lord Lu Xiangsheng of Liaodong, so the lower officials believe that Liaodong is a place to leak information, if it can be fixed to the direction of Liaodong, it will be easy to check, and there are definitely not many people who can access the intelligence, except for Lord Lu, the rest are the main officers of Liaodong, as well as the officials of the governor's yamen, if the investigation is carried out against these people, the lower officials believe that the truth will soon be revealed."

A happy smile appeared on Su Tiancheng's face.

Hong Chengchou, Qu Qingze, and Yan Yingyuan were able to make these analyses, which shows that they have been thinking about the problem very comprehensively, and to put it more directly, that is, they can take charge of themselves, and if there is anything in the future, these people can also make accurate analyses, make suggestions for themselves, or make decisive decisions when encountering emergencies.

"Very good, after your analysis, the situation is basically clear, I think Lord Yan's analysis is very reasonable, in fact, to really find the person who leaked the news, you don't need to spend a lot of effort, as long as you continue to give Liaodong some false information, you can quickly find out, this matter, leave it to Lord Lu Xiangsheng to handle, I believe Lord Lu can do it."

According to our analysis, the Houjin Tartars know that we will launch an attack from the direction of Yizhou, for example, they will send a large army to strengthen the vigilance of the Han tribe and the Khalkha tribe, then let the Houjin Tartars be on good alert, we will launch an attack from the direction of Anning Fort, directly attack the Korqin tribe and the Chahar tribe, give the Houjin Tartars a devastating blow, and completely destroy the Houjin Tartars' strongest reliance in Mongolia, When the Houjin Tartar understands, I'm afraid I won't be able to return to the sky. ”

Hong Chengchou, Qu Qingze, and Yan Yingyuan looked at Su Tiancheng and didn't speak.

"Okay, according to this plan, get ready, tomorrow the army will set off, take a warship to Tianjin Dagu, march from Datong, Shanxi to the Hetao grassland, and order the troops of the Xibe tribe and the Daurian tribe to make peace with us at the scheduled time, and the first target of the attack is the Chahar tribe."

"As for the matter of attacking Taiwan, Sun Chuanting is directly responsible, Xiong Zijian and Wang Dazhi assisted, leading an army of 20,000, Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong can also participate in this expedition, the army must take Taiwan as quickly as possible, and the time for them to set off is also tomorrow."

After Su Tiancheng made this arrangement, Hong Chengchou's face also showed a smile, Su Tiancheng personally participated in the conquest of the Mongolian steppe, which was very beneficial to the entire battle.

The operation soon began, the previous 50,000 troops had been waiting in Dengzhou for a long time, and the additional 20,000 troops were directly drawn from the garrisons of Dengzhou, Laizhou and Qingzhou, as for the soldiers stationed in Fuzhou and Xuanzhou, they would not move for the time being, to a certain extent, Fuzhou and Xuanzhou still belonged to the front line, and they needed to directly confront the Houjin Tartars.

According to the swiftness of the soldiers of the Jiangning battalion, it will be assembled in one day, and there will not be too many problems, and these specific things do not need Su Tiancheng to worry about, naturally Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting will handle it well.

Su Tiancheng still has something to consider, that is, how to run Taiwan, although it is said that he is not busy with that aspect for the time being, but he must be prepared in advance, and the officers of the Jiangning battalion stationed in Taiwan must be people whom Su Tiancheng absolutely trusts, and will be responsible for managing Taiwan well and laying a solid foundation. (To be continued......)