The situation in Liaodong shows that the expedition is about to begin, as the commander of the Jiangning battalion, Hong Chengchou naturally thinks of more, the Jiangning battalion has more than 110,000 soldiers, but he is the commander of the envoy, and the soldiers he really leads are only in the 30,000 people in Liaodong, Dengzhou, Laizhou and Qingzhou, there were originally 68,000 Jiangning battalion soldiers, this time Su Tiancheng recruited 15,000 soldiers again, the total number is more than 110,000, this is already a huge army.

Staying in Liaodong, this is Su Tiancheng's decision, Hong Chengchou also thinks that he can make contributions in Liaodong, after all, Dengzhou and Laizhou, the main task is to restore and rebuild, and he will not participate in the conquest and fight for the time being, although Su Tiancheng left Liaodong, but everything in Liaodong has not changed much for the time being, and Jiangning Camp is still the boss of Liaodong.

But all this, with the passage of time, slowly changed, after Chen Xinjia became the head of Liaodong, he took the most effective measures, that is, to increase the military salary of the border army and the Yulin battalion sergeant, this hand played a vital role, in the shortest possible time, won the hearts of the border army officers, but also made the border army sergeants more obedient to Chen Xinjia's command.

After the beginning of the year, Hong Chengchou obviously felt that the Jiangning battalion was slowly marginalized, although Chen Xinjia and Qian Qianyi did not directly intervene in the affairs of the Jiangning battalion, but they basically did not pay attention to the Jiangning battalion, most of the tactical arrangements have little to do with the Jiangning battalion, and the many meetings he attended, Chen Xinjia and Qian Qianyi basically talked about the situation in Liaodong, and they talked about the border army and the Yulin battalion.

Hong Chengchou wrote a letter to Su Tiancheng, faintly reflecting the situation in this regard, but Su Tiancheng did not give clear instructions, but only asked Hong Chengchou to firmly control the Jiangning camp, maybe it will be the Jiangning camp that will guard the Guanningjin defense line in the future.

Recent times. Su Tiancheng's requirements suddenly increased, mainly about the many changes in Liaodong, and any slight changes had to be written in a timely manner, which made Hong Chengchou still feel a little relieved, he knew it. Su Tiancheng is still concerned about the situation in Liaodong.

As for Su Tiancheng's analysis of the situation in Liaodong, Hong Chengchou naturally thinks that it makes sense, and in his heart, he has always admired Su Tiancheng.

Hong Chengchou is a very arrogant person, and he will not obey anyone easily, Yang He, the father of Yang Sichang, the current cabinet chief, when he served as the governor of the three sides and commanded the battle to exterminate the Liukou, he adopted a strategy based on appeasement. But Hong Chengchou insisted on his own opinion, focusing on suppression, and would not spare those rogues who had surrendered, because Hong Chengchou believed that the rogue thieves were not dead, and surrendering was just a respite, and once the opportunity was right, they would rebel again. Later, Yang He's decision to appease failed because of the appeasement. was dismissed from his post, Hong Chengchou felt even more. Your own decision was the right one.

has been by Su Tiancheng's side for so many years, and the iron-clad facts have made Hong Chengchou sincerely sigh that he is not as good as Su Tiancheng, although Su Tiancheng is young, but people can make wise decisions. It is to be able to lead the soldiers of the Jiangning battalion, exterminate the Liukou, and defeat the Mongolian Xibe tribe and the Daurian tribe to surrender, so that the Houjin Tartars dare not covet the pass.

Su Tiancheng's ability, Hong Chengchou has really seen it. And every decision Su Tiancheng made, it turned out to be correct, when the Liukou were exterminated, Su Tiancheng resolutely did not agree to let go of the leaders of the Liukou, and all of them were killed, but after defeating the Xibe tribe and the Daurian tribe, Su Tiancheng gave these two tribes a lot of preferential treatment, especially in Anningbao and Jingbian to carry out mutual markets, and today's development situation proves that this decision is very great, the imperial court does not have to worry about the border defense of Ningxia, Datong, Yulin and other places, the Xibe tribe and the Daurian tribe, It has become a staunch guardian of the Daming border pass.

After Su Tiancheng entered Liaodong, he decisively decided to take Dalinghe City and consolidated the Guanningjin defense line, on this basis, Su Tiancheng did not decide to launch an attack on Houjin Tartar, but buried himself in the construction of Liaodong, this decision made Liaodong quickly stabilized, and began to appear a prosperous scene, Ningyuan City and Jinzhou City merchants gathered, and the transaction was hot, which proved the stability of Liaodong to the greatest extent, just imagine, if Liaodong is in danger all the time, how can merchants come here to do business, Isn't that looking for your own death?

For Su Tiancheng's requirements, Hong Chengchou has always obeyed, of course, Su Tiancheng also has requirements, he must understand the implementation of every decision, and cannot blindly obey.

Not long ago, Su Tiancheng's letter asked Hong Chengchou to clarify the tactical arrangement of the Liaodong offensive in front of Chen Xinjia and Qian Qianyi, which shows that Su Tiancheng is in favor of a limited attack on the Houjin Tartars.

However, Hong Chengchou's suggestion did not seem to have a very big effect, and Chen Xinjia and Qian Qianyi were very dissatisfied with the concept of limited attack, although they did not directly refute it, but looking at their attitude, they also did not approve of it.

At the top of Liaodong, everyone knows that Chen Xinjia is preparing for the attack on the Houjin Tartars, and is making the most difficult preparations, and everyone also knows that this is the emperor's consent to attack the Houjin Tartars.

In terms of tactical arrangement, Hong Chengchou also thought that he hoped that the Jiangning battalion could participate in this battle against the Houjin Tartars, since Su Tiancheng had agreed to launch a limited attack on the Houjin Tartars, he would not oppose the Jiangning battalion to participate in the war, who knew that the Jiangning battalion was strictly required in Su Tiancheng's letter, the Jiangning battalion must defend Dalinghe City, Jinzhou City, Ningyuan City and Shanhaiguan, and there can be no problems in these places, the border army of Liaodong and the sergeants of the Yulin battalion have exceeded 150,000 people, and these people went to conquer the Houjin Tartars, Enough is enough.

Hong Chengchou didn't understand the meaning of this, and was even a little dissatisfied, he participated in too many battles, and stayed in Liaodong to fight face-to-face with the Houjin Tartars, otherwise it would be better to go to Dengzhou with the right person.

There is also a headache for Hong Chengchou.

When Su Tiancheng was in Liaodong in the past, Qin Sande fully supported Su Tiancheng and obeyed the decision, but after Chen Xinjia came to Liaodong, he quickly had a good relationship with Qin Sande, Qin Sande's position began to change, and later Qian Qianyi came to Liaodong, and the relationship with Qin Sande was also good.

Although the eunuch has a good power, but because of his physical defects, most of the time, he is looked down upon by the scholars, people treat you well on the surface, but they despise you in their bones, but Chen Xinjia and Qian Qianyi are indeed good to Qin Sande, when Su Tiancheng was in Liaodong, he asked Qin Sande to pay attention to the affairs of the border army, and after Chen Xinjia came to Liaodong, he still asked Qin Sande to pay more attention to the affairs of the border army.

The Jiangning battalion has strict regulations, and it is difficult to please the supervising army in this, if you want to talk about things such as deducting military salaries, don't even think about it, and don't dare to do it, in this regard, Su Tiancheng is ruthless, no matter who it is, if he violates this principle, he is basically beheaded, there is no oil and water in the Jiangning battalion, Qin Sande turned to pay attention to the border army, Hong Chengchou knows that Qin Sande must have received a lot of benefits, otherwise he would not be so dedicated.

As for the decision-making and deployment of Liaodong, Qin Sande defended Chen Xinjia and Qian Qianyi.

This is also what makes Hong Chengchou sigh, when Su Tiancheng left Liaodong, he asked Qin Sande to pay attention to the affairs of the border army, and actually became the supervisor of the border army, which seems to have a deep meaning, Su Tiancheng also specially instructed him Hong Chengchou to firmly grasp the Jiangning camp, the implication of his words, sometimes, even if Qin Sande made any decision or put forward any suggestion, he Hong Chengchou had to agree.

That's prescient.

The changes in the officers of the border army surprised and admired Hong Chengchou even more.

When Su Tiancheng left Liaodong, he asked Hong Chengchou to pay special attention to Zu Dale, and did not mention Zu Dashou and Zu Dabi.

Zu Dashou and Zu Dabi fully support Chen Xinjia and Qian Qianyi and others, only Zu Dale doesn't care very much, he still has unusual feelings for the Jiangning camp, and has asked to join the Jiangning camp several times, even if it is an ordinary sergeant, although this requirement is somewhat inconsistent with the actual situation, Su Tiancheng and Hong Chengchou have to take into account that the border army cannot have too much entanglement with the Jiangning camp, if these brave generals all enter the Jiangning camp, what will the court think, what will the emperor think.

The situation in Liaodong is slowly changing, these changes, Hong Chengchou is in his eyes, he has to write to Su Tiancheng almost every day, talking about some changes in this, but also analyzing the upcoming war in Liaodong, until February, the imperial court edict came, the content of the edict is to agree that the border army in Liaodong, to launch an attack on the Houjin Tartars, Chen Xinjia is the commander of this campaign, Qian Qianyi, Hong Chengchou and others, assist Chen Xinjia, obey Chen Xinjia's command.

After Chen Xinjia received the edict, he did not immediately gather relevant personnel for tactical deployment.

This made Hong Chengchou even more uneasy, it seems that Chen Xinjia may have considered all the operational deployments, but he didn't tell anyone, this kind of situation is not very normal, after the conquest, the Golden Tartar, such a big thing, Chen Xinjia didn't discuss with everyone, he thought out a lot of operational deployments, which is also not serious, think about when Su Tiancheng carried out every battle, he called everyone to discuss, and everyone even had arguments. (To be continued......)