took Emperor Chongzhen's money, and Zhang Chu was very reputable and actively prepared to send troops to Liaodong. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Sending troops to Liaodong was one of Zhang Chu's established strategies.

Zhang Chu hated the Manchus who dragged the Chinese nation into ignorance and darkness, and was determined to eliminate them before they became strong. At the same time, there are also realistic considerations, the Ming Dynasty has long been decayed, and it is a matter of time before it perishes, but Zhang Chu can't wait for it to perish by itself, and he can't start a full-scale war with the Ming Dynasty to accelerate the process of his demise, because then when Zhang Chu and Chongzhen are in full swing, Huang Taiji comes to reap the benefits of the fisherman, which will cause more lives to be ruined, so Zhang Chu wants to destroy Houjin first, at least so that they have no chance to grow. The chances of the Ming reaping the benefits when Zhang Chu went to war with the Houjin were slim. With Emperor Chongzhen's intelligence level and those ministers who only know about party struggles and interests, they will only make the Ming Dynasty weaker and weaker.

Another consideration of Zhang Chu is that the demise of each dynasty is often caused by the increase in population and the annexation of land, and in the face of large-scale famine, the vast black soil in the northeast will become a big granary of China if it is effectively developed, which has been proven by later generations.

The development of affairs in the world is often very strange, and the vast areas of the Sanjiang Plain, the Heilongjiang River Plain and the Nenjiang River Basin in Northeast China have fertile black soil, and they are known as "pinching the black soil to make oil flowers, and inserting a pair of chopsticks to sprout". It was from these places that the Jurchens developed, and instead of giving birth to civilization, this fertile soil created a group of barbaric robbers who lived by robbery. This gang of robbers eventually entered the Central Plains, under the pretext of protecting the ancestral land of Longxing, and forbade the Han people to enter the northeast, and these places were barren. Zhang Chu didn't want this kind of stupid thing to happen, so he decided to occupy these places first.

While Zhang Chu led the team preparing to go north to Liaodong for intense training, he was also paying attention to the progress of the shipyard's ship construction, and the sea ships were the key to the success of this operation, and the transportation of personnel and logistics supplies of the troops had to be completed by sea. Large warships will definitely not be able to be completed, and Zhang Chu asked some small armed transport ships to be completed in the near future at the beginning of the operation.

Also extremely excited was Lord Xie Lianxie, the governor of Denglai, who either followed Zhang Chu to watch him train every day, or went to the shipyard to check the progress of shipbuilding. He always had a knot in his heart, for fear that Zhang Chu would suddenly declare a rebellion in Shandong, so his forbearance for so long would be in vain, and he would become a sinner of the Ming Dynasty. Only when Zhang Chu went to Liaodong to fight with Hou Jinyi, his heart disease could be removed.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, in the spring of the sixth year of Chongzhen, the weather is warmer, the ice and snow melt, and it is the season suitable for war in the northeast.

There was a long speculation in the security army about who would lead the team to carry out this dangerous mission, and finally Zhang Chu announced that he would go out in person, and this decision immediately aroused everyone's unanimous opposition. But Zhang Chu's reason is very sufficient, this plan was formulated by me, the team was trained by me, no one is more familiar with everything in this plan than me, and you dare not say that the level of leading troops to fight is stronger than me, and more importantly, I am a marshal, I have the final say. Of course, Zhang Chu also patiently explained to everyone why he did this. The Houjin will be the most important enemy of the security army, and Zhang Chu will go here to understand the actual situation in the eastern Liaodong region, find out the methods and habits of the Houjin war, and prepare for a decisive battle with the Houjin in the future.

Zhang Chu has the power to make the final decision, everyone is worried about him, and the decision must be implemented.

On a sunny morning, Zhang Chu led two thousand security guards to board the sea ships in the port and set off towards the land of Liaodong.

Xie Lian, who came to see him off, looked at the sea ship that sailed away, and the tears that he had endured for a long time finally flowed, he finally didn't have to worry about Zhang Chu's rebellion anymore, and the Ming Dynasty's efforts to recover Liaodong began again.

Zhang Chu didn't have the heart to think about Xie Lian's feelings at this time, what he had to do now was to lead this team to fight Houjin, and then return safely. Not only to fight the enemy, but also to save yourself. In order to achieve the tactical goal, Zhang Chu carried out careful planning and meticulous preparations. This operation should focus on a surprise attack and avoid a head-to-head confrontation with Houjin.

The sky was beautiful, the fleet that crossed the Bohai Sea did not encounter major winds and waves, and arrived safely at the mouth of the Daling River, the Liaodong soldiers in the team accurately guided the fleet to find a place to rely on, the soldiers boarded the land of Liaodong in small boats, and the soldiers in charge of reconnaissance immediately advanced inland, and the soldiers set up a guard post on the commanding heights.

The banks of the river were busy, and soon a simple pier was built. The big boat was able to slowly get on the riverbank, the soldiers nervously unloaded a large amount of supplies from the boat, Zhang Chu waited until the boat he was on as soon as he docked and couldn't wait to jump off the boat, when his feet stepped on the black soil, Zhang Chu had a stronger sense of mission, this great river and mountain of the motherland has experienced countless disasters, and now it is ravaged by the Houjin, and the later generations have been occupied by the demons of the Japanese country, and the small Japanese country actually wants to occupy here and then occupy the whole of China, What Zhang Chu has to do now is to reclaim this land and defend him from any invaders.

Zhang Chu boarded the observation post that had been set up by the soldiers of the security army, and there were still gusts of cold wind blowing in the spring in the northeast region, and there was not a little green on the ground. At this time, the northeast was still in a state of vast and sparsely populated areas, and the scouts sent out had gone far away and had not found any signs of human activity. At this time, there was nothing to harvest on the earth, and all the livestock could only rely on the hay stored in the previous autumn to feed their hunger, and the Houjin people, who were mainly nomadic herders, should hide in a leeward valley for the winter, and wait until the grass grows before they come out to move. This provided good conditions for the infiltration of the security forces.

Zhang Chu told the sentries to strengthen their vigilance, left the observation point and patrolled the landing field, all the actions of the soldiers had been planned in advance, everyone's division of labor, and the location to be occupied by each unit had been clearly remembered in advance, and now the security forces on the landing ground were running accurately as planned, which made Zhang Chu, the supreme commander, have nothing to do.

Zhang Chu, who had nothing to do, finally found something he could do after turning around. He decided to go to the cooking class to have a look, he was not attracted by the smell of meat in the cooking class, he wanted to see how the smokeless marching stove of the cooking class worked.

It is very important to be able to eat hot food in this bitter cold place in the Northeast, and this operation is mainly based on secret marches, how to hide the smoke and fire of cooking has become a problem, Zhang Chu had heard of smokeless marching stoves in his previous life, but he didn't care too much, for this Liaodong operation, Zhang Chu tried to find the remaining memories, and let the soldiers experiment many times, and finally succeeded in making smokeless marching stoves in Shandong, but whether Zhang Chu could be used smoothly in the Northeast did not have too many roots. (To be continued.) )