got the good news that Qu Tutong, the general of Zuohou Wei in Shandong, was attached, and the court was also smiling.

As soon as Qu Tutong is attached, then all the official forces in Shandong will belong to the imperial court, especially those families and local tycoons, they will also be included in the Beijing imperial court. Although it is said that they are attached, it does not mean that Shandong has taken it. But for the current situation, it would be a huge benefit to be recognized by Shandong first. Although there were still many peasant armies in Shandong, fighting a war was never a problem for the Liaodong Army. What's more, it's still a peasant army, don't look at the peasant army at every turn, it claims to be hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands, but if it really fights, hundreds of thousands are not as good as Qu Tutong's tens of thousands.

If Shandong is attached, then the imperial court has opened up the passage from Beijing to Jiangdu, and the Liaodong army can enter Jianghuai from Hebei or even Liaodong and drink the Yangtze River. In this way, the territory of the Liaodong Army can be quickly doubled in a short period of time. And the passage they opened was exactly as big as the easternmost part, and the east side was the sea. To the west is the Dabie Mountain Range, as long as there is a soldier and horse stationed at the front, then they can connect the entire Huaibei, Shandong, and Hebei land.

The sea in the east, the Yangtze River in the south, the Dabie Mountain in the west, and the Taihang Mountain in the north, these territories of theirs will be connected.

Mao Xi saw that everyone no longer objected, and he still didn't want to see Chen Kefu break with the Chen Dynasty on this, so he stepped forward again, "Your Highness, although General Qu is attached, there are still three powerful rebels in Shandong, including Meng Rang, Meng Haigong, and Zuo Caixiang, and they have more than 200,000 soldiers and horses. What's more, Shandong is the place where rebellions have been hit hard by the past years. There are many bandits, large and small. One day you can't pacify them, but you're afraid. Our imperial soldiers and horses can't go south with peace of mind for a day. ”

Chen Kefu shook his head, "The imperial court soldiers and horses don't need to go south immediately. At present, it is only necessary to let General Qu lead his headquarters south to aid Jiangdu. ”

"This"

Several chamberlains brought a large sand table, on which was the terrain of the Jianghuai River in Shandong.

Chen Kefu took the wooden stick from the hand of the inner servant, pointed to Jiangdu, and General Qu Tutong led his headquarters from Qi County to the south. Pass through Langya County, go south along the Yishui, pass through Xiapi County, and then go south along the canal, you can reach Jiangdu rescue. With the 30,000 horses of General Qu, plus the 50,000 horses of General Chen Ling and the two Yang generals in Jiangdu, Jiangdu can be stabilized. ”

Then Chen Kefu picked up the wooden stick and went to the north bank of the Yellow River. A finger of Bohai County in Hebei.

"General Li Jing's 50,000 horses are now in Bohai County along the Yellow River estuary. This king will immediately send an order to Li Jing and let him lead his headquarters south to Shandong. There is no need for a quick battle, the king only needs to be a battalion step by step. Push forward steadily. Then, no matter how many peasant troops there are, it will only take a little more time. ”

When Li Benlei, chief of staff of the General Staff Headquarters, heard Chen Kefu's plan, his pupils couldn't help but widen and he secretly praised.

Chen Kefu's plan is not just as simple as rescuing Jiangdu. first sent Qu Tutong from Shandong to rescue Jiangdu, but immediately let Li Jing from Hebei go south and push south step by step. This is to completely control Shandong step by step in the hands of the Liaodong Army. Moreover, Jiangdu was besieged by the army of the Chen Dynasty, and Qu Tutong rushed to Jiangdu. Although there were 80,000 horses after the combined army.

But when the war is a big battle, the two sides will inevitably fight each other. Losses are not small. Chen Kefu did not directly aid Jiangdu, but transferred Li Jing's troops and horses to encircle and suppress the seemingly strong, but actually weakest peasant army, and took over Shandong by the way. Instead, let Qu Tutong and Chen Ling, who had just been attached, go to fight with the Chen Dynasty. In this way, Jiangdu was retained, and a fortress was built on the north bank of the Yangtze River to block the Chen Dynasty from going north. and indirectly consumed Qu Tutong and Chen Ling, who were not descendants, which is really a good calculation. According to this plan, it won't be long before Chen Ling and Qu Tutong in Jiangdu City will slowly consume their strength, and there will be no accidents.

The generals in the hall all came from the battlefield of a hundred battles, and they almost understood the general's plan in a few moments. All the generals all let out a knowing smile, for them, of course, it is the best thing to weaken the other armies as much as possible and ensure the strongest strength of their Liaodong Army.

In the full hall, only Mao Xi and Chen Ling frowned. Mao Xi was because he couldn't stop Chen Kefu from breaking with Chen Dynasty, and Chen Ling was slightly disappointed with Chen Kefu's rescue plan. In his plan, of course, it was the best policy for the world-famous Liaodong Army to rush south to aid Jiangdu. Now he has only transferred 30,000 remnants of troops to the south, which is a bit disappointing to him anyway. He was worried that if the situation in Jiangdu was unfavorable, maybe Chen Kefu would simply leave them alone, after all, those people were not his descendants. …,

Thinking of this, Chen Ling stepped forward and said, "Your Highness can care so much about the situation in Jiangdu and quickly make this rescue plan, and the people of Jiangdu and Jiangdu are grateful." However, Jiangdu has been besieged for a long time, and although the grain and grass can still last for several months, the armor and equipment on the right side of the city are insufficient. General Qu has not been supplied in Shandong for a long time, if he only transfers General Qu's troops to aid Jiangdu, I am afraid that there will be no equipment in Jiangdu to fight the enemy, and I ask His Highness to think twice. ”

After hearing this, Chen Kefu only smiled slightly, picked up the wooden stick in his hand and continued to point to the map.

"The way of using soldiers has always been to match and win by chance. Just transferred the general's troops to aid Jiangdu, but it was just a regular soldier, and the king also prepared a strange army to aid Jiangdu. ”

"Odd soldiers?" Chen Ling was stunned.

"That's right." Chen Kefu smiled on his face, and pointed at Jiangdu City with a wooden stick in his hand, "You see, Jiangdu City is on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and Jiangdu City is also very close to the East China Sea. ”

Chen Ling said suspiciously, "Could it be that His Highness's strange soldiers came from the water?" ”

Chen Kefu nodded, "That's right, this king's surprise soldiers will reinforce Jiangdu from the water." You all know that our court has eight guards, but what everyone doesn't know is that in fact, our court has a total of nine guards. There is also a guard and horse that has always been a military secret, this is our imperial court sailor, Hai Longwei. ”

"Sea Dragonguard?" It was the first time Chen Ling had heard this name.

"Hailongwei has been formed since the time of Liaodong, and currently Hailongwei has a total of 120,000 soldiers and horses. We have twenty of the most powerful Wuya warships, fifty second-class Yellow Dragon warships, two hundred first-class Qinglong warships, and a thousand other large and small warships. These warships are the strongest naval warships in the world, capable of transporting 200,000 troops at a time, and even if they bring enough food and grass, they can use 100,000 horses. Now the sailors of the imperial court are divided and scattered, and there is no complete fleet at all. Although our Hailongwei has not been established for a long time and its combat power is insufficient, it is more than enough if it is only used to transport grain and grass equipment to Jiangdu and then support operations on the Yangtze River. ”

Hearing that there was such a powerful hidden water master force, Chen Ling was speechless in shock. At that time, he once led the imperial court's sailors to cross the sea to conquer Liuqiu, and he knew very well that it was difficult to build naval warships, and he also understood that it was not easy to train naval divisions. And Chen Kefu actually has such a powerful 120,000-strong sailor division quietly, how amazing it is. Jiangdu is not far from the mouth of the Yangtze River, and the river is wide, which is very suitable for sailors to fight. He was well aware of the power of the five-tooth battleship, and under the long slap stick, the water battle was almost invincible. There is no problem at the moment, and I thank Chen Kefu again and again.

Chen Kefu saw that Chen Ling was convinced, but he didn't say much in his heart. In fact, Chen Kefu did not deceive Chen Ling at all about the number of warships and troops of this naval division, but this naval division has not yet had any combat effectiveness. At the beginning, 100,000 troops were recruited, and later they were all brought to the base of the Liuqiu Water Division for training. However, the naval division is different from the army, although Chen Kefu also tried to recruit people from the coastal areas of eastern Liaodong. However, there are few people in Liaodong, and there are not many people on the seaside, and most of the recruits are Central Plains people who have immigrated from the interior of the Central Plains.

Most of these people fainted when they got on the boat, and now more than half a year has passed. This sailor has just entered the right track of training, and it is impossible to form a combat force without two or three years. However, at the moment, the sailor is still a little bit of a thing, and it is not much progress to blindly focus on the training of the stream. Chen Kefu simply transferred them to transport grain and let them also participate in the actual battle, first, to deter the Chen Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River, and secondly, to let them form an army as soon as possible, so as to cooperate with his strategic requirements and blockade the Yangtze River.

Originally, Chen Kefu was reluctant to use such a precious sailor to fight now, but the bearded guest Zhang Zhongjian sent a report a few days ago, saying that the sailor had also completed preliminary training. And after the storm period at sea, he also planned to take the sailor out to sea, while training, while doing some business without capital, and conducting some actual combat training.

And in the first battle of the water division, Zhang Zhongjian played a big vote. Not long ago, he led all his fleet to the island of Artesian Quest and headed north. In the end, he aimed at the kingdom of Tamura, which was close to Baekje. This country is said to be a country, but in fact it is the Korean Jeju Island of the descendants. However, at this time, this is still an extremely primitive and backward place, they are close to Baekje, but they have their own country, and the people of the island are extremely backward, and their lives are no different from the primitive society.

Zhang Zhongjian's fleet landed on Danmulo Island, and it didn't take much effort to destroy this huge island nation. Zhang Zhongjian directly captured all the tens of thousands of people of the island country and sent them to Liaodong as slaves, and turned this Dan Muluo Island into the fourth base of the sailors after Beisha, Hancheng, and Liuqiu.

The location of Danmulo Island is exactly in a parallel position to the mouth of the Yangtze River, but the straight-line distance is very close. The sailor set out from Danmulo Island to transport grain and grass, but it was the most suitable.

Chen Kefu's few steps completely made everyone nod in agreement. With such a combination of land and water, no matter how the Chen Dynasty in Jiangnan planned, this land in the north of the Yangtze River, they did not want to snatch it from the pocket of the Liaodong Army.

After discussing this matter, Chen Kefu was also very happy, standing under the Danqi, and said happily, "Now that the matter of Shandong and Jiangdu has been agreed, then next, everyone will discuss the matter of sending troops to Hedong and crusading against Li Yuan." ”

"Send troops to Hedong and crusade against Li Yuan?" Several exclamations rang out in the hall. Most of the Wenchen generals did not keep up with Chen Kefu's train of thought, and they did not expect that at this time, His Royal Highness King Chen not only stretched out his hand to Jiangdu, thousands of miles away, but also immediately had to deal with Li Yuan in Hedong