After three months of uninterrupted investigation, the Li Dynasty's monarchs and officials at all levels in the north were well aware of Zhu Daolin's formidable strength.

Not to mention Zhu Daolin's rich and rival country and the powerful Taoism behind him, just the sophisticated equipment and disgusting training intensity of nearly 10,000 Ming soldiers on Phi Island made the Korean civil and military officials frightened and unable to sleep all night, not to mention half of North Korea, which was already terrified in just two days.

As early as the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the Houjin regime after Huang Taiji succeeded to the throne in order to eliminate the Mao Wenlong Department of Dongjiang Town, relieve the worries, take advantage of the winter when the Yalu River was frozen to invade North Korea, with the cooperation of Korean spies, dispatched 20,000 troops to besiege the Dongjiang River, and was stubbornly resisted by the officers and soldiers of the Dongjiang Army led by Mao Wenlong and the Liaodong people in exile in North Korea.

After this war, the Korean monarch and the small people were all terrified, and the Korean Chinese armed forces gradually split into the surrender faction that depended on the Houjin regime and the pro-Ming faction that insisted on believing in the suzerain.

Now, the elite new army of the Ming Dynasty is once again using North Korea as a springboard to attack Liaodong, how can it not make North Korea, which is deeply afraid of its own disaster, frightened.

Although Korea is a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, from the monarch to the small people, they must unconditionally obey the decision-making and control of the suzerain, but the whole of Korea has been frightened by the powerful and fierce Liaodong Houjin army. No one dared to believe that the Ming Dynasty, which was suffering from internal and external troubles and declining national strength, would still be able to win this protracted war.

Don't talk about it from afar, only talk about it in front of you.

At the beginning, the Ming Dragon and Tiger General Mao Wenlong, who had 200,000 soldiers and civilians, could not withstand the fierce blows of the 20,000 Houjin army. Zhu Daolin, the new commander-in-chief of Donggang Town, who now has only 10,000 troops, has no strength to return to heaven no matter how brave and good he fights, and he may soon be subjected to the bloody revenge of the powerful Houjin army, which will bring even greater disaster to the weak North Korea.

Yin Shen Jingzhen, the governor of Anzhou, and Li Kan, the defense envoy, were both representatives of the pro-Ming faction, but this did not mean that they supported the Liaodong war that Zhu Daolin, the new commander-in-chief of Dongjiang Town, was about to launch.

This time, the two led their respective subordinates to visit in a hurry, not to visit the famous general Zhu Daolin, nor to comfort the army of the suzerain. Rather, it expresses the Korean monarch's fear of war, expresses the bitterness of North Korea's inability to help in vague and vague language, and tests and understands Zhu Daolin, who may cause a major change in the situation in northern Korea.

Thankfully. Zhu Daolin, a young general of Fengguo, did not blame the DPRK for its stance of being a cold sidestander, and still less did he order the DPRK army and government at all levels to send manpower to pay food to help the war, as General Mao Wenlong did at the beginning, but frankly informed Shin Kyeong-jeong and Li Kan, who represented the Korean monarch, of the idea of the war, the difficulties they faced, and the goals they wanted to achieve. A detailed analysis of the situation of the emptiness of troops in Liaodong after the 50,000 main forces of the Tartars conquered Mongolia in the west. Full of confidence in the upcoming Liaodong war.

In the end, Zhu Daolin solemnly said to Shen Jingzhen and Li Kan: "No matter whether the people of Korea have confidence in our army or not, the officers and men of our army will be stationed for a long time and attack Liaodong without hesitation until the enemy is completely destroyed and all the lost territory is recovered!" ”

"I would like to take this opportunity to ask the two lords to convey to the monarch of the DPRK: I do not want the DPRK to send a single soldier to help the war, nor do I want the DPRK to donate food, but I only want to hand over to me the castle of Tiesan, which was burned down by the Tartar army six years ago and has not yet been repaired. Just give me back the fields that General Mao and the Dongjiang Army had cultivated, and hand over to me the more than 100,000 Liaodong refugees who are currently scattered in northern and central Korea. ”

"Within two years. I will be able to completely block the Tatar army west of the Yalu River and restore security and stability in northern Korea. ”

Soon after the departure of Shen Jingzhen, Li Kan and others, 6,000 soldiers of the Second Marine Division led by Jiang Yulong arrived by boat, and all the 18,000 troops and weapons needed for the Liaodong Campaign were in place.

At 10 o'clock that night, 500 officers and men of the assault battalion led by Zhao Yipeng, commander of Zhu Daolin's personal guard battalion, quietly left the camp on Phi Dao, took six small transport ships, landed at a small fishing port 10 kilometers northwest of Tieshan, and under the guidance of a 10-member scout team led by Cui Jingzong, a hundred households of the former Dongjiang Army, bypassed Donglin County and entered the densely wooded and sparsely populated northern mountainous area, and advanced to Shuozhou, which is 100 kilometers away on the south bank of the Yalu River.

At noon the next day, 6,000 soldiers led by Wu Jicheng, the commander of the Dongjiang New Army, landed at Cheolsan Port on more than 100 large and small ships, and marched north under the frightened gaze of tens of thousands of Korean soldiers and civilians.

4,000 soldiers wearing camouflage training uniforms, carrying muskets on their shoulders, and draped all over their bodies, more than 1,000 cavalry and more than 300 wagons full of supplies for artillery, stretched for more than ten miles.

The Phi Dao camp and even the wharves on all sides have been defended by thousands of recruits, and the inside and outside of the palace are busy, and a large map of Liaodong is hung in the command room east of the main hall.

The commander of Jinzhouwei from afar, Huang Long, the commander Gao Mingcheng, and the general Shang Kexi, stared at the precise and detailed mountains and rivers on the map, the dense various symbols and mileage, altitude, and so on.

Zhu Daolin, Guo Zhongjun, Jiang Yulong, and other generals gathered around and discussed in a low voice, and more than 20 young people joined the army in groups of several people, each taking their own responsibilities, and constantly wrote a concise report on the situation fed back by the departure departments and the allocation of military materials, which was quickly sent to Zhu Daolin and others.

After a long silence, Huang Long, whose heart fluctuated, strode up to Zhu Daolin's side, arched his hand uneasily, and asked in a low voice: "General, I can't understand the various symbols on the map, can I ask the general for some guidance?" ”

Zhu Daolin nodded happily, put down the report in his hand, walked to the large map with Huang Long, picked up the baton more than one meter long from the shelf under the map, and explained in detail to Huang Long, Gao Mingcheng, Shang Kexi and others who were full of doubts:

"These three red arrows can be understood by everyone, they are the three offensive directions of our army in this battle, the longest arc arrow in the north points to Kuandian, 80 miles north of Shuozhou, Kowloon City, an assault battalion of our army has set off last night, and is currently marching to the mountains in the area of 20 miles south of Shuozhou, and is expected to arrive in Kuandian in the early morning of May 11 to launch a surprise attack."

"Everyone must be familiar with this road, General Mao once moved into the hinterland of Liaodong along this mountain road."

Gao Mingcheng suddenly realized: "What does the general mean, the north road is a surprise attack?" ”

Zhu Daolin nodded: "That's right, Kuandian has been the designated border city of this dynasty for a hundred years, not only the transportation hub for the Tartar army to go south to Korea, north to Jianzhou and Liaoyang in the west, but also the granary of the Tartar army, what makes me even more tempted is the horse farm under the old ancient ridge in the south of Kuandian." ”

"According to the intelligence of the past two months, the Tartar army in Kuandian is only 800 people, and once the full-scale offensive begins, the 300 Tartars in the military camp at the mouth of the river 80 miles south of Kuandian will face the attack of 1,200 musketeers from two battalions of our army, and induce the Kuandian garrison to reinforce the estuary."

"Regardless of whether the Kuandian garrison is reinforced or not, the officers and men of the two battalions of our army will, in accordance with the established battle plan, leave the Shuozhou cross-river estuary barracks in the morning of the day after tomorrow, and after they succeed, they will continue to attack the two towns of Changdian and Yongdian in the depths, forcing the Tartar garrison of Kuandian to divide their troops to meet the battle, so that the assault battalion that sneaks in place on the north road will launch a surprise attack on Kuandian."

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PS: Thank you Lin Jun for your encouragement! (To be continued.) )