The news of Emperor Xuande's defeat in the Northern Expedition was tightly sealed by Li Yuntian, and even Gu Liyu and Pei Jun didn't know about it, after all, it was a critical period for the war situation in Liaodong, and once the Ming army in Liaodong knew about this matter, the morale would undoubtedly be deeply hit, and it also meant that the imperial court would not be able to send reinforcements to Liaodong, and Liaodong would rely on them to fight alone.

Obviously, the battle between Shanxi Xingdu Division and Wanquan Division was more important to the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty would definitely concentrate its forces on the Shanxi Xingdu Division and Wanquan Division to fight a decisive battle with the Mongol army, so as to avoid the Mongol army approaching Juyong Pass and Bauhinia Pass.

There is no doubt that for Li Yuntian, the failure of Emperor Xuande's northern expedition was the worst situation, because the imperial court was busy preparing for the war preparations of Shanxi Xingdu Division and Wanquan Capital Division, the logistical supplies obtained by the Ming army in Liaodong from the sea route would be drastically reduced, and military supplies would first be supplied to the Ming army of Shanxi Xingdu Division and Wanquan Capital Division.

The military cabinet had clearly told Li Yuntian in this military information document that the military supplies that had been shipped to Pyongyang Province in Xijing, the Kingdom of Korea, a year ago, would be the last batch of military supplies obtained by the Ming army in Liaodong, and that the imperial court would transfer the materials originally planned to be allocated to the Ming army in Liaodong to the Shanxi Xingdu Division and the Wanquan Capital Division.

Although he felt a little disappointed in his heart, Li Yuntian understood the military pavilion's approach, because Arutai led the army to press the border, the important operational direction of the military pavilion had been shifted from outside the customs to the Shanxi Xingdu Division and the Wanquan Division, so it was natural to give priority to ensuring the military supply of these two capital divisions.

Moreover, if the Ming army in Liaodong could not resist the attack of the Mongol army in Liaodong, it could retreat to the territory of the Korean Kingdom, and the Mongol army had limited strength and was unable to adopt a fierce two-line offensive in both the Shanxi Xingdu Division and the Guanwai, so considering that the Shanxi Xingdu Division was the focus of the Mongol army's attack, the Mongol army in Liaodong would not cross the Yalu River to pursue nine times out of ten.

"It's time to fight back." After reading the military intelligence document of the military pavilion, Li Yuntian paced back and forth in the room a few times, then pushed open the window and looked at the bright moon hanging on the cold night with a solemn expression, and muttered a sentence to himself.

In Li Yuntian's view, the morale of the Ming army in Liaodong was low after a series of defeats, and it needed to use a victory to boost morale, and in this way, it could also contain the Mongolian army led by Arutai.

After the Lantern Festival, the Jurchen tribes in the northern region of the Liaodong Prefecture and the Jurchen tribes of the Nuer Gandu Division arrived at Kaiyuan City one after another, making the strength of Kaiyuan City skyrocket.

After the fierce brother Timur asked the Jurchen tribes to rush to Kaiyuan City to discuss the matter of resisting the Mongol army in February of the eighth year of Xuande, the leaders of the Jurchen tribes sent troops one after another, not only the Jianzhou Jurchen and Haixi Jurchens among the three major Jurchen tribes all arrived, but even several large tribes of the Jurchens in the East China Sea also rushed to join in the fun.

Since there were no more troops in Kaiyuan City, most of the Jurchens were stationed in camps outside the city, and Li Yuntian was responsible for providing supplies such as military rations and tents.

On the first day of the second lunar month, Li Yuntian summoned the generals of the Ming army and the leaders of the Jurchen tribes to discuss the affairs in the military affairs hall of the Liaodong Zhuque Camp of the Xiaowu Army, focusing on the reorganization of the Jurchen soldiers from the Jurchen tribes.

Before the discussion began, Li Yuntian fulfilled his promise and asked people to bring boxes of gold, silver and jewelry, and distribute half a year's salary on the spot according to the number of soldiers sent by the Jurchen tribes, which made the leaders of the Jurchen tribes smile and make a lot of money.

However, it was not easy to reorganize the Jurchen tribes, not only did there be a lot of grievances and entanglements between the three Jurchen tribes, but even the clans within the three major tribes often broke out in conflicts, so it was not easy to get them to cooperate.

Compared with the Haixi Jurchen and the East China Sea Jurchen, the internal relationship between the Jianzhou Jurchens is undoubtedly the best, and the Huo'er Abe, the Duolian and the Towen Ministry, which make up the Jianzhou Jurchens, have been well integrated with each other.

In particular, the Towen tribe, which was later moved to Jianzhou, has been completely integrated into the Huo'er Abe and the Huduolian tribe after twenty or thirty years of development, and it is difficult to appear as a separate tribe again.

Therefore, the Jianzhou Jurchens quickly appointed Li Manzhu, the commander of the Jianzhou Guard, to command the Jurchen soldiers of the Jianzhou Three Guards, the commander of the Jianzhou Left Guard, to make Mengge Timur the left deputy general, and Mao Lianwei to command the Mengge Buhua to be the right deputy general.

It is worth mentioning that Brother Meng Buhua is Li Manzhu's own uncle and a person from Huo'er Abe.

The relationship between the Haixi Jurchens and the East China Sea Jurchens is more troublesome, and the Haixi Jurchens are named because they live in the west of the East China Sea, which are distributed in the area from Fuyu County in Jilin Province to Acheng County in Heilongjiang Province in the lower reaches of the Songhua River.

The Jurchens of the East China Sea are a relatively backward part of the Jurchens, so they are also known as "savages" and are called "savage Jurchens", which are distributed on both sides of the middle and lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River and east of the Ussuri River.

In other words, the Haixi Jurchens and the East China Sea Jurchens were divided according to the areas in which they lived, and they had no connection with each other, so they could be said to be different tribes, not a simple race.

Among them, the Haixi Jurchens have four major departments: Hada, Huifa, Wula, and Yehe, and among the four major departments, there are Shanyi and Jiangyi.

Shanyi is a cave according to the mountain, that is, the mature girl is really perfect; Jiang Yi lives in Heilongjiang, that is, he gave birth to a Jurchen. Hada and Yehe belong to Shanyi, while Huifa and Ula belong to Jiangyi.

The East China Sea Jurchen can also be divided into four major divisions: Sakhalian, Huo'er'a, Varka, and Kurkha, among which Huo'er Abe is of the same clan as the Jianzhou Jurchen Huo'er Abe, and some of them later moved to Jianzhou to become Jianzhou Huo'er Abe.

The Jurchen people of the Ming Dynasty were regrouped ethnic groups, and the Jurchens of Jianzhou Wei and Mao Lianwei were mostly remnants of the Bohai people, who were influenced by the Han people to engage in farming and settle down to live, grow grains and spin threads, and eat and drink, which was not much different from the Han people, so they were well integrated with each other.

Most of the Haixi Jurchens were descendants of the Wanyan tribe of the Jin Dynasty, and they were also engaged in farming, and they leaned on the mountains as villages, and their relatives lived together.

The Jurchens of the East China Sea, also known as the Savage Jurchens, are a branch of the Jurchen tribe that merged with the Hezhe and Oroqen tribes, and their customs are the same as those of the Haixi Jurchens, except that "they do not farm, but live by hunting".

In view of the special situation of the Haixi Jurchen and the East China Sea Jurchen, Li Yuntian mixed them with the Xiaowu Army, and the four major departments of the Haixi Jurchen and the four major parts of the East China Sea Jurchen were separately incorporated into a regiment of the Xiaowu Army, forming a reinforced regiment with eight mixed personnel.

As for the small and medium-sized tribes in the East China Sea Jurchen and Haixi Jurchens, Li Yuntian also incorporated them into the eight strengthening regiments, thus solving the problem of the establishment of the Jurchen tribes.

The leaders of the Jurchen tribes in the West China Sea and the Jurchen tribes in the East China Sea had no objection to Li Yuntian's mixed arrangement, in fact, what they were most worried about was that Li Yuntian would let them be cannon fodder, and if they could advance and retreat with the people of the Xiaowu Army, this kind of thing would not happen.

This time, more than 20,000 people from the Jurchen Jianzhou Department, the Western Haixi and the East China Sea Department came here, all of whom were young and strong, which had exceeded Li Yuntian's expectations, after all, the Jurchen Ministries would preserve their strength in such a matter of sending troops to fight, and it was enough to send so many people to give him face.

Among the 20,000 Jurchen soldiers, there were more than 8,000 Jurchens in Jianzhou, more than 7,000 Jurchens in Haixi, and more than 5,000 Jurchens in Donghai.

For Li Yuntian, the integration of the Jurchen troops into the Xiaowu Army is only the first step in the reorganization, in order to make the Xiaowu Army and the Jurchen soldiers work together, tactical exercises are also needed, and it is also a troublesome thing to make those Jurchen soldiers who are used to being unrestrained on weekdays obey the command of the Xiaowu Army.

Therefore, Li Yuntian was ready to give the Jurchen troops a dismount, so that they could see the strength of the Ming army, and for the Jurchen soldiers who advocated force, only by showing their strong muscles could they submit.

On the second day of the second month of February, the foot of the mountain outside the south gate of Kaiyuan City was crowded, and 30,000 Liaodong Ming troops, 20,000 Xiaowu troops and 20,000 Jurchen soldiers were densely spread all over the hillside, looking at a large empty grassland in front of the mountain with great interest.

Li Yuntian is going to hold a drill for the musket battalion here today, and everyone, including the officers and men of the Xiaowu Army, wants to see the power of the firearms in the musket battalion.

Unlike the generals of the Liaodong Ming Army and the Xiaowu Army, the leaders of the Jurchen tribes seemed a little absent-minded, talking and laughing one after another, as if they did not take the upcoming drill to heart, and their eyes were even full of contempt.

In the eyes of the Jurchen leaders, if the Ming firearms were really powerful, then the Mongols would not easily occupy most of the Liaodong capital, forcing the Liaodong Ming army to retreat in a few important towns and garrisons.

Li Yuntian glanced at the contemptuous Jurchen leaders present, his brows furrowed slightly, and then a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth, it seems that his decision to let the musket battalion conduct a drill is undoubtedly correct, if he does not kill the prestige of these Jurchen leaders, then the military attaches of the Xiaowu Army will not be able to command them at all in the future, let alone fight.

At this moment, there was a sudden commotion among the crowd at the foot of the mountain, and the infantry battalion of the musket battalion with it came from the foot of the mountain in a neat column.

At the front of the line was the column of the infantry battalion, all of which were sergeants with spears, in a neat line, and the rows of towering spears made the marching line look like a forest of guns in motion.

Behind the infantry battalion was the column of the musket battalion, and the musketeers carried their arquebuses on their shoulders, each with their heads held high, their morale high, and they maintained a neat formation on the march like the infantry battalion.

Seeing this, the Jurchen leaders couldn't help but cast curious glances, it was the first time they had seen such a neat and powerful queue.

Now in Kaiyuan City, not only the Xiaowu Army, but also the Ming Army in Liaodong have also carried out queue drills at the request of Li Yuntian, to be precise, Li Yuntian has used the training method of the Xiaowu Army to train those Liaodong Ming Army, in order to improve the combat quality of those Liaodong Ming Army.

Therefore, the march of the Xiaowu army can be described as a housekeeper's skill, which makes those Jurchen leaders feel refreshed.

With the appearance of the musket battalion and the infantry battalion, the noisy scene gradually quieted down, and many soldiers standing behind the crowd stood on tiptoe and stretched their necks to watch the bustle.

Li Yuntian looked at the sergeants of the musket battalion and the infantry battalion on the march quietly, although the musket battalion had only been established for more than two months, because the soldiers of the musket battalion usually held model guns to conduct drills with the infantry battalion, the cooperation between the two sides was very smooth, and it was enough to cope with this exercise.