The battle plan was taken out by Zheng Xunrui himself, which should be a very rare thing, in fact, the Ministry of War came up with several sets of battle plans, but they were not particularly mature, and Zheng Xunrui asked a few questions and did not know how to do it, and finally Zheng Xunrui formulated the final battle plan on the basis of the plan taken out by the Ministry of War.

Zheng's army launched a large-scale offensive from Liaodong, and it was a face-to-face battle with the Eight Banners Army, first recovering Ningyuan, Jinzhou, Tashan, Songshan, Xingshan and other places, and then recovering Dalinghe, Yizhou and Guangning, crossing the Liaohe River from the direction of Xipingbao, and launching an attack on Gaizhou, Yaozhou, Haizhou and Anshan, and finally pointed directly at Shenyang.

The main task of the Zheng army stationed in southern Liaoning is to stabilize Jinzhou and Fuzhou, and when the army launches an attack on Haizhou and other places, it still needs to see if it needs help.

Zheng Xunrui decided on this battle plan, no one thought of it.

However, this battle plan made the cabinet ministers feel very excited.

The reason why Zheng Xunrui decided to make such a combat plan was deliberate.

Later Jin in the hands of Nurhachi developed and grew, repeatedly defeated the army of the Ming court, and gradually occupied Kaiyuan, Tieling, Salhu and Fushun and other places, until the occupation of Shenyang, Huang Taiji inherited Nurhachi's legacy, led the Eight Banners Army to occupy all the places in southern Liaoning, including Lushun and other places, and later in Dalinghe City and the imperial army launched a fierce battle, defeated the imperial army, if it were not for Sun Chengzong and others to build the Guanning Jin defense line, the capital of the Ming Dynasty and the Central Plains would have fallen.

Huang Taiji's greatest contribution was the establishment of the Great Qing Dynasty, which fought against the Ming Dynasty, and the Great Qing Dynasty actually controlled almost the entire grassland.

For a long time, the Ming court had an inexplicable fear of Houjin. This is called gold-phobia.

The rise of Zheng Jiajun has broken the fear of gold to a certain extent, but unfortunately this fear has not been removed from the root.

If you want to completely dispel the fear of gold among some civil and military ministers in the DPRK, you need to defeat Houjin and destroy the Qing Dynasty with dignity.

Zheng Xunrui must eliminate the gold phobia that prevailed in the Ming court from the roots.

In his plan, the Ming Dynasty will become the pinnacle of the world. If, in the process of such construction and effort, there are still people who have a fear of gold, wouldn't it be a big joke?

Therefore, Zheng Xunrui chose the most difficult road of conquest, defeated Huang Taiji and the Eight Banners Army from the front, and destroyed the Qing Kingdom in a dignified manner, although this would make the Zheng family army have a great loss, but everything was worth it.

Zheng Xunrui's prediction was not wrong, and when the combat deployment was announced by the cabinet, Zhou Yanru's body trembled slightly. Yang Tingshu and the others were even more red-eyed.

Today's Ming Empire is not the Ming Dynasty more than a year ago.

The current Ming Empire is a Ming Dynasty with great ambitions and is ready to conquer the world.

With the determination of the operational deployment, another matter was also put on the table.

Zheng Xunrui wants to lead the Zheng family army to conquer in person.

This matter met with strong opposition from the cabinet, and even Xu Wanghua did not budge an inch.

The reason is very simple, the emperor has only been on the throne for more than a year. The Ming Dynasty has just stabilized, and there are a lot of things inside. Moreover, maritime trade has just emerged, and at this time, the emperor needs to sit in the capital and strategize, and it is not a matter of one or two days to conquer Houjin. It's a long time, maybe a year and a half, and the emperor will never be able to leave the capital for such a long time.

It's a pity that Zheng Xunrui's determination is also very firm, and he must drive the expedition in person.

No one knows why the emperor insisted, only Zheng Xunrui himself is clear.

It's been so many years. It is his inner dream to personally conquer Houjin and achieve a face-to-face duel with Huang Taiji, no matter how difficult it is, this dream must be realized and cannot be missed.

The opportunity has come, and Zheng Xunrui can't miss it.

Of course, at this time, the problem does exist, after all, it has only been more than a year since he ascended the throne, and there are too many things to deal with in the court, so staying in the capital is the best choice.

However, what Zheng Xunrui decided must be implemented.

Zheng Xunrui will not be particularly stubborn, once the Zheng army takes Shenyang, he will return to the capital, and he will not participate in the continuation of the expedition later, so that the time will not be too long, at most it will be about half a year, if there is an accident in this process, for example, the Zheng family army attacked a certain city and encountered trouble, or was forced to suspend the attack for other reasons, Zheng Xunrui will also decide whether to return to the capital according to the actual situation.

But the royal conquest is necessary and cannot be shaken.

The sharp debate lasted for two full days in the Qianqing Palace.

The cabinet represented by Xu Wanghua finally retreated, and they had already seen that the emperor's determination was already as firm as iron and could not be shaken, and it was useless to continue to oppose it at this time.

So the cabinet raised another question, there must be someone in the capital, whether it is Xu Wanghua, the first assistant of the cabinet, or Zhou Yanru, the second assistant of the cabinet, it is not appropriate.

This reminder reminded Zheng Xunrui of his son Zheng Hanyu.

Zheng Hanyu is thirteen years old, Zheng Xunrui's personal education, as well as the guidance of the famous teachers around Zheng Hanyu, made Zheng Hanyu at a young age show unusual calmness, which is strange to say, among Zheng Xunrui's many children, only Zheng Hanyu is a son, and the others are daughters, which also indicates that no one will compete with Zheng Hanyu for the future throne.

With almost no hesitation, Zheng Xunrui issued a holy decree and canonized Zheng Hanyu as the crown prince.

The problem was solved at this time, when Zheng Xunrui left the capital, Zheng Hanyu presided over the affairs of the capital and the court, of course, it was temporarily presiding, Zheng Hanyu was still young, it was impossible to make any decisions, and major matters still needed to be reported to the emperor, after all, the emperor was on an expedition in Liaodong, and it was not too far from the capital, and it didn't take long for the horse to report quickly.

Zheng Xunrui was canonized as the crown prince, and the ceremony was not particularly complicated.

The queen mother Wen Manshan is the most happy, after so many years, Zheng Hanyu has finally become the crown prince and will be crowned with a great treasure in the future.

Although Zheng Xunrui meant that Zheng Hanyu's ceremony of canonizing the crown prince should not be too complicated, Yang Tingshu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, still carried out the rules in accordance with the rules, and Zheng Hanyu made a special trip to the altar to worship heaven and earth.

After the canonization ceremony, Zheng Xunrui talked with Zheng Hanyu for two hours, this conversation, Zheng Xunrui changed a lot of views, in his eyes, Zheng Hanyu is just a child, but this conversation, he found that Zheng Hanyu is very mature, I don't know if this is Zheng Hanyu's sadness or happiness.

Zheng Xunrui secretly made up his mind, and the next time he returned to the capital, he asked Zheng Hanyu to go down and take a look, not to have any welcoming ceremony, but to go to the common people to understand their suffering, so that Zheng Hanyu could realize the suffering of the peasants, and after ascending the throne in the future, he would really care about the people.

Zheng Hanyu was canonized as the crown prince, and the matter of Zheng Xunrui's personal expedition was also confirmed.

On this expedition, the Zheng family army dispatched 150,000 troops, accounting for three-quarters of the entire army.

Xiong Wencan, the secretary of the Ministry of War, raised an objection, not that the number of the conscripted army was too large, but that the number of soldiers of the Zheng family army left behind was too small, but 50,000 people, and the Zheng family army urgently needed to expand the number of the army.

Xiong Wencan's proposal was supported by the cabinet and also by Zheng Xunrui.

Zheng Xunrui didn't want to expand the scale of Zheng's army, he thought that the soldiers were not too many but fine, but the territory of the Ming Dynasty was too big, and it was difficult to meet the needs of an army of 200,000 troops, and the territory of the Ming Dynasty would be larger in the future, including all the grasslands and Liaodong, such a large territory, relying on an army of 200,000, could not maintain stability.

So before setting out on the expedition, Zheng Xunrui agreed to expand the Zheng family's army by another 200,000 people.

In this way, the total number of Zheng Jiajun reached 400,000 people, which can meet the needs of guarding the territory of the Ming Dynasty, but the expansion of the army of 200,000 means that the cost will also increase exponentially, and it takes a lot of money to maintain the army.

Zheng Jinhong, Hong Xintao, Yang He, Liu Zeqing, Su Manzi, Wang Xiaoer, Su Congjin, Ma Xianglin, Wu Sangui and other generals of the Zheng Jiajun all followed Zheng Xunrui to Houjin.

The matter of recruiting officers and soldiers of the Zheng Family Army is jointly responsible for the Governor's Office and the Ministry of War, with the Governor's Office as the mainstay, and the specific person in charge of this matter is Zheng Kaitao, the deputy chief soldier of the Zheng Family Army and the chief soldier of the Sixth Military Region, and the recruitment of non-commissioned officers is mainly in the north and the grassland.

This time, Zheng Xunrui followed the expedition, and nearly 10,000 European mercenaries, these mercenaries have become a member of the Zheng family army, and have received the devilish training of the Zheng family army, to the surprise of Zheng Jinhong and others, these mercenaries can quickly adapt to the devil's training, and almost all of them are qualified.

Zheng Xunrui is not surprised, he knows the identity of these mercenaries, they originally relied on the fact of conquest and killing, and they must have the ability, but the mercenaries are generally a little afraid of death and cherish their own lives.

When the army has not yet set out, the recruitment of Zheng Jiajun sergeants has been fully rolled out, not that Zheng Kaitao, who is in charge of this matter, is in a hurry, but that there are too many people who have applied to enter the Zheng family's army, and the emperor's holy decree has given the Zheng family's army a correct name, and entered the Zheng family's army.

Many businessmen took the initiative to send their children to enlist, and the businessmen's sense of smell was very keen, and they already felt that in the future, Zheng Jiajun's status in the Ming Dynasty was by no means ordinary. (To be continued.) )