It turned out that when Zhang Li was preparing to fight the Qing army in Korea, he did not forget Li Zicheng in the Guannai.

After Li Zicheng, the emperor of the Great Shun Kingdom, ascended the throne in Beijing, he immediately tore off all the disguises, allowed his subordinates to poison the people, and almost slaughtered the original officials and gentry of the Ming Dynasty.

The situation of Jingshi, including the entire Beizhili, is different from Shaanxi and Henan, there are not many poor peasants here, after all, it is at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and it has been accumulated for hundreds of years, and the people have more or less a little savings.

Li Zicheng's army has always been to attract the destitute homeless, and to adopt the "three-light policy" for anyone who has family wealth -- this is not surprising; the homeless people are so poor that there is nothing to rob them, so it is better to win them over, and the number is still large, and in a short time they can gather an "army of one million." But those rich people, even ordinary small families, who have a little money, are the objects of their plunder.

Therefore, the entire Beizhili was almost killed, not to mention the rich landlords and officials, even the small merchants and hawkers who set up stalls on the street were also unspared. The slogan of "King Chuang is coming, don't pay for food" shouted loudly, what does Li Zicheng eat if he doesn't pay for food? What to drink? And what did the "army of millions" under his command eat?

I don't need you to pay for food, uncle, I will grab it myself......

In view of this situation, Zhang Zhang gave Lu Xiangsheng the order to attack Beizhili.

Of course, now the main force of the Tuanshan Army is in Korea, and Lu Xiangsheng's Shandong Army has more than 30,000 combatable soldiers.

According to Lu Xiangsheng's strategy, now is not the time for a decisive battle with Li Zicheng. Because 20,000 people can't beat the "army of millions", even a million pigs. Lu Xiangsheng can't be killed......

Lu Xiangsheng's plan was to capture the city of Beizhili as much as possible, and approach the Jingshi step by step from the periphery. This has a huge benefit. That is, after the Tuanshan army captured the city, it could rely on the city wall to defend the city, and Li Zicheng's millions of rabble took the city that the Tuanshan army had strictly defended and there was no way - Chongzhen was pitted by the open door party, but the city defended by the Tuanshan army was absolutely not open to the party.

In this way, attacking a city today and conquering a place tomorrow is similar to the "frog jumping tactics" of the US army in the Pacific War of World War II, and the defense line of the Tuanshan Army is constantly approaching the Beijing Division.

After Lu Xiangsheng captured Baoding Mansion. So he stopped going north. Because Baoding Mansion is a strategic place, which can be attacked and defended, Lu Xiangsheng waited for Li Zicheng to attack in Baoding, and also waited for the end of the Korean War, and waited for Zhang Zhang to complete a fatal blow to Li Zicheng with the main force of the Tuanshan Army.

However, the day before the capture of Baoding, Lu Xiangsheng suddenly received a letter from Chen Zhengcao, the master of the Tuanshan Landscape, saying that the situation was urgent and Master Zhang was in danger. We must rush to the DPRK immediately to the rescue.

After Lu Xiangsheng learned about the situation, he did not hesitate at all, and after leaving 5,000 people to defend Baoding, he rushed to Tianjin Wei with 20,000 troops yesterday. From Tianjin, Wei took the warship of the Shanshui Division of the regiment and came here - Yuanshan Port.

The 20,000 troops from Baoding Mansion to Tianjin Wei Lu Xiangsheng walked for a day, and Tianjin Wei went to Yuanshan Port by sea ship. It was also a full day of sailing. Therefore, from the time Lu Xiangsheng knew that Zhang Li was in danger to the moment when the army appeared in Yuanshan Port. It's only two days!

This kind of rapid reaction speed can only be achieved by the Tuanshan Army. Zhang Li's original training plan. It attaches great importance to the emergency assembly and rapid march of large troops, and the project of "pulling and training" runs through every month and even every day of the regiment's mountain army training......

Lu Xiangjin looked at his eldest brother Lu Xiangsheng, whose face was as heavy as water, and a question that had been lingering in his mind emerged. Lu Xiangjin pinched the words and asked in a low voice, "Big brother, there is something wrong with the little brother...... Ignorance...... I don't know if I should ask? ”

Lu Xiangsheng glanced at Lu Xiangjin, nodded and said, "You ask." ”

Lu Xiangjin straightened his voice and asked, "Judging from the current situation, the Japanese invaded the DPRK on a large scale...... But why did you firmly believe in what Admiral Chen said, big brother? According to the rules of the Tuanshan Army, you and Gao Dudu only listen to the orders of Lord Zhang! ”

Lu Xiangsheng laughed, nodded and said, "Admiral Chen has a warrant for Lord Zhang's 'act cheaply' this time." On the issue of tracking down the movements of Kong Youde's naval division, Master Zhang authorized him to mobilize all the military forces of the Tuanshan Army, including our Shandong Army. ”

Lu Xiangjin suddenly realized, so it was so, he secretly smacked his tongue in his heart: No wonder the eldest brother would immediately lead the army to North Korea, it turned out that Master Zhang had already calculated that Kong Youde's sailor was the most critical winner of this battle. It's just that Master Zhang definitely didn't expect that Kong Youde's sailor had not shown up for a long time, and he actually went to Japan to help the Japanese transport troops!

Lu Xiangsheng glanced at Yuanshan Port in the distance, and frowned slightly: "Xiangjin, this Yuanshan Port is surrounded by the sea on three sides, and one side is connected to the land, although it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but there is also one biggest flaw, only the sea route is blocked, let's fight by land, they are the turtles in the urn!" ”

Lu Xiangjin nodded, and said in a deep voice: "Now we will wait for Admiral Chen's sailor!" I don't know when the Tuanshan Landscape Division will arrive at Wonsan Port? ”

Lu Xiangsheng's face was solemn, and after a moment of silence, he said slowly: "Admiral Chen and I agreed to arrive at Yuanshan Port before dawn tomorrow, let's just wait patiently." ”

"Yes—" Lu Xiangjin replied in a low voice, looking at the endless but dark sea to the east.

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For Chen Zhengcao, who had just crossed the Tsushima Strait and was rushing to Wonsan Port in the East Korean Sea with his fleet, every minute and every second of his time was precious.

This was not the first time he had sailed this route, as just yesterday Chen Zhengcao's regimental landscape division transported Lu Xiangsheng's 20,000-strong army to a small fishing village twenty miles southeast of Yuanshan Port. Lu Xiangsheng's army landed from there and then quietly marched towards Wonsan Port.

This time, the battle plan was to attack Wonsan Port by land and water, in order to eat the enemy's largest supply area in one bite.

However, the time was too short, and the Tuanshan Shui Division did not have so many troop carriers to transport Lu Xiangsheng's 20,000 troops - so when he was in Tianjin, Chen Zhengcao dismantled all the guns of the warships, leaving only more than ten warships to guard, and the rest of the warships all removed the cannons for use as troop carriers.

Originally, a warship had dozens of officers and soldiers of the naval division, plus the guns on the ship, and the draft was just right. If a large number of troops were to be transported, the warship would not have left the port at all and would have to sink. Therefore, Chen Zhengcao could only choose to dismantle the cannon, so that the warship could also transport more than 300 soldiers. (To be continued.) )