Except for Liu Min on the side of the couch, only in this way can the Zhou State really have no worries, and only in this way can the Zhou State go north to crusade against the Liao State and recover the lost territory.

Therefore, after Guo Wei met with the Goryeo envoy, he clearly stated that he would "not allow it" and refused the money and beauties paid by the Goryeo envoy from the court.

……。

The fifth day of the third month of the second year of liberation.

Baili Wuji made up his mind to prepare to close the net.

Baili Wuji summoned Xu Shiming and Sun Guangxian.

"Two of you, I have decided to go north."

Xu Shiming and Sun Guangxian are both extremely popular ministers, and when Baili Wuji named the two ships "Pingyou" and "Pingyun", the two had already guessed what the emperor wanted, not to mention the expansion of the Marine Army?

"Your Majesty, our country is now full of warehouses, complete armaments, and morale is high, and the battle will be won. The minister is willing to do his best for His Majesty's Northern Expedition to regain the lost land. It's just that now Fusang in the north is at war with Liao, and the battle situation is unknown. ”

Sun Guangxian is very willing to go on the Northern Expedition of the Ming Kingdom, the Ming Kingdom now has a vast territory and rich people, it is time to expand the territory, there is a male lord like His Majesty, and he should have a Ming minister like himself. What Sun Guangxian thought of was to minimize the war attrition, but he was still worried about whether His Majesty had the idea of reviving the Northern Expedition for the sake of those two women.

Xu Shiming was preempted by Sun Guangxian, although he was unhappy in his heart, but he was not at ease at this time, he stepped forward and said: "The minister seconded the proposal, Sun Xiang's concerns, what he said was reasonable, the minister thought that not only would he have to wait until Fusang and Liao were exhausted, but also he had to fight the passage to the north first." Now the Ming Kingdom does not have a territory bordering the Liao State, and it is too risky to rely solely on ships to transport supplies. Your Majesty is invited to consider it. ”

Baili Wuji nodded and said: "What the two Aiqing played are all the words of Lao Cheng to seek the country, I summoned you and others to come to discuss today, not to immediately send troops to the north, I just hope that from now on, my country will officially enter the war readiness, and all workshops, armory workshops, and officials at all levels will do their best for the Northern Expedition." ”

Xu and Sun bowed and said in unison: "Your Majesty Shengming." ”

Baili Wuji ordered: "Sun Xiang." From now on, you will be responsible for the preparation of all military supplies in the Ming Kingdom. ”

Sun Guangxian responded: "The minister's decree." ”

"Xu Xiang, from now on, you will be responsible for recruiting strong people across the country."

"But please frame the scope of recruitment."

Baili Wuji pondered for a moment. "The scope of recruitment is the whole country, all men between the ages of 18 and 28 are recruited, but those who have only children in the family, those who have brothers in the army, and those who have brothers who have died. These three are not recruited. The number of recruits is limited to 200,000. Shall not be exceeded. Also, the atmosphere, the atmosphere of the whole country expelling the Khitan and recovering the rivers and mountains, you know? ”

"Your Majesty, your Majesty's decree."

In addition to the guns manufactured by the Ordnance Workshop in recent years, which were used on the "Pingyou" and "Pingyun" ships, there were still 60 4-inch guns and 36 5-inch guns in stock.

Baili Wuji summoned Baili Kang and ordered him to form an artillery box and belong to the special operations army. The establishment is eight hundred artillerymen, four thousand logistics. 1,600 pack horses.

The last time the reconquest of Shu was fought against the Zhou State, the Ming State only used its existing forces, and it took only two months.

Since this day, after several years of recuperation, the Ming Kingdom has once again entered a state of full combat readiness, such a force, presumably no one in the world can stop its edge.

But Baili Wuji and Ming Guo never imagined that the road of the Northern Expedition would be so bloody and cruel, and it would be so long. Perhaps, without the advance layout of Baili Wuji, this Northern Expedition would have dragged down the entire emerging Ming Kingdom.

……。

On the third day of the fourth month, Toyotomi Shixu led the Fuso army to march to Uiju on the banks of the Yalu River, and ordered all the ferries of the Yalu River to be blocked, all civilian ships and timber were collected, and no planks were allowed to cross the Yalu River north.

As a result, in Yiju and even in surrounding states and counties, even the doors and windows of private houses should be demolished.

Because of this order, the soldiers of the Fuso Army searched for and captured the remnants of Goryeo Gwangjong King Zhaoil, and others.

After confirming, Toyotomi Shixu just waved his hand lightly.

On the third day of the fourth month, Wang Zhao and all his concubines and relatives, totaling 279 people, were beheaded.

Goryeo perished.

The next day, the 30,000 cavalry vanguard sent by Yelu Jing had reached the north bank of the Yalu River.

The commander who led the cavalry of the Liao army was Yelu Yu, who had a straight personality and clear grievances.

Yelu Ruan treated him really well when he was alive, and named him Tiyin, concurrently served as a political order, and later named the king of Qishui County.

Therefore, after Yelu Ruan was killed by Yelu Cha, he resolutely attached himself to Yelu Jing and helped Ye Lu Jing to quell the chaos and ascend the throne.

Yelu Jing promised him for this, and after ascending the throne, he made him the king of the headquarters.

Unexpectedly, when Yelu Ruan was buried, Yelu Jing asked Yelu Jing to accompany Yelu Ruan to bury him in order to repay Yelu Ruan's appreciation.

This was originally acting, and Yelu Yuyu originally wanted to express his mind through this, but unfortunately the play was overdone.

This made Yelujing quite unhappy, although he did not have a seizure at the time, but he was left with a pimple in his heart, and my minister missed the old master, which made Yelujing very annoyed.

If you make me unhappy, I will make your whole clan unhappy.

Therefore, Yelu Jing happened to take advantage of this time to go south to rescue Goryeo, so that Yelu Yuyu led his own cavalry as the vanguard, consuming Yelu Yuyu's strength.

Yelu Yuyu naturally knew Yelu Jing's intentions, but he didn't dare to disobey the order, so he could only obey and go south.

Along the way, Yelu Yuyu tried to delay as much time as possible, hoping to keep Yelu Jing's follow-up army closer to him, not to say that Yelu Yu was defeated, but that Yelu Yu hoped that Yelu Jing could see how he faithfully carried out his orders and won the victory.

Although I stopped and stopped, I finally walked to the far city.

Out of Yuancheng, in front of the Yalu River, Yelu Yuyu did not expect that Goryeo would destroy the country in a short period of time, nor did he know that the Fusang army had occupied Uiju on the other side of the Yalu River and hoarded a large number of soldiers.

At this time, Toyotomi Shixu had already learned that the Liao army had come to Yuancheng, and he selected a dozen well-behaved people from among the captured Goryeo soldiers, and asked them to cross the river and pretend that the Fusang army was only attacking outside the city of Xijing (now Pyongyang), while the Goryeo army was waiting for reinforcements in the city.

When Yelu learned of this, he was convinced, and ordered the Liao army to rest and recuperate by the Yalu River, collect the boats to cross the river, and a day later, he ordered the whole army to organize a river crossing.

Yelu Yuyu didn't think that the Fusang army was powerful, but he thought that the Goryeo army was too incompetent, and he was quite confident in the combat effectiveness of the Liao army under his command.

At this time, when the scouts behind reported that Yelu Jing's army on the left had approached Liaoyang Mansion, Yelu Yuyu decided to speed up the march.

Therefore, he did not mind that he needed to send a forward to reconnoiter before crossing the river, but after receiving a report from a dozen Goryeo soldiers who had crossed the river to greet him, he ordered the whole army to cross the river at the same time. (To be continued......)