Zeng Qi is in full swing to prepare, Shengjing's 20,000 troops are completely under his control, and he is also recruiting players aggressively. This time, Zengqi was countered by Xuanyuan Sword, which was not in line with the development of the system, so while the system "adhered to" the principle of justice, it was very strict with Zengqi and Xuanyuan Sword.

After Zengqi publishes the task of recruiting players, each player will receive a system prompt before accepting the task: "Player xxx, are you sure you want to participate in Zengqi's army?" Zengqi has openly established himself, and joining his army will be on the opposite side of the imperial court and become a thief. ”

Many players chose to retreat when they saw this prompt, especially those who believed in imperial power, and it was impossible for them to develop only in Mukden Province in the future. Even if Zengqi succeeds in standing on his own, they will lose mission opportunities in other provinces in the future, and the gains outweigh the losses. Players who believe in the ** republic don't care, the official mission opportunities have nothing to do with them, and they have always been developing in secret, and they are used to being anti-thieves.

Players will become anti-thieves by participating in missions, but the rewards are equally exciting, and after participating in the mission, they can take up official positions in Mukden. Not every player can be like Chen Hao to mix up a five-rank official position, the official status in the game is very precious, even if it is an ordinary official, it takes a certain amount of luck to hold it.

Many players who are relieved to develop in the Northeast have received the task, but most of the reasonable players will not choose to join, after all, the Qing Dynasty can continue for ten years. Zengqi has 50,000 mission permissions, and only recruits more than 10,000 people a day, but some players who are interested in this task are rushing to Shengjing.

If there is enough time, there is no problem for Zengqi to recruit 50,000 people, but he doesn't have that much time. Sooner or later, the imperial court will send troops to encircle and suppress, and Chen Baxian and Jinchang must be dealt with before Shoushan and Fengxiang can free up their hands. On the first day, more than 10,000 people were recruited, and then it decreased every day, and it must have been more than five days to recruit 50,000 people, and the daylilies were cold by then.

Xuanyuan Jian's suggestion to Zengqi was to launch an attack on Yingkou first, and then recruit strangers along the way to rush to Yingkou to participate in the battle, so the next day Zengqi personally led an army of 20,000 NPCs and a player army of 14,000 to Yingkou.

At this time, Chen Hao also received an order from the Empress Dowager Cixi to hold the camp and drag him to Shoushan and others to support. After receiving the task of receiving the Holy Decree, he was granted the right to recruit players, and the number of recruits from the Fifth Rank Military Attache and Zeng Qi from the First Rank was completely different, and he could only recruit 8,000 players.

Chen Hao released a task to the players in Yingkou, and the reward of this task is unknown, and he himself doesn't know what the final reward will be. After the system grants the player the permission to publish the task, a reward officer will be dispatched, and the reward officer will give rewards to the player based on their performance in participating in the mission.

After the player obtains the permission to publish the task, he purely plays soy sauce in terms of rewards, and can only suggest the reward officer, but does not have the right to make decisions on rewards. Because if the player has the right to decide the reward, it will definitely be a big cat, and you can give a lot of rewards to your friends and then transfer them back to your hands, and players who really perform well will not get benefits.

Chen Hao asked Du Lisan to contact a large number of vigilante horse bandits, but he did not gather these people to command, and this potential force was ready to play a role at a critical moment. Because his subordinates are all NPC armies, and people with low commanders can't exert their combat effectiveness, Xuanyuan Jian must think that his main force is Commander Wu Peifu.

Where Wu Peifu appeared, Xuanyuan Jian would think that where was the center of gravity of Chen Hao's defense, and Chen Hao would use this calculation to calculate him once. The horse bandit militia recruited by Du Lisan was close to 20,000 people, and he handed over these 20,000 people to Zhang Zuolin and Feng Delin respectively. Although Zhang Dashuai and Feng Dashuai were born in a hurry, and the commander was not as tall as Wu Peifu, they were also above 70 points, and there was no problem at all with a force of 10,000 people.

Zhang Zuolin and Feng Delin have a lot of talents under them, and the combat effectiveness of the combat units led by them is not weak, which is why Chen Hao agreed to let them eat military salaries under the banner of Yingkou. He asked Wu Peifu to lead his 9,000 regular troops into the territory of Liaoyang, preparing to rely on the terrain at Shahebao to block the Zengqi army that was moving south along the railway.

Zhang Zuolin took the 10,000 troops recruited by Du Lisan to hide in the Huangniwa Fort in the west of Liaoyang Prefecture, while Feng Delin took 8,000 people to hide in Anpingtun in the east of Liaoyang Prefecture. When Zengqi's army entered Liaoyang and went south to Shahebao, Wu Peifu would lead the army to engage Zengqi's army at Shahebao, and Zhang Zuolin and Feng Delin quietly led their troops to capture Liaoyang, cut off Zengqi's retreat and launched a fierce attack on Zengqi from the rear.

The people led by Zhang Zuolin and Feng Delin did not go to Yingkou to meet, and in order to avoid revealing the news, Chen Hao did not meet the two again. The plan for this war was formulated by Chen Hao himself, and he did not rely on Wu Peifu as a shopkeeper.

Chen Hao also knows something about Xuanyuan Sword, as a player, he knows that Wu Peifu is very good at fighting, and he will confirm the location of Chen Hao's main force according to Wu Peifu's location. In this battle, Chen Hao made full use of Zengqi's eagerness to fight, betting that Zengqi would not station too many troops in Liaoyang Prefecture, and would not waste time in the seemingly unrelated Huangniwa Fort and Anpingtun.

After formulating the plan, Chen Hao consulted Wu Peifu and Yang Du's opinions, and Wu Peifu believed that as long as Zengqi went south and the people who commanded the troops on the other two routes were not fools, the plan was very likely to succeed. Yang Du agreed with his judgment of Zengqi's psychology, and told Chen Hao with certainty that as long as he did not leak the news, Zengqi would not send troops to Huangniwa Fort and Anpingtun to search.

With the affirmation of the two, Chen Hao became more confident, he let Yang Du sit in Yingkou to command, Du Lisan and Feng Yong led two thousand-man cavalry team in Yingkou as a mobile force, and he and Wu Peifu led the troops into Liaoyang.

Xuanyuan Sword is also recruiting players in Benxi, and the command he established is a B-level command, so he can recruit six thousand players. In addition, after Zengqi announced his independence, he was appointed with a staff position to guard Benxi, and he was granted the task authority, and he could recruit an additional 12,000 players.

Xuanyuan Sword is second only to Chen Hao in the game, and even after establishing and improving the base, he is even more favored, and he is soon recruited after the task is released. He also led the player troops from Benxi to the northeast, and joined Zengqi on the railway line, and the combined Zengqi army reached 50,000 men.

At the same time that the army of Zengqi and Xuanyuan Jian moved south along the railway, the twenty-four base areas in Yingkou were also launched. Under the instruction of Xuanyuan Sword, these players led people to wreak havoc at Yingkou, they attacked villages and towns everywhere, looting food and other supplies, hoping to attract some of Chen Hao's troops.

Twenty-four base areas launched at the same time, Chen Hao couldn't care about it at all, he simply didn't bother to pay attention to it, and let these players do anything wrong in Yingkou. However, when these players lead the team to loot, they are unlucky to encounter a cavalry team led by Du Lisan and Feng Yong, although each cavalry team only has a thousand NPC soldiers, it is no problem to deal with two or three thousand players in a single base area.

Xuanyuan Sword's subordinates arranged in Yingkou were defeated in two ways, and after a large number of players hung up, he frowned when he received the reward. Yingkou is Chen Baxian's base camp, why is he indifferent to the sabotage? Destroy the economic foundation of Yingkou, and he can't defend the land and secure the people, so that he will lose the support of the people, even if he wins this time, how will he develop?

Xuanyuan Jian couldn't imagine that Chen Hao had no intention of establishing a base in Yingkou for a long time, but even if he was ready to develop in Yingkou for a long time, Chen Hao would still ignore it. The army of Zeng Qi and Xuanyuan Sword has already gone south, how can they care so much when they burn their eyebrows? After the destruction of Yingkou caused a great loss of people's morale, it is possible to find a way to remedy it, but if Yingkou is occupied for the entire period of time, the efforts will be in vain.

Xuanyuan Jian was routed by cavalry under the third road in Yingkou, and when he learned that Chen Hao and Wu Peifu had led 9,000 men north to Liaoyang Prefecture, he was convinced that Chen Hao really didn't care about Yingkou. In order to avoid greater losses, he asked those men at Yingkou to give up the attack and return to the vicinity of the headquarters for defense, which they could not count on.

Zeng Qi and Xuanyuan Jian's army entered the Liaoyang Prefecture, and Chen Hao and Wu Peifu also led 9,000 NPC soldiers and 8,000 players to settle down in Shahe Fort. As Chen Hao expected, Xuanyuan Jian and Zengqi were not interested in Huangniwa Fort and Anpingtun in the east and west directions of Liaoyang, and did not divide their troops to occupy these two places.

Zeng Qi didn't expect that he felt that his 50,000 army was going south, and Chen Baxian definitely didn't dare to divide his troops; Xuanyuan Jian didn't expect it to be because Chen Hao's 9,000 NPC troops and 8,000 players were all in Shahe Castle. The bandit militia that Chen Hao asked Du Lisan to contact was either just a cooperative relationship like Zhang Zuolin and Feng Delin, or it was a soldier he had hired in Yingkou for a long time, which did not belong to the nature of a temporary mission, so it was not within the limit of the number of people.

Chen Hao's subordinates are all NPC troops, and the NPC troops of tens of thousands of people must be commanded by more than 70 people as military commanders, so that the combat effectiveness of the troops will not be weakened. NPCs with more than seventy commanders are all famous characters in the game, and Xuanyuan Jian only knows that Chen Hao has a Wu Peifu under him, which is the second reason why he can't imagine that Chen Hao dares to divide his troops into three ways.

Chen Hao was relieved that Zengqi's army did not divide his troops to occupy Huangniwa Fort and Anpingtun, and then it depends on how many people Zengqi arranges to be stationed in Liaoyang Prefecture. As long as Zengqi's troops stationed in Liaoyang Prefecture did not exceed 10,000 people, he believed that Zhang Zuolin and Feng Delin would launch an attack by surprise and would definitely be able to capture Liaoyang Prefecture and cut off the retreat of Zengqi's army.

The war was about to break out, and Zengqi's army could move south at any time, and Wu Peifu commanded 9,000 NPC troops to build fortifications in Shahe Fort. Chen Hao gathered the 8,000 players he had recruited, selected players with fortification-related stunts, and issued tasks for them to build perfect fortifications.

This task is not very difficult, and the reward officer will record it after the player completes it, and give a comprehensive reward when the battle is over. Just when Chen Hao was busy, a slightly chubby middle-aged player came to the position to look for him, saying that he had something important to discuss.

(To be continued)