Inside the city of Guanning.

Bi Zisu saw the Dongchang factory guard who came to give the order from a distance on the city wall, and he was across the jujube red horse, although there was only one person and one horse from Ningyuan Pass.

However, the peculiarity of its status makes it difficult for almost everyone to rise up to block it.

When the horse passed, a cloud of sand and dust suddenly rolled up.

Seeing this, Bi Zisu hurriedly walked down from the city wall, and waited early outside the gate of Guanning City, and Meng Tu went out of the city with him.

Although due to the fact that Zhu Youzhen constantly transferred a large number of Tianhu troops to Liaodong in the later period, a large number of officers of the Tianhu Army arrived with the army.

The arrival of a large number of officers of the Heavenly Tiger Army with the same rank or higher than Meng Tuo was due to the fact that everyone closely followed Zhu Youzhen's orders, and Meng Tuo was actually one of the few officers of the Heavenly Tiger Army who had combat experience with Hou Jin.

What's more, there is also a Bi Zisu who is tired of going back and forth with the soldiers in the barracks of the Tianhu Army all day as an endorsement of Mengtuo.

As a result, the front-line command of the battle against Houjin this time was still handed over to Monter.

As soon as the military order arrived, it meant that under the wave of Zhu Youzhen's big hand, the war between the Ming Dynasty and the Houjin would be fully opened.

The entire Ming Dynasty will be activated and mobilized in the shortest possible time, and it is still very difficult to put a lot of energy into the war against the Houjin.

However, the significance of this war is not as simple as it seems.

For the Ming Dynasty, Liaodong is a pain that all the Ming people cannot forget, and they may not have had the strength before.

But now that the Houjin Emperor Taiji can't wait to get into the North Korean suit prepared for him by Zhu Youzhen, then don't blame him for unceremoniously inserting himself into his hometown.

Tightly controlled the power of the court, firmly grasped the Tianhu Army, which really had strong combat effectiveness, in his own hands, and the emergence of the pro-imperial party made most of the officials in the real key departments in various places his own people.

The gradual construction of graduate schools has given the future of new talents a cradle and a prototype for the future.

It can be said that Zhu Youzhen has the confidence and foundation to dare to fight this vicious battle against Houjin.

More crucially, it is necessary to wash away the serious impact of the fiasco of the Battle of Sarhu.

Take back what is due!

The gradual emergence of thermal weapons had already begun to show its edge in the first battle against Jin at Guanning Pass, and the General Bureau of Ordnance, with the assistance of Sun Yuanhua and foreign craftsmen, had completed the manufacture of Armstrong's rear-loading rifled guns.

Although the production may not be high in the short term, the excellent performance in the test launch still amazed the onlookers.

Of course, the soldiers and horses did not move the grain and grass first.

The preparations left to Zhu Youzhen and the Ming court are still very complicated, and the key is the logistics support of the army.

Although Zhu Youzhen set up a number of independent logistics support brigades with a bias towards logistics support at an early stage, the production, deployment, transportation, and arrangement of a large amount of materials have exceeded the scope of what they can handle.

Much more critical is for the number of artillery.

Zhu Youzhen was still a little dissatisfied, so he was also trying his best to allocate resources to gather with the General Bureau of Ordnance.

Although the Armstrong breech-loading rifled artillery is worthy of its status as a new artillery of the Ming Dynasty, and it has not lived up to Zhu Youzhen's high expectations, the degree of today's artillery is still inseparable from a "quantity" problem.

If there are dozens of artillery pieces and an army division of the Great Tomorrow Tiger Army, then even if tens of thousands of Tartars dare to touch it, the Tartars who can hit it backhand will not be able to raise their heads.

And this is exactly what Zhu Youzhen wants to see.

How to complete as much logistics as possible in a shorter period of time may become the key point in whether or not the war can be won.

Among the many preparations, the most important thing for Zhu Youzhen was the new musket and artillery.

The combination of the Migne rifle and the Armstrong breech-loading rifled gun greatly boosted the confidence of the Celestial Tigers in the face of the Houjin cavalry.

What's more, there is a very critical problem here, that is, how to completely destroy all the war potential of Huang Taiji at one time.

It is the core pain point that Zhu Youjian is most concerned about, if you want to make Houjin completely dare not have thoughts about Daming Liaodong.

There's only one way!

After beating them, they didn't dare to be disobedient to Daming for eight lifetimes!

What's more, in the blood-sucking and imitation of the Ming Dynasty in several dynasties, in fact, Zhu Youzhen has a general understanding of the smelting technology of Houjin today.

If it is said that at the moment, Da Ming can use new artillery and new muskets to fight Huang Taiji by surprise.

However, if the battlefield situation takes a sharp turn for the worse in the short term, even if the firearms and artillery developed by Houjin are still significantly different from those of the Ming Dynasty.

The botched technology made it difficult for them to catch up for a while.

However, it will also make Hou Jin quickly change this attitude towards the war.

And the most critical thing in the transformation is that Houjin is likely to be hit by the battlefield because of it.

And in a short period of time gave up for the continued development of the Eight Banners Cavalry.

Instead, it gets into a tug-of-war over population.

What Zhu Youzhen wants is to be fast!

It's a soldier who is fast!

It's fast enough!

Therefore, in order to achieve this goal, we have made complete preparations.

Since Zhu Youzhen announced that he would start a war against Houjin at the court meeting, a large number of materials began to converge to Beijing in a steady stream, and Tianjin Port became a transit station for logistics materials in the Ming Dynasty.

The port of Tianjin gathers all kinds of materials from overseas, while Jingshi is responsible for all processing links, and Zhili is responsible for transportation to Liaodong.

Everything is in order.

And at this moment, there is another problem in front of the Ming Empire's Tianhu Army, once it advances to Houjin, it will not only have to face a field battle on flat ground.

If you want to regain the lost territory, you will definitely encounter crucial siege battles, and the importance of artillery will be increased infinitely.

Combined with the production capacity of the existing General Bureau of Ordnance, Zhu Youzhen made careful arrangements.

It can be said that after urgently sounding the alarm bell for preparation, Xue Fengxiang and Sun Yuanhua have fallen into a kind of tension on the soles of their feet.

Zhu Youzhen's Tianhu Army is actually built on new firearms, if it can't produce enough ammunition.

So although the current Tianhu Army has not completely put down the basic training of cold weapons, it wants to fight with Houjin... I'm afraid there will still be a fiasco.

Zhu Youzhen still knows this well.

Under Zhu Youzhen's constant urging, the production speed of artillery was rapidly increased in a short period of time, because the expansion speed of the Tiger Army was not fast before.

In addition, the Musket Division of the General Directorate of Ordnance was the first place to use steam machinery, so the stock of Minne rifles was still enough to use.

As a result, a large number of steam machines were re-refitted, and the production of new guns was intensively invested.

At the Tianhu Army station, Zhu Youzhen simultaneously recruited 10 infantry divisions to form the second, third, and fourth artillery divisions of the Ming Dynasty, and a total of 15 independent brigades for logistics support.