"The second Northern Yuan?"

Yan Yingyuan was also stunned when he heard this.

He hadn't really thought about it.

Xu Yingwei nodded, and continued: "Mongolia originated on the banks of the Troubled River, and was originally just a barbarian tribe, but finally entered the Central Plains by chance. ”

"As a result, the Han family's clothes were lost, and Shenzhou was sinking."

"Fortunately, my Taizu Emperor Gao turned the tide and saved the Confucian temple from danger."

"However, after Meng Yuan defeated the old nest of Mobei, the might of Fen Taizu Chengzu II was not destroyed in one day."

"Yichen can't help but worry, after he is expelled from the capital division by my great soldiers, will he also defeat Liaodong and even Hetuala? Will it be like the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and it will still be difficult to eradicate for hundreds of years? ”

Hearing this, Yan Yingyuan, Zhu Cihong, and Zhu Cijiong all fell into deep thought.

Only Chongzhen knows that the story of the Northern Yuan Dynasty will never be repeated in Jiannu, because Jiannu is not the Northern Yuan, and he Chongzhen is not the Yongle Emperor, but Xu Yingwei's strategic foresight is very commendable.

Because Xu Yingwei wanted to go with him, that is, to intercept Jiannu's back road!

Even if Jiannu escapes back to Liaodong one day in the future, and even escapes into the deep mountains and old forests of Hetuala, Chongzhen is confident that he will be exterminated, but then again, if there is a chance to annihilate Jiannu in the pass, why not? It is much easier and easier to annihilate Jiannu in the pass than to run to the white mountains and black waters to fight guerrilla attacks with Jiannu.

Yan Yingyuan is undoubtedly a tactical genius, while Xu Yingwei is more strategic.

At that moment, Chongzhen asked, "So what can you do to eliminate this hidden worry?" ”

"Holy Lord, there is only one way." Xu Yingwei said, "That is to seize Liaodong!" ”

"Seize Liaodong?" Zhu Cijiong said, "I'm afraid this won't work, Liaodong is a nest of slaves." ”

Xu Yingwei said: "Although Liaodong is the nest of Jiannu, according to the information we have, Jiannu's entry into the customs can be said to be a nest dispatch......

"Dumping?" Zhu Cijiong said, "There is no such thing, right? ”

Zhu Cihong also said: "What the third brother said is right, we don't have any intelligence sources from Liaodong at all. ”

"Crown prince, King Ding, there is no need for an intelligence source from Liaodong for this matter." Xu Yingwei smiled and said, "You only need Jingshi's intelligence source to deduce it." ”

Zhu Cijiong asked, "How can this matter be deduced?" ”

Xu Yingwei said: "The minister turned over the fish scale atlas during the Wanli period, before the rise of Jiannu, the total number of mouths of the Liaodong capital was about two million, and then the old slaves ravaged for decades, and the total number of mouths of the Liaodong capital was sharply reduced to less than one million, and then nearly 500,000 Liao people moved inward, so the number of Han people in Liaodong was about 500,000. ”

After a pause, he said, "Most of these 500,000 Han people have been reduced to coatings. ”

Zhu Cijiong nodded and said, "Well, your inference is still credible." ”

Xu Yingwei said: "In the spring of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, after Jiannu won the Jingshi from the puppet Shun, the puppet emperor Shunzhi led 300,000 Manchus and 500,000 Baoyi to move into the Guannei, which is also verifiable. ”

"It is a fact that the puppet emperor Shunzhi led 800,000 Manchu Han people to enter the customs." Zhu Cihong nodded and said, "In this way, there are indeed no people outside the Guannu, because the total number of Manchu people is only 300,000. ”

"That's true." Zhu Cijiong suddenly said, "Hasn't Liaodong become a barren land? ”

"Barren land is not enough." Xu Yingwei shook his head and said, "But it is a fact that there are not many people, and at this time, hitting them all the way is like iron cutting mud!" ”

"But that's still speculation." Zhu Cihong said.

"What if the information is wrong, and the total number of Manchurians is more than 300,000?"

"The intelligence should be true." Xu Yingwei waved his hand and said, "Because the total number of cattle can be inverted from the number of cattle records in Jiannu, there are more than 300 cattle records in Jiannu, more than 90,000 strong men, and a maximum of 300,000 women and children in the elderly. ”

"Hong'er, there is no problem with Zhen's analysis, the total number of people is up to 300,000." Chongzhen said, "At this time, Liaodong is almost a barren land, at most one or two thousand people in armor. ”

Chongzhen knew the truth about Liaodong, but not through Li Ruolian's intelligence network.

Chongzhen vaguely remembered that after Jiannu entered the customs in a big way, the population of Liaodong dropped sharply from nearly one million to less than 20,000, and there were only more than 5,000 people in Shengjing and Shenyang.

Acropolis cities like Gaizhou and Haizhou have only a few hundred populations.

Attention, it's a few hundred people, not a few hundred defenders!

Of course, the population of Liaodong is basically the same as the number of defenders.

Because in addition to the armored people in Liaodong, they are a small number of prisoners and slaves who are assigned to the army.

Xu Yingwei doesn't know this, but he can make judgments based on facts.

Xu Yingwei said: "Even if there are 10,000 or 20,000 people in armor, they can't defend a huge Liaodong. ”

Speaking of this, Xu Yingwei pointed to the map and explained: "Our army doesn't need to go too deep, just attack and occupy Gaizhouwei on the right side of Liaodong Bay." ”

"Gaizhou is on the right bank of the North Sea, and it can be replenished by sea, so it costs very little."

"But Jiannu needs to send troops from Beijing to attack the state soldiers, and they need to transport grain through the Liaoxi Corridor, how can the journey be thousands of miles? It costs dozens of times more than me. ”

"So fighting Jiannu in Gaizhouwei can consume Jiannu to the greatest extent."

"Jiannu's national strength is far inferior to my Daming, and it will only get weaker and weaker in the long run."

"Then two or three years later, when our great soldiers are fully equipped with weapons and a large-scale northern expedition, they will definitely be able to defeat it in one battle."

"At this time, the partial division stationed in Gaizhou Wei can take the opportunity to go north and attack and occupy Haizhou Wei, so that the road will be cut off after the Jiannu in the Guannai goes out to Liaodong and even Hetuala, and then becomes a turtle in the urn."

Zhu Cihong and Zhu Cijiong have a sense of enlightenment.

The heart said that Xu Yingwei's hand was really powerful, and he hit Jiannu's seven inches directly.

After a pause, Xu Yingwei said again: "Of course, there must be a premise for all this, that is, my Daming Water Master must first defeat the Jiannu Water Division, so as to ensure the smooth flow of waterways." ”

Chongzhen then instructed Gao Qiqian: "Gao Companion, summon the Duke of Min to come to the Guozi Prison to meet you." ”

"The old slave commands." Gao Qiqian didn't care that it was Chinese New Year's Eve, and went straight to the Minguo Mansion.

When he received the holy decree, Zheng Zhilong was drinking in the courtyard with Zheng Hongkui and several other brothers, and from time to time he looked up at the fireworks that his son set off in the sky, to be honest, Zheng Zhilong was very satisfied.

The current days are much more beautiful than when they were in Jinjiang.

Recalling that I used to be content with being a coastal defense guerrilla, it was like a dream.

After receiving the holy decree, Zheng Zhilong did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly followed Gao Qiqian to Yilun Hall.

"Saint Zheng Zhilong knocks on the ......" Zheng Zhilong was about to pay a big salute, but was stopped by Chongzhen.

"Zheng Qing, come here." Chongzhen beckoned Zheng Zhilong to walk to the map on the north wall, and said, "It's been so many days since I returned to the capital, but I haven't had time to ask you how the Sailor Academy is doing?" ”

"It's going well." Zheng Zhilong hurriedly said, "Chen has already taken the students out to sea, and even fought with Gu San Mazi's Haikou and sank more than a dozen small boats of the Haikou Kou. ”

Chongzhen said again: "How is the situation at Longjiang Shipyard now?" ”

The 50,000,000 taels of silver for shipping and shipbuilding were used to support the shipbuilding industry and build sailors.

After the establishment of the Shipping Shipbuilding Silver, the first amount of silver was invested in the Longjiang Shipyard outside the Caochang Gate.

After Zheng Zhilong invested 5 million taels to invest in the shipping shipbuilding silver, he did not hesitate to move the materials and workers of the shipyards in Zhangzhou, Quanzhou and Fuzhou to Nanjing and invest in the Daming Longjiang Shipyard.

Zheng Zhilong said: "Back to the Holy Heaven, Longjiang Shipyard can now build 2,000 double-decker bird ships, and the next goal is to build 5,000 super-large three-decker bird ships. ”

[Note: 2000 materials are about 1000 tons]

"Two thousand?" Chongzhen didn't have any idea about this unit, and asked, "Zheng Qing, how many bird boats were the ones that participated in the Xuzhou War before?" ”

Zheng Zhilong said: "Back to the Shengshang, the sailors and bird boats that participated in the Battle of Xuzhou were all 400 small bird boats, each ship had 20 to 30 soldiers, but the 2,000 double-decker large bird ships had 400 soldiers per ship, and the Hongyi cannons equipped on the ships had a larger caliber and a longer range. ”

Chongzhen asked again: "How many bird boats have been built in total for 2,000 materials?" ”

Zheng Zhilong said: "At present, a total of 10 ships have been built and launched, and 10 more are about to be built. ”

Chongzhen asked again: "With these 10 2,000 bird ships and the original more than 200 large and small warships, it should be no problem to clean up the Jiannu sailors, right?" ”

"Jiannu Water Master?" The expression on Zheng Zhilong's face became a little strange.

Zhu Cihong immediately asked with concern: "Duke Min Guo, isn't it difficult to deal with the Jiannu Water Master?" ”

"Ahem, ahem, this one." Zheng Zhilong said with some embarrassment, "Prince, the Jiannu Water Master is actually the Dongjiang Water Master brought by the traitor Kong Youde, and the Dongjiang Water Master is a patchwork of the Southern Liaoning Water Division. ”

"The Liaonan Sailor may be regarded as a sailor in the eyes of Jiannu, but in the eyes of the minister, it is a native chicken and tile dog."

"You Chen led the Daming Sailor to deal with the Jiannu Sailor, that is really bullying them, even Gu San Mazi's Haikou can clean up the Jiannu Sailor, but there is one point but it is very troublesome."

Speaking of this, Zheng Zhilong said again: "At this time, half of the North Sea has been frozen, and the Jiannu sailors are shrinking in the dock, no matter how sharp the minister's sailors are, it is impossible to slip over the ice and clean them up." ”

"It's okay to do this, and it's not about using troops against Jiannu right away." Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "Zheng Qing, you just need to tell me, can you crush the Jiannu Water Master?" ”

Zheng Zhilong said: "On the Holy Side, there is absolutely no problem in crushing the Jiannu Sailor, even if there are no 10 large bird ships of 2,000 materials, it is more than enough, and it is even more than a problem to have 10 large double-decker bird boats. ”

Speaking of this, he said: "Holy Lord, the minister's goal is to defeat the Hongyi fleet!" ”

Chongzhen smiled and said, "Don't be in a hurry, sooner or later you will achieve this grand goal." ”

(End of chapter)