Although Lao Zhu doesn't take Jiannu much to heart now, this doesn't mean that Lao Zhu doesn't pay attention to Jiannu.

After all, now the enemy of the Ming Dynasty is really only Jiannu.

They don't die, Lao Zhu can't sleep.

Thanks to Jinyiwei's powerful intelligence system, Lao Zhu had already received the news when Jiannu began to gather troops a few years ago.

So after the New Year, the processing speed of the arsenal of the Ordnance Bureau increased a lot.

By the way, it is worth mentioning that the current Ordnance Bureau has expanded to nearly 80,000 people, which can be said to be a well-deserved behemoth.

It is estimated that after this battle, eighty percent of the overly large Ordnance Bureau will have to be split again.

However, big also has big benefits, at least now the Beijing camp has completed all the reloading, and the most advanced artillery has also been arranged.

In terms of equipment, the soldiers of the Beijing camp can already be compared with the equipment in the early days of World War I, which is more than 200 years ahead of this era.

And Lao Zhu, who has such strong firepower, naturally does not have the habit of being beaten passively, and when he is almost assembled in Jiannu, he once again drove his own expedition and marched towards Shanhaiguan.

Today's Daming, cement has begun to popularize, and the road from the capital to Shanhaiguan is the main road in Lao Zhu's planning, on the basis of a huge number of victims, the speed of building the cement road with work relief is very fast, and now the cement road leading to Shanhaiguan has been repaired for the most part.

On this kind of road, the marching speed of the army can be at least doubled, and it does not take long to reach Shanhaiguan.

And this time, Lao Zhu didn't summon so many general soldiers like last time, but just transferred Zhou Yuji over.

In addition, Lao Zhu also summoned Zuo Liangyu and Gao Jie in one go.

These general soldiers of the Ming Dynasty have the ability, but the character and loyalty, Lao Zhu really can't stand it.

If it weren't for the fact that these people had all contributed to the death of Daming, it would be difficult to unload the mill and kill the donkey, and they would still need to be used in the expedition, just these people, Lao Zhu would have cut it down a long time ago.

This time, Lao Zhu asked them to come, and he didn't let them bring too many troops, just to beat them again.

Not only that, after this battle, Lao Zhu will also send new officials to all armies, and this official doesn't care about anything, he only focuses on military discipline, and it is bound to completely change this group of bandits back.

Of course, Lao Zhu didn't trust him too much, in addition to these general soldiers who came to observe, Lao Zhu also transferred Sun Chuanting over.

In this battle, a total of 150,000 soldiers in the Beijing camp were equipped with new firearms and served as the main force in this battle.

Sun Chuanting's side because after winning Li Zicheng's victory, he incorporated Li Zicheng's army, even if he tried to reduce it as much as possible, but there were still 150,000 troops.

Among the 150,000 elites, there are 50,000 cavalry, and half of the remaining 100,000 foot soldiers are already equipped with new firearms, which can also act as the main force when necessary.

In this war, although Lao Zhu said that he looked down on Jiannu, he did not take it lightly, and directly brought in a total of 300,000 troops.

Coupled with the tens of thousands of horses that already exist in Shanhaiguan, in this upcoming decisive battle, the total strength of the Ming Dynasty has also reached an astonishing 400,000, which is only more than 200,000 compared with Jiannu.

And the gap between the number of more than 200,000 people, in the case of unequal equipment, this is not called a gap at all.

"Minister's grandson, I have seen Your Majesty."

After Sun Chuanting captured Li Zicheng alive, he was crowned the crown prince Shaobao, but because he was killing in Shaanxi and Henan, there were too many people who offended in the court, so in addition to the prince Shaobao and some monetary rewards, don't think about anything else for the time being.

And Sun Chuanting didn't care, not entirely because he regarded power as dung, but more importantly, because Lao Zhu had greeted him in advance, saying that he needed to deal with the aftermath after Jiannu's side won the battle.

So before the extermination of Jiannu, he should not be able to return to the capital.

And when Jiannu is completely handled, Sun Chuanting feels that when he returns to Beijing at that time, it is estimated that he will at least be able to directly enter the cabinet.

So Sun Chuanting, who knew that he was just slowing down a little, was not in a hurry, not to mention the matter of quelling Jiannu, if he really wanted to do it, he would definitely be famous for eternity, and at this moment, the war was imminent, even if you gave him the status of a cabinet and asked him to return to Beijing, he didn't want to go back.

"Hmm."

Lao Zhu looked at Sun Chuanting and couldn't help but bow slightly.

In Lao Zhu's plan, after beating Jiannu, Daming will definitely not rest and recuperate, at least the surrounding circle will be defeated.

After all, Lao Zhu can see that with the development of science and technology, the bigger the territory and the more resources there will be, the greater the advantage.

So Lao Zhu doesn't mind integrating some small countries around the Ming Dynasty into the Ming Dynasty, as for the demeanor of a big country, it's all nonsense.

If you don't move, it's because it's useless for you, you have to tell the emperors of the Central Plains that the small country next door has fertile land, and no matter what crops you plant, you can grow three crops in one season, and you see if they will do it with red eyes and screaming.

What kind of great country demeanor, pure, those who don't have benefits are fools.

Therefore, Lao Zhu plans to let Sun Chuanting be promoted to the secretary of the military department in the future, responsible for the external mobilization of troops, with his experienced military department secretary, then the Ming Dynasty will definitely not make any low-level mistakes in foreign expeditions.

And with Daming's current equipment, as long as he doesn't make any low-level mistakes, no matter where he is, he can fight casually with his eyes closed.

Therefore, this time, Lao Zhu is going to let Sun Chuanting command this battle, while he is still there, to see if he can give him more guidance.

"This decisive battle, we plan to hand it over to you to command."

Lao Zhu looked at Sun Chuanting, and then said, "How are you going to fight this battle?" ”

Hearing that Lao Zhu actually said that he would let him fight this battle, Sun Chuanting's heart couldn't help but feel a little hot.

However, before he came, he had already simulated countless times in his mind how this battle should be fought, so for Lao Zhu's question, he just pondered for a moment, and then gave an answer, "Back to Your Majesty, the minister wants to take the initiative." ”

In the Battle of Songjin, although the Guanjin defense line was lost, Shanhaiguan was still there.

Strictly speaking, Shanhaiguan should be a natural danger composed of four large cities connected together, and there is no hope of attacking a city like this.

Therefore, Sun Chuanting felt that if it dragged on any longer, Huang Taiji would definitely make a detour to Mongolia and enter the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

And now the border towns of the Ming Dynasty, the strength is not one in ten, it can be said that there are sieves everywhere, if they are allowed to detour from Mongolia into the Ming Dynasty, then the Ming army can only follow behind them, too passive, and easy to have problems.

Therefore, it is better to directly abandon the benefits of Shanhaiguan City and launch an attack on Jiannu.

In this way, not only can Jiannu be caught off guard, but also Jiannu will not be able to draw up his forces to make a detour to attack Daming.