Zhu Youlang never expected that Wu Sangui's wave of stealing the house would lead to a chain reaction.

Now the whole southwest is in chaos.

Wu Sangui occupied Guizhou, Zhao Liangdong was defeated and took Guangxi, and Li Dingguo continued to march towards Guangxi after taking Guangdong.

The situation is of course good for the Ming Dynasty.

Wu Sangui, the troublemaker, mixed the water, the more time the Ming Dynasty spent on the Northern Expedition.

As for Wu Sangui... History has proved that he is at most a role as a messenger, and his influence on the rise and fall of the world is very limited.

What Zhu Youlang is more concerned about now is obviously the plan of the Northern Expedition.

Today he specially summoned Wang Henian, the commander of the Jinyiwei, to listen to his report on the north side of the information.

The role played by the Jinyiwei after Zhu Youlang made up his mind to rectify it is incomparable.

Although it has not reached the heyday of Taizu, it is already very good.

Take Zhu Youlang's order to collect information from the north as an example. In less than three months, Wang Henian took out the roughly deployed troops in the main provinces.

Wang Henian is a very practical person and never tidy up those who are weak.

Zhu Youlang clearly understood this from the moment he just met him.

Looking at the specially made map drawn by Wang Henian, Zhu Youlang asked with great interest: "From my dear, the main force of the Eastern Lu is concentrated in Shandong and the Northern Zhili generation."

"Report to Your Majesty, this is true. According to the report I received from the informant, the Donglu arranged more than 100,000 troops in Shandong alone, and the Northern Zhili had 200,000 troops stationed. In contrast, the remaining troops in the north were not enough."

Wang Henian was very respectful and maintained the humility that a minister should have from beginning to end.

His head drooped slightly, and his eyes guaranteed not to look at the emperor, but not to be free. In this way, when the emperor needs to confirm, he can make a timely statement.

“Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan…”

Zhu Youlang tapped gently on the map, and then said in a deep voice: "How is the deployment of troops in these three provinces?"

If we were to fight the Northern Expedition, it would be impossible to only attack Shandong and Northern Zhili. This can only be said to be one of them.

What the Ming army had to do was to advance together and put as much pressure on the Qing army as possible.

As for the current situation of the Qing army, it may be possible to resist the gathering of troops.

If the troops were divided, they would probably be defeated by the Ming army.

It's like both sides are playing a strategy. Zhu Youlang hopes to win the opponent at a small cost as much as possible.

The Qing army definitely hoped to continue to drag on.

"Report to Your Majesty, among these three provinces, Henan has the largest number of troops. Secondly, Shaanxi, Shanxi has the least one."

Wang Henian replied respectfully.

"That's how it is."

Zhu Youlang was a little surprised.

In fact, at the beginning, he thought that Shaanxi would have more troops. After all, Li Guoying, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, was also a famous rank of officials in the Qing court. There was no reason why the Qing court did not use him.

Besides, Li Guoying just invaded Sichuan not long ago. If he was not strong enough, how could he take the initiative to invade?

However, Zhu Youlang thought again and again, perhaps it was because Li Guoying knew that he had ended up, so he concentrated his efforts to take a gamble. He took a try and actually got some things, but in the end he vomited them all back.

It is reasonable that Henan has the highest military strength.

However, Shanxi's least military force was indeed beyond Zhu Youlang's expectations.

You should know that in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, Shanxi was a very important existence.

In the important town on the nine borders, Shanxi is the backbone and link.

At that time, the garrison troops in Datong alone had to be less than 100,000, right?

It can be seen from Wang Henian’s report that there are less than 100,000 garrison troops in Shanxi today!

You can say that the Qing court was too stolen, or you can say that they did a good job in the comforting work of Mongolia.

In fact, the so-called golden family has ceased to exist since Lin Dankhan's death.

The remaining Mongolian tribes did not have a strong leader to lead the crowd. At this time, as long as the Qing court gave some gentle policies, the Mongolian tribes would definitely follow the leader of the Qing court.

If it were put in the Ming Dynasty, I would never dare to think about it.

Shanxi is really too close to the outside of the Great Wall. If something happens to happen, it will be a big deal.

However, from this point, we can see that the Qing court indeed regarded the Ming army as a major concern.

As for the Mongolian tribes, whether you think you are willing to win over or be a false alarm.

In short, the Qing court was indeed very relieved.

Zhu Youlang thinks that this can be used.

His original plan was to attack the Northern Expedition by three routes.

Sichuan attacked Hanzhong and Guanzhong respectively.

Huai'an attacked Shandong and Huguang attacked Henan.

Now it seems that we can add one more way, that is, attacking Shanxi while attacking Henan.

If Shanxi is taken, you can completely follow Li Zicheng's route and go straight to the capital.

You should know that Shanxi is very close to the capital.

The Qing court dared to set up defenses like this, but it was bet that the Ming army did not dare to fight in circles and circles.

Then Zhu Youlang would play hard and teach the Qing army well.

It takes about 500,000 troops to divide the troops from four routes.

It is enough to add the Denglai Rebel Army and the number of new recruits just recruited.

However, Zhu Youlang still had to keep some troops to guard his home, and it was impossible for him to count it out.

It is unrealistic to rely solely on auxiliary soldiers to defend the family. If Wu Sangui and others get the news of the news, the Ming Dynasty will be in a loss.

Zhu Youlang's current idea is to lead the old and make some reasonable distributions on the composition of the Northern Expedition army.

For example, if 300,000 combat soldiers bring 200,000 auxiliary soldiers, this distribution is still very reasonable.

In this way, the Ming Dynasty could leave 200,000 soldiers to defend their homes.

It seems that there are a lot of people, but there are only tens of thousands of people in each province.

This can only ensure the defense of the main cities, and it will be enough to last until the end of the Northern Expedition.

An excellent commander must be good at making choices and dare to make choices.

If you want everything, you will probably end up in vain.

The Northern Expedition was related to the national destiny of the Ming Dynasty, and there was no need to be missed at all.

On the basis of ensuring the success of the Northern Expedition, Zhu Youlang must also ensure the safety of the rear as much as possible.

"The Donglu must also know that there must be this battle with the Ming Dynasty, so they will station troops in several important towns as much as possible. I need more detailed information."

"I understand, so I set up someone to collect it."

Wang Henian responded in a deep voice with his hands clasped his fists.

"As for whether you can accomplish something depends on your destiny."

Zhu Youlang had always disbelief of these things, but since he broke through time, he subverted his entire attitude.

He even vaguely felt that he was here to save the people of the Ming Dynasty.

If you are in a high position, you must bear the weight.

Zhu Youlang could feel the heavy responsibility on his shoulders.

Therefore, he will do his best to his limits, not only for the sake of one family, but also for the people of the world.

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