Chapter 36: The picture is revealed (5)

Zhu Zhi followed Tie Xuan's fingers and his eyes fell on Shanhaiguan, "Well, what Dingshi said is very true, but the main force is currently north of Lalu, who can we use?"

Tie Xuan said: "Lubo's Ningyuanwei is a man who can be used for this trip. Ningyuanwei is already stationed there and is very familiar with the terrain. Moreover, Ningyuanwei has strong garrisoning ability. Occupying Shanhaiguan is enough to wait until the army returns south."

Zhu Zhi said: "It's great, Dingshi will directly instruct Lu Bo."

Tie Xuan said again: "The rest is King Ning's side. Will King Ning be rebellious? Will he be willing to go south to fight against King Yan?"

Yang Rong said: "According to Qu Qing's words, there are 30,000 troops from Prince Ning's subordinates from Peiping. If these soldiers and horses turn against each other, they will be unable to protect their lives. How could he let himself stand under a dangerous wall? Now the plan is to quickly contact Qu Qing. If Prince Ning is determined to seek rebellion, Qu Qing can do his best to assist him. If Prince Ning changes in his place, he can order Qu Qing to pull his troops out and return to Liaodong.

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Yang Rong's words suddenly reminded Zhu Zhi, yes, Zhu Di annexed the troops of King Ning, especially after the three guards of Duoyan, his strength increased, enough to fight against the Southern Army.

Zhu Zhi immediately said: "Duoyan Three Guards, Mianren, can you find a way to take over the Duoyan Three Guards?"

Yang Rong was funny in his heart. He didn't know how Ning Wang stood in a team, so you were anxious to seize the main force. Yang Rong said: "Your Highness, this is right, this, you should think about it carefully."

Zhu Zhi also felt a little anxious. No matter how powerful Yang Rong was, he couldn't guess what happened to King Ning. He smiled and said, "I just said that, Mianren doesn't have to worry about it."

"How is the war going on in the north? Is it easy to fight?" Since the Liaodong Army's Northern Expedition, Zhu Zhi has rarely asked about it. After all, there are only 10,000 soldiers in the Beishan Jurchens. This time, nearly 30,000 most elite Liaodong Army went on the expedition, even if they can't win.

Self-protection is not a big problem.

Tie Xuan replied: "The latest news was five days ago, the army left Zhenhe Station and crossed Heilongjiang north. On June 30, the army gathered together to Zhenwei, rested in Zhenhe Station for three days, waited for the food and grass of the rear team, and then continued to march."

Zhu Zhi calculated: "Five days ago, it will be the second day of the July 2nd. The official news about Peking must be arrived until July 10th, and then go north to report it quickly.

At least ten days, Yang Wen will get the message on July 20th. The army cannot move quickly, and it will take 30 days to return to Liaoyang. After nearly three months of tossing back and forth, how can the soldiers immediately enter the battle? Alas, the main force in Liaodong is equal to being unable to fight within three months.

This Yang Wen is so happy about his achievements, and the North Mountain Jurchen ringworm thighs are so ill. But he mobilized many people."

Tie Xuan kept staring at the map. After seeing Zhu Zhi finish speaking, he said, "Yulin Right Guard, Guangning Central Guard, and Tieling Guard will not be able to count on the next three months, but the situation is not bad.

Bei Yi thinks that you can plan like this, Your Highness, please see.

In Dingliao, the two upper-class guards of the right are still there. In addition, the newly trained Guangning Left Guard (lower cavalry), Ningyuan Guard (medium infantry) who set out in advance can currently gather 26,000 people from four guards on the southern front.

With them as the first echelon, they were not in enough entry but had enough garage, and they were enough to wait for the main force to gather and rest.

In addition, you can recruit 30,000 guards from Anlezhou (lower cavalry), Dingliao vanguards (middle infantry) to go south, join the Gaizhou guards (middle infantry) in Jiuliancheng, as well as the newly formed Guangning guards (lower infantry) and Fuzhou guards (lower infantry) in March. There are 17,000 people here who can be assembled as the second echelon in Guangning to take into account both the Shanhaiguan and the Daning directions at any time.

Even if Yan Ni, oh no, the King of Yan breaks through Daning. You can rely on them to delay for a while."

Zhu Zhi looked at Tie Hyun’s arrangement on the map and asked, “How is the training of the three newly formed wards?”

Tie Xuan said: "The Guangning left guard removed two thousand households from the Yulin right guards as the basis. He has a good foundation and strong combat effectiveness; the Guangning rear guard and Fuzhou guards are slightly worse, and they are newly recruited and newly immigrants to form, and the armor and equipment training is insufficient."

Zhu Zhi murmured: "Why are there so few people? I immediately organize these two middle and lower-level officers from the two guards to join the teaching team for a one-month special training. I will see two decent troops within three months.

And why didn’t the Dongning Guard (medium cavalry) go south?”

Tie Xuan said: "Once the army returns south, the Dongning Guard is the only mobile force on the Northern Line. They will be drawn to the Beishan Jurchens to withdraw the gate. Similarly, after the Eastern Line withdraws a guard.

None of the other three guards could move, and Li Chenggui was never convinced by us."

Zhu Zhi said: "Okay, that's it. I'm going to order the Dingliao Central Guard, Guangning Left Guard, Dingliao Right Guard, and Ningyuan Guard to form the first army in Liaodong, and all of them are under the control of the commander of Dingliao Right Guard Wang Guan.

Ningyuan Guards advanced southward in advance, Dingliao Right Guards followed up to ensure the front line of Shanhaiguan; Dingliao Central Guards and Guangning Left Guards two cavalrymen were temporarily stationed in Ningyuan to monitor Daning.

At the same time, order the right guard of Guangning to spread the scouts out to me, and the reconnaissance scope can be expanded to the inner and grasslands of the Yan army, and we must know everything about the movements of the Yan army."

Tie Xuan was puzzled and asked, "Your Highness, your troops are not enough, why do you still have to divide the troops?"

Zhu Zhi was thinking about how to let them understand the importance of Daning? Before Ning Wang changed, he should not explain it to them, so he pointed to the map and said: "The terrain of Shanhaiguan is dangerous, easy to defend but difficult to attack. You should be at ease with two guards to defend here.

But I am really worried about Daning. Once the fourth brother breaks into the grassland, Shanhaiguan will not matter anymore, so we must place a strong force to cover the flanks of Shanhaiguan."

Tie Yang and the other two looked at each other. Although they still didn't understand it very much, since Zhu Zhi gave the order, he had to follow it.

Zhu Zhi then asked, "Mr. Guo, weapons, food and fodder are your responsibility. First, allocate enough land, food and grass from the treasury to deal with the 50,000 army's half a year of combat."

When discussing military affairs just now, Guo Ming didn't say anything. When he mentioned him, he frowned and thought about it, and finally two words popped up: "Abide by the order."

When Zhu Zhi saw him hesitating, he asked, "Why, it's difficult to deal with the food and grass of the 50,000 army?"

Guo Ming said: "Your Highness, the food and grass for a year are easy to talk about, but now the food and grass for the salt tax have been allocated to the Dusi Department, but the grain in the official warehouse has not increased since last fall."

Hearing Guo Ming's words, Zhu Zhi's disgust towards Yang Wen increased a little, and said, "You don't need to worry about this issue. In March, there will definitely be an explanation for the food and grass of the salt tax.

Before this, you can send people to Goryeo, Japan, Ryukyu and other places to purchase autumn harvest surplus grain. I think it is necessary to collect at least 200,000 stones. The more you have to prepare enough food next year, so you can be more generous in terms of price.”

Guo Ming said: "Your Highness, there is another way. If the grain tax is imposed in Hongwu for the past 28 years, it can also solve the big problem. I think that in this extraordinary period, can I temporarily postpone the exemption of the agricultural tax on newly reclaimed land?"

"No." Zhu Zhi insisted on the railway. "You must not charge more grain from the people just because of dealing with the war, nor can you destroy the contract with the people. There is so much money in our treasury, enough to buy grain." Guo Ming quickly agreed.

"The Navy immediately recruited all the squadrons back to Jinzhou, and Danluo's naval marines also withdrew. It was up to him to support Wang Luchao for many years." Zhu Zhi said. Tie Xuan also agreed repeatedly.

Seeing that the internal affairs of the troops were almost done, Zhu Zhi stood up and said, "The fourth brother is planning a rebellion, and there is an emergency. I hope everyone here will unite and overcome difficulties together."

The officials quickly stood up and bowed to the ground: "It's all up to your order."

After the meeting, the crowd acted separately. Zhu Zhi specially kept Guo Ming, Yang Rong and Tie Xuan and told Guo Ming all about the two million taels of gold treasure stored on Changsheng Island.

This explosive news scared Guo Ming, the God of Wealth, almost fell off his chair. After so many years of elites in Liaodong, the treasury accumulated only 2 million yuan in grain. Now that he has increased so much money at once, he is not surprised.

Seeing him, Zhu Zhi said, "I was afraid that Nanmeng would find out and confiscate it all, so the news only controlled a few people and knew it. My uncle would not blame me, right?" Guo Ming said he didn't dare.

Zhu Zhi said again: "With this money, I think even if the fourth brother's rebellion is delayed for a few years, I can barely deal with it. My uncle should not try to activate the agricultural tax anymore.

It is better to transfer the money from Changsheng Island to Guangning, and this matter is left to Lord Tie.

I want to take out 500,000 taels of silver from it and equip the navy with eight battleships, ten cruisers, and twenty transport ships of five thousand materials. The matter will be handed over to the navy and Lord Guo to negotiate and pay.

"In the past, Guo Ming always liked the navy who was rich in money, and he would make things difficult for the navy to spend every time the budget was heard.

Now that he had this money, Guo Ming's eyes immediately smiled so hard that he only had a crack. He didn't care how much it would cost to build a ship for the navy.

When Yang Wen was expeditioning to Beishan, Zhu Zhi became the number one figure in Liaodong again. His orders were transmitted to every corner of Liaodong as quickly as possible.

Zhu Zhidi's return to the Liaodong Army, which had dispersed morale, was boosted, and everyone whispered to each other to spread this exciting news. But some people were worried that Zhu Zhi's regaining military power when Yang Wen was away also sowed the seeds of unstableness for the political situation in Liaodong.

With Zhu Zhi's orders spreading the news of the rebellion of the King of Yan, the news was even more explosive. The rebellion of the King of Yan means that Liaodong, which has an extremely important geographical location, will play an important role in quelling the chaos.
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