"Haha, it is true that the new army can overcome difficulties, but it must be used well. Cheng Guogong, since I have appointed you as the coach of Pingliao, of course I must give you heavy authority. The strategy of the Generalissimo's Office is just a suggestion. What is the specific way to fight? ,up to you!"
Although Emperor Zhu still felt that Zhu Chunchen was unreliable as the commander-in-chief, the five-way strategy for leveling the Liao Dynasty formulated by the Generalissimo's Office seemed to be even more unreliable... So Emperor Zhu also wanted to hear the strategies of Zhu Chunchen and the Liaodong Governor-General's Office.
"Your Majesty, I have made some slight modifications based on the Five Route Ping Liao strategy and formulated a strategy to counter the Saar Hu."
The unreliable Zhu Chunchen took out a thick memorial and presented it with both hands. The eunuch on the side quickly stepped forward to take the memorial and handed it to Emperor Zhu.
Zhu Cixiang took a look at the memorial. It was a thick stack and he had to read it for a while, so he directly asked Zhu Chunchen: "Mr. Cheng Guo, how did you revise it? Come and get the topographic map of Liaodong!"
"Your Majesty, there is no need to get a map, because I have not changed the marching route, but only adjusted the number of soldiers and horses in each route. The change is not big." Zhu Chunchen said.
"Just adjusted the quantity?" Zhu Cixiang asked, "How?"
"The ministers first reduced the number of the two armies marching along the Daling River and Xiaoling River," Zhu Chunchen said. "The Daling and Xiaoling rivers are shallow and difficult to sail, so the logistical transfer of the two armies is very difficult. Relying on mules and horses for transportation. However, the number of mules and horses that the Peiping and Daning armies can provide is limited and it is difficult to supply the soldiers of the Fourth Division.
In addition, the mountainous area in western Liaoning has thousands of ravines, making it very easy to sneak through. The two armies themselves can still be careful, but the rear route is difficult to maintain and can easily be cut off by Donglu. Therefore, I believe that it is not appropriate to use large groups of infantry on the Dalinghe and Xiaolinghe routes, but should use light cavalry to show off their momentum and attract the main force of the Eastern captives. The ministers and others plan to deploy four black cavalry regiments on each of the Daling River and Xiaoling River roads, supplemented by three to two thousand Mongolian light cavalry. "
The Black Cavalry Regiment is the Black Lancer and Mule Regiment. After the Northern Expedition, the Ming Army had a sufficient supply of mules and horses, so it began to expand the Black Cavalry Regiment. To this day, including the six important northern vassal towns of Daning, Beiping, Anbei, Shuofang, Hexi, and Anxi, the Ming army has a total of 24 independent black cavalry regiments, and another 30 attached infantry regiments. The military division's black cavalry battalion has a total of more than 60,000 black cavalry.
If we add the number of shock cavalry equipped with broken-eared horses and Arabian horses, we do not include the cavalry in varying numbers owned by Sichuan, Sichuan, Dongning, Beiting, Jinou, Jinghai and other vassals, as well as those attached to the Ming Dynasty. With the tribe's tribal cavalry and some scattered cavalry, the total number of cavalry owned by the Ming army exceeded 80,000!
Zhu Cixiang frowned, "The four black cavalry regiments, including the auxiliary troops, are only 10,000 people. If we only count the combat troops, they are only 8,000. The cavalry of the small Mongolian tribes has little combat power. They can withstand this with just a few soldiers and horses." An attack by the main force of Donglu?"
"There should be no problem," Zhu Chunchen said with a smile, "Neither the black cavalry nor the Mongolian nomadic cavalry are capable of fighting tough battles, but they are good at fighting in small groups. Once they are dispersed, they can definitely defeat all the Donglu's cavalry soldiers. Drive out the frontier. At that time, Donglu didn't know the reality of the Daling River and Xiaoling River roads, so how could he let go? Even if Donglu attacked desperately, the two roads were scattered. Cavalry, leave as soon as you say."
"It makes sense, so how should the remaining eight divisions be deployed?" Emperor Zhu asked again.
Zhu Chunchen said: "The remaining eight divisions will be divided into three parts first. One part will be landed at the mouth of the Liao River. One division is enough. If there are more, we will queue up to wait for the ship. It is better to use them elsewhere first.
Part of them will attack Shanhaiguan and release one division. Shanhaiguan must be abandoned by the Donglu, and it is impossible to deploy heavy troops. Just use feint to defend. Just equip the Shanhaiguan division with an extra artillery regiment and fire heavy artillery with exaggerated momentum. It should be able to make the Donglu guarding the pass mistakenly think that there is an incoming army, and they will retreat after a little resistance.
There is also a part of the Xiaoheishan long base that attacks the Donglu, and six divisions are concentrated to attack! They must break through the Xiaoheishan long barrier in the shortest time, and then advance along the western coast of the Liaodong Peninsula and rush towards the mouth of the Liaohe River. After the divisions that landed at the mouth of the Liaohe River reunited, they attacked Liaoyang and Shenyang. After capturing the two cities of Liao and Shen, the army can spend the winter safely and wait until next year's spring floods before making any further progress. "
What do you call a slight modification? Zhu Cihong said in his heart: Your Liaodong Governor-General's Office has completely changed the five-way Ping Liao plan of the Generalissimo's Office... The Donglu will play "I will only go all the way" again, and sooner or later they will run into the troops marching from the Liaodong Peninsula. A large corps of six divisions!
"The army marching from Lushun is the main force!" Zhu Cixiang asked, "Who will be the leader of this army? It won't be you who goes out in person, right?"
Zhu Chunchen smiled: "I am old and cannot kill the enemy on the battlefield. I want Li Yuanyin to command the troops of the Sixth Division in Liaodong!"
"Li Yuanyin is a rare tiger general," Zhu Cixiang nodded, "What about the other four groups?"
Zhu Chunchen said: "The Shanhaiguan side is commanded by Wu Guoyong, the landing route at the mouth of the Liaohe River is commanded by Qin Mingtao, the Daling River route is commanded by Wang Qi, and the Xiaoling River route is commanded by Huang Degong."
"Okay," Zhu Cihong said, "They are considered elite soldiers and strong generals... Then I will wait in Tianjin City to hear the news of the victory!"
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"My subordinate Sima Yu, the commander of the fourth team of the North Road Camp of the Hanzhong Army, respectfully invites the King of Jin to live a thousand years old, and the King of Wei to live a thousand years old."
In Hanzhong, in the Wudushan camp, Li Dingguo and Liu Fangliang, who had just arrived, were summoning an inconspicuous team leader, Sima Yu, a general-level soldier from Liuba County.
Although this Sima Yu was an enviable "big man", he was just a sesame mung bean official in front of the eight kings who discussed politics. The reason why Li Dingguo and Liu Fangliang summoned him as soon as they arrived at Wudu Mountain was because he knew where to cross the Qinling Mountains and enter the Guanzhong Plain controlled by the Ming Dynasty.
Liuba County, where Sima Yu settled, is a small county on the southern slope of the Qinling Mountains. The mountain people there know many paths that can cross the Qinling Mountains and travel between Hanzhong and Guanzhong. When Dashun controlled foreign trade, many mountain people in Liuba County tried their best and started selling illegal salt. The price of salt in the Ming Dynasty is now much lower than that in the Shun Dynasty. At the same time, The price of mountain goods in the Ming Dynasty was high. Therefore, the people in the Liuba Mountain area wanted to exchange mountain products for salt from the Ming Dynasty, and then use the salt to exchange food for farmers in the Hanzhong Basin... Although this kind of smuggling could improve the people's livelihood in Liuba, it also caused the Dashun Dynasty A large amount of the salt tax in Hanzhong was lost, so the government soldiers who stayed in the dam fought a long and arduous struggle against private salt dealers in the Qinling Mountains.
After the struggle up to now, although illegal activities have still not been eradicated, they have become familiar with the roads in the Qinling Mountains, and have also developed the ability to fight in the mountains.
Li Dingguo asked Sima Yu: "Sima Yu, I want to ask you, how many paths are there in the Qinling Mountains that can lead to and from Hanzhong and Guanzhong?"
"There are at least ten." Sima Yu replied, "However, these paths are very rugged, and some of them have to go over mountains and ridges, so they are not suitable for large armies to pass."
"Have you been there before?" Li Dingguo asked again.
"I have walked through five or six of them."
"The furthest you've been?"
"The furthest we have been is near Chencang Mountain."
"Chen Cangshan?" Li Dingguo's eyes lit up, "Have you passed the Qinling Mountains?"
"We have indeed passed the Qinling Mountains."
"Didn't you encounter the Ming army?" Li Dingguo asked.
Sima Yu smiled and said: "The troops guarding each entrance in the Qinling Mountains are the supervising troops of the Shaanxi Admiral of the Ming Dynasty. They are not very capable of fighting and do not dare to fight us in the Qinling Mountains. They only divide their troops to guard Chencang, Jinya Pass, Monk Yuan, Wuzhang Yuan, If there is an emergency, we will disperse the pass and then use cavalry and horse teams to patrol the posts."
Li Dingguo pondered and said to Liu Fangliang: "King Wei, it seems that we have to change our strategy. We can't keep an eye on Qishan Mountain, but we must also learn from Zhuge Liang... use surprise troops to go out to praise the ramp and take Wuzhangyuan!" "
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