Only then did I realize that the number of chapters in yesterday’s two chapters was the same...

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The upper source water systems of the Liao River, such as the Laoha River, the Xilamulun River, and the Uli Jimuren River, flow to the Liaodong Plain. Due to the flat and low-lying terrain and other reasons, the flow speed slows down, the river bed becomes wide, and the river overflows, forming a large area in this area. In the river and lake swamp area, there is Liaoze.

It is said that "there are many floods underground, and outside the post tower, there are very few residents. There is no smoke in all directions, except for the rustling of reeds."

Guangning is to the west, Shenyang is to the east, and the Liaodong border wall is deeply recessed to the south at the location of Liaoze, which also divides the Liaoxi Corridor and the Liaodong Peninsula into two geographical units.

This greatly increased the difficulty of the Ming Dynasty's border army's defense of the Liao region, and also caused many difficult and difficult factors for the Northern Expedition plan being planned by the Shun army.

Liaoze is not only not conducive to travel, but the wetlands are suitable for breeding mosquitoes in summer and are difficult to cultivate. In the Ming Dynasty, the Han people in Liaodong were unwilling to move here. The Ming Dynasty simply did not want this area.

However, with climate changes, by the end of the Ming Dynasty, most of the precipitation in Liaodong was concentrated in the flood season in the summer half of the year. Therefore, Liaoze only saw swamps, overflowing mud, and mosquito breeding scenes in the summer and autumn. In the winter half of the year, precipitation was scarce. Moreover, the climate is dry and cold. When entering the dry season, Liaoze will not only shrink significantly, but also the water body will freeze, and the surface will dry up and harden. Therefore, in winter and spring, Liaoze will not cause any problems to the Ming Dynasty, Houjin and Mongolia in this area. Influence.

Naturally, it would not have much impact on the Dashun Army's Northern Expedition.

Nurhachi and Huang Taiji, two generations of Khans, paid special attention to the influence of climate and environment when deploying troops in the interior. Therefore, the Qing army often chose the midwinter when they went south to attack Dongjiang Town or conquer North Korea.

In the spring of the fourth year of Tianfa, due to rising temperatures and increased precipitation, the Liaoze area once again became a dangerous place that is difficult to navigate.

However, this does not hinder the Dashun Army's attack on the Western Liaoning Corridor. According to Li Laiheng's plan, the Shun Army must first complete the attack on Guangning in the Western Liaoning Corridor in the spring and summer, that is, in the first half of the fourth year of Tianfa. After liberation, the forefront of the battle line was pushed to the Liaohe River line.

Then, using the Liaohe River as a base, after the water in Liaoze froze in autumn and winter, they marched towards Haizhou and Gaizhou. In this way, advancing by land and water, Shandong also attacked Jinzhou and Fuzhou by sea, which made the Qing army tired of dealing with it. Under the cover of the navy, the army gradually regained control of Liaoyang, Shenyang, Fushun, Tieling and other cities.

The big battle plan is like this, but the small military preparations include raising cotton clothes, mules and horses, grain, bean cakes, carts, cloth bags, coir raincoats, gunpowder, arrows, feathers, steel nails, lasso, etc. needed for the battle. Waiting is the main thing.

Dashun's strong logistical and financial foundation allowed all related preparations to be basically completed before March in the spring of the fourth year of Tianfa.

The mobilization of the army was also very fast. Liu Fangliang's long-cherished position as the Northern Expeditionary Envoy was finally taken. Gu Kecheng was sent to Dengzhou to organize the South Route Army and attack Jinzhou on the southern coast of the Liaodong Peninsula. , Fuzhou area.

The overall force mobilization of the Dashun Army consists of eight divisions originally belonging to the Dianzhong Army and the Dianzuo Army, with a total of more than 90,000 elite horse infantry soldiers of various colors, assigned to Liu Fangliang's command, and three divisions originally belonging to the Dianqian Army. A division and a navy, with a total of more than 300 warships and more than 20,000 elite soldiers, were assigned to Gu Kecheng's command.

After the restructuring in the early years of Tianfa, the Dashun Army has completely abolished the permanent establishment of the Five Halls Field Army, making the highest field unit of the Shun Army at the division level. Only in major wars, the field army establishment is temporarily organized and implemented.

In the name of the XX Corps and the Prime Minister of the XX march.

For example, Liu Fangliang's department was called the Liaodong Road Corps, and Gu Kecheng's department was called the Bohai Road Corps.

Only the divisions under the corps are permanent establishments with fixed numbers and general configurations.

However, Taichung, the premier town of the Corps, is filled with a large number of staff officers who have been promoted from various divisions. These staff officers first served as officers in the Central Military Academy, and after reaching a certain level, they were transferred to each division. Afterwards, they accumulated a certain amount of experience in the army.

, and will be transferred back to the headquarters of the Military Academy.

The temporarily formed Corps Prime Minister Zhentai was formed by staff officers from the Military Academy Headquarters who had experience in the border defense division.

Therefore, although the corps is a temporarily established unit, the staff officers responsible for actual military affairs in the Prime Minister's Town, as well as the generals of various divisions under the corps, General Guo Yi, General Weiwu, left and right captains and staff officers, often have many

Deep dealing experience.

Both sides are very familiar with each other. Therefore, there is no situation where the soldiers do not know the generals and the generals do not know the soldiers.

Only the Bohaido Corps has a large-scale navy under its jurisdiction - and the establishment level of the navy lags behind the divisions of the field army. It also lacks staff officers from the provincial martial arts schools and the military battalion schools.

Therefore, there are many communication problems when it comes to team coordination.

After Gu Kecheng returned to Shandong, he spent a lot of effort to adjust the coordination between the naval and land divisions. He once even wrote to the court, hoping to dispatch Xu Du, Ma Bao and other generals he was familiar with to return to his command to assist in the battle.

However, because Xu Du was serving as a feudal official in the south of the Yangtze River and could not be touched lightly, and Ma Bao was far away in the southwest and could not get there at all, so Li Laiheng had no choice but to write letters and express his condolences to Gu Kecheng in every possible way.

When the Qing army withdrew from the pass, they carried out systematic destruction in the Youyanjifu area. A large number of cities were destroyed, water conservancy ditches were filled in, and farmland was destroyed.

After several years of recovery and immigration work, Hebei's civilian strength has recovered slightly, but it is still very difficult to support 90,000 combat troops, plus the logistics civilian workers, which is nearly 200,000 manpower.

Li Laiheng had to appoint Gao Yigong and Bai Wang to personally take charge of logistics coordination. They set up a base camp in Linqing Prefecture, Shandong, specifically responsible for the logistics of the Northern Expedition.

Gao and Bai had worked together for a long time, and both had administrative work experience in the Huguangda headquarters. They were very efficient in getting things done, and Li Laiheng was quite satisfied.

After all, this kind of comprehensive military and political talents are rarer than handsome talents like Guo Junzhen, Liu Fangliang, Gu Kecheng, Yuan Zongdi, Liu Tichun, Chen Yongfu, Hao Yaoqi, and Zhang Pili.

There was no shortage of generals and generals in the Shun Dynasty, but there were indeed relatively few comprehensive military and political talents like Gao and Bai that Li Laiheng could use with ease.

Even Li Dingguo, who was particularly valued by Li Laiheng, was slightly lacking in administrative abilities.

He sometimes sighed: "I have all the heroes in the world, except for one grandson from the southwest, which is a pity. If my grandson can hope to enjoy peace with me, then why should I begrudge the gift of the true king?"

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