A marching map was spread out on the grass in front of Chen Dexing. Zhang Shijie, who had just been transferred from Tanggu City to serve as a military advisor, knelt on one knee next to the map and knocked on the map with a chopstick.

"King, what can be confirmed now is that the cattle and sheep of Hesalvulus have been slaughtered. Many people from western Liao and Han traded to Hesalvulus said this. As for the situation of the other three Ulus in the Mongolian host, I don't know... Assuming that they all slaughtered cattle and sheep, without the drag on cattle and sheep, their march speed can reach a hundred miles a day! It only takes two thousand miles from Yuerbo to Yanjing south, and it will take twenty days to get there!"

Li Cuixian interrupted: "The four major Ulus in the host country have nearly 800,000 tribes. Even though they lost some last year, there were no less than 700,000. The limit of mobilization is 200,000 people. Although most of them cannot fight in the field, it is not a problem to climb the city to shoot arrows... The Mongolian Tartars used soft bows as toys to dabble in hares since childhood. Even when they were sixty or seventy, they still had to draw bows every day."

She was Li Yan's daughter, and in theory, Tachaer's niece. She was very familiar with the situation of the Mongolian host and also knew their main sect kings and generals. This was the reason why Chen Dexing took her to the war.

Zhang Shijie said: "If 200,000 Mongolian soldiers enter Yanyun, it will be troublesome to defend the city... There are nearly 60,000 people under the Yanyun Dawanhu Mansion in Kublai Khan. And after our army landed in Tanggu, Yanyun and other cities were reinforced. If the defense is sufficient, it is afraid that it will be difficult to attack for a while."

Zhang Shijie has been guarding Tanggu, constantly expanding the city and recruiting refugees, and has made great contributions over the past year. He is familiar with the situation around Yanjing. Although Kublai Khan's main force has been withdrawn, he still left the general Wuliang Hetai and Zong Wang Hebichi to garrison the army. The former Yan family on Dongping Road, Di family on Guide Road, Guo Kan, Xue Junsheng and other four Han troops were also deployed on Yanjing Road. If they join forces with the four kings of the host, it would be really not easy to deal with. After all, Chen Dexing led the Western Expedition to only 55,000 soldiers, and even if the troops on Tanggu were included, the land force was only 60,000.

Therefore, letting 40,000 troops from the Mongolian hosts enter Yanyun is not a good idea. It is just better than allowing the tribes of the four Mongolian kings to spend the winter on the Jinlianchuan grassland. After the 700,000 tribes of the four kings survive the winter, the entire Eastern Mongolia and Liaobei can let them come and go.

The war between Kublai Khan and Li Yu is very likely to be divided between spring and summer next year. If Kublai Khan wins, Chen Dexing may be besieged by Kublai Khan and the four host kings of Mongolia in autumn and winter next year. Even the Southern Song Dynasty may join the war!

However, the current situation seems unlikely to be the worst. The four host kings of Mongolia seemed to have given up their plan to spend the winter in the Jinlianchuan grassland and chose to spend the winter in Yanyun, and gave all Kaiping and Jinlianchuan grasslands to Chen Dexing.

In other words, Chen Dexing's army could take Kaiping by walking and then dominate the wild lands of Eastern Mongolia and Northeast China. However, if the 700,000 Mongolian hosts all entered Yanyun, it would be difficult for Chen Dexing to capture the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun again.

Chen Dexing was silent for a while before finally waved his hand, "And when the four Ulus have already slaughtered all the cattle and sheep... Let's not go to Jinlianchuan, just go straight to Yanyun! Take Yanjing first and block their way to the south! Even if the other three Ulus are spending the winter on the Jinlianchuan grassland, we will fight again next spring. The three Ulus can reach at most 150,000 bow-induced men, while the Han people on Yanjing Road are no less than 700,000 to 800,000. If the rectification can be done, it will not be a problem to add 50,000 more lord soldiers! What kind of Tartars will be invincible at that time!"

Hearing that Chen Dexing had such confidence, Zhang Shijie smiled and looked at the end of the front and tail. The mighty army of the Northern Ming army was dining on the roadside. Yes, only 55,000 people had forced the four arrogant Mongolian host kings to escape, and Kublai Khan even dared not build a capital in Yanjing. If there were 100,000 or 150,000 troops, what kind of power would the whole world be able to withstand their attack?

...

At this time, a wild army was also confidently advancing along the coastline. The number of people in this army was "too many", so many that their leaders could not count (who knows what the number is above 1,000?). In the eyes of the Chief "Son of the Sea" (the name of the Son of the Sea has been passed down from generation to generation, and all the chiefs of this tribe are called this) and the Shark Elder, they have gathered the largest army in history. Not to mention a few hundred "sea people", even going south to conquer the Maya and Toltec city-states is no problem!

In addition, the resourceful elder Shark also formulated a very clever combat plan to march along the beach and run between the seamen's camp and their large ships on the sea. In this way, the seamen who had reached the shore could not escape. As long as they were caught, they could force the four large ships on the sea to surrender.

As for the "stone sword" of the seaman, the Shark Elder also came up with a way to deal with it. Don't fight in close combat, but shoot archery at a distance. The number of Chumash people is at least ten times that of the seaman! If both sides use bows, Chumash people can shoot arrows ten times that of the enemy, and naturally there is no possibility of failure...

"Here you! Those who came along the beach...these Indians were really stupid, and they didn't even know that they were approaching quietly from the forest!"

"But their number is really enough, almost four or five thousand... It should have gathered all the soldiers from several nearby large tribes. Are you sure?"

Zhou Xiaoqi, Meng Qi and Wen Tianxiang had already gone up to the viewing tower, and carefully looked at the marching enemies through the telescope, while talking in a low voice.

"How wonderful people are!" He sneered coldly, but his eyes were filled with the coldness that the 18 or 19-year-old boy shouldn't have. "I also want to form an Indian Eight Banners soldier!"

"What? Establish the Eight Indian Banners?" Wen Tianxiang was stunned for a moment. He had heard of the reputation of the Eight Banners soldiers in Jiangnan. The main force was the wild Jurchens from Liaodong, the most vicious! If you don't consider the cannons of the Sir-Jaw soldiers, the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners soldiers may be even better than that of the Sir-Jaw soldiers!

"Is this the will of the Ming King?" Wen Tianxiang asked.

"No," shook his head, "but I have the power to act cheaply and can recruit troops in the New World!"

"What? Is this happening?" Wen Tianxiang was stunned and stunned. A small second lieutenant expedition captain was a lieutenant in the Song Dynasty, and he was not even an official. He actually had the right to recruit troops!!! Isn't Chen Dexing afraid that this boy named Meng would occupy land to rebel on the Mingzhou continent?

Zhou Xiaoqi put away his telescope and looked at Wen Tianxiang with a smile and said, "Zhuangyuan, don't treat our Ming Dynasty as the Song Dynasty... The Song Dynasty's arrangement, take all the power to the court, what can the people below do? This arrangement is to guard against one's own people, and it will not work well to the outside world. Otherwise, how could the Song Dynasty become smaller and smaller in the 300th year of its founding, and all kinds of Tartars become more and more arrogant?"

If the biggest political difference between Chen Dexing's Northern Ming and the Southern Song Dynasty was that the Northern Ming Dynasty was decentralized by local governments and central governments, while the Southern Song Dynasty pursued absolute centralization. Of course, after Chen Dexing had a quarrel in Lin'an, the centralization was no longer the same, so he could only pursue centralization.

Of course, Chen Dexing did not completely deny centralization, but adopted a method of combining centralization and decentralization to completely centralize power. Just like the Song Dynasty, the soldiers and generals did not count. When sending troops to fight, the emperor had to issue a "former map". The chief of the central government would discuss how to arrange troops in the court, and then exercise command power through the Privy Council.

If the war is going on near the capital, it is absolutely impossible to do this. If it is hundreds of miles away, it would be a bit of a scam. If it is across the Pacific Ocean... then forget it, don’t go there and stay in your hometown!

Therefore, absolute centralization will seriously restrict the expansion of the country when communication means are behind, making it difficult to form a vast territory. Therefore, in the early and mid-terms of the Tang Dynasty, which focused on expansion, large military and civilian officials such as the Great Protectors and the Jiedushi were born, and in fact they were decentralized between the central and local governments. In the European colonial era, there were also powerful colonial officials such as colonial governors and special colonial ruling institutions such as "franchise trading companies".

The Qing Dynasty, a "unified dynasty" labeled as centralized by later generations, was actually a feudal dynasty with "semi-centralized power and half-feudalization". Otherwise, the territory of the Qing Dynasty would not have been so large. The centralized power of the Qing Dynasty was only in the Han area, Mongolia, Xinjiang, and Tibet, and was dominated by feudal princes. As for the Manchu private areas, there were no people, so naturally there was no centralization or decentralization.

Chen Dexing adopted a more flexible approach, both a strong central government and an autonomous place. There were feudal princes and a colonial governor system. Although Zhou Xiaoqi and Meng Qi were not governors, they had all the powers of the colonial governor to recruit troops, collect taxes, issue laws and exercise the highest judgment power. In Mingzhou, they were the representatives of Ming King Chen Dexing!

And there is no restraint or supervision, he is like a king!

"They are coming soon, let's go down." Meng Qi put away the telescope and said to Zhou Xiaoqi, "Brother Qi, is your warship ready?"

"Don't worry, you're ready!" Zhou Xiaoqi pointed to four adventure ships parked in a row on the sea less than two miles away from the camp. "The cannons on the starboard side can open fire at any time!"

Meng Qi nodded with a smile. Because the battle took place on land, he, the onshore expedition captain, was in charge of the command. The combat plan was as simple as their opponents. There were 298 people on land, including Wen Tianxiang and the Jiudeng Monk, but included the Japanese comfort women. They prepared for the battle based on the camp, and also unloaded 3 bronze cannons and a hot air balloon from the ship. The 12 cannons on the starboard side of the four expedition ships on the sea were also ready, and cannons can be fired at any time!

The hot air balloon has been ignited, and now it is tied with a rope, so you can take off to the sky to pretend to be a god at any time. The method is still the same. If you can kill the ball and the Tongtian ball, you can always fool some natives. In addition, according to Wen Tianxiang's opinion, Zhou Xiaoqi and Meng Qi also prepared Japanese soju (the cooked rice wine) for the surrendered Indians... (To be continued)
Chapter completed!