Chapter 581 Preparation for the War

On August 15, 22nd year of Jiajing, before the Mid-Autumn Festival was over, Xu Lun, the governor of Ji Liao who received the order, rushed to Chenyang City without stopping under the escort of his followers.

The Ming army went to war, and there was such a rule a long time ago. When large soldiers went to war, they were headed by civil officials and supervised the army. This was also the court's way of restraining military personnel. However, the entire Liaozhen army went to fight, and Li Gufeng naturally would not cause trouble for himself in this marching matter, and had long asked the court for an order.

On such a large scale, only the Governor of Ji Liao, Xu Lun, came to lead the army in person. But the Governor of Ji Liao, the office of the Governor of Ji Liao, was in Miyun, and it took some time to come to Chenyang.

Fortunately, the mobilization of troops, horses, food and grass in Liao Town requires preparation, and nothing delays. Before Jiajing began to investigate the local case, the military officers were already very respectful to civil officials. No matter whether it was a big or a small matter, they had to ask for instructions to govern their officials and were not good at doing so.

After a few years after the local prosecution case, the civil officials of the Eastern Party took office. According to common sense, the civil officials' oppression and control of military personnel should have become stronger, but they did not expect that the other way around. In order to make the military officers support the court, the civil officials in the central and local areas had much better attitudes and policies towards military officers than before.

The generals, generals, and commanders of the garrison from all over the country slowly brought the real power back to their own hands. Moreover, civil officials knew how many soldiers could be, not to mention eunuchs, when fighting, they were the masters and planners. In this situation, civil officials were slightly weaker, and they were already like eunuchs in the army, and were nicknamed "the curtain of the commander" by the people below, meaning decoration.

The military leaders in various places, with the soldiers under their jurisdiction as private captives, became extremely quickly and quickly. To put it bluntly, it was because civil servants gave in unlimited concessions and delegated power in order to gain support. When Emperor Jiajing's second rule, the government orders and military orders at the beginning were not smooth, and the people below were obstructed and many of them were blocked.

After the army and horses of the mighty camp were trained, talents from all over the country gradually became impressed. However, this situation made Emperor Jiajing become more and more careful and the system of leading civil servants became more and more tight. The general of Jizhen Lou Yaohua did not inform the governor of Ji Liao by Xu Lun because of a small matter. He was reported by Xu Lun with a memorial. Emperor Jiajing immediately sent an envoy to reprimand him, and Lou Yaohua was fined his salary, and a general who participated below was directly chopped off.

This matter is actually killing the chicken for the monkey. When the generals and generals from all towns and camps saw it, they were all trembling and cautious in their actions.

So Li Gufeng was eager to prepare there, but would rather lose his chances of fighting. He was still judging why the other party did not pay attention to the principle of speed. He also made this mistake. However, this fully demonstrated that Li Gufeng did regard the so-called Huazhou Army as a defeatable opponent, and his confidence in defeat was quite high. This was a bit arrogant and waiting for the Governor of Ji Liao to come.

Li Gufeng has been a general for many years. When he arrived at this position, he relied on military merits, but more on his qualifications and background. He is also considered an old man in the officialdom. At this position, no matter how great his military merits are, he has no room for promotion. He is afraid that he will avoid suspicion and retirement. Anyway, he knows that he will definitely win, so it is better to do enough procedures to avoid some people causing trouble for themselves or causing trouble for themselves.

As for the eunuch who supervised the army, whether it was the governor of Ji Liao, Xu Lun or the general of Liao Town, Li Gufeng, who was too lazy to pay attention to it. Since Emperor Jiajing ascended the throne, he was very dissatisfied with the policy of eunuchs to supervise the army. In the emperor's mind, eunuchs could still help in the center of the inner army. After going out, there would be no suppression, which would make things worse. The recent tax supervision incident has proved this truth. Therefore, Emperor Jiajing also had a clear order for military supervisors in various places, and the content was to do our duty and not interfere in the military.

The Governor of Ji Liao rushed forward with a quick carriage. He was a civil servant who was a Jinshi. He had been extremely tired after such a struggle, but he did not dare to slack off. As soon as he arrived in Chenyang, he quickly asked about the assembly and configuration of troops. He also knew that he had only a little understanding of military affairs, and it was all up to the Li Gufeng town to arrange and dispatch in the future. After a group of staff and officers in Liao Town reported the details, he was unwilling to interfere too much.

The troops and horses of various places in the Dingliao Left Guard, Dingliao Front Guard, Dingliao Left Guard, Dingliao Central Guard, Chenyang Central Guard, Dongning Guard, Haizhou Guard, Guangning Central Guard, Guangning Left Guard were all concentrated under the city of Chenyang. With the troops and horses of Li Gufeng's headquarters, there were already 70,000 troops.

There is another special case for this mobilization. The troops of the Guangning guards were originally stationed in Guangning, which was the last portal to enter the pass. This time, the governor of Ji Liao, Xu Lun, mobilized the troops from Ji Town to repair the defense. According to Li Gufeng's words:

"If the troops in Liao Town are lost, Ji Town can fill the gap. This is the perfect solution."

Before the war, the generals were very taboo about his failure, but for Xu Lun, Li Gufeng's behavior was truly a complete and mature consideration. He, the Governor of Ji Liao, traveled with the Emperor's Sword and Silver Token this time, he had the right to mobilize troops.

Li Gufeng's idea was actually divided into Jizhen. The martial artist had such an idea. Xu Lun was loyal enough in his heart, so he naturally agreed.

The three guards of Ji Town, Ma Ruliao Town, assisted in the defense of Guangning. In Li Gufeng's idea, if this battle is victorious, the large area of ​​fertile land and wealth outside the side wall will naturally take it for myself. These places are much better than Guangning, which does not have much room for development.

If it is defeated, the gateway of Liao Town will also be guarded by Ji Town, so the situation will not be out of control. This is also an aspect that military strategists should consider. But to be honest, Li Gufeng never thought that he would fail.

On September 20, 22nd year of Jiajing, after various complicated rituals, 70,000 troops from Liao Town set out in Shenyang City and attacked Tielingwei.

The battle preparations for Liao Town were actually completed before the Governor of Ji Liao arrived in Chenyang. According to the ideas of a group of Liao Town officers, a large army was set up under the city, relying on the Shenyang City, which was originally the inside line of Liao Town, and it was convenient to raise food and grass in various places.

If the Huazhou army took the initiative to attack, it would naturally be able to deal with it calmly. Inside the battle, it would have a good advantage in the territory and could have many plans to implement it. However, after the Huazhou army occupied Tieling, it still issued a verdict to punish the people and attack the people, and then took the initiative to take action. The soldiers were the most important. The military was quick. The routines of the army that knew themselves and the enemy were completely lost, and they did not take the initiative to attack.

According to the spies' rewards, the Tieling Guard had no troops to enter the past ten days. In the eyes of the Liao Town officers, this must be because the other party had already assembled the troops, but marching and fighting was enough to be idle. It had been stationed in Tieling for nearly a month, but it had no action, consuming food and supplies.

Liao Town is already fully prepared here. September outside the pass is already cold and the land is frozen strong. It is suitable for marching and fighting. After a joint decision by the general of Liao Town, the governor of Ji Liao and the eunuchs of the army, he decided that since the mountain did not come, I would just go to the mountain. So on September 20, 22nd year of Jiajing, the army set out for war.

On the evening of the second day after the Liao army set off, a surveillance of the Tieling Guard rushed back to report that the Huazhou army suddenly strengthened its defenses around it, and the horse team went out everywhere to drive out and chase the spies who were unscrupulously checking around Tieling. Many people were caught off guard and were directly killed by the cavalry of Huazhou. More people returned to the Liao army's camp.

Li Gufeng heard this news and sneered repeatedly. No matter how stupid the Huazhou army would set up spies in Chenyang, Liaoyang. The act of killing the sergeant should have been to get the news that the Liaozhen army went north and responded. There was no problem with this action, but it was done too late.

The army in Liao Town is already on the road. Is there any use to beware of the situation now?

However, according to Li Gufeng's judgment, the Tieling Guard and the nearby Huazhou garrison should have about 25,000 troops, but in fact, the Huazhou army had a total of 45,000. The spies from Liao Town were just peeping around the Tieling Guard, but they did not expect that there were still troops on the north side of the wall.

To drive out the Liao army's post-strike, including the time when the opponent advances, and the time when the post-strikes go back and forth, there is a vacuum period of about three days around the Tieling Guard. During this period, no one will know what the Northern Army in Huazhou does. If someone goes to see it, you can see that the Tieling Guard suddenly turned into a huge construction site, and it is very lively.

Li Gufeng personally led a large army to march. At the same time, according to the rules, he divided the two troops of the Chenyang Zhongwei and the Dongning Wei as the vanguards, and advanced lightly and rushed to Tieling.

"The essence of Liao Town is almost all in the army of Li Gufeng, and the news from the pass has arrived today, saying that the three guards of Ji Town were transferred to Liaodong to guard Guangning."

Liu Shier put down Sima's intelligence documents and documents sent there. Huazhou's intelligence transmission has always avoided the use of carrier pigeons because it is too unsafe. However, this time, there were merchants with merchants and so-called vendors in the pass, and raised a large number of carrier pigeons in secret places in Liaoyang and Shenyang. Li Gufeng's every move was passed to Tielingwei.

Hearing this, Jiang Feng clapped his hands excitedly, and said with a smile:
Chapter completed!