The next day, Chen Yongfu led 5,000 Marine soldiers, 500 vanguard battalion soldiers, as well as Tanasha and John, to march quickly towards Tianjin. After half a year of training and exercises and Li Xin's personal guidance, the Marine Corps generally grasped the key points of the beachhead landing operation.

It doesn’t seem complicated. It just builds a beachfront position as quickly as possible, holds arbitrage, and creates conditions for subsequent large troops to land on the battlefield. Although there are no too many defenders on Juehua Island, what about the future?

Therefore, for the battle landing on Juehua Island, Li Xin defined it as a practical exercise, reviewing the training results over the past six months.

Chen Yongfu originally had more than 2,000 people, but he eliminated nearly 1,000 people according to Li Xin's standards. Later, he recruited more than 3,000 people from the canal along the Grand Canal and trained them into the Marine Corps. He is temporarily in the division level.

Chen Yongfu, the captain of the Marine Corps, is equivalent to the division commander. There is currently no commander in the bandit army. He is the commander of the highest level.

In the past six months, Li Xin gradually gathered the collapsed Ming army in the Beijing camp, with about 8,000 people and joined the bandit army. In addition, Zhang Nai brought 30,000 troops, the troops stationed in Beijing reached 85,000.

This is the benefit of artillery firearms. After a simple training, you can walk in a queue, obey commands, and be able to shoot guns and can directly pull them to the battlefield. In the past, recruiting elite soldiers required testing strength and archery and other assessment indicators, which were not needed in the firearm era.

What Li Xin needs is obedience and obedience.

Of course, this does not mean that the bandit army does not pay attention to physical fitness training. In fact, except for walking in queues and shooting training, the bandit army spends at least one-third of their time on the body.

The day after Chen Yongfu left, Li Xin led 50,000 soldiers, including 8,000 Mongolian cavalry and 5,000 of his own cavalry, and marched towards Juyong Pass in the north.

Juyong Pass is located in a canyon more than 50 miles northwest of Beijing. It belongs to the Dushan Mountain of Taihang. It is surrounded by the west mountain. There are giant streams and cliffs below. The terrain is extremely dangerous. It is known as the four famous passes in the west of the Ming Dynasty, along with Zijing Pass, Daoma Pass and Guguan. Among them, Juyong Pass also includes Nankou, Juyong Pass, Shangguan and Badaling.

Unfortunately, the age of firearms is approaching, and the terrain is no longer a decisive factor. One day, the bandits were approaching Juyong Pass and set up artillery along the terrain to bombard it. In just half an hour, a large piece of Guancheng was destroyed. The entire army rushed in under the cover of artillery fire, and Juyong Pass fell into the hands of the bandits.

After resting for a day in Juyongguan, a brigade of troops left to defend, Li Xin continued to lead the army to march towards Zhangjiakou in the northwest direction.

Zhangjiakou was called Guangning in ancient times and has always been a barrier of Jizhou. It is located at the junction of Beijing, Hebei, Jin and Mongolia. The Jin Dynasty's destruction battle took place in Yehuling in the northwest of Zhangjiakou. The Mongolian army defeated the Jin army here. From then on, the Jin Kingdom was exposed under the iron hoofs of the Mongolian army, and it also announced that the countdown of the Jin Kingdom's destruction was entered.

In the eighth year of Jiajing, the garrison Zhang Zhen opened a small gate on the northern city wall, called Xiaobei Gate. Because the gate is as small as the mouth, it was built by Zhang Zhen, so it was named Zhangjiakou. To the north of Zhangjiakou is the vast Chahar Grassland. The Chahar governor who was used by the Qing Dynasty to manage the Chahar alliances was stationed in Zhangjiakou.

This time when he left the customs, Li Xin not only sent Ezhe to Chahar, but also recovered Zhangjiakou, a series of castles along the Great Wall, and even Xuanfu.

Zhangjiakou was in status and was under the jurisdiction of Xuanfu. Although Li Xin tried his best to prevent the border troops from surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, Dorgon's sudden attack on Shanxi caught him off guard and was unable to pursue him. The Ming army from Xuanfu to Datong first surrendered to Li Zicheng, and Li Zicheng was quickly recruited and left behind to guard him. Later, Datong fell, and the Shun army fled or was killed. Most of the Ming army surrendered to the Qing army, and a considerable number of them were transferred by Dorgon to attack Taiyuan.

In the Xuanda area, the military force reached as many as 150,000 when Hong Chengchou fought the Songjin Battle, most of the troops were transferred from the border troops. Later, Li Zicheng left Datong and marched north of the Great Wall to Juyongguan. Although the Ming army lost its fighting spirit, some of them were unwilling to surrender the thieves and dispersed on their own. The actual number of Xuandaming troops in the Qing army was about 40,000.

Seven days later, the enemy troops arrived at Zhangjiakou.

Standing in the endless wilderness in winter, you can clearly see the rolling Jundu Mountain. The Great Wall hovered in the mountains like a giant dragon. Zhangjiakou City was built on Jundu Mountain, with an extremely dangerous terrain.

And within the Great Wall is Xuanfu Town, which ranks first on the nine sides.

In fact, Li Xin chose to leave Juyong Pass to Zhangjiakou instead of walking inside the pass, which has a lot to do with the terrain. The mountains inside the pass are stretched, the terrain is rugged, and it is extremely difficult to march. Outside the pass is flat, Li Zicheng rushed to Beijing, and he was also walking outside the pass.

At the end of November, the north wind was howling, and the grassland was vast. Looking north, scattered yurts could be seen. Ezhe showed emotion. After many years, he had never set foot on the land of Chahar again?

Since his father Lin Danhan was defeated from Chahar, his mother took him and his younger brother to surrender to Huang Taiji, he had never expected to return to Chahar. It was not until he surrendered to Li Xin at Linqing City that he had a turnaround, and he did not expect to return to Chahar so soon.

Of course, Chahar is not his at present. Only after defeating Dorgon could he inform all parties of succession to the Khan of Chahar.

"Don't worry!"

Li Xin smiled at him.

"Thank you, Regent!"

Ezhe took a deep breath and bowed to thank him.

In fact, he also knew that Li Xinfu's intention was to block the Qing Dynasty and continue to use the Mongols as sword envoys. However, the Mongols today are no longer Mongols of the Temujin period. Not only are they partly broken, but they also lose their aggressive spirit. He himself has no ambitions. As long as he can restore his father Lin Danhan's old career, he will be satisfied. He is willing to be Li Xin's big tree, and he is more willing to be Li Xin's vassal minister to protect the northern border of the Central Plains Empire.

As for his wife, younger brother and mother are still in Shenyang. If the Qing Dynasty wants to kill him, he will be powerless and at most he will have the chance to avenge them in the future.

Although the ancients talked about filial piety all day long, in fact, the people who really value filial piety are modern people. The ancients were very ruthless because of the difficulties in survival. It doesn’t matter if their wives, children, brothers and parents die. As long as they are still alive, they can continue their bloodlines.

This time, they accompanied Li Xin out of seclusion were Liu Rushi, Bian Yujing and Gu Hengbo.

Gu Hengbo clenched his hands tightly into fists, half huddled in his sleeves, and sighed, "This is the first time I have come to the frontier, and I feel a shocking power. It turns out that the sky is vast and the wilderness is vast, and the ancients really don't deceive me."

As he said that, he secretly glanced at Li Xin.

After a long period of observation, she found that Li Xin liked the cute and silly appearance of a girl, so she made this kind of childish attitude. This time she went out to the frontier, Li Xin had no intention of taking her, but she recommended herself. She also secretly decided to seize the opportunity and take down Li Xin.

But unfortunately, Li Xin didn't seem to see her little movements, and just smiled: "Shocking? Maybe, but it's very monotonous when you see too much. If you don't believe it, you can ask Ezhe, he grew up outside the Great Wall, but what do you feel special?"

Liu Rushi noticed Gu Hengbo's deliberate actions and couldn't help but smile.

Ezhe nodded and said, "The Regent said it is right. Every day we Mongolians open our eyes and see the same grassland. Even if we migrate elsewhere, the scenery is quite different. It is indeed much monotonous. It can even be said that after living for a long time, we will feel a violent aura in our hearts, and we will not vent our feelings. This is why the Han people often say that we Outer Mongolians are savage and aggressive.

In fact, let’s not hide it from the Regent, we Mongolians are all yearning for the Central Plains Flower World!”

As he said that, he smiled silly.

Indeed, Ezhe has been to Nanjing and Beijing, and the prosperity of the Central Plains left a deep impression on him. Of course, he dared not have the intention of marching his army to the south. He could stay in the grassland and be his king of grass. He occasionally went to Beijing to visit Li Xin and was satisfied after a trip.

Li Xin smiled slightly.

When conditions are ripe in the future, he will merge Mongolia, open the borders, and allow the Mongols to enter and exit freely, but the premise is to allow the Mongols to settle down and build cities and waste their blood. He has planned to gradually order a large number of sheep from Mongolia after Ezhe takes over Chahar. After all, no matter what, raising sheep is better than raising horses, and at the same time, it can also develop the wool textile and leather industries.

He also chose the location, and it was North Korea, because the wool textile and leather industries pollute water sources quite severely. Instead of polluting one's own home, it is better to harm the Datong River and Han River in North Korea.

"Commander-in-Chief, someone is coming from the city wall!"
Chapter completed!