Chapter 1441 Advance by Sea and Land

After three days of discussion, the Qing court finally made up its mind to mobilize the army to fight to the death with the Ming army.

If you can win, that would be the best.

They took advantage of the power of the great victory to gain a foothold in the north, and even took the opportunity to raise troops to go south and retake the south.

If they fail, they will even lose the power to rule the north. They can only relax the ban on martial arts and let each province supervise team training and protect themselves.

If this doesn't work, then you can only exit the customs.

In order to complete this plan, they even moved the Mongolian Eight Banners and the Eight Banners stationed in Liaodong.

After putting down the last capital, the Qing court still felt that it was not enough.

Started recruiting men in Liaodong.

In addition to Jianzhou Jurchens, there are many ethnic minorities in Liaodong.

In the eyes of the Jurchens in Jianzhou, these people are no different from barbarians.

Heavy corvees and taxes were often assigned to them.

For this decisive battle, they directly recruited all the men from all ethnic groups.

Together with the Zhili Green Camp General, a total of 300,000 troops were formed.

In order to ensure logistics, another 300,000 civilians were forcibly recruited in Zhili, known to the outside world as a 600,000-strong army.

This army was personally commanded by Suksaha and Ebilong and marched towards Jinling, aiming to attack Huanglong and break through the core of the Ming Dynasty in one fell swoop.

Naturally, such a large-scale military operation cannot be avoided.

When the army was dispatched, the detailed plan had already landed on Han Yu's desk.

"Everyone in the family, please take a look. How do you think we should respond?"

Han Yu distributed the plan to everyone.

Han Yu abolished the kneeling ceremony when going to court and restored the tradition before the Han Dynasty. Civil and military officials each had a seat and a small table.

"Your Majesty, I am willing to personally lead an army to conquer the Qingyao and restore our country, the Ming Dynasty."

Mu Tianbo said quickly.

He never dreamed that in just a few months, he would go from a defeated general to a general with thousands of troops at his disposal.

Even half of the country was restored.

And all of this is thanks to the man in front of me.

Now, he believes that as long as he is given another year or two, he can fully restore his homeland.

By then, even if he dies, he will be able to rest in peace.

Therefore, he couldn't wait to stand up and wanted to personally lead the war to restore his homeland.

He also wanted to leave his name in history.

Not only Mu Tianbo had this idea, but the other legion commanders present also had the same idea, and they all asked for a fight.

Seeing everyone's positive attitude, Han Yu was very happy.

The human heart is available.

"Everyone, please be patient. The war against the Qing Dynasty must be carried out, but not only on one road, but on multiple roads in parallel."

"The specific combat plan is to divide the troops into three groups."

"I will personally command the first route and lead ten legions northward to deal with the main legions of the Qing court."

"The second route, under the command of Mu Jiansheng, led five legions, set off by boat, landed in Liaodong, and went straight to Fengtian. They attacked the lair of Qingyao one by one. We must not let them escape into the mountains and forests to recuperate. We must eradicate the roots and avoid future troubles forever."

"As ordered." Mu Jiansheng stood up and accepted the order.

"The third route, commanded by the old general Mu Tianbo, led five legions and set off by boat, landing at Dagu. After landing, they went straight to the capital and directly wiped out all the princes and nobles of the Qing Dynasty."

"Yes!" Mu Tianbo also stood up.

His face turned a little flushed with excitement.

When he thought about having the opportunity to kill the leader of Qing Yao, he was so excited that he couldn't control himself.

For so many years, they had been passively beaten, and now they actually had the opportunity to capture the leader of Qing Yao, which made him extremely excited.

It's a pity that his old rival Dorgon is dead, otherwise, he would have to compete with him again.

The battle plan was drawn up and the Sixth Department was put into operation.

The Ministry of Industry stepped up the production of weapons and ammunition, the Ministry of Revenue allocated a lot of money and food needed for the expedition, and the Ministry of War was responsible for allocating troops and distributing tasks.

The whole country started to work like a huge machine.

In addition to the three armies arranged by Han Yu, the legions originally stationed in Sichuan and Hubei Province also began to march towards the neighboring Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Henan provinces to support the other three armies.

Originally this was just a feint attack, but in order to cope with the decisive battle of the main force and the previous southern expedition hosted by Obai, the Qing government had already depleted all the troops in these areas.

Many counties even have only a hundred or ten military commanders.

The Ming army in these areas seemed to be in uninhabited territory, and they occupied large areas in a few days.

However, at this time, the Qing government was no longer able to care about the war in this area, and could only order county magistrates and gentry from various places to recruit strong men and form regiments to protect the country and the people.

However, before the war began, Han Yu had already sent some smart and capable Jinyi guards into the areas controlled by the Qing court.

They have only one mission, and that is to promote Ming Dynasty's policies.

Equal distribution of land, exemption from taxes, exemption from corvee, and free education are all great weapons to win the hearts and minds of the people in any agricultural society.

Han Yu's four-pronged approach, the effect can be imagined.

Although those wealthy landowners and businessmen had a lot of money, they could only recruit some green men.

The remaining peasants were waiting on the sidelines, waiting for the Ming army to return, knock down the landlords, and divide the fields equally.

Because the preliminary work was done relatively well, the Ming army made rapid progress in Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Henan provinces.

New county towns were captured every day.

Intensified battle reports are flying to the capital like snowflakes every day.

However, the Qing court had no intention of caring about them at this time.

Because, their land of Longxing, Liaodong was captured.

Because they were traveling by boat, Mu Jiansheng's army moved much faster than Han Yu.

It entered Liaodong seven days ago.

The main force of the Eight Banners has already entered the pass, and the remaining main force is all stationed in Shengjing.

As a result, he was also drafted away to fight the Ming army a few days ago.

Even the able-bodied men were depleted.

This resulted in Liaodong's defense being even more empty than in other provinces.

Mu Jiansheng almost carried out an armed march and easily captured Shengjing along the way.

After learning that his hometown had been captured, Xiaozhuang was so angry that he became ill. He lay on the bed with more air coming out and less air coming in. He was about to die.

The only people in the Qing court who could make the decision were Tuogu veteran Suoni and the eight-year-old Kangxi.

"What should I do?"

Kangxi looked at the battle reports of frequent defeats in various places and didn't know what to do.

His backbone Xiaozhuang fell, and all this left him at a loss.

"Why don't we mobilize the army to return, conquer the Longxing Land first, and then fight the Ming army in a decisive battle?"

Kangxi asked.

"Absolutely not." Suoni quickly stopped him.

"The army must not change its orders overnight. Besides, the army is already about to engage in battle with the enemy. If we call back at this time, the morale of the army will be chaotic. We can only fight the Ming army first and then plan later."

Suoni said.

Kangxi wanted to say something more, but suddenly a eunuch ran in.

"Urgent report from Dagu!"

"Why is there an urgent report from Dagu?" Suoni frowned.

Suddenly, he thought that the Ming army's navy was powerful, and the loss of Liaodong was because the Ming army landed from the sea and rushed into Shengjing from the sea.

"Could it be..."

Suo Ni felt chills all over his body and grabbed the battle report.

I saw it read: "The Ming army is powerful, with more than a thousand battleships and thousands of cannons. The Ming army missed the entrance to Dagu, and the Ming army has landed..."

Seeing this, Suoni spit out a mouthful of blood.