Chapter 6 Success or failure in one fell swoop

Fortunately, a few years ago, Yu Xiaotian led troops north to Denglai to rebel. Although he only led 8,000 soldiers and horses at the beginning, he accumulated considerable experience in the large-scale transfer of troops and materials through that large-scale northbound activity.

This time when he ordered a large-scale northward, there were no serious problems between the sea wolf departments.

However, the long-distance transportation of soldiers and horses for long-distance mobile transportation is undoubtedly a harsh test for army generals who are not good at sailing. The closed cabin, dirty air, and cramped space on the ship will cause the army soldiers to lose a lot of physical strength during the time crossing the sea.

Therefore, these army soldiers who have been transferred to the north must rest for a period of time before they can gain the ability to carry out large-scale military operations.

And Yu Xiaotian also faced a difficulty, that is, although he occupied a lot of bridgeheads, including Fushan, Zhifu Island and other places, he lacked a large place to gather troops, and he did not want Daming to prepare in advance before he took action.

So after he led his army to the Denglai area, he could not gather all his troops together, but temporarily placed them in several places to rest and recover their strength.

For good years, he has laid out in Shandong in advance. Now most of the area around Denglai has become his secret sphere of influence, especially Fushan, Zhifu Island, Yangma Island, Long Island Islands and Weihaiwei, which are now secretly controlled by sea wolves.

Every day, ships enter the port and dock next to the trestle. A large number of materials are continuously unloaded from the ship to the dock, and then loaded by ant-like people in a unicycle or four-wheeled carriage and transported to the storage site.

And from time to time, troop carriers will arrive at the dock. A team of well-equipped Yu's military generals, carrying canvas backpacks, rolling a roll of felt cushions and a thin quilt on their backpacks, wearing new military uniforms, walking down the trestle from a row on the ship, and gathering on the dock, and then quickly being taken by company as a unit Leave the dock and go to their temporary camp for a rest.

The first batch of arrivals in these places was not materials, but the logistics personnel of various departments of the sea wolf departments. After arriving at their designated positions in advance, they quickly summoned the people to build various temporary warehouses at these temporary assembly points, as well as a row of barracks assembled with pre-made wooden boards, ready to welcome It was followed by the swarming army and a large number of materials.

The original local military generals who practiced their identity in the township bravery received orders in advance to arrive at these places in batches. On the one hand, they carried out martial law in these places, and on the other hand, they assisted in the preparation of various houses.

Denlai's winter is very cold. By November, it can be said that the water has turned into ice. So many troops have been pulled over. If you don't prepare the barracks in advance, it is likely to cause frostbite to a large number of people at night. In addition, you should also prepare enough firewood to make a fire for heating. If these things are not mentioned If they do it well, the General Staff will definitely not spare them.

When many army generals transferred from the south came out of the cabin, they inhaled a cold air and suddenly shivered. They quickly tightened the belt around their waist, pulled the collar, covered their necks, and cursed that it was still fucking cold in the north!

After standing on the deck and waiting to get off the boat for a while, many people felt frozen. They quickly took out their gloves from their arms and put them on. From time to time, a breath of hot air warmed their hands. The hot air from their mouths rose up in the crowd, showing a dense fog, very It quickly condensed on people's eyebrows and beards, forming a white frost.

It can be seen how cold the winter in the north is. Many soldiers are not used to it after getting off the ship, but fortunately, they are well prepared here. After getting off the ship, everyone can get a bowl of hot ginger soup, put some pepper and chili noodles, boil them out with pig bones or cow and sheep bones, and pour them down. It's much warmer and more comfortable.

After entering the temporary camp and placing them, these soldiers will be allowed to rest for a whole day without doing anything. After the next day, they will start restorative training.

Generally, after five or six days, these soldiers will gradually recover from the fatigue of the long voyage, and gradually adapt to the temperature here.

Unlike the soldiers transferred from the south, they are from Jeju Island. This time, six or seven battalions of the army were also transferred. These soldiers are mainly from Shandong, Liaodong and even the north Zhili in the north. Most of these soldiers are a group of young men selected from the refugees received by sea wolves in the north over the years.

Therefore, these northern soldiers are much more adaptable to the climate than the southern soldiers. In addition, when they move from Jeju Island to this side, the sea sailing time is also much shorter, so that they recover faster than the southern soldiers after arriving at the temporary destination, and soon return to being able to be put into combat. .

Yu Xiaotian has visited Fushan Institute in November. Now Jiaozhou Bay in the area of Fushan Institute has become the most important military base of the Sea Wolf Group in the north and the home port of the Beihai Fleet, with the most complete facilities. In addition, it has also become Yu Xiaotian's intelligence base in Shandong.

After Yu Xiaotian arrived here, he immediately ordered to collect all kinds of information about the slave army and the Ming army, which was sorted out and analyzed by professional intelligence officers, and finally submitted the report to him every day.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian basically controls the recent activities of the Jiannu army in Shandong and the south of Beizhili. He dares not say that he knows the deployment of Jiannu's troops, but his activities are still quite clear.

After careful analysis by Yu Xiaotian and the staff officers of the army and navy, the general staff and the officers of the logistics department, coupled with his understanding of Jiannu's invasion of the Ming Dynasty in another time and space, Yu Xiaotian thought that Jiannu would collect his troops and begin to embark on the way back before the end of January. Road.

The biggest possibility for Jiannu's return to the customs this time is not to take the Zhuozhou area and bypass the capital to get out of the customs along the Great Wall, but to take the Hejian Mansion, cross Tianjin Wei, and then choose a place to get out of the customs.

So this time, only in the Wei area of Tianjin can he block all the Jiannu army inside the customs, prevent them from leaving the customs, and cut off all the goods and goods they have captured on this trip, as well as the people and livestock they have captured.

This will be of great help to the next military action of the family army. If these enslaves who have entered the customs are released, it will cause great trouble for the strangulation of the Manqing Ttars in the future.

In fact, the reason why Yu Xiaotian chose to have a showdown with the Ming court at this time is not the best. There is no other reason, that is, this time he has not completely destroyed the main force of the Ming army in the north.

Now Daming still has great military strength in Jiangbei, especially Hong Chengchou, who also controls a very elite Hong soldier, that is, Shaanxi officers and soldiers.

Hong Chengchou has been leading troops to suppress the civilian army for so many years. He has many good generals at hand, and he has a number of elite soldiers with tens of thousands of troops. He has quite rich combat experience and is a relatively effective Ming official army.

In addition, although the Guanning army was defeated with the rise and dive this time, there are also a number of generals such as Zu Dashou and Wu Sangui in the area of Shanhaiguan and Jinzhou, and there are still many Guanning iron riders on hand.

In addition, Chen Xinjia still controls a large number of Shanxi elite soldiers trained by Lu Xiangsheng before, and the number is also about tens of thousands.

In addition to the three battalions of the capital itself and the garrison in Baoding and other places, there are at least hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers and horses available in the north of Daming.

Looking at the current strength in his hand, although he used most of the army and some of the naval forces this time, the navy will not be put into the front battlefield as a whole, and the army has only gathered more than 30,000 troops, even with some of the troops lurking in Shandong before, There are also 7,000 new troops trained on the spot, with only about 40,000 people in strength.

And this time, he will face not only the hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers guarding the capital, but also more than 100,000 slaves.

So this time he went north to have a showdown with Daming, and he is at an absolute disadvantage in terms of military strength.

But he still chose to rise up at this time for no other reason, because his current relationship with the imperial court has reached the verge of collapse. It is no longer meaningful to continue to maintain it, and he really can't wait. The most important reason is that although the slave has established a country, It hasn't reached the level of full wings. Now that we can at least weaken Jiannu's strength a lot first.

As long as he mutilated the Jiannu army in this battle, the Jiannu will not be able to recover for a long time. In addition, although the Mongolian tribes are now subject to Jiannu, the two sides have not reached the level of closeness. The biggest problem of the Mongolian tribes is that there is no unity with each other, so they cannot compete with Jiannu. .

However, many people in the Mongolian tribes may not really share the same heart and morality with Jiannu. The two sides can be said to have different dreams. As long as he can mutilate the Jiannu army that entered the customs in this battle, then the Mongolian tribes should be able to see the weakness of Jiannu. Will they continue to listen to Jiannu's greetings like this next? Not necessarily.

If he gives small favors and provokes the relationship between the Mongolian ministries and Jiannu in the next period of time, I believe that Huang Taiji will be busy for a long time! As long as Huang Taiji Jiannu has something to do in the future, then set aside time for him to solve the problem of Daming.

So for the sea wolf, success or failure will dominate the world, and if it fails, it will flee back to Fujian. Next, let's slowly grind with Daming!

Yu Xiaotian has been analyzing all kinds of information with his subordinates for several days in a row. At the beginning of December, when Yu Xiaotian saw that Lu Xiangsheng's troops had gone south and had arrived at Shunde Mansion, Yu Xiaotian lamented.

(It's going to have a showdown with the Ming Dynasty! Let's support it!)