Late Tang

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After Da Weizhen signed the contract in duplicate and stamped her name with the seal of Prince Bohai, she felt a little dazed.Li Jing put away one of the contracts, looked at the black and white words on it, and the bright red seal, and blew on the wet ink with great satisfaction.

Turning to look at Da Weizhen, Li Jing smiled kindly and stepped forward to pat him on the shoulder.

"His Royal Highness, the contract has been signed, and please go to the arsenal with the officials of the Ministry of Industry to select ordnance. In addition, from now on, the 1 troops of the Korean Army and the Goguryeo Army will follow your command. By the way, from now on The military pay and rewards and pensions for tens of thousands of horses are also taken care of by the Bohai Kingdom. By the way, this king will immediately send people to Yalu Mansion and Nanhai Mansion to accept the two places."

Until the sound of Li Jing's footsteps had gone away, Da Weizhen still didn't move, just sat there in a daze.He just sold Xijing and Nanjing among the five capitals of Bohai State.Is this right or wrong?

Sirius Festival Hall.

A group of people who were drinking tea in the hall saw Li Jing coming in with a happy face, they couldn't help but stood up one after another, and looked over.

Li Jing raised the paper agreement in Yang's hand, and said loudly: "It's done!"

Cui Yunqing was the first to accept the paper agreement, and after scanning it quickly, her face was full of disbelief, "How is this possible? How could Prince Bohai agree to it? Could it be that the county king used some means?"

Although the territory of Bohai Kingdom is not small, there are only fifteen prefectures and five capitals in the whole country. This paper agreement gave the two prefectures and two capitals to Li Jing, which is incredible.

"This only shows that we didn't know enough about the weakness of Bohai, and we didn't know enough about the ferocity of the Blackwater Mohe. It seems that the Blackwater Ministry is indeed very fierce this time. It's so fierce that the Bohai Kingdom is already in danger of subjugation. It is impossible to cede the Second Mansion for the sake of our armaments and reinforcements." You know, although half of the Yalu Mansion has been cut off before, there is still Erjing in the Second Mansion after all.

After Jing Xiang concluded the agreement, he let out a long sigh: "Anyway, in this way, we will have no worries in the east. Now, we can enter the Central Plains with peace of mind."

"There is no need to worry about Bo Hai, what about Khitan?" Gai Yu asked with some concern.

Speaking of it, after Li Jing took control of Liaodong, the biggest threat was not the Bohai Kingdom, but Khitan.Although the Khitan has lost one after another at the moment, suffered a few big losses, and retreated into the grassland.Even the eastern part of the Qidan Grassland is occupied by Li Jing, but no matter what, the Qidan still has extremely strong strength.

Once Li Jing leads the main force into the Central Plains, the newly occupied land in the Northeast has to be worried.Although several times of immigration, a large number of Goguryeo people were moved into the Central Plains, but the population of the two provinces of Liaodong and Liaoxi has also been greatly reduced. Now Dongbei Province, Shandong Province has a population of 200 million, and North Parallel Province and Andong Province also have a population of 100 million. 100 million people.The two provinces of Liaodong and Liaoxi have a combined population of only about 100 million, of which Jinzhou alone accounts for [-] million, and the entire Liaohe River has a combined population of just over [-] million.Compared with this large area, the population is too small.

"The two places of Yalu Mansion and Nanhai Mansion were changed to Shenzhou, Nanzhou, and Fengzhou, which belonged to Andong Province. The newly occupied land of these three states has about 60 people, and all the rich people, wealthy families, and local tyrants will be moved Go to Liaodong Province." If you want to control the newly occupied land, it is best to destroy the original local powerful clans and powerful forces. A snake can't do without a head. Without these unstable factors, the situation will be much better.

"As for Khitan." Li Jing pondered for a long time. Originally, Li Jing had been making preparations last year. He planned to attack Khitan on a large scale this autumn after his horse became fat, and was ready to hit Khitan severely in one fell swoop.But the current situation, in the Central Plains, due to the four towns in Hebei, the situation has gotten out of control, Li Jing must send troops, otherwise, the situation will be very unfavorable to them.

With his current strength, he still can't fight on both sides.If you want to send troops to the Central Plains, whether it is Beiping vs. Youzhou or Liaoxi vs. Khitan, you have to switch to the defensive stage.

"How is Khan Hende now?" Li Jing asked.

Supervisor Zhongcheng Gong Sun Lan immediately replied: "The situation of Khende Khan is not good, because he was defeated by us several times before, and now all the Khitan tribes want to end the civil strife sooner or later, so that they can face us together. Twenty Khitan tribes, now only Yaochari The six divisions of the Han family and the Dahe family formed a group, and the remaining thirteen divisions have followed the Diela division to fight against the Khan of Hende. Although we continue to support the Khan of Hende, depending on the situation, they support It won't be long."

Regarding this situation, Li Jing sighed and shook his head. Khan Hende was really too weak, and with all the strength of the six tribes, he couldn't deal with the first one.

"Forget it, since that's the case, let's make a ruthless move." Li Jing's eyes showed ruthlessness.

It was the first time that everyone saw Li Jing's eyes like this.

"Send troops to the Khitan Grassland, set fire to the grassland, and burn down the grassland bordering us." Li Jing said in a deep voice.

"It's all burned?" Someone exclaimed, this is not a trivial matter, this burning will cover hundreds of thousands of miles.

Li Jing nodded, "We made a firebreak in advance, then set fire to the grass, and burned all the grass hundreds of miles along the border."

It's still winter now, when the fields are withered and yellow, it's the best time to burn.Burning grass has always been the most ruthless way for the Han people to deal with grassland nomads.During the Ming Dynasty, it was proposed that the captives should not be good at burning wasteland. Every autumn and winter, the frontier guards would go out to burn grass, which is called burning wasteland, so as to prevent the captives from going south and show off their soldiers.Each time the fire is hundreds of miles, the bigger the fire, the better.Because the nomads have a large number of cavalry, if there is a large amount of grassless land on the border, then the horses will not be able to eat, and the nomadic tribes will face great difficulties when they invade.

Although burning grass was the largest in the Ming Dynasty, it had been used in the Central Plains as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, and it was recorded repeatedly in the Qin and Han Dynasties.

Li Jing's plan is already a passive defense plan, because once the wasteland is burned, although it can largely prevent the Hu people from invading, it will also make it difficult for the Northeast Army to enter the grassland.In this way, it indirectly showed the Khitan people the fact that the Northeast Army would not send troops to the grasslands.In this way, I am afraid that the Khitan who had to deal with Khan Hende while guarding against the Northeast Army at the same time can concentrate on dealing with Khan Hende first.

However, there was no other way to do this. Since Khan Hende could no longer stop Diela, and Li Jing had no choice but to send troops to the Central Plains, in the end, he could only temporarily let Khitan go.

"There is still at least half a month before the Liaohai Sea is completely ice-free and navigable. How do we send troops?" asked Wang Pu, Minister of the Ministry of War, and Wang Pu, who participated in politics. Now the main force of the Northeast Army is in the Northeast, which is the closest to the Central Plains, and the soldiers and horses in Shandong are the closest. few.Liaohai is difficult to navigate, and it will be very troublesome to mobilize soldiers and horses for a while.

Li Jing also looked at the map. The Liaohai Sea has begun to melt, but there is still a lot of ice on the sea, and navigation will be very dangerous. Qingdao is very far away.

If you want to wait until the ice melts, it will take at least half a month.But time waits for no one, and if there is any further delay, Luoyang may have already been captured.Once Luoyang was shaken, the whole world would be shaken, and the feudal towns might not be able to retreat even more. If the Hebei rebels and Huang Chaoyi converged, their combined forces would make Li Jing even worried.

"We don't go by sea, but by land." Li Jing said in a deep voice after pondering for a while.

He turned his head to Lin Wei, the commander-in-chief of the five-army commander-in-chief and the governor-general, and asked Lin Wei, "How is the current situation of our army?"

"According to the request of the king of the county, our army has carried out a new round of reorganization and reorganization in the past two years. Up to now, the Northeast Army has 18 soldiers, including 36 infantry troops and 10 cavalry troops. [-], [-] in the navy and [-] in the fourth army, with a total of [-] armies. In addition to [-] counties in [-] prefectures in five provinces, each county has a united battalion of [-] soldiers, a total of [-] battalions and [-] soldiers. In addition, De County has a battalion of rural soldiers, a total of one hundred battalions of one hundred thousand rural soldiers."

"The 18 soldiers have completed their costume change. The infantry and jumping soldiers are all equipped with half-body plate armor, all Mo Dao soldiers are equipped with full-body plate armor, crossbowmen are equipped with leather armor, cavalry are equipped with half-body plate armor, and horses are equipped with leather armor. We The [-] township army is also equipped with leather armor and iron armor, which can be used as a local city defense force or as an auxiliary army. The township soldiers are also equipped with leather armor, spears, horizontal knives, bows and arrows Wait for the weapons and the battle order to be issued, and they can be recruited and used immediately."

In the past two years, Li Jing did not relax his grip on the army at all while fighting and training.A lot of money has been invested in it, and today's military equipment has a new look.The most critical thing is that although the authority of the officers has been cut, their status has been continuously improved.The salary of soldiers is higher than that of other positions, and since Li Jing issued a retirement order, it was announced that soldiers who have served in the unit for five years but have not been promoted to sergeant major can retire and receive a retirement pay, while disabled officers, or other Officers may also apply for a change of job. After Daxingtai allowed officers to retire and turn into civilian jobs, the treatment of the army has increased.

The army is a sharp sword of Daxingtai, and it should be carefully maintained at ordinary times, so as not to make it sharp and dazzling, but it should be set high so that it will not hurt itself.Once used, it is invincible.

Li Jing promulgated the two regulations on retiring and changing jobs, also in order to maintain a higher combat effectiveness of the army.The army under his rule will be a professional army.And the five-year retirement is also to allow more soldiers to have more choices, not just to be cut off for a lifetime until the day they die in battle.The military system of the Northeast Army is an elective system. Not all Cheng Ding must perform military service, but an elective system.

The recruits of the army are all those who have family property. The so-called permanent property has perseverance.

Ordinary people who want to be soldiers may not be able to become one, but they have to be from a wealthy and well-off family, and the healthy ones are the first.Of course, it is impossible for Li Jing to allow these people to serve in the army until they die. Soldiers who have served for five years but have not been promoted to the rank of gang leader, that is, soldiers of the sergeant rank, will be discharged after serving.Then officers with official positions can apply for a change of job, retire and become a civilian.

Active military officers are restricted in their official careers, but after changing jobs, they become civil servants and are no longer restricted.However, according to the regulations, after changing jobs, they cannot be transferred back.

Li Jing let those soldiers retire for five years to improve the professionalism of the army. On the other hand, the continuous rotation of soldiers, although veterans leave and new recruits join the army, will inevitably have an impact on the army's combat effectiveness, but at the same time the army is also a big melting pot , so that more people can receive education in the army.At the same time, after these veterans retire, they are equivalent to Tibetan soldiers among the people. Once needed in wartime, Daxingtai can immediately recruit a group of trained veterans.

In this way, there was a steady stream of rotations. In the end, most of the adult men under Daxingtai had been trained as soldiers. Even if the army was temporarily defeated, there would still be more fresh blood to replenish.Unlike lifelong military service, if there is a long-term war, there will be fewer and fewer elite soldiers in the end, and the strength will become weaker and weaker in the end.

According to this rotation system, the longer you fight, the more soldiers you can use, and the stronger you fight.Moreover, the soldiers know that they will be able to retire in five years, the combat effectiveness of the troops will be more vigorous, and there will be many fewer soldiers, ruffians, etc. in the army.

The military officer transfer system also gave more officers more choices. Although military officers could not serve as county magistrates, governors, governors, ministers, servants, etc., they became civil servants after they were transferred, and they also had the opportunity to participate in politics. Such a central position.

It is precisely because of various reasons that the expansion of the Northeast Daxingtai is very smooth. Up to now, relying on sufficient financial resources, many military officers who have been trained by the military academy, coupled with excellent sources of troops, now have a full [-] infantry, [-] Ma Jun, [-] sailors.

This still does not count the [-] united soldiers of the local garrison and the [-] township soldiers of the militia.

There are 36 soldiers in the army, and Li Jing's heart is full of pride.

Under the new military system, the Unity Army is a local garrison, which is only mobilized within the state, and at most within the province.The township soldiers served as auxiliary soldiers in wartime and the task of assisting in the defense of the county and public security.

Right now, because of the winter, the navy is not available, and the 2 troops of the Fourth Army are temporarily unavailable.

"Four armies of the navy, one is stationed in Hudouzhou at the mouth of the Yangtze River, the other is stationed at Yuzhou Island in Haizhou, the other is stationed at Qingdao Port in Shandong, and the remaining one is stationed in Dahang City at the mouth of the Yalu River." After thinking for a long time, Li Jing put The four water armies that cannot be put into use are temporarily arranged in four places here to defend the four places.

"Deploy four armies in western Liaoning to guard against Khitan, and deploy four armies in Beiping to guard against Youzhou." Li Jing drew two large circles on the map, pulled out soldiers from eight armies and arranged two defensive groups. "In addition, in Qingzhou and Liaoyang, four armies were set up as mobile forces."

The soldiers of the 36 armies were divided into [-] armies with [-] soldiers and horses stationed in various places.

The remaining troops are only [-] soldiers from [-] armies.

"This time we will send troops to the Central Plains and not go to the Liaohai Sea. Therefore, a large part of the army will go south from the northeast. For this reason, we will mobilize [-] soldiers and horses this time to leave Liaodong and enter the customs, from Pingzhou to Jizhou passes Shunzhou, finally enters Cangzhou, and then enters Henan."

Seeing this long marching route, everyone was a little surprised.However, after passing the Yellow River to the south, it is the territory of Shandong Province. The army can go south with light troops, without having to carry too much luggage, and the difficulty of going south is reduced.Moreover, after Shunzhou was captured, the territory of the Northeast Army directly connected with the Yichang Army. The Yichang Army was the territory controlled by the imperial court, and to the south was Shandong Province. the right path.

However, now that the Hebei rebel Chengde army is attacking the Yichang army, if they want to use the road to go south, they may have to fight the Chengde army, the stumbling block, to fight politics first.

Hearing everyone's worries, Li Jing smiled softly, "Whoever dares to block the car with his arms, then we will crush them all the way!" (To be continued.)