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"The Khitan has already started, and the three Yelu tribes have had internal conflicts. The three tribes of the Dahe clan and the three tribes of the Yaonian clan were united. Under the leadership of Hende Khan, they were fighting with the Yelu Pugu family of the Diela tribe. Although the scale of the war was not large, the situation was becoming increasingly tense. Hende Khan led his troops to gather in Huangshui, while Yelu Pugu led his troops to gather in Tuhuzhen River. The other thirteen tribes were also more or less implicated. The Diela tribe was recalling their tribe troops on the western Liaohe line and the Liaohe line back to the Tuhuzhen River."

"The Khitan troops originally stationed in Yingzhou, Liaoxi, returned to the original Khitan site, and the Diela tribe on the Liaohe line also returned one after another. In particular, the Lianla tribe under the Diela tribe had completely retreated to Jian'an Prefecture north of Jili Prefecture. The Lianla tribe sent a thousand cavalry to return to the Khitan."

In the military camp of Changxing Island, Gongsun Lan explained the latest situation to the generals in response to the mountains and rivers on the sand table. "According to the information we found, the Khitans are busy with civil strife, and most of the soldiers and horses in western Liaodong are withdrawn. Especially on our front, there are no Khitan soldiers in Jilizhou, and they all retreated to Jian'an Prefecture. However, although the Khitans retreated to Jian'an Prefecture, Gao Dexin of Jilizhou had only 10,000 troops, and he also asked for help from the Goguryeo people in the east several times. At present, Gao Dexin is stationed in various mountain cities again, but there are only 3,000 troops left in the headquarters, of which there are only 1,000 cavalry."

Jing Xiang asked, "Where are the other reinforcements in Goguryeo, the previous departments have helped several times, and there were five or six thousand reinforcements."

Gongsun Lan smiled and said, "There are no reinforcements. Most of the thousands of reinforcements before were eaten by the Khitans. After the Khitans retreated to Jian'an Prefecture, the remaining ones also returned to various divisions. Gao Dexin in front of us only has three thousand people."

Li Jing smiled slightly, "There are fourteen mountain cities in southern Liaoning and Jilizhou. Now nine are in our hands, and only five are still in Gao Dexin's hands. Three thousand people guard five mountain cities. Although the mountain city is strong and dangerous, it cannot be defended with these three thousand people." Li Jing pointed to Jian'anzhou and Jilizhou. "We will not move this time, and we will move like thunder. It is not difficult to take down the empty Jilizhou. The key is that I plan to take down Jian'anzhou together, and even Anshizhou together. Use this attack directly to push our troops to the estuary of the Liaohe River, occupy the Liaodong Bay and the estuary of the Liaohe River. As long as we occupy the estuary of the Liaohe River, we can transfer the naval army to build a water city here. When necessary, our naval army can directly go up against the Liaohe River, cut off the Khitan reinforcements, and even attack the Khitan's back."

The Liao River is an important dividing line between Liaodong and western Liaoning. At the same time, this is nearly 3,000 miles long. The seventh largest river in China is an important channel from the sea to Fuyu, even the Khitan and Shiwei. It is very important to control the estuary of the Liao River!

The officers nodded one after another, and Gai Yu asked Li Jing: "Gao Dexin has only three thousand troops left, and this little soldier is not our opponent at all. But if we can defeat the troops without fighting, the result will be better. Should we consider surrendering Gao Dexin?"

"You can try to recruit surrender, but the march cannot stop. Send people to surrender to Jili City and give Gao Dexin ten days to consider. In these ten days, our troops can advance together by land, with Jinzhou Road on land, and you can go north from Fuzhou River and Biliu River in the east and west, and go north from three sides to Jili City. Within ten days, if he has not considered it well, he will directly attack the city." Li Jing pinched his chin and said in a cold tone. In fact, because he snatched Gao Dexin's wife and became his seventh wife, Li Jing was not confident that Gao Dexin would surrender. Therefore, he was too lazy to hold this hope. Although there might be some losses in the strong attack, he could use this to show the power of Xiazhen* to the forces in Liaodong.

"How have the troops been transferred?" Li Jing turned to look at Li Zhen. Li Zhen became the governor of Pingzhou, but this battle was still called.

Li Zhen stood up without any haste, took out the note in his hand, looked at it a few times before replying: "According to the commander's military order, this Northern Expedition will mobilize ten soldiers, 50,000 troops, 30 battalions, 15,000 auxiliary troops, and 100 rural troops, 20,000 auxiliary troops, and 100,000 rural troops, and 100,000 young and strong civilians in each state will be recruited to be responsible for the transportation of food and grass. A total of 50,000 soldiers, 35,000 auxiliary troops, and 100,000 civilians, a total of 185,000 people."

"Eighteenty-five thousand men were organized into the Northern Expedition camp, and all the soldiers were organized into the front, back, left, middle, and right five armies."

Li Jing nodded. Although he built a big road in southern Liaoning last year and dredged the Fuzhou River and Biliu River. But this time Li Jing was very ambitious and prepared to swallow Jilizhou, Jian'anzhou and even Anshizhou at one time. The 50,000 army plus 35,000 auxiliary troops and a large number of horses, the food and grass that need to be consumed every day is not in the decimal places. What's more, in order to avoid casualties in attacking the mountain city, Li Jing also built a large number of siege equipment last year. This made the difficulty of logistics transportation greatly. In order to ensure logistics, this time, not only mobilized a large number of livestock to transport troops, but also recruited 100,000 civilians at one time, and even these 35,000 auxiliary troops. Their main task will be to transport escort food and supplies.

The mobilization of 185,000 people to participate in the war at one time is the first time for the town**.

Nearly 200,000 people and more than 200,000 war horses and horse-carrying donkeys were consumed, and food and supplies were huge.

"Considering the terrain of Liaodong, transportation is difficult, so it is expected to use 500,000 stones of food and grass every month. In addition, 185,000 people are expected to pay 1 million guan. In addition, various military weapons are also very huge!" Guo Cheng'an, the governor of Jinzhou and the chief secretary of the camp, added.

Li Jing looked at Li Rang, and Li Rang nodded and said, "After a year of preparation, a large amount of food and grass have been reserved in southern Liaoning in advance. With so many civilians, please rest assured that the commander will keep up with the supply. As long as the commander does not advance at a speed of 100 miles a day, I think we don't have to worry too much. We are also ready to give enough money and grain to the soldiers and civilians. The town of ** vassal sect, but a large amount of money is prepared for this!"

In a battle of such a large scale, the daily money, grain and equipment are consumed in a huge amount. However, Li Rang was not too worried. The prospect of sending troops this time was very bright. Although it was consumed a lot, as long as the three states of Jili, Jian'an and An City were captured as planned, the dividends of the war were enough to make back everything consumed. Even if you only defeat Jilizhou, you would not lose money.

Li Jing nodded with satisfaction and said loudly: "The General Staff Office immediately dispatched the marching organization of the Northern Expedition camp to the various armies, organized each army, and issued military seals. The army was divided into five routes, and the left and right armies went north from Fuzhou River and Biliuhe River. Two generals Zeng Yuanyu and Zhao Yuan led the Shenjie Army and Feixiong Army as the left and right vanguards of the front army, and opened the way forward. The general led the central army and then followed the big road, and Li Rang led the auxiliary army and the civilians to escort the baggage."

"The Caval Cycling Division immediately sent a flying cavalry to explore the military information."

All generals received orders. During this large-scale war, Li Jing left 100,000 troops to station in various counties and Pingzhou in Denglai. Li Jing knew very well about the terrain of Liaodong that the more troops they dispatched, the better. The terrain of Liaodong had extremely high requirements for logistics supply and great pressure. Thinking about the Sui and Tang dynasties, Emperor Yang of Sui and Emperor Taizong of Tang personally conquered Liaodong, but in the end, the logistics supply was not enough, so he had to retreat. Especially Emperor Yang of Sui was defeated in the third expedition of Liaodong. At the largest scale, he sent millions of troops and millions of civilians, but they were all defeated in the end. Especially in the Battle of Sashui, the Nine Army had 300,000 troops passed Yalushui, and was used by the Goguryeo people to deceive defeat and lure the enemy to advance lightly. The Sui army attracted 300,000 troops to pursue it continuously. As a result, when the Goguryeo people counterattacked, the Sui army had no food and grass, which resulted in one blow and was defeated, and the 300,000 troops were wiped out.

After countless deductions, the final proposal of the Staff Office to Li Jing was to dispatch 50,000 soldiers to fight. Li Jing originally wanted to send only 20,000 soldiers, but this plan was rejected by the Staff Office. Their reason was that when the Tang Dynasty conquered Liaodong, it also attracted the experience of Emperor Yang of Sui's failure to conquer Liao, so he only brought hundreds of thousands of troops to conquer Liao, and divided it into several parts. Although he won consecutive battles, his troops were too small. The biggest reason for the failure to conquer Liao was that there were only tens of thousands of people around Emperor Taizong of Tang at that time.

In the end, Li Jing agreed to the 50,000 number of personnel in the Staff Office, but although he finally decided to only transfer 50,000 combat soldiers, the number of auxiliary military and civilians determined by the Staff Office reached 135,000 people, and he also mobilized more than 200,000 war horses and carved horses and donkeys.

Li Jing did invest a lot this time. Not only did he send all the mountain cavalry and mountain infantry that he had been trained in southern Liaoning over the past year, but he also provided two horses to all the cavalry and even horses to the infantry. This luxurious arrangement was not aimed at the Goguryeo who was no longer threatening, but was heading for the Khitans from the beginning.

For Li Jing, fighting with the Khitans, he did not ask for any injury to his fingers, but made up his mind from the beginning that once he fought with them, he had to encircle and annihilate them. When fighting, he would annihilate the enemy and would never let them escape. Even if the number of encircle and annihilate each time was small, he would still pursue this effect.

The maneuverability of matching step is to compete with the light cavalry that came and went like the wind.

For Li Jing, he was actually very afraid of the Khitan. Because Li Jing knew that the Khitan had taken the opportunity to rise. During the Five Dynasties, the Khitans repeatedly led some people to plunder Hedong and Hebei. The Khitans were not only fierce, but also numerous, and they led 300,000 people to invade the south several times.

The Khitan soldiers and horses were divided into tribes. Each Khitan main soldier had two Khitan auxiliary soldiers, one specializing in the Caogu and the other specializing in the camp. There were at least 100,000 main soldiers and 100,000 Khitan light cavalry. This number was shocked by thinking about it.

In fact, Li Jing was also a little confused. He didn't know whether it was right or wrong to force the tiger beard of the Khitan people like this.

But as soon as he remembered that after the Tang Dynasty destroyed the Khitans and the Khitans for hundreds of years of oppression against the Han people, Li Jing finally strengthened his determination to collide with the Khitans!
Chapter completed!