Duan Fei prepared for this battle for two years, and prepared a total of 3,000 soldiers in a regiment, as well as two thousand auxiliary soldiers responsible for logistics supplies. Five thousand people seemed very rare, but according to the poor traffic conditions in the Northeast, this was already all the troops Duan Fei could take out.

Zhu Hongsan had a total of 75,000 divisions in the Northeast. These troops were all firearms troops, plus logistics auxiliary soldiers, and a total of 120,000 soldiers in the Northeast. Now the population of the entire Northeast is about 2 million, but half of the Han people in Liaoning accounted for, and more than 500,000 Mongolians, the Northeast is actually still vast and sparsely populated.

More than 100,000 people were responsible for guarding land that was far three times larger than that of the Northeast in later generations, and their military strength was really short of strength. As a general, Duan Fei had only less than 10,000 troops. These 10,000 people were stationed in Jilin City, Shuangcheng Guard, Shilu Guard, Sacha River Guard, Taer River Guard and other more than ten wards along the Songhua River and Nenjiang River Basin, so Duan Fei could only draw out three thousand firearm troops.

There are only one firearm troops, but there are many ethnic minorities. The Northeast ethnic minorities are different from other ethnic groups and have no resistance to foreign strong people. In addition, the court does not interfere with the internal affairs of various ethnic groups, so all ethnic groups still support the Han regime.

With the support of various ethnic groups, Duan Fei can draw a large number of soldiers from various ethnic groups to fight for himself. These ethnic groups are fishing and hunting nations, and their combat effectiveness is no less than that of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, which is said to be invincible. However, it is easy to work on people, but logistics supplies are not easy to work on.

According to the intelligence, the Russians were far away from the upper reaches of Heilongjiang and were more than 3,000 miles away from Jilin City. It was not realistic to go over by land. Not to mention the distance, the military rations required for long-distance marching were enough for Duan Fei to receive. Therefore, Duan Fei could only take the water route, that is, go north from the Songhua River outside Jilin City, enter Heilongjiang, and go upstream to Yaquesa City. This is a good way to save time.

Due to capacity issues and the unorganized and undisciplined ethnic minorities, Duan Fei decided to only use his own group of musketeers and wait for the order to set off after preparation.

In May of the 12th year of Shenwu, Duan Fei had already prepared, and the Northeast Governor's Office of Shenyang also sent an order document. Zhao Guodong ordered Duan Fei as the main general of this battle, Heilongjiang General He Luohui as the deputy general. This He Luohui was defeated by Zhu Hongsan's new army in Nanchang. This guy was idle for several years after he escaped back to Beijing. Finally, he was re-activated during Zhu Hongsan's Northern Expedition. There was no way. At this time, the mature generals of the Qing Dynasty were gone. Although He Luohui was not very good, he still had the ability.

However, the Qing Dynasty was defeated, and Dorgon, the only one who could be more than Zhu Hongsanyi, was already dead. He Luohui was unable to make up for the situation even if he could fight. He Luohui was captured in the Battle of Jinan and became a prisoner of the Ming army again. However, this time he had no chance to turn the tables.

In the seventh year of Shenwu, after Zhao Guodong occupied the Northeast, he found that it was unrealistic to kill all the Manchus according to the orders of the court. Not to mention that the Northeast is vast, Manchus have been operating in the Northeast for hundreds of years and are deeply rooted. What if they kill them all, what do other ethnic minorities think? The Han people can kill all the Manchus today, will they kill all the Oroqen people who are kinship with Manchus tomorrow? So Zhao Guodong wrote a letter to Emperor Zhu Hongsan. Can you tell the ordinary Manchus a little?

Zhu Hongsan was also hesitant after receiving Zhao Guodong's memorial. When he ordered the killing of all Manchus, he only demonstrated his legitimacy in politics. However, he did not expect that as the hometown of Manchus, if all Manchus were killed, it would have a negative impact on other ethnic minorities.

At this time, Tong Yangjia, who had a close relationship with the Qing Dynasty, also stood up to plead for the Manchus, so Zhu Hongsan ordered the slaughter of the Manchus to stop the massacre of the Manchus, and at the same time selected some capable people from the upper Manchus to serve as official positions. In this way, He Luohui, who was a surrendered faction, would enter Zhu Hongsan's eyes.

He knows how to fight, has no bottom line, and has a baby, he is a mother. Such a person is really a suitable person for being traitor, so Zhu Hongsan immediately appointed He Luohui as General Chenyang, responsible for cooperating with Zhao Guodong to take over the former Qing bases in various parts of the Northeast.

Zhu Hongsan's measure was very popular. With the addition of the Manchu He Luohui, the Qing garrisons from all over the country, which were originally hostile to the Ming Dynasty, began to put down their weapons and surrender to the Ming army. The Ming army would soon be able to occupy the entire northeastern He Luohui.

After the establishment of three provinces in the northeast of Shenwu in the tenth year of Shenwu, Jilin and Liaoning were both Han generals, but the capital was far away in Heilongjiang Province, which was at the mouth of Heilongjiang, so the candidate for this general became a problem.

The capital of Heilongjiang Province is in Terling. This place was abandoned in the early Ming Dynasty and has not been there for more than 200 years. Now the entire lower reaches of Heilongjiang are the territory of the Oroqen people. The Oroqen people and the Manchus have the same roots. It would be inappropriate to send a Han person to be a general, so Zhu Hongsan decided to let He Luo take this position after careful consideration.

He Luo was a Manchu, and naturally had a good conversation with the Oroqen people. In addition, He Luo was not a Manchu royal family and his prestige was not that high among the Manchus, so he was the most suitable for him to serve as the Heilongjiang general. The most important point is that Trin is located in the extreme north, and important materials such as grain and salt need to be transported from the local area, which can control He Luo to be unable to stand on his own.

With Zhu Hongsan's appointment, He Luo would take five thousand Manchus to Trin at the mouth of Heilongjiang to take office, and became the first Manchu senior official in the Ming Dynasty.

After Duan Fei reported the combat plan to Zhao Guodong this time, Zhao Guodong felt that the five thousand people were really weak against the Russians, so he ordered Heilongjiang General He Luo to lead his 3,000 Oroqen soldiers to help the battle. In this way, there were 8,000 people in the Ming army. Although I don’t know how many people there were in Russia, Zhao Guodong probably should be enough.

Zhao Guodong is the governor of Northeast China, responsible for the military, political and civil affairs of the entire Northeast China, defending the localities and eliminating bandits. This counterattack was completely within Zhao Guodong's authority, and there were only 5,000 formal troops mobilized, so Zhao Guodong did not ask the Beijing Emperor Zhu Hongsan, but just sent a filing document to the Military Operations Department, and then sent Duan Fei an order that could be acted.

Zhao Guodong originally thought there was nothing, and his powers were already stipulated in the military law, but he did not expect that his official document would cause a big storm after it was sent to Beijing.

The Beijing Military Affairs Office received a document from Zhao Guodong in June, and Chen Mingxia did not dare to delay and quickly sent it to Zhu Hongsan for review.

At first, Zhu Hongsan didn't take it seriously. It was just that the Russians were provoking trouble and the border guards fought back. The mobilized only 5,000 troops, and the Oroqen people had only 8,000 local troops, which was completely within Zhao Guodong's authority. So after reading it, Zhu Hongsan asked Chen Mingxia to pass the official documents to the cabinet and asked the Ministry of Finance to prepare silver. After all, war requires money.

However, when the official document arrived at the cabinet, it caused great trouble. The chief assistant Feng Ziyong saw that the border general had not been reviewed by the cabinet. The emperor dared to fight with foreign countries privately without the approval of the cabinet. This was a serious crime of treason! Now Zhao Guodong dared to personally voluntarily urge the army to go to war with foreign countries. Then, will he dare to dispatch troops to attack the capital in private?

In fact, this is not a big fuss about Feng Ziyong, because in Chinese history, although the Central Plains dynasties of all dynasties have been under threat from the northern nomads, in most of the time, the northern nomads can only cause some harm to the Central Plains King period in the border areas, but it does not endanger the fundamental existence of the Central Plains dynasty.

During the period when the northern nomadic peoples truly posed a destructive threat to the Central Plains dynasty, there were only the Five Barbarians invading China in the late Western Jin Dynasty and the Jurchens in the late Northern Song Dynasty. In addition, even after the rise of the Qing Dynasty in the late Ming Dynasty, they did not have the ability to destroy the Ming Dynasty before the Qing court entered the pass.

What really made the rulers of China all the dynasties most worried were actually the rebellion of generals and peasant uprisings that were in charge of the army within the dynasty. In addition to the Song Dynasty, all dynasties would have undergone large-scale rebellions and peasant uprisings, which would have severely hit the ruling foundation of the dynasty. Some dynasties perished in peasant uprisings, and some dynasties could survive, but they would have suffered great damage to their vitality and would not last long. There are countless examples of this in Chinese history.

Not to mention the rebellion of military generals. Before the Song Dynasty, generals led the army lost control and were everywhere. Therefore, in Chinese history, dynasties in history have had far more internal precautions than external troubles. This is also the reason why the cabinet was not worried about the Russian invasion on the northeastern border, but was very nervous about Zhao Guodong's privately dispatched troops without asking for instructions.

Feng Ziyong brought a few stinky old masters from the cabinet to meet Zhu Hongsan. The first sentence he met was asked: "Your Majesty, I have discussed that Zhao Guodong dared to launch troops to fight with foreign vassals without the permission of the cabinet. It is really a serious crime of treason. Please give your majesty the imperial guards to rush to Liaodong, take Zhao Guodong back to Beijing, and hand it over to the three courts and officials!"

Zhu Hongsan was stunned when he heard Feng Ziyong say this. Why did Zhao Guodong violate any law?

"Mr. Feng, why did you arrest my Northeast Governor back? Did Zhao Guodong violate any law? Is anyone in the court impeached him?"

Feng Ziyong was so angry that he heard Zhu Hongsan say this. I have devoted my whole life to your throne. Why don’t you know, Emperor?

Feng Ziyong bowed and said, "Your Majesty, since ancient times, the generals who led troops did not send troops privately under the court's laws have always been a serious crime of treason! Your Majesty, warlords fought in the late Han Dynasty, warlords were in power for more than 200 years at the end of the Tang Dynasty, and emperors of the Southern and Northern Dynasties were frequently replaced. These are the consequences of the court's loss of control over the generals in commanding the troops. Therefore, this time, Zhao Guodong did not allow the court to send troops privately. What did he want to do? Should he repeat the mistakes at the end of the Tang Dynasty?"

After Feng Ziyong said that, several other cabinet masters also endorsed Feng Ziyong, only Tong Yangjia stood aside and said nothing.
Chapter completed!