Chapter 468

Liu Bu decided to set up his headquarters in southern Liaoning in Lushun instead of Haizhou in many people's imagination. Liu Bu set up the Xingyuan of his general army and March marshal in Lushun. He mobilized hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers here and built a large number of fortifications and fortresses. He was ready to fight a decisive battle with the other side here.

Liu Bu is not sure whether he can defend Gaizhou and Fuzhou, but he is sure that he can defend Lv Shun.

From Liaoyang to the south along the West foot of Qianshan Mountain range, you can directly reach Jinzhou and Lushun. This road has a very long history. As early as the Han and Wei dynasties, this road was the main road from Liaoyang to Shandong Peninsula. There were Xinchang, Anshi, Wen County, Pingguo, Da Shi and other cities along the way. It happened that a line was formed by several states that he did not control at present. On land, this line can directly reach Liaoyang, the core of Liaodong Peninsula.

In addition to the trunk line connecting Jinzhou, there are two other important branches that can cross Qianshan Mountain range and connect North Korea along the Yellow coast. The first is Haicheng, which goes up the Haicheng River Valley, goes to Xiuyan through analyzing wood, then goes down the ocean river valley to Gushan Town, slightly passes through the south foot of Qianshan Mountain to Dandong, crosses the Yalu River and enters North Korea. The importance of this road is no less than the Yalu River tribute road from Yizhou to Liaoyang. Haizhou is the hub of this road. It is an important military town. In the Tang Dynasty, Koguryo stationed heavy troops in Anshi (now near Haizhou) to defend the Tang army.

This is also why many people believe that Liu Jiajun is bound to attack Haizhou. If he conquers here, he can attack Liaoyang or contact North Korea.

The second branch line is from Gaizhou to Huayuankou through Biliu River Valley. In the Tang Dynasty, Koguryo had Jian'an city. When Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty attacked Koguryo, he wanted to go from Liaoyang City to an City and attack Jian'an directly. However, Xu Shiji believed that an city was between Jian'an and Liaoyang, and the grain road of the Tang army was in Liaoyang. It was better to attack an City first, and Li Shimin surrounded an city. Now Gaizhou is controlled by Liu Jiajun.

Lushun and Jinzhou are located at the southernmost end of Liaodong Peninsula. They are the transportation hubs of Liaodong Peninsula, with dangerous mountains and sea, and have important military value. As early as the Tang Dynasty, Lushun was the only place for the sea tribute road of North Korea and Bohai State. For example, it is recorded by Jia Dan in the Tang Dynasty that "Dengzhou travels to the Northeast sea, including taixie Island, Guixin Island, Mo island and Wuhu Island, 300 Li, crossing Wuhu island to the north, and 200 Li to the town of Mashi, the capital of Shandong." since ancient times, the Central Plains Dynasty wanted to use troops on the Korean Peninsula or Eastern Liaoning, and Lushun and Jinzhou Bay are important military strongholds.

For example, during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Koguryo set up Beisha city here to resist the Sui and Tang armies. At the beginning of this dynasty, in order to recover Liaodong, the great ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang sent two generals Ma Yun and Ye Wang to cross the Bohai Sea from Penglai along the Miaodao islands to Lushun, and then point to Liaoyang in the north. In the third year of the apocalypse, Jinzhou and Lushun were occupied by JianNu. Governor yuan Keli of Denglai also recovered Lushun and Jinzhou from this road. Since then, JianNu and the Ming army repeatedly competed for Lushun and Jinzhou.

Now this piece of land has fallen into the hands of Liu bu. He merged Lushun and Jinzhou and named it LvDa. He merged the two major cities of later generations, Lushun and Dalian at one go.

Therefore, when Liu Bu formulated his own strategy, he was ready to rely on the three major cities and rely on the sea to fight against JianNu. You know, governor yuan Keli of Denglai also occupied Jinzhou and Lushun, but he couldn't hold it in the end. This is because he was not the opponent of JianNu on land and would slip in the end, so Liu Bu learned these experiences and lessons, After occupying the three prefectures, they did not go deep inland greedily, but established their own fortifications and armaments here. They relied on several cities to resist the army of JianNu counter attack. Only when JianNu was afraid and ruthless, they would let them leave with their tails between them. After that, it was time for them to counter attack.

It can be said that if they go deep into the inland Haizhou before the main force of JianNu is fatally hit by them, it is not an excellent tactic to deal with JianNu.

Even Liu Bu had the idea that any place must be backed by the sea, so as not to let JianNu make dumplings and catch him alive.

Liu Bu always has great confidence in his Liu family's navy, that is, because their Liu family's navy is really strong and powerful. As long as they have seen this huge Navy, they will feel that he is really powerful and powerful.

Let's not say anything else. Take a city of the Ming army as an example. If several red cannon are deployed on a city, it can give a huge blow to the siege slaves.

However, Liu Jiajun's Navy's main warship can deploy ten red cannons on one side, and so many on the other side, that is, on a huge warship, they can deploy twenty red cannons, and even their medium-sized warships can deploy five cannons, which makes their firepower very powerful, At least the Army soldiers of this era can't imagine.

With such powerful firepower, do you still use the charge of fear of JianNu?

Therefore, Liu Bu did not get complacent after he entered LvDa. Instead, he immediately established local people and began to build his fortifications and his general house. Liu Bu knew that he might stay here for a long time, so this would also be his base for a long time.

He will rely on entering here to fight with JianNu. At the beginning, he didn't know JianNu's tactics and habits, so he certainly wouldn't take the initiative to risk attacking and attacking each other, but fight with each other on his own territory.

In this regard, Liu Bu has many initiatives, that is, he is not in a hurry at all. He is developing here. If JianNu does not pull out the three nails of Liu Jiajun on the southern Liaoning Peninsula, they will not dare to go south to fight Mongolia, North Korea, or Daming. They will be attacked by the Ming army from southern Liaoning.

As the saying goes, there is a fierce tiger sleeping here on the side of the lying waste. They have no other way but to kill the tiger. Therefore, Liu Bu decided his strategy, that is, he deployed a large army here and waited for the other party to attack. Moreover, Liu Bu believed that this was a three-dimensional business established by combining the advantages of World War I and World War II, Many of these official affairs are the products of reinforced concrete. With these things, JianNu who only use these primitive weapons will be very blind.

Liu Jiajun's iron armor penetration rate is very high. That's because they found several iron ores in Denglai, and now they have started mining. The other is Liu bu. She convened many experts and craftsmen to design a blast furnace burning coke. The thousand degree high temperature produced by coke made them practice steel.

The iron and steel of this era is even the refined iron or bin iron in folk terms. Generally speaking, only ten kilograms of ordinary iron can produce one pound of refined iron. However, what shocked many people and the industry is that they have completed mass production, that is, they have established several iron and steel plants in Dengzhou and Laizhou, They began to burn their iron and steel. Although these are only local blast furnaces and local iron mills, their iron production has increased ten times than before. You know, in the past, they only collected ore and let blacksmiths hammer it one by one, but now they can refine it directly through the blast furnace, and the efficiency has been improved more than ten times.

You should know that the current iron making technology is still monopolized by the state. Iron can be compared with money in many times. For example, Daming can't wear iron armor for every soldier because their iron production rate is not high, so they can't produce such steel to equip every soldier, but Liu Jiajun developed a blast furnace because he himself, Their steel making technology has been greatly improved, and the quality of steel produced is better and higher, which makes their overall strength have a qualitative improvement.

You should know that steel and iron technology is the comprehensive strength of the country, which has not changed in hundreds of years. Now Liu Jiajun has made several iron mills because of the iron ore found in the place they control. The steel produced by their blast furnace is several times the output of Daming. In some ways, they can crush them.

High quality steel can enable them to manufacture more weapons and more armor. The manufacture of these things will strengthen the overall strength of Liu Jiajun. That is, Liu Jiajun will be so luxurious because he has a steel factory and his own technology to manufacture steel. Even ordinary soldiers begin to equip with armor, For them, this is nothing at all. The cost of other people's armor alone costs hundreds of taels of silver. Which army can spend hundreds of taels of silver on ordinary soldiers? Liu Jiajun can make their own steel and learn from western large-scale hydraulic forging machines. They directly use hydraulic forging machines to make iron. Although the whole iron plates are a bit like western plate armor, their Liu Jiajun's iron armor looks very ugly, not like fish scale armor Shanwenjia looks so powerful and beautiful, but it is very practical.

The iron armor of Liu Jiajun's ordinary soldiers is actually two pieces of iron plates, one in the front and one in the back, with some connections in the middle. What people wear is like an iron bucket. Although it's hard to see, it's not easy to cut him with the current sword. If you want to hurt him, you can only use big knives, axes or Maces, Only in this way can the soldiers wearing such armor be hurt. It is precisely because of such a deep foundation that the iron factory in his own house continuously produces steel, so Liu Bu will start to equip ordinary soldiers with armor, so he is not in a hurry, because he can afford to play and drag, while the JianNu opposite may not be able to play and drag.

Liu Bu said triumphantly in his general's house, "Huang Taiji, I'm waiting for you."