Chapter 539

40000 Jiading! When the Liu family heard the news, they were surprised and said: who said this?

There are more than 40000 of them now. After continuous development day and night, they have nearly 80000 people. In the huge area under their control, the number of troops obeying their orders has exceeded 80000.

However, it is still a long way from the bottom line of Liu Bu's 100000 troops, and there is another one. Their current number is 80000, but their combat effectiveness is still reduced compared with that of Liu bu.

Because their army is filled with a large number of recruits and demobilized soldiers. When these people fight with the wind, it is with the wind and water, but if they fight against the wind and arduous battles, it will not work.

Liu Jiajun lost nearly 5000 veterans in southern Liaoning, which still had a great impact on them. Although they were quickly supplemented and the subsequent troops were in place, showing a good combat level, these recruits could not be compared with the veterans. The only advantage they showed was that they used fire guns and artillery, Opponents only use weapons such as spears and swords. Once they also use muskets and cannons, they will be blind.

For example, if his soldiers encounter the seasoned Dutch army or Portuguese army, they may suffer a heavy loss.

Liu bu also knows this, so he has been paying close attention to the training of the army. Liu Bu rarely goes to the battle to kill the enemy himself, but he has done a good job in logistics. His main focus is on logistics supply and military training.

So it's hard to say that the government and the public rated them as 40000. In terms of the number of people, they are more than 40000, but if it comes to combat effectiveness, it's estimated that they are at this level?

Their father and son strongly entered Jinan, moved into the governor's Yamen in Jinan, drove Lao Yongjia out and let him live in the Chengxuan envoy department. Anyway, this group of people are already mud fetus Bodhisattvas, so let them all pile together and accept people's incense.

As an old saying goes, none of these people really take refuge in the Liu family, and the Liu family despises them.

If you want to enter the magic eye of the Liu family, you can't just have a signboard or a Jinshi name. On the one hand, you must show your ability. Between signboard and ability, the Liu family pays more attention to people's ability.

While Liu Bu and his security bureau are collecting all kinds of intelligence, they are also collecting information about some personnel, evaluating many personnel, and then handing them over to Liu BU for use. For example, a man named Li Yan, whom Liu Bu admires very much, was invited to Dongsan mansion. After a tour around Dongsan mansion, He took the initiative to work for the Liu family.

The Liu family doesn't have that kind of domineering spirit. When my younger brother sees it, he will bow down. However, they have done one thing very well. The third east mansion has basically provided everyone with food and clothes. In the chaotic and sunset Daming, it is simply a paradise in troubled times. If the opponent has ideals and the original intention of serving the country and the people, he is still willing to work for them, Li Yan is such a person. After being recruited by the Liu family, he also watched for some time. He took the initiative to join Liu Bu's group and became one of Liu Bu's staff officers.

Liu Bu doesn't have the kind of talented and brave generals who are famous all over the world, but there is an army corps working for him. These Army Corps work for him in the form of groups, making up for his personal shortcomings.

This means that Liu Bu has no fierce people like sun chuanting and Hong Chengchou around him, but they can also compete with each other. This is because personal strength is not as good as group strength after all, and his staff policy is not inferior to that of a military genius.

After entering Jinan mansion, the Liu family immediately moved into the governor's Yamen and began to take over the rights here.

Before the war, they didn't expect that Jinan would be taken by them so easily. The officers and soldiers would really rot to this extent, but since they took it, they had to go all out to consolidate this territory.

For a long time, Shandong has formed the political pattern of the East three governments and the West three governments. After the establishment of Denglai town in the apocalypse, it has accelerated this situation of political separation. However, Jinan has been the center of Shandong and the provincial capital for a long time. Even if Dengzhou rises later, it can not change this status.

Liu bu they took Jinan, which is equivalent to a great beauty entering your door. It's impossible to push her out of the door.

This makes all their military strategies need to be changed. Before that, they still thought about how to fight with the imperial court and fight in Qingzhou, but now they have all brought Daming's forces in Shandong, which means that the whole Shandong may fall into their hands. In the face of such temptation, who can refuse, What they need to do now is to quickly control Jinan, and then send troops to Yanzhou Prefecture and Dongchang Prefecture. After taking these two prefectures, the whole Shandong will fall into their control.

Moreover, it is imperative for them to win the two houses now. This is because the army of the West three houses is basically in the hands of Liu Zeqing. His 100000 troops were originally distributed in the three houses and guarded everywhere. This time, in response to the order of the imperial court, they sent troops to attack the Liu family in a large scale. As a result, they gathered all the armies around, like Yanzhou house The local defense of Dongchang Prefecture is also extremely empty, leaving only some old, weak, sick and disabled to guard everywhere. They can't even guard against thieves, let alone resist the Liu family army.

After Liu Bu took office in Jinan, he ordered Xiao Ning and Liu Kang to lead an army, one to attack Dongchang Prefecture and the other to attack Yanzhou Prefecture, so as to win the two prefectures at one stroke and control the whole of Shandong.

They have done it this time, full of confidence.

Dongchang Prefecture governs Liaocheng county and governs three prefectures and seven Zhili counties, including Linqing Prefecture, Puzhou, Gaotang Prefecture and Liaocheng County, Tangyi, Chiping, Xin County, Boping, Qingping and Guan County, among which Linqing, an important town of the canal, is also included.

Dongchang, as early as after the opening of the river in the Yuan Dynasty, the canal became the North-South transportation artery, which became the throat of the capital.

In the Yuan Dynasty, there was a headquarters of Dongchang Road, which was guarded by heavy troops. After the Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang occupied Nanjing and established the Ming Dynasty, he immediately carried out the northern expedition. After occupying all parts of Shandong, on the second day of February in the first year of Hongwu, Vice General Chang Yuchun led his division to take Dongchang from Jinan. Although the yuan soldiers vowed to resist to the death, they often sent troops and generals several times. After eight days of hard struggle, they went to Liaocheng in Guichou, Yuan Ping and Zhang Shenrong hanged themselves.

After the establishment of Beijing as the capital of the Ming Dynasty, Dongchang was located in the important city of the two capitals. When the country was founded, in order to deal with the forces fleeing north of the Yuan Dynasty, it became a military training center and a material reserve base to support the front.

At the beginning of this dynasty, in order to quickly unify the whole country and immediately make a northern expedition to calm the north, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu, once set up a command post for the former enemy to destroy the yuan and advance north here. Seven days after occupying Dongchang, Gengshen, General Xu Daxi, Jining transported 10000 grain stones and Xuzhou 20000 stones to Dongchang.

In order to prevent the counter attack of the former yuan forces fleeing to the north and improve the combat effectiveness of the army, the imperial court chose this as the northern training center. A number of princes and generals stationed here to train troops. When there was chaos in other places, they also sent troops to calm the chaos.

In order to stabilize the north, we must have sufficient material strength as the backing. According to the convenience of transportation, Dongchangfu has become a material reserve base in the strategic rear.

For the safety of local and strategic materials, it became an important military area for gathering heavy troops. At the beginning of this dynasty, the military system was dominated by the garrison. First, Pingshan and Dongchang garrisons were established. Later, it felt that the troops were insufficient. In February of the 11th year of orthodoxy, a garrison of thousands of households was built in Linqing, which was changed from Liping mountain garrison to Shandong capital command department. In November of the 14th year of orthodoxy, Wuyin moved to Jining zuwei in Linqing, It was changed to Linqing guard, which was subordinate to thousands of households in Linqing.

The officer stationed in Linqing thought: "Linqing is a north-south water and land hub, with hundreds of thousands of grain moving through the warehouse, which is used for transporting military and civilian goods, water transportation and business travel. There are countless public and private goods on the road. If there is no city to rely on, where will the police guard? So we build more brick cities.

In addition, the world-famous Linqing is located in Dongchangfu. Linqing is the hub of North-South transportation and the place where the Liu family started. Since they have won Jinan this time, they have to go all out to win Dongchangfu to ensure their safety. We should know that Dongchangfu can be connected with Shanxi, Hebei and other places. After they occupy here, they can protect the economy South, resist the impact of the Nansha army of the imperial court.

Therefore, the Liu family army sent General Xiao Ning and led more than 10000 elite infantry to attack and occupy Dongchang mansion. His defensive force was insufficient. After Liu Zeqing's large-scale mobilization, the number of people was even smaller. They couldn't guard the local area at all. It was even more difficult to ask them to resist Xiao Ning's army. More importantly, it was led by Xiao Ning Many of the tens of thousands of people were selected from Liu Zeqing's 100000 army. Many of these people are people in Dongchang mansion. They can play an internal role.

It can also be understood that most of the main forces of Dongchangfu's army have been transferred back to Jinan. Now they are defending only some disabled and defeated generals. What's more, their main military forces are returning to attack them. How can they stop them?

Moreover, since they have won Jinan, they have no choice but to use troops for Dongchang mansion, because if they do not use troops for Dongchang mansion, it means that the flanks of Jinan cannot be effectively protected. The imperial army can quickly go south through Hebei and Shanxi and directly attack Jinan at any time. Therefore, the next day after Liu Bu entered Jinan City, they began to send troops to attack Dongchangfu, of course, his excuse is still to suppress Liu Zeqing's rebellion and eliminate the rest of the party.

Even at this moment, they still think that this is not the time to start the army. They can't raise the anti flag and try not to raise it.