Chapter 227 Heaven will not let down those who work hard, earth-shaking changes,
"Chang Liyun!"
After listening to Wei Jinfan's work report, Li Dingguo nodded and cast his eyes to Chang Liyun in front of him on the left, "You, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, must strictly carry out the review of the newly arrived refugees this year, and try to prevent spies from various forces from sneaking in."
"Big Yellow and Little Yellow, two top-grade spirit dogs, plus the one thousand three-tailed iron-backed demon wolves assigned to your Ministry of Internal Affairs, must be used to the fullest extent possible to ensure that no refugees who join our Restoration Army are missed."
"No matter how strong a fortress is, it is still vulnerable to the enemy breaking through from the inside. We must pay strict attention to this aspect."
"Especially as our army is marching north this year, our base camp will inevitably be left empty. Once our true situation is leaked, the enemy will most likely take advantage of it and cause us huge trouble."
Li Dingguo has a clear understanding and does not think that he can sit back and relax with the current strength of the Fuxing Army.
In order to buy as much valuable time as possible for rapid development and growth, it cannot be overemphasized to eliminate various internal hidden dangers.
"Yes! Commander-in-chief."
Chang Liyun's face was solemn and she accepted the order respectfully.
"Great Commander!"
Commander Hong Mei, who was in charge of the northern expedition, reported, "The soldiers of the four continental battle corps of our Renaissance Army are ready to set off tomorrow morning."
"The logistics camps of each unit have been equipped with low-grade spirit beast war horses and a large number of new four-wheeled carriages. The Artisan Camp has built a large number of them according to the drawings you provided, after finalization and testing, and distributed them to the logistics camps of each legion."
"After this comprehensive upgrade of logistics vehicles, our logistics battalions will be able to travel a thousand miles a day on the prairie in the future! Even when marching inside the Great Wall, they can travel eight hundred miles a day, which greatly improves our army's future long-range combat mobility!"
If we were to ask what the biggest change would be in the upcoming northern expedition, it would undoubtedly be the brand new logistics camp.
Nowadays, the logistics camps of each legion are not only equipped with low-grade spirit beast war horses, but all kinds of transport vehicles have been upgraded under the personal design and supervision of Li Dingguo.
This makes the Renaissance Army the most mobile new force in history.
In terms of mobile warfare, it can easily defeat all forces of all sizes today, including the Later Jin Tartars.
Because of the last battle with 40,000 Tartar soldiers, more than 60,000 spiritual beasts and horses were captured, so the Fuxing Army had enough spiritual beasts and horses to complete this round of reorganization of the army.
After the reorganization, all the soldiers in all the legions of the Renaissance Army now ride on at least medium-grade spiritual beasts, the Jiao-scaled horses.
In terms of war horse equipment, they were not inferior to the Later Jin Tatars.
The various military formation training of the soldiers of each legion, including the military killing formation, has at least reached a small level of success, and the combat effectiveness of group combat is far beyond what it was before.
In addition to Li Dingguo's 3,000 personal guards, the army that marched north this time was composed of 40,000 combat soldiers and 20,000 logistics troops.
Among them, there were 8,000 new-style carriages alone, with each legion equipped with 2,000.
Li Dingguo's 3,000 personal guards all rode at least top-quality dragon-scale horses, with each soldier being equipped with two horses.
Li Dingguo used his natal artifact, the Human Emperor Cauldron, to cheat in refining artifacts. He refined them in batches and each person received a set of second-level top-grade magical instruments, which he had already equipped to all the soldiers in the Royal Guard Battalion.
After Li Dingguo broke through to the fifth level of martial arts, the strength of his spiritual power increased more than tenfold, and he could activate the innate artifact, the Human Emperor Cauldron, to enlarge its area to nine feet in radius.
With the greatly increased power of the Human Emperor Cauldron, whether it is refining a large magical weapon or refining second- and third-level fine magical weapons in batches, there will be no difficulty as long as there are enough spiritual materials.
With Li Dingguo's vigorous training, the three thousand royal guards have at least reached the second late stage of martial arts and are now completely different from before.
Even if he led them to engage in a head-on battle with the 3,000 elite cavalry under Cao Wenzhao, Li Dingguo would not be afraid as long as Cao Bianjiao did not participate.
If he waits another two years, even if Cao Bianjiao personally leads three thousand elite cavalry, Li Dingguo will have the confidence to fight calmly!
This is the huge change that has taken place in this year's Fusion Army before it sets out on the expedition.
If the true situation here were to be spread, it would probably cause an uproar.
After two years of rapid development and growth, the Fuxing Army, a new force outside the Great Wall, has undergone tremendous changes in all aspects.
"Great Commander, we have taken the Great Spiritual Lake as the center and arranged the layout according to the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams. We are building a sub-base every 500 miles. We have already completed the construction of 9981 sub-bases."
"This year's large-scale land reclamation, spring ploughing and spring sowing of one million people will be fully launched in all sub-bases in half a month, and the people assigned to all sub-bases have arrived."
Hongmei continued to report, "After this year's round of large-scale construction and development is completed, our Fuxing Army will completely solve the problem of self-sufficiency in various food crops in the future!"
"I have already followed your planning instructions and ordered the expansion of the craftsman camp to 18,000 people. We must keep up with the progress of the large-scale development and various infrastructure construction. I have also let the three sisters Zhao Hong, Zhao Li, and Zhao Juan take charge and serve as the general managers of this round of large-scale development, and have full authority to handle all related matters."
"Even if our main force goes on an expedition, it will not affect the continued development and growth of the base camp."
After Hongmei finished speaking, all the senior generals who participated in the meeting were excited!
They usually focus on the training of each combat camp. Although they know through what they have heard and seen that their own forces have undergone great changes, they did not expect the changes to be so great!
Today's Fuxing Army has completely completed its regularization and reorganization in all aspects of military and people's livelihood.
In many ways, it exceeds all human forces in the world today.
This is not exaggeration, but an indisputable fact.
Li Dingguo personally formulated this series of plans, which brought about earth-shaking changes in all aspects of the Fuxing Army in terms of military and people's livelihood.
Such a vigorous development momentum was something the millions of soldiers and civilians of the Fusion Army had never heard of, let alone seen.
"it is good!"
Li Dingguo stood up suddenly, looked around with a cold face, and ordered, "Commanders of all armies, make final preparations for departure today. Tomorrow morning at 3:45, the Northern Expedition Army will set out on time!"
"The General Staff will have the action plans of each department delivered to you. Everything should be done according to the plan!"
"The meeting is now adjourned!"
Following Li Dingguo's order, everyone on the scene stood up and saluted Li Dingguo, then left their seats, walked out of the meeting hall in an orderly manner, and hurriedly left in different directions. A new round of expedition was imminent, and although they had made a lot of preparations in the early stages, there were still many things to do.
The field artillery battalions that were officially equipped to various corps not long ago will undergo a round of inspection and maintenance before departure.
The soldiers of each main combat corps needed to go to the large warehouse of the logistics headquarters to collect the large amount of various military supplies distributed for this northern expedition, and help the soldiers of the logistics battalion complete the loading work and get ready to go.
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"The Commander-in-Chief."
In the meeting hall of the military headquarters building, after the commanders of the various corps had dispersed, Wei Jinfan said to Li Dingguo, "After several months of military intelligence investigation, our Military Intelligence Department has completed the mapping of the environment involved in this march and the planning of the march route."
"The main targets of this expedition are the Yijin and Holo tribes. Our military intelligence department has already investigated the details of these two large Tartar tribes."
"The Yijin tribe is located on the prairie northwest of the Great Salt Lake, occupying the area near the Great Salt Lake. There are about million soldiers and civilians in total."
"Among them, there are three leaders who are at the early stage of the fifth level of martial arts. They are the tribe's chief, the high priest, and the great elder."
"They have about twenty generals of all levels at the fourth level of martial arts."
"There are about 80,000 combat soldiers and warriors, who have cultivated a good military killing formation: the Heavenly Wolf Howling Moon Formation."
"The Tatars' spiritual weapons account for about 10% of all warriors' combat weapons, but their quality is generally very low, and most of them are low-grade spiritual weapons."
"There are about 150,000 spiritual beast war horses, of which about 100 are dragon scale horses."
After Wei Jinfan introduced the situation of the Yijin tribe, he continued, "The Holo tribe, which is entrenched in the southeast of the Great Salt Lake, is similar to the Yijin tribe in terms of size, spiritual beasts and war horses, warriors and soldiers, masters... and other aspects."
"With the strength of our army, it is not too difficult to deal with these two large Tartar tribes by adopting the tactics of defeating them one by one and launching surprise attacks."
She frowned slightly and talked about an unexpected situation. "This morning I received an urgent intelligence report. He Guang, the deputy director of the Military Intelligence Department, who went deep into the enemy's lair and was responsible for further military intelligence investigation, sent back an urgent intelligence report using a spirit pigeon."
"This intelligence report shows that in the core areas of the two Tartar tribes, there is a temple complex covering several miles in radius, which is usually filled with incense."
"These two temple complexes are the core areas of the two major Tartar tribes."
"The leaders of their tribe, both big and small, are very respectful of the two temples. Whenever there is any major event in the tribe, they have to go there to worship and ask for instructions."
"The chief priests of these two tribes often travel between these two temples."
"After a few days of investigation, He Guang discovered that there were no monks or other spiritual beings living in these two temple buildings."
"He felt a strong bloody aura from them, which made him feel very depressed. Since the Tartars guarded the two temples very strictly, He Guang did not dare to sneak in to investigate, fearing that he would be exposed."
"These two mysterious temples are obviously not good places."
"He Guang initially concluded that the inhabitants of these two seemingly ancient temple complexes were probably not humans, but demons and monsters!"
"After confirming this terrifying situation, He Guang sent back this urgent information in a timely manner."
After receiving this information, Wei Jinfan was shocked and puzzled.
Those two Tartar tribes are quite powerful, but they actually worship ghosts?
"Is there such a thing?"
Li Dingguo's face changed when he heard this and he said, "Those two Tartar tribes are quite powerful, but they are actually worshipping ghosts?"
He frowned and thought for a moment, then said, "Now that our army is about to set out, it would be inappropriate to temporarily change the plan to go north. We have no choice but to act according to the original plan."
"To be cautious, Hongmei will lead the army to march out on time tomorrow. I will take Wan'er with me on the big golden eagle to go to the Yijin and Huoluo tribes to find out the real situation so that we can have a clear idea of the situation."
"As long as the Tartars are not worshipping level six demons and monsters, they will not pose a fatal threat to us. Wan'er and I will find a way to deal with them."
"If there are mysterious and extraordinary level six super masters in those two temples worshipped by the Tartars, our army will have no choice but to change the plan, suspend our current expedition target, turn west, and first destroy the two remaining Chahar tribes."
"The hidden cards of the Yijin and Holo tribes cannot be too strong. Otherwise, they would have unified the Dongtao Plain long ago. How could they be so peaceful?"
"According to the Tartars' consistent character, if they have a strong trump card in hand, it is impossible for them to keep a low profile."
"They would have acted recklessly and expanded aggressively long ago. How could the Later Jin Tartars have the chance to show off their power and bully others on the Mongolian grasslands?"
After thinking about it for a while, Li Dingguo made a conclusion in his mind.
Even if the Yijin and Holo tribes hid some mysterious and evil things, they could not be too powerful.
Given the character of the Tatars, as long as they have enough strength, it is impossible for them to keep a low profile. They would have made a big fuss long ago, causing a bloody storm on the prairie.
In any case, the information that He Guang sent back in a timely manner is worthy of attention.
Li Dingguo decided to go there personally with Wan'er, riding on a golden eagle to investigate thoroughly so as to have a clearer idea of the situation.
Otherwise, once the situation comes to an end, the unprepared soldiers of the Fuxing Army will suffer serious casualties, which would then be too late for regret.
"Yes! Commander-in-Chief!"
Wei Jinfan accepted the order solemnly, "I will go and inform Hongmei and convey your latest order, Commander-in-Chief."
This unexpected situation must be notified to Hongmei as soon as possible.
This is to avoid delaying the army's departure tomorrow due to changes in the situation, causing unnecessary chaos and hindering the established expedition plan.
After Wei Jinfan turned around and left in a hurry, Li Dingguo also left the military building and prepared to travel.
(End of this chapter)
