Chapter 457: The big cleanup operation begins, and there is a surprise at the beginning
In the middle of the Hunhe River, a large fleet consisting of hundreds of treasure ships was going upstream like lightning.
The Hun River, originating from the western branch of the Changbai Mountain area, is undoubtedly one of the largest rivers in the Liaodong region, large enough for the most powerful treasure ships to pass easily.
"General Manager, Shengjing City is a thousand miles away on the north bank ahead."
A reconnaissance speedboat sailed downstream in front of the large fleet and soon arrived next to the flagship, the Great Treasure Ship. A figure jumped up from the ship, flashed for a moment, and came to the bow deck of the flagship, the Great Treasure Ship, and reported to the leader.
"Send an order. When the fleet reaches the shore, the 800,000 soldiers of the Imperial Guards and Taotie Corps will form a battalion of 50,000 each. After landing, they will split up and conduct a large-scale cleanup operation on all the Tartar manors and pastures around Shengjing City!"
"I would like to reiterate the military's order. In this round of battle against the Tartars, our Renaissance Army does not need any prisoners!"
"All Tartar soldiers and civilians will be slaughtered!"
Hongmei's tone was indifferent, but the military order she issued made people feel a chill in their bones and a chill in their hearts.
It was already December of the ninth year of Chongzhen, and the Liaodong region was covered with snow.
Because the rivers in this world are too wide and too big, they are often thousands of miles wide, just like the oceans in Li Dingguo's previous life, with turbulent waves.
So except for the nearby waters along the river bank, the water in the center of the river is still rushing and there is no ice.
This was also one of the main reasons why Li Dingguo decided to launch this round of major war against the Tatars in winter.
There was no other way. If the Fuxing Army wanted to move quickly, it had to rely on the rivers and lakes.
Even though the elite cavalry soldiers equipped with at least mid-grade dragon-scale horses could barely keep up with the speed of the treasure ship, the supply of materials for launching a long-distance raid was not guaranteed.
This must be accomplished with the help of a large fleet of treasure ships.
This time, the Restoration Army arrived near Shengjing City, the Tatars' old nest, for the first time. This was good and exciting news for all the warriors and soldiers of the participating legions.
Excluding the capital city that the Ming Dynasty court voluntarily gave up, this was the first time that the Fuxing Army launched a violent attack on the capital of a dynasty.
Once it is captured as desired, it will be of great significance to the boost of military morale and the gain of various invisible benefits.
"Yes, Commander-in-Chief!"...
The two corps commanders, Li Mei and You Shilu, excitedly took the order and left, commanding the generals of their respective corps to begin preparing for the landing of the army and sweeping across the areas surrounding Shengjing City.
After several years of development and growth, the combat effectiveness of these two main combat corps is now much stronger than before.
The two legions now each have 400,000 elite soldiers, among which each legion has more than a thousand Qi Refining Realm generals.
There are even dozens of level five core generals!
In terms of military killing formations, they have all reached the realm of great success and can easily mobilize the military spirit and increase the combat power of the soldiers in the formation by 100%.
According to Hongmei's estimation, a large army of 50,000 soldiers would be enough to easily capture any manor or pasture in the surrounding area of Shengjing City.
What's more, he was riding a level six golden eagle, escorting the soldiers in the air.
If you find a strong enemy, you can go to reinforce at any time and test the power of your natal artifact, the thirty-six Dinghai Divine Pearls.
Hongmei is waiting to see what happens.
In the past, she used the twelve Dinghai Divine Pearls to form an innate sea-covering formation. She could set up an innate formation with a radius of nearly a hundred miles, and activate the innate formation method of this natal artifact to surround and kill the enemy.
Now that she is already a mid-level sixth-level warrior, she has collected a set of thirty-six Dinghai Divine Pearls. The power she can exert has been more than increased tenfold.
This time, Hongmei personally led the army to attack Shengjing City. She had a vague premonition that the rewards would be considerable.
With the rapid speed of the large fleet, they had traveled a thousand miles in a short time, and under the guidance of the leading reconnaissance ship, they approached a large deep-water dock that was not covered by ice or snow.
This large wharf was built by the Tartars at great expense, and was previously used as a harbor for smuggling trade with the wealthy merchants of the Ming Dynasty.
In order to clear out this large dock, Wei Jinfan, the head of the Military Intelligence Department, ordered thousands of his capable men hiding around Shengjing City to join him. With the help of two level five peak spirit birds, the Big Black Eagle, they easily captured it not long ago, and wiped out a group of Tatar Jiala Ezhen's troops stationed at this large dock.
Because two level five spirit birds blocked the sky, the tens of thousands of Tartar soldiers here couldn't even use spirit pigeons to communicate, which perfectly concealed the news of the arrival of the Renaissance Army fleet and provided strong support for the subsequent military raid.
"Meet the chief steward!"...
Hongmei had just led the army ashore when a figure flew over and said to Hongmei, "Here we go."
"Wei Jinfan, thank you for your hard work."
Hongmei smiled and said, she immediately discovered something unusual, "Huh? You... actually broke through to the initial stage of level six without making any noise?"
"Good! This is great!"
She also could not have imagined that the Minister of Military Intelligence Wei Jinfan had successfully broken through after Cao Yongxiang and became another level six warrior of the Renaissance Army.
This is a great thing for the entire Renaissance Army.
"General Manager, I have to thank the Grand Commander for sending the top-grade Dragon Tooth Rice and the newly refined fourth-grade top-grade Blood Essence Pill not long ago."
Wei Jinfan said with a look of joy, "I didn't expect that the commander-in-chief has recently cultivated top-grade dragon tooth rice and ten thousand year old blood ginseng. This is great news for us generals who are stuck at the peak of level five."
"It's not just me. The Minister of Internal Affairs, Chang Liyun, also obtained the same cultivation resources and successfully broke through to the initial stage of level six not long ago."
The two kinds of top-level spiritual roots she mentioned, although not acquired-level spiritual roots, are only close to the acquired level, but for Qi Refining Realm practitioners, they are more suitable to be used as auxiliary cultivation.
Whether it is the top-grade dragon tooth rice or the ten thousand year old blood ginseng, they are the latest top-level cultivation resources obtained by Li Dingguo after he merged his natal artifact, the Human Emperor Cauldron, with the cave sky of the base camp, and upgraded the cave sky space of his natal artifact, and fed back to some spiritual roots with great potential inside the artifact.
Because Li Dingguo had completely unlocked the artifact and inherited the Human Emperor Cauldron again, although he was restricted by his own cultivation and could not refine high-level elixirs, he could use the Human Emperor Cauldron, which could automatically refine elixirs and artifacts. Within the range he could bear, he could barely refine a small amount of level four elixirs by consuming his own internal energy, spiritual power, and blood to the limit.
The dragon tooth rice that has been cultivated in the cave of the base camp, this rare spiritual root obtained from the Fan family, has been upgraded and transformed into the top-grade dragon tooth rice after the big cauldron artifact and the five-colored sacred tree cave were merged into one, thanks to the feedback from the upgrade of the cave.
The top-quality dragon tooth rice that is now breeding and growing in the cave inside the natal artifact cauldron, although still cannot reach the level of acquired spiritual roots, is only a step away.
It is the top-level staple spiritual food most suitable for Qi Refining Realm practitioners. On the contrary, it is more helpful to Qi Refining Realm practitioners than acquired spiritual roots, especially in terms of quantity supply, which can basically meet the needs of Qi Refining Realm generals of the Renaissance Army.
In order to improve the strength of the Qi Refining Realm generals in the Renaissance Army, Li Dingguo issued an order two months ago that high military merit points could be used to exchange these two top-level cultivation resources within the Renaissance Army.
As the Minister of Military Intelligence and the Minister of Internal Affairs, Wei Jinfan and Chang Liyun's previously accumulated military merits undoubtedly found a place to put their talents to good use.
After spending a large amount of military merit points to exchange for these two top-level cultivation resources that were sufficient for their own use, the two of them practiced hard for two months and finally broke through to the initial stage of level six.
"Chang Liyun also broke through?" Hongmei's face lit up after hearing this. "Our Fuxing Army has captured too much territory recently, which has greatly boosted our luck. As expected, we have encountered good things one after another!"
Both the Military Intelligence Department and the Internal Affairs Department are among the most important departments of the Renaissance Army.
As the heads of these two important departments have greatly improved their abilities, it will be very beneficial for the stable and orderly development of the corresponding work.
"No wonder you were able to capture this large dock in the south of Shengjing City so easily and successfully complete the mission."
Hongmei looked at the large dock that had been cleaned up very well. She first ordered the soldiers of the large fleet to land in an orderly formation, and then said to Wei Jinfan, "Your Military Intelligence Department has two level 5 peak black eagles here, which are just right for us to cooperate in the cleanup of the Tatar manors and pastures around Shengjing City, and at the same time to block the news of the battlefield."
"As long as we block the Tatars from transmitting intelligence information in a timely manner through spiritual pigeons and other spiritual birds, our army's cleanup operation will certainly be much easier."
With the demise of the nine great dragon spirit beasts of the Later Jin clan, the Fuxing Army gained an absolute lead in the intelligence war with the enemy.
As long as they could successfully delay the time for Huang Taiji's main army to return for support, by the time the blitzkrieg on Liaodong was successfully completed, it would be too late for Huang Taiji to reverse the defeat.
"Yes, Chief Steward."
Wei Jinfan immediately accepted the order.
This round of blitzkrieg against Liaodong is undoubtedly the most important final battle of the year, and everything else must give way to it.
About an hour later, the two legions had all landed.
The 300,000 soldiers of the First Fleet of the Navy who accompanied the battle were under the command of Liang Liping, and 100,000 soldiers were left behind to guard the treasure ship and this vital large dock.
The remaining 200,000 naval officers and soldiers will also participate in this operation.
This meant that the number of soldiers sent by the Fuxing Army to attack Shengjing City reached an astonishing scale of one million!
The only Tatars left in Shengjing City were soldiers of the Red Banner, some civil and military officials, their families and slaves. The total number of warriors and soldiers did not exceed 600,000.
As long as the Fuxing Army successfully completes the cleanup operation of the manors and pastures around Shengjing City, the Tatar capital of Shengjing will be a piece of cake and will not be able to withstand the general offensive launched by the Fuxing Army!
"start to act!"
Hongmei saw that her twenty teams of 50,000 soldiers had already lined up in a murderous manner and immediately waved her hand and gave orders.
"Da da……"
Each battle team was led by a cavalry formation that accounted for 60% of the entire army, followed by 400,000 infantry soldiers, sweeping in all directions towards Shengjing City in the north!
These soldiers of the main combat corps, who had gone through countless actual combat experiences, had long since become elite soldiers who obeyed orders. As the action unfolded, they formed a formation and marched like twenty hurricanes, rushing towards the north in an all-encompassing manner, and soon disappeared into the white snow.
"Liang Liping, Wei Jinfan, while we provide air cover for the soldiers, we will do our best to kill the Tatars' spiritual pigeons and other spiritual birds!"
After all the soldiers who participated in the landing operation had left, Hongmei turned around and spoke to the two core commanders of the Renaissance Army standing on her left and right.
Liang Liping, who led the first fleet of the Renaissance Army to join the war, also brought a sixth-level spiritual bird, the Great Goshawk.
Together with Xiao Jin and the two big Black Hawks, they are enough to form absolute air superiority over the enemy.
“Swoosh!”…
The three of them flashed onto the back of a raptor spirit bird mount that was waiting nearby, communicated with them with their spiritual thoughts, and then soared into the sky, heading towards Shengjing City in the north!
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"Master, all preparations have been completed. The large convoy, including 5,000 Fan family secret guards and more than 1,000 Fan family members, is ready to set off at any time!"
In the Fan family mansion a thousand miles east of Shengjing City, Fan Wencheng had just finished his work, leaped in front of Fan Yubin, and reported respectfully.
Three days ago, he successfully persuaded Prince Li Daishan to adopt his plan to do his best to relocate the tens of thousands of Tatar manors and ranches, personnel and materials outside Shengjing City into Shengjing City, so as to prevent them from falling into the hands of the Fuxing Army and aiding the enemy.
However, relocating these kinds of manors and pastures is far from being as simple as it sounds, and a lot of work needs to be done.
Even though the Fan family wanted to avoid this round of disaster, it still took them three days to complete all the preparations for departure.
"Well, thank you for your hard work, Uncle Wencheng."
Fan Yubin looked at Fan Wencheng, who had been very tired in the past few days, and said approvingly, "Since our personnel and supplies are ready, let's set off as soon as possible, stay away from the dangerous place of Shengjing City, and rush to Tieling Pass City as quickly as possible."
"My eyelids have been twitching these past two days. I have a bad feeling and can't stay here for long..."
Fan Yubin looked unhappy and said to Fan Wencheng.
However, before he finished his words, he suddenly looked up to the southwest with a look of surprise on his face.
"Whoosh!"
At this time, a golden light shot out from the southwest and instantly reached the sky above the Fan family manor!
The one coming was none other than a level six golden eagle, with someone on its back!
Under the horrified gazes of uncle and nephew Fan Wencheng and Fan Yubin, dozens of azure blue rays of light suddenly shot out from the back of the golden eagle and fell in all directions of the Fan family manor!
"Buzz..."
These streams of light grew in the wind and transformed into azure blue gems that were nearly a hundred feet in size, forming a mysterious formation in an instant!
Countless azure lights flashed across the sky, making buzzing sounds. Before the people of the Fan family could react, it transformed into a huge and mysterious formation with a terrifying aura, covering the Fan family manor of nearly a hundred miles in radius!
"The Innate Sea-Covering Formation, rise!"
"Fan family?"
"I finally caught you, the remnants of traitors!"
A clear and indifferent voice was heard, and the person who came from high in the sky looked at Fan Wencheng and Fan Yubin, uncle and nephew, with cold eyes!
Hongmei could not have imagined that while she was personally patrolling the enemy situation at high altitude, she coincidentally discovered Fan Wencheng, a traitor who was the focus of the Military Intelligence Department!
Moreover, this huge manor is home to tens of thousands of Han warriors. It seems very likely that this is the Fan family’s base in Liaodong!
(End of this chapter)
