Chapter 468: Lu Xiangsheng's helplessness
"We are a step too late. The war in the Tartar ancestral land has already ended."
At the Suzi River wharf outside the northern city of Hetunala, Wan'er, who had just arrived with the Second Fleet of the Renaissance Army, looked at the Tartar ancestral land that had been cleared out by the soldiers of the Qiongqi Legion, and said speechlessly.
A few months ago, after the eastern and western armies of the Restoration Army merged, the navy was immediately reorganized.
The commander of the Navy's Second Fleet, which has now been reorganized, is Pan Jinghua, a former general of the Xuanwu Camp.
Logically speaking, marching by water is much faster than marching by land. After all, the convenience of the treasure ship is incomparable to that of land marching.
But Wan'er led the second fleet to Hetunala, the Tartar's old nest, and along the way they had to capture Fushun Pass, Sarhu, Jiefanzhai, Gulezhai, Maerdunzhai and other important Tartar towns along the river, in order to eliminate their worries and clean up the Tartar soldiers and civilians in time to prevent them from abandoning the city and fleeing.
This undoubtedly took a lot of time, causing Wan'er to arrive a step late with the Second Fleet of the Navy.
"This general greets Commander Wan'er!"
A figure leaped out from the city of Hetunala, which had just been cleared out by the soldiers of the Restoration Army, and arrived at the large pier outside the north city. He saluted and said to Wan'er.
"Chang Jiansheng, where is my elder brother?"
"And where is Commander Cao Bianjiao? Why isn't he here?"
Wan'er asked Chang Jiansheng, the deputy commander of the Qiongqi Legion, in great confusion.
"Reporting to Commander Wan'er, the Grand Commander and Commander Cao Bianjiao have gone to pursue the remnants of the defeated Tartar army that Dorgon and Duoduo brothers abandoned and broke out of Hetunala."
"The situation is like this..."
He reported the general situation of the battle to Wan'er, and then said, "Our Qiongqi Legion, with 300,000 soldiers, spent two hours to kill millions of soldiers and civilians living in the Tatars' old nest city. We are currently carrying out various post-war work."
"With the abilities of the Grand Commander and Commander Cao Bianjiao, there is no chance of any accidents when they lead an army of 500,000 to pursue the enemy. You can rest assured."
Chang Jiansheng was also an outstanding general. Naturally, he could easily guess the plans of Dorgon, Duoduo and others. He did not think that the other side would dare to stop fleeing, so he chose to fight with the pursuing troops of the Fuxing Army led by Li Dingguo and Cao Bianjiao.
"Da Meng, go find Da Jin immediately, check the current situation, and then come back to report immediately."
Wan'er was a little worried, so she immediately gave instructions to Da Meng beside her.
"Chirp..."
Upon hearing this, Da Meng nodded, and he flapped a pair of large golden wings. He turned into a golden stream of light and soared into the sky. He flashed twice towards the south and disappeared in an instant.
It is now in the middle stage of level six, and its speed is not inferior to Da Jin. It has also awakened its innate magical power of space attribute. In today's world, it is the fastest in the world.
"Pan Jinghua, have the soldiers be ready to attack at any time. When Da Meng comes back, if anything unusual happens, we will immediately let him lead the way and set off to reunite with Big Brother."
Although she knew that Li Dingguo and Cao Bianjiao had joined forces and personally led 500,000 elite soldiers to pursue the Tartars, it was unlikely that any danger would occur.
However, the fleeing Later Jin Tatars were not only led by Dorgon and Duoduo, two level six warriors with their own innate magical weapons, but their military strength far exceeded that of the Pixiu Legion.
Therefore, if they choose to fight to the death and return to counterattack, there is a high possibility that it will happen.
If this happens, she must immediately lead the Second Fleet and the soldiers of the Qiongqi Legion to provide reinforcements.
"Yes, Commander Wan'er."
Pan Jinghua, who was already a top-level master at level five, immediately took the order and left, commanding the soldiers of the Second Fleet who were disembarking from the ship to form up their troops and prepare for the expedition.
Their Second Fleet also had 500,000 troops. Apart from the 200,000 soldiers stationed in the Tianjin military port, only 300,000 troops were sent to Liaodong this time.
The same goes for the First Fleet, which was stationed in Jiaozhou Bay. This time they also dispatched 300,000 troops and hundreds of large treasure ships.
This was enough to crush the Later Jin Tartars who had no naval power, and they could roam freely in all the major rivers in Liaodong.
However, in the area of 100,000 miles south of Hetunala, there are few large and medium-sized rivers. It is not until the Yalu River area hundreds of thousands of miles away that there is a river large enough for the treasure ships to pass.
If the Navy’s Second Fleet wants to go south in time to reinforce Li Dingguo and Cao Bianjiao, it must go ashore and transform into army cavalry.
Fortunately, during this blitzkrieg on Liaodong, the Second Fleet sailed all the way to the northeast, successively capturing dozens of Tatar riverside towns, military forts, and pastures along the way, and harvested a large number of spiritual beasts and war horses, enough for the 300,000 soldiers of the Navy's Second Fleet.
Wan'er didn't have to wait long. Half an hour later, a ray of golden light broke through the sky from the south and landed in front of Wan'er.
This is the return of Da Meng who has awakened and initially mastered the magical powers of his innate space.
With its innate magical power, even crossing 100,000 miles was only a matter of moments. It easily completed the task assigned by Wan'er and returned.
"Chirp..."
Da Meng returned in time, called out to Wan'er a few times, and then used his spiritual thoughts to communicate with her.
"Big brother and Cao Bianjiao led 500,000 Pixiu soldiers to wipe out the 500,000 remaining Tartars. Are they now on their way back to Hetunala?"
She let out a long breath and said to the Qi Refining Realm generals beside her, "Although Dorgon and Duoduo led most of the Later Jin Tartar soldiers to escape, we also wiped out 500,000 enemies led by Ajige. This is great!"
"After this battle, the foundation of the Later Jin clan in Liaodong was completely destroyed, and the remaining remnants fled Liaodong in disgrace. We can officially declare the Qing Dynasty dead!"
"Once we have stabilized the order in the vast Liaodong region and have rested, when we send troops to Goguryeo, it will be the time when Huang Taiji and the other remnants of the Later Jin will die!"
Like Li Dingguo, Wan'er thought similarly.
"Pan Jinghua, cancel the combat readiness mode and let the soldiers set up camp and rest!"
Wan'er felt relieved and immediately changed the military order.
Although she did not participate in the successive battles in Hetunala, she led the Second Fleet to capture all the Tatar towns and fortresses along the Suzi River, and her battle results were not bad at all.
About an hour later, led by a big golden eagle and a big white crane, Li Dingguo and Cao Bianjiao returned safely with 500,000 soldiers of the Pixiu Legion.
Li Dingguo was naturally very happy to reunite with Wan'er and her brother. After the two finished their conversation, Li Dingguo summoned the core generals of the three legions to discuss dividing the troops to carry out a major cleanup in the Liaodong region.
After resting for a day in Hetunala City, the three legions set out in three different directions and began to implement the large-scale cleanup plan.
The core of this plan is to first clear out all the Tartar soldiers and civilians in the vast Liaodong region to prevent the possibility of future hidden dangers. Li Dingguo even ordered the three Zhao Hong sisters who were stationed in the capital to start a population migration plan, which was expected to migrate billions of Han people to settle in Liaodong, truly utilizing this precious land and firmly occupying and developing it.
"The two blue flags led by Manggurtai and Amin were defeated by the White Tiger Corps and the Kirin Corps led by Tang Guangqiang, Hou Dewen, Tang Huai, and Shi Xiangyuan in the area of Zhenjiang Fort and Fenghuang City. After suffering heavy losses, they fled across the Yalu River and retreated into Goguryeo territory."
Standing on the Second Fleet's flagship ship, the Dabao Ship, which was sailing down the Suzi River, Li Dingguo said to Wan'er beside him, "As a result, there is no longer an organized Tartar army in Liaodong."
"Under the Liaodong cleanup operation that has already begun under the leadership of Liang Liping, it won't be long before the entire Liaodong will be under the rule of our Fuxing Army, and the threat of being attacked from all sides has finally been eliminated."
Even Li Dingguo could not have imagined that the situation in the East today would change so quickly.
A similar three-way split pattern had just formed a few months ago, but now a disruptive change has taken place.
All this was caused by the fact that after Huang Taiji formulated a plan to annex Goguryeo, the Fuxing Army seized the opportunity in time.
After Huang Taiji took away half of the main army of the Later Jin clan and attacked Goguryeo, the remaining Tatar soldiers stationed in Liaodong area were no match for the millions of Restoration Army. In just a few months, they were defeated by the Restoration Army and lost tens of millions of people and Liaodong, their base.
This resulted in the Later Jin clan, which had originally been the biggest threat to the Restoration Army, becoming a drowned dog that had lost almost all of its resources.
It all depends on when Li Dingguo will intervene and destroy them in one fell swoop.
"Uh-huh……"
Wan'er nodded her head repeatedly and said excitedly, "After our Fuxing Army has rested, we will attack from both land and sea. Huang Taiji will be doomed to fail!"
"Within three to five years, we will definitely conquer the entire area north of the Yangtze River. There will be no doubt that the Fuxing Army will become the new overlord of the East!"
The next comprehensive cleanup operation in Liaodong no longer required Li Dingguo and Wan'er to carry out the operation personally, and it could be handed over to the soldiers of each legion.
They will return to the capital this time and stay in the city to stabilize the morale of the troops.
In a moment, Li Dingguo and Wan'er will leave the fleet and ride away on the golden eagle.
This is to save precious time and speed up the new round of development of the Fuxing Army as soon as possible.
There is no way. The Fuxing Army is growing too fast and has a large amount of military and political affairs to deal with. It is temporarily unable to expand outward.
It is conservatively estimated that within two years, the Fusion Army will make domestic development its top priority and consolidate and develop the large amount of territory it has captured in the past one or two years so as not to leave any hidden dangers.
Sometimes, eating too much is also a happy trouble, which requires a lot of energy to recuperate.
The internal reorganization is not as simple as the Renaissance Army handling its own military and political affairs. There are a large number of demons and monsters in the jurisdiction that still need to be cleaned up and suppressed.
The amount of manpower and material resources required for this is unimaginable.
……
"what?"
In Luoyang City, at the Tianxiong Army's garrison, Lu Xiangsheng was stunned after receiving the latest intelligence. "A few months ago, Li Dingguo personally led three million main forces of the Fuxing Army to launch a comprehensive raid on the entire Liaodong region. Now, the entire Liaodong region has been captured in one fell swoop. Did the Qing Dynasty fall because of this?"
"Then Huang Taiji's Eight Banners Army of the Later Jin Dynasty was made of paper? How could it be so vulnerable?"
There was a look of disbelief on Lu Xiangsheng's face. It was as if a tsunami had erupted in his heart. He was so shocked by this shocking news that his mind was shaken.
He could never have imagined that the Later Jin clan, which had caused countless troubles to the Ming Dynasty, would be defeated so easily by Li Dingguo. Not only did they lose tens of millions of Tartar people, but even the capital Shengjing fell, and the Black Dragon of national destiny was destroyed!
"The Fuxing Army is expanding so rapidly. It's a pity that the civil and military officials in the southern Jinling City are once again living a life of drunkenness and dreaming, fighting for power and profit. They are simply courting their own destruction!"
Lu Xiangsheng thought about the current situation of the Southern Ming Dynasty again and felt powerless.
In recent months, he and Sun Chuanting, who was stationed in Kaifeng Prefecture, were severely suppressed by the Central Plains families, and even the supply of food and supplies was cut off.
Compared with the four towns in the south of the Yangtze River that were supported by the imperial court and those southern aristocratic families, they were like being raised by a stepmother, and the treatment they received was completely different.
The situation on Sun Chuanting's side was better. He was not afraid of offending the local noble families, so he found excuses to confiscate the property of some medium-sized families, and finally managed to maintain the material supply needs of the Jin army soldiers.
But Lu Xiangsheng, who sticks to his principles, is really miserable.
He was a law-abiding person. Even though he had the Tianxiong Army with amazing combat effectiveness and his own sixth-level cultivation realm, he was controlled by others everywhere. He could not even supply the soldiers' salaries and food in full, let alone enough resources for cultivation.
This caused the soldiers in the army to be quite resentful. How could they continue to allow the Tianxiong Army to develop and expand?
It is quite good to be able to maintain normal training of the current 200,000 soldiers.
It was only because Lu Xiangsheng had the strong support of the Lu family in Daming Prefecture that he was able to hold on.
Compared with the corrupt Southern Ming court, Li Dingguo's Fuxing Army was in its heyday.
Not to mention the rapid development, the Later Jin clan, which had firmly suppressed the Ming Dynasty for decades, was also defeated in one fell swoop by the Restoration Army led by Li Dingguo himself, and lost most of its foundation.
The Later Jin clan, with only a few remnants left, although they conquered Goguryeo, were severely damaged and were like a grasshopper in autumn, unable to jump for long.
"Brother, if this continues, the future will be worrying."
Lu Xiangguan sighed and said, "When Li Dingguo's Fuxing Army digests the results of the war, handles the military and political affairs within the jurisdiction, and marches south again, not only Luoyang and Kaifeng will not be able to be defended, but even the Central Plains and Huainan regions will not be able to be defended!"
"Gentlemen of the imperial court, aren't you afraid of your own death or the extinction of your clan?"
"The four towns in the south of the Yangtze River that they supported were all good-for-nothings. Even though they seemed to have a large number of soldiers and generals, what could they use to resist the massive southward advance of the Fuxing Army?"
When he said this, his eyes were red and his voice was hoarse with anger. "The court is digging its own grave by not using our Tianxiong Army and Sun Chuanting's Jin Army!"
Lu Xiangguan couldn't help but panic.
It was indeed Li Dingguo's revival army that grew and developed too rapidly.
If this continues, the collapse of the Southern Ming Dynasty seems inevitable.
(End of this chapter)
