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Luoyang government office, meeting hall.

A high-level meeting of the Zhenming Army was held in Luoyang to discuss how to respond to the provocation from Jiangnan.

Lin Feng came to the venue and sat down first, and glanced at the backbone who were currently in Luoyang.

Li Xiongzhen, Yang Heng, Ma Ang, and Huang Hongchang from the Governor's Office, Li Fei from the Luoyang Prefect, Panda from Luoyang Combat Division, Lu Jun from the First Combat Division from Henan, and other military and political officials all arrived.

The Third Mobile Combat Division led by Hong Tu also arrived yesterday and just came over to attend the meeting today.

After Lu Jun led the Shanxi Combat Brigade to occupy Ruzhou, Lin Feng had ordered them to reorganize and establish the new Henan Combat Brigade.

"Tingfengwei recently received news that all of Zhenming Group's properties in Nanzhili were confiscated by the imperial government, and Guo Tianyou, the shopkeeper in charge of Jiangnan affairs, was also arrested. What should we do, everyone?" Lin Feng asked. asked.

"The people in the Nanjing government offices are really courageous. We must give them a severe blow."

"These sons of bitches, send out troops to kill them!"

"We must show them some color, otherwise they will think that our Zhenming Army is easy to bully!"

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When everyone heard this, it was like a pinch of salt was sprinkled on a hot pot, and they roared angrily.

At this time, Yang Heng stood up and walked to the map and said: "Master Hou, a few days ago you told us to make a plan to attack Jiangnan. Huang Zanhua and I discussed it repeatedly and put forward two suggestions.

One is to send an army to push all the way across. The point of this plan is that it can completely solve the problem of Southern Zhili and lay the foundation for our Zhenming Army to compete for the world.

The disadvantage is that it is about 1600 miles from Luoyang to Nanjing, which is a long distance, and our Zhenming Army has many combat firearms, which requires greater logistical support.

If we want to push all the way across, we must first occupy Kaifeng Prefecture and Guide Prefecture, so that we can directly reach the border of South Zhili, the distance for dispatching troops will be greatly reduced, and the logistics support will be more efficient.

But this requires more troops. We not only have to deal with the troops of the Ming court, but also the troops of Li Zicheng of Runing Mansion.

We estimate that at least four divisions are needed to launch a comprehensive offensive to the south of Zhili in a relatively safe manner. At present, more than two divisions need to be mobilized to Luoyang to assemble, which will take time.

In addition, considering the large number of troops and high combat consumption in this battle, I suggest opening a branch of the Zhenming Ordnance Factory in Luoyang so that supplies can be carried out nearby. "

"If we want to compete in the world, we must focus our military deployment on the Henan front line so that we can set out from here to conquer the Central Plains.

Therefore, it is necessary to set up an ordnance factory in Luoyang. This matter is relatively urgent. The General Staff immediately notified the Logistics Department to organize the Zhenming Ordnance Factory's Fugu branch to immediately relocate to Luoyang, and ordered the Jiazhou Ordnance Factory to arrange for steam turbines to be driven downstream along the Yellow River. Next, it can be achieved in a few days. "After hearing this, Lin Feng immediately arranged this urgent matter.

"Understood!" Huang Hongchang, the general staff officer, stood up and accepted the order.

"What's your second battle plan?" Lin Feng continued to ask.

"The first operational plan can completely solve the problem of South Zhili, but it will take a long time. If we want to quickly solve the problem of South Zhili, we have proposed a second action plan.

Referring to the crisis in Taiyuan City at that time, we first sent Tingfeng Guards into the city to lurk, and then sent an elite force to rush to Nanzhili day and night. They entered Nanjing City by attacking unprepared and attacking at night to steal the city, killing and seizing those who dared to do so. I, the officials of Zhenming Group's store, finally kidnapped some important people and left the city. "Yang Heng continued to report.

"Let's all discuss it and see which plan is better?" Lin Feng did not express his opinion first after hearing this. "Master Marquis, if you send a small force to Nanjing, it will be difficult to capture the city if there are too few soldiers and horses, and your own safety will not be guaranteed. But if there are too many soldiers and horses, it will be difficult to hide, so it becomes the first option again. So the general suggested that it is better to just push it over." Panda of the Luoyang Combat Brigade first suggested.

"I think it is safer to attack from prefecture to prefecture and city to city. Now the Ming army has no troops to fight in South Zhili. We can just defeat them." Lu Jun also agreed.

"I obey the Marquis in everything!" Hong Tu is a Mongolian and has never been good at thinking. He only has one idea: do whatever Lin Feng asks you to do.

Yang Heng pointed at the map and said: "The situation around Luoyang is relatively complicated now. Kaifeng Prefecture in the east is still controlled by the imperial court, Runing Prefecture in the south has Li Zicheng, and the area from Hubei to Sichuan in the southwest is under the control of the imperial court's Yang Sichang." The army was fighting with Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai.

Therefore, we cannot think of the situation simply. If I mobilize all my troops to attack Nanjing, the safety of Luoyang will not be guaranteed, and a considerable amount of troops must be left to control the surrounding areas of Luoyang.

Now we have only three divisions in Luoyang with less than 40,000 troops. They have a lot of troops, but most of them are new soldiers. They are almost enough to be responsible for the defense of Luoyang. If we want to send troops to attack, we need to mobilize troops from other directions. "

After hearing this, Lin Feng was also thinking about which direction he could mobilize troops from.

In the northern Shanxi direction there are Lu Xiangsheng's 1st Mobile Division, Zhou Rui's 1st Shanxi Combat Division and Zhou Zhiwei's Longquanguan Combat Division, with a total of 40,000 troops.

But they have to defend the grassland frontier, the Ming Dynasty capital and Datong Mansion, and they also need to wait for an opportunity to retake Datong City. These three divisions cannot be moved for the time being.

Two divisions, Fugu Combat Division and Yan'an Combat Division, were assigned to the Shaanxi base camp to take charge of defense. Now Zhenming Group's main industry is still in Jiazhou, and it cannot be easily transferred.

There are Xi'an Combat Division, Second Mobile Combat Division and Third Mobile Combat Division in the Xi'an direction. The Xi'an Division is responsible for the defense of Xi'an, and the Second Mobile Division is responsible for responding to the Hubei direction. Hongtu's Third Mobile Division has been transferred, but there are only two brigades. .

What's left is the direction of Taiyuan. Ma Mingjie's Taiyuan combat division is responsible for the defense and is not very mobile. Song Jilie's first mobile division has just occupied Pingyang Prefecture in Shanxi and is still cleaning up the counties.

Based on this calculation, the only one that can be mobilized at present is Shanxi. Taiyuan now has large armies of the Zhenming Army in the north and south. It is relatively safe and some troops can be considered.

Moreover, Zhou Yuji, the late Ming general recruited in Shanxi, was still training as the deputy division commander of the Taiyuan Combat Division, so he was almost ready to be transferred over.

After deliberation, Lin Feng did not immediately issue an order, but first asked: "Xiong Zhen, do you have any opinions?"

"Master Hou, they say that saving people is like putting out fires. I think our Zhenming Group's properties were confiscated in Nanjing, and the right shopkeeper Guo Tian was arrested. If we can't respond immediately, it may cause a chain reaction, causing other Zhenming troops who are not ours Our group's property will be confiscated in all the territory we control, and our losses will be huge.

I personally suggest that if possible, we should respond quickly first. Even if we send a small team to Nanjing City to assassinate a few officials who proposed the inspection, it can deter other people who are ready to take action. "Li Xiongzhen said after thinking about it.

"Ma Ang, did you hear that Feng Wei still has any lurking personnel in Nanjing City?" Lin Feng continued to ask.

"Back to Mr. Hou, yes, we have an intelligence station in Nanjing. We are usually separated from the group's industry. We were not arrested this time."

"Can we find an internal agent in Nanjing City?"

"Jiang Rong, a member of the Jinyiwei family who came from Taiyuan, has people he knows well in Nanjing. Now that our Zhenming Army is at its peak, it should be easy to instigate a few people to rebel." Ma Ang continued.

"Okay, you immediately notify Jiang Rong to take a few people to Nanjing City first and be ready to meet us." Lin Feng ordered.

"Understood!" Ma Ang replied.

(End of this chapter)