Wanli 1592

Chapter 1347 Huangzhuang System
Regarding this Northern Expedition, the General Staff Headquarters has conducted three or four years of consultations and detailed strategic planning under Liu Huangshang's command.

Draw a detailed map based on the information continuously collected by the Blackwater spies, and clarify the context of the entire northern grassland, geography, hydrology, mountains, where to march, where are the North Korean camps, where they cannot be stationed, etc. , they have figured it out in the past few years.

Then how to deploy troops, how to distribute food and transportation, how to ensure sufficient supplies for the army, how to advance, how to prevent the entire battle situation from getting out of control, how to control the speed of the army's advance, how to communicate with each other without losing contact, etc. , have detailed countermeasures.

For this reason, the General Staff Headquarters has ordered many exercises for all participating troops, and issued a new set of instructions and contact methods for each army to learn and understand, and then assign tasks in detail, and assign tasks to each army at each stage down.

As for whether it can be achieved smoothly and the requirements of the goal can be fulfilled, it is not humanly predictable, but judging from the specific information that can be grasped so far, the first stage of the Qin army's attack mission is not difficult.

The first stage is to clean up the traditional group of northern captives closest to the Great Qin. Those guys are old opponents. Judging from the battles in the fourth and fifth years of Longwu, they are not difficult to deal with.

Difficulties will be encountered at the beginning of the second stage. The second stage is an in-depth search stage. It will go deep into the hinterland of the grassland that the Ming army has not penetrated since Xuande. The geographical conditions near the front line of the Great Wall are detailed by the original Ming army. The information stays, and further north needs to rely on the information of the black water spies.

At that time, there will be a large area of ​​no man's land, and there may even be a situation where the northern captives will not be encountered during the march for more than half a month. At that time, we must pay attention to the direction problem.

Although each army will be equipped with Blackwater agents who are familiar with the direction, in order to ensure safety, Xiao Ruxun equipped the first-level combat team with a compass, and the entire army is equipped with tens of thousands of compasses.

In the army combat meeting, Xiao Ruxun clearly requested that the grassroots officers of the army should master the method of using the compass and learn to distinguish the direction, so as not to be unable to find the army or return to Daqin in the event of an accident.

After all preparations were completed, in April of the sixth year of Longwu, Xiao Ruxun formally signed and approved the combat plan of the General Staff Headquarters, and then sent it to the commanders of the Northwest Corps, Guanzhong Corps and Liaodong Corps participating in the battle, so that they could Get to know first.

Xiao Ruxun personally arranged for the Gyeonggi Corps and the Imperial Guards to participate in the battle. He will personally conscript the Gyeonggi Corps and the Imperial Guards in this battle. The Gyeonggi Corps and the Imperial Guards are under his direct control, so he directly mobilized them, held a combat meeting in person, and gave orders to this army .

By May of the sixth year of Longwu, the senior generals of all armies had all known the strategic plan.

Since this battle did not have an enemy ready in the traditional sense, it was completely proactive and the goal was mass annihilation, so Xiao Ruxun did not pay attention to military law in this battle.

"It's still the same request. It doesn't matter what you do to the enemy, but if there is an act of grabbing credit for the head and hurting your comrades, I will never let it go. This is the most heinous act."

Before the battle, Xiao Ruxun once again reiterated his request to go abroad to fight.

Other than that, there are no other requirements. Daqin soldiers have no obligation to maintain a benevolent attitude towards outsiders, especially a group of northern captives.

And as the date of the Northern Expedition approached, Xiao Ruxun had higher demands on Blackwater, asking them to wipe out foreign spies. Although news spread slowly these days, the scale of operations was larger and it was more difficult to keep secrets. All kinds of news were mixed. It is also difficult to distinguish the true and false of some information.

Just like before Japan invaded North Korea, the entire battle plan had been known by the Ming government, but the Ming government was still unable to determine the authenticity of the news. The Japanese had already destroyed North Korea, and the Ming government still suspected that North Korea was fighting with Japan. Conspire against China.

This is the confusion caused by the lack of information, ignorance of the outside world, and inability to know oneself and the enemy. Of course, there is also the cautiousness of military affairs.

All in all, it was very difficult to ascertain a piece of real information in that era, and even if you knew it, it would take quite a long time to confirm it.

Xiao Ruxun has such an understanding, so he attaches more importance to intelligence work, and has started to build his own intelligence force since the Burmese period.

Since the founding of the Great Qin State, black water spies have been spied all over the world. Every province in the country has spies all over the country, spying on those remnants who are dissatisfied with the Great Qin, and destroying them humanely.

Not only that, Blackwater spies are spread all over Southeast Asia. In the Mughal Empire, in the Eastern Chagatai Khanate and Yarkand Khanate, and even as far away as Europe, there are quite a few Daqin spies, all of whom are in the Huangzhuang system. Within the period, while making money for Daqin, he scouted for information, killing two birds with one stone.

The Huangzhuang system under Xiao Ruxun has actually become a very large organization integrating intelligence, military, economics and politics.

Xiao Ruxun took a large amount of private property of the Ming imperial family and clan into his own. While arranging servants and maids to be responsible for management and production, he also formed a large number of imperial caravans. Under this name, he went to foreign countries to do business, stationed there, and collected money while making money. Intelligence is still welcome.

This is an intelligence route that is different from the Blackwater troops, as Blackwater does not belong to the Huangzhuang system.

It was an intelligence group formed by Xiao Ruxun using the remnants of former Ming Dynasty Jinyiwei and Dongchang fanzi that Heizhen had taken in. Some of them were handed over to Heizhen for use, and some were incorporated into the Huangzhuang system.

The group of people included in the Huangzhuang system naturally became the first choice for foreign trade. They can do business and collect information. They are compound talents. Xiao Ruxun relies heavily on them. , they are all over the world.

It is thanks to their dedication that they were able to prepare so well for this Northern Expedition.

The Eastern Chagatai Khanate and the Yarkand Khanate in the west both have a central government. Although they have little power, they are still a country anyway, and they both have trade relations with Daqin.

The Yeerqiang Khanate also had a vassal relationship with Daqin, but the East Chagatai Khanate did not. However, both sides are the targets of Xiao Ruxun. If you want to attack them, you need a reason, and the reason is easy to find. As long as they are within the territory It would be easy if there were Daqin merchants.

And their domestic political ecology and military situation have also been clearly understood by Daqin's intelligence agencies in the past few years, and it is not difficult to deal with them at all.

They were the targets of the second batch. The first target of the Northwest Corps was Tumed, or Taolu, who lived in the Hetao area.

(End of this chapter)