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After Da Weiying took the pen and signed his name on the double-copy contract and stamped the Bohai Prince's Seal, he felt a little dazed. Li Jing put away one of the contracts, looked at the black and white words and bright red seals on it, and blew a sigh of satisfaction at the undried ink traces.

Turning his head and looking at Da Weiying, Li Jing walked up to pat his shoulder with a kind smile on his face.

"Your Highness, the contract has been signed. Please go to the arsenal with the officials of the Ministry of Works to select military weapons. In addition, from now on, the Korean army and the Goguryeo army will obey your command. By the way, the military pay and reward allowances and pensions for these 10,000 people will be responsible for the Bohai Kingdom. By the way, the king will immediately send people to Yalu Mansion and Nanhai Mansion to accept the two places."

Until Li Jing's footsteps had gone away, Da Weiying still didn't move and sat there blankly. He just sold Xijing and Nanjing among the five capitals of the Bohai Kingdom. Is this right or wrong?

Tianlang Festival Hall.

The people who were drinking tea in the hall saw Li Jing coming in with a full face, and couldn't help but stand up and look over.

Li Jing raised the paper agreement in his hand and whispered: "It's done!"

Cui Yunqing first took the paper agreement, and after looking at him quickly, he looked disbelief, "How is this possible? How could the Prince of Bohai agree? Did the prince use any means?"

Although the Bohai Kingdom has a large territory, there are only fifteen prefectures and five capitals in the country. This agreement was so incredible that the two prefectures and two capitals were given to Li Jing.

"This only shows that we did not know the weakness of the Bohai Sea and the fierceness of the Black Water Marine. It seems that the Black Water Ministry is indeed very fierce this time. As the Bohai Kingdom is so fierce, it is already worried about the destruction of the country. Otherwise, it would be impossible to ced the two governments for our arms and reinforcements." You should know that although half of the Yalu Mansion had been cut off, after all, there were still two capitals in the second palace.

After Jingxiang passed the agreement, he sighed: "No matter what, in this way, we will be worried about the east. Now, we can enter the Central Plains with confidence."

"There is no need to worry about Bohai, what about the Khitan side?" Gai Yu said with some concern.

Speaking of which, after Li Jing took control of Liaodong, the biggest threat was not the Bohai Kingdom, but the Khitan. Although the Khitan had suffered consecutive losses, suffered several major losses, and retreated into the grassland. Even the eastern part of the Khitan grassland was occupied by Li Jing. However, no matter what, the Khitan still had extremely strong strength.

Once Li Jing led the main force into the Central Plains and the newly occupied land in the Northeast had to worry. Although several immigrations, a large number of Goguryeo people were moved to the Central Plains, the population of the two provinces in Liaodong and Liaoxi was also greatly reduced. Now, Shandong Province has a population of 2 million, while the Beiping Province and Anton Province also have a population of 1 million. The two provinces in Liaodong and Liaoxi Provinces have a total population of only about 2 million, of which Jinzhou alone accounts for 1 million, and the entire banks of the Liaohe River have a total population of only over 1 million. Compared with this large area, the population is too small.

"Change Yalu Mansion and Nanhai Mansion into Shenzhou, Nanzhou and Fengzhou, and belong to the Andong Province. The newly occupied land of these three prefectures has about 600,000 people, and all the rich people, large families and local tyrants will be moved to Liaodong Province." If you want to control the newly occupied land, it is best to destroy the original local tyrants' powerful forces. The snake cannot do without these unstable factors. The situation will be much better.

"As for the Khitan." Li Jing pondered for a long time. Li Jing had been preparing for the past year. After preparing for the high and fat horses this autumn, he attacked the Khitan in large quantities, preparing to damage the Khitan in one fell swoop. But in the current situation, in the Central Plains, due to the four towns in Hebei, the situation has become a little out of control. Li Jing must send troops, otherwise the situation will be very unfavorable to them.

With his current strength, he still cannot fight on both sides. If he wants to send troops to the Central Plains, whether it is Peiping against Youzhou, or Liaoxi against Khitan, he must enter the defensive stage.

"How is Hende Khan now?" Li Jing asked.

Gongsun Lan, the chief supervisor of the Supervisory Office, immediately replied: "The situation of Hende Khan is not good, because he was defeated by us several times before. Now all the Khitan tribes want to end the civil strife sooner or later and face us unification. Now there are only two six divisions of the Yaonian clan and the Dahe clan, and the remaining thirteen divisions have followed behind the Diela tribes to fight against Hende Khan together. Although we continue to support Hende Khan's arms, depending on the situation, they can't hold on for long."

Regarding this situation, Li Jing sighed and shook his head. Hende Khan was too weak. He could not deal with Dila's one of the six divisions.

"Forget it, since that's the case, let's do a ruthless move." Li Jing's eyes showed ruthlessness.

This is the first time that everyone has seen Li Jing like this.

"Send troops to the Khitan grassland, set fire to the grasslands, and burn all the grasslands that border us." Li Jing said in a deep voice.

"It's all burned?" Someone exclaimed. This is not a trivial matter. This burn will be a place that can last hundreds or thousands of miles.

Li Jing nodded, "We made fire protection tapes in advance, then ignited the grass, burning all the grass hundreds of miles of the border."

It is still winter now, and the wild wilderness is withered and yellow, which is the best time to burn. Burning grass has always been the most ruthless way for the Han people to deal with the nomadic people on the grassland. During the Ming Dynasty, it was proposed that the enemy's enemy was good at burning wasteland. Every autumn and winter, the border guards had to go out to burn grass, called burning wasteland, so as to prevent the enemy from facing south and shining troops. Each time they burned for hundreds of miles, the bigger the better. Because the nomadic people have a large number of cavalry, if there are a large number of grassless areas on the border, then the horses cannot feed, and the nomadic tribes will face great difficulties in invasion.

Although burnt grass was the largest in the Ming Dynasty, it was used in the Central Plains as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, and it was repeatedly recorded in the Qin and Han Dynasties.

Li Jing's plan is already a passive defense plan, because once the wasteland is burned, although it can largely prevent the Hu people from invading, it also makes it difficult for the Northeast Army to enter the grassland. In this way, it indirectly shows the fact that the Northeast Army will not send troops to the grassland. In this way, I am afraid that the Khitans who originally had to guard against Hende Khan and were also guarding against the Northeast Army can now concentrate their efforts to deal with Hende Khan first.

However, there was no way to do this. Since Hende Khan could no longer stop Dila, and Li Jing had to send troops to the Central Plains. In the end, he had to let the Khitan temporarily go.

"The Liaohai will be at least half a month before it can be completely melted and opened to navigation. How can we send troops?" asked the Minister of War and the political officer Wang Pu. Now the main force of the Northeast Army is in the Northeast, the most original to the Central Plains. Shandong's troops are closest, but there are few soldiers. It is difficult to travel to the Liaohai Sea, and it will be very troublesome to mobilize the troops for a while.

Li Jing also looked at the map. The Liaohai Sea has begun to melt ice now. But there is still a lot of ice on the sea, and sailing will be very dangerous. If you rely solely on the route of Wuying Port, it will be very far from Qingni Port to Qingdao, or Qinhuangdao to Qingdao.

If you have to wait until the ice melts, it will take at least half a month. However, if time doesn't wait for anyone, it will be delayed again, I'm afraid that Luoyang has been captured. Luoyang will be shocked. The various vassal states are afraid that they will not be able to retreat. If the Hebei rebels and Huang Chao meet, the forces they united together will make Li Jing worry.

"We don't go by sea, we go by land." Li Jing said in a deep voice after pondering for a while.

He turned to the Governor of the Fifth Army Governor's Office and asked Lin Wei, "What's the situation of our army right now?"

"According to the requirements of the county prince, our army has carried out a new round of reorganization and uniform changes in the past two years. So far, the Northeast Army has 180,000 combat soldiers, including 200,000 infantry troops, 100,000 cavalry troops, and 20,000 naval troops, with a total of 36 armies. In addition, five provinces, 30 prefectures and 100 counties, each county has a united army of 100 battalions, a total of 100 battalions and 100,000 soldiers. In addition, there is also a battalion of township soldiers in Dexian, with a total of 100 battalions and 100,000 township soldiers."

"There are all eighty-thousand warriors who have been replaced. The infantry and the jumping soldiers are all equipped with half-body armor, the Modao soldiers are all equipped with full-body armor, the crossbow soldiers are equipped with leather armor, the cavalry are equipped with half-body armor, and the war horses are equipped with leather armor. Our 100,000 township soldiers are also equipped with leather armor and iron armor, which can be used as local city defense forces or as auxiliary troops. The township soldiers are also equipped with leather armor and spears, horizontal swords, bows and arrows and other weapons. The battle order is issued and can be recruited and used immediately."

In the past two years, Li Jing has not relaxed his efforts to the army in the fight against the side training. He has invested a lot of money and his military equipment has now been completely renewed. The most important thing is that although the authority of the officers has been cut, their status has been constantly improving. The salary of soldiers is higher than that of other positions. Moreover, since Li Jing issued a retirement order and announced that the soldiers who have not been promoted to the sergeant commander for five years can be retired and can receive a retirement payment. After the disabled officers or other officers may also apply for transfer, the military's treatment has increased more and more.

The army is a sharp sword of the Daxingtai. Carefully maintain it carefully and do not make it sharp and dazzling, but it is tall and does not hurt yourself. Once used, it will be invincible.

Li Jing promulgated these two regulations for retirement and transfer of employment to ensure that the army maintains higher combat effectiveness. The army under his rule would be a professional army. Retiring for five years was also to give more soldiers more choices, not just to have a life of quitting until the day of his death. The military system of the Northeast Army was a elective service system, and not all Cheng Ding had to serve in the military, but the elective service system.

The troops recruit those who have family property. The so-called "those who have constant property have perseverance, those who are equal in wealth will be strong, those who are equal in strength will be rich, and those who are equal in wealth will be rich, and those who are equal in wealth will be large.

Most people may not be able to become soldiers if they want to join the army, but they will be rich and well-off families, and those who are healthy will be the first. Of course, Li Jing cannot let them stay in the army until they die. After five years of service, they have not been promoted to the rank of the corps commander, that is, soldiers who are sergeant commander, retire after serving. Then, officers who have official positions can apply for transfer and retire to civilian positions.

Active military officers are restricted in their careers, but after they are transferred, they become civil servants and are no longer restricted. However, according to regulations, they cannot be transferred back after they are transferred.

Li Jing retired those soldiers for five years in order to improve the professionalization of the army. On the other hand, the continuous rotation of soldiers. Although the veterans left and the new soldiers joined the army, it would inevitably have an impact on the military's combat effectiveness, but the army was also a melting pot that allowed more people to receive everything education in the army. At the same time, after these veterans retired, they would hide their soldiers from the people. Once wartime needs, Daxingtai could immediately recruit a group of trained veterans.

As a result, there was a steady flow of rotation, and in the end most of the adult men under the Daxingtai were trained as soldiers. Even if the army was defeated in a short time, there was still more fresh blood to replenish. Unlike the military service that implemented a lifetime system, if there were long-term wars, the number of elite soldiers would decrease and the strength would become weaker and weaker in the end.

According to this rotation system, the longer you fight, the more soldiers you can use, and the stronger the fight. Moreover, the soldiers know that they can retire in five years, the combat effectiveness of the troops will be stronger, and there will be fewer soldiers, soldiers, etc. in the troops.

The system of transferring officers also gives more officers more choices. Although military officers cannot serve as county magistrate, governor, governor, secretary, and pushe, they become civil servants after they are transferred and have the opportunity to become central positions such as participating in politics.

It is precisely because of all kinds that the expansion of the Northeast Taiwan Railway Station is very smooth. Now, relying on sufficient financial resources, many military officers trained by the military academy, plus excellent military sources, have now reached 100,000 infantry, 60,000 horse troops, and 20,000 naval troops.

This does not include the 100,000 united soldiers of the local garrison and the 100,000 rural soldiers of the militia.

With a total of thirty-six soldiers, Li Jing was filled with heroism.

Under the new military system, the Unity Army is a local garrison force, which is only mobilized within the state, and at most within the province. The township soldiers are responsible for the task of auxiliary troops during wartime and assisting in defense of the county and public security.

Nowadays, the navy is not available in winter, and the 20,000 people in the fourth army cannot be used for the time being.

"The fourth army of the Navy, one army stationed in Hudouzhou, one army stationed in Yuzhou Island, another army stationed in Qingdao Port, Shandong, and one army stationed in Daxingcheng, Yalu River mouth." After considering for a long time, Li Jing temporarily arranged the four naval armies that could not be put into use here to defend the four places.

"In western Liaoning, four armies were deployed to prevent the Khitan, and four armies were deployed to prevent Youzhou in Peiping." Li Jing drew two large circles on the map, pulled out the eight armies' war troops and arranged two defense groups. "In addition, four armies were placed in Qingzhou and Liaoyang, each of them was used as mobile forces."

The thirty-six armies of war soldiers were divided into twenty armies and 100,000 troops to garrison in various places.

The remaining troops are only sixteen troops and eighty thousand combat soldiers.

"This time we sent troops to the Central Plains, not to go to the Liaohai Sea. Therefore, a large number of troops were going to go south from the northeast. To this end, we will mobilize 80,000 troops to go out of Liaodong, enter the pass, from Pingzhou to Jizhou and pass Shunzhou, finally enter Cangzhou, and then enter Henan."

Everyone was surprised to see this long march route. However, if you cross the Yellow River to the south, it is the territory of Shandong Province. The army can go south with light troops without carrying too much baggage, and the difficulty of going south is reduced. Moreover, after the capture of Shunzhou, the territory of the Northeast Army directly connects with the Yichang Army. The territory of the Yichang Army is controlled by the imperial court, and the province to the south is Shandong Province. In this way, although the journey from north to south is very long, it is also a very suitable road.

However, the Hebei rebel Cheng De Army is now attacking the Yichang Army. They want to take the opportunity to go south, but they are afraid that they will interfere with Cheng De Army, the obstacle of the road.
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