On December 14, 2016, the snow stopped.

The weather officer sent by the front-line staff stationed in Yaozhou, the temperature in the field has dropped to a surprising minus forty degrees!

This means that the snow outside will not melt at all, and the river surface will be completely frozen - for a large number of sled cars, many places that were originally inaccessible have become accessible roads.

The opportunity is here!

On the night of the 14th, Gaizhou.

The Sixth Bureau of the Qi Army’s General Staff Department has been stationed in Gaizhou for more than two months. The busiest time has passed. The temporary captain Zuo Helin, who was temporarily assigned to the Sixth Bureau, was reading a book in his dormitory.

He used to not like reading books because his elders only allowed him to read military books, while his teacher only asked him to read classics, history, books of books, poems, songs and essays.

The latter, Zuo Helin didn't even want to see it.

He liked the former very much, but in Zuo Helin's opinion, most of the soldiers' writings were too general and not suitable for his current level.

Zuo Helin felt that what he should learn most now is something more specific.

Therefore, under the concession of Xu Shiyang, he purchased a complete set of current textbooks for the Qiguo Military Academy, including:

"Compilation of Historical War Case": This book mainly summarizes and analyzes various war cases in the history of this plane from the perspective of both sides of the war.

"Compilation of Modern War Case": This book mainly analyzes various battles that Qi Jun has experienced. Since the Qi Jun has never failed, the analysis focuses on the summary of its shortcomings by Qi Jun and the analysis of the reasons for failure from the perspective of the enemy.

"Military Mathematics": This book is the most troublesome thing for Zuo Helin. He thinks this thing is more like a heavenly book, but Xu Shiyang said that this textbook is very important.

In addition, there are "War and Logistics", "Infantry Regulations", "Architecture Regulations", "Cavalent Regulations", "Military Law", "Military Geography", "Military Sports", "Propaganda War Guidance", etc. There are dozens of textbooks and books of various types, and Zuo Helin thinks that most of them (except for the damn military mathematics) are very suitable for studying hard now.

Therefore, since he entered the Qi Army General Staff Department for internship, he spent all his spare time reading textbooks, regardless of whether these textbooks are compulsory or elective, nor did he participate in various games in the staff's leisure time, such as chess (invented by Xu Shiyang), rugby (walking military armor).

This made him seem a little out of place, so he was the last person to learn that his superiors notified the lieutenant-level officer to go to the conference room for a meeting immediately.

When Zuo Helin walked into the conference room, all the lieutenant-level officers in Gaizhou were already here.

There were five serious school-level officers standing on the podium in the conference room. Under the podium, more than 200 lieutenant-level officers stood all over the entire conference room.

There were a lot of people, but there was a sound of needles falling from the conference room, and there was no noise. Everyone looked at the school-level officers on the podium and announced the news they had guessed long ago.

Yes, everyone knows what the superiors are going to announce today.

After all, the main forces of the Qi army have already gathered in southern Liaoning, and all the officers of the General Staff Department are there (except Xu Shiyang). In addition, everyone has been sorting out and allocating so many materials to keep warm and warm. It would be strange if there are still people in the General Staff Department officers who can't guess what.

What's more, when it snowed a few days ago, the school-level officers had already gathered to hold a meeting. Although they came back, they were tight-lipped about the content of the meeting, from their excited expressions, some smart lieutenants even guessed the main combat targets - that could only be the ruling center of the Jurchen Taurus!

"There is a combat briefing below!"

A lieutenant colonel could not suppress his excitement and shouted to the lieutenants in a trembling voice:

"Target: Liaoyang!"

"Huha!!!"

I don't know who was the first to roar excitedly:

"Liaoyang!!!"

Although everyone has guessed it, when the answer to the riddle was revealed, everyone still couldn't hide their excitement.

"Liaoyang!!!"

A crisp staggering sound rang out in the conference room. All the lieutenants drew their swords in their hands, pointing their sharp blades high in front, pointing in the direction of Liaoyang.

Point to this city that was stolen by the Jurchens.

...

December 16, 2016, Longdao.

All newspapers in Qi State issued war announcements on the front page, announcing to the world that the 100,000 Qi army cavalry have launched an attack on Liao Chen today!

In the afternoon of the same day, when Xu Shiyang learned that the battle had begun, he summoned all officials to meet again in Shuntian Prefecture.

This was a brief meeting, and at the meeting, Xu Shiyang asked everyone to fulfill their duties and make their due contributions to the motherland.

This was the first time the word "motherland" was proposed at the formal meeting of Qi State, but the participants at that time did not deeply realize the meaning of this noun, because it would take a long time to have a symbolic meaning similar to that of mother.

After this unknown meeting, Xu Shiyang immediately left Shuntian Prefecture and prepared to go to Tianjin to take a boat to Liaodong.

During the meeting, a local official from Shuntian Prefecture suddenly said to his companions: "You said, the prince is acting like this in our farce?"

...

Early in the morning of the 16th, 100,000 Qi troops were divided into five groups and launched a centripetal assault on Liaoyang and Chenzhou at the same time.

Among them, the First Route Army was mainly composed of Pingyuan Division and Jiyuan Division, with a total of 15,000 field troops and 13,000 reserves and militias responsible for logistics. Starting from the Niangniang Palace near the mouth of Liaohe River, he attacked Dongchang Fort, Dongsheng Fort, and Changning Fort along the Hebei, and closed the Jin Great Wall (in the time of the Jurchens' strong spirit, in order to prevent the Mengwu from robbing a section of the Great Wall built in Liaozhong), and then attacked Liaochen.

The Second Army was the main force, including four field divisions of Dingyuan, Zhenyuan, Zhiyuan, Jingyuan, four field divisions, Blue Army Brigade, Crack Brigade, Marine Corps, a large number of independent cavalry and artillery units, a total of 45,000 field troops and 50,000 auxiliary troops. They set out directly from Gaizhou/Yaozhou, attacked Haizhou along the official road, and then pointed directly to Liaoyang.

The Third Route Army took the Yuan army as its main force, with 8,000 field troops and 10,000 auxiliary troops. It set out from Xiuyan, passed through Dabiling Pass, and attacked Haizhou from the east.

The Fourth Route Army took the two armies of Jingyuan and Laiyuan as the main force, with 15,000 field troops and 18,000 auxiliary troops. Starting from Phoenix City/Tongyuan Fort/Lianshan Pass, they directly threatened Liaoyang.

In addition, this route of troops can receive support from 10,000 new troops and 20,000 auxiliary troops from Goryeo.

The last route was a small army heading south from the Molongjiang River in the north, with a total of 700 armed Han people and 3,500 savage Jurchens who defected to Qi. The task of this route was to restrain the Jin army captured in the Chagan Lake area in winter - they did not need to achieve any results, as long as they could delay the enemy's return to aid.
Chapter completed!