"besides."
Song Hongzhi continued, "From these 50,000, select 800 men. This general will personally train them. This is of paramount importance. The selection process must be rigorous, because these 800 men will determine whether we can win this battle."
The deputy generals present seemed even more confused about this.
Just 800 people, what can they do? And how can they decide whether this battle can be won?
Is this a bit too much?
Gaoyang State has an army of 200,000 to 300,000. Even if Liaozhen sends out 50,000 troops, it would be extremely difficult to win, right?
Unless other garrisons in Liaodong are also transferred here.
Several lieutenants shook their heads.
I have no idea what this little uncle of the king is going to do. I feel that he has no military theory at all. How can we win the battle if he continues like this?
Once the imperial court loses the war against Gaoyang State, the prestige of the Great Wei will be completely destroyed.
At this moment, they made a decision together in their hearts.
A letter must be sent to the capital to let His Majesty and the Ministry of War know what is happening in Liaozhen.
There are still ways to control the situation.
Therefore, several deputy generals said nothing, but just said: "Yes! General!"
They didn't stay any longer and gave their orders.
As for Song Hongzhi, he turned around at this moment.
He turned his gaze to the map of Gaoyang Kingdom, and his eyes gradually brightened.
When you are not in an advantageous position, you must use extraordinary measures and must fight quickly and decisively.
If Gaoyang State dares to blackmail the imperial court at this time, it will definitely pay the price.
In addition, this battle concerns the majesty of the Great Wei.
We must achieve a victory that will shock all the countries!
that's all!
The next few days.
All the cities under Liaozhen were put into action because of Song Hongzhi's order.
Except for those who had to stay behind, almost all the troops headed towards Lujiang outside Liaozhen.
Just as several deputy generals had guessed, such a big commotion was soon known to Gaoyang State.
The Great Wei was the ruler of the Central Plains and had a strong national power.
Gaoyang was just a vassal state.
Even though he knew that the northern border of the Wei Dynasty was now engaged in a great war with the grassland army, and even though he knew that the army that Liaozhen could assemble was no more than 50,000 or 60,000, he still did not dare to take it lightly.
So they responded quickly and immediately sent military reports to the capital of Gaoyang.
The Li family of Gaoyang royal family also began to take the Liaozhen army's movements seriously.
Fifty thousand troops may not seem like a lot, but that’s the Great Wei.
So they began to mobilize troops from all over the country to rush to the border to provide support.
In fact, the Gaoyang royal family did not want to start this war, but all the envoys they sent were rushed back.
Finally, we learned that this war was initiated by His Majesty the Emperor of Wei, and we realized that there was no room for easing the situation.
For now, they have no choice but to fight.
Especially the King of Gaoyang, who knew that this battle was of great significance and concerned the entire country, finally made the decision to let the crown prince lead the battle in person. In addition to boosting morale, it was also a way for the crown prince to gain some experience.
Because they had a bold idea in their minds that if Gaoyang Kingdom won this battle, the meaning would be completely different.
By then, not only will it be able to get rid of its status as a vassal state, but it will also become famous in the Eastern Continent.
Perhaps, we can take this opportunity to seize some areas of Liaodong in Wei.
Of course, this is just what Gaoyang Kingdom thinks.
After all, the strength of the Wei Dynasty is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
The biggest reason why they dared to launch an attack, apart from the fact that Wei was now constrained by the grassland, was that they wanted to take a gamble.
In this way, the two armies began to gather in Lujiang outside Liaozhen.
only.
The Gaoyang Kingdom did not dare to take action first.
As for the Liaozhen army, they have been training and preparing for war, making the whole situation very delicate.
Not only that, Song Hongzhi also ordered the Liaozhen officials to find ways to build more bows and crossbows, and began to mobilize food and grass from all over the place, as if they were about to engage in a decisive battle at the next moment.
Time continued to pass amid the stalemate between the two sides.
And Haizhou, far away in the coastal area of Wei.
Finally, the first commander-in-chief, Zhao Jiguang, arrived after many years.
The first thing he did when he arrived in Haizhou was not to take up his post, but to see what the sea, which he had longed for since childhood, looked like.
As a person who grew up in the capital and then stayed in the grassland for many years.
When Zhao Jiguang stood on a reef.
When I felt the sea breeze, I felt an unprecedented sense of relaxation.
Strangely enough, when he stood there and looked at the rolling waves in the distance, he did not feel the slightest bit of strangeness, but rather felt very familiar.
It feels like coming home.
It was as if I should be standing here, on the warship, riding the wind and waves.
In particular, he had already seen that all the warship models that had been built before had been built into real warships, floating on the sea.
"General!" At this time, the personal guards who came with him also came over.
Although the vast sea in front of him and the endless grassland seemed somewhat similar, compared with Zhao Jiguang's ease and comfort, he felt a strong sense of discomfort.
However, the guard came forward not for this purpose, but to respectfully say, "General, someone wants to see you. They say they are from the East Factory."
"Dongchang?" Zhao Jiguang frowned slightly when he heard this. He had heard of this organization.
But since I have been staying in Zhenbeiguan, I don’t know much about it.
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