Donglai Naval Command Camp.

Although Lai Huer and Zhou Fa are far superior to Luo Cheng in terms of age and qualifications, the failure of the last Eastern Expedition can be said to have implicated the entire Eastern Expedition.

So this time, both of them were relatively low-key. Although they were the position of deputy commander, they had no idea of ​​competing for power with Luo Cheng.

Both of them were willing to be the deputy to Luo Cheng, and everything was followed by Luo Cheng's arrangements.

With such a cooperation deputy, the preparations for the eastern expedition of the Donglai Naval Commandery were naturally very smooth.

In mid-February, all the 100,000 soldiers and horses recruited arrived in Donglai to assemble. Among the 100,000 soldiers, there were 25,000 of the former Five Left Army.

This time the Eastern Expedition had a total force of 500,000, and each army still had more than 30,000 people.

Among them, the emperor's 100,000 Xiaoguo Army was organized into one, two, and three armies, while Luo Cheng's Donglai Navy Division was organized into the 4,5,6 armies, and Luo Yi, Li Jing and Li Yuan, 100,000 army was organized into the 7,89th armies.

Yuwen Shu and Yang Yichen's 200,000 troops were given eleven to sixteen and sixteen troops.

Compared with the last thirty armies, the military number was nearly half less this time.

Of course, it is said that it sends millions of troops to the outside world, and has organized thirty-two armies, divided into left and right wings. But in fact, there are only the left wing Sixteen Army, and the right wing Sixteen Army only exists in the emperor's edict.

The four major army groups of water and land, Xue Shixiong was the 100,000 Xiaoguo Army of Emperor Xue Shixiong, Yuwen Shu and Yang Yichen were the 200,000 domestic expeditionary army, Luo Yize was the 100,000 Liaodong Army, and Luo Cheng was the 100,000 Navy Army.

Yang Guang also learned from several lessons from the last failure, such as no longer establishing surrender envoys in each army this time.

Each army group also specially set up a general as the commander.

For example, the six armies expeditionary army led by Yuwen Shu and Yang Yichen, the emperor specifically stated that if the six armies were divided into two routes, Yuwen Shu and Yang Yichen each led the three armies. If the six armies gathered to fight, Yang Yichen would be the main general and Yuwen Shu would be the deputy general.

The emperor also specially appointed Luo Yi as the head coach and Li Jing as the deputy head coach.

In order to avoid the failure of the Nine Army last time, the emperor also awarded Shangfang swords to the four group commanders, giving them the right to make decisions before the opportunity, and allowed them to kill generals who disobeyed the military orders. Even if the deputy commander dared not follow the order, he could still ask Shangfang swords to kill them.

If Yang Yichen and his six armies and Luo Cheng's three armies meet in the domestic city, the emperor will also specifically indicate that Yang Yichen is the head coach, Luo will become the second deputy commander, and Yuwen Shu will rank third.

Among the three generals, Yang Yichen and Luo Cheng both had Shangfang swords, but Yuwen Shu did not, so Yang Yichen and Luo Cheng had the opportunity to kill Yuwen Shu, but Yuwen Shu had no power to move them.

This made Yuwen Shu extremely depressed, but the emperor ignored his mood. When the Eighth Army was defeated last time, Yuwen Shu and Lai Bu'er were the most responsible and still retained their official positions. That was just because they were their confidants.

During this second Eastern Expedition, Yang Guang encountered greater resistance than the first time. He also ruled out all the differences and insisted on his own. If he could not win, his emperor's authority would be lost.

In order to ensure that this second Eastern Expedition can win, Yang Guang no longer cares about the faces of these confidants.

At Donglai Port, Luo Cheng set up three naval camps, one army stationed and one battalion.

Luo Cheng still organized all the old brothers of the Left Five Army into the first army, and still gave them the title of Five Army. He also added a lot of elite mansion soldiers to the Left Five Army, with a total of more than 30,000 units.

Qin Qiong, Shan Xiong, Xin Cheng Yaojin and other brothers were all arranged by him to serve as the first battalion lieutenant in the Left Five Army.

Compared with the Fifth Army, the Fourth Army and the Sixth Army are obviously much weaker. The two armies are from Hu'er and Zhou Fashang to be appointed as generals. They have no objection to Luo Cheng concentrating all his elite forces in the Fifth Army.

"The Grand Marshal summons us, what's the matter?"

Come to Hu'er and Zhou Fashang heard the order.

"Please sit down, that's right. This time our navy's mission is to cross the sea from the sea to the Yalu River, and then to the domestic city, and cooperate with the six armies on the land to attack the domestic city. The task is quite arduous."

The two old coaches sat down, and were not in a hurry to express their opinions.

"Does Luo Shuai have any ideas?"

"There is still a little bit of an idea. Your Majesty's will is to let our navy cooperate with the Army Sixth Army. In fact, it is just to look down on our navy. But I feel that the Army Sixth Army is not very reliable, not to look down on those brothers, but this time the Army Sixth Army has Yuwen Shu, the old dog. I think this person is not successful and has more than enough failure, so we have to make some preparations early. We can't go on a business trip again. We have to take the blame for this old dog."

Lai Hu'er and Zhou Fashang shouted at Luo Cheng's favorite ministers, but they didn't take it to heart. Anyway, they didn't have any good impression of Yuwen Shu!

"That's the general's intention?"

"We cannot fully follow the above arrangements in this battle. On this battlefield, there are ever-changing changes, and we often have to rely on ourselves. This time, we need to have a domestic city, which may not be easier than fighting Pyongyang. The Goguryeo moved to the capital this time. Although the distance from Liaodong to fight was shorter, the Goguryeo was also closer to the assistance of the country from Liaodong. Another thing is that Pyongyang is a plain city, but the domestic city is three cities gathered together, and there are Wugu around. There are dangerous mountain cities like Dumaru, so I said that the domestic city may not be easy to fight."

Luo Cheng pointed to the map.

"The biggest problem of the last failure was the problem of food and grass. If the food supply was not enough, it might collapse at any time. However, the combat plan was still the six armies carrying 100-day grain around Zhucheng and heading straight to the city of the country, and there was still a danger of food being cut off at any time. We cannot place all hope on the Duke of Yan."

Lai Hu'er smiled. Luo Yi is Luo Cheng's uncle. He is responsible for leading the three armies to open the passage from the new city to the country. If this passage is opened, there is no need to worry about food.

But Luo Cheng didn't even believe his uncle.

"No one can trust it on the battlefield, and even ourselves cannot trust it. It is much closer to transporting grain from Donglai to the Yalu River than Pyongyang, but the distance is still not short and the ship is limited. We can transport 100,000 troops to the Yalu River at one time, but we don't carry much food. It will take a lot of time to wait until the fleet returns to transport grain, and there may be mistakes in the middle. If it is a little unexpected, let alone we cannot support the grain and grass to the six armies, we may lose food ourselves."

The danger of food being cut off is too great. The last time the Eighth Army was defeated was because of the food being cut off, Luo Cheng was not defeated, or because he had never cut off food.

In order to prevent this accident, Luo Cheng planned to shorten the supply distance of food.

He pointed his finger at the southern end of the Liaodong Peninsula, "Everyone, this is Beisha City, located on the Dahei Mountain at the southernmost end of the Liaodong Peninsula. I plan to send troops in advance, take down Beisha City first, and then defend this city so that we can establish a military port and a grain transport warehouse at the southern end of the Liaodong Peninsula."

As long as the Beisha City was taken down, the Sui army could establish its own water port at the southernmost end of the Liaodong Peninsula and then set up a grain transport warehouse here. In this way, when Luo Cheng's navy was fighting in the Yalu River, its grain supply started from the southern end of the Liaodong Peninsula, not on the Shandong Peninsula, which suddenly reduced the supply distance and time.

"Ship Luo, Beisha is a dangerous mountain city, easy to defend but difficult to attack."
Chapter completed!