Baoding Governor Lu Xiangsheng submitted a memorial to Emperor Chongzhen based on the situation he had.

He felt that if the reconstruction of Dongjiang Town in Daming was just to go to Pidao and rebuild according to the original Dongjiang Town model, it was not the best choice.

The Ming Dynasty today is very different from the Ming Dynasty during the Tianqi period. The most important thing is that Lu Xiangsheng is more confident in the combat power of his troops. He feels that at least the army he is going to send to Liaodong is much stronger than the Mao Wenlong period.

For example, in the Mao Wenlong era, there were no cavalry troops in the Dongjiang suppression, but now in the hands of Lu Xiangsheng, there were two thousand cavalry troops established by Emperor Chongzhen;

Also, in the Mao Wenlong era, the Dongjiang army was not full or warm in clothing, and there was nothing to do with weapons and equipment. To put it bluntly, it was not much different from the beggar army. However, now in Lu Xiangsheng's hands, although Emperor Chongzhen's strong support was not much iron armor, the weapons had been improved. The improvements to Jianlu's weapons and equipment were just spears and spears, which were longer than those in Jianlu's hands.

In addition, although Emperor Chongzhen gave only two hundred flintlock rifles to Lu Xiangsheng, this flintlock rifle can stand denser and fire faster than the flintlock rifle. Lu Xiangsheng is absolutely sure of this new-style firearm, and when he was first used, it would cause Jianlu to suffer a great loss.

In addition, the ten thousand enemies used by Emperor Chongzhen to Zheng Zhilong's naval army were also attracted by Lu Xiangsheng and did some on Denglai's side, which could also be very useful.

More importantly, the soldiers sent by Lu Xiangsheng to Liaodong were old thieves and soldiers he selected from various garrisons. After his training, they became the elite army of the Ming Dynasty.

All this made Lu Xiangsheng make a decision and want to change the combat plan.

The memorial plan he wrote in the memorial was to defeat the Zhongzuo of Jinzhou and consolidate it, and become a nail on the tip of the Liaodong Peninsula by the Ming Dynasty.

There are several benefits to choosing the place Zhongzuo of Jinzhou.

First, there is Lushunkou here. When the Ming Dynasty was founded, it landed here and finally conquered the entire Liaodong. Now the Ming army has landed here again, which is of great significance.

Second, Lushunkou is an excellent port. He received a positive answer from Zheng Zhilong and repeatedly confirmed from other aspects that enough naval troops could be stationed. Therefore, Lu Xiangsheng's idea was to strengthen the Zhongzuo Suo. Advance could be used as a starting point to attack Jianlu from other places in Liaodong by land; retreat could be taken by Lushun Port as a way of retreat. As long as the Ming Navy was strong enough, this way of retreat would be safe enough.

Third, if Pidao resets Dongjiang Town, it will be difficult to replenish supplies from the Ming Dynasty and other places; and if the new Dongjiang Town is located in Zhongzuo Instrument, the replenishment from the Denglai will be shortened by at least half of the sea routes.

Fourth, the Denglai Navy later stationed at Lushunkou and relied on this to occupy the island along the eastern coast of Liao. It could be connected to the Ningjin line of Shanhaiguan in the north, and it could also expand to Pi Island in the south, or even further away. As long as the navy was dominant, the Ming army could choose any landing point to attack Jianlu on the shore.

Fifth, Lu Xiangsheng also considered the strategic goals of Emperor Chongzhen, saying that once the Ming Dynasty set out to build a city in Zhongzuo as a springboard for landing in Liaodong, Jianlu would do everything possible to pull out this point, not only attack by land, but also use their only naval troops to cut off the Ming army's retreat. As long as the Ming Navy did not show enough strength at the beginning, I believe that Jianlu would be deceived, expand their naval troops, cut off the Ming Dynasty's retreat, and also cut off the Ming's attempt to attack Liaodong from the sea.

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In this memorial, there was a first known about the contents of Emperor Chongzhen from the eavesdropping seeds on Lu Xiangsheng's body; but in some cases, Lu Xiangsheng did not say them, but only wrote them with a pen, which was the first time he knew about them.

After reading this memorial, Emperor Chongzhen did not feel angry because his original plan was denied by Lu Xiangsheng, but nodded in agreement that the combat plan on this memorial was more in line with the current situation.

During the war between the royal army expelled the Qing army into the pass, Emperor Chongzhen began to understand the war. Later, he went on a war to defeat the Hetao Tartars and suppress the bandits in Nanyang. He also gained more knowledge of ancient wars. In addition, he understood a very important issue on paper in later generations: fighting war is fighting logistics, which has never changed from ancient times to the present.

Dongjiang Town, which is to be rebuilt now, will definitely receive its own support. The Pi Island is so far away and Lushun is so close, and the logistics supply difficulty is obvious. Just for this point, it is very necessary to modify it to the plan proposed by Lu Xiangsheng.

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen did not hesitate at all, and immediately waved his pen and approved the new plan proposed by Lu Xiangsheng. He even gave the code name to the plan: Nail Action.

Generally speaking, the combat code name is for the convenience of internal calls to the operation, but for the sake of confidentiality, the combat code name is generally very obscure and even completely unrelated to specific operations, such as typhoons, fortresses, overlords and other code names.

However, Emperor Chongzhen gave this nail code, not afraid of telling the Jianlu of Liaodong. The Ming Dynasty was going to nail the nails to the sharp corners of Liaodong. He had the ability to pull them out!

After the memorial was approved, he immediately returned to Lu Xiangsheng in a hurry. At the same time, Emperor Chongzhen also issued a decree to the newly appointed governor of Ji Liao, Hong Chengchou, to make some noise and attract the attention of the Qing army.

Sun Chuanting's style was relatively straightforward, and under the pressure, it made Guanning's Zu family army surrender; and then replaced Hong Chengchou, who had a softer style, could treat Guanning's army with one hard and one soft. Of course, more importantly, Sun Chuanting's style was more able to shock the officialdom in the south just after the turmoil. With him, even if something happened, he could quickly calm down with his style. Emperor Chongzhen was confident about this.

After doing these things, Emperor Chongzhen took a special look at the information of the original Jinyiwei Baihu and the current Qing Dynasty prince-consort Wu Zhong, and found that he was still on the sea. However, after hearing his conversation with others, it seemed that he would be able to see the mainland within just a few days.

From this point of view, they really walked around the Shandong Peninsula and moved to the mainland. I don’t know where their final destination was to land?

Wu Zhong brought a ship of gold, silver and jewelry, and a ship of North Korean specialties. What’s more important is that this person is useful!

But it’s useless to be anxious now. He can only wait until he gets docked and knows where he is before he can react.

Just as Emperor Chongzhen was waiting for the rabbit, King Zhishun of the Qing Dynasty had just arrived in Jinzhou, Liaodong.

This Zhishun King was Shang Kexi, one of the infamous Three Shun Kings in later generations. After Huang Taiji became emperor, he was named King Zhishun King and gave him his hometown Haizhou as a fief, including his small generals. It has to be said that Huang Taiji has a way of winning people's hearts.

This Shang Kexi actually had an irreconcilable hatred with the Qing Dynasty. His family was killed by Jianlu, and it can be said that his family was destroyed. His mother died at that time. Only his father and his brothers fled to Tashan, and then followed Mao Wenlong to fight Jianlu. In the following years, his father Shang Xueli and his brother Shang Kejin both died in the battle with Jianlu.

After Mao Wenlong's death, Dongjiang was in turmoil and he stood in Huanglong. However, in the battle of Lushun, Huanglong was defeated and died. Shang Kexi's wives, concubines, family and maids all jumped into the water and died. However, when he heard that Huanglong's rival Shen Shikui took over as the general of Dongjiang, he took the initiative to contact the Qing Dynasty and arrested Deputy General Yu Liangtai and Qiu Zhentai, and then plundered Guanglu, Dachangshan, Shicheng, and Haiyang Five Islands more than 10,000 soldiers and civilians, and took charge of the generals under his command, the military supplies and equipment of the Five Islands, and finally surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.

In the original history, from then on, he worked wholeheartedly for the Qing Dynasty. It can even be said that if he had not served so wholeheartedly for the Qing Dynasty, Li Dingguo would not have died before he could have fulfilled his ambitions, and the Southern Ming Dynasty would not have perished so quickly. Wu Sangui might have rebelled successfully. Even though he was still happy, he would not regret serving the Qing Dynasty until his death!

During the Ming Dynasty, he was always the commander of the naval commander and was familiar with naval battles. Therefore, the changes in the butterfly effect and the destruction of the Shanxi merchants forced him to turn his attention to the sea, Shang Kexi was naturally transferred by him to Jinzhou to command the Manqing naval commander.

In the Jinzhou lobby, there were only a few confidants who had just left here.

One of his confidants, Xu Erxian, who went to Shenyang to contact the Qing Dynasty for him, clasped his fists and said to Shang Kexi with a smile: "Congratulations to the prince, you can regain the navy again!"

"Yes, congratulations to the prince. Depending on the emperor's intention, the navy may have a big change!" Another confidant, Ban Zhifu, who also went to Shenyang for him to contact the Qing Dynasty, also said to Shang Kexi happily.

When Shang Kexi heard this, he also smiled on his face.

To be honest, he had suggested in the past, like Huang Taiji, that he had built a naval army and invaded the Ming Dynasty by sea. However, these suggestions were all left to the shelves, so that he, who was good at naval warfare, could only lead troops on land to fight. He felt that he had only one skill, but could not play it out.

At this time, he was only 36 years old. In his prime, how could he be willing to do nothing and live a life of his life? Therefore, when he received Huang Taiji's order, he immediately led his Tianjiao soldiers to come.

After the navy that year destroyed the Ming army's forces on the coast of Liaodong and pulled out of Dongjiang Town, the navy was basically abandoned. Huang Taiji gave Shang Kexi's army to help the heavens and followed him away from the sea. Now that he was able to return to the navy, he was all very excited.

I heard Shang Kexi say to his confidant: "There are less than fifty warships of all sizes in Jinzhou now, and over the years, they have been rarely maintained and mostly broken. From tomorrow on, you must be careful to train soldiers and repair warships. Do you understand?"

"I understand!" Xu Erxian answered excitedly, and then asked Shang Kexi, "Prince, the emperor revitalizes the navy. Do we really want to cross the sea to attack Shandong, Ming Kingdom in the future?"

From Jinzhou, you can reach Denglai, Shandong by going south along the island. For these old Ming generals, this is very familiar.

When Shang Kexi heard this, he immediately shook his head and said, "No, the emperor means that he wants to trade with the Ming Kingdom. In this way, a navy needs to ensure the smooth flow of the waterway. That's why the emperor transferred me to come."

Hearing this, Ban Zhifu couldn't help but feel a little worried when he heard this real purpose, and quickly reminded: "If Mingguo knew about this, let alone the pirates, our ship is not enough to deal with the Denglai Navy, right?"

Shang Kexi had not answered yet, but Xu Erxian answered his words first: "The Emperor of Ming Dynasty is stupid and has become a treacherous minister. The generals below are extremely incompetent. Don't you know these things? After these years, have you seen the navy of Ming Dynasty? Haha, do you think it was Yuan Zhongcheng back then?"

The Yuan Zhongcheng he referred to was Yuan Li, the governor of Denglai during the Tianqi period. During the Yuan Li period, Dongjiang Town was established, and the Ming army continued to harass Jianlu, and also led to the Han people who had already surrendered to Jianlu to flee. At that time, it was the best time in Dongjiang Town.

Hearing his questions, Ban Zhifu not only wasn't angry, but instead said happily: "I'm just worried! The Ming Dynasty's ruler and minister are still like birds, that's the best!"

Some of the navy in the Qing Dynasty were the warships of the Denglai Navy that they seized by Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming during the rebellion of the rebellion of the Qing Dynasty; the other part was part of the Denglai Navy that Shang Kexi mastered. Of course, they, the old generals of the Ming Dynasty, were clear about this.

Hearing their conversation, Shang Kexi said: "Although the Denglai Naval Commander should be aborted, if our navy commander crosses the sea, there would not be only the current ships. Moreover, if it was just crosses the sea, this was not what I wanted..."

Speaking of this, he suddenly raised his voice and said solemnly: "What I want is to land in Denglai, build a piece of territory for the emperor, and become the nail for the Qing Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty. In this way, you can attack, go north to attack the capital, go south to plunder the south of the Yangtze River; retreat to Liaodong. I believe that in this way, the emperor will no longer be bound by Shanhaiguan, and great achievements can be accomplished!"

Just when Xu Erxian and Ban Zhifu were excited, Shang Kexi said in a firm tone: "But the Jurchens are afraid of the sea, and we still have to make achievements in order to make the emperor and those princes and princes Bell believe that the sea can bring them what the sea can bring to them! What can change the Qing Dynasty!"

"Yes, let the emperor and the others see the real role of our navy!" Xu Erxian responded loudly, then lowered his voice, "But we only have this little ship, what achievements can we achieve?"

Shang Kexi heard this, but smiled slightly and said, "Who said that our Qing Dynasty really has only such a small boat?"
Chapter completed!