Chapter 280 Leading the Troops Personally
As winter passes, the earth, which has been silent for a winter, welcomes the spring breeze again.
Under the blowing of spring breeze, all things come to life.
Looking at the melting ice and snow and the newly sprouted grass, Jiang Chen smiled with his hands behind his back.
He has been in this world for four years now!
During the past year, the entire North was under his governance.
It has become the most prosperous region in the entire Xia Kingdom!
During this year, the Xu Song regime and the Northern Ming, which split from the original Ming Dynasty, were engaged in a massive war.
The forces of both sides are constantly engaging in friction and exchange of fire!
Under such circumstances, the lives of the common people on both sides became increasingly miserable...
But for Qi and Xia, this is exactly what they want to see!
As long as the power of Bei Ming and Xu Song is exhausted, they can divide the Ming Kingdom!
But, for Xia Guo.
If they want to benefit from it, they must first get Jiang Chen's consent!
Today, the nine counties in the northern border have a military force of up to 400,000!
Moreover, these 400,000 troops are equipped with equipment forged with new smelting technology!
Among them, there are thousands of musketeers !
This was also the result of Jiang Chen's learning this year from the experience of using the batch of gunpowder that was used to bury more than 100,000 troops from the Qi and Ming coalitions.
It was carefully designed in collaboration with Guan Laoer and other blacksmiths!
Of course, due to many factors such as technological issues.
These muskets are all spontaneous-fire muskets.
If Jiang Chen and his team want to use muskets to start a new type of war fusion, they still need to do a lot.
However, there was the musketeer formation that Jiang Chen had arranged according to his memories from his previous life.
The combat effectiveness that this musketeer unit in the North can bring is quite impressive!
Of course, while developing a new type of soldier, the musketeer.
Jiang Chen also spent a lot of money to take advantage of the geographical advantages of the north.
More than ten horse farms were established and with the help of the horse farms.
Jiang Chen even formed a cavalry of 50,000 men!
The middle and high-level officers of the 50,000 cavalry were all elite Silver Armor Guards.
This also resulted in a vacancy in Jiang Chen's current personal guard battalion.
Of course, Jiang Chen and Gongsun Liang quickly came up with a solution.
That was the private army originally trained by Du Meng and Wang Zhongqing.
Now, after two years of keeping a low profile, these three thousand people have become the sharpest sword in Jiang Chen's hand!
With Jiang Chen's full efforts, these three thousand people were even equipped with muskets!
The leaders of Jiang Chen's personal guards were also replaced by Li Yuanyi and Yuan Hao.
As for this guy Huo Xiang, he was the commander of the 50,000 cavalry!
On this day, Jiang Chen was fishing by the pond in his Dingbei Marquis Mansion.
Li Yuanyi was guarding beside him with several personal soldiers.
Suddenly, Gongsun Liang ran in hurriedly.
"My lord, my lord, something terrible has happened!"
Hearing Gongsun Liang's shout, Jiang Chen turned his head in confusion.
"What's going on? You're so flustered."
After arriving in front of Jiang Chen, Gongsun Liang took a breath and replied.
"Qi State has intervened in the war between Beiming and Xu Song!"
"Now, with the help of Qi , Beiming has conquered half of Xu Song!"
Hearing this, Jiang Chen's expression became unnatural.
With the help of Qi, the civil war that was originally between Xu Song and Bei Ming was resolved.
It instantly became the beginning of Qi State's ambition being revealed!
After learning about this, Jiang Chen no longer cared about the fishing rod in his hand.
After dropping the fishing rod, Jiang Chen stood up, a sharp light flashing in his eyes.
"Military Advisor, Yuan Yi, pass the order to the generals."
"Tell them to come to Jibei City to see me immediately!"
"After lying dormant for a year, it's time to make a debut!"
Following Jiang Chen's order, Gongsun Liang and Li Yuanyi took the order and left.
Soon, Jiang Chen's generals rushed back to Jibei City from all over the northern border.
Ban Cheng, a great scholar, and Yu Yanyi, now the Chief Secretary of the Northern Territory, also came to Jiang Chen's house.
For a moment, the hall of Dingbei Marquis Mansion was full of people.
When Jiang Chen walked into the hall, everyone bowed to him in unison.
"We are waiting to see the Lord!"
"Okay, okay, everyone get up."
"I asked you to come here. You should all know the reason, right?"
Jiang Chen said as he sat on the main seat and looked at everyone.
As Jiang Chen finished speaking, Han Zhong and Du Mingyu, who had been ready to fight, stood up.
"My lord, please give the order!"
"The swords of this general and his men have long been unable to hold back their desire to drink blood!"
After these two people stepped forward, several other newly rising generals also stepped forward.
"My lord, we are willing to act as the vanguard and take care of the State of Qi."
Listening to everyone's requests, Jiang Chen frowned and raised his hand to stop them.
"Okay, why are you all so excited?"
"Let's first listen to the opinions of the military advisor and the chief historian."
After Jiang Chen finished speaking, he turned his gaze to Gongsun Liang and Yu Yanyi standing beside him.
I have to say that Yu Yanyi has been working very diligently over the past year.
It was also with his help that the nine northern counties were able to develop into what they are today.
As the person in charge of all government affairs in the North, he quickly stood up.
"My lord, I think we must send troops."
"As for the logistics of food and fodder, please rest assured."
"The North can definitely afford it now!"
After getting Yu Yanyi's support, Jiang Chen nodded.
Although Jiang Chen could completely ignore Yan Yi's opinion and launch a war against Beiming and Qi.
But after all, Yu Yanyi has made great contributions to Jiang Chen .
Therefore, Jiang Chen must get his support.
What's more, the financial power of the entire northern territory lies in Yan Yi's hands.
No one knows better than him whether the North can afford to mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops!
Seeing that Yu Yanyi had expressed his attitude, Gongsun Liang also expressed his agreement.
So, after discussion among everyone.
Jiang Chen finally decided to raise an army of 200,000 and march north.
Help Xu Song resist the attacks from Bei Ming and Qi!
As for why half of the troops , it was because the northern border still had to be wary of the State of Qi and the King of Huai'an who was eyeing them covetously in Beidi County in the south!
During this year, with the efforts of King Huai'an.
Beidi County, which was originally just a small county with 3,000 soldiers, has now transformed.
It became a strong military base with 50,000 soldiers!
Facing this hungry wolf, Jiang Chen had to be on guard at all times.
"Okay, this time, I will personally lead the troops."
"As for the defense of the northern border, it will be handed over to the chief historian and several generals."
After discussing countermeasures, Jiang Chen turned around and spoke to Yu Yanyi and several new generals.
After hearing Jiang Chen's words, several new generals felt somewhat unwilling.
But they had no choice but to obey...
