Zhu Cixiang immediately sent the intelligence sent by the Military Intelligence Department of the Inner Factory to Shandong and ordered the Shandong generals to prepare for the war.
In addition to Qin Gongming's troops stationed in Dezhou, Gao Jie led tens of thousands of elite troops to Linqingzhou.
The Shence Army battalions that were once stationed in Denglai also sent troops north to garrison the Leling and Haifeng lines.
It can be said that the entire northern Shandong Province was run by the Ming army like an iron barrel, not even a fly could fly in.
Then he said that the camps of the Shence Army were originally dispatched by Zhang Kentang, the governor of Denglai.
However, because the Denglai Navy is not yet large-scale and cannot attack the Qing army from the sea, they still choose to reinforce Leling and Haifeng to ensure that the Qing army has no chance to take advantage of it.
Among them, the Tianqi Battalion commanded by Chen Liu and the Yongwu Battalion commanded by Shen Fu were stationed in Leling, while the Xuanwu Battalion and Xiaoguo Battalion were stationed in Haifeng.
As a soldier of the Xuanwu Battalion, Liu Sanshui naturally followed the army to garrison in Haifeng.
In his opinion, Haifeng is certainly not a big city, but some basic facilities are complete.
It is natural for soldiers to fight, not to mention that they are fighting Tatars.
None of the lords had any complaints, and naturally neither would Liu Sanshui.
There have been major changes in the top generals of Xuanwu Camp.
The current battalion always has a general named Han Qu.
Although General Han is only in his thirties, he is proficient in the art of war and has great experience in arranging troops and formations.
Moreover, he and Sun Anyian, the commander of Xiaoguo Camp, had once served as the emperor's personal attendants together, so it was perfect for the two of them to work together to defend Haifeng City.
There are more than a dozen bastions ten miles outside Haifeng City, and the bastions are connected by trenches.
This is the first line of defense in Haifeng City and must be defended to the death.
After some discussion, Han Qu and Sun Anyian decided to send nearly half of their troops to garrison on this line.
Xuanwu Camp is an infantry battalion, but Xiaoguo Camp is an artillery battalion.
The combination of infantry and artillery is the main tactic that Shengtianzi has always emphasized.
Just moving the heavy eight-pounder cannon and twelve-pounder cannon into the bastion was not an easy task.
Sun Anyian spent a lot of effort to direct the soldiers to complete this task.
Although the Holy Emperor and the Ministry of War highly praised the bastion, after all, everyone had never been stationed here before, so they were still a little wary.
Fortunately, their tension did not last long and disappeared completely.
Because the Holy Spirit led all the personal guards to personally come to Shandong to command the war.
It was not uncommon in the history of the Ming Dynasty for the emperor to conscript himself.
Not to mention Taizu and Chengzu, even Yingzong and Wuzong also had the experience of being personally conquered by imperial chariots.
However, after the power of civil servants expanded, in order to limit the emperor's power, especially military power, the scholar-bureaucrats used various reasons to prevent the emperor from conducting military expeditions.
This was naturally justified during the Taiping years.
After all, some minor frictions at local borders did not require the emperor to personally resolve them.
The so-called son of a rich man cannot sit down in the hall.
The civil servants said that as long as the emperor rules the world, the world will be stable.
But the fact is completely opposite.
The emperor lost his military power and became a puppet, a symbol and symbol sitting in the Forbidden City.
They said that Emperor Chongzhen killed his officials like dogs, but his decrees could not leave Beijing.
In particular, local warlords, such as Liao Zhenzu Dashou, etc., were even more disobedient to the imperial court.
In the final analysis, there was a problem with the court's system.
Since the current emperor ascended the throne, he has eliminated traitors and trained a new army, showing a flourishing trend.
Those despicable villains with evil intentions were eradicated one by one by the emperor, and the warlords with ulterior motives were also killed one by one.
In this case, the emperor's personal prestige reached its peak.
Of course, the government and the public were also in an uproar when Zhu Cixi proposed that the emperor would personally conquer the country.
Most of the officials, including the big and small Jiuqing and Ke Dao Yanguan, raised objections.
Their reasons for dissuading the emperor were still the same old thing, that your majesty is the supreme being and that one person is responsible for the safety of all people in the world, so he cannot commit any danger himself.
It might be okay to fool Chongzhen, but it is impossible to fool Zhu Cixi.
Zhu Cixiang immediately stated at the court meeting that the battle between the Donglu and the Ming Dynasty in Shandong would determine the offensive and defensive momentum of both sides in the next few years, and there was no room for error.
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If Ming Dynasty loses Shandong, it will fall into a very passive situation and can only be passively beaten.
This is what Zhu Cixiang doesn't want to see.
In other words, if the Ming Dynasty finally died, Zhu Cixiang would have no other choice but to imitate Chongzhen and die.
So this battle must not be lost.
The emperor himself's personal expedition to Shandong would not bring much change to the immediate combat effectiveness of the Shandong Ming Army, but it could greatly boost military morale and boost morale.
After all, in this era, in the minds of ordinary people, the emperor is a saint and a god.
In particular, the Shence Army was founded from the beginning as the emperor's personal army.
In their minds, the emperor is definitely a person who cannot be looked up to.
If the emperor really went on a personal expedition and came to Shandong to command the battle, all the soldiers of the Ming army would definitely kill the enemy bravely to repay the emperor.
Zhu Cixiang was not prepared to compromise on this matter.
He arranged for Lu Zhenfei to sing with him in the court hall.
In this way, the opposition voices were suppressed a lot.
Coupled with the absolute prestige that Zhu Cihong had accumulated since he ascended the throne for a year, he was able to promulgate the imperial edict forcefully.
Those nine ministers and ministers understood clearly that the emperor was determined to lead the expedition in person.
Even the Minister of War agreed that it was never a good thing to go against the emperor at this time.
The result is likely to be a blow from the imperial staff, which will not affect the final result.
In this case, it is better to choose to obey.
The emperor's personal conquest was definitely a great event that shocked the world.
According to the old system of our ancestors, the direct personal guards and the Beijing camp must accompany you.
But now the guard system exists in name only, and the Beijing Camp has also been abolished.
Those who accompanied him and escorted him became the Shence Army.
In addition to the Shence Army stationed in Shandong and Huguang, there were fifteen battalions, nearly 30,000 people, left in Nanjing.
The emperor dispatched all 30,000 people to accompany him on the expedition.
The deputy commander of this army is the commander Zhao Xin, and the commander is Zhu Cihong.
Because they did not bring much luggage, the army headed north after leaving Nanjing, and it did not take long to reach Shandong.
The emperor moved to Jinan Prefecture and stayed in the prefectural city.
More than 30,000 Shence troops surrounded Jinan City.
After receiving the news, generals such as Gao Jie and Qin Gongming rushed to Jinan Mansion to meet him.
Zhu Cixiang met them in the temporary palace, said some words of encouragement, and promised that as long as the Shandong War was won, he would give generous rewards to the entire army.
All the generals knelt down on the ground and called His Majesty wise, and the atmosphere was very warm.
For Zhu Cixiang, the decision to go on a personal expedition was a decision made after careful consideration.
It was not that he did not understand the dangers of this trip.
But since we have to face it sooner or later, it is better to have a duel earlier.
This battle is related to the fate of the Ming Dynasty and must be won
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