The officials here have not worked with the King of England, but almost no one has left a good impression. The King of England's temperament is called "A word of mouth" when he says it. To put it bluntly, he is arbitrary. He only cares about what the army needs and does not care how to do it. Because in the King of England, those are the affairs of subordinates, so when Li Jundu looked at everyone, everyone was evading his eyes, and the timid even hid his body behind his colleagues, for fear that the King of England would see him.

"Oh, Lord Wang of the Ministry of Finance and Commissioner Xu of the Congress are all acquaintances? Come and walk forward, you two are holding the army's money bags. You must know big things and small things." Li Jundu greeted the two financial officials hiding behind, and they walked out with their teeth, bowing their heads and silent.

Seeing King Ying like this, He Wenrui knew that he still remembered the bad things that were in charge of the southwest. At that time, he helped King Ying handle government affairs and witnessed the struggle between the King Ying and the Cabinet and the Congress with his own eyes. Because Nanjing was afraid of King Ying, fearing that he would inherit the throne, and intend to restrain him in all aspects. Although the Prime Minister was not as direct as he was, he had never had any small actions in secret. At that time, these two adults were also officials sent to cooperate with the funds in Nanjing. He Wenrui could not get their approval several times, but the King Ying came forward and chopped up a few captured chieftains in front of the two people. His bloody head was placed on the tables of the two people, forcing the two people to write approval documents in blood. Now, it is the right thing for them to be afraid of them, but the cabinet knew that the King Ying was the British governing the country and the Prime Minister's Northern Expedition Army to provide logistics and military affairs, which shows the depth of the conflict between Nanjing and the King Ying.

"Come on, you two go forward and don't be impatient." He Wenrui made a smooth move and let the two officials move forward a little.

Li Junduo coughed lightly and said, "This is the commander and the center of the imperial combat. From now on, all military orders will be released from now on. All the actions are the great cause of the Northern Expedition. In this Northern Expedition, Your Majesty will personally fight. We must work together and do our best. We must not be slacking off or missed.

No matter how official position you have held before, you will be a soldier here. The country's laws are strict and the military laws are ruthless. If there are any mistakes or negligence, I will treat them with military laws. I believe you will not understand the true meaning of this."

"Yes, Your Highness." Everyone responded in unison.

Who can get to the commander's headquarters is not a background. Although their official positions are not high, there are big bosses behind them, but this care cannot be done all the time. The British king uses military law to command the commander, and his meaning is very clear. If you do something wrong, the big boss behind you fell off before he could hand over the beheaded guillotine. Those who want to make tricks have weighed their lives.

"Everyone is smart, otherwise you can't get here. Smart people should do smart things and work. Several restaurants and inns outside the imperial city have all been booked. Three meals a day are delivered outside. When you are tired, you have the best guest rooms. If you do your work in earnest, I will not treat you badly." Li Jundu said a word and left.

Everyone immediately returned to their posts and started the work at hand. The two officials who had just been named gathered together. One of them curled his lips and said, "Give it a big stick first, then a sweet date, who can you fool it?"

The other person looked at his colleague who was working hard and said, "It's just you and I won't use this, but I think that the King of England doesn't want to win you over me anymore."

Li Jundu walked out of the commander's office, Lin Xitang chased after him, followed by a man, looking at the clothes that seemed to be an administrative official, with a familiar face and also from the finance side. The man came to the front of the King of England and bowed and said, "The lower-ranking official was sent by Ma Xiang. The prime minister said that when His Highness supervised the country, the prime minister will definitely help him with all his strength."

"I understand. You reply to your prime minister. I will visit you when I arrive in Beijing next day." Li Jundu said lightly.

The man left, and Lin Xitang said, "The deputy prime minister is very obedient. He has been living on the sea since he was a child. This is a real skill to change his mind."

Li Jundu was indifferent and said, "He is at the end of his life and wants to take another try, but it's fine, I'm using him."

The deputy prime minister is naturally the deputy chief of the cabinet, Ma Donglai, who is also a student of the emperor. Although he is not as close to Li Hai, he is not inferior to Ma Donglai. He runs Australia in his early years and helps Li Hai when he returns to the center. But how can people be satisfied? Especially in terms of power, he still wants to step forward. However, the imperial official system is not fully mature. Although the cabinet members have set a term system, they can still be prime ministers after becoming deputy prime ministers. The emperor has never made any statement. Now Prime Minister Li Hai is about to reach his term of office. Ma Donglai is at the top of the pole, and of course he wants to go further.

"Your Highness, this is not a matter of utterance. It is best not to get too close. With the officer who is there, you should not miss the mistake of killing three soldiers at this critical moment." Lin Xitang reminded carefully.

Li Jundu nodded slightly, knowing it. This time, the emperor arranged for He Wenrui to assist. When he was in the southwest, he was the assistant to the government. He had long been labeled as the King of England. However, Li Jundu knew that He Wenrui was not his confidant, at least he was far from following his leader. After the Northern Expedition, the cabinet would be changed, and He Wenrui could compete for the position of the chief minister of the cabinet.

"I understand, you go back." Li Jundu said.

Deep in the vast sea.

A large army was moving forward in the vast white snow, and there were slight snowflakes floating in the sky, covering soldiers and war horses, like a white dragon moving forward. This was the vanguard of the Northern Expedition Western Route Army.

The number of vanguards of the Western Route Army was as high as 18,000 soldiers, and another 4,000 horsemen were responsible for leading horses and driving cars. The nearly 20,000 troops were equipped with two war horses and one camel, and another 1,200 heavy baggage trucks and two thousand camels. Because there was snow along the way for drinking water, it only needed to carry about three days of ice for safety. During the march, the soldiers used dry food as food and did not need to prepare fuel. Therefore, the materials carried were all food and grass, which could be used by this huge army for more than four months.

The main force of the army was all vassal soldiers, with only one army regiment that strengthened artillery, baggage and military police. Among the 14,000 vassal soldiers, more than half were drawn from the direct-level flag sergeants. Two of the appeasement brigades were the main force. These two appeasement brigades were built by Xu Hanfeng when he was in charge of the southern part of the desert in recent years. They were all cavalrymen, and they were good at using firearms. They could fight and fight in the middle of the horse. The personnel came from the direct-level flag sergeants, most of them were Mongols, and some were Han slaves liberated from the old Mongolian nobles. In addition to the appeasement brigades, they were the elite cavalry selected by the outside vassal Zhasak of the Yunzhong Appeasement Zone. These were the bones and blood in the blood of the leaders of the Mongolian tribes. A Zhasak often only selected three to five people, all of whom were the genius of the Legend of the Condor.

Whether it was the foreign vassal or the directly under the jurisdiction of Zasak, all the soldiers changed their equipment in Guihua City. The appeasement zone provided them with the best war horses, quilts and tents for keeping cold. Except for the bows and arrows that were used to be used to, the rest were all the best. Moreover, the vanguard troops were on the grassland for a long time, and they were most suitable for the weather on the grassland, but they were more suitable for this operation than the soldiers dispatched from the mainland.

The desolation of the Gobi Desert was covered with snow, but the soldiers in the marching still felt desolate, especially the endless desert and Gobi Desert, which made people a little scared. After the army set off in Guihua City, they went west, along Yinshan and Yellow River to the Houtao, and went north to the vast sea, and headed straight to the target Wengjin River. Because there were many mules and horses in the army, and the weather was cold and hard, suitable for vehicles to move. The guides even walked this line for many years, so the army marched very fast. After leaving Guihua City, it took only thirteen days to reach the shore of Wengjin River, which was the most dangerous section of the road.

Xu Hanfeng sent people to check the people and animals in the army. After summarizing it, he found that only 140 people, more than 700 horses and camels were damaged, and 32 other logistics vehicles were damaged. The army had enough food and sufficient feed, which meant that the most worrying thing that the imperial subjects did not happen, and the bad weather did not defeat the army.

The Wengjin River is a river originating from the Yanran Mountains. It flows south into the vast sea and walks north along the Wengjin River. The terrain begins to rise and fall, and the snow is getting thicker and thicker. Even so, the place is still the environment of the Gobi Desert, but Xu Hanfeng wants this environment.

In two days, Xu Hanfeng chose a hillside by the river as the place of the camp. Because this hillside is close to the Wengjin River and the ridges block the cold wind in the north, the south is covered with coniferous forests and some broad-leaved trees. These can provide building materials and fuel for the army. Although wet firewood is not easy to ignite, it is better than not. At least the front army can have a hot meal.

Not only that, except for this part of the hillside, dozens of miles around are desolate. This is located at the junction of the grassland and the Gobi Desert. Not to mention winter, even in summer and autumn, when the grass is the most lush, there will be no herders who will bring their livestock here to feed them, because the place is too desolate and the water plants are not rich. Even in summer and autumn, it is a place where horses are thin and long hair.

It is precisely because of the desolation that it has become the first choice for the army. Since they have defeated God, the biggest threat to the army is the cavalry of the Qing army. The Qing court is no longer the Central Plains dynasty that once galloped thousands of miles away from the Mongols, but it is more like a huge tribal alliance. The combat habits and tactics are not much different from those of the Mongols. Grassland tribes have never needed to be considered for logistics, because the dairy and meat they use can be provided by migrant tribes. In an emergency, the war horses in the army can also provide part of it. It is precisely because of this that they can move thousands of miles and attack from all directions, but one thing is that such an army cannot be concentrated and used.

If the cavalry needs to be concentrated, then the tribes must also be concentrated, and the tribes must also concentrate cattle, sheep and livestock. Obviously, the plants and trees in a region cannot support too many cattle and sheep to eat. Without grass, the Qing army cannot concentrate the army, and without a sufficient number of troops, it is completely impossible to eat the vanguard army. Choosing this place is an invincible place.

"Before the Qing court had not yet reacted, they immediately sent people to unload the truck, then transported the baggage truck back to Huihua City, and urged the second batch of materials to be shipped immediately. The food is enough, and we need coal as fuel..." Xu Hanfeng explained to his subordinates.

"General, there is a Korqin person outside and I want to see you." His subordinates came in to report.

"Horqin people? Why can't it be that there are only four Korqin leaders in the Yunzhong Appeasement Zone, and I have no one to dispatch people." Xu Hanfeng frowned and said.

"The Korqin people who migrated from the south of the desert with the Manchu Tartars back then, were the enemy people." said his subordinate.

Xu Hanfeng cursed: "A bastard, you dare to be careless in such an enemy situation. Let him in."

After a while, a man wearing a torn felt hat and wrapped in a sheepskin coat walked in. He was hunched over and his wrinkles seemed to be deeper than the ravines in the mountains. He looked sixty years old, but Xu Hanfeng had been in the grassland for a long time and knew that life was not easy for people here, but in fact, he might not even be forty years old.

"Slave Borkijit Mangudai pays homage to the general!" The man saw Xu Hanfeng's majestic weapon, immediately recognized him as the leader and knelt down immediately.

Xu Hanfeng was even more shocked. The man's name turned out to be a nobleman, so he asked: "Are you the leader of the Korqin tribe?"

"Yes, the slaves have more than 400 herders, five hundred good men who can fight and kill, and more than 20,000 cattle and sheep, all of them are in the high mountain winter pastures more than 100 miles north." said Manggudai.

Xu Hanfeng nodded slightly: "How do you know that the army is here and why is it coming?"

"Report to the general, my tribe is responsible for the patrol mission at the edge of the sea that is a hundred miles away. This is the dispatch of the Manchus. Therefore, I learned early that the army was coming. I came here this time to serve the Celestial Dynasty. As early as two years ago, I still had the Xin Dynasty. In the past two years, people were in Cao's camp and in the Han Dynasty." Mangudai told a secret that no one could believe, and then tore open the lining of the sheepskin coat and took out a yellow letter. Xu Hanfeng saw that it was okay, but it was actually written by He Wenxi, the highest commander of the Security Bureau.

Since that's the case, there is no objection, but Xu Hanfeng didn't understand why He Wenxi didn't inform him of this secret move in advance, but after thinking about it, he understood that Manggudai had always had contact with the empire with the geographical advantage close to the south of the Mo and the identity of the Qing court's descendants. What really made him determined was his own army. After all, with so many cavalry, he could explore the wintering pasture where his tribe was located in at most two days. In the past two days, he could not ask for reinforcements or move away from the tribe in the cold winter and snow. It would be better to submit on the spot and seek a good result.

"Very good, Manggudai, you are the first enemy to surrender to this general. I can allow you a request." Xu Hanfeng said with satisfaction.
Chapter completed!