Liu Bu decided to set up his headquarters in southern Liaoning in Lushun instead of the Haizhou that many people imagined. Liu Bu set up his commander, the general of southern Liaoning and the headquarters of the marshal in Lushun. He built hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers here, built a large number of fortifications and fortresses, and prepared to fight the other side here.

Liu Bu didn't have much control over whether he could defend his Gaizhou or Fuzhou, but he was sure that he could defend his Lu Shun.

From Liaoyang along the western foot of the Qianshan Mountains to the south, you can directly reach Jinzhou and Lushun. This road has a very long history. As early as the Han and Wei dynasties, this road was the main road from Liaoyang to Shandong Peninsula. There are Xinchang, Anshi, Wenxian, Pingguo, Dashi and other cities along the way. It just so happened that a line was formed by several states controlled by him, which was not the same as Haizhou. On land, this line can directly reach Liaoyang, the core of the Liaodong Peninsula.

In this path, in addition to the main line connecting to Jinzhou, there are two other important branches that can cross the Qianshan Mountains and follow the Yellow Coast to connect to Korea. The first one is to go up from Haicheng to Haicheng River Valley, analyze wood to Xiuyan, then go down the Dayang River Valley to Gushan Town, and cross the southern foot of Qianshan to Dandong, cross the Yalu River to enter Korea. The importance of this path is even no less than that of the Yalu River Gong Road connecting to Liaoyang from Yizhou, North Korea. Haizhou is the hub on this path and is a military center. In the Tang Dynasty, Goguryeo had heavy troops stationed in Anshi (near Haizhou today) to defend the Tang army.

This is also the reason why many people believe that the Liu family army must conquer Haizhou. If they capture this place, they can attack Liaoyang or contact North Korea.

The second branch line was from Gaizhou to Huayuankou through Biliu River Valley. During the Tang Dynasty, Goguryeo established Jian'an City. When Emperor Taizong of Tang attacked Goguryeo, he wanted to cross from Liaoyang City to attack Jian'an directly. However, Xu Shiji believed that An City was between Jian'an and Liaoyang, and the Tang army's grain route was in Liaoyang, so it was better to attack An City first. Li Shimin then surrounded An City, and now Gaizhou was controlled by the Liu family army.

Lushun and Jinzhou are located at the southernmost end of the Liaodong Peninsula. They are the transportation hub of the Liaodong Peninsula. They are dangerous and have important military value. As early as the Tang Dynasty, Lushun was a must-pass place for the sea tribute roads of Korea and the Bohai Kingdom. For example, Jia Dan of the Tang Dynasty recorded: "Traveling northeast of Dengzhou, passing Daxie Island, Guixin Island, Mo Island, Wuhu Island, 300 miles, crossing Wuhu Island in the north, and reaching Duli Town, Mashi Shandong, 200 miles." Since ancient times, the Central Plains dynasty wanted to use troops to the Korean Peninsula or the Liaodong region, and Lushun and Jinzhou Bay were important military strongholds.

For example, during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Goguryeo established a Beisha City here to resist the Sui and Tang armies. At the beginning of this dynasty, in order to recover Liaodong, Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang sent two generals Ma Yun and Ye Wang to lead their troops from Penglai to cross the Bohai Sea along the Miaodao Islands to Lushun, and then head to Liaoyang in the north. In the third year of Tianqi, Jinzhou and Lushun were all occupied by Jiannu, and Yuan Keli, the governor of Denglai, also recovered Lushun and Jinzhou through this route. After that, Jiannu and Ming army repeatedly competed for Lushun and Jinzhou.

Now this land has fallen into Liu Bu's hands. He merged Lushun and Jinzhou into Luda. He merged the two major cities of later generations, Lushun and Dalian, in one breath.

Therefore, when Liu Bu formulated his own strategy, he was also preparing to rely on the three major cities and rely on the sea to fight against Jiannu. You must know that the governor of Denglai, Yuan Keli, also occupied Jinzhou and Lushun, but he still couldn't defend it in the end. This is because he was not a rival of Jiannu on land, and he would escape in the end. So Liu Bu learned these experiences and lessons. After occupying the three states, he did not greedily go deep into the inland, but established his own fortifications and arms here. He relied on several cities to deal with the army of Jiannu's counterattack to resist. Only when Jiannu was afraid and fiercely beaten, they would leave with their tails together, which was the time for them to counterattack.

It can be said that if the Jiannu main force had not been hit hard by them, they would have to go deep into the inland sea states, and it would not be an excellent tactic to deal with Jiannu.

Even Liu Bu had the idea that any place must be backed by the sea, so as not to let Jiannu make dumplings and capture them alive.

Liu Bu always had great confidence in his Liu family's navy, because their Liu family's navy is truly powerful and powerful. As long as you have seen this huge navy, you will think that he is truly powerful in force.

Let’s not talk about anything else, just take a city of the Ming army as an example. A few red-clothed cannons were deployed above a city to deal a huge blow to the siege Jiannu.

However, the main battleships of the Liu family navy, one of them had ten red-clothed cannons deployed on one side, and the other side was also deployed on the other side. That is to say, on a giant warship, they could deploy twenty red-clothed cannons, even their medium-sized warships could also deploy five cannons, which made their firepower very powerful, at least that the army soldiers of this era could not imagine.

With such powerful firepower, are you still afraid of Jiannu’s charge?

So after Liu Bu entered the University of Land and University, he did not take it easy. Instead, he immediately formed local people and began to build his fortifications and his general's mansion. Liu Bu knew one thing that he might stay here for a long time, so this would be his base for a long time.

He will rely on this place to fight against Jiannu. At first, he was not clear about Jiannu's tactics, tactics and habits, so he would definitely not take the initiative to take the risk of attacking and attacking the opponent, but instead fight against the opponent on his own territory.

Liu Bu has a lot of initiatives in this regard, that is, he is not in a hurry at all. He is developing here. If Jiannu did not pull out the three nails of the Liu family army on the southern Liaoning Peninsula, they would not dare to go south to attack Mongolia, North Korea, or to go south to the Ming Dynasty, they would be attacked by the Ming army from the southern Liaoning direction.

As the saying goes, there is a tiger sleeping soundly here. They have no other way than killing this tiger, so Liu Bu decided on a strategy, that is, he set up a large army here and waited for the other side to attack. And Liu Bu believed one thing, this was a three-dimensional business that he established in combination with the advantages of later World War I and World War II. Many of these business matters are products of reinforced concrete. With these things, Jiannu who only used these primitive weapons would make them very blind.

The popularity of the iron armor of the Liu family army is very high because they discovered several iron ores in Denglai, and now they have started mining. Another thing is that Liu Bu and she gathered many masters and craftsmen to design blast furnaces burned with coke. The high temperature generated by coke allowed them to train steel.

The steel of this era is even the essence or solid iron mentioned by the people. In general, it is only ten kilograms of ordinary iron that can produce one kilogram of fine iron. However, the awesomeness of the Liu family army shocked many people and the industry. They have completed mass production, that is, they have established several steel factories in Dengzhou and Laizhou and started to burn their steel. Although these are just local blast furnaces and local iron factories, the iron production output has increased ten times higher than before. You must know that before, only ore was harvested and blacksmiths were allowed to practice and beat them one by one, but now they can directly use blast furnaces to improve their efficiency by more than ten times.

You should know that the current ironmaking technology is still specialized in the country. Iron can often be compared with money. For example, when the Ming Dynasty could not wear iron armor for every soldier, it was because their iron production rate was not high and they could not produce such steel to equip every soldier. However, the Liu family army developed a blast furnace itself, which greatly improved their steel making technology, and the quality of the steel produced was better and higher, which made their overall strength qualitatively improve.

You should know that steel making is the comprehensive strength of the country, and this has not changed after hundreds of years. Now, the Liu family army has also built several iron plants because of the iron ore found in the places they control. The steel produced by the blast furnaces they used was several times the output of the Ming Dynasty. In some aspects, they can already crush them.

High-quality steel can allow them to make more weapons and more armor. These things will strengthen the overall strength of their Liu family army. It is because they own the steel factory and the technology to make steel. Liu family army and others are so luxurious. Even ordinary soldiers have begun to equip iron armor. This is nothing to them. Other people's set of iron armor costs hundreds of taels of silver. Which army can spend hundreds of taels of silver on ordinary soldiers? Liu family army and others can use the steel they produce and learn from the large hydraulic forging machines of the Westerners. They directly use the hydraulic forging machines to make irons, and the whole piece of iron plates they make are a bit like Western plate armor. Although the iron armor of their Liu family army looks very ugly and ugly, and does not look like fish scale armor and mountain literary armor, so majestic and beautiful, it is very practical.

The iron armor of ordinary soldiers of the Liu family army is actually two iron plates, one in front, one in the back, and some connection in the middle. What people wear is like an iron bucket. Although it is ugly, it is not easy to cut him with the current swords and swords. If you want to cause damage to him, you can only use big swords, big axes or maces to cause harm to soldiers wearing such iron armor. It is precisely because of such a deep foundation that steel is continuously produced in its own iron factory, so Liu Bu started to equip ordinary soldiers with iron armor, so he was not in a hurry, because he could afford to play and drag, while Jiannu and the others on the opposite side might not be able to play or drag.
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