Chapter 535

Ji Chang was very surprised. The troops led by Fu Wei only went south for more than two months. From the war report, it seems that there are not many places to attack. A Xijuan City alone can harvest 3 million stone grain and fodder. What if the whole Lin Yiguo is "packaged"?

"Xijuan was originally the main grain storage land traded between Linyi and the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty." Liu Yan seemed very calm: "it's normal to have more food."

The war report from Fu Wei is still relatively clear. It belongs to the official grain storage of Linyi, that is, nearly 500000 stones. Most of the real seized grain came from the people.

Lin Yi country is not a centralized country. Local tribes have autonomy. The transactions with the Central Plains regime have always been that those tribal leaders account for the majority, but the official transactions are a minority.

The center of Xiang state consulted some ancient books obtained from the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The records on Jiaozhi clearly stated that after the Han army invaded south, the small imperial court urgently mobilized 2 million stones of grain from Jiaozhi, but Jiankang was conquered by the Han army before it was transported back to Jiankang.

Jiaozhi's ability to produce 2 million stone grain is a tax accumulation, which proves that the grain output in that area is amazing. Ji Chang, as prime minister, has to pay attention to it.

Three million stone grains and fodder can already support the Han country to fight a big war on the north line. Later, some gains will be made from the southwest peninsula. The problem of grain will be alleviated temporarily. The war can be started when the weather permits.

"There has never been a shortage of grain in the southwest peninsula. As long as we are willing to operate carefully after the restoration, only the old Han soil can support the grain needs of half of the country." Liu Yan's face changed into a sad expression and said, "it's just that they came out of Baoshan empty handed. They didn't notice the precious wood and some gemstones, and didn't realize the existence of spices."

There are still many local specialties in the southwest peninsula. If they can be transported to the Central Plains, they can probably earn a fortune, especially the first batch of local specialties. Liu Yan feels it necessary to remind him.

The main force of this invasion of the southwest peninsula was the official in order to obtain food.

In fact, Liu Yan does not intend to use the government as the main force. What he hopes is to make the southwest peninsula a folk adventure paradise and open the door for Han and Miao people to independently explore abroad. The southwest peninsula will not be the first or the last. There are large islands in Nanyang. Even after the formation of the atmosphere, he can take exploration steps to more places.

"Spices?" Ji Chang certainly knows about spices, but the current spices in the central plains are basically from the western regions. There is no similar thing in the south, so he asked, "are there spices produced in the southwest Peninsula?"

"There are many islands around the rising sea, the most in the southwest, and the island is the origin of spices." What Liu Yan hasn't said is that not only spices, but also minerals on the island are extremely rich: "first practice on the southwest Peninsula and talk about those with some experience."

The resources of Nanyang are unimaginable, but the Central Plains Dynasty has never looked away. If the Central Plains Dynasty could take the resources of many islands in Nanyang as its own, navigation would inevitably flourish in the process, and then based on the population of the Central Plains Dynasty, it should have laid the foundation for the growth of the earth.

Unfortunately, the Central Plains Dynasty fell into a strange circle of internal collapse for hundreds of years. In addition to the "world" of one-third of an mu of land, it did not look outside. It was blind to the local advantages and ashamed of the overlord's capital placed by God.

After decades of life, Liu Yan has a comprehensive plan. His lowest goal is to lay at least a basic foundation for the ethnic group. After recovering the old land of the Han family, the next step is to take two steps to open up to the West. At the same time, Nanyang must take possession of it. Even the efforts to open up Nanyang will be greater than those to the west, and Oceania will also be occupied.

The advantage of clear thinking is that when and what to do will not be fooled around, and there will be no motivation to struggle because of the loss of goals. However, now what to open up to the sea is just the beginning, and the most important thing is the upcoming reopening of Northern Xinjiang.

Li Tan has been stationed in Jingling. As the new general of the northern expedition, he came with a strong desire to make contributions.

Jingling is not such a beautiful place, and its strategic value has never been high in the past. The current jingling mausoleum will become the location of the northern shogunate, just because it is in the middle of Jicheng and Zhongyang.

The snow and ice on the other side of the state began to melt, but there was no sign of snow and ice melting in the relatively north area. On the contrary, it occasionally snowed.

"Jiuze's Lake is still frozen, and so is the nearby water system." Qian Jiantong was left behind and waited for Li Tan to report in person: "if you want to launch an offensive after the ice and snow melt, my opinion is to mobilize troops to go around while the lake in jiuze is still thick."

Qian Jiantong's current military position is to recruit Zhonglang generals in the north. According to the military practice of the Han Dynasty, Zhonglang generals with prefixes are generally the "seed players" of some generals. For example, he will become the next general in the north, and then Xie an, the general in the west, will also become the general in the West.

"It's necessary." Li Tan nodded and said, "Shi Xuan and Fu Hong may give up the strong city to fight with us, or even escape without fighting. It's time to set up the first hand."

Bingzhou has now been recovered by the state of Han. If Shi Jie and Zhao do not want to fight a city offensive and defensive war with the state of Han, they will certainly retreat to the northwest of Bingzhou and Shuozhou.

Qian Jiantong said, "in this case, I will command the Yulin army and the fourth cavalry army to cross jiuze lake first?"

It is difficult to study when jiuze lake existed. It dried up due to climate reasons in the northern and Southern Dynasties, and there will be no jiuze Lake in the future.

The existence of the water system in the Central Plains has always been changing. Even the Yellow River has been diverted many times. Each diversion will not only lead to death, but also change the location of the river system and lakes. It has to be said that after the Yellow River became turbid, the Central Plains Dynasty continued to increase land territory in the East, and the increased area was calculated by hundreds of thousands of square miles.

Didn't the Han state reorganize its army last winter? The new military system has new names. Some special names, such as the Yulin army, the Huben army and the forbidden guard army, are not included. They are the 13 standing armies, which are divided into cavalry army and infantry army. The size of the cavalry is six, and the remaining seven are infantry.

Under the northern shogunate system, there are six cavalry armies, four are standing cavalry armies, and the other two are Huben army and Yulin army. The eastern shogunate and the southern shogunate each have a cavalry army. The remaining one, because Xie an, the Zhonglang, will not be qualified to establish the shogunate, belongs to the Guanzhong garrison sequence.

The thirteen standing armies start from "one" in turn. The cavalry army is the first to sixth, the infantry army is the first to seventh, and the branch of arms is the prefix plus the cavalry army or infantry army.

It is of great historical significance for Liu Yan to come up with this set of serial numbers.

You should know that the military system of the Central Plains Dynasty has never been done like this. It is more to separate troops according to States, counties and counties, or plan according to war zones. This is the time when the Central Plains Dynasty rarely maintains a large number of standing troops.

Of course, the Central Plains Dynasty did not have a large number of standing armies, that is, the system of central army, county army and border army. The source of troops came from the young and strong who accepted the "Fu". Later, the emergence of the government military system led the Central Plains Dynasty to the "theater" military system. The military sources in which regions were responsible for which theater. During the special national war, troops were mobilized from various theater to participate in the war.

The Han state established by Liu Yan will not have any real peace period. It is necessary to maintain a large number of standing armies, so it is natural to be independent of the county and border army system, and the theater system is not suitable for the way that defense is more than attack.

At present, the 200000 standing army of the Han Dynasty is selected from millions of troops. It should be said that the quality of the troops is very excellent. We can't tell which army is good or bad. The serial number represents the number rather than the ranking.

With the change of the military system of the Han Dynasty, Li Tan and Qian Jiantong were no longer the leaders of the Yulin army and the Huben army respectively. Their personal feelings must be deeper, but the premise of being able to command was that the troops were under the shogunate sequence.

Li Tan had no doubt about Qian Jiantong's command of the Yulin army, but also knew why he wanted the Yulin army rather than the Huben army. He said, "there will be two guards cavalry coming later. Why don't you... Bring another cavalry?"

"If the troops are sufficient, it is naturally the best." Qian Jiantong was depressed that the Huben army, as a kind of Armored Cavalry, could not carry out any long-distance attack or pursuit. He nodded: "there are two forbidden guard cavalry armies and Huben army. Even if there are no Yulin army and two cavalry armies, Shi Xuan or Fu Hong are not afraid to fight a decisive battle."

The general of the northern expedition of the Han Dynasty has always been the army with the most control, which is the premise that the object and geographical location of the expedition are determined first. For example, after the collapse of the small imperial court in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there were only some non climatic ZhuYue and Zhuman in the south before reaching the coastline. The southern shogunate was directly reduced to three armies. Even if the north is dry, Shijie Zhao also has the threat of grassland. I'm afraid the north line will not be less than the scale of five armies.

In addition to the command of some standing armies, local county soldiers and some servants will gradually join the shogunate sequence. Even as a general of the northern expedition, he was not sure how many troops the Northern Expedition shogunate would have in this campaign. The only thing he knew was that it would not be less than 400000 troops.

There is no contradiction. The state of Han wants to maintain a standing army of 200000, which only refers to special combat troops, but it does not completely eliminate the rest of the system.

It must be said that although the standing army, county soldiers and servant soldiers of the Han state are all military forces, the system is not the same. The standing army is simply an unproductive army. The county soldiers come from the Nafu of the people. The slave soldiers include the slave soldiers and the troops of various vassal countries.

Qian Jiantong finally left with three cavalry troops. Although the Yulin army is a military, it has only a establishment of 10000, with a total force of 40000. They left the city in the light snow season and marched in the direction of Pingtao through jiuze lake. They will enter a vast grassland for concealment.

Half a month after Qian Jiantong led his troops away, the follow-up tribes arrived one after another. The first came 30000 County soldiers and 20000 guards cavalry in Shangdang county. At this time, the ice and snow began to melt.

"In the first stage, the number of soldiers from counties and counties gathered on the battlefield will reach 120000." TIAOYU has always been a long history of marching, and he is still after the expedition to the North shogunate. He got along well with Li Tan and was satisfied with the current situation. He continued with a smile: "the county soldiers will ensure the flanks and rear wings of the field corps."

The various systems of the Han military have clear responsibilities, and the standing army is used as the main force in the battlefield. With the standing army as the main attack, the role of county soldiers is not only to ensure the logistics line, but also to ensure the combat environment of the main force and play the effect of coordination and arch defense.

Li Tan is watching the sand table and how to arrange County soldiers and servants to join the army. As the chief general, he has no less discussion with Commander Shi.

In fact, the northern expedition of the Han Dynasty was based on the layout of Wei Qing's battle in Hexi, that is, in addition to the troops specially arranged as the main attack, there were a large number of infantry meetings.

At the beginning, the troops in Wei Qing's hands were not as clear-cut as those in Li Tan's hands. A small number of main attack troops were assisted by hundreds of thousands of auxiliary troops. The main attack troops had a clear attack route, and the auxiliary troops were in a flat straight line situation. Then the main attack troops continued to intersperse with the advantage of high-speed mobility, The auxiliary forces are pushed flat on the premise of the results created by the main attack forces.

"Considering the particularity of the situation, the war in Yangyi will start earlier than Zhongyang..." TIAOYU inserted some flags in his hand around Yangyi and then continued: "wait until the ground becomes relatively dry, and the first cavalry army, the third infantry army and the fifth infantry army will take the lead in launching the offensive."

Li Tan recalled the recent information about Shi Xuan. Shi Jie Zhao Jun, who is located in Yangyi, only had a small number of troops out of the city, and the rest of Shi Jie Zhao Jun had been staying in the city. He was also quite sure that Shi Xuan did not get reinforcements. How many troops did Shi Xuan have or how many troops did he have.

"There are signs of some changes in Zhongyang." TIAOYU went to the shelf where the papers were stacked, looked for the official documents, handed them to Li Tan, and said, "Fu Hong of Zhongyang transferred some troops to the north."

"Well, it's about the impact of Dingling people on the northern territory of Shijie." Li Tan gloated and said, "Hongru hall can do something more or less."

Li Tan said that LV Yi personally operated the knife. The officials of Hongru hall used various methods to make Ding Ling go south. They did not belong to the state of Shijie Zhao, but used force against the state of Shijie Zhao.

"So..." TIAOYU sighed first, and then said almost in a certain tone: "the probability of Shi Xuan and Fu Hongyi fighting in the city has been reduced."

Li Tan, who was still in Lehe, sighed. Compared with the chase war in the vast wilderness, the high-level of the Han Army still liked Shi Jie's attack and defense war in the city