Zhao Hu, who officially worshipped the leader, made the five southeastern provinces shake, look at Haiquan, the two coastal provinces fell into the hands of Zhao Hu so quickly, everyone knows Zhao Hu's toughness, look at Zhao Hu's easy annexation of the two provinces in the name of the two provincial overseers, everyone knows that the southeast metropolitan governor of the five provinces of the overseer army must come to a veritable five provinces overseer. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Two of the five provinces have already been confirmed, and the remaining three provinces are believed to soon fall into the hands of Zhao Hujun. Not only is the resistance of the provinces in the southeast to Zhao Hu's army abnormal, but even the surrounding provinces, or the elites, are also very wary of Zhao Hu.

There is no way not to be vigilant, because even if Zhao Hujun accepts the other party's surrender or surrender, he will eat the other party into his stomach and digest it, and he will never allow the other party to have a sense of independence.

Think about the original time, no matter who came to power, they could still beat civilians, rob people's women and extort merchants. The days are very good. And in the realm of Zhao Hujun, if you don't have enough status, you can't even walk sideways on the street!

If you commit a crime, you will be arrested directly. In the past, these people could only climb up from the bottom, and the hundreds of years of hard work of their ancestors were in vain. Who can accept such a thing!

Therefore, the magnates with vested interests will never go to Zhao Hu like this unless they have to.

Since the magnates of other provinces are all in this mentality, let alone Haiguang and Haiwu provinces, which have been unified for many years.

Through the overseas trade of the Imperial fleet, through the sale of sea ships monopolized by manufacturing technology. These two provinces are really rich. Because the internal strife in the empire did not receive many people from other places, the smallest magnates in these two provinces formed a brigade of armed forces.

It can be said that just counting the ownership of the two provinces, the number has reached a terrifying number, and coupled with the Imperial Marine Corps, which exceeds the regular I don't know how many times, it is even more terrifying.

Metropolitan Governor's Mansion of the Maritime Province

"Lord, this is the intelligence of Haiping, Haiguang, and Haiwu."

Zhou Wen handed a stack of information to Zhao Hu.

Zhao Hu didn't answer, directly made a cleaver, turned around and kicked sideways, and said at the same time: "You read it." ”

Zhou Wen knew that his master didn't care about this, so he took out the document and read: "Yes, Haiping Province is a province with the most flat farmland among the five southeastern provinces, and it is now that most of the provinces are short of grain, and the grain in Haiping Province is also enough to support, but in addition to the grain is not worried, the entire province has no other specialties at all."

There are no foreign warlords, and the twelve warlords in the entire province are all from local tyrants, because they are all from local tyrants, and there are sufficient troop resources, and each warlord can pull up more than one division of troops at once.

However, because he was born as a local tyrant, there is an extreme shortage of officers, and there are no grassroots officers, that is, a general, a few adjutants, and more than a dozen partial generals with 10,000 people.

Also because of the identity of the local tyrant, the equipment is also extremely lacking, a warlord is equipped with a wing of imperial army blades at most, and other soldiers can only use inferior weapons made by themselves, so the secret guard confirmed that although Haiping Province has sufficient troops, it is the weakest force among the five southeastern provinces. ”

Zhao Hu said: "So our first target is Haiping Province, although we have made great efforts to control agriculture, but the time is short, there is no result, and there is still a shortage of food like other places." The grain is supported from the southeast peninsula, and in order to avoid accidents, even if Haiquan Province is annexed, Haiping Province must also be taken! ”

Zhou Wen said with a smile: "Lord, this Haiping Province will definitely let us take it easily, if even these Wutai people can't be defeated, the commanders of our army will all buy a piece of tofu and kill it!" ”

Zhao Hu couldn't help but smile when he heard this: "Okay, just let them not be careless, and go on." ”

Zhou Wen immediately said: "Yes, Haiwu Province specializes in manufacturing warships, and the first and second fleets stationed in Haiwu Province are the strongest fleets in the navy, and the number of warships owned by the two ships is the same, both are three hundred and twenty, that is, Haiwu Province has a total of six hundred and forty warships, and more than 200,000 sailors!"

In addition, the 1st and 2nd Fleets each had three brigades of marines. With the addition of the private soldiers in the officer's manor and the private soldiers of the local tyrants, the private soldiers in Haiwu Province are even 300,000, but the land strong soldiers are only the marines of nearly six brigades.

Haiguang Province specializes in manufacturing ships, so the Fourth Fleet and the Fifth Fleet are both armed merchant ships, and they are definitely not opponents compared to real warships, but there are definitely more of them than Haiwu Province. The Fourth Fleet has more than 540 armed merchant ships, and the Fifth Fleet has nearly 1,000 armed merchant ships.

There are more than 400,000 sailors, and because Haiguang saves a lot of money, the Marine Corps has eight brigades and regiments, and all of them are the best equipment, although the private soldiers of officers and local tyrants are only about 200,000, but because of the money, the combat effectiveness of the private soldiers in Haiguang Province is definitely much stronger than that of Haiwu Province. Zhou Wen said.

Zhao Hu frowned and asked: "According to your calculation of the number of troops, Haiwu Province has 640 standard warships, 200,000 sailors, 670,000 marines, 300,000 private soldiers, 1,500 armed merchant ships in Haiguang Province, 400,000 sailors, nearly 100,000 marines, 200,000 private soldiers, and the total number of permanent troops in these two provinces is nearly 1.3 million, how many people are the population of these two provinces?" Aren't all men soldiers? ”

"Yes, the Lord, because of Haiguang, Haiwu's wealth is huge, and the men in the province are either sailors or private soldiers, and the best ones become marines." Zhou Wen nodded and said.

Zhao Hu said: "That is to say, the women, children, and children in the province are all the families of the enemy, and if we attack Haiguang and Haiwu provinces, then the whole people are enemies?" From this point of view, it is not so easy to attack these two provinces where all the people are soldiers and there are many people with a lot of money. ”

"The lord doesn't need to worry, he just needs the secret guards to destroy the commanders of the four fleets and make them a mess, and we will naturally be able to easily capture the two provinces," Zhou Wen said disapprovingly.

"It's easy to take it, but what to do when the time comes, according to the rules, all the people in these two provinces will become slaves, millions of slaves, that's more than the people under our command now, if they rebel, how can we solve it? Kill them all? Zhao Hu shook his head and said.

"Ugh." Zhou Wen frowned, what he said is also true, it can be said that according to the rules, everyone in Haiguang and Haiwu provinces will be reduced to slaves.

Because they are all family members of the enemy, without the surveillance of a large number of vested interests in the homeland, these millions of slaves are really a trouble.

"First send the 1st Infantry Division to attack Haiping Province, the 2nd Infantry Division is on alert, and the 1st Cavalry Division is waiting quietly at the border to see if we can seduce a group of enemy troops from the two provinces to come out, first fight a few victories, break the morale of the enemy army, and say that when the general offensive is launched, some people can join us in advance." Zhao Hu said.

"Yes, the ministers will also send secret guards to sow discord and agitation, and see if we can absorb a group of local forces to join us before the war."

Zhou Wenfuran knew what Zhao Hu meant, that is, to make the two provinces lose the expectation of victory, so that they could only fall into the hands of Zhao Hujun in the end, let them choose to become slaves or Shangmin in advance, as long as there is a certain base of people, then these vested interests can be allowed to spy on the slaves who are blinked.

At this moment, a secret guard suddenly appeared in front of Zhao Hu and said: "Lord, the four fleets of Haiguang and Haiwu provinces have suddenly mobilized half of their ships to prepare for the expedition, the target is Haiquan and Haibin provinces, and the third fleet is ready to intercept them. ”

"Oh, they preemptively? Didn't Liu Ming make trouble for the Imperial Navy during this time? Zhao Hu asked with a relaxed expression.

"The chief of the navy has been busy training his troops during this time, not only did he not make trouble for the Imperial Navy, but he did not even block the maritime trade routes of the Imperial Navy, let alone collect taxes."

Zhao Hu didn't care, but sighed: "We don't understand the navy, since the chief of the navy has been training, this means that our navy has not yet reached the point where it can compete with the imperial navy." But it's hard not to fight this time, after all, people have come to the door.

"Yes, what is the strength of the Third Fleet now?"

"The Third Fleet has 75 armed merchant ships, 145 large warships, 320 medium-sized warships, more than 1,000 small speedboats, and a brigade of marines, totaling more than 100,000 sailors."

"So much?"

Zhao Hu was stunned for a moment, he hadn't paid attention to the navy on his side for a long time, but he didn't expect that it had reached this number, especially the seventy-five armed merchant ships of the Helmet Qiao class, and the power of this modified armed merchant ship Zhao Hu was very clear.

"Yes, our naval strength has reached this point, and the chief of the navy is still not satisfied, and he has been training." Zhou Wen said dissatisfied.

Zhao Hu waved his hand and said unmindfully: "Although I don't know naval warfare, I also know that either I have a ship or a navy, it is estimated that it will be difficult for the captains of these seventy-five armed merchant ships alone to find suitable candidates, and sailors are not soldiers who know how to water." ”

Seeing that Zhao Hu still trusted Liu Ming so much, Zhou Wen had no choice but to nod yes, but he secretly decided in his heart that if Liu Ming dared to live up to the trust of the Lord, then he must live and not die!

Zhao Hu pondered for a moment and began to order: "The Imperial Navy has already gone to war, so transfer the Second Infantry Division back to the coast to garrison, order the First Infantry Division and the First Cavalry Division to capture Haiping Province in one go, and order the reserve troops in all parts to enter a state of alert." Ordered the Secret Guards to intensify intelligence gathering. ”

"Yes!"

Zhou Wen immediately passed on the order.