It's night, flat and optimistic.

In the conference hall, Tian Xin looked at the sand table with his arms in his arms, which is a building from the green ridge in the west to Yingzhou in the east, and the north and south include the Arctic Ocean and the South Ocean island.

If there is no accident, Lingnan has now begun to mobilize for war, and will take the Hengzhou Navy as the vanguard and go south along the Jiaozhou Bay to the islands. In the next six months, we will set up bases on each island and build enclosure facilities.

Before the arrival of the typhoon period next year, the main warships of the Henghai Navy will return to the South China Sea with the spoils; After resting for three months, they marched to the South Seas again, delivering supplies and soldiers, and then bringing back the soldiers and booty in turn.

In this way, you can obtain an endless stream of slave populations, precious hardwoods, all kinds of precious stones, and local specialties from the South Seas.

After more than ten or twenty years of careful expansion, the benefits of the South China Sea have been transported to Lingnan, and the development of Lingnan can be accelerated.

Even if the soil quality is not good, it can be improved by lime, guano, and plant ash burned on the islands.

The soil, which has been painstakingly improved and cultivated by generations of farmers for more than 1,000 years, can be accelerated to less than 100 years.

Unfortunately, now this plan may be disrupted and destroyed.

The resources harvested by Lingnan from Nanyang are very abundant, and if you sell luxury goods and rare items to Jiangdu, you can draw resources from both ends and accelerate the development and cultivation of Lingnan.

However, as far as Lingnan is concerned, it is no longer something that the imperial court can gnaw. It is good that the imperial court does not make a move to Lingnan, but if it does, Lingnan will provoke turmoil in Xiangzhou and Nanzhong, which will make the imperial court gain more than it loses.

Therefore, at present, we can only stocking Lingnan and let it develop first.

Tian Xin's eyes moved to the land of Luoyang and Shanxi again, and he couldn't delay it any longer, and he must take Shanxi and Luoyang before the autumn harvest next year.

Shanxi, not only Hedong County, Pingyang County, Taiyuan County, but also Yanmen County, Dai County, Yunzhong County. As long as Shanxi is taken, it will be able to border Sima Yi's Youyun Six Towns, and it will be easy to negotiate with Sima Yi when the time comes.

Hebei Plain, very suitable for making dumplings.

But how can you eat this dumpling?

This dumpling was swallowed in one gulp, and the main forces of the Han army in Hebei and the four states of Kwantung were equivalent to being wiped out.

No, it is impossible for Cao Rong to force the Han army, so it is impossible for the Kwantung Han army to conquer Hebei, even if he enters the army to surround Yedu, the Kwantung Han army will not take the initiative to go to the Hebei Plain.

Therefore, the reasonable location of dumplings should be in the east of the river, around the salt pond in the east of the river.

Therefore, the imperial court cut off the salt road in Guanlong...... It's also imminent.

The focus of the war in the north is not in Luoyang, not in Yedu, but in Yanchi in the east of the river. Whether it is the Hebei Wei army or the Kwantung Han army, they will work together to enter Hedong and block their own access to Yanchi.

With the speed of his own troop transfer, he can sweep Zhao Yan's Hedong defenders before the main force of the Kwantung Han Army arrives in Hedong and take Yanchi first. In this case, it will be difficult for the Kwantung Han army to mobilize, and it will make the war fall into a stalemate stage, which will not be conducive to reunification.

Guanlong's salt reserves can be used by the military and civilians for half a year, counting the various small salt wells in Xiazhou and some salt output in Liangzhou, their own salt can last until the summer and autumn of next year.

If the civilian salt supply is reduced and enough salt for war readiness is retained, then military salt can last for three years.

This is already very generous, as long as it can survive until next winter, it will solve the problem.

This winter's posture of attacking Hedong in an all-out way and seizing Yanchi was enough to force the Wei army in Hebei to follow Cao Rong and accelerate their integration into the Han army, forming a superficial annexation and change of banner.

Then, next winter, the main forces of Hebei and Kwantung will be concentrated in the Hedong area in order to seize the territory.

It just so happened that with the absolute superiority of his own cavalry, he cut off the way back in one fell swoop, besieged and forced landing, and the war in the entire north would be over.

A year and a half, to settle the North.

In the past year and a half, the Nanyang passage must be blocked, and the main force of the imperial court in Jiangdu must not be allowed to pass through Nanyang, otherwise the former army, the Chinese army, and the guard army will intervene in the Central Plains battlefield, and they will destroy their own idea of luring the enemy, concentrating in Hedong County, and making a big dumpling.

Lingnan already has an established development plan, and rashly turned around and went north to Jiangdu, which is suspected of eggs touching stones.

Therefore, in this all-out confrontation with the imperial court, Lingnan can stay out of the matter.

If Lingnan does not move, then Zhuge Jin and Guan Xing in Jiangdong have reason to stand still...... They need to guard against Lingnan and He Qi's attack. This is a good reason and must be considered.

Jiangdong's subordinates generally went to Lingnan, and the Jiangdong famous general He Qi garrisoned upstream, and they attacked together, which was not something that Guan Xing and Zhuge Jin could resist at all.

In Jiangdong, there is also the belief of Sanguang Dao, and the Jiangdong soldiers have long been killed by themselves; And the essence of the Dongfu soldiers under Guan Xing's command was lost by Guan Ping in the night battle of Hankou, and the current attitude of the Dongfu soldiers towards themselves is complicated and can be fought for.

At the same time, due to the heavier strategy in the north, it is impossible for him to transfer the Guanlong army back to Nanyang to cooperate with the Lingnan side to attack Jiangdu, and the loss of this grain transportation is too great, and it is not conducive to Guanlong's deterrence of the surrounding areas.

Therefore, the south can't fight for the time being, and Tian Ji guards the two fortified cities of Dengcheng and Wancheng, which is still no problem; Wuchang's He Qi offensive force is insufficient, and it is no problem to defend himself.

The prime minister will not watch dryly, maybe Yizhou's rear army, Nanzhong army, and Yizhou army will also be mobilized and actively participate in the overall confrontation.

The rear army will not move lightly to suppress Yizhou, and it is very likely that the Nanzhong Army and the Yizhou Army will follow the prime minister out of Yizhou and wait for new subordinates in Jingzhou. Therefore, there are five mobile forces on the Jiangdu side, the Wei Army, the Front Army, the Chinese Army, the Yizhou Army, and the Southern Central Army, with a total strength of about 120,000 or 130,000.

Dragged on until the year after that, after full mobilization, the size of these five armies could reach 200,000.

Limited by the armor reserves, there will be no significant change in the scale of the armor soldiers who can really participate in the front-line fighting, whether this winter or next winter, the actual scale of the armor soldiers in Jiangdu will always be around 70,000 or 80,000.

It's just that the larger the size of the army, the more supplies and baggage it can carry, and it can fight a better prepared battle.

The more people who can be requisitioned, the greater the damage and interference to agriculture.

Therefore, after this battle is fought, the results of Jingzhou, Xiangzhou, and Yizhou's years of recuperation and recovery will regress, and they will be on a par with Guanzhong and Jiangdong.

Famine and disease will definitely spread, and the first wave of losses will be precisely the babies born in the past few years.

Jiangdu has gathered heavy troops, and there is nothing to worry about in the short term.

The defeat of Guan Ping and Zhao Lei in Hankou was too miserable, and Jiangdong returned to Shun...... Therefore, the imperial court did not have any naval forces in its hands; At present, the most active water transport force in the Xiangjiang River and Yangtze River basins is from Beifu, which is the old department of Xu Zuo.

This means that if the old man wants to fight another battle of Xiangfan, he will also lack the advantage of the navy and will not be able to launch an effective attack on the north bank.

On the contrary, their own naval army has the advantage, once the war breaks out in the Xiangfan area, not to mention Xiangyang, even the Jiangdu area, it is within the scope of their own penetration and destruction.

Without a superior naval army, the Yangtze River, the main transportation line, would be a death line for the imperial court.

When the army goes on the expedition, it can no longer rely on the convenience of water transportation as in the past, and it must be vigilant everywhere.

Therefore, Jiang has to go to war with himself, and he must first have a reliable escort sailor.

Therefore, there will be no big move on the Yizhou side this year, and it will only take advantage of the fact that there is no full-scale confrontation at present, and will try its best to transport grain to Jiangdu.

Wait until next year, when the imperial court has a new, reliable sailor, to dare to do it.

Tian Ji and He Qi still have a maximum of one year to prepare for war, which is enough to manage a position like Tietong.

In particular, Tian Ji, although two-thirds of the soldiers stationed in Nanyang migrated to Guanzhong...... But their armor and ordnance still remained in Nanyang.

There are more than 30,000 sets of iron armor and leather armor, which is enough for Tian Ji to defend Nanyang.

Before and after thinking about it, I decided to eat the big dumplings in Hedong first.

bullied Jiangdu for the current lack of warships, and did not dare to take the lead in turning his face; also ate the psychology of the imperial court holding on to the salt road and refusing to let go.

Making a decision, he turned around and got the vermilion lacquer pen, erased the Deng character of Deng Cheng on the sand table, and wrote a blood-colored Fan character on the side.

Put the red lacquer pen back and said to Du Shu beside him: "Send a letter to Nanyang and change Dengcheng to Fancheng." Fancheng, the city of Fan cage. The general was trapped in Fan back then, and this year is the same. In addition, the first order to seize the affection, pay tribute to the northern protectors. ”

Du Shu immediately drafted the document and added: "Public, Ling Xian has changed its name and is correct." ”

"Hao Zheng?"

Tian Xin muttered and nodded: "Good name." ”

Seeing Tian Xin's approval, there was no compilation in Du Shu's drafting of the official document, only Yin Zheng.