Zeng Ziwen continued to point to the simple and abstract on the wall, fully demonstrating the map of the surrounding state capitals of abstract painting:

"Liping Mansion is located in the east of my Xingquan, and if you start from Zhengtai County, you can enter the territory of Liping Mansion, but the road is not easy to walk, the mountain road is rugged, and if you go west on a large scale, the pressure on logistics supply will be very great.

If you want to enter Liuzhou Mansion, you can only go west to Liping Mansion and detour to Liuzhou Mansion to go south to Liuzhou, so it is unrealistic to go south to Liuzhou in a short period of time, and you can only go south to Liuzhou after capturing Liping Mansion.

If you go east, it will be Jingzhou in Huguang, and if you enter Jingzhou, you will also face the situation that it is difficult to travel in the mountains! ”

Listening to Zeng Ziwen's words, everyone, including Li Xuan, frowned.

Their Xingquan Mansion was just sandwiched between the three state capitals of the three provinces, and the terrain was mountainous on three sides, making it difficult to pass through the army.

In fact, if they have a satellite map in front of them, they will find that not to mention their Xingquan Mansion, in fact, the entire southwest region is a big mountain, and the road is very difficult to walk.

If the troops are fighting in a small area, there is nothing, but if they want to fight across hundreds of miles, the logistics line alone can drag the entire Datang New Army to death.

Because the new army of the Tang Dynasty now relies heavily on firearms, and firearms are not like food that can be eaten by the enemy, weapons and ammunition have to be transported from Xingquan Mansion, and if this logistics line is long, it will not be able to maintain it at all.

In terms of topography, whether it is westward or eastward, or southward or even northward, it is actually almost the same, it is all mountainous, and it is very troublesome to walk.

Now what restricts the direction of the new army of the Tang Dynasty can only be determined by the deployment of the Ming army in the surrounding state capitals.

"Through the information we have obtained from the past business travelers and spies, since we took over Fuquan Mansion, the Liping Mansion has been greatly panicked, and is recruiting a large number of young and strong people to consolidate the city defense, but the regular army will not have a lot of troops, because among the Ming troops we annihilated before, there are two thousand households drawn from Liping Mansion, and now the regular army of Liping Mansion is relatively empty!

But the provincial capital of Guiyang must have raised a large number of troops, and if you enter Liping Mansion in the next step, it is very likely that you will encounter a large number of Ming troops to intercept it!

On the other hand, although there are quite a few regular troops in Liuzhou and Jingzhou in the south, Guangxi and Huguang provinces should not have begun to masse troops on a large scale, and our main attack in the early stage is fast enough, and it is very likely that the Ming army in these two provinces will take these areas before they react.

But in this way, the officers and soldiers of Huguang and Guangxi provinces will all be attracted to them, and then we need to face not only Guizhou Province, but the encirclement and suppression of the troops of the surrounding three provinces, and the puppet Ming Dynasty may even gather troops from the three provinces to attack our army in a coordinated operation. ”

Speaking of this, Zeng Ziwen said in a cautious tone: "Our Datang New Army has not yet completed all its expansion, and at the same time, in the face of the attack of the troops of the three provinces, I am afraid that we will not be able to do it!" ”

Zeng Ziwen's words Li Xuan also thought deeply, although his Tang Dynasty had captured Xingquan Mansion and caused a shock in Guizhou officialdom, but to put it mildly, this was just a small-scale rebellion in the local state capital for the Ming Dynasty, and such a small-scale rebellion had to be suppressed several times a year by the Ming Dynasty.

There is data that shows that in the Ming Dynasty, on average, one out of every twelve state capitals would have a rebellion, note that this data is talking about every year!

For these small-scale rebellions, whether it is the Ming Dynasty or other traditional feudal dynasties, it is actually not surprising.

The rebellion of the Tang Dynasty did not make the Ming Dynasty panic, and even sent some virtuous and respected ministers to lead the troops of several provinces to attack together, at most it was to order Zhu Zhihai, the governor of Guizhou, to quell the rebellion as soon as possible.

However, if the new army of the Tang Dynasty marched into Guangxi and Huguang, then the political impact caused by this would be different, and the rebellion in one province and one state capital was completely different from that in multiple state capitals in several provinces at the same time.

Now attacking Liuzhou Mansion or Jingzhou, let's not mention whether you can quickly take these places, but doing so is definitely equivalent to stabbing two more super hornet's nests, and it is really difficult to predict what kind of reaction the Ming Dynasty will have in the future.

Therefore, before he had enough strength, or as a last resort, Li Xuan was unwilling to provoke the Ming army in the two provinces.

It's better to lay a solid foundation honestly first, and then mention the subsequent expansion to the three provinces.

Zeng Ziwen naturally had been instructed by Li Xuan a long time ago, and naturally he would not say anything about attacking Huguang or Guangxi today, so he continued to analyze the situation in Liping Mansion.

By the time Zeng Ziwen finished talking about the situation of his troops and the surrounding areas, especially the situation in Liping Mansion, it had already been two quarters of an hour.

After introducing the details, it is natural to formally discuss where to enter and how to fight.

At times like these, the Gozen Strategy Council turns into a wet market, and all sorts of arguments abound.

When everyone argued, it was gradually divided into three rows, one row was to go east to Huguang, these people were mainly Wang Danxu and a few other people, they thought that although the east into Huguang would cause political influence and attract a lot of Ming troops, but they also believed that as long as their actions were fast enough, then they could quickly take Jingzhou and even Baoqing Mansion, and then march while expanding their troops in the way of war and warfare, and the final strategic goal was to seize Changsha. As for the capture of Changsha, it is natural to go east along the river to Wuchang, to Jiujiang, and finally to the prosperous place south of the Yangtze River.

Just listening to their strategy, you can know that they are already holding on to giving up Xingquan Mansion, and even giving up Huguang captured along the way, and are bent on going to the prosperous place in the south of the Yangtze River.

However, Hao Bonian and Fang Xitong were seriously opposed to this plan, saying that their Datang New Army relied heavily on firearms, and without a solid territory to serve as a logistics base, the troops could not support long-term operations.

What Hao Bonian wanted was to use Xingquan Mansion as a base, capture Liping Mansion, and then continue to march west to capture Guiyang, bringing most of Guizhou under his control.

Take the whole of Guizhou as the foundation, and then move westward into Sichuan, seizing Sichuan, a rich, and difficult to defend region.

The plan proposed by Li Chunjing was to borrow Liping Mansion, and after taking Liping Mansion, he would go directly south to Liuzhou Mansion and Guilin in Guangxi, and then seize Wuzhou along the Xijiang River system of the Pearl River, and go all the way to Guangdong to capture Zhaoqing and Guangzhou.

Eastward, westward, and southward, these three plans have their own advantages and disadvantages, and don't look at the current only attack on the surrounding prefectures and counties, but in fact, it involves the overall strategy for the next half a year or even a year, even Li Xuan can't make a decision easily.

If this is a wrong decision, then for the Tang Dynasty, it is not only a matter of suffering, but also a matter that may fall into a catastrophe, so it is impossible to be too cautious.

Everyone argued, and the day's strategy meeting naturally ended without a hitch, and after everyone retreated, Li Xuan stared at the map alone for a long time!

In the end, he set his sights on the south side of the map and secretly made a decision to go south!

The reason, quite simply, is because there is the sea there!