The first expedition to the west, and then the northern expedition, this is not only the suggestion of the General Staff Department, but also the strategy set by Li Zhongyi.

However, after Lin Renzhao took refuge in Western Shu, the Yangtze River defense line of the Qiang Han Dynasty was immediately tightened.

Meng Chang is not a fool, after the Wu Yue Kingdom and the Tang Kingdom in the south of the Yangtze River were destroyed one after another, based on the geographical logic of the cold lips and teeth, it was the turn of the Shu State and the Northern Han Dynasty next.

The Northern Han Dynasty relied on the strong Khitans, while Meng Shu could only rely on himself. What's more, Lin Renzhao took refuge with 60,000 sailors in his hand, so that Meng Chang was always like a thorn in his back.

Shu also has a naval army, but the number of naval troops is quite small, only a few thousand.

After Lin Renzhao took refuge in Shu, Meng Chang was overjoyed and ordered him to be the commander of the naval army. It's just that the Shu State was originally a very weak naval army, but it was not handed over to Lin Renzhao.

With such an obvious sense of jealousy, Lin Renzhao was not stupid, he simply played Meng Chang and took the initiative to apply for Tun to be stationed in Kuizhou.

Kuizhou, now Fengjie County, Chóng Qìng City. From the Han Dynasty to the beginning of the 20th century, Fengjie was the seat of Badong County, Bazhou, Xinzhou, Kuizhou, Kuizhou Prefecture, Jiangguan Duwei, Sanba Lieutenant and other places, and has always been the political, economic, cultural and military center of northeastern Bashu.

At the beginning, in order to prevent Lin Renzhao's likely attack, Li Zhongyi specially ordered Yuan Laoqi to lead the main force of the sailor division and stationed it in Xiazhou to curb Lin Renzhao's possible eastward advance along the stream.

The Yangtze River in this era is quite different from the Yangtze River in later generations. Mainly within the Three Gorges, the water flow is turbulent, and the channel in the center of the river is full of strange rocks.

To put it simply, even if Lin Renzhao went straight down the river and did not pay the price of sinking a few ships, it would be difficult to attack Xiazhou.

This is still on the basis that the two sides did not start a war, if Lin Renzhao was defeated and fled west, the loss of the warship would definitely not be a small amount.

Therefore, after Yuan Laoqi was stuck at the gateway of Xiazhou, it was equivalent to choking Lin Renzhao's throat as he went east.

Originally, the strategy of exterminating Shu decided by the Senate was that the Mabu army in the north would go out of Fengzhou and go south along the Jialing River, and the navy in the east would go out of Guizhou and attack the Kuizhou and Yuzhou regions in the west.

It's just that after Lin Renzhao suddenly led 60,000 sailors to take refuge in Shu, it obviously became a delusion for the troops to return to the state.

Lin Renzhao is not an ordinary person, but a famous general of the navy. He only needs to spare more fireships upstream, and he can defuse the waterway offensive of the Qiang Han Dynasty into invisibility.

In this way, the plan of the battle to destroy Shu, after going around in a big circle, returned to the old way of Cao Wei to destroy Western Shu, that is, the troops went out of Hanzhong or the soldiers went out of Fengzhou.

The road to Shu is difficult, and it is difficult to go to the blue sky, which refers to the difficulties and obstacles of taking the land route.

However, coincidentally, many extermination of Shu in history were completed by land as the main force.

Qin seized Shu and Cao Wei destroyed Shu by land; The Northern Song Dynasty destroyed Shu mainly by land.

More importantly, most of the henchmen and senior generals under Li Zhongyi were hunters or mountain people from Shu. For example, Yang Lie, Li Yunxiao, Li Haodong, Li Yanqing and others are all from the Shu Kingdom.

For the native Shu people, whether it is a soldier out of Hanzhong or a soldier out of Fengzhou, there is no blind spot on the terrain that they do not understand.

In everything, there are pros and cons!

The battle of Shu focused on logistics support, not battle, and the senior generals of the Li family army all deeply understood this!

"Your Majesty, at present, the production of wheelbarrows is 1,000 per month, and according to the plan, from next month, it will reach 2,000." Ye Tongming, who knew the logistics director, gave a detailed report on the progress of the logistics preparations for the felling of Shu.

"Well, after the wheelbarrow is produced, it will be secretly transported to Fengxiang Mansion and Jingzhao Mansion......" Li Zhongyi nodded while whispering to Ye Tongming.

"Your Majesty, the 30 6-pounder guns that were shipped two months ago have been secretly transported to Jingzhao Mansion." Ye Tongming, as an old logistician, knew very well that the walled city built by the Shu army in the mountains must rely on the support of 6-pounder guns to speed up the pace of the attack.

Li Zhongyi nodded and smiled: "There are 30 6-pounder cannons in Fengxiang Mansion, and 30 in Jingzhao Mansion, this is a major weapon of the country, and we can't be careless at all." ”

Ye Tongming clenched his fists and arched his hand: "Your Majesty, your subordinates understand." If it weren't for the fact that the Shu Road was too difficult, the 12-pounder cannon could also move with the army. ”

Li Zhongyi shook his head and sighed: "The Shu Road is too difficult, and the 12-pounder cannon is too heavy. ”

"Alas, yes...... Ye Tongming was also a hunter in Shu before, and he naturally knew that crossing the Qinling Mountains with a 12-pounder cannon was simply wishful thinking.

After the summons were over, Li Zhongyi took a sip of tea and casually picked up a secret report on the table. The reporter is Li Yanqing, the secretary of the police temple, and the content of the report is the whereabouts of the Marquis of Yiyin yesterday.

Liu Xiang, the Marquis of Yiyin, was originally the personal general of Zhou Taizu Guo Wei, because he was very close to the privy envoy Wang Jun, and before Guo Wei died, he was deprived of real power and sat on the cold bench.

Li Zhongyi's heart was somewhat strange, in terms of interests, the Yiyin Marquis, who was abandoned by Guo Wei, had no reason to participate in the rebellion.

However, the world is unpredictable, Yiyin Marquis Liu Xiang played his cards unreasonably, and after Li Zhongyi destroyed the two countries in the south of the Yangtze River, he actually took the initiative to jump out, and started from Li Zhongyi's most taboo army.

According to Li Yanqing's secret investigation, Liu Xiang's two sons were successively cleared out of the forbidden army, resulting in no successor to the Liu family, which is likely to be the source of Liu Xiang's resentment of Li Zhongyi.

In these years, all those who play politics understand a truth, only when the generation is rich is called true wealth.

After Liu Xiang's sons stayed away from the circle of power, the rich and noble days of the Liu family were just like Wang Xiaoer's New Year, and every year was not as good as a year.

In Li Zhongyi's view, Liu Xiang's small actions, don't look at the little progress, but in fact, they are the trouble of digging up the roots.

Compared with Fa Shu, Li Zhongyi paid more attention to Liu Xiang's behavior of privately wooing the forbidden officers and soldiers. After all, only one supreme commander is allowed in the army, and it can only be Li Zhongyi himself.

Unlike the armies of the same era, Li Jiajun has placed special emphasis on the kung fu of the feet since the day the army was founded.

To be honest, the training of marching 20 miles in full gear three times every 10 days has been carried out for many years.

In terms of the work under his feet, Li Jiajun is second, who dares to admit that he is first?

Li Zhongyi ate a few pieces of dim sum and began to review the recitals handed over by the cabinet. Due to the large amount of military supplies and the continuous transportation to the west, the affairs of the cabinet have also become extraordinarily large.

Not to mention anything else, just transporting grain to Fengxiang Mansion and Jingzhao Mansion to the west is not a small amount.

Long before the establishment of the Later Zhou Dynasty, Shaanxi Road was no longer self-sufficient in the local grain production, and had to rely on the Central Plains to deliver grain in order to feed nearly one million people.

The main factor in this is that since the Qin Dynasty, after the continuous development of the land on Shaanxi Road, the land has gradually become barren and the grain production has been decreasing day by day.

According to the statistics of the Logistics Department and the Cabinet, for every pound of grain delivered to Fengxiang Mansion, at least 20 pounds of grain must be consumed on the way, and the deficit is not ordinarily large.