Now although the Tang Dynasty is still expanding its army, but with the population base of some prefectures and counties in southern Huguang and southern Jiangxi, the proportion of military and civilian is slightly lower than in the past, but the Tang Dynasty is still continuing to expand the army, and the Tang Dynasty has also begun large-scale conscription in southern Huguang and southern Jiangxi in the past six months, so the final military-civilian ratio will remain in a relatively high state.

After all, now the war is the most important thing for the Tang Dynasty, and if it can arm an army of one million, it will definitely not arm only 990,000 people!

It's a pity that although the population is larger and the taxes are more, it is still not feasible for the Tang Dynasty to expand its army on a large scale, because there is no money!

Now the military expenditure of the army alone is more than 10 million every year, and if the army is expanded, it will exceed 15 million or even more in minutes, so Li Xuan obviously knows that the front-line army is not enough, but he can only endure it.

At most, there are only two supplementary brigades, but the main force has not been expanded at all!

Even if the autumn and winter campaigns have been launched, the main direction of the current expansion of the Tang Army is still not to expand the scale of the main forces, but to continue to reorganize the existing main forces.

At present, among the six infantry divisions and eight mixed regiments of the Tang Dynasty, only one infantry division and three mixed regiments have completed the reorganization, and the other units are still old formations.

And the reorganization of the existing troops will actually bring a problem, that is, the same 10,000 people will now cost more than the previous 10,000!

In the final analysis, this is still a question of whether to fight or scale!

The Datang Army wants quality more often, because the total number of young and strong people under the rule of Datang is so much, and it is impossible to endlessly let a large number of young and strong people join the army.

The young and strong who farm and work are actually also contributing to the expansion of the Tang Dynasty, and they don't necessarily have to go to the battlefield to fight.

Where did the guns of the Tang Dynasty come from? Where did the required ammunition come from, and where did the food to eat come from? It was not the workers and peasants in the rear who contributed it.

However, sometimes war is not solved by quality, and quantity is also important!

And here, how to grasp the balance, this is Li Xuan's problem.

Because of the capture of Nanchang, it can be met that in the future, the Tang Dynasty Wang Division will face a counterattack by the Ming army on the Jiangxi side, and the places where troops need to be used are becoming more and more blocked, especially if you plan to march into Nanzhili.

The army suggested that an infantry division be added, and if an infantry division could not be used, at least a mixed regiment should be expanded, but in the end, Li Xuan rejected the army's proposal.

Although the main force of the army is still insufficient, it is barely enough, as for the march to Jiangnan, it is not a matter of one or two months, even if Jiujiang is laid, the Tang Wang Division also needs to make full preparations, at least after building a Yangtze River fleet, it can be said to march into the Jiangnan, otherwise the Ming Army Naval Division will swing in the direction of Jiujiang, and the army logistics line of the Tang Wang Division will be finished.

For a modern army that is seriously still maintaining logistics supply lines, maintaining the security of logistics supply is more important than conquering cities.

Therefore, there is still time for the army, and of course, what is more important is that Datang has no money, and it can't expand the army if it wants to!

So Li Xuan vetoed the Army's suggestion!

However, after vetoing the proposal for a large-scale expansion of the army, Li Xuan still did not give up the idea of expanding the army, but only shifted the direction of the expansion from the army to the side of the guards.

The current Guards Army has begun to assume the defense of almost half of Guangdong, and in the future, with the Sixth Infantry Division moving north, the follow-up First Mixed Regiment will also enter Fujian to fight, and by that time, almost the entire defense of Guangdong will have to be handed over to the Guards to be responsible.

And the current Guards, the strength is still too small, a total of only six infantry battalions, even if the Guards infantry battalion is almost twice the strength of the army infantry battalion, each battalion has a size of 1,000 people, but the total strength of the Guards is still less.

To this end, he is going to expand another infantry battalion in the Guards!

Then it is to increase investment in the navy, so that the navy can really build a Yangtze River fleet on the side of Poyang Lake, based on the Ganjiang detachment, to fight against the Ming army's naval division.

Although the Tang Dynasty controlled Nanchang, the current Ming army naval division also entered Poyang Lake in a big way, and if the Tang Dynasty royal division wanted to enter the Yangtze River smoothly, it was necessary to defeat this Ming army naval division.

When the navy ambitiously began to prepare for the plan to build the Yangtze River Fleet, Li Chunjing in the direction of Jiangxi was not idle, he did not wait for the rear to come up, that is, taking advantage of the opportunity that Zhang Yue took part of the superintendent to the north, and the Ming army in Fuzhou could only protect itself and could not attack, in addition to leaving the Fifth Mixed Regiment in Fengcheng to garrison, he led the Fifth Infantry Division and other main forces of the Second Army to Nanchang north.

When Li Chunjing arrived in Nanchang, the strength of the Tang Army in Nanchang had exceeded 20,000, and at this time, even if Zhang Yue sent 100,000 troops to counterattack, I am afraid there was no hope.

After Li Chunjing arrived in Nanchang, he sent a small number of troops to begin to clear other places in the vicinity of Nanchang, such as Jing'an, Jianchang in Nankang Prefecture, and even De'an in Jiujiang Prefecture.

The Ming army in these places was basically a local army, and there were no troops such as Zhang Yue's main force of supervision, so although they only sent a few thousand people to attack, they also took these places very smoothly.

The Sixth Infantry Division also marched rapidly, and soon took a boat down the river along the Ganjiang River, first arrived in Ganzhou, then arrived at Luling in Ji'an, and finally stationed troops in Linjiang Mansion, and then the Sixth Infantry Division officially joined the combat sequence of the Second Army.

From this, it can be seen that the operational deployment of the Second Army of the Tang Army was actually carried out along the Ganjiang River, Lin'an, Fengcheng, and Nanchang, all of which were coastal cities on the Ganjiang River.

At the same time, it can be seen that in fact, the Tang Army has no interest in Fuzhou now, and the Ming Army likes to guard it, so let him guard it!

But if the Ming army in Fuzhou dared to go south, then the 5th mixed regiment in Fengcheng and the 6th Infantry Division in the direction of Lin'an would directly advance eastward, and then seize Fuzhou, cut off the supply line of the Ming army going south, and finally wipe out the more than 60,000 troops in Fuzhou in the wilderness!

Of course, the Ming army in Fuzhou is also very clear, this defense of the city is barely okay, but going out of the city to fight a field battle, that is looking for death, until it is ten thousand, they will never take the initiative to leave Fuzhou and then go south.

What's more, they know that there are still a large number of pseudo-Tang thief troops in Ganzhou, Luling and other places in the south, and the Tang Army has deployed supplementary brigade troops in these two places.

They only know that these places are also garrisoned by pseudo-Tang thief troops, and it is not easy to attack them!

Even if they went south to attack Luling and even Ganzhou, how could the distant supply lines be solved? How many tens of thousands of people can attack a city with a supplementary brigade garrison?

It's a bit hard!

Now Li Chunjing's target has been placed in Nankang Mansion and Jiujiang Mansion, although the navy said that the strength of the Yangtze River Fleet is weak at present, and it cannot defeat the Ming Army's naval division located at Poyang Lake for the time being, but the navy is the navy and the army is the army.

The army is at war, when have you ever heard the nonsense of the navy!

Besides, the army's attack on Nankang Mansion and Jiujiang Mansion does not necessarily require the cooperation of the navy, it is a big deal that they can march directly from the land!

Zhang Yue is also very clear about this, so he has already returned from Fuzhou with a large number of superintendents, and then he personally sat in Jiujiang and deployed the defense lines of Jiujiang and Nankang.

Only the defense of Fuzhou and the east of Poyang Lake, he has been handed over to Nanzhili to be responsible, anyway, there are still a lot of troops in Nanzhili, not to mention the guards, but there are still thousands of border troops in Yingtianfu, in addition, Nanzhili has also begun large-scale recruitment and training of new troops in the past two years, although there is no unified name, but all kinds of things add up, and it is still possible to pull out a recruitment of tens of thousands of people equipped with guns.

Anyway, Nanzhili's side is not his Zhang Yue's defense area, so he doesn't care, let those adults in Nanzhili have a headache, and he himself is ready to defend Jiujiang!

This is not only because Jiujiang is finished, and the puppet Tang thief army can take the opportunity to enter Nanzhili, but also because if Jiujiang is finished, then Wuchang Mansion will also be finished, and Wuchang Mansion is his Zhang Yue's base camp.

Almost the entire guns of the new army were made in Wuchang Mansion!

For the new army of the Governor Biao, Jiangnan can be finished, but Wuchang Mansion must not be finished!

Zhang Yue made up his mind to defend Jiujiang, and all kinds of defense work would naturally not be left behind, and this time, he even learned the lesson of the loss of Nanchang, and decided that the guards were not only unusable, but also useless!

His military budget was already very tight, and the performance of the guards had already made him not only disappointed, but even deeply disgusted.

Therefore, when he deployed Jiujiang, he directly kicked all the guards back to Wuchang, why did they go back to Wuchang?

Forcing them to go to Wuchang as workers in major workshops to make guns and cannons, this is also an indirect method of cutting off the guards in Zhang Yue's helplessness, so that the guards do the work, and the ordinary guards don't have to fight, so they are naturally happy! And Zhang Yue himself saved military expenses, and was able to get a large number of young and strong laborers to make guns for him.

Of course, while some people are happy, there will naturally be people who oppose it, Zhang Yue did this, and it attracted a group of people to impeach him for changing the military system without permission, but Zhang Yue didn't care about it anymore.

Anyway, from now on, don't expect him to give these guards a penny of military expenses, if you don't want to starve to death, you can work honestly for your own officials, otherwise, you won't be able to eat!

The follow-up defense of Jiujiang will be in charge of the new army of the Inspector!

At present, there are already 8,000 new troops here, and the number is still increasing every day, Song Zhiwen, who is in the rear of Wuchang, trains a large number of recruits for Zhang Yue every day, creates a large number of guns, and then sends them to Zhang Yue.

According to Zhang Yue's own prediction, as long as there are 20,000 troops stationed in Jiujiang to supervise the new army, then I dare not say that Jiujiang is as stable as Mount Tai, but it will definitely be able to support it for a long time, and it is impossible for the puppet Tang thief army to take it down without paying a heavy price!