In terms of military affairs, Xu Shiyang now plans to incorporate all the new barracks into the new army structure, but he doesn't want to form too many battalions.

Of the 1,000 recruits in the new battalion, 100 will be allocated to each of the existing 7 infantry battalions, and the remaining 300 men will form the basis of the 10th battalion.

The new battalion was named Yuyuan, and it was still an infantry battalion, and Xu Shiyang hoped to absorb hundreds of elites from the detained Great Zhou Forbidden Army to supplement this new battalion, and then draw some veterans from other battalions to form the basic non-commissioned officer base.

In the case of the continuous transfer of veterans, the proportion of non-commissioned officers in other battalions has dropped to a very dangerous point, and continuing to form new battalions will only reduce the combat effectiveness of the old units.

The infantry battalion of the new army has been expanded from the original 500 to 600 people, and half of the new personnel are relatively easy to train.

In this way, the 8 infantry battalions have a total of 4,800 people, and due to the lack of war horses, the Zhiyuan cavalry still has only 200 people, and the Jingyuan cavalry maintains a 500-person structure.

In addition, the trapped soldiers who were formed separately joined some of the villagers in the three villages of the canal, and there were 500 people.

Feng Sanhu's training camp conducted the second round of recruitment, and this time Xu Shiyang expanded the scope of recruitment, and the new battalion will have 2,000 people.

In this way, there are a total of 7,000 people in the new army structure, all of whom are full-time professional soldiers, which is the core force that Xu Shiyang used to fight the Tartar counterattack.

As an auxiliary, Qingzhou now has 60,000 core strong men (including the newly conquered northern part of Qingzhou and the three forts of the canal), and about 30,000 non-core strong men (the peripheral families of Qingzhou).

If the Wubao family can be annexed from the canal east to Qingzhou, which is in the Yanzhou region, it can also add 1 to 20,000 young and middle-aged men.

From a demographic point of view, the Qingzhou Army already has the foundation to compete with the Tartars, but at present, it is only the foundation.

The militia did not have the ability to fight in the field with the Tartars, and the difference in technique and tactics, weapons and equipment, will to fight, and confidence was far behind.

Fortunately, if the Tartars went south, the most undesirable thing to do was to send out the whole division and attack Qingzhou in an all-out sweep - because the supplies could not keep up.

In the past few years, the Tatars have continued to move south on a large scale, and the area around Yiyi Province has been poisoned, and tens of thousands of soldiers eat horses and chew, and it is somewhat unrealistic to get food and grass supplies from the local area.

Therefore, on the way from Yanyun in Liaodong to Qi Province, whoever attacks is equivalent to being cleared by the fortified wall, and all the supplies and labor to transport supplies can only come from the mainland, and every stone of grain transported to the front line represents a stone or more that has been consumed on the way.

Xu Shiyang did not believe that the Jurchens, who had been using robbery and forced slave labor to maintain the economy, were able to scavenge so much grain for the war in Qi Province.

What's more, they also have a threat from the direction of the steppe, the Mughal Tatars.

If the Jurchens were not stupid, their best choice would be to carry out a powerful but short rapid attack in the direction of Qingzhou, and strive to defeat the Qingzhou army in one fell swoop.

Or simply set the goal of re-dredging the canal, as long as the canal is unblocked, they can still count on the annual coins from Jiangnan to buy grain (they still have to buy from Jiangnan, this trade is controlled by the main and faction, and this is also one of the internal reasons why the main and faction are 'main and peaceful') to replenish their empty granaries.

Therefore, for Qingzhou, there are two important aspects of the upcoming war.

One is a side of Qingzhou, and then a point in the direction of Jining of the canal, as long as these two places can be kept, everything else is easy to say.

Xu Shiyang's response measures were:

Completely turn the whole of Qingzhou into a big barracks (this has already begun).

Then, with the original dock fort as the core, taking advantage of the characteristics of more undeveloped land and no distress in destruction, large-scale excavation of traffic trenches, horse pits, and ramming of breast walls were built.

Strive to turn Qingzhou into a fortified area, achieve a large-depth defense, offset the enemy's cavalry mobility advantage, and at the same time, bring the war situation as close as possible to the militia's best fort.

In this way, even the militia will be able to exert some combat effectiveness, and even if the Tartar pigs can break through several lines of defense, the militia can quickly retreat along the communication trenches to the next line of defense.

We should exchange space for time, defend flexibly, concentrate the most effective new army as a general reserve, seize the opportunity to launch a short counterattack against the enemy forces in some areas, and consume the enemy's vital forces .......

In another era, the determined infantry could defend against the most powerful armored forces (Lake Balaton, Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea) in this way, and there was no reason why the Qingzhou army could not use the same method to block the heavy cavalry assault of the Tartars, which was actually not heavy.

As for the direction of the canal, it is even simpler, build a fortress that jams the canal, store more grain, and fight with the Tartars.

Without engineering heavy artillery, and without even knowing much about the ancient siege equipment, Xu Shiyang didn't believe that the Tartars could take the garrison fortress immediately, even if they didn't fight back, if it dragged on for a few months, the Tartars would inevitably retreat.

Wait for the next time to ......, hehe, wait for next time, it's hard to say who is the active attacker!

The plan has a rough draft, and the next step is for Xu Shiyang, with the help of Zhao Lin, who is responsible for the secretary, to turn the draft into a first draft, and then convene the Qingzhou Army and the New Army high-level to discuss - the Qingzhou high-level lacks enterprising spirit, and the newly established staff of the New Army is not mature enough to put forward a suitable strategic plan alone, but within the jurisdiction of each person, there is no problem in perfecting the details of the plan.

This form is expected to continue for a long time, until Qingzhou grows into a qualified regime, and the new army grows into a well-established modern military organization.

The first draft of the plan was completed quickly, and Zhao Lin has now adapted to Xu Shiyang's way of thinking about what he thinks of when he makes the plan, which seems to be a bit out of step and lacks a coherent way of thinking.

She can even take notes while making a preliminary arrangement of important matters.

In this way, when Xu Shiyang has nothing to add and starts to sort it out, he can come up with the first draft in a few hours, and then quickly convene a high-level meeting to discuss the details of the plan.

This time it was the same, Xu Shiyang and Zhao Lin only took half a day to get the preliminary plan, but when Xu Shiyang took the first draft and was about to convene everyone for a meeting, Xu Muhe's side suddenly took the first step and in turn called Xu Shiyang to a meeting.

You must know that Xu Muhe is the kind of traditional literati, and his favorite thing in the past is to "talk about his heart and soul with his hands in peace, and repay the king when he dies".

It must not be a trivial matter to be able to get him to take the initiative to hold a meeting, even if the range of participants is very narrow!

Sure enough, when Xu Shiyang arrived at the venue, he found that Xu Muhe was holding an internal meeting of the family, in addition to the lord of Xujiawu Fort, there were also several powerful family heads in Rizhao who were present, and none of the other peripheral personnel were present.

The theme of the meeting was the news that Xu Muhe had just received from Jiangnan:

Jiangnan Minuny!