Li Xuan's strategic idea for the follow-up is quite large, but it is not easy to do it with the current strength of the Tang Dynasty.

At present, the Tang Dynasty has completed the reorganization of a total of six infantry divisions, and there are two mixed regiments, which belong to the main regular army, in addition to five temporary regiments, the strength of the temporary regiment is a little worse, all pure cold weapons troops.

In the current sequence of the Tang Dynasty's divisions, these temporary regiments are used to serve as secondary front operations and to stay in the rear, and are not used for front-line operations.

The number of troops that can be used for front-line operations is only six divisions and two mixed regiments, and among these troops, one division must be left in Guangxi and the direction of Yunnan, and a part of the troops must be left in the Pearl River Delta region as an important defense area.

Hainan Island also needs to be garrisoned by the Second Mixed Regiment, well, at the same time, because Lianzhou Mansion and Leizhou Mansion are too close to Hainan Island and far away from the hinterland of Guangxi and Guangdong, they are actually stationed in the Second Mixed Regiment, and the Second Mixed Regiment currently has an infantry battalion and a reserve battalion.

Li Xuan planned to add another reserve battalion to the Second Mixed Regiment, so that the strength of the Second Mixed Regiment would increase to three battalions, and these three battalions could be stationed in Lianzhou Mansion, Leizhou Mansion, and Qiongzhou Mansion respectively.

The Second Fleet, which is being rebuilt in cooperation with the navy, should be enough to defend the sea and land security of the Beibu Gulf region, and the security of this area also means that the Tang Dynasty can obtain a safe shipping route for maritime trade with the Nanyang region.

At present, limited by the sea area of the Pearl River Estuary, especially the many islands in the Pearl River Estuary are actually controlled by the Ming army and naval divisions, the role of Guangzhou, an important commercial port, has not been able to play its due important role, so Li Xuan has ordered the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Industry to increase investment in Hepu Port, the capital of Lianzhou, and prepare to let this port take on the important task of foreign trade and exchanges in the Tang Dynasty.

Through this port, the official of the Tang Dynasty has organized several batches of official fleets to go to the Nanyang region, mainly to Malacca for trading, mainly to purchase artillery and various types of saltpeter, sulfur and other strategic materials, and export porcelain, silk and other traditional special products.

Of course, in addition to the official trade, the private trade has also been transferred to Hepu Port!

In view of the importance of the Beibu Gulf, it is not only necessary to rebuild the Second Fleet on a large scale, but also to increase the strength of the Second Mixed Regiment.

The first mixed regiment, its main direction is to face Nanao Island, as Wang Yue led the remnants of the Ming army to retreat to Nanao Island, the strategic position of Nanao Island is rapidly increasing, the Ming army obviously regarded Nanao Island as a bridgehead to contain and harass the puppet Tang Dynasty.

It is worth noting that Wang Yue, the governor of Liangguang, an old friend of the Tang Dynasty, has already lost his official position because of the loss of Liangguang and the loss of his soldiers, and even the people were brought back to Beijing by Jinyiwei.

At present, the island is presided over by the general army of Nanao Island, and another old friend of the Tang Dynasty, Yu Dayou, although it is also a fiasco, but because the operation of the department is quite good, it is the only bright spot in the many armies of the two Guangzhou, so he is not unlucky, but he has also been promoted, and is now the commander of the Fujian capital, with the old department of the Guangzhou battalion and the remnants of the Liangguang Governor as the core to train the new army.

This new army is very interesting, because after suffering several fiascos in a row, Yu Dayou calmed down and thought about the pain, this time he didn't do any musket battalion, and directly started the musket army, the core of the new army is guns, not only got the support of Lord Zhang Yue, but even the training of the superintendent under Zhang Yue was closer to Yu Dayou's musket army.

From Wang Yue's Liangguang Governor Biao before, to Yu Dayou's musket army and Zhang Yue's Supervisor, after being brutally pained by the puppet Tang thief army several times, now in the Ming Dynasty has gradually begun to innovate the military system, and a trend has been formed in a short period of time, many Ming army generals think that in this year, swords and spears are no longer good, and playing with muskets and queuing up to shoot is the king!

Lord Zhang Yue has recently been promoted again, because of his meritorious work in suppressing thieves, he successfully stifled the offensive of the puppet Tang thief army, and blocked the first line with Huguang, and also successively beheaded the Tang thief 10,000 ranks, greatly boosting the prestige of the official army, most of these tens of thousands of heads were obtained in the previous Xingquanfu Battle and a series of battles in northeast Guizhou.

At that time, the Second Army of the Tang Army was extremely embarrassed, although the main force still existed, but the garrison brigade and the local robbery battalion suffered heavy losses, and there must have been tens of thousands of casualties before and after.

However, how many real thieves are here, that is, how many regular troops are in the Tang Dynasty, this is a debatable number, anyway, Zhang Yue will not tell the adults in the Beijing Division that most of the tens of thousands of heads are fake thief heads.

And he also defeated the Tang thief sailor in the naval battle of the Qiongzhou Strait, sank hundreds of ships of the Tang thief sailor, and drowned countless Tang thief sailors!

Well, the Ming army sailors in the Guangdong region are also under his jurisdiction!

As for the continuous fiascos in the Liangguang region, the bigwigs in the Beijing division also knew that the fault was not him, before Zhang Yue took office, the situation in the two Guangxi was already out of control, and after Zhang Yue took office, because the distance was too far, the war in Guangdong was basically commanded by Wang Yue.

In this regard, the bigwigs in the Beijing division and Zhengde, who is lying on the hospital bed every day, also know about it, so they don't blame Zhang Yue for it, but the loss of Liangguang must require someone to take this responsibility, who is this person?

Nonsense, who else can it be except Wang Yue, not only Wang Yue, but most of the middle and high-level officials in the Liangguang region have no good end except for a very few Xin Yun'er like Xiang Yu Dayou, so the Ming Dynasty has nothing to say about these people, kill those who should be killed, exile who should be exiled, and those who should be raided from their homes!

I lost a huge Liangguang, and I still want to have a good end, don't think too much!

In this way, because of the merit of suppressing thieves, and in view of the fact that the puppet Tang soldiers had begun to point to Jiangxi and Fujian provinces, Emperor Zhengde added four words in front of his dispatch: the military affairs of Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi and other provinces have changed from four provinces to six provinces.

At the same time, the Ming Dynasty also realized that the puppet Tang rebellion was not a small rebellion, but a mortal enemy that threatened the foundation of the Ming Dynasty's rule.

Therefore, when the Tang army and the Ming army confronted each other in the past few months and no large-scale war broke out, it was not only the Tang Dynasty that took the opportunity to rest, replenish and reorganize, but also the Ming army.

Now the army under Zhang Yue's command can be said to be powerful, the armies of Huguang, Jiangxi, and Fujian are all under his jurisdiction, and at the same time, the naval divisions in Guangdong, Fujian and other places are also under his control, this naval division has hundreds of ships, more than 10,000 soldiers, and the army is a mess at least hundreds of thousands.

As for the specific amount, Zhang Yue himself does not know, because many of them are recruited by local guards and local officials, and there is no accurate number of these troops, because the people below like to exaggerate the report, and a thousand households with only two or three hundred people, the local officials dare to say that there are one or two thousand people, just to defraud Zhang Yue of money, food and ordnance.

If you count it on paper, the troops under his command are at least more than 800,000, but who believes in this number is stupid, Zhang Yue is not stupid, so he naturally doesn't believe it.

According to his own estimates, the number of troops under his command should be between 300,000 and 400,000, as for the specific number, Zhang Yue has to be furious: ignorant child, you ask the official, who the official asks!

However, even among these three or four hundred thousand troops, not all of them can fight, and in Zhang Yue's own heart, except for the 20,000 elite governors under his command and the 5,000 border troops specially drawn from the north by the imperial court, the others are unreliable.

At most, the 8,000 musket army under the command of Yu Dayou, the new commander of Fujian, is more reliable, and the rest, that is, the ones who are the ones who fight and fight, can't really count on them.

The 20,000 superintendents under Zhang Yue's hands can be so valued by him, and there is naturally a reason!

Among the 20,000 governors, except for the Beijing battalion and cavalry brought from the beginning of his tenure, the others are all recruited young and strong, that is, the 'recruits' in the Ming army system.

And it is also equipped with a lot of firearms, imitation of the pseudo-Tang musket self-imitation of the musket is enough to have more than 4,000 guns, artillery is also a lot, what old-fashioned bowl cannon, the general cannon is a lot, and then the new imitation of the super invincible general cannon and the Franc machine gun is also a lot.

If you simply compare the number of firearms, in fact, this superintendent under Zhang Yue's hand has more firearms than the two infantry divisions of the Tang Dynasty Division combined.

In addition, the musketeer army under the command of Yu Dayou also has more than 1,000 muskets.

This is enough to prove that the heritage of the Ming Dynasty is still very deep, and in less than a year, it was made from scratch and came up with more than 5,000 muskets, which is much more awesome than the Tang Dynasty!

The same is true for artillery, making cannons, who won't, and it's not a difficult thing, so many craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty, even if the production efficiency is lower, but it's still possible to make a cannon according to the same gourd, at most the caliber is smaller, the power is smaller, and the quality is poorer, but it is definitely usable.

In addition to the 20,000 governors and 8,000 musket troops, the rest of Zhang Yue valued was the border army!

These 5,000 border troops are not equipped with any muskets or large-caliber artillery, but they have a lot of Francophone cannons, and the most important thing is that the border army in the north is often confronted by foreigners, and the Ming Dynasty has always been the elite of the Ming army.

But in terms of the quality of the soldiers, Zhang Yue thought that these 5,000 border troops were enough to beat his own 20,000 governors!

And these superintendents, border troops, and musket troops in Zhang Yue's hands, plus hundreds of thousands of ordinary guards and young soldiers, are the main difficulties faced by the Tang army if they want to go north!

Especially the 20,000 governors and 5,000 border troops, it is impossible to seize the southern part of Huguang without annihilating them!