"I already know the troops and the people, but what about the food, grass and military supplies?" Liu Bei asked again!

"My lord, there has been no war in the entire Yizhou for ten years, and there is a lot of wasteland reclaimed, and the grain and grass stored in the warehouse of a single official are enough to support the 400,000 army to fight for two or three years!

The only trouble is that the grain and grass in Yizhou need to be transported from the sea to Jiaozhou by warship, and the sea route is long on the way. Jian Yongyan continued!

"How is the grain and grass in Jiaozhou?" Liu Bei asked!

"Jiaozhou's grain and grass are also quite abundant, but it is only enough for 400,000 troops to eat for a year, and there is still a large part of the grain and grass in Zhu Fu! Although Zhu Fu is empty for us, he still has an army of 50,000 under his command! Zhong Miao has been in Jiaozhou for a long time, so he also knows a lot about Jiaozhou, so he said!

"That's enough, enough for me to launch several wars from Jiaozhou!" Liu Bei said happily!

"It's just that I'm in a dilemma, whether to attack the land of the Nanzhong barbarians in the south of Yizhou, or the land of Jingzhou, I don't know what you think?" Liu Bei asked!

"Lord, in the view of loyalty, the lord should attack Jingzhou as the mainstay, although the people of Jingzhou are rich, but Liu Biao has no ambition, and the lord can lead the army from Nanyang to take Jingzhou and attack Jingzhou with Jiaozhou!

Moreover, the land of the barbarians in Nanzhong is a land outside the country, the people are barbaric, the tribes are numerous, and more importantly, there are many places of smoke and miasma, which is not conducive to the advance of the army, so it is inconvenient for the lord to lead the army to attack! Shi Xie heard Liu Bei's question, thought about it and said!

Shi Xie was originally also the hero, but because he had no intention of fighting for the world, he brazenly surrendered to Liu Bei when he knew that he would be defeated!

It's just that after surrendering to Liu Bei, Shi Xie understood the enterprising spirit of Liu Bei's subordinate generals, and in such a group, if you don't advance, you will retreat, so he is also very careful to give advice to Liu Bei and govern the county!

It's just that for Shi Xie's proposal, Liu Bei's Tian Feng, Jia Xu, Chen Gong, Liu Ye, Xi Zhong and others couldn't help but shake their heads, and then Liu Ye opened his mouth and said:

"Lord, no, attacking Jingzhou at this time is nine out of ten, but after capturing Jingzhou, the lord may not be able to hold it!

After taking Jingzhou at this time, Jingzhou had to guard against Liu Zhang in Yizhou to the west, and Yuan Shu in Yangzhou and Sun Ce in Yuzhou to the east. At the same time, Sizhou also has to guard against Cao Cao in the east and Yuan Shao in the north!

In this way, the lord will be in a place of death war, and the princes of the world will be enemies, and more importantly, the strength of the lord at this time will definitely defeat the princes of the world! ”

Hearing Liu Ye's words, Liu Bei nodded slowly! It's just that before Liu Bei could speak, Chen Gong spoke again!

"My lord, I think that when we march into Nanzhong, we will attack Yizhou, and finally join forces with the six states in the northwest to attack Hanzhong!

There are many benefits in this way: first of all, Yizhou is the country of abundance, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and more importantly, only Jingzhou Liu Biao is opposite to Yizhou, but Jingzhou is always under the overlook of the lord's Jiaozhou and Nanyang, Liu Biao is not enough to protect himself, let alone attack Yizhou?

Secondly, if you capture Yizhou and Hanzhong, although the lord will also become the target of the public, he only needs to defend Jiaozhou, Nanyang Tiger Pass and Bingzhou on all sides, and because the Tiger Pass is garrisoned, only 50,000 troops are enough to defend; Bingzhou is bounded by the Yellow River, which is also easy to defend and difficult to attack; Although Nanyang faces two enemies, if there is an army of 200,000, it is enough; In the end, although Jiaozhou has the trouble of Jingzhou and Yangzhou, but Jingzhou Liu Biao will not dare to attack Jiaozhou if he is attacked on three sides. In this way, the lord only needs to focus on guarding against Nanyang!

Third, Yizhou is a country of abundance, rich in grain and grass, so the lord has no worries about the grain and grass in the world! ”

Liu Ye's words made Liu Bei's heart very much, Liu Bei nodded when he heard this, and then looked at Xi Zhong, and then asked: "Zhicai, if I want to attack Yizhou, what obstacles or difficulties can I have?" ”

"My lord, if my lord really wants to attack Yizhou, then my lord should lead the army through Jiaozhi County to attack Nanzhong.

Yizhou and Jiaozhou have road connections, and the main army can start from Jiaozhi County, pass into Sangguan, and then pass through the west with the county to Yizhou!

And the main obstacle in front of the lord is the entry into Sangguan and the barbarians of various ethnic groups in Nanzhong.

Entering Sangguan is the first obstacle, Liu Zhang is guarding against Jiaozhou, so there are many arrangements in Jinsangguan, but there is also the relationship between the barbarians in Nanzhong and Liu Zhang, who only listen to the tune and do not listen to the announcement, so the defenders in the three passes are also divided into two parts.

One part was Liu Zhang's army, about 50,000; The other part is the Southern Barbarian Coalition Army, about 40,000!

After conquering Jinsang Pass, the lord needs to fight against the southern barbarian tribes, and after pacifying the southern barbarian tribes, he can go all the way north to Chengdu! Xi Zhong informed Liu Bei of the information he had collected earlier!

At this point, Liu Bei had already finalized the decision to attack Yizhou in his heart, and after thinking about it for a while, Liu Bei ordered:

Qin Liang and Yan Liang led a total of 75,000 troops of the Hundred Battles Army and the Pro-Guard Army to garrison Shuangzhou to defend Guishan and the Northern Xiongnu;

Order Ma Teng to lead 15,000 county soldiers to garrison Dawan County in Shuangzhou to maintain law and order in Shuangzhou! At the same time, Liu Ye was appointed as the military adviser in charge of military affairs in Shuangzhou;

Ordered Liao Hua to command 50,000 county soldiers, and Liang Xing as a deputy general, to maintain law and order in Xizhou, and to guard against Budugen in the west of Xianbei! And if there is a war in Shuangzhou, you need to immediately support Shuangzhou to obey Liu Ye's order!

Wen Ping was appointed to lead the 50,000 army of Long Xiang's army, Hua Xiong to command the 50,000 army of the Leopard Tao army, and Wei Xu and Han Sui were appointed as deputy generals to garrison Ningzhou to guard against the Tibetan tribal army! And mainly for clerical recruitment!

Although the Tibetan tribe gathered sixty or seventy thousand troops, they never crossed the border of Tibet, and were always in a wait-and-see attitude, and Liu Bei quelled the Ningzhou rebellion with lightning speed at that time, so the people of Tibet were also afraid of fighting Liu Bei to a certain extent!

Then he ordered Zhang Xiu as the main general and Yang Qiu as the deputy general to lead the four armies and the Shence Army with a total of 50,000 troops stationed in Liangzhou and Dasanguan to guard the security of Liangzhou in the north of Budugen and Gongwei!

In Yongzhou, there were not many troops in the original, only a tiger and leopard cavalry, 5,000 women's troops and 15,000 county soldiers, a total of only more than 30,000 troops.

Therefore, this time Liu Bei appointed the tiger and leopard cavalry of the first army of Chang'an in Yongzhou and the 5,000 women's army led by his eldest son Liu Feng to defend Chang'an, and at the same time recruit county soldiers to meet the needs of 5,000 county soldiers in each county, so that there are a total of 35,000 county soldiers in the seven counties, and Liu Bei's second brother Zhang Ren is in command to maintain law and order in Yongzhou! And appointed Jia Xu as a military advisor!

Nanyang, at this time Nanyang, Wuguan, Tongguan, Hanguguan four places have 200,000 troops.

Liu Bei divided the 100,000 army left by Yuan Shu in Nanyang into three parts, and a part of the 25,000 army was merged into the Xiaoguo army, with Xu Huang as the main general, Zhang Yang as the deputy general, and Chen Gong as the military division stationed in the eastern part of Nanyang, mainly guarding against Cao Cao and Sun Ce!

A Nanyang army, 25,000 troops merged into the Flying Tiger Army, and expanded the Flying Tiger Army to 75,000 troops, led by Zhang Liao, Zhang Xiaozhi as the deputy general, and Tian Feng as the military division, stationed in the south of Nanyang, guarding against Jingzhou Liu Biao!

The last army of 50,000 troops, Liu Bei ordered Naduo, Wang Wei, Zhang Haolin, and Yan Xing to be led by four generals, and they were stationed in Nanyang County, Wuguan, Tongguan and Hangu Pass, echoing each other!

In Sizhou, Liu Bei incorporated the previous Yicheng troops into the Black Flag Army, a total of 62,500 people, and was stationed at Xinguan under the command of Yan Yan to guard against Cao Cao.

Then he ordered Huang Zhong to command the soldiers of all counties and counties in Sizhou and 12,500 tigers and leopards, a total of 32,500 people to garrison Sizhou, to guard against Yuan Shao!

In this way, Liu Bei's six northwestern states have a total of about 650,000 troops, but because the area is too large, so many soldiers are overstretched, and compared with other princes, Liu Bei's troops are still small!!

Yangzhou Yuan Shu, a state of more than 300,000 soldiers; Sun Ce in Yuzhou, there is no land in a state, but there are more than 200,000 troops; Cao Cao in Yanzhou, with less than 300,000 troops in one state; Yuan Shao's two states had nearly 400,000 soldiers; Gongsun Zhan, there are almost 200,000 in Youzhou alone; Liu Biao and Liu Zhang also have more than 200,000 troops respectively!

Liu Bei did not have the reason for the crazy expansion of the army, but the main reason was that the six states in the northwest were barren, and in the past ten years, there have been wars and turmoil, and the people have been displaced.