The strength of the ten armies, not counting the more than 50,000 marines currently in battle.

How many are ten armies? The minimum is 300,000, and the maximum is 500,000.

Although there are only six armies that need to be put into the battlefield at the same time, this number is still beyond their bearing.

"Too much! Once the fight starts, the supplies will not be available at all. Huangfu Wuyi shook his head, very helpless, he knew that he was helpless when he heard this number.

It is impossible to give him all the resources, and the current army, in battle, consumes much more ammunition than food.

In other words, a large part of the limited transportation resources must be given to the transportation of ammunition and other materials, followed by food.

And this will also have another consequence, a large amount of grain is piled up in warehouses and cannot be transported, and over time, there may be a food crisis on the front line.

One thing to note is that the current Tang Army, whether it is daily training or normal operations, has a much higher demand for food than before.

And the style has also increased a lot, although the household department does not care about these.

However, in fact, this heart still has to be handled by the household department, and the grain must be transferred from the regular position, and all kinds of other rations also need to be entrusted by the military department, and the household department will purchase them, so as to help the military department reduce its workload as much as possible and put more energy into combat.

Not only the household department, but also other ministries also need their help.

Such a big war is not only a matter of the two ministries of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Households, but the affairs of the entire Datang, and all departments must be involved to a greater or lesser extent.

"Now that the railway has not been built, and the troops are mainly firearms, the problem is really too big for such a deployment." Fang Xuanling also shook his head, it sounded quite reliable before, but when he heard Cheng Zhijie's arrangement of the specific plan, he instantly shook his head.

This is a theoretically feasible plan, but in practice there is simply no room for maneuver.

Fang Xuanling continued: "If you do this, there may not be problems in the short term, but if you can't completely solve the Goguryeo problem within a month, the problems in terms of materials will gradually be exposed, and after three months, it is estimated that the front-line soldiers will need to count the bullets in their hands to fight." ”

Of course, there is another problem he did not say, that this plan is not actually feasible in theory.

How many troops does Datang have in total? More than 800,000 is less than 900,000.

Moreover, it is scattered in various regions, and the only troops that can be mobilized at present are only one of the third army, the fourth army, and one of the two armies in Guanzhong, and only the seventh army can be mobilized in the Central Plains, while the other regions basically divide the entire Tang Dynasty into five parts, east, west, north, south, and middle, and there are only seven armies that can be mobilized in all regions.

It can't even meet the number of troops needed in this plan, so where will the rest of the troops come from? Of course, it was drawn from the garrisons in various places.

But the problem is that the current military system is different from the previous government military system.

In the past, it was possible to transfer many prefectures together to form an army, but now it can't, the establishment is fixed, and the combat effectiveness has indeed improved a lot, but it is not as flexible as before.

This is the reason why these mobile units without defensive tasks are set up, and once a situation occurs, the garrison will take control, and the nearest mobile unit will quickly support it, and if it is still uncontrollable, it will seek the support of other mobile units in the vicinity.

Then, if you draw from these garrisons, as soon as you pass the order, an area will be empty, and there will be no troops to garrison, and this must not be risked.

Although Li Yuanji has proposed a plan to expand the army, the current situation is that the steps are too big to bear at all, and the problem of changing the equipment of the army in the past is too large, so every year, the imperial court can withstand the scale of expanding the army by one army at most, and if it is more, it will not be able to stand it.

The first is that the finances cannot keep up, and the second is that the resources cannot keep up; although Li Yuanji also attaches great importance to the military, but in the same way, at this juncture, the amount of money that can be invested in the military is not much more than before, and this is a problem.

And at this moment, Li Yuanji is full of black lines on his forehead, looking at Cheng Zhijie with an innocent face, he can't wait to slap him to death.

This is definitely intentional!

Is this plan feasible? The answer is doable, and the winning rate is also the highest, which is also 9 out of 9 percent of what he said.

Because four or five hundred thousand people smashed over, not to mention the modern army, even the former Tang army, which could also be crushed in a flat manner, victory was only a matter of time.

But this plan is too conservative, and it requires Datang to put down everything for a period of time and tilt all the focus to this aspect.

When Cheng Zhijie said this plan before, Li Yuanji also approved it in his heart, even including using two armies to carry out a feint attack on land, he also approved it, but he did not ask about some detailed plans, but discussed them together at the cabinet meeting.

The deployment of troops is not a big problem, it is enough to discuss it, as long as there are no problems with the direction of the operation.

In Li Yuanji's plan, this battle would be about 15 to 200,000 people at most, because this amount of troops was enough to destroy Goguryeo.

It's not that Li Yuanji has swelled, but the current Tang Army does have this strength.

What terrain is complicated, mountains and forests are dense, and what is the field army for? These are their daily training subjects.

In the land of the Tang Dynasty, it is not for nothing that there are places with more complex topography than Goguryeo.

The reason why Emperor Yang of Sui was defeated was because he did not have enough preparations in advance and the logistics were interrupted, so he had to be defeated.

But now, two of these nine mobile armies are mainly mountain-based units, and they have been training for several years in various complex mountain environments.

Of course not.

How many people are there in the Eight-Nation Alliance? And at what cost of casualties did they take the Jingshi at that time?

The current situation of the Tang Army is not much different from that of the Eight-Nation Alliance, at most it has no machine guns, but in terms of artillery, it is more powerful than the Eight-Nation Alliance.

Cheng Zhijie clearly knew the true strength of the Tang Army, the true strength of Goguryeo, and even knew what the result would be if two armies that were not a generation collided together, but he was still stunned to double the size of the troops participating in the war.

This thing is really no longer dead all the time, but then again, I can see through his little thoughts, and he still dares not to restrain himself? Or is he already planning to retire in four years?

"To use the strength of ten armies to deal with Goguryeo, isn't it a knife to kill chickens?" Although he saw through it, Li Yuanji still glared at Cheng Zhijie very unhappily. He continued, "However, I do think that these nine mobile armies can move. ”

Li Yuanji's previous words made people breathe a sigh of relief, but immediately after, they made people vigilant.

Ten armies used cattle knives, but what does it mean for nine mobile armies to move?

What is a Mobile Army?

Is it a good kind of troops? The four divisions are all staffed, with more than 13,000 people in each division, and the total strength of a mobile army is nearly 60,000 people, plus artillery, scouts, and other miscellaneous military units attached to the army.

Nine mobile armies moved, isn't that about 540,000 people? What is the difference between this and what Cheng Zhijie said?

Of course, Li Yuanji did not let the ministers wait longer, and then said his thoughts.

"Since the reform and redressing of the army, the army has not yet fought a substantive battle, and the real combat effectiveness cannot be seen in the drills, and the officers and men will never be able to gain the experience that can only be gained on the battlefield by relying on the drills alone.

Therefore, I feel that these nine mobile armies can take turns to go into battle, and if the war goes smoothly and under controllable conditions, each army can stay on the front line for half a month, and after half a month, they can be withdrawn and replaced by another army, so that everyone can experience the effect of new equipment in combat and explore the skills of new warfare. ”

Fortunately, it was not a crazy plan, but they wanted to use this war to train troops, so that the mobile troops could accumulate combat experience, and then transmit it to ordinary troops, so as to comprehensively improve the combat effectiveness of the Tang Army.

Although this method is tiring and tossing, the benefits are obvious.

However, this is a great test for their dispatching and command capabilities, as well as their transportation capabilities.

How can we control this time and ensure that the troops can stay for half a month? How to connect and how to ensure local stability after the troops leave?

This question needs to be thought about carefully, but in the same way, isn't it also a test for the imperial court?

And Li Yuanji is right, everyone knows that the Tang Army is stronger than before after the change of clothes, but no one really knows what kind of strength they can exert on the battlefield?

Although the Marines showed some of it, it was shocking, but after all, they were Marines, and their opponents were only Jeju and Baekje, two countries that were not strong.

But Goguryeo is different, Emperor Yang of Sui has conquered Goguryeo three times, and each time he brought no less than 200,000 elites of the Sui army, but he did not defeat Goguryeo three times.

But looking at the surrounding areas, except for Goguryeo, there are no suitable opponents around the Tang Dynasty that the Tang army can use to practice.

Moreover, within five years, Li Yuanji planned to march into the Western Regions, so they had to test the actual combat capability of the troops as soon as possible.

"I think it's feasible, but I need to calculate it carefully to avoid other mistakes." This time, Ma Zhou was the first to stand up and approve.

The biggest problem lies in the fact that the troops in the south are not very easy to mobilize; first, they need to be deterred by force, and second, the distance is too far, and it takes more than a month just to get on the way, and this aspect is not easy to arrange.