There are also more than a dozen enemy adjutant generals kneeling in the lobby, these people are all old generals of Ma Lan during his lifetime, although they all expressed their willingness to submit, but Zhao Long did not dare to be completely cronies, because the prestige of these tens of thousands of surrendered soldiers was too high, if it was a fraudulent surrender, then these tens of thousands of people would directly rebel, and the consequences would be unimaginable.

Wang Xu also knew Zhao Long's difficulties, so when he entered this gate, he had already thought of a countermeasure, and now that there are six departments, these troops naturally belong to Huang Quanguan.

Zhao Long said: "King Wen, in the battle with Ma Lan, the casualties of the subordinate naval army have reached almost half, can you let your subordinates choose among the tens of thousands of soldiers and make up for the 30,000?" ”

Wang Xu said: "Now that we have the Ministry of War and the Military Aircraft Department, we have to go through normal procedures in everything, if I give you soldiers directly today, then the other generals will not be satisfied." ”

"Therefore, you will escort the generals in this hall and all the soldiers in the school field to the royal city and hand them over to Huang Quan, the secretary of the military department, and he will handle it himself, as for the matter of replenishing the source of troops, you can just talk to Jia Hui."

Han Shushu frowned and said: "King Wen, these generals can't be directly handed over to Huang Quan, just in case, let's take the southern expedition directly." ”

Wang Xu shook his head, it was too troublesome to take the southern expedition, and now Ma Lan still has 150,000 troops left in Guxi County, all of whom are the elite of the imperial court, if they really fight, how can they have the energy to care about these generals.

"These people are all escorted back to the royal city and handed over to Wuying Palace, and they will be strictly disciplined by Chenhu, and when they stabilize in the future, they will be sent to the military department to serve." Wang Xu said.

Han Shushu stroked his beard, so it was more appropriate.

That night, he rested overnight in Anlan City, waiting for the arrival of the follow-up troops, and then decided on a general strategy for marching; The main thing is, how to cross the river with an army of 180,000!

These 180,000 people were not just men, but also 100,000 deniers of grain and grass, 5,000 chariots, 110,000 horses, and countless siege equipment. All of them add up, the area is enough to cover hundreds of thousands of troops, and it is a bit difficult to cross the river at one time.

"King Wen doesn't have to worry. We have enough ships! Zhao Long smiled on the side.

Coming to the sand table, Zhao Long waved his hand and said: "We had more than ten medium-sized warships before, and in the past six months, we have built five more, and when Ma Lan's sailors surrendered, we got another ten." Carrying a large army across the river, enough! ”

"Tell me how many are the total?"

Zhao Long said: "One large warship, twenty-eight medium-sized warships, and three hundred and thirty small warships, a total of three hundred and fifty-nine ships, which can carry 440,000 soldiers!" ”

After Zhao Long finished speaking, Wang Xu was completely relieved, in this way, he could indeed cross the river tomorrow. Not only can the 180,000 troops cross the river, but even food and equipment can be dragged away.

...............

The next day, the army marched.

Leaving fifty small boats for Zhao Long, Wang Xu took all the soldiers to the south, this time Wang Xu made a lot of determination, he must take Guxi County!

As long as Guxi County is in hand, then there is no need to be afraid of any aftermath, although Guxi County is sparsely populated, but the land is fertile, and it can develop agriculture and commerce on a large scale. In a few years, the strength will be twice as strong as it is now.

Not only that, but now that Hexi County is in his own hands, even if he is invincible. You can also retreat to Hexi, with the Yangtze River as a moat, the court is also helpless, Wang Xu can attack, retreat can defend, will be invincible.

And the most important point. That is Hu Ling in the south, Hu Ling also owns two counties, if he joins forces with him and sells the war horse to Hu Ling, not only Hu Ling's strength will increase greatly, but Wang Xu will no longer have to worry about food; The two forces are entrenched here, and even if Yu Yuan comes with an army of 500,000, he will not be pleased.

After driving on the Yangtze River for five days and five nights, early on the morning of the sixth day, Wang Xu's army came to the border of Guxi County and set up camp outside Fuchun County.

"Zhao Long, what you have to do now is to completely control the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and to establish a port by the river in Guxi County, so that we can carry grain, grass, equipment, etc."

"If you don't have enough troops, or if you need anything, you can explain the situation to the Military Aircraft Department, and Jia Hui will help you."

Zhao Long arched his hand: "No, then the subordinates will go back to Hexi County, King Wen take care." ”

Wang Xu waved his hand, and Zhao Long's warship turned around and sailed towards the opposite shore.

...............

The camp was set up, Ye Xiong took two brocade guards to Wang Xu's Chinese army tent, and when Wang Xu saw it, he immediately withdrew all the soldiers.

"Ye Xiong, what is the military situation?"

Ye Xiong said with a smile on his face: "Congratulations to the lord, there is not a single officer and soldier in Guxi County now, all of them are gone!" ”

Wang Xu was taken aback, then frowned and said, "Gone?" What do you mean? ”

Ye Xiong excitedly told the news he had found out as it was, and finally looked at Wang Xu with a smile, waiting for Wang Xu's next instructions.

It turned out that since receiving the news of Ma Lan's suicide and Wang Xu's personal expedition, Guxi County was completely in chaos, and all the generals decided to withdraw to Qingyuan County with all the 150,000 troops after discussion, and went to take refuge in Yu Yuan.

Yu Yuan is a general of the imperial court, and taking refuge in him is not considered to be afraid of the enemy and avoid war, but also to support the war in Qingyuan County, as long as Hu Ling is eliminated, it is a great achievement.

"Great, go and call Lei Yan and Sun Yu!" Wang Xu grinned, walked out of the tent and shouted to a soldier.

But after thinking about it, Wang Xu became worried again, in this way, he can occupy Guxi County safely and steadily, then Hu Ling will be miserable, he has to face hundreds of thousands of imperial army alone, if he doesn't do it well, he will really be exterminated, if Hu Ling perishes, then Yu Yuan can free up his hands to deal with himself, and it will be tricky at that time.

Ye Xiong seemed to see through Wang Xu's thoughts, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, the lord doesn't have to worry about it, Hu Ling is no longer what it used to be, he now has as many as 500,000 soldiers and horses left in Qingyuan County alone, all of them are huddled in the city and do not fight with Yu Yuan, it will take time for Yu Yuan to break through the royal city." ”

"Besides, Hu Ling has already moved the governance office to Nanjun, even if Qingyuan County is defeated, he can retreat to Nanjun, and his strength will not be worse than ours!"

"He recruits troops and horses in Nanjun every day, trains day and night, and his prestige is already better than day by day; Although there are no generals under his command who can recruit good soldiers, there are as many as 700,000 soldiers, millions of grain and grass have been looted, and there are countless gold and silver finesse. ”

I didn't expect Hu Ling to be so powerful, but Wang Xu was impressed, in the past, Zhu Huan's subordinates were biased, but I didn't expect that today he was sitting on the land of two counties, Hu Ling is really powerful, but in the end, it was Wang Xu who helped Hu Ling, if it wasn't for Wang Xu, Hu Ling would have been wiped out long ago, there is no doubt about it. (To be continued.) )