Unlike Wang Yangming, who only needs to consider military issues, Yang Yiqing, as the first assistant of the cabinet, can be described as the chief butler of the Ming Dynasty, but he has to consider more issues.

The expedition of 100,000 troops to a foreign land thousands of miles away is not just a matter of 100,000 troops marching, and there are too many problems involved.

Not to mention anything else, the grain and grass that these 100,000 troops have to consume along the way is a big problem.

For the expedition of the army, the most important thing is obviously the problem of logistics, if it is hundreds of people, the problem of food and grass can be solved on the spot, and even exaggerated, that is, just hunt casually, and hunt some prey can at least ensure food.

But an army of 100,000 is not as simple as a few dozen people, and if an army of 100,000 is cut off from food and grass, it is not a matter of hunting or something that can solve the problem.

The most critical point is that the 100,000 army went out to a foreign land, and within the boundaries of the Ming Dynasty, at least they could find a way to ensure logistics supplies, but once they were out of the Ming Dynasty, it would really be a test of logistics supplies.

Just think about it, the daily consumption of 100,000 troops is a headache, not to mention the need to transport it thousands of miles away.

As the first assistant of the cabinet and the previous governors of border towns, if Yang Yiqing didn't know Wang Yangming's thoughts, Yang Yiqing would not have been able to sit in the border towns for so many years.

But Wang Yangming has Wang Yangming's thoughts, and Yang Yiqing also has his own concerns, as the first assistant of the cabinet, he must have a lot of problems to consider, so he will oppose sending additional troops and horses to expedition thousands of miles away.

Because of the speed of foreign expansion at sea, it is not enough, and the speed and consumption of various materials operated by large ships are far lower than those on land, so the cabinet will have no objections to the expedition of fleets overseas.

However, the materials to be consumed for the transfer of logistics grain and straw by land are definitely several times or even more than ten times that of sea transportation.

In this case, if Yang Yiqing can agree, it will be a strange thing.

I only heard Yang Yiqing solemnly say to Zhu Houzhao: "Your Majesty, just to supply General Lu's 50,000 army, the court has already invested too much energy, especially the transfer of grain, it can be said that ten stones of grain are transported to the army, and the rest is not even half of it. ”

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but show a deep groan when he heard this, as the head of a country, Zhu Houzhao is obviously extremely competent, with Zhu Houzhao's martial temperament, he naturally knows very well about military affairs, so he knows that what Yang Yiqing said is also a fact.

That is, the logistical pressure is extremely great, which is beyond doubt, and Zhu Houzhao is also very aware of the logistical problems faced by the expeditionary army.

It can even be said that tens of thousands of troops are on an expedition to a foreign land, if it is impossible to solve the logistics problem, once the opponent seizes the opportunity and cuts off the supply of grain, it will not take long, at most ten days and half a month, even if it is an elite army that regenerates dragons and tigers, I am afraid that it will be hungry and soft.

The problem of logistics is indeed a big problem, and once it is not handled well, there is really no mention of any army expedition.

Zhu Houzhao looked at Wang Yangming.

Wang Yangming noticed Zhu Houzhao's gaze, and saw Wang Yangming confidently facing Zhu Houzhao and said: "Your Majesty, Lord Shoufu's concerns are not unreasonable, but as for the problem of logistics, it is not impossible to solve it. ”

As soon as Wang Yangming's words came out, everyone suddenly looked at Wang Yangming, everyone knew this problem, and the key was that everyone had not come up with any effective solution.

Now Wang Yangming actually said that he has a way to solve the problem, how can this not make everyone stunned, if Wang Yangming can really solve the problem of logistics operation, why should they be this villain here, knowing that the Son of Heaven has a supportive attitude towards sending an expeditionary force, but they want to advise the Son of Heaven.

Yang Yiqing narrowed his eyes and stared at Wang Yangming.

Zhu Houzhao leaned forward slightly at this time, just looking at the small action of Zhu Houzhao's hands pressing on the table, he knew the excitement and expectation in Zhu Houzhao's heart.

Under the attention of everyone, Wang Yangming slowly spoke: "Your Majesty, have you forgotten those vassal states? ”

Slightly stunned, Zhu Houzhao's face gradually showed a sudden color, and he saw Zhu Houzhao laughing with a little excitement: "Wang Aiqing really woke up the dreamer with a word, I really forgot these people!" ”

At this time, several pavilion elders on the side also reacted, with their knowledge and wisdom, they all understood at this time, and it was the reaction that was the reaction, so everyone looked at Wang Yangming with an amazed gaze.

To tell the truth, including Yang Yiqing, they really subconsciously forgot about the vassal states that had been divided one by one in the past few years.

If these vassal states are the earliest, they have been divided for several years, and it can be said that they have completely settled down among their feudal states.

The people of the Ming Dynasty were the most simple and industrious, and under their industrious hands, the originally desolate land turned into fertile soil, and in just a few years, those vassal states changed greatly.

At the beginning, the food needed by these vassal states still depended on domestic support to a certain extent, but in the second year, these vassal states completely got rid of their dependence on the Ming Dynasty, but fed back to the Ming Dynasty to a certain extent.

Wang Yangming's meaning couldn't be clearer, that is, the idea of fighting these vassal states.

These vassal states are outside the Ming Dynasty, and there are no less than dozens of large and small vassal states in the north, maybe one or two vassal states can't support the logistics consumption of 100,000 troops at all, but if the forces of dozens of large and small feudal states are combined, it is really not a problem to welcome the logistics consumption of 100,000 troops.

The most important thing is that if you requisition grain from those vassal states, you can completely save the consumption on this road.

Even if the grain and grass are transported from the vassal states to the north, it will be much less than mobilizing grain from the Ming Dynasty.

Although it may be that the consumption of logistics is still very large, compared to the logistics materials from the country, at least its consumption can be accepted by the princes above the court.

Now that there is a solution, Yang Yiqing, Wang Yangming and others soon came up with a plan, and Zhu Houzhao just read it once and decided immediately.

For the ability of Yang Yiqing and Wang Yangming, Zhu Houzhao couldn't trust it anymore, if Yang Yiqing couldn't solve the problem, then he couldn't solve it in person.

Zhu Houzhao decided on the supply of the army's logistics, and directly waved his hand to Wang Yangming and said: "An Guogong, I order you to immediately recruit 100,000 elite troops, select good generals to lead, and go to the north to support Lu Dazhu." ”

Wang Yangming took a step forward, his expression was solemn, and he said respectfully: "The minister obeys the order!" ”

The Ming Dynasty, which has solved a series of domestic problems, is now prosperous in national strength that has surpassed any period of the Ming Dynasty.

The prosperity of the country is not only reflected in the hundreds of millions of gold and silver in the treasury of the household department, but also in the military strength.

The guard system created by Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang made it easy for the Ming Dynasty to have a standing army of millions at the beginning of the founding of the country.

But now that the imperial court has solved the guard system, a large number of guards have been abolished, and now the soldiers owned by the Ming Dynasty are only about 400,000 if they are full.

Among them, there are almost 100,000 in the land of Jingshi, and more than 100,000 in the land of border towns, and the others are distributed in various important towns.

On the navy side, the latecomers are the last, and the development and growth is extremely amazing, not to mention the thousands of warships, there are nearly 100,000 naval non-commissioned officers alone.

With such an elite army, as the secretary of the military department, it is naturally much easier for Wang Yangming to recruit and transfer people.

Once the 100,000 troops are requisitioned and sent out, both the local and Beijing divisions will inevitably be greatly emptied, but this is inevitable.

After all, even if the Ming Dynasty added the rising navy, it was only more than 500,000 soldiers, and after removing the 100,000 navy, there was only more than 400,000 troops left.

If you count the 50,000 troops led by Lu Dazhu, plus 100,000 troops, it is as much as 150,000, accounting for almost forty percent of all the armies of the Ming Dynasty.

When Yang Yiqing and several cabinet elders determined that they could not change the decision of the Son of Heaven at all, they naturally began to find ways to help Zhu Houzhao solve various follow-up problems.

Yang Yiqing, as the first assistant of the cabinet, after Wang Yangming retreated, stroked his beard and looked at Zhu Houzhao and said: "Your Majesty, please ask Your Majesty to allow the imperial court to recruit another 100,000 troops to enrich the place." ”

Zhu Houzhao obviously knew very well what kind of changes would be made in the form of the country by transferring 100,000 troops from abroad, so Zhu Houzhao didn't think much about it at all and directly nodded and agreed to Yang Yiqing's proposal.

Even if Yang Yiqing doesn't mention it, Zhu Houzhao will next issue an order to recruit new soldiers to supplement the soldiers.

This Ming Xing division moved the people, in a short period of time, 100,000 troops set off lightly, on this way, everywhere passed, each state capital will prepare the grain and grass needed by the army in advance, and after the Ming Dynasty is a vassal state.

The will of the Son of Heaven has been conveyed to the lords of these vassal states by the messengers one step in advance.

For Zhu Houzhao's will, these vassal states naturally didn't dare to have any meaning, no matter what they thought in their hearts, but there was no doubt about one thing, that is, Zhu Houzhao's will, and they didn't dare to disobey it at all.

Grand Duchy of Moscow

As the successor of Ivan III, Vasily III was also not a mediocre lord, especially his interest in external expansion was stronger.

The Third Moscow Army Corps, which Lu Dazhu led his army, was one of the major armies sent by Vasily III to expand abroad.

Antony, on Andrei's orders, told Vasily III, who was sitting in Moscow, what had happened to the Ming army as quickly as possible.

Vasily was at the peak of his life, and it can be said that he did not meet several opponents on the road of external expansion, and suddenly heard that the Ming Dynasty had crossed the Ural Mountains and entered his territory, and Vasily naturally could not sit idly by.

At this time, Vasily III had just completed the conquest of the Kazan Khanate, and the army under his command had not yet been unarmed, so Vasily waved his hand, and the second and sixth corps that had not had time to repair a total of 50,000 troops were sent out by Vasily.

At the foot of the Ural Mountains, a continuous camp was stationed there, and at a glance, the camp tents were continuous, and tens of thousands of troops were stationed, occupying a vast area.

In the tent, Lu Dazhu sat on the main seat, and below him were the generals of the army and Chinese.

A general was pleading guilty to Lu Dazhu with a gloomy face at this moment.

"Great commander, the last general is incompetent, and he has escaped the enemy chief Andrei! Please also punish the marshal! ”

Lu Dazhu waved his hand and shook his head, "Andre is extraordinary in both resourcefulness and martial arts, if you can catch him so easily, then we won't be dragged here for months." ”

A general said with a little indignation when he heard this: "The marshal thinks too highly of Andre, if it is not for the marshal who wants to use Andre as bait to fish, how can he let Andre's remnants survive for so long." ”

Lu Dazhu smiled slightly: "No matter what calculations Ben Shuai has, although he didn't do his best, but he didn't release much water, Andre was able to hold on until now, but he also had real materials." ”

There was a rush of footsteps outside the tent, and I saw a sentry striding into the tent, bowing down to Lu Dazhu, and said solemnly: "Marshal Qiqi, our people have detected that a large army is slowly coming, and it has gathered with the remnants of Andrei not long ago, and it is almost certain that the one who came must be the reinforcements of the Grand Duchy of Moscow." ”

Hearing this, everyone's eyes couldn't help but light up, and one by one, their bodies showed a high-spirited fighting spirit, and if people were eager to try, they didn't know what they would think.

Lu Dazhu's eyes narrowed, the corners of his mouth curled slightly, and he muttered softly: "It's finally here, and it's not in vain that Ben Shuai has been waiting here for so long." ”

While speaking, Lu Dazhu looked at the sentry and said: Have you ever found out how many reinforcements there are on the other side? ”

The sentry said, "If nothing else, the number of reinforcements coming to help should be about 50,000." ”

I have to say that the observation and judgment of these sentry detectives are really not comparable to ordinary people, after all, these sentry detectives are best at these, if you can't even determine how many enemies you encounter, then you are not a qualified sentry detective.

Nodding slightly, Lu Dazhu looked at the generals and said, "Everyone, the other party has sent 50,000 troops to come, are you afraid, can you dare to fight with the commander?" ”

"Hahaha, what are we afraid of, isn't it just tens of thousands of barbarians? Don't say it's 50,000, even if it's 100,000, we'll win the battle. ”

This is such self-confidence, and only in the midst of victories again and again can the generals in the army have such confidence and say such things.

At this moment, a general with a bit of elegance on his body looked calm, and said slowly: "Everyone, 50,000 reinforcements is not a small number, don't forget, in order to exterminate Andre's Third Army, we ourselves have suffered nearly 5,000 casualties, and now there are only more than 40,000 people who still have the strength to fight......

Although the generals were confident, they had also personally experienced the brutal combat power of the barbarians in their eyes, and their expressions changed slightly, but at this moment, Lu Dazhu chuckled and said: "Who said that we only have more than 40,000 people, we are obviously 140,000 people!" ”

"What?"

"Are reinforcements coming?"

"Hahaha, 140,000 against 50,000, if you can't destroy the other party, everyone just wipe their necks and apologize!"

Lu Dazhu's words suddenly made the spirits of the generals present excited, although they were not afraid of a battle, but they did not want their soldiers to suffer heavy casualties, now listening to Lu Dazhu's meaning, the reinforcements of the imperial court are afraid that they are about to arrive, and when the time comes, there will be more people to bully fewer people, and tens of thousands of reinforcements will be wiped out, isn't it an easy thing?

Lu Dazhu clapped his hands, and saw a figure walk into the tent, it was the vanguard general of the 100,000 army who came to help, Cheng Yu.

As the son of the general Cheng Xiangwu, Cheng Yu can be regarded as a general, and most of the generals present knew Cheng Yu, so they were all stunned the moment they saw Cheng Yu, and some people reacted and exclaimed: "Could it be that General Cheng is here?" ”

Cheng Xiangwu's Daming is no worse than Lu Dazhu, and he is also a giant in the army, but Cheng Xiangwu is mainly responsible for the Daming Water Division, and Cheng Yu, as the son of Cheng Xiangwu, has always been under Cheng Xiangwu, as a pioneer general, it can be said that where there is Cheng Yu, there must be Cheng Xiangwu.

Almost the same as Cheng Xiangwu's mold, Cheng Yu stepped forward and saluted Lu Dazhu and said: "The last general Cheng Yu, on the order of the general, meet Lu Shuai!" ”