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The raid on Xuzhou is a rather complex and interlocking plan, which requires that every link be carefully designed and not go wrong, and if it does go wrong, then there needs to be countermeasures.

Xuzhou is not smaller than Shouzhou or Haozhou, the territory is huge, the terrain is elongated, and Xuzhou Prefecture is just in the middle of the state to the north, which is very unfavorable for Huaiyou in the south, if you want to raid.

And Xuzhou is not a state, there are Sizhou and Haizhou to the east, if Haizhou can be ignored, but Sizhou can not be ignored.

One of the four major army leaders under Shi Yu's command, Yu Mingzhen's sphere of influence is mainly in Sizhou and Haizhou, and the two strategic places of Xiapi and Muyang are Yu Mingzhen's main garrisons.

The information fed back from now shows that Shi Yu's influence and control over the four major military leaders under his command are already quite fragile.

Like Yu Mingzhen, he stayed in Pi for a long time and almost never returned to Pengcheng.

Yao Chengtai was mainly stationed in Fuli and Qi counties, and controlled the southern part of Xuzhou.

Lu Qiming garrisoned Feng County and Pei County in the north of Xuzhou, mainly to guard against bandits from the Liang army of Songzhou in the east and the three states of Yanyun and Yi in the Taining army in the north.

Shang Yunxi, who is really more closely related to Shi Yu, controls Shi Yu's Right Tooth Army, in addition to the fifteen,000 people of six armies stationed in Xiao County, there are also mobile forces of two armies that he can control, stationed outside Pengcheng City.

Shi Yu really could only control the four armies of the Left Tooth Army with 10,000 people, all of whom were stationed in Pengcheng City.

At present, although Shi Yu can still give orders, Lu Qiming is stationed in the north of Xuzhou, with only 10,000 soldiers of the Fourth Army, and it is difficult to guard against the threat of the Great Liang Army in Songzhou in the east, and even more importantly, the refugees in Yanyun and Yi Sanzhou, who have deteriorated sharply due to the increasingly severe disaster situation, have evolved into mobs and even bandits, so it is difficult to twitch.

And Yu Mingzhen's own main force has lost most of it in the first battle of Yingzhou, and now although Yu Mingzhen is still re-recruiting troops to form an army in Xiapi and Muyang, it is obvious that the losses are difficult to make up, and the combat effectiveness of the new army is not so easy to improve.

Yao Chengtai stationed in Fuli and Qi County and the bridge between the two counties is about 15,000 troops, this part of the force is relatively elite, Huaiyou wants to raid Xuzhou, then it is this 15,000 troops to really face.

At present, the Huaiyou Army can draw out only the First Army, the Sixth Army, the Eighth Army, the Tooth Army, and the First Army of the Navy Army and the First Cavalry Army.

Due to the shortage of war horses, the Second Cavalry Army is still slowly making up.

If the Fourth Army and the Fifth Army stationed in Haozhou are also counted, there are eight armies and 20,000 men who can be used to move north.

But among these eight armies, the strength of the naval army on land may be greatly reduced, and the cavalry army has just completed the reorganization, and the war horses have also been supplemented, and it still needs to adapt for a while, but with these Heshuo veterans, it should not be a big problem.

20,000 troops against Yao Chengtai's 15,000 troops.

Yao Chengtai's 15,000 men are not weak, and the Huaiyou Army has basically used all the forces that Huaiyou can currently use in these eight armies, but the Tooth Army, the Fourth Army, and the Fifth Army have not been trained in the Great War, so it remains to be seen how they will perform.

If these eight armies are transferred northward, and then the Second Army, the Third Army, and the First Army of the Naval Army stationed on Yingshang are excluded, there will not be a single soldier in the entire five prefectures of Huaiyou, except for the Seventh Army, the Ninth Army, and the Second Cavalry Army, which have not yet completed their redressing, and the Third Army of the Naval Army, which has not yet been officially announced to the public because of its special mission.

You must know that the two states of Luhao have just started, and Haozhou is just that, but the situation in Luzhou is not stable.

The remnants of the nearly Wande Victory Army and the Loyal Army left by Yang Pu are being disbanded and returned to their hometowns in an orderly manner, and hidden dangers still exist.

The Yang family and the Luzhou gentry who were originally attached to the Yang family did not welcome Jiang Feng's accession, even if they were shocked after the military parade, but the inner resistance still existed, and the pressure of the Seventh Army and the Ninth Army of the Luzhou garrison was also a last resort.

There was no garrison in Gwangju, this was because of the agreement with the imperial court, but there was only one cavalry army left in Hunju waiting for the arrival of war horses.

Shouzhou is even more exaggerated, there is not a single soldier.

It is unimaginable that there is not a single soldier stationed in such a key place in Huaiyou.

And Haozhou is the same, once the Fourth Army and the Fifth Army go north, Haozhou will become an undefended place, especially in the east, it is directly facing the pressure of ant thieves and Wu Jun (Li Yu).

Fortunately, there is still a regiment training in Haozhou, which can barely be maintained, so when Yang Xun proposed to disband this regiment training, Jiang Feng categorically refused.

According to Jiang Feng's idea, he even intended to reorganize this corps into the 10th Huaiyou Army, so as to completely complete the establishment and composition of the 10 armies of the Huaiyou Left Wing Army.

The division of labor in the defense and capture of the embassy seems to be a bit scattered, so there is no fixed number who is responsible for that part of the work, and it is more arranged according to the intention of the sovereign.

This is also the most normal manifestation of the feudal lords who are not yet standardized.

Just like Jiang Feng, the defense and capture of the embassy, due to the rapid expansion of the territory under the jurisdiction of Huaiyou, the affairs of the defense and capture of the embassy have also increased sharply, and every matter needs officials, so that many officials have not really been established and completed, everyone is in a state of blindness, and temporary arrest of the husband has become the norm.

Originally, when they were in the land of Guanghushou Sanzhou, Chen Wei, who was the long history, and Cui Shang, who was marching Sima, intended to readjust and sort out the affairs in order to handle the affairs better and more efficiently, especially the arrival of Du Tuo and Wang Huang, which did share some of the pressure on the two, but the situation that had just had time to straighten out was soon disrupted by the inclusion of the two states of Luhao.

What is even more annoying is that Huaiyou is now still facing the northern expedition to Xuzhou, which requires that the situation in Luzhou not only be stabilized, but also need a large number of reorganized troops to supplement various military resources.

These extremely complicated tasks are not at all capable of a few people, or even dozens of people, and this requires the current defense and capture of the embassy, or the next step may be to observe and dispose of the embassy, and a large number of personnel must be added to come in.

Wang Huang was determined to sort out and integrate the overall staffing of the entire Huaiyou Army, and to make advance arrangements according to demand.

As the chief keeper, Jiang Fengdian will be responsible for this affairs in the future, which can be regarded as an important responsibility.

Jiang Feng put forward a request to Cui Shang, that is, how to ensure the security needs of Huaiyou on the premise of ensuring that eight to ten armies could go north to conquer Xuzhou.

Cui Shang quickly came up with an opinion, according to this requirement, if you want to complete the Northern Expedition more safely, you need ten armies, of which the first army of the navy, the ratio of infantry and cavalry is about 63 or 72, that is, six infantry and three cavalry, or seven infantry and two cavalry.

If it can't be matched for a while and the war in Xuzhou is urgent, at least a naval army is needed, plus the sixth army of the infantry army and the first army of the cavalry, which is the minimum requirement.

However, the current situation is very embarrassing, although the eight armies can barely be gathered, but they basically withdraw the Huaiyou native army.

Cui Shang and Wang Huang's consultation suggested that at least two new infantry armies were needed to barely maintain the current security of Huaiyou, and if we took a long-term view, at least four new armies would be needed, one of which would be cavalry.

Jiang Feng quickly approved Wang Huang's opinion, and built two new armies according to the basic requirements, but how to prepare for the construction was given to Wang Huang, and Wang Huang was given full authority in terms of troops, weapons, armor, clothing, baggage, and officer equipment, and it was clearly required that it should be completed before the Northern Expedition to Xuzhou, and the Northern Expedition could not be affected because of this matter.

This suddenly forced Wang Huang to almost turn white overnight.

Although Wang Huang still does not know the specific time of the Northern Expedition, judging from the frequent mobilization of the Huaiyou Army and the preparation of military funds, at most it will be July, and the battle of the Northern Expedition will start.

He was only given a little more than a month, and it was not difficult to prepare for the establishment of two armies with a certain combat effectiveness.

"My lord, I don't think I need to keep my eyes on the regimental training of the states. "The swarthy face is a little less immature and more mature than for more than a year," Ah Heng and I have checked and found out the regimental training in several states, except for the Huzhou regimental training, the combat effectiveness of the regimental training in Gwangju and Shouzhou is quite unbearable, and they are also seriously insufficient in quantity. ”

"Well, Meng Chong, what do you think we have to do to complete the task assigned by the king?"

Wang Huang also had a headache about the preparation of the army, and he was very good at the calculation of the raising of military funds, but the recruitment of soldiers became a major problem.

Fortunately, many of the more than ten outstanding cadets who graduated from the Great Dao Academy and were assigned to the government were also familiar with military affairs, so Wang Huang unceremoniously chose the best two to assist him in forming these two armies.

"My lord, there are actually ready-made soldiers, but we need to take some risks, but I think that if we arrange them properly, this group of soldiers can actually be used by us. Meng Chong and Yang Heng exchanged glances and said boldly.

"Oh?" Wang Huang also vaguely guessed something, but still asked, "You say." ”

"The remnants of the loyal army and the Desheng army in Luzhou. Meng Chong said.

"Do you know that the Emperor has already asked for the disbandment of this army, why did the Emperor do this, haven't you considered it?" Wang Huang asked rhetorically.

"The king's consideration must be out of the fact that the Yang clan and the local gentry in Luzhou are still restless, these soldiers are all natives of Luzhou and may be affected by it, so they will ask for this, but Ah Heng and I found that the situation is still a little different through a thorough investigation. "Filled with confidence.