Chapter 569: If you want to beat someone, you must first put away your fists

Because it was wartime, although it involved the appointment and dismissal of several high-ranking generals, everything was carried out in a very low-key situation.

Chen Gong was escorted by the light cavalry of the Han Army Division of the 1,000 Dingyuan Army, carrying five latest letters of appointment in his arms, and quickly marched towards Yuyang in Youzhou. These five letters of appointment involved Chen Gong himself, Zhao Yun, Gongsun Zhan, Zhang He, and Chen Deng, who was far away in the East China Sea of Xuzhou.

According to the latest order of the Protector Army Command (in fact, it is Zhao Xing's order), Chen Gong was appointed as the Youzhou Mu, Zhang He as the Youzhou Army Sima and the head of the Youzhou Training Corps, Zhao Yun as the Governor of the East Road Coalition Army, Gongsun Zan as the Jizhou Mu, and Chen Deng as the Yamen Counselor of the Jin State Naval Division (actually Tai Shici's military advisor).

A bull who was also involved in the transfer had already obtained a letter of appointment, but he did not follow Chen Gong to Youzhou, but went directly from Huguan to the east and rushed to the Jizhou front. This cow man is Guo Jia, and the escort to Jizhou is his wife Zhao Yu, who has been giving birth for a year.

When Zhao Yun went to Jizhou, he would naturally take his new daughter-in-law Ma Yunluo with him. Guo Jia went to Jizhou and took Zhao Yu with him. At this moment, the two strong women finally have the opportunity to kill all sides on the battlefield, and they can be regarded as fighting for Zhang Xin, who is vigorously promoting the "feminist movement".

If it weren't for Zhao Xing's desperate stopping, even Myolie Hu, the second master, would have moved to the front line, but Myolie Wu wanted to go to Xiliang, because next Ma Chao was about to lead the army to carry out a large-scale cleanup of the Qiang people in Xiliang, Myolie Wu really wanted to do something to the Qiang people who had calculated the Flying Eagle tribe at the beginning.

Because of the real threat of Zhang Fei's 30,000 Northern Army in Hedong, the expansion of the Crouching Tiger Army was not delayed at all. Zhao Xing asked the Shadow Soldiers to send secret letters to several generals involved in the transfer of soldiers as quickly as possible, emphasizing the great danger facing the hinterland of the Jin State today, and asking all armies to spare no effort to support the Crouching Tiger Army's transfer of personnel.

Considering that the Xiliang army under the command of Ma Chao has been organized into 20,000 people, and the next step is to digest and absorb Han Sui's surrendered troops, the number of troops even exceeds 30,000. Therefore, Zhao Xing also instructed the Flying Tiger Army and the Blue Wolf Army, two troops with only 15,000 people, to also expand and increase to 20,000.

In this way, among the ten regular troops of the Protector Army, the three units of the Crouching Tiger Army, the Pioneer Army, and the Dingyuan Army had an establishment of 40,000 troops, the four units of the Xiong Zhen Army, the Dragoon Army, the Xiongwu Army, and the Black Mountain Army had an establishment of 30,000 troops, and the three units of the Flying Tiger Army, the Blue Wolf Army, and the Xiliang Army had an establishment of 20,000 troops, and the total strength finally reached 300,000.

In fact, the Jin State also has a force that is not weak in combat ability, but it has never shown its edge in front of the world, so the outside world does not know much. This army is completely different from the Jin State Naval Division of the above ten troops, and if you add logistics equipment and auxiliary personnel, the total number has reached 30,000, of which 20,000 troops can directly participate in the battle.

Although this army was formed for a short time, it had already "burned" a huge amount of money as high as eight million taels in the Jin State treasury, not including the three million taels of silver that Tai Shi Ci earned from self-sufficiency in seafood. The troops that burned money were all unusual troops, especially the Jin State Water Division. Today, Tai Shici has 15 large warships, more than 300 small and medium-sized warships, and more than 500 transportation and fishing ships.

Even on land and water, the total number of troops available to Zhao Xing was 320,000, which seemed to be quite a lot, but if the territory he occupied was averaged, each of the four prefectures of Youji and Liangji would be able to divide 80,000 people; if measured by his huge plan to march east and west, the number of troops would be far from enough.

The 30,000 cavalry that Ma Chao is about to have, it is not a problem to sweep away the Qiang people near Xiliang, but if he marches into the Western Regions, it will definitely involve the problem of sending troops to garrison after laying down the territory, where will these soldiers come from?

Gongsun Du, who is entrenched in the land of Liaodong, has always swayed from side to side, and has no clear intention of defecting to the Jin State, Zhao Xing now also has the idea of annihilating it, and the eastern expedition to Liaodong naturally needs at least 50,000 troops, where do these soldiers come from?

In order to satisfy the food problem of nearly 10 million people belonging to him, Zhao Xing needed more territory; in order to meet the construction of various infrastructures, Zhao Xing needed more free labor; in order to meet the increasingly huge military expenditure of the Jin army, Zhao Xing needed to open up more commercial and trade channels......

According to Zhao Xing's strategic plan, after temporarily controlling the sphere of influence north of the Yellow River and opening up the Silk Road on land and the Silk Road on the sea, he first concentrated on the development of internal affairs and technology for a period of time, so that the several territories that were later annexed could keep up with the development of the Jin State, form an overall joint force, and finally achieve the goal of the Jin State being a strong and powerful country and being able to completely suppress many joint forces south of the Yellow River.

The vast black soil in the northeast is waiting for Zhao Xing to send people to sow seeds, the Korean Peninsula rich in iron ore is waiting for Zhao Xing to send troops to conquer, the four islands of Dongying, which can produce a large amount of rice, are waiting for Zhao Xing to send troops to conquer, and the land of the Western Regions with milk and density is waiting for Zhao Xing to send troops to occupy, and the monkeys on many islands in Southeast Asia are the best laborers......

Li Ru and Chen Qi, the two staff officers who had just entered the Taifu Mansion, stood behind Zhao Xing and watched him use a hollow thin steel pipe to poke and poke his fingers and poke for a while, one in the northwest, one in the southeast, and one in the southwest, all of which couldn't keep up with Zhao Xing's thinking rhythm. It's no wonder that Li Ru and Chen Jue were stunned, it's really because few people in the world know that there are so many secrets hidden behind "Kanyu Wanguo Quantu".

Li Ru and Chen Qi may be able to read the map, but they absolutely don't know that the monkeys on Yingzhou Island are still in the era of serfs, they don't know that there are tens of thousands of kilometers to the west of the Western Regions, and they don't know that some countries in Europa are also fighting blood. Therefore, it is difficult for them to understand Zhao Xing's huge vision and strategic layout for the time being. But it doesn't matter, as long as they follow Zhao Xing's ass for a long time, they will definitely understand, just like Pang Tong now.

The huge plan needs many people to implement and complete together, and with Zhao Xing's current strength, it is difficult to sweep the Central Plains, so he decisively made the decision to shrink the defense. In addition to sending Tai Shici to rescue Qingzhou, Zhao Xing planned to temporarily stop the attack of the troops on the eastern and western fronts, and then start a new round of expansion after the expansion of the various armies was completed and the troops arrived at the designated places.

It's like a martial arts master, when he is ready to deliver a fatal blow to his opponent, the first thing he has to do is to receive his fist behind him, and when he has accumulated enough strength, he will inflict a heavy blow on his opponent with lightning speed. Among the martial arts, there is a fist called "cannon hammer", which is what it means.

Although the Jin State has adjusted its grand strategy, it does not prevent the various troops from creatively organizing some local actions, such as Jia Xu and Tian Feng, who are far away in Liangzhou, are now calculating the Yizhou army, Zhao Hu, who has completely recovered from his injuries, is calculating Sima Yi's father Sima Fang, the newly appointed Pang Tong is conspiring with Xu Huang to teach Zhang Fei a lesson, and Tai Shici, who is about to sail south, wants to use Yuan Shao's head to make a name for the Jin Sailing......