This staff officer who proposed to Zhao Xing alone to poke Yizhou's "eyes". His name is Ma Tan.

Perhaps, in the memory of Zhao Xing's previous life, Ma Jian was a very sad character. Since this person can be appreciated by Zhuge Kongming and has been staying by Zhuge as a secretary and staff officer, it is definitely not a wine bag and a rice bag. But perhaps the most suitable job for Ma Jian is to be a secretary and staff officer, rather than a commander and general.

Kong Ming asked a senior staff member to directly command the troops to guard the street pavilion, but as a result, he harmed Ma Jian and misled himself, which is called failing to achieve "the right person for his job".

In this time and space, Zhao Xing paid attention to and observed Ma Tan, a controversial talent, from the very beginning, and found that Ma Jian was really talented, but he was not suitable to be the "chief official". So, Zhao Xing unceremoniously included Ma Jian in his headquarters and made him a low-key and unknown combat staff officer.

Judging from Ma Tan's behavior of making suggestions to Zhao Xing alone, it is obvious that the senior "old poles" in the command department did not approve of Ma Tan's unrestrained idea, and at the beginning of formulating the plan, they ignored Ma Tan, a newcomer.

It is no wonder that these middle-level officers who were born in the Continental Army and have led troops to many victories are short-sighted, but it is really because Zhao Xing has never taught them the concepts of "leapfrog tactics" and "ocean landing".

There is another reason, which also restricts these staff officers from setting their sights on the direction of Jiaozhou. Now Sun Jian of Eastern Wu and the Jin State are allies, and Jiaozhou has become Sun Jian's backyard, and it is about to be eaten away by Eastern Wu. If the army of the Jin Kingdom suddenly touched the backyard of the enemy's house, maybe they would have to slap the back of the enemy's head with a black brick, which should not be done anyway.

Zhao Xing asked Ma Tan like this: "Youchang (Ma Tanzi), the plan to break into Yizhou from Jiaozhou is very novel, but have you ever considered the reaction of the Eastern Wu side?"

Ma Tan seemed to have thought about this for a long time, and replied: "Although Soochow is now our ally, it will have to be resolved sooner or later. Whether it is military or diplomatic, we have to face this problem. Since it will have to be resolved sooner or later, why do we have to wait until we have taken Yizhou and the Central Plains? Why not come up with a package plan to put Yizhou and Soochow in a basket!"

After hearing Ma Yan's words, Zhao Xing suddenly became interested. He really didn't expect Ma Jian to have this understanding, and he actually jumped out of the shackles of the Battle of Yizhou and directly set his sights on the entire situation. Now it seems that sometimes being good at talking on paper is not necessarily a bad thing.

Zhao Xing said: "You Chang might as well talk about how to solve the problem of Yizhou, and even Dongwu has solved it." ”

Ma Tan saw that Zhao Xing really attached importance to his proposal, so he also came to the spirit and reported to Zhao Xing the strategy he had come up with in the past few days.

There were still some elements of assumption in Ma Yan's thoughts, but he firmly grasped the general direction, that is, to make full use of the great advantage of the Jin State Naval Division that could conceal and maneuver long-distance, to maximize the effect of the surprise attack on Yizhou, and to minimize the casualties of soldiers to a great extent.

Zhao Xing was very happy in his heart at this time, firstly, he was inspired by Ma Tan, and suddenly had a more large and feasible plan, although it may take more time, but it can successfully solve the problems of Yizhou, Jingzhou, Wuzhou and the Central Plains at the lowest cost. The second is that he discovered the advantages of Ma Tan, and in the future, he can use this senior staff member who is good at "talking on paper" in the most appropriate position, instead of letting the tragedy of "tearing and beheading Ma Tan" happen again.

Zhao Xing immediately adjusted Ma Tan's position, and specially transferred Xu Hui and several quick-witted generals from the Jin State Navy back to Crouching Tiger City to assist Ma Tan, and he led a team alone to refine and deduce the overall battle plan. In other words, Ma Jian is about to take on an important task that he can be proud of for many years to come.

Still in that sentence, Zhao Xing already had the outline of the overall plan in his heart, but when it came to the movement and assembly of specific troops, the collection and preparation of various combat equipment and materials, various specific marching routes, and detailed offensive plans, all of which still needed to gather the wisdom of everyone for repeated scrutiny and demonstration.

Although Zhao Xing himself can complete this work with a few staff officers, and it will be the highest quality, he obviously wants to train Ma Yan, Xu Hui and others through this mission. A strong person cannot support the strength of a nation and a country, and only a strong generation of people who have advanced forward and backward can make Huaxia Shenzhou always walk in the forefront of history.

At present, most of Zhao Xing's attention has been devoted to institutional building and internal affairs planning, and military tasks are only the primary tasks in a specific period and environment, and sooner or later they will have to give way to internal affairs construction. Enriching a country and strengthening the army has always been an inseparable process, and we cannot either leave the army building aside and bury our heads in the development of internal affairs and the people's livelihood, nor can we carry out rapid expansion without regard to the strength of the country.

Soon after meeting Ma Jian this time, Zhao Xing asked Li Jinsi to send secret letters to Guan Yu, Jia Xu, Tai Shici, Zhang Xiu, Zhao Zhenbang, Lu Meng, and others, proposing to the responsible persons of several quarters the general guidelines for this year's military division operations and the time nodes for completing the corresponding tasks.

In a letter to Guan Yu, Zhao Xing suggested that the Pingxi Army should advance steadily this year, and try to adopt gentle means to subdue or appease many states in the southern Xinjiang region, not necessarily to make the chickens and dogs restless and make the entire Western Regions unstable. Zhao Xing's purpose in saying this Western language was actually to tell Guan Yu that he was going to draw the Kunlun army from the Pingxi army into the pass to participate in the war.

In a letter to Jia Xu, Zhao Xing stated his overall plan of preparing to solve the war in all aspects in a package. For this wise man who is getting older and more refined, Zhao Xing feels that it is not necessarily a bad thing to say something in advance, because Jia Xu often brings him unexpected surprises. Zhao Xing believed that after Jia Xu received this letter, he would definitely have a very detailed and perfect deployment in Liangguo to cooperate with his plan.

In a letter to Zhang Xiu and Zhao Zhenbang, Zhao Xing uncharacteristically gave his uncle and nephew a death order this time, asking them to completely solve the Northeast issue by July. Zhao Xing also said that if the mountain and jungle warfare is really troublesome, some drastic measures can be appropriately adopted. To what extent is it appropriate to kill people, and what kind of means are fierce, only Zhang Xiu and Zhao Zhenbang can understand this, anyway, King Pingxi only needs one result this time.

In a letter to Tai Shi Ci, Zhao Xing asked him to mobilize all his forces this year, to build another fleet of transport ships capable of carrying 50,000 troops at the same time by the end of the year, and to expand the scope of the maritime survey team's activities from now on to the area of Yizhou (present-day South Vietnam) in Jiaozhou.

In the letter to Lü Meng, Zhao Xing reminded Lü Meng that he must find a way to get Yizhou and Dongwu to join forces to attack Jingzhou, and at the beginning, he had to deliberately throw some sweetness to attract the troops of Dongwu and Yizhou to the Jingzhou area. Zhao Xing was worried that Lu Meng was eager for meritorious service, and as soon as he came up, he beat people with blue noses and swollen faces, and as a result, they scared people away.