What else can Lu Meng do? You are allowed to use space for others, but you are not allowed to use room for others.

The purpose of Zhang Xi to show Guan Yu these letters was to tell Guan Yu that Jiangdong had never given up his concern for Jingzhou.

If you want to send troops to Xiangfan, this is no problem, but you have to handle the relationship between primary and secondary and guard your home.

Don't look back you attack Xiangfan once, come back home and be gone. Not to mention whether you can live or not, if you lose Jingzhou, can you be worthy of Liu Bei?!

Guan Yu was silent for a long time after reading the letter, and then wrote to Xu Shu in person, asking Xu Shu to come to Jiangling to discuss the attack on Xiangfan again.

Zhang Xi didn't say much, as long as the goal was achieved, if he talked more, he would be kicked out of the door by the second master.

After Xu Shu received Guan Yu's letter, he arranged the affairs of Wuling County, got up and went to Jiangling, and in mid-April, he arrived in Jiangling to participate in the military meeting.

This military meeting is still discussing the matter of sending troops to Xiangfan.

In order to stabilize Lu Meng, Guan Yu did not even call Pan Jun this time, and asked Lu Meng to confirm that there was a contradiction between Pan Jun and Guan Yu, so that he could find out Lu Meng's movements through Pan Jun.

Pan Jun's matter, Guan Yu didn't plan to take it to the military conference to say, after all, there are many people, and this kind of internal matter should still be cautious, so Guan Yu discussed the matter of sending troops first.

This time, Guan Yu planned to transfer Jingzhou's naval army, as well as most of the army of Nanjun, totaling more than 40,000 people, to attack Xiangfan.

Lingling County and Wuling County, Guan Yu decided not to call any county soldiers, and also asked Xu Shu to be the governor of the two counties for defense, claiming to be guarding against the Wuling barbarians, but in fact, everyone knows who to defend against.

As for the public security officer's clerkship, Guan Yu originally planned to take him north to attack Xiangfan.

Guan Yu originally thought about it, he was the governor of the whole army, but he mainly commanded the army, and Wen Ping commanded the navy to attack Xiangfan. But as soon as Pan Jun's letter came, Guan Yu really didn't dare to transfer Wen Ping from the public security, and finally decided to let Wen Ping continue to stay in the public security, and only transferred the public security army's army to the north along the Han River.

After making these arrangements, Guan Yu asked Xu Shu and Zhang Xi if there was anything wrong.

Xu Shu thought for a long time, shook his head, and said that he had no opinion.

Zhang Xi also said that he had no opinion.

Indeed, Guan Yu's arrangements are already in place.

Jingzhou has a total of 80,000 sailors and armies, Guan Yu only took half of them, and left half of the army in various places to deploy.

If this can be attacked by Jiangdong, it means that Jingzhou itself is already not solid, and it is easy for Jiangdong to attack, and it has nothing to do with whether Guan Yu is going to fight Xiangfan.

In the two counties of Jingnan, Xu Shu is the governor of defense, on the one hand, he can prevent Lu Meng from taking advantage of the situation to attack Jingnan, and on the other hand, if Lu Meng really attacks the public security, Xu Shu can also rescue in time.

As long as the public security is not broken, Nanjun will be half safe.

The remaining half Guan Yu looked at Zhang Xi and asked Zhang Xi, the suitable person to stay in Nanjun.

Zhang Xi was stunned for a moment, and then asked Guan Yu strangely, Nanjun Taishou is himself, shouldn't he stay to guard the city?!

Guan Yu was also a little dumbfounded, and said in his heart, why is this thing so eyeless? !

Looking at the entire Jingzhou, in addition to Guan Yu, there are only three people who can have the ability to lead an army: Zhang Xi, Xu Shu, and Wenpin.

Now in order to guard against the possible reaction of Jiangdong, Guan Yu left a heart and arranged for Xu Shu and Wen Ping, who are Wen Yiwu, to stay at home, and Zhang Xi, a person who can lead the army, has to go with him to fight Xiangfan.

The two armies of the water and land are all under the command of Guan Yu alone, how can he be busy.

Zhang Xi pondered for a while, and then began to think about who would be more appropriate to guard the place of Jiangling.

Xi Zhen?!

Zhao Lei?!

No, these two people are biased towards civilian duties, and they will definitely be able to do a good job in handling the affairs of Nanjun during their own expeditions, but once they encounter something at the military level, neither of them is very good.

Deng Ai is a suitable candidate, but the problem is that this kid has been wild lately, soaking in the mine camp every day, and he doesn't even have time to return to Jiangling City.

Besides, Deng Ai is too young, and he has been handling government affairs with Zhang Xi, so he has almost no influence in the army.

In normal times, the officials below look at Zhang Xi's face and still have some respect for Deng Ai, but once they encounter a major event, Deng Ai can't command these people at all.

Counting the numbers, there is probably only one person left who is capable, old enough, and has a high position.

Wang Ji.

Although Wang Ji only officially became Liu Bei last year, he has strong ability and has shown excellent ability to govern the local area in a short period of time, and his identity as the grandson of Zheng Xuan's disciple can also suppress many grassroots officials below.

Wang Ji was engaged in Jingzhou as a different driver, and guarding his hometown when Guan Yu was on the expedition was also a routine operation, and this official position was enough for him to command the defenders who stayed behind, which was justified.

Zhang Xi proposed such a candidate, but Guan Yu was a little hesitant.

Guan Yu recognized Wang Ji's ability to govern the local area, and Ma Liang praised Wang Ji in front of Guan Yu when he was fine, making Guan Yu's ears almost calloused.

But what Wang Ji's military ability is, Guan Yu has not seen it for the time being.

In this regard, Zhang Xi gave Guan Yu a package ticket.

Just kidding, this is Wang Jie.

He made suggestions to pacify the three rebellions in Huainan, successively supervised the military of Yuzhou, Yangzhou and Jingzhou, and was named Wang Jiyi, the marquis of Dongwu County.

His ability to govern the local area is actually secondary, and this guy's real ability is still in the military.

Although in the later period of the Three Kingdoms, the talent withered, but it still could not hide the demeanor of this person.

That is, Wang Ji often beats Dongwu without anything, and Dongwu's reputation among the people is really not good, otherwise Wang Ji's reputation will not be much lower than Deng Aizhong.

Guan Yu didn't know how strong Wang Ji was, but since Zhang Xi had made a package ticket, he chose to believe Zhang Xi.

After all, there is basically no unreliable person recommended by Zhang Xi.

After discussing these personnel arrangements, Guan Yu began to inquire about the preparation of Ma Liang's grain and grass, as well as the preparation of ordnance in the army.

Ma Liang reported to Guan Yu on the hoarding of grain and grass so far, which can probably ensure that the 50,000 army can eat about 40,000 troops for nine months, and if the province is provincial, it is not impossible to make up a year.

This is right, Zhang Xi has to talk about the military rations in the army, and he must always be lenient and predicted, and there is no such thing as a province.

If you dare to save the province, the army will dare to mutiny to show you.

The army in this year does not have the tradition of eating grass roots and bark, and eating wheat rice can give you the opposite, what do you want to save?!

Let's count it according to the fact that the army of 50,000 has eaten for nine months.

Actually. Not a lot.

At least Guan Yu thinks it's a lot, nine months is enough time for Hanzhong to divide the winner and loser.

But Zhang Xi felt that it was not enough to remember, but the battle of Hanzhong had been fought for nearly two years.

Although attacking Xiangfan is only containment, it may not take that long, but it is best to prepare a year's amount.

As soon as these words came out, Ma Liang almost made a quick eye with Zhang Xi.

It's going to be green and yellow soon, where are I going to get you food?!

Hawkers, Ma Liang is in a hurry, Zhang Xi is not in a rut for nine months, just nine months, it's a big deal to persuade Guan Yu to return to the army when there is no food.

As for ordnance. This time, there really wasn't anything wrong with Mi Fang and Shiren.

Now Liu Bei Group's talent pool is much richer than in history, and there is no need for Liu Bei to use these crooked melons and cracked dates in such an important position.

By the way, Mi Fang is now in Chengdu, enjoying happiness with his brother Mi Zhu, and Shiren is also a county lieutenant in a certain county seat in Jianning County, not in Jingzhou.

Regarding the ordnance, Guan Yu asked Liao Hua.

Liao Hua is really not a Yellow Turban Army.

Liao Hua is a wealthy family in Nanyang, born in the Liao family of Jingzhou, and Liao Li is still the same clan, if Liao Hua knows that Luo Guanzhong arranged a Yellow Turban Army for him, I don't know if he will fight with Luo Guanzhong.

And Liao Hua is only in his twenties this year, younger than Zhang Xidu, and he was not born at the time of the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

Liao Hua is under Guan Yu's tent at this time, he is both a civilian official and a military general, and he is responsible for both clerical work and ordnance supervision in the army, and he is really a person who can be civil and martial.

So don't ridicule people for being "no general in Shu", in terms of ability and qualifications, Liao Hua is not bad.

Liao Hua reported to Guan Yu in detail on the preparation of ordnance in the army, focusing on the issue of changing the armor of the Miao knife.

Guan Yu listened to it and was somewhat dissatisfied.

According to Liao Hua's report, there are only more than 15,000 troops in Miaodao who have completed the redress, and the remaining more than 10,000 Nanjun soldiers and more than 30,000 sailors have not completed the redress.

Guan Yu was very dissatisfied with this progress.

But when he heard the reason, Guan Yu really couldn't be angry.

After Zhang Wei's rectification and management, there is a lot of coal stock, but the output of iron ore is seriously insufficient.

Moreover, the steel filling method is a secret in the army, and Guan Yu strictly ordered that it should not be leaked, which led to the fact that the number of ironsmiths in the army has always been strictly controlled, and warrants are required to enter and exit the mining area.

There are only a few masters who can use the steel filling method to make iron, and the manpower of the apprentices under them is also seriously insufficient, which limits the speed of changing the Miao knife.

These are all objective problems, and Guan Yu does not have a good solution.

In order to increase production, the number of craftsmen should not be expanded at will, resulting in the leakage of the steel filling method. This is a deadly threat.

Therefore, Guan Yu is really not good at criticizing Liao Hua.

But when it comes to iron ore, Guan Yu remembered that Zhang Wei was coming, so he asked Zhang Xi if Zhang Wei's iron mine camp had been set up, and if it was done, let him report to the army as soon as possible.

The expedition is about to begin, and you can't let such a talented general continue to watch the mine, and you have to be pulled into the army to serve.

This is not a problem, Zhang Xi has been paying attention to this matter, after all, his own disciples are tossing over there.

At that moment, Zhang Xi said that the formation of the camp was almost over, although there was still a lack of training, but the rules and regulations had been determined, and Xiao Deng Ai was also helping.

It's about little Deng Ai. Zhang Xi asked the second master, when will the wedding of the two juniors be arranged, this is about to go on the expedition, isn't it, did you do the wedding of Xiao Deng Ai and Guan Yinping first? !

Guan Yu immediately glared, and Zhang Xi, who was bluffing, didn't dare to speak. What about the military council, what are you talking about this kind of thing?!

This kind of thing, let's talk about it in private.

Now, let's discuss the tactical issue of attacking Xiangfan.

(End of chapter)