The southern expedition was set as a national policy.

But this does not mean that the Han can now send troops to attack Eastern Wu.

A decision has been made, and the next step is to prepare for this decision, and the first thing to do in preparation for a big war is to mobilize food, grass and ordnance.

The soldiers and horses did not move, and the grain and grass went first.

After that, there are many links such as troop allocation, intelligence gathering, armament warfare, and so on. It takes at least three months to more than half a year to prepare.

And since it is a southern expedition, then there is no need to ask, the commander of the southern expedition must be Zhang Xi, and in order to coordinate the preparations for this southern expedition, Xu Shu will return to Chang'an, take the place of Pang Tong, and manage the government, and Pang Tong will be temporarily transferred to Jiangling to assist Zhang Xi in formulating strategic plans.

Pang Tong is a famous man in Jingzhou, and only when he goes to Jingzhou in person can it be possible to mobilize all kinds of manpower and material resources in Jingzhou to the greatest extent to persuade the Jingzhou family to support the southern expedition of the Han Dynasty.

And within Jingzhou, the most active person for the southern expedition is probably the Pan family's head Pan Jun, if the southern expedition is successful, then the promise that Zhuge Liang and Zhang Xi promised the Pan family before should be fulfilled.

The right to distribute the newly reclaimed land of the entire Lingling County is the best opportunity for the Pan clan to rise.

The rest of the Ma, Ponzi, and Kuai also reacted well to the Southern Expedition.

This southern expedition is not only the end of the two counties of Lingling and Wuling, but also the two counties of Changsha and Guiyang.

Especially in the two places of Changsha County and the northern part of Guiyang County, the Jingzhou family is still very interested.

This place, after 20 years of continuous development by Soochow, has become quite large-scale.

Although it can't be compared with the Dongting Lake Plain in later generations, the original swamp tidal flat area has been greatly reduced, and it is difficult to say whether the additional tens of thousands of hectares of new cultivated land are considered high-quality fields, but at least they are all land that can grow food.

Or don't have to invest in the development yourself, it's already quite large-scale familiar land. Who doesn't want that!!

With such a large scale, it is impossible for the imperial court to swallow it in one gulp, and in the end, it still needs to be digested with the help of the power of the family, otherwise the court will not be able to do well without ten years of hard work on the ground.

That's it. Big deal!!

Lingling County can't be picked, that is what Zhuge Liang personally promised the Pan family, Ma, Pang, and Kuai are not good to grab with the Pan family, but part of the land in Changsha County and Guiyang County still has a lot of hope that it can be pocketed.

Although a large amount of money and grain will be paid for this, if this money and grain is used as support for the southern expedition of the Great Han Dynasty, in exchange for the right to control the land in Changsha and Guiyang counties, this transaction is also cost-effective.

Playing other places, the Jingzhou family may not have much support, but fighting Jingnan. Hehe, just Wu Dog, dare to stop my big man sharp?!

In this way, under the joint coordination of Pang Tong, the Jingzhou family mostly had a supportive attitude towards the southern expedition.

And the support of the family, which means that most of the problems of money, food and ordnance have been solved, and the remaining small half can also be transferred from Xiangyang, Nanyang, and even Chang'an, all that is needed is time.

The rest is a matter of some troop deployment.

In terms of troops, Gangneung's own defense force was about 25,000 naval troops and 35,000 infantry, totaling about 60,000 people.

However, there are about 20,000 people in the navy who have been re-recruited and trained, although it has been practiced for nearly two years, but Zhang Xi does not know what the combat effectiveness is.

Zhang Xi is really unfamiliar with the matter of the water army.

The commander of the navy, Yang Wei, assured Zhang Xi that the new navy was no worse than the original Jiangling navy, but Zhang Xi pondered that in the last war, the original Jiangling navy was directly defeated by Zhu Ran.

In this attack on Jingnan, if the balance of power cannot be maintained in terms of the naval army, then the main force of the Han army attacking Jingnan will fall into a dangerous situation of being cut off from logistics and grass.

Therefore, Zhang Xi asked Yang Shu to expand the naval army to 30,000 within half a year. We don't have enough combat strength, so we have to make up the troops.

There are also naval warships, in the past two years, in order to rebuild the naval army, Zhang Xi has used almost all the conscription in Jingzhou to rebuild the warships.

Except for some of the people in Gangneung County, who were responsible for repairing the city defense of Gangneung, the rest of the conscription regulations were all sent by Zhang Xi to work as laborers in the shipyard, and most of the conscription regulations in Xiangyang County were also transferred by Zhang Xi to cut down trees and transport timber to Gangneung to provide raw materials for shipyard shipbuilding.

Through such an all-out way of encroaching on and conscription, Zhang Xi finally built four more Mengchong warships, nearly 100 small and medium-sized warships, and more than 50 warships for the Jiangling Navy to barely restore the original number of ships of the Jiangling Navy Army.

At the same time, at the suggestion of Yang Wei, Zhang Xi also ordered people to build a "big guy" for water warfare according to Yang Wei's request.

This sheep is really the kind of naval genius that has been buried in history.

The rebuilding of the Navy is basically complete while the Army side. The expansion of the remaining 20,000 Gangneung defenders to 35,000 will affect the combat effectiveness of the army to some extent.

After all, there are a third more recruits.

However, compared with the navy, Zhang Xi is more familiar with the army, and he also has his own set of training methods to support, so Zhang Xi is not too worried about the combat effectiveness of these armies.

At least, when the opponent was the Soochow Army, Zhang Xi was not worried.

Of course, relying on these forces alone, it is impossible to launch an offensive against Jingnan.

After all, Dongwu is in the Jingnan region, and there are more than 70,000 soldiers and horses on land and water, not counting the 50,000 soldiers and horses in Jiangxia.

If you want reinforcements, it will only take two or three days to travel by water from Jiangxia to Lukou.

In addition, considering the attack on Changsha, Guiyang and other places, it is possible to encounter the need to attack the city, if there is not enough force advantage, it is also a very troublesome thing to attack the city.

Therefore, reinforcements are needed.

Chen of Padang County is there, there is basically no need to worry, as soon as the edict of the Son of Heaven arrives, Chen Zhi will definitely bring reinforcements from Padang County.

However, considering the need to guard the mainland of Padang County, Chen Zhi sent a letter to Zhang Xi, saying that he could only recruit about 20,000 soldiers at most to help, and at least half of them were recruits who had been trained for less than a year.

How good the combat power is, Chen Zhi is not very easy to guarantee.

But in any case, 20,000 troops here in Zhang Xi can be regarded as a lot of support.

In Xiangyang, Wen Ping also needs to bear the heavy responsibility of garrisoning Xiangyang, after all, Jiangxia Navy and Army have a lot of troops, in case Zhuge Ke plays an attack on Xiangyang to encircle Wei and save Zhao, Wen Ping can not be unguarded.

Therefore, Wen Ping can only send a maximum of 10,000 county soldiers to the south, but Wen Ping will try his best to choose veterans with better combat strength to go south, and he will only take the newly recruited county soldiers and 20,000 sailors to guard Xiangyang.

This is already the greatest support that Wenpin can give Zhang Xi.

35,000 Jiangling County soldiers, plus 20,000 Badong County soldiers, and 10,000 Xiangyang County soldiers, a total of 65,000 people Zhang Xi pondered for a while and felt that it was still not enough.

At least 100,000 people must be gathered, so that they can be sure that they can recover the four counties of Jingnan in one fell swoop.

What about the remaining 35,000?!

Among them, 20,000 people are easy to solve, and Zhang Xi can transfer the soldiers of the three eastern counties of Kou Feng's department. This Erha, I heard that I was going to march south, and I wrote to the court and wrote a letter to Zhang Xi, so I just wanted to come over and fight this battle.

So where are the remaining 15,000 people going to be drawn from?!

On the Yingchuan side, Wang Ping and Zhang Wei's troops experienced a fiasco, and there were originally seven or eight thousand people left, and in the past two years, after the transfer of troops from various places and local recruitment, they barely managed to gather 20,000 people.

And Xuchang, Chen Tai and Guo Huai in Yingchuan County are also recruiting soldiers and training on a large scale, and the number of troops has reached 30,000. The troops in this place are not enough for themselves, and they must not be transferred.

Drawn from Zhuge Liang in Luoyang?!

Zhuge Liang did have a force of up to 50,000 troops, including 20,000 Luoyang soldiers and 30,000 Northern Han troops who had been re-allocated.

But Zhuge Liang not only had to face the 50,000 Cao Wei troops in Hedong County and Hanoi County, but also had to face a total of 40,000 Wei troops in Huwolf Pass and Gong County, and Zhuge Liang also needed to divide his troops to guard Hongnong County, although his troops were quite a lot, they were not too rich.

In this case, Zhang Xi had no choice but to go to the court and ask the Son of Heaven to decide.

In fact, he just wanted the 20,000 Han Southern Army in the hands of the Son of Heaven to come to Jiangling to help in the war.

Of course, Zhang Xi didn't expect the little fat man to send all the big Han Southern Army to help in the war, if he could come with 10,000 people, it would be enough to gather 95,000 people, no different from 100,000.

However, Zhang Xi really didn't expect that this time the little fat man would be so bold that he directly sent all the 20,000 southern troops to Zhang Xi.

And with the 20,000 southern troops, there are also Jiang Wei, Wen Qin, Biqiu Jian, and Fu Yan.

Obviously, in the last war, the Southern Army went to war, although Jiang Wei's performance was not bad, but the Southern Army really did not make any decent contributions, but 10,000 Southern Army lost nearly half of the battle in order to rescue Wu Yi.

This time, the little fat man made a big determination to make his own personal defense of the Southern Army to make meritorious contributions.

Well, no matter what the ultimate goal is, today's courage is also quite a legacy of the emperor

(End of chapter)