After assigning their respective tasks, everyone quickly took action.

The Four Kingdoms are menacing, and even the frontier front of the Chu State may have already fought with the enemy countries.

The situation can be said to be extremely critical.

At such times, there is no reason to procrastinate.

Therefore, after receiving the order and taking the tiger talisman, on the same day, Lan Cai'er took the cold tiger and hurried to the front line of Lingling Mansion.

At the same time, the order from Baling also sent various messengers and spirit eagles brought by the snow field to Qianzhong County and the three southwestern vassal states from different channels.

Sun Siwen also sat in Baling, and began to coordinate the overall situation according to Lu Yuan's orders, allocate materials and soldiers for all parties, and play a pivotal role.

As for Lu Yuan, he led Concubine Ling, led the 50,000 sailors of Dongting Lake, and rushed down by boat towards Jiangxia City on the border of Chu Ning.

Jiangxia City is the front line of the battlefield, and the Chu State has been stationed with tens of thousands of forbidden troops all the year round, and at this time it has increased to 100,000 soldiers and horses, which is the first line to resist the Ning State.

According to the news from the front, the vanguard army of Ningguo's main force led by Shen Qiu had actually arrived outside Jiangxia City.

Now the Ning army is building a camp outside the city, building equipment, and preparing for the siege.

The rangers of the two armies outside began to fight each other on a small scale, and several battles of more than 100 people broke out, and the intensity was still rising rapidly.

Now on the front line, only a few disciples of Lu Yuan who are in charge of leading the various forbidden armies are guarding.

Although these disciples are also among the lineages, they are far inferior to Chu Wei, Li Liang and others in terms of strength, ability, and experience.

Not to mention, compared to those innate generals.

Let them guard the front line, Lu Yuan is naturally not at ease.

Therefore, after the meeting was over, and after the mobilization and task assignment, he also set off as soon as possible, leading the assembled sailors to the front line.

Jiangxia City is near the water, and it can even be said to be a riverside city, with a wharf and a water village outside the city, both of which are connected to the city and can be said to be part of the city.

If you want to defend this city, it is not enough to rely on the forbidden army with only foot and cavalry.

It is also necessary for the sailor to be stationed in the water village to help block the river and intercept the Ningguo sailor in order to defend the city.

Therefore, in order to deal with the Ningguo Naval Division, Lu Yuan gathered all the water forces in the country this time, and gathered all 50,000 naval divisions in order to protect the water passage.

Even just in case, even Chu Wei, who was in retreat and sprinting to the innate, called out, intending to let this disciple who single-handedly created the water master of the Chu State to command and be in charge of this big battle.

As for whether this will slow down Chu Wei's progress in breaking through the innate nature, Lu Yuan can't care about it so much.

Without a sailor to protect the river, then the Ningren sailor could go straight up the Shuojiang River, block the river, and isolate the north and south of the Yangtze River in Chu State.

He could even use the sailors to send Ning's infantry and cavalry to various places along the coast of Chu State, penetrate deep into Xichuan and Qianzhong counties, and attack the rear of the heart of Chu State.

One more congenital and one less congenital, although it is important for the two camps that have invested more than ten congenitals today, it will not affect the overall situation at all.

But if the sailor is destroyed, or is hit hard, this can affect the overall situation.

It is self-evident which of the two is more important.

At most, in the days when Lu Yuan took Chu Wei, he did more of his responsibility as a teacher and taught him innate skills, which could almost make up for the loss of his distraction from the water master.

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On the wide river, thousands of warships, large and small, lined up in a continuous formation, breaking the waves, heading towards the lower reaches of the river.

Lu Yuan stood at the bow of the ship, looking at the fog that was still a little thick in the early morning, and his mood was a little gloomy for a while.

Jiangxia City is about two hundred miles away from Baling, and if you go down the wind like now, you can actually reach it in half a day.

If nothing else.

At about one or two o'clock in the afternoon, the army of the sailors could reach Jiangxia City.

At that time, with the addition of these 50,000 sailors, Jiangxia City's water and land soldiers and horses will reach 150,000, and with the innate combat power of himself and Concubine Ling, it is enough to build this city into a solid foundation, and it will be difficult for people to take a step forward.

It's just that Jiangxia City is stable, but it doesn't mean that Dongting County is stable.

Jiangxia City, like the national capital Baling City, belongs to Yueyang Mansion and is the easternmost waterfront city in the north of Dongting.

However, no matter how far this Xiongcheng radiates, it can at most keep an area near Yueyang Mansion, and it is difficult to reproduce a larger expansion.

But the area bordering Dongting County and Ningguo is not just one Yueyang Mansion.

To the south of Yueyang Mansion, there is Changsha Mansion, which is also a majestic city, and it is also the most important grain producing area in the Dongting Plain, and more than 30% of the grain in the county is produced from this land.

The importance of Changsha Mansion does not need to be said at all.

To the south of Changsha Mansion is Hengyang Mansion.

This province is also a major grain producing area, although it is not as good as Changsha Province, but it also produces about half of the grain in the county, which is also very important.

To the south of Hengyang Mansion is Luyang Mansion, the place where the Seven Star Gate rebelled at the beginning, and half of Lu Yuan's starting stronghold.

Although Hengyang Prefecture is not an important grain producing area, like Changsha and Hengyang, it borders Yuzhang County of Ningguo.

Through these bordering areas, the Ning army of Yuzhang County can send a large army at any time to attack the land of Sanfu.

Therefore, in order to guard against the three prefectures adjacent to Yuzhang County, Lu Yuan stationed a forbidden army in Changsha and Hengyang respectively, and arranged the last mobile forbidden army in his hands in these two places.

The last remaining Luyang Mansion also stationed 10,000 county soldiers from Dongting and 6,000 county soldiers from all over the country to be responsible for defense.

But even so, with about 20,000 soldiers and horses in each province, among them there is not even an innate grandmaster, this defense is still too empty.

Empty to the point that Ning Guo only needs to draw out an innate grandmaster, with fifty or sixty thousand soldiers and horses, it is possible to break through the defense line of Yifu and enter the interior of Dongting County.

And with the strength of Ning Guo, it is undoubtedly extremely simple and easy to draw out such a partial army.

In other words, the entire Dongting County is actually in an extremely empty and dangerous situation.

Lu Yuan assigned four battlefields, including Xiangyang County, Nanhai Kingdom, and Su Song Kingdom, and the staffing of soldiers and horses was all in a state of full matching, even luxury.

In these three battlefields, the state of Chu has almost reached an invincible position.

But this kind of invincible position, the basis for realization, is conducive to sacrificing the defense of Dongting County, so that the main battlefield where Lu Yuan is located can only be achieved under the premise of being inferior in strength.

Therefore, looking at the overall situation, everywhere else, the state of Chu can be said to have great advantages, and even say that the victory is in hand.

But only on the side of Dongting County, the state of Chu is at a disadvantage, and it may even be defeated at any time.

Lu Yuan deeply understood this and cleared the risks, so he was deeply worried about it.

He is now walking a tightrope, and if he is not careful, he will fall into the abyss, fall into the mud, and lose everything.

It's dangerous.

But if you don't do this, Dongting County may be able to be stable, but in the other three battlefields, the situation will become unfavorable or stalemate.

Once the stalemate falls, then the five countries such as Chu and Ning will become a pure competition of essence and a state of resource consumption.

This big war will become the same as the war of the Snow Field and the Zhou Kingdom, purely fighting, who has more people, who has more money, who has more food, and who can bear more death.

Although relying on his own strength and heritage, Lu Yuan believes that after this competition, he will definitely be able to win.

But this victory will probably come in five or six years, or ten years.

And the land of Yangzhou will also become devastated and messy because of the war, and it will no longer be prosperous.

In this case, even if he wins, as a victor, he will not get much benefit, and it can only be said that he loses both.

Therefore, if we want to achieve enough victories and benefits, then this war cannot last too long, and the scale cannot spread too much.

It is best to divide the two sides in a few decisive battles, defeat the enemy in a short time, and then grab all the results while the war is still spreading.

In order to achieve this goal, conventional methods will naturally not work, and some unconventional means can only be used.

For example.

Give up and weaken the forces of the main battlefield on the side of Dongting County, and then strengthen the forces of the other three side battlefields.

In the other three battlefields, the camp on your side can divide the victory and defeat as soon as possible.

After defeating the local enemy and integrating local resources, return to the main battlefield.

In the end, all forces were gathered to defeat the enemy, which had already been weakened three times, and win the big battle.

All of the above is Lu Yuan's true purpose.

And in order to achieve this goal, he must hold the weakened Dongting County, and hold on until the other three battlefields are reinforced, so as to ensure that the Dongting County will not be lost.

This competition is whether one's own partial army defeats the enemy's partial army first, or the enemy's main force defeats its own main force first, and it is about speed.

It can be said that Lu Yuan is making a big gamble.

But he gambled willingly.

Because of this gamble, the fight is not only for the ownership of Yangzhou, but also for the right to survive in the last days, and it is also the hope of whether he can lead Kyushu through this catastrophe in the future.

For the sake of this lofty goal, it is nothing to take a little risk at this time and gamble on such a game.

If you win, you will show that you are destined to become the lord of this last world in the future.

If you lose, it is just the right time to give up the idea of chasing the world as soon as possible, and lead your family to find a place to hide for hundreds of years.

Wait for the world to become extraordinary, and then jump out of the world after the end of the world, and re-establish the country and fight for hegemony.

In fact, if you study it carefully, the road behind is undoubtedly more comfortable and easier.

But Lu Yuan didn't dare to bet.

I don't dare to bet that after the four extremes of Kyushu are abolished, the remaining land of Zhongzhou will continue to exist as in ancient times, for the people of this world to breathe.

If not, then the world will undoubtedly come to an end and enter a state of collapse.

If Lu Yuan continues to stay in this world, it is equivalent to waiting for death slowly, and the final outcome will only be to destroy with this world.

This is not impossible.

So although he didn't know if this conjecture would come true, as long as there was a slight possibility, he didn't dare to bet.

Therefore, for the sake of the future, unify Yangzhou and Kyushu as soon as possible, and then use the luck of the entire Kyushu to extract the last remaining spiritual energy in the depths of the heavenly dome for their own cultivation.

Gather the resources of a world to build up your own cultivation, so that your strength can reach the limit, so as to deal with possible dangers in the future.

This is the driving force that pushes Lu Yuan to continue to compete for hegemony and accelerate the pace of reunification.

"Changsha, Hengyang, and Luyang, I have asked Brother Sun to gather 200,000 people from China to go to these three places to defend them. In this way, counting the original soldiers and horses, there are almost eighty or ninety thousand people stationed in each place.

Although there are still a few people and the quality is a little poor, the number of people is here, even if you face the innate grandmaster and the army of 100,000, you can last for a month or two.

With this time buffer, troops and horses can be calmly deployed in the country and rush to support at any time. ”

Lu Yuan looked at the ups and downs of the waves, thinking to himself in his heart, and at the same time couldn't help sighing.

There is still too little power available in the hands.

In today's Chu State, the standing troops and horses of all parts add up, about 720,000 horses.

The composition of these centaurs is roughly divided into six parts.

The first part, naturally, is the largest and most elite forbidden army.

The state of Chu now has twenty-five forbidden armies, with a total of 500,000 soldiers and horses.

Among them, 10 teams of 200,000 people were stationed in Dongting County, five teams of 100,000 people were stationed in Hanzhong County, four teams of 80,000 people were stationed in Xiangyang County, two teams of 40,000 people were stationed in Qianzhong County, and one team of 20,000 people was stationed in Xichuan County.

There are also three forbidden armies of 60,000 people, and they followed Qingyunzi to the south to conquer the South China Sea.

The above is the most important mobile force of the Chu State, and it is also the main force, which belongs to the ranks of the soldiers.

In addition, each of the six counties of Chu also had 10,000 county soldiers, who served as the county's permanent garrison and horses, responsible for suppressing internal rebellions and defending against foreign enemies.

Even when there is a shortage of soldiers and horses in the county, it can temporarily dispatch county soldiers to help support.

In general, there is no difference between the county soldiers and the forbidden army, the only difference is that the county soldiers are mainly responsible for the military of a county, and they have a fixed defense area, which is equivalent to a local military district.

The forbidden army is a mobile soldier and horses, and often runs around the country.

Where it is needed, where it is transferred, it is equivalent to the Central Army.

But whether it is a county soldier or a forbidden army, they all belong to the battle soldier sequence, and the difference in combat power is not too big, and they belong to the same level.

The state of Chu has six counties with a total of 60,000 soldiers, which is the second strongest military force in the country.

In addition to the county soldiers, the local soldiers and horses also have the county soldiers.

According to the regulations that are now in vogue in Kyushu, counties are set up under the central court; under the county, there is a government; Under the government, there are counties.

The number of counties varies according to their size, and the number of prefectures varies.

There are many ten prefectures, such as Dongting and Xichuan, which are divided in this way.

The lesser ones are Xiangyang County, which is occupied by the three kingdoms of Chu, Zhou, and Ning, and is divided into three, with the Chu State occupying four prefectures and the other two countries each occupying three prefectures.

This is a division at the county level.

Under the county government, the division at the county level is much more unified.

Basically, each prefecture controls ten counties, and there will not be much difference in the number of counties, all according to this number.

Therefore, according to the plan of this prefecture and county, the number of soldiers in the prefecture and county is basically fixed.

Each prefecture can train 1,000 soldiers, and each county can train 100 county soldiers.

In this case, a prefecture-level unit, with all the soldiers and horses combined, will have 1,000 government soldiers and 1,000 county soldiers, a total of 2,000 men and horses.

The two thousand county soldiers belong to the real local soldiers and horses, and they will basically not be transferred out. It is only responsible for local law and order, and clears out small-scale and low-intensity wars such as banditry.

In major wars such as national wars and foreign conquests, most of them will not use prefectural soldiers.

The specific reason is not that they don't want to use this batch of soldiers and horses, but that the combat power of the prefecture and county soldiers is really far behind compared with the real soldiers.

is also a standing soldier, and the monthly salary of the soldiers of the prefecture and county is three taels of silver, and the soldiers of the war are five taels of silver.

During the New Year's Festival, the soldiers of the prefecture and county can receive two festival rewards during the New Year's Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival. On top of these two festival rewards, the soldiers added two additional festival rewards of Mid-Autumn Festival and cold food.

And the rewards of the soldiers of the prefecture and county and the rewards of the soldiers, the treatment and silver are also very different.

In extreme cases, the difference can be more than twofold.

Therefore, in comparison, the annual income of an ordinary soldier may be more than twice that of a county soldier.

If you participate in the war, there is a wartime allowance, and the Tibetan soldiers can also receive double salary, or one and a half salaries, then the income gap with the county soldiers is even greater.

Here's another example.

The monthly salary of the soldiers in the prefecture and county is three taels of silver, and the general laborers in the city can earn two taels of silver if they work hard for a month. If you have a little skill, such as being a chef, blacksmith, or carpenter, you can get three or four taels of silver, not to mention it.

Even if you count the festival rewards, the annual income of a county soldier is just about the same as that of an ordinary cook, blacksmith, and carpenter, and it is only a little better than the lowest-level laborers.

So even if the salary of the county soldiers can support the whole family, life is also crumpled, and there is no way to get rich.

On the other hand, on the basis of feeding the whole family, the soldiers are using the resources to support the whole family to support themselves.

With enough money, you can naturally eat and drink freely, temper your martial arts, and even buy some medicinal herbs to nourish, and your life is not too beautiful.

Such a large income gap naturally caused a gap in the combat strength of the prefectural and county soldiers and the soldiers, and formed two different levels of combat power between the two arms of the army.

One can only suppress the bandits and civil unrest internally and maintain law and order.

The other is capable of fighting with the nations externally and quelling large-scale rebellions internally, without fear.

It is precisely because of these differences that if it is not necessary, all countries will not bring their soldiers to the front line to participate in foreign conquests.

If you want cannon fodder, you can levy more cheap people.

If you want to destroy the strong, the county soldiers don't have that ability.

This state of not being up or down has also led to a consensus among countries.

The prefectural and county soldiers are to maintain local law and order, and they are not needed for other work.

Moreover, the soldiers of the prefecture and county are only a little better than the people's bravery, which also makes it difficult for them to shoulder heavy responsibilities and cannot play a big role at all.

The state of Chu now has fifty prefectures, that is, about 100,000 prefectures and counties, which is the combat power in the third part.

In addition, in Baling, the national capital, there are about 5,000 Jin Wuwei, who are responsible for the security of the city. There were also about 5,000 palace guards, who were responsible for the security of the royal city.

These two parts of the soldiers and horses, together with 10,000 men, are the weakest part of the army sequence.

In addition to the above five sequences of the army, there are 50,000 sailors left.

The forbidden army, county soldiers, government and county soldiers, Jin Wuwei, palace guards, and sailors, the above six parts of the sequence together constitute the military strength of the Chu State, with a full army of 720,000.

This seems like a lot, but the shelves of Chu Guopu are also large, and when they are spread out and used, they will be divided into one point, and there will not be much.

That's it.

The three partial battlefields were divided, the public security in various places was divided into points, and the frontier defense was divided into one point, and in the end, there were only 210,000 horses that could fall into the hands of Lu Yuan.

In the face of the Ning State army, which was twice as large as several parties, it was really stretched and full of loopholes.

"It's really not okay to keep it now, so you can only pay a little more."

Lu Yuan muttered to himself, and when he said the word final price, a trace of pain flashed in his eyes, obviously reluctant.