As everyone's meeting was over, they began to prepare, and Zhao An began to march to Youzhou with 20,000 troops, and then dispatch them back the year after tomorrow.

Especially in the year after tomorrow, they need to take on the work behind enemy lines, so they need a certain degree of battlefield sensitivity.

Now that Liu Tai's forces are also in the border area, it is suitable to keep them sensitive to the crisis and will not be completely eroded by comfort.

Especially staying in the cold north for two years is better than exercising people in Hebei.

Soon after Zhao An was dispatched, Zhou Ping also led his army out of Yecheng and headed for Liyang.

Although Zhou Ping still commanded the five schools and there was no change, the number of non-commissioned officers of these five schools has gradually reached 6,000 people per school, and there are already 30,000 people.

However, from here, you can also see the gap between Zhou Ping and those famous generals who have left history in history.

For example, Huangfu Song took the five schools of Sanhe, who lacked equipment and food, and slaughtered the Yellow Turban Army from the south to the north, directly suppressed the Yellow Turban Uprising at the end of the Han Dynasty, and gave the Han a hard life, which can be regarded as the pillar of the Han Dynasty.

Don't underestimate this kind of large-scale nationwide peasant uprising, Zhang Han failed to suppress it in the past, and was surrendered by Xiang Yu, and then Huang Chao Zhu Wen made Datang swallow his last breath.

Historically, dynasties encountered large-scale uprisings of a national nature, and although the peasant class had limitations, it could not be denied their fighting power, and as the vanguard of troubled times, they were devastating to any imperial system.

Of course, any dynasty that can survive can undoubtedly continue a wave of life under normal circumstances, but there are really few dynasties that can be suppressed.

And Huangfu Song took the three rivers and five schools with a lack of equipment and food, and even someone pulled their hind legs, and killed them directly from the south to the north.

Jiazi called for troops in March, and subsided in November, and the entire Yellow Turban Rebellion did not support the past for even a year.

And the soldiers with almost the same quality, even equipment and food are not lacking, but Zhou Ping is still excited to lead an army alone at the moment, and this is the gap between Zhou Ping and Huangfu Song!

Compared with Zhou Ping's excitement, Liu Ming was mainly responsible for selecting and recruiting new soldiers at this time.

Yes, Liu Ming began to train new soldiers on a large scale, especially those in the newly occupied Hebei region.

At the beginning, Liu Tai only asked retired veterans to form government soldiers, but there are not many people who volunteer to join the army.

Because with the expansion of the scale, the preferential treatment of land that can be obtained by entering the government soldiers was suppressed by Liu Tai and was not released.

Liu Tai first encouraged the people to reclaim the land by themselves, and at the same time first developed the land of meritorious soldiers.

After nearly a year of precipitation, Liu Tai counted the number of fields in Hebei, the soldiers he needed, and calculated the detailed number of soldiers who could select a soldier before he could determine whether the land was enough.

Even if it is enough, how much land do you need to withhold in order to make the warriors feel happy and have the will to fight at the same time.

These are all things that need to be calculated, in pursuit of the maximum cost performance.

At the same time, he also needs time to precipitate, let the people in Hebei believe in himself, let the army clear the rout in Hebei, build the Yongji Canal Project, let the people displaced by the war have a foothold, and train a group of new officers.

The most important thing is that the people who have acquired the land or reclaimed the land really cultivate a lot of food from the land.

Especially after Liu Tai collected the grain tax, they looked at the remaining grain, not only to live until next year, but also to have a surplus.

This gave the people of Hebei the hope of continuing to survive and their trust in Liu Tai.

At this time, the government barracks naturally began to recruit government soldiers, and then asked military history to teach them the Book of Han.

It needs to be emphasized here that if the soldiers themselves did not come out of the Mengxue built by Xu Niangzi and then threw them into the second generation of soldiers, then they did not need to study the book "Book of Han", but only need to understand the history of the Han family under the explanation of military history.

What they really need to write, or even write silently, is only when they want to become tun commanders, or even military history.

As for "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", it is to go to officials such as Qu Chang.

And with mutual trust, the people of Hebei are naturally more and more enthusiastic about participating in Liu Tai's army, who can let them have enough to eat, who can protect them, then they support whom from the bottom of their hearts.

It's just that it takes a certain process for these newly joined soldiers to become government soldiers, and then become war soldiers.

Because of this, the elimination rate of this group of people is quite high, and some people continue to be unable to hold on to Liu Ming's training and return to the military government where they are located.

But there are also government soldiers who are actively signing up, hoping that they can become a member of the soldiers.

The hierarchy of the army is very clear, if you only become a government soldier, then you will only manage law and order in the local area and assist the local Taishou.

But if he becomes a soldier, then he can follow Liu Tai out to fight and make meritorious contributions, and even rob wealthy families to make a fortune, not to mention the gap between the status of the government soldiers and the war soldiers.

Although Zhou Ping left, he trained a group of soldiers by exterminating the defeated soldiers, so that this group of people could smoothly lead the old and the new.

But Liu Tai expanded the number of soldiers by 30,000, and naturally a large number of recruits poured in, and Liu Ming trained him.

However, there are at least two years before Liu Tai chooses to wave his troops south, and in terms of time, it is absolutely enough.

Chu Yi and other administrative personnel naturally looked at the actions of the military under Liu Tai, after all, the dispatch of the army also required their cooperation to ensure the supply of grain and grass, and after knowing the reason, they also handled the affairs.

Especially after knowing Liu Tai's plan, everyone worked more purposefully.

For two years, we will continue to store all kinds of military supplies for the next expedition.

No one objected to this, and every Wenchen under Liu Tai took it for granted that Liu Tai, as the king of Han, should have planned to unify the world like this.

It's just that in their opinion, the Central Plains created by Zu Ti is really a bit strong.

Zu Ti just lost the identity of Yuzhou Assassin, but Zu Ti's own influence has not disappeared, and the Beifu soldiers created by himself are also in Zu Ti's hands, as long as he attacks the Central Plains, Zu Ti will definitely be reactivated.

Therefore, the ministers felt that it was difficult to fight the Central Plains, so it was better to take down Zhao in the Kanto region or Xuzhou in Gou Xi first.

The Zhao State was originally a part of the Xiongnu Han State, and after Liu Yao was captured, the spirit of the Xiongnu Han State was gone.

In such a situation, only one partial division is needed, and maybe Zhao State can be taken.

As for Xuzhou, Su Jun's fleet can land from the sea and strike at the hinterland of Xuzhou, plus Gou Xi has lost twice against Liu Tai, and the psychological pressure on Gou Xi has been completely formed.

In such a situation, if Gou Xi is laid down first, and then the Central Plains is encircled, at least strategically speaking, it will be easier.

After thinking about it, Liu Tai still chose to refuse, because in Liu Tai's opinion, Gou Xi and the Xiongnu Han Kingdom could surrender by surrendering, but Zu Ti couldn't.

What if he defeated the two easy forces and made the Jin Ting feel threatened, and the ancestor who had finally retreated was reactivated?!

Therefore, Liu Tai insisted on taking advantage of Zu Ti's inappropriate assassination of Yuzhou and not commanding the situation south of the Yellow River, and beat Zu Ti's capital in one go.

Whether or not he will be activated in the future, at least the system he built has been completely destroyed by his predecessors.

At that time, even if Zu Ti is Zhuge Liang of the Jin Court, he is not afraid of him making waves, because of his size, he can already crush all the conspiracies and tricks of the Jin Court.

Therefore, if you want to fight, you have to fight the most difficult, and then force Gou Xi to surrender with absolute power and march into Guanzhong.

When the ministers saw Liu Tai's insistence, they didn't say anything more, they could only support Liu Taibei!

Sometimes, in fact, the right or wrong strategy is completely determined by one's own strength.

If the strength is strong enough to realize the strategy, then no matter how rubbish the strategy is, it is also a good strategy.

And sometimes, no matter how subtle the strategy you make, but you can't do it because the other party is strong, then the strategy is meaningless.

Of course, the worst thing is that one's own strategy is exquisitely formulated, and he has done it, but the new version of the strategy has not been updated, and the result is that the change in the situation has made his original ally backstab his important minister, which is really no way.

Therefore, since Liu Tai insisted on this plan, the Wenchen did not have any objection.

Because Liu Tai has always been victorious.

Under this undefeated golden body, although Liu Tai chose the strongest point of the other party to break through, everyone who was a Wenchen would feel a little uneasy.

But thinking about the miracle created by Liu Tai's repeated victories all the time, they also instinctively thought that they were not as sensitive as Liu Tai in military affairs, and finally chose Liu Tai's plan.

To tell the truth, Liu Tai's strategy is not high, but Liu Taiqiang is strong because he has never lost, coupled with his own insistence on specifying this strategy, which makes Liu Tai's subordinates also begin to take the military strategy proposed by Liu Tai as the core, and try to check and fill in the gaps as much as possible.

And when the overall framework has not changed, Liu Tai is also very happy to accept it.

In fact, as long as you determine a strategy as an upper-level leader and implement it with the determination not to hit the south wall and not look back, your subordinates will often personally hit the south wall for you.

But if you hesitate to make up your mind, and you are so resourceful that your subordinates do not have a direction, then the whole that was originally united will be torn apart sooner or later.

Moreover, the strategy proposed by Liu Tai cannot be regarded as bad, probably about seven layers of victory.

After all, the people of this era had not yet experienced the baptism of the Mongol army, and they did not understand the strategic position of the cavalry, which could completely carry out large-scale transfer and attack without food and grass, relying on dried meat and horses.

What a terrifying strategic class of cavalry would be a portable jerky, a three-piece set of harness, and a warrior with terrifying willpower.

So under normal circumstances, Yuzhou would not be on guard against Liu Tai's army at all.

After all, they didn't even fight Xingyang and Yanzhou, and they directly fought Yuzhou, which really doesn't conform to the common sense of soldiers in this era, after all, this army doesn't need supplies?!

In the art of war, anything that can break common sense is often very lethal.

Don't say it, even Zhuge Liang didn't expect Sima Yi to dare to put on women's clothes and walk around the barracks, and ask the soldiers if their clothes look good, who dares to say that Sima Yi's face and patience are not beyond the common sense of normal people.

And for the ministers under Liu Tai, how can a strategy of only about seven layers be safeguarded.

Yang Man came out of the ranks, saying that he could go to lobby the Yanzhou family, his Taishan goat family was originally the leader of the Yanzhou family, and now the Han Dynasty obeys the mandate of heaven, and it is the way of heaven to unify the world, so that these families can surrender immediately, but when the soldiers point to Yanzhou, it is possible to reduce the resistance of the local families and let the local families surrender more smoothly.

Wen Qiao came out of the ranks, saying that he would take the opportunity to infiltrate the prophecies of the Han dynasty to the south of the Yellow River, so as to reduce the people's sense of resistance to our army.

Xi Jian came out of the ranks, saying that Yanzhou is his hometown, and he has a bit of a reputation in his hometown, and he hopes to become a military advisor with the army when the time comes, so as to assist the king in dealing with emergencies with the local family.

As for Chu Yu, he stood up, "One by one, we don't go to work, accumulate more food for the army, and place an extra piece of armor, which is the biggest contribution we should make."

There is also an old man who is from the Chu family of Henan, who is not from a family, and what are they showing here! Work, work! ”

In the face of Chu Yu's obscenity, all the capable ministers under Liu Tai began to work with their heads bowed.

Of course, all the guys are working with their heads bowed on the surface, and they are absolutely scolding their mothers!

But in the face of Chu Yi, the mastermind under Liu Tai, no one dared to say a word.

Although the relationship between Liu Tai and Chu Yu is not like a normal monarch and mastermind.

Because Liu Tai's own knowledge is far beyond this era, many strategies are set by himself, and Chu Yi only plays a role in checking and filling in the details.

But no one under Liu Tai denied Chu Tai's position in Liu Tai's regime.

Of course, the most important thing is that Chu Yu is so energetic that everyone is working overtime like crazy, only Liu Tai often drops his strategy and goes to do his own thing.

I think that at the beginning, Liu Tai was also able to get past Chu Wei's diligence, but after Chu Yi used it well, Liu Tai gradually found that whether he practiced swords by himself or found Wang Wei to practice guns, he always had a lot more free time, which was the role of Chu Miao.

In any case, whether it is Chu Yu's identity or ability, he can completely suppress the other ministers under Liu Tai, which is indeed to make Liu Tai's subordinates completely exert their abilities.

At this moment, everyone has also made a corresponding plan, next year the Yongji Canal will be completed, and the materials for the southern expedition will be prepared in the second year, as for the specific time of the southern expedition, it will depend on the situation.

(End of chapter)