Compared with the busy government affairs of chaos and order, the military aspect of northern Xinjiang can only be described as step-by-step. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The theme of the whole year is training and changing clothes.

The Northern Xinjiang Army was already strong enough, with the standing army including 14 infantry regiments, nearly 450,000 people, and 10 cavalry regiments of 180,000 people, plus Li Yi's personal guard regiment of 20,000 people, the total size reached 650,000 people. Such a large force is already enough to deal with any enemy of this era.

Moreover, the art of war is cloudy, and it is not too much but more refined, and it is better to implement the policy of elite soldiers than to wantonly expand the size of the army. This will not only ensure the combat effectiveness of the army, but also reduce the consumption of the army.

Of course, this kind of consumption is for food, in fact, with Li Yi's requirements for the army, with the same number of troops, his soldiers and horses can consume several times more money than others. It can be said that the money and food consumed by Li Yi's 650,000 army can at least raise an army of two million people if they are exchanged for other princes.

It is precisely because of the implementation of the elite army policy that the combat effectiveness of the Northern Xinjiang Army is so strong, and a Northern Xinjiang Army can at least resist twice the number of enemies head-on, and will not incur too many losses.

Of course, in addition to the standing army, the Northern Xinjiang Army also has a garrison army of considerable size. Specifically, each prefecture has two or three garrison corps, with cavalry in the north and infantry in the south. The strength of the entire garrison force reached 30 corps, including 18 infantry corps, each with 24,000 men, and 12 cavalry corps, each with 18,000 men, and the total strength was still nearly 650,000, which was roughly the same as the strength of the standing army. Of course, the combat effectiveness cannot be compared, and the garrison of the Northern Frontier Army has the same combat effectiveness as the armies of other princes.

The equipment of the Northern Xinjiang Army has always been ahead of this era. With the development of the technological level of northern Xinjiang, all kinds of long-range weapons and siege equipment have been successively equipped in the whole army, and have strong combat effectiveness.

Li Yi didn't go out of his way to study things like muskets and artillery, because the Han Dynasty's force was strong enough, and it didn't matter if there were those things or not. In addition, without sufficient support from basic industries, even if it is reluctantly built, it is unlikely to spread on a large scale.

However, if these weapons came into being in the war, Li Yi would not deliberately avoid them. He himself imagined that if the smelting process could be improved in the next few years, artillery could still be studied.

The lethality of this thing is not what he values the most, what he values most is the audio-visual effect of the artillery, and it is not very powerful to scare people with this thing by pretending to be a ghost?

In addition, artillery siege is also a good tactic.

Compared with the army that has huge strength but has been standing still, the navy in northern Xinjiang is the most beautiful after ten years of Jian'an.

Although the scale of today's Northern Xinjiang Navy is not as large as that of the army, it is extremely large for this era.

The naval forces of the entire northern Xinjiang include the three major naval fleets, as well as the two inland naval armies of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River.

The size of the three major naval fleets has basically not changed, still maintaining the previous scale of 15,000 people per fleet, the scale of the Yellow River naval army is very small, only 3,000 people, but the scale of Cai Mao's Yangtze River naval army is much larger, as high as 9,000 people.

Because whether it is to attack Jiangdong or Yizhou next, it is likely that the naval army will be used. In particular, the attack on Jiangdong would absolutely require the use of the navy, so Li Yi specially ordered the three major naval fleets and the Yangtze River Navy to strengthen combat training during the 10 years of Jian'an, and even organized water warfare exercises to allow the navy to accumulate experience in water operations.

Of course, landing exercises are also an essential item.

Many people do not understand that Li Yi attaches so much importance to the navy. After all, even if it is an attack on Jiangdong, there is no need for such fanfare. Although the Jiangdong Navy is also considered powerful, it can basically compete with the Yangtze River Navy alone, not to mention the powerful three major naval fleets.

This is the trouble of Qu Gao and Widow, Li Yi will not deliberately explain anything, anyway, no one will understand it. Even internally, there are many people who have reservations about this now, including even important ministers such as Tian Feng and Guoyuan.

No way, who let China have no tradition of sailing?

Not to mention in the Han Dynasty, even in the Song Dynasty, which was extremely prosperous in later generations, and the Ming Dynasty, which went to the West seven times and had the strongest fleet in the world at that time, did not put much effort into navigation.

For the Central Plains, where the land is vast and abundant, people have no enthusiasm or motivation to explore the ocean. Li Yi had been allowing the reclamation order to continue without taking any action, just because of this consideration, if there was no land in the Central Plains, would he be motivated to explore outward?

The South Seas are far away, and you can't count on them in the near future, but what about those two places that are relatively close? The Indochina Peninsula in the south is better served as a rehearsal for colonial policy than to allow it to breed bacteria; The island country to the east, which is full of gold and silver, should set off a gold rush instead of letting those treasures sit like that.

It was because of Dongdu's plan that Li Yi tried his best to complete the initial planning of the business first. After a period of commercial operation, it will be relatively mature, and the exploration fleet should also bear fruit. When the time comes, the tide of colonization and gold rush will be set off, won't it be seamless?

The new monetary system, or the financial system, that is about to be introduced, will also take advantage of this trend. Only at that time can the rest and recuperation of northern Xinjiang be completely completed, and Li Yi can also rest assured that he can launch a strategy to unify the whole country. Because at that time, the political and economic system centered on the New Deal would automatically accommodate and infect the newly occupied areas, disperse or transform the old forces, and eliminate local resistance in the shortest possible time, making it a help rather than a resistance to the Northern Frontier Army.

These ideas are not for outsiders, even for Tian Feng and others, Li Yi can't explain it, and it is difficult to explain it. It's too complicated, it's too advanced, it's too predictable.

Anyway, I can control the overall situation, and there is really no need to explain everything to my subordinates.

Li Yi thought very clearly, and waited until the day when it came to fruition, and then let everyone sigh at his foresight.

However, it is precisely because of this that Li Yi must stay in Jicheng, and he can't fight everywhere like before, and can only watch his generals succeed.

Fortunately, there is no major war this year, and the most beautiful general in the Northern Xinjiang Army is not the Five Tiger Generals, nor the generals who were summoned two years ago such as Xue Rengui, who is Fang Xianzheng, but Cai Mao, the general of Jingzhou.

Cai Mao was originally the commander of Liu Biao's naval army, and now although he has surrendered to Li Yi, because of Huang Yueying's relationship and the possibility of using Cai Mao in the future to attack Jiangdong and Yizhou, Cai Mao still has a lot of status under Li Yi.

Moreover, Cai Mao himself also has good abilities, the five-dimensional values are all above seventy, and the commander and resourcefulness are nearly eighty, so Li Yi can be regarded as a heavy use of him. Today, he still has hundreds of warships and 9,000 sailors under his command. With the majesty of the Northern Xinjiang Army and the banner of escort, this naval army traveled back and forth in the Yangtze River basin, including all the tributaries of the Yangtze River.

Now, in the face of the powerful Northern Xinjiang Army, Liu Bei and Sun Quan are trembling, and they dare not take the initiative to provoke incidents.

Even if it is only facing the Yangtze River Naval Army, the Jiangdong Naval Army will be able to deal with it enough, not to mention that there are three major naval fleets on the sea. As long as the Yangtze River Navy does not take the initiative to provoke trouble, Sun Quan will be Amitabha, let alone take the initiative to provoke trouble.

And Liu Bei, because of the previous fiasco in Jingzhou, is now shrinking his strength very much, and the strength of the navy is almost nothing, so he has no choice but to take the Yangtze River navy.

Of course, the most important reason is that the Yangtze River Naval Army is beneficial and harmless to Liu Bei and Sun Quan.

Once commodities are in circulation, they will be followed by the prosperity of the territory and the fall of prices, which is especially evident in Hedong and the Sanfu area.

Before the merchant groups in northern Xinjiang arrived by water, the prices in Yizhou and Jiangdong had risen to a terrifying level, and the life of the aristocracy was very poor, not to mention the ordinary soldiers and civilians.

Salt and rice are the necessities of human survival, although Yizhou and Jiangdong are not too short of salt, after all, Yizhou has well salt, Jiangdong has sea salt, but food is a very fatal problem.

In order to resist the tremendous pressure from the Northern Xinjiang Army, both Yizhou and Jiangdong had to raise a large army. However, both Yizhou and Jiangdong are places that have not been developed for a long time, the economy is not developed, and the grain output is not high. In this way, the problem is big.

When the Northern Xinjiang Business Group came, these crises were greatly alleviated. Among the commodities carried by merchants in northern Xinjiang, there were not only luxury goods such as paper and handicrafts, but also scarce materials such as grain.

The most important thing is that these people are also willing to accept the small money minted by Liu Bei and Sun Quan. Although they will keep the price of a small amount of money very low, as long as someone collects this thing, it is good, who still has the heart to pick and choose the fat and the thin?

What's more, the price given by the people of northern Xinjiang is also relatively fair, and it is calculated according to the weight. You must know that Liu Bei and Sun Quan may have less than half of the copper content in Xiaoqian, and the people of Northern Xinjiang are already very kind.

It is not for nothing that the merchants of Northern Xinjiang are regarded as fat sheep, and the bandits and bandits, plus the various forces that pretend to be bandits and bandits, are all in this list, which can be described as a group of wolves.

This is the time for the Yangtze River Navy to exert its might, and Cai Mao will speak with a big blade to these glamorous ghosts. There is not much difference between the navy and the army in this era, and fighting on the water is also a hand-to-hand fight with a gang of jumping boats, and there is no doubt about the fierce spirit of the Yangtze River navy.

Therefore, according to the statistics of a year, the Yangtze River naval army fought the most battles, and the enemy killed thousands before and after.

Of course, no one will ignore the huge Northern Frontier Army because of the scenery of the Yangtze River Water Army. No one will doubt what kind of terrifying destructive power the Northern Frontier Army will bring once it is mobilized.

Fortunately, the male lion has been dormant and waiting, without showing its teeth and claws, so Liu Bei and Sun Quan are not too nervous.

However, the hidden dragon is in the abyss, and one day it will soar in the sky, in order to accumulate enough strength before this day, Li Yi, Liu Bei and Sun Quan are all working hard in their own way.