It is not a fantasy to maintain suppression of the Chu State in the short term without provoking a major war, and the Chu State is not only a force like Lu Zhe that needs to improve relations, but also the situation between the two sides has become very bad because of the Qi army forcing Huiji County and occupying part of Surabaya County.

Compared with the Qi State, which was originally an ally, seeing that the Chu State was weak and aggressive, Lu Zhe's side has always been hostile, and emotionally speaking, the enemy is worth hating, but the fall of the ally is especially indignant.

The enemy can find a way to reconcile temporarily, but the fall of the allies is not so easy to remove, after all, they have already torn their faces and fallen into the ground, and the Qi State will not be so easy to send away if it does not take enough benefits, but the current Chu State only has Huizhang County and Huiji County, and the Surabaya County side is doomed to be unsafe, what else can satisfy the huge appetite of the Qi State that has torn its face and disregarded its face?

Lu Zhe asked where Shusun Tong had arrived, and after getting the answer, he replied: "Shusun Tong went to agree on a marriage with Xiong Xin, the king of Chu, and once the marriage is finalized, the attack can be stopped." In this way, the transfer of 50,000 troops to the south will not affect the overall strategy. ”

is going to get married and still beat up with a fat meal, and it's the kind of endless bullying, it really seems a little unreasonable?

Of course, it is more because of the changes in the south, Lu Zhe wants to continue to beat Chu Guo Fat, and it has become a little weak, after all, Chu State is weak, but he still has the ability to fight back to the death. If he really bullied too badly and provoked the Chu State desperately, Lu Zhe's side had to attack the south and face the decisive counterattack of the Chu State, and the force would be insufficient.

Originally, the 50,000 troops who were going to go to Fanyang City in Lujiang from Nanling City walked to the state tomb, and it seemed that it was only one hundred and sixty miles to turn around and go south to Luoxian. There is a plain between Zhouling and Luo County, and now is not the muddy season of the rainy season, and there is no snow in Nanjun and Changsha County in the south this year, and the road can be reached within three days in a hurry, which fully meets the elite Cheng Dù and time requirements required for the southern transfer.

"Su Lie, you take the tiger talisman and go and receive the 50,000 in person." Once Lu Zhe made up his mind, he never dragged his feet.

Su Lie quickly responded. In fact, what he was afraid of was that these 50,000 people would be returned to the Southern Army, and if he was in command, it would mean that these 50,000 elite soldiers were not changed from the Eastern Army to the Southern Army. As long as it is not crossed out of the sequence of the Eastern Corps and brought people to help the Southern Corps or something, then it is easy to say anything.

"What is the sequence of the 30,000 troops that can be used in Nanling City?" Lu Zhe looked at Mei Kai and asked, and patted his forehead after asking: "Look at my memory." ”

What else can it be, the 30,000 people will be assigned to the formation of the Praetorian Guard, of which the size of the cavalry is about 10,000, with 5,000 heavy infantry, 5,000 crossbowmen, and the rest are spearmen and swordsmen.

The sequence of the Praetorian Guard will be the unit with the most cavalry formation, that is, the one with the most horses, after all, the intention of forming such a legion is to reinforce everywhere. How can it be done without sufficiently flexible mobility?

"Requisition enough chariots to drive ......" Lu Zhe silently calculated in his heart, if even the infantry was pulled by horse-drawn carriages, the distance from Nanling to Luoxian was about two hundred miles?

When the Southern Army marched south, the southbound army had already opened the road from Nanling to Luoxian, considering that after the subjugation of Changsha County, Nanjun and Changsha County also needed a road, and Lu Zhe later transferred about 60,000 auxiliary soldiers who had been deleted and selected to do nothing to repair the road.

In less than a month, it is natural that the road on the scale of galloping cannot be built, but there is absolutely no problem in providing carriage passage. If Lu Zhe is not mistaken, the businessmen who were entrusted to bring supplies to Luo County some time ago, it seems that they only took two days to send the supplies to Luo County?

Later, Kuai Tong and Xiao He rushed over when they heard the news.

After reading Sima Xin's battle report. Kuaitong smiled bitterly: "It's messy, it's reasonable, but the changes in our plan are too great." ”

According to the previous plan, Sima Xin was used as a bait to attract the Baiyue people to besiege. Luo Shao, who returned to the army from Ba County, detoured back to the south of Changsha County from Cangwu County, blocking the back road of the Baiyue people. During this period, the three clans and the naval army that is about to go south will also play a good role.

What now? It will take at least a month for Luo Shao to complete the detour, and the Jingling Navy is still in the preparation stage, and Li Shiqi from the three clans only sent back the news that the three clans had surrendered and did not agree on how to cooperate. So the plan is really messed up. It's a mess of fragments.

Baiyue slaughtered the people of Changsha, this news sounds nothing surprising, which war did not suffer the most damage to the head of Qian? But the Baiyue people actually threw the Chinese woman into a boiling pot to cook in front of the two armies. No one who saw it could bear it.

"Sima Xin did a good job this time." Lu Zhe set this tone very early, and he was not angry with Sima Xin because of the changes in the battle situation.

Cooking women in front of the two armies is too stimulating, it is far more infuriating than seeing a man being thrown in to cook, after all, women have always been weak, as long as a man has a desire to protect women, who can bear it when he sees that scene. If you can endure it like that, let alone not a soldier, Qianshou sees that patience is not worthy of living anymore. Besides, this is the case, let alone the soldiers.

Sima Xin sent troops to fight, it must have taken into account the feelings of the soldiers under his command, Lu Zhe put himself in his shoes, if the person who commanded the troops at that time was himself, except for going out of the city to fight, there was really no other way to eliminate the soldiers being carried away by anger, that was the best move to eliminate the mutiny into invisibility.

"yes, yes." Whoever dared to say no to the people present, they were people who knew the temperament of their own masters, and what kind of nationalism had the opportunity would always be on their lips.

Nationalism? Lu Zhe doesn't talk much about this term, isn't he going to open a school? He would always summon the scribes who were hired to give lectures, and to ask the teachers to inculcate in them what ideas he wanted to inculcate in the students, and the notion of a nation, which had not yet been formed, was one of the things that was necessary.

"What other troops can be drawn?" Lu Zhe was in a depressed mood, although it was understandable, but how to deal with it was another thing, wasn't it?

50,000 troops belong to the Eastern Army sequence, 30,000 are reorganized into the Praetorian Guard Army in the subsequent stage, and there are only 80,000 troops that can go south, even if Sima Xin's troops are included, 80,000 plus 40,000 thousands in Luo County, that is only a little more than 120,000.

The 120,000 formed army is not a few, especially Lu Zhe is never stingy with the equipment of the army, if it is used to fight a frontal battle, 120,000 against the same number of Qin troops who were the most warlike at that time, Lu Zhe dare not say that he will definitely win, but he will definitely not lose.

The problem now is that there are nearly 400,000 Baiyue people around Luo County, is it 400,000 not 40,000, 400,000 people are just camped for more than ten miles, not to mention that there are still Baiyue people in the south who are about to join the battle of Luo County, how can Lu Zhe use 120,000 people to surround these 400,000 Baiyue people?

"Nanling still has nearly 250,000 troops......" Kuaitong's meaning is very clear, just 120,000 reinforcements can defeat Baiyue, but it is impossible to encircle and annihilate at all, because those inferior troops still have to be transferred south, not as the main combat force, but only in the surrounding coordination.

Then there are 370,000 in total, and such a number is indeed enough troops to encircle, but there are not many follow-up problems.

The reason for the reorganization of the troops is that the main battle units and auxiliary units are planned, and the auxiliary troops are divided into tuntian soldiers and baggage troops; if all those troops are transferred to the south, it will be tantamount to saying that the plan for the reorganization of the army has failed, and this may affect the upcoming spring ploughing.

Xiao He had a proper concern about the auxiliary troops who were supposed to go to the south to cultivate fields, build roads, and build bridges, he had already made a plan, as long as the auxiliary troops arrived to start large-scale construction, or to achieve the first year of the three-year construction target of the five-year plan in the autumn of the next year, if the auxiliary troops were not in place, then everything was empty talk.

The construction plan in the first year fell through, and it was difficult for Xiao He to imagine that the Tuntian plan had not been completed, and after the plundered grain was exhausted, where should the grain of at least 300,000 troops in the five counties come from, which was related to the grand strategy of the southern conquest and the northern war.

Xiao He expressed his worries, and Lu Zhe had to be cautious after hearing this, and Kuai Tong fell silent.

Their hostile forces are not only Baiyue, in addition to the pressure from the Qin State, the Chu State is also the target that must be conquered within three years, not to mention the Qi State that is about to move south.

Internal affairs are fundamental to ensuring security and outward expansion, and the amount of food they can obtain during the autumn harvest each year is related to how many troops they can support, and whether they have enough food to ensure the supply of military rations after the outbreak of war. At the same time, it is imperative to build roads, which are the lifeblood of the counties and an indispensable part of developing and consolidating people's livelihoods everywhere. Therefore, the planned first year of construction, which is related to survival and expansion, cannot be interrupted.

Yan Bi who came from behind was strange, how could such a simple thing become complicated in the hands of this group of people who are not bad at ability and intelligence?

"Despite our many policies to benefit the people, there is still a lot of idle labor in the counties. The Lord controls the number of the army, and the young and strong people everywhere are also in a situation where they are full of energy and have nowhere to vent. ”

Lu Zhe was the first to react, he was disturbed by the whole change and the various animal behaviors of the Baiyue people, and then he entered a dead end of thinking.

"Yes, you can hire civilian labor to complete the first year of construction, and it is not completely restricted to the auxiliaries who need to be registered." Kuaitong apparently came to his senses.

Xiao He nodded in agreement, as long as there was no mess up with the construction goals of the first year, he had no objections. (To be continued......)