The dispatch of the army has always been the appearance of a strong army, and with Lu Zhe preparing for the expedition this time, it is inevitable that there will be a kind of rumor.

In fact, it has always been not so simple to concentrate or mobilize troops, after all, soldiers always have to have a process of assembly, and the preparation of military equipment and food and grass takes a lot of time.

The recruitment of auxiliary soldiers was an order that Lu Zhe had given a month ago, and Nanling, as a gathering place for the army, naturally had young men from all directions concentrating here.

There are already about 500,000 residents in Nanling City, and now it is not a situation where there is empty land like before, so it is obviously inappropriate to gather in Nanling City.

There is also a piece of land in Nanling City that is specially used for the army to camp, and it is no problem to become the garrison of 120,000 standing troops, but the young people gathered in Nanling City from all directions are not in a small number, and Xiao He has to draw another piece of land outside the city as a temporary concentration place in order to deal with at least 300,000 or 400,000 young people who gather in Nanling.

There are regulations on the recruitment of auxiliary soldiers, and priority is given to those who have military experience, followed by those who are physically strong and have combat skills.

The so-called combat skills are naturally the use of weapons, now is the period of the end of the Warring States period of Qin Gang's unification and division, as long as the young people over twenty years old basically have military experience, then in the selection of auxiliaries is actually very important to whether the use of weapons is proficient.

After the recruitment of auxiliary troops, the army's plan for dealing with the unit is to temporarily promote people with more experience from the middle to the rank of commander and even chief of the army at the grass-roots level, transfer some officers from the combat units as middle-level 100 generals, 500 chiefs, and military marquis, and carefully select some officers who have sufficient knowledge but lack of experience above the rank of captain.

While waiting for the army to complete its formation, Lu Zhe paid attention to the news from other countries, and when he was making preparations, the corresponding vanguard troops naturally had to be drawn first, and this was done by going to the ground to survey the geography first. At the same time, it is also to prevent the armies of the nations from setting up ambushes or something.

The armies of the nations have almost been drawn out, and the assembly place of the armies of Qi and Yan is in Pei County, which was newly established in Qi State, and Zhao State and Chu State need to borrow a road if they want to reach the place of the alliance in Shen because their territories do not border.

The State of Zhao had already determined that it was borrowing a road from the State of Qi, and on the side of the State of Chu, it was Xiang Bo who asked Lu Zhe to borrow the road from Jiujiang County.

Qi Guo agreed to Zhao Guo's request to borrow the way, and Lu Zhe thought about it and agreed to Chu Jun's request to borrow the way.

Although the importance of the alliance has been repeatedly weakened, its significance is still extraordinary, and it has always been a practice to travel to the location of the alliance by the way, and there has never been a case in history where the alliance was used to attack by the way.

"In fact, borrowing the Tao is also a temptation," Lu Zhe is not so rigid, and no one uses the alliance as an attack for the time being. It doesn't mean that no one will do that: "Let's see if Chu is honest or not." ”

Jiujiang County was not an important county for Lu Zhe. Because of the promise of letting the Shu clan dominate Jiujiang, his control over Jiujiang County is not as strong as that of other counties, and his investment in the construction of Jiujiang County is also the least at present, and it is not even as good as the newly occupied Minnan County and Nanhai County.

Kuaitong agreed to use Jiujiang County to test the Chu State. He also had to mention the necessary advice: "Let Shu Shi strictly monitor, and also inform Shu Dao about the necessary backup plan." ”

This is inevitable, not paying attention to it does not mean giving up, and the maintenance of the table should also be done, otherwise it is really difficult to say whether Shu's side will have any ideas.

Jibu's eastern army used this excuse to go north, "It is difficult to keep the transfer of troops secret in these years. Lu Zhe just used this ready-made excuse as a cover: "In addition, regarding the route of the Chu army's march north to the alliance, the military division must hurry up and come up with a plan." ”

Yes, although it was a passage for the Chu army to pass, it was up to Lu Zhe's side to decide where the Chu army should go. It's not that Chu Jun can go any way he wants.

Lu Zhe asked the most critical question: "The princess of the Zhao State is going south with the army, what about the Chu State?" ”

Marriage, Zhao Guo doesn't always have the opportunity to go south, this time he must take Zhao Xin south. However, Zhao is a special situation, after all, the territory of Zhao does not border with Lü Zhe's territory, but the territory of Chu and Lü Zhe are bordered.

"The Chu State did not report about the marriage of the princess." Kuai Tong glanced at Yan Bi next to him, and then continued: "Uncle Sun Tong has been negotiating about marriage and engagement. ”

To determine the marriage, what specifications should Lu Zhe come up with to marry, and what should be taken out as a dowry by the Chu State, they are all things that need to be further planned, not as simple as going empty-handed to empty-handed.

Yan Bi knew why Kuaitong came over, and he said: "Our spies have been paying attention to the movements of the Chu State, and this time the Chu State and the alliance Xiang Liang, Xiang Bo, and the Xiang Ji that the Lord is concerned about will also go." In addition, 12,000 soldiers of the Chu State will also accompany him. ”

Xiang's children have been expanded? It was the first time Lu Zhe had heard the news. If he remembers correctly, the Xiang clan's soldiers originally had 8,000, but it seems that they lost about 2,000 in the battle of Lujiang County? The soldiers of the Xiang clan are troops that have always been fully equipped with iron weapons, so to speak, the state of Chu ...... At least the ironsmith workshop on Xiang's side has also expanded?

“…… Long Ji, Ding Gong, Lu Chen, Zhou Yin, and more than a dozen generals of the Chu State will also go with the army. "Yan Bi's intelligence is still very powerful? He also said: "Song Yi, Xue Gong, Shen Yang and other six civil servants will also go. ”

"Huh?" Lu Zhe knew that Song Yi had always been at odds with the Xiang family, and at the same time, some generals such as Ding Gong and Lu Chen were also the so-called royal Taoist faction, and they were both people who stood on the side of Xiong Xin, the king of Chu: "It seems that the Xiang family is not worried about those people, so they all brought them over to form an alliance." This is for fear that when they are not there, someone will make trouble in the back. ”

The head of the Qi State side also mobilized a lot of brains this time, but the Qi State is a status quo where the clan is in power, as long as there are generals and important ministers, there is no one who is not a member of the Tian clan, so that it is difficult for Lu Zhe to remember what so many people with Tian starting with the Tian family are doing when listening to the list.

In addition to Zhao Wangxie, Chen Yu, Wuchen, and Sima Ang also accompanied Zhao Guo's southward journey, while Zhang Er, Tian Shu, Zhang Ao and others were left behind in Zhao. Of course, Li Zuoche, who was in Nanling, would also take Lu Zhe's hitchhiker to Shen.

"There are only Yan Wang (Ji) Xia and Zang Di in Yan Kingdom?" Lu Zhe had never paid much attention to the very distant Yan Kingdom.

Yan Bi is a Yan person, and he seems to feel sorry for the withering of Yan talents: "Yan is poor, and it is not easy to become a famous person and a famous general." ”

Lu Zhe remembered something and asked, "What's the situation in Guangyang County recently?" ”

Guangyang County has always been the territory of Yan and Qi in the contention, since the Yan and Qi countries have been reinstated, the competition for Guangyang County has not stopped, the two sides have fought many times in the territory of Guangyang County, but the casualties between each other are not too strict.

Yan Bi didn't seem to expect the topic to be transferred to Guangyang County, and he was stunned for a moment before answering: "Since Zhao Guo exercised a contraction strategy, Qi Yan's military conflict in Guangyang has been weakening. ”

There is also a Chen Sheng in Guangyang County, and Lu Zhe has not forgotten this point: "What about Chen Sheng?" ”

"Chen Sheng?" Yan Bi didn't quite understand why Lu Zhe had always attached importance to a Chen Sheng who started at the end of Weimo: "It seems that there are rumors that Qi Yan is cooperating to attack Chen Sheng, but due to the distance, it has not been confirmed." ”

At this moment, Lu Zhe has a spectrum in his heart, Qi Yan must have gained some consensus, and getting closer to each other has become an inevitable trend. At the same time, there seem to be new changes between the Chu State and the Qi State, which is not an intelligence show, but a speculation based on Lu Zhe's vigilance against the Xiang family.

It took about a month to assemble the army and prepare ordnance and grain, and the newly formed auxiliary troops were also reorganized outside Nanling City for about half a month, and when Lu Zhe and others determined that the armies of various countries were only ten days away from Shen, they finally marched to Hengshan County with their troops.

Hengshan County was the first county to be occupied by Lu Zhe after Xunan County, because Hengshan County played a role in guarding against the military town in the north for a long time, and Lu Zhe has always attached great importance to the construction of roads from South County to Hengshan County.

The 250,000 army set off from Nanling, and the first stop after leaving Nanling was to arrive at Jingling, and Lu Zhe naturally wanted to stop and pay attention to the development of Jingling's naval army.

There are currently three shipyards on this side of Jingling, but due to technical limitations, it is basically impossible to build any big ships, and the largest warships have 500 materials (equivalent to 162.5 tons), and if you want to build a warship of more than 1,000 materials, you still need to accumulate technology.

The warship of 500 materials is not small in the inland river, at least what Lu Zhe knows is that there is no warship larger than 500 materials. Of course, warships and cargo ships are two concepts, and there must be cargo ships with more than 500 materials, and Lu Zhe has more than 20 cargo ships that transport 800 materials because of his emphasis on the water system.

Watch...... It is also called to inspect the shipyards and navy of Jingling, Lu Zhe is naturally indispensable to communicate with the local gentry and clans, and delayed for a day before continuing to march to Hengshan County.

If you want to go to Shen from Nanling, you need to pass through Jingling and Anlu along the way, and when you enter the boundary of Hengshan County, you will also pass through Hengshan Zhifu Yi County, and then go all the way north to reach Shen.

During Lu Zhe's entry into Hengshan County, the 100,000 troops of the Chu State also stepped into the territory of Jiujiang County, and Shu Dao felt 120,000 wary of the entry of the Chu army, and almost sent it three times a day to report to Lu Zhe about the movements of the Chu army.

After Lü Zhe officially set off, Dong Fei, who was in Nanling, also set off for Yangcheng, where Meng Yi and other Qin troops were located, and almost on the third day after Lü Zhe's departure, 80,000 Qin troops also set up camp.

According to the detailed monitoring sent by Lu Zhe, the Qin army did not cause much trouble along the way, since the Qin army did not want to sweep away the rebellious bandits, the forces of Nanyang County naturally did not dare to provoke, so they may arrive in Shen earlier than Lu Zhe or the armies of other countries...... (To be continued......)