After receiving the large convoy of money and grain, Xue Rengui immediately commanded the troops to protect the large convoy to move southward, on the way to the south, Xue Rengui encountered a lot of soldiers belonging to the military government gathered to go north, after the inquiry, they all received the imperial edict to go to Chang'an City to gather the army that was ready to go north to sweep the grassland, it is said that the imperial court intends to send at least 150,000 troops this time, divided into two armies in the east and west, and comprehensively attack the grassland.

Zhenguan four years of the Eastern Turks campaign, the Tang Dynasty sent 120,000 troops, at that time the Tang Dynasty was established, the combat effectiveness was not strong, 120,000 troops attacked the Eastern Turks and fought a great victory, but in the decisive battle lost not a few soldiers and horses, but now the times have changed, Zhenguan ten years, six years later, the Tang Dynasty army has been unusually improved in terms of numbers, equipment and combat effectiveness, which Xue Rengui himself can feel, otherwise how could the imperial court attack the grassland with 150,000 troops?

Six years ago, it was a force to deal with a country in the Eastern Turks, but now, it is the strength to deal with the two major grassland powers of the Western Turks and Xue Yantuo at the same time.

In the past six years, how much money has Datang earned! Xue Rengui also knew that Datang not only did commodity business with other countries, but also traded slaves with other countries, and some slaves who were not very obedient or thin and not very easy to use, Datang would package and sell them to those few tribes and countries around them. Anyway, they will want it, and they themselves lack the population, especially those who were captured by the Tang Dynasty from the southern islands, whose complexion is darker than that of the Central Plains, and they are also very barbaric, and they were packaged and sold to Silla by the Tang Dynasty, and now the relationship between Silla and the Tang Dynasty is still good.

With money, in addition to carrying out the reform of government affairs and education and the economy that Zhenguan has innovated, it is to throw money at the army and the military school. Xue Rengui's carnivorous army is a good example. Of course, this is not an isolated case, after Zuo Wuwei had Xue Rengui's carnivorous army, the remaining eleven guards expressed their dissatisfaction with Yan Zòng and wrote to the staff headquarters. asked Li Shiji to give an explanation. Why can only Xue Rengui's 2,000 army become a carnivorous army. They also have an army that is not inferior to Xue Rengui.

Li Shiji was anxious and handed over the mess to Li Erma, anyway, this was Li Erma's idea. Li Ermaxi was also depressed at first glance, and transferred the mess to the former military department in charge of the army's logistics work, the current military department secretary Sun Wuji, the eldest grandson Wuji was even more depressed, he clearly understood that Li Ermaxi asked him to increase the army's funds, the army funds are already a lot, compared with Zhenguan's four years, Zhenguan's military spending for ten years has been more than three times that of Zhenguan's four years.

Although the Tang Dynasty now has strong financial resources, but the foundation is still thin, a carnivorous army consumes more than five times the money and food of the ordinary army, and the rest of the army are government soldiers, but this carnivorous army is the first army in the Tang Dynasty to transform from a government soldier to a standing army, and it is not used for garrison, it is used for war, all the expenses must be borne by the imperial court, and raising a carnivorous army of 2,000 people is equivalent to raising a government army of 10,000 people.

As early as when Li Er's head was hot and he wanted to transform Xue Rengui's army into the first army in the Tang Dynasty to be transformed from a government soldier to a standing army, the eldest grandson Wuji, as the chief steward of the military, once told Li Erma, and there was no way to take it back, but you only give such treatment to an army, no matter how great the military achievements are, there will still be people who are not satisfied, those little tigers who come out of the military academy can fight one by one, and one can compete with one capable, you Li Er is not only the emperor, but also the principal of the military academy students. Treating Xue Rengui like this but treating other students unequally, what do you make other students think?

Li Ermaxi didn't care at the time, he felt that he was the principal, and the students would not listen to what he said? As a result, the matter has come to this point, but he has stopped doing it, and threw the mess to the eldest grandson Wuji, facing a large group of generals who came to the door, the eldest grandson Wuji became the eldest grandson, commonly known as Sun Tzu, and estimated with a bitter face how much military funds could be deducted from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and lost weight in a few days.

However, he had a flash of inspiration one day, and suddenly thought that Wang Yuan and Zhou Zhiwang both held important positions in the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the actual work in the Ministry of Civil Affairs was basically Wang Yuan's responsibility, and Wang Yuan was promoted by Suning.

Li Ermajesty Xià expressed his agreement on this matter, each guard has a carnivorous army representing the peak combat effectiveness, not only to enhance combat effectiveness, but also to enhance the mutual comparison between and within the army, so as to drive the rise of combat effectiveness on the side, in addition, the carnivorous army is a standing army, in addition to the two guards guarding Shandong and Xiangyang, the ten guards are in Chang'an City.

Including Zuo Wuwei's 2,000 carnivorous army, it is equivalent to a total of 15,000 standing elite troops to defend the Beijing division, plus the soldiers and horses of the royal internal guard, in ordinary seasons, the soldiers from all over the country do not need to come all the way to Beijing to defend the division, as long as they go to the border fortress, saving a lot of military expenses!

Li Erma's Xià was happy, and the eldest grandson Wuji cried very happily in his heart, yes, it was saved, but you don't count, raising a carnivorous army of 15,000 people is equivalent to raising tens of thousands of government soldiers? However, for the sake of the elite, they will admit it, but if they dare not fight to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, they will lose the title of carnivorous army in minutes.

Li Erma's one thing is right, this helps to enhance the combat effectiveness between the various armies, and the eldest grandson Wuji also specifically mentioned a lot of proviso conditions, such as the minimum standard of meat, holding a big competition for a period of time, and the last place has no meat to eat, etc., thinking about the method of reducing the cost of the carnivorous army, but just like this, that is enough.

Xue Rengui knew that the more he knew about this qiē, the more anxious he felt, the absolute main force of the twelve carnivorous armies that would have been used as the main force of the army to fight in the north was now unable to participate in the war, Xue Rengui of course felt anxious, and he was even more worried about Suning's worries, and he was even more day and night. When he arrived in Xiangyang, Jingzhou Thorn Shi told him that if you want to reach the Lujiang River as quickly as possible, you can choose to take the waterway, go down the river this time, dock at the shore in the north of the Lujiang River, and then get off the boat and go directly to the Lujiang River.

At this time, a group of ships that were the warships of the Yangzhou Navy were moored in Xiangyang Port, preparing to sail down the river to Yangzhou, just in time to take Xue Rengui along the way. The boat was definitely going down much faster than it was on the ground. There is no need to rest, you can drive day and night, and there are well-trained sailors of the Yangzhou Navy on board to help with transportation, which is safer. Isn't it?

Xue Rengui was overjoyed. After thanking Jingzhou Thorn History. He decided to immediately lead his army aboard the ship, and after spending a whole day and a night carrying boxes of money onto the ship, he finally boarded the ship. With this group of ships as naval warships, accompanied by the navy, they went down the river and quickly went to the Lujiang River.

Wang Shizhen, who got the news here, quickly got in touch with Shi Haochen, knowing that Xue Rengui had already boarded the ship and was preparing to pass the Guò navy's ship to Lujiang by the way, Shi Haochen immediately made arrangements according to Wang Shizhen's previous arrangement, and made arrangements, not allowing this group of people to land, once landed, the combat effectiveness would not be covered, on the ship, the northern soldiers were not so easy to familiarize themselves with the warship, didn't they see that the navy was all southerners?

However, the sailors of the Yangzhou Navy on the ship are very troublesome, Wang Shizhen was very worried that Zhang Liang of the Yangzhou Navy would interfere in this matter with the navy, and even let the navy abandon the ship and land for battle, Jiangnan people are indeed good at water, but who said that Jiangnan people are not good at war? Where is Chu Bawang from? Where is Sun Ce from? Where is Zhou Yu from? Where is Lü Meng from? Aren't they all Jiangnan people? The Chu soldiers are no less good at fighting than the Qin soldiers, and they also have a favorable location in the south of the Yangtze River and a strong combat power, otherwise it is impossible for Wu and Yue to dominate one after another.

As long as the 2,000 strong army is trapped on the ship, the ship is attacked by the strong Jiangnan good water people, and those few Yangzhou sailors are killed, the 2,000 army will definitely not be able to compete with the main force of the underground resistance group on the ship, they are all familiar with the hull, good water nature of the Jiangnan people, the northerners who have not been on the ship for a period of time, it is difficult to fight on the shaking hull, Cao Cao's northern army was defeated so quickly, there are also northerners who are not familiar with the nature of the ship, when the ship shakes violently, the northern soldiers are easy to get dizzy and vomit, and it is difficult to fight.

As long as they grasp the shortcomings of such a northerner, what are they afraid of, it's just a tiger falling in Pingyang and a phoenix, even if Xue Rengui is a dragon and his subordinates are all worms, so what? He can kill a hundred, can he kill a thousand? Wasn't the overlord of Chu still forced to death by Liu Bang?

Taking down those ships, not only can you kill Xue Rengui's 2,000 soldiers and horses, but also get a large number of warships, that is a naval warship, how big it is, it will also play a great role in the future, Wang Shizhen even planned how to sneak into the ship, how to board the ship, how to kill the northern soldiers and sailors, how to obtain the control of the ship, he has already ordered people to investigate the number of ships, and then judge the total number of soldiers and horses transported according to the number, and grasp their one thing unconsciously.

But because the journey from Xiangyang to Lujiang is not long, down the Yangtze River, it can be reached in about a day or two, and there is not much time for them, if they want to succeed, then they must work together on both sides, while killing Suning, while cleaning up Xue Rengui, the main army of the Tang Dynasty gathered in the north, ready to use force against the grassland, the Central Plains army is empty, we take advantage of the weakness, and the big thing can be done!

Shi Haochen couldn't help but be impressed by Wang Shizhen, for the revival of the family, the Wang family almost either learned literature or practiced martial arts, or looked forward to learning literature and martial arts, getting the favor of the emperor's family, and then reviving the family, but the emperor's family did not use this family elite, and the result was cheaper for himself and his master, but now it is cheap, and when the time comes, this price is not small, the king and the horse share the world? In the end, wasn't it still Wang Dun who led the army to rebel?

The world, hehe, there are no two days, there are no two masters in the country, where does the world come from? Want to share the world? I'm afraid that I will also follow the old path of Wang Dun and Wang Dao in the future, right? Li Shimin has a lot of talents under his hands, and you can't make big waves in the past, but in our place, you are a force that is too difficult to control, and now it's okay, we have a common goal, but once it is done, no, it is not a success, even after Dingding Jiangdong, it is not so easy to deal with you.

Wang's family, the elite of the family, this Wang Shizhen's attainments in the art of war are not low, the planning and tactics are even better, and the overall situation is also very good, he is a talent like Zhuge Liang, if he has any military generals in the Wang family, it is really not good, but there is, the five sons of his Wang family are skilled in bows and horses, and they led the team to become the main commanders of this sneak attack campaign.

At this time, Shi Haochen was already worried, let alone in the future?

In the end, this world is still the Li family, and the Sima family can't tolerate your Wang family, let alone my Li family? (To be continued......)