The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 277 Liu Tai’s mastermind

As everyone's meeting ended and everyone started preparations, Zhao An began to lead 20,000 troops to Youzhou, and would return the year after tomorrow.

Especially in the years to come, they will need to undertake work behind enemy lines, so they need a certain degree of battlefield sensitivity.

Now Liu Tai's forces are only in border areas, which is suitable for them to maintain their sensitivity to crises and not be completely eroded by comfort.

Especially staying in the cold north for two years is more training than staying in Hebei.

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

Although there is still no change in the five schools under Zhou Ping's command, the number of soldiers in these five schools has gradually reached 6,000 per school, already reaching 30,000. If combined with their equipment and their willpower, even if they are against Even if you want to go to a real Sanhe Five School, you won't be at a disadvantage.

However, we can also see the gap between Zhou Ping and those famous generals who are famous in history.

For example, Huangfu Song led the Sanhe Five Schools, which lacked equipment and food, and massacred the Yellow Turban Army from south to north, directly suppressing the Yellow Turban Uprising at the end of the Han Dynasty, and giving the Han a hard life, which can be regarded as a pillar of the Han Dynasty.

Don't underestimate this nationwide large-scale peasant uprising. In the past, Zhang Han failed to suppress it and was surrendered by Xiang Yu. Later, Huang Chao and Zhu Wen made the Tang Dynasty breathe its last breath.

Dynasties in history encountered large-scale nationwide uprisings. Although the peasant class had limitations, their fighting power cannot be denied. As the vanguard in troubled times, they would have a devastating blow to any imperial system.

Of course, any dynasty that can survive will undoubtedly be able to survive under normal circumstances, but there are really very few dynasties that can be suppressed.

And Huangfu Song took the Sanhe Five Schools, which lacked equipment and food, and even had people holding them back, to fight directly from the south to the north.

In the Jiazi year, troops were called for in March and subsided in November. The entire Yellow Turban Rebellion did not even last a year. You can imagine how cruel Huangfu Song was, and he spent basically all his time on the road.

Soldiers with almost the same quality, even equipment and food are not in short supply, but Zhou Ping is still excited about leading an army by himself at this 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 from the newly occupied Hebei area.

At first, Liu Tai only asked retired veterans to form government troops, but there were not many local people who volunteered to join the army.

Because as the scale expanded, Liu Tai suppressed the preferential treatment of getting land by joining the army and did not release it.

Liu Tai first encouraged the people to reclaim the land themselves, and at the same time, he first distributed the land to the meritorious soldiers.

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

Even if it is enough, how much land do you need to deduct to make the soldiers feel happy and have the will to fight?

These all need to be calculated to pursue the greatest cost performance.

At the same time, I also need time to settle down, let the people in Hebei believe in me, let the army clear out the defeated troops in Hebei, build the Yongji Canal Project, let the people displaced by the war have a place to stay, and cultivate talents. A new batch of officers.

The most important thing is that the people who have obtained the land or reclaimed the land can actually cultivate heavy amounts of food from the land.

Especially after Liu Tai collected the grain tax, they looked at the remaining grain. Not only did they survive until next year, but they also had surplus.

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

At this time, the Fu Army Camp naturally began to recruit Fu soldiers, and then asked Military History to teach them the "Book of Han".

It needs to be emphasized here that if the soldiers themselves were not the second generation of soldiers who came out of the elementary school built by Mrs. Xu and were then thrown into the army, they would not need to study the book "Hanshu", but would only need to study in the army. Understand the history of the Han Dynasty through historical explanations.

What really needed them to write, or even write the "Book of Han" silently, was when they wanted to become commanders of villages, or even military historians.

As for "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", it was directed towards officials such as music directors.

With mutual trust, the people in Hebei are naturally more and more enthusiastic about joining Liu Tai's army. Whoever can feed them and protect them will be whom they support from the bottom of their hearts.

However, it takes a certain process for these newly added soldiers to become government soldiers and then combat soldiers.

Because of this, the elimination rate of this group of people is quite high. There are constantly people who can't hold on during Liu Ming's training and return to their military headquarters.

However, there are still many soldiers from the government actively signing up, hoping that they can become a member of the soldiers.

The hierarchy of the army is very clear. If you just become a soldier, you will only manage local security and assist the local governor.

But if you become a war soldier, you can follow Liu Tai to fight and perform meritorious service, and you can even rob wealthy families and make a fortune, not to mention the gap in status between government soldiers and war soldiers.

Although before Zhou Ping left, he trained a group of soldiers by annihilating the defeated troops, so that these people could smoothly lead the new ones.

But Liu Tai expanded the number of soldiers to 30,000, and naturally a large number of new soldiers came in. With Liu Ming's training,

However, there will be at least two years before Liu Tai chooses to send his troops south. In terms of time, it is definitely enough.

Chu Hui and other administrative staff naturally noticed the actions of the military under Liu Tai's command. After all, the dispatch of the army also required their cooperation to ensure the supply of food and grass. After knowing the reason, they started to handle the affairs.

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

For two years, we continued to collect various military supplies and make the necessary storage for the next expedition.

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

But in their opinion, the Central Plains created by Zu Ti was actually somewhat solid.

Zu Ti just lost his status as the governor of Yuzhou, but Zu Ti's own influence has not disappeared. The Beifu soldiers he created are also in Zu Ti's hands. As long as he attacks the Central Plains, Zu Ti will definitely be reactivated.

Therefore, the civil servants felt that it was more difficult to conquer the Central Plains, so it was better to capture Zhao State in Guandong or Gou Xi's Xuzhou first.

The State of Zhao was originally part of the Xiongnu-Han State. After Liu Yao was captured, the spirit of the Xiongnu-Han State was gone. Under such circumstances, with only a partial division, Zhao might be able to win.

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

Under such circumstances, if Gou Xi is captured first and then the Central Plains is surrounded, it will be easier, at least strategically speaking.

After thinking about it, Liu Tai chose to refuse, because in Liu Tai's view, both Gou Xi and the Xiongnu Han Dynasty could be surrendered by recruiting them, but Zu Ti could not.

What if I destroy two easy forces and make Jin Ting feel threatened, and Zu Ti, who finally retreated, re-activates them? !

Therefore, Liu Tai insisted on destroying Zu Ti's capital in one fell swoop while Zu Ti was not serving as the governor of Yuzhou and not commanding the situation south of the Yellow River.

Regardless of whether he will be used again in the future, at least the system he built has been completely destroyed by his predecessors.

By then, even if Zu Ti is Zhuge Liang of the Jin court, he will not be afraid of him making waves, because his size can already crush all the conspiracies and tricks of the Jin court.

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

When the civil servants saw Liu Tai's persistence, they said nothing more and could only support Liu Tai!

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

If the strength is strong enough and the strategy can be realized, then no matter how rubbish the strategy is, it is still a good strategy.

And sometimes, no matter how sophisticated the strategy you formulate is, but it turns out that the opponent cannot do it because of its strength, then the strategy is meaningless.

Of course, the worst thing is that one's own strategy is well-formulated and he has done it, but the new version of the strategy has not been updated yet. As a result, the change in the situation has caused his original allies to stab his important ministers in the back. That is really helpless.

Therefore, since Liu Tai insisted on this plan, the civil servants had no objection.

Because Liu Tai has always been victorious.

Under this undefeated golden body, although Liu Tai chose the opponent's strongest point to break through, any civil servant would feel a little uneasy.

But thinking about the miracles Liu Tai had created through his repeated victories, they also instinctively thought that they were not as sensitive as Liu Tai in the military field, so they chose Liu Tai's plan after all.

To be honest, Liu Tai's strategy was not very high, but Liu Taiqiang was strong because he had never lost before, and because he insisted on this strategy, Liu Tai's subordinates began to use Liu Tai's proposed military strategy as the core. , check for leaks and fill in the gaps as much as possible.

As long as the overall framework remained unchanged, Liu Tai was very happy to accept it.

In fact, as long as the upper-level leader determines a strategy and implements it with the determination not to hit the wall or look back, his subordinates will often hit the wall for you personally.

But if you are hesitant to make up your mind and are scheming so that your subordinates have no direction, then the whole team that is originally united will probably be torn apart sooner or later.

Moreover, the strategy proposed by Liu Tai is not bad either. It has about a chance of winning at level seven.

After all, people of this era have not experienced the baptism of the Mongolian army. They do not understand the strategic position of cavalry that can carry out large-scale transfers and attacks without food and grass, relying on dried meat and horses.

What a terrifying strategic unit the cavalry would be, combining a portable jerky, a three-piece harness, and a terrifyingly strong-willed warrior.

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

After all, they didn't even attack Xingyang and Yanzhou, but attacked Yuzhou directly. This really goes against the common sense of military strategists in this era. After all, doesn't this army need supplies? !

In military art, anything that can break common sense is often very lethal.

Needless to say, not even Zhuge Liang thought that Sima Yi would dare to put on women's clothes and walk around the military camp, asking the soldiers if his clothes looked good. Who dares to say that Sima Yi's shamelessness and patience are not beyond the common sense of normal people.

For the civil servants under Liu Tai, how could a strategy of only about seven levels be safe?

Yangman came out and said that he could lobby the Yanzhou aristocratic families. His Taiyang family was originally the leader of the Yanzhou aristocratic family. Now that the Han Dynasty complies with the destiny and unifies the world, it is the way of heaven. It will be difficult for these aristocratic families to surrender immediately, but when the troops point to Yanzhou, At this time, it is always possible to reduce the resistance of the local aristocratic families and allow the local aristocratic families to surrender more smoothly.

Wen Qiao came out and said that he would take the opportunity to spread the "Prophecy of the Golden Sword" and other prophecies about the great prosperity of the Han Dynasty to the south of the Yellow River, thereby reducing the people's resistance to our army.

Xi Jian came out and said that Yanzhou was his hometown, and he had a bit of a bad reputation in his hometown. He hoped to become a military adviser and assist the king in dealing with emergencies with local families.

As for Chu Hui, he stood up and said, "If you don't go to work one by one, accumulating an extra piece of food and placing an extra piece of armor for the army is the greatest contribution we should make.

Also, I am from the Chu family of Henan. Who is not from a noble family? What are you showing off here! Work, work! "

Faced with Chu Hui's power, all the capable ministers under Liu Tai began to work with their heads down.

Of course, every guy keeps his head down while working, but mentally he is absolutely scolding!

But facing Liu Tai's mastermind Chu Hui, no one dared to say no.

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

Because Liu Tai's own knowledge was far ahead of his time, many strategies were set by himself. Chu Hui only played a role in checking for omissions and filling in the details.

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

Of course, the most important thing is that Chu Hui is so energetic that he makes everyone work crazy overtime. Only Liu Tai often abandons strategy and goes to do his own things.

I think at the beginning, Liu Tai was able to defeat Chu Hui's hard work, but after Chu Hui used it smoothly, Liu Tai gradually found that whether he practiced swordsmanship by himself or asked Wang Wei to practice spears, he always had a lot more free time. This is Chu Hui's skill. The role of Hui.

In any case, Chu Hui, whether in terms of status, qualifications or ability, can completely suppress Liu Tai's other civil servants, which indeed allows Liu Tai's civil servants to fully display their abilities.

At this moment, everyone has made corresponding plans. The Yongji Canal will be completed next year, and materials for the southern expedition will be prepared the next year. As for the specific time of the southern expedition, it will depend on the situation.

(End of this chapter)