Sun Quan was busy with checks and balances and palace battles, while Ji Han also began to make plans for the future.
Now that Ji Han occupies eight states in the world, the national power is not what it used to be, and there is no need to live as carefully as before.
Many national policies can be prepared through a multi-pronged approach.
Of course, the biggest external enemies of today's Han Dynasty are the two small courts of Soochow and Wei.
To deal with these two major enemies, we mainly rely on the two large states of Jizhou and Jingzhou.
In Jizhou, Zhuge Liang sat in Yecheng. After more than three years of hard work, he finally sorted out the relationship between local government affairs and the aristocratic families. He did not use troops externally for three years, which can be regarded as preliminary completion of recuperation and implementation of government decrees. Basically working.
In the next period of time, Zhuge Liang only needs to save enough money, food and weapons to use troops against Youzhou.
Even the strategy of attacking Youzhou has been planned by Zhuge Liang. As long as he makes a breakthrough all the way in Youzhou and attacks Jixian, he can basically lock in the overall situation.
As for Sima Yi in the eastern part of Jizhou, he may not lead troops to rescue Jixian. Zhuge Liang has already guessed what Sima Yi wants.
Now Jizhou only needs to accumulate money and food, and it can send troops at any time.
As for Jingzhou, Zhang Xi is now preparing for the expedition to Soochow.
The national policy of the Eastern Expedition was personally determined by Emperor Liu Chan, so no matter how difficult it is, it must be realized step by step in the end.
Although the time to attack Wu is not yet ripe, preparations must be done in advance.
The first thing Zhang Xi has to do is to expand the navy.
To be honest, with Soochow's current national strength and the conservative mentality of Soochow's monarchs and ministers, if you ask them to go north to fight for hegemony, they will have neither the strength nor the ambition.
But if Soochow is allowed to defend itself by the river, they can really defend it.
Soochow still has the best navy in the world. This navy, which even has the ability to fight across seas, is Soochow's capital to gain a foothold in the world.
If there is no way to completely defeat the Soochow Navy on the Yangtze River and collapse the river to attack the Jiangdong area, the Han army's logistics supply line will be cut off by the Soochow Navy at any time, and it will be difficult to sustain for a long time.
In the original Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao did not choose to march from Jingnan, but chose to fight the Soochow navy in Chibi. This was also due to this consideration.
Winning the water battle was the first step in attacking Jiangdong.
For this reason, Zhang Xi must expand his navy.
After all, in a short period of time, Zhang Xi could not make the Jingzhou Navy's individual combat effectiveness and combat experience exceed that of the Soochow Navy. If the troops were of the same strength, the Jingzhou Navy might be able to achieve long-range suppression with the help of ship formations, but close combat would still be difficult. It is not the opponent of Soochow Navy.
If you are not careful, the whole army may be destroyed.
Therefore, if Zhang Xi wanted to make up for the Han Dynasty Navy's lack of close combat capabilities in a short period of time, the only thing he could do was to win with numbers.
In melee combat, if individual combat power is insufficient, then use military force to make up for it.
Now on the border of Jingzhou, the Jiangling Navy and Xiangyang Navy combined have less than 50,000 people. Compared with the 300 warships of the 300,000 Jiangdong Navy stationed at Lukou, the overall combat strength can only be said to be Evenly matched.
However, if Zhang Xi could increase the number of naval forces to 100,000 and nearly a thousand warships, it would not be impossible to fight on multiple fronts in the Yangtze River waters, disperse the Soochow Navy's defenses, and offset the Soochow Navy's close combat capabilities with numerical superiority. Chance wins.
It's just that not only does this require more money and food to build docks, but there are not so many ferries and naval bases in Jingzhou to train so many naval forces.
The problem of money and food is easy to solve.
Not only was the Eastern Expedition a national policy formulated by the emperor, and everyone in the country had to cooperate with it, but also because the minister responsible for the administration was Li Yan.
Li Yan is really hard to describe, but there is no doubt that he is a capable and ambitious person.
At the center of the imperial court today, Li Yan has the highest qualifications and prestige. Zhuge Liang, Zhang Xi, Pang Tong, Xu Shu and others who can rival him are all sitting in the local government. Such a good opportunity cannot be missed by Li Yan.
On the one hand, Li Yan needs time to control the government, place his own people in the government, and consolidate his authority and status. On the other hand, Li Yan also needs time to establish a trusting relationship with Liu Chan so that he can maintain his position in Liu Chan's heart. , more than others.
Therefore, Li Yan will definitely find ways to meet Zhang Xi's financial and food requirements.
Doing this has two benefits for Li Yan.
One is to please Liu Chan. After all, Liu Chan personally formulated the national policy of the Eastern Expedition, and Li Yan's dedicated efforts can completely deepen the impression in Liu Chan's heart and gain Liu Chan's trust.
On the other hand, Li Yan tried his best to tilt the distribution of money and grain toward the Eastern Expedition, which would inevitably affect the amount of money and grain distribution in Jizhou and other places.
In this case, if Zhuge Liang, who is sitting in Yecheng, cannot stabilize Jizhou and completely destroy Wei for one day, then he will have to stay in Yecheng and cannot return to Chang'an to compete with Li Yan for central control.
Even when Li Yan did this, Zhuge Liang didn't even write a letter to impeach Li Yan. After all, Li Yan was strictly implementing national policies, which was reasonable and reasonable.
Compared with Zhang Xi, Li Yan is still more wary of Zhuge Liang. After all, Zhuge Liang is still the prime minister and naturally has the reputation to control the government. Once he returns to Chang'an, Li Yan's power will inevitably be weakened. As for the Eastern Expedition plan, Li Yan is really not worried.
Soochow is still quite powerful now, so how can it be so easy to destroy? Even if Li Yan fully supports Zhang Xi to destroy Wu, Zhang Xi will not have three to five years to pacify Soochow and successfully return to the army.
Besides, Zhang Xi has been in this place for a long time and has no foundation in the court. Even if he returns to the court after accomplishing the great feat of destroying the country, he will not pose much of a threat to Li Yan. Supporting Zhang Xi is much more cost-effective than supporting Zhuge Liang.
Therefore, when Zhang Xi wrote to the court asking for money, food, and people, Li Yan's cooperation was so positive.
Not only did he quickly help Zhang Xi solve the problem of money and food, but even Zhang Xi's request to transfer Wang Jun to Bajun to serve as the prefect of Bajun and train the navy was quickly settled.
With an edict, Wang Jun was transferred from Bingzhou to Bajun in the south and north, a difference of thousands of miles.
Wang Jun was almost stunned.
Although Wang Jun made great contributions when cooperating with Deng Ai to attack Bingzhou and Yecheng, his qualifications were too low. After the war, he only got the rank of a bandit general. It was an exception for him to be the prefect of Bajun. Promotion is a good thing.
But the question is, what the hell is being ordered to form the Bajun Navy? !
He doesn’t understand water fighting! ! !
Yes, Wang Jun in this time and space has been fighting in the area north of Heluo since he became an official. He commanded only infantry and cavalry and had no experience in water warfare at all.
Not to mention building a navy fleet from scratch.
As for water warfare and military books, Wang Jun has read some, but basically they have only been briefly dabbled in. How can they be used in actual combat? !
Wang Jun is not the kind of young man who has just joined the officialdom and does not know what the world is like. He is already in his thirties. Of course he understands the importance of practical experience. He does not think that the naval knowledge in his head can satisfy his training requirements. A naval army of tens of thousands of people.
With his pitiful knowledge of water warfare, if he really went to the battlefield, he might not even be as good as some elite naval generals or captains.
Originally, Wang Jun wanted to write a letter to explain, saying that he had no water warfare ability and was afraid that he would not be able to take on such a big responsibility. However, his former boss Deng Ai wrote from Jizhou to express his congratulations on Wang Jun's promotion.
At this time, Wang Jun learned that the person who had assigned him to be the governor of Ba County was the Han Dynasty's only powerful state pastor, Jingzhou pastor, hussar general Zhang Xi.
Wang Jun didn't want to explain immediately, he just wanted to have a good fight.
After all, everyone knows that Zhang Qiaoqi has an almost incomprehensible ability to recognize people, and the talents he recommends are basically useless.
Wang Jun is even beginning to feel now that maybe he is really a water fighting genius, but he just didn't know it before.
Besides, that Yang Di can go from being a scholar to a famous general in naval warfare in just a few years. His reputation is no less than that of Zhu Ran, the famous naval general of Soochow. He comes from a noble family and has the bonus of naval warfare. How can he still become such a famous general? Not as good as a scholar? !
When he thought of this, Wang Jun immediately packed his bags and rushed to Bajun to start forming the Bajun Navy.
After Wang Jun arrived in Bajun, took up the post of governor of Bajun, and began to form the Shu navy, Zhang Xi felt that his burden was suddenly lighter.
One hundred thousand navy, plus Wang Jun, Yang Xi, Zhong Limu, and veteran general Wenpin. Zhang Xi couldn't believe it. The day the navy was built, it could not defeat a small Zhu Ran.
(End of chapter)
