"This can be done, I will arrange it."
Regarding Zhou Qing's proposal, Lu Yuan just thought about it briefly and nodded in agreement. Then he thought for a moment and said: "In a while, I will find more real people to come out. By then, the number of real people protecting the country in the country should increase to sixty-four."
Twelve years ago, after Lu Yuan's cultivation had accumulated, he successfully broke through the realm of condensing three qi.
This is a big level, so the benefits after breaking through are also extremely large.
After condensing three qi, Lu Yuan's soul strength and mana were more than five times stronger than when he condensed two qi.
Note that this five times is five times that when Lu Yuan condenses the two qi to perfection.
After cultivating the realm of condensing two qi to perfection, Lu Yuan's soul was strong enough to support the consumption of twelve clones' spiritual thoughts.
It has increased by nearly two-thirds since the initial breakthrough.
At this time, Lu Yuan's spiritual power had increased five times, enough to support the consumption of sixty-four clones.
However, Chu State had been implementing a policy of peace and cultivation before, and also in order not to cause panic among neighboring countries. Therefore, although he strengthened his soul, he did not immediately create a new clone.
Since there is a demand now and the Northern Expedition is imminent, there is no need to hide it.
"That's great. If we can really have sixty-four real people to help us, then there won't be any problems in this Northern Expedition."
When Zhou Qing heard Lu Yuan's words, he couldn't help complaining in his heart, secretly thinking that his master had stopped pretending at all. The fifty-six real people would take it out as soon as there was a need.
Is it obvious to tell others that these real people were created by me?
Although he was full of troubles, having so many effective forces at once made him excited and clapped his hands: "This time our Chu army sent a total of six million troops. Calculating the army of 100,000 people per army, it can be divided into up to sixty armies. Soldiers and horses.
If one real person is responsible for the army along the way, there will be four left among the sixty-four real people.
The remaining four real men, together with Your Majesty, can take charge of five camps. Each camp is divided into twelve lines of soldiers and horses, commanding 1.2 million people.
The rest of the innate masters in the country can be assigned to various camps to provide support.
This ensures that there is a real commander for all the soldiers and horses, and a situation where ten innates can be mobilized for each camp.
In this way, the five armies of troops marched together, and six million troops crossed the river and headed north. Hundreds of Xiantian warriors were lost, and the Liang Kingdom was bound to perish. "
After thirty years of accumulation, the number of Xiantian Grandmasters in Chu State now reaches seventy-two.
The origins of these seventy-two people are quite complex.
With the eight avatars Lu Yuan had previously created and the five disciples he had trained, Sun Siwen, Zhou Qing, Queen, Lingnu, Yin Huixuan, and himself, they were the original core base of the Chu Kingdom.
There are also Xiantian from the Xiliang Kingdom and the Tibetan tribes who subsequently surrendered, Xiantian from the eighteen feudal vassal states in Lingnan and Southwest China, and some Xiantian from barbarians who came to seek refuge from places such as the South China Sea, Northwest, and Southwest over the years.
In the end, these were the children Lu Yuan grew up with.
These three major sources add up to the current grand situation of Chu State's seventy-two innates.
Among these seventy-two people, minus the eight clones of Lu Yuan, plus the ten who stayed behind in the Lingnan and Southwest battlefields to defend against pirates and rainforest barbarians, the country also minus the four who must stay behind. people.
In the end, fifty innates can be selected to participate in the Northern Expedition.
In this way, if five major camps are formed, in addition to the basic military commander, each camp can also be assigned ten innates. The top-level master-level combat power can be said to be extremely abundant.
Fifty innates, sixty-four clones, plus Lu Yuan himself, Chu State can dispatch a total of 115 innate-level combatants for this Northern Expedition.
The innate number is twice that of Liang State, and the total military strength is also twice that of Liang State.
The above are just differences in overall strength.
Today's Liang State has Zhao Xu in the north, Wei State in the west, and pirates in the south. It can be said that it is surrounded by enemies on three sides.
These three directions alone have taken away more than 80% of the strength of Liang State, and there is not much energy left that can be put on the southwest border with Chu State.
Anyway, as far as Chu State knows.
The number of Liang soldiers arranged on the Jiangbei border is only half a million, and there are no more than seven innate masters.
If calculated based on this, then the power gap between Chu State and Liang State on the local battlefield in Jiangbei is not only twice, but more than ten times.
With a gap of ten times to attack Jiangbei, Zhou Qing really couldn't imagine what Liang Guo could do to stop it?
Once the Jiangbei defense line was breached, Chu soldiers divided into five groups and rushed into the hinterland of Liang State. The soldiers and horses located on the three borders had no time to return to aid, and the hinterland of Liang State was completely captured by Chu State.
After losing the rear area, the country may even have fallen, and the remaining defeated soldiers of Liang State have no way out except surrendering to Chu State.
This is the excellent situation that Chu State spent thirty years creating.
"It is okay to divide the five-pronged camp, but it is not necessary to put all the five-pronged camp in Liang Guo."
Lu Yuan agreed in principle with Zhou Qing's plan, but he put forward his own ideas about some goals of the plan.
He pointed to the position of the Wei State on the map in front of him and said: "Since we have already started the Northern Expedition, when the war breaks out, all the hidden things that our Chu State has hidden before will inevitably become known to the world.
By then, Wei, Zhao, Xu and other countries will be frightened and on guard after hearing about the strength of our Chu State, and will do their best to prevent our Chu State from attacking.
It is not impossible for the three countries to unite and gather the remnants of Liang to fight against me. "
Although he had an absolute advantage, Lu Yuan did not underestimate his enemy's thoughts. At this time, he proposed another very possible direction: "So in order to avoid this kind of thing from happening, or to weaken the impact of the incident in advance.
This is the Northern Expedition to the Liang Kingdom, and by the way, the Wei Kingdom was also destroyed. I think it is very necessary. "
After Lu Yuan finished speaking, he lightly circled the Wei area on the map with his fingertips and drew the areas of Henan and Nanyang counties.
Obviously, what he meant by destroying Wei was to capture two counties in this state.
"Destroy the Wei State by the way?"
Zhou Qing frowned when he heard this and stared at the position of the Wei Kingdom drawn by Lu Yuan in deep thought.
Although Wei's strength has declined sharply in recent years, it is still a large country with a population of 40 million. It has 2 million standing soldiers and there are still more than 20 innate masters left.
To destroy such a big country requires a lot of strength.
At the very least, it would definitely not be possible to rely solely on Zhou Qing's plan to camp along the way.
There must be at least two camps, that is, forty-six innates and 2.4 million soldiers and horses, to have the strength to destroy Wei.
But if two lines of troops and horses are sent to the Wei State, the Chu State can use the troops in the Liang State, and only three lines of troops are left to camp.
Although this strength is still considerable, if you want to achieve the goal of destroying the Liang Kingdom, there may be a lot of twists and turns, and it will not be so easy to accomplish.
So after thinking about it, Zhou Qing still shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, I also believe that it is better to destroy Wei State sooner rather than later. But Wei is a big country, not inferior to Liang State. If you want to destroy it urgently, it may not be easy.
Nowadays, the main energy of our country, Chu, still needs to be placed on Liang Guo. I am afraid that there is not much power that can be mobilized to deal with Wei Guo.
Therefore, the top priority right now is to destroy the Liang Kingdom first.
After seizing the land of Qingzhou and integrating the old lands of the Liang Kingdom, we, the Great Chu, will be able to span the two states, with tens of millions of troops and more than a hundred people innate.
This kind of strength, even if the three kingdoms of Wei, Zhao and Xu unite, is far behind.
And I, Da Chu, have gained Qingzhou and half of Zhongzhou, so I can easily accumulate strength, slowly plot, and cut them off one by one.
There is no need to rush into this matter. "
Zhou Qing tried hard to persuade him.
However, Lu Yuan smiled after hearing his worries: "Actually, it doesn't take many soldiers and horses to defeat the Wei State. You can just camp along the way."
Zhou Qing was startled when he heard this, but he didn't believe it: "We are camping all the way?"
Lu Yuan nodded, and then moved his fingertips away from the direction of Wei State and rowed to the Helong land in the west and the adjacent grassland.
"Xiao Qing, look here. Now the five counties of Yongxi and the southern part of the grassland have been occupied by barbarians migrating south and foreigners from the west.
According to the report of Huang Xin, the general manager of Hanzhong, the total number of barbarians in these two places is no less than 30 million.
Due to the habit of migrating tribes, the whole people became soldiers.
Thirty million people can dispatch no less than eight million soldiers and horses, among whom there are at least ten Xiantian. "
Lu Yuan reported a set of intelligence data, and then looked at his disciples with a smile: "Eight million soldiers, this number is already close to half of the men and horses we are planning to use in the Northern Expedition of Chu.
Even I feel my heart tremble when I hear about this power entrenched in the northwest of Dachu, and I am worried every day.
After all, our Da Chu is separated by Long Mountain, which is protected by natural barriers. It is difficult for the migrating barbarians to cross it, so the protection is relatively simple.
But on the Wei side, there is a smooth road between Yongxi and the southern part of the grassland, and there is no attempt to block it.
As long as those migrating barbarians are willing, they can easily reach Shuofang and Guannei counties of Wei State.
If they cannot be intercepted in time, these barbarians can kill Henan and Nanyang counties at the heart of Wei at any time.
Therefore, in order to improve the defense in the west, Wei's two million troops now have to deploy 1.5 million troops and deploy them in Shuofang and Guannei counties all year round.
There were only 500,000 troops left on the Eastern Front.
But even so, the defense in the western part of Wei State was still difficult to achieve perfection. From time to time, barbarians broke through the defense line and entered Henan County.
The state of Wei was also very worried about this.
Tell me, if at this time, I, Da Chu, took the initiative to propose that the two countries each send one million troops to jointly clean up the barbarians on the Yongxi and grassland lines in order to stabilize the western territories of the two countries.
Faced with this proposal, how would Wei Guo make a decision? "
After hearing this, Zhou Qing blurted out: "Of course I will happily agree."
Regarding jointly sending troops with the Chu State to wipe out the barbarians migrating to the northwest.
In fact, as early as ten years ago, the foreign races in the Gobi Desert in the Western Region also joined the migration army, and the border troubles in the west became more and more serious.
Wei, which had suffered the most damage, had the most borders, and had the most restrained forces, could not bear it first, so he took the initiative.
But at that time, Lu Yuan just wanted to recuperate and accumulate strength, and did not want to start any big war.
Moreover, the northwest border troubles will not have a great impact on the Chu country with the natural danger of Longshan Mountain.
Therefore, he always rejected this proposal and did not agree to Wei Guo's request.
So even though Wei State sent envoys to invite him every year, Chu State never let go, and the matter dragged on.
"Yes, Wei Guo will definitely agree happily."
Lu Yuan smiled and nodded: "They have begged me for so long, if I agree to their request in the name of being intolerant of the long-term harassment by the barbarians on the border, wouldn't the Wei people be overjoyed?
And if the other party agrees, then they will follow the request, and each of us, Dachu, will send millions of troops to go deep into Yongxi and the grasslands to wipe out the migrating barbarians.
In this way, millions of elite soldiers in the country were transferred out.
As for our great Chu, we can bluff in the northwest, with only 200,000 soldiers from Hanzhong County, supplemented by 800,000 levied civilians, and bluff all the way.
In Xiangyang County, they secretly gathered millions of elites. When the main force of Wei State left the fortress, they crossed the river and headed north, and immediately captured the two counties of Nanyang and Henan.
At the same time, the partial army in Hanzhong can also turn back directly and attack Wei Guannai and Shuofang counties to contain the 500,000 troops and horses left behind in these two counties.
With this side of the army, they can hold the Wei people back for at least half a year.
At that time, there are millions of people on the eastern front, and there are more than 20 innate masters. It will be easy to attack the 500,000 defenders on the eastern front of Wei, with seven or eight innate masters.
As long as the two counties of Nanyang and Henan can be captured, even if Wei still has millions of soldiers in the two counties of Guannei and Shuofang, they will only be dead bones in the graves and there is nothing to fear. "
After these years of migration, the Wei State has a population of 40 million, of which more than 30 million are concentrated in Henan and Nanyang counties. The remaining two counties of Guannei and Shuofang in the west only have 4 to 5 million people.
Therefore, as long as the Chu State can capture the two counties of Henan and Nanyang, the most important core territory of the Wei State will be controlled.
Its millions of troops on the Western Front will also face the dilemma of having their logistics cut off and their families under control.
At that time, as long as those Wei soldiers did not want to starve to death or involve their families, there would be no other way out except surrender.
After losing these soldiers and horses and losing its core territory, even if the Wei State could still continue its rule in Shuofang and Guannei counties, it would be just a small imperial court.
With the remaining four to five million people, what kind of trouble can we cause?
In the end, it was either destroyed by the barbarians' continuous eastward migration, or surrendered to the Chu State. There was no other way.
As a general, Zhou Qing certainly knew the current situation of Wei. After hearing Lu Yuan's plan, he said happily: "If we follow this plan and camp all the way, we can indeed destroy Wei."
The Chu State's camp included more than just twenty-three innates and 1.2 million soldiers and horses.
Behind each camp, there were more than two million armed civilians helping to transport food.
These armed civilians can go to the battlefield when necessary.
Therefore, the number of men and horses that can be used for one aspect of the camp is more than three million.
After careful sorting and strict training, it has become equivalent to the entire military strength of a hegemonic country.
Now, in conjunction with Lu Yuan's plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain, attack the east and attack the west, and destroy Wei, the success rate is already as high as over 70%.
The probability is enough to give it a try.
However, although it seems feasible, whether it is a plan to destroy Liang or Wei, there is still a problem that needs to be solved urgently.
"Your Majesty, if the plan is right to destroy Wei and Liang, it is not difficult for Chu. But for this operation, as many as 18 million people have been mobilized, and the whole country has been mobilized. It will be difficult to cover up the momentum."
Zhou Qing asked about his concerns: "Wei and Liang are bordering our country, Chu State, and they have always been wary of me. They have planted countless spies in the south of the Yangtze River.
If I, the great Chu, want to mobilize troops, I'm afraid I won't be able to hide it from the other party.
If he is prepared, it will not be so easy to deceive the Wei and Liang countries. "
The current standing troops of Chu State are only three million people.
If we want to expand to the five million people scheduled for the Northern Expedition, we need to recruit another two million people in the past six months.
For this alone, movement is indispensable.
Later, tens of millions of civilians were recruited, and the momentum became even greater.
As long as the Wei and Liang Kingdoms in the north were not blind, they would not be able to detect the strangeness of Chu Kingdom.
Therefore, although Lu Yuan's strategy of luring the tiger out of the mountain and attacking the east and attacking the west was good, it would be useless as long as the Wei State did not fall for it.
Lu Yuan smiled when he heard this: "This is easy. Nowadays, the South China Sea is experiencing frequent turmoil, and fire and natural disasters are approaching, threatening our southern territory of Chu.
I can ask the cabinet to issue an edict announcing that the people from the southern border of Da Chu and those vassal states will migrate northward and resettle in the northern territory of Da Chu.
With tens of millions of people relocating and such a huge project, it would be inconspicuous for me, Da Chu, to recruit some troops and mobilize various supplies. "
Zhou Qing said worriedly: "Although this strategy of directly relocating the people in the southern border can conceal the movement of our army, it will definitely affect the production in our Dachu area.
Immigration requires food, and expeditions also cost food. Although Changpingcang in various places is sufficient, it cannot withstand such a toss.
If we do this, our Chu State's food reserves, which support both immigration and conquest, may not last two years.
There are also those vassal states in Lingnan and Southwest that want to relocate their people, but the kings of those vassal states may not be willing. "
"It won't take two years."
Lu Yuandan said calmly: "It won't take two years to destroy Liang and Wei. This time I will use 18 million people and 115 innates to sweep across Jiangbei.
This is the force of the autumn wind that sweeps away fallen leaves. It will take one year to destroy these two countries.
Moreover, relocating people now is not a wasted effort.
The place they were about to move to was not places like Xiangyang, Dongting, and Yuzhang, but the land north of the Yangtze River.
The south is no longer stable. Not only are the pirates coming, but the underground fires may follow within twenty or thirty years.
At this time, taking advantage of the small number of people in the country, it is also a good thing to move the people to the captured Zhongzhou in advance.
As for those vassal states, if they don't want to be cut off by me, they can stay where they are and join the pirates who are migrating north.
But if this is the case, when the sun and earth come, they will want to move to Zhongzhou, but I will not agree with it.
You can tell those feudal lords what I mean and how to make a choice. I believe they will make the right choice. "
When Lu Yuan chose to create a feudal state, he just didn't want to spend too much of Chu's energy on the southwest and Lingnan, and could use all his energy to move north.
This is a temporary compromise.
Those vassal states should also know this in their hearts, and they should have already anticipated that the Chu State would reduce their vassal states in the future.
After all, once the earth fire comes, he will not be able to keep the feudal country.
Whether or not you hand it over at that time actually makes little difference.
At the moment, at the emperor's request, if he chooses to actively sacrifice his people and annex them, he can still choose a decent face for himself.
Otherwise, even if Lu Yuan did not punish them, without the backing of the Chu State, they would not be able to keep their own country under the continuous wave of barbarians migrating northward.
It will also cut off your future retreat, leaving you with nothing.
It is precisely because of this support that Lu Yuan is not worried that these vassal states will not submit obediently.
