"Let Yuan Shu and Sun Jian fight each other to the death, and we will benefit from the fishermen. This is a clever plan, my lord."
After hearing this, a group of generals patted their thighs and said.
"Use Sun Jian to consume Yuan Shu's foundation and serve your talents with filial piety. I will leave this matter to you two. The dark owl will fully support you."
"Of course, once Yuan Shu is defeated, we will immediately send troops."
"But for now, let's capture Wu County first, and wait for the Jiujiang side."
"As for Xuzhou, it's time to visit Tao Shijun."
Originally, Su Fan, Xi Zhicai and others planned to capture the six counties of Yangzhou, but Sun Jian captured Yuzhang, but Su Fan actually didn't care.
Sun Jian is a fierce tiger, a famous general in his own right, and his ability to lead troops in battle is still very strong. Among the many princes who are fighting against Dong, he is definitely at the forefront.
However, Sun Jian's background was too poor. Although he occupied two counties, these two counties were vast and sparsely populated. The combined population of the two counties was probably only a few million.
The south is undeveloped, so there are so many people because they have fled from the north during the troubled times in recent years. Otherwise, I am afraid the population will be even smaller.
In addition, although Sun Jian obtained Yuzhang County, the time was too short, and Yuzhang County could not provide many resources to Sun Jian.
Most of Sun Jian's 500,000-strong army came from Changsha County, and most of the supplies came from Changsha County and Yuzhang County. It would take him at least several years to truly control it.
So Su Fan didn't care about Sun Jian. Even if his army of 500,000 was as elite as the Forbidden Army, it wouldn't pose much of a threat to Su Fan.
After all, in terms of the elite of the army, Su Fan's army was more powerful.
The strongest armies in the world are divided into several levels. The strongest ones should be veterans of hundreds of battles. These are like the frontier troops who often fight against the barbarians on the grasslands.
This kind of army that has been trained for several years and then experienced more than a dozen wars is the most powerful, such as the previous Forbidden Army.
Nowadays, the imperial court's forbidden troops are just a few points behind.
Secondly, there are the elite soldiers from various places. The soldiers they recruited were trained for half a year and then brought to the battlefield and survived three or five battles.
The weakest thing is that the army that has just joined the army is only young and strong and has not been trained. This kind of army is actually the mainstream in the world.
After all, in the melee between princes, there will be fewer and fewer elite soldiers, and the young men are recruited in batches after batches.
Once these young people are gone, they will immediately weaken.
Only tens of thousands of Sun Jian's 500,000-strong army were considered elite. As for veterans of many battles, there were not many. Firstly, they were not trained enough, and secondly, how could they compare with the frontier troops in combat?
Of course, tens of thousands of elites are already very good. After all, most princes can have tens of thousands of elites, which is already very powerful.
All that Sun Jian has left are young men. Once these 500,000 young men are gone, it will be very difficult for him to recruit them again.
Four to five million young people represent four to five million households. Changsha and Yuzhang combined have only a population of more than one million households.
Can he recruit all these households into the army?
Refuse to be able to.
Without young people, how will the food in the farmland come?
Drawing one out of ten would be considered an act of aggression, let alone drawing one out of five, or even less.
Su Fan can do one thing out of ten because of his strong productivity. What other princes cannot do, once he does it for two or three years, there will be backlash.
Sun Jian did not have that kind of background, but Yuan Shu was different. Thousands of years of accumulation and family background could consume Yuan Shu for ten years.
So Su Fan didn't care about Sun Jian, but he was extremely afraid of Yuan Shu.
Because Sun Jian cannot lose. If he loses once, he will be doomed. But Yuan Shu is different. He has the confidence.
Su Fan needed to use Sun Jian to consume Yuan Shu. This was the first plan he thought of after learning that Yuan Shu and Sun Jian had turned against each other.
So for this reason, he did not hesitate to change some of his previous plans.
Of course, half of Yangzhou is now in the hands of Yuan Shu. With the power of the Yuan family, the governors of the six counties of Yangzhou immediately moved closer to Yuan Shu, and there was no need to go on a conquest.
This is the horror of Yuan's family.
His disciples and old officials are all over the world.
Fortunately, the Yuan family is not very powerful here in Xuzhou, and the previous agreement between him and Tao Qian made it quite easy for him to capture Xuzhou.
Xuzhou Donghai Guangling is already under his control, Xiapi has Tao Qian, Langya doesn't have much strength, that is Pengcheng, and he needs a large army.
As for Yan Baihu of Wu County, a local tiger, the news from An Xiao was that he had an army of 300,000 men under his command.
Of this 300,000-strong army, 250,000 of them were newly recruited in the past two years. Most of them are new soldiers. Their combat strength is at most slightly stronger than the ordinary Yellow Turban Army.
As for the real elite, there are about 10,000 or 20,000 of them, and they have been trained in these years of fighting against the Shanyue barbarians.
The generals asked for a battle, and he considered who should be the chief general.
Seeing the generals gearing up and eager to try, they seemed a little distressed that there were too many generals under their command and they couldn't choose.
After thinking for a while, Su Fan said seriously: "General Taishi, you will be the main general in the crusade against Wu County, and General Gan, Captain Zhou, and Captain Jiang will be the deputy generals."
"General Taishi, I will give you an army of 100,000, can you take down Wu County in one fell swoop?"
"Don't worry, my lord, if the army of 100,000 cannot take Wu County, the general will be willing to come and see you."
Upon hearing that Su Fan appointed him as the general, Taishi Ci immediately became excited, but directly issued a military order.
"Haha! General Taishi is serious. I want you to come back alive, General. Even if Wu County is not captured, I don't want anything to happen to you."
Su Fan knew very well that with Tai Shi Ci's ability, it would be no problem to capture the small Wu Commandery, especially since he gave the opponent a hundred thousand troops.
You know, the army in his East China Sea Territory may have less combat experience than some border troops, but the amount of training is far beyond this world.
They are definitely elite soldiers. Besides, the East China Sea Territory doesn't fight many princes, but it hunts a lot of surrounding bandits, bandits, and even monsters.
This can be regarded as a different kind of combat experience. At least I have seen blood.
Coupled with the advantages of equipment, even if you encounter elite border troops, there will be absolutely no problem.
In the battle in Hanoi, when fighting with Xiliang's elite infantry, the army of Donghai Territory did not fall behind. Instead, relying on its equipment, it was often able to achieve battle losses of one to three and one to five.
Can Wu Jun Yan Baihu be compared to Xiliang's elite?
Because he only sent troops to Wu County, Su Fan decided to lead the generals. The generals who did not get the chance were a little disappointed.
Of course, they were just a little disappointed, because they knew that the lord's ambition was to conquer the world, and a war in the future would be inevitable.
The most important thing for them now is to seize the time, train hard, and strengthen the cohesion between themselves and their troops.
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