"My subordinate understands!"
Fan Yin immediately raised his hand.
Having said this, Wang Jing's eyes fell on the iron staff guarding Xihe Mai and asked: "Gaixia Xichu Army, what is the situation now?"
Mai Tiezhang has been holding down one side for a long time, and the violence in his body has turned into calmness.
He said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, the Xiang family's army has already attacked Suzhou and is preparing to cross the Suishui River to attack Xuzhou. After Xiang Guan failed to siege Xihe, he no longer dispatched an army of more than ten thousand people, but only used a small group of cavalry to harass .”
"Looking at the future, the Xiang family army is very likely to go north to compete with the princes of the Central Plains in the future, and they should not be enemies of our army!"
Wang Jing suddenly smiled.
Sometimes, what you think is not necessarily right.
Although Mai Tiezhang has grown rapidly, his potential lies in force, and his judgment of the overall situation and the future is not very good.
"Xuzhou, known as Pengcheng in the Qin Dynasty, is the capital of the Xiang family army in Western Chu. According to common sense, there is a high possibility that Xiang Yu will conquer Xuzhou in the future!"
"But that was before the rise of our army!"
Bu Zhao said.
"Our army has risen in the Jianghuai area and has become the overlord of the Jianghuai area. It is also adjacent to the Xiang family's army. If Xiang Yu goes north to compete with the heroes, how can he not worry that our army will take the opportunity to attack Lingbi and Suzhou and steal his retreat?"
"So I think that after Xiang Yu arrives, he may not be an enemy of our army at first, but after he takes control of the Xiang family's army, he will definitely go east and attack Sihong!"
Bu Zhao made his own judgment decisively.
Mai Tiezhang's face turned slightly red and looked a little ugly. After all, he had just said that Xiang Jiajun would go north in the future, and Bu Zhi stood up and directly refuted it. It made him very uncomfortable.
Wang Jing said: "I heard that the north of Suzhou is mountainous and not suitable for cavalry. If Xiang Yu attacks Xuzhou, he will either continue to the west and bypass the mountains, or attack our army and take the Pizhou road."
"Mr. Bu is right, Xiang Yu will definitely be the enemy of our army in the future!"
Wang Jing looked at Mai Tiezhang and said with a smile: "What General Mai said makes sense, but our army in Jianghuai has become a strong enemy of the Xiang family's army. Even if our army does not move, the Xiang family's army will not dare to attack with all its strength." north."
"General, I understand. Thank you, Your Majesty and the Privy Council, for your advice!"
After Wang Jing spoke, Mai Tiezhang immediately expressed his stance even though he was still a little uncomfortable.
"Mai Tiezhang is, after all, a fierce general. If he sits in command for a long time, he has no chance to make meritorious deeds and is prone to mistakes. Taking advantage of the opportunity to expand the army, he transferred Mai Tiezhang into the army and let him command the cavalry... "
Let Mai Tiezhang take charge at the beginning.
The main reason was that Wang Jing had no one available at the time, and Mai Tiezhang was the most famous and capable general under his command. At the same time, he defected to Wang Jing very early and gained more trust.
Now Wang Jing has many more generals under his command.
Letting Mai Tiezhang take over one side again would be considered inappropriate employment.
The people who were in charge of the important towns on all sides of the Huai Army were at least generals like Fei Ju, Lu Zhongheng, Zhang Lin, and Yang Kan.
Except for Yang Kan, their strength is not much stronger than that of Mai Tiezhang, but their ability to lead troops and their sense of battlefield are much better than Mai Tiezhang.
"Xiang Yu in the west and Lu Bu in the north! They will all be our army's opponents from now on! But that is a matter for the future. What our army has to do now is to expand its military, prepare for war, and stabilize the internal situation!"
"As long as the ten mansions of Huaidong are digested, even if Xiang Yu and Lu Bu come, I can easily deal with them!"
Wang Jing said with a smile.
As the saying goes, when Xiang Yu comes, Wang Jing can recruit Han Xin to fight against him. What if it is Lu Bu... Lu Bu's ambition is not as big as Xiang Yu's. Maybe Wang Jing can use Lu Bu to defeat other powerful enemies.
"The most important thing for internal stability is to clear out the rebels and the forts that are entrenched in various places. These matters can be solved by Tang Shengzong and other generals!"
"However, there is another problem that requires General Fu Youde to personally intervene!"
When Fu Youde heard this, he stood up quickly and said, "Please give me your orders, your Majesty. I will obey your orders at any time!"
Wang Jing pointed to the map in the palace.
"Now our army reaches Suining in the north, Dajiang in the south, Fengyang in the west, and the sea in the east. Hongze Lake is located in the hinterland of our army, connecting up and down, and connecting east and west. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the heart of our army!"
"But when Gu led the army south, his main purpose was to conquer Deng Qiang and the Huaidong princes, he ignored this place!"
"I heard that after our troops wiped out the mountain bandits and water thieves from all over the country, a large number of thieves rushed into Hongze and colluded with the Hongze water thieves who had been entrenched here before. They robbed merchant ships and separatized the islands in the lake."
"It's better to clean up the heartland of our army as soon as possible... I'll give you 50,000 naval troops, and we must clean up the Hongze Lake!"
Fu Youde was canonized as General Zhendong after he repeatedly performed meritorious services.
Under normal circumstances, you should stay in the center and sit in the army, with 150,000 to 200,000 troops under your command.
However, the military expansion has not yet begun.
An army of one million remains on paper.
Therefore, even if Fu Youde holds the position of General Zhendong, he can only lead 50,000 naval troops to the expedition at this time.
In fact, Wang Jing should have dispatched generals like Mai Tiezhang and Lu Zhongheng who were powerful but not very meritorious to go on the expedition, but Wang Jing read the intelligence sent by the Military Intelligence Department.
In Hongze Lake, in addition to a large number of water thieves, there are also many strange beasts in the water causing trouble.
Among them, there are even dragons in the center of Hongze Lake...
Dragon! A strange beast of this level can no longer be called a strange beast, but more like a monster... The life level is far beyond that of ordinary creatures. Wang Jing is not surprised to say that it is a monster beast of level seven or above.
To deal with monsters of this level.
Only Fu Youde, who has transformed his strength and condensed his martial arts skills, can cope with it.
If we send ordinary generals, they will only die if they run into the dragon.
"The last general takes command!"
Fu Youde had no objection and stepped forward directly to receive the order.
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January 10th, the fourth year of Taichu.
Before the New Year was completely over, a large number of navy soldiers were gathered and boarded the warship.
Dozens of warships, like fierce beasts, sailed out of the water village and entered the vast and boundless water.
Hongze Lake is extremely vast.
In the world of China, it is comparable to a sea area. Under the vast water surface, there are countless creatures breeding and reproducing. In the depths of the water that ordinary people cannot see, there are even huge alien beasts that hunt and shuttle.
These strange beasts have absorbed a large amount of vitality gathered between heaven and earth, and their life levels are slowly transforming.
Their natural bodies are a hundred or even a thousand times that of humans.
In front of them, even if humans enter the path of cultivation and enter the fourth level to refine Gang Qi, they will hardly be their opponents.
but.
Their overly powerful bodies also make it difficult to transform. If you want to become a fifth-level or sixth-level beast, you don't know how long it will take.
The time it takes for them to transform and grow is enough for humans to step into the seventh level or above...
Boom!
Kerosene bombs roared out from the warship and bombarded the wall of an island in the lake.
Fire sputtered.
Dozens of warships covered the lake with evil aura. Even those naturally powerful beasts carefully fled towards other waters after sensing the evil aura on the water.
Don't dare to appear within the range of human warships.
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