All the evidence shows that the iron materials crafted in Jingxiang are not only much better than those produced in Hehuai, Heluo and other places, but can be used directly to forge sharp blades and armor, and the scale is much larger. In addition, the grain prices in Nanyang, Xiangyang and other places fell to 500 or 600 yuan per stone during the Tianxuan period, and it can also be judged that Jingxiang no longer lacks grain...

Last year, the Southern Dynasties finally pacified the Jinghu bandits in the cave. Since Jingxiang established the county in Nancai, the number of refugees collected by Jingxiang has reached one million, of which the young and strong men are most likely to exceed 400,000, which greatly increases the potential for military mobilization in Jingxiang.

At present, the potential of military mobilization in Jingxiang has not been transformed into strength. The main reason is that the time for recruiting refugees is short, and Xu Huai has only taken over the entire Jingxiang area for only half a year.

If we resolutely launch a general attack on Ru Cai this year, even if Jingxiang can mobilize 200,000 troops to fill Ru Cai, at least a considerable number of soldiers have incomplete armor; and most of the soldiers selected from refugees have not recovered so quickly, their training is not so skillful, and their combat effectiveness is limited.

However, with the scale of grain and iron output in Jingxiong, Yuehailou and Cao Shixiong were worried that every year that Jingxiong would delay, Jingxiong would be able to manufacture tens of thousands of sets of sharp blades and armor, and the soldiers would be skillful in practicing. At that time, it would be really going to be a climate.

"... Jingxiang is good at using equipment, and we must also observe it. Since the Chu Mountain Husband Xu Huai rose to Tongbai Mountain, it has been in charge of Tongbai Mountain's North Ridge, Dafu Mountain, Dengtaijia Mountain, Jinding Mountain, Funiu Mountain, and Ji Mountain. It has built dams and ponds in the mountains. On the one hand, it has reclaimed more slopes and mountain fields to facilitate irrigation. On the other hand, it has used these dams and ponds to build hydraulic equipment, driven by turbulence, which saves manpower, and has a total of thousands of units. A water mill seems to be expensive, but it is enough to produce ten mules and horses. In addition to the common water drainage, water mill, water mill, water mill and other equipment used for blowing, pounding, oil pressing, crushing ore, Tongbai Mountain even uses turbulent flow to drive large saws to dissect giant trees..."

Cao Shixiong and Yue Hailou have attached great importance to the intelligence spying on Chushan in recent years.

Even though Chushan's anti-insulation and anti-spying work were very good, most of the hydraulic equipment had to be scattered between the ridges, the scouts and spies in the west of Jing and Heluo were attentive enough to spy little by little, collect information, and gradually figured out the whole picture of Chushan's production organization over the years.

However, knowing that the western part of the capital and the jurisdiction of Heluo are not short of steep streams (Heluo is surrounded by mountains on all sides, and the western part of the capital is surrounded by Songshan ridges), but it is difficult to replicate.

However, the hydraulic equipment not built by Chushan is so complex. In fact, thousands of hydraulic equipment are scattered in the ridges. It is necessary to build weirs, slope ponds and workshops for placing hydraulic equipment on a large scale based on the township department. At the same time, it is also necessary to manage and operate the dispersed hydraulic equipment based on the township department.

In the west of Jing and Heluo, many places are imitating Jingxiang (Chushan), and have even spyed on the secret of using the smoldering of carbonite to smolder iron, but some places are not easily learned.

They also sent craftsmen to build ponds and build some water mills as demonstrations, hoping that the mountain villages could imitate it, but the effect was not great - the clans in the local area who finally chose to surrender were not very interested in building hydraulic equipment, and even if they were made, they would be fooled.

And Heluo and Jingxi did not dare to use large-scale iron smelting sites and armor preparation workshops in the mountains where it is difficult to control, so how can we use turbulence?

In comparison, Jingxiang (Chushan)'s deep cultivation and meticulous work on the local area was truly called Cao Shixiong, and Yue Hailou was trembling and heartbroken.

Jingxiang has been dormant for the past two years. Even though he once targeted the enemy mainly at the Dongjing Lake, he was actually extremely conservative and did not fight many tough battles. However, Yuehailou and Cao Shixiong felt that Jingxiang (Chushan)'s strength was increasing at all times.

Therefore, they urgently requested Wululie to gather larger troops this autumn and winter to launch an attack from the middle road, and urgently asked Wululie to contact Pingyan and Jingxianzong's palace, and focus on jointly attacking the flanks of Jingxiang this autumn and winter.

Even if you cannot complete your achievements in one battle, you must never let Jingxiang continue to grow.

Wululie frowned and stared at the candlelight in front of the desk.

It was not that he was not clear about the need to curb the further growth of Jingxiang. He was more eager than anyone else to lead the army, open the gap from the middle, and finally pacify the remnants. However, many things were not something he realized, and he had the ability to do.

After conquering the Khitan and Dangxiang's two most powerful opponents, Chihu actually reached its peak, and it was indeed Chihu's next strategy to eliminate Canyue.

However, in order to eliminate the Khitan, Chi Hu did his best at that time and sent a total of 160,000 infantry and cavalry; the troops swept across Hexi and Longyou, and only 120,000 infantry and cavalry were recruited.

Canyue established a solid defense line on the Qinling and Huai River front line, but Chihu also planned to deploy the three most elite troops to Guanzhong, Longzhong, Heluo, Jingxi, and Xusu front line, and often organized troops to reach 400,000 infantry and cavalry, which was already equipped with super-scale equipment.

This time, in order to launch an offensive against Ru Cai from the middle road this autumn and winter, Ulu Lie proposed to further gather and increase the total strength of the attack on the middle road to 300,000. In the Khanate, he was questioned and questioned by many people.

Although the Zhennanzong Palace can sign 300,000 or even larger troops within its jurisdiction, in addition to the refugees and remnants of war, the more important thing is to raise food and fodder.

The early strategic goal of the middle-lane offensive was to suppress Jingxiang to further grow, with the intention of consuming it, rather than expecting to achieve success in one battle.

This also means that for every 10,000 troops and horses that Yunshuo and others sign for more than 10,000 troops, the long-term and continuous food and fodder consumption is a huge number.

If we achieve the purpose of suppression and consumption through long-term confrontation, Wululie also expects that Jingxiang may very much avoid a hasty battle with them. This means that after 300,000 soldiers enter the Rucai battlefield, they need to build a large number of barriers south of the Rushui River, and maintain contact with the rear through the space between Xuzhou and the eastern foothills of Jishan, and consume even more materials.

To be honest, Wulu Lie was worried about whether he could maintain 300,000 troops on the Rucai battlefield for a long time. This itself requires the Khan tent to support a large number of animals to make up for the shortcomings - Yue Hailou, Cao Shixiong is now proposing to further increase the scale of troops sent. It is not that he doesn't want to, but it is really difficult to do it.

Since the scale of troops sent is difficult to expand, we can only send more elite troops and gather strong troops in the middle.

"Did Sun Yanzhou, Hu Dangzhou and others make up their minds to surrender?" Wulu Lie asked about the situation of the Guide Army again.

"Sun Yanzhou and others are like fences," said Yue Hailou embarrassedly when mentioning Sun Yanzhou, Hu Dangzhou and others, "Maybe they need to make progress in the middle or east armies before they will finally make up their minds..."

The Southern Dynasty recruited Sun Yanzhou, Hu Dangzhou and other troops into Guide Army, and led a total of 30,000 troops to guard the eastern part of Guangzhou, which was located on the southern bank of the Huai River.

If he could surrender to the German army at this time, he would undoubtedly add a lot of help, and at least he could restrain more than 30,000 to 40,000 defenders from Jingxiang from the east wing and dare not act rashly.

However, Sun Yanzhou and Hu Dangzhou were all opportunists who were fickle.

In the past few years, the Dongjing Alliance only insisted on fighting with the officers and soldiers, but was eventually conquered by the officers and soldiers. He did not deeply feel the strength of the Chihu cavalry.

At the same time, the Chihu cavalry was blocked from the Qinling and Huai River lines and could not move south for some years. The people of Jianghuai and Jinghu also recovered a considerable degree of confidence in resisting the Chihu people's invasion south.

Sun Yanzhou, Hu Dangzhou and the youngest generals of the Guide Army were all left to settle near Jingnan or Jianye, and the army was surrendered to the affiliation. How could it be done by saying that?

Not only did Sun Yanzhou and Hu Dangzhou join in at this time, they even expelled Tian Rusheng and others who were sent to the scene to contact him.

?????????????????????????? As far as Sun Yanzhou and others were concerned, Cao Shixiong expected to put great pressure on them, such as directly sending troops to cross the Huaichuan and other cities from Huaichuan, or siege Ru and Cai prefectures in the middle, or conquering Shouchun from the east, so that they could force their troops to surrender.

And these three points are difficult for them to accomplish in the short term.

"How much is the new emperor of the Southern Dynasty suspicion of Jingxiang?" Wulu Lie asked.

"Xu Huai used a secret edict to lure and kill the Zheng father and son. It seemed that he had handed over to send Emperor Shaolong to the throne, but he turned around and planned to plot against Jingxiang. The monarch and ministers in the south were so suspicious of him that he was not right. Zhu Gong and his son, Hu Kai, Qian Zerui and others who had been in love with him in the past, all drew a clear line with him," said Yue Hailou. "After Emperor Jianji passed away, Xu Huai chose to take the lonely minister Ao to lead him to isolation, but this was not because of his absolute confidence. And our three troops approached the Qinling Mountains and the Huai River line, and Xu Huai also expected that the remnant court of Yue would tolerate him..."

"It's still too calm inside the Southern Dynasty!" Wululie said with a frown.

"If the monarch and ministers in the south have further restraints against Jingxiang, the only way to ask the monarch and ministers in the south to believe that they can defend the Qinling Mountains and Huaihe Lines without relying on Xu Huai, or the monarch and ministers in the south to believe that our army has no intention of going south again..." Yue Hailou said.

"This is probably difficult to do in a short period of time." Wulu Lie summoned.

"It's true..." Cao Shixiong said.

The Western Front had just resolutely captured Qinzhou, Qizhou, Lantian and other places, and ordered Gu Jiqian and Gao Junyang to defend the hinterland of the Qinling Mountains, and they also suffered heavy losses. The Eastern Front was also actively building warships. This autumn and winter, they will gather large troops in the middle. They want to further deepen the suspicion of the monarchs and ministers of the Southern Dynasty towards Jingxiang, and even prompt them to take further actions. It is very difficult.

After all, Emperor Shaolong has been displaced and ascended the throne over the years, and is no longer an ignorant child who can easily deceive.
Chapter completed!