The Central Officer of the Da Nei who came to pass the order and the Guest Provincial Envoy of the Privy Council (from the fifth rank) did not return immediately. They had to wait for Li Luo's troops to mobilize the troops and take Li Luo's order back to Dadu with Li Luo's order.

How to make the order for the dispatch of troops? Li Luo was really difficult to make a decision for a while, so he had to ask the Zhongguan and the Provincial Envoy to take a break in the inn and hand over the document after he was in charge.

"General, military affairs are urgent. If you need to send troops within one month, please quickly take out a note of the official's remarks so that the subordinates can return to Beijing to report their orders." The envoy of the visiting provincial government of the Privy Council urged.

Li Luo said politely, "The military envoy and the nobles in the middle are not impatient, and I will issue a constitution tomorrow." Then he ordered provincial officials to entertain you well.

After arranging the visiting people from most of the city, Li Luo retreated into the study room of the official residence and thought about the matter of dispatching troops.

Kublai Khan was very open-minded in military affairs. He not only was willing to delegate power to the generals, but he also rarely interfered in the command of the generals.

Li Luo, the newly-released general of the South, was authorized by Kublai Khan to select generals of the army and horse.

In a word, I don’t care how you configure these 200,000 troops, or which generals you choose, and no matter how you fight, but you must win for me, otherwise, hum.

But Kublai Khan also set a bottom line. The imperial edict stipulates that the Mongolian cavalry should not exceed 20,000, and the Red Army should not exceed 50,000.

Obviously, Kublai Khan still cared about the Mongolian soldiers. The number of Mongolian soldiers was small and very precious, and one less died.

The Yuan court's Mongolian cavalry was originally only more than 200,000. After the Battle of Japan, the Yuan court's Mongolian cavalry lost 20,000 to 30,000. This time, the Suodu lost another 20,000. Not counting Naiyan and other troops, the Yuan court's direct control of the Mongolian cavalry is now at most 200,000, and it will be less or more.

But if we count the Mongolian cavalry of the entire Mongolian Empire, there will be at least 300,000 to 400,000.

In addition to the Mongolian cavalry, the most trusted person in the Yuan court was the Red Army.

Like the Mongolian army, the Red Army of the Disaster Ma was almost all cavalry, and was a strong army with combat power second only to the Mongolian army. However, the Red Army of the Disaster Ma was divided into levels and the degree of trust was different.

The most trustworthy one is the Red Army of Seme Hui Hui. According to the latest information from the Special Administrative Bureau, it is estimated that there are nearly 200,000. The Red Army of Seme Hui Hui is almost all white races with high noses and deep noses.

Li Luo knew that most of the Semite Taming Ma Red Army came from Central Asia, West Asia, and believed in a certain religion. A small number came from Europa. A very small number came from Egypt in North Africa and India in South Asia.

The only second most to Semu's explorer of the Ma Chi army was the various troops, mainly Tubo, Wanggu, Shuidada, etc. The number was 70,000 to 80,000.

The worst-supported Red Army of the Mass were the Dangxiang (Tangwuer), the Khitan, and the Jurchen tribes (the Khitan Jurchens in the northwest were not Han people), and the Dali army in the southwest. There were 150,000 to this part of the Mass.

The different Red Army of the Masses combined have reached more than 400,000.

Then there are more than 300,000 puppet troops from the north and more than 300,000 puppet troops from the south (New affiliated troops).

The Mongolian army, the Red Army of Ma, and the Han army are regular Yuan army sequences. The total number is more than one million.

In addition to the regular Yuan army, they were to surrender private soldiers, that is, the Mongolian nobles threw private soldiers into their territory. Sending private soldiers was usually mainly to protect the owner's manor and ranch, protect the safety of the owner's family, and suppress slaves. However, once the court lacked troops, they had to obey the recruitment.

There are all kinds of ethnic groups who have sent private soldiers, and the number is unknown. The information from the Special Inspection Bureau estimates that the total is between 100,000 and 200,000. Since they are noble private soldiers, they are very elite. Although they are not good at group combat, the team has strong combat capabilities.

There are also servants who obey orders, such as the Goryeo Army, as well as the Cuanji Army (Duman), local soldiers, Li soldiers, Dong soldiers, Yao soldiers, Gui soldiers (Guimans), Mo soldiers (Mosuo), Luoluo soldiers, Miao soldiers and other chief soldiers. Needless to say, Goryeo, there are more than 100,000 permanent troops. The number of chief soldiers in each unit is unknown, but there must be a lot of them.

This is more than that. There is also a soldier of unreserved soldiers composed of scoundrels and unruly people of all races, called the "Dalakhan Army". The number of soldiers in the Dalaakhan Army is unknown. They are brave and fierce, and do not receive military pay, but only pay for robbing the enemy people.

If this is the case, the Yuan court can mobilize at least 1.5 million, and at most nearly 2 million.

With so many troops in the Yuan court, how should we configure our 200,000 troops in the southern expedition?

The Mongolian army is easy to deal with. After 10,000, the Mongolian cavalry under Zhedu was transferred, and 10,000 were transferred to the Mongolian cavalry under Pingzhang Ali Hague, Huguang Province.

50,000 to explore the Ma Chijun... Humph, Wanzhedu's command will draw another 10,000 troops, and Ali Hague's command will draw another 30,000. The last 10,000 will draw 10,000 Khitan cavalry from Yongchang, Yunnan!

As a result, half of the 40,000 Mongolian Seme Cavalry under the command of the Marshal of the Marshal of the Marshal of the Marshal of Jiangxi were drawn. Half of the 80,000 Mongolian Seme Cavalry under the command of Ali Hague, Pingzhang, Huguang Province, were also drawn.

It means that one-third of the Mongolian Semu cavalry south of the Yangtze River were transferred to the Annan battlefield. Then the Yuan army's military strength south of the Yangtze River would be weakened by a large margin, which would be more conducive to his uprising.

The reason why he transferred 10,000 Khitan cavalry from Yongchang, Yunnan was that Li Luo fell in love with this cavalry that was dissatisfied with the Yuan court and wanted to swallow it by himself.

So what about 130,000 people?

There must be tens of thousands of jungle and mountain combat troops. Well, then we will recruit 30,000 chieftains from the southwest. There must also be 20,000 naval troops.

However, after the Battle of Japan, the Yuan army's naval warships were short of, and less than 20,000 could go to sea to fight. This is why the Yuan court was reluctant to dispatch the navy during the southern expedition of Sodu.

There were only less than 20,000 navy troops, 10,000 of which were the troops of Luo Yu, the Fujian Navy's Wanhu, who was indirectly controlled by Li Luo, and had long been half of the Tang army.

If it were not counted as the Fujian Navy, the Yuanting could only dispatch seven or eight thousand navy personnel. Due to the Yin-drying cycle of large ships, the Yuanting could not replenish enough warships within a year.

According to information, the Vietnamese navy has more than 10,000 people, and its strength cannot be underestimated. Without 20,000 navy, it would be difficult to ensure the safety of sea-logistic transportation.

The lessons from Sodu must be learned. If you rely on the local solution to food and grass, then the third expedition will still be defeated. At least, you need three months of food and grass reserves.

Annan has a population of six or seven million, and its people are tough and warlike. The imperial guards and mobilized rural troops, with more than 500,000. To conquer Annan, soldiers must not be missing.

But with more troops, the logistics of food and grass is a huge problem, and it even rises to a core problem.

How much food and supplies do you need to consume in a month for a 200,000 army? Thinking about it, Li Luo was in a state of great pain.

Relying on the rugged mountain roads in the southwest and on mules and horses to transport grain along Lang Son, can it meet the needs of the 200,000 army? Nonsense.

Therefore, sea transportation is the only reliable way. Then a navy must be dispatched.

"Forget it, just transfer Luo Yu's 10,000 naval commanders, just let them practice the actual combat." Li Luo decided to dispatch the Fujian naval commanders who were already half of the Tang army.

"The navy who transported the grain asked the traitor Zhu Qing and Zhang Xuan's fleet to work, and by the way, they hacked the two traitors, let them die in battle, and swallowed their ships." Li Luo also wrote the names of Zhu Qing and Zhang Xuan, the thousands of households in the sea transport.

The Shipping Wanhu Mansion is actually not a combat navy, but is only responsible for transporting ships from south to north. But for logistics, Li Luo still arranged the troops from Wanhu Mansion to transport the sea.

The last 80,000 people were the Han army. Li Luo recruited the Han army heavy army group from Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces and Huguang provinces.

Jiangsu and Zhejiang are the places where the Han army is stationed the most, with more than 100,000 people.

The Yuan army occupied Jiangsu and Zhejiang for only seven years. So did the Han army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang miss the Song Dynasty and had the intention of opposing the Yuan Dynasty?

No.

The Han army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang not only did not have the intention of opposing the Yuan Dynasty, but on the contrary, they were also very reactionary and stubborn, and their loyalty to the Yuan court was not bad.

Why?

Because the Han army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were controlled by the wealthy families of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and most of the generals and officials in the army were children of the wealthy families of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and even the soldiers came from farmers under their control.

It can be said that the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Han Army is no longer the new affiliated army of the Song army that surrendered, but it only retains the name of the new affiliated army.

Although the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Han Army was a regular Yuan army, its essence was the training of armed forces of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang tyrants.

Similar to Zeng Guofan's Hunan Army, the treatment of soldiers of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Han Army was also guaranteed, and the morale of the army was relatively stable.

Over the years, Kublai Khan has been extremely kind to the landlords and gentry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. He not only allowed them to be officials, but also ruled Jiangsu and Zhejiang through them, entrusting all the power of the grassroots level in Jiangsu and Zhejiang to them. He asked them to contract taxes, collect corvee, and be responsible for public security. He condoned them to annex the land and oppress the people.

Objectively speaking, the first culprit that caused the people of Jiangnan to be in dire straits was not the Mongolian nobles, but the landlords and gentry.

This is the insidious place of Kublai Khan, who governs the Han Dynasty with Han. "I have entrusted a powerful family in Jiangnan to suppress rebellions and suppress thieves and rule over the people..."

The Yuan court's rule in Jiangnan not only did not infringe on the interests of the landlords and gentry, but instead strengthened it. Kublai Khan protected his privileges and "difficult to the government and lenient taxes", which made the landlords and gentry let themselves go one by one.

The result is, "A family dominated a countryside, and the common people were intimidated by it, called the wild emperor, and the tomb was called Wang Ying."

In just a few years, a situation of "slavery of thousands of schools of thought" has been formed.

The landlords and gentry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were of course grateful to Kublai Khan, calling him "the foundation of civilized governance and the foundation of peace." In order to assist the rule of the Mongolian Yuan, they paid money, grain and manpower to help the Yuan court establish the Han army and suppress the people's resistance, which was very effective.

During the Yuan Dynasty, there were Han troops in the north who fought against the Yuan Dynasty, and the White Lotus Sect Uprising, and peasant uprisings in the south started one after another. But strangely, there were very few uprisings in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and when there was an uprising, they were quickly suppressed. This is the contribution of the landlords in Jiangnan and the Han army in Jiangnan.

There are many generals of the Han army in Jiangnan who were named Duke because of their hard work to suppress the uprising of peasants in the south.

It was not until the end of the Yuan Dynasty that when they saw that the Yuan Dynasty was really out of place, the gentry in Jiangnan took a fancy to the "pleasant" Zhang Shicheng, supported Zhang Shicheng, and fought against the "harsh" Zhu Yuanzhang. They hoped that Zhang Shicheng would be in the world and continue their good life.

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, many of them served in the Ming Dynasty, but secretly still used the title of Zhizheng period of the Yuan Dynasty, proclaiming themselves to be the remains of the Yuan Dynasty, and remembering the hearts of the former Yuan Dynasty, which was full of thoughts.

After Li Luo learned about the current situation of the Han army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang through the Special Inspection Bureau, he was really disappointed and no longer had any illusions about the landlords of the Han army in Jiangnan.

Once you raise an army to recover Jiangnan, the Han army in Jiangnan will become an obstacle rather than a help. It is really naive to expect the Han army in Jiangnan, who is fed by the landlords to abandon the darkness and turn to the light because of the word "Han".

Jiangsu and Zhejiang were originally the richest fish and rice landlords and gentry all were rich, and helping the Yuan court raise more than 100,000 Han troops was nothing. These Han soldiers could at least have enough food and were raised for a few years, which was much better than the people. What reason was there to obey Li Luo's call to rebel?

Since it was mostly enemies, Li Luo immediately recruited 50,000 Jiangsu and Zhejiang Han troops. Especially the Han troops under Gao Xing, the envoy of Xixi Zhejiang, were immediately transferred 20,000.

Finally, Li Luo transferred another 30,000 Han troops from Huguang and Ezhou.

The Han Army in Huguang is also a heavy army group with a regiment training nature, with a number of up to 100,000. Li Luo suddenly transferred 30,000, weakening the power of the Yuan army in Huguang.

In this way, the Yuan army on the grounds of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Huguang were transferred by Li Luo in total, and they were all mobile troops. When Li Luo restored Jiangsu, Zhejiang and marched into Jingxiang, there would be much less resistance.

Well, the task of drawing troops has been completed. Next, Li Luo said in the memorial that in view of the lesson of the defeat of Suodu, it is necessary to prepare three months of food and grass for the army.

After sorting out all this, it was already midnight.

Li Luo stood up and rubbed his eyes, came to the courtyard and looked at the full moon in the sky, and an unpredictable smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Everyone thought he was leading a 200,000-yuan army to fight south, but in fact, it was not at all!

At least, there are still 100,000 soldiers!

However, these 100,000 soldiers are secret road troops.

The Tang army would quietly send 30,000 troops to attack Annan in the name of Chameng soldiers.

With the efforts of the special agents of the Special Campaign for several months, the Chameng Kingdom finally agreed to send troops and joined forces with the Yuan army to attack Shiqiu Annan.

Annan attacked and eroded Chameng many times. Chameng had long wanted to take revenge, but he was not strong enough, so he endured it until now. This time, with the main attack of the Yuan army, coupled with the instigation and promises of the spies, the Chameng king finally agreed to send troops to avenge a single arrow.

Li Luo received news that as long as the Yuan army sent troops again, Chameng's country would send 50,000 troops to attack Annan.

According to the plan of Li Luo and Cui Xiuning, when the Chameng army fell into the battlefield of Annan, tens of thousands of Tang troops were dispatched to attack the empty Chameng in the name of overseas Song troops.

In addition to the Chameng soldiers, the spies also went to Ailao Kingdom to lobby another feud in Annan, Niu Human, to send troops, but there has been no progress yet.

Li Luo doesn't have to worry about the preparations of the Dark Road Army, Cui Xiuning will arrange everything. Li Luo just needs to command the Yuan army and fight well.

If Annan was defeated, Li Luo would request the Yuan army to station in Annan and prevent these Yuan troops from returning. At least he would not return to the country before he rose up.

The two carefully designed several steps of light and dark, and if they get nothing in the end, it is luck.

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The next day, the Zhongguan and the Guzhou Envoy took Li Luo's memorial away.

After a while, Dadu's reply was not over for half a month. Li Luo simply returned to Haidong and stayed well with his wife and son for a few days.

"No matter what the result is, it doesn't matter if I lose a lot, but you must come back alive."

Cui Xiuning touched her stomach with a little worried look.

"You had at least your own direct relatives on the day before yesterday. But this time, all of them were Yuan army, and only a few hundred personal guards were truly reliable. I was really worried."

Li Luo held her hand and patted her, "Don't worry about worries, it's not good for your health and children. Don't worry, even if I lose, it's okay to save my life."

"Even if I'm so unlucky that I'm going to be wiped out, I can't surrender temporarily and save my life first."

When Cui Xiuning heard this, she immediately laughed, "This is what you said. If you really want to lose, pretend to surrender, don't show off."

"The Special Inspection Bureau will mislead the Vietnamese army on intelligence and transmit the Vietnamese army's intelligence back. This time, we will know ourselves and our enemies."

The two of them studied all the military strategies and then invited Wen Tianxiang and Yan Duo to take a closer look.

After listening to Li Luo's strategic arrangement, Wen Tianxiang thought for a while and said, "Your Majesty was thinking about Zhou Xiang's arrangements, and the famous generals of ancient times were just like this. He was also very pragmatic in his promises to the various divisions of the Yuan army."

"There is only one. If the Yue army always avoids the battle and cannot go out, when the spring rain comes and miasma is coming, the morale of the Yuan army will definitely be low, and even plagues are rampant. It will be a big problem."

"Your strategy is to set fire to the forest and then find a cave to kill the enemy. But hundreds of miles of mountains and forests are also wet places, how can it be burned? If you use tincture oil, how much tincture oil will it be necessary?"

Li Luo frowned. This was also the situation he hated the most. "What should he do, according to the words of Mr.?"

Wen Tianxiang said, "Destroy the fields!"

When Li Luo heard this, his eyes lit up. He and Cui Xiuning had never thought of the trick of destroying the field.

He originally thought that setting fire to the mountains would force out the Vietnamese army and the people hiding in the jungle, but now he thought about it, the effect seemed not very good.

Wen Tianxiang said, "When the king sent troops to Annan, it should be February. I heard that Annan sowed early and ripened three times a year. The crops must have been planted in February."

"The army arrived in Annan and did nothing, just destroying their farmland. In this way, Annan's spring grain was gone and summer grain was delayed. Within half a year, there would be a shortage of food!"

Li Luo nodded and said, "Mr. Wen's plan to destroy the land is really a conspiracy. Annan cannot get food in spring and summer, so there will definitely be a famine. I will wait for half a year and I will be sure to win. But in this way..."

Speaking of this, Li Luo was very hesitant.

Wen Tianxiang asked, "Do you think there is something wrong with this plan?"

Cui Xiuning smiled and replied to Li Luo, "Mr. Wen, we helped the Yuan army to attack Annan for food and food. If Annan people destroyed Annan's farmland, we would certainly have famine. But we couldn't get food. It would be no benefit to win!"

Wen Tianxiang patted his forehead and smiled bitterly, "I am ignorant and forgot about this. In this way, this strategy is meaningless."

Yan Duo suddenly said, "To deal with such mountain people, killing must be the best. If you don't go into the mountains and defeat their main force, they will still be able to spend a few years. Since you say Annan is a rainforest, you will definitely be able to open fields and grow food in the forest."

Yes, you can indeed use remote paddy fields to grow rice in the rainforest. Li Luo was speechless, which was a bit unsolvable. Later, the soldiers of the Ugly Kingdom had planes, tanks and flamethrowers, but they could not do anything to the Annan people. What can they do now?

You can't spend a year or two with Annan? He is here to steal Annan's money and food, not to fight a protracted war with Annan.

After almost a day of discussion, several people finally brainstormed a way to force the Vietnamese army to come out to fight.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

With this combination plan, the Vietnamese army can only go out to fight to the decisive battle.

"It's really a person's intelligence is short, and everyone has a long intelligence. Those who think with the wisdom of others know it!" Li Luo said with a smile.

Next, Li Luo began to arrange related matters.

On the 23rd day of the first lunar month, Li Luo's memorial said that he was finally brought back to Dadu.

After discussion, the Yuan court rulers and ministers believed that Li Luo's arrangement of troops was reasonable, so they passed Li Luo's request.

"Li Luo asked, please allow him to report the matter. The Privy Council will transfer troops according to the regulations." Kublai Khan issued an imperial edict.

"Zhe! The slave obeys the order!"

Soon, the orders from the Privy Council sent troops to various southern divisions one by one.

Most of these troops will gather in Siming and arrive later than mid-February, and will be dealt with by military law!

The war machine of the Mongol Yuan started running at high speed again.
Chapter completed!