The confrontation between Cao and Liu has been maintained for several years. They know each other's strength, and they know that all confrontations will eventually be reflected in the battlefield. They have long been unable to come up with any strange plans. In Jiangling, facing the Cao family's seemingly mobilized army, all they can do is to report to Chengdu urgently, and then mobilize the reserve team to prepare for emergencies.

With the improvement of the military system in recent years, Guan Yu and Lei Yuan are very clear about their own family background. Relying on land and waterways and the deceased and post stations along the way, the military orders are issued very quickly.

After the two served as the chief ministers of the Grand Sima Mansion, they slowly formed a shared team of staff in Jiangling City. In addition, they each had assistants from Lao Yu's army, so they jointly formulated multiple orders that day. The two of them used their own seals and sent them to dozens of counties and states in the three prefectures, and hundreds of military camps.

Because the local politics have been clear and hard to clean up the hidden households of powerful people in the past three years, the number of registered households in Jingjiaojiang Prefectures has continued to increase compared with previous years. If the military, official families and ordinary households are combined, the number of people in the three states is now 1.6 million, 900,000, and 400,000 respectively.

This number should be estimated to be comparable to Yanzhou, Yuzhou and half of the Sili School Command under the control of the Cao family in the north. However, the scale of hidden household registration of the powerful aristocratic clans in the Cao family's territory should be extremely large, so the number of ownership should be fewer.

After all, the King of Hanzhong always adhered to the righteousness and has been consistent for decades. Therefore, no matter what kind of noble family members are, no one can confront each other with the righteousness of reviving the Han Dynasty.

The Cao family in the north was extremely embarrassed in this regard. When Cao Cao was the prime minister, some things were easy to cover up. Now the prime minister was first the Duke of Wei and then the King of Wei. Therefore, there was nothing inspiring in the entire Hebei and Central Plains.

On the surface, he still regarded himself as the righteous Han Dynasty, but no one could mention the four words "supporting the Han Dynasty". Whoever mentioned it was rebellious. The process of replacing the Han Dynasty with Wei was step by step, but the slogans that replaced the Han Dynasty could not be shouted. Because it was shouted out, it would be a pity that would hurt the King of Wei’s virtue.

The upper class is so chaotic, and although the grassroots are trying hard to control it, many things are really not done well. Guan Yu was surprised that Cao's army did not recruit people to garrison the people for help, because according to local espionage, the number of registered household registration in Yan, Yu and other prefectures continued to decrease, and 70% of the population in several counties were divided, and the court was inverted to the point of no adjustment.

In comparison, the centralization level and governance level of the Hanzhong King regime are really higher.

Because the population size controlled by the central government is large enough, and diligent officials continue to organize water conservancy construction that adapts to the population size, promote the renewal of agricultural tools, reclaiming land acres, and the grain harvest continues to rise, and the scale of troops that the King of Hanzhong can dispatch continues to expand.

Since last year, Chengdu Central has gradually appointed commanders in each county, with commanders in charge of military power, county soldiers, and responsible for supervising new soldiers. The number of counties currently on the list of Jingjiaojiang Prefectures has participated in military training, with a total of more than 150,000, which means that there are about 5,000 reserve soldiers in each county who have received basic training.

Now that spring plowing has passed, these reserve troops are now gathering some of them, first responsible for the collection and transportation of food and fodder.

The main forces that can be used in field battles in the three states have become more and more well-equipped in recent years, and the distribution is becoming more and more sufficient, but they have always maintained a scale of 120,000 people. Among them, Jingzhou is 60,000, Jiaozhou is 40,000, and Jiangzhou is 20,000.

The 60,000 soldiers in Jingzhou were completely clustered in Nanjun and Jiangxia, and could be used for field battles. They and their families were only responsible for a very small amount of military farming tasks. Military pay was allocated by the former General's Mansion of Jingzhou and equipped with military armor and equipment. Many schoolyards near Jiangling City took turns to train battle formations and attack. If you only need to climb to the top of the city, you can hear their deafening shouts and killings every day.

At this time, Guan Yu issued an order to prepare for war, and former general chief Yang Yi, chief clerk Liao Hua, and Sima Zhao Lei immediately formulated a plan and drafted the documents.

The order of preparation of the 60,000 troops, the subsequent arrangements of their respective defense areas, and the allocation of various military supplies must be carefully approved. In addition, the Jingzhou navy must also concentrate from multiple garrisons to Baqiu, repair ships, and prepare for transporting soldiers' supplies and even fighting in the river.

The 20,000 people in Jiangzhou are generally controlled by the two generals Huang Quan and Huo Jun. Although these 20,000 people are all elite, they are placed in Jiangzhou to suppress the people of Wu and cannot be mobilized at will.

Jiaozhou has far fewer household registration than Jingzhou, but its troops are close. Because it includes the huge clan tribe of General Lei Yuan, the Zuo General Lei Yuan, and a certain number of barbarian soldiers were also included in the direct management of the military office. These 40,000 people can also be used for field battles at any time.

The various departments under Lei Yuan have been adjusted and mobilized in recent years, and are now roughly divided into four parts after several adjustments and mobilizations.

First, Lei Yuan, stationed in the county seat of Jiaozhou, and Guangxin City, Cangwu County, was directly under the headquarters. This army had a total of about 10,000 people. As assistants, there were He Song, the northern lieutenant of Cangwu, Lei Cheng, the southern lieutenant of Cangwu, and Deng Fan, the young lieutenant who led Deng Tong's old troops. In addition, the system of drawing elite troops from each battalion to serve as escorts and knights was still the same. Li Zhen and Wang Ping led them.

Secondly, both of Wu Ban and Lei Tong were in the northern part of Cangwu. The two generals were also expanding one after another and had considerable strength. When Lei Yuan was not in Jiaozhou, Wu Ban often served as the daily affairs of the military office. In addition, in the northern part of Cangwu, there were also deputy generals Kou Feng, who were not as strong as Wu Ban and Lei Tong, but had a very high status.

Kou Feng did not succeed in his previous plan to be a military regime, but was attacked by the Wu army and abandoned the city and lost territory. This incident immediately led to the scattering of the political power behind Kou Feng. Although Kou Feng lacked political acumen, he had the luck. After getting Lei Yuan's understanding, he had to go to Jiaozhou and become Lei Yuan's deputy position as the deputy general of the army.

Kou Feng was inevitably demoted when he was in Jiaozhou. Wu Ban Lei Tong was not Yuan Cong, the king of Hanzhong. The troops of these three people represented the military existence of Chengdu’s central government in Jiaozhou in a sense, but they also believed in Lei Yuan’s great reputation.

The third part is the prefect of Hepu stationed in Hepu, who was stationed in Hepu, and was under the command of General Guo Jing. In the past two years, Guo Jing has led his troops into Jiaozhi several times and launched wars of varying sizes. He also cooperated with General Deng Fang and Yizhou, Anyuan stationed in Yizhou, to fight against the rebellion of Jingke County, and to defeat the old capital of Yelang Kingdom with great might.

Generally speaking, Guo Jing's status in the southwest counties of Jiaozhou is similar to Lei Yuan's agent. Including Suinan Zhonglang General Qu Jing, Gaoliang Prefect Yi Liao, and Linchen Prefect Qian Bo, powerful figures in Jiaozhou, were all driven by Guo Jing.

If there is extreme mobilization, Guo could even gather tens of thousands of tigers and wolves here, but it is limited to transportation and training levels, and there is no possibility of being sent to the north to fight.

The fourth part is Ma Dai, Ding Feng and Ren Hui's troops, with a total of 10,000 people, and is stationed in Cenping, Jingzhou. This unit includes the Liangzhou cavalry who Lei Yuan looked like a treasure. They occupied many grasslands and pastures between Fengpei Water Sources around Cenping, using this place as a transit center for accepting horses transported from Yizhou.

Most of the horses in Yizhou came from trade with the Liangzhou Ma Chao. A considerable number of these good horses were assigned to the three prefectures of Jingjiaojiang. After transportation, they were taken over by Ma Chao's cousin Ma Dai, led the Liangzhou knights.

The Liangzhou knights who followed Ma Dai and joined Lei Yuan's command after many war damage and retirement, there are still more than 200 people left. These two hundred people are usually responsible for raising horses in Cenping. They first train the horses to get used to the water and soil, and then Lei Yuan and Guan Yu presided over the division.

War horses are the key factor affecting the combat effectiveness of the army and can be regarded as strategic materials. All soldiers from all departments covet. However, those with a large scale and experienced horse-raising team are only Ma Dai in Jingzhou. Therefore, all departments flatter each department flattered him. Even Guan Yu called Bo Zhan affectionately when he saw Ma Dai.

The influence of the Fufeng Ma family spans thousands of miles of land in this way. Neither it is Liang Gong in Yecheng or the fake Liang Gong in Hanyang, I am afraid it will be impossible.

Such distribution is a consideration of both raising troops and using troops in peacetime. At present, the three states are about to prepare for war just in case, Lei Yuan will not scatter the troops.

Although he traveled between Jiangling and Cangwu, his control over the Jiaozhou army was always like a hand-in-hand. So he ordered the Jiaozhou army's subordinates and their entourages to come out with orders, but I was afraid that the time for each unit to move when he heard the news would not be much slower than that of Guan Yu mobilizing the Jingzhou army.
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