Chapter 244 Attacking Wu County

"Let Yuan Shu and Sun Jian fight each other to the death, we are making a profit, my lord, this is a good plan."

A group of generals patted their thighs when they heard the words.

"Using Sun Jian to consume Yuan Shu's background, and honoring talents with filial piety, I will leave this matter to you two, and An Xiao will fully support you."

"Of course, once Yuan Shu is defeated, we will send troops immediately."

"But for now, let's take down Wu County first, and wait for the Jiujiang side for now."

"As for Xuzhou, it's time to visit Tao Shijun."

Originally, Su Fan, Xi Zhicai and others planned to take the six counties of Yangzhou, but Yuzhang was taken by Sun Jian, but Su Fan didn't really care.

Sun Jian is a fierce tiger, he is a famous general, and his ability to lead troops in battle is still very strong. Among the many princes who are begging for Dong, he is in the forefront.

However, Sun Jian's background was too poor. Although he occupied the land of the two counties, the two counties were both vast in size and sparsely populated. The combined population of the two counties was probably only a few million.

There are so many people in the undeveloped south because they have fled from the north in troubled times in these years. Otherwise, the population may be even smaller.

In addition, although Sun Jian won Yuzhang County, the time was too short, and Yuzhang County could not provide Sun Jian with too many resources.

Most of Sun Jian's army of 500,000 came from Changsha County, and most of the supplies came from Changsha County and Yuzhang County. It would take him at least a few 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 threat to Su Fan.

After all, in terms of the elite of the army, Su Fan's army is even stronger.

The powerful army in the world is divided into several classes, and the strongest should be veterans of hundreds of battles, just like those frontier soldiers who often fight against the barbarians of the grassland.

This kind of army that has been trained for several years and then survived more than a dozen wars is the most powerful, such as the previous Forbidden Army.

Now the imperial court banned the army, and it was almost a few points away.

Secondly, the elite of the princes from all over the country, the soldiers they recruited, after half a year of training, and then dragged to the battlefield, experienced three or five battles, and survived.

The weakest thing is that the army that has just joined the army is only young and strong without training. This kind of army is actually the mainstream in the world.

After all, there will be fewer and fewer elite soldiers in the melee of the princes, and there will be batch after batch of young and strong recruits.

Once these young people are gone, they will immediately weaken.

Of Sun Jian's 500,000 troops, there are only tens of thousands of them considered elite. As for veterans who have fought many battles, there are not many.

Of course, tens of thousands of elites is already very good. After all, most of the princes can have tens of thousands of elites, which is already very powerful.

The rest of Sun Jian are young and strong. Once the 500,000 young and strong are gone, even if he wants to recruit again, it will be very difficult.

Four to five million young adults represent four to five million households. Changsha and Yuzhang together have a population of just over one million households.

Can he conscript all these households into the army?

I can't.

Without the young and strong, how will the food in the farmland come from?

One out of ten is considered militaristic, let alone one out of five, or less.

Su Fan's subordinates can do one out of ten because of his strong productivity. Other princes can't do it. Once they do it for two or three years, they will get backlash.

Sun Jian didn't have that heritage, but Yuan Shu was different. Thousands of years of accumulation and family heritage could consume Yuan Shu for ten years.

So Su Fan didn't care about Sun Jian, but he was very afraid of Yuan Shu.

Because, Sun Jian can't lose, if he loses once, he will be lost forever, but Yuan Shu is different, he has the confidence.

Su Fan needed to use Sun Jian to consume Yuan Shu. This was the plan he immediately 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 Yuan Shu's hands. With Yuan's power, the prefects of the six counties in Yangzhou immediately moved closer to Yuan Shu, and there was no need to attack him at all.

This is the horror of Yuan Shi.

Students and old officials are all over the world.

But fortunately, here in Xuzhou, Yuan's power is not strong, and the previous agreement between him and Tao Qian made it quite easy for him to take Xuzhou.

Xuzhou Donghai Guangling has already been controlled by him, Xiapi has Tao Qian, Langya does not have much power, that is, Pengcheng, and he needs to send troops.

As for Yan Baihu of Wu County, a local tiger, according to the news from the dark owl, he has an army of 300,000 under his command.

Of the 300,000 troops, 250,000 of them were newly recruited in the past two years, most of them were recruits, and their combat power was at most slightly stronger than the ordinary Yellow Turban Army.

As for the real elite, there are about 10,000 to 20,000, and they have been trained against the Shanyue barbarians over the years.

When the generals asked for a battle, he considered who should be the main general.

Seeing the generals gearing up and looking eager to try, they seem to be a little distressed. They are distressed that there are too many generals under their command and they cannot choose.

After thinking about it for a while, Su Fan said solemnly: "General Taishi, you will be the main general for the crusade against Wu County. General Gan, Captain Zhou, Captain Jiang, you will be the deputy generals."

"General Taishi, I will give you an army of 100,000, can you take Wu County in one fell swoop?"

"My lord, don't worry, if the 100,000 troops can't take down Wu Commandery, the general will come to see you."

As soon as Su Fan asked him to be the general, Tai Shici immediately became excited, but directly issued a military order.

"Haha! General Taishi is seriously serious. I want you to come back alive. Even if Wu Jun is not captured, I don't want any accidents to happen to you."

Su Fan knew very well that with the ability of Taishi Ci, it would be no problem to take down the small Wu County, especially when he gave the opponent an army of 100,000.

You must know that the army led by the East China Sea may have less combat experience than some frontier troops, but the amount of training far exceeds this world.

They are definitely elite fighters. Besides, the Eastern Sea Territory doesn't fight many princes, but it hunts and kills a lot of bandits, bandits, and even monsters in the surrounding areas.

This can be regarded as an alternative combat experience, at least they have seen blood.

Coupled with the advantages of equipment, even if you encounter elite frontier troops, there is absolutely no problem.

In the battle in Hanoi, when fighting against Xiliang's elite infantry, the army led by the East China Sea did not lose the wind. Instead, relying on equipment, it was often able to achieve one to three to one to five battle losses.

Can Yan Baihu of Wujun be compared with Xiliang's elite?

Because he only sent troops to Wu County, Su Fan appointed the chief general, and the generals who didn't get the chance were a little disappointed.

Of course, it's just a little disappointment, because they know that the lord's ambition is to sweep the world, and future battles are inevitable.

The most important thing for them now is to seize the time, train hard, and strengthen the cohesion between themselves and the army under their command.