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Chapter 350 Old Sun Is Very Passive

Entering the age of great voyages, sea power countries gradually prospered, and the failure of Napoleon's continental blockade policy allowed the British Empire to dominate for hundreds of years.

However, it is not entirely true that land power is lower than sea power.

Among modern countries, the leaders are undoubtedly the British Empire and the German Empire.

These two countries have their own characteristics, one is a sea power country and the other is a land power country, representing these two completely different development directions.

Their different directions are due to their geographical location and national genes.

It is obviously impossible for Germany to focus on the development of the navy and the United Kingdom to focus on the army, and these two countries cannot succeed.

Therefore, as a country, how to develop, which direction to focus on, has to consider its own land and culture and other factors. If it goes in the wrong direction and adds the wrong point, the situation will be troublesome.

Gao Yihuan's current location in the field and the area he occupies also determine that no matter how much he encourages business, he cannot compare to the Jiangnan area, and it is difficult to rely on merchants.

Throughout history, it can often be found that throughout the dynasties, no matter when, as long as the society is a little stable, there are a few places that are more prosperous and economically developed than other places.

The reason why this is so is due to geography, as well as local culture and social atmosphere, and the genes endowed by this culture and atmosphere will take at least a hundred years to form.

The areas under Gao Yihuan's current control are all traditional large agricultural provinces, which determines that he must follow the route of continentalism and continental armyism, and the fastest way for him to expand the army division is to quickly cultivate a group of people through military meritorious service. A batch of big landlords and military aristocrats came out.

Of course, this will inevitably plant hidden dangers of expansion and destruction, but the rise and fall of great powers, just like metabolism, has its inevitability.

There has never been a once-and-for-all thing in the world. No policy or system can be beneficial to society forever. As long as it works now, the future will be left to future people to solve.

After Gao Yihuan inspected the camp outside Gu County, he galloped back to Xiangyang City and entered the government office.

This southern expedition is related to the future development of the Wei army. Gao Yihuan brought almost the entire shogunate to Xiangyang City.

At this time, Gao Yihuan came to a few rooms in the front yard of the mansion. This is where Liucao officials and the staff of the Shuai mansion work and handle affairs.

Just as Gao Yihuan came in, Lu Yi greeted him conveniently, and said anxiously, "Marshal, we can't collect any more refugees. Xiangyang is running out of food."

"So fast?" Gao Yihuan was startled, but then he thought about it. With 30 more mouths, even if there was a mountain of grain, one person would not be able to eat for a few days.

That's why Gao Yihuan didn't want to follow Li Zicheng's old path. He coerced so many people at once, and he could only eat one place, and the next. .

Gao Yihuan's face darkened, "How many more days can I eat?"

"Up to 20 days!" Lu Yifang said anxiously.

Gao Yihuan relaxed a little when he heard the words, "Twenty days is enough. Ma Hongshan has stored a lot of food in Neifang Mountain in Chengtian Mansion. My soldiers can go get it right away if they break through the Ming army's obstruction."

As Gao Yihuan said, he walked into a room where a person was sitting. When he saw him coming in, he quickly stood up and saluted, "Marshal!"

The person who came was Gao Yicheng, who had just come from Jingzhou.

Gao Yihuan waved his hand, signaling him not to be too polite, and asked eagerly, "Yicheng, what's the situation in Jingzhou?"

"Commander, now the battle in Jingzhou is very complicated. He Tengjiao did not attack Jingzhou, but besieged Yiling. He wanted to force Sun Kewang to divide his troops to rescue him, but Sun Kewang instead attacked He Tengjiao's camp in Jingzhou. The Ming army monitoring Jingzhou had no choice but to retreat. In the next [-] miles, we will build a water village." Gao Yicheng licked his lips, "The current battle in Jingzhou, Commander-in-Chief, is still unclear, but I believe that the winner will be decided before June."

As soon as Gao Yihuan finished listening, he waved his hand immediately, and a personal guard took out a map and spread it out in front of the table.

Gao Yihuan pouted his ass, leaned on the table and looked, the Ming army did not attack Jingzhou, but the attack on Yiling did hit Sun Kewang's seven inches.

For Sun Kewang, Yiling must not be lost, otherwise Jingzhou would become an isolated city, and sooner or later it would fall into the hands of the Ming army.

Gao Yihuan narrowed his eyes, no matter if Sun Kewang was to encircle Wei to save Zhao, or to attack the west, one thing is certain, the Western Army is definitely going to save Yiling.

Yiling Prefecture is located at the exit of the Three Gorges, strangling the throat of Bashu and Jingzhou. During the Three Kingdoms period, Liu Bei's key battle against Wu, the Battle of Xiaoting, took place here.

When the Ming army took Yiling Prefecture, it would be able to block Zhang Xianzhong's way out of Sichuan and into Huguang, and at the same time open the way to recover Sichuan.

Gao Yihuan immediately judged that the crucial decisive battle between the Ming army and the Western army must have erupted in Yiling, not in Jingzhou.

"Yicheng, have you ever found out the distribution of soldiers and horses on both sides!" Gao Yihuan continued to ask,

In this battle, he was taking a piece of cake from the fire, and it was of great importance, so he had to know more details.

Gao Yicheng hurriedly took out a white silk from his chest, presented it and spread it on the desk in front of Gao Yihuan.

This is a hand-painted topographic map of Jingzhou, which not only shows the geography of mountains and rivers, rivers and cities, but also shows the approximate strength of the Ming and Western armies.

Gao Yihuan looked at it, frowned, and praised on his face: "Yicheng! You have made progress!"

"These are all drawn by the newly recruited Xuanyi Guards. The commander decided to recruit some Jinyi Guards, which is really a wise move!" Gao Yicheng dared not take credit for it.

"These people are indeed capable." Gao Yihuan nodded, but then changed the topic, "But you can't rely too much on them, you must cultivate a group of trustworthy brothers as soon as possible!"

"Don't worry, Marshal, I have already selected many brothers from the army and recruited them into Xuanyiwei!"

Gao Yihuan nodded slightly, "Okay, tell me about this picture!"

Gao Yicheng immediately stepped forward, pointed to the map and said: "According to the investigation of the humble office, Sun Kewang has a total of 5 troops, who were originally divided into various cities in Jingzhou. Among them, Yiling Prefecture is guarded by Feng Shuangli, a general of the Western Army, with more than 5000 soldiers and horses, while Sun Kewang leads [-] people and sits in Jingzhou."

Gao Yihuan nodded slightly, Sun Kewang shrunk his troops to prevent them from being defeated, leaving only Yiling and Jingzhou as horns, which was a wise move.

At this time Gao Yicheng continued, "He Tengjiao raised 5 troops, 3 attacked Yiling, and 2 hid near Songzi between Yiling Prefecture and Jingzhou. It is estimated that when Sun Kewang rescued Yiling, he surrounded Sun Kewang from the side. Another [-] horses and [-] ships are under police surveillance in Jingzhou."

After hearing this, Gao Yihuan couldn't help being a little surprised. Seeing the situation, Lao Sun was very passive, but He Tengjiao could do it.

(End of this chapter)