"General Zhang led two thousand troops from the Jiangyou Martial Preparatory Battalion and the local garrison battalion this time, and he was required to ensure that the logistics supply was not leaked." Liu Yu marked several key points on the map, including Yun County and Yuzhou City and Zhongnan Road in the south, and finally pointed a few points in several directions slightly north. "These are places where defense is needed. If you encounter rebels, you must not confront them head-on and wait for reinforcements. We still have about 10,000 troops in the north, and we are ready to be dispatched to the south at any time."

Zhang Wuzhu was responsible for logistics supply this time. Although he had experience in this area before, he was still inexperienced. He also wrote down what Liu Yu said one by one. The most important thing for him to be responsible for logistics is to seek stability. After all, the army lacked food and grass and could not withstand losses. In addition, there were not many troops brought by Liu Yu to the south. The 50,000 troops were basically stationed in Lingbei to form a deterrent to Lingnan. If there were any problems with the food route, the reinforcements from Lingbei rushed south to rescue.

After explaining this, Liu Yu felt relieved and officially led a large army south on April 25th.

Liu Yu led thousands of troops during this trip, mostly new soldiers and local garrison battalions, and left the best troops to Zhang Wuzhu to guard the food road. With the previous troops who went south in Qi, Liu Yu was preparing to fight directly to Lingnan within tens of thousands of troops.

After two days of difficult trek, the army finally crossed the natural danger of Zhongnan Road and headed south into Meiguan.

Meiguan is the last checkpoint from Lingnan to Jiangxi, and has always been a military rush in the south. Several dynasties in Lingnan, Baiyue and Nanyue, all stationed heavily in Meiguanzhong to fight against the southern invasion of the Central Plains dynasty.

Qi Fang could easily break through Mei Pass this time, and he took advantage of the battle between the Zhang family and the Ma family regime in the northern system around Mei Pass, which was equivalent to taking advantage of the situation and caught his opponent off guard. After Qi Fang broke through Mei Pass, the Zhang family and Ma family members immediately retreated to the south of Mei Pass, and their troops totaled about four or five thousand. Qi Fang did not dare to advance rashly when he was unfamiliar with the place, so he could only wait for Liu Yu to arrive.

The first thing Liu Yu had to do after entering Meiguan was to get rid of the Zhang and Ma regimes that coveted Meiguan.

"After Feng Xiao's death thirteen years ago, his generals Zhang Yao and Ma Hui divided the original Feng family's territory into two. The two sides have been fighting for more than ten years. Now the Lingnan and northern systems are no longer considered major forces, but in the past two years, their power has developed again..."

Liu Yu listened to his subordinates' information and remained silent.

The forces in Lingnan were mixed and the regime was chaotic. They were just the people of the Dashun Dynasty in name, but they never paid taxes to the Shun Dynasty, and there was no need for the court to pay them food and pay them. This was a boundary that was not in charge. The Lingnan regime used the local people to pay taxes and raise soldiers, and when the food was really scarce, they plundered the ethnic minorities in Lingnan. Liu Yu also calculated that there are now 25 regimes in Lingnan, which is not the power of ethnic minorities. If this was pacified according to the conventional scale, it would not work within ten or eight years. Sending tens of thousands of troops here would be a drop in the bucket.

"The chronic disease is difficult to get rid of." Liu Yu listened for a long time and finally said with emotion, "This general divides the power of Lingnan into six parts. Look, if there are any omissions, you can add some more."

Originally, the imperial court divided the forces in Lingnan according to the north, south and west, while Liu Yu's division method was relatively detailed, and the power of each regime in the six regions was basically equal.

At this time, the generals who participated in the pre-military meeting were all generals brought by Liu Yu from the north. They were also very unaware of the situation in the south and could not make any supplements. Looking at the military map, they could only stare at them and couldn't make any good suggestions.

Liu Yu added: "We are stationed in Meiguan for the time being, so don't attack easily. This is not the north. The terrain and climate here are very unacceptable. If there is any epidemic in the army, we must report it to me as soon as possible."

Liu Yu didn't say much at the first pre-military meeting, mainly to let the generals understand the situation in Lingnan and make them mentally prepared. In fact, what Liu Yu is most concerned about now is the establishment of an intelligence network, because Lingnan has been in the category of forces outside the Central Plains since ancient times, so it is difficult to establish a complete intelligence network here, and these matters are temporarily under the responsibility of Qu Zhu.

After everyone left the camp, Huo Bing asked impatiently: "Let's come here, just hide here and be a mouse? Why don't you go out and have a good fight with them?"

"I just know how to resort to force!" Liu Yu said disdainfully, "I'll ask you, which direction is the direction that the window is?"

"Which direction..." Huo Bing ran to the window and looked at it, hesitating a little, "It should be east, it's not good, and there's no sun, who knows where it is..."

"You don't even know the direction, and you have to go out and fight with people quickly. No wonder you were surrounded by rebels in Yuzhou City and numb. You just took people out like this, even if they didn't set a trap for you, you might not have come out."

Huo Bing was exposed by Liu Yu's scars, and he was immediately annoyed and shouted, "Then what should we do?"

"Go back and reflect. If you want to start a war, I will definitely be the first to throw you out as cannon fodder. Your war will be inevitable."

Huo Bing smiled and said, "That's fine, we'll agree. Don't just remember your relative to ignore me if you charge in the good news."

Huo Bing's relatives refer to Qi Fang. Huo Bing is brave but not wise, and has always been more upset with Qi Fang's general position than him. Now Qi Fang has a relative with Liu Yu, and he feels more crisis. This time his failure is in contrast to Qi Fang's victory in a battle. He has already felt that the crisis is coming and a victory is needed to consolidate his position in the army.

Although Huo Bing doesn't like to listen to the great truth, he still has his own cleverness.

When Huo Bing also went out, Liu Yu sighed. When the generals were all there before, he wanted to show his confidence in winning. Now there is only one person left, and even he himself can't help but sigh.

In Liu Yu's opinion, this battle is really impossible. If he fights like this, he may not be able to decide the outcome for several years, and it may also lead these forces to unite against the court, which will violate the court's original intention of stabilizing the south. He will stay in the south for a long time and cannot go back to reunite with his wife and children.
Chapter completed!