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Chapter 1141: Chapter 460 Zone Adjustment_2 Chapter 1141: Chapter 460 Zone Adjustment_2 The nomads who migrated northward took over the territory that Chu State had developed for thirty years, but even with their cultural and technological level, it was difficult for them to utilize it all.

However, simply relying on the basic water conservancy facilities, these people could ensure a good harvest just by scattering seeds in the fields.

With just a bit of attention to farming, they could easily sustain tens of millions of people.

With grain secured, these Barbarians then put down roots in the territory of Yangzhou.

In time, using this as a base, they would gradually encroach upon the land, and I fear it would take less than ten years for the entire southwest and Lingnan to be lost.

Even the prefectures and counties at the heart of Yangzhou would suffer from infiltration, invaded by those Barbarians.

When that time came, the spectacle of the Southern Barbarians moving north would reach its most climactic chapter.

“Although it will take me at most three years to unify Central State and pacify the various countries,

these Barbarians are only just getting established in the territories of the southwest and Lingnan Region.

If I were to mobilize the force of the whole world against them, they would have no chance of resistance.

But their growing strength year by year, and their infiltration into Yangzhou, are very real and cannot be ignored.

I do not wish to overlook this issue due to complacency and regret it when it’s too late.

Therefore, to be safe, it is indeed necessary to make some arrangements for the Southern Border.”

Lu Yuan pondered in his heart, considering methods to break the situation.

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Next year, the fourth Northern Expedition will begin, and although I have just finished reorganizing and absorbing prisoners of war, selecting 1.2 million elite soldiers from over five million captives and incorporating them into the ranks of the Forbidden Army,

it greatly increased the available military force at my disposal.

But these troops are intended for next year’s Northern Expedition and have already been assigned, so they cannot be redeployed.

Now, after completing the reorganization of prisoners this winter and in light of the current situation, Lu Yuan has made some adjustments to the various military expeditions.

Among them, the armies of the four northern expeditions, the Yongzhou Camp with 800,000 soldiers and ten Inborn, remain unchanged in composition, with Camp Commander Huang Xin.

This camp’s primary objective remains to guard against the Western region foreign tribes to the west and to lure the Yanzhou Barbarians to the north, securing the western frontier of Chu State.

The newly established Jizhou Army consists of 200,000 soldiers with a total of five Inborns, under Camp Commander Huang Lin.

This army is based in Ji Province, with its main task being to threaten and control Xu State from the western side, ensuring the safety of Chu State’s northern border.

In addition, similar to the Yongzhou Camp, it is responsible for luring Barbarians from Yan State, which it borders.

Then there is the Xu State Camp centered around Le Ling City.

This army originally consisted of 600,000 soldiers and ten Inborns.

But with Huang Lin controlling Ji Province and able to threaten Xu State from the west, a large amount of Xu State’s military force has been tied down in this region.

To ensure domestic security, Xu State, facing the incursion of Chu’s Jizhou Army that had crossed the great river into the northern lands, had to station a substantial number of troops in its western country to defend against Chu’s aggression.

Under such circumstances, the military force available to Xu State along the southern border of the great river was significantly reduced.

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Now within Xu State, after the end of the war and constrained by the lack of food and fodder, the country maintains a military force of around 600,000.

One hundred thousand are stationed internally to maintain order.

Three hundred thousand are deployed on the western frontier to guard against Jizhou Army.

And the remaining two hundred thousand are positioned on the southern frontier, confronting Chu’s Xu State Camp across the river.

Two hundred thousand soldiers naturally pose little threat to Chu’s Xu State Camp.

The pressure on Chu’s northern border in Qingzhou was greatly reduced in an instant due to the emergence of the Jizhou Army.

Therefore, in light of this situation, Lu Yuan naturally made adjustments to the Xu State Camp, which originally bore the brunt of resisting the entire Xu State.

The Xu State Camp’s force of 600,000 was downsized to 300,000, with Dongping, Le’an, and Qingping, each hosting 100,000 soldiers.

The number of Inborn Grandmasters in the army was reduced to four, with one allocated to each prefecture and Camp Commander Qingyangzi reinforced alone to Leling City in Le’an Prefecture.

Thus, 300,000 soldiers and four Inborns made up Chu’s main force for confronting Xu State in the northern border of Qingzhou.

It may seem a bit meager.

But considering that in the three prefectures of Le’an, there are also 90,000 prefectural and county soldiers and three Inborn Grandmasters, who can mobilize a large number of local militias and recruit civilian forces into the army,

when calculated carefully, the defense forces at Qingzhou’s northern border are actually not weak, especially with the support of Ji Province’s army to the north.

At the very least, even with Xu State’s full mobilization, it would be difficult to shake the pincer attack from the western and southern armies.

The threat from Xu State Camp can almost be managed like this.

These three great camps: Yongzhou Camp, Jizhou Army, and Xu State Camp constitute Chu State’s border defense forces in Central State.

Altogether, they utilize 1.3 million of Chu’s soldiers, and nineteen Inborns.

Beyond these three camps, excluding the prefectural and county soldiers that have been assigned to local defense forces, and after replenishing the elite from those who surrendered,

Lu Yuan still has 5.37 million soldiers in the Forbidden Army and eighty-six Inborn Grandmasters.

However, last year Chu State lured Barbarians, gaining six Inborns from Yan State and Ji Province,

with the fall of Zhao State, one Zhao Inborn joined,

ten Liang Inborns surrendered with the collapse of Liang State,

and with Xu State’s withdrawal to the north, seven Xu Inborns surrendered.

Haiyun Pavilion’s submission also brought six more Inborns.

Thus, last year alone, in the northern lands of Central State, Chu State gained thirty new Inborn Grandmasters.