In addition to the three most realistic enemies of Jurchen, Mengwu and Dangxiang, the General Staff of the New Army also listed a group of imaginary enemies.

This includes the birth of Jurchens who gradually formed a more primitive tribal alliance regime under the pressure of the Jurchen gold. Their leader called himself Bomu Boguoer and his specific mobilization ability was unknown.

According to the confessions of the prisoners captured before, Bomubogore was able to mobilize thousands to ten thousand to ten thousand Dingzhuang to fight against the Jurchen army, but the equipment was far inferior. Not to mention iron armor, even iron weapons were few, and his combat effectiveness was completely incomparable to the Jin army.

It was forced to give birth to the Jurchens to fight against the Jurchens. If the Jin army had not suppressed them too much, they would have been so happy that they would have gone out to rob with the Jurchens.

There are also the Goryeo people who were also bullied by the Jin Dynasty.

This country was once a vassal state of the Great Zhou. Later, the Great Zhou moved south and Goryeo relied on the Jin Kingdom. However, the Jurchens were unable to fill the gaps. The little wealth that Goryeo paid tribute every year could not satisfy the greedy Jurchen nobles, so they were still often robbed by the Jurchens.

However, Goryeo is always a vassal state of the Jurchens, and it is natural to be regarded as an imaginary enemy by the General Staff. Moreover, there are many pirates in this country who often run south to the coast of the Great Zhou.

However, the General Staff did not have the exact information about the national strength of Goryeo as it did with Jurchen Mengwu. He only knew that this was a big country with a population of millions, and theorized mobilization should be around 2.3 million, which might be more.

But this country seems to be unable to mobilize such a number of people. When it comes to confronting the Jurchen invasion several times, the King of Goryeo has only used less than 20,000 troops at most, and in most cases, thousands of troops are used to face tens of thousands of Jurchen cavalry.

Then he was crushed naturally.

Therefore, under the current information, Goryeo gave the impression of the New Army General Staff as a miniature version of the Great Zhou Dynasty—the population is large, but the mobilization ability is low, and the troops themselves lack combat effectiveness.

It's like a fat pig and sheep waiting to be slaughtered.

After Goryeo, it is Fusang.

This is even more an intelligence black hole. The new army's understanding of Fusang depends entirely on the Japanese prisoners and the Li family in Shuangyu.

At present, I only know that this country has a larger population than Goryeo. In addition, there are wars in the country. Dozens or hundreds of noble names with fiefs are fighting each other. There is no sign of being unified yet.

Therefore, how many troops Fusang can mobilize is an unknown number for the General Staff. However, judging from the number of Japanese pirates, there are at least one or two thousand ships of all sizes along the coast of Fusang, and tens of thousands of Japanese pirates are hiding.

This is also an enemy that must be paid attention to. After all, Japanese pirates have also come to Qi Province to rob.

In addition to the clear hostile countries and imaginary enemies, the General Staff is also secretly collecting information from two other forces.

One of them is the Pirates of Li.

In this regard, because Li Haitao is also a big cabinet, the information is relatively transparent.

The General Staff knew that after the Li Pirate Group had lost a lot of strength after the defeat of Li Feibao and the replacement of Feilong and Feihu during the previous period, it had lost a lot of strength.

At present, in addition to Li Haitao, the Pirate Group still has 12 large cabinets, dozens of medium cabinets and small cabinets, 5,600 ships of large and small ships, and armed pirates are around 200,000.

The advantage is that they can still be supplemented by fishermen who cannot survive in the coastal areas of the Great Zhou Dynasty, so 200,000 pirates are not the upper limit.

The downside is that because of Li Feilong, the pirate group showed signs of division. Li Feihu himself once complained many times that his brother was not obeying his orders.

There are also several large cabinets who are completely disappointed with the recruitment, which has bred the ambition to learn from the Xu family in Qi and become an independent force.

Someone once proposed to go to Taiwan to explore and build a country belonging to pirates at a large counter meeting.

Some people also proposed to get involved in the civil war in Fusang and strive to occupy a piece of territory in Fusang.

These people have had a big conflict with Li Feilong and Li Feihu brothers who are determined to attract peace.

Sadly, there is also a gap between the two brothers, and it is difficult to tie together to suppress those ambitious cabinets.

For Qi Province, Shuangyu Pirates are still an ally at present, but it is hard to say what will happen in the future. Therefore, the General Staff always keeps the Li family in each team.

In addition to the Li family, another force on the alert list of the General Staff was the Great Zhou court in Jiangnan.

As for the reason..., I understand it without saying it.

The information in the Great Zhou Dynasty is easy to collect, but the Jiangnan region is too large, and it is a very time-consuming task to sort out the massive amount of information.

What is known at present is: According to the statistics of the Great Zhou Dynasty, there are 11 million households in Jiangnan, about 60 million.

The annual income is about 50 million guan and two bunches of stones, and the annual figure is not clear. According to the information sent by Xu Shiliu, the General Staff currently only knows that the deficits left in previous years are large (mainly due to owing wages, military rewards, and secondly due to owing wages and owing less officials and owing less). However, in the first year of Longdao, it seems that the balance between income and expenditure can be achieved.

Last year, Mr. Wen proposed to open up the Jianghuai River to repay the owed wages and labor service money by dividing the fields and soil of the Jianghuai River.

This method has achieved phased success, and not only has the strength of the Great Zhou Dynasty been expanded, but it has repaid a large amount of deficit left before.

The court's finances are gradually improving, and national strength is also slowly increasing.

A powerful court is naturally not a good thing for Qi Province. Now that the court controls the south bank of the Huai River and is not far from the border of Qi Province, it is natural that the General Staff is vigilant against the court.

In addition, all other forces can only be considered outside the civilized world in people's minds today - including several countries in the southern part of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Dali, Jiaozhi, Siam, etc.

These countries and forces have no impact on the "world", and the staff in their childhood were not able to collect their intelligence, so they were temporarily ignored by the New Army General Staff.

For the next war, the General Staff gave Xu Shiyang two options:

First, of course, I will continue to go north and focus on deciding with the Jurchen Tartars.

To this end, the General Staff has begun to formulate a specific combat plan to attack Gaizhou for the second time or recover Fuzhou first.

The new army commanders have expanded their troops and are really ready to kill Wanyan Yinshuke and control the entire Liaodong Peninsula area.

Second, some even more crazy officers are coveting a new target - the Goryeo.

They suggested using their maritime advantages to send troops in the name of eliminating the harassment of Goryeo pirates, and once robbed Goryeo once as last year as last year's robbery of Gaizhou.

The General Staff believes that this operation will be smoother than the Battle of Gaizhou, and the wealth you can obtain will be richer than Gaizhou - there should be no problem catching at least 100,000 Korean slaves.

Of course, many officers are selfish.

In this era, the reputation of Goryeo maids was well-known all over the world. The King of Goryeo paid tribute to hundreds of beautiful women in the Jin Kingdom every year. The general young and energetic new army officers wanted to see if Goryeo maids were as beautiful as the legendary ones.
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