The news of the destruction of the Youzhou Army quickly reached Luoyang. After hearing the news, Sima Shi was speechless for a long time. The wood sat for a long time and finally turned into a long sigh.

In fact, the failure of the Youzhou army was also expected by Sima Shi. After all, after the fall of the western part of Youzhou, the situation in Liaodong had become dangerous. Wei Guan and Wang Qi retreated to defend Linyu Pass. Although it seemed to block the offensive of the Bingzhou army on the surface, it actually could not solve the dilemma of Youzhou. Unless Sima Shi could send troops to reinforce, the situation in Youzhou could only further deteriorate and eventually reached an uncontrollable point.

But sending troops is simple, but it is extremely difficult to achieve it. Since the cavalry of the Sima Army is still under reconstruction and does not have the ability to fight in the field, the Sima Army sent troops at this time, basically for nothing.

Sima Shi has a clear understanding of this. If Sima Yi left Sima Shi the greatest wealth to Sima Shi was his lifelong admonition, and a small unbearable situation would cause chaos. Sima Jun is now at a critical moment of rest and recuperation. If Sima Shi sent troops to Youzhou hastily, it is likely that not only will it not be able to solve the crisis in Youzhou, but it will instead make him fall deeper and affect the overall situation of the world.

Therefore, from a strategic perspective, Sima regards Youzhou as an abandoned son. He adopted Sima Lun's plan to recruit 300,000 troops in Jizhou and strengthens Jizhou's defensive power to ensure that the Bingzhou army could be blocked from the southward advance.

As for the situation of the Youzhou army, it can only be left to fate. Sima Shi no longer has any hope of whether the abandoned son of Linyu Pass can exert some of his remaining energy. In short, it is completely reasonable that the entire Youzhou army was destroyed. Even if there are some regrets, it will never shake Sima Shi's strategic deployment.

After Youzhou was lost, Jizhou became the first target of attack by Bingzhou Army. However, after Zhong Hui arrived in Jizhou, he drasticly executed Sima Shi's order, and the original recruitment target of 300,000 was basically achieved.

Now Jizhou is almost the whole country's soldiers. Almost all young and strong men over fifteen years old are forced to join the army. You should know that these young and strong men are the main labor force, almost responsible for more than 70% of the agricultural production in Jizhou. After these young and strong men joined the army, a large amount of land was abandoned, and Jizhou's economy also tends to collapse.

For this reason, the ministers of the court, He Zeng, Zheng Chong and others, jointly submitted a report, believing that the defense of Jizhou is of great importance, but if they are so powerful, they are afraid that the country will not be in a state of power in the long run.

Of course, Sima's army is also clear about the benefits and interests of this, but the cavalry is not available at present and the field is powerless. If Jizhou does not have sufficient army, how can we resist the attack of Bingzhou army?

It can only be said that the current plan is just a temporary measure. In order to defend Jizhou, it is necessary to make some sacrifices. Once the situation in Jizhou becomes stable and the cavalry of Sima's army also has the ability to fight, it is not impossible for 300,000 Jizhou troops to be disarmed and return to the fields.

Therefore, during special periods, special things must be done. Fortunately, the areas controlled by Sima Shi are not just Jizhou. It does not mean that other states are acting the same, and other states still maintain the status quo. In this way, Sima Shi can use the grain and other materials produced by other states to feed back to Jizhou. Although the taxes in other states are more tight and the burden of Jizhou has to be shared with other states, although overall, it is not an unbearable range. After surviving this difficulty, the situation will change.

Some ministers also proposed to build military farms in Jizhou, bringing together the 300,000 people recruited together to conduct military camps, which can take into account defensive combat tasks while not delaying agricultural production.

In fact, this is also a solution. Didn’t Cao Cao do this back then? Now Wei State also implements the military camp system in Huainan to prepare for war and famine, and defend against the invasion of Wu State, and can also produce millions of hu of grain every year. Although it cannot completely solve the food and grass supply of the Huainan Army, it is also a great supplement.

Jizhou recruited 300,000 troops, which is even larger than the 100,000 troops in Huainan. If these 300,000 people are fully utilized and tens of millions of hu of grain can be produced every year, the economic problems of Jizhou can be effectively solved without adding additional burden to other states.

At the beginning of this proposal, Sima Shi was a little moved. While guarding the city and carrying out military farming, he could indeed not delay the problem. Jizhou was not short of food, so the people naturally had fewer complaints, which could still play a key role in stabilizing the overall situation of Jizhou.

Sima Shi wrote a letter to Zhong Hui to ask for his opinions. After all, Zhong Hui was in Jizhou and had the most say.

However, what surprised Sima Shi was that Zhong Hui politely declined the proposal. Zhong Hui believed that the method of farming was not unfeasible, but at this time, it was not easy to implement in Jizhou. Even if it was to be implemented, it would have to wait for two or three years. It would not be too late to implement it when the conditions were ripe.

The main reason why Zhong Hui said that the conditions were immature was the quality of the soldiers. The Huainan Army had been implementing military farming for many years. Most of its garrisons were old troops transferred from other places. Even if they did not practice for a short time, they still had complete combat effectiveness.

The newly recruited troops in Jizhou are different. They are all from peasants and have not undergone any military training. In order to enable these new troops to initially establish combat effectiveness, Zhong Hui is rushing to practice. He practices from morning to night, and not much time has been devoted to practice.

In this way, the result was difficult to satisfy Zhong Hui. What these peasant recruits lacked the most was discipline. Every time they practiced, they were in a mess, and they were in a mess. If the Bingzhou army suddenly launched an attack on Jizhou at this time, Zhong Hui would not know whether these newly recruited troops could be useful.

The exercise is difficult to work in a short period of time, and Zhong Hui is preparing to increase the training volume and strengthen the exercise. At this time, news suddenly came out of Luoyang that he wanted to farm, which really made Zhong Hui difficult to accept. Farming is farming. However, the old business of these farmers is technically not difficult.

But in this way, the fields are planted well, but the training of the army is even more impossible. The army without combat effectiveness is a mess. Zhong Hui served as the governor of Hebei and is responsible for the defense of the entire area north of the Yellow River. This is his focus of responsibility, and he must do it well. If the defense is not done well, he will do military farming. Isn’t this nonsense?
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