Late Tang

But apart from farmers and soldiers, the Qin army will have 100 million active soldiers plus 40 auxiliary soldiers, and among the 100 million active soldiers, 20 are actually on duty, which means that the real actual number is 85 active standing troops. .

There are 100 million active soldiers, of which [-] are Fan soldiers, and the ratio remains at about [-]%.

"Will it be a little too much?"

A few people asked worriedly, from a huge army of 430 million to 85 all of a sudden, this is a bit too ruthless.

"Even if it's 85, that's not a lot. Ladies and gentlemen, 3000 million people support 100 million troops. This is already a very heavy burden ratio. Look at us for the past few years. Life has been very tight. The growing military ultimately creates more than just logistical problems."

With too many troops, it is inevitable that management will not be in place, and military discipline will even be lax.And Li Jing has been guarding against one thing, that is, the power in the hands of the generals is too great, and eventually they are not restrained, and a new army leader appears.Especially in the past few years, the battles have continued, and the establishment of the Qin army has continued to expand. In the past, the battalion level was the largest unit when it was not fighting. Holding ten armies with 5 horses.This kind of momentum is not good, and after a long time, it is inevitable that there will be a mountain faction.

To fight outside, you must first be safe inside.

Taking advantage of the ease of the current situation, Li Jing is going to sort out the interior first.Just staring at the outside blindly is not enough.

Through disarmament, Li Jing threw out his second plan, which was to reorganize the army.Of course, the best way to deal with the military leaders of the mountain faction is to change officers frequently, but this is not thorough enough.Therefore, Li Jing took advantage of this disarmament and the reduction of foreign troops, and by the way, proposed a plan to reorganize the various armies.Of course, this is not a simple reorganization. Qin Fan's 100 million troops will be divided into two hundred troops, one thousand compartments, and two thousand battalions.Starting from the compartment level, the whole army is numbered, from the first compartment to the thousandth compartment, and the armies are also from the first army to the second hundred army.And taking this opportunity, Li Jing directly disrupted the original legions, and canceled the establishment of each legion.With the formation of the legion gone, the commanders of the legion naturally also disappeared.After canceling the legion, the general can only command one army at most.

Moreover, in the non-wartime state, the battalion and above the army only retain the basic establishment, but all the officers are not in the army, but stay in the office of the five armies in Yanjing, and serve as guests of the military academy. Lecturer professor.Only in wartime can they rely on military orders and soldiers to mobilize their troops.In non-wartime, the troops are stationed in various places in battalion units, and the battalion owner is the highest actual officer leading each battalion.This is also to implement the separation of soldiers and generals according to the first twelve guards of the Sui and Tang Dynasties to control military power and prevent the emergence of military leaders and warlords.

Especially for the 20 guards in Gyeonggi, they were handed over to multiple generals to lead them separately, restricting them at various levels and supervising them everywhere.The stronger Qin Fan became, Li Jing began to pay more attention to internal defense.It can be said that until now, the possibility of external forces defeating Qin Fan is very small, and the biggest possibility is internal problems.There are many heroes in history who single-handedly took over half of Dongshan, but in the end they were one step short of unifying the world. The biggest problem is that internal contradictions are difficult to reconcile.For example, Cao Wei was taken over by the Sima family, the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the Northern Qi Dynasty, and even many short-lived dynasties in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, not all of them were like this.The hero of the first hero, the dynasty did not last long in the end. The big reason is not only the incompetence of the later generations, but also because the foundation of the dynasty was unstable from the beginning.Just like the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, these monarchs can be regarded as heroes, but in the end they failed to dominate the world, which has a great relationship with internal instability.

"How will the six legions controlled by Qin Zongquan, Shang Rang, Ge Congzhou, Zhang Guimou, Qian Liu, and Yang Xingmi be arranged?" Gai Yu asked.In Li Jing's plan just now, these six legions nominally belonging to the Qin Army have never been mentioned.

Li Jing didn't mention these six so-called legions just now, naturally because these six legions are not actually controlled by Li Jing.That was surrender in name only, not only for Qian Liu and Yang Xingmi, but also for Shang Rang and the other four surrendered generals.

Qian Liu and Yang Xingmi left him alone for the time being. They are now intimidated by the power of the Qin army. Although they are gradually breaking away from self-reliance, they dare not act rashly for a while. In this case, Li Jing intends to maintain this status.As for Shang Rang and others, although these people have demoted Li Jing, in fact, the relationship between the two parties is more similar to cooperation than affiliation.Li Jing now intends to use them, so he doesn't intend to annex them in a hurry, so as not to cause their backlash.

"Well, give them six from No.40 to 46, six new legion numbers, and the rest remain unchanged. Anyway, the military expenses are self-sufficient, and the military quota is given to him [-]. It doesn't matter if he wants to recruit more. Well, for the time being Don't touch the four prefectures in western Henan, and save them from random suspicion. Especially Shang Rang and the four generals of Huang Chao. Keep them in western Henan, and they will be used sooner or later." Li Jing understood early on that these army leaders are It is unlikely that they would surrender sincerely. They have territory and soldiers, so how could they surrender so easily.But Li Jing didn't care, he didn't care much about the territory of those states, leaving them stuck in the south of Luoyang, the most uncomfortable person was the Yang brothers, Zhu Wen.All Li Jing needs to do is to wait. Sooner or later, there will definitely be a fight between them.Let them go first, otherwise if Li Jing intervenes too early, I'm afraid they will fight against the Qin army, and Zhu Wenwen and the Yang brothers will be in vain.

"In short, we have three things to do at the moment, which are top priorities. First, the first is to disarm and reorganize the army. Second, to establish a production corps, recruit slaves, refugees, and barbarian people to go outside the customs to cultivate fields and develop the Northeast. Third, It is also the most important point, fully prepare for the battle of Hebei next year, and be fully prepared." Li Jing waved to the troops who were passing by, and said to the important officials in a deep voice.Li Yi, State Affairs Officer of the Supervision Army, Li Rui and Li Bao, State Affairs Officer of the Pingzhang Army, stood on one side, looking at Li Jing from time to time. They vaguely felt that Li Jing was discussing some important matters, but they were separated by a distance. But I couldn't hear anything clearly.Although in name, Li Yi is the supervisor of the state and the person with the highest official position in Yanjing, Li Rui and Li Bao are also the third and fourth members of the Qin family after Li Yi and Li Jing.But they also knew in their hearts that this was only in name, and in fact, they were excluded from Yanjing's inner circle.

Li Yi was only a ten-year-old boy, and he was very excited to see the mighty square teams passing by.He even couldn't help but want to pull Li Jing's hand and ask the uncle to watch it together.But a guard wearing a sword stood in front of him silently like an iron tower, and didn't pay attention to the state affairs of this military supervisor at all.Li Yi pushed Xunwei a few times, but finally found that he couldn't push him at all.However, Li Jing has been seriously talking with a subordinate, and never looked this way from the beginning to the end.

At this time, Gongsun Lan appeared from behind in a palace dress, but the guards of the three guards who stood by her pro-Xunyi did not stop her and let her go directly.

"Your Highness, Henan intelligence, Li Keyong has just crossed the Yellow River and has entered Luoyang. After passing Zhengzhou, he will reach Bianzhou. He led [-] troops to the south and headed straight for Bianzhou."

Li Jing nodded with a smile on his face.Yang Fuguang was finally going to attack Zhu Wen, and as expected, Yang Fuguang, an old and slippery guy, did not directly attack Zhu Wen, but transferred Li Ke to use this super thug to attack from Hedong. He brought 2 people to the south.

Yang Fuguang is really good at driving tigers and wolfs away.

"My lord, Li Ke is going south at this time, why don't we copy his old lair Taiyuan?" Wang Zhong suggested.

Li Jing shook his head, although it was a bit exciting.But Li Keyong dared to go south at this time, how could there be no arrangements?The center of Hedong in Taiyuan is the northern capital of the Tang Dynasty. This is the center of the north.How can it be so easy to fight? Besides, compared to winning Taiyuan, for Qin Fan now, taking the second town of Hebei step by step is the most important thing.Rather than take the risk of attacking Taiyuan, it is better to actually prepare to attack Wei Bochengde.Wei Bo and Chengde are already a piece of meat on the board, but attacking Hedong Town at this time may anger Li Keyong and Chang'an Yang brothers, and eventually break the agreement just reached.This is not a good thing for Li Jing.The rabbit was in a hurry and bit it, which really frightened the Yang brothers. They really came to work hard, which was not worth it for Qin Fan.

Since it takes a little more time and you can steadily eat away at it step by step, why bother to get yourself covered in scars.For the current Qin Fan, the most indispensable thing is time.Today's Qin Fan is far superior to other towns in all aspects. The longer the time drags on, the less their strength will not develop as fast as Qin Fan.At present, Qin Fan's tactics are mainly based on prudence, nibbling away at every step, and it is completely necessary to take risks again, because the reward does not match the risk ratio.The time for Qin Fan to take risks has long passed, and now Qin Fan has no need to take risks at all.Take risks, and if you fail, you will give the opponent a chance to come back.

"Should Zhu Wen remind him?" Gongsun Lan asked.Li Keyong went south under the guise of a transfer order from the Chang'an court, nominally leading an army to reinforce Zhu Wen.Therefore, there is nothing wrong with it in name.

"The show has just begun, why are we in a hurry. You can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, so wait and see." Li Jing replied with a smile.

Bianzhou, Henan, Shuaifu Jietang, Xuanwu Town.

Zhu Wenzheng was looking at the news just received, the peace talks between the imperial court and the Qin feudal clan had finally been announced.This matter was beyond Zhu Wen's expectation. Li Jing, who was completely in the upper hand, chose to negotiate peace with Chang'an at this time.Moreover, the terms of the peace negotiation between the imperial court and the Qin Fan did not seem to be very attractive to Li Jing, but why did Li Jing agree to the peace negotiation?

The content of the agreement that Zhu Wen received was not complete.There are a few things missing above, for example, the Chang'an court allocated Bianzhou and the five prefectures of Hao, Ying, Cai, and Chen to Qin Fan. For example, the Chang'an court promised to hand over Zhu Wen's head to Li Jing.In addition, the result of the peace agreement handed over to Zhu Wen by Yang Fuguang instead stated that the imperial court and the Qin Fan had reached a peace agreement, and that Ying Caihao and Chen Sizhou belonged to the imperial court.As for Haoying and Chen Sanzhou, the imperial court assigned it to Zhu Quanzhong's Xuanwu Town.

This result made Zhu Wen always feel a little incredible.There is such a cheap good thing?The four states were clearly occupied by Li Jing, why did Li Jing give it up in the end?

But doubts are doubts, Zhu Wen is still very happy.It would be great if the imperial court really assigned Yinghao Chen Sanzhou to Xuanwu Town.In this way, Zhu Wen's Xuanwu Town is connected with Jinshang Town and Shanguo Town to the west.

When he was overjoyed, Zhu Wen immediately sent a few troops to Chenhaoying Sanzhou to take over the city with the agreement.Unexpectedly, the three teams of Paizhi never came back, and soon, the scout who sent out to inquire about the news brought back a piece of news that made Zhu Wen extremely angry.His three envoys and attendants were all killed, and their heads were still hung on the gates of Chen, Hao and Ying for public display.

Zhu Wen was really angry now, beyond restraint.You guys go back on what you clearly said, and even dare to kill my people.Immediately, Zhu Wen ordered the call of soldiers and horses. Just after the call of soldiers and horses, there was another news that Qin Zongquan was leading Caizhou soldiers to march towards their Tangzhou.Just when Zhu Wen was a little frightened and angry, there was another urgent report from the horse scout.

"Report! Report to the King of Liang. Li Taiwei, the King of Jin, led [-] troops to reinforce him. He has now reached the border of Bianzhou, so he has been sent here to report."

"Oh, is the king of Jin coming so soon? It's just the right time. Gouyue's rebels didn't abide by the agreement. Not only did they not hand over Yinghao, Chen Cai Sizhou, they even dared to kill my envoy. Now they have sent troops to invade Tangzhou This is really unreasonable. This king is about to lead his troops to teach these traitors a lesson. King Jin just arrived. With King Jin, he will definitely be able to beat those thieves to death this time. Come, send a guard battalion, and go to greet them personally with this king. King Jin drives."

Zhu Zhen, Zhu Wen's general, was also very happy. Although Li Keyong was a bit arrogant, his ability was still admirable.After all, the one who has been able to fight with Li Jing all these years and has not been eliminated is probably Li Ke.With such a general around, what's the problem with dealing with Huang Chao's remnants.

"Your Majesty is going to meet Fei Huzi in person, let someone prepare a banquet at home!"

"Well, good. Li Ke uses this person to be arrogant, the banquet must be grand, and prepare more wine and meat for the soldiers, and comfort the Hedong army later."

"The banquet will be arranged at Uehara Station, how about it?"

"Shangyuan Station?" Zhu Wen thought for a while, "That's right, it has just been renovated and is very exquisite. Let's arrange to entertain Li Keyong at Shangyuan Station!" (To be continued.)