Chapter 573 Planning to Expand the Army

In this way, the all-powerful tobacco empire in the future was born under the almost brain-slapping decision. Wu Yong was finally persuaded, and the team members also gave up the exchange of pills, equipment, mounts and other items, and instead concentrated their contributions on the materials for village construction.

Although you can obtain official funding by applying for Pingzhou subsidies, the more you invest in the initial stage, the more original shares you can occupy. here.

Of course, there is still a long way to go for them. At present, it is just a simple idea, and there are still hundreds of thousands of miles away from success.

Fortunately, these people have amazing mobility, and once they make up their minds, they immediately start to move.

Regardless of these young people with dreams, Shang Ji is too busy now.

For a power leader, there are many times more trivial matters to deal with after the war than during the war. Although a group of senior civil and military subordinates helped to deal with it, many things still needed to be decided by Shang Ji himself.

For example, the reconstruction and expansion of the Pingzhou Army!

After a great battle, the Pingzhou Army sacrificed 400,000 soldiers, accounting for one-eleventh of the active personnel of the Pingzhou Army. Of course, this group of people needs to be replenished as soon as possible.

Fortunately, there is no shortage of reserve troops in the Pingzhou Army.

More than a dozen giant barracks can replenish the lost troops in less than a week under full operation.

In addition, seeing that Goguryeo is about to be brought under the jurisdiction of Pingzhou, the Pingzhou army of more than 4 million is a bit stretched, not enough to defend Pingzhou from being invaded.

The newly attached land of Goguryeo covers an area similar to that of the original Pingzhou, and it must always face the threat of Lee's North Korea. Even if the rebel tribes inside Goguryeo are cleaned up, at least two million troops (including the Dragon Throat Canyon) will be needed to guard it. rest assured.

In other words, after Ge Zhen wiped out Goguryeo, instead of withdrawing the army, he had to expand the army!

Goguryeo directly occupied a small and half of Pingzhou's existing army.

The rest had to guard against Gongsun Zan, Ding Yuan and others to the east, and guard against the Xianbei people to the north. Even in the south, they have to guard against Yuan Shao and Han Fu's sudden attack, the troops are quite tense!

Therefore, large-scale military expansion has reached an imminent point!

"Brother, what do you think of this large-scale military expansion?"

There were only Liu Yi and Shang Ji in the study, and the two talked more casually, so they had a meeting with the expanded army first.

"Our military strength is indeed a bit tense. The Hanwen Festival has the same identity as the good brother. They are both state shepherds of a state. But as far as I know, the total number of Jizhou troops is approaching 20 million. The first dead soldiers under Qu Yi's command There are a full two hundred thousand. Compared with that, Brother Pingzhou Mu is far behind!"

Liu Yi looked at Shang Ji and joked.

Simply counting the strength of troops, apart from Dong Zhuo, it is not Lu Zhi, Yuan Shao, Cao Cao and other future overlords who support the most troops, but Jizhou Mu Han Fu!

Han Fu occupies Jizhou, which has a large population and abundant finances. After having money and food, there will be a large-scale military expansion. In just a few months of hard work, Han Fu has already assembled an army of nearly 20 million, faintly looking like the number one prince in the world!

And at the beginning, although Qu Yi stopped at the top 16 in the World's No. 1 Martial Arts Tournament, he was still considered a world-renowned top military general. Han Fu has only this top general under his command, so he naturally takes care of him in every possible way. With the strong support of Han Fu, Qu Yi's special arms (note,

Non-exclusive special arms) Xiandeng dead soldiers fully expanded to an army of 200,000, and they were all in the limelight for a while.

"Hehe, the master is weak and the minister is strong, and Daoer is the one who takes death. Haven't you heard how you died in history on this Korean festival?"

Hearing what Liu Yi said, not only was Shang Ji not afraid of Han Fu, but he sneered disdainfully.

Historically, Jizhou was occupied by Yuan Shao. In the end, Han Fu killed himself with a pen knife in the toilet in panic. The way of death can be described as extremely useless!

There were two reasons why Yuan Shao usurped Jizhou. One was that Gongsun Zan went south in an attempt to capture Jizhou; the other was that Han Fu's general Quyi rebelled.

Seeing this, Yuan Shao in Bohai immediately took Feng Ji's suggestion and made friends with Qu Yi. Then the north contacted Gongsun Zan and agreed to carve up Jizhou.

At the same time, they sent high officials and Xun Chen to persuade Han Fu to "give up the virtuous". Han Fu listened to Xun Chen's flickering, and simply gave up the richest state in the world to Yuan Shao!

Today's Han Fu is terribly against Yuan Shao, and has deployed a large number of troops around Bohai Sea, but he trusts Qu Yi very much. Qu Yi trained the dead men first, and Han Fu asked for money and people, caring for them meticulously.

"Hahaha, there is no way for Hanwen Festival. There are Gongsun and Ding Yuan in the north, Yuan Shao in the east, and Dong Zhuo and Lu Gong in the west. Even in the north, there are two heroes Cao Cao and Liu Bei. Although Jizhou is rich, it is also four. The place of battle. The situation will change in the future, and the first unlucky thing will be the Hangeul Festival! The two powers will choose the lesser harm, and he can only choose to trust Qu Yi!"

Liu Yi laughed, and made a clear picture of the disaster Han Fu was facing!

The wealth of Jizhou is the highest in the world. However, if there is not enough ability, it will become the most delicious piece of fat! Especially with a circle of hungry wolves eager to try, Han Fu can't help it!

Shang Ji smiled and said: "Okay, the matter of Jizhou has nothing to do with us for the time being, as long as we keep paying attention. Let's talk about the expansion plan of the Pingzhou Army!"

Shang Ji knows more about the inside story of Jizhou than Liu Yi, and Han Fu is one of Qian Huan's key monitoring targets. Shang Ji already knew some secret information that outsiders did not know, for example, the relationship between Han Fu and Qu Yi was not as close as it appeared on the surface.

Han Fu is humble and generous on the surface, but in fact he is jealous of the virtuous and capable. Shenpei, Jushou, Tian Feng, including Zhang Yun, all served under Han Fu, but Han Fu did not reuse any of them.

Qu Yi is even more arrogant and conceited. Whether he is under Han Fu or under Yuan Shao, he is always arrogant and annoying. Although due to the situation, the two can tolerate each other for the time being, but if this trend continues, a breakup will happen sooner or later!

"Okay, let's continue discussing the Pingzhou issue. Yuewu, how many more troops do you think we need to expand?" Hearing what Shang Ji said, Liu Yi also decisively turned his attention back to Pingzhou, and asked Shang Ji for his opinion. .

"Goguryeo needs at least two million yuan to ensure that the situation is not lost. Although Liaodong, Changli, Xuantu, and Lelang are in the interior, it is unlikely that they will be attacked by the enemy. But such a large territory, nearly 100 million people, four counties Adding up, at least two million needs to be arranged to maintain stability.

The terrain in the west of Liaoning is long and narrow, facing the threat of Xianbei in the north, and facing the princes of the mainland in the west, I can't sleep well without a million troops. "

"Two million from Goguryeo, two million from the four counties in the interior, plus one million from the west of Liaoning, this requires at least five million troops. This is only an army that sits in the local area. We must have another army that can be mobilized at any time." Strategic mobile force!"

Liu Yi frowned and said intently.

"Yes, what I mean is that the expansion of the army is a matter of time. Even if you don't expand now, you will still need to expand if you participate in the national war after more than a year. Why don't you take advantage of the good financial situation now, and there will be less opposition there, In one step, expand the army to seven million!"