Volume XVII: What Is the Situation, Section 6
Luo Youliang told Haotian that during this time, the spies sent by the six major families received an important news, Fengcheng, Qingtian City, Kaiyuan City and Feiyue City in Wuji Country have been building a lot of new houses recently, and it is said that these houses were actually purchased by the officers and soldiers of the army, and the price naturally has a lot of discounts. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoYou must know that officers and soldiers live in military collective dormitories, and generally do not have personal real estate.
Luo Youliang said that the people who bought these houses were some officers and soldiers who had just left the army, mainly because the Wuji royal power did not pay enough attention to the treatment of the officers and soldiers of the army, and indeed because there had been no large-scale war for many years, and it basically belonged to the era of peace, the treatment of the officers and soldiers fell again and again, and many officers and soldiers did not want to continue to work in the army, so they took out the savings they had accumulated in the army over the years, and then got together with relatives and friends, went back to their respective homes, bought houses, married wives and had children.
In order to save military expenses, the government of Wuji did not make corresponding conscriptions to make up for the establishment of such a large-scale reduction in the army, and this incident mainly occurred in the army guarding the border passes, and it is said that the army of 300,000 guarding the border passes has been sharply reduced to less than 200,000, and it is still decreasing! It is strange to say that their great commander, Kamikaze General Qiao Meng, really does not care about this matter at all. According to the current momentum, the army guarding the border pass will probably be reduced to about 150,000 in the end, and there should be less than 50,000 officers and soldiers originally stationed in Kaiyuan City, and the army guarding Fengcheng will also be reduced from the original 150,000 to 70,000 or 80,000, and the 40,000 soldiers stationed in Qingtian City will also be reduced to less than 20,000.
Haotian was quite excited when he heard the news, and what Luo Youliang told him next made him even more unexpected, originally everyone estimated that the teams of the six major families, plus the people who fled and were willing to join the army to fight the war against Wuji's kingship, could also get together about 20,000 soldiers, but Wuji Country was harsh and fierce than the tiger, Zhumen wine and meat stinked, there were frozen bones on the road, a piece of white bones was exposed in the wild, and there was no tragic scene of rooster crowing for thousands of miles, which directly led to the number of refugees who fled to the six major families outside the gate to join the six families was far greater than Luo Youliang's estimate!
At present, the six major families have gathered a team of about 50,000 people, and after a period of training, the troops have a certain combat effectiveness. In terms of troop matching, it is also divided into three basic classes: cavalry, infantry, and crossbowmen. At present, everyone's problem is that the army is expanding too fast, the corresponding equipment cannot keep up, the various arms are not equipped with the corresponding equipment according to the establishment, the cavalry does not have enough horses and spears, let alone the armor to protect the knights and horses, and during training, there are several people or even a dozen people with a horse and several guns, and they take turns to train on horses and spears; the infantry does not have enough armor, big swords, and long knives; the crossbowmen are not equipped with enough bows and crossbows; in addition, the lack of powerful siege weapons is also a headache for the big guys.
In addition to equipment, once the war starts, the logistics of food and grass are not yet perfect, because there are too many people who have fled to them, and now food is the biggest problem. Luo Youliang has instructed all families to focus their current work mainly on three points: First, continue to train the troops; second, properly resettle the refugees, so that they can feel confident in their future life after they defect, so that everyone has food to eat and clothes to wear; third, it is necessary to make full use of manpower, including people from the original family and those who have newly defected, to bring into play the subjective initiative and wisdom of each person, pool their wisdom, expand grain production, reclaim wasteland, and build water conservancy, so that they can have a considerable surplus on the basis of achieving self-sufficiency; at the same time, because the training of the troops will occupy a lot of young and middle-aged people, it will have an impact on the human resources of all kinds of workEach family must have an organized and planned adjustment of labor use. Although there are some difficulties now, the big guys are all enthusiastic and full of enthusiasm! In the territory of the six major families, countless hard-working and intelligent people are sweating every day, and there are cheerful and positive songs fluttering in the sky every day.
Haotian listened excitedly, Luo Youliang was talking about passion, and Haotian's blood was swollen when he heard it, and he couldn't wait to lead thousands of golden armors all the way to the Wuji Kingdom with Luo Youliang now, and completely destroy this rotten Wuji kingship. But after the passion, there is also the reality to face. If you don't overcome these three major problems in terms of equipment, food, and siege weapons, you may not have a chance of winning a war once you start a war.
Haotian told Luo Youliang that with his relationship with Shen Qingqing, he would definitely do his best to persuade Shen Qingqing to help the big guy solve the problem of siege weapons, Luo Youliang was very pleased, and also said that the problem of food is only a matter of time, at present, the reclamation of wasteland and the construction of water conservancy are progressing smoothly, and the equipment is mainly copper and iron and other materials, and these materials are under the control of the government in Wuji Country, and it is not convenient to carry them, so it is indeed a trouble to get a lot in a short time.
Haotian thought that he had a deep relationship with the Feiyue Gang leader Qian of Feiyue City, and he also had some friendship with Yu Wenlong, the leader of the Qingtian Gang in Qingtian City, and the Wuji State Government was greedy from top to bottom, if the six major families could come up with a sum of money, through these two matchmaking helpers, it should not be too difficult to buy back copper and iron and other materials, but you must be cautious when buying these sensitive materials, especially not letting people know that the six major families outside the Guanwai are the buyers behind them, otherwise it is likely to attract disaster.
Haotian told Luo Youliang his thoughts, Luo Youliang thought about it and felt that under the current situation, he could only take a risk and give it a try, and the two agreed that Haotian would go to Qian Youxu first. Yu Wenlong secretly discussed this matter to see if it was feasible, if it was feasible, with the amount they wanted to buy, what was the approximate price, Luo Youliang would be responsible for convening various families to raise funds, in fact, Luo Youliang was most worried about whether these two people were reliable or not, Haotian meant that there must be no problem with Qian Youxu, Yu Wenlong should be more careful when approaching, but no matter what, he did not tell them that the buyers behind them were the six major families outside the Guanwai, so that the risk should be reduced a lot. Due to the large gap in equipment materials, this matter has indeed bothered Luo Youliang for a while, and he finally decided to take a risk this time.
After the two finished chatting, it was late at night, and Haotian went back to his room to sleep. In the middle of the night, suddenly there was a loud noise, the sound of "there is an assassin" was endless, Haotian woke up and hurriedly put on his clothes and lifted the chivalrous tender sword to go out, and saw that there were fires in several places a little farther away, from different directions, many people were busy fighting fires, and many people were carrying weapons to catch assassins, Haotian performed light skills to patrol everywhere, and finally found that at the corner of a house, He Qiaoyan, the patriarch of the Seven Star Clan, was fighting with a man in black.
Under the moonlight, the man looked like a woman, and the two girls were fighting happily, He Qiaoyan shouted while fighting, "The assassin is here, come and arrest her!"
The man did not flee, and did not seem to be at all afraid of being caught by the crowd.
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