There are a large number of forbidden troops, of course, there are not a small number of empty salaries, and the exaggerated battle damage before Tong Guan also means to fill the hole for them, so there are countless casualties at every turn, and the emperor also knows that according to this death method, the eight million forbidden troops are not enough for them to lose, but they still need to fight, so they can only endure it first. But this security problem has still not been solved, so it is necessary to find a suitable person to help, so even if Yan Xu's identity has all kinds of problems, he is a candidate unanimously recognized by the court.

Yan Xu had a secret letter sent by Tong Guan secretly in his hand, as well as a letter from the emperor, so he had a bottom in his heart, and comforted him and didn't know if it was too much of a county order.

"The county commander doesn't need to do this, even if you give more war horses, do you think these forbidden troops have the courage to go out of the city to fight?"

"What the master said is extremely true, although many soldiers and horses were sent, they were all useless, and they were not as good as the elite soldiers under the master who had been tempered." The county commander smiled embarrassedly, the weakness of the soldiers and horses of the Great Song Dynasty can be attributed to the great merits of their civil officials, and they are also powerful enough to toss millions of soldiers and horses in the imperial court like this.

"At present, Liangshan is mobilizing troops and horses, and it can give us some time, and it will be over when the Liangshan soldiers come to the city, so I still need the help of the county commander, and I want to use this to train an elite army against the Liangshan army."

"The master is serious, this official is the parent official of this place, naturally he has the responsibility of guarding the land, and there is the emperor's holy decree, whether it is logistics or soldiers, the master can rest assured!" The county magistrate touched his beard and said very confidently.

Yan Xu naturally rest assured, Da Song can't do anything else, it is not a problem for this resource and manpower to be integrated to unify the world, even if there is a lot of waste in the middle, it is enough to meet Yan Xu's needs. And these are not Yan Xu's, no matter how much he wastes, he will not feel distressed, and he will not meddle in his affairs, he trains his soldiers, and they make their fortune.

The forbidden army sounds good, very atmospheric, and it is like the emperor's own soldiers, but in fact it is not the same thing at all. The name of the Song Dynasty box soldiers has been rotten on the street, everyone knows that this is the old Zhao family in order to fear the rebellion of the people, the young and strong among the displaced people are organized into box soldiers, and the road of the people's rebellion is cut off from the root.

In this way, although the army of the Great Song Dynasty is as high as four million, but the number is the largest, up to three million box soldiers can only be used as decoration, at most to deter the local thieves, in fact, the slightly larger cottage does not take the local box soldiers in their eyes at all, after all, except for a certain organization, they are no different from farmers who farm the land.

The forbidden army is somewhat better, at least the physique is okay, how bad can it be from the three million people, not to mention that the equipment at least cannot be bad for the sake of the face of Kyoto. Although in fact there are not as many as 800,000 forbidden troops, there are also 450,000 huge numbers excluding empty salaries, and they are all formed from the strong men drawn from the van soldiers, which are well-equipped and have a great deterrent effect, and are the main force in suppressing local rebellions.

However, the old Zhao family is ruthless enough to the generals, almost all those who can fight are killed, and the rest are raised as pigs, completely ensuring that they have no combat effectiveness, and the result is that hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops have become decorations again. Although Jiangmen still retains the ability to train soldiers, it has become a craft to make a living, and it is okay to stay in the capital for ten days and half a month to practice, and it is a bit difficult for them to lead troops to fight in battle.

After all, in addition to face training, these generals use the forbidden army under their command as free labor, such as building a house by themselves or other adults building a government or something, they like to transfer a group of forbidden troops to do it. On weekdays, these forbidden soldiers wander around the capital to do small business, as coolies, craftsmen, and do everything, except for a forbidden army identity, and hand over part of the income as protection money, they are no different from ordinary people.

Of course, not all forbidden armies are like this, there are also a group of the most elite and strongest forbidden troops in the capital, they are handsome, eight feet tall, with a strong physique, well-dressed armor, holding shining weapons, and strictly drilling······ Vaudeville.

That's right, it's juggling, every year the emperor has to parade, and this group of skilled forbidden troops will perform all kinds of difficult juggling to show the emperor's ministers and the people of the capital who are watching, and they can get praise every year, and they are also the main force to deceive the emperor and the people of the capital.

They have never used a knife in their lives, and they can't tell the difference between juggling and pawns, they only think they are good-looking, so powerful, in fact, they don't know the difference until the foreign enemies have hit the capital.

The number of these forbidden troops is about 30,000, and the fig leaf was lifted by Tong Guan's letter, and after understanding that juggling has nothing to do with combat effectiveness, the emperor was willing to do it, and directly transferred 10,000 people to Yan Xu's men to listen to the order, which can be regarded as compensating for the problem that Yan Xu is in charge of the cavalry but does not have horses, and at the same time, he is also upset when he looks at this group of people, after all, he has almost been blinded for a lifetime, how can he do it without revenge.

Although these forbidden soldiers are a little funny, but now Yan Xu has learned a lot about the level of the troops and knows the preciousness of these people, so he said so generously that he is not angry.

The entry standard for level 10 as a class of troops is low, basically a healthy adult has the attributes of level 10, and if you take a short gun and practice a few times, you will be qualified, as for A, don't think about it, no one will waste money on them, just be good cannon fodder, this is generally used as the standard for van soldiers.

Level 20 belongs to elite soldiers, who can wear leather armor, use standard military weapons and equipment, and can also withstand this degree of physical exertion, accept more formal drills, and at least pull out thousands of people to avoid running around, the level of the forbidden army.

Level 30 belongs to the elite, and they are the ones who point to them in a hundred, even if they have not undergone any training, as long as they are sent to the battlefield for three or five battles, they will not die in three or five battles, and they will be good elite soldiers when they come back, and they can be used as the main force. If you go through rigorous training and then match it with iron armor and sophisticated weapons, one person can kill half a dozen elite soldiers, and the Great Song Border Army is such a level.

Level 30 and above does not belong to the regular arms, and there is basically no possibility of large-scale training, such as level 40 hoplites, just hundreds of pounds of equipment will eliminate ninety percent of the elite. Of course, the ironclad cavalry on the horse also belongs to level forty, but when you get off the horse, you can only use it as an elite level of thirty, and not to mention the cost of ironclad, it is not easy to find two war horses with strength, endurance and speed just to replace.

As for the soldiers of the fifty and sixty levels, there is a shortage of them, and the most typical is the heavy cavalry of the sixty levels, that is, the forty levels of troops are made of luxurious piling up all kinds of expensive equipment, and there is no possibility of large-scale expansion.

In fact, the entire Great Song Dynasty really has a combat effectiveness of only 300,000 border troops, they are the strongest barrier in the Great Song Dynasty, even if the emperor slaughters or distributes a general from time to time, the 300,000 border troops still peep at the rich Great Song Dynasty The alien race is firmly blocked at the border pass, which shows the exaggeration of combat effectiveness.

The most awesome thing is that in the case of the incompetence of the main general, the mediocrity of the emperor, the corruption of the ministers, and the emperor who even went out to fight and set up a battle formation in advance, the victory rate of the Great Song Dynasty was maintained above eight layers.

Don't do much, as long as the Great Song Dynasty mobilizes 350,000 border troops, what Liangshan, what Fangla, within a year, will make sausage and sorghum rice for you, and you will be as mature as you want. It's a pity that the emperor didn't dare, firstly, the border pass troops were insufficient, after all, the border line was long, there were too many foreign enemies, and secondly, he was afraid of high merit and shocked the master, and he was afraid that the army would be unstable, and he was always itchy in his heart.

So in a helpless situation, a eunuch turned out to be the chief general of an army, what a strange decision.

Since there is this precedent, it is not surprising that Yan Xu, a monk, is reused, after all, compared to a eunuch with incomplete limbs, although the monk is not used, at least the accessories are complete.

Time is urgent, Yan Xu is no longer in retreat, anyway, with his current state, unless there is a major breakthrough or understanding, otherwise the retreat will have little impact on him, but he has been exposed to many new things recently, so he needs a quiet place to think and experiment.

Now the whole of Hantan County has become a big construction site, tens of thousands of soldiers plus a larger number of people to expand and heighten the city wall together, and build a sub-city in front of Hantan County, the area is half the size of the old city, enough to accommodate more than 20,000 people, if it is replaced by soldiers, the number can be doubled.

These are all preparations for the next big war, if the final battle is made in the city with high walls and strong cities, the remaining five counties must be abandoned, but this is absolutely unrealistic, and you can only choose to expand and strengthen Hantan County.

Fortunately, although the project is not small, there is a government and five counties that can be used, and there is an imperial support behind it, which is enough to complete the expansion in a short time.

The previous war caused the 10,000 forbidden troops in Hantan County as the main force to lose more than 3,000 people, but together with the later 10,000 juggling forbidden troops, they were made up, and now the entire Hantan County has 20,000 forbidden troops and 30,000 soldiers, as well as tens of thousands of people.

Although these people will need to return to their hometowns after the construction is completed, at least a few thousand people will be left behind, so that Hantan County will have sufficient manpower.

However, it is not a simple matter to fully exert these manpower at the moment, at least the county order and the original team can't do it. So Yan Xu gave them an idea to hire a trialist.

Most of the trialists have received systematic basic education, and they can't do complex and professional things, but there is no problem in organizing No. 100 people to do some civil work, the difficulty is about the same as that of the elementary school class leader, and it is easier than that, after all, they don't need to work, and even the overseers don't need them to come in person, and these people are honest people, although they are only box soldiers who are responsible for guarding them, but they are also soldiers, and they naturally dare not steal and play tricks.

This decision has reduced the prefectural ordinance's work by a great deal and made it possible to recognize the abilities of the trialists who were not taken seriously in the first place.