Chapter 1645: Rapid expansion of the army of 100,000

Qin Hao has made so many transfers, but he has not transferred a single super god general, mainly because of the war on the Hebei side, and it has reached the final moment to decide the outcome of the battle.

Other generals, even Zhao Yun at the god of war level, will not have much impact on the Qin army after being transferred from the Hebei battlefield, but once the super god general is transferred, it will directly affect the Qin army's strategy against Hebei.

The main reason for the attack of the Southern Han Dynasty was to prevent the Qin army from occupying Hebei, and if the war in Hebei could be ended, the Southern Han would naturally be insufficient.

Therefore, Qin Hao would rather have a difficult side of the base camp than drag down the progress of the battle situation in Hebei.

"With an army of 150,000 in Sijing and 230,000 in Tang Shu, it is still too risky after all, in order to be more secure......"

Qin Hao's eyes couldn't help flashing a hint of pain, and then he said in a deep voice: "Send an order to Jingzhou Assassin Shi Qin Zheng, as well as Sizhou Han Fei, and immediately expand the army in the two states, including 70,000 in Jingzhou and 30,000 in Sizhou, a total of 100,000 troops. ”

Zhuge Liang and Liu Bowen were stunned, and then they opposed Qin Hao's decision at the same time.

"My lord, when the mountains and rivers are exhausted, expanding the army at this time is just a waste of money and food." Zhuge Liang persuaded.

"It's just money and food, and our army will consume it." Qin Hao replied.

"But my lord, when the army is expanding at this time, the army that has been recruited is only a new army that has never seen blood, and the help to our army is really limited." Liu Bowen persuaded.

"Limited, which means that it is still helpful, and since it is helpful, it must be implemented." Qin Hao said.

"Lord, don't say it's 100,000, even if it's 200,000, it may not be able to reach the 50,000 elites of Shu Tang."

"Yes, once the casualties of the new army are too large, the pension alone will cause our army's finances to suffer a heavy blow."

"Lord, after occupying Hebei, there will be more places to use money, and it is not cost-effective to waste all the money and grain on pensions."

The reason why Zhuge Liang and Liu Bowen opposed the expansion of the army was mainly because of the pension system of the Qin army.

The Qin army was different from the other princes' Coindu, not only paid military salaries, but also had pensions, and the amount of pensions was not small.

This is also the main reason why all Qin generals want to minimize casualties when fighting, because once the casualties are too large, then the battle cannot be regarded as winning.

The new army is also an army within the establishment, and once it dies in battle, it also enjoys a pension, and the death rate of the new army participating in the war is extremely high, so it is reasonable for the Qin army to never have a new army to participate in the war.

However, there are always exceptions to everything, during the Battle of Hetao, Qin Hao's father Qin Wen was forced by Temujin, and he also urgently expanded his army to resist the invasion of Yuan and Mongolia, and finally killed 190,000 recruits.

The pension of these 190,000 recruits alone can make the Qin and Jin armies go bankrupt directly.

At that time, if Qin Hao hadn't taken out the treasure of Tiangong, in the next ten years, the Qin army would have fallen into a financial crisis and would not be able to breathe.

With the huge supply of funds from the Heavenly Treasure, in the first year of the Qin army's two-year cultivation, the fiscal revenue and expenditure were still much larger than the income, and it was not until the second year that the revenue and expenditure ratio gradually balanced, until now the income exceeds the benign development of the expenditure.

The remaining funds in the treasure of Tiangong are now less than one-third, and the governance after the foundation of Hebei also requires a lot of investment.

Therefore, if the Qin army recruited new soldiers at this time, and once the casualties of the recruits were too large, the post-war pension would become a huge financial burden for the Qin army, and even drag down the development and unification of the Qin army.

Of course, Qin Hao also knew this, but as a monarch, from his own point of view, he also had his own considerations.

"What the two military advisors said, this king naturally knows that the new army can not help much, but it is still possible to participate in the defense of the city.

After the expansion of the army, Sizhou has 30,000 elite 50,000 recruits, and Jingzhou has 70,000 elite 90,000 recruits, and it will definitely not be a problem to resist the 300,000 troops of Shu and Tang for a month."

Seeing that Qin Hao didn't listen, Zhuge Liang and Liu Bowen were still ready to persuade, but before they could say anything, they were interrupted by Qin Hao.

"Okay, the two military advisors don't need to say much, this king has made up his mind, and the matter of the emergency situation in the two states of Sijing and Jing is so decided." Qin Hao said undoubtedly.

Seeing this, Zhuge Liang and Liu Bowen both flashed a trace of helplessness in their eyes, obviously it can be solved at a smaller price, but their own lord chose to use money to smash it, he is really rich and capricious.

Seeing that the two no longer objected, Qin Hao also secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, in his opinion, the lives of soldiers were more important than money.

If Qin Hao was asked to choose between a veteran and a recruit, he would rather spend money to let the recruit die instead of the veteran.

It's cruel and ruthless, but that's what a king is.

"Now the key to this battle is to see if our army will defeat the Northern Han first, and it will be the Southern Han who will break through our army's defense first."

Qin Hao's eyes were full of battle intent, and he said in a deep voice: "Two military advisors, this pot of Guan Benwang can't stay any longer, this king has decided to go to Yecheng in person to boost morale, so that Bai Qi can break through Yecheng as soon as possible." ”

The reason why Qin Hao didn't say that he would go to Julu and Daijun was because Li Jing was about to arrive in Julu, and Daijun was involved in a plan to join forces with Gongsun Xuanyuan.

Therefore, on the two sides of Daijun and Julu, it makes no difference whether Qin Hao goes or not, only on the side of Yecheng, Qin Hao personally goes over to play the greatest role.

Hearing this, Zhuge Liang and Liu Bowen glanced at each other, and said in unison: "It's hard work." ”

"What's so hard about this, staying in the pot for a few months, it's almost rusty."

The reason why Qin Hao stayed in Huguan was originally to personally use as a bait to lure Han Xin over, but he set up an ambush here in Huguan and captured him in one fell swoop.

But Qin Hao underestimated Han Xin's cautious traffic jam, and in the face of such a big temptation from Qin Hao, the king of Qin, Han Xin was still indifferent, and this also made this ambush die directly.

In this way, Qin Hao took more than 1,000 guards, as well as Sun Lingming and other generals, and went to the Yecheng battlefield.

At the same time, Li Jing, who led the army to Julu, finally entered Jizhou at the fastest speed after a non-stop hurry.

After receiving the news that Li Jing had killed, Yuan Shao was suddenly frightened, he always thought that the person who was attacking Qingbei was Li Jing, but he never expected Li Jing to hit him right under his nose.

It turned out that Zhou Yu's attack on the counties of Qingbei has always been under the banner of Li Jing.

The reason why Zhou Yu will do it is mainly because Li Jing's prestige in Qingzhou is higher, and he will attack Qingbei under the banner of Li Jing, and most of the cities will basically be passed on, and a small number of people will be frightened to surrender directly after seeing Li Jing's banner.

If Zhou Yu used his own banner, it would obviously be impossible to achieve this effect, after all, who knew who Zhou Yu was in Qingzhou, so it would save Zhou Yu's time to attack the city by city.

In addition, under the banner of Li Jing, Zhou Yu can also confuse Yuan Shao and play a role in covering Li Jing.