Chapter 774: Expand the army by 240,000
The crisis in Jiangxia and Changsha is actually not as serious as Qin Hao said. Vertex updates are the fastest
Liu Xuan is indeed preparing to invade Jiangxia, and Hong Xiuquan is also preparing to invade Jingnan, but Jiangxia and Changsha have the Yangtze River moat and the other have the Lingnan mountains, as long as Huang Zu and Han Xuan can return smoothly, the problem of holding the chassis is still not big.
Although Han Xuan does not understand military affairs, he still has Wei Yan, a general under his command, and Wei Yan alone may not be able to stop the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but the mountains of Lingnan are natural barriers to Jingzhou and Jiaozhou, and it is not difficult to block the Taiping army in Jiaozhou, and Hong Xiuquan's heart to go north is not firm.
Huang Zu and Han Xuan didn't know this, so they both agreed to Qin Hao's unequal treaty, and then the rest of the matter naturally became simpler.
After Huang Tingjian and Han Yuanji met their respective fathers, they learned that their fathers agreed to Qin Hao's conditions, so they returned to deal with the handover.
The fastest to get to Qin Hao's hands in China is naturally the land of the six counties ceded by Huang Zu, after all, the transportation of money and grain is still very inconvenient, and the amount of money and grain compensated by Changsha is very large, of course, it is impossible to transport it all at once.
The amount of money and food compensated by Han Xuan this time is enough to feed 50,000 Qin troops for a year, and Changsha can't afford to pay it at all, so he can only accompany half of it first, and pay back the rest slowly in three years.
Regarding the cession of the six counties, Qin Hao asked Yue Fei to send troops to directly take over the three counties of Nanjun, and Xiangyang County has since owned fifteen counties.
As for the three counties in Jiangbei in Jiangxia, Qin Hao had other arrangements.
Qin Hao prepared to divide the six counties in the east and southeast of Nanyang, and took Zhangling County as the center, plus the three counties of Jiangbei, a total of nine counties and set up another county, named Zhangling County.
Qin Hao's behavior of directly splitting a county into several counties will definitely become more and more frequent in the future.
With the advent of the era of princes competing for hegemony, all localities are fighting against each other, today you take a city from me, tomorrow I will rob you from a county, if you want to take all the other party's territory, it will be protracted, and in order to govern the new land, it is inevitable to reassign the territory.
In the original history, Nanyang was gradually divided into several counties, such as Nanxiang County and Zhangling County, and Zhangling County was even abandoned several times after being established several times.
Shangyong County, which is close to Jingzhou and Yizhou, is separated from Hanzhong County;
Shouchun County, the land of Jianghuai, is also divided from Jiujiang County.
In the later Shu Han Dynasty, the land of 98 counties and 3 provinces of the eight counties of Yizhou was directly divided into more than 30 counties.
It can be seen that such a more detailed division of territory is not only conducive to the division of regions, but also conducive to local governance, and can also prevent local governments from being too centralized in power.
Qin Hao's sole establishment of Zhangling County was mainly to guard against Yuan Shu in the east, after all, the relationship between him and Yuan Shu had always been very poor.
As for the candidate for Taishou, Qin Hao decided to send Xin Qiji, who had made great contributions in this battle, and sent Zhou Yu's father Zhou Yi to serve as the county leader.
Yuan Shu knew that Qin Hao was powerful, and there was also a Li Mi in Yuzhou, it was impossible for a war to break out between Qin Hao and Yuan Shu in the short term, and this did not give Qin Hao the opportunity to recruit and train troops on the spot.
"Xin Qiji, Benhou appointed you as the Taishou of Zhangling County, commanding the land of the nine counties of Zhangling County, and after taking office, you can recruit 30,000 troops on the spot, and as for the position of county Cheng, Zhou Yi will serve as Zhang." Qin Hao said in a deep voice.
"Thank you for your trust." The two said excitedly.
Xin Qiji's civil and military skills, coupled with an army of 30,000, even if he was not the opponent of Yuan Shu's martial arts, he would definitely be able to delay Qin Hao enough time.
Now the main opponent of the Qin army is Dong Zhuo, so there are not too many people to guard against Yuan Shu, and after Qin Hao solves Dong Zhuo, he will definitely send a general to Xin Qiji.
With the division of Zhangling County, Qin Hao also had some four counties, and Jingzhou also changed from nine counties to ten counties.
Although Nanyang County has been divided three times, leaving only fourteen counties, it is still the richest and most populous county under Qin Hao.
After these three divisions, the overall situation of the Qin army is also approximate.
Nanyang County, under the jurisdiction of Wancheng and other fourteen counties, is too guarded by Qin Hao, with 120,000 soldiers.
Xiangyang County, under the jurisdiction of Xiangyang and other fifteen counties, Taishou Yue Fei, with 60,000 soldiers.
Nanxiang County, under the jurisdiction of Nanxiang and other eight counties, is too guarded by Zhang Liao, with 30,000 soldiers.
Zhangling County, under the jurisdiction of Zhangling and other nine counties, is too guarded by Xin and abandons disease, with 30,000 soldiers.
Among these four counties, except for Yue Fei's Xiangyang County, which will change in the future, Qin Hao is no longer ready to change the rest of the prefectures and counties.
And once the pattern of these four counties is completely formed, Qin Hao's army will rise to 240,000, surpassing Qin Wen in the annexed state at once, and becoming the second largest prince after Dong Zhuo.
Before going south, Qin Hao sat on a county in Nanyang, a land of 36 counties, with 2.4 million people and 130,000 soldiers and horses.
Now Qin Hao has four counties, forty-five counties, three million people, and 240,000 soldiers.
In just a few months, the territory of the Qin army did not increase much, but the number of troops increased by 110,000.
This is also because the Qin army has strong financial resources, and because of the large population of the four counties, otherwise it would be impossible to expand the army so quickly.
Such a rapid expansion of the army will inevitably lead to a decline in the overall quality, so before the recruits are thoroughly trained, Qin Hao will not let the recruits go to the battlefield easily, and it will take time to build weapons and armor.
With the continuous reports of Dong Zhuo's absurd behavior in Chang'an, Qin Hao can already foresee that the day of seeking Dong is close at hand.
This time to deal with Dong Zhuo, Qin Hao will only use the 120,000 essence of Wancheng, and the 120,000 new army will stay to garrison the base camp to protect the four counties of Jingbei.
After the end of the Battle of Jingbei, Kou Sui, one of the 28 generals of Yuntai, was the only enemy general who was captured alive.
Kou Xianyuntai ranked fifth among the twenty-eight generals, and he was also a political general with both civil and military skills, and Qin Hao also tested his five dimensions for the first time.
Kou Sui: Commander 93, Armed Forces 82, Intelligence 92, Political 96, Charisma 88.
This attribute is too balanced, too comprehensive, Kou Sui is simply an all-rounder, no wonder he can be shot in the fifth place in the PTZ, how can Qin Hao let go of such a talent?
Qin Hao thinks that his eloquence is still good, and even the saint Zhang Liang was moved by his own words, so why can't he help a little Kou Sui?
It turned out that Qin Hao was slapped in the face.
What Ren Qinhao said was a dry mouth, and he even made a promise that he would not let Kou Sui deal with Liu Xiu, but Kou Sui was still indifferent.
This made Qin Hao sigh that while the Yuntai generals were loyal to the ministers, he couldn't help but sigh at Liu Xiu's good luck, all the generals under his command were dead set on him, and they were unwilling to betray him even if they died.
Kou Xun's reluctance to surrender does not mean that Qin Hao will give up, he can't convince Kou Xun, so let Kou Xun's family persuade him slowly.
If it doesn't work for a day, it will be a year, and if it doesn't work for a year, it will be ten years, anyway, Qin Hao is very patient, and he is not bad for Kou Sui's meal.