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With only 4,000 soldiers, the Iwashimizu Standing Army must be more than enough to garrison the Bian Shi Imperial Palace, but Bai Feng doesn't plan to just let them garrison the Bian Shi Imperial Palace; the unification of the Mutsu Kingdom is only the first step of the Yanhuang family, and the stage of the Yanhuang family is the entire Yamato Empire!

Therefore, after the Yanhuang family eliminated the Tsugaru family and unified the Mutsu Kingdom, Bai Fengfeng left each of the Yanhuang family's commanders with orders to train the army to improve their combat effectiveness while leaving the Mutsu Kingdom, which was a mission that each of them must complete.

The meaning of training the army is very simple, as long as you are not a fool, you can understand Bai Feng's meaning; it is not simple to improve the combat effectiveness of the army, because the way in which each commander of the army can improve the combat effectiveness of the army is different, and the results produced are naturally very different.

A combat-oriented general like Sanada Masayuki can at least double the combat effectiveness of his army in a year, while an internal general, like Nanbu Shinnao, will only increase the combat effectiveness of his army by expanding the size of his army.

What made Bai Feng feel helpless was that among the generals of the Yanhuang family, there were not many combat-type generals like Sanada Masayuki, even if they added the generals who had taken refuge in the Spo family, there were only two generals, Sanada Masayuki and Kunohe Yasuma.

Whether it is the Quanshan Gukang supported by Bai Feng himself, or the Iwashimizu Yoshikyo with good ability, they are all generals who have combat experience but are more inclined to internal affairs; on the whole, they are stronger than Nanbu Shinnao, who has no combat experience, and inferior to the real combat type.

In fact, this kind of general can be cultivated, and a purely internal affairs general like Nanfang Xinzhi is the general that Bai Feng least wants to use; this is not to say that Bai Feng rejects this kind of general, it's just that they are not very suitable for training troops and improving the combat effectiveness of the army.

If it is only a battlefield duel, the internal affairs generals may not be worse than the combat generals; even, in many cases, the internal affairs generals are more suitable to serve as the chief generals of the army than the combat generals, but the way they improve the combat effectiveness of the army is really pitiful!

Increasing the size of the army to increase the combat effectiveness of the army is a very effective way on the surface, but in reality it is the worst way to fall into a vicious circle, because the number of young and strong people is limited, and too much military demand can upset the balance.

For example, in a force with a total population of 1 million, excluding one-third of the elderly and one-third of the children, the number of young people is about 300,000, and among these 300,000 people, one is a woman, and the real young and strong are 150,000.

To feed a million people with 150,000 young people would need to feed more than six people on average, and even if women could farm the land as well as men, the average person would need to feed more than three, including themselves.

Among the 150,000 young and strong people, every time one more person becomes a professional soldier, the other young and strong people will increase the pressure, and in this new increase of pressure is not only those old people and children who need to be fed, but also those who have become soldiers from young and strong.

As a result, the pressure on the young and strong men who have not become professional soldiers has actually increased by two; as the number of young and strong men decreases, the food and other materials that can be produced by this million people will be reduced, and the overall strength of the entire force will decrease.

Such a vicious circle is really the best way to quickly reduce the overall strength of a power, and the most typical example is Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in Chinese history, who established the most glorious martial arts of the Han Dynasty, but paid for it with reckless military force.

The abundant treasury left by the reign of Wen Jing was depleted by the seemingly great Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and in his later years, in order to make money to replenish the treasury, he even sold his official titles to the rich as emperor, which is also a strange thing among Chinese emperors.

In order to avoid this vicious circle of the Yanhuang family, Bai Feng assigned specific tasks to those generals to improve the combat effectiveness of the army.

Of course, mentioning so much does not mean that Bai Feng is against expanding the size of the army, but he is against the expansion of the army in a reckless manner; any powerful force needs a strong army to rely on, and Bai Feng knows this better than anyone else.

The rise and fall of dynasties on the earth for thousands of years, the struggle for hegemony in the Roman world, everything has given Bai Feng too many experiences and lessons, and he knows that his power needs an army, a strong and moderately sized army.

The current army size of the city of Rome is very large, but it is the result of the premise that all the barbarians are soldiers and the army is well fed, and without these two prerequisites, the size of the army in Rome is simply a fighter in the army!

What kind of scale should be maintained by the Yanhuang family's army, Bai Feng naturally had his own judgment; before the Tsugaru family was settled, with the area ruled by the Yanhuang family and the number of people under its rule, there was no pressure on the 30,000 regular army.

Although there was a clear difference between the Yamato Empire and the Warring States of Japan on Earth, it was also true that there were many similarities: for example, the Yamato Empire was divided into regions named after countries, and the strength of each country was measured by the height of the stone.

Regional countries that are relatively barren or relatively small in area generally have more than 100,000 or 200,000 stones, and regional countries that are relatively attached or relatively large in area generally have at least 300,000 or more than 600,000 or 700,000 stones.

In addition to these normal regional countries, there are also some particularly small regional countries, such as Tsushima and Oki, whose stone heights are only tens of thousands of stones, but the most special is the Mutsu Province that the Yanhuang family is about to unify.

Mutsu was the northernmost regional country of the Yamato Empire, and it was also the largest regional country in the Yamato Empire with the largest area, the largest population, and the largest stone height; according to the report of Nanbu Shinnao, the stone height of the Mutsu Kingdom was a terrifying 1.73 million stones!

It is no exaggeration to say that the stone height of one country is basically equivalent to the total number of stone heights of other countries, especially the Nankai Province, which is relatively weak, and the total stone height of the entire number of countries is not as high as that of Mutsu!

The Yanhuang family, which used the Mutsu Kingdom as the place of rise, had capital that other Yamato Imperial families could only look up to from the beginning, and when the Yanhuang family really completed the unification of the Mutsu Kingdom, the Yanhuang family would grow into the most powerful emerging family in the Yamato Empire!

However, this growth takes time, and there must be enough time for the Yanhuang family to digest the newly conquered Sibo family territory and the Tsugaru family territory to be conquered, and only by thoroughly digesting these newly conquered territories can the Yanhuang family's strength be improved.

After sending Parthian archers to give orders to Sanada Masayuki and Iwashimizu Yoshiyoshi, Bai Feng led his soldiers on a journey to turn around and attack the Tsugaru family, and those who remained behind in the castle were the 3,000 recruits in the Yanhuang Standing Army.

These 3,000 recruits, Bai Feng, originally wanted to integrate into the Yanhuang Standing Army through battle, but now they had to stay in Gaoshui Temple City due to the situation; otherwise, Gaoshui Temple City, which was not guarded by a garrison, could be taken advantage of by other peepers at any time.