Chapter 1841: The total number of troops exceeded 900,000

At the beginning of the first year of Xingping (194 AD), Qin Hao proclaimed Taihang to marry the Empress of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang initiated the Taixing administrative d'état failed, and the two countries of Qin and Ming became the only one, and then 500,000 Qin and Ming coalition troops crossed Taihang to attack Hebei, opening the prelude to the Hebei War.

In the eight-month war that followed, the Qin army experienced hundreds of battles, large and small, and although it still failed to completely unify Hebei, it also captured Jizhou and Qingbei, and established its hegemony in Hebei.

In this continuous battle, although the Qin army won successive battles, the casualties were also not small.

In the Battle of Jizhou, the Qin army suffered 90,000 casualties.

The Great Annihilation of Zhao suffered 52,000 casualties.

Since the Qin army in Jizhou did not intervene in the Qingzhou battlefield, not counting the casualties of the Beihai War, the Qin army suffered 150,000 casualties in the battle of Hebei alone.

Before the war, the 500,000 Qin-Ming combined army was left with only thirty-five after it completely occupied Jizhou.

Although the Qin army suffered heavy casualties, it destroyed a greater number of enemies, and also captured a large number of prisoners of war.

Li Jing's victory in Beihai captured 62,000 troops of Han, Zhao, Chen and Liang.

After the Battle of Julu, Su Dingfang captured 33,000 Zhao troops, and after breaking through the Bohai Sea and destroying the Zhao State, he captured a full 130,000 Zhao troops, of which 30,000 were turned into surrender troops.

Bai Qi ambushed 80,000 Han and Zhao allied troops in the first battle, and then forced Zhang He's 30,000 Han troops to surrender.

If you don't count the surrender army, in the three main battlefields alone, the Qin army captured nearly 300,000 prisoners of war.

Li Jing led 30,000 elites to support the Jizhou battlefield, while Qingbei, which was desperately short of troops, collected all the prisoners to maintain the rule of the Qin army in Qingbei.

Except for the prisoners of war in Qingbei, the other prisoners were scattered and imprisoned in dozens of prisoner of war camps in Yecheng and Bohai to prevent the prisoners from rioting.

Only 350,000 of the 500,000 Qin troops who invaded Jizhou remained, plus Zhang He's 30,000 Korean troops, Xiao Yan's 30,000 Zhao troops, and Li Jing's 30,000 Qingbei elites, the Qin army still had 440,000 troops in Jizhou.

If you count the 60,000 prisoners of war in Qingbei, the Qin army still has an army of 500,000 in Hebei.

After eight months of continuous fighting, the Qin army, which had suffered nearly 150,000 casualties, still maintained the establishment of 500,000 by absorbing prisoners of war and enemy troops.

Of course, among the 500,000 troops, the 60,000 integrated army in Qingbei had different levels of comprehensive quality and too weak combat effectiveness, so it was naturally impossible to participate in the Youzhou War.

The army that could participate in the Battle of Youzhou could only be 350,000 Qin troops, Li Jing's 30,000 Beihai Qin troops, and Zhang He Xiaoyan's 60,000 Han and Zhao troops, a total of 440,000 troops.

To deal with the Northern Han Dynasty, where do you need an army of 440,000, even 200,000 is enough to conquer Youzhou.

But as the 200,000 Manchu army moved south, and even more Qing troops could enter Youzhou at any time, everything was uncertain.

The army of 500,000 Qin, Jin, and Ming dynasties lost 150,000 this time, and the largest loss was the Ming army.

The 150,000 Ming army when it returned to Qin is now only nearly 80,000 troops left, with nearly 70,000 people reduced, and nearly half of the soldiers died on the battlefield in Jizhou.

The reason why the casualties of the Ming army are so large is mainly because they want to perform well in front of the new master, and the generals of all armies fight very the battlefield, so the casualty rate is so amazing.

Nearly half of the 150,000 army suffered casualties, and the generals of the Ming Department were naturally anxious, and the military marquis asked for the captain, the captain asked for the general, the general asked for the general, and the general asked for the general, and the dragon and the dragon asked for Qin Hao, hoping to replenish the source of troops from the prisoners of war.

The Ming family's request was not excessive, after all, their casualties were indeed the highest in the whole army, Qin Hao was ready to agree with the slightest effort, this was also to balance the strength of the three families, and not let any of them dominate.

Qin Hao was naturally right to arrange this, but after the generals of the Qin and Jin families learned about it, they also approached Qin Hao, hoping to supplement it from the prisoners of war.

Except for the prisoners of war who have been recruited in Qingbei and the 100,000 strong prisoners of war in Bohai, the other prisoners of war are the main force of Han Zhao.

The total number of prisoners of war in the main forces of Wei County and Bohai was only 120,000, and even if all of them were absorbed by the Qin army, it would not be enough to fill the hole of 150,000 in the three lines of Qin, Jin, and Ming.

The generals of the three lines of Qin Jinming, in order to compete for these high-quality soldiers, quarreled every day, so they almost started to fight directly, and Qin Hao was also disturbed by them.

Originally, Qin Hao wanted to reorganize these prisoners of war into an army, and then hand them over to Han Xin's command, but he didn't expect his family to target these prisoners of war, and they all wanted to absorb the Hebei prisoners of war to return to blood.

After careful consideration, Qin Hao decided to take in all the 120,000 prisoners of war, and then brought all the 40,000 prisoners of war from the Bohai Sea to Yecheng, and handed over the 120,000 prisoners of war to Li Jing and Han Xin for intensive training.

As for the other 100,000 strong prisoners of war in Bohai, they were all repatriated home by Qin Hao's order, and this order also made the people of Bohai quickly follow.

During the month-long training of Li Jing and Han Xin, the 120,000 Han and Zhao prisoners of war had been completely returned to their hearts and could be absorbed into the army.

In the end, Qin Hao divided the 120,000 prisoners of war into four parts, 40,000 belonged to Han Xin's subordinates, 40,000 belonged to the Ming line, 20,000 belonged to the Qin line, and 20,000 went to the Jin line.

Since then, in addition to the three factions of Qin, Jin, and Ming, there has been a new faction in the Qin army, the Ji faction.

At present, among the major factions of the Qin army, the Qin faction is the strongest, the Jin faction is second, the Ming faction is third, and the Ji faction is the weakest.

At present, the forces to which the Ji system belongs are only Han Xin's 40,000 captive integrated army, Zhang He's 30,000 Korean army, and Xiao Yan's 30,000 Zhao State army, a total of 100,000 troops.

After Qin Hao rectified the two prefectures of Hebei and Qingdao, and incorporated 120,000 Han and Zhao prisoners of war, the strength of the Qin army in Jizhou reached 560,000, and the total strength of the Qin army in Hebei reached an astonishing 620,000.

Coupled with the strength of Jingzhou, Sizhou, Bingzhou, and Hetao, the total strength of the Qin army has steadily broken through to 900,000.

Nine hundred thousand troops, that's a terrifying number.

You must know that even the Han before the Yellow Turban Rebellion still did not and could not afford to feed so many troops.

But now that the new grain varieties have been thoroughly promoted, Qin Hao has fed an army of 900,000 people just by relying on Sijing and the six states of Qinghetao.

After Qin Hao conquers Youzhou, the total strength of the Qin army will definitely exceed one million, and even if all the princes join forces, they will still not be able to stop Qin Hao's unification.