Duan Xiaohan slept in the Duan family's old house, while Lu Zhan slept in the barracks of the Yanzhou Army. Their own army needs a backbone to support, and the generals are also brave. If you are not in the barracks but enjoy the world of flowers in Dingtao City, what should the soldiers under your hands think.

"Chen Zhuang, has the general candidates for staying in the Dingtao area been booked this time? The land seized this time was almost two-thirds the size of Yanzhou, and the people stationed in the occupied areas here needed to be reliable enough to withstand possible attacks. ”

Lu Zhan has no one under his command who can take charge alone, this Chen Zhuang wants to go back to Yanzhou with him, and this firearms unit also needs to return to Yanzhou, and there are only more than 8,000 soldiers and horses left in the newly occupied area.

Chen Zhuang had already prepared and took out a roster. There are several names written on this roster. These are a few of the outstanding recruits and officers.

What is needed now is someone who can defend this place in Dingtao, looking at the information written on the roster, Wang Zhongsu is a steady person, and Wang Zhongsu's troops have been able to maintain stability in the previous battle.

"Just this Wang Zhongsu, what do you think?"

"This person is also reliable, he is a farmer's child, and since joining the army, in addition to being more delicious, he really has nothing to say about governing the army." Chen Zhuang also silently pays attention to these rising stars on weekdays, and these people are familiar with their performance on weekdays.

"Then call him over right away, I'll see this person, and I'll explain some things by the way."

Chen Zhuang immediately ordered his own soldiers to call people over, and after a short while, a rough strong man walked in.

"The last general, Wang Zhongsu, has seen the lord, General Chen." Wang Zhongsu bowed to Lu Zhan and Chen Zhuang.

After Lu Zhan and Chen Zhuang looked at each other, Chen Zhuang stretched out his hand and pulled Wang Zhongsu over.

"Do you know what's the matter with you coming over today?" Lu Zhan raised the corners of his mouth towards Wang Zhongsu and smiled.

Wang Zhongsu had never seen Lu Zhan like this, when he saw him in the training ground before, he was wearing armor and training or training with soldiers, most of the time he was serious, although he would smile when chatting with soldiers, but he had never seen it.

"The subordinates are stupid and don't know what's going on. However, as long as it is the order of the lord, even if it is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire, I dare to break through. As he spoke, he clapped his chest to reassure.

"I don't want you to go up the sword mountain and go down to the sea of fire, in a month we will return to Yanzhou, and the defense here will be handed over to you. Defend these newly-laid territories for me. ”

Lu Zhan picked up the letter of appointment as he spoke, "Wang Zhongsu listened to the order, and now appoints you as the defense envoy of Dingtao, and Dingtao military affairs are all in charge." ”

"The last general thanked the lord, and the last general must guard Dingtao."

After sending Wang Zhongsu away, he called the rest of the candidates over, in addition to Dingtao, there are many new areas that need people to garrison. These areas are naturally inferior to Dingtao, so these people only brought their own soldiers and horses.

After marking the names of several people on the military map, Lu Zhan began to worry about the strength of the army again, and the newly occupied area dispersed Lu Zhan's already small mobile forces, and it seemed that the expansion of the army was imminent.

"You said that now you want to think about expanding the army." Lu Zhan asked the official in charge of money and food beside him.

Professional things have to be handed over to professional people to do, this Chen Zhuang is a good hand at fighting and going heads-up, but Chen Zhuang doesn't know anything about these money and food things.

"No, we can't carry out large-scale conscription now, and half of the taxes here will be handed over to the Son of Heaven, and there won't be much money left." The official in charge of money and food rejected Lu Zhan's idea.

Lu Zhan was worried about money again, and the cannon rang out with ten thousand taels of gold. At the moment, only a part of the army can be recruited first.

At the present state of the economy, we can now only recruit about 2,000 people on the newly seized land.

If the financial problem is not solved, the size of its own army can only be maintained at a small number of about a few tens of thousands.

Once something goes wrong in any of the main decisive battles, it will be unimaginable.

And in about ten months, a promise awaits you. Firearms are certainly sharp weapons for a while, but once they are seen by most people, their power and deterrent power are greatly reduced.

Now they are waiting for the civil war of the Jin Kingdom, and the more ferocious they fight, the more excited they are to watch the fire from across the shore.

After that, it can be easier to rob while the fire is hot.

Now the musket is Lu Zhan's biggest reliance, and it makes some sense for the island nation to say that the musket is an iron cannon in the early days. During the Imjin War, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's iron artillery team took advantage of the early battles against the Ming Dynasty. Later, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was chased and beaten after encountering the pure firearms of the Kamki Battalion and the red-coated cannon.

Now it is time to consider upgrading the musket and developing a flintlock pistol to increase the combat effectiveness of the army. Practice has proved that technology has changed the mode of warfare.

"Then first recruit 2,000 people in the newly occupied area, and then go all out to produce muskets, so that the financial resources can not sustain it." After making a big concession, Lu Zhan asked the money and grain officer beside him.

Oda Nobunaga, a daimyo of the Sengoku period of the island nation, was adept at using muskets, believing that as long as one of the ten members of the army was equipped with an iron cannon, he could be invincible.

Qian Liangguan did not immediately answer Lu Zhan's question, but picked up the account book and began to make calculations. And Chen Zhuang, who has been in the Lu family for so many years, has some people who want to beat this rude guy.

Lu Zhan pressed Chen Zhuang's hand that was about to be raised, this money and grain official was promoted from a small family, this person was already obsessed with arithmetic. In the past, his family was worried about what trouble his temperament would cause, but this Lu Zhan is indeed an open-minded and generous person, and he has never been confined to these so-called feudal etiquette.

"I've figured it out, but I'm still financially able to support it. However, unless the economy can continue to develop, it will only be able to expand the army by about 1,000 troops every year. This is on the premise that there are no natural or man-made disasters. ”

The money and grain official finally put down the abacus in his hand and said slowly, with an unquestionable voice in his words.

"General Chen's recruitment will be arranged tomorrow, and the newly captured treasury is not yet on the account, so we will recruit troops according to Yanzhou's standards and military salaries."

"Is it according to the same standards as Yanzhou? The newly seized land that could fight was basically requisitioned by the Song State, and the rest of the people were selected to be the tallest among the shorter ones. Chen Zhuang wants to lower the standards and treatment, which Chen Zhuang invisibly favors the local interest groups in Yanzhou.