Everyone wants the truth to be on his side, but not everyone is sincerely willing to be on the side of the truth.

- Gorky (proletarian writer of the former Soviet Union, founder of socialist realist literature)

The military strength of the Yanhuang family on Sado Island was mainly the First Roman Fleet of Nams and the Sado Navy of Ito Yuhiro, and the army was mainly Wendell's Governor's Guard and Obovano's Sado Standing Army.

In the imminent Imperial War, Nams's First Roman Fleet and Wendell's Doge's Guard will remain on Sado Island as the garrison of Sado Island, but relying only on the Sado Navy and the Sado Standing Army to expedition to Vietnam, it is inevitable that there will still be some shortcomings in strength.

The Sado Naval Army, which originally had five Ataka warships, eight large sekikan ships, 19 seki ships, and 74 kozao warships, added two large seki ships, six seki ships, and six small sahaya ships after a period of military expansion.

At the beginning, Bai Feng formulated a development plan for the Sado Navy to build four new ironclad ships, 12 large ships, 21 ships, and 26 small ships within two years.

At present, there are only five Ataka warships, ten large seki ships, twenty-five seki ships, and eighty Kozao ships, which is still quite a huge gap compared with the Murakami naval army of the Maori family and the nine ghost naval forces of the Oda family.

It is to cooperate with Yushiba Hideyoshi to attack the Uesugi family, and the Kurishima Navy under his command has the strength of not weaker than the Sado Navy; fortunately, the Oda family and the Yanhuang family are allies, if there is an unexpected conflict between the Sado Navy and the Kurishima Navy Army, it only needs Bai Feng to announce the relationship between his family and Sado Island, and the Kurajima Navy is not a threat to the Sado Navy after all.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Sado Standing Army, Hakumine did not make any restrictions on the size of this standing army, partly because it was impossible to support too many troops with the background of Sado Island, and partly because the Roman general Obouno commanded this army.

There is no doubt that the generals recognized by the Roman system are all excellent generals with outstanding abilities, whether it is the Roman generals summoned in the temple or the Roman generals who have grown themselves on the battlefield, their performance has satisfied Bai Feng.

But this does not mean that those middle- and lower-level generals who are not recognized by the Roman system have no possibility of becoming good generals; Obwano is such a typical example, he has performed well on the battlefield, and Bai Feng is also reassured by his loyalty.

Even with the unlimited military order issued by Bai Feng himself, Obwano still did not blindly expand the scale of the Sado Standing Army when he formed the Sado Standing Army; he believed that the soldiers were noble but not too expensive, so he only carefully selected 8,000 soldiers to stay in the Sado Standing Army, and all the other soldiers were disbanded on the spot, and they went home separately with a subsidy issued by the Sado Taishou Mansion.

With only 8,000 soldiers, it was not easy for the Sado Standing Army to occupy the Uesugi family's Etsuchu country, not to mention that the 50,000 Oda Army under the command of Hashiba Hideyoshi was also attacking the Uesugi family.

Although Uesugi Kenshin had transferred all of the elite standing army to Echigo, there were not a few newly recruited troops and private soldiers of various samurai families in Vietnam, and with the threat of 50,000 Oda troops, Bai Feng felt that the Sado standing army needed at least 30,000 soldiers to control the situation of the war.

It is unrealistic to expect Obwano to temporarily recruit 22,000 young men from Sado Island to serve as ashigaru, not to mention for the time being that the negative impact of conscripting so many young men on Sado Island at one time would not allow such a de facto peasant soldier to exist.

In addition to being recruited directly from Sado Island, the only thing left for the expansion of the Sado Standing Army was to draw troops from Oshu; but in Oshu, where are all the new recruits added to the various standing armies, and where are there any trained recruits who can be used to supplement the Sado Standing Army?

In Bai Feng's opinion, it should not be difficult to select one-fifth of the soldiers who are willing to fight for the Yanhuang family from the more than 60,000 Uesugi army prisoners of war and more than 40,000 soldiers who are willing to fight for the Yanhuang family, after all, the ashigaru treatment of the Yanhuang family is the most generous in Dongshan Road and even in the entire empire.

Bai Feng, who had to hurry up to prepare a supplementary army for the Sado Standing Army, immediately sent someone to send his decision to Assam in the form of an order, and the time that Bai Feng gave him was to complete the selection of soldiers within three days.

Due to the successful landing of the Seventh Legion, the Dragon Legion, and the Southern Standing Army, the First Fleet of the Nams Division, which was responsible for transporting the army south, had returned to the port of Oshu, so it was only necessary for the Assam generals to select the soldiers, and these soldiers would go directly to the port of Oshu to board the ship.

After receiving the military order sent by Bai Feng, Assam, who led the army to escort the surrendered army and the prisoners of war back to Sanhe City, announced the order to the surrendered troops and prisoners of war in the camp that night;

Considering the special status of the surrendered army and prisoners of war, Bai Feng promised these soldiers whose families were far away in the order that all soldiers who were willing to serve the Yanhuang family would have the right to preferential treatment once their families were included in the rule of the Yanhuang family.

For example, if a person whose family is in Tiantong City is willing to fight for the Yanhuang family, when Tiantong City is occupied by the Yanhuang army, his family can choose to move to Sanhe City, and the Yanhuang family will prepare a house for them in Sanhe City.

There are also family members of soldiers who are unwilling to leave their hometowns to settle in more prosperous cities, and for these people, the Yanhuang family will give each family a compensation, the amount of which depends on the population of the family, and one person can be divided into five yuan.

The meticulous and generous remuneration for joining the army made these prisoners of war and surrenderers, most of whom were ordinary peasants, suddenly red-eyed; under the instigation of the Yanhuang ninja ninjas hidden among the surrendered prisoners of war, the number of surrenders and prisoners of war who signed up was simply shocking!

Of the 46,000 Mogami soldiers, less than 1,000 did not sign up, and these were obviously loyal soldiers of the Mogami family, and they were immediately isolated by Assam; 65,000 Uesugi prisoners of war, more than 40,000 people signed up, and the remaining less than 25,000 prisoners of war did not believe that the territory of the Uesugi family would be occupied by the Yanhuang family, and they were still full of confidence in the strength of the Uesugi family.