It is expected that by the end of this year or the beginning of next year, the armed Han people on the side of Broken Leaf will remain at the level of about 5,000 - because the empire is engaged in a war to unify the south, this time is basically about to be known, and it should not be possible to invest more core manpower in the distant Lingxi.

But when the south stabilized and the empire absorbed the 50 to 60 million Han people in the south of the Yangtze River, it is estimated that more Han Chinese would be allowed to come to Qin as volunteers.

At that time, it was possible for the core population of the Qin State to be truly increased.

Before that, Xu Daixuan and his feudal kingdom could only rely on the 5,000 Han soldiers who had passed through so far, as well as an army composed of the tribes of Solon Waibo, Mengwu, Tubo and the Western Regions who hated Pars.

In order to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the troops, the Qin army carried out a round of parades and organizational rectification of all troops and Waibo in the second half of 1795.

In terms of formation, the 5,000 Han soldiers in the Qin army were divided into ten battalions, each with 500 men.

The rest of the departments were the same, the 1,000 Outer Tibetan Sauron was divided into two battalions in front of Sauron, and because the number of Mughuls and Tubo people who took refuge was increasing, so they were all five battalions in the front, rear, left, right, and center.

Then there are the upcoming 6,000 Waibo Goryeo and Waibo Fusang, also five battalions each, but each battalion of 600 soldiers - Goryeo and Fusang lack cavalry and are mainly infantry, but they have a certain number of firearms (bird guns) and will become one of the main bodies of the Qin army's infantry.

There are also soldiers and horses of the eight countries of the Western Regions, after the strengthening of the Battle of Ba Ra Shagon, each of the eight countries of the Western Regions has a battalion, each battalion has 800 soldiers, including 300 cavalry and 500 infantry (if there are many horses, the infantry can also bring their own horses to participate in the battle).

Finally, there were the newly converted Tiele tribes, who, as unreliable foreigners, did not form camps, but sent food according to their respective tribes.

The above can determine the number of troops that can be dispatched at any time, a total of 23,400 men in forty battalions—a little more than the number expected when the troops were sent from the Western Regions.

And not counting the slaves who could serve as auxiliaries, the troops of the countries of the Western Regions that have not yet been fully mobilized, and the soldiers of the Tiele tribe.

Among the forty battalions, except for the Guards Battalion, the rest had to bring their own weapons, and they were scattered all over the Qin State in peacetime, and they gathered to fight in wartime, and in fact, they were not full-time soldiers.

Fortunately, there was no difficulty in the empire in providing cold weapons, coupled with the capture of the Battle of Barasagon, at least in terms of cold weapons, the equipment of the Qin army was still very luxurious.

The foreign tribes from all over the east, Tiannan, Haibei and the north took the Han soldiers as the core to practice how to cooperate with the tactics and tactics of the Han army, and at the same time, Xu Daixuan also wanted to reward and punish the newly appointed battalion commanders to a certain extent through the results of the joint training, so as to strengthen his authority.

As a result, the Qin army was rapidly transforming from a temporary patchwork pioneer reinforcement group to a firepower enhanced feudal army.

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Jiangnan, near Jinling.

Xu Shisong decided to take advantage of the fact that there was still a little advantage in troops and went out of the city to meet the First Army of the Chinese Army.

In fact, he didn't want to fight a decisive battle that gambled everything now, but the Great Zhou court and the changes in the situation forced him to fight this battle.

The biggest reason for this is that Xu Shisong didn't want the three legions of the Chinese army to join forces, which was nearly 150,000 troops, and once they were combined, the only strength advantage of the Great Zhou would disappear.

In addition, because the Jianghuai defense line, which he had painstakingly operated for nearly ten years, was broken by the Chinese army in one fell swoop, there were once again voices questioning his loyalty in the court of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Emperor Longdao did not explicitly agree with this question, but he issued thirteen holy decrees in one day, asking Xu Shisong to repel the attack of the Chinese army as soon as possible.

In fact, Xu Shisong himself empathized and could understand the doubts of the court princes and the emperor - in this world, from ancient times to the present, is there still such a situation where the army that is related to the life and death of the country is entrusted to the imperial family of the enemy country?

No, never.

If it weren't for the fact that Da Zhou's own generals were too inferior, Xu Shisong would not have set this precedent.

If these two reasons can be understood, the other reasons for forcing Xu Shisong to fight are too frustrating - the reinforcements that Xu Shisong was looking forward to have not arrived, and although the Zhou troops in the southern provinces of Fujian, Guangdong, Guizhou, and Jiangxi were sparse in combat effectiveness because they had not been in battle for a long time, the number of establishments was large enough, and Xu Shisong felt that it should still be feasible for them to put together a hundred and eighty thousand strong men.

But the forbidden armies of those southern provinces have not even been assembled yet! Not to mention rushing to the edge of the Yangtze River to participate in the war.

Theoretically, reinforcements could not be counted on, and even the salaries and rations that should not have been a problem were problem-theoretically, Da Zhou had reserved 8 million guan money, 3 million horses of silk, and 15 million stone grains as logistics to support the front-line army's operations.

Xu Shisong knew that this must be insufficient, but seventy percent should always have it, right?

It's just that when his subordinates took the approval slip he wrote to call these materials, the officials in charge of the treasury unceremoniously refused!

The reason is that these money and grain were prepared for the forbidden army of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the new army was not part of the forbidden army, but was born out of the civilian rebel army, so it had no right to use these materials.

In fact, this theory is not wrong, and the material supply of the new army should come from the newly cultivated military cantonments of the Jianghuai generation.

But these military cantonments are now in the hands of the Chinese Empire, and the forbidden army, which has the right to call on the reserves, now has less than 30,000 people on the front line.

Moreover, these 30,000 people did not have a real commander - Tong Guan and most of the high-ranking officials of the forbidden army failed to return to Jiangbei, and they also had no right to call on these materials.

Xu Shisong wanted to send troops to take over these warehouses, but those officials did not dare to fight against the Huaxia army, but they were not afraid of Xu Shisong at all.

Some capable officials also wrote to the emperor, demanding that Xu Shisong be punished for the crime of being a leader!

The emperor did not cure Xu Shisong's crimes, but his suspicions of him became even greater.

Xu Shisong couldn't explain to the Longdao officials: The last troops that Da Zhou can fight now are about to run out of food on Da Zhou's own land!

Xu Shisong sadly found that if he wanted to be a loyal minister, he could not fight against the gentry class.

If you want to fight against the gentry, you have to be a thief - and the best way to be a thief is to go directly to his brother in the north.

Now, Xu Shisong, who wants to be a loyal minister of Da Zhou, feels that Da Zhou is hopeless.

In view of the fact that the continued retreat could not lengthen the supply lines of the Chinese army, the officials did not give him supplies, and when the Chinese army came, they opened the warehouses very happily.

But if they continued to retreat, the Zhou army itself would be hungry.

Therefore, stimulated by a variety of reasons, Xu Shisong made the decision to fight a decisive battle under Jinling City - not that he did not want to rely on the city wall to defend, but that the wealthy families of Jinling would definitely open the door for the Chinese army.