In fact, there are really not many soldiers and horses in the Qi country.

The militia mentioned in Gan Xiong's mouth is indeed so numerous, because in Qi now, every adult male outside the field army and most adult women above the civilian class are considered militiamen.

In this way, not to mention 600,000, 1 million can be made.

But the Qi State did not have the ability to gather these people to fight on the battlefield, and it did not even have the strength to mobilize so many people.

The vast majority of the so-called militia can only be used to defend land near their hometowns, within a maximum radius of 100 miles.

It's just that this is enough, which means that no bandit has the strength to threaten the villages of the Qi State, and if they are dedicated to defense, even the Tartars (whether they are Jurchen or future Mugwu) will have nothing to do with the walls of the village.

This means that the field army of Qi is really a field army, and it only needs to think about how to decide the battle with the enemy on the battlefield, without worrying about being attacked and disturbed in the rear.

In order to achieve this, Xu Shiyang has been vigorously developing and enriching the militia's arsenal in recent years.

The most popular, of course, is a large number of cold weapons.

Qi's own steel industry could use water conservancy forging hammers to mass-produce simple swords and other cold weapons, coupled with several victories and huge quantities of captures, Qi did have the power to equip every adult under his rule with a sword.

Of course, an untrained militia could not defeat the Jurchen hunters with a sword, but it was different with a large number of muskets in addition to a sword.

Qi now has three arsenals, and two more are preparing to be put into production, of which the first and second arsenals in Qi Province can each produce 1,000 guns per month, and half of the arquebus and flintlock pistols.

The naval arsenal in Lushun produced a steady monthly production of six hundred, all flintlock muskets.

The Hebei Province and Gaizhou Arsenal are both expected to produce 600 guns per month, and they are also half of the arquebus and half of the flintlock pistol.

In addition, a folk blacksmith, gunsmith, or arsenal worker can also take on some private work after work - there is no technical difficulty in making arquebuses anyway.

Gan Xiong knew that the output of muskets in the five arsenals of Qi was staggering, and he also knew that the Qi army was now working on transforming the previously produced arquebuses into flintlock muskets.

But he didn't know exactly how much of the Qi army's muskets were in stock, and it wasn't clear that more than 1,000 muskets of all kinds were flowing into the Qi people every month - this was without counting the people's own production and cheaper muskets.

All Gan Xiong knew was that there were now more and more muskets in the hands of the Qi militia, and even many young women were carrying shotguns or muskets.

He also knew that a bullet fired from a woman's hand could kill a strong warrior just as well.

Therefore, Gan Xiong believes that the current Qi State is actually a huge barracks.

It seems that this barracks is still only staring at one target of the Jurchen Tartars, but Gan Xiong believes that such a force cannot be used against only one target of the Jurchens.

It can't even be used only against the Mugul, the Dangxiang, and the Tartars of the Western Regions.

When the time comes, they will surely show even more terrible power and shake the whole world.

Gan Xiong returned to Shuangyu from Qi this time, just to persuade the big boss to completely throw himself into Qi and not to fight for the recruitment of the Great Zhou anymore.

Even if Da Zhou really recruits them, it won't take a few years, and whether Da Zhou himself can still exist is a question.

Gan Xiong is convinced of this.

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There must be many things that Gan Xiong can see, and there must be many things that can also be seen in this world.

For example, the emperor of the Great Zhou court and many bureaucrats.

It stands to reason that Da Zhou should be full of vigilance against Qi at this time, and increase its military strength as soon as possible, preparing to deal with the military pressure of Qi in a few years.

However, there is a very serious problem here, that is, the emperor and the courtiers of the Great Zhou are not of the same mind.

The emperor himself and some officials, led by Weng Shuping, did try to strengthen the military power of the Great Zhou, and asked the Zhou army to be more vigilant against the army.

But others don't think so, after Wen Jifu lost his Sacred Heart, he didn't ask about the world for a long time, and he didn't even go to court when he squatted at home.

Wen Zhong and Bao Zheng also supported vigilance against the Qi army, but they believed that the political aspect was more effective than the military aspect, and suggested that the Qi state should be sent to supervise the army, the former believing that the imperial court had a righteous reputation and could win more Qi generals. The latter simply thought that the Great Zhou Dynasty's use of troops against the state was purely self-inflicted.

On the contrary, several commanders in the army, I don't know whether to show loyalty to the imperial court or to get more money and food from the imperial court, all supported raising the vigilance and strengthening the armament and troops.

For example, the privy envoy Tong Guan, he advocated rectifying the forbidden army, verifying the number of soldiers, making up for the shortage, and expanding the number of soldiers capable of fighting in the Great Zhou Dynasty to about 300,000 (the actual number of soldiers exceeded 800,000).

The three main armies of the Jianghuai front:

Xu Shisong of the Huaibei Army now had 30,000 troops, and he advocated expanding the force to 60,000.

The Shunyi Army, of which Weng Shuping was the commander, now has 60,000 soldiers, and he also hopes to expand the strength of his commander, as much as he can, and the more the better.

However, Weng Shuping did not win much military support in the Shunyi Army, and he trusted too much in the generals of the former Great Zhou Dynasty who placed the door in the Shunyi Army, rather than the original commanders of the People's Army, so the Shunyi Army repeatedly reported news of discord among the generals.

In addition, those officers who were born in the sect brought many of the problems of the forbidden army into the Shunyi army - such as eating empty salaries.

The Shunyi army has 60,000 soldiers, and it would be good to have 40,000 or 50,000 soldiers.

Xu Shiliu's Jinghu Army has 20,000 soldiers, and he is the only one who has not asked for an increase in the number of troops, but this young man relies on himself to be a civilian official and a beloved disciple of Wen Xianggong, and has a good reputation among the people, so he has formed a large-scale militia force in the Jinghu generation that is not under the jurisdiction of the imperial court.

The actual strength of the Jinghu Army is far more than 20,000, some people think that 80,000 cannot be stopped, and there are also some Dong barbarians who obey Xu Shiliu's personal number of tens of thousands.

In the Jinghu generation, Xu Shiliu almost became an earth overlord, and it seemed that he had the posture of a second Qi king.

However, just as the King of Qi did not really rebel against the imperial court, Xu Shiliu did not, he was still an official of the Great Zhou court, and he was responsible for supervising the Jinghu army as a civil official.

If you count it carefully, not counting the huge number of box troops that have no combat effectiveness at all, the main force of the Great Zhou is 820,000 forbidden troops and 110,000 Jianghuai righteous troops, a total of 930,000!

In reality, however, the problem of air salaries for the forbidden army was too serious, and the units with the highest degree of readiness were only 70 percent of the number of troops, and the units with low combat effectiveness were simply left with some old, weak, sick and disabled, which was not much different from the van army whose daily work was to do chores for people.

Tong Guan didn't dare to report some data - the Great Zhou Forbidden Army at this time, with a total of 820,000 soldiers, actually had combat effectiveness, that is, the 150,000 people he brought to exterminate Fang La.

Among the three rebel armies, Xu Shisong's troops were strictly in accordance with the full number of soldiers, Xu Shiliu was seriously overstaffed, but this person already seemed a little unruly, Weng Shuping was the most reassuring, but his people were not only lacking, but also very suspicious in combat effectiveness.

With such military strength, it is no wonder that Bao Zheng resolutely opposes attempts to solve the Qi problem by force.