Today's Wang Qinian, as long as he whistles, the horse thief can make up 3,000 heroes riding horses and carrying bows and knives.

Among them, there were about 500 commoners, and the rest were common people, slaves brought by the dukes and commoners, and Yi people from other countries who came to seek refuge in Wang Qinian.

Wang Qinian likes the Yiren very much, first of all, most of these people are skilled in bows and horses, and although their combat effectiveness is not as good as that of civilians with guns, it is not bad.

Secondly, these people are better managed, even if they die, as long as they give some money to burn and bury, they will be considered benevolent masters, unlike Huaxia Gong and civilians, you have to buy insurance for them, you have to respect them, they also have minimum wages and pensions, and their personal rights are registered in the General Staff Headquarters, anyone who dies in battle must be reported, and the General Staff also has the right to transfer them at any time.......

The combat effectiveness of the Han soldiers is strong, but Wang Qinian always feels that it is more convenient to use Tartar soldiers. If it weren't for the general staff's stipulation that there must be a certain proportion of Han people to maintain the purity of the team, otherwise Wang Qinian would definitely not need a single Han except for his old brother who was a thief.

Even if there is such a regulation, Wang Qinian is stuck at the minimum, and the others are trying to recruit Yi people who are not distressed when they die.

In this case, Wang Qinian had a lot of autonomy and was free to choose the target of the horse thief - as long as it was an enemy of Huaxia.

In fact, Wang Qinian's team was not considered in the plan of the General Staff to attack Western Xia, but the big boss of the horse thieves planned to participate in the war on his own, because he felt that attacking the pseudo-Xia had a lot of oil and water.

Even if you don't count the tributary states of the Pseudo-Xia Dynasty in Hengshanfan and the Western Regions, the Pseudo-Xia itself alone has 300,000 households and a population of 1.5 million to 2 million.

Excluding the Han people (Han is not slaves), there are 800,000 to 1 million people in the other ethnic groups who can be slaves, such as Dangxiang, Qiang, Uighur, and Gaochang.

There is a shortage of labor in China, and there has always been a shortage of labor. If you can catch tens of thousands of mouths and sell them to domestic mines, large farms and other enterprises, you can definitely make a lot of money.

Not to mention the accumulation of party and aristocracy, Wei Ming, Renduo, and no hiding, all of the nobles and surnames in the pseudo-Xia Kingdom have gathered huge wealth, and they can open a family casually, all of which are treasures that can be eaten and clothed for a lifetime.

This piece of fat, Wang Qinian wants to take a bite of it anyway.

It's just that the current strength of the horse thief, it seems that there are still some deficiencies to participate in this gluttonous feast, Wang Qinian doesn't want to just follow the main force of the field army to pick up some leftovers, he wants to go to the table, and if he wants to eat a big meal openly, he has to take advantage of the fact that the all-out war has not started now, and gather as many troops as possible.

For this reason, Wang Qinian let go of the restriction that he tried not to recruit Han people, and expanded the number of public and civilian members among the horse thieves to 1,000 in one go.

Today, the Mughals are nominally united under the command of Gulhan Zamuha—in fact, their authority has been greatly questioned by the tribes below because of their successive defeats against the Jurchens and the Huaxia in the previous years.

In the past, when Zamuhe had just unified the Mughal Dynasty, he had the support of the Shanxi Shihou, and Chahar alone was able to subdue the other three. The Korqin, Khalkha, and Tumut tribes didn't care what they thought in their hearts, at least on the surface, at that time, they were obedient to Zamuhe.

But now it's really not going to work.

At present, the only people who can be directly dispatched by Zamuhe are actually the Chahar Mengwu, and the other tribes, Horqin and Khalkha Mengwu, all have the idea of moving closer to Huaxia - Horqin is close to Liaodong, and when the Jurchens are there, they are the most severely beaten, and the destruction of the Jurchens in China is equivalent to avenging them, and they have made a lot of benefits from the private trade of Liaomeng.

Mughal people, if you have milk, you are a mother.

As for the Khalkha Mugu, these poor dogs struggling to survive in the northern wilderness (they are also poor dogs in the eyes of the Mugul), whoever can throw them even a bone will fall to whomever they want.

There is also Tumut Menggu, who is not weaker than Chahar in terms of strength, so he has always been very unconvinced by Zamuhe.

This gives Wang Qinian a lot of room to operate.

Because of the lack of iron-making technology and the loss of supplies from Shanxi, the equipment of the Muguls is generally not good, and Wang Qinian complained to the Muguls he traded with before that only 90 large animals can be exchanged for a set of iron armor.

However, there are a lot of horses in the Mughal people, which is a great advantage in the era of cold weapons, not to mention the lack of iron-armored weapons, the Chinese Empire behind Wang Qinian has these unnecessary things, many of which were captured from the Jurchens.

Didn't you say that ninety large animals were in a suit of armor? Give me thirty horses to change a set, and the rest of the difference will work for me, and follow me to fight the party!

Wang Qinian's plan was very simple, recruit thousands of cavalry from the grassland, plus the 3,500 heroes under his command (500 more Han soldiers), when the field army attacked from the south to the north, set off directly from the Mengwu grassland, attack the Pseudo-Xia Weifu Military Division from north to south, and devour the rich and wealthy Montenegrin party items alive!

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Jiangnan, Lin'an, forbidden city.

The young Emperor Longdao has summoned the privy envoy Xu Shisong in the past three days, and he seems to have new ambitions for the north, but Xu Shisong is not a child, and he has no intention of cooperating at all.

Emperor Longdao asked, "Xu Qing, you still don't agree to the Northern Expedition?" ”

Xu Shisong replied lightly: "Your Majesty, that's not the Northern Expedition, that's death." ”

"But I heard that there are only 100,000 soldiers in Jiangbei, and now there are 50,000 soldiers in the northwest, and 20,000 or 30,000 in Goryeo, can't you beat the remaining 20,000 soldiers?"

"Last time, Tong Xianggong lost without even seeing 20,000 enemy troops, and he lost so completely." Xu Shisong's tone was still as plain as water: "The north is not only the 100,000 field troops on the surface, Your Majesty, the north is still a system where everyone is a soldier, every man and even many women can shoot, and they really have guns, so Jiangbei actually has a million troops, and Your Majesty, you only have a set of belongings, and you can't go to death." ”

"A set of belongings? I'm rich all over the world! ”

"But I can only afford to raise this little soldier that the current minister has just trained."

"Xu Qing, I doubt it now, are you really afraid that you won't be able to beat your brother, or are you actually looking for your family in your heart?"

"The minister is willing to be loyal to the Great Zhou, which Your Majesty will know sooner or later."

Xu Shisong still has that indifferent expression and tone, which makes people want to clean him up:

"The minister is not afraid that he can't beat the third brother, but the minister really can't beat him now, so the minister is against sending troops to Jiangbei now, which can't do anything except give Xu Shiyang an excuse to solve us."

Emperor Longdao looked at him seriously and didn't say a word.

"Your Majesty, sometimes, you only have one chance in your life to make a choice. If it's wrong, you can't correct it. The minister's choice is to choose loyalty between loyalty and filial piety, whether it is right or wrong, the minister must go to the end, and what about you, Your Majesty? If you force the Northern Expedition, the minister will go, but the minister can assert that the battle will be lost. ”

"If you don't fight this time, will you have a chance in the future?"

"I don't know, but this time it's not an opportunity, it's a trap."

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