On the eighth day of March, Xu Shiyang returned to Dengzhou.

Compared with when he set off, the biggest personal change was that he was followed by a yellow-haired girl who was only fifteen years old, trembling all day long, and was as timid as a rabbit.

This is the biological daughter of the Goryeo king Yi Jung, Lee Hyo-myung, and the new concubine of Seo Se-yang.

......With the princess as his concubine, Xu Shiyang felt that his father was willing to agree, probably mainly because of this.

This can even be considered some kind of political implication.

Xu Shiyang himself didn't feel anything about it.

Calculated carefully, among the four women he has now, his wife Wen Yue is the daughter of the prime minister of a big country, and her status is transcendent.

Zhao Shan and Zhao Lin sisters are actually also clan girls, but their bloodlines are too far away, and they have long been out of the five suits, and they have not been registered as jade.

Only Gu Hengbo's background is really low, but only she followed Xu Shiyang because of her feelings.

Wen Yue is a political marriage, Zhao Shan and Zhao Lin are just looking for a shelter, and now this Li Xiaoming can even be regarded as a trophy .......

Xu Shiyang felt that he had never had the opportunity to talk about relationship issues with his wives in his life.

Of course, feelings are not a necessity for Xu Shiyang, and after leaving Li Xiaoming to Wen Yue to manage, he himself non-stop convened the officers and staff members of the war to hold a post-war military meeting.

First of all, of course, it is a summary of the war that has just ended, but there is really nothing to summarize in this war against Goryeo, after all, although the enemy is numerous, but the combat effectiveness is really low - I am afraid that except for the bandits and the dock castle master, the Goryeo people are the weakest enemies encountered by the new army since its formation.

Not only that, the performance of the command class of the Goryeo army was a little lower than their combat effectiveness, for example, knowing that the Qi army was going to encircle the point in Wangjing to send reinforcements, Li Qi still forced all the reinforcements to rush to the battlefield desperately to die.

And they all died.

However, then again, if you think about it from another perspective, the officers of the New Army themselves did not know what the Goryeo Army was doing in that situation.

On this question, Xu Shiyang's answer was to decisively abandon the king and Wang Jing if necessary, and never fight a decisive battle on the battlefield chosen by the enemy.

Xu Shiyang made it clear to his generals that if one day he was besieged, and the enemy obviously wanted to surround the point and send reinforcements, then the General Staff had the right to choose when to rescue him, or whether to abandon himself.

In short, everything is considered in terms of victory or defeat in the war, not the life or death of a particular person, even if the person who has been abandoned is himself.

Of course, if you can avoid this kind of tragic situation, you still have to try to avoid it.

If it can succeed, it will actually prove the dual superiority of one's own combat effectiveness and troop mobility.

In addition to summing up, the most important topic of this military conference was the post-war pattern of Goryeo.

The strategic goal of including Goryeo in the Jurchen encirclement network has been initially achieved, but at present, it seems that the combat effectiveness of the Goryeo army is very problematic, and if they cannot maintain a minimum combat effectiveness, the direction of the peninsula will become the weakest link in the gradually forming encirclement network.

Therefore, at the meeting, Seo Se-yang proposed a plan to help Goryeo rebuild its army.

After discussion, the preliminary opinion of the General Staff was to draw 100 Tartars from the Blue Army Brigade and 100 veterans from the Field Army as officers and instructors of the New Goryeo Army.

With the Tartar soldiers as the backbone, 5,000 soldiers were selected from the rebel army and substitute soldiers who showed a certain combat effectiveness in the Goryeo War to form a cold-weapon unit, which was named the Odd Soldier Brigade.

The Goryeo Brigade will abandon the short ring knife or use the roundabout as a secondary weapon, and the main melee weapon will be the long knife of the Zhou Shibian Army, and then allow the soldiers to bring their own striking weapons such as one-handed axes and maces to deal with armored enemies.

For long-range firepower, the Slice Arrow can be retained, after all, this thing has a bright spot in terms of range, but the Odd Brigade soldiers must also learn to shoot with heavy arrows.

In addition to the Odd Soldier Brigade, 5,000 combat-effective personnel were selected from the Goryeo regular soldiers as the backbone, and a unit with mixed hot and cold weapons was formed, which was named the Regular Soldier Brigade.

The self-defense weapons of the regular brigade must also be changed to waist knives, and as for the main battle weapons, the plan of the staff is to give them 1,000 cavalrymen with cold weapons, 2,000 spearmen, and 2,000 musketeers.

The musketeers were armed with a 10 mm grip arquebus, a foreign trade weapon specially produced by the Qi Provincial Arsenal.

This arquebus could not be compared with the Qi army's standard arquebus in terms of power and range, but it was relatively light and cheap, making it very suitable for large-scale rapid production and equipment of the troops - in fact, it was an imitation of the bird gun in the late Ming Dynasty, so it was also named a bird gun by Xu Shiyang (the name means that this weapon can hit flying birds).

Another advantage is that if Goryeo becomes the enemy of the Qi army again in the future, this kind of musket with a generation difference in performance will not pose a major threat to the Qi army.

But with this musket, the Koreans at least had the means to deter the Tartars: the idea of the staff was that the Koreans would face the Tartars with a long-range shot with a piece of arrow, a shotgun at a medium range, a heavy arrow at close range, and finally a white-knuckle battle.

In this way, even if they were defeated, as long as the Koreans shot steadily, they would always bring some casualties to the Tartars.

Xu Shiyang believes that it is enough for the Goryeo people to have this 10,000 standing army, and they can't afford to raise more.

Speaking of foreign arms trade, it has to be mentioned that in addition to the Koreans who are waiting for reorganization, the Li pirates also expressed the hope of purchasing firearms from Qi Province.

They named them to buy a large lifting rod that fired 12 yuan bullets, and they made it clear that it must be an arquebus - because the Li family could not build the propellant needed for a flintlock pistol.

Li Feifeng said that if Qi Province was willing to provide 1,000 guns, he could give up the Li family's share of the loot they deserved in this Goryeo War.

Xu Shiyang roughly calculated how much he should give to the Li family this time, and then immediately agreed to Li Feifeng's request.

Returning to the topic, the last important topic of this meeting is the expansion of the army.

At present, there are 40,000 people in the new army of Qi Province, including the navy and the recruit training camp.

The population of Qi Province was, according to pre-war statistics, 1.4 million.

After the end of the four-month Goryeo War, through the continuous recruitment of displaced people and the encouragement of childbearing, the population of Qi Province has reached 1.5 million above the civilian class, more than 50,000 common people, and more than 300,000 slaves (mostly Goryeo).

The large number of new commoners and slaves will be able to free the Han Chinese population who toiled in the fields to become industrial workers or new soldiers.

Therefore, the military department already has the manpower base to expand the standing army.

Xu Shiyang did not plan to form a new field unit, and at this stage he felt that it was necessary to strengthen the ability of the existing field brigade to fight alone.

Therefore, Xu Shiyang envisaged the formation of a fourth field brigade among the various field brigades, and at the same time supported more engineering, cavalry, and artillery units.

The initial plan was to expand each field brigade to 3,000 men, so that the total strength of the new army would be increased by 10,000 even if no new combat units were added.

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