In addition, the number of commoners grazing has also increased significantly, from 6,000 to 12,000, which is already the population of a county in the interior, and the increase rate is in line with that of the Han army.

The reason why so many people can be increased is because the Bingzhou army has won many battles on the grassland, and there are often Hun servant troops and cavalry brigades of the Han army entering the grassland for round battles.

And since the war in the Central Plains subsided, the troops of the trapped camp and the Rongyi Division also took turns to enter the grassland for actual combat, so the grassland tribes easily did not dare to provoke the Han Chinese.

Even the Xianbei people, the great enemies of the Han army, did not dare to invade the Lingdi of the Han people on a large scale, and could only watch the Han people encroach on the grassland little by little.

The settlements of the Han people were established deeper and deeper into the grassland, and where the settlements were built, the official roads were built, and the part of the official roads in the grasslands would be built with beacon towers at appropriate distances along the way, and post stations were built incidentally.

The post guards were drawn from the nearby Han settlements and specially established road administration teams, and rotated regularly, and with these post stations in the grasslands, some beacon towers on the Great Wall could be abolished.

Most of the garrisons of the Bingzhou Army in Jizhou have been withdrawn to Yunzhong, and only Zhang Liao's Rongsan Brigade and the newly established Third Brigade of the 1st Cavalry Division have been retained in Zhongshan, and the brigade commander is Cao Xing, who is also the old man of the Bingzhou Army, Ding Yuan's old subordinate, who has been assisting Fang Yue in managing the grazing troops on the grassland.

In Changshan State, Wei Xu's Second Brigade and Hao Zhao's Independent Brigade were retained, and local garrison brigades were formed in each of the two countries, which were the former militia groups.

The militia regiments in Bingzhou and Duliao counties are also being reorganized, and it just so happens that many of the graduates of the second phase of the Shaling Military Academy have not yet been resettled, but have only temporarily formed a teaching regiment, and these graduates can first go to the local garrison units for training.

Manzhong is indeed unique in dealing with the Montenegrin army in the Taihang Mountains, and the means of "pitting, deceiving, abducting, and deceiving" emerge in an endless stream, coupled with the cooperation of the Second Brigade that is good at mountain warfare and the Dangkou Cavalry Reconnaissance Battalion that has just returned to the clouds, it is very good to pull out many cottages in the territory of Changshan Country.

Suppressing and appeasing at the same time, eliminating many cottages also incorporated and recruited a lot of bandits and grass robbers, the Yellow Turban Yu Party, and the Montenegrin Army could only retreat to the depths of the mountains, Changshan Country restored calm, and Lu Bu was very satisfied with Manzhong's work.

The third phase of the Shaling Military Academy only recruited 1,000 people, because the Bingzhou Army has no plan to expand the scale of the establishment for the time being, and the graduates of the second phase can only go to the local garrison units first, and the third phase naturally cannot recruit so many more.

Moreover, there are no more specially recruited students from the army in the third batch of cadets, and all of them are enrolled after taking the entrance examination and passing the grades. Of course, soldiers of the state army are also allowed to sign up, but they are treated the same as civilians.

Lu Bu felt that after graduating from the third phase in the future, it would be better to let them go to the local garrison to exercise first, even if it was tuntian or herding.

Since the third phase, the academic system of Shaling Military Academy has been extended from half a year to one year, and all subjects are learned from deeper knowledge.

In the past, there was a shortage of officers, so they pursued quick training, but now there are not so many battles to fight, and there are not so many new armies established, so it is natural to teach the curriculum more finely and lay a more solid foundation.

Since you don't let yourself participate in the war in Liangzhou, you should use these foreign tribes on the grassland to train your troops!

Lu Bu presided over a high-level meeting of the Bingzhou Army, which was attended by Jia Xu, Fu Zhu, Gao Shun, Xu Huang, Jin Riyan, Jin Rigang, Fang Yue, Cheng Lian, Guan Hai, Xu Rong, Zhu Ling, Zhang He, Hou Cheng, all officers above the brigade commander level and two military advisors in Yunzhong.

Lu Bu first put forward the opinion of preparing to go to the grassland for military training, which can also be used to test the learning results of the first two phases of the Shaling Military Academy.

Hearing that there was another battle, the militants were gearing up and asked to play.

Lu Bu still liked this atmosphere very much, and he first asked about the frustration, according to the current financial situation and grain reserves of the state, how big of a war can it be?

In the state army, he was mainly responsible for internal affairs, so no one was familiar with these situations.

After estimating it in his heart, he responded to Lu Bu, "Back to the lord, in the past two years, the wind and rain in the Bingzhou and Duliao regions have been smooth, and the grain has been harvested many times, so our army should have a lot of grain in stock. However, the Yellow Turban Rebellion caused many refugees from neighboring states to pour into the state. ”

"Even if they are willing to farm and be nomadic, they need us to advance a year's food rations. What's more, there are many people who are only willing to live an ordinary life in the rear, and they also need to rent land from the government or money to borrow grain, so the grain inventory is not very rich. Lu Bu nodded, he also understood these situations.

"Fortunately, we also got a lot of beef and mutton from the grasslands, and we also salted or dried a lot of easy-to-store jerky, which can also be used as military rations. ”

"As for the economic situation, it is very good, the income of the money bank, the trade in the border market, and the toll on the official road are all very rich, but the expenses are also very large, and the Ministry of Military Industry has been researching new weapons and improving old weapons."

"The expanded army and the newly built local garrison brigades also need to build equipment, and our army's equipment has always been excellent, and the cost is naturally high. It is also necessary to buy military horses, and their own horse farms are in short supply at all. ”

Speaking of this, Fu Zhu looked at Lu Bu, "My lord, you gave away 25,000 horses at once. So to sum up, if you use troops against the grassland, you can mobilize about 20,000 people at most, and you can't do more. ”

Lu Bu also frowned when he heard this number, it was less than he imagined, and 20,000 people was only the size of four brigades. "Can't do it any more?" He asked.

"Well, considering that if we win the battle, we will catch a lot of slaves and seize a lot of supplies, so let's add another 5,000 people, this is the upper limit, if we don't win, we will lose money." Frustrated answer.

"Phew! Crow's mouth, before he fights, he said that he would lose. Gao Shun hurriedly interrupted.

"Okay, everyone has heard it, we can only dispatch 25,000 people, five brigades, you see who we fight?" With that, Lubra opened the red cloth on the wall of the conference room.

This conference room was specially built by Lu Bu, and the layout is like the army conference room in the previous life, with a long wooden table and a circle of chairs, which changed the customs and habits of meetings in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and everyone sat around to show equality.

On the wall is a newly drawn map of the grassland, which shows in detail the spheres of influence of the major tribes of the grassland, the location of settlements, the number of population, the number of livestock, the trend and distribution of mountains and rivers, and so on.

The map, which was made using modern cartographic methods, was much more detailed and accurate than the maps of the time, and introduced the concepts of scale and contour lines, but could not determine latitude and longitude.

Everyone looked at the big map and expressed their opinions, some said to fight Wuhuan, some said to fight Xianbei, and some said to fight Goguryeo.

(End of chapter)