"A few people, please. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info" Li Yu said pleasantly: "I know that you are eager to serve the country, but now is not the time to go to war. ”

"Please make it clear to Your Highness!"

Cheng Wuzhong and several people knew that they couldn't fight, and then looked at the old generals of Andong who didn't respond to their invitation to fight, Changshi, Sima and several other people who influenced His Highness's decision-making, all of them were there, sitting on the couch. Knowing that he and others are eager to seek merit, it is not as good as other officials and generals who have followed His Highness for many years to know His Highness's intentions, and he is annoyed that he is still Meng Lang after all.

Li Yu said a little frustrated: "My Andong Army controls 66,000 troops, and is divided into nine prefectures and 100 counties, and the troops are more than garrisoned, and the progress is insufficient. And there are internal troubles, and the epilepsy of the northern chamber and the black water elbow, it is difficult to complete the battle. Now that the war with Silla is going on, the problem of insufficient strength of our army will be undoubtedly exposed, and it will only give others an opportunity to take advantage of it. ”

"Silla has been established for hundreds of years, and has been fighting with Goguryeo and Baekje endlessly, and the army is not a weak brigade, and the country is not a weak country. There are still 200,000 troops in his country, and in case of emergency, the expansion of troops can be increased to 300,000. With the existing soldiers and horses of my Anton, how can I destroy them? ”

I never thought that little Shilla would have such strength! Cheng Wuzhong and the others returned to their couches with shame on their faces.

"Your Highness, what should we do?"

Lee Sang-dan asked, the Seoul Prefecture Governor's Office in his charge faced Silla and went to war with Silla, and his army must be the vanguard. But the only soldiers in charge are the White Tiger Guard led by him, the Vermilion Bird Guard of Gao Chongde, the Flying Tiger Army of Liu Shijiang, and the Tianshi Army of Su Mingxiu. There were 12,000 soldiers and horses, but the garrison in northern Silla was as high as 70,000 or 80,000.

If Silla invades the north, the garrisons of the four cities can only hold on and wait for reinforcements, which makes Li Shangdan feel like a stalk.

Li Yu's major trading houses stopped sending troops to Anton at the end of last year. One is that the soldiers who were originally recruited and reserved in the major trading houses in the form of guards have already been delivered, and no one can send them; Second, Li Yu was in charge of Anton as a prince, and his soldiers and horses were recruited by him in the name of Anton's danger in order to enter the court's field of vision.

and then obtaining a source of troops through the recruitment of guards by major commercial houses, which will expose Li Yu's gradual layout of the business network of the entire territory of Datang, which is not good for himself.

There are only so many local Chinese in Liaodong, and many of them have been under Goguryeo rule for a long time, and the Chinese who are alienated from China are not eligible for recruitment.

As a result, there was a shortage of local Chinese recruits in Andong, which became the biggest problem that hindered Li Yu's development of strength and attempted to control Silla and a series of other plans.

Now all Li Yu has to do is to find a new source of soldiers.

"In order to solve the problem of the source of soldiers, I and Li Changshi and Xue Sima ...... It was decided to implement a military reserve plan based on the people who had emigrated to Anton. ”

I wanted to be directly organized into government soldiers, but the government soldiers belonged to the imperial army and were under the command of sixteen generals. The troops are commanded by the imperial court, and when dispatched, they must hold the fish charm under the military department, and only after the state assassin history and the generals of the Zhichong Prefecture can they send troops.

If Li Yu is organizing government soldiers in Anton, will he still command these government soldiers?

If he is organized as a government soldier and drags the transfer command in his hands, wouldn't it be true that Li Yu is plotting against him?

At that time, it was only a suspicion that the eldest father would be able to send a decree to Pyongyang, and Li Yu would have to obediently pack up his things and go back to Chang'an to be an idle prince in this life.

That's why we have the Troop Reserve Plan!

"Troop Reserve Plan?" When they first heard that Li Yu said that this plan would be implemented, the civil and military generals were puzzled, and whispered guesses about how to reserve troops.

At Li Yu's suggestion, Xue Jun came out and said: "The military reserve plan is to register the elite and strong people who immigrated to Anton as soldiers and include them in the military register. Farming in peacetime, intensive training in leisure time, and conscription for soldiers to fight in wartime. In the future, all young and strong people who immigrated to Anton were incorporated into the military with this policy. His Royal Highness will use the soldiers compiled in the military source reserve plan as the source, and form several new army commanders in the current Andong Army sequence. If this strategy is carried out, 30,000 soldiers can be formed from the 100,000 people who have moved to Andong at present. ”

"Isn't this the government soldier system?" Someone muttered quietly.

Everyone thought that the so-called military reserve plan was similar to the military cultivation war practiced by the imperial court, but it was also very different.

First of all, the soldiers compiled in the military reserve plan are not under the jurisdiction of the 16 guards of the imperial court; Secondly, they were organized into a formed army, while the training of non-government soldiers was supervised and trained by generals such as the commander of the prefecture, and in wartime, they were led by another general.

What is different from the speculation of the civilian officials is that after the middle and low-level generals heard the specific implementation strategy of this so-called military reserve plan, all of them turned their eyes on the thieves, and they were as bright as tigers smelling of meat.

Cheng Wuzhong and Duan Huaijian were even more excited, these newly formed armies definitely need generals to command.

After coming to Anton, Cheng Wuzhong and the others did not deal with Liu Shijiang, Qu Tuzhongxiang and others, who were also members of the Hongmeng Society, and contacted them for a relationship.

From their mouths, it was learned that Li Yu recruited a large number of soldiers from the local Chinese in Liaodong last year and organized them into the Eighth Army of Liao, and there was a lack of generals, so he promoted them, who were originally only middle- and low-level generals, to the generals of the Eighth Army of Liao.

Xue Sima said that 30,000 soldiers could be organized from the immigrants, and with the current establishment of Anton's various armies, the number of soldiers in each guard and army is 3,000, wouldn't His Highness want to organize ten new armies?

In addition to selecting some meritorious soldiers from the original Ten Divine Beast Guards, the Liao Eighth Army, and the Yanyun and Beihai Iron Cavalry to be incorporated into the new army as generals, these new generals are more than enough to place them.

As a member of the Hongmeng Society, he grew up with His Royal Highness King Yan since he was a child, which can be described as intimate. After being a powerful person in the DPRK and China, Cheng Wuzhong and others, who practiced martial arts under the supervision of his father since he was a child, and who had previously received the position of the imperial court and were also martial arts, could compete for the post of commander of the New Tenth Army.

Liu Shijiang: Isn't that how they got up?

"The immigrants who are classified as military are young and strong, and I will build the new Tenth Army as the commander, and draw out some capable soldiers from the original guards and armies as middle and low-level officers of the new Tenth Army. The commander of the army, I will be able to serve from among the subordinate officials of the Metropolitan Protectorate. During the slack season, the generals of each army gathered their soldiers to organize training, and in wartime, they led them on expeditions......"

Li Yu continued: "In addition, 24,000 young and strong Liao people who are loyal and honest and have a heart for the Tang Dynasty will also be selected in various parts of Liaodong, and they will also be assigned to the military according to the military source reserve plan, and the Eighth Army will be organized. ”

Except for a few people such as Li Yuan, Xue Jun, and Li Yesi, who had already known about Li Yu's plans, everyone else exclaimed.

As soon as the troop reserve plan is implemented, the number of registered troops in Anton will increase to 120,000 within half a year. By next year, won't Andong's army have the strength to defeat Silla with its own strength?

Most of the civil officials and military generals sitting in the hall were excited, but a small number of people were worried. His Royal Highness King Yan expanded his armaments and warfare, and his intention was really just to guard against Silla?