And this time, if you want to break through Shenglong City, that kind of four-like big cylinder will not come in handy here.

Even though it was still far away, Cai Dao could still roughly see the outline of Thang Long City. It is worthy of being the capital of Da Yue Kingdom, the height of the city wall is not low, and it looks quiet and peaceful in the afterglow of the setting sun.

In this era, if Cai Dao hadn't messed in, there would really be no natural enemies here. The other surrounding countries have basically been subdued by the Great Viet Nam Kingdom.

However, it was this quiet and peaceful scene that made everyone realize a problem that they had not thought of before.

The Song army's march was too smooth, Thang Long City had no defenses at all, and it was not close to the border, and there were no strong enemies or nomads around, so even if the Great Yue Kingdom adopted the same military system as the Great Song Dynasty, the army in Thang Long City was also very large, but its combat effectiveness and training level were also extremely low after nearly twenty years.

This is exactly the same as when Zhao Xu was just in power, and the situation of nearly 500,000 forbidden troops in Bianliang City. Fortunately, with the efforts of Cai Bian and Di Yong, although the current forbidden army has no combat effectiveness and does not have enough time for training, most of them have been replaced by strong young people.

Moreover, because of Cai Dao's proposal to recover the land, the number of forbidden troops in Bianliang City has greatly exceeded the total number of 800,000 forbidden troops in the heyday of Renzong's period, reaching a very staggering one million.

This figure is not adulterated at all, and now no military general dares to drink the blood of soldiers, and civilian officials no longer dare to treat these forbidden troops as slaves, calling them like pigs and dogs. Because, Cai Dao personally went to see the predecessors of Ba Fujian to supervise the official jun of the imperial history, and suggested to him that in the future, the procuratorate should pay more attention to the situation of the forbidden army in Beijing.

The surroundings of the Great Song Dynasty, especially in the north, were surrounded by strong enemies, and war could break out at any time. Moreover, the loss of Yuguan and Yanshan led to the fact that Bianliang City was not in danger to defend. If the forbidden army is as corrupt as before, it will be too late to regret it.

Of course, according to the previous situation, no matter how hard the princes of the court and the central government worked, Zhang Dian and their ability surpassed that of Lu Yijian, but it was already very difficult to feed the 800,000 forbidden army. But the land that Zhao Yu recently recovered has solved a big problem.

Among the 1 million forbidden troops, after training and selection at various levels, only about 200,000 were standing elites, while the other 800,000 were Tuntian soldiers.

Today, in the entire Gyeonggi region, there is not a single big landlord except for the conservative civil servants who still insist on holding on to the land in their hands. Needless to say, the generals and the royal family, even Zhao Xu gave the Huangzhuang Fei to these Tuntian soldiers, and those landlords who did not have a Jinshi background were also forced to sell the land in their hands to Kaifeng Mansion under the coercion of Yang Wei.

The method adopted by Yang Wei is also extremely simple, and he still learned it from Shouzhou Punishment. And the source of this method is still Cai Dao.

That is, to recruit those tenants in Shouzhou who have not signed a long-term contract, and rent official land. There is not too much land belonging to the government in Shouzhou, but there are not many tenants who have not signed long-term contracts. For those tenants who signed long-term contracts, Xingshu secretly sent people to encourage them to flee from Shouzhou.

In order to show the emperor his ability, Xing Shu used this trick not only against the Lu family, but also on the other party's squires and conservative civil officials who did not have any power in the court.

The movement of the torture was a bit big, so that Yang Wei, who had been paying attention to him, knew the method used by the torture. As a result, Yang Wei also did the same in the Gyeonggi area.

Of course, within the territory of the Great Song Dynasty today, only the Shouju and Gyeonggi regions can do this. Because, in addition to the governor and the governor, the county order at the bottom is also very important. If the county order is stubborn and does not do it, then no matter how vicious the methods of punishment and forgiveness and Yang Wei are, they will not be able to help the squires and local tyrants in those places.

The prefectural commanders in the Gyeonggi region were all young and handsome among the reformers, which was beneficial to the reformers and could strike at the power of conservative civil officials, so they were naturally willing to listen to Yang Wei's orders. In order to completely bring down the Lu family in Shouzhou, Zhao Xu not only sent the criminal forgiveness there, but also the candidates for the county orders in the various counties under the jurisdiction of Shouzhou were also recommended by the criminal forgiveness.

Therefore, the people did not have enough food to prepare for the famine, and the city of Bianliang could not feed more forbidden troops, which was never necessarily related to high-yield crops. The excessive concentration of land in the hands of a very small number of people who do not need to pay taxes is the real sticking point.

Nowhere is this more evident than in the North. Otherwise, after the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty, a large number of peasants from the north fled to the south, which is precisely the reason.

Moreover, Wang Anshi's art of war, like the method of equal loss, is the only new law that has not been restored.

In Cai Dao's view, changing the law is the real good law. Will not know the soldiers, so what?

If the leaders of the capital train the forbidden army in normal times, then even if it is the turn of the forbidden army to reach the border, the soldiers will not know the soldiers, and the soldiers will not know the generals, and it will not be a big problem to defend the city. And the generals on the border only need to maintain an elite cavalry of three to five thousand people.

The Great Song Dynasty was no longer short of horses, at least the main generals of the Western Army could gather enough horses.

Now on the Fourth Road in the northwest, there are only 3,000 troops and horses on Xihe Road, and after the loss of Lanzhou, the area of Xihe Road's defense has naturally shrunk, and the pressure on defense has been greatly reduced.

Jingyuan Road and Yanyan Road are 5,000 military horses, and there are only Huanqing Road, and there are 20,000 military horses allocated to Zhangji. Among them, 15,000 military mutinies were hidden on the border between Chang'an Mansion and Huanqing Road, and Huanqing Road could be rescued at any time.

If calculated in this way, not only did the military expenditure of the Western Army not increase by a large margin, but its combat effectiveness also increased by a large margin, and the forbidden army, which had been nesting in Bianliang City, also accumulated experience and participated in actual combat in the process of changing its war. It's no longer a female soldier who hasn't seen blood.

For nearly 20 years, those generals who were accustomed to the career of fighting horses became greedy for life and afraid of death, and the soldiers of a hundred battles either died of old age, illness, or even poverty.

On the contrary, now the forbidden army of the Great Yue Kingdom in Thang Long City has become a female soldier.

Therefore, this also leads to the fact that Cai Dao now has an unexpected choice - that is, at dawn tomorrow, the Song army will immediately launch an attack on Thang Long City.

However, such an attack, even if the people who should enter the city can open the city gates as they wish.

If it weren't for Cai Dao, the final casualties would have been fewer than the first option. However, now that Cai Dao has it, the final casualty will definitely be more than the first choice.

This is because if Cai Dao chooses to attack Thang Long City head-on, the Great Yue Kingdom will definitely be panicked in the early stage.