Li Jing's eyes turned back and forth between the names recorded in his hands and the various generals, and his mouth was a little comfortable, "In the future, the army will reduce the number of contradictory swordsmen, are you ready to swarm a group and retire from the army and return to their hometowns?" ”

Whether everyone is fighting the battlefield, or having good luck, mixed with merit, anyway, to this point, commanding the soldiers, naturally superior, whether it is military pay or various allocated material benefits, they are enjoying the best part of it, to say that let them give up everything at this time, return to the township to manage a hundred acres of land according to merit, they are absolutely unwilling. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

But if you want to say that you can easily change your ability, for example, a peasant who can only operate a gun and a stick, can bring thirty or fifty people to fight with other villages, and only need to rely on the prestige and courage of the past, but commanding the troops to go into battle and training soldiers and horses on weekdays obviously requires deep precipitation, which is not something that can be learned overnight.

After Li Jing raised his troops, the reason why he was able to make a huge momentum and crisscross the north of Jin and Jin was that the army left behind by the official army was too weak, and the soldiers and horses under the command of a thousand households and even a guard commander were not satisfied, and second, they had no combat effectiveness.

In the case of most of the generals who actually led a battalion of the beggar army, they used to be at most the position of a small flag in the military household, and they couldn't even recognize the words, let alone any military strategy, commanding a battalion of 1,500 soldiers and horses, whether it was weekday dispatch or battle formation, they could only rely on the advantage of numbers, not to mention any organizational ability.

At this moment, most of them were worried about the type of troops they chose, and when they heard Li Jing talk about such a sentence, they were immediately stunned, how to say, it is not a way to go on like this, if Li Jing has one day to lay off the redundant soldiers, then where will these generals be placed?

"Lord, what does this mean, isn't there no need for so many soldiers and horses in the future?" A general thinks about it, and feels a little miserable in his heart, is it possible to accept the court's recruitment, and everyone can put down the swords and soldiers, and live a peaceful life from now on?

"Not really!" Li Jing shook his head, stood up and said, "Not only will we not reduce the total number of soldiers, but we will increase the number of soldiers and horses in case of emergency!" ”

"Hiss~" Waiting for this, Li Denggao next to him couldn't sit still, "My lord, at present, the soldiers and horses of the Fifth Brigade, and the auxiliary army number 120 battalions, the army has 30,000 or 40,000 people, and the soldiers need no less than 100,000 silver for this month's money, food, supplies, equipment, and resettlement pensions. ”

Don't look at the plundering of the army in various places to get a lot of money and food, but most of them are precious jewelry, medicinal materials, household goods and goods that are difficult to sell for a while, of which money and grain only occupy a small part, converted to feed these 40,000 soldiers and horses, the need for a year is not considered armaments, food, drink, shelter and transportation, according to the military salary of one tael of silver per person per month, it will be about 500,000 taels.

According to the craftsmen who were captured in Lanzhou, Xinzhan, to make a pure iron tiger squat cannon of about 50 catties, counting the difference in loss of craftsmen, and then matching the ammunition fired, it would cost about 50 taels of silver to be converted, which was still a figure that Li Jing barely reached after strictly controlling the waste of craftsmen and improving some manufacturing processes.

If it is according to Li Jing's words, the existing firearms will be replaced on a large scale, and the silver will be gone, just according to the new water conservancy drilling method, 30 rounded barrels can be obtained every day, but the whole gun is still being designed, and it is estimated that the cost of each firearm should be more than three taels of silver.

If you equip 10,000 people, this expense will have to be emptied of the treasury of a state, and the equipment in the army, this is not the most expensive, if you talk about the accumulation of silver, it should be the cavalry.

According to the current market situation where the trade routes in northern Jin are cut off, a sturdy adult horse can be sold for eighty taels of silver, and in the border towns, the war horses obtained by the Jin merchants and the Mongolian tribes are nothing more than three or five stones of grain in exchange for a strong horse, which is only a dozen taels of silver, but even so, Li Denggao cannot afford the demand for war horses for the whole army.

"If you don't call up soldiers and horses, how can you protect yourself? Not to mention the development and growth, according to the current needs, openly and secretly against the imperial court, and govern the land of the five states, if there are no elite soldiers and good generals, how can it be done? I intend that within two years, the regular soldiers of the whole army must reach the scale of three military towns, and the auxiliary troops must also reach the same number, especially the firearms cavalry must keep up, and no half point can be reduced! ”

Li Jing clearly remembers that during the Chongnian period, the Houjin Tartars committed the border several times, and two years later, they will go west to Mongolia Lin Dan Khan, and then in the name of the Ming Town border general who killed his servants, Kou Bian Xuanda and Taiyuan Town, Shanxi, captured nothing, and its soldiers reached their hometown Chun County as far as possible.

"The number of soldiers is not increasing, the combat power is soaring, I intend the whole army to raise a town of cavalry, numbered 8,000 tigers, all of them with horses, for the field rescue soldiers, stationed in Ninghua, to respond to the whole army, so that no matter where to attack, we must face the majesty of our cavalry alone, so that no one dares to touch it, and the rest of the armies must be the main force of firearms, set up more bird guns, and vigorously reduce the spear waist knife hand, how about you?"

When it comes to changes in the military system and the army, most of the other people have a general idea, and it is generally impossible to argue and discuss with Li Jing, but in this matter, there are too many interests involved, and most of the people below are in the target of dismissal.

Zheng Renbao thought about it for a moment or two, and even said directly, "My lord, although the firearms are sharp, they are extremely unstable, and when they are in battle, they are turned into burning sticks with one round of shooting, and they can't even compare to the bow and crossbow, and it is very easy to explode, and our brothers are afraid, if the lord uses this thing to stuff into the army, how can the combat power soar?" ”

Li Jing shook his head, "You don't know the advantage of firearms, lies in long-range shooting, the enemy can't reach the range of the bow and crossbow, and will be hit by firearms, after all, it is difficult to continue to charge the battle, if you can relieve the danger of firearms exploding, and can eliminate the pain of loading, then once the scale is formed, think about it, if there are thousands of people up and down, holding delicate firearms, divided into five rows, and taking turns to hit, who can ask themselves to break the formation?!" ”

Zhao Mosheng thought for a while and smiled bitterly, "My lord, even with the battle formation set up by the current bird gun, if it is properly commanded and the left and right armies cover the flanks, and it is not called a joint scattering, such an army of firearms, who would dare to attack head-on!" If the danger of exploding can be lifted, and the bullets can be quickly filled on the battle array, I am afraid that in the future, no one in the world will be an opponent! But where can I find such an artifact?! (To be continued.) )