After listening to Liu Tai's words, Xi Zhicai in the audience stood up and said: "The internal situation in Xianbei is unstable, and there should be no large-scale disturbance to the establishment of Shengle and Meiji's new city, but the Northern Xiongnu have to worry about it, after all, the Northern Xiongnu have no opponent except for the confrontation with Hexi Xianbei, and the Western Regions have also been under the control of the Northern Xiongnu over the years, which has caused the strength of the Northern Xiongnu to grow stronger and stronger, and there are no less than 400,000 soldiers and horses in its clan. ”

Speaking of this, Xi Zhicai paused, glanced around at everyone, and saw that everyone present was shocked by the fact that the Northern Xiongnu had such a powerful military force, nodded slightly and continued: "Of course, the 400,000 troops of the Northern Xiongnu cannot be mobilized, except for the 150,000 soldiers and horses stationed in the Western Regions and the 50,000 soldiers and horses of the royal court cannot be mobilized, there are no less than 200,000 soldiers and horses who can fight against our army, and this 200,000 army is not a miscellaneous army of the Southern Xiongnu can be compared, our army only has 100,000 iron cavalry, although I believe that it will not be defeated by the Northern Xiongnu, but even if it wins." , also a fiasco! ”

"Yes." Liu Tai nodded, if you want to confront the Northern Xiongnu on the Shengle battlefield, at least 150,000 iron cavalry in the north can ensure the safety of Shengle to build a city, and these 150,000 iron cavalry must be stationed in Shengle all year round until they are out of the Northern Xiongnu, but now there are only 100,000 iron cavalry in the northern Xinjiang, how can it be enough?

"Has the lord ever thought about transferring the reserves?" Second only to Gao Shun, Huang Zhong, the original secretary of the military department in Erzhou, stepped forward and bowed to Liu Tai and said.

Everyone present heard Huang Zhong's words, and suddenly their eyes lit up, everyone has always chosen to ignore the situation of the reserve in northern Xinjiang, after all, the reserve force is not a regular army, but a reserve force of the regular army, responsible for importing fresh blood into the regular army, and the training intensity of the reserve is also very different from the regular army, half of the time is in the fields belonging to the northern Xinjiang government, of course, the grain obtained from the tuntian, the soldiers can get 30% as food.

In the past two years, the population of the two states has risen on a large scale, and the reserve force has expanded from less than 100,000 to 700,000 today, including young people between the ages of 18 and 23.

Among the 700,000 reserves, there are 350,000 infantry, 300,000 cavalry, and 50,000 sailors, the smallest number of sailors, because under Liu Tai's rule, ships that can sail safely in the inland sea have not yet been developed, so they have not been expanded on a large scale.

Coupled with the 580,000 regular troops of the Northern Xinjiang Prefecture, Liu Tai's nominal soldiers and horses have as many as 1.28 million, but Liu Tai announced that the one is 580,000, and most people don't know that Liu Tai still has 700,000 reserve soldiers and horses, in fact, these 700,000 reserve soldiers and horses except for a few who have just joined the army, most of the combat power is very good, and it is not much stronger than the soldiers and horses temporarily convened by the princes in the future, but there is still a gap with the regular army of Northern Xinjiang.

"It's not proper, after all, Shengle is the main battlefield on the front line, and it is difficult for Tai to let those dolls from the reserve go to the battlefield." Liu Tai shook his head disapprovingly and refused, the problem is that Liu Tai has forgotten his age and is still a doll, of course, Liu Tai's psychological age is in his thirties.

"The lord has been thinking a lot, in the past two years, the combat strength of the soldiers in the reserve army, loyalty can be guaranteed, even if there is a little gap with the regular army, it is definitely much stronger than the northern frontier army in the past, the soldiers and horses under the rule of the lord, whether it is the regular army or the reserve, the food is countless times stronger than the military food in the past, and now the soldiers of the two states are strong and strong, and they are looking forward to the war, and this batch of reserve troops is not really going to fight against the Hu people, but just to prevent the possibility of foreign tribes to disturb the surname to fight, of course, the most important point, In this way, you can also train the Lord, after all, no matter how much training, you can't train a real soldier on the battlefield. Huang Zhong arched his hand at Liu Tai and said solemnly and solemnly.

"En" Liu Tai nodded, after listening to Huang Zhong's words, he did feel that he was a little lacking in consideration for the reserve soldiers and horses, in Liu Tai's opinion, as long as the soldiers continue to strengthen training, they can train a strong army, but the problem is that these so-called strong soldiers have never been on the battlefield, and in the eyes of real veterans, they will always be new soldiers.

"Okay, then according to Hansheng's idea, after defeating the Southern Xiongnu, dispatch 200,000 infantry troops in reserve, and 150,000 cavalry stationed in Shengle and Meiji, well, by the way, all the special elite troops in the reserve will be transferred to the regular army and included in the first army, which will be directly commanded by Tai." Liu Tai pondered for a while, bowed his head slightly, and then said aloud.

The special elite force is referred to as the special team, which was built because of Liu Tai's whim, and most of this force is formed by some young and aspiring rangers, with a number of about 1,000 people, of course, this is the number left after elimination.

There are countless strange people in the special forces, and anyone who has a killing skill is allowed by Liu Tai to enter the army to participate in the test, and this unit is also equipped with tools that Liu Tai specially came up with about special operations, such as ropes for fishing the beams of the city wall, exquisite crossbow arrows, poisonous daggers and other assassination tools, which can be described as gathering reconnaissance, assassination and integration, and the strength is very strong, even if ordinary congenital generals, they can't avoid the assassination methods of the special forces.

Because the grassland is flat, and most of the grassland tribes are nomadic for a living, infiltrating the enemy camp to assassinate the enemy generals, which is obviously very unrealistic, so this unit has been left by Liu Tai in the reserve for training, ready to be recruited to his subordinates at any time.

However, this time the situation is different, since it is to give those recruits eggs for actual combat training, these special forces naturally cannot be missed, if they can assassinate some princes and nobles of the grassland tribe in the prairie, it will have a very good effect on the training and development of the special forces in the future.

"No, I think that since the reserve is going to be transferred to the north, the lord had better give an order immediately, and it will make a big fuss, and the 350,000 army will claim one million to the outside world, so if the Southern Xiongnu know that my northern Xinjiang really wants to pacify Shengle in a war, it will definitely make everyone in the Southern Xiongnu endanger, and the morale that has been gathered will be lost for a while, and it will be easier for the leaders of the various departments to oppose the Southern Xiongnu at that time." Xi Zhicai stepped forward, looked weird, and said with a slight smile.

"Ahem" Liu Tai was speechless for a while, he didn't think that Xi Zhicai would have such a black belly, he looked at Xi Zhicai helplessly, and said: "Okay, since Zhicai has a belly, then this matter will be handled by you." ”

"No!" The drama was ordered, and under the strange eyes of the Chinese officers and military generals present, he returned to the collapse and sat down.

"Dare to ask the lord, if you build a city in Shengle, will you communicate with the tribes of the four directions?" After Xi Zhicai stepped back, Guo Jia, a fan of small wealth, stepped forward and asked Liu Tai aloud.

Liu Tai heard Guo Jia's words, frowned, and after thinking for a while, he nodded and said: "You can trade with each other, but the main direction of our acquisition is war horses or cattle and sheep, as for what to exchange, then use the salt and coal that the Hu people lack, remember that strategic materials such as iron tools, whether the government or major commercial houses are absolutely not allowed to trade with the Hu people, anyone who finds out that they buy and sell strategic substances without permission will be found to be true and will not be tolerated!" ”

"General Ben authorizes that if you resist, you can hunt and kill them in the first place, no matter who it is!" Liu Tai said categorically.

"Is the right to do business also delegated to ordinary businessmen?" Guo Jia frowned and asked suspiciously.

Liu Tai bowed his head slightly, and said with a chuckle at the corner of his mouth: "As the saying goes, it is better to block than to sparse, even if the government cracks down hard, there will eventually be businessmen who take risks, it is better to open it to all parties, the government extracts taxes from it, and the trading venue is set in Shengle, after all, the geographical location of Shengle is much better than Meiji." ”

"Of course, the premise is that our army must completely defeat the Southern Xiongnu, otherwise everything is a cake." Liu Tai said with a smile to himself.