As long as the expansion of the army is completed, the main army under Hua'an will be as high as 120,000, including 60,000 in the Northern Expeditionary Army, 20,000 in Yizhou, 30,000 in Liangzhou, and 10,000 in Qinzhou.

With so many troops, it is more than enough to defend the three states of Liang, Yi and Qin, but for the future Northern Expedition to Guanzhong and the Central Plains, it is still far from enough to have so many main armies, and there is also a need for a larger number of back legions, so that the back of the main force is full of a strong backing.

These reserve legions are naturally composed of the entire army population in the Hua'an Metropolitan Governor's area, and as long as they use their leisure time to train hard, these reserve peasant legions can quickly adapt and form combat effectiveness after entering the barracks.

To this end, Hua'an issued an order to the garrisons of each county to train the peasants and idle people in their respective jurisdictions, and compared the results of training the people in each county, and rewarded those who did well and punished those who did not do well, so as to create the enthusiasm of the garrison and training the peasants in each county.

Seeing that Hua'an had expanded its army by 40,000 all at once, Zhuge Xiong was a little moved, stepped forward, and said softly: "General, there are hundreds of thousands of people in Nanzhong, and their enthusiasm for joining the army is extremely high. ”

Hua An was stunned when he heard this, paused, and asked, "Is the enthusiasm of the people of Nanzhong to join the army really high?" How did you find out. ”

Zhuge Xiong hurriedly hugged his fists and said: "General, when the soldiers of the headquarters returned to their hometowns to visit their relatives, the people in their hometown saw that the soldiers of our clan were reused by the general, and they all shouted to join the army, but there was no general's conscription order, and the subordinate soldiers did not dare to take them back to the barracks without authorization. After speaking, he looked at Hua'an expectantly.

Hua An was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "There is still such a thing." Since the enthusiasm of the people in Nanzhong to join the army is so high, then expand the army by 4,000, plus the original 1,000 soldiers, to form the Wudang 5th Battalion, and also, the pro-soldier battalion should also be expanded by 4,000 men and horses to form the 5th Battalion of the pro-soldiers, so that the 5th Wudang Battalion and the 5th Battalion of the pro-soldiers have a total of 10,000 horses, which can form a pro-guard army. Wang San also served as a general. Zhuge Xiong, it's good for you to be a deputy general. ”

"Yes, General. Zhuge Xiong took the order. Zhuge Xiong happily accepted the order.

Huaan thought for a moment. I think the equipment of the Wudang Flying Army is more special. All the soldiers used the Zhuge Repeater, and this kind of weapon, the inventory of the warehouse is not available. If you want to expand the 4,000 Wudang Flying Army at once, you must do everything you can to control the Zhuge Repeater.

"Zhuge Xiong, let's go to the Armory Hall." Hua An spoke, led Zhuge Xiong and the other entourage, and walked in the direction of the Armory Hall.

At this moment, in the armory hall, Pu Tie was directing the blacksmiths to build various types of weapons, and when he saw Hua'an and his party walking in, he hurriedly responded.

"The last general, Pu Tie, visited General Hua." Pu Tie saluted Hua'an.

Hua An waved his hand lightly, signaling him to get up, and then took the Zhuge Repeater crossbow carried by a Wudang Feijun behind him, handed it to Pu Tie's hand, and said softly: "Pu Tie, this kind of weapon, can the Armory Hall be built?" ”

Pu Tie took the Zhuge crossbow, looked left and right, and replied: "General Hui, the last general is only proficient in building iron weapons, and he is not very good at bows and crossbows, but the armory hall is full of talents, and it should be okay to make such a thing."

Hua An was overjoyed when he heard this, and said: "Pu Tie, give you two months to make me four thousand Zhuge repeaters, and this kind of iron crossbow arrows will need one million, and you must also try your best to make them, and they will be of great use in two months." ”

Pu Tie hesitated, clenched his fists and said, "Don't worry, the general will try his best to complete it." ”

"Okay, great, Ben will know you have the ability." Hua An praised Pu Tie, turned to look at Zhuge Xiong, and said: "Zhuge Xiong, now Zhuge Lian's crossbow and crossbow arrows are preparing for you, within two months, you must bring back four thousand Wudang recruits from Nanzhong, is there a problem?" ”

Zhuge Xiong hurriedly clenched his fists and said: "General rest assured, Zhuge Xiong will definitely complete the task." ”

"Okay, Zhuge Xiong, you go back and prepare now, lead some of the soldiers, and return to Nanzhong to recruit troops, go quickly!" Hua An looked at Zhuge Xiong and urged softly.

"Take care of the general, the last general will leave." Zhuge Xiong clenched his fists and saluted, turned around and left the armory, and went to the army to prepare.

After Zhuge Xiong left, Hua An looked at Pu Tie and said: "Pu Tie, the equipment of the 60,000 army you built, the generals have seen it, they are all very good, and they can fully meet the needs of this army expansion, but then, these ordinary weapons don't need to be built so much, now the number of weapons, we are enough, what we need is the best quality weapons, and now, all the iron weapons you build must develop in the direction of high quality." ”

"Yes, General, the Admiral understands." Pu Tie nodded yes.

Hua An nodded, and said again: "Pu Tie, you are the most powerful at building iron weapons, but it is not enough to rely on iron weapons to fight, you have to communicate more with the soldiers of the baggage battalion, and it would be best if you could invent new weapons." ”

"What the general said is that Pu Tie must have more dealings with the soldiers of the baggage battalion." Pu Tie hurriedly said that he complied.

After some explanation, Hua An returned to the Assassin's Mansion with a group of entourage.

"Big brother, you're back." As soon as Hua An entered the Assassin's Mansion, Wang San said hello with sweat on his head.

Hua An was slightly surprised, and hurriedly asked, "Wang San, what's wrong with you, sweating so much." ”

"Big brother, I just trained the pro-military camp on the school ground, and I showed my hand in front of the soldiers, so I sweated a little." Wang San hurriedly replied truthfully.

Hua An smiled and said softly: "The pro-military camp will soon be changed to the pro-guard army." ”

"Guards, big brother, why is that?" Wang San was stunned when he heard this, and hurriedly asked.

Hua'an then told Wang San of his plan to expand the pro-army camp and the Wudang Flying Army, and then form a 10,000-horse pro-guard army, and said that Wang San would be the general of the pro-guard army concurrently, and Zhuge Xiong would be his deputy.

Wang San was naturally very happy when he heard this, although his position has always been relatively high, half a cut higher than the three main generals of the Northern Expeditionary Army, but he has always been Hua'an's deputy, the army under his direct command, only a thousand people in the pro-soldier battalion, it can be said that he has the right to have no soldiers, this time, after the formation of the pro-guard army, the soldiers and horses under his direct command will be as high as 10,000, and the real power has increased tenfold at once, so surprised, how can Wang San not be excited.

"Big brother, when will the recruitment start." Wang San asked urgently.

Hua An smiled and said softly: "After the spring ploughing, the troops will be recruited immediately, Zhuge Xiong has returned to Nanzhong with his henchmen, and your task is to recruit four thousand troops in Liangzhou." ”

"Yes, big brother, Wang San will definitely complete the task." Wang San hurriedly replied.

At this moment, the conscription pressure in Liangzhou is extremely great, in addition to Wang San needs to recruit 4,000 soldiers, Zhao Wu also needs to recruit 10,000 soldiers, Chen Ting needs to recruit 20,000 soldiers, a total of 34,000 people, which is almost one-third of the population of Liangzhou's army.

After arranging the relevant matters related to the recruitment of the pro-guard army, Hua'an went to the main hall to analyze the spring ploughing situation this year with Ma Dang and others, and to do a good job in the rational allocation of various spring ploughing resources, especially strategic resources such as ploughing cattle, which must be more rationally utilized, so that during the spring ploughing period, all cultivated land can be planted with crops on time.

In addition, the irrigation of water sources should also be well managed, and efforts should be made to avoid excessive flooding and drought, so as to prevent the newly planted crops from being partially drowned and partly dried up.

When the spring ploughing is more than halfway, the crops of the previous year have been harvested, according to the statistics of relevant personnel, this time it is still a bumper harvest, all kinds of crops are bumper yields, if it is not for Hua'an's foresight, in advance in the county to issue a decision to expand the granary, I am afraid that all the county granaries will burst, the warehouse in Nanzhengcheng is even more crowded, even the military warehouse is used.

With abundant food, the people's bodies have become more healthy, and the diseases and deaths caused by malnutrition have been greatly reduced, especially the premature death of children, and in this way, the population will surely increase greatly in the near future.

Soon, the spring ploughing ended, the generals began to recruit troops according to Hua'an's orders, because the army of Hua'an rarely lost the battle, therefore, the enthusiasm of the common people to join the army soared, less than half a month, the most conscription pressure Liangzhou actually recruited all the soldiers, and returned to the camp, began to organize and train.

In the direction of Liangzhou, the number of soldiers increased so much at once, Nanzheng City naturally could not tolerate it, for this reason, Hua'an asked Chen Ting's army to go to Chenggu to station and train, Zhao Wu's army went to Baozhong City to station and train, only Wang San's recruited soldiers stayed in Nanzhengcheng.

In this way, Nanzheng City has fewer troops than before, which is more conducive to economic development, and besides, Chenggu and Baozhong are not very far from Nanzheng, and once there is a war, these two main forces can be transferred to Nanzheng City within one day to assemble.

Hua'an set up the camp of the pro-guard army near the west gate, which is close to the warehouse, which is the expansion of the original camp of the Wudangfei army, and the 10,000 troops are stationed here, which can effectively protect the strategic materials in the warehouse, and is close to the city gate, once there is something outside the city, it can quickly attack.

Since the pro-guard army is a direct subordinate force of Hua'an, all the soldiers are equipped with the best weapons and the best war horses, it is a veritable elite cavalry corps, before the recruits arrive at the barracks, all kinds of high-quality weapons and excellent war horses transported from Xixiang City have been prepared, just waiting for the recruits to enter the barracks to start training.

Nanzhong is far away from Nanzheng City, Zhuge Xiong's recruitment of Wudang Feijun will not arrive for a while and a half, Wang San first began to train the four thousand recruits he recruited, in order to make these recruits more quickly adapt to the life of the barracks, Wang San will be the original pro-military battalion dismantled, and scattered into the new barracks, and most of these veterans will be promoted to a level, to help and drive the growth of recruits. (To be continued......)