Baili Yi smiled and left.

Baili Wuji looked at Bailiyi's back and fell into deep thought.

Baili Wuji absolutely believes in Bailiyi's loyalty, just like believing in himself.

But sooner or later, the new army will have a decisive battle with the Liao army, and now Bailiyi has married and had children with the Liao, once it meets the battlefield of Jeruzara in the future, what a cruel thing.

And now that the new army is expanding, and Jeruzara is the commander of the iron cavalry, the probability of this happening is increasing.

Baili Wuji regretted his decision a little, and he should have let Baili Yi go back to be the commander of the Fourth Army, and let Ding Sijing take over the new army.

Baili Wuji shook his head and shook off the complicated thoughts in his head.

Perhaps, it will be too late to adjust it later.

Xu Shiming, Sun Guangxian, and Feng Dao were summoned to discuss the expansion of the new army.

Xu Shiming and the three of them had already been mentally prepared when they created the new army from Baili Wuji, and now that the Ming Kingdom is in a war, the three of them have no objection to the expansion of the new army.

But the three have different opinions on how many people will be expanded.

Because, the configuration of each soldier in the new army is at least twice as much as that of the forbidden army.

But the three of them still care about Baili Wuji's thoughts, and in the hearts of these three people, Baili Wuji already exists like a god.

The emperor was trapped in the Western Regions for several months, and it was already a miracle that he came back safely, but he didn't want to be able to include melon, sand, Su, Gan, Liang and other places west of the river into the territory of the Ming Kingdom.

Seeing that the three of them were silent, Baili Wuji took the lead in saying a number.

"I thought. In order for the Ming Kingdom to take the initiative on the battlefield in the war, 100,000 new troops are needed. ”

The three of them were stunned when they heard this, and their original estimate was only thirty or forty thousand. And now Baili Wuji's opening is 100,000, which is an astronomical number.

100,000 new troops, a single war horse will cost 300,000 or 400,000 horses.

Baili Wuji raised his hand to stop Xu Shiming from speaking, and Baili Wuji said: "This battle has ended today, the Special Operations Army, the First and Third Armies, and Han Jixun's department. The Ming army has lost no less than 50,000 people, and such a large number of casualties show that there are not many soldiers. I intend that after this battle, I will no longer replenish the Black Flag Army and reduce the number of Ming troops. Build a true elite. ”

It was heard that the emperor had the will to reduce the army after the war. Xu Shiming and the three breathed a sigh of relief.

Before this war, the Ming garrison army, the forbidden army, and the imperial forest army added up to more than 400,000 people, according to the regulations of a hundred miles of unscrupulous, the number of garrisons in each state and the forbidden army and the imperial forest army was equal, and the three of them were worried that the new army would increase by 100,000, and the garrison army would also have to increase by 100,000, so that the army of the Ming State would reach more than 600,000, which was the most unacceptable place for the three people.

Baili Wuji naturally knew what the three of them thought. He didn't want to be aggressive, but the war was going on right now. Baili Wuji could not lay off troops in order to damage the morale of the army, and he could only make the original Black Flag Army naturally downsized by no longer replenishing troops after the war.

Baili Wuji never wanted to cancel the number of the Black Flag Army, but wanted to condense the Black Flag Army to about 100,000 people, and then inject the new army into the Black Flag Army.

In this way, after the war, the Black Flag Army of 200,000 people was responsible for foreign wars, and about 50,000 Imperial Forest Army defended Beijing; With the same 250,000 garrison troops responsible for the security of the Ming State, the concept of 500,000 troops of the Ming State was initially established in the minds of the Ming Emperor and the three prime ministers.

Therefore, Xu Shiming and the three agreed to the idea of building a new army of 100,000 in Baili Wuji.

The next day, Baili Wuji issued an order to expand the new army, which was organized into four armies, each with 25,000 people, and awarded Baili Yi the rank of general of Erpin Zhenguo to command the new army; Except for Baili Yiyuan, the Fourth Army of the Black Flag Army commanded and made his post. At the same time, he was awarded the command of the First Army of Bailiyi, the Second Army of Guo Tingwei, the Third Army of Zheng Yanhua, and the Fourth Army of Zhou Baozhong.

By this time, the Ming State had recruited 150,000 soldiers.

Baili Wuji immediately ordered to stop recruitment, and ordered Baili Yi to select 100,000 people out of 150,000 to expand the new army, and of the remaining 50,000 people, 40,000 were sent to Chengdu Prefecture and 10,000 to the special operations army in Zhou State to supplement the troops.

Meng Yanyi returned to Jinling Mansion, and she also felt embarrassed in the laughter of Gao Rongrong and the others.

Trying hard to escape from the palace, not wanting to come back like this, it became a farce.

Baili Wuji didn't want to blame her, no matter what kind of boring things she did, her starting point was just two words, looking for a husband.

With these two words, Baili Wuji couldn't be ruthless to punish her.

Baili Wuji just made her grounded in the palace.

But Baili Wuji blamed Xu Shiming and blamed him severely.

Because Xu Shiming's intelligence network couldn't even detect the traces of the Empress of Mingguo.

This made Baili Wuji intolerable.

Xu Shiming did not confess, he already had the idea of resigning from the Military Intelligence Agency, but there was no suitable person to take over.

And now is not the right time to resign.

Xu Shiming's idea was to let Xu Shouren take over this position, but Xu Shouren temporarily took the command of the special operations army and was resting in Zhou Guozhou, so the matter could only be suppressed.

……。

Chai Rong did not send anyone to urge Baili Wuji because Weizhou City was only attacked by the Liao army on the road, and Wei and Yuan Erzhou could also resist it, so he did not send people to urge Baili Wuji, and the ordnance of the Ming State continued to supply Ningzhou of Zhou.

This greatly strengthened the defense of the Zhou army in Wei and Yuanzhou.

It also made Chai Rong even take time to go back to Kaifeng Mansion to deal with government affairs.

The war began to evolve into a stalemate war, a war of attrition.

Wars, especially national wars, will never be lacking in people, but in strategic goods.

The national strength accumulated by the Ming State for more than ten years has been released since then.

This is by no means comparable to the war-torn Zhou State that Guo Wei snatched from the Liu family.

The effect of the decree that the people are rich has been reflected.

After more than ten years of comfortable life, the new population of the Ming people increased significantly.

By the latest year's statistics, the number of registered households had reached 8.37 million, with a population of nearly 40 million.

This number is incredible.

The number of registered households in the major towns of the Central Plains and Kyoto in the Zhou Kingdom was less than 4 million, and the population of the wars in successive years had dropped to 15 million.

The Liao State, whose territory was larger than that of the Ming and Zhou combined, had a population of just over 8 million people, including a large number of Han Chinese and various northern nomads who were wiped out by the Khitan.

However, the combat power is not simply calculated by the size of the population, and the nomads' natural physique and ability to control horses are not comparable to those of the Han people.

Before the Ming Kingdom had the ability to popularize firearms, especially before the birth of the repeating musket, it was still an extravagant hope for the cavalry on the plains.

When the war is fought, in fact, both sides already know that if they continue to fight, they will fight for attrition.

This consumption is to fill it with life and burn money. (To be continued......)