The reason for the lack of youth is naturally because of the conflicts between the Ouchi family and the Luo family and the Otomo family in recent years, and then they fell into infighting, and then they started the Battle of Itsukushima and the Luo family's strategy of the Western Kingdom. In the midst of such frequent wars and chaos, it naturally caused a large number of young people to be recruited, and then either died on the battlefield, or became prisoners of the enemy, which caused the destruction of many families.

And this time, the invasion of the Luo family and the infighting of the Ouchi family again also forced many local farmers to hide in the mountains and mountains with their families, leaving only the old people in the family. As for the situation of An Yiguo, it is even more special, among the local population, many young people in his family are still serving as soldiers in the military of the Maori family at this time.

In the end, more than 10,000 people became slaves of the Luo family because they fought against the Luo family in the previous Luo family strategy, and even implicated their family members and clansmen (more than 20,000 people) also became slaves of the Luo family. At this time, these slaves were being sent in batches by the Luo family's navy to various slave farms in the Kyushu region of the Luo family.

Due to the above-mentioned reasons, the total population of these territories in the western country of the Ouchi family is not only a little sparse, but also young and strong, and there are not many children.

Compared with the regions of Nagato Country, Zhou Fangguo, and An Yi Country, the population of other areas of the Luo family is much more reasonable. Among them, Hizen Kingdom, which is the place where the Luo family started, has a population of 350,000 at this time, of which 210,000 are young and strong, and 100,000 are children. Chikugo Province, which was included in the territory of the Luo family earlier, has a population of 230,000, of which 140,000 are young and strong. 60,000 for children. It was also the first country to be incorporated into the territory of the Luo family. It has a population of 310,000. Among them, 180,000 are young and strong, and 90,000 are children.

From the above population situation, it can be seen that compared with the population situation in 1549, the population of these three countries at this time had more young people and children. This is mainly due to factors such as the local stable social environment and good farming system. And this area is also the place that has been most affected by the new eating habits advocated by the Roche family. With better eating habits than in the past (such as eating more fish and meat), the health of the local people has become better and better, especially the night blindness that was common during the Warring States period has been greatly improved. This leads to the fact that when Zhengliang supplements the Luo family's standing reserves, he often prefers to select troops from these regions.

In terms of the area that was later added to the territory of the Luo family, the population of Chikuzen Province was 180,000. Among them, 120,000 are young and strong, and 40,000 are children. The population of Fengzen Province is 130,000, of which 70,000 are young and strong, and 40,000 are children. The population of Bungo Province is 250,000, of which 150,000 are young and strong, and 70,000 are children. Iki Island has a population of more than 15,000 people, of which more than 8,000 are young and strong, and more than 4,000 are children. The area secretly occupied by the Luo family in the northwest of Hyuga Country has a population of more than 5,000 people, of which more than 4,000 are young and strong. There are less than 1,000 children. After these years of development, the children of that year have grown into young and strong by this time. And more children were born. Compared with before, the population of young and strong people and children has increased, but it is not as obvious as in Hizen Province and other places.

According to the report on the population submitted by the Internal Affairs Pavilion at this time, the Luo family's territory at this time already had a population of more than 1.7 million, of which about 960,000 were young and strong, more than 400,000 were children, and among the young and strong, there were more than 600,000 men. With the further statistics of the population of the newly occupied western region, as well as the continuous influx of displaced people, the population of the Luo family will increase.

Before such a huge population base, Zhengliang immediately made the decision to expand the army, after all, with the expansion of the territory, with the current standing reserve of more than 10,000 people of the Luo family (that is, full-time soldiers) and 20,000 reserve standing reserves (actually half-farming and semi-professional peasant soldiers), it is obviously impossible to meet the needs of the Luo family's territorial defense and expansion.

At this time, the Luo family's population of more than 1.7 million, if the Luo family's military strength of one out of ten is selected, the Luo family can completely draw more than 60,000 young and strong men from the young and strong men to form a new Luo family army. And if the other forces of the Warring States at this time were drawn according to the ratio of one out of ten, regardless of the old and young, the Luo family could even organize an army of more than 100,000.

However, such a large-scale standing or semi-standing military posture is obviously inappropriate. Zhengliang decided to expand the standing and semi-standing armies of the Luo family according to actual needs.

At present, it mainly includes seven standing teams with a total of 4,200 men, four standing teams of the navy with a total of 3,600 men, two cavalry standing teams with a total of 500 men, a standing iron cannon team with 400 men, a samurai standing squad with 400 people, a cloak group with 100 men, a standing reconnaissance team with 250 men, a standing herald with 100 men, and a Black Hawk ninja force with 150 people.

For the seven standing teams that are the main combat strength of the Luo family, Zhengliang does not plan to increase the number of standing teams, but he wants to adjust the types of troops and the number of standing teams in each team. Originally, there were only two types of troops, pikemen and archers, and the quota was 350 and 250 respectively, so that a full standing team had 500 people.

This time, Masarashi increased the number of pikemen by 150 and archers by 100 among the two classes in each team. With these additions, the number of pikemen in each squad was 500, and the number of archers was 350.

In addition, Masara also added fifty places of iron artillery for each team. The reason why Zhengliang added iron artillery to each team was because with the continuous increase in the scale of the iron artillery workshop, the iron artillery reserves of the Luo family at this time were able to meet the needs of equipping these seven teams, and there were also sufficient troops in the reserve standing reserve to meet the supplementary needs of this time, and at the same time, the Luo family workshop could also provide logistics support such as maintenance in a timely manner. The second is that from this western strategy, Masahiro found that the Luo family would encounter more and more mountainous terrain in the strategy in the future, and the weapon of iron cannon was suitable for this terrain. Based on these two reasons, Masarashi decided to add iron artillery to the seven standing teams this time.

In this way, a team of five hundred pikemen, three hundred and fifty archers, and fifty iron artillerymen, a total of nine hundred men. Taken together, there are 6,300 standing teams, nearly 2,000 more than the previous 4,500. (To be continued......)