The most direct way to measure the strength of a prince is to look at the strength of his troops, and it can be said that every prince who controls a state or several counties will have no less army under his command. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoBefore the Yellow Turban Uprising, there were only one or two hundred thousand troops in each county, and the combat effectiveness was very weak, but more than ten years have passed, and the situation has changed a lot. Because of the existence of players, ordinary counties have as few as five or six hundred thousand horses, and as many as one million, and this does not include the army and township warriors in the township pavilions.

Therefore, even Zhang Ji, a small prince who only controls half of Nanyang County, has millions of troops under his command, not to mention Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu and others, which all start from tens of millions.

But the problem is that raising so many soldiers does not mean that so many large armies can be mobilized to fight, and any prince, when sending troops, must take into account the stability of their rear, and must leave sufficient troops to guard their lair. Especially with the growth of the Inhuman power, more and more troops are needed locally, which seriously restricts the number of soldiers and horses used by the princes.

Because of the system, the princes can only acquiesce to the fact that the Inhumans exist, but as the strength of the Inhumans grows, they become more and more of a problem for their henchmen, so many princes are changing the law to find reasons to weaken the power of the Inhumans in their territories. It's a pity that the lord player is still controllable, and the ranger player is difficult to grasp. Once there are too few soldiers and horses in the county under the jurisdiction of the princes, it is likely to be sacked by the united aliens, and they do not have any worries, and they will leave after a vote, and it is very difficult to chase and suppress. This is not a hidden worry, but a fact that has already happened, although the county town was also recaptured afterwards, but the weight of the loss is unbearable for the princes.

It's the lord player, after all, there is the drag of the territory, but it is controllable, every time a war breaks out, the princes have the right to conscript the army of the lord of my family to serve, the number ranges from 10% to 50%, it can be said that as long as there is a war, it can be changed a little bit of the law to consume the strength of the lord player. The lords who can develop in this environment are definitely not easy to mess with, and they all have the support of the big guild behind them.

Therefore, in addition to considering the normal needs of war, the princes sent troops, and the prevention of aliens has become more and more serious, and if they want to have more soldiers and horses to fight, they must strengthen the recruitment of soldiers. It's just that in this way, the burden on the people will be much heavier, and it can be said that it has reached the point of reckless military force.

In contrast, Liu Feng's army is not much, because the control of the territory is very strict, and there are strict requirements for the number of troops each territory has and the way of existence of the ranger player, so he is not too worried about the problem of player chaos. Because he is not an aborigine, if he retaliates, the consequences are not comparable to those of the aborigines. Therefore, he only left 100,000 soldiers stationed in each county, and all the rest were assembled for unified training and deployment, but all the troops were counted, and only six or seven million could be used, but this time he gathered 5 million troops, which can be regarded as going all out. After all, it is necessary to leave a group of men and horses in Yuzhang to defend Liu Biao, and the rear of Wu County also needs troops to garrison. Otherwise, it would be a joke if the player sneaked up on the rear while out fighting.

In terms of the navy, there are only 1.3 or 400 thousand, but for these people, the consumption can be equal to the sum of all the armies, and there is not much combat effectiveness, which makes Liu Feng very distressed. There were more than 200,000 people left behind to guard Chaisang, and there were 120,000 in the rear, and Liu Feng used a whole million sailors to compete with Yuan Shu for control of the Yangtze River. And in order to win, he transferred Tai Shici, Jiang Qin, Wang Yu and other people who knew how to fight in the water war back and joined the water army to fight.

At its peak, he had more than 30 medium-sized building ships and nearly 100 small building ships, and later reduced some because of the insufficient number of naval forces. But the last time I fought with the Xuzhou Navy, I sank a lot, just the medium-sized building ship directly sank 8 ships, and some heavy damage could not be repaired, which can be said to be the most heavy loss of Liu Feng. In more than a year, plus the newly built and repaired, the number of ships restored to 25, in addition to the remaining, the number of medium-sized building ships and 62 small building ships reached 17.

And Yuan Shu, who has always paid no attention to the development of the navy, does not have to be poor in the strength of the sailor.

The area occupied by Yuan Shu is basically in the Huaihe River Basin, and at this time, the Huaihe River has not yet been seized by the Yellow River, and it has its own outlet to the sea, Hongshui, Yingshui, especially Huaishui, although it is not as good as the river and the river, but it is also a big river, plus the occupation of the Lujiang River and Jiujiang, and there are two major waters of Shaobi and Chaohu to train troops, and there is also the Yangtze River port, which will bring up the water army of the two counties. After occupying Xuzhou, he obtained the two major waters of Hongze Lake and Gaoyou Lake, as well as the coast of the East China Sea, although most of Tao Qian's naval army was annihilated or captured by Liu Feng in the naval battle of Qu County, but Yuan Shu had already gained some before this. Therefore, even if Yuan Shu has not paid attention to the development of the navy, after all, the foundation is profound, and the number of navy and warships is growing, and it is no worse than Liu Feng, who has invested a lot of manpower, material and financial resources in the navy.

What needs to be compared is the combat quality of the double anti-dump.

During the Three Kingdoms period, in addition to the Eastern Wu, the naval army in Jingzhou was stronger, after all, it could fight against the Eastern Wu for many years, but after all, there were not many outstanding achievements. Liu Feng is not afraid of the water army under Yuan Shu, even if he is just a stranger, and there is not much difference between the two sides.

This time it is an all-out battle, if it fails, then Liu Feng can only give up the idea of going north in the future, and even the westward expansion will be terminated indefinitely. After all, if even Yuan Shu's miscellaneous sailors can't do it, what can they do to fight against the Jingzhou sailors.

Yuan Shu's water master Dazhai is in Jiangdu, although the Yangtze River is wide, but can not withstand the army crossing, soon arrived at Yuan Shu Dazhai.

At present, there are really not many players who participate in the ranks of the navy, Liu Feng personally went to Jiang Qin's flagship, but still did not allow any players to participate in it.

As early as when Yuan Shu claimed that Emperor Liu Feng broke off relations with him, the two sides were already in a state of hostility, and Yuan Shujun had already prepared for a possible attack by Liu Feng's army. Although Guangling Taishou is Chen Deng, the command of the naval army is no longer in his hands, but he is only responsible for logistics support, and the commander is an unknown 7th-order military general sent by Yuan Shu, not even a historical general.

He didn't come out to fight, but wanted to rely on the solid defense of the water village, and then wait for Liu Fengjun to be tired, and then go out of the village to encircle and suppress.

But it's a pity that people like him who haven't experienced a big war will only talk on paper like Zhao Kuo. Because it was only a river crossing, the seventeen medium-sized ships were loaded with stones, in order to play the role of trebuchets.

It is not the first time that Liu Feng has experienced a water war, but he has never participated in such a large-scale water war like this. Although dozens of trebuchets on seventeen warships were dropped at the same time, they could not catch up with the previous siege, but the feeling on the water was different from that on land.

Yuan Shujun's reaction was very chaotic, until it was bombarded for a long time, and finally organized a counterattack, seeing that Liu Fengjun kept bombarding the gate of Shuizhai all the time, wanting to break through the village, until the Yuan army defenders who insisted for a long time finally changed their intentions, while using the commanding heights to fight back and suppress, while opening the gate of the wall, and taking the opportunity to release their own warships.

They are a water army, if they have been hiding in the water village and not coming out, after the village is broken, it will be directly a broadside battle, and the water war or something will be useless. In this way, Yuan Shu gathered so many sailors, wouldn't it be useless, and he couldn't afford this consequence. So even though he was very passive, the commander of the Yuan army still fought hard.

During the period when Yuan's warships were out of the village, Liu Fengjun sank a medium-sized building ship and three small building ships, and the rest of the small warships that were affected were even one or twenty.

Although the water surface of the Yangtze River is wide, it still looks a little narrow under the arrangement of nearly 1,000 warships of both sizes. Liu Feng's flagship was in the center and did not step forward to participate in the battle, but he saw with his own eyes that one battleship after another was sunk and the soldiers were swallowed up by the whirlpool. There are those under his command and those under Yuan Shujun.