Chapter 6: Difficult Choices

Moreover, merchant ships are now being built in shipyards everywhere, and these merchant ships are getting larger and larger, with enough space on them to accommodate enough soldiers. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoTherefore, it is necessary to increase the strength of the Kunpeng Legion. It is proposed to double the number of people to 500,000. In the future, as the fleet expanded, the number of people continued to increase. ”

"The Blood Shark Legion's mission will be even heavier in the future, because we can see the advantages of sea transportation, and others can also see it. Therefore, others will also vigorously develop shipping. In this way, the Blood Shark Legion has a business.

However, the fleets of those big families must be hard stubble, and it is estimated that the Blood Shark Legion still needs to be carefully grasped. Especially in terms of intelligence, the Kunpeng Legion may have to provide assistance.

As for the number of legions, for the time being, they can only be maintained at about 300,000 people, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to increase them for a while. However, it is possible to train some students to join the Blood Shark Legion. ”

"As the number of garrisons increases, the number of garrisons naturally increases. But I estimate that 5 million to 8 million people is almost enough! After all, once the sea area is cleared, the external threat to Rinhai City is not too great. It must be possible to put 2,000 people in inland cities, and tens of thousands of people in important cities and dangerous cities. ”

"The task of the Reserve Corps is still the same. Although the size of the armed forces will not increase in the future, the trend of development in the future will still be the line of elite troops. The mainstream combat power in each legion must be high-star soldiers and special troops, and those low-star ordinary soldiers must be phased out and used as guard soldiers in the newly added cities.

At the same time, due to the streamlining of the guards in each city, it is very necessary for all the people to be soldiers. Therefore, the reserve corps is also responsible for the training and armament of the militia in various places to ensure that the city can defend the city and defend the homeland when it encounters danger. Clan size can be limited to 500,000. ”

"The three infantry regiments of the White Tiger Legion, the Xuanwu Legion, and the Vermilion Bird Legion can gradually divert some low-level soldiers and replace them with high-level special soldiers according to the progress of the capture of the city in the future. Make sure that the number of people in each corps is around 500,000.

The two legions of the Wind Shadow Legion and the Mammoth Legion are dragoon regiments (infantry regiments on horseback), which are mainly used for flat ground combat and long-distance raids on the islands, and also have to gradually upgrade their soldiers.

The number of legions remained at 500,000. At the same time, the surplus castration horses can be sold to the mainland, and those stallions and horses that have not been castrated are left in the pasture for training, so as to strive for us to have enough war horse resources. ”

"The three legions of the Blue Dragon Legion, the Qilin Legion, and the Lion Awakening Legion are cavalry legions, and they are currently fighting on the islands, and there are few that need to fight on the plains. Even if there were, the Wind Shadow Legion and the Mammoth Legion could be solved. After all, although the dragoons were infantry regiments, they were also skilled in archers and horses, and it was more than enough to deal with those who had never seen cavalry.

Since these legions have no mission, they can be transferred to the mainland to fight. But the size of the legion should be streamlined, set at 300,000, and it can't go to the mainland in one go, and it can't expose the strength of Linhai City all at once, otherwise it's still a small thing to make people jealous. It would not be cost-effective to be forced to be a gunman and damage his brother's life in vain. ”

"So how do we take sides? Is it to help Zhang Jiao or the court? ”

Although Zhang Jiao deserves sympathy, rebellion should not be done after all. Moreover, it consumes the people's power and allows foreigners to take advantage of the loopholes. From the perspective of the nation, Zhang Jiao is harmful to the interests of the nation.

At the same time, if we continue to mingle with the thieves, we will inevitably be looked down upon by those who read the books of the sages. Therefore, loyalty and filial piety come first, let's be loyal to the court! ”

To tell the truth, Li Tang would not think about being loyal to the court, but he just felt that he had just contacted Zhang Rang, if he could make meritorious contributions to the court, he would have better go to Zhang Rang for benefits!

Since Li Tang has set a big policy, Li Tang is unwilling to deal with the rest of the things. There are so many historical figures there, where is there still Li Tang to speak!

Li Tang still has some things to do, which is the starting point city. How to stand in line in the starting point city has nothing to do with Li Tang, and Li Tang can't decide. Because the starting point city is subordinate to Jingzhou City, it is naturally on the side of the imperial court.

Li Tang came to the starting point city, and while the city teleportation array had not been closed, he quickly found Xu Xuan, the assassin of Jingzhou, and asked Xu Xuan about the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and asked Xu Xuan what his attitude was.

This Xu Xuan is not a local official sent by the emperor, and directly and unswervingly told Li Tang that unless he died, it would be impossible for the Yellow Turban Thief to step into Jingzhou City half a step.

At the same time, Xu Xuan is also recruiting troops, preparing to resist the Yellow Turban thieves who may come to attack. It would be best if it could be wiped out! If it cannot be eliminated, the eviction is also acceptable. Anyway, you can't endanger the interests of the people of Jingzhou at the boundary of Jingzhou.

"Lord Thorn Shi, you have a lot of opportunities, the kid took the liberty to come this time, and I also invite Haihan."

Li Tang said politely.

"It's okay. However, it's been a busy day lately! The Yellow Turban Thieves have rebelled, and my side is preparing for defense in various places? The influence of this yellow turban thief is too great. Nowadays, there are yellow turban thieves everywhere in Jingzhou. Even in my Jingzhou City, there are yellow turban thieves, not to mention other counties! ”

"Huh? There are yellow turban thieves in Jingzhou City? Is that eliminated? If there is a place where the kid can serve, I hope that Lord Assassin Shi will tell him, the kid is still quite reckless, and they can all think of being loyal to the court! ”

Li Tang asked with concern.

"There is a Laoye City Lord's memory. In Jingzhou City, there is a small group of Yellow Turban Thieves spies, deliberately spreading rumors in the city, wanting to take the opportunity to disturb Jingzhou City. Fortunately, I was prepared to find out all these spies in time, and then, by making an example, I also suppressed those guys who were about to move.

However, the roads outside the city have been cut off, and the situation outside is uncertain. The sergeants in Jingzhou City are not good at sending out to exterminate the Yellow Turban Thieves, so they can only shrink in the city. First of all, to ensure the stability of the city. And then slowly draw it! ”

Xu Xuan paused, and then said:

"City Lord Ye has this intention to serve the court, that's great. It's just that now the army in Jingzhou City is more than enough to defend, and even, when the situation is clear, it can still send troops to exterminate the Yellow Turban Thieves. Therefore, there is no need for the Ye City Lord to assist in the manpower defense.

It's just that if City Lord Ye can help and bring in a large amount of grain, iron tools, horses, salt, cloth, weapons and other materials to Jingzhou City to ensure the expansion of the army in Jingzhou City, it will be a great achievement!

Rest assured, as long as you can transport these materials, I will definitely buy them at a higher price than the market price. ”

"There's no problem with that. I can mobilize all the strategic materials that can be mobilized from the starting point city, and Lord Thorn Shi will buy them at the market price.

In addition, I will also persuade other merchants to sell these strategic materials to Jingzhou City. After all, keeping these supplies may be worth the enemy. ”

Li Tang patted his chest and reassured.

In fact, Li Tang planned to take advantage of the war to transport a large number of materials to the starting point city, and then sell them to the army of the imperial court.

Of course, as long as the money is paid, whether it is a player or the Yellow Turban Army, Li Tang will sell it.

As for how to transport the materials, Li Tang only had to free up a large storage ring.

It's good to find someone with a storage ring and go back and forth to the teleportation array.

As for the restriction of the teleportation array being closed, it is for the system city. For the player city, it's not up to the player to control it!

"Also, Lord Thorn Shi, can you hand over the garrison of the starting point city to the kid first? Only by flexibly mobilizing the army can we better protect the safety of the trade routes! ”

Li Tang naturally wanted to put forward the right to defend the city. After all, if you need to show your muscles to the outside world, your own strength must have a place to come from and a place to stay.

Otherwise, there is an extra team for no reason, and no one will ask for the bottom of it! When the time comes, will you not tell? Or don't tell?

"Well! There is no problem, but you have to make sure that the starting point is safe and the trade routes are unblocked. ”

When Li Tang proposed to defend the starting point city by himself, Xu Xuan agreed without hesitation.

In the past, it was of great significance to fight for the garrison of the city.

At this time, in the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Xu Xuan naturally needed to keep useful troops for other purposes, hoping that someone could take over the city defense and save troops.

"This is natural, please rest assured!" Li Tang still continued to promise.

Xu Xuan had spent a lot of thought before seizing the control of the starting point city, and in the end, it was returned to Li Tang's hands.

Although, at present, the starting point city is still subordinate to Jingzhou City, as long as Li Tang's army controls the starting point city, it is Li Tang's.

Even if Xu Xuan came into contact with Li Tang's position as the city lord, Li Tang could also gain complete control by attacking the city stele.

got what he wanted, and Li Tang naturally returned to the starting point city.

When he arrived in the city, Li Tang only did one thing, that is, he released people out day and night.

First the hunters, plus the previous total of 20,000 people, all of them were 5-star soldiers.

They had only one mission, which was to clear the beasts around the starting point city and secure the acropolis. These hunters set up several large camps on the mountains and near various transportation arteries on weekdays, and returned to the city every day to trade and replenish.

Then, there were 20,000 strong archers, 20,000 crossbow guards, and 10,000 rattan armor soldiers, who were stationed all over the city.

It's not that Li Tang doesn't want to garrison more troops, but the starting point city is too small to accommodate more troops! And when the enemy comes to attack, the area that can be spread will not be too wide, so the extra army will only waste money and food.