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Buchen did what he said, and early the next morning, after leaving two regiments of infantry to garrison in Puzhou and monitor Yuan Mudong, he took the families of all the ape generals in Puzhou City and led the main army to embark on the road back to the four towns of Ossan. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Northwest Campaign, which was upgraded from the Shannan Raiders, was successfully concluded, not only seizing the original Gaze Shannan Province, but also annihilating a total of 250,000 beast tribe troops stationed in the five northwest provinces of the Beast Capture Puppet Dynasty, and finally settled the situation in the Northwest in one fell swoop!

Although Buchen did not have enough military rations and officials to rule other provinces except Shannan Province, and could only send a small number of garrisons to garrison the provincial capital of the province to establish formal rule, after losing 250,000 troops again, the strength of the Beast Puppet Dynasty was also greatly weakened, and it was simply unable to send a large army to recapture these provinces - although the total population of the Beast Prisoners had swelled to nearly 10 million after annexing the entire territory of the Eastern Continent, according to the conscription standard of 1 out of 10 percent, The total number of soldiers and horses that the beast captives could recruit was only one million, and these million people lost 230,000 when they attacked the four towns of Wushan, and 250,000 in this northwest campaign, and the total loss had reached a shocking 480,000, which can be said to have been greatly damaged! The remaining 500,000 troops have to suppress the resistance in the hinterland of the eastern kingdom, and also try to establish a second line of defense.

And for Buchen at this time, as long as he calms down and works hard to develop various industries on the territory, after two years at most, he will be able to have the strength to march into the hinterland of the eastern country, and at that time, the destruction of the beast puppet dynasty is almost a sure thing!

The puppet emperor Gongde Duchi is naturally very aware of this, after receiving the news that the northwest defense line collapsed and the five provinces fell into the hands of the enemy, he immediately sent a messenger to the immortal kingdom for help.

Half a year later, the imperial capital of Chang'an, the palace city Zichen Palace.

"Your Majesty, after getting the relic factory of Shannan Province, the progress of the political reform of the four provinces has been greatly accelerated, and it is conservatively estimated that at the latest at the beginning of next year, the four provinces will be able to complete the political transformation." Prime Minister Qu Zhixiong, who has just taken office, is full of joy.

At this time, Buchen was sitting behind his desk and listening to the report quietly, smiled when he heard it, and said: "Very good, so that the empire can mobilize more resources and manpower to carry out the war of liberation, this is the progress of the political reform, what about the army?" ”

Qu Zhixiong hurriedly replied: "The expansion of the Imperial Army has been completed, and there are currently a total of 350,000 infantry and 150,000 cavalry. The navy's fleet has also been restored to a certain size, and now there are two fleets, of which the Mediterranean Fleet has a total of five giant sail warships, ten large sail battleships, 50 medium sail battleships, and 100 flying clipping cruisers. The Endless Ocean Fleet was smaller in size, but it already had three large sail battleships, twenty medium sail battleships, and fifty-five flying clipper cruisers, with a total number of 120,000 officers and men. ”

The smile that didn't listen to it smiled: "Are all the terminals installed?" ”

"Back to the emperor, our army has all been installed in terminals."

Buchen couldn't sit still, stood up and took two steps in the office with his hands behind his back, staring at the eastern sky outside the floor-to-ceiling window with great ambition: "In this way, the military preparations are completely completed!" ”

"yes!" Qu Zhixiong also had some feelings, "A few years ago, Your Majesty only had less than 4,000 remnants, and the generals were only You Chengzong and Gu Yousheng. Chen Ying and a few others are just a few people, but now they have hundreds of thousands of soldiers and thousands of good generals! ”

"These achievements are all the work of Zhu Qing's efforts!" Buchen said with a smile.

"However, Your Majesty ......" Qu Zhixiong suddenly changed his words.

"What's wrong, Sangkook?" Buchen asked curiously.

Qu Zhixiong gave a deep salute: "This is not the time for complacency, the four towns of Wushan are not densely populated, such a vigorous expansion of the army, the proportion of soldiers and civilians in the empire has been a little imbalanced, if food production cannot be further strengthened, even if the empire has hundreds of thousands of strong soldiers, it will not be able to fight outside the country." ”

"It's still food!" Buchen shook his head and smiled bitterly, this problem has been bothering him for several years, if it weren't for the lack of food, he would have entered the Central Plains and restored Donghua!

"Didn't the report of the Ministry of Agriculture a while ago say that agriculture is developing rapidly?" Don't ask.

Qu Zhixiong shook his head: "It's just relative, now there are only three towns that have completed the construction of agriculture and water conservancy, and Dingxi Town is still under construction, and when the four towns are all completed, the grain and grass produced will only be enough for 300,000 troops to fight 3,000 miles away, and the five northwest provinces are 8,000 miles away from Bei'an, and 11,000 miles away from Jiangnan, and the grain and grass are far from enough!" ”

Buchen didn't show a sad face, but stared at Qu Zhixiong with a smile: "Presumably Xiangguo already has a solution?" ”

"I really can't hide anything from Your Majesty." Qu Zhixiong smiled, "Recently, the empire has been prosperous, and the beast captives have been defeated, and this reversal of the situation has made many people in the hinterland of the eastern country who are not willing to be slaves of beasts see hope, and they have helped the old and the young to come to the empire from thousands of miles away, but the empire's current attention is focused on political reform, and no one has responded to them, resulting in at least one million righteous people stranded in the five northwestern provinces, doing nothing, if they can be used well, presumably the empire's food shortage problem can find a solution." ”

Buchen became interested: "I have just learned about this matter not long ago, Xiangguo will talk about it in detail, how to use these righteous people?" ”

"Move these righteous people into the Guannai to resettle, the four towns of Wushan are vast and sparsely populated, and there are many arable land that can be reclaimed as fertile land, the imperial court should try its best to support the righteous people in growing food and materials, and support them to open up the wasteland, so that in less than a year and a half, the empire will have hundreds of thousands of stone military rations!"

"Xiangguo really deserves to be the minister of the old Cheng Mouguo, this strategy is very good!" Not rejoicing.

"Your Majesty, there are only a few righteous people who are willing to come to the northwest to join the empire by themselves, and there are still many foolish men and women who have been bewitched by the local gentry and do not want to come to the northwest!" Qu Zhixiong was not satisfied at all.

"What do you mean?" Buchen asked tentatively.

Qu Zhixiong smiled sympathetically, and said in a cold voice: "The empire should send light cavalry to the hinterland of the eastern country to hijack the population to help the development of the northwest!" ”

"Ugh." Buchen was taken aback by this proposal, and asked a little vainly: "The twisted melon is not sweet, isn't this okay?" ”

"No, Your Majesty, it's the opposite!" Qu Zhixiong bluntly retorted, "The people's stay in the territory of the puppet dynasty to pay taxes and serve is tantamount to helping the rank (Cheng Zhi, the last emperor of the First Empire of Seris, is a faint monarch who has been stinking for thousands of years like King Xu. Break the army press. If they can rob them to live in the sparsely populated four towns of the vast and sparsely populated country, they will be able to help them get rid of poverty, even if they are reluctant at first, they will definitely be grateful for Your Majesty's deep kindness after arriving. ”

"That's true, then let's do it!" Buchen agreed very happily.

"It's just that, Your Majesty, if you want to go to the hinterland of the Eastern Kingdom to kidnap the people and return to the four towns, there is still a difficulty!" Qu Zhixiong's words were not finished.

Buchen frowned: "Oh, what's the difficulty? ”

"The difficulty is that our army does not have real cavalry." Qu Zhixiong replied with a wry smile, "The light cavalry will only dismount and line up, and the level of cavalry combat is worrying, if you want to go to the hinterland of the eastern country to plunder the population, you have to fight with the beast captives, with their level, I am afraid that they will not be able to appoint, and the heavy cavalry of the empire is too small in number, and the second mobility ability is also poor, which is also not suitable for this task." ”

When the light cavalry was established, it was he who overrode the public opinion, so that the light cavalry became an infantry with cavalry power, so that although the light cavalry was given a very strong combat effectiveness, but relatively, the old line was not good......

"No, let's do that, adding a lot of cavalry training courses to the light cavalry in heaven should solve the problem of insufficient cavalry combat ability in a short time." Buchen thought about it and replied.

"Actually, Your Majesty, there is a better way." It's just that Qu Zhixiong smiled maliciously.

"What better?" Buchen frowned and asked, "Xiangguo, are you sure you have a better way than Heaven to train your troops?" ”

Qu Zhixiong nodded firmly: "The minister's method can even save the military rations of the light cavalry."

"Let's talk about it!"

"Your Majesty." Qu Zhixiong's smile became brighter, "I heard that your father-in-law is coming soon, right?" ”