Because Gu Tiancheng's investigation methods are not only Qingyun, but also the more intelligent Gu Ling'er. Even Gu Tiancheng himself can now easily achieve stealth and personally investigate.

Easily solving the small catastrophe faced by Hua Feng, Gu Tiancheng led people to appear in front of Hua Feng. Hua Feng immediately hooked up with Gu Tiancheng, showing unusual enthusiasm.

Finally, because it was a new defeat, Hua Feng did not put out the genealogy of the royal family, and held a banquet to catch Gu Tiancheng. Instead, he arranged a casual banquet in his own tent, and at the same time introduced the situation of the two sides to Gu Tiancheng during the meal.

Gu Tiancheng was not interested in the troop allocation and material reserves that Hua Feng said, it was a matter of professional soldiers, he was just here to help, and it had nothing to do with these things.

But Gavin Muki listened with relish and kept asking new questions. Because of Gavin Muqi's face, Gu Tiancheng couldn't forcibly change the topic, so he had to pretend to be interested and continue listening.

According to Hua Feng, the biggest problem facing Gavin's corps at present is the shortage of troops! Yes, it is the shortage of troops. At first, Gu Tiancheng thought Hua Feng was joking. Will the royal legion be short of soldiers?

If the royal legions are all short of soldiers, then the Hou clan legions must not be exhausted?

But Hua Feng's subsequent explanation dispelled Gu Tiancheng's doubts. The biggest problem we are facing at present is indeed the shortage of soldiers.

The soldiers are all ordinary people, and most of them have no spiritual cultivation, and being a soldier is just a means of earning a living for them.

In the past, commerce was underdeveloped, and the main business activities were controlled by major guilds, and ordinary people did not have much opportunity to get in touch with the business field. There are not many channels that allow them to earn a living, only planting and digging.

Plantation is a traditional industry, with the largest population and the widest distribution. Planting is also the most dependent industry, which can only barely maintain people's survival, and it is difficult to guarantee even basic food and clothing.

The excavation industry is a new industry that depends on the rise of spiritual cultivation, although there are hardships and tiredness, and the danger is much higher than that of planting, but it can't stand to make more money, so among ordinary people, those who are engaged in the excavation industry are elites, and they are elites who can take their families on the road to prosperity.

But neither of these professions is as good as being a soldier. Being a soldier is not tiring, although there is a danger to your life, but being a soldier does not mean that you have to fight every day, and it is not necessarily your turn to go to the battlefield to fight.

The most important thing is that when soldiers have extra money, especially when they go out to carry out counterinsurgency and stability maintenance tasks, they can recklessly enrich their own pockets.

Also, there is a very clear way to move forward as a soldier. If you can make meritorious contributions when you are a soldier and show the talent of leading soldiers, then you have a good chance of being promoted, and when you can be promoted to the position of commander of a thousand commanders, you can basically be sure that being a soldier will be a lifelong career.

This is a profession that can change the class of ordinary people, and of course it has absolute temptation. So there was no shortage of troops in the kingdoms, at least in the past.

But later, with the popularity of teleportation circles, it became possible to do business across regions on a large scale. The attention of those big guilds is focused on big business, and they are not interested in sticking to a small market and earning a hard-earned business model.

But if this kind of business is not done, it does not mean that there is none, the business is still there, but the people who do it have changed, and ordinary people have begun to get involved in this industry, and gradually understand the taste of the marrow, and slowly realize the benefits of doing business.

Doing business earns more money than planting, digging, and serving as a soldier combined! Moreover, there is no shortage of upward channels for doing business, and once you have accumulated enough capital, you can form your own family business circle from a stall to a shop and then to a chain.

Not only that, but what you make in business is money. There are so many things that can be bought with money in this world. Including the basic spiritual source and combat techniques, in this way, the transformation of ordinary people into spiritual cultivation families can be realized.

In addition, there is no need for any additional investment in doing business, as long as the spirit of the working people at the bottom to endure hardships and stand hard work is enough. At the beginning, the capital is insufficient, you can start from the smallest, accumulate your own capital bit by bit, and every step can be taken very clearly, which can be seen and touched.

It is precisely because most of the elites among ordinary people are engaged in commercial activities that being a soldier is no longer a popular profession.

Although the royal family can force those people to become soldiers through the power in their hands, they can even arrest Ding as soldiers. But they know very well that the soldiers they bring in this way do not have much combat effectiveness, and they are often crushed on the battlefield.

What the royal family needs is a source of soldiers with combat effectiveness. In order to contend with commerce, the royal family tightened its control over ordinary people's business, setting up restrictions on everything from taxation to urban management, and on the other hand, improving the treatment of the army and improving the management of the army.

No matter how bad it is in business, at least it is your own industry, and how much you earn is all your own. Anyone will do the math.

Moreover, the power of the kingdom is not so great, and the kingdom is really determined to restrict the development of commerce at the bottom, and ordinary people at the bottom can move and move to other kingdoms.

The royal family really didn't have much to do about it. Because above the kingdom, there is also a kingdom guild! The existence of the kingdom guild is the curse of those kingdoms, restricting them from taking excessive measures.

The shortage of soldiers may not be obvious in normal times, and they may not be felt if they have been winning battles. However, after a defeat, when it was urgent to replenish the supply of troops, the problem of shortage of troops was revealed. There is a serious shortage of reserves!

Hua Feng told Gu Tiancheng that the troops he now had in his hands were less than 100,000! Even if he took the Iron Wall Fort, he would not be able to continue to go deeper, and he would not be able to deal a fatal blow to Carter.

Gu Tiancheng also listened to it at this time, and immediately asked a question that he knew was also a stupid question: "There are a lot of 100,000 troops, and I feel that it is enough to push a kingdom." How is it possible that after taking the Iron Wall Fort, it will not be able to continue to advance?"

Hua Feng told Gu Tiancheng that the safety of the rear of the legion was guaranteed to fight the Iron Wall Fort, and if Carter wanted to harass the rear supply of the legion, he could only send an ace team, usually a small team composed of monks.

There are generally not too many such squads, and they cannot withstand losses. Therefore, it will be very cautious whether to use it.

But once deep into Carter's territory, the rear of the Legion is the front line of the war for Carter, and Carter can use any force to harass the rear of the Legion.

In order to ensure the safety of the rear, the corps had to devote at least half of its troops.

Moreover, as you go deeper, the range of the rear will expand, and the difficulty of defending the rear will increase exponentially. And the operating space behind Carter's attack will be even larger.

100,000 troops are simply not enough to conquer Carter. To deal with the 100,000-strong army deep into the territory, Carter didn't even need to fight head-on, he only needed to send a small force to constantly harass the rear.