In the summer of the eleventh year of the Xia calendar (568 AD), Cheng Chong was satisfied and took away more than 40,000 people from the four divisions of the Blue Wolf Army that had completed the expansion.

couldn't make trouble with Zhou Tong's conciliation, and Wang Ze also felt that Wang Yong's ironclad army was really weak because there was only one Luo Huan, so he asked Zhou Tong's 3,000-strong ironclad army to go back with him, and at the same time with the large army and horses, as well as some of the war horses that Wang Ze promised to provide.

After all, this time it is necessary to transport 40,000 or 50,000 soldiers, and tens of thousands of war horses, and there are too many ships needed, even if there are already a lot of ships in the East China Sea, but after all, they still have to undertake all kinds of tasks, so the whole team needs to be divided into three batches to set off, and each time a part of the soldiers, war horses and weapons will be transported.

When the first batch of men and horses left, Wang Ze also prepared to further increase the number of troops in the East China Sea, and in the past, the size of the army of the entire Xia Kingdom was limited to 100,000 people, because the territory occupied by Wang Ze at that time was mainly in the islands of the East China Sea, as long as there was a strong naval army, it was enough to resist foreign invasions, and the requirements for infantry and cavalry were not so urgent.

Now, after years of expansion, in addition to the original territory of the islands in the East China Sea, Wang Ze has the Beji Land in the north and the Nanyang and Pearl Islands in the south to send troops to guard, so the original number of troops has become a little inadequate.

Especially in the land of Beji, as the original overlord of the East China Sea continued to expand from Liaodong to the north, a large area of fertile land was quickly occupied by Goguryeo, and the Sumo, Bolu, and Anguche tribes living in this land were also forced to submit to Goguryeo.

In this way, Goguryeo expanded from the southwest to the northeast, while Wang Ze expanded from the northeast to the southwest along the Tongtong River and Nanshui (Songhua River), and the two sides had already begun to fiercely compete for the indigenous tribes in the middle, and as the competition between Wang Ze and Goguryeo intensified, fierce conflicts would inevitably break out between the two sides for this fertile black land.

In addition to Goguryeo, there were also various tribes in the Nanshui valley that posed a potential threat to the land of Beji, and there were also the Murwei people further west in Wanshui (the middle reaches of the Heilongjiang River), and even the Turkic people were a long-term threat to Wang Ze, so it seems that Wang Ze's measures to expand his army have become imperative.

Wang Ze has long planned for the establishment of the army, and it is still following the precedent, and there have not been many changes in the military system and tasks, but there have been some adjustments to the location where the army is stationed.

In Wang Ze's plan, in the future, the security and guard work of the local counties will be the responsibility of the National Guard, which is reorganized from the militia units in various places, and the white wolf battalions of the other counties will serve as the cavalry reserve force, and although these young cavalrymen cannot take on combat missions, they can still be competent in patrolling and policing.

In particular, because the counties in the East China Sea are located in the rear, they are the least threatened by war, so Wang Ze plans to deploy only one field force here, and on weekdays, the patrol battalions of the naval forces of each county guard the coast, and the National Guard and the White Wolf Battalion guard the land security.

This field force is used as a mobile force to provide key support, and the Zongli sub-fleet stationed on Jeju Island and Qinjin guards key ports, which is enough to protect the security of the entire islands in the East China Sea; In addition, Wang Ze in Nanyang has already been arranged, so he doesn't have to worry about it for the time being.

Therefore, after these analyses, the place where it is most necessary to increase the number of troops is the rapidly developing land of Beji, which not only has a vast land area and the best development prospects, but also has many strong enemies around it, and is also the most threatened, and of course the largest number of troops are needed.

In the past, in order to limit the number of troops, Wang Ze was not full for many troops, but it was precisely in consideration of the situation that he was facing now, so the officers at that time were still equipped according to the actual number.

Now Wang Ze only needs to make up for the number of soldiers who are short, and there is no need to consider increasing the number of officers at all, so that Wang Ze can make up the number of troops in the shortest possible time, which can be regarded as a disguised reference to the practice of the Soviet army in World War II.

In order to limit the number of the entire army, the whole army of the Central Protector Army was only temporarily composed of 12,000 people, which was basically more than half of the full number, and now it should be fully established.

If all the battalions of the Central Guard Army are fully established, this will be a huge army with a number of 21,000 people, and after several years of actual operations and a large number of battle array exercises, Wang Ze has set up a baggage battalion with a number of 2,000 people according to the actual needs of marching operations.

In addition, the Central Protector Army originally only had the cavalry of Yulinwei, and even the number of cavalry after the full formation was only 3,000 people, which was more suitable for cavalry combat in the open and flat terrain of Beji, and it was very unsuitable for the entire Central Protector Army to have only such a little cavalry.

Therefore, after some discussion, Wang Ze increased the number of Yulin Guard cavalry led by Zhu Bofu and Cheng Hu to 5,000, so that after a month of reorganization, the total number of guards in the entire Central Guard Army reached an astonishing 25,000.

Of course, after the number of the Central Protector Army increased to these, Wang Ze was not ready to continue to increase the number of the Central Protector Army in the next few years, after all, what Wang Ze needed was an army that could fight, not this kind of army that revolved around him all day long, and he didn't need too many troops to show his nobility. Qiankun Audiobook.com

In addition to the full strength of the Central Protector Army, Wang Ze also restored the establishment of the cavalry team.

Originally, because after the elimination of the Wa Kingdom and the elimination of most of the Ezo people, the war in the entire East China Sea also stopped, and Wang Ze considered that the cost of cavalry maintenance was too high, so all the cavalry under Hu Bingchang's command added up to just over 10,000 people.

In addition, Wang Ze also considered that in order to save the consumption of war horses and increase the breeding speed of horses in the East China Sea, the war horses saved by these cavalry were sent to pastures in various places to work hard to increase the population.

At present, only the first brigade directly under Hu Bingchang is fully staffed in the entire cavalry force, and the other three brigades have only a pitiful 2,000 cavalry.

Regarding Wang Ze's decision to increase the number of cavalry, the cavalry troops, from Hu Bingchang, to the generals of each brigade, to the small soldiers of the cavalry troops, were all smiling, and everyone hoped that their troops could become stronger.

Before, they watched the continuous reproduction and increase of war horses in pastures all over the East China Sea, but they had already had expectations in their hearts, and they were just waiting for the opportunity to expand their army, but they didn't want Cheng Chong to come and leave 30,000 war horses at once, which could make those people in the cavalry force anxious.

Now, as soon as he heard that Wang Ze agreed to increase the number of cavalry troops, under the leadership of Hu Bingchang, he suddenly rushed to the pastures in various places to extract war horses, for fear that Cheng Chong would come to ask for war horses again if he went too late.

In this way, when all the cavalry units were fully established, there was already a cavalry force of up to 20,000 men, and these cavalry were only field cavalry troops, not counting the National Guard on horseback in various places.

Because Wang Ze has continued to promote the farming method of ploughing and grazing in various counties in the East China Sea for many years, the number of cavalry in the National Guard is not lacking, so when Wang Ze wants to recruit some young people to join the cavalry troops, it is not difficult at all, and the only thing Wang Ze has to do is to ensure the number of war horses required by the cavalry troops.

Now because the nomadic forces of Khitan, Kumoxi, and Turkic began to prepare for the attack on the Northern Qi, the trade of war horses has decreased a lot, and it has also increased the difficulty of Wang Ze to buy war horses, but fortunately, Wang Ze now has more than 40,000 war horses in his hands, which is enough to ensure the needs of cavalry.

After reorganizing these armies, Wang Ze began to readjust the theaters of operations that were currently under the responsibility of various units, and entrusted the Central Protector Army with the responsibility of operational defense tasks, including Zhenhai County and all the way south to the Tongmen River on the border with Goguryeo.

After all, after the expansion, the Zhonghu Army has a full 25,000 people, which can fully shoulder the heavy responsibility of guarding the side, and the other 20,000 people are weak and just idle in Zhenhai City all day long, and they will soon lose their original combat capability.

Even if the Central Protector Army undergoes long-term and rigorous training, it can maintain a certain combat effectiveness, but if it is only responsible for protecting the security of the national capital, it is also a huge waste of troops, and this phenomenon is also something that Wang Zewan does not want to see.

In addition, there is a great advantage of letting the Central Protector Army take on this task, that is, Wang Ze can liberate all the 20,000 people of the Second Army who were originally stationed in Zhenhai City and Tongmen River Estuary, and participate in the expansion of the Nanshui (Songhua River) valley.

In this way, Wanshui (the middle reaches of the Heilongjiang River) in the north had 20,000 people of the First Army led by Jiang Chuan to expand upstream, and Nanshui in the south had 20,000 people of the Second Army led by Xu Ning to expand to the southwest inland.

While ensuring the security of the occupied territories, it can also better deter the indigenous tribes in these places, and even resist the expansion of Goguryeo to the northeast.

In addition, the expanded cavalry units were also stationed in various important places along the Mingtong River under the leadership of Hu Bingchang, so as to better cooperate with the expansion tasks of the Jiang Chuan and Xu Ning armies.

In this way, in the entire counties of Beji, there are more than 90,000 people in the Central Guard Army, the First Army, the Second Army, and the Cavalry Army, as well as the expanded Ironclad Battalion of Liuwancheng, 1,000 people in the "Grizzly Bear" troops, and 2,000 people in the naval detachment of Zhao Qin's Division, all of which add up to more than 90,000 people, which is enough to ensure the safety of all parts of Beji.

It's just that when Wang Ze's eyes fell on the counties of the East China Sea that had been drained of troops, his brows couldn't help frowning, although there were already national guards in each county in these places, the guards of the cavalry of the White Wolf Battalion, and the patrol battalions of the navy in other counties, it was still necessary to ensure that there was an army stationed here.

After all, the counties of the East China Sea were the foundation of Wang Ze, and after stationing a part of the army here, it could not only prevent Goguryeo from invading the East China Sea again after the annexation of Baekje, but also provide support here in the event of a change in Yizhou, which was close to Namchen.