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The Tiger Army now has a set of effective means of recruiting prisoners.

One of the most effective means is naturally the grievance conference, better treatment than Zhao Song, and fair opportunities.

And for those Song army captives that the Tiger Army did not trust and particularly wanted, such as Yan Xiaoguang and others, the Tiger Army usually gave them an insurance, that is, they were rewarded with the wives and concubines of the Zhao and Song Dynasty authorities.

Don't think it's just a small trick that doesn't go into the stream, it's useless.

On the contrary, it is actually useful.

For example, in history, after the disgrace of Jingkang, the Jin people deposed Zhao Song and renamed Zhang Bangchang as emperor.

In order to prevent Zhang Bangchang from rebelling, the Jin people rewarded Zhao Ji's two low-level concubines to Zhang Bangchang.

To be able to become an emperor is definitely a great thing for the ancestral tomb to smoke from, and it is a glory that many people would rather exchange their lives or millions of living beings for.

But Zhang Bangchang just didn't want to be the emperor.

When the Jin people decided to make Zhang Bangchang the emperor, Zhang Bangchang first pretended to be sick and went on a hunger strike, and then vowed to commit suicide.

However, in the end, Zhang Bangchang was forced to the throne by the Jin people.

After Zhang Bangchang became the emperor, he didn't dare to sit on the dragon chair, and he didn't even dare to sit in the direction where the emperor sits, and naturally he didn't dare to call himself the emperor.

Zhang Bangchang also tried his best to rescue the officials who Zhao Song was detained by the Jin.

- It is no exaggeration to say that almost half of Zhao Song's officials were rescued by Zhang Bangchang.

In other words, the foundation of the Southern Song Dynasty was actually preserved by Zhang Bangchang to a large extent.

When the Jin army retreated, Zhang Bangchang led his ministers to bow to Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan, and sent them off with courtesy.

After the Jin army retreated, Zhang Bangchang hurriedly invited the former Yuanyou Empress Meng (Song Zhezong's wife, deposed, Meng was let go by the Jin army because he had no royal title), and asked her to listen to the government, so as to show her determination to return to the Zhao family.

Subsequently, Zhang Bangchang took the initiative to abdicate and went to Zhao Gou, who was staying in Nanjing (later Shangqiu, Henan), to admit his mistake and pass the throne to Zhao Gou.

It can be said that Zhang Bangchang did everything he could.

In addition, judging from historical records, Zhang Bangchang does not seem to have done anything bad in his life, in his resume as an official of the Northern Song Dynasty, the history books only record the wrong things he has done, "dereliction of duty", which is just a mediocre official.

To be fair and just, Zhang Bangchang really has nothing to be sorry for Zhao Song, and no one can do better than Zhang Bangchang in that situation.

The only thing that can be picked in the egg is that Zhang Bangchang drank too much wine one day, and a low-level concubine who couldn't help but sleep with Zhao Ji that Jin gave him.

As a result, Zhao Gou took Zhang Bangchang's life with this.

Be.

Zhao Gou's killing of Zhang Bangchang must be more than that.

But this reason is enough to be an excuse for Zhao Gou to kill Zhang Bangchang.

It can be seen from this that this kind of thing is definitely not a trivial matter in this era, in fact, it is understandable to think about it, this is related to the face of these "big people", even if they don't care about their wives and concubines, they will never easily let go of the people who cuckolded them.

The most typical example is Wu Sangui's anger at the crown.

Of course, this insurance is definitely not so insured, after all, a person who is really determined to be a loyal minister of Zhao Song cannot change his attitude because of a woman.

However, then again, having more of this insurance is better than having less of this insurance, and it will definitely make some of the people who rebelled against Zhao and Song have a little more "loyalty" to Li Cun.

Some people may be puzzled, what is the Tiger Ben doing with such great military spending, is it not good to slowly recruit troops and train generals and officials by himself?

All right.

If Li Cun was given three or five years, Li Cun would definitely not have the intention of becoming strong by recruiting and rebelling.

But the problem is that Zhao Song didn't give Li Cun three or five years at all, let alone three or five years, Zhao Song didn't even give Li Cun three or five months.

Now, Tong Guan led an army of 500,000 to the south in a few days, including 150,000 of the most elite Western troops of Zhao and Song.

On the other hand, Li Cun here, excluding the defenders of Hangzhou, Suzhou, Huzhou, Muzhou, and Jiangning Mansion, the real combatable army in Li Cun's hands is actually only the pro-guard front army, the pro-guard rear army and the pro-guard horse army, with a total of more than 20,000 people.

In this case, if Li Cun does not expand his army, how can he fight Tong Guan?

And to expand the army in a big way.

First of all, Li Cun simply cannot recruit so many recruits in a short period of time, after all, in the concept of people in this era, soldiers are inferior people similar to prisoners, not to mention that Chinese have always believed that "good iron does not hit nails, and good men are not soldiers", so if they are not cornered, how can so many people be willing to take the initiative to become soldiers?

- Historically, the reason why Fang La was able to pull up a team of millions of people in just a few months was that Zhao Song really forced the people in the Liangzhejiang region to the point where they had to rebel, and secondly, Fang La really coerced a lot of innocent people, otherwise where would he go to get millions of people to rebel against him.

The lack of recruits is actually secondary.

The key is that the team that was hurriedly pulled up really can't fight.

To put it mildly, if Li Cun used new soldiers to form an army of 200,000, they might not be enough for the 20,000 Western Army, and Li Cun would have to bear the expenses of 200,000 people.

And the Song prisoners, who were real soldiers, were certainly better than the peasants who had just laid down their hoes after they had not had enough time to train.

Therefore, according to the existing situation, Li Cun formulated a large-scale expansion plan with the original Huben army soldiers as the skeleton and filled with prisoners and recruits.

Li Cun's goal is not to count the 100,000 or so horses left in Hangzhou and Xiuzhou, but to expand the army by 200,000 - 100,000 sailors and 100,000 army.

At present, the recruits and prisoners recruited from all over the country have already gone to Jiangning Mansion to receive training, political education, and preliminary reorganization of the officials of Bingcao headed by Zhang Shi, and the new reorganization will officially begin when Li Cun leads his troops back to Jiangnan.

Not bad.

Li Cun never thought of fighting the Song army in Jiangbei at all.

- Li Cun is not stupid, how could he think that he could lead a group of rabble who had just put down their hoes and could defeat Tong Guan's 500,000 army?

In fact, Li Cun never thought of crossing the river in the first place.

Li Cun led his troops across the river at that time, in fact, he just came to scare Tan Zhi casually, and he didn't even think that he could survive the Yangtze River.

Who thinks, Tan Zhi is too particular, and he didn't even send anyone to garrison the quarry rock pontoon bridge, so that Li Cun led the personal guard horse army, and crossed the Yangtze River at a trott.

Tan Zhi had to give Yangzhou, a state, strategic materials, talents, and military resources to Li Cun.

Therefore, Li Cuncai reluctantly stayed in Yangzhou for a period of time, and sent Yangzhou's strategic materials, talents, and recruits (including the families of the people and those who defected to the Tiger Army) to Jiangnan or even to Hangzhou.

With such a big move here in Yangzhou, it is impossible for Tan Zhi and others, who are close to the Gaoyou Army, not to know, but they just watched the ants of the Tiger Ben Army move, and they had no intention of sending troops to stop the Tiger Ben Army.

It is not difficult to see that Tan Zhi and the others have made up their minds, and before Tong Guan leads the army south, they will not fight Li Cun again.

Seeing this, Li Cuna was still polite, naturally he could move what he could move.

In this way, the Tiger Ben Army mobilized hundreds of thousands of people, mobilized thousands of large ships, and kept moving ......

It was not until the end of March that Wu Desi sent back accurate news to Li Cun: Tong Guan's army had been completely assembled and was scheduled to march south on March 27.

Only then did Li Cun begin to make final preparations for the evacuation of Yangzhou......

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Brothers, I'll watch it tomorrow after reading it today.

By Thursday, try to catch up with me, thank you, brothers!

I wish my brothers a safe life!!