On the sixth day of the first month of March, the first batch of grain in Yunzhou County, a total of 1 million stone of grain arrived in the capital, and after counting, after more than a month of travel, the loss of this batch of grain reached 200,000 stones.

In other words, it takes nearly one-fifth of the grain and grass to transport one million stones from Yunzhou County to more than 500,000 people in the capital.

From this, the household department calculated an account.

I'm afraid that the originally set 200 million stone grain and grass will only be able to reach Bianjing in the end, and only 160 million stone will be left.

After reporting the loss to Zhao Jun, Zhao Jun immediately waved his hand and directly asked Yunzhou County to send more, anyway, there was food, and he had the confidence not to panic!

In the end, an additional 50 million stone of food support was added on the original basis, and now Old Man Cui's face suddenly smiled like a chrysanthemum.

It was not until the end of March that all the new armaments, which were sufficient for the 200,000-strong army, finally arrived in Bianjing within the scheduled time and were received by the military headquarters.

Of these, 100,000 will be replaced with equipment from the 200,000 troops that marched to the south.

The remaining 100,000 sets of equipment were used for training by the newly recruited troops.

The Great Song Dynasty has a feature, that is, the Xiang Army.

In the past, when a natural disaster occurred in the Great Song Dynasty, the people could not survive, in addition to disaster relief, the Great Song Dynasty also had another way to let these victims live, that is, all the money was included in the box army and let them eat military rations.

For a long time, the number of people in the Xiang army has become increasingly large, and it has also become one of the most important burdens for the imperial court.

This time, Zhao Jun asked 200,000 recruits to be selected for training, and the military department directly issued an order and transferred 200,000 Qingxiang from the entire northern Xiang army to start training.

With the imperial court having money and food, and Guan Ning, who had sufficient experience in military training, the 200,000-strong army finally had a preliminary trend of formation after more than a month of training.

When the 200,000 sets of weapons and equipment arrived, after being inspected by the Ministry of War, it was found that the quality of these weapons and equipment was much better than that of the Bianjing Military Bureau, and they immediately applied for the purchase of another 200,000 sets of equipment in case of emergency.

Zhao Jun agreed after a little thought, mainly because only 100,000 sets of equipment for 200,000 recruits are not enough now, and he still wants to expand the army in the future, and only 200,000 sets is not enough.

But he is not going to go to the imperial court for the rest of the equipment, and directly let Yunzhou County produce it, saving a middleman and saving the price difference.

Although the grain transport team has not yet finished transporting, in two whole months, the 200 million stone of grain set has only been transported to more than 130 million stone, which is still 560,000 people who have been able to transport so much.

However, although the food was not enough for the target, it was enough for the army to go on the expedition.

In the past two months, Zhao Jun not only let Guan Ning train new soldiers.

There was also a consolidation of the army in Bianjing today.

Now Bianjing has a total of 400,000 troops, one of which is 190,000 Yunzhou Army, which is composed of various units from the Yunzhou Sixth Army.

The second is the Tianwu army led by the second uncle, King Xi, with a total of 150,000 people.

Then there were the 50,000 men of the Divine Guard and the Dragon Guard, and the Japanese army, which suffered heavy losses and only had 10,000 left.

In this reconciling, Zhao Jun divided 400,000 people into one battalion of the five armies.

The first army was the Heavy Cavalry Legion, which was named the Dragoons.

The Dragoon Army is a separate army formed by drawing all the heavy cavalry, consisting of 50,000 heavy cavalry and 150,000 auxiliaries, a total of 200,000 super-large formations.

It is the hole card that Zhao Jun is going to use to town the field.

It will not be dispatched lightly unless necessary.

The Second Army was the Iron Cavalry of the Royal Second Cavalry.

Composed of 40,000 light cavalry, it was the most mobile army of 400,000, of which in addition to 20,000 Song cavalry, the other 20,000 were mostly composed of naturalized Tatars and Tatar cavalry.

But now they all have a common household registration, from Yunzhou County.

After all these years of assimilation, these Tatars have become proud to be from Yunzhou County, as long as they know better how huge the territory is now!

The next three armies were all infantry legions.

They are the White Army, which was named the Royal First Army!

Most of them are mainly composed of the original Tianwu Army, and coincidentally, most of the soldiers of the Tianwu Army are from Shuzhong County, and the name of this Bai Zheng Army was voted for by Zhao Jun at that time.

It is said that there is a fierce beast in Shuzhong County, called an iron-eating beast, also called a white bear.

Not only is it infinitely powerful and ferocious, but that steel tooth is said to be able to chew even iron!

After that, the Black Tiger Army of the Royal Second Infantry Army, most of which were composed of the Tianwu Army and some of the original infantry of Yunzhou County, were weaker in combat effectiveness than the White Army.

Then there was the Zhuhuai Army, which was named the Third Infantry Army of the Royal Empire.

The Zhuhuai Army consisted of the Dragon Guard and the Divine Guard, as well as the last 10,000 Japanese troops.

It is the weakest of the five armies.

But after integrating them, Zhao Jun let them all equip them with the weapons and equipment of Yunzhou County, and after more than two months of familiarity, their combat effectiveness has now fully improved.

And the last battalion is the army that Zhao Jun values the most, far more important than the dragoon army as a heavy cavalry legion!

That is the firearms army that he named the Shenji Battalion!

The establishment is the Royal First Firearms Army, and the name is the Shenji Battalion.

There were 10,000 men, 500 Burning Cloud 2 guns, 200 Divine Fire Crows, and 6,000 musketeers to form the Divine Machine Battalion.

These five armies and one battalion are just the beginning, and after the south is recovered, Zhao Jun intends to carry out a major integration of all his current armies.

Thus formalizing the establishment.

At present, the cavalry is composed of the first and second cavalry of the royal army.

The infantry was formed by the Royal First Army and the Second and Third Infantry Corps.

The Shenji Battalion is the only seedling of the Royal First Firearms Army.

In Zhao Jun's future vision, the current infantry and cavalry will be gradually phased out in the future, leaving only a small number, and the whole army will be equipped with firearms.

When the time comes, it will be directly divided by the army and navy.

As for the Air Force, Zhao Jun doubts that he can see the Air Force take shape before the temporary period, and the most likely one is probably the Hot Air Balloon Army, but that is not the real Air Force.

After reorganizing the five armies and one battalion, Zhao Jun immediately set up an army to go to the south to quell the rebellion at a certain court meeting.

First of all, on the side of the dragoons, due to the dense land and water in the south, the heavy cavalry must have no advantage there.

But Zhao Jun still decided to send three thousand heavy cavalry, that is, six battalions of heavy cavalry to accompany him, and the corresponding nine thousand heavy cavalry auxiliaries would also accompany him.

Light cavalry can bring more, 7,000 light cavalry is completely enough.

And the most important thing to fight in the south is the infantry army.

Since this time it was to sweep the south as soon as possible, except for the Black Tiger Army Zhao Jun, 20,000 people were left, whether it was Bai Zhen or Zhuhuai General Zhao Jun, all of them were sent out.

In addition, Zhao Jun dispatched 200 artillery pieces, 100 Shenhuo Crows and 2,000 musketeers in the Shenji Battalion.

A total of 150,000 troops.

Zhao Jun transferred 50,000 of the newly trained 200,000 recruits as auxiliaries, so that the total army of 200,000 could be considered complete.

And this time the commander who led the troops was none other than Ding Hongguang, who had just arrived from Yunzhou County last month.

The deputy generals are Huo Qubing and Li Dingguo respectively!

With this lineup, Zhao Jun doesn't believe it, how long can the southern side block!

And this time he is going to carry out a bloody purge in the south, so that those wealthy families know what this Da Song surname is!

His surname is Zhao!

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