After gaining 4,500 prestige on the second day, Liu Zhenhua gathered the prestige of giving all the squad leaders a pair of light armor, and only 2,600 prestige remained in his hand.

"Let's talk about your uprising in Yanchuan County, and what are the troops in Yanchuan County," Liu Zhenhua looked at Wang Long, who was a little restrained in front of him.

It was the first time for Wang Lung to observe Liu Zhenhua so closely, and it was the first time to talk to Liu Zhenhua.

"Back to the words of the king of the stove, the soldiers of Yanchuan County who surrounded and suppressed us that day... The number is at least four hundred. ”

Wang Lung said in a low voice, his nervous appearance did not show the bravery in the landlord's compound that day.

"Oh? Four hundred. ”

Liu Zhenhua was very surprised, this number was far less than his psychological estimate, "Could it be that I overestimated the strength of the Ming Dynasty?" ”

Didn't some of the popular science videos I watched show that there are many soldiers and horses in the DPRK in northern Shaanxi and other border areas?

"How's the equipment?"

Wang Lung's eyes flickered, as if he was caught in the memories of that day, "Those people around, there are very few people wearing armor, it can be said that there are almost none, most of the weapons in their hands are scimitars, and the equipment does not seem to be uniform, some people are wearing official clothes, another part of them are not neatly dressed, some people are holding spears and stabbing them, and some people on horseback rush to kill, if it weren't for these people, we wouldn't have been defeated so quickly." ”

Liu Zhenhua remembered the cavalry that slaughtered the victims that day, and it should be those people.

Liu Zhenhua didn't expect that Yanchuan's troops were so small, and the armor rate was so low, and according to what Wang Long said, those people's equipment was not uniform, which meant that those people were obviously not the permanent troops in the county, and they were similar to the tenants who were called by the landlord.

"There is no landlord in Yanchuan County who is rich."

Liu Zhenhua was very surprised, but thinking about it, the local finances were in deficit to a certain extent, and the county magistrate wanted to recruit Xiangyong to estimate that there would not be much money at night.

And those who wore armor and used spears should be the few regular soldiers in the county, and perhaps these soldiers should be called broken military households.

With local financial expenditures, they simply cannot afford to raise many soldiers and horses, and they cannot afford to pay soldiers.

Liu Zhenhua knew that the peasants were not happy at the end of the Ming Dynasty, but he didn't expect the soldiers to be so unbearable.

In fact, from the beginning of the Wanli period, the Ming Dynasty dealt with Manchuria, and the military expenditure began to skyrocket, and the military expenditure was mostly swallowed up by eunuchs and ministers and generals, so the shortage of military salaries in the northwest towns was very serious, and in the first year of Chongzhen, there were even arrears of pay for up to 36 months.

In the last years of the Apocalypse, each soldier received a monthly salary of 5 yuan, which was not enough to buy a bucket of rice, "clothes did not cover the body", and even sold armor and equipment, and sold wives and beards.

In fact, it was still that group of people who suffered, because most of the peasants in the northwest region in the late Ming Dynasty were forced to join the army or serve as post guards when they could not make ends meet.

"In this way, it is no wonder that Wang Er led hundreds of victims to take Cheng County," Liu Zhenhua was clear, and his heart was determined, if it was according to what Wang Long said, Liu Zhenhua felt that with his current more than 2,000 soldiers, he might be able to take Yan'an Mansion directly.

Liu Zhenhua is still very interested in the high walls and wide cities of Yan'an Mansion, on the other hand, in Yanchuan, the city wall is like a high wall in the courtyard, and the slope is still used to elongate the visual effect, so that it looks slightly taller.

With Gaocheng, Liu Zhenhua can be regarded as having a safe location, if the Ming army encircles and suppresses it one day, it will not flow around like a peasant army.

The peasant rebel army of the Ming Dynasty was always mobile, and it was not mobile in a small place, it was a movement between provinces.

Of course, a large part of the reason is to eat, northern Shaanxi is barren, they have to fight everywhere to feed the war, not only to harvest the grain of the local landlords, but also to harvest more rebel troops to join, the other part is because sometimes they will not be able to defeat the encirclement and suppression of the Ming army.

"The landlord has no threat to me, and at the moment, I may have to face the Ming army and the rebel army."

Liu Zhenhua sat up slightly, he looked at the map in front of him, the rebel army at the end of the Ming Dynasty was not a good stubble, these rebels were originally honest peasants, after being forced to rebel, they grasped the power of life and death of others, this right formed a huge contrast with the days when pigs and dogs were not as good as before, so that they directly became a brutal army.

Most of the rebel armies will be like locusts, where there is no grass, they go to a village, town and city, often to see if the young people here want to join them, if they do not take the initiative to join, they will ask those young people, if they want to go home, if those people answer yes, the sword flashes, and the head falls to the ground.

Last time, Liu Zhenhua felt that he didn't do it, and the biggest reason was that Wang Er didn't have the confidence to eat him.

If Liu Zhenhua was still the same as the original hundreds, hehe, then Wang Er would probably have asked him if he wanted to go home.

In the early days, these people's combat effectiveness was not very strong, and their equipment was not good, but in the case of fighting to support the war, the equipment became more and more sophisticated, and the combat effectiveness became higher and higher.

On the other side, although the Ming army was down, many of the army's combat effectiveness and equipment were there.

Previously, Liu Zhenhua faced the landlord's family, what were they holding, short knives, less than two feet, kitchen knives, shorter, wooden sticks, unbearable.

The steel stick has a huge advantage in the face of these weapons, longer, harder, more powerful, and most importantly, cheap, a little prestige.

Compared to the armor-piercing gun with twenty points of prestige, the cost performance is simply perfect, and it can be equipped in large quantities.

And now, in the face of the Ming army and the growing rebel army, the advantage of steel sticks is probably only strong.

It's time for the steel bar to withdraw, and with Liu Zhenhua's current reputation acquisition speed, some cold weapons in the mall can also be used.

Armor-piercing guns, Mo knives or something.

Liu Zhenhua's eyes patrolled the mall, the team has been established, and it has begun to have armor, so the replacement of weapons should also be put on the agenda.

[Armor-piercing gun, 20 prestige*1.] 】

[Spear, Twenty Fame*1.] 】

[Mo Knife, Twenty Fame*1.] 】

Heavy Axe, Twenty Fame*1. 】

There is no doubt that spears and knives are more suitable for large-scale equipment, while heavy axes are to be classified as special troops, and the biggest role of heavy axes is armor piercing and distance fighting.

The Song Dynasty is an era of heavy axes, and the history of the Song Dynasty records that during the Fang War, the Wushu was white-robed, rode armored horses, and supervised the battle with 3,000 tooth soldiers, and the soldiers were heavily armoured, called "Tiefutu"; Wear an iron pocket, and the long eaves are decorated around the turns. The three of them are together, through the Wei Suo, every step, that is, with the rejection of the horse to embrace it, the person further, the rejection of the horse also advances, the retreat can not be carried out by the officers and soldiers with the gun mark to their pockets, the axe to cut off their arms, broken their heads.

Ren Hongli is suitable for this kind of weapon that opens and closes.

No matter how expensive it is, it's a long-range weapon, and the ancient Warring States double-arrow crossbow arrows can be seen, and the modern compound bow is also among them.