On the sixth day of March, the first batch of grain from Yunzhou County, totaling 1 million shi, arrived in the capital. After counting, the loss of this batch of grain after more than a month of travel reached 200,000 shi.
In other words, transporting one million stones from Yunzhou County to more than 500,000 people in the capital would require nearly one-fifth of the grain and grass.
From this, the Ministry of Accounts settled an account.
I am afraid that only 160 million stones of the originally planned 200 million stones of food and grass will be able to reach Bianjing in the end.
After reporting the loss to Zhao Jun, Zhao Jun immediately waved his hand and asked Yunzhou County to send more. Anyway, there was food, so he felt confident and did not panic!
Finally, an additional 50 million stones of food support was added to the original basis. Now Old Cui's face suddenly smiled like a chrysanthemum.
By the end of March, the new armaments, enough to equip an army of 200,000 people, finally arrived in Bianjing within the scheduled time and were accepted by the Ministry of War.
One hundred thousand of them will be used to replace the equipment and make up for the damage of the two hundred thousand troops marching to the south.
The remaining 100,000 sets of equipment are used for training by newly recruited new troops.
The Song Dynasty has one characteristic, and that is the Xiang army.
In the past, when natural disasters occurred in the Song Dynasty, the people could no longer survive. In addition to disaster relief, the Song Dynasty court had another way to help these victims survive, which was to recruit them all into the Xiang army and feed them military rations.
For a long time, the number of people in the Xiang army has become increasingly large, and it has become one of the extremely heavy burdens on the imperial court.
This time, Zhao Jun asked to select 200,000 new recruits for training. The Ministry of War directly issued an order and transferred 200,000 green soldiers from the entire northern Xiang army to start training.
With the court having enough money and food, and Guan Ning, who had sufficient military training experience, the 200,000-strong army finally took shape after more than a month of training.
When the 200,000 sets of weapons and equipment arrived, after inspection by the Ministry of War, it was found that the quality of this batch of weapons and equipment was much better than that of the Bianjing War Bureau, and an application was immediately made to purchase another 200,000 sets of equipment in preparation. When needed.
Zhao Jun thought for a moment and then agreed. The main reason was that the 200,000 new recruits now had only 100,000 sets of equipment, which was not enough. Moreover, he wanted to expand the army in the future, and only 200,000 sets of equipment was not enough.
But he didn't plan to go to the imperial court for the rest of the equipment. He would just let Yunzhou County produce it directly. He would save a middleman and save the price difference.
Although the team transporting grain has not yet finished transporting it, in two full months, the 200 million shi of grain ordered has only been transported to more than 130 million shi. This is still a continuous flow of 500,000 to 600,000 people. Only then can we bring back so much luck.
However, although the food was not enough to meet the target, it was enough for the army to go on the expedition.
In the past two months, Zhao Jun not only trained Guan Ning to recruit new soldiers.
It also integrated the current Bianjing army.
There are now a total of 400,000 troops in Bianjing, one of which is the 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 Zhenxi, totaling 150,000 people.
Then came the 50,000-strong Divine Guards and Dragon Guards, as well as the Japanese Ping Army, which had suffered heavy losses and only had 10,000 people left.
During this consolidation, Zhao Jun divided 400,000 people into five armies and one battalion.
The first large army was the heavy cavalry regiment named Dragoon Army.
The Dragoon Army was a separate army formed by the deployment of all heavy cavalry. It was a super large organization composed of 50,000 heavy cavalry and 150,000 auxiliary troops, totaling 200,000 people.
This is the trump card that Zhao Jun plans to use to calm the situation.
Will not be dispatched easily unless necessary.
The second army is the Zhaowu cavalry of the Royal Second Cavalry.
Composed of 40,000 light cavalry, it is the most mobile army among the 400,000 troops. In addition to the 20,000 Song horsemen, the other 20,000 are mostly composed of naturalized Tatars and Tatar cavalry.
But now they all have a common household registration, Yunzhou County.
After these years of assimilation, these Tatars are already proud of themselves as Yunzhou County people. Only they will know better how much territory they control today!
The next three armies are all infantry corps.
They are the White Army, which is named the Royal First Army!
Most of them are mainly composed of the original Tianwu Army. Coincidentally, most of the soldiers of this Tianwu Army are from Shuzhong County. The name of this Baizhi Army was chosen by Zhao Jun at that time.
It is said that there is a ferocious beast in Sichuan County, called the iron-eating beast, also called the white bear.
Not only is he extremely powerful and ferocious, his steel teeth are said to be able to chew even iron!
Later, the Black Tiger Army of the Second Royal Infantry Army was mostly composed of the Tianwu Army and some of the original infantrymen of Yunzhou County, and their combat effectiveness was weaker than that of the White Tiger Army.
Then came the Zhuhuai Army, which was named the Royal Third Infantry Army.
The Zhuhuai Army was composed of the Dragon Guard Army, the Divine Guard Army, and the last 10,000 Japanese troops.
It is the weakest of the five armies.
But after integrating them, Zhao Jun equipped them all with weapons and equipment from Yunzhou County. After more than two months of familiarity, their combat effectiveness has now been fully improved.
The last battalion is the army that Zhao Jun likes most, far more than the dragoon army, which is a heavy cavalry army!
That was the firearms army he named Shenji Camp!
The organization is the Royal First Firearms Corps, and its name is Shenji Battalion.
A total of 10,000 people, 500 Huoshaoyun II artillery pieces, 200 Shenhuo Flying Crows, and 6,000 musketeers formed the Shenji Battalion.
These five armies and one battalion are just the beginning. After recovering the south, Zhao Jun plans to conduct a major integration of all his current armies.
This will formalize the preparation.
The current establishment of the cavalry is the First Royal Cavalry and the Second Royal Cavalry.
The infantry is organized into the Royal First Army and the Second and Third Infantry.
The Shenji Battalion is the only member of the Royal First Firearms Corps.
In Zhao Jun's future vision, today's infantry and cavalry will be gradually phased out in the future, leaving only a small number, and the entire army will be equipped with firearms.
At that time, it will be divided directly by the army and navy.
As for the air force, Zhao Jun doubted whether he would be able to see the air force take shape in the interim. The most likely possibility would be the hot air balloon army, but that is not the real air force.
After reorganizing the first battalion of the fifth army, Zhao Jun immediately decided at a court meeting to send troops to the south to counter the rebellion.
The first is the dragoon side. Due to the dense water and land in the south, the heavy cavalry definitely has no advantage anywhere.
But Zhao Jun still decided to send 3,000 heavy cavalry, that is, six battalions of heavy cavalry to accompany them, and the corresponding 9,000 heavy cavalry auxiliaries would also accompany them.
You can bring more light cavalry. Seven thousand light cavalry is enough.
The most important thing to fight in the south is the infantry.
Since the purpose of this time was to wipe out the south as soon as possible, except for the Black Tiger Army Zhao Jun who left 20,000 people, both Bai Zhi and Zhuhuai General Zhao Jun were sent out.
In addition, Zhao Jun deployed 200 artillery pieces, 100 Shenhuo Flying Crows and 2,000 musketeers from the Shenji Camp.
A total of 150,000 troops.
Zhao Jun also transferred 50,000 auxiliary soldiers from the newly trained 200,000 recruits, so that the total army of 200,000 was complete.
And this time the coach leading 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 couldn't believe how long the south side could hold out!
And this time he wanted to carry out a bloody purge in the south, so that those wealthy families would know what the Song Dynasty's surname was!
His surname is Zhao!
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(End of chapter)
