"drive!!!"
The strong cheers were intertwined with the sound of horse hooves, which was very exciting. Wu Nian, Tieniu and more than ten riders galloped to the city gate.
The flag with the word "Wu" on the city gate tower flutters in the wind and makes a hunting sound. Teams of strong, high-morale soldiers stood with their heads held high, holding weapons.
The city gate opens.
Liu Zhixing, Li Yong, Wei Ru, Liu Wu, Wang Gui, Zhang Sheng, Chen Jiagui and others led the officials in the mansion of General Fu Han and lined up in two rows to welcome him.
"Everyone. I'm back." Wu Nian reined in his horse and stopped, but he used too much force and the horse stood up.
It looked up to the sky and neighed before regaining its balance and sneezed. Wu Nian laughed loudly and got off his horse.
Liu Zhixing and others looked up at Wu Nian. The emptiness in their hearts over the past few months had been filled again and began to fill up.
This is [Soul].
Without Wu Nian, they are just a piece of loose sand. With Wu Nian and them, it was called Beishan Castle.
"General."
Everyone was convinced, and along with Liu Zhixing, they all bowed to Wu Nian.
"Everyone, get up. Let's go to the general's mansion to talk." Wu Nian had too much to say in his heart, but after looking at the situation at the city gate, he saw that there were many soldiers standing there, causing trouble to the people entering the city gate, so he gave a big hand Wai, ordered.
"yes."
Everyone responded loudly, got on their horses, and followed Wu Nian into the Beishan Fort, arriving at the long-lost Fuhan General's Mansion.
After dismounting, everyone went to the main room and sat down together.
The armor hit his buttocks, and Wu Nian felt uncomfortable sitting, so he couldn't help but twist his waist. At this time, the soldiers came in with tea cups.
"Is it the wild camellia from our Beishan Fort?" Wu Nian raised his head and asked the soldier with a smile.
"It's this year's wild camellia." The soldier also smiled and bent towards Wu Nian.
Wu Nian couldn't wait to pick up the tea cup, blew a few breaths, and then took a sip, with a look of relief on his face. He raised his head and said to everyone: "What a long-lost wild camellia tea."
"Everyone, please wait a moment and let me drink this tea."
As he spoke, Wu Nian squinted his eyes and sipped the tea.
Han people do not need training to drink tea. However, Wu Nian is not a person who is particularly particular about tea, but after the dragon battle in the wild, he returned to the dragon's lair.
Drinking home-produced wild mountain tea is really an unforgettable experience.
Naturally, everyone had no objection to Wu Nian's small request, and they all started to drink tea.
Some people are pins, and some people are cows chewing peonies.
After finishing a cup of tea, Wu Nian exhaled, with a smile in his eyes, looked at Liu Zhixing and asked: "Liu Changshi. What is the situation in our Beishan Fort now?"
Of course Liu Zhixing knew what Wu Nian meant. He smiled and clasped his fists, and said: "General. Now our Beishan Fort, Mangya Mountain City, Chengtian Fort, and Tiancheng Fort are already overcrowded. I took the initiative and assigned some people to settle in the empty castle that the General and we knocked down. On some mountains, cottages for civilian use were set up.”
"Here's the map. And the population register."
Liu Zhixing, who was well prepared, took out a folded silk map and a booklet from his sleeves, came to Wu Nian, bent down and handed them over, and then sat back.
Wu Nian stretched out his hand to take the things, put down the pamphlet first, unfolded the topographic map and looked at it.
The four castles, Beishan Fort, Tiancheng Fort, Mangya Mountain City, and Chengshan Fort, are in the center of the map. Spreading outward, there are a total of nine castles.
Among them was Zhang Guang Fort, which he captured personally.
There are also some cottages for civilian use, including Fenghuang Mountain where Zhang Jin used to live in seclusion.
Although Fenghuang Mountain is remote, there is cultivated land.
According to this layout, even if there are currently nine castles, the population is too large to be accommodated, and the cultivated land area is too small.
That's why we set up strongholds on mountains with cultivated land such as Phoenix Mountain.
There are many more castles and hundreds of households on this mountain, but based on their current situation, nine castles is already the limit.
Other castles are not connected, or are too close to the county seat, making them difficult to defend.
Wu Nian's eyes passed over the map, showing a thoughtful look. He knew all these castles and all the terrain.
Depending on the terrain, a lot can evolve.
Wu Nian put down the topographic map and picked up the population list on the coffee table to read it. Unfold the booklet, there is only one line.
The population of men and women is 172,365.
After staring at this line of text for a long time, Wu Chang exhaled a long breath.
Although a bit more realistic.
But population is the key.
Just have enough food and grass to eat.
No matter how much gold and silver we grab, we still can’t spend it, so it’s meaningless.
Armor, weapons, war bows, arrows. This time they attacked from both ends and captured a lot.
There are also seven to eight hundred war horses.
There is a population of 170,000. If the limit is reached, we can recruit troops from 20 thousand households.
The original population of Beishan Fort was only more than 70,000.
There are only seven thousand households in the war.
Doubled.
After a long time, Wu Nian, who regained his composure, put down the pamphlet, raised his head and looked at everyone. Said: "I have a lot of ideas, but I don't know how to start."
"Right. Right. Right. Let's start with the population."
"Are these people under the direct jurisdiction of our Beishan Fort?" Wu Nian raised his head and looked at Liu Zhixing and asked.
This sentence is somewhat subtle.
The generals are all concerned about matters that have nothing to do with themselves.
Liu Zhixing and Li Yong looked thoughtful.
"Yes." Liu Zhixing nodded.
"We will also count the population of the mountain villages within the scope of our nine castles. We used to encourage the people in the mountain villages to join the army and encourage them to pay food."
"On the one hand, it's to win people's hearts, but on the other hand, I don't have enough moral power."
"Now I fought with four Meng Yuan households and escaped unscathed. My mighty virtue has been established. And the next war will definitely be even bigger."
"When we send out troops again, I will occupy the county seat. Instead of seizing supplies and leaving. We need more soldiers."
"The people in the mountain villages are also Han people from Liaodong. If they don't want to be ruled by the Mongolians, they can't stay out of it."
"They have to provide food and people."
"Liu Changshi. Send people to count the people in these mountain villages and collect grain. Set the tax at a lower level. As for the soldiers, let's focus on propaganda."
"Even if we can't send soldiers, we still have to send manpower. It will be used to build water conservancy projects, build fortifications, etc."
"Then we expanded the number of soldiers to twenty-one thousand households. Each school captain commanded soldiers and horses from three thousand households."
"Also. Find someone who can lead cavalry. I want to form a heavy armored cavalry force of six hundred households, also known as a thousand households."
"In addition, the jurisdiction of each captain must also be changed."
"A safe castle does not need to be guarded by soldiers, but a castle that requires heavy guarding on the outside needs to be guarded by the captain himself."
"Above. Let's start a discussion based on these."
After finishing speaking in one breath, Wu Nian raised his head, suppressed his smile, and said in a serious voice.
This time.
No matter whether they were civil servants or foreign generals, they all took a breath.
Adding one thousand households of heavy armored cavalry, this is a complete force of twenty-two thousand households from an organizational point of view.
Calculated based on the strength of a complete thousand households, there are about 1,200 people.
The size of Beishan Fort's combat troops reached about 26,000.
This is an extremely large military force. Even if the population of the surrounding mountain villages is added, it is still a militancy.
Real militarism.
King Wu and Fuchai were probably ashamed of themselves after seeing it.
Is this a step too big?
