It should be said that Yang Feng also left a loophole for these local officials that they could exploit.

New reserve system.

Originally, the Xiang army and township soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty were all abolished in accordance with Yang Feng's reforms, and the hundreds of thousands of Xiang troops that no longer had any combat ability and were purely degenerated into miscellaneous servants were directly disbanded, and some of the things that needed to be used, such as those warehouse guards and the like, were changed to be hired as miscellaneous soldiers, but they were no longer used as military establishments, and those local officials could be hired according to their own needs.

It's really redundant to rent a piece of official land and feed yourself!

But the reserve system is introduced.

All young men who do not have disabilities in any occupation are included in the reserve as long as they are in the age range, and then one or more reserve brigades are established in each prefecture according to the size of the population, which is managed by the Ministry of War and trained by the Commander-in-Command. All reservists must undergo a certain number of days of military training in this brigade every year, and during the training period, they are paid and those who do not participate are fined, and then the army is recruited from among these people, similar to the selection and dispatch of the box army to the forbidden army in the past. Local officials, on the other hand, may apply to the Ministry of War if necessary to mobilize reserves to carry out activities such as suppressing bandits, forcibly relieving disasters, etc., and in the event of an invasion by foreign enemies, these reserves can also be assembled by local officials to participate in the war in the same way, but once they participate in the war, they must be controlled by the control of the theater of operations.

This is the reserve system.

But the system made it easier for local officials to resist Mr. Yang.

It is true that they cannot touch the army.

But they can train their reserves and form an army that they can use to challenge the court when they need it! A state, a brigade, and a road are also an army, and even a government and an army like Chengdu Mansion are not a problem, you must know that Chengdu Mansion alone has more than 180,000 households and more than 500,000 people!

This mouth is a man.

Our Song Dynasty statistics have never counted women.

And it's not a child.

In other words, there are more than 500,000 adult men in Chengdu alone.

Twenty to one ding is an army!

All that's left is how to train them!

It's easy.

According to Yang Feng's reform, the expenses of the reserve are temporarily borne by the localities themselves, but they cannot increase taxes, mainly patriotic donations apportioned, but only to the upper third-class households on the household register, that is, rich peasants and landlords, and the lower third-class households, that is, yeoman farmers and customers, that is, tenant farmers, are not within the scope of patriotic donations. Therefore, for these landlords and old wealth, the rest is simple, nothing more than to spend some money to equip them with the best armor and the best weapons, the military salary is sufficient, and the food is full, let them train well, and then let those great Confucians have nothing to do to wash them!

As long as they do not lose to the Wehrmacht in combat effectiveness, then what is there to be afraid of?

Once Yang Feng really engages in the Juntian system, then let go of his hands, there are soldiers and food in his hands, and he is afraid that he will do something, anyway, this is what Yang Feng wants himself......

Well, this is really what Yang Feng wants.

First, he had to give the southern gentry the confidence and courage to do it, and secondly, he had to fully mobilize their enthusiasm and establish his reserve system as quickly as possible.

It is said that there are people in this Great Song Dynasty.

In the first year of the great painter Chongning, there were 45,320,000 adult men in the country, and 20 million strong young men had no pressure, and if they really wanted to improve the reserves, there were tens of millions of reserve soldiers, even if they took one out of ten, they would form an army of two million, and in this era, two million troops who have undergone real military training and have the support of faith, even if they don't use a flintlock pistol or an axe gun per person, they can easily overturn all the enemies! What Jin Kingdom, Western Xia and Mongolia all have to stand aside, it is difficult to say whether there are two million men, women and children in the whole country of Western Xia, and it is difficult to say whether the volume of the Great Song Dynasty can be said to be crushing to the surrounding monarchs!

Even in its heyday, the population of the Liao State was only one-tenth of that of the Great Song Dynasty.

It's a pity that a group of civilian officials who take the weakening of the army and the people as their own responsibility have finally become waste firewood that anyone can beat up and exterminate a small tribe in Longyou, and they can be excited to the level of jubilation of the whole country.

Even if there are relatively different civil officials such as Fan Zhongyan, it is of little use.

You must know that the population of the Great Song Dynasty far exceeded that of the Tang Dynasty.

With a population far exceeding that of the Tang Dynasty, not to mention the submission of the Quartet like in the Tang Dynasty, he even barely defended his own territory, and even let an Annan who was at the bottom of the Tang Dynasty Jiedu Envoy enter and slaughter the city, and the same Tang Dynasty Jiedu made the medium-sized Western Xia in it can force the Great Song Dynasty to spend money to buy peace.

It's completely bizarre!

Since this is the case, Yang Feng will carry out a thorough transformation of him, turn the number of 100 million people, which suffocates all enemies, into real strength, and then crush all the enemies around him, and sweep the world with an army of two million.

And the reserve is only the first step, he must first fool those officials to go down according to his design line, they complete the reserve in various places according to his requirements and improve it, and when he bulldozes these guys, he will directly take them over, complete the rapid expansion of the Song army, and then release this can be said to be a turbulent torrent, and come to a million-strong army to conquer Liaodong to completely sweep away.

That's his plan.

But those officials in the south will not know this, and they have already made up their minds that once Yang Feng implements the Juntian Order, they will directly clear the side of the monarch, and they will be honest in order to hide the plan.

They must confuse Yang Feng, they must let this demon relax his vigilance, and he must not let him see their true intentions, only in this way can they buy enough time to train the army, so these guys have no resistance to Bianliang's will, whether it is the reform of the official system, the change of the law, the implementation of the reserve system, and even Yang Feng's actual rent reduction, the court and the local government have maintained superficial harmony in this way.

Then wait for the final showdown.

And at this time, Zong Ze's department finally captured Zhending.

He used thirty counterweight trebuchets to directly collapse the city wall of Zhending, and then more than 50,000 troops who had been waiting outside for a long time rushed in, and those puppet troops who had been waiting for this moment immediately defected, and the five thousand gold troops in Zhending City were all wiped out, and none of them were able to run out.

So far, Hebei Road has been fully recovered.

On the same day, Han Shizhong and other departments began to arrive at the front line one after another, and he will lead the headquarters that has been handed over to Xie Yuan's command, that is, the reorganized Seventh Army of the National Defense Army, the Eighth Army of the National Defense Army reorganized by Miao Fu's department, and the Ninth Army of Wang Yuan's department, a total of 90,000 horses and horses in three armies out of Xiongba Erzhou, each of these three armies has an additional cavalry brigade, in addition to 4,000 medium-sized cavalry similar to kidnapping horses, there is also a heavy cavalry battalion, and 1,000 fully armored cavalry......

Now Yang Feng has no shortage of good horses.

After all, most of the war horses of the Jin army fell into his hands, and at present, he has armed a full 5,000 mounted cavalry, all of which have been given to the various armies attacking Yanshan Mansion.

In addition to these three armies, the two armies of Yao Youzhong and Gao Shidan went north out of Qingzhou by boat.

That is, to take the route of his raid on Youzhou in Wuhu time and space.

At this time, the Yellow River directly penetrates into Tianjin and goes out to sea from the Haihe River, and the transport ship can go directly to the location of the still modern Tianjin, and although the route to Lushui cannot sail the big ship, the small transport ship can ensure the transportation and supply of the more than 100 miles of the road is still no problem......

Sorghum River.

At the same time, Zongze's department, which completed the battle of Zhending, attacked northward along the line of Zhongshan and Baoding, and advanced to Yanshan.

The three-way army marched in unison.

200,000 male soldiers went north to Youzhou!

However, at this time, Yang Feng encountered a little unexpected trouble.

Lingchuan.

"What did they eat to get out?"

Zhao Buyou, the general on the city wall and the commander of the Second Brigade of the First Army, said in amazement as he looked at the black tide surging in the wilderness under the moonlight.

It was the twentieth day after the Battle of Huaizhou.

After disappearing into the Taihang Mountains for a full twenty days, the Jin army finally appeared, but it appeared in a place that no one expected, this is the north of Zezhou, and the Jin army did not appear in Zezhou, which was the closest to cross the mountains in a straight line, but appeared in Lingchuan, which needed to pass through the vast mountains in a straight line for more than two hundred miles.

And......

They were clearly not half starved to death.

"No, even if there is food in the mountains, it is impossible to keep them organized."

His deputy said.

Indeed, although the attacking Jin army did not have 40,000 men, there were always 20,000, and they were like a group of wild boars that had gone mad, carrying improvised long ladders and crashing into the small city, and their ability to maintain their formation meant that there was plenty of food along the way, otherwise they would have to disperse even if they hunted, and once they were scattered in the mountains, it was almost impossible to gather again.

But there is no way there is food for so many people in the mountains!

Unless......

"Eat your own people!"

Zhao Buyou and his deputy exclaimed almost at the same time.

Well, they guessed right!

"Kill, open the city, don't leave the chickens and dogs!"

In the wilderness outside the city, the Golden Vulture roared with his mace, and then rushed towards the small square city.

All the Jin troops around him were shouting.

They were as crazy as a pack of hungry wolves that had just bitten their companions, and they had indeed just bitten their companions, and the mountains and forests behind them were littered with the bones of their own companions whom they had eaten.

The Jin army relied on cannibalism to get out of the mountains.

And it's to eat their own people.

The weak eat the strong, for these barbarians who grow in the bitter cold, there is no psychological burden to eat their own people when they don't eat, Yan Mu and Jin Wushu and others are not fools, they know better than anyone the consequences of entering the mountains and forests, but in a desperate situation, they can only do this, and after entering the mountains and forests, there is not enough to eat, what can they eat if they don't eat people?

After the 40,000 Jin troops ate the strong and some escaped, more than half of them walked out of the mountains and forests, and they did not attack Zezhou, which was definitely heavily defended, but ate some more companions and then raided the small city.