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Sitting on the dragon chair, Xiao Ming's heart twitched, this additional 300,000 people will be a huge military expenditure.

It's just that even if Niu Ben doesn't say it, he also has the idea of expanding the army, when he was still the king of Qi, he felt that the more than 100,000 troops under his command were already overloaded, but now he suddenly felt that this soldier was just a drop of water falling into a lake for the Great Yu Kingdom.

Because of this, this put him in a kind of embarrassment, quite an embarrassment of having no soldiers available.

"I have long had this intention, and since this is the case, the Military Aircraft Department has started the matter of conscription."

Xiao Ming said in a deep voice, in fact, the army has not stopped conscription every year, but the number of conscriptions has been maintained at a standard.

In addition to the barbarian invasion, the most important thing was that in the context of the gradual prosperity of industry, he had the ability and necessity to stabilize the surrounding environment, and began to move towards the process of fighting for colonies with the West.

Moreover, if he wants the people of Dayu to live as rich as the West, he must also go abroad to compete with the West for the dividends of the Age of Navigation.

Niu Ben breathed a sigh of relief, he didn't dare to mention it in the court just now, because he knew very well that as long as he proposed to expand the army, the civilian officials led by Fiji and Pang Yukun would fight with reason.

He knows that now the Great Chongqing State has to recuperate again, and the conscription will make the treasury more difficult, but in the hearts of the soldiers, it is the duty to defend the territory and open up the territory, and only when the armament is strong can the Great Chongqing State be stable.

Speaking of this army expansion, Niu Ben continued: "Your Majesty, the old minister has another request? “

"General Niu, please speak."

"The minister thinks it's a bit inappropriate to let Luo Quanfu be idle at home, but now that Dayu is employing people, it is necessary to make the best use of things." Niu Ben said cautiously.

Xiao Ming nodded lightly, if it weren't for Niu Ben mentioning him, he would have forgotten the slippery military god of Dayu Kingdom.

In the past, this veteran refused to enter the army in order to avoid suspicion, and at that time, Xiao Ming was unwilling to use him because the army was unstable, after all, the three members of the Luo family were all in the army, and everyone would be a little jealous.

It's just that now that the military reform has been completed, he has firmly held the power of the army in his own hands, so he doesn't care.

After all, he can take down any general at any time if he wants to without causing a rebellion in the army.

After a moment's thought, he said; "Indeed, it's time for this veteran to go out of the mountain, during this time, I heard that he often goes to the military academy to audit, so I must have some different opinions about the current army of the Great Yu Kingdom."

When Niu Ben heard this, a layer of cold sweat broke out behind his back, Xiao Ming's words were clearly telling him that Luo Quan's every move was under his nose.

He said honestly: "Luo Quan is used to leading troops to fight after all, so he is also quite concerned about things in the army. ”

"I see, it's okay like this, he still stays on the sword and bow horse in the province, since this is the case, let me also go to Yizhou this time to see if he is still the god of war back then." Xiao Ming said.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Niu Ben bowed down and said that he also had his own selfish motives in suggesting the use of Luo Quan this time.

With the increase in the number of troops and future wars, he is a little too busy now, but with Luo Quan's helper, he can be more relaxed.

And for Xiao Ming, he is also willing to let Luo Quan return to the army, because for him, he doesn't need Luo Quan and Niu Ben to personally command the soldiers to fight, what he needs is the strategic vision of the two in a war.

Sending Niu Ben away, Xiao Ming looked in the direction of Yizhou, now he only hoped that Xiao Zhen and Di Ying could hold on to Yizhou for a little longer.

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Yizhou.

Xiao Zhen and Di Ying stood on the city wall together and looked at the barbarian army under the city, and it has been ten days since the barbarians arrived under the city of Yizhou.

During these ten days, the barbarian slave soldiers would launch a siege every day, leaving the army in the city exhausted, and the most important problem was that the army led by Di Ying was now very depleted of ammunition, so they would not be able to use muskets to stop the tide of barbarian slave soldiers.

"Damn the barbarians, when the reinforcements arrive, the general will definitely leave no piece of armor left behind." Di Ying's eyes were red.

After killing the king of Shu, he and Xiao Zhen took over the thirteen states of Bashu, and after receiving the decree from Qingzhou, it was officially renamed Yizhou Mansion.

As with the original plan, one of the two was responsible for handling government affairs, and the other was responsible for commanding the army, and Bashu was moving towards regularization in this year.

But now that the barbarians had disrupted the matter, he was as painful as seeing a child he had raised being killed by the enemy.

Xiao Zhen's gaze swept over the musketeers on the city wall, and now he suddenly felt that he had not been wronged at all, and he had truly seen the power of this firearms army in the past ten days.

After the barbarians conquered Songzhou, they connected two cities on the route to Yizhou, but their offensive in Yizhou was delayed.

In the ten-day scorching war, Di Ying led 20,000 firearms troops to fight the barbarians to the death, and now there are far more corpses piled up under the city than theirs.

"It's a pity, if the 30,000 soldiers in Songzhou are replaced by musketeers, how can there be a barbarian break the city." Xiao Zhen sighed.

Di Ying's face was gloomy, and he said, "Who would have thought that the old department of the Shu King that was incorporated would be so vulnerable. ”

At the mention of the King of Shu, a trace of guilt flashed in Xiao Zhen's eyes, he didn't want to kill this younger brother, but he had to kill him.

After the king of Shu was killed, the old departments of the king of Shu in various states and counties surrendered to Di Ying, who successively appeased these soldiers and re-promoted some generals to control these armies.

Especially in Songzhou, he even sent his young generals to sit in the town, but no one expected that the barbarians would order troops to come.

"It's not that the old department of the King of Shu is vulnerable, but the barbarians' tactics this time are different from before, you look at the pit outside Yizhou City, I have never seen this kind of tactics."

Di Ying was just angry, he would definitely be punished this time if he lost Songzhou, just like Xiao Zhen said, the barbarians' tactics did surprise him a little this time.

Because he found that the barbarians had learned to use moats to besiege the city, which was previously the method of defending the city of the Great Yu Kingdom.

During the ten-day siege, the barbarian slave soldiers dug trenches around the city of Yizhou while besieging the city, and the soldiers used the trenches to avoid the bullets, and then climbed through the ladder when they reached the city, which greatly weakened the role of muskets in the siege.

But in this way, the barbarian cavalry could not enter the city, but Di Ying knew very well that the purpose of the barbarians this time was to plunder.

Therefore, the cavalry had no intention of entering the city at all, they were just barbarian slave soldiers storming Yizhou City, it was naturally good to be able to break the city, and if they couldn't break the city, they would besiege them here and drag down the army of the Great Yu Kingdom.