"......, then we have already twelve legions that have been put into the war in northern Xinjiang, except for the twenty-first and twenty-second regiments adapted from the Qin army, the Zhao army under the command of Sima Ang has also been reorganized into the seventeenth mixed corps, and the remaining sixteenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth are newly formed regiments that have been in the army for less than a year."

"With 600,000 soldiers invested, 500,000 auxiliary soldiers, and 2.6 million second-line troops and civilians serving on the logistics line, has the total number of people participating in the war in northern Xinjiang reached 3.7 million?"

"The king, far more than 3.7 million, if you count the local institutions and people in various regions, it should be close to five million."

"Five million......"

Lu Zhe was amazed, and everyone was amazed.

The adult population in the latest census statistics is about 19 million, and if you count Qindi, the adult population in China itself does not exceed 22 million, and through the mobilization and dispatch of some departments such as the ruling government, the Taiwei Administration, the General's Office, and the Ministry of Supervision, a quarter of the total population was mobilized to support a war, which should be the most comprehensive mobilization in the history of China, right?

"There are no ancients before, and only God knows if there will be anyone coming later," Lu Zhe was also full of satisfaction in his heart: "It shows that our administrative system is a qualified governing system, our system extends to all aspects, and the people under the rule are also willing to contribute to the country, and they do not choose to escape or watch when they are needed." ”

A group of people hurriedly patted their ass, what "won the hearts of the people", what "the king of the world", what "Wencheng martial arts", as long as it can be praised, all came out.

Winning the hearts of the people may be there, after all, it was Lu Zhe who quickly pacified the local war, so that the leaders of the Qianqian could have a stable living environment again, and let the people benefit from a series of state actions and investment in the implementation of construction, and it is also a matter of time for Lu Zhe to be loved. The Immortal King may be able to catch up a little bit. Fortunately, under the expansion of Lu Zhe, the living space of the ethnic group has doubled, and the territory of the country is still expanding. As for Wen Cheng Wude, most of the mainland of China is still full of devastation, and the goal of occupying the World Island has not been completed, so Lu Zhe does not dare to admit that Wen Cheng Wude is anything.

"How long can we keep five million men at work?" Lu Zhe did not get carried away and asked the most critical question.

Xiao He and Kuai Tong glanced at each other, in the calculations of the ruling government and the Taiwei Bureau, the resources they currently have can only support the use of such manpower for about a year and a half, and after a year and a half, the treasury in the treasury can continue to support, but the grain should reach the warning line of storage.

"Your Majesty. According to the plan we have developed, and the contingencies that may arise are also taken into account, the scale of the war will be smaller in about three to five months, and there will be no need to use as many manpower, and only about two million people will need to be maintained. ”

It is said that the corps of the general sequence of Zhengxi should solve the Touman division near the source of the Yellow River within five months, and instead concentrate on dealing with the group of Hu people who rushed up from the depths of the grassland, and now that so many manpower has been mobilized to transport supplies, with the increase in the storage of materials on the front line, the logistics line no longer needs to maintain the operation of the load. At that time, it will be necessary to continue to send supplies to the front, but it will be much easier.

There is no such thing as an easy race war, and Lu Zhe can finally understand Liu Che's original mood, which is a full-scale war after the expansion of two different race wars. The army that was put into the frontal battlefield was only a part of this war, and the rear produced all the supplies and supplies for it, such as food and equipment, and the majority of them.

"The construction of cavalry must be accelerated." Lu Zhe said.

The war cavalry with the nomads is definitely the main force, and the cavalry of the current imperial army has only four legions, which means that there are not enough cavalry troops to take the initiative. In this way, when the Hu people on the grassland came, they could only dispatch a large number of infantry corps to take the defensive, and then deploy the battle plan to strive for their own benefit and develop the battle situation.

"We are already making preliminary preparations, and in the next year, the Second Mixed Regiment will be converted into a cavalry regiment. The 3rd and 4th Mixed Regiments were to be converted into cavalry regiments within three years. ”

The second, third, and fourth regiments were the first to form an army, and the second mixed regiment was also the first to enter the steppe.

Because of the earliest entry into the grassland, the second mixed corps did not have less contact with horses, with the increase in horses captured on the grassland, the second mixed corps has actually used a large number of war horses on the march, evolved into a mounted infantry, after a long time of familiarization and corresponding training, the second mixed corps is not so difficult to transform into a cavalry corps. So far, the Second Mixed Regiment has been equipped with the corresponding equipment of the cavalry, and the training has also been carried out, and the formation of two schools has become the Ranger and the like.

The Third Mixed Army and the Fourth Mixed Army are currently located in the Central Plains, of which the Third Mixed Army is in Jibei County in Qidi, and the Fourth Mixed Army is in Taiyuan County. A large number of horses captured on the grassland were being transported back, and the 4th Mixed Regiment came into contact with a lot of horses, but the 3rd Mixed Regiment received a lot of war horses that should have been sent to the fertile field, and both regiments were familiarizing themselves with the war horses and conducting early riding drills.

Touman was three years ago to gather a group of Mo Nan Hu people to invade the south, at the beginning of the army reached more than 250,000 troops, they lost a number of battles with the Zhao army, the Qin army in the process of fighting, and in Taiyuan and other counties encountered civilian resistance and lost a lot of manpower, has been forced to retreat to the source of the Yellow River near the source of only about 180,000 remaining.

After the Han army went north, at least 160,000 Hu people were annihilated in Hetao, but the 160,000 people annihilated were not Touman's participating troops, but actually the herdsmen who provided logistics for Touman.

In the Battle of Hetao, the Han army killed and wounded about 60,000 Hu herdsmen, captured more than 100,000, and the number of war horses among the booty obtained reached more than 300,000, and the cattle and sheep and other livestock were even more than 3 million heads.

If Meng Tian could really annihilate or severely damage the Touman Department in the next three months, as Lu Zhe valued, it is estimated that he would still be able to capture a lot of war horses and livestock, and then maybe he could plan to add some cavalry legions on the basis of the number of war horses he held.

"Yes, have you seen all the war horses that Sima Xin sent back?" Lu Zhe suddenly mentioned this as if he thought of something.

It's about a battle with Maudun, those war horses captured by the Han army on the battlefield. That one lasted two days and one night. The Han army captured about 3,000 horses, of which nearly 800 were undiscovered horses in China and the surrounding areas.

When those war horses were sent to Nanling, they caused a sensation, and they were not hidden after they were sent, only a few majestic horses were included in Lu Zhe, and most of them were still placed in the camp outside the city, and they were pulled out from time to time, and those who wanted to see had the opportunity to watch.

"I heard that there are many such horse breeds in the Western Regions, and there are more western...... The place called Central Asia is more majestic than the Western Pole Horse or the Wanma. ”

"Your Majesty, the hussar general didn't send the paperwork. What kind of envoys came from Tia and Bhakt, and there was also a tribal alliance called Wusun who also sent envoys? ”

"Parthia and Bactria, one was the Persian empire, and the other was founded by the descendants of Alexander the Great of Macedonia."

"Huh? Yes, yes, is it possible to buy war horses from them? ”

"Parthia and Bactria are too far away from us, but there is a possibility on the Usun side."

At this moment, in today's modern age, whether a horse is a good breed or not is not just a matter of ornamentation. Having discovered the fierce men of the cavalry, where is it not clear whether the cavalry sits down on the horse or not?

Lu Zhe also thought of something and suddenly talked about the issue of war horses, and after just talking about it for a while, he turned the topic back to the war in Northern Xinjiang.

The Hu people in the depths of the grassland are about to assemble and go south, judging from a series of intelligence. The Hu army gathered by the Xiongnu, Ding Ling, Jiankun, Hujie and Rong people, and Di people will not be less than 300,000, and if it is according to the Hu people's battle habits, there should be 120,000 people hanging behind to shepherd and raise livestock, so there will be more than 500,000 Hu people roaring south. It can be said that it is the largest number of Hu people in history to invade the south.

The Hu people's conquest was like that, except for the organized fighters, there would always be a group of herdsmen following behind. Otherwise, what do the Hu people eat, is it really just a robbery to maintain logistics? That's just a joke!

Lu Zhe vaguely remembered that in the original history, after Maudun unified the grassland, there were nearly 500,000 people under the account, and in the "Siege of Baideng", more than 500,000 grassland cavalry were indeed dispatched.

Now Mao Dun is still a struggling Xiongnu prince, the Xiongnu have not conquered the Western Regions, nor have they defeated Ding Lingren, let alone defeated the Eastern Hu, so that is to say, they have not absorbed enough nutrients, and the power belonging to the Xiongnu is about 200,000 troops.

In fact, Lu Zhe originally thought that the Hu people who needed to deal with the Xiongnu and Monan would also gather south, and the initial series of preparatory measures was to deal with the Hu army of about 300,000.

It is precisely because of Lu Zhe's prejudgment error and a series of natural and man-made disasters that it can be said that the Battle of Northern Xinjiang was quite smooth at the beginning, but in the following series of accidents, the implementation of the formulated tactical strategy was greatly damaged, so that the Battle of Northern Xinjiang should have been fruitful within a year...... At least the war against the Xiongnu and other Hu people in the south of the desert has been dragged on again and again, and even the Hu people in the north of the desert have been affected.

Fortunately, the country under the rule of Lu Zhe had a Taiwei Office similar to the General Staff, and the possible accidents were calculated at the beginning of the battle plan, and then the ruling government made a preventive plan, and after the accident occurred, new corps could be dispatched north to participate in the war, and enough manpower and material resources could be mobilized in the country to support the war.

The scale of the war is getting bigger and bigger, but Lu Zhe won't admit that he got away with it. Even if there are repeated accidents, he has always maintained a confident attitude. While he is constantly changing his combat deployment, his heart is becoming more and more wild, if he can understand his thoughts, it is a kind of mentality that even if he pays enough price, he will hit the Hu people hard, and lay a good foundation for going deep into the grassland in the future.

"Is the head of the border county really going to move inward?"

"Yes, temporarily move inward, put them into construction, and make other arrangements after the fighting has subsided."

"......, then the ruling government will make proper arrangements, and with nearly one million people relocated inward, I believe that the recovery of the Central Plains can be restored faster."

That's what he said, but Xiao He was actually entangled in his heart.

Relocating people has never been an easy thing, the movement of people needs to be notified in place, all kinds of ideological work must also be done, and at the same time, the arrangements after the internal relocation are even more complicated to suffocation, Xiao He needs to be glad that the country has accumulated enough experience in the long-term cash-for-work relief, and there are also strong finances and materials to use, otherwise it will be a disaster.

Kuaitong showed a silent gesture, he could learn a lot of key points from the series of administrative instructions issued by Lu Zhe, and the determination of the object of their allegiance this time was amazing, and he could only hope that the development of events would go according to expectations.

As long as anyone who knows the overall strategic deployment knows that it will be a big gamble, if the bet wins, it will eliminate enough Hu people to lay the foundation for the future march into the depths of the grassland, and if the bet is lost, the northern border counties are full of devastation, which is relatively light, and it is very likely that it will become the pasture of the Hu people, and all of them will become sinners of the Chinese ethnic group.

Lu Zhe found that some people's hearts were heavy, and he said with a smile: "In the early stage of the war, the counties of the border area have basically been destroyed, even if they are not destroyed by the civil war, they have all suffered when Touman led the army to invade the south, and there is nothing that can be destroyed economically. ”

Xiao He agrees with this, the civil war has destroyed all places, the southern invasion of the Hu people is also raging everywhere, and the counties of the border are not as good as the interior in terms of economy and agriculture, and they have repeatedly experienced disasters without assistance, and the current millions of people do not know how many will be left in the next few years.

"It's so erosive that there is no family fund, and the state organizes and arranges work, and at least there will be no starvation to death if food is provided," Lu Zhe really thought about it, not a temporary idea for a while: "...... Being able to get wages is not only a hope for them to live, but also to have some savings, which is the best placement for them. ”

There are some verbal embellishments, but they are absolutely true, and there is nothing to refute except to make millions of people leave their homes...... (To be continued......)