Only by sincere unity and concerted efforts can an army forge a cohesive force from within itself, and then become a powerful and hidden combat force on the battlefield.

Therefore, this time, Liu Xing also formally decided to take the eight characters of "sincerity, patriotism, unity, and progress" as the basic principles and slogans of army building, and shouted them in an all-round way among the three armed forces of the Great Song Dynasty and deeply rooted them in the hearts of every officer and soldier.

Adhering to this basic principle, Liu Xing firmly believed that after a period of development, after the previous mustards in the various armies of the Great Song Dynasty were completely wiped out and eliminated, a powerful army that could respond to all-weather battles, be invincible, and be invincible would completely appear.

In response to this, Liu Xing asked the division to personally supervise and be sure to select the best and best guards within three months.

As long as the ten major armies of the Guards achieve the goal of full strength, they will train for a year and a half at most. Liu Xing believed that even if there was a great turmoil like the late Tang Dynasty in the Great Song Dynasty in the future, with these 800,000 forbidden troops, as long as there was no stupid Shoufu, it would be enough to sweep the Quartet and suppress all rebellions......

"800,000 forbidden troops?" Hearing this, the seed master couldn't help but look at Liu Xing with a look of surprise and said, "Okay, your innovation this time, can't you even deepen the innovation in staffing?" Ten armies, up to 500,000 people, how can you say 800,000? ”

In terms of the current establishment of the former division of the Northern Dynasty Palace, and even the border army, it is already the norm for an army to be at most 50,000 people and a town to be at most 20,000.

After raising such a question in the seed master, Liu Xing smiled slightly and said: "Yes, many of the teams that Yang Yizhong and I have rotated for him now are already 20,000 people reported in a town, but there are actually at least 2,300,000 people. Wu Juna is the same, a commander of the military capital, often has to command three to five towns to start a battle. ”

The words paused slightly. Liu Xing's face was straight, and he immediately said: "Keeping pace with the times, since there is no shortage of soldiers and horses in my dynasty now, and it has become fashionable for Ding Zhuang to compete in the army, then why don't I push the boat with the flow and update the allocation method among the generals according to the situation?" ”

Speaking of this, Liu Xing put down his pen and continued to expound his in-depth ideas for comprehensively reforming the military system at all levels.

According to Liu Xingxin's idea, grassroots combat units are still based on battalions, and each battalion must adhere to the upper limit of three teams and 400 people, so as to avoid a sharp increase in casualties on the battlefield due to ineffective command when there are too many soldiers and too few generals.

At the most basic level. Liu Xing decided to reduce it due to the lack of generals. In reality, however, this reduction will be expanded in disguise due to the innovation of the establishment method.

Why is it expanding in disguise? The reason is that the standard above the battalion, each standard is three battalions, and the regular full strength is 1,500 people. The association above the standard will also be under the jurisdiction of three standards, with a regular full staffing of 5,000 people.

The three-three system, which is extremely common in later generations, is just that in today's era, everyone can have Liu Xing's clear thinking and consciousness.

Since the three-three system has been adopted, the towns above the association will naturally have to take the three associations as the towns, with a full quota of 20,000 people. The army above the town level is the army of the three towns, and the full strength shall not exceed 75,000 people.

Once the number of troops exceeds 50,000, according to the current war situation and experience, Liu Xing, the seed division, and even the subjects of the government and the opposition can see it very clearly. It is necessary to equip special baggage, equipment, transport supervision, and other troops.

Therefore, at the army level, it is said that it is a full strength of 75,000 people, but it still needs to be equipped with an abnormal support force of about 5,000 people directly under it.

In this way, the ten corps of the Royal Guard, with a regular force of 750,000 people, and Lei Zhen, who is bound to be the first commander of the Imperial Guard, will have about 50,000 troops stationed near Gyeonggi to be responsible for the baggage, equipment, transportation, supervision and assistance of these 750,000 people, and the total number will naturally reach 800,000 regular staff......

In the same way, Wu Jue, Yang Yizhong, and Liu Jian are now said to have only three armies.

But in fact, according to the situation reported by the Military Intelligence Department, Wu Jue's three armies were fighting and recruiting at the same time. Recruiting generals along the way from Hubei to Huainan West Road, the total strength of his three armies had already exploded, reaching 450,000 or even 500,000.

of his 500,000 thousand. There must be many old and weak soldiers who are still doing the work of logistical support, equipment replenishment before the formation, and transport supervision.

Rather than letting some of the old and weak soldiers who should have retired stay there to drag Wu Jue's combat strength, it is better to directly cut them down and order them to retire and return to the local area for resettlement. The vacated positions will be filled by young recruits with little combat experience, which will instead activate more combat readiness and replenishment strength.

So this time, Liu Xing set an upper limit for Wu Juexian's full strength, and only gave him 400,000 people and five armies. If it is exceeded, more than one person will directly fine him for one month. If he has the ability, Wu Jue will continue to lead troops in excess of the quota, and Liu Xing doesn't care about the fine he owes to the court for three lifetimes......

"Aren't you afraid that once Wu Jue turns his face, he will directly take his 500,000 army to play the role of supporting the army and standing on the Huainan West Road?" The seed master heard that Liu Xing actually wanted to use more than one person and a month of fines to force Wu Jue's elite soldiers to streamline their administration. I couldn't help but say worriedly.

Hearing this, Liu Xing smiled faintly and said: "Wu Jue can bring Xishu back, which shows that he is not a person who wants to list the territory and seal the territory, and he is a person who has no ambition to establish himself as a king. He is not stupid, he knows better than Zhong Xiang and Zhang Heizi what kind of strength I am now. 500,000, I will give double, a million troops, he will not take to do that kind of rebellious and deadly deeds. ”

Even if they have millions of troops, they dare not stand on their own. After hearing Liu Xing's words, the planter center couldn't help but feel a sense of meaning and reluctantly respected.

Throughout the ages, no matter who holds the supreme power, I am afraid that they will not have the domineering self-confidence that Liu Xing has now. This is not an attack of evil madness, and the seed master understands that Liu Xing's domineering self-confidence comes from the complete set of new regulations that he has led and formulated.

Even if Wu Jue has millions of soldiers, many of the generals at all levels under him are Liu Xing's protégés. Even if he has mastered the entire territory of Hubei and Huaixi, all the civil and military officials on that territory are not his people, but Liu Xing's people who went down to "help" him.

In this case, even if Han Xin is alive and rebels, there is only one result, that is, waiting to be played to death by Liu Xing's continuous "going up the beam and drawing ladders".

Even when he dies, I am afraid that he will regret his mistakes and pray that he will not meet Liu Xing, the first evil prime minister in the past few years, in the next life...... (To be continued.) )