A week after the Death Continent began the Death Purgatory Season, the Pingzhou Army held a high-level civilian-military joint meeting.

It's not that Shang Ji didn't want to open earlier, but the situation was too critical before, and both the main military generals and high-ranking civil officials were too busy to touch the ground, and they didn't have time to hold a meeting.

After seven days of combing and adapting, the Pingzhou Army finally passed the most difficult moment, although there have been some floods, fires, rebellions and other chaos from time to time recently, but the Pingzhou Army, which has gradually adapted to the rhythm of the death storm, can basically handle it freely.

After all, so many historical generals are not dry, they were caught off guard at the beginning, and after reacting, the ability of historical generals was quickly displayed, whether it was quelling the rebellion or rectifying the order, they did it quite smoothly one by one.

"Wen Ruo, you first introduce the current situation of our army."

Xun immediately got up, looked around at the group of speakers, and said: "Lord, in the past few months, our army has eliminated the rogues on the one hand and rectified public order, and on the other hand, vigorously cultivated and recuperated and developed production, which has significantly improved the situation of our army.

According to the instructions of the lord before his departure, after the lord's expedition to India, our army began to reorganize its strength, reducing the army from the original 200 regiments of 24 million men to 136 regiments of 15 million. Although the number of troops has been reduced by 9 million, all those who have been eliminated are the old, weak, sick and disabled, and after three months of strict training, our army's comprehensive combat strength has not only not decreased, but has increased a lot! ”

Saying that, Xun smiled slightly proudly and continued: "It is precisely because of these measures that our army's performance in the face of the death storm is significantly better than that of other forces, and the losses suffered by horizontal comparison are also the smallest!" ”

Affected by the disaster, in fact, it is afraid of comparison!

Objectively speaking, over the past week, hundreds of disasters, large and small, have occurred within the territory of the Pingzhou Army, with more than 150 casualties of more than 1,000 people. The super-large-scale earthquake in Canghe City caused more than 700,000 military and civilian casualties at one time, and the loss of manpower and material resources cannot be counted!

But!

Compared with other surrounding forces, the performance of the Pingzhou army, which has been cultivating for more than a few months, is much better.

After three months of all-out cultivation and recuperation, and through the all-out administration of Xun and other government personnel, the public order in the major cities of the Pingzhou Military District was basically above 80.

Even if twenty points are deducted due to the arrival of the death purgatory season, it can barely maintain above the passing line.

Some countries and regions are miserable, only caring about overdrawing the people's strength and grabbing land by force, the storm of death blows over, and the people's hearts and security in many cities are crazy and bursting.

Coupled with the fact that the obedience of residents has dropped significantly during the season of death purgatory, the probability of riots has soared, and domestic rebellions have occurred one after another.

Natural disasters have surged up, and some countries and regions have even been directly driven out of the city by the aborigines of the riots, and have become an alternative exile force to destroy the country.

Fortunately, everyone has been miserable recently, and they don't have time to invade other countries, otherwise these unlucky countries and regions will really lose their country.

"What is the current state of the army?"

"Lord Qi, fortunately, thanks to the wisdom of the lord, the old and weak army with low morale and poor combat strength was dismantled in advance, and the remaining troops of our army are all elite in a hundred battles, even though there were some small riots caused by the arrival of the death storm, but there was no big mess under the concerted suppression of all the generals. At present, the loyalty and morale of the army are close to beginning to slowly recover, and I believe that it will not be long before it will be restored to its heyday! ”

As the chief military advisor, Xi Zhicai got up and reported the situation of the army.

It is also a coincidence that in order to deal with the theocratic alliance, Shang Ji frantically recruited cheap Yellow Turban Army, causing the total strength of the Pingzhou Army to swell to more than 20 million like balloons.

However, everyone knows the combat effectiveness of the ordinary Yellow Turban Army, and of course the character of Shang Ji will not waste food with these fish belly troops.

After repelling the theocratic alliance, the Pingzhou Army started a vigorous disarmament operation at the signal of Shang Ji.

Except for some talented people, the other newly recruited Yellow Turban Army were all eliminated. Although this wasted a lot of money and food, it improved the average quality of the Pingzhou army and allowed Shang Ji to escape a catastrophe.

The discipline, military spirit, and loyalty of the Yellow Turban Army in the normal state are quite reluctant, if the Yellow Turban Army, which was as high as 10 million at the beginning, has not been dismantled, it is almost certain that the death storm will come, and the Yellow Turban Army will definitely rebel on a large scale!

Although the combat effectiveness of the Yellow Turban Army is not high, it is a huge number, and it is within its own side, once it rebels, the blow to the Pingzhou Army is almost fatal!

Of course, Shang Ji didn't have the foresight to predict the outbreak of the Death Storm, he just didn't like the large number of cannon fodder troops in his army.

"What is the situation of our army in the recent period? Do you have any specific data? What are the long-term effects of Death Purgatory? What changes will the current national war situation bring about because of the Death Storm? ”

After knowing that the army had basically settled down, Shang Ji also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. As long as the army is stable, everything is not a problem. After grasping the situation, Shang Ji had time to shift his attention to the Death Storm and think about the far-reaching impact of the Death Storm on the National War Continent.

This question was obviously asked to Guo Jia, Xi Zhicai, Xun and other strategists, the three of them looked at each other, nodded, and then Xi Zhicai answered Shang Ji's question as a representative.

"Lord Qi, according to statistics, in the past week, due to various natural disasters**, the cumulative number of casualties under the rule of our army has been as high as 1.32 million, including 80,000 army dead and wounded (including the army that was suppressed by the rebellion), because of the disaster, a large city was basically destroyed and lost its repair significance (Canghe City), seven intermediate cities and twelve small cities were seriously damaged and suffered heavy losses.

In terms of materials, a total of 12 large and small warehouses were destroyed due to various reasons, and 7 million stone of grain was lost, 12 million pieces of finished military rations, 6 million pieces of cloth, and 160,000 stone of tea, salt, sugar, and other materials. There are 600,000 pairs of armor, 800,000 weapons of various types, 120 large catapults, and a large number of various basic materials. ”

"Why are there so many?"

Even with Shang Ji's current value, he couldn't help but feel a heartache after hearing the specific amount of loss.

Now it is not as good as before, the production efficiency has plummeted, and the prices of many scarce materials have skyrocketed several times in just a few days, and there is no market!

"Earthquakes, fires, torrential rains, fires, chaos and even insects, all kinds of unimaginable disasters poured up, and some warehouses were directly swallowed by Zhurong. Even there is a warehouse in the main city, because of the heavy rain for several days, the warehouse is flooded with gold. ”

Xi Zhicai smiled bitterly and explained helplessly.