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

New reserve system.

Originally, all the Xiang army and the village soldiers of the Song Dynasty were abolished according to Yang Feng's reforms. Hundreds of thousands of Xiang army, which had no combat capabilities, had purely degenerated into chores, were directly disbanded. Some of the need to be used, such as those warehouse guards, were changed to chores, but they were no longer used as military personnel, and local officials could be hired according to their respective needs.

It’s really a redundant employee who rents the official land for a piece of official land and feeds it yourself!

But implement a reserve system.

All young and middle-aged men who are not disabled, as long as they are all included in the reserve service within their age range, and then each prefecture or state will set up one or several reserve brigades according to the number of people. The Ministry of War is responsible for managing them completely according to the organization of the National Defense Forces. The Ministry of War will be responsible for the management of them. The Commander's Office will send people to train. All reserves must conduct military training for a certain number of days every year. During the training period, pay and pay fines for those who do not participate. Later, the army will be recruited from these people, similar to the selection and delivery of the wing army to the imperial guards in the past. Local officials can apply to the Ministry of War when needed to mobilize reserves to suppress bandits, forced disaster relief and other activities. When encountering foreign invasion, these reserves can also be gathered by local officials in the same way to participate in the war, but once they participate in the war, they must be controlled by the commander of the war zone.

This is the reserve system.

But this system has facilitated local officials' resistance to Yang Feng.

They really can't get involved in the army.

But they can train the reserves and then form an army in partnership to attack the court when they need it! Each state, one brigade, one road, one army, and even one army like Chengdu Prefecture is not a problem. You should know that Chengdu Prefecture alone has more than 180,000 households and 500,000 households!

This mouth is a man.

Our population in the Song Dynasty is never considered a woman.

And it's not a child either.

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

One Ding is the only one army if you take twenty!

The rest is how to train them well!

This is easy.

The gentry in Jianghuai and Jinghu are rich. According to Yang Feng's reform reserve costs, they are temporarily responsible for themselves, but they cannot increase taxes. They are mainly paid by patriotic donations, but they are only entrusted to the upper third-class households, namely rich peasants and landlords, and the lower third-class households, namely self-cultivated farmers, customers, and tenants, are not within the scope of patriotic donations. So for these landlords and old wealthy landlords, the rest is simple. They are nothing more than paying some money to give them the best armor and the best weapons, and the military pay is sufficient, and they can eat them enough, so they can train them well, and then let the great scholars wash them up!

As long as their combat effectiveness is not inferior to that of the National Defense Forces, what else should I be afraid of?

Once Yang Feng really implements the equal-field system, let go of his hands. If he has soldiers and food, he is afraid that he will do something. Anyway, this is what Yang Feng wants...

Well, this is really what Yang Feng wants.

First, he had to give these gentry the confidence and courage to take action, and second, he could fully mobilize their enthusiasm and establish his reserve system as quickly as possible.

By the way, there are some people in the Song Dynasty.

In the first year of Chongning, the great painter counted 45.32 million adult men in the country, and 20 million strong men were stressed. If you really want to improve the reserves, you will have a reserve source of ten million. Even if you take one ten, you will form a large army of two million. In this era, two million troops that have undergone real military training and support of faith, even if you don’t have a flintlock rifle or an axe gun, you can easily defeat all enemies! All the Jin and Western Xia and Mongolia have to stand aside. It is hard to say whether there are two million men, women, young and old in the Xixia country. The size of the Song Dynasty was originally crushing to the surrounding king!

Even at its peak, the population of Liao was only one-tenth of that of the Song Dynasty.

Unfortunately, a group of civil servants who were responsible for weakening the army and the people eventually became a waste of money who could beat anyone up and wipe out a small tribe in Longyou.

Even if there are relatively alien civil servants like Fan Zhongyan, it is useless.

You should know that the population of the Song Dynasty was far higher than that of the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

With a population far exceeding the prosperous Tang Dynasty, not to mention that it was as strong as it was in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, it even managed its own territory, and even allowed Annan, who was placed at the bottom of the Tang Dynasty's Jiedushi, to massacre the city. The same medium-sized Xixia among the Tang Dynasty's Jiedushi, could force the Song Dynasty to spend money to buy peace.

This is completely weird!

In this way, Yang Feng will make a complete transformation of him, turning a 100 million population, a number that suffocates all enemies into real strength, and then crushing all the enemies around him and sweeping the world with two million troops.

The reserve service is just the first step. He must first fool the officials to follow his designed route. They complete the reserve service in various places according to his requirements and improve them. After he flattened these guys, he will directly accept them, complete the rapid expansion of the Song army, and then release this surging torrent to the outside world, and a million troops will conquer Liaodong and make a thorough sweep.

This is his plan.

But the officials in the south would not know about this. They had already made up their minds to clear the monarch once Yang Feng implemented the Mutual Field Order, and they became honest in order to hide their plans.

They had to confuse Yang Feng, and had to let this monster relax their vigilance, so that he could not see their true intentions. Only in this way could they get enough time to train the army. Therefore, these guys did not resist the will issued by Bianliang, whether it was 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 maintained superficial harmony with each other.

Then wait for the final battle.

And at this moment, Zongze's troops finally captured Zhending.

He used thirty counterweight catapults to directly collapse the Zhending City Wall, and then more than 50,000 troops who had been waiting outside rushed in. The puppet troops who had been waiting for this moment immediately turned against each other. The five thousand gold troops in Zhending City were wiped out, and none of them could run out.

At this point, all Hebei Road was restored.

On the same day, Han Shizhong and other troops began to arrive at the front line one after another. He would lead the headquarters that had been handed over to the command of Jie Yuan, the reorganized Seventh Army of the National Defense Army, the Eighth Army of the National Defense Army adapted by Miao Fu, and the Ninth Army of the Wang Yuan. A total of three armies, 90,000 troops were divided into three routes to dominate the two states. Each of these three armies had an additional cavalry brigade. In addition to the 4,000 medium-sized cavalry similar to the snare horse, there was also a heavy cavalry battalion, and a full set of heavy armored cavalry...

Now Yang Feng is no shortage of good horses.

After all, most of the war horses of the Jin army fell into his hands. At present, he has armed a total of 5,000 cavalry units, all of which were given to the armies attacking Yanshan Prefecture.

In addition to these three armies, Yao Youzhong and Gao Shidan's two armies sailed north to Qingzhou.

That is, he took the route of raiding Youzhou in the Five Barbarians time and space.

At this time, the Yellow River flows directly into Tianjin and goes out from the Haihe River. The transport ship can directly reach the position of modern Tianjin. Although the route to Lushui cannot sail large ships, small transport ships ensure that the transportation supplies of more than a hundred miles are still fine. Gao Yao and his two armies can move upstream along this line to form a formation, and their targets reach the name of the Song Dynasty, which is completely regrettable for a hundred years...

Sorghum River.

At the same time, Zong Ze's troops, who completed the Battle of Zhending, went north along Zhongshan and Baoding to attack directly from Yanshan.

Three armies advanced in unison.

Two hundred thousand powerful soldiers attacked Youzhou in the north!

But at this moment, Yang Feng encountered some unexpected little trouble.

Lingchuan.

"What did they eat to get out?"

The guards on the city wall, the second brigade of the First Army, Zhao Buyou, the general of Yue Fei in history, said in shock, as he looked at the turbulent black tides in the wilderness under the moonlight.

This is the 20th day after the Huaizhou War.

After disappearing in the Taihang Mountains for twenty days, the Jin army finally appeared, but appeared in a place that no one expected. This was the north of Zezhou. The Jin army did not appear in Zezhou, which was closest to the nearest possible crossing the mountainous area, but appeared in Lingchuan, which needed to cross the straight line of mountains more than two hundred miles away.

and……

They obviously did not starve half to death.

"No, even if there is food in the mountains, it is impossible for them to maintain the establishment."

His deputy said.

Indeed, although the attacking Jin army did not have 40,000 people, there were always 20,000. They were like a group of crazy wild boars, carrying temporary long ladders and rushing into the small town. Their ability to maintain the system means that there is plenty of food along the way, otherwise even if they hunt, they can only be dispersed. Once they are scattered in the mountains, it is almost impossible to gather again.

But it is impossible for so many people to eat in the mountains!

unless……

"Eat your own people!"

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

OK, they guessed it right!

"Kill, open the city without leaving any chickens and dogs!"

In the wilderness outside the city, Jin Wushu waved his mace and roared, and then led the way to the small square city.

All the Jin soldiers beside him were yelling.

At this moment, they were like a group of wild wolves who had just bitten their companions. They had really just bitten their companions. In the mountains behind them, there were bones of their companions they had gnawed everywhere.

The Jin army made it through cannibalism and walked out of the mountains.

And they eat their own people.

The strong prey on the weak. For these barbarians who grew up in the cold, they had no psychological burden to eat when they didn’t eat. Jamu, Jin Wushu and others were not fools. They knew the consequences of entering the forest, but they could only do this when they were desperate. If they didn’t eat enough food after entering the forest, what else could they eat without eating?
Chapter completed!