Lu Bu and his entourage left the city gate and sped quickly towards the military camp outside. It was Di's military camp belonging to Jiuyuan County.
It is the most powerful army in Jiuyuan County. Jiuyuan County has six counties, and there are not many counties attached to the border areas.
Because they are at the border all year round and are invaded by the alien tribes on the grasslands, most of them are concentrated here at the border in the North.
People will choose to join a group to keep warm. When faced with the alien tribes on the grassland, they naturally want to join a group, so the county branches are relatively concentrated.
According to Jiuyuan County, if placed in the Central Plains, its area is comparable to that of a superior county. There is no problem in being spread over more than ten counties.
But if you are in a border area, you have to be relatively concentrated.
There are county soldiers in each of the six counties, but they are only ordinary second-line troops. There is only this military camp outside Jiuyuan County, where tens of thousands of troops are stationed.
It is also the most powerful army in Jiuyuan County.
Lu Bu was not the captain of Jiuyuan County, but his strength and ability to lead troops in battle made it impossible for the captain, that is, the captain of the county.
The military is all about strength.
Lu Bu's strength convinced these tens of thousands of troops. If they followed him, they would live better.
Just like in the Qin Dynasty, many soldiers in the army were willing to follow Bai Qi, Wang Jian and others, because these people rarely lost battles and even maintained an undefeated record throughout their lives.
In the Qin Dynasty, there was a military merit system. If soldiers at the bottom wanted to live a better life and get more rewards, they could only perform meritorious service.
And if you follow a good general, you have a great chance of making meritorious deeds.
This is also the reason why the morale of the Qin army is terrible, far higher than that of the Six Kingdoms. Because of the military merit system, even if they die, their families can still live well.
Even the lowest title is between 100 and 300 acres, which is granted by the court, although the court's land tax is very high.
But in the Qin Dynasty, the exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes were not as good as those of later generations. Of course, service was still needed, and this was the most terrifying thing.
But once your title reaches the level of no more ordinary service, you no longer need it.
This is also the reason why many people joined the army during the Qin Dynasty, especially the old Qin people, because as long as they performed meritorious service on the battlefield, it would be equivalent to changing their class.
It goes without saying that the status of the army in the Qin Dynasty was great.
This is true in history, and it is even more true in this mythical world.
In the Liu Han era, the military merit system had been abandoned.
But on the border of the North, there is still a certain degree of inheritance. After these soldiers join the army, they can ensure that their families live a better life. Especially regular soldiers, the treatment is very good.
However, what convinced these soldiers the most was Lu Bu's strength, which allowed them to survive against the aliens on the grassland.
The requirements of the frontier troops in the North are actually very simple, that is, to survive.
This requirement seems simple, but it is very complicated. After all, compared with the northern border, the grassland aliens are actually much larger.
There are more than ten border states, and the population may be much different than that of the foreign races on the grassland, but it is impossible for everyone on the Han side to join the army, and the number of soldiers joining the army is not as good as that of the foreign races.
It is said that the alien races on the grassland are a race on horseback and everyone can participate in the war. This is of course an exaggeration. However, the alien races on the grassland are definitely more terrifying than the militancy in the Central Plains.
It is possible that half of the ten people can participate in the battle.
While in the Central Plains there is one person per 100 people, in the border area there may be 20 people.
As a result, their numbers are inferior to those of the grassland aliens.
In wars, numbers don't matter, but sometimes numbers can overwhelm everything.
Most of the time, a thousand elites may feel confident facing 10,000 people, but what about facing 100,000 people?
Just arranging them there can make people shudder.
Even if one hundred thousand people stand there and let you kill them, they will tire you to death.
Sometimes when the border troops faced the foreign races in the grasslands, they were at a disadvantage in terms of numbers. The Han people in the Central Plains far outnumbered the foreign races. However, they always suffered such a disadvantage at the border.
Why, because the grassland center is not willing to support at all and does not care about the border. It just lets them fend for themselves on the border.
How can this not make people in more than ten border states resentful?
Before the rise of Zhang Hu and Lu Bu, Bingzhou naturally had troops, but they were usually self-defense. Every time they faced an attack by a foreign army from the grasslands, they lost countless soldiers every time they resisted, and sometimes they were unable to defend themselves.
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After the rise of Zhang Hu and Lu Bu, great changes took place in Bingzhou. In the battles between the armies, casualties continued to decrease, and they were even able to counterattack the grasslands.
None of these soldiers who joined the army had a blood feud with the aliens on the grassland.
Most of the soldiers were actually sons who inherited their father's legacy, and they died from generation to generation. This blood feud even lasted for dozens of generations.
The appearance of Lu Bu and Zhang Hu allowed them to counterattack the grassland.
Therefore, Lu Bu has become the number one Zhengzhen in the army of Jiuyuan County. Although he is only a captain, the general commanding Jiuyuan County cannot suppress him.
What's more, it won't be suppressed.
The Lu family had already taken root in Jiuyuan County, and Lu Bu's father was an army general in Jiuyuan County.
There were 100,000 troops in Jiuyuan County, including 50,000 elite soldiers. Lu Bu's father commanded 15,000 of them.
However, Lu Bu's captain's department was not large in number, but it was more elite.
When Lu Bu entered the military camp, there was a roar, and soon Su Fan heard that Lu Bu was going to lead his troops out of the grassland again this time.
After imitating the grassland and attacking the grass valley, Lu Bu also counterattacked by attacking the grass valley and the grassland.
Every action brings a lot of benefits to everyone.
In this era, beef and mutton were still very expensive. Ordinary people could not afford to eat it even once a year. Only powerful families could afford it. Even small landowners could not afford it on weekdays.
I might only eat something good during the holidays.
The life of small landowners in ancient times was not very good. Historically, the issue of productivity was how much income those small landowners could earn every year.
Su Fan experienced this personally when he was in the martial arts world. His family was considered a landlord in the county town, and it was quite a big one at that.
However, relying on those thousands of acres of land, the real annual income is only a few hundred to a thousand taels. This number is indeed an astronomical figure for those at the bottom of the class.
But there is a large family to support, and the county government officials also need to take care of themselves on weekdays, so there is really not much left over.
Of course, if you want to eat meat, there is still no shortage.
But at that time, the Su family was a wealthy family in the county.
In this era, beef and mutton, especially beef and mutton from the grasslands, were more expensive. Every time they brought back tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of them, although the soldiers did not get much.