"In other words, this aspect has basically been revealed. It's time for us to calculate the general ledger. Zichuan, you did such a big thing without notifying us. At least we should be mentally prepared!" Li You took a deep breath!
In one breath, all the original sleepiness subsided. What happened yesterday really made Li You very angry.
"Well, I was playing casual chess at the time, and it turned out like this, which was beyond my expectation." Chen Xi said helplessly, "I never thought that Ji Xiang would change so much."
"You'd better file a record for this kind of thing. This is no joke. If you weren't on guard so closely, our first priority in the next step would be to shift from unifying and leaving the Central Plains to fighting against cults." Guo Jia
He said with a solemn expression.
"This kind of thing will never happen again." Chen Xi also admitted his mistake with a serious face.
"The next step is to solve the problem of this group of prisoners. By the way, we may also need to communicate with Cao Sikong. After all, some of this wave of prisoners are still building roads from Chang'an to Hanzhong, and from Chang'an to the Western Regions to Congling." Li Youyou said.
He nodded, did not continue to dwell on this aspect, and started to solve the substantive issues.
"Well, that's right. There are a lot of people in that group, but do you think they will pay attention to the miscellaneous prisoners? I'm afraid they will just distribute them to local personnel to start construction and forget about it." Chen Xi asked back, while Li You remained silent.
, he has also considered this aspect, but he is more worried about whether Cao Cao will covet this aspect of power from other channels, or after discovering it accidentally.
"I think it's better not to tell this matter." The judgments of Guo Jia and Chen Xi are somewhat similar. Although it is a bit risky, on the one hand, Cao Cao himself is very likely not to know about this matter. On the other hand, even if Cao Cao knows it, there is no way.
Take action.
"I'll think about this again." Li Yousi thought for a while and decided to think about it again. After all, this is not a trivial matter.
"General Zhang and others suggested that after the summer harvest, all militiamen, field soldiers, and veterans from various places should be gathered together for a unified military training." Chen Xi said slowly.
"Do you agree?" Guo Jia asked curiously.
"They will do it even if I don't agree. At most, they won't have troops stationed in the fields. This kind of thing is actually just a routine notification. Do you really think they won't train troops if we don't agree? What's more, in my opinion, this matter is quite serious.
Not bad." Chen Xi said speechlessly.
Under Liu Bei's rule, the separation of military and political affairs has not been strictly completed yet. It seems that civil servants have relatively greater power.
In fact, many things can only be said to be due to the fact that the generals looked at their own military advisors and their civil service capabilities were strong enough, so they routinely informed them.
More than 90% of the people who come to report this matter are to see if the other party can give some good suggestions or help. In fact, except for Chen Xi, no one else can actually take care of this when there is no war.
of a military commander.
"Are you preparing for war? Are you planning to shake off the wealth you have accumulated over the years? This is not a routine meeting." Guo Jia said with a smile when he heard this.
"Well, that's what I mean. We are going to pull the army out for a walk, let Cao Mengde and Sun Boxu feel our power in advance, and be prepared to admit defeat. Well, maybe it can stimulate their fighting spirit.
But it’s not important.” Chen Xi smiled and said, “This is a money-burning sport.”
"Registered soldiers will all be counted. I plan to pull out the so-called 600,000 troops. The 600,000 troops are fully equipped, all wearing armor, and have experienced the battlefield to the level of a talented elite.
Yoyo should be interesting," Chen Xi said with a chuckle.
"Are there so many?" Li You and Guo Jia took a breath of air.
Although Guo Jia clearly knew that his army of 600,000 including the field soldiers was not a boast. With a population of nearly 30 million, the standing force was only 200,000, but the 400,000 field soldiers did always exist.
But now you tell me that all the 400,000 field soldiers are elite talents, and not all of our main battle regiments have reached this level. Are you kidding!
"Yes, you think I haven't done anything for so many years?" Chen Xi said with a smile.
"What I mean is that all 400,000 field soldiers have reached the elite standard?" Guo Jia said in disbelief.
"Of course... I'm joking." Chen Xi laughed and scolded, how could there be an elite army of 600,000? You are completely overthinking it.
"I just said, how is this possible?" Guo Jia muttered.
"I'm afraid that most of the 600,000-strong army are already veterans. Zichuan's military system eliminated many veterans who were less than a centurion into the field soldiers as centurions, and except for the core legions, all other legions were
They are constantly recruited and replenished from the field soldiers." Li You said slowly.
Chen Xi nodded, "If the battle between Yuan and Liu had been delayed a little later, my hand had been better, and the training time before the decisive battle had been longer, you might have been able to see the 400,000 talented elites who had gone through the war.
Now it can only be said that there are 600,000 veterans, of which 200,000 are standing troops. As for the soldiers who can truly be blessed with elite talents, there are 300,000."
"Hiss!" Guo Jia took a breath of air. How did he save 300,000 veterans with elite talents? To be honest, the total number of commonly used legions does not include 200,000 troops.
"This is too scary." Li You was also surprised, while Chen Xi smiled.
Although Chen Xi's military system seems a bit criticizing. After all, a soldier who has not died in battle until he is thirty years old is actually rich in experience and in his prime of fighting. However, Chen Xi's military system makes this age group
Veterans who have not yet reached centurion status are discharged.
Although the centurion is only the captain of a hundred men, serving as a soldier means that for 99% of the soldiers who come from the lower class, they will usually be the top soldiers for the rest of their lives. Therefore, in reality, the mobility of Liu Bei's soldiers is actually
Far higher than the normal level.
However, in reality, these top soldiers did not have any disabilities and were discharged from the army, and most of them were in their early thirties. They were actually very capable of fighting. In addition, they had experienced the war and had even reached the standard quality of a talented elite at that time.
When he was returned to the field soldiers, he actually did not neglect training.
Even the vast majority of them have been promoted to one level and serve as the bottom, grassroots and even middle-level generals of the field soldiers.
These soldiers who have experienced the war, not to mention others, are far more experienced than the field soldiers who have never been on the battlefield. A large number of high-quality and experienced veterans have retired and are leading the training as the backbone. They who have experienced the war know very well that flow
Sweating is much better than bleeding.
This is also the reason why the overall quality of Liu Bei's field soldiers is pretty good. In addition, Chen Xi retires veterans year by year, and then reorganizes the field soldiers into the backbone. Sometimes he expands the size of his troops to create a group of soldiers who have experienced wars, and sometimes he shrinks them.
Increase the proportion of key veterans with combat experience among the field soldiers.
Up to now, relying on this method of mutual secondment and adjustment, except for the new recruits this year, all the field soldiers under Liu Bei's rule have actually been on the battlefield. Some even have the name of being field soldiers. In fact, after continuous adjustments in the past few years,
They are simply thirty-year-old experienced elite veterans.
If life was hard back then, turning 30 might mean going to the grave. But now, regardless of how good the food is, Chen Xi can ensure that these soldiers are well-fed and don't care if they see meat and fish once or twice a month.
In such a brutal situation, a thirty-year-old veteran is basically in the most balanced state of experience and physical strength.
Just like when Wei Yan was recruiting troops for the Battle of Yuan and Liu, there was no time to train new recruits. Liu Bei directly ordered veterans aged thirty to thirty-five to report. At that time, Taishan gathered more than 20,000 elite veterans.
If these veterans were assigned according to their classification, half of them were actually at the elite level with elite talents, so Wei Yan was able to create a fairly capable legion on the spot.
This was only in Taishan. Although Taishan was the political center under Liu Bei's rule at that time, and it was when the war was about to begin, it was normal to have more veterans, but their number definitely did not reach 30%. Therefore,
It can be seen how many cards Chen Xi already had at that time.
As for now, Chen Xi has secretly seized about 12,000 double-talented super elite infantry, about 170,000 elite legions, and about 200,000 war veterans.
We know that Liu Bei's regular troops are only 200,000, of which only 20,000 are truly dual-talented super elites, and only 110,000 are elite troops. The remaining 780,000 or 80,000 are veterans that Chen Xi uses in rotation.
In other words, Liu Bei's apparent ability to suppress Sun Ce and Cao Cao is less than half of his true strength. This is the reason why Chen Xi is not afraid of Sun Ce and Cao Cao at all. If it weren't for Chen Xi's inability to deal with water,
The army only knows how to build ships, how can it be Zhou Yu's turn to jump?
"We actually have such strength, why didn't I know?" Although Li You had some guesses, when Chen Xi told the facts, he still looked at Chen Xi with a blank expression. Chen Xi was playing these things under his nose.
He was really surprised.
"Don't you know that General Guan and the others have made trouble before?" Chen Xi said with a smile, "But at that time I relied on my own prestige to suppress this matter. However, in reality, I didn't really retire from the army. I just
Integrate them into the field soldiers as the backbone of new recruits, and try to improve the recruits' battlefield survival rate as much as possible, and then gradually snowball."
Can Chen Xi say that his snowball was almost smashed by Yuan Shao? During Yuan Shao's attack, Liu Bei hurriedly summoned a wave of about 60,000 veterans. Although it greatly increased his own strength, even after crossing the Yellow River, the logistics
After the supply line exceeds twice that of Yuan Shao, it can stabilize Yuan Shao's pressure, but it does almost dismantle Chen Xi's entire military service system.
