Troubled Times: Start with 800 Dead Soldiers

These people provide Su Xia with a steady stream of population help!

With the help of Li Gaosheng and others, the architecture on Salmon Island has also developed rapidly.

Not only did they develop from the original initial island, they also prepared their own original steel-making islands and continued to expand and develop towards the north.

If we look at the map of Bohai Bay today, we can clearly see that going north from Salmen Island, these dotted islands are connected into a piece, almost reaching today's Dalian.

Cultivated land was also being continuously reclaimed. On the occasion of the beginning of spring in the second year of Zhenghe (1112), with the "connivance" of Taiwei Su Yuan Jingsu, Su Xia's military status in the entire Jingdong East Road was increasing day by day! He suddenly became the leading military general in the Jingdong East Road area and the largest navy general in the entire Northern Song Dynasty!

(Note: Jingdong East Road is a local administrative district in the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127), referring to the east of Kaifeng Prefecture in Bianliang, Tokyo.

In the third year of Zhidao (997), the world was designated as 15 roads. In the fifth year of Xining (1072), Jingdong Road was officially divided into Jingdong East Road and Jingdong East and West Road. The seat of governance is Qingzhou. )

It can be said that Su Xia's development is like a snowball. At the beginning, it was not easy to roll out a small ball, but later on, it will be like a fish in water, and it will get bigger and bigger.

Since Taiwei Su stood up for himself, the development of Salmon Island has reached a new peak. Each island has grown to a population of 15, and has built textile factories, steel mills, and glass factories!

It provides a steady stream of economic follow-up for the sustainable development of Salmon Island!

In terms of military strength, Salmon Island now has a fleet of the Ping Navy.

That is, the "Ping Navy Second Corps" commanded by Zhao Wenhui, the former commander of the Tianwu Army.

As a private army, its strength has been further expanded. The Second Corps has nearly 4000 troops, including the cavalry detachment, which has also expanded to 800 troops!

In other words, the "Second Ping Navy Corps" stationed on Salmon Island now includes a cavalry detachment, an artillery detachment, two infantry combat detachments, and a small water warfare detachment!

The main role of this army is to protect the normal operation and order of Salmon Island and drive away pirates! Restore island residents' production!

The actual strength of the Pinghai Navy officially included in the "Forbidden Army" has reached an astonishing number of more than 5000 people. This naval force stationed in Dengzhou Guard mainly focuses on naval warfare and artillery warfare, and has the first and second level of surface warfare. Two combat detachments and a very powerful fire support group (Ling Zhen is the commander), the third combat detachment (land combat), the fourth combat detachment (land combat detachment, expanded from the third detachment cavalry brigade) .

As for the Chengdu Navy, Su Xia dispatched Li Dong and other key generals of the former Pinghai Navy to reorganize the Chengdu Navy. The Chengdu Navy established two surface combat detachments and a land combat detachment, with a total strength of nearly 3000 people!

In other words, Su Xia currently commands more than 1.1 regular troops.

In addition to the regular army, there is also a "reserve army" trained on the island by Lin Chong's old father-in-law Zhang Jiaotou, Jiu Wenlong Shi Jin, Huahe Shang Lu Zhishen and others.

Xiong Hui stipulates that all men of appropriate age (16-35 years old) on the island participate in adaptive military training every five days, half a day each time, for rotation training!

In this way, the number of standing troops who meet the age limit is more than 20000.

If the regular army and standing army are concentrated, Su Xia can command more than 3 troops.

This does not include the more than 5000 Xiang troops under the command of Sun Li in the Dengzhou Guard.

If all are counted, once she breaks with the imperial court, Su Xia can now command about 3.5 troops.

He is a well-deserved warlord.

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In a house in Yanggu County, Yun Tianbiao was lying on the bed eating vegetables, and Lotus was busy. She had been married to him for more than three months.

Seeing Yun Tianbiao lying on the bed again, she asked, "Aunt Rong has already killed the chicken. I just came here to ask, how do you eat the chicken for lunch?"

"Eat it raw!"

Yun Tianbiao finished these words angrily and jumped up from the bed angrily.

Now, his head was as empty as a hollow melon.

Indeed, ever since Su Xia pushed him too hard, he has been in trouble!

He Hua had skin-to-skin contact with him, and she was also curious. However, as a woman, she couldn't show anything. She also felt that the person who "charged" He Hua at Zhang Ente's house last time was not the same person!

I heard that Lotus asked how to eat this chicken

He couldn't help but said angrily: "Are you humiliating me?"

The lotus is silent.

"You bitch, are you humiliating me?"

Hehua gritted her teeth. For three months, she had been helpless towards the seemingly "capable and capable" Yun Tianbiao; "You, you are not worthy of my humiliation!"

"What did you say? I'll beat you to death!"

Yun Tianbiao raised his hand and started fighting!

"You bitch, don't think I don't know about you and Ximen Qing!"

He beat a woman as delicate as water like He Hua until her skin was torn to pieces, and it wasn't until Grandma Rong came with several servants and begged that she was able to hold him back!

Yun Tianbiao said harshly: "This is all because of that Su Xia! Just wait, I won't let him have an easy time!"

Yun Tianbiao wants to cause trouble for Su Xia.

For Su Xia at this moment, Zhou Bin, the prefect of Dengzhou, has little influence on her. In other words, Zhou Bin's status is not high, mainly on the side of Qingzhou Prefecture Murong Yanda.

From a geographical point of view, Qingzhou Prefecture is much larger than Dengzhou Prefecture, and it is also the seat of Jingdong East Road.

The strategic significance of Qingzhou Prefecture is self-evident.

As one of the nine ancient states, Qingzhou is located between Haidai and Haidai. “On the right is the mountains and rivers, and on the left is the sea.” It has a superior geographical location, excellent natural environment, and rich product resources.

It has always been a city, strategic location and military town.

In the meeting hall of Salmon Island, Su Xia was making strategic planning!

Xiong Hui's eyes scanned the map: "For more than 1000 years, Qingzhou has been an important military town in all dynasties!"

"Yes, one of the ancient nine states, Jigu and garrisoned troops, can accommodate a hundred thousand people. The so-called kingdom of abundance is true."

Zhu Wu, the divine machine strategist, also looked at the map and said this slowly.

Now, Su Xia has given Shenji Military Advisor Zhu Wu a new position - counselor, who is responsible for map strategy planning and strategic planning!

"Counselor Zhu, what do you think?"

"Sir, if we can control Qingzhou, this military strategy is self-evident."

Xiong Hui nodded: "But there are not only Ping Haijun and Cheng Haijun on Jingdong East Road, but also the land forbidden army of Qingzhou Prefecture. This land forbidden army has nearly [-] troops, which is a big threat to us..."

Zhu Wu also said: "At that time, Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty changed Pinglu Army to Zhen Haijun. In the fifth year of Chunhua, the Forbidden Army was established in Qingzhou and was called Wuwei Army and Xuanyi Army. These two Forbidden Army were powerful in combat, and the governor was in charge of the forbidden brigade on this road. Among them, the Wuwei Army is the strongest, Su Hao is capable and powerful, and Shen Zhi is brave."

"Yes, the Wuwei Army is indeed powerful. Now the pacifier of Jingdong Road is Qingzhou Zhizhou Murong Yanda. He is in charge of the Wuwei Army and Xuanyi Army."

(Note: pacifiers: the officers responsible for military and public security in various areas, and concurrently serve as civil officials such as prefects and magistrates. Wuwei Army and Xuanyi Army: the names of the Forbidden Army)