Hutchison's power on the grassland is too huge. The court has worked hard to restore the strength of the Jiubian Military Town, but it is definitely a lot of paragraphs lower than Hutchison.

In Yulin, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Xuanfu, Ji Town, Datong, the total number of available troops is only about 100,000. Together with more than 100,000 garrisons in western Liaoning and garrisons in Henan, Beizhi, Shandong Town, Henan, Beizhi, etc., the imperial court can use 300,000 troops. In addition, the Jing camp now has the troops of the Four Guards and Warriors Battalions. The million troops on the books can be dispatched in half a year.

It seems that there are quite a lot, but there are only less than 100,000 of these more than 300,000 soldiers, which is considered elite soldiers. What’s more important is that the court’s money and grain reserves cannot support a battle of more than 300,000.

From the records of the wars, we can see that there are 140,000 people in Sarhu, 140,000 people in Liaoyang and Shenyang, more than 60,000 people in Guangning, and 140,000 people in Songjin, commander Hong Chengchou.

It was not that the Ming army could only dispatch 140,000 people, but that the highest point of the support point of the country's financial resources was about 100,000 people.

As soon as the troops moved, a large amount of money and food had to be supplied first. In the second year of Chongzhen, the Gansu soldiers of Xuanda and Gansu helped the capital to serve the king. The people from the Ministry of War did not provide money and food in time, and the food orders could not be guaranteed. As a result, the border army who came to serve the king fartted on hunger. When they turned around, many border soldiers mutinied, and some of them became the main force in the peasant army and were the foundation of the old camp soldiers of the peasant army.

Hutchison's mobilization ability is far above the Ming Dynasty. Of course, this is a combination of the modern military system and actual situation. Hutchison already has a lot of experience in this regard. In terms of large-scale battles and the ability to mobilize troops, it has left the Ming Dynasty a dozen streets behind.

In the Battle of Sarhu, the Xuan soldiers of the Ming army had been stationed in Shenyang for a long time, and the Sichuan soldiers had to wait three more months before they could start the battle. During this period, the supply of materials, military supplies, and logistics support were all bad. The army's fighting will, morale, and the physical fitness of the soldiers were seriously damaged.

Hutchison often trains large corps with a scale of 100 kilometers, and they organize hundreds of miles of training for tens of thousands of people to run around for fun. The Ming Dynasty is really far apart.

The Ming army did not have many vehicles, and there was no complete logistics system.

The so-called army before moving food and grass is more likely to appear in the words and stories. Generals can make small arrangements and prepare some dry food for the soldiers at most, and then rely on civil servants from various prefectures and counties to provide supplies along the way. The army does not have its own supply system, nor does it have corresponding departments and relevant personnel management at all. From this point of view, it shows that the army is not as good as the Qin army, and the difference is too far.

In the same era, the Dutch people in 1602 were a hundred times stronger than the Ming army. In this year, Dutch general Morris held a war of 20,000 people in Brabant, which was also a large-scale battle in Europe in the same era. For this war, in addition to the special logistics civil servants and officers, Morris prepared three thousand large trucks for transporting food alone, and four-wheeled carriages of two or four horses formed a huge transport convoy to ensure the logistics supply of 24,000 Dutch soldiers.

If the Ming army had changed the scale of the battle, 140,000 people needed 20,000 four-cart vehicles to provide supplies. The Dutch's supply route was actually very short, and the Ming Dynasty's troops were often dispatched from Sichuan to Liaodong. The 20,000 four-cart vehicles were all less, because the roads in the Ming Dynasty were worse and the distance was longer, and more vehicles were actually needed. But tragic that a Ming army with thousands of people often had at most dozens of clumsy two-cart vehicles, and its transportation capacity was very low.

Hutchison is completely different. The big cars we have now must have more than 20,000, regardless of military or civil use, and it is estimated that more than 30,000 will be available in a few years.

This is actually quite ordinary. The Dutch are known as the sea coachman. They have more than 20,000 merchant ships and warships. They can mobilize thousands of four-wheeled carriages in a land war, which is quite easy.

This is the true foundation of a powerful country. The Netherlands is just an ordinary country in the European continent, but the maritime power is strong, but they can mobilize thousands of four-** cars in a war. What is this? This is the embodiment of national strength.

The Ming Dynasty court must have aware of the combat power of Hutchison's merchant regiment army and is quite afraid of it, but they should have no idea about Hutchison's military organization and training intensity, as well as the obedience and mobilization ability of the army.

Perhaps so far, the Emperor of Ming still remembers that when Hutchison assisting the Thirteen Mountains, Hutchison dispatched more than a thousand large vehicles, which was already quite amazing. If Emperor Tianqi knew that Hutchison could dispatch tens of thousands of vehicles, more than 10,000 four-** vehicles were transporting military supplies and rapidly transferring troops, and his mobility was ten times that of the Ming army, he would probably have a great deal of trapping the emperor's decision at the moment.

If there is an enemy, it is scary that there is a terrible thing when there is no way to resist, and even the will to resist is destroyed, that is the most desperate and terrifying thing.

Of course, Zhang Han would not expose Hutchison's strength. This time his retreat was also waiting for an opportunity. While "raising hope" and avoiding suspicion, he also wanted to see the changes in the world's general trend.

In the current one or two years, Hutchison must digest the achievements on the northern grasslands, determine the county system, and at the same time increase the scale of trade with the Russians, digest the achievements in all aspects, and further expand the army and update the equipment. The financial report of the new year will not be released until the end of the year. It is expected that the fiscal deficit will not be small in the sixth year of the Apocalypse due to several consecutive large-scale wars, but after the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the annual surplus will definitely be quite considerable.

At this time, the surplus cannot be left behind. It will definitely be used to renew cannons, weapons, create more armor, buy more horses, and build more carts.

Even building roads on the grassland is a top priority. No one will think there are too many roads, but they will only hope that there will be more and more roads connected everywhere.

The Military Industry Department's most ambitious plan is to build a rammed earth road from the seventh to eighth years of the Tianqi period, using two years to build a rammed earth road from Qingcheng to Ketunan City. This is a very great project, because although this journey is not like the desert and Gobi area in the north of Mohe, it is even more vast and sparsely populated. Many places are hundreds of miles away, which is much more desolate than the north of Mohe at that time.

If the road is completed, it is equivalent to going deep into the hinterland of western Mongolia. If there is a war against the Weila people in more than ten or twenty years later, this road and the two roads from Kulun to Ketu North City are two major arteries, which are enough to support military operations on both sides of the north and south.

Hutchison will have a long incubation period on the grassland. Even at this stage when the war has just been fought, Hutchison will eliminate any major moves. After all, Tian Jitang's pressure and burden are also very heavy. He fought continuously, built surrender city and roads, and built the military fort pier to Yizhou Wei along the territory of the Korqin people, connecting the Korqin grassland and the Yizhou Wei area to form a stable fortress belt. With the effective control of the Nenjiang, Heilongjiang and the small tribes in the Songhua River basin, the Later Jin was firmly locked. From Ningyuan and Guanmen in western Liaoning, it was a lock, and Guangning Thirteen Mountains to Korqin was another lock, and Dongjiang and North Korea restrained it, the strategic situation of the Later Jin was deteriorating unprecedentedly.

The key is that Hutchison is still supporting the people in the forest to resist, and the Jurchens have also reduced their territories. There are no immortals in the war for many years. No matter how useless the Ming army is, it is impossible for the Jurchens to be without any harm. The Jurchens, including Huang Taiji, would go deep into the dense forests in the north every one or two years to capture the fish-skin Tartars to enrich the Dingkou of the Jurchen Eight Banners. If there were no Soren and Oroqen people, the Ewenki people would supplement the Jurchen Eight Banners at this time. At this time, the Jurchens had no relatives to capture the Jurchens in the forest to supplement the Dingkou. By the Shunzhi period, Dingkou was once reduced to more than 50,000, and if it were continued, it would be guaranteed to be reduced to 40,000. If it were not for the Ming army's surrender, the combat effectiveness would increase tenfold after shaved his head and conquering the world for the Manchus. The Jurchens, who had only 40,000 or 50,000, would be almost a dream.

The court did not understand the mobilization mechanism of Hutchison and the mobility of the army. It should be that the main force of Hutchison was still in Chahar and Korqin. It would take at least one or two months to mobilize it back according to the Ming Dynasty's judgment. Now Xuanda is a vacuum of Hutchison's military power. The court must have wanted to seize this opportunity and deal with Zhang Han decisively. In this way, the snake's headlessness cannot be done, and Hutchison's problem has been solved by half.

Wang Changfu and others stood up and bowed to Zhang Han to say goodbye, and the vague sense of uneasiness in their hearts weakened a lot.

Wang Yong smiled and said, "I was still a little worried before, but now I feel very confident. We know Daming well. If they stick their butts, we will know what to shit..."

Zhang Han smiled and scolded: "Can you stop saying it so disgusting?"

Yang Qiu said: "Now it seems that Yanghe Dao is probably the top priority. I will go to Yanghe now and stare at Lu Xiangsheng day and night..."

Wang Yong said: "Can you find a way to assassinate him? I guess there are many opportunities."

Yang Qiu turned his eyes to Zhang Han. Zhang Han thought for a moment and shook his head and said, "Assassination of important personnel is a last resort. There is no historical trend because an assassination can change. Killing Lu Xiangsheng, the court can find an excuse to discredit me, so the meaning of my retreat will be weakened. It is better not to come back on the grassland. Besides, killing one, there are tens of thousands of civil servants in the court, and not being able to pick out a capable Lai Yanghe? The important thing is that we just need to do our own things well."

Several subordinates nodded together. Speaking of which, Zhang Han wanted to treat himself as bait, just like in Jining Fortress Shitu Khan, who led his army to attack, leading all the spearheads to him.

Zhang Han was in Xinpingbao, and the court's eyes were always on here, and various measures were also directed at Xinpingbao and Zhang Han.

When the court really does something, Hutchison takes advantage of the situation and even if it doesn't attack the Ming Dynasty, it will occupy the commanding heights of justice. Hutchison can grasp it if there is any chance in the future.

The most important thing is that Zhang Hanjing's incident is basically cultivated. The Ming Dynasty has been struggling and struggling, and it is obvious that Zhang Han is regarded as an enemy rather than a minister. According to Zhang Han's idea, according to the normal historical trend, the Apocalypse will soon be in the world. After Chongzhen came to power, there will be a large-scale peasant uprising. In the time of chaos in the world, it may be the opportunity for Hutchison. At that time, it will be natural and much easier than taking a risk now.

Zhang Han smiled again and said, "I'm afraid the court will not understand why I am so confident to return to Xinpingbao."

Yang Qiu and others all smiled. They did a good job in intelligence and the trends of civil, military and political affairs in the Ming Dynasty were at their control.

In addition, local generals, officers, soldiers, and all have close ties to Hutchison. Can Lu Xiangsheng become a living person out of thin air? As long as he still recruits soldiers and appoints generals in Datong, his army will inevitably have an inseparable relationship with Hutchison and cannot enforce orders at all. What Lu Xiangsheng wants to do has no possibility of success.

This is also something that the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, Wei Zhongxian, or the ministers of the cabinet cannot understand.

In terms of intelligence capabilities, local propaganda and organizational capabilities, Hutchison can surpass the current Ming Dynasty by one hundred streets, and the two are not on the same level at all.

Zhang Han returned to Xinping Castle, which seemed dangerous, but in fact, it was like in Qingcheng. He all understood this clearly. Otherwise, Li Shenming and others would not dare to call Zhang Han back if they were beaten to death. Zhang Han would not be able to bring his little sister into Xinping Castle so swayingly.

From this point of view, the Emperor Ming and his ministers were also quite sad. In fact, the blame could not be completely blamed on Emperor Tianqi. From the beginning of the founding of the country, the Ming Dynasty had never implemented a truly effective rule over the local area. The emperor and civil officials ruled the world together, while civil officials ruled the gentry and clans. The impact on the local area was nothing more than using the gentry class and clan forces. When Zhang Han used commerce, workshops and carriages in the Xuanfu area of ​​Datong to destroy the old gentry and clan forces, and then integrated the local area again. Although the Datong area is not as strict as the Hutchison organization on the grassland, its general operation method and core are not much different from that on the grassland.
Chapter completed!