After the end of the first national war, Chutian exchanged a blueprint for the construction of the sixth-level cavalry battalion. At this time, the sixth-level cavalry battalion had been built.

At present, Xiacheng has six levels of infantry battalion, archer battalion, and cavalry battalion, which can recruit three types of arms from level one to level six. As long as there are historical military generals, you can also recruit special troops of the first to sixth orders except the navy.

Chutian already had Xiliu Battalion and Shesheng Battalion, but no special cavalry, so he brought Hua Mulan, Li Guang, and Xue Rengui to the sixth-level cavalry battalion to consider recruiting troops for them.

The sixth-level cavalry battalion was built outside the city and covered a vast area.

The regular arms of the cavalry battalion are first-order light cavalry, second-order elite light cavalry, third-order Xuzhou light cavalry, and fourth-order Xuzhou heavy cavalry.

During the national war, Chutian noticed that the lords of Bingzhou, Youzhou, and Liangzhou had generally recruited third-order cavalry.

The attributes of Xuzhou light cavalry are lower than those of Beiguan Sanzhou cavalry.

Because Chutian has Hua Mulan, Xue Rengui, and Li Guang, three kinds of special cavalry can be recruited.

Li Guang's special arm is the fifth-order Western Han border cavalry archers, with a maximum number of 4,000.

Xue Rengui's special arm is the sixth-order Datang elite cavalry archers, with a maximum number of 5,000.

Mulan's special unit is the sixth-order Northern Wei Iron Eagle Scout, with a maximum number of 10,000.

The upper limit of the special arms of the three generals is 19,000. If their special arms are full, then 19,000 cavalry is enough to run across Xuzhou and be invincible on the plains.

But Chutian can't afford to support it at all...

It is still in the early stage of "Lord", and each city has not developed to the later stage, and the number of soldiers that can be supported is limited.

Therefore, in the early stage, the prefects of each state could not have one million troops. In the later stage, after the development of various towns, it is possible to have thousands of good generals and one million soldiers.

In the early stage, Chutian could not get 19,000 excellent war horses, and even if they went bankrupt, they could not buy them.

Under the premise of limited resources, Chutian can only compare three special cavalry to see which one is more cost-effective.

The first is Li Guang's Western Han border cavalry archers. These are elite cavalry soldiers at the border gates of the Western Han Dynasty. They are good at riding and archery.

[arms]: Western Han border archers

[Rank]: Fifth-order cavalry/archer

[Attack Power]: 18 [Defense Power]: 7 [Speed]: 23

[Skills]: Intermediate reconnaissance, super horse archery, intermediate gallop (for breaking the formation), intermediate long drive (for rushing), advanced arrow rain, horn bow (when using bow and arrow, bow and arrow damage +5%, hit rate +5% )

[Characteristics]: Forest dark grass frightens the wind, general night draws the bow (when Li Guang is the main general, bow and arrow damage +10%, hit rate +5%)

【Military pay】: 6 taels/month

[Required equipment]: Gold-level horn bow, gold-level light cavalry horse

【Training period】: 2 months

[Maximum number]: 4,000

Chutian saw that Li Guang's exclusive cavalry requirements were very high, but the conditions were also very harsh.

A gold-level horn bow and a gold-level warhorse cost about 80-120 taels of silver.

To recruit a cavalry archer, you need 100 taels of silver to provide equipment, and if you spend 10,000 taels of silver, you can only recruit 100 fifth-order cavalry.

Chutian looked at Xue Rengui's elite cavalry archers from the Tang Dynasty.

[arms]: Datang elite cavalry archers

[Rank]: Sixth-order cavalry/archer

[Attack Power]: 21 [Defense Power]: 9 [Speed]: 23

[Skills]: Intermediate reconnaissance, super cavalry, intermediate gallop, intermediate long drive, advanced armor breaking, horn bow

[Characteristics]: The general has three arrows to set the Tianshan Mountain, and the strong man Changge enters the Han Pass (when Xue Rengui is the main general, the bow and arrow damage +15%)

【Military pay】: 8 taels/month

[Required equipment]: Gold-level horn bow, gold-level light cavalry horse

【Training period】: 2 months

[Maximum quantity]: 5,000

Xue Rengui's cavalry needed the same equipment as Li Guang, only one hundred taels of silver for equipment and horses, as well as heavy monthly military salaries and horse-raising expenses.

Chutian understands the feeling of being cold in summer.

Where is this recruiting troops, it is clearly burning money.

Li Guang and Xue Rengui's cavalry are still light cavalry, if it is a special heavy cavalry, the requirements for equipment and horses are higher, and the cost is also higher!

Li Shimin's Xuanjia army was given to Chutian, and Chutian couldn't afford it. After a month, he would mutiny because he couldn't pay the army salaries.

If you want to raise an elite cavalry, there are only two ways - to develop your own territory, enrich the population, and increase output. The second way is to occupy other people's territory, especially the production of horses, to reduce the cost of obtaining high-quality war horses, thereby reducing the cost of recruiting cavalry.

Finally, there is Mulan's Northern Wei Iron Eagle scout.

Unlike Li Guang and Xue Rengui's cavalry archers, Hua Mulan's cavalry were light cavalry for reconnaissance and surprise attacks.

[Army]: Iron Eagle Scout

[Rank]: Sixth-order cavalry

[Attack Power]: 18 [Defense Power]: 7 [Speed]: 25

[Skills]: Special reconnaissance, advanced cavalry, advanced gallop, super long drive, war eagle (every hundred cavalry, there is a war eagle, which can be used for reconnaissance and contact with other troops)

[Characteristics]: Thousands of miles go to the military plane, and the mountain will fly as fast as you can (when Mulan is the main general, the forced march speed +10%)

【Military pay】: 8 taels/month

[Required Equipment]: Gold-level light cavalry horse

【Training period】: 2 months

[Maximum number]: 10,000

The recruitment conditions for Mulan's Iron Eagle Scouts are a little simpler. They don't need good weapons. As long as they have a good horse, they can form an army.

Of course, it is still necessary to equip weapons to enhance combat effectiveness. It's just that there is no need to specify a gold-level weapon.

Hua Mulan's cavalry damage is not as good as Li Guang's fifth-order cavalry archers. But Mulan's cavalry has the fastest speed so far!

Hua Mulan's cavalry can drive straight in, as if entering a no-man's land.

Marching speed is very important for cavalry, if the opponent can't catch up with you, you have the initiative.

Iron Eagle Scouts sacrifice damage in exchange for speed.

"How many war horses are there in our lord's mansion, and what is the quality?"

Chu Tian asked Fang Xuanling about the reserve of war horses.

Chutian captured two counties, defeated the anti-Chutian alliance coalition army and Taishan army, and captured many horses.

In order to use the fire horse formation, Xia Xia Liang bought all the horses from the horse dealer at all costs. After defeating the Taishan thief Wu Dun, there were still many good horses left.

Fang Xuanling said casually: "There are 4,213 war horses in total, including 412 gold-level war horses, 1,155 silver-class war horses, and the rest are ordinary war horses. The superior Turkic war horses of the lord and generals are not included."

"We still have quite a few gold-level warhorses, right..."

Chutian realized that there were 412 good gold-level warhorses, but more than 200 had been used by the cavalry - Xuzhou heavy cavalry and Goguryeo heavy cavalry.

Only gold rank and above heavy cavalry horses can carry the weight of horse armor and soldier armor.

In other words, the gold-level warhorses owned by Chutian can only recruit more than 100 high-level cavalry at most.

After all, Chutian is still poor.

The cavalry archers of Li Guang and Xue Rengui were good at cavalry and archery, and the light cavalry of Hua Mulan were good at reconnaissance and surprise attack. No matter which kind of cavalry, Chutian wanted it.

Fang Xuanling offered a suggestion: "Go to Miss Xia, she should be able to find a way to raise money to buy a gold-level warhorse."

Chutian can not deny.

Anyway, if you are short of money, just go to her.

The question is who to recruit the cavalry for first.

The palms of the hands and the backs of the hands are all meat, and different cavalry have their own advantages and disadvantages.

Xue Rengui's cavalry archers are good at breaking armor, while Li Guang's cavalry is terrifying. Xue Rengui's cavalry archers seem to be the superior substitutes for Li Guang's cavalry archers, but they are paid 22 taels more every month.

"First recruit 100 Iron Eagle Scouts for Hua Mulan."

After thinking about it again and again, Chu Tian decided to recruit a small team of cavalry for Hua Mulan first. After all, he was the first general of the cavalry department. It would be too chilling to recruit cavalry for Hua Mulan.

Mulan's cavalry also has the ability "war eagle". Every hundred cavalry has a war eagle, which can be used for reconnaissance.

It seems that this ability is not as good as the ability of Li Guang and Xue Rengui's cavalry "horn bow", but it should be very practical.

Compared to a head-to-head battle, Chutian prefers to sneak attack on the enemy.

Soldiers who, deception also.

So the lord's palace began to recruit civilians suitable to become high-level cavalry in the territory, recruiting a total of 100 people.

One hundred gold-level warhorses were taken to the sixth-level cavalry battalion.

Two months later, Xiacheng will have its first special cavalry, the Northern Wei Iron Eagle Scouts.

Chutian was not satisfied, and he had the cheek to ask Xia Tianliang to help him raise gold and silver to buy fine war horses.

"sure."

Unexpectedly, the summer coolness was promised.

"We can set up banks in various towns in the two counties, absorb all the gold and silver from civilians and players, and sell a few more lands. As long as you can capture a few more counties within a year, the finances will not collapse. Otherwise, the I'm going to sell the war horse I bought."

"How many good warhorses can I buy?"

"The price of gold-level warhorses is generally around 80 taels of silver. If you find a horse dealer to buy warhorses on a large scale, you can lower the price. I think even if you buy 400 gold-grade warhorses, the finances should be able to hold up."

"400 horses..."

Chutian did not expect that the finances could squeeze out the money to buy horses.

The extra war horses can be used as cavalry for Li Guang or Xue Rengui.

"The cavalry must burn money. As long as the momentum of expansion is maintained, there will be no financial problems."

After Xia Xia Liang defeated the coalition forces in Chutian, his confidence in him increased, and he began to use a proactive fiscal policy, even if the monthly fiscal deficit was within the allowable range.

Overdrafting finances is more dangerous and the rewards are great. You can spare no effort to support Chutian to recruit troops, provided that Chutian cannot be defeated many times.

After trying to get funds to buy 400 horses, Chu Tian was going to recruit 200 horse archers each for Li Guang and Xue Rengui.

"There are 2,000 Shesheng Battalion, 2,000 Xiliu Battalion, 100 Iron Eagle Scouts, 200 Western Han Frontier Archers, and 200 Tang Dynasty Elite Archers. There are 4,500 high-level troops in total."

"There are 16,000 low-level infantry archers, 4,000 low-level light cavalry, and 230 heavy cavalry. There is also a navy battalion."

Chutian finally determined the establishment of the army.

Zhou Yafu, stationed in Yangdu City, had 2000 Xiliu Battalion, 7500 infantry archers, and 500 light cavalry.

Xueyue stationed in Xueyue Town has 4500 infantry archers and 500 light cavalry.

The rest of the troops and horses were stationed in Xiacheng, with 2000 Shesheng Battalion, 4000 infantry archers, 3000 light cavalry, 500 high-level cavalry, 230 heavy cavalry, and navy battalion.

The three armies are horns of each other. Once one army is attacked, the other two armies immediately counterattack.

As for Langya City, Chutian arranged for Liu Sandao to lead 4,000 infantry archers to garrison, which was included in the establishment of Xiacheng.

The establishment is finalized, and it will take two months for the recruited high-level cavalry to come out.

It just so happened that Chutian needed time to digest the sites of the two counties.

Two counties are nothing to the entire Eastern Han region, but for Chutian, which only had a population of 200,000 not long ago, he swallowed four or five times the land in one go, and if he did not digest it, many problems would remain.

Zhou Yafu was attacking villages and towns in Yangdu County that had not yet surrendered, while Li Guang and Hua Mulan were training troops in Xiacheng.

Chu Tian intends to train Xue Rengui, so from time to time he orders him to lead a team to encircle and suppress nearby bandits.

Everything was calm in Xiacheng, and Du Fu's Thatched Cottage was still lively. Du Fu alone brought more than 1,000 taels of silver to Chutian.

Moreover, Du Fu's Thatched Cottage also gathered a group of literati and poets, who recited poems all day long. This group of literati poets includes both civilians and some players.

Chu Tian was also not expecting such a phenomenon.

The cultural prosperity of Xiacheng has inadvertently increased, driving economic development, talent flow, absorbing refugees, and even increasing land prices.

In the past, Chutian didn't care much about cultural prosperity, but now, cultural prosperity is very important for population growth.

If Xiacheng wants to develop into a giant city with a population of one million and ten million, its cultural prosperity cannot be low.

"Continue to encourage fertility, we need population, a large number of people. From now on, players are allowed to register marriages in my territory, and count the household registration."

Chutian announced a special decree - allowing players to integrate into his territory like commoners, and to marry freely.

This decree caused a huge sensation in Langya and even in Xuzhou!

This means that players trapped in "Lord" begin to officially integrate into the world.

Chutian is integrating civilians and players, treating them equally, and he intends to establish an independent operating force.

His decree is also attracting more people into his territory.

In order to increase the population and tax revenue, Chutian has done everything possible.

Chutian must consider for the future.

The population of Xiacheng is quite large, but the young laborers sacrificed in the war. Chutian must ensure that there will be enough laborers to farm and wage war within ten, twenty or even thirty years.

There are many open spaces in the Yihe Plain, and the current population is not enough to realize the potential of the plain.

Along the Yi River in Yangdu County, several light cavalrymen sent by Zhou Yafu patrolled the river.

On the other side of the river is the territory of Juxian. There are several forces in Juxian. After Wu Sangui brought 30,000 Taishan troops to Juxian, the current strength of Juxian may be more than 50,000. Therefore, Zhou Yafu, according to Chutian's arrangement, specially sent cavalry to patrol the river.

Once the forces in Ju County want to attack Yangdu County, he can attack halfway and win more with less.

A wooden boat rowed in the direction of Yangdu County, attracting the attention of the patrolling light cavalry.

"who?"

The light cavalry took off the horn bow and aimed it at the wooden boat.

A general who was hit by an arrow on the wooden boat gasped and said with difficulty: "I'm Xu Sheng, and I want to ask to see your lord..."

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