Chapter 609: Taking Stock of the Troops from the Three States
"General Gongsun, your two junior brothers are really interesting."

At this moment, Yang Jian's slightly strange voice came from the side.

When Gongsun Ba heard this, her face suddenly changed. She and Yang Jian joined Su Ye's army at almost the same time, and they both had the merit of breaking through the pass and capturing the city.

There must be some subtle competition between the two.

Now, compared to the embarrassment caused to him by his two junior brothers Xia Gengshi and Shebishi, Yang Jian's gaze made her blush even more.

Look at the people around Yang Jian, such as Yang Chan, who is extremely beautiful and looks like a fairy from heaven.

The other six freaks of Meishan were also worldly-wise. They dressed decently and behaved like human beings.

Then he looked at the two fellow apprentices beside him who were reincarnated from starving ghosts.

At this moment, Gongsun Ba wished he could find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

It's not scary to lose face, what's scary is to lose face in front of your opponent!
"General Yang, you are joking. My two junior brothers are new here and don't know the rules. I hope General Yang will tolerate them."

Gongsun Ba suppressed the helplessness in his heart, forced a smile, and responded.

"General Gongsun, you are too polite. We all serve His Highness, so we should naturally support each other."

"Besides, we are all martial artists. Your two junior brothers are both powerful warriors. What's so shameful about this?"

Upon hearing this, Yang Jian laughed and stopped teasing Gongsun Ba.

As the True Lord Erlang, his emotional intelligence is not that low.

How can you not see it? If I continue talking, Gongsun Ba will probably be furious immediately.

Upon hearing this, Gongsun Ba felt secretly annoyed, knowing that today's events were a foregone conclusion and could not be reversed.

He glanced at the two junior brothers beside him and swore secretly in his heart that he would train these two country kids well when he returned so that they could become independent generals as soon as possible!

"You two, I've made note of what happened today. If you dare to lose your composure like this again, don't blame me for being so insensitive!"

So, she took a deep breath, suppressed the shame and embarrassment in her heart, and showed her fist to Xia Geng's and She Bi's corpses, and said viciously.

Upon hearing this, Xia Gengshi and Shebishi hurriedly nodded in agreement, feeling secretly regretful in their hearts, knowing that what happened today had indeed brought shame to their senior sister.

Although if we really talk about military strength, Xia Geng corpse is one thing, and Shebi corpse is not necessarily much weaker than Hanba.

But now that Hanba is their senior sister, she has great prestige in their hearts, and Shebi Shi did not think of resisting.

As the night deepened, the banquet finally came to an end and the guests left one by one.

Su Ye slowly walked to the depths of his mansion. Inside the study, the flickering candlelight illuminated the room brilliantly.

The walls are inlaid with famous paintings and calligraphy, each of which is priceless. The bookshelves are tall and densely packed with all kinds of classics.

There are ancient military strategies, contemporary ideas on governing a country, and even overseas anecdotes.

In the center of the study, there was a huge rosewood desk, on which was spread an exquisite sheepskin map, which was the map of the territories of the three states of Qi, Cang and Heng under his command.

Su Ye gently smoothed the map, his eyes lingering on every inch of land, and slowly sat down on a chair carved with dragons and phoenixes.

The chair was made of fine materials and was comfortable to sit on, and it was exactly his favorite when he was thinking about important decisions.

At this moment, the study was quiet and silent, only Su Ye's heart was full of emotions. He began to carefully count his current assets.
Now, after the governance of Li Jing and Li Shanchang over the past one or two years, although only three or four counties under his command have a relatively densely populated area, it now has 150,000 skilled soldiers.

It certainly cannot be compared with military strongholds like Yunzhou and Yuzhou, which can easily mobilize an army of 300,000 battle-hardened soldiers.

But these 150,000 troops were already the maximum number of troops that Li Shanchang had calculated would not affect the overall operation of Qizhou.

Although tightening the belt and squeezing out more troops could unleash another 50,000 or 60,000 troops, it is not necessary.

That would undoubtedly be a huge burden on the people, and it would never be done unless it was absolutely necessary.

As for Cangzhou under his command, it was even worse. That was the foundation of his career and also the place where wars had been most frequent in recent years.

Su Ye has been fighting year after year in recent years, and has almost consumed all the resources of Cangzhou state.

The expedition to Qizhou, the western campaign against the Yellow Turbans, and Wei Qing's northern expedition to resist the Night Evil Army drew tens of thousands of soldiers away, while a large army was needed to garrison Cangzhou, which almost drained Cangzhou's military strength.

Now, including the 50,000 elite soldiers and 50,000 new recruits left behind locally, all in all, Cangzhou has actually exploded with nearly 400,000 troops in just a few years!
It is also thanks to the efforts of Xun Yu, Gao Jiong and others who are now staying in Cangzhou, otherwise the internal affairs of Cangzhou would have collapsed long ago!
But even with the hard work of capable ministers such as Xun Yu and Gao Jiong to stabilize the rear, Cangzhou had already been overwhelmed.

Originally, Cangzhou was a border area, and the population was not too dense. Even if the people were tough, they could not withstand such turmoil.

Therefore, it is impossible for Cangzhou to provide troops and start fighting again in a short period of time.

The last state under Su Ye’s command is Hengzhou, which he has just captured.

Because the resistance in Hengzhou was relatively weak, Su Ye was able to quickly integrate the internal forces.

They scattered bit by bit, and in Hengzhou alone, they actually gathered 150,000 to 160,000 surrendered soldiers.

Although these troops have not seen battle for a long time, Su Ye now has a large number of powerful generals and commanders under his command. He has plenty of time to reorganize this group of rookies into an eagle army!
In time, it will surely become another force that cannot be ignored.

Su Ye's eyes moved slowly on the map, and he was secretly planning in his mind.

Li Jing of Qizhou had an army of 150,000 men under his command. He took 70,000 of them with him on this eastern expedition to Junzhou. Li Shanchang, who was in charge of Qizhou, still had 80,000 capable troops under his command.

Together with various auxiliary troops such as garrison soldiers and county soldiers, they can be said to have 300,000 armored soldiers to the outside world.

Then the 50,000 elite soldiers from Cangzhou and the 50,000 new soldiers were the last troops of Cangzhou.

Although Mu Qinglin still has 30,000 troops at Taiping Pass in the north of Cangzhou, as well as the 10,000 white-armored troops under Bai Yifei who were balanced out earlier.

However, they still had to be on guard against the grassland aliens outside Taiping Pass in the north of Cangzhou, and they could not move easily.

Finally, there are the troops in Hengzhou where Su Ye is now. In addition to the hundreds of thousands of Cangzhou troops who followed Su Ye to the west to fight in the south and the north, and are now temporarily led by Xue Rengui, Tie Shiwen, and Lian Po, there are also 30,000 Yulin troops under Wei Qing in the north.

In addition, there are 150,000 surrendered soldiers gathered in Hengzhou.

As well as other special forces such as the White Horse Volunteers, Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, and other Taoist soldiers and the Halberd Soldiers.

All in all, Su Ye currently has nearly 700,000 combat-capable soldiers under his command in the three states.

Add to that the garrison troops, county troops and other auxiliary troops, and it would not be a problem to brag to the outside world that we have an army of one million.

This will be his capital for dominating the world in the future.

(End of this chapter)