Chapter 187: Plan

"Young Master, the Yellow Turban camp has been taken. Except for a few Yellow Turban soldiers who escaped, there are now thirty-five thousand Yellow Turban soldiers and civilians in the Yellow Turban camp."

"Sixty percent of them are old, weak, women, and children."

Mentioning this, Gao Hu was a bit dissatisfied. Sixty percent are old, weak, women, and children. This is a burden. No wonder the Yellow Turban Army has no combat power. It looks like there are many people, moving dozens or hundreds of millions, or even millions.

As a result, more than half of them are old, weak, women, and children, without any combat effectiveness, and they consume grain in vain.

"Thirty-five thousand people!"

"Not bad!"

Su Fan doesn't care whether these people are old, weak, women, and children. Even if they are all, so what? These people can also create wealth.

The elderly have rich experience, and women, especially strong women, are even no worse than strong men. This era is not the era of the Qing Dynasty in the later Earth, where women had to bind their feet.

Especially in this world, because of the origin of the Qi of Heaven and Earth, as long as they are full, the strength of these strong women is no worse than that of adult men.

In the villages around Su Fan's military camp, you can often see many strong women farming in the fields.

Everyone can create value, just more or less.

So Su Fan doesn't care about these old, weak, women, and children. He also has enough food and doesn't care whether they will become a burden.

"Those soldiers, pull them over for review, pull out those who have committed serious sins and kill them all, and send the rest to the mine to work for two years."

Su Fan not only has a compassionate heart but also the power of killing. For those scourges in the army, he will never show mercy.

"Yes, Young Master!"

Knowing the Young Master's character, Gao Hu immediately agreed.

"As for the remaining soldiers who have no bad records, you can try to recruit a batch, which is considered expanding the army. These people's morale is definitely lower, but at least they have been on the battlefield a few times and have seen blood."

"Go back and train more, and train their morale back. Combat effectiveness may be greatly improved."

"Young Master, you finally let us expand the army."

Gao Hu heard this, and his face was happy.

"Before, I didn't let you expand the army because there were not enough people. With a population of more than 500,000, you want to pull up 50,000 soldiers directly. One out of ten, do you think it can last long?"

Su Fan rolled his eyes. The army he needs is completely off-production soldiers. Calculated this way, it is really considered exhausting the people and wasting money.

So at that time, although there were 50,000 soldiers, only 10,000 were completely off-production, and the others were just militia, farming when busy, and training when free.

It is considered a reserve army.

However, some time ago, another batch of hundreds of thousands of people was gathered, so the original 40,000 reserve militia also officially became regular soldiers.

The amount of training may not be as much as the previous 10,000, but compared to these Yellow Turban Army, they are much stronger.

Coupled with sufficient weapons and equipment, the combat effectiveness is extremely powerful.

Unfortunately, the night raid before didn't use them. Those three hundred iron cavalry, plus three hundred personal guards, defeated Peng Fei's army.

Afterwards, they could only see the cruelty and bloodiness of the battlefield.

After experiencing two battles, they can also gradually become an elite army.

However, even 50,000 elite soldiers are still far from what Su Fan needs in the future. Even in the previous Datang world, he had 300,000 elite soldiers.

Not to mention this world, at least hundreds of thousands of elites are needed, which requires more population.

Now, plus these Yellow Turban soldiers and civilians, his territory has a population base of 1.5 million, which is equivalent to some relatively large upper-county commanderies.

Of course, in fact, these 1.5 million people are actually considered unregistered households, because they are not under the rule of the government of the Divine Han Dynasty. Strictly speaking, this is similar to those mountain barbarians.

They are not around the city of the government, but around the wilderness and mountains, and some are even in the mountains and forests, living with wild beasts and monsters.

The sacrificial priests among these mountain barbarians have the divine ability of communication, can drive monsters and wild beasts, use various monsters as totems, sacrifice these monsters, and some mountain barbarians even have the blood of monsters.

These mountain barbarians, especially in the south, have many mountain barbarians, and they often threaten the government of those commanderies and counties.

They often go down the mountain to plunder.

The government of various places is quite troubled by these mountain barbarians. The number of these mountain barbarians is not large. Compared with the people of the Divine Han, it is really too different.

However, every time they go down the mountain with tens of thousands of people, it is also very terrifying.

After all, these mountain barbarians, because of their bloodline, coupled with being in the mountains and rivers all year round, are indeed superior to the commoners of the Divine Han in terms of physical fitness.

Just like the grassland barbarians in the north, those who grow up eating meat and those who grow up eating grain, in terms of physical fitness, really cannot be compared.

The Divine Han can hang and beat the four barbarians, first because there are disciples of military families with military family inheritance to lead troops, which can condense military Qi and amplify the combat effectiveness of the army.

Secondly, the Divine Han has always crushed the four barbarians in terms of equipment.

In terms of weapons, it greatly affects the combat effectiveness of the army. Even in the later era of the end of the law, it is still the same.

However, Su Fan is not a mountain barbarian. Although he opened up a pastoral land in the wilderness, he still observes order.

It's just that it is not recognized by the government now, but it doesn't mean that he will be like a mountain barbarian, only knowing how to plunder and destroy.

He is now waiting for the opportunity, accumulating strength, and helping neither the government nor the Yellow Turbans.

He is waiting, waiting for news of Zhang Jiao in Jizhou. Taiping Dao, the only thing Su Fan is wary of is Zhang Jiao.

Because Zhang Jiao's strength is too strong, the other party's one look can make him fall into an illusion and be unable to extricate himself.

Facing Zhang Jiao, Su Fan really has no chance of resistance.

If he wants to choose to compete for the world in the future, he must take the orthodox route, first planning for the position of a commandery governor or provincial governor from the imperial court. Of course, at least he must be a county magistrate.

Then slowly develop and accumulate strength. This is what he is best at.

Here in Donghai, he has already laid a good foundation. If he really wants to choose in the future, it is probably Donghai Commandery.

In fact, Xuzhou is not a very good choice. After all, in terms of wealth, it cannot compare to Jizhou and Yuzhou.

In terms of territory size, Jingzhou and Yangzhou.

And Xuzhou is also a place of four battles. In the future, if there is a real competition among heroes, Xuzhou will be targeted by all parties.

Wanting to develop slowly is quite difficult.

However, Su Fan also has his own plans. If he plans well, he will first plan for the position of the governor of Donghai Commandery, plus the Gao clan.

You must know that the Gao clan, in Guangling, is probably more useful than the governor's words.

Connecting the two places, and then developing to the south, seizing Jiujiang and Wu Commandery, once he seizes the six commanderies of Jiangdong, then he will have enough confidence, and Xuzhou will no longer be a dangerous place, but his bridgehead to the Central Plains. ===== CHAPTER 188 =====