Chapter 92: Great Merit

"Fifteen thousand troops, that's enough." Su Fan hadn't expected that he already had so many troops under his command, especially cavalry. It wasn't easy to gather three thousand cavalry in the south.

"Where did you get the warhorses?"

Su Fan asked curiously. For these two years, he had been in seclusion practicing martial arts, otherwise, he couldn't have reached the realm of Blood and Qi transforming into Gang so quickly, and his martial arts realm had improved very quickly.

Regarding his subordinates, he was completely hands-off.

Of course, the reason he dared to be so hands-off was, first, he trusted Ling Zhan, and second, the logistics of the army were completely under his control. Even if Ling Zhan had a different heart, it would be useless.

And in Wu Jun, his prestige was beyond imagination. The soldiers in the army were all commoners from the bottom layer, and there were many refugees.

Especially the refugees, Su Fan had given them a new life. Among the bottom-layer refugees in Wu Jun, he was an existence like a Buddha of ten thousand families.

So he could safely be hands-off.

Ling Zhan had indeed not disappointed him. In two years, fifteen thousand combat soldiers—these soldiers weren't like the rebel peasant armies of Du Fuwei or Wagang Fortress, who were all miscellaneous soldiers.

These fifteen thousand were completely elite, even more formidable than the Xiaoguo Army.

Everyone had practiced Su Fan's basic martial arts, and the low-level officers were all selected through layers of battle.

Su Fan had never doubted their combat power.

And with Ling Zhan, this fierce general, in command, it was even more formidable.

Ling Zhan had now broken through to first-class. Compared to old-school fierce generals like Shiwansui, he might be a bit inferior, but compared to those who were emerging like Qin Qiong, he was already not inferior.

In history, fierce generals like Qin Qiong were very strong, but in this Great Tang Shuanglong world, compared to Yuwen Chengdu, Pei Yuanqing, and others, he was much worse.

Of course, according to Su Fan's estimate, Qin Qiong's current strength was also around first-class, and in the future, super first-class was definitely possible.

Fierce generals on the battlefield would never be outdated, but fierce generals who wanted to possess Grandmaster combat power were almost non-existent.

After all, too many martial general inheritances had been lost, plus the martial general inheritances left by the end of the Han Dynasty mostly had flaws.

Very few people would practice them.

Just like Ling Zhan, although he had the Ling family's inheritance, he only practiced the front part, and he never dared to practice the later parts.

It was also because he met Su Fan, and Su Fan gave him everything without any reservation, which was also why he followed Su Fan wholeheartedly.

Now, if he were told to revolt, Ling Zhan wouldn't even frown.

Su Fan was hands-off, and Ling Zhan was also very hardworking. With sufficient money and food, he could do whatever he wanted to expand the army.

"The warhorses were traded from the Feima Ranch."

"Feima Ranch." Su Fan remembered it upon hearing this. He had almost forgotten this force.

Inside, there was a top-tier talent.

That absolute engineering master Lu Miaoji—if such a person were placed in the future, he could definitely become a top engineer, or even a scientist.

Before, he had neglected this person's ability. In his eyes, it was even higher than those Grandmaster experts.

Crossing over for a lifetime, besides his achievements in martial arts, Su Fan also wanted to leave some traces. If you are poor, take care of yourself; if you are rich, benefit the world. He didn't have the idea of contending for the world; it was too tiring.

But if he could leave some things behind to let the bottom layer of the world live better, it was actually quite good.

In the previous world, he became the Sect Leader of the Huashan Sect. At that time, it wasn't the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the bottom layer of the Ming Dynasty could still live as long as there were no natural disasters.

But he still conquered a piece of territory in Nanyang, just to give those people a chance to live in the future when there was war.

It wasn't in vain that he crossed over for a lifetime. Not to mention how much reputation he left behind, he definitely had great merit to humanity.

He even thought that the reason he could break through to Innate in his previous life might have been the reward from humanity.

Otherwise, why did only he break through among so many talented people? Feng Qingyang and Dongfang Bubai didn't break through to Innate.

Therefore, in this life, coming to the era of the end of the Sui Dynasty, he couldn't stop the world from falling into chaos, but in Wu Jun, he could do it so that refugees had a chance to survive.

In these few years, the refugees who fled to him had already numbered in the hundreds of thousands.

However, this was already the limit of Wu Jun.

The productivity of ancient times couldn't save the world in one place.

But he could improve productivity as much as possible, and then save more people, which could also be considered a contribution to humanity.

As for the Heavenly Dao, there was no way. The Heavenly Dao was impartial, treating all things as straw dogs, and people were just one of all things.

Borrowing the Yuwen family, he also collected a batch of craftsmen, provided some theories, and let them invent some good tools.

However, these craftsmen could only be tools who worked hard. It was impossible to let them become leaders.

But Lu Miaoji was different. Su Fan believed that if he proposed a concept of a water-boiling pot, perhaps he could even build a steam engine.

Thinking of this, Su Fan also had the idea of moving in his heart.

As for Du Fuwei, Su Fan didn't have the idea of going personally. Ling Zhan and the others had now broken through, with four first-class fierce generals on the battlefield and over ten thousand elite soldiers. No matter how strong Du Fuwei was, he couldn't be their match.

"Hmm! Ling Zhan, you should know about Du Fuwei of the Jianghuai Army, right?"

Su Fan changed the subject.

"Prefect, do you mean you want to send troops to the Jianghuai Army?"

Ling Zhan's eyes lit up upon hearing this. He was now an orthodox imperial official. Although he didn't like Yang Guang, he naturally wouldn't have a good face for Du Fuwei of Jianghuai.

Regardless of what banner Du Fuwei was holding, in his eyes, he was still a rebel army, so he naturally didn't have any opinion on sending troops to attack these people.

"Not bad, it is the Jianghuai Army. This time I plan to let you be the main general, and Ren Tong and the others will lead my private soldiers as support."

"Main general? Prefect, I can't."

Ling Zhan shook his head repeatedly upon hearing this. This time, sending troops wasn't like the small skirmishes before. With nearly twenty thousand troops, a real great battle, if he lost, wouldn't it mean the Prefect's hard work would be lost?

"Haha! Why? Are you afraid?"

Su Fan laughed: "Don't be afraid, I believe in you. In these two years, you have brought these commandery soldiers to this level. Even the famous generals of the past didn't do much better than you."

Of course, this was a bit too much praise, but Ling Zhan had indeed done well. The elite combat power that the commandery soldiers could have today, besides his cost-free investment, was also Ling Zhan's strict training.

"I don't understand military formations. Letting me go to command a great battle is unfair to them."

Su Fan didn't be humble. Regarding leading troops to fight, it wasn't that simple. In his previous life, he also led hundreds of martial arts experts to fight.

But a great battle of ten thousand people was different.

The rules here, without systematic learning, going up was just looking for a beating.

He couldn't even do Zhao Kuo, who talked about soldiers on paper.

And Ling Zhan was different. He not only had family-inherited military strategy, but in these years, he had also been leading troops to suppress bandits, accumulating a lot of experience.

Therefore, Su Fan was still relatively at ease. ===== CHAPTER 93 =====