Richard's "army" now has only more than 4,000 people, which is the result of counting the undead legion!

This unit is not comparable to the Han family army and Yang family army stationed in Sichuan in the Southern Song Dynasty. Whether it is the Han family army or the Yang family army, they can easily produce tens of thousands of soldiers, which is more than ten times that of Richard!

This is the number of war soldiers, that is, recruiting soldiers, or standing troops or professional soldiers.

Because these soldiers are not engaged in production, they train their killing skills in a full-time manner, and their combat effectiveness is much higher than that of military soldiers who are half farming and half soldiers.

However, the maintenance cost of such combat soldiers is extremely high. If the military pay is reduced, the combat effectiveness of such combat soldiers will drop rapidly.

The soldiers who cannot get the full military pay need to find another way out because they do not have enough production and do not have enough income to fill their stomachs, so soldiers will engage in the second labor industry.

People's energy is limited, and those who serve in the army are doing other business. You can imagine how much combat effectiveness they can maintain?

Moreover, because of the decline in treatment, the food standards of this group will naturally decrease. The nutrition required by the soldiers' bodies cannot keep up with it. Without a strong body, it is naturally not good to go to the battlefield to fight...

When fighting between ordinary people eliminates the factor of courage, it is just about physical fitness.

If you have great strength and react quickly, as long as the opponent is not a martial arts master, you can basically win in close combat. This is also the reason why women were not allowed to go to the battlefield in ancient times. The physical gap between women and men is too big. Even after being trained in the future, it is difficult to defeat an adult strong man.

What's more, women who go to the battlefield can easily arouse the enemy's combat morale...

The consequences of female prisoners of war are often a hundred times more miserable than those of male prisoners of war!

True life is worse than death!

The big-headed soldiers in the ancient army could not see a few women throughout the year, and sometimes they could not control themselves, let alone see a living young woman?

This is also the reason why many well-treated troops in ancient times learned to add women in the camp. This is not disrespect for women, but just to maintain the morale of the soldiers and give them a way to vent.

Many times, for soldiers, women are more attractive than other material rewards.

Of course, this was only in ancient and modern times. In the 21st century, you could basically give money. After all, you can play with women wherever you are rich...

Therefore, although there are many soldiers from the Han family army and the Yang family army, the real elites actually only occupy a part of them.

Han Shizhong and Yang Ye did not have that much money to support tens of thousands of war soldiers, and the Southern Song Dynasty court was even more unlikely to give them so much military pay.

The only ones who can truly receive generous treatment from professional soldiers are the elite soldiers.

The combat capabilities of these professional personal troops are actually similar to those of the elite in the Yue family's army, and are even worse than the Beiwei Army brought out by Yue Fei himself.

This has nothing to do with the soldier’s personal quality, but a morale issue.

After all, no general can eat and live with soldiers like Yue Fei to win over the hearts of the people. The soldiers' lives are hard, and the noble generals will only eat and live with them if they are thrust...

His family knew about his family affairs. Even though Richard only had a few thousand people, Han Shizhong and Yang Ye still did not dare to take a step forward in Sichuan's defense line. Instead, they paid out of their own pocket to accelerate the construction of the fortress in the Sichuan direction!

The Yue family army had proved with facts that the Song army could still fight with the Ming army in the fortress fortress. Now Richard only has 4,000 people, so at worst he would fight a war of attrition.

The Han family army and the Yang family army are also field corpses. The two combined have more than 100,000 troops. Could it be that they can't even waste Richard?

This is the confidence of Han Shizhong and Yang Ye.

After the two have divided the defense zones, they will start to build tough villages and fight stupid battles. No matter how you seduce them, we will never take a step!

With the record of completely annihilated the Yue family army, even the Southern Song court dared not issue orders to fight against Han Shizhong and Yang Ye like before.

Han Shizhong and Yang Ye are not Yue Fei, so they are not such a big threat. Moreover, these two are the few main forces left in the Southern Song Dynasty today. If they are defeated by Richard again, Sichuan will be lost!

After all, the Southern Song Dynasty was very large and it was impossible to concentrate all its troops on the Sichuan defense line!

In addition to the Han family army and the Yang family army, the Song Dynasty also had a relatively capable Zhong family army, but the Zhong family army had long been split by the Southern Song court, and it was difficult to concentrate in various prefectures.

Forced withdrawal will cause local riots.

After all, not everyone supported the rule of the Southern Song Dynasty. Song Taizu was not in a proper position, and the Southern Song Dynasty accepted a large number of old and young people. There have always been voices among the people supporting the restoration of the Li family of the former Tang Dynasty.

The Tang Dynasty has been glorious for so many years, but it has cultivated many loyalists. If it weren’t for the overflow of green skin, the Tang Dynasty would not have fallen so quickly.

In addition to the Zhong family army, the only mobile field troops that the Southern Song Dynasty could mobilize besides the Han family army and the Yang family army were the imperial guards directly under the royal family.

It was also the royal "guards" brought out by Song Taizu himself.

There are quite a few imperial guards, but they need to guard the capital, so it is difficult to transfer to Sichuan...

Of course, in addition to these main forces of the Song army, which are famous for their combat effectiveness, there are also a large number of local miscellaneous troops, namely local garrison troops composed of military farming soldiers.

But this kind of army has proved with facts that it is a combat power that is about to collapse when encountering the Ming army. The Southern Song Dynasty court is not stupid, so how could it keep sending people to their heads?

You should know that those captured Song soldiers will be adapted by Richard when they turn around and then sent back to the battlefield as cannon fodder!

Even if these prisoners of war are not sent to the battlefield, they are all young and strong laborers. Whether they are clearing up land or farming or being coolies, they are a wealth for the country.

Population is an important resource in the era of cold weapons. After all, this era is not like Richard's previous life, with automation and informatization being highly developed. Wars no longer depend on the population, but on whether weapons are advanced.

If there is a weapon generation gap, a million troops will not be able to defeat a division...

Therefore, there is a special term in modern warfare to describe asymmetric warfare.

Of course, this is on the premise of ensuring that nuclear weapons are not used. Once nuclear weapons are used, let alone population, all military parameters will become irrelevant...

When Han Shizhong and Yang Ye were confidently planning to rely on the tactics of the castle group to resist Richard, the two 20-pound unicorn siege cannons exchanged from the capital of the Northwest region last year finally arrived at the front line!

The transportation time of several months made Richard deeply realize how unreliable it is to siege heavy artillery to participate in field battles!
Chapter completed!