Chapter 89

As early as ten years ago, in order to expand his influence and make himself rooted in the north, Chen Heng adopted the policy of actively going out to make friends with the nobility in the north.

In every family, there were a large number of people who could not be arranged except the eldest son.

Where these people go is undoubtedly a headache.

As second sons and even partial supporters, these people have no right of inheritance and can only get a small amount of property and other help.

Under the rules of the times, it is difficult for them to get a decent life like their parents.

But to a certain extent, Chen Heng solved a difficult problem for them.

Different from other lords in this era, Chen Heng's territory has a complete bureaucratic system, which involves all aspects and is perfect.

A perfect ruling system naturally needs a large number of administrative officials for execution.

And those noble second sons who could not be resettled by others were targeted by Chen Heng.

In this age when the common people are generally illiterate, these noble second sons are born among the nobles and can basically read and write. Some of them may have mastered other skills. They are the best and only source of officials in this era.

Therefore, in the past ten years, with the development of Chen Heng, a large number of people from other nobles gathered in his territory.

To this extent, naturally, many people are loyal to him.

However, there are few lords like kurudo.

Among those loyalists, most of them were landless nobles who had no territory and longed to obtain territory through Chen Heng.

"His majesty oriman has ordered me to assemble the army and go to fight the rebels."

Sitting in the hall, Chen Heng's face was calm, looking at kurudo, so he said.

"Fighting the rebels?"

The voice fell, and the faces of the people on the scene changed.

To leave one's own territory and fight the rebels in a strange place is not a matter of lip service. There are many things involved.

How to arrange grain and how to guarantee logistics? Where are the troops transferred from? Will it lead to empty territory and accidents?

There are many literal problems.

There are more problems outside the battlefield.

Especially in the current situation, do they still need to support oliman to fight against the rebels?

These are all problems.

Thinking of this, the faces of the people on the scene changed, and then they all looked forward and looked at Chen Heng.

At present, in the whole soda, the only one who can make a decision is Chen Heng.

His idea is the most important factor in deciding whether to fight or not.

Feeling the gaze of the people around him, Chen Heng's face was calm. He just raised his head silently and said, "if we really go to war, how many troops can we take out at present?"

"We can take out about 5000 people without affecting our defense."

Someone thought for a moment and finally said.

"Five thousand."

Chen Heng nodded.

These five thousand people are the wealth he has accumulated over the past ten years.

Although it looks good, compared with the number of hundreds of thousands and millions of troops in history, it is the result of Chen Heng's efforts.

After all, soda's foundation is too bad. At the beginning, it was just a piece of white land.

Although Chen Heng has done his best to attract the population, lead the tribe, and buy slaves to fill in the past ten years, the population of soda today is only a few hundred thousand.

With this population, it is already the limit to be able to support 10000 troops.

Among these ten thousand people, only five thousand can be selected.

Of course, although this number is nothing to Chen Heng, it is already a huge number to other lords of Kutu kingdom.

The Lords of this era were generally poor. Except for a few big nobles, there were not many soldiers in the hands of the other small Lords.

Just like Baron Kaisen, Chen Heng's father, the number of guards in the whole territory was only 300 or 400.

At the moment, the prestige of the rebels in the south is so huge, but the core combat power is probably less than 10000 people, and it belongs to different lords, which is different from Chen Heng's army.

In the view of kurudo and others, Chen Heng's strength has been very strong, and he can be called the first in the north.

However, in Chen Heng's view, the number of troops is still insufficient.

It's not that the fighting capacity is not enough.

In fact, in order to ensure the combat effectiveness of his army, Chen Heng has made a lot of efforts.

The troops in his hands are all those who fight with other races every day. They not only face battles, but also have the same daily food training.As far as their training level is concerned, if they are put into the army of other lords, they will cause mutiny immediately.

There is no shortage of training, logistics, equipment and actual combat.

The combat effectiveness of such an army is certainly not poor.

And in fact it is.

In these years, Chen Heng has not only fought with other nationalities, but also with the northern Lord's army.

For the southern Lord, the army of the elite Northern Territory, facing Chen Heng's army, can't compete at all under the same number, and will be easily defeated.

The northern lords fought all the year round, and the combat effectiveness of the army was stronger than that of the south.

Even they are, not to mention the southern army.

Although the combat effectiveness is enough, it may not be enough to achieve a greater goal.

If you want to defeat the southern army, Chen Heng's 5000 people are enough.

However, it is not enough to control the extensive territory and achieve the desired effect in Chen Heng's mind.

At this point, Chen Heng turned and looked at kurudo: "if I ask the northern Lord to send troops to set out with me, how many people can be recruited?"

Chen Heng light mouth, so said.

Looking at Chen Heng, kuluduodun was stunned.

But soon, he came back with a positive face: "the Ola family is willing to take out 500 people to follow."

"The Kaisuo family is willing to offer 300 people."

"The SOLIN family is willing to give 400..."

"the Vitol family can give 300..."

bursts of voices fell in the same place.

In the presence, in addition to kurudo, there were several small lords who also secretly swore allegiance to Chen Heng.

With the increase of the number of troops in their hands, another 1500 were gathered in a short time.

"Send me a message to the other families that I want to entertain them in soda."

Listening to the words of more than a few people in Kulu, Chen Heng had a smile on his face. At this time, he couldn't help laughing: "by the way, please send them troops together to help me."