Warring States Eagle

The reason for the lack of youth is naturally that the Ouchi family has been in conflict with the Luo family and the Otomo family for several years, and then fell into internal strife, and then began the Battle of Itsukushima and the Luo family's western strategy.In such frequent wars and turmoil, it naturally caused a large number of young and strong people to be recruited, and then either died in battle or became prisoners of the enemy, which caused the destruction of many families.

And this time the Luo family's invasion and the Ouchi family's internal strife also forced many local farmers to hide in the deep mountains and wild ridges with their families, leaving only the elderly at home.As for the situation in Anyi Country, it is even more special. Among the local population, many young and strong members of the family are still serving as soldiers in the Maori family's army.

In the end, more than 1 people became slaves of the Luo family because they fought against the Luo family in the previous Raiders of the Luo family. slave.At this time, these slaves were being sent to various slave farms in the Kyushu region of the Luo family in batches by the Luo family's navy.

Due to the above-mentioned reasons, not only the total population of these territories of the Ouchi family in the Western Kingdom is a bit sparse, but there are not many young adults and children.Compared with Nagato Country, Zhou Fang Country, and An Yi Country, the population of other areas of the Luo family is much more reasonable.Among them, Hizen Country, where the Luo family started, had a population of 35 at this time, including 21 young adults and 23 children.The Chikugo Kingdom, which was included in the territory of the Luo family earlier.The population is 14, of which 31 are young and strong, and 18 are children.It is also the Higo country that was incorporated into the territory of the Luo family earlier.The population is [-], of which [-] are young and strong, and [-] are children.

It can be seen from the above population situation that compared with the population situation in 1549, there are more young adults and children in the population of the three countries at this time.This is mainly due to factors such as the local stable social environment and good farming system.And this is the area that has been most affected by the new eating habits advocated by the Roche family.With better eating habits than before (such as eating more fish), the physical fitness of the local people is getting better and better, especially the night blindness that was common during the Warring States Period has been greatly improved.This led Zhengliang to replenish the Luo family's standing stock.It is often preferred to select soldiers from these areas.

In terms of areas that joined the Luo family's territory later, the population of Chikuzen was 18.Among them, 12 are young and strong, and 13 are children.The population of Bungzen is 25, of which 15 are young and strong, and 1000 are children.The population of Bungo Country is 170.Among them, 96 are young and strong, and [-] are children.The population of Iki Island is more than [-] people, of which more than [-] are young and strong, and more than [-] are children.The area secretly occupied by the Luo family in the northwest of Hyuga Kingdom has a population of more than [-] people, including more than [-] young and strong, and less than [-] children.After several years of development in these areas, the children of those years have grown into young adults, and more children have been born.compared to before.The population of young adults and children has increased, but it is not as obvious as in places such as Hizen Country.According to the population report submitted by the Cabinet at this time, the Luo family's territory has a population of more than [-] million at this time.Among them, there are about [-] young adults, more than [-] children, and among the young adults, there are more than [-] males.With the further statistics of the population of the newly occupied West Country and the continuous influx of refugees, the population of the Luo family will increase.

Before such a huge population base.Zhengliang immediately made the decision to expand the army, after all, with the expansion of the territory.With the current standing of more than [-] members of the Luo family (that is, full-time soldiers) and [-] reserve members (actually half-farming and half-professional farmers and soldiers), it is obviously unable to meet the needs of the Luo family's territory defense and expansion.

At this time, the population of the Luo family is more than 170 million. If the ratio is selected according to the military power of the Luo family, at this time, the Luo family can completely draw more than [-] young and strong men from among the young and strong men. The new Luo family's military power.And if the other forces in the Warring States period were drawn at a ratio of one out of ten regardless of age, the Luo family could even organize an army of more than one hundred thousand.

But such a large-scale standing army or semi-standing army is obviously not suitable.Zhengliang decided to expand the Luo family's regular and semi-standby troops according to actual needs.

常备方面，目前主要包括合共四千200人的七个常备番队、合共三千600人的四个水军常备番队、合共500人的两个骑兵常备番队、400人的铁炮常备番队、400人的武士常备翻地、100人的披风众、250人的常备侦番番队、100人的常备传令兵、150人的黑鹰忍军。

As for the seven standing squadrons that are the main combat power of the Luo family, Zheng Liang does not plan to increase the number of standing squadrons, but he wants to adjust the types of troops and the standing quota of each squadron.Originally, there were only two types of arms in a squadron, the spearman and the archer, and the respective quotas were 350 and 250 people. In this way, a full standing squadron has a standing reserve of 500 people.

This time, Zhengliang increased the number of spearmen by 150 among the two arms in each fan team, while the number of archers increased by 500.After increasing these quotas, the number of pikemen in each team is 350, and that of archers is [-].

In addition, Zhengliang also added [-] iron artillery soldiers to each team.The reason why Zhengliang added iron artillery for each team was because, as the scale of the iron cannon workshop continued to increase, the iron cannon reserves of the Luo family could meet the needs of equipping these seven teams. There are also enough troops in the standing reserve to meet the supplementary needs this time, and the Luo family workshop can also provide timely maintenance and other logistical support.The second is that Zheng Liang discovered from the strategy of the Western Kingdom that the Luo family will encounter more and more mountainous terrain in the future, and the iron cannon is suitable for this terrain.Based on these two reasons, Zhengliang decided to add the iron artillery to the seven standing squadrons this time.

In this way, a fan team included 350 pikemen, 900 archers and 500 iron artillerymen, a total of 2000 people.There are [-] standing teams of the seven standing squadrons, nearly [-] more than the previous [-].