Yang Rui first made a count of the number of soldiers under his command. The total number was close to seven million. It was a massive number. Even Yang Rui felt the same way when he heard about it.
It was important to note that Dong Zhuo only had three million soldiers back then. Yang Rui now had more than twice the number of Dong Zhuo at his peak. And this was the result of Yang Rui steadily training his soldiers and not demanding too much. Otherwise, the number of soldiers would have been much higher.
As for the source of soldiers, due to the military subsidy system that Yang Rui implemented in his territories, as well as the revised military subsidy system, the desire of Liegeman to become a soldier was extremely high.
Moreover, the living conditions in Yang Rui's territories had improved, and the population had increased exponentially. Yang Rui had never had to worry about the source of soldiers.
On the contrary, unlike the other regions of the Three Kingdoms' civilization, soldiers who wanted to become soldiers became extremely popular due to various favorable policies. Not only did they receive subsidies, but they could also marry more wives and have priority in marriage. Many Liegeman were envious of this.
For a very long time, when Yang Rui's territories were selecting soldiers, their aptitudes had been raised to A-Grade and above. Those with slightly lower aptitudes had been eliminated. This caused many Liegeman to sigh in regret.
At the same time, Yang Rui also had the map of the Penglai Region, an ideal place to grind experience and level up. This greatly improved the training process of the soldiers. This was also one of the important reasons why Yang Rui had so many soldiers at his disposal.
However, the structure of Yang Rui's soldiers was far from ideal. Of the millions of soldiers, more than a million were still in training. The rest were soldiers of Fifth Grade and above who could be put to use in battle.
On the other hand, the number of truly elite soldiers was much lower. There weren't that many Sixth and Seventh Grade elite soldiers among them.
Taking everything into account, Yang Rui only had about 400000 Sixth Grade soldiers.
This included 45000 Sixth Grade heavy cavalry, 42656 Sixth Grade heavy armored sword-shield soldiers, 24672 Sixth Grade archers, 15000 Sixth Grade heavy armored sword-shield cavalry, 68666 Sixth Grade archers, and 50000 Sixth Grade Formation Breaker soldiers.
Next to them were Gao Shun, Taishi Ci, and Yang Rui's own special soldiers. They had basically completed the process of upgrading to Sixth Grade. Among them, there were 50000 Formation Breaker soldiers, 100,000 scaled soldiers, for a total of 150,000 soldiers.
There were also over two thousand Sixth Grade soldiers of various types, including bandit leaders. There were also over one thousand Sixth Grade soldiers of various non-Three Kingdoms civilizations, including soldiers of the magical civilization.
Yang Rui had even fewer Seventh Grade soldiers. The one with the largest number was the 50000 Seventh Grade Perfect Ninja soldiers that Yang Rui had exchanged from the storyline. They were the ones that Yang Rui had obtained from the Japanese civilization's skill book.
Next were the 20000 Seventh Grade heavy infantry soldiers of the Three Kingdoms civilizations. They were different from the Sixth Grade heavy armored sword-shield soldiers, as the latter focused more on defense.
There were also over 1100 Seventh Grade soldiers of various types obtained from the Tower of Civilization's class change skill books. There were also over 1200 Seventh Grade special soldiers obtained from the Tower of Civilization. There were also thirty Seventh Grade village soldier tokens that could be used at any time to transform into the fighting force of a city.
It was apparent that the number of Seventh Grade soldiers under Yang Rui's command had only stopped at 70000.
All in all, Yang Rui's Fifth Grade soldiers were still the main characters. Overall, there were a lot of them. However, due to the limitations of the class change skill books and other factors, it would be very difficult for these soldiers to improve their strength.
With the game constantly developing, the structure of Yang Rui's soldiers needed to be improved. That was especially true after the end of the war between the six continents. Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Yuan Shu would probably have even more high-grade soldiers under their command.
Of course, this didn't mean that only Sixth and Seventh Grade soldiers could be considered powerful soldiers. For example, Cheng Yu's 50000 Fifth Grade Silverstained Crossbowmen, Tower Nan's 50000 Fifth Grade Wuhuan Light Cavalry, and Suli's 50000 Fifth Grade Xianbei Light Cavalry were all comparable to or above Sixth Grade soldiers.
Next was the generals. The number of famous historical figures in Yang Rui's army had increased again. However, the rate of increase wasn't very fast. They didn't even have an advantage over the surrounding vassal forces. This was one of Yang Rui's weaknesses.
Yang Rui made use of the limited time left for the six continents to reorganize the generals under his command. This made the distribution of the generals more conducive to future mobilization and their respective roles.
Yang Rui's overall plan was to reorganize the generals capable of fighting to the frontlines of the upcoming war. Meanwhile, the generals suitable for defense would be deployed to the rear to manage internal affairs and maintain the normal operations of the territory under their control.
Of course, this process couldn't be completed overnight. Yang Rui had to consider all sorts of factors when reorganizing the troops. The entire process had to be carried out in an orderly manner, and it had to be completed before the end of the war between the six continents.
Taking into account the mobilization of the generals also highlighted another aspect of Yang Rui's absolute advantage: the quality of the soldiers.
At the current stage, whether it was the Yellow River Basin, the Wenshui Basin, or the Sishui Basin, no vassal's navy could compare to Yang Rui's. In fact, the neighboring vassals had already given up on competing with Yang Rui over most of the rivers and bodies of water.
Yang Rui had always paid great attention to the development of the navy, especially the construction of the fortress ships, warships, and suanni. Yang Rui had never stopped supervising them.
At present, Yang Rui had sixty-five fortress ships, eighty-six warships, and 116 suanni. As for the rest of the warships, they were almost equally divided between Taishi Ci and Gan Ningnan.
With so many large warships and a large number of specialized scaled soldiers, Yang Rui's two navies had a massive advantage.
And with the defensive perimeter Yang Rui had drawn up at the beginning, it wasn't difficult for the navies in the north and south to defend and seal off the enemy.
At the same time, Yang Rui's plan after the end of the Imperial Army in the Six Provinces was based on this point. Yang Rui planned to first attack Cao Cao's faction in Chen Liu County of Yan Province, then temporarily defend the Yellow River, Ji River, Wenshui, and Sishui Basins.
Of the surrounding vassals, Yang Rui still valued Cao Cao the most. Although Cao Cao wasn't the strongest at the moment, he was the most intimidating in the long run.
On this point, the views of Cheng Yu, Guo Jia, Sun Qian, and Ju Shou were slowly changing. Their understanding of Cao Cao was also gradually changing.
In addition, Yang Rui still had a mission to subdue, one that involved controlling the entire Yan Province.
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