As far as Song Shidao knew, among the four great clans, the Yuwen Clan, the Dugu Clan, and the Li Clan each had ten to twenty thousand of such private armies.
Their deployment was similar to that of the Song clan. They were led by Grandmasters, and there were many martial arts experts in each army.
Even their soldiers cultivated martial arts, and there were martial arts that were specially suitable for soldiers to cultivate.
However, their soldiers were not professional soldiers like the Song clan, so their overall strength could not compare to the Song clan.
But even so, the combat strength of this army was still very strong.
Last year, when Yang Guang was besieged by the Turks at Yanmen, the Li Family had sent ten thousand of their private soldiers to rescue him.
In the end, Yang Guang rewarded Li Fu heavily after he made a great contribution in the battle, causing Li Fu to begin to openly expand his strength.
This was the elite army of the four gentry clans.
On the other hand, the army of the Wagang Village that Song Shidao had just come into contact with was on a completely different level.
It was true that there were many high-level combatants in the village. There were two Grandmasters, five to six peak Xiantian experts, and more than ten Xiantian experts.
In terms of high-level combat power, Wa Gang was already very good. They had indeed recruited many martial arts masters.
However, the quality of Wagang's army was really hard to look at.
There were more than 100,000 soldiers, but only 10,000 or 20,000 of them could be compared to the regular Sui army. The rest were hungry people who could not even eat their fill.
Many of them had joined the war with hoes and shovels.
In the whole of Wagang, only the 1,000-odd personal guards that Zhai Rang had built were comparable to the elite troops of the four gentry clans.
He had built this according to the standards of the four gentry clans. In order to build such a personal guard, Di Rang had almost transferred all of the elite backbone forces of Wagang.
Therefore, even though the Wa Gang was powerful, it could not cause any trouble.
Of course, if they were given more than ten years to develop, the result would naturally be different. However, under the current situation, no one would give Wa Gang more than ten years to develop.
In today's world, there were many people who could rebel, but there were only a few who could obtain the throne. In this era, it was simply too difficult for civilians to rebel.
Take Wa Gang for example. Before Li Mi, a noble, joined, Wa Gang was a second-rate force. After Li Mi joined, Wa Gang became the overlord of the Central Plains.
The difference between Li Mi and Di Rang was obvious.
Back then, when Sui Emperor attacked Goguryeo, there were already many rebel armies in the world.
However, Yang Guang didn't take it seriously at that time. This kind of volunteer army was just launched by some Jianghu people. They had no foundation and no rules. It was easy to put them out.
However, once Yang Xuangan rebelled, Yang Guang immediately turned back to suppress Yang Xuangan's rebellion.
Why?
This was because Yang Xuangan's rebellion was a rebellion of the nobles, and it could shake the foundation of his rule.
After so many years of development, the Hongnong Yang family was still second only to the gentry families, even though they were not listed among the four gentry families.
Coupled with Yang Su's massive accumulation back then, the Yang Family's strength was already extremely terrifying.
Therefore, when Yang Xuangan was in chaos, Yang Guang took it seriously.
One had to know that the number of people Yang Xuangan had rebelled was far less than the number of rebel soldiers that had swarmed up from all over the world.
During the rebellion of Yang Xuangan, the sons of the nobles in Guanlong had all defected. Li Mi was one of them, and even the descendants of the founding hero Han Qinhu had joined them.
It could be seen how serious this rebellion was.
The reason why Yang Guang was able to put out the rebellion in a short period of time was because he had borrowed the power of the Yuwen family and other powerful families.
However, in the end, this rebellion also caused the strength of the Yang royal family to be greatly weakened. Several grandmaster experts supported by the royal family died in this battle.
This also led to Yang Guang being controlled by Yuwen Fan after he arrived in Jiang Du.
Therefore, once the aristocratic families rebelled, the consequences would be disastrous. In the world today, the four aristocratic families were all plotting. For example, the Li family had directly begun to recruit troops and horses, openly preparing to rebel.
If the Song clan had waited a few years, when the Li clan in the north had become powerful, it would have been a bitter battle!
The Song family's fleet followed the Tongji Canal all the way down. Along the way, they passed through many places. Some were controlled by the Sui army, some were controlled by Wa Gang, and some were controlled by Du Fuwei.
Basically, they could see all kinds of rebel armies after walking for a while. Many places at the river checkpoints were already controlled by these rebel armies.
They controlled the river and intercepted caravans from the south to the north. They either robbed them or demanded passage fees.
The Song clan's caravan was unusually conspicuous among the fleets coming from the south to the north. However, when they heard that it was the Song clan's caravan, most of the rebel soldiers chose to let it pass.
Of course, there were also quite a few blind people who tried to swallow the Song clan's caravan, but in the end, they all lost their teeth.
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