Liu De squinted his eyes and looked at the Tiger Guards who were performing hundreds of steps away in front of him with a smile on his face.≧
To be honest, Huben Guard's drills are a bit fancy.
Moreover, because many equipment and even military units are brand new things, they are still being explored and figured out how to apply them.
Therefore, during the exercise, it is inevitable that some ideas will be opened up.
For example, although the heavy cavalry group uses a standard heavy cavalry formation, it still uses the same old cavalry tactics...
Mo Daobing did not rush into the military formation, but played defense.
The crossbowmen, who were supposed to provide cover and support, instead became the main force of the attack.
Although there were many flaws, Liu Che knew that the purpose of showing off muscles had almost been achieved just by looking at the real ones with mouths that couldn't be closed, such as Ma Han and even the Huns.
Liu Che believed that as long as the Huns were not stupid, they would never come back to disrupt the current peaceful situation.
In fact, they may try their best to maintain the current peace.
In the early days of World War II, was the appeasement of Britain and France really the result of the stupidity of the leaders of Britain and France?
Liu Che did not think so. The appeasement of Britain and France was because they knew that if another world war broke out, they would lose their world hegemony regardless of victory or defeat.
Perhaps no one among the Huns had such political insight.
However, it is human nature to desperately protect one's own interests.
At this time, beside Liu Che, Prime Minister Zhou Yafu was jealous, staring at the cavalry galloping across the field.
"This is the real cavalry!" Zhou Yafu thought to himself.
Previously, when Yi Zong and Ju Meng were ordered to form the Yu Lin and Hu Ben guards respectively, Zhou Yafu was still a Taiwei at that time, responsible for the world's military affairs.
But at that time, his focus was on Bashang, the Great Wall and the demobilization of the hundreds of thousands of troops in the southeast. He didn't pay much attention to this.
The old Liu family has always loved making troubles.
In Zhou Yafu's opinion, with the addition of Yi Zong and Ju Meng, this young man, Yu Lin and Hu Ben, will probably become a place similar to gold plating.
Who would have thought that after these two months, I would really become famous!
As a prime minister with a military background, Zhou Yafu only had one idea in his mind after seeing the equipment and cavalry of the Tiger Guards - the Han army should also be fully equipped with these advanced weapons and equipment.
So, after thinking about it for a while, he came out and bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, I kindly ask your Majesty to equip the Han army with the equipment of Yu Lin and Hu Ben guards..."
Liu Che heard this and glanced at Zhou Yafu. He had long expected that such a thing would happen.
But Liu Che knew better that currently, the equipment of the Tiger Guard and the Yulin Guard were not suitable for large-scale promotion.
Mo Dao requires a lot of steel, and heavy cavalry are also big consumers of iron. As for the improved versions of repeating crossbows and rhubarb crossbows, the current output of the Shaofu is not enough to maintain a large-scale supply of this equipment.
What's more, if we replace these equipment now, what will happen to the old equipment produced before?
Is it all sitting in a warehouse waiting to rot?
The Han Dynasty was not the emperor of the United States, and could not commit the prodigal act of sealing up Iowa in the port to rust.
Liu Che then laughed and said: "Prime Minister, don't be too impatient. Now is not the time!"
Liu Che also sighed with emotion and said: "There are too few horses and too little steel to support the change of clothes!"
In order to form the two cavalry of the Huben Guard and the Yulin Guard, Liu Che plundered almost all the best horses from all the horse farms in the Han Dynasty, and barely managed to get enough of these horses that could carry hundreds of kilograms of objects.
For the Han Dynasty, the most urgent issue now is the issue of horses and iron.
At present, the number of Han Dynasty war horses is only 100,000, which is not even as many as the Huns' war horses in the Hetao area!
Even if calculated according to the standard configuration of light cavalry, one man with two horses, and the maneuver of changing horses in turns, 100,000 horses can only be armed with a maximum of 30,000 light cavalry. As for the heavy cavalry?
hehe……
Before Wusun horses were bred on a large scale, the heavy cavalry was just a guard of honor.
Moreover, Liu Che knew that the future of cavalry would definitely be dominated by cuirassiers.
The Iron Pagoda and the like can just be used as a guard of honor. If we really want to fight, relying on those iron turtles is of no use!
As for the issue of steel, the output of blast furnaces would take at least three to five years of construction to meet the needs of the Han Dynasty.
Moreover, agriculture needs steel more urgently than the army.
At present, even in some places in Guanzhong during the Han Dynasty, farmers are still using outdated stone tools and even wooden tools.
How to popularize iron tools and even steel farm tools is something that really needs attention.
Liu Che didn't want to experience what happened to Xiaozhu in his previous life, where he won militarily but collapsed economically.
In the final analysis, the final battle is money and food. If you have enough money and food, you can be invincible.
Of course, it was impossible for Liu Che not to give Zhou Yafu face, so he said: "I have read the "On Horse Politics" that the Prime Minister gave not long ago, and I will do it according to the Prime Minister's wishes!"
Some time ago, Zhou Yafu made a secret about Ma Zheng and handed it over to Liu Che.
This policy was very famous in Liu Che's previous life.
Its core idea is that if someone's family keeps a horse, then three people in that family can be exempted from corvee service.
This policy is very good. In the previous life, the stock of horses in the Han Dynasty continued to grow under the stimulation of this policy, quadrupling in ten years.
However, there are many disadvantages.
First of all, ordinary families cannot afford to raise horses. Those who can afford to raise horses must be landlord families.
Secondly, Liu's corvee policy was based on population.
In other words, suppose there are a thousand people in a certain place, and the number of people who need to serve in that place that year is one hundred.
Then, the landowning families among these people can use the policy of raising horses to avoid corvee, but the corvee that should be theirs will be passed on to the poor common people and small landowners who cannot afford to raise horses.
The most important thing is that the breeding of war horses is a scientific and long-term process.
How many of the horses raised by the private sector are qualified?
Liu Che was deeply suspicious of this!
Anyway, in the previous life, when Xiaozhu's army went out, they basically drew war horses from the Han Dynasty's horse farms. Folk horses were rarely bought back by the government.
Therefore, Liu Che has always been hesitant.
It is naturally right to encourage private horse breeding, but how to ensure that it will not affect other farmers who do not raise horses, and how to ensure the quality of horses raised, is something that requires further thinking and exploration.
However, at this time, in order to deal with Zhou Yafu, Liu Che had to temporarily pass this issue.
Specific policies can be adjusted slowly in the future.
After all, this policy has been proven in previous lives and can indeed effectively increase the number of horses in the Han Dynasty. (To be continued, please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!
ps: Happy April Fool’s Day, dear friends~~~~
Ahem, I’m in a bit of a bad mood today~ Sorry, that’s all I can write~
