The military parade is actually a very hard thing. Just reviewing the troops along the road, Liu Che also felt a little sore and backache.
But the spiritual enjoyment overwhelms all physical discomfort.
After reviewing the last military formation, Liu Che glanced at the endless military formations with hesitation.
This military parade allowed him to fully enjoy the role of a future leader.
It's a pity that there is no torrent of airplanes, cannons and steel...
Liu Che thought with regret in his heart.
But this petty bourgeois romantic sentiment only stayed in Liu Che's mind for half a second and then disappeared.
As a king, Liu Che knew his responsibilities very well.
"Through this military parade, I have generally seen some of the characteristics of the current military..." Liu Che thought in his heart.
The army of any era has its own characteristics.
Just like the armies of the two Song dynasties, if rewards were not given or not given enough, their combat effectiveness suddenly dropped by 100%.
Even within the same dynasty, the appearance of the army in different periods is completely different.
This is like the Ming army in the early Ming Dynasty, which could easily defeat all armies in the world, but in the middle Ming Dynasty, it could not even defeat Wazi, a branch of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty.
Otherwise, it has almost no effect.
After reviewing the current main force of the Han Dynasty, Liu Che has not seen any other problems yet.
But he still noticed two problems.
First, the discipline of the Han army still needs to be strengthened.
The field armies directly under the central government, the northern and southern armies, were fine, and generally had strict discipline, but the county soldiers below were far worse.
These county soldiers are basically stationed in their own hometowns, and their officers are basically from the local area.
The authority of officers is much lower than that of the field army and the Northern and Southern armies.
Many phalanx formations are fine when they are still, but once they bow together, the difference can be seen immediately.
The Southern and Northern armies, as well as the field armies stationed in various military camps in Guanzhong, no matter whether they stand, kneel or stand up, they are like a sophisticated machine, just like one person.
As for the county soldiers, whenever they move, there will be some chaos. Although the officers try their best to suppress and organize, they have little effect.
"This is normal..." Liu Che sighed inwardly.
It is a joke if the local county soldiers in this township want to have strict discipline and strict hierarchy.
The officers commanded these county soldiers not by military law, discipline and system, but by local people's feelings and clan friendship.
For example, in history, Li Guang's army was composed of sons of good families from Longyou and had inextricable ties with the Li family. Therefore, there was no discipline at all when fighting.
Basically, it was all chaotic.
He relied on Li Guang's prestige and his support to fight.
As a result, the old master was often beaten to death by random punches or was beaten to death by the old master.
Therefore, the performance of flying generals is often like that of the Chinese stock market in later generations, with ups and downs, which is unpredictable.
Therefore, Li Guang's descendants learned his lesson, especially the army commanded by Li Ling. They all selected good sons from Danyang County and trained them strictly according to the requirements of the cavalry. They also strictly enforced military discipline and hierarchy. This is how Li Ling came to be.
With an army of 8,000 men, under heavy siege by the Huns, they still killed and wounded several times the number of the Huns. In the end, they ran out of ammunition and food before being defeated and captured.
Thinking about this story, Liu Che knew that the county soldiers should be punished.
The army must have strict discipline.
As a violent machine of the country, all local favors and clan influence should be removed from the army!
"The opening of the Wuyuan School in two months' time may be a good opportunity..." Liu Che thought in his heart. According to the detailed rules of the Wuyuan that Liu Che discussed with the princes and generals, the first batch of Wuyuan students will all start from the Wuyuan School.
Drawn from the active army of the Han Dynasty.
The first batch of officers to enroll will be officers above the rank of captain from all the prefectures and counties of the Han Dynasty.
The number of enrolled officers in the first batch will probably be between 400 and 600.
After these people graduate, Liu Che plans to let them all change to new jobs. The discipline of the Guanzhong County soldiers is the same. The situation in Guandong is probably so bad that I don’t know what it is like!
Liu Che thought of Liu Bi's rebellion the year before last. A hanger-up named Zhou Qiu, who belonged to Liu Bi's family, single-handedly captured Xiapi County for Liu Bi and coerced the soldiers and people of Xiapi to embark on the path of rebellion. In the end, Liu Bi was defeated. This Zhou Qiu
He fell violently ill while leading the army on its way home.
One diner can single-handedly command a county's troops and tens of thousands of troops to drive him.
This was simply unimaginable in the early Han Dynasty!
At first, King Ai of Qi Liu Xiang decided to rebel against Lu, but the majestic King of Qi still could not mobilize the Qi garrison. He had to rely on his uncle's plan to kill the prime minister who was loyal to Lu and seize the Qi military talisman.
Mobilize the military.
But within thirty years, one diner could command the troops of an entire county.
The discipline of the local county soldiers in the Han Dynasty was lax, which Liu Che could not accept!
Now, the bunch of bureaucratic landlords in Xiapi have been dealt with. All their heads are hanging on the top of Xiapi City. The whole family has been arrested and thrown into prison.
But God knows, among the dozens of counties in Guandong, how many places like Xiapi are there where county soldiers have been infiltrated by local clans?
If things continue like this, the country will no longer be a country!
Therefore, ruthless officials like Zhi Du, Yi Zong, and Wang Wenshu came into being, one county after another, to cut off the clan forces that could not be eliminated in the local area.
But cruel officials kill people, treating the symptoms but not the root cause.
It's the last resort.
What the Han Dynasty needs now is a top-down rectification movement to re-strict military discipline and establish the majesty of military law.
This matter cannot be done urgently. The only option is to train new-style officers through the Military Academy, and then distribute these new-style officers to various places.
On the other hand, Liu Che planned to wait for Yi Zong's return to establish a military law department and organize a military police agency, a two-pronged approach, to solve the problem of loose discipline among county soldiers.
Another problem is that although the Han army has slowly begun to innovate.
But the speed is still too slow!
So far, from what Liu Che has seen, although the cavalry has formed an independent army, the number is still too small.
In this military parade, there were 50,000 troops and only 3,000 cavalry.
The main force of the Han army was still light infantry and crossbowmen.
Moreover, judging from the composition of the military formation and the combat methods laid out in it, most officers' minds are still focused on forming a majestic formation and facing it head-on.
During the Wu-Chu Rebellion the year before last, Li Ji commanded the cavalry and made a surprise attack on the Huaisi Ferry. The results have not been widely recognized and accepted, nor have they shaken the supremacy of crossbowmen within the Han army.
"We need to step up the training and training of cavalry, especially cavalry officers..." Liu Che thought in his mind.
But cavalry is not that easy to train!
At present, the Han Dynasty has a cavalry force of almost 100,000 people.
But these 100,000 people were trained by the Han Dynasty and the imperial court who had worked hard over the past thirty years.
Cavalry is not like crossbowmen. If you find a man and train for three months, you can draw a bow and shoot arrows.
Cavalry must first have a qualified war horse, and a qualified war horse requires at least three to five years of domestication from birth to being able to fight.
And if the rider wants to form a tacit understanding between the war horse and himself, it will take a long time to cultivate it.
The history books of later generations recorded the process of Li Ling's military training.
It took Li Ling two years to prove that he was indeed a talent, from the time he took charge of the establishment of the Chapter Supervisor to his appointment as the Cavalry Commander.
Then, Xiaozhu appointed him as the Cavalry Commander, selected five thousand good men from Danyang, and set up a training camp in Jiuquan and Zhangye. This training lasted for five years.
It wasn't until the second year of Tianhan that Li Ling finally trained his cavalry.
Without those five years of training, how could Li Ling's Danyang soldiers of 5,000 men compete with hundreds of thousands of Xiongnu troops, even killing an enemy several times their own?
In other words, it takes at least five years for a qualified cavalry to be equipped with sufficient weapons and qualified horses to form an army...
The cost of training a cavalry team is dozens of times that of infantry!
Therefore, even Zhou Yafu only dared to propose to Liu Che a plan to train five thousand new cavalrymen every year.
No matter how many there are, either the number of war horses cannot keep up, or the finances cannot keep up.
But after watching today's military parade, Liu Che knew that time was not waiting for me.
The cavalry training plan must be accelerated!
The racecourse needs to be expanded, with more horses in stock and more cavalry personnel.
But these all require massive resources and money, as well as countless manpower and material resources.
"After I return, it seems that I have to convene a meeting of the imperial cavalry to discuss the accelerated training of the cavalry..." Liu Che thought in his mind.
In any case, within fifteen years at the latest, the Han Dynasty must have a cavalry force of 300,000 people and 1 million horses in stock.
Without this scale, there would be no guarantee of a quick victory in the war against the Huns.
Once the war drags on, neither Liu Che nor God can guarantee that the grassland will not turn into a quagmire.
The Xiongnu Empire was the most resilient and difficult to deal with among all the steppe nomads in history!
