The Yanyun Sixteenth Cavalry is said to be the Sixteenth Cavalry, but this is just a name. Its real organization in the army system of the Qin Empire is actually an army composed entirely of cavalry.
The military system of the Qin Empire still follows the establishment at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Ten people are one small banner, five small flags are one general banner, two general banners are one hundred households, ten hundred households are one thousand households, and five thousand households are
For a guard.
Yanyun's Sixteenth Cavalry is said to have 150,000 troops, but because King Ning expanded the establishment for various reasons, its real fighting part, which is the most elite, is actually the Sixteenth Guards, with one guard having 5,600 men.
Calculating left and right, the real combat strength of Yanyun's Sixteenth Cavalry was only more than 90,000 people.
"The formation of Yanyun's Sixteenth Cavalry was essentially taking advantage of the imperial court's loopholes."
On the way out of the city, Wu Banshan introduced the situation of Yanyun's Sixteenth Cavalry to Li Chen.
"How do you say it?" Li Chen asked.
Wu Bishan replied: "The Sixteen Cavalry of Yanyun are essentially the Sixteen Guards, and the imperial court stipulates that one guard should not be less than 4,000 people and not more than 6,000 people. This redundancy is already very large. Once it falls below the standard
We must consider abolishing the establishment, and if it is higher than that, we will either abolish it or report it to the Ministry of War for upgrading."
"But for the Yanyun Sixteenth Cavalry, it was obvious that Prince Ning was not willing to accept either the abolition of the organization or the promotion, so he thought of a way to take advantage of the loopholes."
"Under normal circumstances, the strength of the First Guard is more than 5,000, which already covers outposts, logistics, reconnaissance, ordnance storage and other management structures. Just like the Crescent Moon Pass, the strength of the First Guard is 5,000, but there are at least 1,000
It is a non-combat unit, and this is because of the special status of Crescent Pass, so the organization of combat units is much higher than that of other conventional troops."
"If it is an ordinary field army in the mainland, the combat unit will have at most 3,500 people. If it is in a local guard post, half of it is considered good."
"But King Ning used various means to fill the entire first-guard force into combat units, and the other non-combat units were unified and divided outside the establishment. In this way, he just made some manipulations on the roster, and then
Half of the elite soldiers appeared out of thin air."
Li Chen was surprised: "Why have I never heard of this method before?"
Wu Banshan said in a deep voice: "Your Highness, the current situation in the country is that most generals and officials are cowardly. If we want to station troops in other places, it would be good to eliminate some combat units and use them for free. How can we increase them? You know
The cost of training a combat unit is much more expensive than that of a non-combat unit, so only a very small number of ambitious vassal kings in the country have the strength and motivation to do this."
Li Chen was silent after hearing this.
Just listening to Wu Banshan's words, Li Chen knew that what Wu Banshan said were all facts and there was no falsehood.
After silently writing down this matter, Li Chen asked again: "How are the Sixteenth Cavalry of Yanyun themselves? In terms of combat effectiveness."
Wu Banshan thought for a while and said: "The fighting strength of the Sixteenth Cavalry of Yanyun is more than 90,000. As far as the general knows, there are 20,000 heavy cavalry, 10,000 elite infantry, 5,000 sharpshooters, and the rest
They are all light cavalry."
"In addition to King Ning, the Sixteenth Cavalry of Yanyun were led by two generals. One of them was named Li Songru. He was good at strategy and his strategy was very elegant. The combat strategy and formation of the Sixteenth Cavalry of Yanyun were all led by Li Songru.
hand."
"The other person's name is Ye Wang. His bravery is not inferior to that of the last general. He leads 30,000 light cavalry to sit on the iron pagoda. He is a feared cavalry and the absolute elite among Yanyun's sixteen cavalry."
