"You mean, Chang'an took the initiative to allow us to redeem the captured tribesmen?"
The Naga Queen, who was sitting on the throne, had no expression on her face, and glanced at Naga Elder Shanluo who was standing in the corner of the hall.
To be precise, he is a former elder.
On the day of the defeat, Sanluo was dismissed from his position as elder by Queen Naga.
Noticing the queen's glance, a trace of shame flashed across Shan Luo's face, and his head lowered even lower.
"Yes."
In front of Queen Naga, the fishman Karu did not dare to show even a hint of familiarity with Chang'an.
It is even less possible to speak for Chang'an.
"What if we say no?"
"Just chop the prisoners of war into pieces and feed them to the dogs. These are the exact words of Lord Chang'an."
"snort!"
Queen Naga's face instantly darkened, she raised her head and looked at the elders in the hall.
"You have all seen that Chang'an is still as greedy as ever."
With this defeat, Naga could be said to have lost all face among the Sea Tribe.
Originally thinking that the battle was bound to be won, the Naga Queen arranged a celebration banquet, but the result was that the battle was fragmented, and it could even be said that the entire army was annihilated.
Became the laughing stock of the sea tribe.
"Your Majesty, I think we should agree to the alliance of the orcs, send troops together to conquer Chang'an, and personally rescue the captured tribesmen to avenge our shame." Some elders came out of the crowd and took the initiative to ask for a fight.
Although they suffered a defeat, it did not affect the pride of the Naga tribe.
"I thought it was inappropriate."
Some elders also stood up to object, "Not long after the previous war, fishmen, sea monsters and other subordinate races suffered heavy casualties. If we send troops again in a short period of time, I am afraid it will cause a strong backlash."
Putting aside the attitude of the fishmen, at least the sea monster will be difficult to deal with.
I've been tricked once.
Siren doesn't want to be tricked a second time.
"That's right." Another elder stood up, "Once we send out troops for the second time, before the army reaches Chang'an City, the captured tribesmen will probably be executed by Chang'an. How can we rescue them?"
"Then redeem the clansmen first, and then send out troops. We can also take the opportunity to confuse Chang'an."
The main war faction did not give up. "This time we jointly attack the city with the orcs. We only need to send an elite army. There is no need to recruit too many subsidiary races to join the battle like last time."
"That's right!"
"The Kraken clan dares to disobey the call, which means they have different intentions and should be suppressed."
"The Siren Clan should bear the main responsibility for the failure of the last battle. This time, it is even more important to atone for the crime. How dare you shirk it? If you dare to disobey the call, you will first raise your troops to destroy it."
Generally speaking, the Naga tribe is quite militant.
"That's it."
What Queen Naga was thinking about was how to regain her lost face through this battle.
It is also an opportunity to intimidate the major subordinate races.
"Sora!"
"exist!"
Shanluo, who had been paddling, was obviously taken aback when the Queen named him.
Is he about to make a comeback?
The other elders also cast strange looks at Shan Luo.
"If you go to Chang'an again, you must bring your clan members back safely."
For safety reasons, Queen Naga excluded the fishman Karu from the mission. Although she did not think that the fishman had the courage to betray her, there was something wrong with being released twice in a row.
"yes!"
Shan Luo's excited eyes dimmed instantly.
The other elders also laughed.
Let's just say, how could Her Majesty the Queen use a defeated general?
………
Afternoon, Chang'an.
Tang Jing presided over a new round of military affairs meeting, mainly announcing relevant decisions on military expansion.
The general principle is-
Divide the Chang'an garrison division into two, splitting it into the first division and the second division.
The first division commander is Yue Fei.
Under the jurisdiction of the Red Flame Brigade and the Trap Brigade, the brigade commanders are still Lin Shu and Gao Shun.
The second master general Chang Yuchun.
Under the jurisdiction of the Huben Brigade and the Shanshan Brigade, the brigade commanders are Yue Yun and Tu Hong respectively.
On this basis.
Three more standard infantry brigades—Longxiang Brigade, Kaiping Brigade, and Zhenyue Brigade—and a heavy cavalry brigade—Baotao Brigade—were formed.
Lu Feng, the commander of the Longxiang Brigade, and Hu Xiao, the commander of the Leopard Tao Brigade.
In history, Chang Yuchun was named King of Kaiping, and the designation of the Kaiping Brigade was obviously a commemoration.
The so-called standard infantry brigade consists of two sword and shield battalions, two elite spear battalions and one elite archer battalion.
The opposite is the mixed infantry brigade.
That is to say, it has two battalions of sword and shield troops, two battalions of elite spearmen and one battalion of light cavalry.
As of now.
Only the Red Flame Brigade is the only mixed infantry brigade in the entire army.
Prior to this, each infantry brigade under the garrison division was accustomed to setting up a heavy infantry battalion in an attempt to compete with Chiyou warriors, that is, equipped with swords, spears, as well as war bows and divine arm crossbows.
However, limited to the physical fitness of the soldiers themselves, in fact, they have never been up to standard.
At most, they are at the level of elite spearmen.
Taking advantage of this military expansion, Tang Jing simply canceled the designations of each heavy infantry battalion, standardized and compliant the configuration of the infantry brigade, and divided it into two models: standard brigade and mixed brigade.
Wait until conditions are mature in the future before considering forming a real heavy infantry battalion.
Because among the conditions set by Tang Jing, the most important criterion for true heavy infantry is the ability to wear infantry armor.
Rather than ordinary armor.
After the military expansion.
The First Division and the Second Division each have one heavy cavalry brigade and three infantry brigades.
In the future, when the time is right, each can add an additional infantry brigade.
This is equivalent to leaving some vacancies.
In addition, the city guard brigade, which was originally affiliated with the garrison division, will also be upgraded to a new garrison division this time.
The original seven battalions were expanded to seventeen battalions, which include four bed crossbow battalions, four elite crossbowman battalions, four elite archer battalions, four elite spearman battalions and one coastal defense battalion.
In addition to the coastal defense camp, they are evenly assigned to the four main gates of Chang'an City.
Zhang Liao, the former commander of the Shanshan Brigade, was promoted to the commander-in-chief of the garrison division, with Tu Gang and Yun He as deputy generals.
The last war has shown that——
Compared with defending the city, Tu Hong, the former commander of the City Guard Brigade, was more suitable to lead his troops to charge into battle.
Therefore, he and Zhang Liao were exchanged.
Unlike Tu Hong, Zhang Liao had guarded Hefei for a long time in history. He was a general capable of both offense and defense. He also had rich combat experience, so he was obviously more suitable to serve as the commander of the garrison division.
It’s not like chasing ducks to the shelves.
The first division, the second division and the garrison division, combined together, form the city guard corps.
certainly.
The current city guard corps is just an empty designation, with neither a commander nor a headquarters organization.
The symbolism is greater than the reality.
After the first round of military expansion, including the independently organized patrol battalions, it is equivalent to an expansion of 31 battalions in one go. Although it is still nine short of the target of forty battalions, it is basically enough.
If necessary, a new round of reorganization will be carried out later.
Before the meeting, Director of Military Affairs Qin Shuang also calculated a general ledger, "In this round of expansion, the total cost of first-level infantry transfer is 15,500 gold coins, and the total cost of second-level infantry and cavalry transfer is 88,000 gold coins."
The cost of changing jobs alone is over 100,000 gold coins.
In order to meet the equipment requirements of sword and shield soldiers, elite spearmen, elite archers and heavy cavalry, a total of 15,000 sets of iron armor, 3,000 shields, 18,000 swords, 7,000 spears, 4,000 war horses, and 3,000 war bows are needed.
1,500 arm crossbows and 45 bed crossbows.
Previously, the elf Mia brought five thousand war bows.
The dwarf Bagg brought seven thousand sets of armor and three thousand shields.
In addition to the massive inventory that the Ordnance Institute has been accumulating, there are still gaps in armor, swords, and spears.
Especially iron armor.
Until the ordnance depot can build enough iron armor, some of the elite archers who have completed their job transfers can still only fight in leather armor.
The production capacity of the Divine Arm Crossbow and the Bed Crossbow is seriously insufficient and needs to be gradually replenished in the future.
It can be seen from this.
Military expansion has never been something that can only be solved by having money and people.
This is just weapons and equipment.
After the new round of army expansion, each recruit will be given at least one pair of leather boots, one pair of cloth shoes, two sets of cloth clothes, one towel, one quilt and a marching backpack.
Tents must also be distributed in teams, and five cooks and handymen must be assigned.
Camp level one.
It is also necessary to configure staff officers, forage officers, secretaries, order soldiers, medical soldiers, etc.
Next, the Military Affairs Administration is busy.