There have not been many horse-producing areas in the Chinese region, and there are even fewer areas that can breed excellent war horses, such as the south due to the influence of climate and topography, even if the southern part of China can establish a horse breeding land, it is impossible to breed qualified horses as war horses, the most typical is the Yunnan horse.

There are yellows, whites, blacks, and reds, and horses naturally have their corresponding differences, such as tropical horses, wetland horses, flat horses, and mountain horses...... And many other horse breeds. Horse breeds of different bloodlines also have their own advantages and disadvantages, but war horses are not destined to be too short horse breeds, and their endurance and instantaneous explosiveness will also have relative requirements due to the different formation of cavalry.

Lü Zhe tried to breed war horses in the Qianzhong Plain, but the results were not so good, proving once again that not all places are suitable for breeding war horses.

A batch of horses purchased from Longxi were raised in the Qianzhong Plain, and many horses died of illness because of the unsuitable, excellent, small, new, fastest, WWW.UUXS.CC, and humid climate in the south, and some horses that did not die of illness also had to spend considerable energy to take care of them. I don't know if it's because of the influence of the region or the climate, the breeding impulse of that batch of war horses is not so positive, and even worse, the quality of the cubs laid is declining.

According to the interpretation of professional horse wranglers, it is not that it is impossible to raise good war horses in the south, but it takes a long time for the horses to adapt to the climate of the place, and then other means are added to maintain the quality of the war horses. This process is not short-lived, at least tens or even hundreds of years of improvement. Therefore, it is unlikely that an excellent war horse base can be formed in the south in the short term.

Lu Zhe was not so clear about the breeding of horses, but he knew that there was another quick way, which was to find excellent horse breeds that were adapted to the southern climate, and then breed them in large quantities. The problem is, he doesn't know where to get a horse like that.

"Your Majesty, after the formation of two new cavalry legions, the war horses we have ......" Sima Xin had a hesitant attitude.

Lu Zhe knew what Sima Xin wanted to say. That is, once two new cavalry corps are formed, there will be a shortage of war horses, so that the forbidden army sequence will not be able to form cavalry in a short time.

Strengthening the armed forces of the central government is a very important thing, and maintaining the strength of the royal family is the cornerstone of a country's stability, once the royal family is weak, it is the beginning of national turmoil, after all, only the strength of the royal family can deter Xiaoxiao, and do not make some people with evil intentions have undeserved thoughts.

Kuaitong glanced at Sima Xin, and then said: "The situation in the world has not really stabilized, and our army may not pay attention to the outside too early. ”

It seems that this is really the case, the territory has expanded too much and rapidly, and the army is mostly advancing outward. It is becoming more and more obvious that the country's armed forces are stuck in a tendency to be more and more important outside and light on the inside, especially with the Han army sending troops outside the fortress, several elite regiments are obviously too far away from the mainland.

Lu Zhe fell silent.

The national policy of suppressing the Saiwaihu people and sending troops to occupy or encroach on the living space of the nomads has been implemented, and the number of troops going out of the Saiwai will not decrease but will increase for a long time in the future, especially in the first stage of occupation and consolidation of the grassland outside the Yanmen Pass, the number of troops involved will inevitably be very large, so the internal deterrent will also be reduced, and a new worry will be extended.

What worries? The national policy formulated by Lu Zhe will take too big a step. The shortest ruling territory south of the Yangtze River that has been stabilized is 1,200 li away from the outside of the Sai, and the few counties in the interval are all newly included in the scope of the rule. Isn't it to cut off the homeland from the army thousands of miles away?

"Perhaps we should recruit more soldiers in the Central Plains to be used in the protracted war against the Cypriots." Kuaitong's tone was a little deep: "The troops subordinate to the south should be used for the expansion of the south, and play a stable national policy of the north and the south. ”

Sima Xin raised his eyebrows and echoed: "The construction of the military division is obviously well thought out. It's just how to appease ......" After a pause, he cautiously glanced at Lu Zhe: "Colleagues from the south, you still need more attention from the king." ”

The so-called people who were born in the south are actually some people with vested interests. It is also a group of current military generals in the army.

The national policy formulated by Lu Zhe is destined to join the army and become a part of the community of interests, even the most ordinary soldier can not only get the military salary paid by the state, but also enjoy the dividends from the conquest and plunder in the process of conquest, so there has always been competition for the recruitment of soldiers.

At present, the number of Han troops is about 2.2 million, and the first-line troops, including the 15 corps of the forbidden army and the national defense army, have a total of 850,000 people, and the remaining second-line troops and third-line troops are auxiliary troops, tuntian soldiers, and garrison troops in various counties and counties, and the conscripts in summer and winter each year are not counted in the fixed establishment range.

The 2.2 million Han army, because Lü Zhe rose in the south and established the country, was born in the southern county with the largest number of soldiers, followed by Hengshan County, Lujiang County, Jiujiang County, Changsha County, Huizhang County, Huiji County, these places accounted for about sixty percent of them, and less than thirty percent came from the north of the Yangtze River. Among the soldiers north of the Yangtze River, many of them fled to the south to join the Han army, and some of them were incorporated by Lu Zhe in an organized manner, such as Wang Ben's army, which had already participated in the war outside the Saiwai, was one of the representatives, and the more than 400,000 original Qin troops under Xu Yan's department were actually not included in the current Han army group, and the troops captured by the Han army in Qi Yan were not included in the national system.

Sooner or later, the Central Plains Legion of the former Qin State in Sanchuan County will be included in the regular army recognized by the state, but it will still need to be streamlined as necessary, such as the elimination of the old and the young, the physical test, and so on. The Han army captured a large number of Qi and Yan troops, especially the Qi army, which reached a staggering 1.3 million, while the Yan army was only 80,000.

The reason for the controversy is that the treatment of the Han army is too good, and too many people think that not everyone in the Han army can join, and it is obvious that that those prisoners are within the scope of exclusion.

Why didn't the original Qin army after Wang Ben and Xu Yan defected to the original Qin army not be rejected too much? On the one hand, it is Lu Zhe's insistence, and more importantly, the Qin people are indeed the best source of soldiers at the moment. Compared with the Qindi people's war-resistant and war-friendly people, the Qidi people, the Yandi people, and even the Zhao people, the Chu people, the Han people, and the Wei people, they really have too many deficiencies compared with the Qindi people. And many of those so-called deficiencies do not come from the physique, but from the spirit. Let's put it bluntly. After the Shang Dynasty reformed the law, the Qin people were accustomed to obedience, and the belligerence that had been cultivated for a long time still existed, but the people of the countries except the Qin people were all free and casual, and the endurance of the Qin people was not a little higher than that of the people of other countries in the same unfavorable combat environment.

There is a characteristic of the state under the feudal system, that is, the country is not a country of the king alone, it is not a "family of the world", like the sub-lords under the king, and the country also has their share, so Sima Xin is fully qualified to ask Lu Zhe to do something for the country.

There are factions in any country, and many times they form one faction after another in a region. Of course, there are also different factions formed because of interests. The current factions of the Han State are not so obvious, and the initial ones that are revealed are the "Conglong faction" and the "later faction".

From the Dragon School, it is the group of people who followed Lu Zhe from Yiling to the end of Weimo, and the representative figures are Gongwei, Xu Zhi, Wei Han, Yan Bi and others; The later faction was Zhou Wen, Huan Chu, Wu Rui and other people who were included in the account after Lu Zhe expanded from Nanjun to the outside, and Sima Xin and Kuaitong were actually considered to be later factions.

Among the fifteen legions of the Han Army, Xu Zhi is the commander of the Zhonglang General of the First Cavalry Legion, He Yi is the Zhonglang General of the Second Mixed Cavalry Corps, and Wei Han is the Zhonglang General of the Fifth Cavalry Corps. The lieutenant is the commander of the Seventh Mixed Legion, and many of the commanders of the other legions are not from the Conglong faction, but their deputies or elite officers under the establishment must be from the Conglong faction.

With the annexation of Chu and the merger of other countries, including Qin, there must have been more and more generals from the original Warring States. In the established number of lieutenant generals, Lu Zhe adopted a merit-based and evenly distributed model, and its purpose couldn't be simpler, it was nothing more than not to let any mountain dominate.

There are many systems in the Han army, which seem to be no different from the current army. However, Lü Zhe joined the school system (political commissar) and also carried out changes in the military pay system, so that the chances of the army becoming a general's private army were minimized. Meantime. Officers, including corps commanders, will be transferred from time to time, and even the order of the army will be changed randomly.

Under a series of constraints and balances, the premise is that Lu Zhe did not monopolize all the interests, and Lu Zhe would not be dizzy and do things that anger and resentment, and the probability of the Han army rebelling under the leadership of a certain general was almost minimized, which is why Lu Zhe dared to let most of the country's armed forces stay away from the mainland before the Central Plains stabilized under the rapid expansion.

"The matter of conscription in various parts of the Central Plains, after returning to Nanling, convene the ministers to discuss, if there is no sufficient and reasonable objection, the Taiwei Office can first list a plan......" Lu Zhe, who had been silent for a long time, opened his mouth to set the tone, and after a short silence, he asked: "Do you think there will be a recurrence in the Central Plains?" ”

Sima Xin didn't dare to bring up such an unfounded thing, he hesitated and said: "The merger of the countries has entered the procedure, and the king retains the due interests of the interest groups of the countries, but there will always be people who will lose something in the process of merging. ”

Understand, what kind of change is the perfection of no one being depleted by interests, what Lu Zhe guarantees is the security of some powerful people in the world, but the vast majority of powerful people are swept away in terms of rights, not everyone can accept the loss of rights, and not everyone chooses to join the new ruling group after seeing the situation and work again, then the backlash must be something that will occur.

Lu Zhe was not so naïve, but he chose to use the non-main army as a possible force to rebound and suppress pressure, and the main army was either out of the jam to fight, or it was displayed in the area of the edge line of control.

In fact, if there is no problem with the logistics line, that is, the sea transportation continues, whether it is the Han army that went out of the fortress, or the garrison army arranged in Qidi and Yandi, the area arranged is an important key area from the perspective of the entire world map.

The problem is that the sea transportation in Jiaozhou Bay has been interrupted, but the new sea landing port has not yet been formed, and the Han army in the key area, whether it is the main battle corps or the second-line troops, is in a state of insufficient state in terms of the number of material reserves, so it has also made a huge hole in a deployment that was originally in line with reality.

Kuaitong is a military advisor, and he fulfills his duty to inform of possible risks. Now, he is talking about the loopholes that have been laid out before, and believes that under the premise of insufficient material reserves, the risk of saving zài is already large enough for the Han State to lose Cheng Dù of the newly occupied territory, and it is even possible to bury a few elite legions that have fallen out of the fortress.

"We are not so sure whether the Qin State is really willing to lose its dominant position, if Fusu orders Meng Tian to go east, the more than 200,000 Qin troops who have gone through a hundred battles do not need to go south to attack our homeland, Meng Tian only needs to lead the more than 200,000 elite Qin troops to attack the area of Yanmen, Taiyuan, and Daijun, which can easily cut off the logistics line between us and the Saiwai team. In the case of insufficient supplies, our troops outside the Cyprus will have to face nearly 200,000 Hu people, and even take into account those new alien races. ”

"......" Lu Zhe had to be stern.

"At this stage, we should do our best to build the communication lines of the garrisons in various parts of the Central Plains and strengthen the strength of the Gongwei army in the rear of the troops leaving the Central Plains. At the same time, the reorganized Xu Yan's headquarters should be transferred to the south of the Yangtze River, and several corps should be sent into Qin, or displayed on the Qindi border. In addition, being good at using and controlling those groups that have already belonged to the Fusu is not aimed at the destructive nature of Fusu, but it is very necessary to monitor and balance them. ”

It took Lu Zhe a while to digest the meaning of those words, the new changes actually did not greatly change the previous strategic deployment, but only strengthened and accelerated in some directions, and the potential deeper opinion was to find more people with the same interests from all over the Central Plains, including Qindi, whether it was on the cake of conscription and future official positions.

"No wonder you say you need to be appeased." Lu Zhe had already agreed with the advice of the two in his heart, but he still needed to communicate with more people and get the support of more people. (To be continued......) R1292