"The Hu people are trying to break through to Central Asia, and some ethnic groups in the West are migrating to Central Asia because of the war. The army that left the fortress currently had insufficient cavalry, and the constraints of the logistics line also produced a shortage of equipment, and they unanimously believed that they were not sure of launching a decisive battle with the Hu people. ”

"There are a lot of ethnic groups that have migrated from the West?"

"According to preliminary judgment, there are no less than forty-five ethnic groups pouring into the Western Regions. The populations of those groups range from hundreds to tens of thousands, and individual groups may number more than 100,000. The development of these ethnic groups is also different, some are in a stage similar to Baiyue Rumao drinking blood, some have a perfect civilization system, and their level of scientific and technological development is also difficult to judge, but the initial reconnaissance is that there was no iron in the Bronze Age. ”

"Maudon is making contact with the new alien races, trying to form an alliance against us?"

"Yes, Maudun is making contact with a new alien race. Intelligence from the front line indicates that two new aliens have been persuaded by Maudun. ”

There was such information because there were things in Maudun's ranks that the Chinese people had never seen before, and those things could be clothing, human hair, or even tattoos.

By the way, many ethnic groups in the whole world now have the habit of tattooing, and the more backward and barbaric the ethnic group, the more prevalent tattoos are. Their tattoos can be the totems worshipped by the tribe, or they can be the more ferocious or vicious beasts and insects in the area, many people believe that tattoos can bring strength, in fact, tattoos on the face make people hideous, not only to deter but also to give themselves courage.

Tattoos are more popular with Persians and Egyptians, with Persians influenced by the jungle-dwelling communities of Indochina and Egyptians influenced by primitive tribes on the African continent. In addition, Egyptians do not call themselves Arabs at the moment, and the term "Arab" did not yet appear when Egyptian civilization flourished, and it was still necessary to wait until the middle century when the caliphate (i.e., Sudan) swept through Central Asia. It was only the Egyptians who began to call themselves Arabs, and only the Persians refused to become an "Arab", and as a result, they were attacked by the emerging Arab bloc for a long period of history.

"What will be the attitude of a few Zhonglang?"

"Back to the king, a few Zhonglang will ask for instructions from you."

Hearing that many ethnic groups had migrated to the west, Lu Zhe was actually a confused gesture, especially when he found that Mao Dun was trying to communicate with those new alien races, and he couldn't help but have polarized contradictions in his heart.

When recording history, Huaxia will only record the historical events that occurred in its own territory, because it is not interested in (or ignoring) the land outside the "world", and the historical records of historians after the emergence of "extraterritorial" are only three or five embellishments, and they have never been interested in understanding any ethnic group other than their own ethnic group. Even a dismissive attitude towards the enemy.

Of course, the Huaxia tribe has the right to despise the foreign race, because after the Huaxia tribe began to expand from the source of the Yellow River, one after another the foreign race was either subjugated and merged in the battle with the Huaxia tribe, or was wiped out so that there was not even a single tribe left. Later, because the Chinese civilization was controlled by Confucianism, Confucianism after the deposition of the hundred schools of thought was a kind of self-respecting posture, and it was a contemptuous attitude when the "extraterritorial" could be beaten, and if Confucianism could not be beaten, it would simply learn from the ostrich. This phenomenon also causes the entire chapter of Chinese history to suddenly "emerge" when facing the death of the country or crisis, and the foreign races recorded in the historical records of the rest of the time period do not exist officially.

Watching the entire history of China, it is very sad to say that it is a history of civil war and the death of the country. It is because of the emergence of Confucianism that there is a saying of "dynastic change", whether it is the change of the ruling family of the same ethnic group or the death of a different race, it is called a dynastic change. And this is also the only one in the world, in other civilizations that do not have Confucianism, there is no zài dynasty change, and all the records used are very clear in the use of "dead country".

Ignorance of the external environment affects more than one or two generations. It is a shortcoming of the entire ethnic group during the period of reproduction, resulting in an environment in which there is not enough awareness of danger and cannot produce foresight, and the result is naturally that the political view of "inner king and outer saint" is rampant.

In Lu Zhe's memory. Of course, the Western Regions is a region with complex ethnic groups, but those who live in the Western Regions are "natives" or have migrated from other places. This cognition is in a "blank" stage, and he is not even sure whether the historical process is what it should be.

Because of the ambiguity of the development of the situation, Lu Zhe naturally did not have an understanding of the situation, so how could he give instructions?

"The current cavalry of the troops leaving the Cypriot is 120,000, which is far less in number than the Hu people who went south. There was no shortage of nomads among the new aliens, and if Maudon were to unite with those aliens, the gap in the number of cavalry would be widened. ”

At present, the Han army has only three cavalry regiments, namely the First Cavalry Regiment, the Fifth Cavalry Regiment, and the Ninth Cavalry Regiment, and the cavalry structure of each regiment is 50,000, so it is 150,000 cavalry. In addition, Wang Ben's department and Xu Yan's department, which were incorporated into the Qin army, reorganized about 60,000 cavalry from the Qin army of nearly 500,000, and the 30,000 cavalry incorporated from Wang Ben's department have already been out of the fortress, but the more than 30,000 cavalry belonging to the original Central Plains Army are still staying in Sanchuan County.

The 1st Cavalry Regiment and the 5th Cavalry Regiment are now in the fertile field as troops participating in the battle, and only a small part of the 30,000 cavalry under Wang Ben's command have issued the necessary cavalry equipment, such as stirrups, new saddles, horse swords, and crossbows, and the horseshoe of war horses has become popular.

The number of cavalry fighting out of the fortress is not fixed, the cavalry under the corps system will suffer casualties in the battle, and because of the non-combat attrition caused by the relationship between water service and disobedience, even if the good cavalry can be recruited on the spot to replenish, the cavalry fighting out of the fortress has never exceeded 120,000. Part of that is constrained by the establishment of the legion, and more importantly, not everyone is suitable to become a qualified cavalryman, after all, the regular army pays attention to coordinated operations, and there are no professionally trained supplementary soldiers, and sometimes it is better to replenish than not to replenish.

"Your Majesty, did you send a mixed corps to take over the Ninth Cavalry Legion heading to Liaodong, and order the Ninth Cavalry Legion to move in the direction of Woye?"

This idea Lu Zhe did not fail to consider, but it was obvious that it was a great risk to do so, and the Ninth Cavalry Corps went to Liaodong on the one hand to be vigilant against possible threats from Donghu. It's more because the Yan Land has just been incorporated into the ruling territory.

"It will take at least two months to transfer the Ninth Cavalry Corps to Hequ, and if the Ninth Cavalry Corps is transferred, the number of legions that will be added to Yandi will need to be increased to at least two, and the input of the second-line troops will also increase."

Yandi is a vast and sparsely populated status quo, and it is bound to be unstable when it has just been incorporated into the ruling territory, and what is needed is a highly mobile force to be stationed, so as to be able to deal with the non-Han army forces that suddenly emerge at any time, so that the garrison is not mobile enough to give those armed forces a chance to develop and grow.

In the final analysis, because the speed of expansion is so fast, the battle line has been stretched again and again. The pressure on the logistical transportation lines is increasing as the distance of the various units away from the mainland increases, and if we want to change this situation, we need to wait for the Central Plains to resume production, but it will also cause conflict with the national policy of the Han state.

Under the national policy formulated by Lu Zhe, Nanling is the center, and the taxes paid by various places are summarized to Nanling, and then transported from Nanling to areas in need. This kind of national policy is to ensure that the central government has sufficient control over the local garrisons, after all, controlling logistics is equivalent to firmly putting the reins around the neck of the army. Therefore, Nanling is also the largest iron-smelting base of the Han Kingdom, including the area radiated out by Nanling, the weapons system and iron-smelting industry chain of the Han Kingdom occupy sixty percent of the country's share. Only 40% of them are located in various places for historical reasons.

"The established strategic objectives of the Ninth Cavalry Corps remain unchanged." Lu Zhe pondered for a long time, and finally said: "The cavalry under the forbidden army sequence can be separated and form a new cavalry corps. ”

The people who heard that sentence were all shocked, they knew one thing very well, although the cavalry corps in the Wehrmacht and the cavalry under the forbidden army sequence were called cavalry. However, there is a gap between the cavalry of the two different systems in terms of equipment and Su zhì, the most obvious is that the heavy cavalry in the cavalry corps under the Wehrmacht sequence is maintained at a ratio of ten to one or even less, that is, the cavalry corps of a Wehrmacht sequence has only 5,000 mounted heavy cavalry at most, but the mounted heavy cavalry under the forbidden army sequence has an astonishing 30,000. It was almost the sum of six Wehrmacht cavalry regiments.

Because of the development of stamping technology, and because leather technology has already been accumulated enough, the process and construction period of the armor system have been greatly reduced. At present, the production of heavy armor in the Han Kingdom is at least nearly 20,000 sets per month, and some of the heavy armor produced is provided to the active army, and some is stored. In terms of the production of light armor, such as leather armor and light metal armor, if it is a national preparation posture, the light armor produced every month is actually related to raw materials, not a lack of craftsmen. Not to mention the output of the rest of the weapons, after all, Lu Zhe has attached great importance to this from the beginning.

The experience of the Han army fighting with the Hu people has been accumulated, and it is found that the mounted heavy cavalry actually occupies an absolute dominant position in the cavalry battle, because the current Hu people have not yet summed up the current situation that the light cavalry cannot compete with the mounted heavy cavalry head-on, not like the subsequent historical process to understand that the armed heavy cavalry can only wander away and cannot resist hard. It is precisely because of this that although the Han army that fought out of the fortress was less than the Hu people in terms of the number of cavalry, it was able to achieve a good proportion of battle losses in repeated battles.

At present, the number of forbidden troops is 100,000, of which 70,000 are cavalry, if these 70,000 cavalry are stripped out of the forbidden army sequence and supplemented with the 30,000 cavalry of the Shangnanling training base, there will be no problem in forming two to three cavalry corps with 50,000 formations from these cavalry who originally belonged to the forbidden army sequence.

Lu Zhe smiled when he saw the surprise on the faces of many ministers: "The army's storage is for conquest, not for decoration. ”

In the understanding of the officials of the Han State, the forbidden army is the king's own army, which is an important corps used by the king to protect himself and maintain the central **, as a king, how to use resources to form and strengthen his own pro-army is not unprecedented, but it rarely happens when the country needs it, the king strips his own pro-army to supplement the battle sequence.

"Accelerate back to Nanling, expand with the 70,000 cavalry of the forbidden army sequence, and form two new cavalry corps with full formation." Lu Zhe looked around at the ministers who didn't seem to have completely come to their senses: "In the next general trend, the three regions of Hequ, Western Regions, and Northeast will be the most frequent areas of the empire in the future, and the terrain of the three regions is also destined to be used by cavalry as the main force of the battle. If necessary, new cavalry legions will still need to be formed again and again, so you should be aware of them. ”

Xiao He, who happened to come to camp, hesitated: "The horse breeding farm in the Qianzhong Plain has been confirmed to be unsuccessful, and at present, our horse source still has to borrow from Longxi, Zhaodi, and Liaodong, Longxi can supply horses smoothly, but Zhaodi and Liaodong have not recovered from the war. ”

Xiao He still has some things to say, the construction of the cavalry and the construction of the infantry are not the same, the formation of a cavalry in the financial consumption is enough to form three new infantry corps, and at the same time, the cavalry corps in the usual material consumption is also at least three or four times that of the infantry corps, the financial affairs of the Han State can withstand the squandering temporarily, but the constraints of the horse breeding ground make it possible to obtain a limited number of war horses even if there is no financial problem for the time being.

Lu Zhe is well aware of this constraint, so the strategic direction of the Han army in the next step is actually the top priority, if it is impossible to annihilate all the Hu people in the south, but also to achieve the goal of mass destruction, then it is time to turn around and manage the grassland outside Yanmen Pass and the grassland outside Liaodong. It took years or even decades to strengthen the construction of horse breeding lands, and at the same time, it was also to strengthen the development of animal husbandry, and the provision of war horses was the top priority, and female animals such as cattle and sheep also played a pivotal role in the future development of the empire.

"At present, we can only maintain the structure of six cavalry regiments at most, and any more will not be able to maintain ......," Sima Xin said, referring to the shortage of existing war horses.

Of course, Lu Zhe knew this, but their situation was much better than that of the Huaxia ruling group of any dynasty, and at least they could have convenient conditions to raise more than 300,000 cavalry. According to the original historical development, except for Yang Sui and Li Tang, two dynasties with Huhua characteristics, which of the Chinese ruling groups did not suffer enough in the development of cavalry construction? (To be continued......) R1292