Chapter 412: Checks and Balances (I)
The establishment of the Praetorian Guard is significantly different from that of the southern, northern and other units with a distinctly regional nature.
What is a force of a territorial nature? It is a standing army limited to a certain direction, such as the Great Wall Corps of the Qin State, which is mainly aimed at the northern frontier, and while defending the Great Wall, it is a system divided for the war with the Hu people in the grassland.
Lü Zhe's newly established Southern Legion, Northern Legion, and the soon-to-be-established Eastern Legion, the three legions will also have their own military regions and duties to be fulfilled, just like the Great Wall Legion of Qin.
However, with the troops of the relevant military districts, there is always a need for an army that can be mobilized at any time as a flexible and mobile force, so the formation of the Praetorian Guard is also operational.
At this stage, Lu Zhe desperately needs a mobile force that can support or crusade in a certain direction at any time, and the formation of the unit does not need to be very large, but its combat strength must be absolutely guaranteed, and the brave people are selected from hundreds of thousands of people, and qualified officers are selected and transferred only after the initial formation, and the formation of the Praetorian Guard is slowly formed.
The establishment of the Praetorian Guard also began to reveal a message to the military, Lü Zhe was going to start dividing the functions of the military, the regiments in several directions were to be stored as border troops, the local garrisons in the counties within the territory would gradually be replaced by police troops, and the central army began to appear.
Of course, Lu Zheke did not directly refer to the department that maintains local law and order as "police", but instead named it "public security" as "public security" as "public security"
This is not a spoof by Lu Zhe, the word public security began in the Zhou language, which first appeared in the Jiang Ziya period, and now it is also considered to have a historical basis for naming it.
The first batch of public security officers are people who have made meritorious contributions but are no longer suitable for serving in the army in age or health, and they have obtained such an arrangement, which is naturally Lu Zhe's painstaking plan to resettle veterans. In some respects, retired non-commissioned officers will gradually become the first choice for local security personnel.
In addition to the above plans, Lu Zhe collected nearly 40,000 orphans from various counties after the end of the war, and they were so small that they were waiting to be fed. The maximum is not more than fifteen years old. Of these, about 30,000 are boys and the rest are girls. It is difficult for girls to arrange, so they can only raise some girls and educate them at the same time, waiting to get married. About 30,000 boys, too young to ask if they were adopted, and between the ages of eight and fifteen were incorporated into the Cadet Army.
More than 16,000 boys, Lu Zhe, also gave the official name, called Yulin Army.
The formation of the Yulin Army was met with Lu Zhe's ardent expectation, and he sincerely hoped that these children who had lost their families in the war could grow up in the military system, and that they could make a great name on the battlefield like the army in history that Liu Che adopted orphans.
Xiao He is the head of civil affairs and the military's logistics officer. When he listened to Lu Zhe briefly say what to do in the near future, he silently calculated how much grain should be used.
Almost no one in the group of people with low status understood what Lu Zhe was saying, and they could only listen quietly with abnormal restraints.
Cao Shen understood a little, and he understood that the Praetorian Guard was not only Lu Zhe's pro-army, but also a main battle force destined to gallop on various battlefields in the future. He had already confirmed that he would serve in the Praetorian Guard, and when he heard Lu Zhe's order to mobilize weapons, armor, and horses, and everything sounded like excellent supplies, he faintly began to be a little excited.
Of the 50,000 Janissaries, the cavalry accounted for nearly 20,000. The remaining 5,000 were Mo swordmen, 8,000 crossbowmen, 2,000 spearmen, and the remaining 15,000 were divided between the sword pawns and the shield-wielding swords.
What is a Cavalry? Cao saw the scene of nearly 1,000 cavalry charging at more than 10,000 enemy troops, it was a field shaking mountains and horses' hooves roaring, and only one charge of 1,000 cavalry defeated nearly 10,000 enemy foot soldiers.
The cavalry of the Praetorian Guard amounted to 20,000. Cao Shen remembered a rumor that Lu Zhe was already preparing for the invasion of the Central Plains, and he took it for granted that the Praetorian Guard had a huge cavalry formation.
Constant combat and understanding of the actual role of various arms of the armed forces through actual combat. This time, Lu Zhe made considerable efforts to improve the allocation of the troops, and some of the units with duplicate functions were eliminated, and some of the arms that played a vital role in the war were strengthened.
"That rattan armor ......" Xiao He had a headache. In the past, there were a lot of rattan armor woven by the people, and only 30,000 rattan armor soldiers were kept at once, so what should I do with the mountain of rattan armor?
Retaining 30,000 rattan armor soldiers is the number that Lu Zhe has calculated in detail, to be honest, the premise is that there will be so many vine armor soldiers completely out of necessity, after all, the source of weapons will be a problem when the army is just started, how can there be so many leather armor and metal armor? Moreover, because of the relationship between the policy of benefiting the people, it is indeed necessary to find something for the old and weak women and children to do.
"30,000 is just right, this army can still play a role in the south, and in the north, not only will it not have any advantages, but it may become a drag." Lu Zhe actually had a headache with those mountains of rattan armor, but the facts have proved that the rattan armor soldiers also have advantages in the mountains and forests, if there are too many vine armor soldiers in the establishment, is it really only in the south, not considering the future war against the Central Plains?
"Tankers, we don't have them." Xiahou Ying was entangled for a long time, her lips opened and closed, closed and opened, and it took a quarter of an hour to say the words in a very low voice.
"What?" Lu Zhe really didn't hear it clearly, the sound was not much louder than a mosquito.
Xiahou Ying's face turned white in an instant, and her lips trembled: "Your Majesty...... Ah, no, it's the Lord. Lord, all countries are building charioteers, and we don't. ”
Lu Zhe didn't quite understand what Xiahou Ying was afraid of, he had been relatively kind since he came over, and he didn't forget to signal everyone to drink tea together, so he didn't scare people much?
In fact, it has nothing to do with Lu Zhe's appearance, people will always have a gap because of the gap in identity, and that is not something that can be eliminated by what kind of attitude the expression is.
For these people, Lu Zhe already has the mind to reuse, after all, these people have exerted their abilities in history, and they are always better than some people who have not passed the "test of history". He signaled Xiahou Ying not to be nervous and to speak well.
Xiahou Ying couldn't say any big reason, he just listed the strength of the charioteers during the Warring States Period, and described the scene when the infantry encountered the charioteers with his own insight.
This is not the first time that Lu Zhe has heard such remarks, and many generals have more or less raised the question of why they did not form charioteers, in their opinion, charioteers are not only tools to demonstrate national strength, but also indispensable arms on the battlefield.
The role of charioteers against infantry is indeed very large, which Lu Zhe has not denied, but he knows that charioteers are a branch of troops that will be eliminated, and the materials consumed to build charioteers are really too great.
The metal cost of a chariot can make at least fifty weapons, and ten pieces of armor. At the same time, the horses needed for a chariot, including spare horses, add up to at least eight trained war horses. The cost of maintaining a chariot is equivalent to 50 foot soldiers, 20 crossbowmen, and 10 cavalry.
Honestly, is it really necessary to build tank troops? Lu Zhe does not deny that in some respects the chariot unit should really be built, but he would rather tilt the resources and costs of building the chariot unit to the cavalry and heavy infantry, after all, history has proved that the functions and restrictions that these two arms can play are much less than that of chariots, and the cavalry and heavy infantry will also be the main force on the battlefield in the future.
Xiahou Ying was born in a car and has superb driving skills, so he asked that sentence purely to give himself a useful place to show his skills.
After continuing Xiahou Ying, Cao Shen, Yongya, and Lu Juan saw that Lu Zhe seemed to be very talkative, and finally mustered up the courage to speak too.
Cao Shen spoke very measuredly, talking about some training in the troops, and he also took the opportunity to ask questions about some things he did not understand.
At present, the training of the army under Lu Zhe has begun to mature, in addition to the training of the queue, it is like a hundred generals ordering Zhou Bo to lead people to jump into the stream in the cold winter, and various ways of training soldiers to obey orders have been strengthened. Individually transferred troops, such as Cao Shen's thousand-man team, are now conducting exercises in small military formations after systematic obedience training.
After all, whether an army is worthy of a war is often not whether the army is brave or not, what is important is whether a unit can fight in formation, and arranging the military formation usually requires a premise, that is, whether the soldiers can carry out the order, and the faster the execution, the faster and more strict the formation and change of the military formation.
After a conversation, Lu Zhe found that Cao Shen had a good understanding of the army's training, and he was also to the point in many details: "I will open a tactical class in the near future." ”
Cao Shen was stunned for a moment, and then showed an ecstatic expression.
Lu Zhe's so-called tactical squad has a very great influence in the army, and some 500 lords and military marquis can generally be promoted and appointed when they are trained in the tactical squad and assigned to them. And the first batch of students, such as Gongwei, Ji Bu, Xu Zhi and other people who got up early to follow Lu Zhe to raise troops, which one is not famous and powerful now? Therefore, being able to be selected into the tactical class taught by Lu Zhe himself is something that many people look forward to.
What Yongya and Lu Juan said was not constructive, they stammered when they spoke, the organization of language was really not very good, a good sentence was either said upside down or omitted, Lu Zhe almost didn't understand it.
"What's your name?" It was difficult for Lu Zhe not to find Zhou Bo, and the rest of the people were seizing the opportunity to be in the table, only Zhou Bo had been staying quietly.
Zhou Bomune's personality meant that he would only introduce his own name, and then there would be a quiet moment.
"Zhou Bo?" Lu Zhe remembered, isn't this Zhou Yafu's father? It seems that he is also an expert in military training. Just how do you look stupid? (To be continued......)