The military parade is actually a very hard thing, just reviewing the army along the road, Liu Che also felt a little sore back.

But the spiritual enjoyment overwhelmed the physical discomfort.

Until the last military formation was reviewed, Liu Che still glanced at the endless various military formations.

This military parade allowed him to fully enjoy the model of a leader of later generations.

It's a pity that there is no airplane, artillery, steel torrent......

Liu Che thought regretfully in his heart.

But this petty bourgeois romance only stayed in Liu Che's mind for half a second, and then disappeared.

As a king, Liu Che was well aware of his duties.

"Tong Guò this military parade, I basically see some characteristics of the current army......" Liu Che thought in his heart.

The army of any era has its own characteristics.

It's like the army of the Two Song Dynasty, if the rewards are not given or not enough, the combat effectiveness suddenly drops by 100%.

Even, even in the same dynasty, the appearance of the army in different periods is completely different.

This is like the Ming army in the early Ming Dynasty, which can easily beat all the armies in the world, but in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, it can't even do a branch of Mengyuan.

After reviewing the current main force of the Han family, Liu Che has not seen other problems for the time being.

But two problems, he still noticed.

First, the discipline of the Han army needs to be strengthened.

The field army directly under the central government, the northern and southern armies, is fine, and the discipline is generally strict, but the county soldiers below. It's a lot worse.

These county soldiers are basically stationed in their hometowns. Their officers are also basically from the local area.

The authority of the officer. Compared with the field army and the northern and southern armies, it is much lower.

The formation of many phalanxes is fine when it is still, but when you bow together, you can immediately see the gap.

The Southern Army, the Northern Army, and the field armies stationed in various military camps in Guanzhong, whether standing, kneeling, or getting up, are like a precision machine, just like a person.

And the county soldiers in the county. As soon as there is a movement, there will be some confusion, and although the officers try their best to suppress and organize, it has little effect.

"This is also normal......," Liu Che sighed in his heart.

If the local soldiers of Hongo want to have any strict discipline and strict rank, it is a joke.

The officers did not rely on military law, discipline and system to lead these county soldiers. It's the local people's affection, the clan friendship.

For example, in history, Li Guang's army, because all of them were from a good family in Longyou, was inextricably linked with the Li family. So when fighting, there is no discipline at all.

It's basically all messing around.

Relying on Li Guang's prestige and peacetime, he fought.

As a result, it is often not a random punch to kill the master. was beaten to death by the master's fist.

As a result, General Fei's achievements often fluctuated like the stock market of the Celestial Empire in later generations. It's unpredictable.

Yes, the descendants of Li Guang. Learned his lesson, especially the army under the command of Li Ling, all selected the children of good families from Danyang County, trained in strict accordance with the requirements of the cavalry, and strictly disciplined the army and the upper and lower ranks, so that Li Ling's army of 8,000 people, under the siege of the Xiongnu, still killed and wounded several times the Xiongnu army, and finally ran out of ammunition and food, before being defeated and captured.

Thinking of this story, Liu Che knew that the county soldiers should be rectified.

The army must be strictly disciplined.

As a violent machine of the country, all local people and clan forces should be rolled out of the army!

"The opening of the Wuyuan in two months may be a good opportunity......" Liu Che pondered in his heart, according to the detailed rules of the Wuyuan discussed by Liu Che and the princes and generals, the first batch of Wuyuan students will all be drawn from the active army of the Han Dynasty.

The first batch of officers to be admitted will be officers at the rank of captain and above from all the counties of the Han Dynasty.

The number of officers enrolled in the first batch will probably be between 400 and 600.

When these people graduate, Liu Che plans to let them all change to a new job - the discipline of the soldiers in Guanzhong is like this, and the situation in Guandong is probably rotten I don't know what it looks like!

Liu Che remembered Liu Bi's rebellion the year before last, Liu Bi's next diner named Zhouqiu, with his own strength, took Xiapi County for Liu Bi, and coerced the soldiers and civilians of Xiapi to embark on the road of rebellion, and finally Liu Bi was defeated, and this Zhouqiu was violently ill on the way back from the army.

A diner can single-handedly let a county of soldiers and horses, tens of thousands of troops drive it.

This was simply unthinkable in the early Han Dynasty!

At the beginning, Liu Xiang, the king of Qi, decided to raise troops against Lu, but the dignified king of Qi still couldn't move the garrison of Qi, and he had to rely on his uncle's design to kill the prime minister loyal to the Lu family and seize the soldiers of Qi, so he mobilized the army.

And in just 30 years, a diner can envelop a county of soldiers and horses.

The discipline of the local county soldiers of the Han family was lax, which made Liu Che unacceptable!

Now, the gang of bureaucratic landlords in Xiapi have been dealt with, and all their heads have been hung on the head of Xiapi City, and the whole family has been arrested and thrown into prison.

But God knows, among the dozens of counties in the Kanto region, how many other places like Xiapi where the soldiers of the county were infiltrated by local clans?

In the long run, the country will not be a country!

Therefore, cool officials such as Zhidu, Yizong, and Wang Wenshu came into being, and the clan power that could not be cut off from county to county was cut off.

But the cool officials kill people, and the symptoms are not cured.

It's the next step.

What the Han family needs now is a top-down rectification movement to re-enforce military discipline and establish the majesty of military law.

This matter is not urgent, so we can only train new-style officers through Guò Wuyuan, and then distribute these new-style officers to various places.

On the other hand, Liu Che planned to wait for the return of the righteous column, set up a military justice department, organize a military police agency, and take a two-pronged approach to solve the problem of loose discipline among the county soldiers.

Another problem is that the Han army has slowly begun to innovate.

But it's still too slow!

So far, according to Liu Che's view, although the cavalry has become an independent army, the number is still too small.

In this parade, there were 50,000 troops, and the number of cavalry was no more than 3,000.

The main force of the Han army was still light infantry and crossbowmen.

Moreover, judging from the composition of the military formation and the way it was put on display, the minds of most officers were still stuck in the dignified formation, facing the attack head-on.

The Wuchu Rebellion the year before last, Li Ji commanded the cavalry, and the results of the surprise attack on the Huaisi Ferry have not been widely recognized and accepted, and they have not shaken the supremacy of crossbowmen within the Han army.

"It is necessary to step up the training and training of cavalry, especially cavalry ......officers," Liu Che thought to himself.

But cavalry, not so easy to train!

At present, the Han dynasty has a cavalry force of almost 100,000 people.

But these 100,000 people were trained by the Han court in the past 30 years.

Cavalry is not like crossbowmen, find a man, train for three months, and then you can draw a bow and shoot arrows.

Cavalry, first of all, must have a qualified war horse, and a qualified war horse, from birth to be able to fight, also needs at least three or five years of domestication.

And if the rider wants to make the war horse form a tacit understanding with himself, it takes a long time to cultivate.

Later history books recorded the process of Li Ling's military training.

From the beginning of his tenure as the supervisor of Jianzhang to the appointment of the lieutenant of the cavalry, Li Ling spent two years proving that he was indeed a talent.

Then, Xiao Zhu ordered him to be the captain of the cavalry, selected 5,000 good sons from Danyang, and set up training camps in Jiuquan and Zhangye, which was five years.

It wasn't until the second year of the Tianhan Dynasty that Li Ling trained his cavalry.

Without those five years of training, what would Li Ling's 5,000-strong Danyang soldiers do to compete with hundreds of thousands of Hun troops, and even kill and wound enemies several times their own?

In other words, a qualified cavalryman needs at least five years, equipped with sufficient weapons, and qualified war horses to become an army......

And the cost of training a cavalry is dozens of times that of infantry!

Therefore, even Zhou Yafu only dared to propose to Liu Che a plan to train 5,000 cavalry every year.

No matter how much it is, either the number of war horses can't keep up, or the finances can't keep up.

But after watching today's military parade, Liu Che knew that time was not waiting for me.

The training plan of the cavalry must be accelerated!

The horse farm should be expanded, and there should be more war horse stock, and more cavalry establishment.

But these require a huge amount of resources and money, as well as countless manpower and material resources.

"After I go back, it seems that I will have to convene a meeting of the cavalry in front of the emperor to discuss the issue of accelerating the formation of cavalry......" Liu Che thought to himself.

In any case, fifteen years later at the latest, the Han dynasty must have a cavalry of 300,000 in size and a million horses in stock.

Without this scale, a quick victory in the war against the Xiongnu could not be guaranteed.

Once the war drags on, neither Liu Che nor God can guarantee that the grassland will not become a quagmire.

The resilience and difficulty of the Xiongnu Empire are the most of all the steppe nomads in history! (To be continued......)

PS: This chapter feels like it's not written ~ it may be revised in two days ~