When Ning Chu first formed cavalry to fight, the main object of study was France, so whether it was the introduction of Arabian horses or the training of cuirassier regiments, they were all learning from France's cavalry construction ideas.

For the French, the battlefield environment they are familiar with is after all continental Europe, usually cavalry does not fight as an independent army, but works in conjunction with infantry and artillery, and the task of cavalry is usually very simple, that is, to charge on the battlefield and then completely crush the enemy.

However, in today's Mongolia, the cavalry will gradually become a real independent combat unit, so the combat mode of the cuirassier regiment will be too simple, but the mounted infantry regiment can carry a certain amount of artillery, coupled with the way of dismounting and fighting, it can better play the advantages of the Fu Han army in firepower, as for the usual maneuver, you can completely use horses, and you can bite the Mongolian cavalry to the death.

"Your Majesty, if we use Mongolian horses to form mounted infantry, the cost will be greatly reduced, and the number of war horses we can obtain will also increase."

The privy envoy Ning Zhongyi said softly, his strategic vision was also very keen, and he naturally saw the advantages of Mongolian horses on the Mongolian battlefield, so he was very supportive of Ning Yu's idea.

To some extent, compared to the expensive Arabian horses, the cheap to almost cheap Mongolian horses have the basis for large-scale equipment, and once they have enough Mongolian horses, they can better improve their combat status on the Mongolian battlefield.

Of course, the horse breed reform plan that has been going on before will not stop, after all, the battlefield environment that Mongolian horses adapt to is limited, and the future Fu Han army will also need a large number of cuirassier regiments as the main equipment of the cavalry force.

Ning Yu smiled, "Privy envoy, if you compete with the Jungars and Russians on the grassland, how many cavalry infantry do you need?" ”

When everyone heard this, their hearts suddenly sank, this was a sign that the emperor had made up his mind, and now the inquiry was only to finalize the result.

Ning Zhongyi was calm and cautious, so he naturally wouldn't speak easily, but he pondered for a while before he said softly: "If it's safe, the minister needs 240,000 Mongolian horses, one person and two horses, to form 120,000 cavalry and infantry.........."

"120,000 cavalry and infantry........ It's nothing more than the size of twelve cavalry divisions, which is really not much......" Ning Yu nodded, but these 240,000 Mongolian horses are not easy to get, even if they are supplied by Monan Mongolia, I am afraid it will be difficult to get them together in a short period of time.

In addition to horses, military spending is another big head, especially this year, the Korean War and the Burma War were fought at the same time, although the harvest is quite rich, Ning Chuguang has received 20,000 silver dollars from Shengjing, but it can not stand the consumption of the war and the expenditure of domestic industrial construction.

Especially since the implementation of the industrial construction plan, the silver of the Ningchu court has flowed out like flowing water, and there is no income at all in a short period of time, just like the Shanghai-Nanjing Railway to be built, which requires a large amount of iron to start, and the production of iron needs to expand the current production scale of the Ningchu iron plant, and it is also necessary to increase the supply capacity of the mine.

This is just one of them, such as the factory area under construction on the outskirts of Nanjing, as well as the construction of roads and wharves in various places, etc., and almost everywhere there are places where money is swallowed.

"There can only be so many people, and no matter how many there are, the logistics line can't support ......."

Ning Yu let out a long sigh, inland operations and grassland operations are really not the same thing, no wonder Zungar dispatched 60,000 people to almost exhaust the national strength of the whole country, it is really more than enough and not enough, and Ning Chu In addition to dealing with the Zungar Department, Ning Chu also needs to take into account the reaction of the Russians and the Qianlong Emperor who fled there.

In a sense, the test of this battle is not the ability of the commanders of the two sides at all, but the ability of the two sides to survive, so the key to determining the outcome of the war is still the logistical capabilities of both sides.

But fortunately, there is one thing, now Ning Chu has achieved the best possible point in separating the army's logistics, all military expenditures will be tendered through competitive bidding, and all expenditures need to be signed by the cabinet, so the cabinet will conduct a strict review and review of military expenditures.

Of course, even so, there are still some people who are corrupt, but this is rarely the case, especially when it comes to the Cabinet and the Privy Council, and all the funds are managed by the Central Bank, and the Metropolitan Prosecutor's Office will be stationed in the investigation department, so it is difficult for anyone except the top officials to commit corruption in such a complex system.

In order to put an end to the corruption of the subordinate soldiers by the superior officers in the army, Ning Yu even asked the Privy Council to make a separate file for each soldier in the military, and all the files will be reviewed by the cabinet and issued separately to the soldiers' personal accounts, and the accounts are opened and stored by the individuals in the banks designated by the central bank.

The layered structure processing naturally makes some people unable to start, and it can ensure that every tael of silver in the Ning Chu court can be spent as much as possible.

It's like a joke circulated in the capital during the Northern Expedition, which means that Ning Chu only needs 15 million taels of silver a year to feed 300,000 well-equipped Fu Han troops, while the Qing Dynasty needs 30 million taels of silver a year to feed 100,000 so-called Eight Banners New Army, and even their guns and cannons are not fully equipped.

Therefore, the battle of the Northern Expedition was actually doomed from the beginning, and the Fu Han army, which only used 15 million taels of silver to feed 300,000 troops, must have more combat effectiveness than the Qing court, which used 30 million taels of silver to feed the 100,000 new army of the Eight Banners.

Sure enough, not long after the joke spread, the Qing court suffered a series of crushing defeats, and the final Bali Bridge fight to the death became an even bigger joke.

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Seeing that by the middle of October, there were a large number of people and horses marching in the direction of the Mulan enclosure in the direction of the Jingshi, especially the emperor's exclusive Praetorian Guard Division was finally opened, but it made all the people of Jingshi suddenly realize that the emperor was finally going out on patrol.

Strictly speaking, Ning Yu was not an emperor who grew up in the deep palace, and he often went out to inspect, but most of the time he came to Jingshi, it was by sea, and he did not really patrol on the northern land route, nor did he carry out extravagance, but it made the people feel a little strange.

An emperor who doesn't like to work hard and waste money really feels unusual.......

Ning Yu sat in the smoothly driving imperial chariot, wearing a warm enough blanket, and holding a book in his hand to look at it carefully.

The Mulan Enclosure has always been a grassland with abundant water and grass in the past, and it is also a place where the Qing emperors like to carry out Mulan Autumn Harvest, especially the Kangxi Emperor in order to train troops here, and even opened up a vast hunting ground, that is, the earliest Mulan Enclosure, and gradually repaired, forming today's huge scale.

According to Kangxi's habits, he almost every year he had to lead the princes and ministers and the elite soldiers of the Eight Banners to come here to hold a hunt to exercise the military strength of the Eight Banners, and Emperor Yongzheng did not dare to leave Beijing rashly because of the short time he ascended the throne and the unstable foundation, so he suspended the activities of Mulan Qiuqiu.

Until today, the Mulan enclosure, which has been silent for several years, has become bustling again, in addition to a large number of Fu Han troops stationed in the Mulan enclosure, there are also the leaders of the Sixteen Forty-Nine Banners of Monan Mongolia, who have also arrived here with their entourage to watch the military parade in Ningchu.

The so-called military parade is essentially an act of showing off force and achieving the effect of surrendering the army without a fight. As far as Ning Yu's character is concerned, he doesn't like to show off so much, but when dealing with the Mongolian tribes, carrots need to be there, but big sticks must be even more necessary, so it is definitely a good thing to show off his muscles properly.

Strictly speaking, since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Fu Han army has not really carried out a military parade, not because of other reasons, but mainly because the main army has stayed in the field for a long time, so there are no conditions for a military parade at all.

And this point is no longer a problem now, the army that originally followed Ning Chu can be called very elite, in addition to the Praetorian Guard Division, there are also the main first division and the main third division, which can be called the trump card army in the Fu Han army, and it can fully show the brilliance of the Fu Han army.

When these 40,000 people arrived at the Mulan paddock, the red uniforms they wore alone had already formed a red tide, which made people feel frightened when they looked at it, especially for the Mongol tribes in southern Monan, they soon realized that the force in front of the Fu Han army alone was enough to destroy them 10,000 times.

"Knock-knock-knock-"

The 100 snare drums in the Fu Han army were lined up in three rows, and hundreds of drummers were holding drumsticks in their hands, and they were beating the snare drums with skin on one side in a very rhythmic way.

Although there is still a certain distance between the divisions of the Fu Han Army and the main venue, the Mongol princes sitting on the stage cannot see the detailed appearance of the Fu Han Army at all, but from the transfer of tens of thousands of people, they can already show their own magnificent momentum, which makes the Mongolian princes can't help but feel a pang in their hearts.

"The parade begins!"

As the drums stopped, the privy envoy Ning Zhongyi, as the marshal presiding over the parade, decisively issued the order for the parade to start after saluting Ning Yu, and the heralds waiting on the stage also waved the flags in their hands very decisively.

"Boom!"

I only heard that dozens of artillery pieces placed under the parade platform were suddenly fired in unison, and a crisp loud noise followed, only to see dozens of black dots soaring in the sky, and then they exploded together, rendering colorful flowers in the air, but it looked very good.

The Mongol princes had not yet recovered from their surprise at the time of the fireworks, when they heard the sound of neat footsteps, a phalanx of five hundred men, walking in the direction of the shogun, carrying muskets on their shoulders and bayonets shining with cold light.

No one introduced this army, but everyone in the Fu Han Army knew that they were all the emperor's Praetorian Guard Battalion, and they were also the most elite and brave troops in the whole army.

You must know that in the current Fu Han army, personal second-class merit is almost equivalent to killing more than ten enemy soldiers on the battlefield before you have a chance to obtain it, and it is difficult to have other possibilities, so every soldier who has obtained personal second-class merit has almost come from the sea of corpses and blood.

Sure enough, as the Praetorian Guard Camp got closer and closer to the stands, the Mongol princes felt more and more surprised and even frightened, because the five hundred soldiers in red uniforms in front of them, they were almost the same drum beat, marching towards this side, and they were like one person in their gestures, revealing a shocking momentum.

Ning Yu looked at the Praetorian Guard Battalion in front of him with a smile, and felt a little emotion in his heart, when he led his troops to fight in the past, his personal guard battalion was one of the two sharp knives, if he wanted to tear apart the enemy formation, it was generally the personal guard battalion and the grenadier battalion to bear this heavy responsibility, and their casualties were also the highest in the whole army.

The soldiers looked at Ning Yu on the podium with a bit of admiration in their eyes, for them, almost everyone had been received by Ning Yu, and the lives of each of them had already belonged to His Majesty the Emperor.

Zalut, the leader of the Chahar Mongol tribes, looked at the army in front of him with a little surprise, and had to feel frightened, the former Chahar Eight Banners all died in the battle with the Fu Han army, and I heard that on the day of the United Battle, he was shot dozens of times in his body, and the whole person was almost beaten into a blood gourd, and he was killed without even pulling out the knife.

"It's really an elite division! Eight Banners is not unjustly lost! ”

Zalut sighed deeply in his heart, just from the first army at the moment, he had already seen the extraordinaryness of the Fu Han army, this difference from the system, almost made him no longer have anything to be proud of.

After the guard battalion passed the platform, soon there was a sound of neat footsteps, and they were even more unusual, not only wearing uniform red military uniforms, but also wearing plate armor at the same time, with four grenades hanging from their waists, and a snowy chopping knife on their backs, the momentum was not lost to the guard battalion in front of them, and even the murderous aura in their eyes was a little stronger than the front.

"It's horrible!" Zarut swallowed involuntarily.