"Your Majesty wants to form a military force like the Great Song Dynasty Heavy Armored Infantry and the Western Xia Iron Harrier Heavy Armored Iron Cavalry?"

As soon as Liu Huiniang's voice fell, Liu Qi, Yang Cunzhong, and Li Yanxian glanced at each other in surprise; As generals, they naturally knew that such a famous army as the Western Xia Iron Harrier, the Liao State Imperial Tent Cavalry, and the Jin State Iron Futu would have a greater grasp of the enemy in the future if the Great Song Dynasty could have such an army.

But Xu Guanzhong, Wen Huanzhang and Li Gang were prepared, Zhao Huan mentioned to them before going to Jiangnan to form a heavy infantry to fight against foreign iron cavalry, and in addition to this, he also proposed five strategies: spear phalanx, iron armored car, fierce fire oil car, fire thunder, and poisonous weed.

After a month, Zhao Huan mentioned it again, indicating that Zhao Huan had been thinking about this matter for a long time, and it was basically necessary to implement it.

"Not only the heavy infantry, but there are other arms, but I am not going to use the heavy cavalry."

Zhao Huan said without thinking. Obviously, he has already decided on this issue, and today the discussion is not about whether it is feasible, but how to implement it.

"The reason for not using heavy cavalry is not only that it is too expensive, but mainly that the heavy cavalry team of horses and knights is too demanding, and it is of little use, because our enemies are better at attacking than defending, and heavy cavalry is of no use to their charge."

"But we should have heavy infantry, spear phalanxes, light cavalry, fire and thunder troops, ironclad chariots, ironclad fire oil chariots, and ironclad three-bow ballistas to deal with the enemy's cavalry, as long as these arms cooperate with each other to be fully sure of defeating the alien cavalry."

Zhao Huan looked at Xu Guanzhong: "Is there any progress?" ”

"Yes!" Xu Guanzhong replied: "In the past month, Lord Wen and I have built some elongated spears, ironclad cars, fierce fire oil carts and other things according to what His Majesty said that day, and then deduced various attack and defense methods, and continuously improved according to the actual situation, and finally built 50 rear carriages with detachable wheels, 50 beds and 50 fierce fire oil tanks that can be installed on the rear carriage, and spears, sharp shields, hook sickles, heavy crossbows and other objects used in the spear phalanx. ”

"First of all, let's talk about the main car ironclad car. The heavy armored cavalry of the Western Xia and Liao people was very powerful when they were assaulting, and the ordinary shield array could not be stopped at all, and even the previous partial vans were very easy to be impacted and collapsed when facing the heavy armored cavalry. Therefore, in order to block the impact of the heavy cavalry, our craftsmen believe that the iron armor baffle must be placed in front or behind, and the bottom of the carriage should be lengthened, and the wheels should be removed, this kind of car is half a zhang wide, one and a half zhang long, half a zhang high and one foot thick, and can completely block any heavy armored cavalry and light cavalry. ”

"After the wheels are removed, the base of the carriage is deeply rooted in the soil, and it is extremely difficult to impulse no matter how big the momentum is, and it is very convenient to load or remove the wheels; There are iron hooks and iron rings on the left and right of the carriage base and baffle, which can be used as a solid wall when connected; The half-foot-high baffle did not interfere with the sergeant's wielding of spears and arrows, and there were wooden troughs and wooden frames on which three crossbows and arrows could be turned in a quarter of an hour, or a tank of fire oil. ”

"This kind of ironclad car is at least twice as strong as a partial van, but it is only 200 catties when empty, which is far less difficult to move than the 600 catties weight of a partial van; When fully loaded, it can reach up to 800 catties, and it has four wheels, which can be dragged by only two horses. ”

Xu Guanzhong described the ironclad car in detail.

Zhao Huan remembered that in the history of the Ming Dynasty, Qi Jiguang once used the main van invented by Yu Dayou, but it was later changed by Qi Jiguang into a three-story partial van; Unexpectedly, Xu Guanzhong and the others changed his idea of a partial van to a positive van. But he believes in the ability of Xu Guanzhong and others, and he should also believe it.

"The other is the method of different weapons that Your Majesty said to cooperate with each other to restrain cavalry, we have tested it with various weapons, and it is true."

"With an ironclad car, even if it is equipped with a three-bow crossbow or a fierce fire oil tank, it must be accompanied by guns, knives, shields, bows and crossbows and other weapons; If you can add Ling Zhen's iron fire thunder, the Great Song Dynasty will be able to block the cavalry of the alien race. ”

"Of course, we also took into account the situation of sudden encounters with the enemy, and improved the wheels, which can be urgently fixed with wooden stoppers, so that although the wheels are not removed and stabilized, they can also temporarily resist the enemy."

"In addition, the spear phalanx mentioned by His Majesty, standing shields, spears, crossbows, bows and arrows, javelins and hook and sickle spears can also compete with the cavalry of the brigade, but this is a special test of the courage of the military and the commandery ability of the generals, and the grasp of the fighter is very high, and it is not easy to promote it on a large scale."

Xu Guanzhong's words made everyone present fascinated, and everyone began to get excited, even if they didn't see the real thing and just listened to what Xu Guanzhong said, they already felt very reliable.

But then Xu Guanzhong said another bad news.

"Although the production of iron fire thunder has matured, the power is also very stable, but the iron fire gun still can not be developed, there must be more than five explosions in every ten guns, if the thickened gun tube is very cumbersome and difficult to carry, and the power of the jet is also unstable, it is very time-consuming to reload gunpowder, and it can only be used once on the battlefield, it is really a bit chicken, and the minister still recommends suspending the development of iron fire guns."

Everyone present looked at Zhao Huan, they were all very familiar with Zhao Huan, and they knew that Zhao Huan had always been almost fanatical in his pursuit of iron and fire, so Xu Guanzhong poured a basin of cold water on his head, and they were very worried that Zhao Huan would not be able to bear it.

And Zhao Huan was indeed disappointed, but it was far from being too serious to bear it.

In fact, when Ling Zhen lost for the first time, he was already mentally prepared. This matter can be thought of in reverse: Hanyang during the Republic of China was nearly a thousand years later than now, and the bullets fired were still running over and over?

The progress of civilization takes time, and it is not something that can be achieved all at once with a recipe or vision.

"Then pause! Even if there is only iron fire and thunder, it is already very good! ”

Taking a step back, Zhao Huan immediately felt that the sea and the sky were wide.

"I have decided to abolish the Divine Guard Army and add the Divine Martial Army, which is subordinate to Xu Guanzhong, but all of them are elite."

"The direct commander of the Shenwu Army is Li Yanxian, and the deputy commander is Zhu Wu......"

Everyone looked at the two of them suddenly, and Zhu Wu's face turned red with excitement.

"The Shenwu Army has 5,000 heavy infantry, 50,000 infantry, 50,000 cavalry, 10,000 heavy crossbowmen and bed crossbowmen, and 5,000 iron fire and thunder soldiers, with a total of 120,000 now."

"Of course, because there are not enough war horses now, there may be 30,000 cavalry, but I will do everything possible to get war horsemen to expand the number of soldiers, and in the future, the Shenwu Army will have at least 100,000 infantry and 150,000 cavalry!"

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