Chapter 683: The whole army changes its clothes

From Xiang Yu jumping off the cliff to Qin Hao's return to Wancheng, nearly a month has passed, and now it is January of the sixth year of Zhongping (189).

The sixth year of Zhongping is an important time node for frequent major events.

According to the trend of the original history, Liu Hong will die of illness in May this year, and then be buried in Wenling, nicknamed Emperor Xiaoling.

After Liu Hong's death, his cousin He Jin took power and supported his nephew Liu Bian to succeed to the throne as the young emperor.

In June, He Jin secretly sent people to kill Dong Hou in the Hejian Post Court, returned to Beijing with a coffin, and was buried in Wenling.

In July, He Jin believed the words of his sister He Hou, and entered the palace alone and was killed by the ten permanent attendants.

At the same time, Dong Zhuo led 3,000 Xiliang Iron cavalry into Beijing, but falsely claimed to be 100,000 cavalry.

In September, after Dong Zhuo took control of the military power in Kyoto, he showed his fangs, directly deposed the young emperor Liu Wei as the king of Hongnong, and set up the nine-year-old Chen Liuwang Liu Xie as the emperor, in order to present the emperor.

In December, Cao Cao assassinated Dong Bucheng, fled back to Guandong, and issued an edict, calling on the princes of all towns to fight against Dong Zhuo.

Since then, the vigorous alliance of the princes of the Eighteenth Route and the battle of the alliance against Dong have officially begun.

Of course, the above are the events that happened in the original history, and now due to the influence of Qin Hao, the world has long been unrecognizable compared with the original history.

In the original history, Dong Zhuo entered Luoyang, but now the Han capital has already moved to Chang'an.

In the original history, it was Yuan Shao who offered advice to He Jin, which led to Dong Zhuo's entry into Beijing, but now Yuan Shao has already become a prince in advance, how can he propose to He Jin if he is not in the court?

In addition, the current Dong Zhuo sits in the land of Liangsi and Liangsi, with nearly 300,000 soldiers and horses, and is recognized as the strongest prince in the world.

Guanzhong has been surrounded by Dong Zhuo from both sides of the east and west, no matter how stupid He Jin is, it is impossible to continue to lure wolves into the room, right?

Therefore, whether Dong Zhuo can enter Shunli Beijing is one thing.

Of course, the most important point is that although Liu Hong's health is getting worse and worse, there is no sign of dying violently, so will he really die of illness after May?

The newly recruited 100,000 new troops have been trained, but the equipment has not yet arrived, and the time left for Qin Hao to prepare for war is getting less and less.

Regardless of whether the situation will develop in the direction of the original history, Qin Hao must be prepared for all responses.

Before the real troubled times began, Qin Hao had to at least arm all the 120,000 troops under his command, so that he could have the capital to deal with all the challenges, and you must know that there were many forces that coveted Nanyang.

As soon as he thought of this, Qin Hao couldn't care about the heartache and expenses anymore, and said to Liu Ye with a serious face: "Ziyang, I order you to expand the engineering institute to 20,000 people. ”

Although Nanyang is the strongest county, there are many princes around it.

Nanyang has Dong Zhuo in the north, Ding Yuan Huangzu in the south, Li Shimin in the west, and Yuan Shu Cao Cao in the east, as if they have been surrounded.

After the chaotic times began, if Qin Hao was besieged by the Quartet, he would definitely continue to expand his army, but the engineering institute could not create enough weapons due to lack of manpower, which was not what Qin Hao hoped to see.

Liu Ye's pupils shrank when he heard this, and he also knew that fifteen thousand craftsmen was not a small number, and he must know that the big man at the time of the decisive battle of the Yellow Turban was only 30,000 craftsmen.

Liu Ye's real purpose this time was actually just to expand the number of the Institute to 10,000, but he didn't expect Qin Hao to give him 20,000.

"Liu Ye will live up to the trust of his father-in-law." Liu Ye said in a deep voice.

The cost of supporting 20,000 craftsmen is not small, and the reason why Qin Hao made such a decision is also because the real troubled times are coming, even if the supply of the army is saturated, he can first store the ordnance for backup.

"How many troops can be equipped with the new ordnance that was created and stored in the warehouse?" Qin Hao asked.

In the two years since the establishment of the Industrial Manufacturing Institute, it has never stopped forging equipment, but most of the previous forging equipment was old-fashioned equipment.

The forging technology of new equipment such as Tang Dao and Song crossbow was only thoroughly understood by the Qin army a year ago, and the forging process of new equipment is more complicated, if the scale of the engineering institute is not expanded, it is not known when the whole army will be able to change its outfit.

"Lord Qi, among the new equipment currently stored in the warehouse, there are 30,000 horizontal swords, 5,000 Mo swords, 8,000 strong crossbows, and 10,000 pairs of armor...... Enough to equip an army of 30,000. ”

After listening to Liu Ye's report, Qin Hao nodded with satisfaction, and praised with a smile: "Being able to build so much equipment in such a short period of time, it seems that the Institute has not slackened at all in the past two years."

"The lord praised it falsely, this is just what his subordinates should do." Liu Ye replied with a smile.

Regarding the distribution of equipment in the warehouse, Qin Hao quickly made a decision in his heart.

"These equipment will give priority to equipping the elite, let the elite battalions such as the camp break the barracks take the lead in changing their equipment, and equip the rest of the troops after they have a surplus."

There is no way to do this, the reason why the elite is called the elite is that they naturally have to enjoy the highest treatment and the best equipment, because they are facing the most dangerous situation.

"The lord is wise."

"Ziyang, your factory is a heavy responsibility, our army must be fully equipped in the next year and a half, so you must complete all the equipment for me as soon as possible."

Liu Ye's brows furrowed when he heard this, and after a little contemplation, he said in a deep voice: "Lord, a year and a half is really a bit rushed, but if you work overtime, it's still too late." ”

Qin Hao immediately showed a smile when he heard this, the 120,000 army was dressed up, this is a big project, but Liu Ye is sure that he will do it within a year and a half, which not only proves his own ability, but also proves that Qin Hao's huge investment in the Institute of Engineering is not in vain.

After the two major consumer companies, the medical camp and the industrial construction institute, the rest of those who found Qin Hao could only be regarded as small investments, and the Nanyang School Palace, which had the largest investment, did not have one-fifth of the funds needed for the industrial construction institute.

After the military, government and government expenditures were resolved, the elite battalion commanders tacitly found Qin Hao.

The new equipment is currently so much, if you find Liu Ye directly, Liu Ye's personality must be official, and every general wants to fight for more benefits for the soldiers under his command, so they all privately find Qin Hao to go through the back door.

"General Gao Shun, what are you doing here? I remember that the supply and demand used by the trapped camp are the best in the whole army, right? ”

"General Wenyuan, what are you smiling at? What is there to break the barracks than to trap the camp? ”

After sending Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, Ran Min and others away one by one, the last one to find Qin Hao was Li Cunxiao.

As soon as he saw Qin Hao, Li Cunxiao looked aggrieved and said unrelentingly:

"Lord, you are too partial, his Gao Shun's trapping camp is only 3,000 establishments, but you give them 3,000 new heavy armor, 3,000 Mo swords, and 1,000 strong crossbows......

Let's take a look at our Flying Tiger Camp, this is simply raised by the stepmother. ”