The resistance of the displaced people is insignificant, because they are based on survival, and they are hastily organized, lacking a certain degree of discipline, organization, and worse, they are also extremely lacking in weapons, and all these disadvantages directly lead to their state in an unprecedented disadvantage, and in some of these situations, their situation is in a very unfavorable and bad state. It is almost impossible to reverse such a situation.

But fortunately, a group of officers and non-commissioned officers organized by the Republican Army have entered it, and they are doing everything they can to change the current state of affairs and put their situation in a very favorable situation.

Li Jiazhuang, Minister of Economic Affairs Wang Ming took Li Wei on a tour of the First Military Factory of the Republican Army, which produced a large number of munitions and weapons, and they had recently developed a new type of armor. Using the limited power of the steam engine, they created a certain amount of plate armor that was made from a single piece of iron plate, and had a defensive power that surpassed leather armor and a certain amount of scale armor. The most important thing is that it is extremely lightweight, which can be greatly reduced to about 20 catties. This weight can be popularized to the cavalry.

The Republican Army is also working on its own helmets, and Shang Wu has designed two helmets, which are modeled after two classic helmets of World War II, one German and one American. However, in terms of manufacturing, the Republican Army has no choice, because they can only use the casting method, but if they do so, it will increase the weight of the helmet, and the weight of the helmet must exceed five pounds. If you wear it, it is extremely uncomfortable. Too heavy. The Republican Army still doesn't like such helmets, most of the Republican soldiers like to wear berets, or mountain hats, and they don't pay much attention to helmets, because helmets will increase the burden on soldiers, and the pressure on the whole neck is still relatively large, no one likes such a situation, for them, helmets bring them more trouble than combat casualties.

However, work on the helmet is still under development. Helmets made of metal simply do not alleviate such a situation.

However, plate armor is the only defensive equipment that the republican army can come up with, this equipment is mainly used to prepare some dangerous assault infantry in the early days, trench battles, the lack of defensive equipment of the republican army casualties are larger, because the republican army is generally not equipped with armor to protect itself, in the white-edged combat operations, the casualties of the republican army are higher than the soldiers fighting in the imperial court, but later the tactical success of the republican army, the success of the large-scale rout operation, the trench white-edged combat is much less, and the defense problem is naturally shelved, But the development work is not over.

The infantry is generally not interested in this kind of plate armor, the reason is that it is heavy, although twenty pounds is not too heavy, but the flexibility of the infantry is greatly reduced, and many soldiers complain that their tactical movements are limited to plate armor and deformed, and the love for plate armor naturally decreases.

But Plate Armor soon found a second group of demanders. Cavalry troops.

First of all, cavalry is a technical branch, and the training of cavalry is extremely strict, and the loss of one cavalry will be relatively large. The Republican Army still has not figured out a fast, cheap, and large-scale way to train cavalry, and they still rely on traditional training, which means that the losses of cavalry are relatively large. In the battle against the Xiongnu, the Republican army suffered heavy casualties, and most of the casualties were concentrated in some bow and arrow injuries that were not paid much attention to. The reason is that the republican army does not have the necessary armor protection, even leather armor, it is rarely actively equipped, and the strong martial spirit allows the republican army to have a fighting spirit, but the problem is that the lack of armor protection increases the casualty rate of soldiers. Not a single commander liked such a loss, and in such a state, the republican army had to be equipped with such weapons and equipment as plate armor, because they needed such defensive equipment.

Li Wei was very excited, this was his first visit to the arsenal of the Republican Army, several workshops were constantly producing, and the kind of assembly line operation produced a large number of combat weapons, from infantry equipment to artillery, to defensive equipment, this large-scale, cheap production capacity, brought spectacular. Excitement, and a state of excitement.

"Can we buy this kind of plate armor? If we can, we can give up some trade rights, it doesn't matter, you can dominate. When Li Wei said this, Wang Ming smiled, but he didn't answer. Because of such equipment, the Republican Army only equipped a cavalry company on an experimental basis, and the Republican Army did not have large-scale equipment, but Li Dao was very excited because he saw the great role of this plate armor.

Dong Zhuo was strengthening his cavalry troops, and although the cavalry was equipped with new firearms and had great assault power, there was an inevitable shortcoming that troubled Dong Zhuo, and that was defense. It is unlikely that the cavalry will use heavy armor, most of them will use a certain scale of leather armor in order to maintain a certain mobility, but the defensive ability of leather armor is too limited, but after using plate armor, especially the mixed mode of leather armor and plate armor can be used, which can effectively improve the defense of the cavalry, the loss of cavalry is a huge disaster for Dong Zhuo, he absolutely does not want to see such a thing happen, and the use of plate armor can meet their needs to the greatest extent.

Wang Ming was a little embarrassed, because the cavalry troops had not yet submitted the relevant reports, if they were provided to Dong Zhuo's army, and the republican army had not yet found a way to deal with it, which was very troublesome. You must know that plate armor can resist bullet attacks at a certain combat distance. Wang Ming was worried about that, but Li Wei was very interested.

Because they are still in accordance with the ancient way of thinking about warfare, they do not consider the ability to withstand the defensive capability, but they consider the impact ability of the cavalry, as well as the improvement of protection, but they ignore one point, that is, the bombardment effect of artillery still poses a great threat to the cavalry. If they had taken this into account, they probably wouldn't have had such a development idea.

Inside the War Department.

"The cavalry is noisy, and there is a great disagreement on the question of how to build the cavalry, one is the professional cavalry unit, they think very long-term, in the future our combat area is in the grassland, the grassland is extremely vast, the cavalry should be concentrated, carry out large-scale in-depth operations. In this way, it was necessary for the cavalry to maintain a high degree of concentration, strength, and increase their mobility. Shang Wu said.

"But the price was great, we could have equipped three regiments of horses for the number of horses, and only one. And as a result, the cavalry regiment that we originally planned to equip with two infantry divisions could not be completed. The price is too high. Jia Xu said.

Ma Liu's forward-thinking caused a lot of trouble. On the question of the steppe, the Republican Army did have this idea, the significance of the cavalry was to give full play to their excellent mobility, and how to increase their excellent mobility. It's one man and three horses. In this way, their mobility can be greatly increased, and at the same time, they need to be equipped with a large number of horses to ensure their logistics, and the number of horses will be very large. This is too great for the logistics of the Republican Army, as well as for the horses.

"If equipped to the cavalry regiments of the infantry division, they are only responsible for general offensive tasks, reconnaissance, sweeping, liaison, etc., they are quite competent." Jia Xu said.

"This is a choice, originally both of us can do such things, but once such a cavalry unit is formed, it will put too much pressure on us, so we will first ensure the establishment of the cavalry regiment of the infantry division, and as for the long-range cavalry regiment operation, we can only give up for the time being." Shang Wu said helplessly. This is an extremely helpless choice, Shang Wu is well aware of the need for the future cavalry regiment to be able to fight, but the infantry division of the Republican Army needs the guarantee of cavalry even more, because the lack of such a guarantee will only make their situation more difficult.

"Well, that's all there is to it. I'm just worried that the opposition of the cavalry regiment is very loud, after all, it is very dissatisfied. Jia Xu said.

"There are other ways we can accomplish this. Perhaps trade can help as much. Shang Wu said.

But Jia Xu thought that this might be wishful thinking, after all, the Huns were still very jealous of the Republican Army. On the question of horses, there were still unsolvable problems between the Republican Army and the Huns, and the Huns exported castration horses. And the Republican army repeatedly opposed this, but it was useless, and the Huns continued to go their own way.

In addition, the trade between the two sides is constantly developing, and the Republican Army needs to adopt the tactics of economic dependence to tilt the other side's economy to their side, so for the time being, they can only oppose it, because the timing is not right, they need to break such a situation, otherwise, it will be very unfavorable to continue.

Hexi Prefecture, Tru has been busy again recently.

The Huns from the north kept driving their booty, cattle, sheep, horses, and a large number of prisoners of war, all of whom were Wuhuan people.

All of these things can be exchanged from the IRA, and they can meet a large number of their own needs, which in turn makes their situation a little better.

Tru was busy collecting relevant figures, but for those imported horses, the Huns thought they were very clever in doing things, which would make the Republican army very dissatisfied. But they're too smart.