Chapter Forty-Three: New War, Change
In addition to the changes in the infantry, the Mongols were also very bold in their reforms of the cavalry.
This reform was first applied to the Han cavalry.
Based on past experience, Mu Huali believes that when cavalry is attacking cannons and a large number of infantry equipped with flintlock pistols, speed has become very important, and protection has become very weak, because ordinary armor cannot stop the bullets of flintlock pistols, let alone cannonballs, and too heavy armor will drag down the speed and endurance of cavalry, and the gains outweigh the losses.
Therefore, Mu Huali proposed to simply remove the armor protection from the Han cavalry, and in addition, according to the fighting style of Chen Xian's chasers, he suggested that the Han cavalry be equipped with flintlock pistols, so that they could not only charge with guns, but also dismount and fight, and quickly cruise and reconnoiter like light cavalry, as for the casualties caused by no armor...... Anyway, there are many Han people.
In addition to the changes to the Han army, Genghis Khan also cautiously made some improvements to the Mongol cavalry.
Of all the cavalry tactics of Chen's army, Genghis Khan was most interested in the tactics of the dense wall charge of the kind mentioned several times by the Muhuali layer.
He specially recruited a group of brave and strong Mongolian youths, formed a new cowardly Xue army, and asked Torre to lead a few renegade Chen cavalry generals to train this new army according to the organization of Chen's cavalry.
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At a time when the Mongol Empire was undergoing drastic changes, an unfortunate thing happened.
Because of the influence of Chen Xian's butterfly wings, Mu Huali, who lived a few years longer than in history, finally came to the end of his life and died in the barracks outside Jingzhao Mansion.
Chen Xian's butterfly wings not only changed the time of Mu Huali's death, but also affected the time of Temujin's death.
Temujin was supposed to die of a recurrence of a fall injury during the expedition to Western Xia, but in this world, Temujin did not fall from his horse at all, and naturally he would not die because of the recurrence of his fall injury, at this time, more than three years have passed since his death in history, but he still looks very healthy.
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The heavy cavalry wall charge did not conform to the combat habits of the Mongols.
The steppe peoples have always been flexible and clever in warfare, and the wall-type charge, which pays attention to casualties, is indomitable, and even has a sense of self-destruction, which is undoubtedly contrary to the Mongol philosophy of war.
This tactic has extremely high requirements for the organization of the cavalry, as well as courage, if it is the Mongolian cavalry of other eras, it will be difficult to learn, although the Mongolian cavalry individual skills are powerful, but their organization and discipline are very loose.
But the Mongol cavalry of Genghis Khan's era was different, the Mongol cavalry at this time was at the peak of their organization and discipline, and the great glory that Genghis Khan brought to the Mongols also made the Mongols of this era full of honor and pride, and only the Mongols of this era could launch this self-destructive charge.
After more than a year of training, the new cowardly Xue army, under the guidance of several rebellious Chen army cavalry officers, finally gradually mastered this dense wall charge.
Temujin brought in this new army and practiced with the old cavalry repeatedly, hoping to find a way to deal with it.
But the more he practiced, the more dignified Temujin became, and he found that this kind of cavalry was almost the nemesis of the traditional nomadic cavalry.
Once this kind of cavalry has reached a scale, it can easily defeat several times the nomadic cavalry, and this kind of cavalry has high requirements for discipline, but the requirements for technology are not high, this characteristic undoubtedly makes it easier for nomads and farmers to train cavalry.
After months of repeated exercises, Genghis Khan finally made up his mind, and he once again drew more Mongol youths to expand the new Cowardly army from a few thousand to 50,000 men, and he planned to train a heavy cavalry in this way.
At this moment, a bad news spread from Guanzhong to the grassland, Chen Xian was going to make a move against Jin Guo!
This is undoubtedly bad news for Temujin, since the beginning of this year, he has obviously felt the weakness of his body, he instinctively feels that he is afraid that his time is running out, if he goes to war at this time, it is very likely that he will die on the battlefield, but it is not in the interests of the Mongols to let Chen Xian occupy the remaining land of the Jin State.
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At the same time as the Mongol Empire was undergoing rapid and profound changes, so were the changes taking place in the East China Sea.
With the electoral system, the party system, and the promotion of newspapers, the East China Sea seems to be a crowd of demons dancing wildly, and the smoke and miasma seem to be in the governorates' courtyards everywhere, and even the all-military parade is often staged, which makes people sigh that the people's hearts are not ancient, but in fact, in the midst of these chaos, the life-and-death contradiction between businessmen and bureaucrats has eased somewhat.
In particular, as the businessmen in the Liberal Party began to draw some of the moderates of the bureaucracy into their camp through marriages, shareholdings, cooperation, etc., the fierce contradictions between the bureaucracy and the businessmen gradually faded.
Chen Xian guided through newspaper articles, and even directly secretly instructed Yang Yongwu and the Zhang brothers, and used various methods to exert influence on the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party, so that the Liberal Party began to develop in the direction of representing the interests of trade merchants and the wealthy class in the cities, and let the Conservative Party develop in the direction of representing the interests of industrial factories and famous leaders in small towns.
In this political reform, it is inevitable that a large number of officials who are unable to adapt to the changes will be defeated in the elections or purged by the newly elected Liberal Party officials.
In order to alleviate the contradictions, and also to cultivate the bourgeois power of the East China Sea Kingdom, Chen Xian overfulfilled his promises to these officials who had lost their official positions, and he compensated these officials who lost their official positions with shares in various agricultural companies under his name, various cement, brick and tile factories, textile factories, printing and dyeing factories, and even some less important hydroelectric factories.
In fact, in this era, these officials with rich practical management experience are excellent talents, Chen Xian handed over these cement factories, brick factories, textile factories, printing and dyeing factories, and hydraulic factories to these officials, in fact, the best way out, after all, these factories are too scattered, Chen Xian is simply unable to carry out effective management, has accumulated a lot of problems, it is better to privatize, let these officials with rich management experience, but also have a certain foundation in mathematics and simple economics to take over.
In order to let the officials have no worries, Chen Xian even thoughtfully provided a retirement package, such as the retirement of an old prefect, who should have been awarded the title of baron, a Zhuangzi, and a reward of almost more than 30,000 acres of farmland, but Chen Xian would provide such a package, reducing the rewarded land to 10,000 mu, and replacing the rest with a cement factory, a brick and tile factory, plus a textile factory or a small hydroelectric factory.
Of course, if the retired official must only need land, then Chen Xian will not force it, but when he configures the factory package, the value of the factory will be significantly higher than the value of the land, so most officials will choose such a package, after all, 10,000 acres of land is enough for a family to have no worries about food and clothing, so exchanging the remaining rewards for a more profitable factory is naturally a wise choice that most people will choose.
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