Chapter 245 War is all about money

Most of the officials in Jingzhao Mansion drank Lin's liquor for the first time, and they were shocked by the elixir and jade liquid, so it was seven or eight minutes. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info Lin Chong sighed and complained bitterly, claiming that Xifu was suppressed so that there was a lack of armaments, and the officers and soldiers of the whole army were only afraid that they would have to fight hand-to-hand, and if they lost, they would lose face.

Zhao Jing was also drunk and hazy, and when he heard Lin Chong complaining, he laughed and called him by his name.

"Lin Chong, what kind of big difficulty should I have, isn't it just a lack of equipment? My Jingzhao Mansion gathers the armaments of the entire northwest, 35,000 is not a problem, even if it is 12,000, I can give you all the equipment, say, how much do you want? ”

Although Lin Yuchong recruited 1,500 recruits from Mengzhou, he did not have standard equipment, so he could only use the miscellaneous equipment of the homeless bandits.

It just so happened that after Pei Xuan learned about this from Chen Dong today, he came up with an idea, the arsenal of Jingzhao Mansion is the largest in the northwest, and in addition to the Fourth Army, it is the most sophisticated here, you can cry and cry poor, maybe Zhao Jing will be dizzy and transfer it to the Wild Wolf Army first.

Lin Chong was very satisfied, if he didn't have equipment, his combat effectiveness would be greatly reduced, since he could follow Zhao Jing's path, then the liquor would come up and try how powerful it was. As a result, three jars of thirty catties of liquor drank more than 20 officials of Jingzhao Mansion, especially Zhao Jing was even more naïve.

Taking advantage of his happiness, Lin Chong took the list that Pei Xuan had written and handed it to Zhao Jing.

Zhao Jing saw that it was only two thousand sets of equipment, and without saying a word, he took out the bronze seal from his arms and sighed, and stamped it on the transfer document.

"The county prince is really anxious for justice and righteousness, and the two thousand soldiers of the Wild Wolf Army on behalf of the lower officials thank you for your kindness!" Lin Chong's sycophant who doesn't want money is generally sent.

Zhao Jing looked at Lin Chong slightly drunk, and said with a big sting, "The lord is polite, you fight on the battlefield to share the worries of the imperial court, and it is also my business to allocate some old equipment to you, and no one can say anything." ”

"Then thank you so much for the kindness of the county prince, but Lin Chong is disrespectful!" Saying that, he handed over the official document to the scholar and asked him to hurry up to Jingzhao Mansion to pick up the goods, and he understood the truth that meat can only be regarded as real meat when it is eaten in his mouth.

Without further ado, the scholar took the list and found Gao Liang, who replaced Pei Xuan, and said that he needed to pick up the goods today. After Gao Liang was immediately confirmed by Zhao Jing, he could only go back to the city to the arsenal and bring out 2,000 sets of Grade A equipment and hand them over to the scholars.

Looking at the car shadow of Zhao Jing leaving after getting drunk, Lu Zhishen rarely laughed, "Today's good things come in pairs!" ”

Lin Chong knew that he was talking about getting Pei Xuanhe to get equipment, Pei Xuan's ability not to mention, just providing information about the equipment made the combat effectiveness of the Wild Wolf Army increase by at least two percent.

"That's right, now we have a small 4,000 men and horses, but it's a pity that there are fewer cavalry, if half of them can be cavalry, it will be a little interesting."

Lu Zhishen shook his head, Lin Chong thought too simply, don't look at Zhao Jing drank a lot of wine, but when the equipment list went up, he still saw it clearly and then stamped it.

It has nothing to do with the overall situation of giving some weapons and armor, you write a war horse to see if he stamps it! I'm going to pretend to be confused and let you go and continue drinking.

Great Song Qi lacked war horses, and cavalry was the country's important weapon, so every war horse was filed in Tiansi Prison. Without the emperor's consent, no one could move the war horse on the account.

said that the Western Army was strong, it was because the proportion of cavalry was the highest in the country, and it was supported like this, and there were only 2,000 cavalry in the 30,000 family army. The entire northwest is known as 300,000 Western Army, but in fact it is about 200,000, the total number of cavalry is less than 10,000, and the proportion of infantry and cavalry is less than 5.

As long as you are a commander, you know that in the era of cold weapons, having cavalry under your command means that you can implement a variety of tactical means such as maneuvering, assault, surprise attack, outflanking, chasing the enemy, retreating, and rescue. Moreover, it has an innate advantage in the momentum of the entire army. However, no matter how much the commanders loved cavalry, few armies were equipped with cavalry.

Lu Zhishen knew that there were no more than two reasons, firstly, the cavalry was a huge bottomless pit for absorbing gold, and secondly, the Great Song Dynasty War Horse was in short supply, and it was extremely difficult to obtain. Except for the Fourth Army, which barely reached the cavalry target of 20%, the other troops could only hope to quench their thirst.

This is also why Lu Zhishen is willing to stay in the Wild Wolf Army, because Zhao Ji gave Lin Chong two thousand war horses on a whim, which alone is stronger than the vast majority of the generals in the Western Army.

Of course, Zhao Ji was generous, he didn't expect Lin Chong to really take away all the two thousand war horses. A set of ordinary war horse equipment requires 30 times, not only does it need to be maintained by a special person, but the cost of raising horses in a year also starts at 30 times, which is much more expensive than raising people.

Two thousand war horses, after deducting expenses, will require 60,000 yuan a year. If you add cavalry, you need 100,000 guan, and if you count the equipment of men and horses, you can't fight without 200,000 kan.

The cost of 10,000 cavalry in the first year will be million, which is not something that anyone can afford, which is also the confidence of the imperial court to stabilize the border army of the whole country by relying only on the Fourth Army.

War is all about money! Wisdom!

In the afternoon, as soon as the equipment arrived at the Wuligang barracks, it was distributed, and the more 500 sets were put into the warehouse as a backup.

Those homeless recruits who got new equipment were excited one by one, they could finally have the same equipment as the veterans. Many recruits are also slowly letting go of their worries.

The recruits soon discovered that the Wolf Army was different from other barracks, there was no abuse here, and the officers and soldiers were almost all equal, except for training and personal hygiene, the rest were basically not taken care of.

In the first few days, after systematic intensive training, most people were still able to keep up. There are only more than 100 people, except for the special situation of not adapting, fortunately, there are not many people.

Lin Chong plans to train and eliminate 750 people, and then conduct three days of wilderness survival training, and screen out 250 people to become the second special operations team.

Everything was ready, and the senior generals had dinner in the evening, one was to welcome Pei Xuan to join, and the other was to form an army of new recruits (the total strength of the wolf army exceeded 5,000 in the open and in the dark).

In the plan, there are 500 special combat teams, 1,000 cavalry, 2,000 infantry and other arms, and 1,500 reserve troops.

When he moved to the Jinyintan military camp, Lin Chong also gave him a task to build a complete training base and recruit 3,000 recruits according to strict standards. According to Lin Chong's three-month training syllabus, 500 qualified special combat personnel were screened out.

Pei Xuan and Chen Dong were very moved, as people who were used to officialdom, they thought it was just a routine entertainment. But when they saw the confidence of victory in the arrogant words of the middle and high-ranking officers of the Wild Wolf Army, it was extremely rare for the Great Song Dynasty to have been afraid of Liao for too long.

Halfway through drinking, he had to stop halfway because Zhao Jing came in a hurry with Gao Liang.

This thing won't regret it, and came to ask for equipment so late, right? Lin Chong thought maliciously, and soon Lin Chong discovered that he was a villain, and people didn't fancy such equipment at all.