According to Lu Zhao's report, the military warehouse in Guangxin City is full of low-quality bronze weapons and light bows, even if the collected rebel weapons are counted, they are only enough to equip 15,000 people.

There are only more than 3,000 pieces of ordinary light leather armor, and at least 200,000 of the black turban rebels on the banks of the Yongxing River are equipped with iron weapons, and the 150,000 people led by the Thunder Heavenly King, even if only 50,000 people are equipped with iron blades, under the strong attack, it is enough for the Guangxin defenders to drink two pots.

Yesterday Chen Yunfeng himself said that he could still equip more than 30,000 people, and now he opened his mouth to be 10,000 posts, and obviously there are more than 20,000 sets of equipment left, he will give 10,000 at most, and the remaining 10,000 will be reserved for the Guangxin Army to supplement and use.

Counting the equipment of the rebels, Bailiyan can arm more than 25,000 recruits at most, and once the Guangxin Army is expanded again, there will be 26,000 people under Jiang Gan alone, plus Jiang Min's more than 20,000 people, that is 50,000 horses.

If Bai Liyan (Wei Xian) had loosened his mouth today, King Xian would not have broken his neck under the anger of King Xian.

"Brother Chen, there is no need to talk about the expansion of the army, even if the military funds of the Guangxin Mansion are not given, it is not uncommon for me to Wei. For the sake of you and me working together, Wei put his words here, and the king already had the intention of cutting the seal. Guangxin took advantage of the national crisis to support the army and respect itself, what the consequences, Mr. Chen should be clear. Whether to expand the army, how much, Mr. Chen asked the young master to watch it himself, but don't say afterwards that Wei didn't remind you. ”

Chen Yunfeng's face was ugly, and he didn't say anything with a slight salute, and then turned to leave. After a short time, Lu Gao, Su Hong and other four people arrived one after another:

"The last general will see General Wei." Everyone said in unison.

"You are exempt, I will urgently summon you to come, it is for the defense of Guangxin City. General Lu Gao, how did you prepare last night? ”

"The wood is acceptable, but the stone is seriously insufficient." Lu Gao said.

"Well, Guangxin is located in the plains, the hills are all dirt, there are few stones, this matter will be expected, then prepare more wood, the more the better. Besides, I forgot to tell you to wait last night, and to requisition wine and oil from the whole city, the more the better.

As for the money, first from the Taishou Mansion, Qin Han left behind some valuable goods, I think in addition to the brothel music shop, pharmacy, other commercial goods can be discounted to offset the money, as far as possible at the cost price, not forcibly expropriated. ”

"No, I will do it as soon as possible."

"Besides, what about the rebels?"

At this time, Lu Zhao said:

"Back to General Wei, after Lu's persuasion, most of the rebels of Xu and Zhiguo are willing to join our army."

"It seems that it's still a fellow countryman, hehaha......" Bailiyan laughed.

"This is the duty of the last general, and I also ask General Wei to learn clearly."

Wei knew this matter, and General Lu let go of his hands to do it. Since the subordinates were willing to serve, they would have deliberately set up a battalion of workers to drive them, and would not engage in combat for the time being. ”

"Baggage battalion?"

"Shhh...... What is the military system of this battalion? ”

The generals didn't know why, and Bai He asked:

"General Wei, I only heard about the baggage camp, but I don't know what the baggage camp means?"

"Baggage workers, not only the army of heavy construction work, peacetime reclamation and road construction, the construction of hydraulic excavation barracks, the construction of war city defense transportation baggage, can also be filled into the army, both the labor battalion."

"Shouldn't this be what a laborer does?" Lu Gao said.

"Yes, but it's not."

The positioning of the baggage battalion is closer to that of the modern engineering troops, which can be used for training and garrisoning in peacetime, as a reserve in wartime, giving priority to supplementing the regular army, and can also be used as an armed baggage soldier to transport grain and grass.

In particular, in the future, when four-wheeled carriages are popularized, the baggage battalion will also be able to undertake the task of armed escort, and at the same time, the baggage battalion will be used as a platform to initially establish a systematic reserve and labor export system to ensure the rational allocation of manpower.

As a former rebel army, it is obviously impossible to directly pull them on the battlefield to fight, counting 10,000 county soldiers, the number is larger, more than the defenders, arming them is tantamount to raising tigers. For the time being, in the name of the Baggage Battalion, the rebel army was reorganized one after another.

At the same time, most of these rebels have combat skills, and the appropriate integration of new recruits not only dilutes the influence of various countries in reducing personnel, but also allows them to quickly adapt to the progress of the war by using the old to guide the new, supplemented by military training.

With Guangxin's combat readiness reserves, there are now at most 40,000 to 50,000 miscellaneous troops, except for the 3,000 vanguard battalions, the rest of the soldiers rarely have the experience of fighting in battle, and the vast majority of them have not even killed anyone.

"The baggage battalion is temporarily under the command of the general, but all those who are willing to serve our army will be assigned to the baggage battalion, and the rest of the people will be temporarily detained, and after the war, they will be assigned to the local nationality to settle for farming.

In addition, General Lu Gao's Longwu battalion, Su Hong, Bai Hexiao's cavalry battalion, Lu Zhao, Wu Deng, and the three battalions each drew 30 veterans, and 10 more people were selected to be filled into the baggage battalion as cadres to train the baggage battalion. If you have a capable candidate, regardless of country or age, even if it is a young man, as long as it is a capable person, you can recommend it to the general, do you have any objections? ”

"At the disposal of the general." Everyone said in unison.

"Alright, now arrange for you to defend the city. General Lu Gao's Longwu battalion has not been replenished since Shao Ping's return, and there are only 1,500 or 600 people at present, which is also the largest battalion in the vanguard battalion at present. Immediately, the brave and good fighters were recruited from all over the city to rush into the Longwu camp, with four thousand posts. After the first battle of Su Hongxiao's cavalry battalion Shao Ping, more than half of the losses were not replenished, and the soldiers were immediately replenished, with a thousand posts.

More than 400 people in the Baihe Department have set up a separate Weiwu battalion, with 1,000 posts, and replenish them as soon as possible. As for General Lu Zhao. ”

"The end will be."

"Although the general is a native of Zhiguo, he will not be confined to the use of humanitarians, so that you and Wu Deng's department will temporarily lead 3,000 crossbowmen from the county soldiers and train them into a feather arrow battalion, General Lu must train a magic arrow battalion for this general in the shortest possible time, and General Lu can be sure."

"The last general does not dare to guarantee that the art of the bow and crossbow is a common occurrence in the people of the Zhi country, please rest assured that the general will not fail in his mission."

"Okay, General Lu then handed over the rest of the war horses to General Lu Gao except for the mounted mounts, and quickly received three thousand crossbowmen."

"The last will obey."

"In addition......" Bai Liyan paused, thought for a moment and asked Lu Zhao: "General Lu Zhao, can the archers charge into battle?" ”

"Archers charged? I'm afraid it won't work. Even though Zhiguo is based on bows and crossbows, and his equipment is superior to that of crossbowmen from other countries, he has never let crossbowmen take the lead in charging into battle, I don't know what General Wei means? ”

"I thought that if the crossbowmen could attack from afar and at close range, they should be like the infantry, firing arrows when attacking and hand-to-hand combat when engaging the enemy."

The later nomads had a tactic in which when there were not enough horses, the infantry was equipped with both bows and swords, and when the enemy was 100 paces away, they did not need to aim their arrows into the sky. And the arrows shot directly over the heads of the predecessors fell on the heads of the enemy.

In this way, two or even three arrays of arrows can be placed in a row during the attack, so as to achieve the effect of killing and injuring the enemy's front before receiving the enemy, and after receiving the enemy, it can be changed to hand-to-hand combat with cold weapons to increase the chance of victory.

Of course, this kind of tactical tactics must be carried out on the premise of avoiding local attacks by dense long-range weapons, and it must be sudden and highly flexible. At the same time, it also means that your own long-range shooters will decrease, and if you can't disrupt the enemy formation to create fighters, you may be counterattacked by the enemy's long-range shooters.

At present, there is no tactics and precedents for hand-to-hand combat while releasing arrows in the process of archer impact, and Bai Liyan put forward such an idea, and it is obvious that Lu Zhao and others are difficult to understand. After all, war is not child's play, there is no possibility of assuming a new life, and any decision made by the general will be calculated at the cost of his life. One wrong step could lead to an abyss from which nothing can be recovered.

Seeing that Lu Zhao and Lu Gao were not optimistic, Bai Liyan did not intend to force them to accept it, after all, this kind of tactic was only understood in the previous life, and how to implement it was not a policy that could be put into practice overnight with a tap of the brain.

"Okay, this matter was originally just mentioned, General Lu doesn't have to take it seriously, and it's not too late to discuss it in the future. The immediate priority is to keep the rebels out of the city, so if you have anything else to ask, hurry up and ask them, and after the meeting is over, they will replenish their troops as soon as possible, and be sure to replenish them before dark. ”

The voice fell, and Lu Gao asked:

"General Wei, the newly replenished weapons of men and horses are very problematic, relying only on the inferior blades of the arsenal, I am afraid that the combat power is worrying, and the horses are also a problem, please make it clear to General Wei."

"Horses are not there for the time being, the armor blades are first received from the arsenal, and this can only be done now, as for the newly replenished soldiers, there is no need to practice cavalry combat for the time being, you should mainly train new recruits in foot combat and city defense drills, and then adjust the matter of horses when the enemy soldiers retreat."

Except for Sikong Nan, Bai He, Lu Zhao, and Wu Deng, there were actually only Lu Gao's Baotao battalion and Su Hongxiao's cavalry battalion of more than 2,000 people, which suddenly doubled in size, and the pressure on all armies and battalions was not small.

Equipment and horses are still secondary, and the decline in the quality of personnel has greatly reduced combat effectiveness, and it is impossible for Bailiyan to organize cavalry training and go out of the city to meet the enemy at this time.

After the meeting, Bai Liyan immediately repaired two letters, one was for King Xian, and the other was for Zhao Xun, the content was not the same, one was to report safety, and the other was to solve the ordnance problem.

At present, the following countries generally practice the system of dual armaments at the local and central levels, with the intention of preventing the local and county troops from being too strong in combat and supporting their own troops. Therefore, the superior weapons and weapons are given priority to equip the main army such as the garrison, and the county soldiers are issued with second-hand and third-hand obsolete equipment.

Of course, there are also problems such as lack of productivity, so the ruling class usually stores surplus equipment in the capital and several large military warehouses, and further weakens the strength of local separatism by widening the generation gap of equipment.

Although this consolidated the royal power, it was extremely unfavorable for large-scale wars, especially wars that invaded the homeland, and if Guangxin and Dingyang were not the elite private soldiers of the lords, it was difficult to guarantee that they would not be captured by the rebels.

The secret letter was packed into two iron letters and sealed, and handed over to the accompanying two teams of guards, a team of five people, from the east gate, around Lincheng to the south of the Lingling, and handed over to Zhao Xun and King Xian respectively, so as not to go away from Dingyang and be robbed and killed by the rebels' secret sentinels.