Chapter 166: The Road to Development
The Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies finally sorted out a detailed plan after more than ten days, and after being authorized by Zhao Zhe, it was implemented. This matter should be sooner rather than too late for them. If you train a month later than others, wouldn't it have a lot less chance of winning? Not only is the execution efficiency of the governors of each army crazy, but the commanders who have received orders are also very worried, and it turns out that the strength of the army and which is weak have little to do with them. Anyway, the world is peaceful, who can see that their army is weak. However, this training decisive battle military system suddenly made them have nothing to hide, and there is nothing to hide. The thought of what would happen if he became a garbage army made people's hairs stand up. The only thing they could do in this matter was to do everything they could to start training soldiers. However, once this wind blows, the pressure will be even greater after knowing that other armies are also training desperately.
Zhao Zhe knew that high-intensity training under this kind of pressure might kill many people. Food supplements may also be more than double the consumption of previous years. But it's all worth it. Only in this way can an army that has been slacking off for a long time gradually degenerate into an invincible army. Of course, Zhao Zhe is also self-aware, even if he trains like this, it is almost impossible for most of the army to catch up with the elite level of the Houjin soldiers in a year or two. But you must know that Da Zhao has the strength to feed three million troops, and with such a terrifying number, even if it is increased by one and a half percent, it is also an extremely terrifying increase in combat power. Nowadays, the strength of the armies is weak, which is actually an advantage.
Just think about it, an untrained ordinary person, assuming that its combat effectiveness is ten, and another ordinary person fights, under the same conditions, the theoretical win rate should be five or five, if one hits two, the theoretical win rate is infinitely close to zero. But after a year of desperate training for this ordinary person to oppress the surname in the army, the winning rate of fighting another ordinary person who has not been trained should be infinitely close to ten percent, and the winning rate of fighting two ordinary people will not be too low, and even three people will not be able to lose. Because in this year, his combat effectiveness will increase a lot, maybe to twenty or thirty.
The ordinary soldiers of the local guards of Da Zhao are slightly stronger than ordinary people. Under the same conditions, you can only barely pair two. So assuming that the combat effectiveness of an ordinary soldier is twenty, after one year of extreme training, the combat effectiveness is increased to forty, and fifty is also very normal.
Zhao Zhe suddenly felt that this combat power calculation was quite interesting, and through the synthesis of the previous battle reports, Zhao Zhe naturally knew. If the ordinary guards faced the Houjin soldiers on the plains, the battle losses were very likely to exceed ten to one. Then it can probably be concluded that the average combat effectiveness of the Houjin soldiers is about two hundred. If it is those ordinary soldiers, under their own training plan, they can really reach an average of fifty combat effectiveness, that is, one against five ordinary people. Then if you fight with the Houjin soldiers on the plains, the theoretical battle loss may be four to one. The strength of the Great Zhao army has more than doubled. Of course, it is even worse than the border army. After all, the training of the border army is quite sufficient.
According to his own calculation method, it is roughly estimated that the average combat effectiveness of ordinary soldiers in the border army is about 70, and some of the most elite border troops, such as the Liaodong Iron Cavalry, can reach 15. Some of the central armies are about the same as the border armies, but the ace armies of various armies, such as the hussars, can also reach about 15. I believe that this part of the most elite army of Great Zhao, after a year of hard training, will not be much inferior to the Houjin soldiers.
In fact, the bravery of the Houjin soldiers did not fall from the sky. They also have an extremely strict training system, and their intensity and cruelty will not be much worse than Zhao Zhe's set. Originally, there were rumors that the Jurchens were less than 10,000, and the 10,000 were invincible. It can be seen from this how strong the combat effectiveness of the Jurchen soldiers of the Later Jin Kingdom is.
But the Great Zhao Empire is outnumbered, as long as ordinary soldiers can reach half of the combat effectiveness of the Houjin soldiers. Then you can pull out a million troops and directly level the Houjin Kingdom.
This is probably the comparison between ordinary armies, if the martial arts cultivation has reached a small level, and the master has entered the ninth grade. That's not the same, a nine-rank master can beat three Houjin soldiers. An eight-rank master can fight three nine-rank undefeated. A seven-rank can fight three eight-ranks. And so on, the grandmaster can fight three first-rank ties, but if there is more than one, he may suffer a loss.
Of course, this is only a relatively small number of combat power that can be roughly calculated. There are many people, and many people are powerful. Once the number of people reaches a certain level, even the most rubbish group of soldiers can surround a grandmaster. When there are more people, it is not simply to add, subtract, multiply and remove. Otherwise, when Yun Bingmeng, who was a first-class master, was in Liaobian, he would not have encountered a team of 100 people to fight for his life, but when he encountered a team of 500 people, he had to escape. Even if it is a grandmaster, when he encounters the 500-strong team of Houjin soldiers, it is not a smart thing to rush in and carry it to the death. Although no one in it can resist the grandmaster's one-and-a-half moves, even anyone can be pinched to death with his hands.
The terrible thing about the grandmaster is not to fight the 500-strong team on the frontal battlefield. It's about stealing a camp, stabbing a general, and so on. Encountering five hundred elite people head-on, a grandmaster may not be able to survive to the end. But stealing the camp is different, maybe you can make all these 500 elites die in the camp tent in one night. This is the terrible thing about the Grandmaster as a deterrent. As long as they are not surrounded and killed, generally speaking, the grandmaster is still very powerful and terrifying.
Zhao Zhe's plan can, to a certain extent, raise all [***] strength within a year, but equipment is also an extremely important means to improve combat effectiveness. Linglong gun, Linglong gun is already in production, and Zhao Zhe doesn't want to mention it more. After all, every piece of that thing, every door, and even every ammunition requires extreme precision. Relying entirely on manpower, it is unlikely that the whole army will be equipped in a short period of time.
Then, swords, guns, armor, strong bows, crossbows, and war horses and other materials still occupy an extremely important position. Strong bow, strong crossbow Zhao Zhe doesn't want to talk about it, after all, the manufacturing process is extremely complicated, especially the strong bow, a good strong bow, all kinds of processes often add up to several years. And sooner or later, this thing will be replaced by a musket, Zhao Zhe really doesn't bother to pay attention to it. Zhao Zhe, a strong bow and crossbow, didn't want to develop in this area, but he was just going to get some excellent goods for some such as the grandmaster. After all, when a divine weapon such as the Xuantie Bow was placed in the hands of a grandmaster, its power was comparable to that of a cannon, and it was still a cannon that moved extremely quickly and was terrifyingly accurate.
Knives and guns must still be developed. After all, it should still be the protagonist weapon for decades to come. A good point knife, a gun. This makes it easier for soldiers to break through the enemy's armor and kill them. On the whole, it is to improve the combat effectiveness of the army. And good armor can also make the soldiers who wear it more susceptible to death and injury. If you don't die, you will have more chances to kill the enemy and indirectly improve the combat effectiveness of many armies.
War horses, which can form a cavalry army. Fighting on the plains, the combat ability and mobility of the cavalry army far exceeded that of the infantry army. This is also an army resource that cannot be completely replaced in a short period of time. What's more, even if horses are not used as a cavalry combat tool, as a transportation of personnel, the transportation of materials is excellent.
Therefore, if you want the Great Zhao army to gradually become stronger, swords, guns, armor, and war horses are indispensable. After all, although Da Zhao has already invented the exquisite gun. However, in this era, on the whole, it is still necessary to focus on cold weapon warfare.
War horses are good to say, spend more money to build a few more horse farms in the lush identity of the grassland, and at most spend more artificial grass planting. There are also a lot of herdsmen in Dazhao, and it is not impossible to recruit more than 100,000 herdsmen and establish more than a dozen horse farms. Although Zhao Zhe can't estimate how much it will cost, no matter how much it costs, the horse farm will be built. Otherwise, there will be many infantry troops, no matter how strong the infantry army is, there will be more than enough defense, and the aggression will be insufficient.
The main improvement of swords, guns and armor is in smelting technology and forging technology. In this way, it is necessary for the Department of Organs and the Armory to join forces.
In fact, whether it is swords, guns, armor, or war horse training. Zhao Zhe is a layman, but he is the emperor and the master of the Great Zhao Empire. As long as you have an idea, you can fully implement it. This is called the leader opening his mouth and the employee running and breaking his leg. As he gave orders one after another, the best smelters, blacksmiths, wranglers, grooms, and even farmers in the country gradually gathered in the capital.
These are the best talents collected and recommended by various provinces and governments. Zhao Zhe also knows a little, in fact, whether it is the Great Zhao or the rest of China's dynasties. There is no shortage of strange people among the people, and there is no shortage of skilled craftsmen. But one by one, after having technology in their hands and specialization. But they cherish themselves one by one and hide them tightly, for fear that if others learn it, they will have nothing to eat. Many people have learned technology, but they always think that they are inferior to the ancients and lack the spirit of continuous innovation.
These technical skills, just like that, have declined from generation to generation. Or simply cut off the heirs. What Zhao Zhe wants to do is to strip out these private technologies, integrate them and integrate them into one, forming a discipline. Only in this way can Dazhao's smelting technology and forging technology rise to a higher level in a short period of time.
As for asking Sanfrey or Yiyi to help, that's for sure. But the technology stored by Yiyi is too high-end, even if it is the simplest technology, it is something that Da Zhao's current foundation is far from being able to achieve. They, at most, are helping to come up with something conceptual. It is extremely unrealistic to focus on a certain technology for a long time.
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(To be continued)