"Lord Qi, the Third Cavalry Division of the Third Army is training, please give me instructions!" Wu Anguo, the commander of the Third Cavalry Division, saw Liu Ze and them coming, and immediately came over to report on horseback.

Liu Ze waved his finger elegantly and said, "Keep training!" ”

"No." Wu Anguo turned and left.

A division of heavy cavalry was 3,000 cavalry, under the jurisdiction of three brigades of 1,000 cavalry, each brigade under the jurisdiction of five battalions, each battalion of 200 cavalry. The cavalry battalion is the most basic combat unit, and a cavalry battalion consists of four combat teams and four auxiliary teams, each with 50 cavalry. Today's training was attended by a battalion, and fifty heavily armored cavalrymen and war horses were lined up, and one battalion of cavalry could be lined up in exactly four rows. Each cavalryman held a spear two feet long, launched an attack forward, sweat and blood horses' strong four hooves, struck the ground heavily, galloping forward like an arrow from a string, but listening to the roar of the sound of the valley, Zhang Fei and Zhang He could clearly feel the earth trembling.

This is indeed a shocking scene, Zhang Fei was dumbfounded, and said, "Big brother, is this the heavy cavalry you have been talking about?" Wow, that's mighty! It's like thunder. ”

Zhang He stayed in Hebei, Yuan Shao had hundreds of horse armor under his command, but compared with Liu Ze's scale, it was a small thing, and Yuan Shao's horse armor could only be regarded as semi-covered armor, and horse armor was only some light armor, mainly because Yuan Shao did not have a good horse like Liu Ze's sweaty horse, and the horse armor was too heavy for the general northland horse to bear, and he was tired and lay down after not running a few miles, and he couldn't put into battle at all. Not to mention the formation of lethality.

However, the sweat horse is different, the body key horse is tall, and the load capacity, explosive power and sprinting ability are far superior to the northland horse, and only this type of horse has the possibility of becoming a heavy cavalry mount. Looking at the heavy cavalry with a rainbow of momentum, Zhang He's heart was surging, and it was so hearty to be able to command such an army to gallop across the territory.

"Thunderbolt in the sky, thunder on the ground!" Zhang He admired from the bottom of his heart.

Liu Ze also looked at his "masterpiece" with satisfaction, and said with a smile: "Today, I will give you the third legion a nickname 'Thor's Mallet', the heavy cavalry to which you belong." Let's call it Thunder Cavalry! Thunder rode out. Let's see who dares to compete in the world! ”

"Thor's Mallet?" Zhang Fei and Zhang He were slightly stunned, and immediately understood what Liu Ze meant, and the iron hooves of the heavy cavalry struck the ground and rumbled. It was like thunder. Isn't it just like Thor striking the hammer? Liu Zeci's name is Lei Qi. Just hearing the name was already majestic, and the two said happily: "Thank you eldest brother (lord)!" ”

Liu Ze waved his hand and said, "Don't be busy thanking me." Yide, Junyi. Don't underestimate that the Third Legion only has 6,000 horsemen, and the Second Legion and the Fourth Legion combined are not as noble as you! Two years, I only give you two years, if you want to create a real majestic thunder cavalry on the battlefield, do you have confidence? ”

Heavy cavalry can be said to be the most expensive type of troops at this stage, armed with a thunder cavalry, it is completely possible to equip a team of light armored infantry, there is not enough financial support, to build Thor's mallet, that is completely a fool's dream. However, Liu Ze has the wealth of Tao Zhu, money is not a problem, there is a sweat and blood BMW, horses are not a problem, there is a genius Ma Jun, technical support is not a problem, the establishment of this thunder cavalry can be said to be a matter of course.

Two years to make the thunder cavalry form combat effectiveness, no matter how you look at it, it takes three years to train an ordinary cavalry division, but Liu Ze has no time to wait, the general trend of the world is changing, time does not wait for me! However, the soldiers Liu Ze transferred to the Third Army were all from cavalry, and their riding skills were first-class, which provided a good foundation for the training of Lei Cai.

"Yes!" Zhang Fei and Zhang He are full of confidence.

Liu Ze smiled, nodded, and said, "The Thunder Horse is our secret weapon, and we must pay strict attention to secrecy before committing to actual combat." This is also the reason why I incorporated the 3rd and 4th Cavalry Divisions into the cavalry battle sequence, and people outside thought that these were two ordinary cavalry divisions, and they would not suspect the abnormality of the thunder cavalry. Jiuli Mountain is remote and desolate, and the conditions are a little more difficult, but the biggest advantage is that the troops are trained here, and they will not be disturbed by the outside world and reduce the risk of leakage. Now that we are rising in Xuzhou, there will always be people who can't eat and can't sleep at night, and they want to spy on our military situation. Within a radius of thirty miles from Jiuli Mountain, you must prohibit the passage of any unrelated personnel to ensure that the news of Lei Qi will not leak. ”

Zhang Fei is a brave general, and he screams when he charges into battle, so Liu Ze regards him as the best candidate for the commander of the Thunder Cavalry, but Zhang Fei also has character flaws, brave and reckless, so Liu Ze sent Zhang He, who is the most thoughtful and good at change, to Zhang Fei as an assistant, as long as the two work together to create a hundred battles of heroes, it is by no means a myth, not to mention that Xu Shu is the most satisfied with this combination.

Zhang He generously received the order, he understood Liu Ze's intentions, and he could attack him unprepared only by surprise, Lei Cai was an unprecedented type of troops, and a high degree of secrecy could receive miraculous results on the battlefield.

Liu Ze summoned the four chief and deputy commanders of the Lei Cavalry: Wu Anguo, Liao Hua, Mu Shun, and Mao Hui, inspected the camp of the Lei Cavalry, explained to Zhang Fei and Zhang He, and set off to return to Tancheng.

After the reorganization of the army was completed, Liu Ze's next focus shifted to moving to Pi.

The reconstruction and expansion project of Xiapi City is nearing the end, and the tall and majestic Xiapi New Town has begun to take shape, and the relocation of Xiapi has been put on the agenda. But relocation is not a trivial matter, it is not as simple as Liu Ze patting his ass and changing his office, it involves all levels of government offices in Xuzhou, and there are thousands of things. However, Liu Ze didn't have to worry too much, with Sun Gan, Mi Zhu, Chen Deng, and Jia Xu they were busy, but he was a little leisurely.

Jia Xu, Chen Deng, Xu Shu, and Chen Gong did not immediately enter the corps, their identity is a staff officer, and they are to make suggestions for the legion to march and fight, and they do not need to participate in the daily management and training of the legion, they only need to stay in the barracks for a few days a month, unless it is time to go out to fight, they will stay in the corps command department around the clock, and in peacetime, they will act as Liu Ze's staff in the state pastor's mansion.

Liu Ze has such a strange arrangement, in fact, it is not surprising, the daily training and management of the ancient army and the march and combat are separated, the generals who really lead the army to fight are usually the commander of the light pole, only when there is a military task to go to the battle, will rely on the tiger charm to the military camp to transfer troops, and after the war is over, the troops under the command will be returned to the barracks. The generals who lead the army to fight are still like this, not to mention the strategists who give advice, it is even more inappropriate to stay in the barracks in peacetime.

Regarding Liu Ze's direct handing over tens of thousands of troops to the generals who commanded the army, Chen Gong still had a slight complaint, believing that soldiers are the important weapons of the country, and they cannot be held in the hands of one person.

For this point, Liu Ze is still very clear, the monarchs of the past dynasties are all afraid of the generals who hold heavy troops without exception, otherwise there will be no Liu Bang killing Han Xin, Zhao Kuangyin releasing military power with a cup of wine, and Zhu Yuanzhang burning Qinggong Tower. In order to overcome this drawback, Liu Ze reorganized the new army this time, and delegated the command power and command power to the hands of the commander of the corps to fundamentally solve this stubborn problem.

Although Liu Ze has no doubts about the loyalty of Guan Yu and others, as a system, once it is established, it is not easy to change it, and it is currently four legions, and the army will definitely be expanded in the future, and how to maintain the loyalty of the leading generals after the expansion is indeed a big test. And if the order is changed, it will only meet with more opposition and even suspicion from the generals.

Everything has advantages and disadvantages, Liu Ze has no intention of choking on food, how to improve the combat effectiveness of the army, how to be invincible in the cruel war, this is the most important thing he needs to consider first, and even if he becomes famous in the future, he will not follow the old path of Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang.

However, Liu Ze still has some preventive means, such as the local prefect system that has been attacked since the Qin and Han dynasties, the Taishou of a county is both the head of administration and the military governor, not to mention the state pastor, it is completely the emperor of a state, this kind of practice of not separating the military and the government is easy to cause the breeding of local separatist forces, look at the current pattern of the Han Dynasty There is really no need to say anything, Liu Ze himself is the beneficiary of this system.

In order to suppress the authority of the Taishou State Minister, in Xuzhou, Liu Ze set the Taishou County Order and other positions as mandatory civilian officials, and any military general will no longer serve as the local administrator, and the Taishou State Minister has no right to intervene in the military affairs of the county. After Taishouguo successively lost the right of judicial adjudication, he once again lost his military command power, and was really reduced to a civilian official, only in charge of administration, which is not much different from the situation in the later Song and Ming dynasties.

The generals who lead the troops no longer manage local administrative affairs, so that they can concentrate more on commanding and training the troops, and second, they can also put an end to the risk of monopolizing military and political power. If a general plots to rebel, the first thing he has to solve is the problem of food and grass, and any wise general will not dare to launch a rebellion when the armor is not prepared and the food and grass are scarce. (To be continued......)