In addition to the field army, in addition to eliminating a group of old, weak, sick and disabled, the Xuzhou army also had 30,000 or 40,000 men and horses, which were incorporated into the city defense troops of various counties by Liu Ze. Each county has a brigade of city defense troops, the number of which is exactly 3,000 people, and the counties under each county state, according to the scale of large, medium, and small counties, have a battalion of 500 city defense troops, a battalion of city defense troops in medium counties with 300, and a battalion of city defense troops with 200 in small counties. Under Liu Ze's rule, there were a total of six counties, six captains, and a total of 18,000 city garrisons. There are 62 counties under the rule of the five counties of Xuzhou and 21 counties under the rule of Peiguo, a total of 83 counties, with an average of 300 garrisons per county, and a total of 25,000 city defense soldiers. Coupled with the garrison of some critical passes, the total strength of the Xuzhou city defense army is about 50,000 people, and the gap part is recruited from the local area. Therefore, from the field corps to the county defense corps and then to the county soldiers, whether it is the number of soldiers or weapons and equipment, they are all in a state of decreasing, and the combat capability of the field corps is maintained to the greatest extent possible.

Although Liu Ze concurrently served as the governor of the First Army, as the pastor of Xuzhou and the supreme commander of the Xuzhou Army, he naturally had no reason to give himself the title. The award of this title covers all the armies of the Xuzhou Army, including the field corps, the county city defense soldiers and the county soldiers. Generals above the brigadier general level were personally awarded the title by Liu Ze.

Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhang Liaosan will be awarded the rank of four-star general, Zhao Yun, Xu Rong, Gao Shun, Zang Ba, Zhang He, Tai Shici, and Gao Lan will be awarded the rank of three-star deputy general, and Pan Feng, Chen Dao, Guan Hai, Zhou Cang, Cao Xing, Xu Xuan, Wu Anguo, Liao Hua, Yu Xuan, Sun Guan, Hao Meng, and other eleven will be awarded the rank of partial general. Thirteen generals, including Fang Yue, Meng Tan, Yu She, Cheng Lian, Yin Li, Wu Dun, Wei Xu, Mu Shun, Mao Hui, Hou Cheng, Xu Xi, Song Xian, and Xu Wei, were awarded the rank of general, and 39 brigade captains including Zhang Ji and six county commanders including Wang Meng, as well as 12 captains and commanders of the Jinyingwei sub-bureaus, were awarded the rank of brigadier generals.

The conferment of the rank of officer of the rank of colonel is carried out within each regiment and is conferred by the commander of the regiment himself. The colonel-level officers of the First Army Corps also enjoyed the treatment of general-level officers, and the title given by Liu Ze himself, a small deputy battalion deputy could not help but cry with joy.

The conferment of the rank of lieutenant officer is presided over by the commander-in-chief of each division. The city defense soldiers of each county and the officers of the county army are awarded the rank of captain of each county and state. The conferment of the rank of ordinary soldier is carried out in the battalions.

The East Point Military Academy was also awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel to colonel according to different positions, and the cadets were all awarded the rank of warrant officer of the third class.

The members of the legions are all civilian, not among the titles, and the four-star generals will enjoy the treatment of 2,000 stones. Joining the army is the same level as the governor. The same treatment of 2,000 stone was also given. At the same time, Jian Yong and Mi Zhu were also granted 2,000 stones, Jian Yong was in charge of the financial power, and Mi Lan was in charge of the affairs of the general rear.

After the formation of the army is completed. The New Army was officially established. But Liu Ze was far from relaxed. The next step is to establish a full-fledged reserve and conscription system. As soon as the war begins, casualties and attrition of the army will be inevitable, and the only way to do this is to establish a sound system of reserve troops. Only by replenishing the supply of troops to the battalions and brigades that are in short supply in a timely manner can the regiments fighting on the front line always maintain the efficient operation function of full strength.

Since the Western Han Dynasty, the conscription system has been adopted, and all young and strong men over the age of 14 and under the age of 45 are obliged to serve in the military for the court. However, since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, many people have fled and dispersed, and the conscription system has existed in name only, and has gradually been replaced by the conscription system. Now the displaced people are all over the wilderness, hungry and cold, as long as there is money and food in their hands, they can respond to a call, Cao Cao ran to Danyang to recruit troops after the defeat of the Hangu army. However, the biggest disadvantage of the recruitment system is that the source of soldiers is low, and it is very easy to defect or defect before the battle, Cao Cao went to Danyang to pull thousands of people, and as a result, most of them were scattered as soon as they returned to Yanzhou.

As the political situation in Xuzhou became more and more stable, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, Liu Ze decided to abandon the conscription system and reopen the conscription system. Due to the extremely strict armor protection system implemented in the Han Dynasty, farmers were not allowed to leave the land, and household registration control was strict. Liu Ze thought it was very appropriate to control the conscription ratio at about fifteen to one, that is, three strong men from each household would serve in the army, which could not only ensure that the source of soldiers would not be reduced, but also that the fields would not be barren and uncultivated.

Conscription adopts the principle of combining compulsion and voluntariness, and compulsory means that one of the three strong men in a household must serve in the military, and the remaining two strong men must enlist voluntarily. Because of the generous treatment in the army, the rewards for military merits are extremely high, and now that they are soldiers, there is still a chance to get ahead, because many young and strong men have enthusiastically signed up to join the army, and there is even a spectacle of a family of four or five men vying to become soldiers. Later, Liu Ze had to issue a decree that every family must have a male to stay at home and cultivate the fields, and if the fields are barren, he will be severely punished.

After completing the formation of the new army, Liu Ze will order all regiments to increase the intensity of training, complete the run-in of the new army as much as possible, and let the new army have combat effectiveness as much as possible. The relocation was imminent, and since Liu Ze was still busy with state affairs most of the time, the task of organizing and training the First Army naturally fell on the deputy governors Zhao Yun and Xu Rong. However, the two of them did not complain and worked diligently to complete the task.

Zhang Fei is not happy, Liu Ze personally commanded the First Army Corps has three divisions, Guan Yu and Zhang Liao commanded the Second and Fourth Army Corps have four divisions, everyone has 30,000 or 40,000 men, but Zhang Fei's men only have more than 15,000 people, not even half of the people, and Zhang Fei is already depressed before he sees the soldiers.

Liu Ze laughed and said: "Third brother, for my brother, I handed over the most elite troops in the Xuzhou Army to you, and you are still not satisfied?" ”

"Aren't they just two cavalry divisions? There are in your legion, and there are also in the second brother's legion, what is rare? Zhang Fei muttered, still unhappy.

"Okay, then I'll personally accompany you to the Jiulishan military camp, I'm afraid you can't keep your mouth shut when you're so happy." Liu Ze led Zhang Fei and Zhang He to Jiuli Mountain.

Compared with the other legions, when they were still in a hurry to complete the reorganization and training, the two cavalry divisions of the Third Army had already been established under the instruction of Liu Ze, and their troops mainly came from Mangdang Mountain, and there were also good cavalry soldiers transferred from various departments. However, what made Zhang Fei and Zhang He curious was why Liu Ze would put the garrison of the Third Army in such a remote and desolate place because Jiuli Mountain was closed and the roads were difficult and there was no communication with the outside world.

As soon as they entered the valley, Zhang Fei and Zhang He were surprised to find that the military camp in Jiuli Mountain was full of sweat and blood, and there were no half of the northern horses and Wuhuan horses. You must know that sweat and blood horses are only allocated to generals and above in each army to ride, and brigadier generals and colonel-level officers can only ride ordinary war horses. Except for the cavalry units, the officers of the lieutenant rank were not horsebacked, and in the combat units below the battalion level, these officers of the rank of lieutenant were responsible for commanding the infantry phalanx, so the lieutenants were not equipped with mounts at all. There are not many generals above the general, and you can count them on your fingers.

But now, in the sweat and blood of other legions, at this time in the barracks of the Third Army in Jiulishan, leisurely lined up for exercises, how not to surprise Zhang Fei and Zhang He.

Zhang Fei swallowed a mouthful of saliva vigorously, and said with a feeling like a dream: "Big brother, don't you want to give so many sweaty horses to my three legions, right?" ”

Liu Ze smiled slightly: "There are a total of 6,000 cavalry here, according to the ratio of 1:15, a total of 9,000 sweat and blood horses, all of which belong to your three legions, how about it, this time you no longer say that I am biased, right?" ”

Zhang Fei laughed and said, "I know that the eldest brother is the best for me, and that will make me suffer." ”

Zhang He noticed that many sweaty BMW horses were covered with a thick layer of horse armor, which was the same as the armor worn by heavy armor soldiers, and couldn't help but be surprised, and asked, "Why did the lord think that the horse was covered with armor?" ”

Liu Ze smiled heartily, to build a heavy cavalry unit, that is Liu Ze pursued the dream of more than ten years, when he went to the Western Regions, looking for Dawan Liangju sweat and blood BMW, Liu Ze really did not take pains, through the Gobi to walk the snow mountains, stepping on thousands of miles of yellow sand, and finally got what he wanted, brought back 500 sweat and blood stallions from the Western Regions, and after more than ten years of cultivation, finally bred tens of thousands of sweat and blood horses.

Vests, horseshoes, saddle sheaths, horseshoes, these things are also indispensable, under the auspices and development of Ma Jun, the construction department finally created a full set of horse harness and horse armor, the horse has equipment, Liu Ze's dream of heavy cavalry is already close at hand.

The hoplites are called the mobile fortress, the armored vehicles on the ancient battlefield, and the hoplites of Gao Shun are famous because they have the ability to penetrate the defense of any army and can chisel through the defense line of any army, and they are called the trapped camp, just imagine, if the attack speed of the trapped camp is increased by ten times, it will be so terrifying!

The heavy cavalry was covered with thick armor all over the body, and the horses were also covered with heavy horse armor in addition to the four legs of the horses.

The attack mode of heavy cavalry is different from that of the archers, the attack mode adopted by the archers is to outflank in a roundabout, pay attention to the high-speed mobility and flexibility, the heavy cavalry is naturally greatly reduced in mobility due to the full body covered with armor, and it is not suitable for fighting in complex terrain such as mountains and hills, but on flat ground, especially on the battlefield where the two armies are facing each other, the combat efficiency of the heavy cavalry is higher than that of the archers, relying on a strong impact force, it can easily tear apart the defense line of any army of the opposing party. (To be continued......)