Perhaps stimulated by the military parade at the graduation ceremony of the lecture hall, Li Shimin, who had been away from the battlefield for several years, the emperor immediately, actually became interested in fighting again.

"Guanyin, look at whether I have gained weight in the past few years."

On the night of the graduation ceremony of the martial arts hall, after Li Shimin and Empress Changsun "hey, hey, hey", he hugged Empress Changsun and lay in the bed, he suddenly asked.

Empress Eldest Sun sneered and said, "Erlang has made a lot of fortune." ”

"Well, it's been a long time since I've had a good event." Li Shimin sighed.

"Didn't you just get there?" Empress Eldest Sun said shyly.

"Haha, that's not what I'm talking about." Li Shimin laughed and said, "I mean, I haven't fought for several years. ”

Empress Changsun was taken aback, and hurriedly asked: "Erlang is now the king of a country, and he is never allowed to come."

"Guanyin, don't worry, even if I want to go to the battlefield, the ministers of the DPRK and China will not do what I want."

"What is Erlang's mind?"

"I just want to have an autumn hunt."

"It turns out that Your Majesty wants to hunt," Empress Changsun suddenly realized.

Li Shimin said: "If there is no accident, at the end of this year, at the latest next year, Datang will most likely use troops against the Turks." I decided to arrange an autumn hunt for the soldiers of the Sixteen Guards to sharpen their skills. In Zhao Pengyu's words, actual combat is the best way to train troops. This hunting is also a kind of actual combat. ”

Empress Eldest Sun thought for a while and said, "Since Erlang has this intention, just do it." However, the concubine also had to follow His Majesty to participate in the autumn hunt. ”

"Go, go. Not only Guanyin is going to go, but my little cubs, as long as they can ride horses, will also go. Li Shimin said.

"What a little cub, what is it said so ugly, Erlang has done what he and the harem sisters have done," the eldest grandson queen said coquettishly.

"Hahahaha," Li Shimin laughed.

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On the second day, Li Shimin proposed in the morning that he planned to arrange a large-scale autumn hunt.

At first, there were ministers who opposed Li Shimin's idea, believing that the autumn hunt would cost the people and money. There are also radical ministers, and even advised Li Shimin that Ming Jun should be diligent in court politics, and hunting this kind of thing is play, and Ming Jun should not be in fun.

Immediately, a military attache came out to refute it, saying that hunting in the army was different from the play of three or five people, and that it was a way of training soldiers.

Li Shimin also said that the hunt he wanted to organize did not need to cost a penny more from the state treasury, and that the generals who should participate in the hunt only needed to be provided with ordinary provisions.

The generals all came out to support Li Shimin, and among the ministers, there were also many who supported this matter. Those ministers who opposed it were weak and finally dumbfounded.

Therefore, Li Shimin set to start the autumn hunt on August 11, which lasted for three days. After the autumn hunt, it was exactly August 15. At the beginning of this year, the imperial court had officially designated August 15 as a festival. After the autumn hunt, it is also the time for the festival.

Large-scale hunting is different from the play of three or five people, and it takes time to prepare and dispatch in the army. This is also the reason why those generals said that hunting in the army is training. Today is July 29, and there are 10 days, which is enough time for the officers and men of the army to get ready.

On the same day, the three provinces of Zhongshu, Menxia, and Shangshu, as well as the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Weiwei Temple, the Zongzheng Temple, and the Taifu Temple, transferred officials to form a special planning group for the autumn hunt, and discussed and formulated the autumn hunting plan together.

After the morning of the first day of the eighth month of July, Li Shimin announced various matters related to the autumn hunt.

The location of the autumn hunt is set at Zhongnan Mountain in the south of Chang'an City. For those who participated in the autumn hunt, 1,000 people were selected from each of the 16 guards, all the students of the third phase of the lecture hall participated, and the Weiwei Temple was responsible for security. Zhao Yunze and the Imperial Sword Special Combat Team are also on the list of personnel participating in the autumn hunt. During the three-day autumn hunt, Fang Xuanling temporarily acted as the prime minister, and Du Ruhui, the eldest grandson Wuji and other important ministers assisted Fang Xuanling.

The royal members who participated in the hunt, Li Shimin was originally scheduled to be adult princes, county kings, and princes over ten years old in Beijing, plus the eldest grandson Empress and Concubine Yang, the latter concubine. However, after Princess Jiujiang learned the news of the autumn hunt, she pestered Li Shimin and also wanted to participate in the autumn hunt.

Li Shimin finally agreed to Princess Jiujiang's request. In fact, since Li Shimin knew that Princess Jiujiang was unwilling to marry the eldest grandson Jiaqing, he always felt indebted to this little sister, and in everything, as long as Princess Jiujiang's request was not too excessive, Li Shimin always relied on her.

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Although Zhao Yunze and the Imperial Sword Special Combat Team were also named by Li Shimin to participate in the autumn hunt, they had nothing to prepare. The Imperial Sword Special Combat Team was originally a rapid reaction force and could go to the battlefield at any time. For them, autumn hunting is just play.

Therefore, Zhao Yunze didn't take this matter to heart, he did what he had to do. In the past few days, his main energy has been on the firearms battalion.

Because the firearms battalion had just been formed, it did not participate in the autumn hunt. Su Dingfang has fully cooperated with Zhao Yunze in the past few days to adjust the firearms battalion.

The first thing Zhao Yunze revised was the establishment of the firearms battalion. At the beginning, the firearms battalion was formed according to the establishment model of other armies in the Tang Dynasty. Zhao Yunze held that the firearms battalions thought that the combat mode was different, and the old establishment was not conducive to bringing into play the might of the firearms battalion. As a result, he made adjustments to the formation of the firearms battalion.

The firearms battalion has 500 men and is organized into three combat teams, one garrison and one transport team.

The cavalry team consisted of 100 men, armed with hand-thrown thunderbolts and single-barreled bazookas. Mainly in the field of mobile operations, on the battlefield, give full play to the superiority of cavalry, and carry out surprise attacks and disturbances on the two flanks of the enemy's formation.

The 150-strong infantry team also uses hand-thrown thunderbolts and single-barrel rocket launchers as its main weapons, and mainly attacks the enemy's living forces and ambushes and harassment operations. If necessary, you can use ** bag and blasting pottery cylinder to blast the enemy's fortifications.

The artillery team of 150 people, equipped with three types of small, medium, and heavy catapults, and multiple rocket launchers, carried out long-range strikes against the enemy. The multiple rocket launchers mounted in the artillery platoon are different from the single rocket launchers mounted in the cavalry and infantry platoons. A single-barrel bazooka is a thinner bamboo tube that fires rockets. The bazooka of the artillery corps is a cast iron canister, and the caliber is much thicker than that of a single-barreled bazooka.

Moreover, the biggest thing to use is that the single rocket launcher is disposable. The multiple rocket launchers, on the other hand, are loaded with submunitions, and those iron cylinders that are assembled side by side can be used repeatedly. When firing, you only need to fill a single rocket wrapped in a paper tube through the opening of the iron cylinder, and then connect the twist to ignite it, and you can launch multiple rockets at the same time.

These new pieces of equipment are the result of the joint efforts of the Research and Weapons Service and the Armaments Agency over the past two years. Zhao Yunze was greatly amazed by this. Human creativity is truly unlimited. If this development continues, it will not be difficult to make real artillery.

In addition to these three combat teams, the remaining 100 men were organized into a transport team of 70 men and a garrison of 30 men.

After completing the reorganization, Zhao Yunze and Su Dingfang began training in the firearms battalion. With Cheng Chumo and other students who have studied in the lecture hall for two years, the firearms camp training is also twice the result with half the effort.

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