Chapter 90 Mixed Forces

Seeing that Empress Dowager Gan was not abused or suffered, Liu Hou's resentment and murderous aura towards Wu Amaran decreased a little. If she dares to use any vicious means against her mother, Liu Hou will definitely have to retaliate with a tooth for a tooth and an eye for an eye even if she ignores the overall situation.

Liu Hou sent the Empress Dowager Gan to Changle Hall to settle down, and this will be her residence in the future. He also asked Huang Hao to go to the place where the palace people were confined, and found the palace maids and eunuchs who had served the Empress Dowager Gan before, so that they could still serve their mothers.

After settling down the Empress Dowager Gan and fulfilling his filial piety, Liu Hou said goodbye and left, and now there are too many things waiting for him to deal with, and he has no time to be idle at all.

As soon as he came out of the Changle Palace, he met the pro-soldiers who went to find Guan Yinhua, and the pro-soldiers told him that Guan Yinhua could not be found in the Jiaofang Palace, and he went to ask the palace maid and eunuch, and it was speculated from the news that Guan Yinhua should have been taken away by Concubine Wu and the two princes.

Liu Hou was furious when he heard this, and thought to himself, this old immortal, he didn't forget to harm a girl like a flower and jade when he was down, it was really hateful. He didn't want to think about it, from the position of Concubine Wu, Guan Yinhua was his daughter-in-law, of course he had to take it with him.

Liu Houke didn't care about 3721, and asked the guard to go again, and send an order to Guo Youzhi, asking him to go to Concubine Wu to ask for Guan Yinhua, if she didn't let Guan Yinhua stay, then leave her behind.

The guards took the order and left, Liu Hou went straight back to the Ganquan Palace, and before his buttocks were warm, Zhang Bao came over. Liu Hou saw his grinning appearance and knew that he must have succeeded, so he asked:

"How? Is that bull obedient? ”

Zhang Bao grinned and said, "It's also strange, as soon as that brute bull saw the holy decree, he obediently handed over the military power and let our army change its defense." Do you think this bull has a tendon? ”

"How do I know that you have time to knock and knock on him. You can take him and let him be a battalion commander under you, maybe this guy will be of some use in the future. Liu Houdao.

"What is such a tenacious man going to do? Didn't you say that the most important thing in fighting a war is to eat your brains? This brute bull is a brainless person at first glance, with only brute strength, and it is useless in this era."

"Oh? I didn't expect you to say such a level of words. Hearing Zhang Bao's words, Liu Hou felt very surprised, this Zhang Bao usually doesn't look like he has a brain, but today he actually said such a reasonable thing, and "this era", the words are quite fashionable.

"Hehe, it's still a lot closer to you, the so-called close to Zhu is red and close to the ink is black, close to Adou you, of course, there is a level of speech." Now there are no outsiders present, Zhang Bao is called Liu Hou Adou again, he is really a person who is neither big nor small.

Liu Hou watched him touch the back of his head, revealing a shy look, and felt a chill in his heart.

"Please don't pretend to be cute, no matter how much you pretend to be, you can't be cute." Liu Hou said angrily.

"What do you mean by moe?"

"It's just a cutie."

"Uh......" Zhang Bao was speechless.

"I still don't want that brute bull, keep it for Adou to use, the battalion commanders of the three battalions of my regiment are doing a good job, and it will be difficult to let anyone give way to that brute bull." Zhang Bao continued.

"Who wants you to dismiss the current battalion commanders, won't you promote them? Looks like your brain isn't much bigger than that bull. Liu Hou teased.

"Promotion, promotion? Wow, great, these guys have been doing it for so long, and they've finally got what they're looking forward to...... Slowly, they are promoted? What can they promote? Promoted to the head of the regiment? They were promoted to the head of the regiment, so what about a certain family? Zhang Bao asked as if she suddenly remembered something.

"You're going to rise with you, stupid. We've seized a lot of guns this time, right? That's enough for you to form two more battalions. ”

"Wow, wow, wow, great, not to mention two battalions, there are more than 3,000 guns captured this time, in addition to replacing our lost guns, it is enough for us to form two regiments. Two regiments, it's cool to think about. Zhang Bao was so excited that she screamed.

"Three thousand fire# guns are not all for you, why are you so happy?" Liu Hou pouted.

"What? Isn't it all for one family? Why don't you give it all to a certain family? Zhang Bao's eyes widened, revealing a dumbfounded look and said.

"Of course I can't give it all to you, Wu Da Niu of the Seventh Regiment has been screaming for a long time, they have not been equipped with fire # guns, and they have been a reserve regiment for so long, shouldn't they give priority to solving their problems?" Liu Houdao.

"Where is the long time, from the White Emperor City to Chengdu, it has only been a few days, they have only been a reserve regiment for a few days, and I don't want to think about Liu Fei, the commander of the sixth regiment, he is long enough to be the commander of the reserve regiment." Zhang Bao said.

"That's different, wasn't there no conditions before? Now that there are conditions, of course, it is necessary to equip the troops as much as possible, and besides, the soldiers of the 7th Regiment themselves have been trained in the use of firearms, and they can get started very quickly, and as long as they are equipped with firearms, I believe that they can become qualified soldiers in just two or three months. ”

"And how many guns did you give to a certain family? Really only for two battalions? How is this enough? Also, if you want to be promoted to an official position, what kind of official will you be promoted? It can't be a division commander, right? ”

"It's so beautiful that you, return to the division commander, just the brigade commander, my idea is to form an organization between the regiment and the division, just call it a brigade, and one brigade has three regiments."

"Wow, wow, wow, three regiments, then you just said that if you don't give two regiments, don't give two regiments, then how do you do brigade commander."

"Three regiments are three regiments, but not three fire # gun regiments, don't you notice that we often use fire # spearmen and vine armor soldiers in battle? There are also artillery, which always have to take the lead, as well as scouts, special forces, snipers, etc., all of which have their own roles in the battle, and then after the battle, doctors and nurses are needed to treat the wounded.

In addition, the baggage soldiers in charge of logistics are also very important, without them you would all starve to death. Therefore, I plan to reorganize the troops once again, and change the troops into mixed troops, so that the future troops will no longer be so simple troops. ”

"This ...... Reorganized again? Adou, a certain is the most annoying, this reorganization comes and goes, it's not uncomfortable, this reorganization, the previous habitual style of play has changed again, and the tactical tactics will change with it, it's too troublesome. Zhang Bao was dissatisfied.

"It's definitely a little unaccustomed at first, but it's good to take it slowly, and soon you will find the benefits of mixed troops, mixed troops, can use more tactics, are much more flexible, and their adaptability to the battlefield will be much higher."

"Then what is the composition of this brigade?" Zhang Bao said.

"In the future, there will be two fire # gun companies, a rattan armor company, a scout platoon, a bow # crossbow platoon, an engineer platoon, a gang leader platoon, a medical corps squad, and a communications squad, so that the battalion commander and the battalion will join the army for a total of about 500# people." Liu Houdao.

"I've lost half of my fire#spearmen, which will reduce my attack power a lot." Zhang Bao said.

"It won't drop much, and the rattan armor soldiers, they can block the front, well, I think about it, oh, by the way, give the rattan armor soldiers a shield, refer to the kind of bulletproof shield in Dongwu, in the future, we may encounter the fire # spearmen of Wei and Wu, with these bulletproof shields, the survival rate of our troops will definitely increase a lot."

"All the rattan armor soldiers must be burly men, or how can they move without wearing armor and a shield."

"When they defend, they hold shields to form a shield wall, and when they attack, of course, they don't need to hold a shield when they want to charge, and at that time they can throw down their shields and draw their sabers to slash and kill the enemy." Liu Houdao.

"Still no, even if they can stand it during the battle, what about the march in peacetime? You can't let them hand over all their equipment to the baggage troops to transport, in that case, what if they suddenly come to war and they can't find the baggage troops to take the equipment? ”

"How can there be so many ifs, now they are not helped by baggage soldiers to transport equipment."

Liu Hou was a little embarrassed and angry by Zhang Bao's question, so he said, don't ask so many difficulties to the leader, the leader likes to pat his head and come up with one idea after another, as for whether it can be implemented, how many difficulties there are in the implementation process, the leader is unpredictable, and he doesn't want to care, these are all things that need to be solved by the people below.

After thinking for a while, Liu Hou said again: "We can install four small wheels on one side of the shield, and when marching, we can lay down the shield flat, so that the shield will become a small car, and then put the rattan armor, weapons and other equipment, as well as supplies on the shield, and then use a rope to drag the shield cart away, so it is convenient enough." ”

"The troops are going over the mountains and mountains, what wheels can stand it?" Zhang Bao continued to be unrelenting.

"Just have bearings, and bearings made of steel can definitely do the job." Liu Hou actually drew the drawings of the bearings a long time ago and handed them over to the craftsmen to develop them.

In fact, the bearing is not a new thing, from the archaeological relics and data, China's oldest bearing with the prototype of the modern rolling bearing structure, appeared in 221 ~ 207 BC (Qin Dynasty) in the present Shanxi Province Yongji County Xue Jiaya Village.

Therefore, Liu Hou's drawings are understood by many craftsmen at a glance, but the strength of the material and the processing accuracy are difficult to meet the requirements. With the development of smelting technology in Shu, there have gradually been some bearings applied to carriages, gun carriages and other places, but they are still relatively expensive, and the application range is not very wide.

Thinking of the strange appearance of a shield with four small bearings, Zhang Bao couldn't help but feel a chill, thinking that this brother was really whimsical.

But since the emperor said so, Zhang Bao had nothing to say, and after thinking about it, he asked again: "Why is there no artillery?" ”

Liu Houdao: "The artillery battalion is directly under the regimental headquarters. A regiment has three infantry battalions, plus an artillery battalion, a special forces company, a guards company, as well as signal troops, medical corps, and so on, adding up to about 2,000 people, which is a little more than the current 1,050 people. So, you have about 6,000 to 7,000 people in a brigade, which is not much different from a division now. ”

"Wow, six thousand!" Zhang Bao was not happy with stars in his eyes, but with a sad face: "If there are six thousand fire # spearmen, they will definitely be happy, but you shoehorn so many messy miscellaneous soldiers in, how can this be managed." ”