Now most of the territory of the former Wei State has been taken over, and there is still a small amount of land that cannot be let go. After transferring the troops of the five divisions to the north, Liu Hou planned to let Zhu Bao do the rest of the territory receiving work.

The last time Liu Hou divided the masters and missed him, he was finally forced to make him the commander of the Xuchang City garrison. This official position is actually higher than the status of the other five division commanders, but this guy is not happy, he blindly clamored to go to the front line to fight.

Liu Hou had no choice but to fool him, saying that he would be the commander of two divisions, and that as long as the eighth division became an army, he would be let out to fight. The Eighth Division is actually a non-existent division, with only a number, and there is no one except him, the division commander. However, Zhu Bao doesn't think so, after all, the ancients all recognized a dead reason: you have no jokes.

What the emperor said was true, how could it be a joke. So, he used this number to recruit troops in Xuchang and nearby counties. Due to the successive wars between Wei and Shu Han, although Liu Hou has tried his best to let his officials settle the displaced people, it is inevitable that some people will not be able to take care of them.

Or some strong people are not satisfied with the arrangements of the government and want to have a better way out, and some are simply the rout of the original Wei army, they are used to being soldiers and will not do anything else to make a living, these people have become the source of Zhu Bao's recruitment of soldiers.

The treatment of the Shu army is notoriously good, but the casualty rate of the war is incredibly low, which is one of the main reasons why everyone enthusiastically signed up to join the army. Liu Hou didn't expect that Zhu Bao would recruit enough people for a division in just one month.

After everyone was recruited, Liu Hou naturally couldn't go back, so in desperation, he had to pull out his weapons and equipment and military expenses, and this original non-existent Eighth Division was pulled up by Zhu Bao from scratch. This is thanks to Zhu Bao, who has been a division commander of the reserve army for a long time before, and he has a lot of experience in recruitment, selection, and training.

Of course, the Eighth Division was able to become an army so quickly, and it was not out of thin air, and Zhu Bao took advantage of his power to transfer some elite veterans of the Xuchang Garrison Division and promoted them to grassroots officers, using them as the skeleton, which enabled the Eighth Division to quickly become an army.

With these experienced veterans with them, those recruits can quickly become familiar with military life. Zhu Bao is obviously very concerned about this new division, and in the past few months, most of his energy has been focused on training this division.

When the firearms could not be equipped with them for the time being, he even did not hesitate to "lend" the weapons and equipment of the Xuchang Garrison Division for training of the Eighth Division, and often held actual combat confrontation exercises between the two divisions, and he wanted to use the garrison division, the most elite unit of the entire Hong Army, as a whetstone to sharpen his Eighth Division into a sharp knife.

Therefore, although the 8th Division was not established for a long time, it has become a well-trained unit in just a few months. Of course, an army that is only well-trained and has not been tested by war can never be called elite.

However, when Liu Hou asked Zhu Bao to take over the remaining counties, Zhu Bao again refused the emperor's order, and the reason for his refusal was that he wanted to go to the northern front to fight the Hu people. For this war-seeking subordinate, Liu Hou didn't want to be too harsh on him, so he had to comfort him with kind words.

Liu Hou took out his ability to fool people, and continued to fool Zhu Bao, he first told Zhu Bao that the Hu people in the grassland are all brave and ruthless, and they are not easy to deal with, and the training level of the Eighth Division is not enough, if they are allowed to rush to the battlefield now, they may suffer a big loss.

It's better to take advantage of the opportunity to take over the territory now and train the troops in depth. After all, it takes a long march to receive territory in various places, which can be used as a long-distance training, and maybe if you encounter someone who refuses to surrender, you can also fight a few battles.

After waiting for a year and a half, the territory has been received, and the troops have been trained to be elite, and then they can be pulled to the north to fight with the Hu people. The second reason that Liu Hou told Zhu Bao was that when he went to fight on the grassland in the future, his mobility was very important.

After all, the grasslands are vast and boundless, and they often have to march long distances, and the Eighth Division is all infantry, and its mobility is too poor to adapt to this kind of long-distance march for the time being. This long-distance training is not only to train the troops' ability to march long distances, but also to collect all kinds of mules, horses, and vehicles along the way.

After all, manpower is not comparable to animal power, especially for troops like the Hong Army, which is very dependent on logistics and transportation, and the means of transportation are very important. Therefore, it is necessary to collect as many means of transportation as possible, so as to meet the needs of future grassland operations.

The other five divisions had been doing this when they had been receiving the territory in various places before, and now almost all the mules, horses, and vehicles on the territory they had received had been looted. Of course, the Hong army was an army that did not commit any crimes, and they would pay a fair amount for requisitioning these vehicles and livestock, and there would be no robbery of people's property.

Liu Hou told Zhu Bao that in the future, when fighting on the grasslands, a large amount of grain, ammunition, weapons, and other war materials would have to be hauled by a large number of animal-powered vehicles, and even soldiers could ride in these vehicles when conditions permitted. Therefore, he asked Zhu Bao to prepare enough transportation before he could go to the north to fight the Hu people.

The reason why Liu Hou said this to Zhu Bao was not to fool him, but that he remembered that when he traveled to Inner Mongolia before, he heard the tour guide say that the Mongols swept across the Eurasian continent, in addition to their powerful cavalry, Lele chariots also played a very important role.

Lele cart is also known as the big roller cart, Luo Luo cart, ox cart, "Lele" was originally the sound of herdsmen shouting livestock. Because the Lele cart is often pulled by oxen, it is also called a Mongolian-style ox cart.

Lele car is to adapt to the natural environment of the northern grassland and the living habits of the Mongolian people and the manufacture of means of transportation, its characteristics are large wheels and small body, simple structure, easy to use, suitable for grassland, snow, swamp and desert area to run, load hundreds of catties or even thousands of catties, with oxen, horses, camels can be pulled.

Due to the uncertain migration of the nomads, the chariot became a necessity for their transportation, and it was often used as a chariot to carry the army's baggage in wartime. The Central Plains does not have as many horses as the steppe peoples, and it is obviously impossible for the whole army to be cavalry, so you can only use cars.

A cart can be pulled by an animal, which can be a horse, a cow, a donkey, or a mule. Of course, camels are also possible, but camels are even scarcer in the Central Plains, so you don't need to think about this.

Horses are also generally not used to pull carts, because horses are generally requisitioned to scouts or cavalry units, but it is not absolute, and some old, weak, sick and disabled horses can no longer be used as war horses, and they will be eliminated to pull carts.

Cattle are a strategic resource in the Central Plains, and they are very important agricultural production tools, so they generally cannot be requisitioned into the army, otherwise agricultural production will be greatly affected. Unless it is an invasion of the enemy's territory, when the enemy country's cattle can be plundered with impunity, the average ruler will not do such a thirsty fishing.

As a result, the only animals that could be collected from the people to pull carts were donkeys and mules. Although these two kinds of livestock are weak in physical strength and can pull the weight of goods not as much as horses and cattle, they can also greatly alleviate the problem of insufficient capacity of the Hong army in the case of a large number of large numbers and a large number of small gatherings.