For Zhu Long, this is not only a military operation, but also a march training, and more importantly, a test of the results of military training.

He also often conducted field training in peacetime - not to learn from the modern army of later generations, but to imitate Wu Qi's Wei Wushu.

A soldier must be fully armoured, carry a spear, a steel sword, a bow, fifty arrows, three days' rations, a bag of water, and travel one hundred and twenty miles a day.

Of course, there are very few soldiers who can do it in Zhujiazhuang, and these elites are all selected by Zhu Long and organized into a separate capital.

Such a set of equipment weighs nearly 80 catties to 40 kilograms, and the weight of such a march is also very heavy when placed in the armies of later generations, and only tall American GIs can bear it.

Among them, armor accounts for the lion's share, nearly sixty catties.

In the past, Zhujiazhuang had less than twenty pairs of armor, and it was only the same weight during training.

Since the support of Dong Ping, the captain of the transportation brigade, Zhujiazhuang now has 900 pairs of Burenjia, which has almost emptied the inventory of Dongping Mansion.

The protective power of the Song Dynasty's infantry armor is the pinnacle of ancient Chinese armor, of course, the weight is also the peak, the heaviest is 70 catties, the lightest is 45 catties, and the European chain mail of the same period is only 30 catties.

A set of step armor requires 1,825 iron nail leaves, which are made of leather strips or nail nails, which are very cumbersome to process and extremely costly.

Only the wealthy Song Dynasty could afford it, and it was not possible to change to the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, and Zhulong was even worse!

So, what he wants to produce is plate armor.

The protection of plate armor may not be stronger than that of step armor, and the weight advantage is not very large, but the biggest advantage is that it is cheap! It doesn't take too many experienced craftsmen and can even be produced on an assembly line.

Armor is a consumable on the battlefield, and it must have the characteristics of "large quantity" and "low price" to be applicable, otherwise it will drag down the country's economy.

The emergence of plate armor is the product of scientific and technological progress and material science, first of all, it is necessary to have a blast furnace with extremely high temperature in order to produce a large number of cast iron, followed by hydraulic forging machine, which eliminates a large number of manual beating and saves labor costs.

However, European plate armor is only suitable for cavalry, and if it is used for infantry, it needs to be well modified.

Plate armor has to be built, but Zhu Long is more concerned about war horses.

Before the advent of firearms, cavalry was the king of the battlefield.

Like the Song Dynasty, they used foot to horse, spending a lot of money to desperately develop heavy armored infantry, but they could only be beaten passively.

Lost, the whole army was annihilated.

If you win, the enemy won't play with you, and you can ride a horse! Song Jun could only stare dryly.

Horses are the eternal pain in the heart of the Great Song Dynasty!

There are many excuses for not having horses in the Great Song Dynasty, it is nothing more than that the horse breeding land in the north was occupied by the Western Xia and Liao, which is the same as the scumbag always blames the seat for poor grades.

However, Western Xia was only established during the Song Renzong period, and it was still a vassal of the Song Dynasty before.

During the Northern Expedition of Song Taizong, 210,000 horses were dispatched. During the time of Song Zhenzong, the prime minister said to Minzhong that there were too many war horses and asked to sell the war horses over the age of thirteen.

With such a start, it is much stronger than Han Tang.

At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang wanted to find six horse-drawn carts of the same color, and Prime Minister Xiao He could only take ox carts, and Hetao and Liaodong were also in the hands of the Xiongnu. Compared with the Great Huns, the Khitan and Jurchen can only be regarded as scum!

The Tang Dynasty was looking for and buying, and finally scraped together 5,000 horses, relying on this capital to start, and at that time there were also powerful Turks in the north, all the way to Chang'an outside the city.

But Tang Taizong was awesome, so he took a few people to negotiate with the Turkic Khan, made the Weishui Alliance, and in a few years, he would take revenge. Look at Song Taizong again, a good hand of cards is played poorly, this is the gap between the scumbag and the god!

It can be seen that the real problem is that there is a problem with the Song Dynasty itself.

The Han and Song dynasties both implemented horse politics, but the Han Dynasty really attached importance to horses, and specially set up the post of "Tai Servant", ranked in Jiuqing, and every horse was registered to encourage the people to raise horses.

And in the Great Song Dynasty, when the Jin army captured Kaifeng, the Song court only had 7,000 horses, which was not as good as when the country was founded!

According to historical records, Raozhou in the Northern Song Dynasty raised horses, "562 of the horses were accumulated, and 5 out of 300 were killed, and 7 out of 20 were completed"

In other words, the government raised 562 breeding horses, and as a result, 315 were raised, and the remaining 247 stallions were raised, and 27 foals were raised!

State-owned assets have passed to such an extent, and the ministers are doing things like this, and if the country is not defeated, it will be intolerable!

The official price of a horse in the Northern Song Dynasty was 500 guan, but in the border trade, it only took 25 guan, a difference of 20 times!

Thinking of the many shortcomings of the Great Song Dynasty, Zhu Long took out a pen from his arms and wrote it down.

The first word: horse;

The second word: A;

The third word: Chi!

What the Great Song Dynasty lacks is not war horses and armor, let alone famous generals and warriors, but the Great Song Dynasty Emperor has no shameful and courageous ambition, if several generations of kings are like Song Shenzong, working hard, the Great Song Dynasty will not be pressed to the ground by the northern ethnic minorities to rub on the ground, and be beaten to kneel and sing "Conquest".

Zhu Long smelled the moisture in the air, he put away the small notebook, looked up, and the endless Liang Shanbo appeared in front of him.

Luan Tingyu and Zhu Hu rode up to meet them, with more than a dozen men behind them.

"Big brother, this is Zhu Gui and Zhu Fu, the leaders of Liangshan, we captured them in this hotel." Zhu Hu pointed to the two middle-aged men in the front.

"Okay, let's take it." Zhu Long was not interested in such a small fish and shrimp at all, and was too lazy to take a look, "Haven't the people of Liangshan come yet?" ”

Luan Tingyu shook his head, "We wiped out the leaders and minions of the hotel, and they didn't have time to go to Liangshan to report the news." ”

Zhu Long sat on his horse and came to the two minions, "You two go back and tell Chao Gai and Song Jiang, just say that Zhujiazhuang has come to the door, let them come out and surrender quickly." ”

He waved his hand, and the two minions ran away, running behind a hotel by the lake, rowing a small boat, in the middle of the lake.

The rest of the captives watched with envy at their departing backs.

"Let's all set up camp!"

Zhu Long looked around, the terrain by the lake was flat, and the hills were not far away.

And they encamped beneath the hills.

Soldiers were sent to guard the surroundings, some went to pick up dead branches and make fires, and the war horses loosened their belly belts and led them to the lake to drink water and feed them.

Because these are the contents of the usual training, everything is in order.

Zhu Long saw it and was satisfied, and he really had a bit of an elite appearance.

He inspected everywhere and saw Zou Yuan and Zou Run, who were standing on a high place, looking at the direction of Liangshanbo to be on guard, so he shouted: "Two Zou brothers, you come with me to the hotel to have a look." ”

The uncle and nephew of the Zou family are Luan Tingyu's deputies and the deputy lieutenants of the Muzi Battalion. The two of them don't have a strong sense of existence in the cottage, Zhu Long rarely talks to them, and he doesn't know the uncle and nephew very well.

However, since they are the ones who dare to occupy the mountain as the king and oppose the imperial court, they must be bold people.

Zhu Long believes that as a leader, he must have his own core team and hardcore henchmen.

But we can't always be surrounded by a few people and exclude other subordinates, we must give all subordinates the opportunity to contact themselves and get close to themselves, so that we can find more talents and gain more loyalty.