"This king remembers that Wang Zhujun said that when he was in the Yan Kingdom, he once formed a legion and almost became a military soul legion?" Zhao Kuo suddenly thought.

"Yes, because at that time, the Yan Kingdom already had Liaodong strong soldiers in close combat, so the last general established a long-range attack bow and crossbow army. originally planned to destroy the Qi State and swallow the national fortune of the Qi State and achieve the military soul, but in the end it fell short. Le Yi was a little lost.

With the support of King Yan Zhao, it took him five years to conquer more than 70 cities in the Qi Kingdom, and in the end, when only two cities remained, they were replaced. Not only did he fail to achieve the military spirit, but he also returned all the cities to the Qi State.

"This king wants to re-establish." Zhao Kuo said.

Le Yi's eyes lit up, and he bowed solemnly: "The last general will thank the king." ”

"It's called the Shooting Battalion, with a full number of 10,000." Zhao Kuo said.

He didn't know what the name of Le Yi's previous legion was, and he didn't plan to use the previous name, those were all in the past, and he naturally used a new name when he arrived in Zhao Kingdom.

And the name Shooting Battalion is also better.

"No." Le Yi said loudly, feeling full of strength.

When he was in Yan Kingdom, the full number of legions was only 5,000, and Zhao Kuo's trust in him was even greater than that of King Yan Zhao.

Zhao Kuo looked at Lian Po again: "This king plans to take Du Wujun as a general and select adult men over eight feet old in Zhao to form the Xuanjia Army, all equipped with large shields, heavy armor, and swords. Full number of six thousand. What does Du Wujun think? ”

The Xuanjia Army was a heavy infantry formed by Zhao Kuo's copying of the Black Armor Army of the Qin State.

There is a saying that I would rather teach the world to copy the world than let the world copy me.

Just use good things, just like the management system of Qin Guo's workshop, Zhao Kuo doesn't mind picking up people's teeth at all, anyway, Qin Guo can't do anything about him.

When Qin Guo saw the exact same Xuanjia Army of Zhao State, his eyes were absolutely bright, and his nauseous kidney pain.

In other words, Zhao Kuo originally wanted to form a heavy cavalry, after all, the impact power of that thing can be called the first in ancient times, it is simply a tank on the battlefield, and no one can stop it.

But Zhao really didn't have so many good horses.

The war horses of Zhao were the Mongolian horses of later generations, which had the advantages of fast speed, strong endurance, and could be adapted to harsh environments.

The disadvantage is that it is petite and has a low load.

The heavy cavalry has a horse armor that adds up to about 100 catties, plus the weight of the cavalry and the weight of the cavalry's armor and weapons.

The total weight is less than 300 catties.

Such a huge weight can only be borne by the finest, even the most high-quality, warhorses with internal qi.

Moreover, one man with two horses or one man with three horses, that is, six thousand heavy cavalry with at least twelve thousand horses of the highest quality.

The whole country of Zhao is a horse breeding land, and there is no shortage of war horses, and it is still possible to gather so many of the best war horses.

But these war horses should be given priority to Zhao Fei to ride!

No matter how important the heavy cavalry is, it is not as important as Zhao Feicai.

In other words, even if it is more important than Zhao Feiqi, it is impossible to give them the war horse that Zhao Fei rides, and Zhao Feiqi is not willing to do it.

So Zhao Kuo could only form heavy infantry.

As for the heavy cavalry, let's talk about it later.

"No." Lian Po said excitedly.

At the beginning of the battle of the party, he had dreamed of being able to lead a legion like the Black Armor Army to rampage on the battlefield, but he didn't expect it to come true today.

Although the number of people was only 6,000, which seemed to be 4,000 less than Le Yi's Shooting Battalion, Lian Po didn't have any guilt in his heart, because the cost of the heavy infantry was much higher than that of the Shooting Battalion.

A body of heavy armor and weapons is enough to arm twenty or thirty thousand people if you build other weapons, but in the result that there are only six thousand people in the heavy infantry, you must also select tall strong men.

"This time, I, Zhao State, will recruit a total of 50,000 troops, remove the Shooting Battalion and the Xuanjia Army, and the remaining 34,000 soldiers will be handed over to General Pang Xuan for training." Zhao Kuo looked at Pang Xuan.

Tian Dan and Wei Qi are also responsible for the affairs of the household and the people, and it is impossible to deal with it this year, so the matter of training can only be handed over to Pang Xuan.

"No." Pang Xuan clenched his fists and said.

"King, if you are equipped, ......" Lian Po said expectantly, and Le Yi also looked at Zhao Kuo.

Whether it is the Shooting Battalion or the Xuanjia Army, they all eat equipment, let alone fight without equipment, the training effect will be much worse. Lian Po and Le Yi wanted to get the equipment as soon as possible.

"It's being built, why don't the three generals and this king go to the workshop to have a look? If you have any requests, you can also ask the workshop directly. Zhao Kuo said.

"That's exactly what the last general means." Le Yi said.

……

Now Zhao Kuo has a total of four teams of craftsmen, one is the Mohist team led by Mo Feng, who is studying technology and practicing Mohist thought.

The second is the descendants of Lu Ban, who defected to Zhao from Chu not long ago, their technology is not under the Mo family, but they do not learn Mo thought, but only purely study technology, and they are despised by the Mo family for a long time.

The third workshop in the inner government, which has now moved to the bank of the Zhangshui River outside the city, has expanded nearly tenfold in size, and there are thousands of craftsmen alone, plus some miscellaneous workers, more than 10,000 people.

Last month, a craftsman named Xu Da improved the blast furnace to further increase the temperature inside the furnace and produce harder iron.

Zhao Kuo immediately ordered Xu Daxia to be given the title of doctor and rewarded with 300 acres of Shangtian to encourage craftsmen to invent and create.

The last team of craftsmen was the craftsmen of Wuyang City, that is, the craftsmen of the former Yan Kingdom, although they were also under the jurisdiction of the Inner Government, Zhao Kuo did not let them move to Handan.

On the one hand, Wuyang City has well-established industrial facilities, and there is no need to relocate. On the other hand, it is also to compete with Handan Workshop.

Even if it is state-run, it is not a good thing for one company to be dominant.

"Great King, there are still Hope Monarchs, Du Wujun, General Pang Xuan, why are you here?" Zhao Zhu, the person in charge of the workshop, got the news, and hurriedly came out with a few people to greet him, and said in surprise.

"This king accompanied the three generals to come and have a look." Zhao Kuo said with a smile, and walked directly inside, which was quite a bit of a surprise inspection.

Zhao Zhu didn't stop him, but just followed Zhao Kuo closely, for fear that something would go wrong.

As soon as he entered the workshop, Zhao Kuo felt an overwhelming wave of heat, hitting his face like a flame, and his cheeks were hot and painful.

Zhao Kuo saw that a craftsman near the gate was wielding a sledgehammer to hit the iron pieces, which were supposed to be forging the scales on the armor.

Because his back was to the gate, the craftsman didn't see Zhao Kuo and the others, and he still continued to forge, his arm muscles bulged high, extremely powerful, very skilled, and every stroke was the same strength.

During the Warring States Period, there was a transition period from bronze to iron, and although countries were able to smelt steel, the performance of the iron weapons created was not perfect due to the imperfection of the technological process.

On the other hand, copper smelting technology has reached its peak after thousands of years of advancement, and the difficulty is much smaller than that of iron weapons.

The time to build one iron weapon is enough to build two bronze weapons, and the cost performance is completely inferior to that of bronze weapons.

Therefore, even if countries can build iron weapons, they still mainly use bronze weapons.

For example, in the Zhao Kingdom, most of the weapons are bronze weapons, and only a few are iron weapons.

However, Zhao Kuo knows that iron weapons will definitely become mainstream in the future, and this time is not long, because the current iron-smelting technology is very mature, but it is not perfect enough.

So Zhao Kuo ordered that no new bronze weapons should be created, but iron weapons would be built instead.

Since the process is not perfect enough, it is necessary to build more, practice makes perfect, and it will naturally be perfect after a long time.

The craftsman doesn't have any opinions, anyway, you give the money, I do the work, and I just have the money to take it.

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