Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 43 Cavalry Conception
After listening to Zhang Qingfeng's words, Li Bai thought about it all night, and then the next day, he began to issue documents to recruit yamen servants.

At the same time, Li Bai also wrote a letter to Chang Lin, the governor of Youzhou, informing you of his recruitment of yamen servants. As an official of Youzhou, Li Bai must report this to his superiors.

Chang Lin agreed to Li Bai's idea after learning that Yuyang County has a population of nearly one million, and some of them cannot be managed, resulting in poor law and order.

Nearly a million people. According to historical statistics, the total population during the Three Kingdoms period was only about 3000 million, and one million people was equivalent to one-thirtieth of the population.

Moreover, there are countless people from all states coming to Yuyang County, Youzhou every day.

If Yuyang County continues to develop and grow like this, it is foreseeable that the population of Yuyang County will truly exceed one million in a short time.

After Li Bai got the consent of Chang Lin, the governor of Youzhou, he immediately ordered to start recruiting yamen servants. The salary was 5000 yuan a month, and the number of recruits was [-].

Many people don't know that although Li Bai is called recruiting yamen servants, he is actually recruiting soldiers. After the yamen servants are recruited, there will be unified military training afterwards.

When the people of Yuyang County heard that the prefect was recruiting yamen servants, they all enthusiastically participated in the application.

In just ten days or so, five thousand strong young people were selected.

"Teacher, who do you think is suitable to be the commander of this army?" Li Bai asked Zhang Qingfeng.

"In terms of military talent, I think Yue Fei is very good. He should be the director of Taihang Academy Military Academy now. You can find him from the Taihang Mountains, and other officers can also be found from the students there." Zhang Qingfeng suggested.

The Military Academy of Taihang Academy was only established in the last two years, mainly to learn military skills.

Yue Fei, the student Zhang Qingfeng taught, was originally an orphan and didn't know his surname. Zhang Qingfeng saw that he had the ability to be a commander, so he named him Yue Fei and taught him some military knowledge.

Zhang Qingfeng is not familiar with ancient wars, so what he can teach is limited, but no matter which dynasty it is, the discipline of the army and the acquisition of military intelligence are the most important. Zhang Qingfeng teaches according to this standard.

Although Zhang Qingfeng has been away from Taihang Mountain for more than a year, he still knows the situation in Taihang Mountain.

Hearing Zhang Qingfeng's suggestion, Li Bai's eyes lit up. Yue Fei is indeed a good candidate.

So the next day, Li Bai sent someone to invite Yue Fei to the Taihang Mountains.

Within a few days, Yue Fei rushed over with a group of students in a hurry. After meeting with Li Bai and Zhang Qingfeng to discuss and discuss, he immediately devoted himself to the recruit training.

Half a month later, dozens of large ships came upstream to Yuyang City.

These ships were escorted by thousands of troops, more than a dozen of them were filled with five baht coins, and the other ships were filled with more than 2000 craftsmen.

These money and craftsmen are exactly the funds that Xun You promised for Li Bai to build weapons.

Of course, the money was [-] million less than the original promise, because Xun You directly asked Li Bai to deduct the money from Yuyang County's tax.

"Teacher, the imperial court wants to build some weapons and armor, and there are a lot of them. See if you can help design some machines..."

Li Bai saw that the craftsman of money and wealth in Yecheng had arrived, so he could only ask his teacher Zhang Qingfeng for help, because he knew nothing about machinery.

Zhang Qingfeng didn't expect Li Bai to agree to such a thing, so he smiled wryly, and could only wipe the ass of his most proud disciple.

Knives and guns are easy to manufacture, just need to design some special machines.

The most troublesome thing is to make the armor. The armor of the Han Dynasty is in the form of scale armor, which is a bit like fish scale armor.

To make such armor, you need to make many pieces of iron like fish scales and then connect them together in series, which is very troublesome.

"What kind of chain mail, just hit the plate armor."

Feeling that making fish-scale armor was too troublesome, Zhang Qingfeng simply rejected the idea of ​​continuing to build Han armor, and planned to directly build the armor that boasted the times-plate armor.

Plate armor, once the pinnacle of armor, is immune to almost all cold weapons, much stronger than fish scale armor and chain mail.

Except for the giant crossbow, no bow and arrow can penetrate plate armor made of steel plates. Only after the era of pure firearms, plate armor will be eliminated.

Historically, the development of plate armor was inseparable from the emergence of blast furnace ironmaking technology, but now, Zhang Qingfeng has not only developed an ironmaking blast furnace, but also a steelmaking open hearth furnace.

He can forge plate armor directly with low carbon steel, just need to design some steam forging machines.

Zhang Qingfeng didn't believe that Cao Cao's army could not defeat the south and unify the whole country after having such an epoch-making thing as plate armor.

However, Zhang Qingfeng thought very well, but when it came time to make weapons and armor, he encountered many difficulties.

The main reason was that Zhang Qingfeng didn't understand the structure of the plate armor very well, but this didn't bother him. After all, he had a wealth of knowledge in mechanical manufacturing, so he quickly understood the structure of the plate armor.

Then it is to make machines, train workers, and use the machines to make weapons and armor according to his method.

On the other hand, after Yue Fei received five thousand "yamen servants", he was also training non-stop.

Many of his training outlines were formulated after discussing with Zhang Qingfeng.

The training outline is mainly to exercise soldiers' physical fitness, obedience, teamwork spirit, and fighting skills.

Physical fitness, this is the foundation of soldiers.

Obedience has always been the soul of an army.

Team spirit, this is an essential thing in an army.

Fighting skills can enhance the combat effectiveness of soldiers.

As long as an army can achieve these points, it is basically a strong army.

Physical training is very simple. Zhang Qingfeng knows that there are many ways to train physical fitness.

Obedience is to use some means to train repeatedly, such as queue training, housekeeping and so on.

There are many ways to train the spirit of teamwork, such as dividing soldiers into small teams, and punishing all of them if one makes a mistake.

Another example is to arrange some tasks that require teamwork to complete.After such long-term training, the spirit of teamwork will naturally penetrate into the minds of soldiers.

Zhang Qingfeng is not good at combat training, but he found some Cao soldiers who were wounded and retired.

They have a wealth of fighting skills on the battlefield, and training soldiers is completely sufficient.

"Teacher, I want to equip them with horses and train them to become cavalrymen. What do you think?" Li Bai said to Zhang Qingfeng that day.

"Cavalry? Isn't the cost of cavalry too high?"

Five thousand cavalry is not a small number. In the first year, it will cost at least [-] million just to buy horses. With the soldiers' salaries and other equipment, [-] million may not be enough.

Even with a war horse, the annual cost will not be less than [-] million in the future. The cost seems a bit too high, right?
"Junior Brother Yue Fei told me that he wanted to make contributions on horseback, so I am going to use all the income from the workshop under my name to support his five thousand cavalry." Li Bai explained to Zhang Qingfeng.

In addition to the tax revenue of Yuyang County, Li Bai has shares in many workshops and can earn hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

"Okay, since you support him so much, I can't be stingy. As long as you can buy enough horses, I will pay to equip each cavalry with a set of three cavalry treasures and armored steel swords." Zhang Qingfeng also said.

The three treasures of cavalry mentioned by Zhang Qingfeng are naturally the high bridge saddle, double stirrups and horseshoes equipped by later generations of cavalry.

The emergence of these kinds of things made the combat effectiveness of the cavalry reach its peak.

With the Takahashi saddle and stirrups, the cavalry can free their hands, whether it is chopping or archery when charging, they can do it with ease.

The cavalry who are not equipped with the three treasures of the cavalry can often only be used as motorized infantry.

PS: According to historical records, the Takahashi saddle appeared in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, but the technology was not very mature, so there was no Takahashi saddle in the Three Kingdoms period. Takahashi saddle, and the technology is not very mature.

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