Reborn in the Three Kingdoms

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In this battle of northern Xinjiang, the iron cavalry of the two battalions of the northern army suffered heavy losses, especially the Huxiao battalion, whose battle loss rate exceeded 60.00%.Soon after, the Beibei Army will go south to attack Guanzhong where Dong Zhuo is entrenched. The Canglang Battalion and Tiger Roaring Battalion with the strongest fighting power will have no way to participate.

In order to restore the combat effectiveness of Canglang Camp and Huxiao Camp as soon as possible, Chen Chu discussed with Lu Su and Xu Shu and decided to select 3 soldiers from all armies of the Northern Expedition Army to add to Huxiao Camp, and sent an order to the Karasuma Department of Zhuo County , so that Karasuma selected [-] knights to add to the wolf camp.The vacancies of the northern armies due to replenishment of the Tiger Roaring Battalion will be made up by the Bingzhou Army Corps, which is undergoing training, and the vacancies of the Bingzhou Army Corps will be filled by recruiting recruits.

The current military composition of the Northern Expedition Army is: [-] Canglang Battalion, [-] Huxiao Battalion, the above two are all cavalry; [-] Youzhou Army (infantry); [-] Luoyang Army (infantry, the main composition is the original When attacking Luoyang, Dong Zhuo's army surrendered); Hexi army [-] (when attacking Bingzhou, Dingyuan's surrendered army); Bingzhou army [-] (the newly reorganized army will be the main force to attack Guanzhong).

In addition to the above-mentioned 46 troops, there is also the Yunzhong Army composed of [-] soldiers of the Huns. There were originally [-] soldiers of the Huns, but Zhang Fei left only [-] of them. The [-] Hun army formed by the Xiongnu army was undergoing training, and it would not be useful in a short time. In addition, the [-] Hun army under Qiang Qu Shanyu's command was completely controlled by Chen Chu. [

To sum up, Chen Chu controls a total of 63 military forces, which is quite a large number and is second to none among the princes.However, 33 of them are in the four northern counties of Shuofang, Wuyuan, Yunzhong, and Dingxiang. It can be said that the Northern Expedition Army has fully assumed the important task of northern defense.

Don't think that putting 33 troops in the north is a big deal.The biggest threat from the northern grasslands is the Xianbei people. At present, Ke Bineng has integrated the various ministries of Xianbei, and Ke Bineng has a total force of 60. With 50 cavalry, the Xianbei people also have [-] cavalry; in addition, there is Karasuma Shanyu Louban who fled to Xianbei territory, and he still has [-] cavalry; there are also some Qiang people in the west. A threat that has to be considered.

Apart from the troops defending the alien race, Chen Chu only had 30 troops in his hands to compete in the Central Plains, and such a force had no advantage in the face of forces like Yuan Shao and Cao Cao.

The army Chen Chu plans to attack Guanzhong is the newly reorganized [-] Bingzhou Army and [-] Hexi Army, plus [-] Luoyang Army.

Almost half of them are recruits.In order to launch the Battle of Guanzhong smoothly one month later, the training intensity of the Bingzhou Legion has been very intensive during this period of time. From individual combat ability training to military drills, the soldiers have spent every day in training.

This kind of training intensity is unimaginable in this era. If other princes use this intensity to train the army, I am afraid that the army has already mutinied.However, such a thing did not happen in the Bingzhou Army, because the officers and soldiers of the North Army, including the Bingzhou Army, had one thing that other armies did not have, and that was faith.

The soldiers of the Zhengbei Army knew why they were fighting. For this belief, the soldiers of the Zhengbei Army didn't care about their own lives at all. It was for this reason that the Tiger Roaring Camp was able to show that kind of shocking performance in the Battle of Yunzhong. The timid attitude of seeing death as home.

The reason why the Zhengbei Army has faith is because there is a group of special existences called 'Mr.' in the Beibei Army.These "Misters" are not scholars in the traditional sense. Most of them only know characters, and have not read classics such as the Four Books and Five Classics.

It is for this reason that they are the easiest to accept new ideas. With Chen Chu's efforts, they have become the most staunch supporters and disseminators of the "Great China" concept.Their main job now is to instill the concept of 'Greater China' into the soldiers of the whole army of the Northern Army.According to later generations, this is called ideological education.

In fact, this means alone is not enough.It is also necessary to make the soldiers feel back in material terms

The secret of soldiers daring to die on the battlefield is to let them have no worries, take good care of their families, and let their children have a good development prospect. Soldiers who have no worries are inspired by faith. An aura broke out that moved the world.

In addition, Chen Chu also made great efforts to improve the social status of soldiers and military families in the controlled area. Military families did not pay homage to officials and the construction of Zhonghun Pavilion was a concrete manifestation of this policy.Due to the implementation of these measures, the cohesion, centripetal force and loyalty of the Beibei Army became stronger.

In order to improve the combat effectiveness of the army, in addition to the above measures, Chen Chu also vigorously strengthened the research and development of weapons and equipment.As the saying goes, 'If a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools. ', Sophisticated weapons and equipment can greatly improve the combat effectiveness of the army. It is hard to imagine how an army with sticks and hoes can stand up to an army with strong and sharp weapons.

To improve the level of weapons and equipment, the level of craftsmen is the key.In order to attract outstanding craftsman talents, Chen Chu granted official positions to outstanding craftsmen for the first time, not to mention monetary rewards.

Although the official positions granted to craftsmen are basically symbolic, this does not affect the attractiveness of craftsmen and technicians in the slightest.Soon after the introduction of this measure, excellent craftsmen from all over the country flocked to it.In order to manage these craftsmen in an orderly manner, Chen Chu set up a special department, Wuyan Academy.

At the same time, in order to facilitate the transformation of the achievements of the Military Research Institute into mass production capacity, Chen Chu also merged various factories and mines under the control of the Northern Army into the Military Research Institute, which will be managed by the Military Research Institute as a whole.

The Martial Arts Research Institute basically belongs to the logistics category, so it is temporarily managed by Lu Su.

Chen Chu didn't intend to let Lu Su take charge of the Martial Arts Academy all the time. He planned to make the Martial Arts Academy completely independent in the future to reduce interference from all parties.

Thanks to the participation of a large number of craftsmen, Chen Chu was finally able to put many ideas into practice.For example, the Tang Dao and Mo Dao, which appeared only after hundreds of years of trial production, the development of steel crossbows that are popular on the Internet in later generations, and the impact vehicles (human or animal power) developed based on the principle of armored vehicles, etc., many of which are from this era. People never thought about it. [

In addition to these, Chen Chu also set up a separate department in the Academy of Martial Arts Research. The job of this department is to produce gunpowder according to Chen Chu's formula and to study the application of gunpowder.

In fact, gunpowder already existed in this era, but the formula of gunpowder in this era has many problems, so its power is very small, and generally it can only be used for arson.

Chen Chu's gunpowder formula is undoubtedly the gunpowder formula of later generations. Compared with the original formula in the Eastern Han Dynasty, this gunpowder formula is much simpler, with three raw materials: saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal.Although the recipe is simple, it is much more powerful and can be used for original frying.

It's not that Chen Chu doesn't want to make high explosives like 4, but he doesn't know the ingredients of this kind of high explosives at all. Besides, it's useless to know the ingredients. The ingredients in high explosives like 4 are all chemically refined Substances, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the overall production level of the society was simply impossible to refine chemical substances for the production of high explosives.

Raw materials are the key to ensuring the production of the Wuyan Academy's workshop.In order to ensure the supply of key raw materials, iron and steel, Chen Chu launched a large-scale steelmaking movement in Bingzhou.

If Chen Chu mobilized the whole people to make iron according to the method of iron making in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the output would not be much higher.

Fortunately, although Chen Chu graduated from a third-rate university, Chen Chu still knew the method of making steel in a local blast furnace.

So under Chen Chu's guidance, craftsmen and migrant workers erected two hundred clay blast furnaces near the major iron mines.By the end of the Battle of Clouds, the steel output of the Northern Army had reached an astonishing level of 50 catties of steel per month, of which 20 catties were steel, which was commonly known as iron in this era.

If it weren't for the limited iron ore raw materials, there would be no problem in increasing the steel output several times.In order to increase the production of iron ore, in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the only way to increase manpower was to increase the number of captives captured by the Northern Army in the future.

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While vigorously developing the Wuyan Academy, Chu also vigorously developed the civilian handicraft industry, not only opening many handicraft workshops in the name of the government, but also encouraging private businessmen to open workshops.In order to increase the enthusiasm of merchants to open factories, Chen Chu took many measures. For example, when a large caravan with a factory wanted to sell goods over a long distance, Chen Chu would send the Northern Army to protect it along the way.In troubled times, the temptation to send troops to protect this condition is very great.Just for this one, basically all businessmen have set up factories.

In fact, at the very beginning, the sole purpose of many businessmen setting up factories was to conscript the Northern Army to send troops to protect their goods.

However, after the factory was put into operation, many businessmen found that the cost of the products produced through the large-scale production of the factory was lower, and the profits they could earn were higher. Therefore, the businessmen changed their original ideas and began to operate carefully. Come to the factory.Among them, Li Tai has the largest scale and the largest number of factories. Li Tai, who has a close relationship with the North Army, has moved his entire family to Bingzhou after tasting the sweetness. One is to better develop the factories in Bingzhou. The second reason is that Li Tai is more confident in the situation in Bingzhou under the control of the North Army.

With the vigorous development of various factories in Bingzhou, the financial revenue of the Beibei Army has been rising repeatedly.It is precisely because of this that the North Army can afford the expenses of hundreds of thousands of troops in one state.However, even if the fiscal revenue of the North Army has increased rapidly, it is quite difficult to maintain such a large army.

Since the establishment of the Bingzhou Army, the finances of the North Army have been in a serious deficit. By the end of the Battle of Clouds, the finances of the North Army have reached a frightening peak. If the finances are not resolved as soon as possible Problems, the North Army's finances are bound to collapse within a few months.The chain reaction will be very dangerous.

If it weren't for the harvest of the Beibei Army in Luoyang, the finances of the Beibei Army might have collapsed.

In order to solve the financial problem, the Beibei Army must capture Guanzhong as soon as possible. Relying on Dong Zhuo's reserves in Meiwu, it is enough for the Beibei Army to last for more than two years. ! ~!