Zhao Feng immediately understood and praised his lord for being a genius.
As a result, after receiving the news, the merchants flocked to the inn. Those who came early left as soon as they mentioned the goods in stock. Those who came late had no choice but to place orders and pay the deposit first, then wait quietly at the passenger station. This imperceptibly promoted the development of the service industry. As a result, more than half of the top ten inns in Youzhou Province became famous in Haiyang and Wuzhong.
The surge in sales forced the three counties to direct almost all of their transportation to Haiyang and Wuzhong. The traffic on the newly built roads was like water.
However, there was one road that could not be skipped, and that was the caravan to the provincial capital and the imperial court's officials.
Every time this caravan arrived, they would give many new products to the high officials and nobles in order to contact and win them over.
Zhang Rang and others presented things to Emperor Liu Hong, who liked novelty items. They won praise and favor day by day, and their status became more and more stable.
Zhang Rang was overjoyed. Not only did he ignore the whereabouts of Wang Dai and the others, but he also provided convenience for Liu Heng.
The state government officials saw that Liu Heng had such a good relationship with the constant attendant, so they did not dare to offend him easily. Therefore, all the requests from the three counties were approved. Anyone who secretly reported Liu Heng was thrown out of the state government. As for inspections, inspectors, and reports, they were even less likely.
The seriously ill provincial governor of Youzhou Province dreamed about ascending to the top through Liu Heng's befriending…
Wang Yun noticed that over the past few months, Youzhou merchants had been constantly entering Luoyang and frequently visiting the residences of major officials. He vaguely felt a little uneasy, but he could not find the problem. After all, it was a rule for officials to give gifts to ministers in order to be promoted.
In the middle of March, Liu Heng gave the order to change the name of Green Brick Peak to Chessboard Mountain. On the same day, more than a hundred experienced blacksmiths were deployed to the partially completed military workshop.
Liu Heng personally supervised the assembly line and standardized production methods to start forging new weapons and armor.
Each blacksmith was responsible for a process. The entire process was standardized and the specifications were consistent. Each process had to be marked for easy inquiry.
The refined iron that had been flattened and smelted was strictly screened. The superior products were all used to forge weapons, the intermediate products were used to make farm tools, carriages, and so on, and the inferior products were all re-smelted.
Zheng Hun was still studying how to improve the smelting efficiency. According to Liu Heng's instructions, he had people repeatedly try to coke the coal, in order to refine the best steel.
On March 22nd, the first battle sword made of high-quality refined iron was officially offline. Gao Shun could not wait to hold the hilt and swing it.
After a long while, Gao Shun put away his saber and stood up, praising,""My lord, this saber is good for hacking and slashing. Its damage is far stronger than ordinary longswords. It's a rare and good weapon!”
3rd month, 25th day, 400 warhorses bought by the Xiongnu tribe arrived at Xuantu County City.
At the same time, the entire armament workshop was in full operation, producing 15 sabers, 5 sets of normal armor, and 20 spears and halberds per day.
In view of this, Liu Heng decided to officially start training a new army.
Two rounds of screening were carried out on the basis of the county soldiers selected by Gao Shun and the newly recruited soldiers with strong physiques. 3,600 people were selected who were physically qualified and had excellent qualities. Three combat regiments were established according to the New Army Program: Two infantry regiments and one cavalry regiment.
The cavalry only had around 500 horses, including the ones they purchased and the ones they originally had.
Due to the lack of numbers, Liu Heng suggested that they use a rotation training method. As for the specific training, Liu Heng didn't know much. After all, the modern military had been replaced by machinery, and the cavalry had long since disappeared. The knowledge about training was also related to the mechanized soldiers, so it was completely useless for the cavalry now.
Therefore, Liu Heng directly handed the specific training of the cavalry to Gao Shun, Wei Hong, and Ju Shou. He only provided tactical guidance within his ability, such as long-distance attacks, surprise attacks, outflanking, large-scale penetration, mobile operations, and so on.
As for the infantry training, Liu Heng was able to put all his effort into it.
No matter how much history changed, the core role of the infantry had never changed. As long as it was to attack a city, the infantry would definitely be needed.
Moreover, despite the replacement of weapons over the past thousand years, the infantry was the core of military power, and their tactics and strategic thinking had not changed much.
Liu Heng followed the training curriculum of the modern infantry and special forces and arranged the training subjects that seemed extremely strict at that time. According to Ju Shou, this training was even stricter than the elite soldiers of the Qin army and the soldiers of the Wei army.
The daily compulsory physical fitness subjects included ten miles of mountain road, 30 kilograms of cross-country running; Two hundred sit-ups; Pull-ups 200 times, frog jumps a mile.
Combat skills training subjects included resistance training, wilderness survival training, individual combat skills, combat training, and the core of moral education.
The anti-strike training was improved from the training of the armed police force. It increased the resistance and self-protection ability of the soldiers when they were hit and injured in order to minimize the recovery time.
The wilderness survival training used the scout training module to train the soldiers 'ability to survive and return to the military camp after being defeated.
Liu Heng had designed the individual combat technique according to the training methods of the special forces. It emphasized how to maximize the attack and defense power of the team, achieve the greatest results with the least cost, and survive in the cruel combat environment.
There were two basic battle formations used for battle training: The first was the Roman infantry phalanx, which had the strongest frontal attack power in ancient times. This formation focused on overall cooperation and required the soldiers to have good synchronization and coordination.
The second was the strangulation formation that was used when two armies were fighting. This formation was based on squads, and every three people formed a triangular cone. A squad had exactly three triangular cones, and the squad leader stood in the center of the three triangular cones. Therefore, these ten people formed a large triangular cone.
One person was in charge of attacking and killing the enemy, while the other two were in charge of assisting and defending. They would constantly change their offensive and defensive roles according to the situation, always maintaining a formation of one person attacking, one person defending, and another person supporting at any time.
This formation could ensure a stable offensive and defensive power for a period of time. It could continue to kill the enemy's effective strength and weaken the enemy's fighting spirit, while reducing their own casualties.
The two formations had one thing in common-they both required the soldiers to cooperate with each other. Through battle training, the soldiers could also understand:
Protecting one's companions was protecting oneself. The power of three people working together was far greater than the power of three people fighting alone.
The ideology education would temporarily focus on the love of the country (of course, the three counties under Liu Heng's rule). When the world was in chaos, it would slowly turn into love and support for the new system.
Liu Heng personally discussed this training method with the generals and made it the core training course for the combat troops.
Soon after, Wei Hong and Sun Hong were appointed as the commanders of the two new infantry regiments. They were at the rank of lieutenant in the Han army. Of course, to outsiders, he was still a lieutenant.
The next day, the two of them went to the county government to thank Liu Heng.
As soon as he entered the room, he bent his knees out of habit. However, he suddenly remembered something and immediately stood at attention, giving a standard Chinese military salute.
Liu Heng nodded with satisfaction. This was the first step in the reform of the new army. The original county soldiers would continue to use the Han army etiquette, while the new three regiments would adopt the new military salute.
All officers above the rank of lieutenant would use the People's Liberation Army salute, while ordinary soldiers would use another salute:
Extending his right arm 45 degrees forward and extending his palm straight--this was the salute of the Third Reich during World War II.
Everything was carried out according to the new rules. After receiving the gift, the superior officer must return it. Liu Heng replied with a standard military salute and asked,""Report your name, military rank, and position!”
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