Valley Emperor

?The navy is crazy poor, everyone is calling for savings, freeing up military expenses to build ships and expand the fleet, but saving alone is not a problem. There are several million taels of military spending a year, but it is necessary to maintain Such a big stall.

Therefore, the navy is now beginning to think a little bit about going the wrong way.

What should I do if the military spending provided by the government is not enough?

Then they can only make money from wars. In recent years, they have frequently expanded in Nanyang. In fact, they have plans in this regard. It is necessary to **** gold and silver and other spoils of war in an aboriginal place. Although these are said The spoils of war should still belong to the national treasury in name, so that the tax department will be included in the fiscal revenue.

But this is only in name only. In actual operation, the Son of Heaven will also compare the size of the military. In the end, some of these spoils will often be returned directly to the army or navy.

In addition, when searching for the spoils, not everything needs to be turned over. The personal capture of the soldiers can be retained. For the military, it is also a measure to subsidize the soldiers.

After all, the salary has been cut continuously in recent years, and the overall salary drop has reached 20%. This refers to ordinary soldiers. If they are officers, they are often called to donate. The subsistence officers even donate all their salary income.

Therefore, a certain amount of compensation is given in terms of spoils, which is also a measure that the military has long acquiesced in.

Fighting in the South China Sea, although there are loot income, but overall it is not much. Although this place is big, the islands are actually the same. The most important wealth is all kinds of spices, and spices need to be planted and then carried out. Only after trade can generate value, the military cannot directly obtain too much trophy income.

If it is the Americas, then chances are great.

The Spaniards can get a lot of gold and silver in the Americas. It makes no sense for their Tang Empire, or more accurately, their Tang Navy.

Those are two continents, and from the mouths of those foreigners, we know that that place is rich in gold and silver, and you can get a piece of dog head gold with the cheapest glass bead.

This kind of place is much better than Australia, which is now occupied by the Tang Dynasty.

Although Australia is also big, the Tang Empire has also carried out secret explorations in recent years without telling other countries, but the main development is mainly concentrated in the northwest region of Australia, which is where a gold mine was discovered. Thousands of people.

But just relying on yourself to dig gold, how can you grab it directly from others!

What's more, in Australia, no matter how much gold is dug, it belongs to the national treasury, and it has nothing to do with their navy, but if it is robbed in the Americas, then a considerable part will become naval military expenses.

In this way, the navy will be so interested in the Americas after receiving the report from the Luzon squadron.

They are already preparing to send an exploration fleet to the Pacific Ocean this year. After figuring out a safe route, it is time to cross the Pacific Ocean to the Americas.

The navy did not care about the war in the north, and focused on its strategy of going south and colonizing the Americas. The same is true of the army. They are not interested in overseas, they are only interested in conquering the grasslands.

To conquer the grasslands, you have to defeat the Tatars, and to defeat the Tatars, you need to capture the Hetao, severely inflict heavy damage on the Ordos Department, and first cut off one of Altan Khan's arms.

A full-scale march to the grasslands is unlikely in a short period of time, because although the current Datang Empire's cavalry is not small, there is still a big gap in number with the nomads such as the Tatars.

At this time, Lu Yuzhi, the director of the army cavalry, was briefly explaining the current cavalry strength of the Tang Empire to everyone!

This man was the first batch of cavalry in the Tang Empire, and he was the main general of the cavalry in his early years. At the end of the unification war, he served as the commander of the first cavalry division with the rank of major general of the army. After ten years of Xuanping, he was promoted to lieutenant general of the army. As the cavalry director of the Army Privy Council, he has been in charge of cavalry development, tactical strategy and other matters.

To a certain extent, this person is the cavalry chief of the Datang Army. Of course, he has no command.

His judgment on the imperial cavalry was the most authoritative.

He only heard him say to the crowd: "To implement the Hetao strategy, the cavalry is the most important thing!" After saying that, he looked around, and the others also showed their approval.

When fighting in the north, the cavalry is definitely the core force. No one can oppose this. Therefore, even those artillery generals who have high self-esteem have to admit that they are fighting in the north, especially when fighting in the wild. , the cavalry is the core strength, even if they are artillery, they have to ride on the horse, incarnate cavalry artillery to accompany the cavalry to fight.

Lu Yuzhi continued at this time: "In order to deal with the situation in Hetao, our army has concentrated four cavalry divisions and two cuirassier regiments in the surrounding areas of Hetao. We are already able to gather 15,000 troops in the eastern front line of Hetao. Elite cavalry!"

Wen Chen, who doesn't know much about the military, is a little puzzled. Your army has been engaged in so many years and spent millions of taels in military expenditure, and you have created more than 10,000 cavalry?

They don't know the military, and naturally they don't know. Although the cavalry of the Datang Army is more than that, there are many places that the Datang Army needs to guard. The northern border alone is tens of thousands of kilometers. How could it be possible to concentrate all the cavalry. stand up.

What's more, what Lu Yuzhi was talking about was only the independent cavalry units, not the divisional cavalry units.

The total number of cavalry in the Datang Army is naturally more than 15,000 cavalry. In fact, if we only talk about cavalry, the number of cavalry in Datang is still relatively large.

After so many years of development, the number of cavalry in the Datang Army has been greatly expanded. Independent cavalry and divisional cavalry have developed together.

The divisional cavalry is the cavalry unit attached to each infantry division and even each reserve division. Each main infantry division has a cavalry regiment, and the reserve division has a cavalry battalion.

The main infantry division is a cavalry regiment, with 650 light cavalry under its standard establishment. They are equipped with saber, flintlock lance, flintlock pistol and other weapons. They are mainly responsible for reconnaissance, flank protection, pursuit and kill.

The reserve division cavalry battalion has three hundred cavalry under its jurisdiction!

However, this is only the standard establishment, but in fact there is a general shortage. For example, the cavalry battalion of the reserve division generally has only a hundred or so cavalry, and even a few dozen cavalry. It is a cavalry battalion, let alone It's the cavalry.

Even the cavalry regiments of the main infantry divisions are often dissatisfied. Except for the main infantry divisions guarding the northern frontier, the situation is relatively good. , at least two or three hundred, and as many as four or five hundred.

At the same time, the cavalry units in these infantry divisions and reserve divisions belong to the inferior cavalry units within the army, and most of the war horses used are Mongolian horses of poor quality.

And these divisions are cavalry, with a total of about 15,000 cavalry!

However, the elite cavalry of the Datang Army are mainly concentrated in several independent cavalry units!

At present, the Datang Army has a total of five cavalry divisions and twelve cavalry regiments, with a total of about 30,000 independent cavalrymen.

These five cavalry divisions were actually the cavalry brigades of the past. They just changed their names, and their commanders were still major generals.

Each cavalry division has two cavalry brigades under its jurisdiction, and each cavalry brigade consists of three cavalry regiments. The cavalry regiment is composed of a standard 650 cavalry, small regiments, and six cavalry regiments plus the division headquarters. cavalry battalion.

The combat cavalry can reach 4,000 cavalry, in addition to a cavalry artillery battalion, a cavalry baggage battalion.

If there are twelve cavalry regiments, the type and organization are not very unified, they are set up according to local conditions, and generally have relatively obvious characteristics, and there are various types of cavalry.

For example, the famous First Lancer Regiment, this cavalry regiment can almost be said to be the proudest and most dazzling business card of the Army Cavalry.

But the retired former army veteran Fang Dongquan said: The first lancer regiment is an expensive vase made by some people!

Because in his opinion, this First Lancer Regiment is useless other than pretending to show off, and it is also very expensive. Isn't it just a precious vase!

The regiment is a standard heavy cavalry. The whole regiment has 850 heavy cavalry. These heavy cavalry wear special full-body plate armor and use weapons such as pistols, sabers, and lances to fight, costing several times. For ordinary light cavalry, but the actual combat value is a matter of opinion. Some people think that this first lance cavalry regiment can sweep the world, and some people think that as long as he is given an infantry battalion, he can wipe out this lance cavalry regiment.

In a word~www.wuxiaspot.com~ This First Lancer Regiment is the most divided army within the empire, and even the civilian officials in the cabinet occasionally use it to brush up, saying that the army spends so much military spending every year, Clean up some things that show off your legs.

Many people think that this kind of tin canned heavy cavalry was still useful decades ago. Now that guns are in power, this tin can still has egg use!

The full-body plate armor they wear is different from the mass-produced plate armor. First of all, they generally use personal customization. After each knight of the First Lancer Regiment is selected, he will customize this full-body plate armor for him.

Secondly, this plate armor is made of the best steel that Datang can produce at present. This kind of steel is expensive and the output is small. It is basically not used to produce ordinary plate armor, let alone export-type plate armor. Plate armor made of this high-quality steel is lighter in weight with the same defensive performance.

According to the Army's vision, this unit shoulders the heavy responsibility of directly confronting the enemy's cavalry charge, as well as assaulting the enemy's infantry phalanx, and tearing open the enemy's line of defense for its own army.

But whether it can be done, no one knows!