My Three Kingdoms is a bit fierce

Chen Chu looked at the two people in front of him with some surprise, he actually had this idea for a long time, but he didn't expect that Lu Su and Xu Shu, who were educated by Confucianism, would also have such an idea.

Seeing that Chen Chu's face was different, the two couldn't help but be slightly surprised, glanced at each other, and then Xu Shu asked cautiously, "What does the lord think is wrong with Shu's proposal?"

Chen Chu was shocked, and immediately said: "No, no, Yuan Zhi's proposal is very good!" Just do it!

After a pause, Chen Chu continued: "Zijing, wait a while to pass the book to Zilong and Yide, and ask them to send troops to bring the Xianbei captives to the state." "

Yes, my lord." Lu Su promised.

After dealing with this matter, Chen Chu suddenly sighed, and his expression was very depressed.

"What is the Lord bothering about?" Seeing this, Lu Su asked in surprise.

Chen Chu paused, and then said, "I'm not annoying, but sad." In the flying pigeon biography just sent, there is also a casualty report of our Northern Expeditionary Army in Northern Xinjiang. Of the 100,000 iron horsemen, more than 50,000 were killed in battle alone! Nearly 5,000 were seriously injured and disabled! In this battle, although our army won a big victory, it was a tragic victory!

Lu Su and Xu Shu couldn't help but be shocked, although they had both learned of the good news in the northern Xinjiang, but they didn't know what their own casualties were.

The two of them only felt a heartbeat, just listening to the casualty figures that Chen Chu said, they could make people think of how tragic the battle of Northern Xinjiang was.

The three of them suddenly fell silent, and their expressions were not very good. It is hard to rejoice in a victory at such a heavy cost.

After a long time, Chen Chu said: "In another month, it will be August 1st, do you know what day this day is?"

After a pause, without waiting for the two to answer, Chen Chu continued with a look of reminiscence: "August 1 is the day when our Northern Army is formed, and I have decided to hold a grand ceremony on that day to welcome the ashes of the fallen soldiers into the Loyal Soul Pavilion. I hope that our future generations will always remember these iron-clad heroes!

Lu Su and Xu Shu only felt that a certain string in their hearts was touched, and they involuntarily bowed to Chen Chu together: "The lord is wise!" "

In this battle of northern Xinjiang, the two battalions of the iron cavalry of the Northern Army suffered heavy losses, especially the Tiger Roar Battalion, and the battle loss rate exceeded 60%. Soon after, the Northern Army marched south to attack the Guanzhong where Dong Zhuo was entrenched, and the Blue Wolf Battalion and the Tiger Roaring Battalion, which had the strongest combat effectiveness, had no way to participate.

In order to restore the combat effectiveness of the Blue Wolf Battalion and the Tiger Roar Battalion as soon as possible, Chen Chu discussed with Lu Su and Xu Shu and decided to select 35,000 soldiers from the various armies of the Northern Army to supplement the Tiger Roar Battalion, and also sent an order to the Karasuma Department of Zhuo County to select 30,000 knights to supplement the Blue Wolf Battalion. The shortfall of the northern army due to the replenishment of the Tiger Roar Battalion was made up by the Bingzhou Corps that was being reorganized, and the vacancy of the Bingzhou Corps was supplemented by recruiting new soldiers.

The current military composition of the Northern Army is: 50,000 in the Blue Wolf Battalion and 50,000 in the Tiger Roar Battalion, all of which are cavalry; 100,000 Youzhou legions (foot soldiers); 100,000 Luoyang Army (foot soldiers, mainly composed of Dong Zhuojun's soldiers when they attacked Luoyang); 60,000 Hexi Army (when the state was conquered, Ding Yuan's surrendered army); 100,000 regiments of the state (the newly trained regiment will be the main force in the strategy level).

In addition to the above 460,000 troops, there are also 50,000 Xiongnu soldiers formed by the Yunzhong Army, the Xiongnu soldiers originally had 70,000, but Zhang Fei left only 50,000 after the turnips, these 50,000 Yunzhong Legion composed of Xiongnu soldiers are in the process of training, and it will not be useful in a short time, and there are also 100,000 Xiongnu troops under the command of Qiangqu Shan Yu under the complete control of Chen Chu.

To sum up, the total military force controlled by Chen Chu was 630,000, which was a rather large number and second to none among the princes. However, among them, 330,000 are in the four northern counties of Shuofang, Wuyuan, Yunzhong, and Dingxiang, and it can be said that the Northern Army has completely taken on the important task of northern defense.

Don't think that putting an army of 330,000 people in the north is making a big fuss. The number one threat from the northern grasslands is the Xianbei people, at present, Kebineng has integrated the Xianbei tribes, and the total strength of Kebineng has reached 600,000, even if the Xianbei people lose 100,000 cavalry in the battle in the clouds not long ago, the Xianbei people still have 500,000 iron cavalry; In addition, there is Karasuma Shan Yu Louban, who fled to the territory of Xianbei, and he still has 50,000 horsemen in his hands; There is also a part of the Qiang people in the west who have to consider the threat.

In addition to the army that defended against foreign races, the troops in Chen Chu's hands that could be used to chase the Central Plains were only 300,000, and such a force did not have an advantage in the face of forces like Yuan Shao and Cao Cao.

Chen Chu's plan to attack Guanzhong was the newly trained 100,000 Bingzhou Legion and the 60,000 Hexi Legion, plus 50,000 Luoyang Legion.

Almost half of them are the Forces nouvelles. In order to be able to successfully launch the Guanzhong Campaign a month later, during this period of time, the training intensity of the Bingzhou Legion was very high, from individual combat ability training to military formation drills, every day, the soldiers spent time in training.

Such an intensity of training is unimaginable in this era, and if other princes used such intensity to train the army, I am afraid that the army would have mutinied long ago. However, this did not happen in the Bingzhou Army, because the soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army, including the Bingzhou Army, had something that other armies did not have, and that was faith.

The soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army know what they are fighting for, and for this belief, the officers and soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army do not care about their lives at all, and it is precisely for this reason that the Tiger Roar Battalion can show the kind of momentum that makes Xianbei people tremble in the battle of the clouds.

The reason why the Northern Army has faith is because there is a special group of beings called 'Mister' in the Northern Army. These 'gentlemen' are not scholars in the traditional sense, and most of them actually only know how to read words, and have not read classics such as the Four Books and the Five Classics.

It is for this reason that they are the most receptive to new ideas, and thanks to Chen Chu's efforts, they have become the staunchest supporters and disseminators of the idea of 'Greater China'. Their main job now is to instill the concept of 'Greater China' in the officers and men of the Northern Expeditionary Army. According to later generations, this is called ideological education.

In fact, this means alone is not enough. The secret of the soldiers who dare to die on the battlefield is to let them have no worries, take care of their families, and let their children have good development prospects.

In addition, Chen Chu also vigorously improved the social status of soldiers and their families in the control area, and the construction of the Loyal Soul Pavilion was a concrete embodiment of this policy. As a result of the implementation of these measures, the cohesion, centripetal force and loyalty of the Northern Army have become stronger.

In order to enhance the combat effectiveness of the armed forces, in addition to the above-mentioned measures, Chen Chu also vigorously strengthened the research and development of weapons and equipment. As the saying goes, 'If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools.' It is difficult to imagine how an army with a wooden stick and hoe can contend with an army that is stubbornly cloaked.

To raise the level of weapons and equipment, the level of craftsmen is the key. In order to recruit outstanding craftsmen, Chen Chu gave outstanding craftsmen official positions for the first time, not to mention the monetary reward.

Although the official positions conferred on artisans are largely symbolic, this does not in any way affect the appeal of artisan technicians. Soon after this measure was introduced, excellent craftsmen from all over the country flocked to the city. In order to manage these craftsmen in an orderly manner, Chen Chu set up a special department, the Martial Arts Research Institute.

At the same time, in order to facilitate the transformation of the achievements of the Martial Arts Research Institute into mass production capacity, Chen Chu also merged all the workshops and mines under the control of the Northern Army into the Martial Arts Research Institute, which was managed by the Martial Arts Research Institute.

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

Chen Chu did not intend to let Lu Su always be in charge of the Martial Arts Research Institute, he planned to completely make the Martial Arts Research Institute completely independent in the future to reduce the interference of all aspects to the Martial Arts Research Institute.

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 knife and Mo knife, which appeared after hundreds of years of trial production, the steel crossbow that was very popular on the Internet in later generations, and the impact vehicle (human or animal power) developed according to the principle of armored vehicles, etc., many of which people in this era have never thought of.

In addition to these, Chen Chu also divided a separate department within the Martial Arts Research Institute, and the work of this department was to produce gunpowder according to Chen Chu's formula and study the application of gunpowder.

In fact, there was already gunpowder in this era, but there were many problems with the formula of gunpowder in this era, so the power was very small, and it could only be used as arson.

Chen Chu's gunpowder formula is undoubtedly the gunpowder formula of later generations, and this gunpowder formula is much simpler than the original formula of the Eastern Han Dynasty, with three raw materials: saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal. Although the recipe is simpler, it is much more powerful and can be used to make a primitive bomb.

It's not that Chen Chu doesn't want to engage in high explosives such as C4, but he doesn't know the ingredients of this kind of high explosives at all, not to mention that it is useless to know the ingredients, the components of high explosives such as C4 are all substances refined through chemical industry, and in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the overall production level of society was impossible to refine the chemical substances for the production of high explosives.

In order to ensure the production of the Martial Arts Research Institute's workshop, raw materials are the key. In order to ensure the supply of key raw materials, iron and steel, Chen Chu set off a large-scale steelmaking movement in Bingzhou.

If the iron-making method of the Eastern Han Dynasty is followed, Chen Chu is to mobilize the whole people to make iron, and the output will not be high.

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

So under the guidance of Chen Chu, craftsmen and migrant workers erected 200 earthen blast furnaces near major iron mines. At the end of the Battle of Yunzhong, the steel output of the Northern Army had reached an astonishing level of 500,000 jin of steel per month, of which 200,000 jin was steel, which was commonly known as iron iron in this era.

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