Valley Emperor

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At the end of the 33rd year of Xuanping, Hao Bainian was promoted to field marshal and then retired. In addition, Ying Yikang, a representative of the new generation of generals, was promoted to lieutenant general.

The impact on the Imperial Army was profound and significant.

Because this means that the older generation of generals who have dominated the high-ranking officers of the Imperial Army for more than 30 years has finally begun to withdraw from the front line and hand over power to the second generation of generals.

At the same time, the new generation of generals also officially entered the high-level, and began to affect the development of the army.

From the time of Huangzhushan to the present, the Imperial Army has a relatively clear hierarchy of middle and senior generals.

In general, it can be divided into four groups according to before and after the establishment of the Imperial Academy and before and after the Unification War.

The earliest ones were naturally the bandit generals from the Huangzhu Mountain period before the establishment of the Imperial Academy, including Chen Tufu and others were typical of them, but these people basically stepped out of the front line in the unification war in the next few years, and no one was there. To be able to climb to a high position, even the best butcher Chen, later relied on presiding over artillery work, and obtained the rank of army general after the end of the Unification War, but his prestige was still too reluctant.

But what's interesting is that because these people started from the dragon early, and the early role is quite obvious, so as long as they are not stupid and hold the power, even as compensation, these people have obtained rich titles.

Although Butcher Chen obtained the rank of general after the Unification War, his influence was actually very low, but he still won the title of duke.

The reason is very simple, just relying on the pig-killing knife he used to take Li Xuan to escape for his life, the behavior of saving the car and even saving the country several times is enough.

These people basically all retired from active duty after the unification war, and they all went to enjoy the glory and wealth.

The second group is the early students of Yuxuetang represented by Hao Bainian and Li Chunjing, and can be generally called the first generation of generals.

Generally speaking, all the officers who entered the Imperial Academy during the Unification War can be classified into this group. They generally participated in the Unification War, received the early Imperial Academy studies, and at the same time had outstanding military exploits, occupying the vast majority of them. Military aristocracy.

Even after the end of the unification war, many of these people were forced to retire or held vacant positions, but these generals have a large base, they still hold the army power for a long time, and even many generals who were promoted to brigadier general after the unification war, in fact A considerable number of them also joined the army during the Unification War.

The so-called second-generation generals actually refer to the generals who entered the Imperial Academy to study after the Unification War, that is, the generals after the tenth phase of the Army Imperial Academy.

They participated in a series of foreign expansion wars of the empire, including a series of wars with the Tatars, the Battle of Fusang, the Battle of India, the Battle of Africa, and so on.

These generals who entered the Imperial Academy to study after the Unification War received the most formal modern military training from the very beginning. Their combat methods were different from those of the founding generals during the Unification War. The tactics of the founding generals were actually the same. With a strong traditional war mode, even if artillery and flintlock guns are used, the tactical thinking of many generals is still the traditional war thinking.

However, the second generation of generals started from the military academy, and they were exposed to tactical concepts such as infantry and artillery coordination and line operations, so their tactical thinking was typical of the army of hot weapons. At the same time, their combat and promotion are very regular .

At present, in fact, the best of these second-generation generals have generally climbed to the top. There are many major generals, many lieutenant generals, and several generals.

Originally, if there is no special role of Ying Yikang, there is no such thing as a new generation of generals, because people generally regard the generals after the unification war as the second generation of generals.

However, when Xuanping was more than 20 years old, it was Ying Yikang who was such a monster.

In the past ten years, the most dazzling inside the army is this Ying Yikang!

Ying Yikang belonged to the 23rd phase of the Army Imperial Academy, so people took this time period as a division, and called the generals after the 23rd phase of the Army Imperial Academy as the new generation generals.

Generally speaking, they are young officers under the age of thirty-five, and they are typical young soldiers in the current army.

These new generation of young Zhuang faction generals are generally under the age of thirty-five. In terms of military rank, except for the freak Ying Yikang Army Lieutenant General, the others are generally school officers. Only a few outstanding ones are brigadier generals. As for major generals , just a few.

This group of young soldiers is the core composition of the current army middle-level officers, and they generally serve as battalion commanders, regimental commanders and other positions.

At the same time, their military thinking is more open and even leading.

Although Ying Yikang's military rank is a little higher, he still belongs to the new generation of generals. To some extent, he can represent what the young and strong generals in the Datang Army are like in this era.

Support the research and development of more advanced rifled rifles and artillery!

At the same time, it pays more attention to the logistics system, and believes that with the development of ordnance technology and the sharp increase in the consumption of ammunition, logistics will become the most important factor in determining the outcome of the war.

At the same time, they did not insist on line tactics like their predecessors.

The old generation of generals generally believed that in the face of attack, they still maintained a stable formation, and continued to approach the enemy 30 meters away before firing and launching a bayonet charge. This is the measure of whether a unit is an elite unit. standard.

This can be seen from the fact that most of the infantry divisions of the Datang Army carry out daily training towards this goal, and they especially like to play this kind of flow during combat.

Of course, not every Infantry Division of Datang can do it. Datang now has more than 60 Infantry Divisions, but only a few elite troops can do this.

Even in the twenty first-line combat readiness divisions, although there will be one or two battalions or regiments in each division that can do this, but definitely not all units.

Often only the most elite infantry regiments, infantry battalions, can do this.

All divisions have this kind of tactical ability. In fact, there are only two or three in the entire Datang Army, all of which are veteran elite troops with a number in the top ten.

The Datang Army pursues this first-class tactics, and it has a huge relationship with the general tactical thinking of the second-generation generals.

However, among the new generation of generals, under the influence of Ying Yikang, especially in recent years, rifled weapons have appeared one after another.

The tactical thinking of the new generation of generals has also changed.

The new infantry and artillery coordination tactics compiled by Ying Yikang, and even the infantry and artillery drills that were influenced by this are typical examples.

Everyone can see that the world is changing, and changing rapidly.

In the early days of the unification war more than 20 years ago, everyone was still using arquebuses and cold weapons, but in the later period of the unification war, they basically entered the flintlock gun, and thus entered the line era.

But now, more than 20 years later, with the success of the 3rd Cavalry Division in the Western Expedition Army on the Central Asian battlefield using the front-loading rifled rifles and the front-loading rifled guns of the 1st Cavalry Corps Artillery Regiment, the army is almost instantaneous. Just set off a rifling storm.

With the emergence of rifled weapons, more new tactics were proposed.

The Son of Heaven also attaches great importance to this, and Ying Yikang's promotion is a very obvious signal.

This means that the Datang Army has begun to enter the era of rifled.

To enter the era of rifled, the research and development, production and equipment of rifled weapons are naturally the top priority.

Xuanping thirty-fourth spring.

On the 18th day of the first lunar month, just after the Lantern Festival, Li Xuan appeared at the training ground of the Guards on the outskirts of Jinling City.

He came today to inspect a batch of new weapons.

Not one, but a batch!

With the entry of the rifled era in recent years, the military has engaged in various rifled weapons, and there are a lot of front-loaded and rear-mounted weapons, because there are many, and the military's procurement volume is also limited.

At the same time, in order to unify logistics, the fewer models the military purchases weapons, the better.

However, there are quite a lot of competing equipment. For example, the rear-mounted field guns used by the army~www.wuxiaspot.com~ There are at least a dozen gun manufacturers competing for orders nationwide.

And the navy, which is also a big gun user, is also competing for their naval gun orders by various artillery manufacturers.

Not to mention rifles. At present, there are at least dozens of rifle research and development projects across the country, just to compete for the army's new-generation rifle orders.

As for what weapons can be selected in the end, it is naturally everyone's own ability.

At the same time, because the various new weapons of the empire are basically the priority equipment of the Guards, all manufacturers hope that the Guards can equip their own weapons in order to open the gap and let their own weapons be listed on the procurement list of the army or navy. .

Therefore, today's Guards' new weapon exercise is not only to watch the weapons and equipment in active service of the Guards, but also to demonstrate a large number of new weapons that have not yet been installed, some of which are even purely laboratory products.

The major manufacturers have long been most prepared for this new weapon inspection, and have prepared many new weapons to win the favor of the Son of Heaven.

As long as the Son of Heaven reads it and agrees, even if it is worthless, there is no need to worry about not having an order from the military!

So today's new weapon inspection, Li Xuan just passed by, he saw a lot of messy weapons and equipment on the square.

Li Xuan didn't count, but he estimated that there were dozens of types of artillery.

And there are dozens of kinds of rifles, lances, and pistols added together.

There are also a lot of other messy weapons and equipment.

You don't need to guess, you know, these must be made by the three major weapons companies.

It is a rare opportunity to stand out in front of His Majesty. Naturally, these three major weapon companies will not let it go. Basically, they have pulled out the most advanced products of their subordinate manufacturers.

The most majestic among them is a cannon!