Valley Emperor

As one of the three regular armed forces in the Tang Empire, the Guards had a very special status.

Among the military forces of the Tang Dynasty, the army is the largest in size. Today, the total force exceeds two million people. There are garrisoned troops all over the world.

The navy has more than 500 front-line combat ships of various types, including more than ten battleships and armored cruisers, and more than 150 main ocean-going combat ships of the frigate and cruiser classes. The rest are offshore patrols. Ships, inland gunboats.

In addition, the Navy also has more than 100 auxiliary ships of various types, mainly supply ships and transport ships of various types.

Basically every sea area on the earth, every medium and large scale river and lake can see the active figure of the Datang Navy. Most of the diplomatic activities of the Datang Empire are accompanied by the presence of the Datang Navy warships, and even created for this purpose. A very typical vocabulary came out: gunboat diplomacy!

Compared with the large-scale army and navy, the Guards were very small, and the total strength of the Guards was only about 80,000 people.

There are four guard divisions, a guard cavalry division, two heavy artillery brigades, a bridge regiment, an engineering regiment, and a guard fleet.

But small size does not mean poor equipment or poor combat effectiveness.

In terms of combat effectiveness, the Guards have always maintained a rotation policy. Since the period of the Unification War, the Guards have already begun to send troops to the front lines to participate in the war, and they have also participated in several large-scale foreign wars later. Today, the Guards actually maintain a division of troops stationed overseas for a long time, and they go to Indian areas with more combat missions.

Basically, when every soldier of the Guards retires, he has been deployed overseas. As for whether he has experienced a real battle, it is hard to say. After all, fighting depends on luck. Sometimes a mission is deployed. It's also possible that you haven't experienced a single battle.

Combat experience, the Guards are not lacking, even more abundant than the army.

As for the equipment, let alone the equipment level of the Guards is the best in the whole army, and many weapons are the first to be equipped by the Guards.

In terms of rifles, their Li Fu type II rifles outperform the joint type II rifles in all aspects.

On the mortars, they are directly equipped to the company. Each infantry company is equipped with at least one 60mm mortar. The battalion level will also be equipped with an 80mm mortar. 120mm mortar battalion.

On heavy machine guns, the Guards are the earliest equipment and have the highest density of equipment. Although currently only one division is equipped with 24 guns, the Guards have already planned. When the production capacity comes up and the technical backbones are trained, then The equipment of this heavy machine gun goes directly down to the infantry battalion, and the total equipment of a division will directly exceed 100.

In terms of artillery, the divisional artillery regiment of the Guards is also different from the army. The division of the army is an artillery regiment, which consists of three artillery battalions, equipped with 36 75mm field guns and 18 70mm field guns. Five-mm howitzers, or eighteen 75-mm field guns and thirty-six 75-mm howitzers, these two different divisional artillery configurations vary depending on the region where the troops are deployed.

Generally speaking, the army artillery units deployed overseas and in the local mountainous areas are the latter.

The troops deployed in the ordinary terrain of the homeland are the former.

However, the divisional artillery regiments of the Guards are different. Their artillery battalion is four battalions, each battalion has sixteen artillery pieces, and the equipped artillery is thirty-two 75mm field guns and sixteen 100mm artillery pieces. mm field howitzers and sixteen 150mm light howitzers.

At this point, the Guards are not satisfied. They are not satisfied with the existing first-generation 75mm field gun, and are preparing to replace it with a new type of 75mm field gun with a longer range.

Such a division of the Guards is an artillery regiment. It has 64 artillery pieces, which can form multi-level firepower strikes. Among them, the new 100mm field howitzer has a maximum range of more than 10,000 meters and an effective range of 8,500 meters. What about rice?

In addition, the Guards also has two independent artillery brigades, all of which are equipped with heavy artillery, including 120mm cannons, 150mm cannons, and 150mm howitzers, and the number of equipment is extremely large.

In addition, it also has a large number of other advanced equipment, such as the wireless telegraph that has been assigned to the regiment level, and the artillery is more capable of shooting balloons.

At the same time, the Guards is the first and only unit equipped with airships in the Empire, but it is still equipped with relatively dangerous soft hydrogen airships. It is currently only experimental equipment, in preparation for the future equipment of hard-top airships, but even so, the Guards It is also a serious establishment of the Guards Air Force.

Coupled with the Guards fleet, the Guards are complete with the army, navy and air force!

Among them, the Guards fleet, despite its small size, the ships are generally not large in tonnage, and several capital ships are only a few thousand tons, but these battleships are basically battleships with advanced technology.

The navy is too expensive to use advanced technology, but the Guards are not afraid of expensive ones. This year, the Guards just commissioned a shallow water gunboat with a tonnage of 5,000 tons and equipped with four ships of 300mm and 40 times the caliber. The guns and armors use the top-level deep carburizing armor that Datang can produce, the most advanced power systems, radio and optical aiming systems, and balloon shooting systems.

In addition to being unable to navigate the ocean, its firepower and defense capabilities are extremely strong.

Even the mines that had just appeared were invested in R&D and secretly equipped by the Guards. Even the navy didn't know about this stuff, and it was regarded as a secret weapon by the senior guards of the Guards.

In the future, if the navy dares to rebel and enter the Yangtze River, the Guards fleet will secretly deploy mines...

Why is the Guards equipped with so many advanced weapons and reserves of almost a large amount of weapons and ammunition, of course, because they are always ready to deal with the rebellion of the army and navy!

The army building strategy of the Guards is aimed at the army and navy!

When necessary, the rebels can be defeated with absolute firepower superiority. At the same time, there should be sufficient reserve officers and weapons and ammunition reserves for a short-term expansion of the army.

This is why the Guards reserves a large amount of weapons and ammunition, and why the Guards assigns multiple deputies to the chief officer of the unit.

In the army, the senior generals of a division are the division commander, the deputy division commander, and the division chief of staff~www.wuxiaspot.com~ But in the Guards, in addition to the above three people, there are two very special people, that is, the assistant division commander , Chief of Staff.

Regiment-level units also have two more commander positions than the Army's regiment-level units.

These are all to reserve qualified officers at all levels in advance!

Even the non-commissioned officers are reserved in advance. The proportion of non-commissioned officers in the Guards is very high, far exceeding the normal level of the army.

These weapons and ammunition reserves in advance and the backbone of officers and non-commissioned officers can allow the Guards to more than double the size in a very short period of time, and quickly form combat effectiveness.

And these, the ultimate purpose is to protect the safety of the emperor!

Note that it is not to protect the royal family, but to protect the safety of the emperor, which are two completely different concepts!

The Guards only accept the command of the emperor and are loyal to the emperor!

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