Liu Ji continued to explain: "After rotating generals, in addition to avoiding private ownership of the army, it can also avoid the problem of unified command of the army, and it can also use this to train the comprehensive abilities of each general."

"As the military advisor said." Seeing that Liu Ji had finished speaking, Li Jing seemed to have thought of something and added: "After the last battle, I believe that the cavalry division composed entirely of cavalry can play very limited in its effectiveness."

"The role of the cavalry division is limited?" Yang Song heard Li Jing say this and asked seriously: "Why didn't you say the report after the last war?"

After the last triumphal ceremony, Li Jing and other generals trained troops - the Expansion War made a special post-war report to Yang Song, but did not mention these problems. Even Li Bao of the Navy explained that a land combat force was needed to improve the navy's comprehensive combat capabilities.

Yang Song knew that Li Jing said it was because there was no need at that time. Now, after the potential harm of the army was opened, he was not afraid of those troubles.

The reason why Yang Song asked Li Jing when he knew why was that was because he wanted to ask whether Li Jing had selfish intentions or did not report it.

"Good King, forgive me." Before Li Jing could explain, Liu Ji hurriedly stepped forward to report: "It is me who asked General Li to discuss with me a solution to the problem later, and then report to the king."

"So that's it." Yang Song felt relieved when he heard Liu Ji say this, although Liu Ji was inevitably favoring Li Jing.

When Yang Song is now, he sometimes laughs at himself about his own performance. Unexpectedly, Yang Song will one day become a suspicious person, a person he had never thought about!

After joking about himself, Yang Song ordered Li Jing: "Then tell me about the specific performance of the cavalry division and how to change it later."

"Thank you, King! I obey your order!" Li Jing bowed his fists and replied: "In the battlefield, the cavalry division has unparalleled attack power and mobility in the vast plain, but it cannot participate in the siege. It is extremely constrained by the terrain in the western mountainous areas, and basically can only get off the horse and fight."

"In addition to the country's newly expanded territory, I dared to speculate that in the next ten years, the country will be on defense, with strong field combat power and offensive, and a simple cavalry division will be a useless person."

After hearing Li Jing's words, Yang Song agreed very much. He had this feeling before, because the cavalry's mobility is too prominent, making people feel their powerful combat power.

Later, with the expansion of Xia State, Yang Song was also consciously reducing the number of cavalry in the army. From more than 10,000 people in a brigade, there were more than 5,000 cavalry, to more than 46,000 people in a standard division, there were only three,000 cavalry.

However, even so, a complete pure cavalry army was retained, that is, the 40,500 cavalry division led by Huo Qubing.

Now with the further expansion of Xia State, as the country's land area increases, mobile power is needed. But don't forget that the Xia State's army is not an army in the era of cold weapons, but an army that has initially entered the industrial era.

In the industrial age, or the steam era in which the Xia Kingdom is currently in, the power of the steam engine is the greatest, and the power of pure human power and livestock is far from enough.

Therefore, in the future, the railway will be traversed from east to west, south and north within the territory of the Xia Kingdom. At that time, the army will be dispatched and operated by the train.

Of course, it does not mean that the cavalry has withdrawn from the stage of history. After all, there are still many places where there is no access to trains, but that there is no need to form a pure cavalry alone.

You only need to set up a part of the cavalry unit in an army, just like setting up a separate cavalry battalion within the standard division like the First and Second Divisions.

However, if all the divisions become standard divisions, the number of cavalry will be seriously insufficient. After all, a standard division has only 3,000 cavalry. If it is necessary to quickly reinforce, turn to attack, etc., it will be a bit insufficient.

Therefore, Yang Song asked directly to the two: "In your opinion, what kind of adaptation should the Cavalry Division be?"

"Return to the King." Li Jing replied: "The cavalry's ability is still needed, but the entire division does not need to be cavalry. I suggest that the cavalry division be adapted into a heavy-dressed division in accordance with the organization of the King's Imperial Guard."

"Heavy Equipment Division?" Yang Song heard Li Jing say this and recalled the organization of the Imperial Guards.

The Imperial Guard has three standard regiments, two cavalry regiments, two artillery battalions and a command center of 1,500 people. (A total of 45,300 people. Including 390 field artillery, 130 siege artillery, and 16,500 cavalry)

Although the Imperial Guards are also at the same level as the division, their composition is completely different. Because the Imperial Guards are also responsible for the task of the general reserve team, the mobility is still very important.

If the current cavalry division was also reorganized into a heavy-armed division with the same organization as the Imperial Guard, it would be reasonable. After all, the Imperial Guard has about one-third of the cavalry, and it has greatly strengthened the number of artillery and increased its siege ability.

Although the Imperial Guard's many artillery and the cavalry did not play any role in attacking war-torn places due to the terrain, when fighting in other places, the Imperial Guard's powerful comprehensive attack and mobility were not available to the Standard Division.

Combat power requires cost. The powerful combat power of the Imperial Guard is accumulated with huge amounts of material and manpower. The Imperial Guard, which is the personal army of the king Yang Song, can receive this preferential treatment.

If a heavy equipment division is adapted according to the specifications of the Imperial Guard, if another monarch is intent, I am afraid that Li Jing and Liu Ji will not mention this point.

But after all, the cost of forming a cavalry division is not low, and the war horses and their logistics maintenance is not cheap at all.

If it weren't for the fact that the Xia Kingdom's science and technology, economy, systems and other aspects were strong enough, so many artillery and war horses would be difficult to support with the power of this world.

Yang Song had already agreed with Li Jing and Liu Ji's suggestions in his heart. When he thought of adapting the army, Yang Song suddenly remembered what Yang Ren said that there should be a professional logistics army and the navy should also have an army for land warfare.

Thinking of this, Yang Song suddenly had a headache. To put it bluntly, they all reached out to ask him for money!

"Okay, I agree." Yang Song waved to the two of them and held their foreheads with one hand. I wonder if Zhang Juzheng, who is in charge of finance and taxation, will tell him about the topic of people's livelihood, development, and moneylessness after he goes back.

When Li Jing saw Yang Song who was a little tired, hesitated for a moment, and finally gritted his teeth, he still reported: "Your Majesty, I have something to report!"
Chapter completed!