Translator: ryangohsff Editor: Nora
Chapter 966 – Rise of Firearms Becoming More Evident
Surrendered General Wang Li was appointed as the Legion General of the 4th legion.
Name: Wang Li (King Rank)
Dynasty: Qin Dynasty
Identity: Great Xia Army Eagle Legion Corps 4th legion Legion General
Occupation: Advanced General
Loyalty: 75
Command: 70
Force: 72
Intelligence: 55
Politics: 55
Specialty: Courageous (raises troops combat strength by 20%, increases troops movement speed by 15%.)
Cultivation method: –
Equipment: Qin Sword
Evaluation: Wang Li, a famous Qin general.
Wang Li was the grandson of Qin Dynasty famous General Wang Jian. After the Battle of Julu, he was recruited by Caiyun Zinan.
After Caiyun City surrendered, not only did they give up Zhang Liang, but they also gave up Wang Li. For just this point alone, as long as Caiyun Zinan did not go too far in the future, Ouyang Shuo could consider letting him off once.
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Surrendered General Wei Yan was appointed as the Legion General of the 5th legion.
Name: Wei Yan (King Rank)
Dynasty: Three Kingdoms (Shu Han)
Identity: Great Xia Army Eagle Legion Corps 5th legion Legion General
Occupation: Advanced General
Loyalty: 68
Command: 70
Force: 75
Intelligence: 45
Politics: 35
Specialty: Courageous (raises troops combat strength by 20%, increases troops movement speed by 15%.)
Cultivation method: –
Equipment: Long Knife
Evaluation: Wei Yan was good at developing soldiers and was more courageous than others. With his character, he was held in high regard, but he often asked for trouble.
In history, Wei Yan was too arrogant and hated people that were talented. As a result, he ended up being assassinated. He was still unhappy about being defeated by Lai Hu’er and becoming a war prisoner.
As a result, his loyalty stat was the lowest out of the few generals.
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The Eagle Legion Corps used mainly fresh faces, while the City Protection Legion Corps promoted old generals.
Guards Legion Corps 3rd legion 1st division Major General Ma Teng was promoted to the 3rd legion Legion General. Tiger Legion Corps 5th legion 1st division Major General Bai Lishi was promoted to 4th legion Legion General.
The promotion of Ma Teng was a sign that the Three Kingdom generals were having a full scale rise. Just Legion Generals alone there were Ma Chao, Lu Bu, Ma Teng, Zhang Liao, Cao Hong, Cao Chun, Xiahou Yuan, Wei Yan, and Zhang He.
If one considered Zhou Yu and Gan Ning, these two navy Fleet Admirals, there were a total of 11 of them.
Along with this round of general adjustment, all the historical generals in the army were mostly promoted to Legion General. The general backup that they had was totally squeezed dry this time.
Consequently, the last Legion General of the City Protection Legion Corps was a little special.
City Protection Legion Corps 2nd legion 2nd division Major General Lin Yi was promoted to Legion General. He became the first native general to be promoted to Legion General.
Luckily, he had already advanced to King Rank general. If not, many people would disagree with the promotion.
Just like Lin Yi, Zhao Si Hu, Lei Jingtian, Shihu, Shanzhu, Guo Liang, Liao Kai, Daiqin, Sun Tengjiao, Sun Chuanlin, Jiang Kai, Heiqi, Shao Bu, and the other native generals had all became King Ranked generals.
These batch of generals that had grown together with the territory had become the most loyal and reliable backup generals for the Great Xia.
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Due to the huge change at the borders of the dynasty, using this chance that he was reorganizing troops, Ouyang Shuo decided to adjust the defense zones of the various legion corps.
In the east, the dynasty mainly wanted to threaten King City, and the Tiger Legion Corps led by Sun Bin would remain in charge. The only difference was that after taking down Xiangnan Province, the threat in the north to Lingnan Province had been removed. The Tiger Legion Corps would move out of Lingnan Province and stay in Minnan Province.
With that, the pressure that King City faced mounted.
Apart from that, the Tiger Legion Corps had the responsibility of monitoring the Great Sui Dynasty. Although Great Sui currently looked like a sick cat, it was still a tiger that had a million troops and should not be underestimated.
In the north, the Han Xin led Leopard Legion Corps would move up from Chuannan Province into Xiangnan Province and monitor any action of Pill Sun City.
In the west, the Li Mu led Eagle Legion Corps would enter the Shu Lands to monitor the Shu Han Dynasty and Fallen Leaf City. As for the Dragon Legion Corps that was currently there, they would be moved back to Yunnan Province.
Similar to the Tiger Legion Corps, the Dragon Legion Corps had the responsibility of monitoring the Dali Imperial Court.
There reasons for making such an arrangement.
Shu Han Dynasty and Fallen Leaf City were only short term threats in the Shu Lands. The true problems came from West Xia in the north, Tibet in the west, and the Mongols even further up north.
Moving the Baiqi led Dragon Legion Corps to Yunnan Province looked like they were not doing anything. However, south of Yunnan across the country borders were the ASEAN States.
Ouyang Shuo was planning ahead. He wanted to let Baiqi focus on expeditions against the ASEAN states in the future to let the name of the Asura spread across the four seas.
Apart from the four legion corps, the City Protection Legion Corps had some changes of their own.
Since the entire City Protection Legion Corps had reached full strength, they could not be all housed in the Lianzhou Basin because that would be a waste. The five legions were all given their own defense regions.
The 1st legion would enter the city west camp, while the 2nd legion led by Mu Guiying would remain in Mulan Stronghold to defend the north pass of the Capital City.
The 3rd legion that was under Ma Teng would take over the defense duties of the 5th legion of the Leopard Legion Corps and move into Tianjing City to protect the Satellite City.
The 4th legion led by Bai Lishi would move to Beihai City to guard the south of the Capital City. The 5th legion led by Lin Yi would be in the city east camp outside of Shanhai City.
With that, the City Protection Legion Corps was truly worthy of their name, as they had an airtight protection of Shanhai City.
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After the army adjusted their defense regions, they also needed to build new strongholds, castles, sentry posts, and the like.
Different from before, the defense technology was much higher this time. Apart from normal defense work, they needed to build cannon posts that used mainly P1 Type Cannons.
Such a type of defensive line was really expensive, so they were mainly designed at the narrow border between Beijiang Province and Handan City.
As for the north, east, and west borders, Great Xia held the initiative of the baffle. As such, they did not need to overkill and build such a line that they could not even employ.
The exception was that the Combat Logistics Department was going to build a special defense line to target Shu Han Dynasty.
Shu Han Dynasty was now alone with no one to depend on. Ouyang Shuo wanted to ensure it stayed this way. He planned to build castles around the mountains of Chengdu Prefecture with cannons to lock down Chengdu. As a result, the Shu Han Guards would not even be able to walk out of the basin that Chengdu Prefecture was located in.
Although this plan used up a lot of resources and took up a long time, Ouyang Shuo felt that it was worth it.
To take down an imperial city with a million troops, forcing the attack was obviously a bad idea. Trapping them to death and forcing them to surrender was the best solution.
The entire Chengdu Prefecture was a huge basin, and this provided the best geography to trap them. Quanzhou and Dali were all on vast and open land area, so this plan could not be used.
Since that was the case, Ouyang Shuo had instructed the Combat Logistics Department to work with the Dragon Legion Corps and the Tiger Legion Corps to set some hidden defenses and monitoring work around Dali and Quanzhou Prefecture.
It was not to block the dynasty guards. Rather, it was to send them a warning.
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Appointing generals, adjusting the defense regions, and planning the defense lines were the focus of this round of military organization. Apart from that, Ouyang Shuo wanted to use this chance to remodel the army.
The main focus would be on firearms.
After the few huge wars, the use of firearms on the battlefield was becoming more and more evident. Firearms were becoming the star. Furthermore, the dynasty’s industrialization had gotten onto the right track, and firearm manufacturing was becoming more and more efficient.
With such conditions, Ouyang Shuo ordered the Privy Court to slowly allocate each War Fighting Legion with a subordinate firearm squad and a cannon squad.
At the same time, on the legion corps level, they planned to provide each of the four War Fighting Legions with a Flying Squad that could be used to patrol and strategic bombing.
There were two reasons behind him doing that.
First, he wanted to uncover the eyes of the Great Xia generals and make firearm usage really common. He wanted to let the generals, or at the very least the Legion Generals, realize the importance of firearms to the army.
Ouyang Shuo had even discussed with Sun Wu about using money to hire real life experts to start teaching them lessons regarding thermal weapon wars.
The point was to let the generals of the dynasty progress with the times and focus on the future.
In the future, be it in the game or on Planet Hope, cold weapons would not be the main weapons. The weapons deciding the wars would always be thermal weapons, and even the more advanced energy weapons.
Although the current firearms could not replace cold weapons, Ouyang Shuo needed to plan for the future.
Of course, the era of thermal weapons did not mean that generals would become useless. For example, when they reached Planet Hope in the future, generals could have mechanized suits.
No matter what era it was, a person’s fighting skills would not be totally replaced by weapons.
Secondly, it was to give the Great Xia Army a chance to train their troops.
To command a firearm squad, apart from learning in the Army Military Academy, one needed to have practical experience. Moreover, this experience often needed to be amassed and accumulated.
The Great Xia having firearm squads and cannon squads at a legion level would provide Legion Generals with a chance to learn and train.
At an appropriate time, they could move this down to the division and even the regiment and unit levels.
