Li Lu has been committed to building a modern country since the day of crossing, for this goal he has constantly carried out political adjustments, and tried his best to promote the industrial revolution, and to keep these achievements need a modern army, so from the beginning of his army in Xiling, it is to build his own army based on the Qi family army that is closest to the modern army, why is he persistent and build a modern army, That's because the advantages of the modern army are not comparable to the current feudal army and slave army.The reason why Li Lu thinks so is that there is historical experience to learn from, let's not talk about the Battle of Bali Bridge, let's take the proud work "Battle of the Pyramids" as an example, in 1798 Napoleon invaded Egypt, the French army's modern army defeated the Egyptian classical army next to the pyramids in Cairo; The French army was mainly equipped with flintlock pistols, bayonets and cannons, while Egypt was mostly equipped with cold weapons, which gave the French army the advantage of modernizing its defense.But in terms of cavalry, the French cuirassiers also used cold weapons, and the Egyptian elite Mamluk cavalry was highly skilled; But even in the battle of cold weapons, the French still won more with less, Napoleon said: "Two Mamluks can definitely win three French soldiers, but a thousand French soldiers can always defeat fifteen hundred Mamluks." ”This is the advantage of the modern army -- strict discipline, strict organization, and coordinated operations, that is, the team spirit that later generations talked about.The greatest characteristic and advantage of the modern army is the team spirit, relying on which it can produce a variety of flexible tactics and control the army with high efficiency.For example, when the enemy's attention is greatly tilted towards the right flank, the front-line commander can easily take advantage of this weakness to attack from behind without sticking to the front and right side of the defense.Coordination, organization, and discipline regard the whole army as a whole, rather than relying on the combat strength of individual soldiers -- the modern army, which is the murderous war machine in human history.The organizational structure of the feudal army like the government military system on the Tang side mainly relies on personal bravery, relying on rank and merit, and relying on robbery (especially nomadic tribes like the Turks) to maintain the fighting spirit, so the feudal army will have the saying that the army will not be stopped and the siege must be que, that is, it is hoped that the opponent will not be forced to fight hard.The modern army doesn't have these arguments, and it's all fought out anyway - it's just a zombie and a walking dead on the battlefield.Soulless armies can only rigidly kill or be killed, and cannot actively fight, so after encountering modern armies, there is once again one-sided massacres.Only ideals can inject soul into the corpse of the modern army, not only the rigidity of the machine but also the flexible tactics and flexible elasticity, so the modern concept of the state and nationalism is a very good thing, so Li Lu has been popularizing Chinese characters and Chinese for his soldiers since the day of the founding of the army, while instilling in them the concept of "fighting for the Han people", which is thousands of years more advanced than the Tang Dynasty.Because Li Lu had served in the most legendary army in human history in his life, the political and ideological work of his troops was very tight, and under the command of those officers who had accepted Li Lu's political and ideological influence, the soldiers fought with full fighting will, flexibly fought for victory according to the battlefield situation, and the defeated individual soldiers could also recover their will to fight on their own, which was something that a feudal army like Li Er's Tang Dynasty soldiers could not do at all.Although Li Lu's army already had most of the elements of a modern army, Li Lu found that the British military system, which was rapidly becoming a firearm, was quite chaotic, which seriously limited the further improvement of combat effectiveness, so Li Lu decided to carry out a major operation on his British army.In the spring of the 21st year of Zhenguan, Li Lu issued a compulsory military service order in Xiaye, clearly declaring that in Britain, all Han people (including Han and Sinicized Hu people) have the right and obligation to serve in the military, and at the same time divided the army into three parts: standing army, reserve force, and militia, established a modern military service system that combines three years of active duty and four years of reserve service, and initially established a new set of modern mobilization system.At the same time, Li Lu made great adjustments to the establishment of the British army, and newly established the General Staff Headquarters, the General Logistics Department, the General Political and War Department, and the "Three General and One Bureau" military leading organs with the General Bureau of Equipment Industry Development as the main body; and at the local level, Li Lu studied the military region system of the Eastern Roman Empire, and set up six major military regions throughout the country, including the Western Regions, the Plateau, Tianzhu, Hezhong, Hanhai, and Fujiang, and each large military region reorganized the troops under its own jurisdiction, and redefined the division of infantry, cavalry, artillery, engineers, and baggage troops.In order to give better play to the power of firearms, the British army has undergone great changes in its establishment, and in the new combat establishment, battalions are the basic tactical units, with six to eight companies per battalion, about 500 to 1,000 men; The second to third battalions are the first regiment, the second regiment is the first brigade, the second brigade is the first division, and the division is the strategic unit.An infantry division of the British army has about eight to ten infantry battalions (the number of which is about 5,000 to 9,500), an artillery battalion, and three artillery companies (12 guns per company).In the British army's combat sequence, the most elite are those combat units with the title of Guards, these Guards soldiers are often tall and burly, and their combat effectiveness is extremely fierce, and they are placed in any other unit, which is the existence of high-level officers who can do it.As for the cavalry of the British army, Li Lu also carried out reforms, and he divided his cavalry units into lancers equipped with cuirass, using spears and sabers, and chassers without cuirassiers, using pistols and horse pistols; Under the new operational establishment, the basic combat unit of the cavalry has become a cavalry company, usually equipped with 140 to 150 horses, and the third to fourth company is a cavalry regiment, and there are cavalry divisions and cavalry corps above the regiment, and the number of regiments under its jurisdiction is not very fixed.With the efforts of Li Lu and his scientists and skilled craftsmen, the British artillery has achieved leapfrog development, and their artillery mounts, gun bodies, and shells have been improved, and the artillerymen are almost the most cultured people in the army, but a native of this time and space from a poor background, he was an out-and-out illiterate before joining the British army, but after joining the army, his demons made Li Ludu admire.Originally, Zhao Rui was just an auxiliary soldier of the British artillery unit, and it was said that he was in charge of the transport of artillery and the miscellaneous soldiers who built the artillery position, but this Zhao Rui liked to think and ponder, and he found that the cannon he was serving was very inconvenient to move, so he began to think about how to make the British army's "God of War" move quickly, in order to make the cannon move better, he shortened the length of the barrel, reduced the weight of the barrel and the gun mount, and made the British artillery have strong mobility.He also fitted the gun carriage with iron axles and sturdy, large-diameter wheels so that he could travel over rough terrain.In addition, at his suggestion, the British Armament Manufacturing Bureau created a more precise spherical and accurate diameter shells, thus ensuring the range and accuracy of the gun, and reducing the charge of the gun, as a result, further reducing the weight of the barrel.In addition, after many experiments, Zhao Rui invented the prefabricated cartridge, which he used to replace the previous feeding method of separate ammunition and cartridges, and improved the rate of artillery shell firing.In addition, at his suggestion, the horses of the British artillery were divided into two rows instead of the single row in the past, so that 6-8 horses were enough to pull a 12-pound cannon, while a 3-6 pound cannon and a new medium-caliber cannon were enough for 4-6 horses.The most surprising thing for the artillerymen was that he also equipped the gunners with a more convenient shoulder harness (this was mainly to facilitate the pulling out of the cannon), and he was the first to use a layered ruler and gun body adjustment device, which greatly improved the firing speed of the British gunners.After learning about Zhao Rui's deeds, he immediately promoted Zhao Rui to the director of artillery training, and let him be fully responsible for the training of artillery.As for Li Lu's navy, there is really nothing to mention, this is mainly because Li Lu got the sea a little late, it's not that he doesn't pay attention to it, now his navy is still in the initial stage, several naval shipyards in the Tianzhu Military Region are working hard to build the Galen ship given by Li Lu, the navy is not the army, and it is useless to have a ship without water, so I really can't remember this, the statement of a century-old navy is not a joke.Finally, it is worth mentioning the military rank system supporting the modernization of sergeants, Li Lu simply and neatly copied the military ranks of the British Imperial Army in the original time and space, and in Li Lu's British Army, it is also divided into officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers, a total of 20 levels.But here's the difference.Li Lu's British marshal was not set up until wartime, and there was a generalissimo above the marshal, and this generalissimo could only be held by Li Lu and his descendants.When the title was conferred for the first time, it was similar to what the people of Broken Leaf City guessed, the British marshals only had Xu Da, Di Qing and Su Lie, and there were five second-class generals, they were Xue Qinling, Li Datong, Ge Shutong, Li Ran, and Zhao Rui, Zhao Ruineng was awarded the general, which fully shows that artillery is Li Lu's heart and soul baby, and he is his own son........
After the great changes were carried out, the British army immediately responded to their commander-in-chief and carried out a vigorous large-scale military training campaign, and they were all determined to strive to get through the run-in period and raise their combat effectiveness to the desired level before the next war came.