"Actually, you are very opposed to me going on the expedition in your heart, why don't you mention it to stop me?"

"Don't worry, I will never miss our wedding!"

Li Xingzhou smiled slightly and hugged Princess Taiping tighter.

Soon after, news came from Shangguan Wan'er.

The chief of the march is often black-toothed

Shan Yudao marching commander Shi Li Hunyang

General Huan Yanfan of the rear army

Adjutant General Li Xingzhou

After the battle in Longxi that day, Li Xingzhou divided his subordinates into four parts.

One part is Xiong Yanfu, the deputy general of Zuo Yiwei, Shi Zhang Shouqi, the marching commander, and Wang Xingjian, who is a member of the army.

One part is the Longyou Army. Yan Shun, the general of Longyou's military garrison, Shi Yang Jinghui, the marching commander, and Xing Junya, the secretary of the army.

Part of it was Guo Shiheng who served as the Taishou of Shanzhou, and Wei Boyu who served as the deputy general of Shanzhou.

There are also some Cui Anpersim, Wang Sili, Park Jingtai, Wuyang, Li Baishi, Lin Yun, Yan Tingzhi, Wang Rare, Ma Sui, and Wang Xingyan who entered Luoyang City with him.

And now, going out to conquer the Turks, Li Xingzhou naturally does not dare to hold it up.

Xiong Yanfu's troops did not dare to move, after all, they were the main force to deter the party.

But Yan Shun, Xing Junya, and Wei Boyu were transferred by him.

Except for Xiong Yanfu

Li Xingzhou's record of going to Shanzhou on a snowy night is in the front, and he can be regarded as the number one person filmed by the Tang military.

This expedition is also quite important.

Before Li Xingzhou followed Xue Ne to conquer Tibet, mainly as a staff member.

And now, he has come as the main general.

This also gave him a deeper understanding of the entire Datang.

The Tang Dynasty generally implements the government soldier system, and most of the government soldiers come from the peasants, which are regarded as compulsory soldiers, and they are soldiers in wartime and farmers in leisure.

"Guanjian" is the volunteer brave recruited by the Datang government in the extraordinary period of the war, that is, professional soldiers and mercenaries!

In wartime, the usual recruitment of soldiers in the Tang Dynasty is carried out in various Zhichong Mansions.

After entering the palace, there are recruit drills and various adaptations.

Now it is the imperial court that allows the recruitment of "mercenaries" with food and salary, and they are professional soldiers.

Regardless of whether you have the ability or not, since you have taken the initiative to join the army and receive food, you have to come in handy immediately, and then adapt to it yourself when you get to the army.

It's like learning to swim, someone is in a beautiful and clean swimming pool, holding the safety ring and having a coach to help you teach slowly.

There are also people who are thrown directly into the river to choke on the water, and wait to drown if they don't learn!

Datang attaches great importance to the military industry, and if ordinary pawns can make military achievements in the army, they can get Juelu to turn over.

Therefore, once the imperial court pays food and salaries to recruit officials, it is spring for "untouchables" such as homeless slaves and maids.

Even if you can't kill military merits, you can mix some military salaries.

Li Xingzhou raised his eyes and glanced at it before entering the camp.

The huge camp is endless, and in the vast smoke and dust is a boundless sea of people, chariots and horses.

The grain and grass are piled up, the flags are standing like waves, and everyone is busy nervously.

Li Xingzhou now understands what he means by "ten soldiers and three husbands".

In the era of cold weapons, there were no such means of transportation as trains, trucks, and ships.

It was not an easy task to transport the grain, grass and baggage needed by the 100,000-strong army.

An army of 100,000 marched out, a third of whom was to be used exclusively for the transport and storage of baggage.

Sometimes, the imperial court would also levy a part of the people's husbands to reduce the transportation burden of the army.

However, the "labor fee" and the food and drink of the people are undoubtedly a new expense.

Therefore, this time the Northern Expedition did not levy people's husbands, but let all the recruits be responsible for escorting grain and grass.

Today, there are ninety percent of the recruits in this big camp.

Another 10 percent of the veterans served as officers and were responsible for leading the recruits.

These people will carry grain and grass all the way north to the front line of the war, which is equivalent to experiencing the arduous experience of the "recruit company".

After the grain and grass were marched into the barracks, the vehicles were all neatly placed together.

The recruits then unloaded the tents, quilts and cooking utensils from the wagons.

Under the guidance of veterans, he learned to pitch tents and bury pots to cook.

The recruits first carried the grain and grass, and they were all so hungry that their stomachs growled.

Now I have to be busy and settle down on my own, spinning like a spinning top for most of the day without stopping for a moment.

Several of the frail people were too tired to straighten up.

But if his subordinates are a little slow, the fire chief's angry rebuke and even the whip will be swung up.

There is no room for slackness, and no one dares to be lazy and talk back.

On the first day of their arrival, all the recruits were complaining together in their hearts.

Fire is the smallest establishment in the Tang Army barracks, with ten people per fire, which is equivalent to a "squad" in the modern army.

There were eight recruits and two veterans in the fire, and the veterans were, of course, the lead fire captain and the deputy fire chief.

This is not an official "officer", let alone a rank, but their majesty is equally inoffensive and profane.

Otherwise, you will be charged with "contradicting officials", and you will not be able to eat and walk around.

Discipline in the Tang army is very strict, compared to the intrigue in the officialdom and the countermeasures under the policies.

In the military, it is typical for officials to crush people to death, and the authority of officials is 100 percent absolute.

It is a felony to disobey the military order of the officer!

Otherwise, it is impossible to "order and prohibit".

Dinner consisted of porridge cooked with corn mixed with millet and a spoonful of pickles per person.

Dinner in the army is like this, it can only be eaten thin and not too full.

Otherwise, you will not be able to sleep well at night, which will affect your physical strength the next day.

Li Xingzhou really hasn't eaten such a poor diet when he comes to Datang, but everything is fragrant when he is hungry.

In the end, I wanted to split the bowl from the middle and lick it clean.

Everyone is sweaty and dirty, and you want to take a shower? No need to talk!

Water is a precious resource in the army, and the waterwheels go with the army, and the water is only available for drinking.

Unless it is a high-ranking officer, it is too normal for the march to go out without a shower for half a year.

Unless the army is stationed near the water, the average sergeant has the opportunity to take a bath in the river and wash his clothes.

The pain of the march revealed the tip of the iceberg.

Datang is now very wealthy, and the ration of each recruit athlete can reach the standard of two liters of rice per day.

These two are, of course, the result of conversion, and all the rations in the army are converted into rice.

Two liters of rice per person per day sounds like a dead person.

But in practice, this is not necessarily the case.

The military rations in the army are mainly corn, supplemented by millet (millet rice). As for white wheat flour and white rice.

In the Tang Dynasty, it was only a staple food for the aristocracy.

In the army, it is not something that ordinary sergeants can easily eat.

Generally for officers only.

In addition to staple food, the military rations in the army also include things like wine, meat, vinegar, sauce, tea, and salt.

Sake is a fruit wine that is not easy to sour, and there are winemakers in the army who accompany the army.

According to the rules, each person has a pound of wine per day, but except for officers, no one can usually drink alcohol.

Generally speaking, the general mobilization before the war is not only after the victory of the battle, but the ordinary soldiers can drink some wine.

The meat is pickled sorrel or air-dried dried meat, and according to the standard, one pound of meat per person per day can be eaten.

In the same way, it is difficult to eat meat unless it is an officer or after a pre-war victory.

Two taels of meat are actually distributed to each soldier's bowl every day, which is not bad.

Li Xingzhou: The first meal they had in the army today.

There were only a few spoonfuls of lard, and there was no meat at all.

In the military, it is a luxury to want to eat fresh vegetables and fruits.

Salt, tea, vinegar and oil are all available in limited quantities per person.

Horses in the army are a precious resource.

Horse feed is a mixture of alfalfa, soybeans and corn.

Just eating grass is going to run the stomach and get sick.

A horse is better fed than a man, and one horse is worth the ration of six people.

……

Li Xingzhou profoundly understood one thing - to fight a war, what is fought is comprehensive national strength.

To him, those who go down to Shanzhou on a snowy night can only be spread in the market.

The real famous generals are Xue Ne and Hei Tooth Changzhi's scale of two or three hundred thousand.

Han Xin led the troops, the more the merrier.

That's what I'm talking about.

100,000 soldiers eat horses and chew horses, and the daily expenses are staggering.

Therefore, in the Art of War, it is said that "those who make good use of the military will no longer be a member of the army, and the food will not be used for three years, and the food will be used for the country, and the food will be used for the enemy."

Every war is a great loss of national strength and a great burden on the people.

Being able to take one pound of grain and grass from the enemy is equivalent to saving twenty pounds of grain and grass for national strength.

On the contrary, if you lose the first battle, all the grain and grass will be lost to the enemy, and your own national strength will decline greatly and contribute to the enemy's strength.

This is tantamount to weakening one's own national strength and boosting the strength of the enemy.

War is directly related to people's livelihood and national fortunes.

Therefore, the soldier is the "order of the people".

In addition, ordinary soldiers in the Tang Dynasty do work that is more tiring than slaves, carrying their heads to the front line to play for their lives, but life is very hard.

Many people came for that little military pay or to be rewarded after the war.

I really don't know how many of them came with the ideal of "serving the king, protecting Xinjiang and defending the country".

Obviously, we cannot expect these peasants, vagrants, and slaves with an inferior level of education to have such a high level of ideological consciousness.

These ordinary soldiers are not very demanding, and they are usually very satisfied if they can eat better.

It is their greatest expectation that they will be able to receive military salaries and be able to fulfill the rewards after meritorious service.

Therefore, Li Xingzhou believes that if the generals can truly love the soldiers, share weal and woe with the soldiers, and have the confidence to distinguish rewards and punishments, they will be able to win the support of the soldiers.

Only when the foundation of mutual trust is established can we talk about the prestige of the generals, and can we be able to carry out orders and prohibitions and command freely.

An army can become a whole.

But if you want to be a good general, it is not so easy.

He still has countless homework to do before he can use the strategy of war to command his army to defeat the enemy.

This is probably the reason why it is easy to get a thousand troops and hard to find.

……

The Tang Dynasty soldiers were mainly equipped with Mo knives.

Only a certain level can be equipped with a horizontal knife.

The Mo knife is a "big killing weapon" used by the infantry in the Tang army.

The three-meter-long Da Mo knife weighs more than sixty catties, and it has to have a tall stature and strong strength to make it good.

Mo Dao soldiers have naturally become a high-level soldier in the army, and they are treated better in all aspects.

......

Li Xingzhou thought to himself, the grassroots officers in the Tang army are indeed very important.

Like this kind of grass-roots officer of the Seventh Rank Brigade, his level of leading the troops directly determines the quality of the personnel of the first team.

When it comes to fighting, the team is also going to directly lead people to charge into battle.

The military quality of a team directly determines the combat effectiveness level of a whole team of 50 soldiers.

Then, if the military quality of grassroots officers can be improved, the combat effectiveness of the Datang army will be greatly improved.

After the recruit training, the genius shines.

Breakfast was relatively rich, each person ate a steamed bun with meat and a fried loose zi, drank the soup stewed with sheep's head and mutton bones, and also gave out two large steamed cakes as a marching lunch.

At noon, I no longer specialize in cooking in pots.

New recruits were constantly being assembled, and the two large battalions of the right guard were soon full.

There are 12,500 men per army, and here are two armies.

Military orders were handed down from above, and the first two armies were to escort the first batch of grain and grass and set off first.

......

Both armies were new armies, of which recruits accounted for ninety percent.

The head coach of logistics is Huan Yanfan.

Grain and grass and training the new army are both major events, and it is reasonable for Hei Zhi Changzhi to appoint his trusted direct family to escort him.

Huan Yanfan is the general of Bao Taowei, and he has 10,000 under his command, and Li Xingzhou's Zuo Yiwei is also 10,000.

It can be said that the lifeblood of the entire Northern Expedition to the Turks is in their hands.

For 10 consecutive days, Li Xingzhou and these new troops spent time transporting grain and grass, learning military methods, and practicing in the army.

The ability to adapt is very strong, after the first three or four days of discomfort.

Most people have adapted to this hard, remarkable, and hectic life.

Li Xingzhou's hands and feet had already worn out two layers of skin, forming a blood cocoon.

If you use one word to describe these ten days of life, it is a joy in suffering.

Gradually, the recruits became more and more able to adapt to the life of the army, becoming consciously well-behaved and capable and diligent.

The faces of the team and the fire captains are much better than when they first came, and the food treatment for everyone has been improved in all aspects.

Once Team Zhao was very kind, and gave everyone in the team a pair of fruit wine, only two taels.

Although it was just a wet mouth, it was gone, but everyone was still very happy, and since then they have been grateful to Team Zhao for Dade.

The fierce gods often whipped their Zhao team, and gradually became revered like a god by the recruits.

Li Xingzhou remembered a term he learned in his previous life when he was receiving psychological therapy, Stockholm Syndrome.

In short, there is the potential of "abuse and addiction" in human nature, and the military is a typical representative.

They endure all kinds of hardships every day, and gradually they are not only able to adapt to this suffering, but also subconsciously take these sufferings for granted, and even treat them as a kind of enjoyment after a long time.

Suddenly, if you are idle and live a good life, you will not be able to stand it.

If the people above give a little favor in the process of suffering, they will immediately be grateful to the people above and be extremely loyal.

This is the case in the armies of ancient and modern China and foreign countries.

Many people lead troops in this way, but few people know about this "theory".

Therefore, the relationship between soldiers and officers in the army is very deep.

The affection of comrades, sometimes even better than family affection, it is not an exaggeration to say that the two ribs are inserted.

After leading troops for a long time, especially if they have won many battles, a general can often have a lot of diehards.

These people then pass on this message to the people around them and their subordinates.

Word of mouth worshipped layer by layer, and the black tooth Changzhi became an idol in the hearts of all Tang soldiers.

His prestige in the army was unmatched.

Although more than half of the people in the army have never seen the black tooth Changzhi in their lives.

Now Li Xingzhou feels that the ten days of practice are a thousand times more than the harvest of spending 100 days to read military books. And that's just the beginning.

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