Three days have passed since Lin Wei's wedding, and in a blink of an eye, it is the day when Tang Ning went to inspect the Zhenguo Army.

The Jin State took the fifty-four prefectures of the Liao State Tokyo Province, which was a dangerous signal for the Great Song Dynasty. Because no country has risen so fast, from last year when it was still a tribe, to now occupy half of the original Liao country, this speed of expansion is staggering.

However, Tang Ning had already prepared, and at the same time he also reminded Zhao Xu, so Zhao Xu was not so surprised.

Regarding the attitude of the Jin State, the opinion of the ministers of the DPRK and China was to send an envoy to the Jin State to reconcile with Wanyan Aguta. Because the goals of both sides are the same, everyone wants to see the Liao State defeated.

The Jin State is for the land and revenge, while the Song State is for fishing in troubled waters and taking back the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun.

Zhao Xu will not let Tang Ning get involved in the affairs of the court, and he now wants Tang Ning to train the Zhenguo Army well.

Tang Ning did not live up to Zhao Xu's expectations, from the end of the Jiaozhi War to the present, Tang Ning has been grasping the training of the Zhenguo Army in the past few years.

He doesn't know any Macedonian phalanx, nor can he do this or that, in Tang Ning's view, the most effective way to improve the combat ability of soldiers is training.

Physical training, training in weapon mastery, training in soldiers' ability to march under obstacles or difficulties.

These are the most important things in the era of cold weapons, even in the era of hot weapons.

The formation is just a icing on the cake, but the improvement of physical fitness is a real send-off.

Therefore, the current training method of the Zhenguo Army is to run three kilometers with weights every morning, and then come back to rest and have breakfast. After breakfast, training in the use of weapons began.

In the afternoon, sometimes the soldiers were allowed to relax, and sometimes they were engaged in drills and confrontations.

The left wing led by Shen Qian and the right wing in the construction of the seed will send people to decide the winner in various ways on the school field every half month.

For example, sprints, long jumps, high jumps, and so on...... This is how Downing moved the sports meeting here.

Although this is the case, it is indeed very popular with the soldiers. The boring training life always needs some condiments, and the soldiers also need some motivation to move forward.

After all, the winning side can drink a big bowl, eat a lot of meat, and taunt the opponent as much as possible. And the losing side can only hold the steamed bun and nibble on pickles, endure humiliation, train hard, and wait for the next turn.

And every month, the left and right hatchbacks will be simulated in actual combat.

Wrap a knife and the tip of a spear in a thick strip of cloth, and after dipping it in lime, it will not hurt a person, but will only leave a white mark. The position of the white seal is used to judge whether the person can or not

Keep fighting again.

To this end, an arbitration battalion was set up in the Zhenguo Army, and the job of these people was to supervise the wounded on the spot during the simulated actual combat.

For example, if a soldier has a white mark on his arm, they will jump out and say that your arm is useless and can no longer be used, and then tie the arm to your shoulder with a rope without saying a word.

Of course, there are still lapses sometimes, but most of them are caught by the arbitration camp.

The simulated actual combat made the soldiers even more eager to try, because every time at this time, there would be high-ranking officials in Beijing to come to observe.

When it was held for the first time, Zeng Bu personally brought seven or eight Privy Council officials to watch. The second time was even more terrible, it was Zhao Xu himself who came to watch the whole thing.

At that time, the brains on both sides were about to be knocked out, and no one wanted to lose face in front of the emperor. After the beating, there were nearly 10,000 people lying in the barracks, and Zhao Xu, who was harmed, came to see it several times later, and it was all from Weifu private visits.

It's not just Zhao Xu, Zeng Bu. Zhang Dun, Cai Bian, and the general eunuch, etc., as long as they are interested in this simulated actual combat, Tang Ning will be allowed to go, but they will have to pay an entrance fee of thirty taels of silver.

However, the most exciting part of the simulated actual combat is that the rewards are more generous, and the winning side can have two days off, during which they can not participate in the training and only watch the other party's training.

You can also order your own food and choose your own dishes from the menu listed in the cooking camp.

This high-risk, high-reward model was deeply loved by the soldiers, and later everyone found out that the two-day holiday was completely to make the winning side lazy, so as to give the other side a chance to turn the tables in the next simulated actual battle.

Today is another simulated actual battle once a month, so Tang Ning got up early and came to the barracks of the Zhenguo Army.

There are four or five Privy Council officials who have come to watch today, as well as craftsmen who will be overseers. The purpose of their coming here is to improve the weapons or armor used by the soldiers according to actual combat.

Two-thirds of the soldiers in the Zhenguo Army were veterans of the battlefield. At the end of the simulation, they will be interviewed by the supervisor to ask them what they think of the ordnance currently in use and improve accordingly.

Since the end of the alliance with Liao last year, Zhao Xu has saved half of the huge expenses used to support people's livelihood, and the other half has been stuffed into the prison as research funds.

Zhao Xu followed Tang Ning's suggestion, and the road to strengthening the army starts with science and technology.

In this year's huge expenditure, Zhao Xu took out one-third to support the people's livelihood, one-third to the general as a prisoner, and the other one-third to create something called a reward.

This thing was hung under the name of the Ministry of Heavenly Industry, a new government agency of the Great Song Dynasty, and was used to encourage the invention and creativity of the people or officials.

Since the Ministry of Heavenly Engineering awarded a bonus of ten taels of silver to Su Shi's family, who had just passed away a few years ago, saying that it was a reward for Su Shi's invention of Dongpo meat, all kinds of strange people came to Tokyo City with their strange things.

Naturally, the Ministry of Heavenly Works was set up at the suggestion of Downing, because the officials here did not need to do anything, only to judge the value of such an invention. Therefore, the officials here can't just find someone to fill the position.

The retired Su Song was hired back, and even Shen Kuo, who is now more and more energetic, was invited from Runzhou. In order to support the relationship between the public and the loser, the Ministry of Heavenly Work has found a few craftsmen who are the losers to sit here.

The descendants of the Mo family, who were moved by the news, also defected to the government and were gladly accepted.

What the future holds, Downing doesn't know. But Tang Ning can foresee that the Tiangong Department will definitely become a place to gather the essence of Da Song science and technology in the future.

The road to the future, Tang Ning has already paved the way for the Great Song Dynasty. Whether or not we can continue this path and whether we can maintain our foresight is a matter for those in power. For Zhao Xu to do this, Tang Ning felt that he had done his best.

The simulated actual combat began at noon, and the setting of the left carriage was that they rushed to the battlefield after running five kilometers with a load, so everyone was carrying a burden that did not look light.

And the setting of the right compartment is to be raided, and every inch is in chaos. Pole-handled weapons cannot be used, and outer armor cannot be worn. This meant that without the protection of armor, the bastards of the Arbitration Camp would immediately demand their fate when they saw them being cut down.

This part of the session is the favorite part of the Privy Council, and in the past, the training was a dry fight between the two sides. The thing called the setting that Tangning came up with is really too quintessential and surprising.

Through this setting, various situations that may occur on the battlefield are simulated, and the soldiers' ability to deal with unexpected situations is trained.

Tang Ning sighed with emotion that the place was too small, otherwise he would have more ideas. The Privy Council could not do anything about it, and they did not dare to easily delegate the Zhenguo Army to the locality, and near Tokyo City, the Communist Party was such a big place, so they could only persuade Tang Ning to settle.

The soldiers in the left wing really ran five kilometers with weight, and they didn't eat lunch. The people in the right compartment sat in place and wore close-fitting leather soft armor, and one of them held a short knife about the length of his forearm, and only waited until the soldiers in the left compartment arrived panting before he pretended to jump up, and then screamed and killed him.

An inch long, an inch strong. In the case that long soldiers cannot be used, the test is the ability of the soldiers to fight hand-to-hand.

Fortunately, the current regulations of the Zhenguo Army are that each soldier must be proficient in more than two weapons, and several other weapons can not be proficient, but they must also be proficient.

Otherwise, the last-ditch system is adopted, and those who don't keep up are thrown into a place called the lag camp......