Fourth Update! For the knife in hand with me to go ten thousand rewards plus more, thank you for the reward, there are a lot of monthly passes today, Muzi remembers, how many more will be written down one by one!

What Zhang Chao doesn't quite understand is that Li Shimin still lacks an officer with a logistics battalion? Why do you have to bring yourself with you?

"I have a feeling that I can't go wrong with you. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" Li Shimin seemed to see Zhang Chao's doubts, "You don't have to worry about other things, in this special period, even if I recruit you to join the army, it won't matter." Let's go and lead the army, in two days, we will go on the expedition. ”

Zhang Chao took Li Shimin's military order and went to Weiwei Temple to lead the army.

The Weiwei Temple is somewhat similar to the General Armament Department of the Tang Dynasty, which is in charge of the arsenal. The person in charge of the arsenal is still an acquaintance, Zheng Yuanxuan's brother, Zheng Yuanxun, a man from Yongan County. He is the fourth son of Zheng Yi, the brother of Zheng Yuanxuan, and the cousin of Cui Yingying.

"I didn't expect San Lang to go to Longyou, and he was also awarded the head of the march of the right rear army by the King of Qin to lead an army. You have to be careful, King Qin may be trying to harm you. Zheng Yuanxun whispered to Zhang Chao, the Zheng family is a hardcore prince, and he naturally regards King Qin as an opponent.

The Zheng family has long regarded Zhang Chao as a prince's party.

"Unlucky, I was going to go on the expedition with the prince before, but I suddenly felt unwell. My body was just a little better, and I was ready to go to Hebei, but who knew that King Qin suddenly asked people to accompany the army. I didn't want to go, but he sent someone with a sword, and said he was going to take my head back. ”

"A good man doesn't suffer immediate losses, you can go for the time being, but you have to be more careful. When the crown prince triumphs, he will reason with King Qin then. ”

Zhang Chao spread his hands, "I'm worried that this time there will be more luck and less luck." King Qin transferred me to join the army, but let me have a person who has never led soldiers at all to command the right rear army, you see the equipment he asked me to receive, one person and one suit suit, and then one person and one foot lance, it's gone, isn't it a joke.

Even if it is to transport equipment, grain and grass, it can't be without the slightest armament. ”

Zheng Yuanxun smiled, "Don't worry, I will make up the equipment for you." ”

"Will this work?"

"Of course it works, you are sending troops to fight, and it is normal for the court to draw equipment for you."

Li Shimin only gave Zhang Chao this bit of armament, because the soldiers in Zhangjiagou had not been trained, and they would not use shields, bows and arrows if they were given them, and secondly, the treasury was not so sufficient. Li Shimin even only planned to use the right rear army as a people's transport team, so he only had one infantry lance per person, and this was because the infantry spear had many other uses, such as being used to set up camps, set up tents, and be used to resist horses.

Zheng Yuanxun was in charge of the arsenal, and there was nothing wrong with allocating some weapons to Zhang Chao's right rear army.

"I'll give you each a spear and a horizontal knife, and ten people with a tent, what do you think?"

Each soldier is equipped with a spear in addition to a lance, it is not superfluous, after all, the spear is a multi-purpose thing, when marching, set up a fence and set up a tent to resist horses, it is useful, this is not only a weapon, but also with an extra spear, it is equivalent to having a spare weapon, which can replenish the loss at any time.

Zhang Chao was more concerned about giving him 3,000 horizontal knives.

Horizontal knives are not cheap, 3,000 horizontal knives, big spending.

The horizontal knife is not only a hand-to-hand combat weapon, but also can be used as a tool for many purposes. A horizontal knife is better than a spear.

At Zhang Chao's request, Zheng Yuanxun gave Zhang Chao some more pots, and each person also had a gourd filled with water. Originally, Zhang Chao wanted to bring another bow to each person, but in the end, Zheng Yuanxun did not agree to this request, and finally only gave Zhang Chao 300 bows and crossbows and 10,000 arrows. In Zheng Yuanxun's words, a person who has not been trained is equipped with a knife and a gun, and he can be useful when he encounters the enemy, but the bow and crossbow are not of much use if he has not been practiced.

A hundred bows and two hundred crossbows were given entirely on the basis of personal relationships.

Tossed around in various yamen for a day.

Zhang Chao finally got a lot of equipment for his 3,000 men.

Each person has a rifle, a spear, and a horizontal knife.

In addition, there are 300 tents, including matching crossbars, girders, nails, piles, hammers, etc.

The other is a bag of dry food, and another bucket of two liters of dry food. A water bag can hold a bucket of five liters of water and another gourd. An iron horse bowl is an iron lunch box, which can also be used as a pot when needed.

In addition, there are three pairs of shoes and two sets of military uniforms.

One person with a felt hat and an iron helmet. This helmet was finally sharpened by Zhang Chao from Zheng Yuanxun, the armor is not expected, the helmet is so good that it can be used as a defensive effect when encountering the enemy.

The last three thousand, and a hundred longbows and two hundred crossbows, ten thousand arrows, and a thousand bowstrings.

The task of their right rear army was to escort grain and grass, but they did not need to pull the cart themselves, but only guarded. Therefore, wagons, mules and donkeys are not needed. There are also special people who transport grain and grass equipment, and they are actually guarding these grain delivery teams.

This right rear army of 3,000 men did not have half a cavalry.

There is no equipment for a group of six packs like the government soldiers, so they can only carry the equipment on their own backs. Fortunately, they also have less equipment, so they can carry them on their backs.

Compared with the regular government soldiers, their equipment is poor, and the militia is inferior.

If Zheng Yuanxun hadn't opened the back door, he wouldn't even have these three thousand horizontal knives, spears and three hundred bows and crossbows.

Taking advantage of the last two days when Li Shimin was still recruiting, Zhang Chao also trained his right rear army very carefully.

Grinding guns in battle, not fast and light.

The content of Zhang Chao's training is very simple, that is, the drum and flag order. There were more than 3,000 people in the right rear army, which was a very large force, and how to command such an army in the field was a very troublesome matter.

Even those government soldiers have to spend a lot of time training every year.

The first item of training for the government soldiers is this command.

Zhang Chao: According to the normal Tang Army system, each brigade was awarded a team flag, and there was a special flag bearer and a flag guard. Anyway, Zhang Chao used drums to order the flag bearer, and the soldiers in each team had to follow the flag bearer.

Where the flag is, the soldiers of this team will be there. When the team flag stops, the whole team stops.

For more complicated orders, Zhang Chao can't familiarize these flag bearers with it in the short term. Under normal circumstances, in addition to the drum band, Zhang Chao would have several flag bearers around him. Each person is responsible for one direction, Zhang Chao ordered, and then the soldiers passed the order to the flag bearer, the flag bearer played the flag, and the flag bearers of each team identified and responded.

Just by using the flag, you can direct the advance and retreat of each team, go out on defense, and so on.

Now Zhang Chao doesn't expect to do these people, but he also hopes that they can understand the simplest orders, such as blowing horns and beating drums to attack, and Mingjin to withdraw troops.

Flags to advance, stop advancing, retreating, etc.

Zhang Chao felt that his requirements were very low.

It's just a few simple commands, but these teenagers can't remember them. The most terrible thing is those flag bearers, who have to make a mistake with Zhang Chao's signal flag order, holding the team flag, and often making mistakes in the order.

Even the commander of the left team was clearly in command, but the standard-bearer of the right army acted according to the order.

Zhang Chao finally had to divide the flag of his 60th team into five colors.

Blue, yellow, red, white, and black are five colors, one color for every twelve teams, and the twelve team flags are one color. Then on the flag of these twelve teams, there are 12 zodiac signs, Zi (Rat), Chou (Ox), Yin (Tiger), Mao (Rabbit), Chen (Dragon), Si (Snake), Wu (Horse), Wei (Sheep), Shen (Monkey), You (Rooster), 戌 (Dog), Hai (Pig).

Each flag is an image of a zodiac animal.

In this way, each team flag is unique, green mouse, yellow mouse, red mouse, white mouse, black mouse.

Zhang Chao asked each soldier to draw the team's logo on the chest and back of the suit to distinguish them.

After tossing for a long time, it's finally getting better.

For this reason, Zhang Chao changed the original three battalions and six regiments to three battalions and five regiments, one of which has only one regiment, and this Red Flag Regiment is Zhang Chao's regiment directly under the Chinese army.

Two days.

Two days later, the Right Rear Army looked a bit like an army for free.

Li Shimin took a group of civil and military officers from the marshal's mansion and took the time to come over to inspect Zhang Chao's right rear army.

On the school ground, the young soldiers all changed into military uniforms. It was divided into five phalanxes, and each phalanx stood fairly neatly. Thanks to the original Zhang Chao's implementation of the morning exercise system in the workshop, the workers will do gymnastics in the morning, and the formation queue will still be lined up.

There are three battalion flags, five regimental flags, and sixty team flags, and the flags are divided into five colors.

The 60 team flags are also painted with images of the 12 zodiac signs. The soldiers under each team flag also have the same color painted on the chest and back of their battle shirts, and their helmets even have a feather of the same color as the team flag.

Li Shimin was a little shocked.

He didn't expect that Zhang Chao's miscellaneous soldiers would still look like that, and they were very neat and imposing.

"How did you do that?"

Li Shimin looked at Zhang Chao next to him, this Zhang San can often give him many surprises.

Zhang Chao shook his head, "The time is too short, and it's just a little bit of a look." If you really encounter an enemy, you can't guarantee that they will scatter in a hurry. ”

"It's great to be able to do that, they can stand in a neat phalanx. Let's rehearse! Li Shimin originally planned to just come over and take a look, but now he is not in a hurry to leave.

Zhang Chao nodded, and then walked to the front review stand.

"A left turn and twenty steps forward."

The herald gave Zhang Chao's words to the standard-bearer, who raised the cyan flag and shook it in the direction.

There were five phalanxes on the field, and the flag-bearers of the cyan phalanx also raised their flags and waved.

Li Shimin and the others saw that the cyan phalanx really began to turn to the left, and then moved forward about twenty steps and stopped.

The team that stopped was not as neat as before, but Li Shimin was even more shocked, in two days, Zhang San was really able to make those middle-aged boys and teenagers who were still working in the workshop three days ago understand the flag order.

Zhang Chao continued to order, one will let the second regiment go east, and the other will let the third regiment go west. He can even specifically command the team below, although it is not so smooth to command at the team level, but the command is more than half effective.

Li Shimin also quickly discovered that Zhang Chao's command trick was those command flags, and every time Zhang Chao wanted to mobilize a certain regiment, his standard-bearer would wave the same flag as the regiment. If he wants to command a certain team, he will wave the flag of a certain team, for example, a regiment and a team, that is, wave the green mouse flag, and a regiment of twelve teams, that is, wave the green pig flag.

The people below see that it is a regimental flag, so they just need to look at the color. If you see that it is a team flag, then identify the color pattern on the flag, and then the corresponding team, and then recognize the flag language.

"How did you do that?"

"I would also like to thank Your Highness for the captains of the team I have given me, I asked you to send two captains and lieutenants to teach the flag bearers of each team one-on-one and teach them to recognize the flag language.

My flag bearer passed my order down in the flag language, and then the teams of each team below identified it with the flag bearers, and then passed the order through the team flag, and the team leader followed the order.

At present, the command method of this set of flag orders is not perfect, such as using lights and drums at night, but we have not had time to train well. ”

"It's already good, really. Wen Yuan, I didn't expect that you were still a genius with soldiers. Li Shimin did not hesitate to praise him.

Li Shimin was happy, and specially awarded Zhang Chao's right rear army a black military flag and a black eagle with wings.

"This eagle raised the flag and awarded to the Right Rear Army."

After Li Shimin left, Zhang Chao immediately learned and put it into practice, and gave each of his three battalions an official battalion flag.

The first battalion was awarded the Teng Leopard Flag, the second battalion was awarded the Flying Bear Flag, and the third battalion was awarded the Sky Wolf Flag.

The following five pictures are flags with five colors, the first regiment of green, the second regiment of yellow, the third regiment of red, the fourth regiment of white, and the fifth regiment of black.

After three days of recruitment, Li Shimin recruited more than 10,000 people in Chang'an, including Zhang Chao's 3,000 people. Together with the 10,000 soldiers and horses given to him by Li Yuan, he formed a legion.

Under the jurisdiction of the seven armies, the middle army, the left Yu Hou army, the right Yu Hou army and the left front army, the four armies are all regular army allocation, there are sufficient soldiers, all kinds of arms are complete, with a quota of auxiliaries.

However, the remaining three armies of the right front, left rear, and right rear were all newly recruited soldiers from Yishui.

Of the three recruit corps, Zhang Chao's right rear army is the youngest among the soldiers, but it is relatively good, relatively well-equipped, and the morale is also good.

Compared with the other two armies, there is really a feeling of complete rabble.

As soon as the three days arrived, Li Shimin could not delay any longer.

Li Yuan's special purpose is to reward the soldiers before the expedition and reward wine and meat.

In order to motivate morale, the imperial court was very generous.

Each soldier was given two liters of wine, two catties of mutton, half a liter of white rice, two pancakes, two steamed cakes, and three mutton soups.

These reward specifications are only a little less than the usual government soldiers.

There is no restraint in these things.

The east and west were divided according to the armies, and then the armies were divided into battalions, and the battalions were divided into regiments, and the regiments were divided into teams.

Finally, the barracks are full of the smell of rice, meat, and wine.

This is also the last refreshing meal before the expedition, and when the army is officially dispatched tomorrow, no more alcohol is allowed. It's hard to eat meat, mutton soup, and pancakes.

Sitting next to the bonfire, drinking wine and eating meat, listening to the young soldiers imagining the scene of killing the enemy on the battlefield with longing, Zhang Chao felt that the wine had become bitter.

With just 20,000 people, if you go to Longyou, it will not be much of a problem to just stick to Longguan or Lanzhou, Qinzhou and other cities. But the question is that the person who led the troops was Li Shimin, would he be willing to get the military power with great difficulty, but just run to hide in the city and not come out?

Such a temporary patchwork of soldiers and horses, really hard to fight over the Tuyuhun army, this time I am afraid it will be a hard battle! (To be continued.) )