On the sixteenth day of the first month, Zhao Ziliang's two wives, three children, nephews Zhao Hu and Zheng San had not yet arrived, but Zhao Ziliang couldn't wait any longer, he had already said in front of Xuanzong in advance, no matter how many soldiers and horses he could recruit this time, he would have to leave camp and set off for Beiting on the fifteenth day of the first month. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

After inquiring about the news through various channels, he has learned that the Beiting Metropolitan Protector and the Beiting Xingying Jie Du Envoy Lai Ji are seriously ill and unable to serve as a director, and the military and political affairs are now handled by the adjutants, but the adjutants are not the chief officials after all, and they do not have the responsibility and courage, and they are inevitably afraid to do things, and many things are handled late or inappropriately, and there will be problems, which is also the reason why Lai is anxious to let the imperial court send someone to replace him as soon as possible.

However, now the older generation of generals who have prestige in the army are all dead and paralyzed, and the younger generation has not grown up, and their prestige and qualifications are slightly insufficient, which is also the reason why Xuanzong asked Lai Ji to take the top for a period of time anyway, because he has no one to use.

In fact, with Zhao Ziliang's qualifications and military exploits, he can directly take up the post of Beiting Protector and Beiting Xingying Jiedu Envoy, but Xuanzong has just dismissed him from his post because he destroyed Hui and Dongge Lulu in Mobei, he can't slap himself in the face and immediately appoints Zhao Ziliang to be the Beiting Protector, it just so happens that the Xige Lulu people raided Xilin to guard and capture, and the guards and the following generals were all killed, so he pushed the boat to demote Zhao Ziliang to Xilin to guard and capture, first go there to gain a firm foothold, stabilize the situation, and then let him take over to guard the North Court.

Early in the morning, after breakfast, the army pulled out the camp and set off, the desolate and long horn sound came out more than ten miles away, the whole Chang'an City heard this sound, and the people around Chang'an City knew that the Zhao family army was going to set off for the north court.

There were more than 7,200 recruits in total, and the earliest ones had been trained for a month, and the latest had only been trained for one day, but both the first and the last ones had learned to walk in unison, stand upright, stand still, and run, although most of the people on the march were not in the correct posture, and the formation was scattered and crooked, but at last they looked decent.

Before the camp set off, Zhao Ziliang had already made arrangements and plans: the first ten days on the march, the daily march of sixty miles, this is the normal marching speed of the Tang army every day, according to the plan must be completed before twelve o'clock at noon, that is to say, it must be set off at five o'clock every day, and the march of thirty kilometers must be completed in seven hours, as long as the command is appropriate, when assembling the camp and in the middle of the journey, all the walking can be realized, and the middle can only stop and rest for an hour at most; After lunch, we will rest for an hour, and the instructors will lead the team to practice in the same place, until dinner at seven o'clock in the evening, that is to say, we will march at the fastest speed for half a day in the morning, and train in the rest place in the afternoon. The instructors are Zhao Ziliang's subordinates, and each subordinate is responsible for the training and living affairs of 30 recruits.

From the eleventh day to the twentieth day of the march, the daily march of the army must reach seventy miles, and it is still five o'clock every day to pull out the camp and set off, stop at twelve o'clock to rest and eat, rest for an hour halfway, and take a combination of marching and trotting, the recruits adapt to ten days in front, slightly strengthened, and should be able to complete it under the condition of ensuring sufficient food and water, and after the marching speed increases, the instructors need to be responsible for calming and motivating morale, which Zhao Ziliang is not worried about, He believed that each of his servants would be able to control thirty recruits.

From the twenty-first to the thirtieth day of the march, the daily march of the large army must reach eighty miles, increase the speed of walking and trotting, in the plains, this marching speed is not a problem at all, and now in other armies of the Tang Army, the fastest infantry march speed can reach one hundred and twenty miles per day, of course, this is elite infantry.

After that, the march increased by ten miles every ten days, reducing the time of walking and increasing the time of running, and completing the planned amount of training on the premise of not reducing the training time of other subjects.

There are not only infantry in the army, but also 2,000 cavalry, now these two thousand cavalry can not be called real cavalry, can only become a person who can ride a horse, the task of the cavalry in the march is to practice riding under the guidance of the instructor, can ride a horse is not good, but also can control the horse, to practice riding skills more exquisitely, to understand the horse, to practice several combat actions on horseback, practice how to open a bow, because it is on the march, so can not practice riding and shooting, only after stopping and resting can you set the target to practice riding and shooting.

The amount of marching and training plans arranged by Zhao Ziliang is not small, and it cannot be said that it is not unhurried, but such a large amount of training and marching speed are not added up all at once, but there is a step-by-step process, and the recruits can completely adapt to it.

From Chang'an to Beiting Prefecture, the Zhishu Tingzhou used the unit of measurement of later generations to 5,000 li, and the Tang army's march generally took two months to arrive, but Zhao Ziliang not only had to let this recruit complete basic training on the march, but also to reborn this new army in the shortest possible time, at least the daily marching speed should exceed 120 miles, even in the desert, the daily march should exceed 90 miles.

The marching route to Beiting is still the same as the marching route to Anxi, after arriving in Lanzhou, take the Hexi Corridor, at the beginning the recruits are very unbearable for the daily marching speed and training, not very early to get up and march, and train in the afternoon, until dark, this kind of exercise is not unbearable for ordinary people, but Zhao Ziliang recruited strong men over the age of sixteen and forty years old, these recruits have no brushes on their bodies, and they can't bear it for ten days at first, but they survived after half a month.

On this day, Xuanzong remembered that Zhao Ziliang was not at ease when he took more than 7,000 recruits who had not undergone any training to Beiting, so he found Gao Lishi and asked, "Where are Zhao Ziliang and his 7,000 recruits now?" ”

Where did Gao Lishi know, so he asked someone to inquire, and the news quickly came, and Gao Lishi reported to Xuanzong after learning the news: "Your Majesty, there is news that Zhao Ziliang has arrived in Lanzhou three days ago!" And it is said that the group of farmers has been reborn and does not look like farmers at all! ”

Xuanzong calculated, and couldn't help but gasp: "It's only been half a month, and he took that group of farmers to walk 1,700 miles (ancient measurements, about 1,300 miles in later generations)?" How did he do it? ”

Gao Lishi smiled bitterly: "The old slave is dull, I really can't think of how he did it, even if Li Jingsheng is afraid that he can't take a group of farmers to walk 1,700 miles in half a month!" ”

This is just a group of recruits, if Zhao Ziliang trains this group of farmers into an elite division, he is afraid that he will not be able to walk three hundred miles every day? This number made Xuanzong's jaw drop in shock! At this time, he remembered Yang Yuhuan's words, and suddenly a sense of pride arose in his heart!

Now Wang Zhongsi is fighting against the Tubo people in Shanzhou, Zhao Ziliang has not been able to see him, which makes Zhao Ziliang feel very regretful, this has always made him curious and admired, the famous Tang Dynasty general has never had the opportunity to meet him, and Wang Zhongsi's contemporaries and the same name Huangfu Weiming, Fumeng Lingcha and others, he has seen, and acquaintance, and also established a deep friendship, but every time he misses Wang Zhongsi, to say that in the entire Tang Dynasty, the most powerful side general is Wang Zhongsi, wearing four knots to make the general's seal, the entire Tang Dynasty except for Wang Zhongsiand no one else.

Zhao Ziliang led the army to rest outside Lanzhou for a day, and it happened that his family caught up, Chen Qingying and Nie Sanniang, the eldest son Zhao Lei, the youngest son Zhao Ting, daughter Zhao Xue, and nephews Zhao Hu, Zheng San and Nuer all arrived, the family was very happy after gathering, and the army rested for another day before leaving, and the logistics affairs were handed over to Zheng San to take over.

On the sixth day of the first month of February, Zhao Ziliang and his family and army passed through Liangzhou City, and met Li Guangbi and An Sishun, Li Guangbi is now the Hexi soldier and horse envoy and the Chishui military envoy, An Sishun is the Dadou military envoy, both of them were his protégés in the martial arts scientific examination in the 29th year of Kaiyuan, but he did not specifically promote these two people, but when these two people were assigned to Shuofang, he once wrote to Wang Zhongsi to recommend them, but I didn't expect Wang Zhongsi to give face so much, and take the two of them with him, One was promoted to the Hexi Soldier and Horse Envoy and the Chishui Military Envoy, and the other was promoted to the Great Dou Military Envoy.

Among the two people, An Sishun and Li Guangbi, Li Guangbi is the most valued by Wang Zhonghei, followed by Ge Shuhan, An Sishun, and Wang Sili.

The ancients had several kinds of etiquette, especially the high-ranking families, the higher the status, the heavier the etiquette, Li Guangbi is obviously this kind of person, when Zhao Ziliang led the army to Liangzhou, he and An Sishun and Wang Sili and others who got the news from the Dadou Army garrison led the Liangzhou civil and military officials out of the city for ten miles to greet each other, you must know that although Zhao Ziliang's military rank is already a loyal general, but the official position is only a guard, their official position is several levels higher than him, but who made Zhao Ziliang a teacher, and they are protégés!

Li Guangbi and others said that when they got Zhao Ziliang dismissed from all positions and entered Beijing to face the saint a few years ago, these students seemed to have a joint letter to intercede, but later received an urgent letter from Zhang Shouyu to dispel this idea.

Zhao Ziliang said that you are right that you did not jointly write a book, if you really write a joint book, I am afraid that not only will it not work, but it will make the emperor even more suspicious.

Zhao Ziliang only stayed in Liangzhou for one day, then led the army to continue westward, and soon arrived in Guazhou, this time he was familiar with the road and environment in the desert, and the marching speed was much faster than before, and at the same time avoided the quicksand river and the dust storm in the Mohe Yan moraine of 800 miles.

On February 28, Zhao Ziliang arrived in Tingzhou with his family and army, and saw the seriously ill Lai Zhen in the Tingzhou Beiting Duhu Mansion, Lai Zhen's condition was indeed serious, but he would not die for a while and a half, because he had hemiplegia caused by a stroke, and he was drunk like this, and Zhao Ziliang estimated that Lai Jian had very serious high blood pressure.

Zhao Ziliang read it, it was equivalent to reporting in the Beiting Protectorate, he had always borrowed a thousand elite cavalry for the time being, used to protect Xilin and the seven thousand recruits, the training of these recruits has not yet been completed, although the marching speed can reach 180 miles a day, and many combat actions have been completed, but neither the infantry nor the cavalry have carried out tactical and phalanx coordinated combat training, so if this army wants to exert its combat effectiveness, it must wait for several months or even half a year.

Although Lai Ji was half-paralyzed and his speech was slurred, his mind was still relatively clear, he understood Zhao Ziliang's situation, and signaled the adjutants to transfer a cavalry battalion from the Tianshan Army for Zhao Ziliang to take away, and return it after half a year. (To be continued.) )