The Tang Dynasty already had a complete and mature training method for infantry training, Wang Rare, Gao Xiuyan, Zhang Shouyu and others were quite proficient in infantry training, these do not need to worry about it at all, if the drill method is changed indiscriminately, it may be counterproductive, and Wang Rare and others are not familiar with the new training method, the training effect will be greatly reduced.

For infantry drills, Zhao Ziliang only took time to go to the infantry training camp every day to check the progress of the training, find deficiencies, correct mistakes, and spend most of his time on cavalry training.

The construction of the army includes several aspects, first of all, training, secondly, ideology, and thirdly, weaponry and logistics.

In terms of infantry training, Zhao Ziliang replaced most of the training facilities on the training grounds, and added some facilities for training strength, agility, and endurance.

In terms of cavalry, Zhao Ziliang transferred 6,000 war horses from the whole army to the cavalry battalion, which was already ninety percent of the war horses that the Great Dou Army wanted.

The training of cavalry is definitely not achieved overnight, it must be trained for a long time to form combat effectiveness, fortunately, the recruits recruited are basically Hexi people, they all know how to ride, for these recruits with good riding skills, it is not too difficult to train them into elite cavalry, the first element of cavalry to form combat effectiveness is horsemanship, and this problem is not a problem for the new recruits of the Great Dou Army without the hindrance of this problem, and some other problems are easy to solve.

For the training of cavalry, Zhao Ziliang personally formulated a training plan, including basic training and tactical training, and personally led the training of the troops, and spent most of the day at the training site of the cavalry battalion every day.

The cavalry battalion originally had 600 veterans, but after two battles, more than 100 people were lost, less than 500 veterans remained, and more than 1,200 semi-veterans who had experienced two battles.

Although the soldiers of the cavalry battalion have good riding skills, Zhao Ziliang still arranges at least two hours of riding training every day, and the rest of the time is to train the three combat actions of chopping, slashing, and stabbing in the cavalry and riding and archery, and the combat action only trains the three actions of chopping, slashing, and stabbing.

Zhao Ziliang believes that for ordinary cavalry, as long as these three combat actions are trained in place, after a long period of uninterrupted training, a cavalryman's individual combat ability will be greatly improved, as for other combat actions, too cumbersome, too complicated, a single cavalry does not need to train too many combat actions, which will distract their energy, just like practicing martial arts, as long as they are proficient in a martial art, they are already masters.

As for mounted archery, there is nothing to say, it is to keep practicing archery, the training project of mounted archery, a large number of arrows need to be supplied to the cavalry for archery contact, so the manufacture of arrows and bows and crossbows can keep up, but the bows and arrows used for training do not need to be too good, so the production time does not need to spend too much, the big fighting army has special craftsmen for the production of weapons, bows and arrows, Zhao Ziliang only needs to arrange the production task, and the craftsmen will complete it on time.

However, for Zhao Ziliang's request to complete the manufacturing task of 100,000 arrows within a month, this made the craftsman leader Cao Daren shake his head like a rattle: "No, no, general, it's not that the lower officials and his craftsmen don't help, it's really that the time you asked for is too short, and it is impossible to complete the production of 100,000 arrows within a month, unless you allocate double the number of craftsmen, it will be impossible to complete it within a month anyway!" ”

Zhao Ziliang asked: "General Ben asks you, in addition to the steel carved arrows that give General Ben's characteristics, do you make arrows and arrows by pouring molten iron with abrasives or do you create them one by one?" ”

Cao Yan said: "Of course, use abrasives to pay attention to molten iron, if you build them one by one, it will take more time!" ”

Zhao Ziliang frowned and said: "Since it is infused with abrasives, the production of arrows should be easy, why can't 100,000 arrows be made in a month?" ”

Cao Yan said with a bitter face: "General, the production of an arrow is divided into many processes, including pouring arrowheads, manufacturing arrow shafts, trimming feathers, inserting feathers, assembling arrows and arrow shafts, etc., among which the installation of feathers and the manufacture of arrow shafts are the most time-consuming, and our craftsmen have limited manpower, so they are really too busy!" ”

Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and said: "In this case, then you outsource the process of making arrow shafts, trimming feathers and inserting feathers to the nearby people to do it to the left, you are only responsible for pouring arrows with abrasives and assembling them into complete arrows, let the nearby people take home the feathers and materials for making arrow shafts, let them polish the shafts and be responsible for installing the trimmed feathers at the tail of the arrow, you send people to tell the people how to do it, how long the feathers should be trimmed, how to install them at the tail of the arrow, all the shafts of the arrow should be polished straight and the same thickness, There should be a unified standard for diameter, and it cannot be bent or bent in different thicknesses! If you are worried that the people are wasting too much material, you can consider letting the people buy the materials themselves, and when the production is completed, we will buy them according to the amount of money for each arrow."

Cao Yan patted his head and said happily: "This method is very good, the polishing of the arrow shaft and the trimming and placement of feathers are not complicated, as long as there is a little guidance, the people will make it, if every household in the vicinity participates in the production, it will be done soon!" ”

Zheng San watched Cao Yan leave happily, and smiled at Zhao Ziliang: "The general's move can be said to be counted in one fell swoop!" ”

Zhao Ziliang was a little surprised that Zheng San could see his intentions, and asked with a smile: "Oh? Let's talk about it! ”

"First, it reduces the burden and pressure on the craftsmen; Second, the soldiers can be replenished with arrows in time for training and combat; Thirdly, leaving this to the people in the vicinity can increase their income, as long as the people are skilled, they can make more every day, and in the future, our army will have a steady stream of arrows, as long as they have money."

Zhao Ziliang smiled and didn't speak, turned around and got on his horse and walked outside the station, while Zheng San followed with a horse.

There are tens of thousands of acres of fertile land outside the garrison that are the industry of the Great Dou Army, and the grain and grass of the Great Dou Army are basically self-sufficient, and a considerable part of the ordnance and materials are also built by themselves.

Zhao Ziliang came to the field outside the station to see the growth of the seedlings, the irrigation of the canal, it is already May, the field seedlings have grown a large section, the winter wheat has been harvested, the last time the Tibetan people came to snatch a considerable part.

There is a serious shortage of grain, so that the people in Hexi have to give up planting wheat instead, and plant other food crops with a shorter growth cycle, otherwise they will run out of grain before harvesting wheat, and the growth cycle of these food crops such as soybeans, peas, barley, and broad beans will be shorter, although these grains cannot be used as staple food, but it is still possible to fill the stomach when there is no food to eat.

The Great Doujun also had to plant wheat in the highest-grade fertile fields, barley and millet in the medium-grade fields, and soybeans, peas, and sorghum in the lower fields.

Zhao Ziliang and Zheng San took some servants to walk on the ridge while watching the growth of the seedlings, not far away some Tibetan prisoners are under the supervision of the Tang army soldiers to weed, catch insects, now there are no herbicides, there is no dichlorvos, all are manual operations, although this kind of farm work is hard, but tired people do not die, and there is food, as long as they work hard, they will not be beaten and killed, for the Tibetan prisoners are already very lucky.

Previously, many Tibetan captives tried to escape, but they were soon captured, not only killed themselves, but also killed together with other prisoners in the same group, this is due to the fact that the Great Dou Army implemented a joint sitting system for the prisoners, according to Zhao Ziliang's requirements and instructions, all the captives were divided into groups according to every ten people, set up a team leader, every ten groups were a team, set up a hundred people, every ten hundred people team was a thousand people, set up a thousand commanders, as long as one person in each group tried to escape, it would involve others, and the rest of the group would also be killed together, In this way, if the scale of the escape is expanded, and one group of a hundred people escapes collectively, the entire hundred team will suffer, and if one of the hundred people escapes collectively, all the thousand people to which they belong will sit together.

After the Great Dou Army promulgated such measures and systems, some Tibetan prisoners escaped at first, but soon affected other people in the same group or team, so that all of them were killed.

After such a thing happened several times in a row, the Tibetan captives began to supervise each other in order to save their lives, and there were also Tibetan prisoners in order to live for their own lives, volunteering to act as the eyes of the Great Dou Army in the captives, as long as there was a change in the captives, these "fine works" hidden in the captives would truthfully report to the captives, and after a long time, the captives began to be suspicious of each other, and no one trusted each other, and since then, the management of the Tubo prisoners by the Great Dou Army has become much easier.

Zhao Ziliang looked at some fields and found that the fertility of the fields was insufficient, so he said to Zheng San: "This land is not fertile enough, we have to find a way to fertilize the crops!" ”

Zheng San said with a bitter face: "Although our army has thousands of people, and there is a lot of manure every day, the amount is quite considerable in a month or two, but it can't hold up more fields, 20,000 mu, and it is still not enough for everyone in the whole army to pull it several times a day!" ”

Zhao Ziliang said with a smile: "You can't rely on the manure of the soldiers, the manure of those cattle, sheep and horses can also be collected as fertilizer, and the manure of these livestock is still very fat."

Zheng San was stunned and asked, "Isn't the manure of livestock all collected and dried as fuel?" How can you still fertilize? ”

Zhao Ziliang said: "Of course you can, you can bake wood for fire!" In addition, you can also let the captives go to the woods to collect fallen leaves, rotten can also be chopped up and sprinkled in the field, and the silt in the ditch can be dug up and transported to the field, these can be fertilized, with fertility, the crops will grow well, just rely on the sky to eat, we have to figure out our own way! ”

Zheng San thought thoughtfully, nodded and said, "Okay, I'll arrange it right away!" (To be continued.) )