Gao Yang's army formation of copying modern time and space did bring some cognitive confusion to the new army at the beginning. But fortunately, the new Royal Army is a newly formed army, and most of the soldiers are pure newcomers like white paper.

The recruits were all recruited for at least 180 days of rigorous military training. After leaving the boot camp, they were already on their own, completely different from the military system of the old Ming army, and they were also incompatible with each other.

Once you get used to this kind of thing, it's not really a big deal. This kind of history-tested compilation does have its benefits. As long as it is far stronger than the chaotic military system before the Ming Empire. Gao Yang also had the intention of making a clear distinction between the new army and the old Ming army, which was hopeless. Break everything and start over. The future belongs to these powerful new armies.

The new-style army that Gao Yang has trained is a professional army that is completely out of production in the true sense. They are completely different from the old-style Ming army that is half army and half peasant, like a gang of beggars. These new soldiers don't need to think about anything other than fighting. And fighting in the cold midwinter season is also a sign of a professional army.

After Gao Yang signed the formal mobilization order, the General Staff Headquarters set up near the military headquarters of the Beijing Division quickly came up with a detailed battle plan for seizing the front line of Xuanda.

This is not a rough battle plan that has been improvised on the fly, but an extremely detailed and comprehensive war plan.

The elite biochemical warrior staff officers in the General Staff have been constantly formulating and revising many battle plans since the establishment of the General Staff. The plan to seize the front line of Xuanda has already been formulated this time, and only a few adaptable modifications need to be made, such as the weather.

According to reconnaissance intelligence. Because of the long-term war and chaos, the people on the front line of Xuanda have suffered heavy losses over the years, and their livelihood has withered. There was simply no way to support a large number of troops to garrison there. But the terrain here in Xuanda is dangerous. Easy to defend and difficult to attack. It is very close to Jingshi, and the location is even more important. Li Zicheng was also reluctant to give up the front line of Xuanda like this.

Li Zicheng sent his generals, his absolute descendants. His nephew Li Guo led the army to camp here. It was used to prepare the Ming army for the westward march all the way to Xi'an, the old nest of the Dashun Dynasty.

According to the plans of the General Staff. This military operation was only a small-scale operation. It was planned to use the cavalry of the 2nd Infantry Division, the White Tiger Division, which was stationed in the northwest direction of the Beijing Division, as well as part of the Dragoon Division. Strengthening a part of the artillery unit, supplemented by a large number of logistical support forces, is sufficient to complete the operation plan.

It's the depths of winter, and the cold doesn't just affect the Ming army. The same is true for the army under Li Zicheng. The impact is even more severe.

At least under these weather conditions, it was almost impossible for Li Zicheng, who was far away in Xi'an Prefecture, to send a large army to Xuanda for reinforcements. For the new army, which has strong combat strength, Li Guo's unit stationed on the front line of Xuanda is completely just a piece of fat on the lips that cannot advance or retreat.

The White Tiger Division has four infantry regiments, a reinforced artillery regiment, and a powerful search force. A large logistical supply force. Plus about 3,000 dragoons from the Dragoon Division. This attack on the front line of Xuanda used a total of about 20,000 troops. This does not include the large number of people hired along the way. Gao Yang did not mean to levy a large number of people to accompany the army. A professional army has its own logistical forces. It doesn't make much sense to bring so many people with you, and the best way is to pay for them directly.

This operation is due to the fact that there is no important matter to deal with on the surface, and it is relatively idle for the time being. In fact, he wanted to set aside as much time as possible for his wife and her sister to sort out the relationship, and Gao Yang personally led the team to the battle.

Gao Yang also brought with him a young staff group of more than twenty people. Many of them are outstanding aboriginal officers and soldiers who have recently emerged in the army and have been selected to enter the General Staff after passing rigorous examinations.

It was not easy for the aborigines to get into the General Staff. First of all, you have to be capable, and you have the ability to be recognized by demanding biochemical warriors. After that, you need to go through many rigorous exams, and the content of the exams is varied. Knowing astronomy, geography and so on are the most basic skills. What weather and meteorological judgments, topographic survey and mapping operations, understanding the folk customs of different regions, etc., etc., these must be involved.

To put it simply, it means that when you get out of the army, you can lead the troops to fight, and when you enter the General Staff, you can plan operations. In the imperial court, you can frighten those outstanding officers and soldiers who are fighting for the interests of the army with big turbans.

Gao Yang has made it clear before. In the future, if you want to be promoted to a position at the level of a general in the new army, it is an indispensable condition to have served in the General Staff and the basic army! Of course, the cyborg warriors are not among them.

A large number of troops went out to fight in the cold wind and snowflakes. That is, only those military powers in modern time and space that have completed mechanized redressing can do it. Something that the professional armies of most countries in modern time and space could not do, let alone in the Ming Dynasty hundreds of years ago.

Although Gao Yang trained the new army of the Ming Dynasty very well, it was well equipped and far surpassed the entire era. But they also did not have the great ability to go on expeditions in such weather conditions. Marching in snowy weather conditions, think of Napoleon and the mustache's army.

The winter snow fell for three days before it finally stopped. After the sky cleared, Gao Yang, who had already prepared in the past few days, quickly set off with the army. I didn't even wait for the auspicious day of the zodiac calculated by the Ministry of Rites.

The army marched all the way north from the White Tiger Division's camp at the foot of Yuquan Mountain in the northwest of the Beijing Division, heading towards Yanqing. After leaving the inner Great Wall of Yanqing, there was Xuanzhen, which was controlled by Li Zicheng's peasant army.

Nearly 20,000 new troops arrived in Yanqing in a short time. This was possible in such harsh weather conditions and on roads covered with snow and ice, thanks to the wide roads that had been built on a large scale.

The Chinese nation is industrious, brave, hardworking and simple. They are not stupid. Of course, I understand the principle of 'if you want to get rich, you must first build roads'. When the rich people in China do good deeds, they will build bridges and pave roads, just because in the era of underdeveloped productive forces. Traffic conditions are a real constraint.

Before, there was just no way, there was no money and manpower to do it. After Gao Yang took the initiative to provide all the needed materials and silver for the large-scale construction of roads. The people along the way burst out with great enthusiasm. In just a few months, the entire Beizhili mobilized a total of millions of laborers, with Jingshi as the center, and built a long and wide avenue in all directions.

The road built from Jingshi to the northwest was not completed until Yanqing Prefecture. Go to the northwest again, and that is Li Zicheng's territory. The road construction on this side will not continue until Goyang has recaptured these places. The first phase of the plan ends in Datong, and the second phase is in Xi'an.

Three days of heavy snow did not affect the pace of the march of the new army. Because the people along the way have already mobilized spontaneously to clean the roads in front of their homes, in front of the village and even in the entire county as quickly as possible.

These wide and neat cement roads are the most important production and living channels for these people. The people have a spontaneous love for these precious paths.

The new army is led by the power search unit of the White Tiger Division. The nocturnists on carefully selected tall horses wore thick winter coats, fur hats, high winter riding boots, tweed cloaks, and military backpacks full of various supplies on the backs of pack horses. The sergeants were all in high spirits and magnificent, and they all looked extremely majestic and majestic. An army that always wins will invisibly form a powerful temperament!

The cavalrymen were all armed with cavalry muskets with shorter barrels and lighter weights. At his waist he carried a chrome-plated war knife that had been forged repeatedly. These cavalrymen were all tall northern men, and they were the elite men carefully selected from their respective units.

These search forces were followed by the main force of the Forces nouvelles, a full four regiments of light infantry. It is said that it is light infantry, but these armies are not light at all in this era. Everyone was dressed in new, heavy winter combat clothing. Lining, mid-coat, thick coat and outermost long military cotton coat. Military uniforms are marked with epaulettes and personal medals, as well as the logo of the Forces nouvelles and the insignia of the unit to which they belong. The logo of the White Tiger Division is naturally a mighty white tiger.

Leather boots lined with high fluff were enough to protect the sergeants from frostbitten toes. Compared to the old-fashioned Ming soldiers who wore shoes with holes everywhere or patches and tattered shoes, they were the equipment of the Ouchi guards.

Each combatant carries a standard Ferguson musket and more than 120 rounds of standard combat base full ammunition.

In addition, the soldiers were equipped with sapper shovels, metal kettles, lunch boxes, armed belts and personal equipment, spare shoes and clothing, simple personal first aid kits, improvised tents and personal bedding, and three days' rations for individual soldiers. There are also military backpacks with items such as tea, sugar, honey, cigarettes, compasses, raincoats, and more.

An ordinary sergeant's individual equipment is more than sixty taels of silver, even if calculated only by the factory price of these personal equipment! And that's not even counting the consumables replenishment! If this is in the old-style Ming army, if there is no supply from Gao Yang, it can only be hehe.

If this army had been supported by the daimyo court, it would have driven all the officials of the household department crazy in a short period of time. An army with strong combat power is a terrifying gold-eating beast!

And that's just an army of less than 100,000 people. If the officials of the Ming Household Department knew the true consumption capacity of the navy, then they could really only cry. (To be continued)