Chapter Eighty-Seven: Outliers

After dinner, Zhao Ta and the fire army boiled several large pots of boiling water, one for the soldiers to drink, and the other for the soldiers to wash their feet. According to the military regulations formulated by Zhao Ta, except in special circumstances, the water must be drunk boiled, if it is violated, the mild military stick will be served, and the heavy will be beheaded, and this military regulation has been strictly observed. Because Zhao Ta knew that in addition to the fighting, another important reason for the large-scale casualties of the Ludao army was the epidemic, and the large-scale non-combat attrition caused by the epidemic caused the annihilation of the entire army was not only a frequent occurrence in ancient times, but also abound in modern armies.

Taking advantage of the free time after the meal, the soldiers were busy wiping down and maintaining their weapons and tidying up their personal hygiene. Doctors from the health team have also started to visit the cities to see if anyone is sick or injured, and it is the cold winter season, and frostbite can occur if the protection is not properly protected. At the same time, they used the cauldron of the fire army to boil Chinese medicine and make a medicinal soup for everyone to take, even Zhao Ta was no exception.

The main function of this medicinal soup is to relax and neutralize qi, cure uncontrolled diet, hunger and satiety, or too much cold matter, or hard things to stay, or sleep after eating, or worry and anger, or labor and energy, spleen and stomach disharmony, stagnation of the three navels, internal wind cold, external cold and evil, cold and strong heat, pain all over the body, chest and diaphragm stuffiness, cholera vomiting, spleen pain and stomach turning... All of them are among the treatments of fragrant drinks, which can be described as the ancient version of the panacea. Especially the typhoid fever headache at four o'clock, as long as you drink three servings, you can be cured after sweating. Drinking fragrant herbs often can also benefit the spleen and warm the stomach, stop drinking phlegm, and be able to eat, dispel wind, cold, heat, dampness, fog and dew. This thing doesn't cost a lot of money, but it can do big things with a small amount of money, and if there is an outbreak of influenza in the army, it will not only be a matter of money, I am afraid that I will not even be able to go to the place by then.

The doctors here treat people, and the veterinarians there are not idle, they also go deep into the herd of horses, check the health of the horses, isolate and treat those who are sick, immediately apply medicine to those who are injured, and notify the soldiers that the hooves are to be replaced by the shoestrand to hurry to the craftsman team to change. Then it is necessary to check the newly purchased horse grass and feed, and adjust the ratio of fine and coarse material according to the use of the horse, so that the horse can maintain strong physical strength and work better the next day. This work is also very tiring, after all, they are cavalry, and there are thousands of horses and cattle pulling carts, but they must also do a good job of inspection, otherwise they will have to be court-martialed for the losses.

At the end of the day, all sorts of errands had been taken care of, fires were lit in the camps, and all armies, except for the sentries on duty, began evening classes in teams. This system has been adhered to since the day the New Army was founded, and it is no exception to this day. In the past, the captains of each team could use the evening classes to talk about the art of war, tactics, health and epidemic prevention, battlefield first aid, and other knowledge, and they could also learn about culture, but now the focus has shifted to wartime, and the main content is the necessary knowledge of wartime's military law, the customs and customs of the area to be reached, the climate and geography, and the operational characteristics of facing the enemy.

Of course, their starting point is good, they think that soldiers don't need to know too much, as long as they are in good health, good martial arts, and willing to be obedient and loyal, so as to achieve their goal of being a 'foolish soldier' in their respective duties, that is to say, the whole army only needs to have a sober head, otherwise the soldiers know more, and they will have all kinds of ideas and no longer obey, which will affect their combat effectiveness. This view has long been criticized as incomplete in the modern army, and Zhao Ta naturally will not follow the old path because of their opposition, but insists on going his own way until now and carries it forward.

In fact, Zhao Ta and He Qufei had more than these differences in military affairs, and they also had arguments when they were reorganizing the army. According to the army organization at this time, the art of war is cloudy: the husband and soldier are tired and brave, and they cannot be mixed up as one. …,

Therefore, the soldiers did not choose the front to say the north, Wu said to relieve the trouble, Qi said to be the decision, Tang said to be the jump, is the alternative name of the Feng Feng, and the victory of the soldiers did not precede this. Where the army has both, then the general will be in the battalion, each selection of elite soldiers, must be outstanding, martial arts qualifications, the department is another team, about ten people choose one, ten thousand people, since the general pro-soldiers, strikers and the like, are all full of quality.

There are also great brave and happy wounded, gathered into one pawn, called the man who took the blade; There are those who are brave and rape, gathered as a pawn, and are called people who are trapped; There are strange long swords to pick up the warriors, gathered into a pawn, called brave and sharp people... In addition, there are brave people, soldiers of soldiers, death of death, angry people, dull people, mortal people, useless people, standby people and so on.

This method of organizing the army does have its advantages in the era of cold weapons, but the strong are always strong, and the weak are weaker, and it is better to say if they win, if they are defeated, they are defeated, and it is more likely that the strong ones will start fighting in front, and the weak ones will be weak, and once the supervision is not effective, they will scatter in a hurry, and even cause a mutiny! However, in addition to his own special forces such as guards and scouts, Zhao Ta's other troops are divided by specialty, using the combination of strong and weak, and the way of bringing the old with the new to organize the troops, paying attention to equality, so that the combat strength of each army is equal, which is conducive to improving the overall combat effectiveness, and each has its own specialty, which is also easy to manage.

Another alternative place of the new army is that officials are not greedy for money, and from ancient times to the present, all dynasties and generations have used high-ranking officials to envelop generals, and generals also use various small favors to unite their subordinates. In this dynasty, local officials have added money, for example, a magistrate county gives ten yuan a month, two stones of rice, five stones of noodles, meals for five servants, and fodder for two horses.

In addition to the additional money, the local government also gave the 'minister's money', which was paid to the commanders and supervisors, the governors, the general judges, the shogunate prefecture and county officials, the supervisors and the commanders, etc., and provided 200 yuan per month for the commanders, 200 yuan per month for the commander, 150 yuan per month for the commander, 50 yuan per month for the general system, and 30 yuan for the preparation general. In this way, the money provided will become the entertainment expenses of the officials, which can be used for their own personal purposes, and become a considerable amount of disguised money. In Zhao Ta's troops, everyone consciously handed over the minister's money to the Ji Si, in addition to the public use, the surplus was used as food expenses to improve the life of the soldiers in the headquarters, and the minister's money lived up to its name!

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At the end of the day, the lights out horn sounded, and there was only a bonfire thirty paces outside the camp in the camp, and the rest of the fires were all extinguished, and after a quarter of an hour, there was no one to be seen in the huge camp except for the military academy on duty. Zhao Ta had returned to his sleeping tent at this time, he was the prince, of course, the place where he lived was larger, people could stand up, a curtain divided the whole tent into two parts, and the ground was covered with felt carpets. In front of him was his office, but there was only a lamp, a low table, a cushion, and behind the curtain was where he rested.

About to enter the wax moon, it is already the season of dripping water into ice, and the temperature is lower at night, Zhao Ta sat in the tent, rubbing his hands, and examining the map spread on the table. They traveled thousands of miles from Kaifeng to Taiyuan, the seat of Hedong Road, and according to the marching route given by the Privy Council, Kaifeng - Zhengzhou - Huaizhou - Longde - Liaozhou - Yuci - Taiyuan, passing through several states, taking the traditional route, and it was also the route of the Jin Army's West Route Army to the south during the Jingkang Revolution. They were cavalry, and although the weather was cold now, the roads were frozen, making it easy for horses and vehicles to walk, and they could be reached in about half a month at the speed of a march of seventy miles a day.

"Second master, it's cold!" Just as Zhao Tan was studying the marching route, the door curtain suddenly opened, blowing in a gust of cold wind, Zhao Xin walked in with a brazier and said. …,

"Be careful, don't burn!" Zhao Xin hurriedly put a pottery plate on the felt carpet, and Zhao Xin carefully put down the brazier and covered it with a fire cage to prevent the sparks from bursting out and causing a fire.

"Second master, you didn't eat outside today, okay, I left you your favorite barbecue, Sangou is getting better and better, but you are not here tonight, he is very disappointed!" Zhao Xin said and took out a paper bag from the tent, and opened it to reveal two pieces of roasted lamb shank.

"It smells good, I'll take a bite!" Zhao Ta didn't plan to take a chef, but why not do the two guys with Huang Jingchen, how can a dignified prince not have a dedicated chef, he has to bring Sangou and the other two cooks in the house, in fact, Zhao Ta understands in his heart that the two of them are eating tricks, worried that they can't get used to the food cooked by the chef over there in the northwest, Zhao Ta thought about the two of them are not young, and they are still loyal to serve themselves, so he nodded, now Sangou is nominally his chef, but in fact he has become the 'imperial chef' of the two of them and a few staff!

"Don't worry, grill and eat again, be careful of stomach trouble when eating cold meat!" Zhao Xin opened the hand stretched out by the prince and spread the meat on the fire cage to bake.

"Who set up that little tent outside, I didn't have it when I camped!" Zhao Ta asked with a curtled retraction of his hand.

"It was Wu Song who took it, he said that he was going to keep vigil for the prince, and if there is any situation, he can arrive in time!" Zhao Xin flipped through the barbecue and said, after Wu Song was caught, Zhao Ta knew that if he didn't make a move, he would only be beheaded, so he quietly asked the guards to use Li Daitao's method to find a dead body similar to his stature and secretly replace the beaten half-dead Wu Song. Then sent to the boat to recuperate, until he returned to Kaifeng, Wu Song slowly recovered, Zhao Ta followed the practice in the story to make him dress up as Toutuo, and lived in the backyard with Wang Laozhi as a neighbor.

"Hehe, it must be that Lu Xiaoyao can't stand the smell of alcohol on his body and drives him out!" Zhao Ta said with a smile, there are only two people in this camp who are not subject to military law, that is, Lu Xiaoyao and Wu Song.

When he went out to work this time, Lu Xiaoyao thought that this time the prince was not going out to play, but to go to the battlefield, and the old killer couldn't hold back the passion in his heart and wanted to come, and Wu Song was bent on repaying his kindness and coming out. Zhao Ta pondered that both of them were geniuses and would definitely be of great use, Wu Song was not safe to live under the noses of the Cai family, but they were unwilling to be bound by military discipline, so they had to arrange for them to follow him in the name of a personal assistant, so there were two more outliers around the prince, one was an old puppet with a cold face all day long, and the other was a drunken head who never left his hand with a wine gourd.

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