Gao Bao and Chen Jiru, the leader of the scout squad, took the scouts, and for more than a month, they traveled all over the Jingyuan and Xihe roads, reconnoitering the various walled cities and military arrangements of the Jin army, and drew a map to mark the distance between the walled cities, the main passes, and important areas such as valleys, rivers, and ferries. It can be said that this map has a certain basis for military maps. In particular, he reported on the recent situation of the Jin army's attack on the Song army through Chencang Road at Dasanguan.

Because Zongbi gathered the main mobile forces of the Jin Army on the two routes of Guanzhong Jingyuan and Xihe to attack Guanzhong and Sifang, the garrisons in various places were greatly reduced, which was very beneficial to Gao Chong to seize the Xihe Road from Maijishan to Lanzhou. The most important thing for Gao Pet is how to make military preparations in the shortest possible time, reorganize the Wolf Tooth Army, and control the entire Xihe Road in one battle.

It is extremely important to open up and occupy the Xihe Road for the strategic cooperation, economic and trade exchanges between the Song and Xia dynasties, and the trade with the Western Regions, and more importantly, the passage between the Xixia and the princess's territory and the Tongling and Mall bases of the Great Song Dynasty and Gaojia has been established. As for the princess's territory, although this territory has a radius of 200 miles, more than 90% of the people cannot live on the mountain, and the population here is also very sparse, and there is a lack of arable land. The purpose of Gao Chong's desire here was to stay away from the control of the Western Xia, so that he could march into the Lanzhou Basin, so as to choke the passage of the Song Xia and the Western Regions, and become the starting point for the attack from the west to Guanzhong. This is what Gao Pet thought of when he suggested that the princess change her fiefdom.

Therefore, it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for these Jin troops to attack the Song army.

There were not many military strongholds of the Jin army on the front line from Maijishan to Lanzhou. The westernmost border with Western Xia is the Yuzhong Military District of Lanzhou, at this time there are only four or five hundred households in Lanzhou, more than 1,000 people, which still includes the newly moved population of the Jin army, and the original Northern Song Dynasty was only more than 300 households at the most, less than 1,000 people. Whether it is the Song Dynasty or the Jin Dynasty, Lanzhou is mainly a military area. This time, Jin Wushu fought against Sichuan, and a total of 5,000 people were drawn from Xihe Road, and Lanzhou only transferred 2,000 people, and before that, the garrison of Lanzhou had 5,000 people, and 3,000 main forces were still put here in Lanzhou to prevent possible attacks. Not far from Lanzhou, the Jin army of Yuzhong County was stationed with 800 people, Lintao County with 500 people, and Dingxi City (Fort) and the surrounding forts and forts with 500 people. There are 800 people in Taizhou (Tai'an), Tianshui (ancient Qinzhou) and the surrounding areas in the east of Dingxi City. In addition, there are 8,000 troops in this area.

On the front line of Xihe Road, the total number of regular troops of the Jin army was 6,000, the box army was 8,000, and a part of the logistics soldiers of the Jin army. Since it was mainly defensive, there was only a small number of mobile cavalry, and these cavalry were mainly concentrated in Yuzhong to cope with the maneuver. However, due to the large area, it is distributed in an area that is nearly 800 miles long from east to west and 200 miles wide from north to south. The largest combat strength was in Lanzhou, with a total of five or six thousand soldiers of all kinds. This battle must be fought, how to fight? Gao Zhong stared at the map, lost in thought.

It is very difficult to change people's habits, as the old saying goes, "the name of death, the sex of life and death." "The Xia army has a set of tactics of the Xia army, and the Xia army and the Song army won more and lost less in the long-term war, which shows that the Xia army has many advantages of its own.

It is necessary to let regular soldiers like the Capture Army enjoy the service that they are accustomed to, and then let them do what they should do professionally and dare to do on a daily basis. If there is such a contradiction with the Wolf Tooth Army before the war, it is very likely to affect the outcome of the war. Obviously, there are many differences between the objectives and combat missions of the captive army and other units, and this kind of objective has resulted in a situation in which the captive army has too many logistical personnel and is seriously redundant.

5,000 is better than 18,000 and wrote these two data on the blackboard in the conference room.

This is an important meeting on how the Wolf Tooth Army will go in the future.

The reorganization of the wolf's tooth army is an inevitability. But how, when, and how to rectify is very knowledgeable.

Gao Pet, Princess Xingguo, Second Uncle Gao Shilu, Qian Jichen and several other people discussed,

The princess said: "Don't worry, don't worry, we Xixia people should learn to adapt to this era and learn the advanced things of the Song people." This is what my father has always advocated. It starts with We're going to be in Ning. As the wolf tooth of Huining, it should become the vanguard of reform. ”

Everyone felt that it was still not appropriate to make a big move at the present time and adopt the practice of small-step reform. The reform of the military system and habits of the wolf's teeth began with logistics and baggage. Start with redundancy.

Responsible for the logistics of the Wolf Tooth Army is the burden and subordination of the Wolf Tooth Army, but the burden of this Wolf Tooth Army is much more extravagant than the other troops in Western Xia, and the burden of each regular army is more than two people. This subordinate force, plus a small number of private servants, amounted to 18,531 people, nearly four times the size of the regular army, but the force of more than 20,000 people in the army of more than 20,000 people? It's a question mark about how bloated this force is. This is a laissez-faire way of organization established in the early conscription system, in which individuals bear all the logistics, including the supply of grain and forage, and the army basically does not care about the supply of this logistics, and does not organize, and each person is in charge of his own person, so this method is extremely inefficient. This logistics army is also a great drain on the troops. An effective organization can avoid this disorganized inefficiency.

Gao Pet is divided into two ends, on the one hand, Gao Pet organizes the officers to understand the situation and listen to their ideas, and on the other hand, the second uncle Gao Shilu is in charge of taking some regular army discussions to understand their intentions, territorial difficulties, the impact of a huge logistics on the strategy of the troops, and the world's more advanced logistics management methods.

At the Zhengjun symposium, after chatting for a while, the second uncle asked:

"What do you do in a day?"

"In addition to eating, it is to practice martial arts, cavalry archery, military formation, mainly training"

What else do you do besides eating and training?

"Isn't there a shame, they'll do it." A soldier A said.

So what does Negative Courage do for you?

"Cooking, feeding the horses, walking the horses, washing clothes, setting up tents, taking care of supplies and all kinds of chores."

"Won't you help them?"

"When you have a good relationship, or when you're in a good mood, sometimes you can't help them when you have a task."

"You have two or three negative pounds, can you use so much?"

"Why not, we are a captive army, capturing prisoners, grabbing booty, cutting off heads, the commander of the third team has seven subordinates, three bearers, four servants, and he grabs the most every time."

Gao Shilu knew that the capture army was mainly based on looting, and the spoils of war belonged to individuals except for a part of the handover, which was related to the nature of this army and the distribution system of war dividends. They can only survive if they fight, otherwise it will be very difficult. Therefore, if you don't open it in normal times, you can eat it for three years, of course, you can only win, and if you defeat it, maybe your life is not guaranteed, what are you talking about the spoils of war?

Gao Shilu pointed to the two guards behind him who had been standing there straight.

"Do any of you know about them, and how do they do all this?"

Everyone shook their heads, this mysterious army, only saw their shadows, only knew that they were all in a straight military posture in front of people, walking in a straight line, raising their heads and chests, and they didn't know what the equipment was.

"Okay, Xiao Zhang, come here!" Gao Shilu turned around and beckoned to Xiao Zhang, who was behind him.

"Come, sit here, and talk to them about how your Flying Tiger Army differs from their Wolf Tooth Army."

"Unload your backpack and gear first, and show them what you have."

"Yes, political commissar" Xiao Zhang saluted, came over to unload the tactical carrying bag from his back, untied his armed belt, took off his tactical vest, and briefly introduced his equipment to the participating wolf tooth army.

"Let's just say, if you don't have this leg, it's good to walk a hundred miles a day, and with this leg, it's no problem to walk two hundred miles. Not to mention its many other features... ”

"How much does it cost?" Soldier B wiped his saliva and said enviously.

"How much? The cost of this set of carrying equipment and various military products alone is 20 yuan, and the market price is not known, so there is no way to sell it. ”

Xiao Zhang is very proud, since he was a member of the Flying Tigers, and then he was selected into the pro-guard battalion, and now he is the guard of the political commissar, Xiao Zhang has a capital to be proud of.

"The Flying Tigers have three disciplines and eight points of attention," Zhang continued.

"All actions are under command, do not take a stitch from others, and all seizures must be returned to the public."

It's right to listen to the command of all actions, but you don't take a stitch from others, and all seizures must be returned to the public, what do you eat, who still has the strength to fight? There was a lot of talk about it, and they had never seen anything seized to be returned to the public. The armies of their Xia State were not, and neither were the armies of the Jin State and the Song State.

"Our first goal is to complete the task, then to achieve personal exploits, and finally to capture, of course, there are rewards for capture."

"You see, everything on my body, the food and food are given by the army, there is no need to worry about anything, and things can be replaced if they are broken. There is also a consistent monthly salary, and a large pension for wounded or killed in battle. This is also not a treatment in the Great Song Dynasty, and there is no tattoo on the face or body, and anyone is honored to enter the Flying Tiger Army. ”

Gao Shilu walked a few barracks, and this set of appearances still had a great effect.

Work was done. Gao Zhong planned to keep a burden for each regular army to be responsible for the horses and other logistical affairs of the regular army, and selected and set up a baggage team of 2,000 people and auxiliary personnel such as medical care and drinking affairs from among the reduced personnel, which were under the control of each general. Every month ordinary soldiers are given a half-run military gilt.

After a few days. Finally, there has been a big improvement. The Wolf Tooth Army was reduced by six thousand men. Gao Zhong selected 2,000 people from these 6,000 people to form an armed police corps, which is responsible for local public security. The rest entered the construction army of Hoeryeong.