The subsequent developments actually exceeded everyone's expectations. In the end, no one could say what was best to do. What the Ministry of War and the Marshal's Mansion can do is to send people over and over again to inquire about the situation and see what is going on.

The cowardly Xue who stayed in the palace first gave them an official response, informing them that there was no military action on their side tonight. If someone is under their banner, it is completely certain that it is a fake. The Ministry of War and the Ministry of the Marshal's Office may disarm and arrest them, and if there is a fighting during the course of the war and cause casualties among these people, it is acceptable, as long as evidence is left.

But the problem now is that we don't know who the enemy is or what they are going to do. If you can find out who those people are and what the charges are, it will be easier to do. However, Cowardly Xue obviously didn't know the situation, or couldn't characterize people on his own, so the progress of the matter could only be stuck at this step.

After another half an hour, several other military camps were also contacted.

The teaching group was stationed in the south of the city, near the city walls, the farthest away, but on the contrary, it was the fastest to recover. They said that they could also find the unrest in the city over there, but they didn't know what it was. In fact, because of the celebration a few days ago, they didn't take the movement in the city seriously at first, and only reacted when the noise got bigger and bigger.

However, they were stationed in this part of the city, which was not many in number and not much armed. Because in recent years, the latest cutting-edge weapons are firearms, and these experimental units have done a lot of it in the early years. But this thing is too noisy during drills, and every time as long as the gun is fired, the nearby citizens will complain to the government every day, which makes both ends annoyed. In the end, they simply moved the main camp out of the city, and everyone was now clean. At present, those who remain in the city are basically civilian personnel who handle various logistical and personnel affairs.

Therefore, their group of people now has to find a way to protect themselves first, and a few guards don't dare to send them out casually. After receiving the news from the military department and the marshal's mansion, they naturally realized that something was wrong, and they immediately sent people out of the city to contact the command organization of the war group outside the city to get ready. But they also bluntly said that there is only so much they can do on their side.

It is true that the large force of the teaching regiment is outside the city, and there are many heavy troops and firearms units, but they are not under the control of the military department and the marshal's office, and second, they cannot be armed into the city casually, otherwise the problem will be even greater. Although the chaos is getting worse and worse now, these people in the city don't dare to give up the camp casually and run out to join the main force, and the main force outside the city is not determined to rush in directly to save people, and the overall situation is even more embarrassing than that of the military department. Now all they can do is to help keep an eye on the situation changes, and everyone will be in touch more.

Several other armies also basically have various problems.

The Imperial Wall Warband, which guarded the city walls and gates, was capable of action, but they asked hard if they could be sure that someone was rebelling, and if so, they would ask the Marshal's Office to issue a document and urgently recruit them into the city, which was also possible.

But neither the Ministry of War nor the Marshal's Office could tell the details. Who is rebelling, what the slogans and demands are, how many people are being mobilized, how they are acting - all this is completely unknown. Send them in, and you don't even know who you are beating. In this case, I don't know how to explain it.

In this regard, the military department is also a mess. Some people even began to complain that they usually don't pay enough attention to these problems, and they do everything they can indiscriminately, resulting in not even having an effective procedure to follow when they encounter things.

Theoretically, it's not that their side can't mobilize troops to quell the chaos. In the current military system of the Purple Horde, the standing field army was indeed under the control of the marshal's office, which included parts of the city and beyond, such as Basil's Hammer and the Imperial Wall. This system is actually a remnant of the military system in the early years, and it can be regarded as a shadow left behind by the powerful marshal's mansion when half of the country was under his control.

Although, with the development of the times, the imperial court system has become more and more perfect, making many affairs more detailed and professional, so that many functions led by marshals in the past have been stripped away. But on the other hand, the professionalization of the armed forces has actually increased the scope of jurisdiction of this department, which can be regarded as strengthening their functions.

The reason for this phenomenon is that maintaining a standing army is not a simple matter - the regression of the barbarians does not mean that everyone is regressing, and on the whole, the art of command and the technology of armament are constantly advancing around the world. In these days, it is actually more difficult than in the past to maintain a combat-ready army. These standing armies are all gold-devouring beast-level existences.

The most intuitive difference is the number of people.

Like the "Basil's Hammer", which was at the forefront of the previous triumph, it was nominally the establishment of a war band, but in fact it was much more than that. Because they are engaged in siege missions, they will always store and carry a huge amount of equipment and ammunition, and related work requires a large number of people.

Nominally, they had eight hundred-man infantry, but in order to complete the task of attacking the fortification, these infantry were actually only a front-line assault force.

In other warbands, a hundred-man squad may only carry a more portable crossbow that provides heavier firepower at a longer range - on the battlefield, this can compress the enemy's space for maneuver and provide a number of tactical advantages. Moreover, this thing is relatively not difficult to use. The hundred-man team can divide a few soldiers by themselves, and then gather a few logistics personnel, so that they can carry out simple daily maintenance. As for the need for overhaul, just leave it to the warband to solve it.

But the hundred-man team of Basil's Hammer did not bring this kind of scorpion-level weapon, but serious ballistas and stone throwers, which were used to suppress the enemy behind the fortress. There are more weapons, and the number of personnel needed for daily operations has to be increased, and even part of the maintenance and overhaul functions that were originally the responsibility of the war group have to be delegated to the hundred-man team.

As weapons became larger and the various functions surrounding weapons increased, the number of camels needed increased. These animals are not only difficult to serve, but they are also far more edible than humans. Therefore, in order to maintain the camel herd, it is necessary to add a group of professionals......

In this way, it was originally just an upgrade of firepower, but within the army establishment, it affected the whole body, causing the size of the entire team to expand rapidly. There were only two options: either reduce the proportion of front-line infantry, or increase the size of the entire contingent and cram all these people. In fact, the latter is widely chosen.

This is also the embarrassment of this era: on the one hand, new ordnance and equipment can indeed improve the overall combat effectiveness of the army; But on the other hand, these bells and whistles do not have the effect of a final word on the battlefield, and most of the battles have to be fought by soldiers, one by one. Therefore, the hundreds of households in charge of the arrangement of soldiers are often reluctant to reduce the number of front-line infantry.

As a rule of thumb, seventy or eighty people is a "just right" level, which has not changed much since the classical era.

If there are fewer people, the "resilience" of the 100-man team will be significantly reduced, and many tasks will not be able to be carried out.

The ideal warband of 100 people would have about seventy or eighty regular infantry, and one-third, or twenty or thirty accompanying auxiliaries. In fact, because of the development of the times, the pressure on logistics is increasing unabated, and there will only be more logistics personnel than this, not less than this, and some can reach about half.

As for the "hammer of al-Bashir", it is simply more than doubled: in addition to the dozens of front-line hoplites, there must be two or three weapons groups, and each group, including users and maintenance personnel, has nearly ten more people. There were also grooms, stonemasons who made cannonballs, carpenters and blacksmiths who repaired weapons, and various apprentices of craftsmen who gave them hands...... A team of 100 people can be crammed into 200 people, and there are more logistics personnel than soldiers, which is a normal situation.

In an ordinary warband, there is only one hundred-man team composed of engineers, but there are five on their side: one is digging tunnels, one is in charge of gunpowder, one is in charge of ballistas, and two are in charge of various firearms. This kind of "100-person team" has only the name or "100 people" left, in fact, even the way of compilation is different, it just indicates its own level.

For example, the hundred-man team in charge of firearms managed more than a dozen weapons, many of which seemed strange to others, and only professionals like them could play with them.

Transporting these weapons is also a technical job, and ordinary horse teams do not necessarily do it. So they themselves have their own fleet of horses and transport, management personnel. After all, they were transporting gunpowder and the like, and it was cheaper to catch some Slavs to do coolies, and they didn't take up the quota of the establishment, but one day they thought about it and decided to work on these black particles that they didn't know, and then there would be no place to cry when the time came. Therefore, in such a unit, even the hard work of carrying things must be done by organized and trained people.

A so-called 100-man team like this can be as large as a wing. And all these siege teams combined, plus the huge regimental workshop of their war group, the number of the entire war group is maintained at about four or five thousand people all year round, which is enough to catch up with a small army.

They're not alone. It has long been discovered that the more professional the military, the more support personnel it needs. Not only the siege regiments, but also those cavalry regiments, which are also seriously overstaffed.

But the problem is that the reason why the standing army is a standing army and can make the Khan's court determined to pay a high cost to maintain it for a long time is because they have a special position and function, and it is impossible if it is not complicated. Something like heavy artillery has to be raised by the whole country, and it is difficult for the war group to maintain it alone. During the war, there was a special shogunate to support it, but if it was to be maintained for a long time after the war, it would have to be a lot of effort.

As the backbone of the Purple Horde army, they need to prepare for a decisive battle between the two countries, so the frequency of large-scale training is also high, and different units have to conduct joint training. A drill of this scale is also extremely demanding, and must be organized by special people. Therefore, when there was no major war, the central armies maintained by the imperial court were under the unified management of the Marshal's Office.

However, the problem is that the existing system is inevitably a little careless, and it is not too clear whether many "standing armies" are "standing armies" or not.

The Imperial Wall Warband is the one who guards the gates and walls of the capital. To say that they are a standing army is true - despite their ancient name, they are actually a very new warband, formed after the Ottoman raids, less than a generation ago.

Therefore, in the old regulations of that year, it was only announced that the "defenders of the city" were not under the jurisdiction of the marshal's office, that is, the teaching regiment and the night watchman that already existed at that time. As for whether the city wall is counted as a city, and whether the imperial wall formed later is considered a defender, no one has questioned it for more than ten years.

During this time, the Imperial Wall Warband had always been very cautious, so cautious that everyone was accustomed to ignoring them. As a result, to this day, everyone can't think of whether the Marshal's Mansion can transfer them into the city. Today, they have been pretending not to know, and no matter how they ask, they only say that their duties are important, and they can't leave the city gate, but they don't come in.

As for the last army in the vicinity, it was the "Hammer of Basil". However, today the Khan's court held a celebration banquet, and the people who entered the city to triumph basically followed the Great Khan to drink. Now I can't find anyone at all, so I don't know what to do.

In the entanglement of laws and regulations, everyone waited for a while. Until finally, someone suddenly broke in.

It was the wife of the war marshal, and as soon as she entered the door, she went straight to the office of the marshal's palace. The guards at the gate knew her, and no one stopped her. As a result, when she got in, she made a big fuss over there.

The atmosphere in the courtyard was already tense, and when there was such a move, all the officials of the Marshal's Mansion hurriedly ran to persuade them. Even the officials of the military department next door ran to join in the fun.

In order to prevent chaos, the high-ranking officials of the Ministry of War, such as Shangshu Kublatt, went out en masse to maintain order, and it took a lot of effort to calm everyone down.

Now, the two of them are still arguing about something. However, the officials have already roughly understood the situation. According to them, Princess Theodora had just returned to the city, and had drawn the guards of the Cowardice, the church guards, and the guards of the various pillar nations, and was now rushing to the center of the incident, because she was informed that the prince of the war marshal family was there. Madame was so angry, it seemed that it was because of this-she felt that the princess had gone to save people, and the marshal was still grinding here, and she was too inattentive to her children.

The subordinates of the Marshal's Mansion had already begun to assemble spontaneously. When the fire broke out before, everyone had already opened the warehouse and sent out all the long weapons, so there was no need to prepare anything else. Just wait for their side to finally make up their minds, and then they can act.

And the people in the military department are still skeptical. Several people came running up to Kubrat and asked him what to do next. Everyone knows that the commander listens to his wife, and this time it is estimated that he is going to be dispatched. Now, do you follow along, or do you want to guard this side first?

Kubrat and the others thought about it for a long time, but there was no good way, and finally made a decision: there were no military lords and soldiers to watch the house, and the high-ranking officials above the Langzhong and the officials with the shade knighthood would follow the war commander later. In this way, only a dozen people need to be drawn, and the vast majority of people can still stay and watch the family. Moreover, the highest-ranking officials in the ministry are all on the list, so they can't say anything more, right?

So, a dozen of them, simply holding weapons, just waited at the door to see when it was time to set off.

(End of chapter)