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Chapter 544 Du Hongjian Marching

Du Hongjian led the reorganized [-] Shuofang Army and finally embarked on the road to Hexi.

The banners fluttered, but Du Hongjian was not in a good mood.

The Shuofang Army, once the strongest army in the Northwest, has now reached the point where even the rations for the expedition have to be provided by Hexi.

The bitterness in Du Hongjian's heart was beyond words.

When Guo Ziyi was Shuofang's Jiedushi, Du Hongjian was Shuofang's Jiedushi.

He persuaded the fleeing emperor to go to Shuofang, and finally ascended the throne in Lingwu.

As the father of Conglong, the Shuofang Army has always been the main force in countering the rebellion.

But after years of fighting, Shuofang became poorer and poorer.

Occupying Hetao and deterring Uighurs back then, the Shuofang Legion, known as one of the double walls of the empire, couldn't even get enough food and grass for 1 people.

Du Hongjian didn't know what happened to the Tang Dynasty, why did the afterglow of the prosperous age fall so quickly?

"Marshal, we are about to reach Dahe. His Royal Highness King Yue has prepared a camp ahead. Let's set up camp there today, shall we?"

Du Hongjian nodded and said, "Then let's camp here."

The personal guard immediately went down to deliver the order, and the cheers of "King Yue Qiansui" came from the army, and the speed of the entire army also accelerated a lot.

Du Hongjian felt a little irritable for no reason. He rode his horse and soon saw a neat camp.

This is a standard camp for the Tang army to fight outside. The wooden fence surrounds the camp, which can give the army a sense of security.

There is a high barn in the camp, and on the other side is a spacious barn.

Soldiers can live in simple barracks, and at the same time, the open space in the camp is filled with firewood for heating.

The soldiers cheered and skillfully entered the camp under the leadership of the officers.

And the quartermasters who were welcoming the army by the king of Yue had already prepared the pancakes and hot soup with a smile.

The soldiers of the Shuofang Army were already very familiar with all this.

From the time they left Lingzhou City, they would come across such a temporary camp at intervals.

Everything in the camp is ready, the soldiers can eat hot soup and have enough firewood to keep warm.

At the beginning, these temporary camps were still far apart, and it took four or five days to meet one.

When there is no camp, soldiers can only curl up and sleep in the wild, simply eating some dry food to satisfy their hunger.

But the closer to Hexi, there are more and more such camps, and a comfortable temporary camp can be encountered in two or three days.

The quartermasters of the king of Yue would personally put food into the rice bowls of the soldiers in Shuofang, and then say "the king of Yue is benevolent".

When the soldiers received the soup, they would also say "the king of Yue is benevolent".

In addition, the iron lunch boxes for the soldiers to receive soup were also prepared by the King of Yue.These lunchboxes are sturdy square boxes with a small lid that heats directly on the bottom and come with a small cloth pouch to take with you.

After arriving at the camp prepared by the king of Yue, the soldiers can take the lunch boxes to make soup and rice, and they can also use these lunch boxes to heat dry food when camping in the wild.

The logo of the King of Yue was also printed on the lunch box. Du Hongjian led the soldiers away for [-] days. Before leaving Shuofang, the soldiers were already talking about "King of Yue's benevolence" every day.

Du Hongjian didn't think it was a good thing. It was a great thing that the king of Yue took on the supplies of the army. Why did he always feel uncomfortable?

After Du Hongjian and other officers entered the barracks, the quartermasters also provided wooden houses that could shelter them from wind and rain.

Although it is only a suggested wooden house, the house will be equipped with a standard small iron stove, and the tin flue will exhaust the smoke to the outside of the house, making the house clean and warm.

There is even a temporary bathing place in the back row of the officer's wooden house. The hot water is lifted to the top of the head by a lift pump and sprayed from the top of the head, which can relieve the fatigue of long-distance marching at once.

Seeing his officers rushing into the room to take a bath, Du Hongjian's mood became more delicate.

He handed over the mount to the groom arranged by King Yue in the barracks, and began to patrol the barracks.

This military camp has just been built, and you can still see the new soil turned on the ground, but one and two are okay. After walking for 20 days, I encountered four such temporary camps. The ability of the king of Yue to build fortifications is too great Are you strong?
Moreover, according to the quartermaster who entertained Du Hongjian, this kind of camp was the standard camp for the Hexi army in Longyou, and it was not specially built by Hexi to save face.

At first Du Hongjian still didn't believe it, but the four camps he encountered in a row were almost all carved out of the same mold, and even the layout was almost the same. Now Du Hongjian believed that this was the standard camp for the Longyou march.

According to the quartermasters in Longyou, this is the military system set by the King of Yue himself. Before the army is dispatched, a special engineer battalion will build a temporary camp. Such a camp can maintain the speed of marching and allow the soldiers to get enough rest.

Along the camp, wooden fences are wrapped with thin barbed wire. It is these sharp wires that make the camp surrounded by wooden fences solid and reliable.

Du Hongjian once tried, ordering cavalry to storm these wire fences.

The war horses screamed from the spikes on the wire, but the wire fence was still strong and could not break through the camp.

This is also the reason why Longyou's camp was built so quickly. They only needed to drive the processed wood into the ground, then surround it with barbed wire, and a temporary camp was built.

The soldiers' barracks were also made of wooden boards, with some windproof cloth curtains.

Although it seems that the whole camp is very large, all parts can be disassembled and reused, and even the wooden boards are made into a uniform size and size.

Du Hongjian was secretly startled, saying that now Longyou soldiers are elite, with such logistic support, how can ordinary soldiers fight against Longyou soldiers?
People live in a safe and warm camp, and they can rest well every day, while the enemy can only eat and sleep in the open, and has to stay on watch at night. If the two armies meet, it is really clear who will win and who will lose.

Du Hongjian went to the granary, where the dry rations that the Shuofang army would need to carry with them for the next few days were prepared. These rations were packed into small bags that could be carried on their backs, and each ration was allocated to each person. When the soldiers left the camp, Quartermasters will hand out one by one.

These dry foods are fried flour and some strange pastries, especially the strange pastries in the box, which can soak up a lot in water, and eating a piece is very satisfying.

Many soldiers were reluctant to eat by themselves, and even within the Shuofang Army, these biscuits became a kind of currency that could be circulated.

In addition to fried dry flour and compressed biscuits, there are some dried fruits in the dry food.

These are raisins and dried apricots from Longyou. They taste sour and sweet, and are very popular with soldiers.

According to those quartermasters, these dry rations were also the standard marching dry rations in Longyou, and there was no preferential treatment for the Shuofang army.

The more this happened, the more uncomfortable Du Hongjian felt. Does Hexi still need to support himself?
Did I go to support Hexi, or was Hexi helping the poor?

Du Hongjian walked to the square, where several large sheds were erected, where the soldiers had their meals.

Several large pots emit heat, and the fragrant soup emits an attractive aroma.

The soldiers first took a piece of mustache, and then took a bowl of hot broth with an iron lunch box.

There will be vegetables and minced meat in the soup. This is also the busiest time in the entire barracks. You must know that these soldiers cannot eat meat every day.

You can take the hummus after eating, and you can eat the broth after drinking, but the Longyou Quartermaster also has discipline, everything must be eaten, it cannot be hidden, and it must not be kept for eating on the road.

Du Hongjian also asked the quartermaster why he didn't let the soldiers keep the soup to eat on the road. The quartermaster in Longyou said that the broth was easy to spoil, and eating expired broth on the road was easy to cause diarrhea. This is the regulation of the Longyou army and must be followed The iron law of the barracks.

Hearing this, Du Hongjian was even more moved by the strictness of King Yue's rule of the army, even paying attention to such details.

At the beginning, there were soldiers trying to get away with it, but soon these sharp-eyed quartermasters were caught.

Today's Shuofang Army no longer does this, because they know that as long as they arrive at the next camp, they will be able to eat hot soup.

Du Hongjian felt even more irritable. He obviously didn't worry about all the marching matters along the way.

Shuofang's army also walked quickly and smoothly, and the soldiers were full of energy and did not procrastinate at all.

But Du Hongjian just felt uneasy, and he didn't know where this uneasy came from.

The soldiers were cooking happily. Du Hongjian walked past the shed without disturbing the soldiers.

When he returned to his wooden house, the quartermaster had already prepared the officer's stove.

The soup and pancakes that the officers ate were the same, but there was an extra portion of sauced meat compared to ordinary soldiers. It is said that this is also the standard configuration of Longyou officers.

Eating soup cakes and sauced meat, Du Hongjian listened to the singing that gradually sounded in the barracks.

This is an activity after every meal in the military camp, and it is said that it is also a tradition of the Longyou Army. Every day after meals, they sing together to boost morale.

The melody of this song is catchy, basically after living in a temporary camp once, the soldiers were able to sing along.

The name of the song is a bit of a mouthful, it is called "Words of the King of Yue, Keep in Mind", and the content of the lyrics is that the King of Yue encourages soldiers to fight bravely and protect their homes and the country.

Because the melody is simple, but the song is very pleasant, and the lyrics are all written in vernacular, so the soldiers can quickly sing together.

Several times Du Hongjian even heard the soldiers around him humming softly.

Du Hongjian closed the door of the cabin, feeling even more irritable.

　The fat bird begged for a monthly ticket with a face
　　
　
(End of this chapter)