Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 546 Joint Military Exercises
Du Fu just remembered that a few days ago an order was sent from the Governor's Mansion, the imperial court ordered the Shuofang army to enter Hexi to assist Longyou in defending Tubo.

Du Fu was very puzzled by this order, defending Tubo?

The heads of Tubo hosts are still hanging on the baskets of the city gate. Who wants to defend whom?
Du Fu read from Longyou's mansion newspaper that the king of Yue is now restraining Tuyuhun's consolation envoy Qin Chuan, telling him not to go to war with Tubo and restraining the Tang army in the Tuyuhun area.

Du Fu didn't understand the imperial court's order very much. Who was Du Hongjian bringing troops to Hexi to defend?
It is hard to say whether the Tubo people can beat the Tang army in the Tuyuhun area, let alone the Hexi army.

However, since the imperial court had a decree, Hexi could only obey it. Du Fu received the order to lead a thousand troops from Zhechong's mansion to line up in front of Wuwei City to meet Du Hongjian.

Not only the Zhechong Mansion in Wuwei, but the Zhechong Mansions in other prefectures in Hexi will lead troops to gather at the military camp outside Wuwei City.

The other regular troops stationed in Hexi will also gather in Wuwei City.

Du Fu didn't understand, didn't Du Hongjian lead the troops to help defend Longyou?Why gather troops to meet him?

According to the above statement, it is preparing to hold a "joint exercise" outside Wuwei City to welcome the arrival of friendly troops.

"Exercise" has been done several times since Du Fu came to Hexi, and it can be regarded as a kind of military training that simulates actual combat.

For example, his Wuwei Zhechong Mansion was dragged to the Tianshan Mountains for two mountain combat exercises.

It's just that Du Fu doesn't understand, why do military exercises in front of the Shuofang army?Is it to show the combat effectiveness of the Hexi Army?

Forget it, let's execute the order.

Lieutenant Zhechong is a military officer, and now in the political class of Zhechong Mansion, Du Fu has also heard many times that "soldiers take obeying orders as their bounden duty".

After receiving the military order, Du Fu ordered his subordinates to sound the rallying horn.

Quick assembly is also one of the training courses for recruits. This time it is a formal assembly. The soldiers who heard the sound of the trumpet rushed into the dormitory immediately, then quickly packed their luggage, packed their bags, and assembled on the playground.

The quartermaster prepared dry food packages from the warehouse, some of them were loaded into the delivery truck, and some of them were piled up on the playground.

Du Fu also put on a set of light armor. He looked at these young soldiers with a smile on his face.

What is an elite? Before Du Fu came to Hexi, he only thought that the soldiers led by Guo Ziyi were elite.

But he was afraid of comparison in everything. Seeing these soldiers under his command, Du Fu realized that this is the elite!
After the call for assembly was sounded, the entire barracks had packed their bags and assembled in less than two minutes. This executive force is probably nothing more than the soldiers trained by Sun Wu.

What makes Du Fu even more proud is that this is not the outstanding ability of a certain general, but the result of the training of this set of Zhechongfu system.

Zhechong Mansion in Wuwei, from the construction plan of the barracks, to the training courses for soldiers, to all the training manuals, are all compiled and issued by the staff department.

The staff department sent a team of 50 instructors here, including players and natives, who are responsible for teaching various courses.

Among them, ideological and political, military discipline, artillery and other new weapon tutorials, these important courses are taught by the players themselves.

Riding, cold weapon combat and other courses are selected elite veterans as instructors.

The teaching plans for these courses were all compiled and issued by the staff department, which meant that all Zhechong prefectures piloted in Hexi were training soldiers according to this set.

In terms of teaching soldiers, Du Fu's job is to supervise and assess these instructors and handle some internal affairs of Zhechong Mansion.

Even this supervisory work is in charge of the military police under the staff in Zhechong Mansion. Du Fu only needs to sign the document for confirmation.

Du Fu quickly realized how powerful such a system was.

As long as King Yue is willing, he can build more Zhechong mansions and recruit and train such elites in batches.

Thinking of this, Du Fu really felt that Longyou's strength was not due to one or two outstanding generals like Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi, but such a set of feasible models that could operate precisely and could be replicated in large quantities.

Du Fu also thought about whether it is possible to rebuild the Zhechong Mansion in Datang Guanzhong, and train a large number of elite troops like the King of Yue?
But soon Du Fu shook his head, except for the King of Yue, no one in this world could raise an army like this.

The cost of Zhe Chongfu is too high!

Du Fu is the captain of Zhechong, and the expenses of Zhechong's mansion have to be reported to his case every month.

It can be said that King Yue's devotion to soldiers is amazing.

All the soldiers had their salaries, and the money was directly distributed by the Longyou Governor's Mansion, which was already a considerable sum.

Zhechong Mansion not only has a military camp, but also an attached [-] mu of land, as well as supporting farms.

Although Xue Hu, the prefect of Wuwei, said at the time that the fields and farms were all self-operated by Zhechong Prefecture, and the dividends were all given to the soldiers.

But the output of these [-] mu of land is only enough for the soldiers to eat, and the meat and eggs from the farm are not enough for the soldiers to eat. Zhechong Mansion has to write a report from the Dudu Mansion to apply for food expenses every month!
During this period of time, Du Fu was learning from the experience of other Zhechong mansions, how to turn the farm into a profit, or plant some cash crops to subsidize the income of the Zhechong mansion.

All this is because of the super high food standards set by the staff.

The General Staff requires soldiers to eat three meals a day, with eggs or milk for breakfast, vegetables and meat every day, and the staple food needs to be full.

These more than 1000 soldiers spent an astronomical amount on eating, drinking, and scavenging, not to mention the money spent on each training session.

In addition to daily training, the staff will also conduct chopping training with live artillery and real weapons.

Du Fu also saw the price of an iron cannonball from the account, which is really "ten thousand taels of gold once the cannon is fired".

With such a terrifying expense, Longyou's investment in a soldier was higher than Datang's investment in a grassroots officer.

And those soldiers with potential can also be recommended by Zhechong Mansion to go to the military academy in Shazhou for further study.

Du Fu didn't know how terrifying Longyou invested in the officers, but seeing the generosity of those instructors, he knew that the income and treatment of the officers must be higher.

Du Fu looked at the young faces in Zhechong's mansion, mounted his horse and said, "According to the military order of the king of Yue, a thousand soldiers from Zhechong's mansion in Wuwei will gather at the camp in Xinzhuang, east of Wuwei City, and set off!"

All the soldiers lined up neatly, and began to march towards the Xinzhuang camp outside Wuwei City according to the previous field training plan.

And the other recruits from Zhechong Mansion in Longyou, as well as the trained Hexi army, all began to gather at the Xinzhuang Camp.

At the same time, Xinzhuang camp.

Xue Hu, the prefect of Wuwei, was already inspecting the camp.

The engineering team is doing the final inspection. The Xinzhuang camp is divided into two camps, one south and one north, separated by a small river.

The two camps were built according to the standard of [-] people. The south camp was for the Shuofang army who came from afar, and the north camp was for the troops assembled in Hexi.

The quartermaster has prepared food and fodder, waiting for the army to settle in at any time.

Xu Jun, the chief of staff of the staff department, also rushed to Wuwei in person, and he is going to host this "joint military exercise".

After Xue Hu and Xu Jun finished their inspection, they said to Xu Jun, "Are we going to give Shuofang Army a bad blow?"

Xu Jun said with a smile: "This is called a villain before a gentleman. If you don't frighten an old fox like Du Hongjian first, how can he be obedient? Do you think these Jiedu envoys in the Tang Dynasty are all vegetarians?"

"Do you think the crown prince and the king of Qi asked the Shuofang army to assist in the defense of Hexi? Why did Du Hongjian not know about it? Du Hongjian led the troops into Hexi to fight for the military command of Hexi, and he didn't strike first. He will have more friction in the future."

Xue Hu asked: "But can Du Hongjian agree to any joint military exercise?"

Xu Jun said: "How could you disagree? Du Hongjian is the Jiedu envoy and the commander-in-chief of the first army. How can he admit cowardice at a time like this?"

"Besides, we're not trying to annex the Shuofang Army, but to destroy Du Hongjian's unrealistic fantasy through this joint military exercise. We also welcome the Shuofang Army."

Xue Hu glanced at Xu Jun speechlessly, and was about to give the opponent a blow when he came up. Is this called welcoming the Shuofang army?
Sure enough, as those generals and players said, Chief of Staff Xu Jun's face is thicker than the city wall!

At this time, the Shuofang army led by Du Hongjian had just crossed the river and arrived at the ferry on the other side.

There were already people waiting on the Hexi side. Fang Jianguo, a former mountaineering enthusiast, and now a military envoy from Wuwei, was already waiting for Du Hongjian and Shuofang's army at the ferry.

Fang Jianguo has joined the Wuwei Army since the last big battle to pull the valley. He is also Xue Hu's most important deputy. From here on, Fang Jianguo will accompany Du Hongjian all the way to Wuwei City.

Fang Jianguo has already set up several big pots, boiled millet porridge, and set up several white medical tents to diagnose and treat soldiers with severe seasickness.

Du Hongjian once again lamented the carefulness of the officers on the Longyou side, and even made preparations for the soldiers on the ferry to vomit and faint.

He met with Fang Jianguo, and Fang Jianguo brought a request from the King of Yue.

"The King of Yue wants to conduct a joint military exercise with our army and the Wuwei Army?"

The Shuofang Army has actually practiced such things as actual combat exercises.

It's just that Datang's military exercises are basically conducted by a battalion itself.

His own 2 troops, Wuwei's [-] troops, the joint military exercise of [-] people, Du Hongjian felt scalp numb just thinking about it.

Fang Jianguo immediately said: "Ms. Du, don't worry about it. This joint military exercise has to wait until the rest of your army is finished. It's just for the sake of cooperating with the two armies, and it's not about winning or losing."

Hearing what Fang Jianguo said, Du Hongjian's grievances along the way broke out instead, and he became determined to win and said:

"Your army is very kind, if you don't agree, it will show that our Shuofang army is fighting cowardly! After our army rests for a day or two, let's come to the military exercise!"

(End of this chapter)