Most of the veterans chose to join, as long as they put on their uniforms, they felt like a character, and there was no culture of discrimination against people in the military here in Huangzhou.

There used to be, but they were all shoehorned. The government treats soldiers well, and they always win battles, so they can't discriminate anymore, and they don't accept it if they rush to be soldiers. From this point alone, Hong Tao gained the respect of the vast majority of soldiers, and it was he who changed all this.

"Our instructor said that the new army is to protect the people, why won't they save it!" The little policeman was very unconvinced, what the sheriff said was not at all the same as what he heard in the training camp, so he naturally had to believe the instructor's statement.

"Why? You'll understand when you have the opportunity to fight in the new army. If Lord Shuai hears you ask, he will ask you to clean up the toilet for ten years, and when to figure out when to go to the front again, so as not to lose your life by mistake. ”

Sergeant Gao glanced at his subordinates, not only one person, but the other three little policemen seemed to have this idea, but they were too timid to confront him.

"I don't believe it......" the little policeman is still stubborn.

"Go and go, don't be idle, there's another fight over there, hurry up and take a look, if someone dies, we don't plan to rest today."

Sergeant Gao really didn't want to convince these young people, and he couldn't say too many reasons, but he knew that this kind of thinking would not work in the army, and if he didn't talk about others, the founders and leaders of the new army would not agree.

There happened to be a group of people in the distance who didn't know why they were arguing, so he hit his horse and ran over, and it was more important to solve the dispute than to educate the newcomers.

The people here are completely different from the people in the mainland, they will roll up their arms and sleeves if they don't deal with it in three sentences, and they will use knives when they are anxious, and sometimes the two pioneers can kill and injure several people for a sheep.

However, the lord of the city did not allow the police to interfere too much, and whoever injured and killed people was punished, and then he did not care about the woodland that was not allowed to be reclaimed for grazing. I'm afraid this matter is not the idea of the city lord, otherwise Lord Shuai Si will stay in Liangzhou every day, how can he let it go.

But then again, since these pioneers came to Liangzhou, the bandits have become less and less day by day. In the beginning, some mountain people would come out to steal livestock, and after being discovered by the pioneers, they also killed and injured each other.

But as time passed, fewer and fewer people dared to steal the pioneers' livestock. Because according to the laws of Huangzhou, unless there is permission from the government, it is deserved to be killed if you trespass on the master's land without invitation.

With this law in hand, the pioneers were left to build forts and moats in their land, each with several sets of armor bows and arrows. In addition to buying or stealing some livestock, they followed the new army to Ganzhou, and their main purpose was to find weapons for the routed army.

Without weapons, they could not eat and sleep, and very young children had to follow their grandfather, father, and brother to practice archery, hunting, laying traps, and fighting people, and they were completely mobs according to the standards of the Great Song Dynasty.

Just as this motley army passed through Liangzhou, the 3,000 new army and 2,000 Qingtang cavalry led by Hong Tao had already finished replenishing in Ganzhou, and were advancing westward along the post road at a speed of 80 miles a day, and they would arrive in Suzhou in about five days.

Suzhou is the Jiuquan of later generations, Hong Tao also came to play, and also visited the space launch center. However, the road from Zhangye to Jiuquan in the Song Dynasty was more beautiful than the scenery of later generations, there were not so many Gobi deserts, and it was all green at a glance.

A hundred miles to the north, the green color is gradually replaced by yellow sand, and dozens of miles to the south are towering mountains, and the snow on the top of the mountain does not melt all year round, looking like a row of sundae ice cream.

Moreover, there was no shortage of water near Zhangye and Jiuquan in ancient times, rivers and marshes were very common, and every early summer came, the melting snow water rushed down from the Qilian Mountains, which would also cause floods.

It's not that Hong Tao is talking nonsense, there is such a poem that says, not looking at the snow on the top of Qilian Mountain, and mistaking Zhangye for Jiangnan.

There is basically no need to explore this road, and the preliminary work has already been completed by Wang Qi, and the contour map in Hong Tao's hand is the work of the new army stationed in Ganzhou for more than half a year.

Where there is high and where there is low, where there is a river and where there is a valley, it is clear. On a large scale, understanding this map is 100% clearer than that of the herders who have lived here for generations, and it is basically impossible to carry out an ambush on this road. Therefore, Hong Tao didn't even let go of a small group of probe horses, and directly let the Qingtang cavalry attack and advance in three ways, and he led the new army to follow behind.

How to fight in Suzhou, there is no trickery, two words, flat push!

There are three walled forts near Suzhou, plus there are about 15,000 troops in Suzhou City. If you add all the herdsmen in the vicinity, it is estimated that there are 40,000 people.

Hong Tao didn't think that the Suzhou garrison could organize so many people to fight together, and many herdsmen ran away from Ganzhou at the beginning, and they basically came to the west, presumably bringing the notoriety of themselves and the new army in Huangzhou.

People are inherently inert, and since they have tasted the power of notoriety, Hong Tao always wants to be lazy and use his reputation to scare the enemy into cranky thoughts, and then he has no combat effectiveness.

Unfortunately, he did not succeed this time, for the simple reason that the defenders of Suzhou were not Tangut or Tibetan, but an army with the Uighurs as the main force.

They thought that they were blessed by the gods and could break any demon law, and they were not afraid of the new army in Huangzhou at all. As for the previous achievements of the Huangzhou New Army, in their eyes it was completely the evil result of the Western Xia people's disbelief in Allah, and they deserved it!

Another major reason is that the defenders themselves were Uighurs, but they were conquered by force by the Tanguts. However, they did not break off contact with the yellow-headed Uighurs, on the contrary, they should have been closer to each other than with the Western Xia court, because they were close.

As soon as the two sides came into contact, Tsering Gongduo's Qingtang cavalry couldn't bear it, and was rushed by the Suzhou cavalry, which was almost three times his size, chasing and killing his ass. Fortunately, Tsering Gondo was not so panicked that he only cared about running for his life, and sounded a fireworks alarm while fleeing in the direction of the new army.

The warning fireworks are actually a rocket with an increased dose and half the length, encapsulated in a thick paper tube, which can be launched with one hand raised after being ignited.

It can be seen a few miles away when the weather is good in the plain area, and after the relay in the middle of the way, it has become the only means to transmit simple information over long distances during the march of the new army in Huangzhou.

"One, two, three...... Officials, there are quite a few enemies, and it is estimated that it will take less than ten miles to arrive in a quarter of an hour. ”

A singular number of rockets indicates danger, and each rocket represents the same number of enemies as yourself. When Wang Da saw this, he immediately blew the whistle, and then the new army stopped, and the trumpets sounded continuously, and a group of people and cars began to set up.

It is said that it is a formation, but in fact, there are no complicated changes, just a few pre-rehearsed plans. For example, what to do when encountering an enemy attack, how to be attacked from both sides, and how to maintain a formation when charging and retreating.

In addition to familiarizing themselves with weapons and all kinds of knowledge about survival in the field, the training of the new army on weekdays is basically to constantly familiarize themselves with these plans, and strive to ensure that everyone can understand in their hearts and know what to do after hearing orders.

With powerful long-range weapons, the new army's combat methods have gradually moved away from the traditional cold-weapon army, and there is no need to change too much at all, whether it is offensive or defensive.

Tsering Gondo will definitely retreat after encountering a strong enemy, and the enemy is of course likely to chase after him, and the two sides are basically connected head to tail, so how to distinguish between friendly and enemy forces and effectively rescue and strike is a science.

If you deal with it, you can save friendly troops and stop the enemy army, and if you don't know it, the formation of the new army will be scattered by the fleeing cavalry, and then it will be boiled by the enemy.

This situation is a common part of training on a daily basis, and the way the new army responds is very simple. It is to arrange the box cars into more than ten columns, about one zhang apart. The soldiers were all in the carriages, divided into two rows on the left and right, holding steel crossbows and standing by.

The retreating Qingtang cavalry would pass through the gap between the box carts, and if the enemy continued to chase closely, the New Army soldiers on the box carts would fire arrows and horses. Why shoot horses instead of people? Not to increase the target area, but to be safe.