Hong Tao only stayed in Weiqiao Town for three days, but he didn't miss anything. The military horses around Jingzhao Mansion were all requisitioned and left, and no one dared to say a word.

There are as many pulley crossbows in the warehouse, and there is not a single crossbow arrow. It was that he didn't take the siege crossbow or rocket, which made Gao Cuifeng very puzzled, but he didn't know much about military affairs, so he simply shut up and didn't ask.

Speaking of which, the imperial court has not done anything serious over the years, and the post road from Weiqiao Town to Lanzhou has been repaired well, which is much wider and smoother than when Hong Tao first came more than ten years ago.

Of course, this is not entirely for war reserves, but more for commercial purposes. In peacetime, this road is an important passage connecting the mainland to Lanzhou, which in turn is a transportation hub connecting Liangzhou and Huangzhou.

All goods from the Western Regions had to enter the interior through this road, and even if the imperial court did not repair it, the merchants had to widen and smooth it with their feet and carts.

With this road, the speed of the westward advance of the new army was guaranteed. However, this time Hong Tao did not rush to play with his life, but limited the daily march to one hundred and fifty miles, and the march should rest and rest.

Since there may be a big hole ahead, you have to watch the road before taking a step. Walking fast and slow is actually about the same, the Western Xia people and the Great Song Dynasty can grasp the whereabouts of this army in minutes, and they don't need to think about how to be surprised, just look at their feet clearly and don't fall into the pit.

There was no word all the way, and six days later the army came to Dingxi City. It's already a bit of a frontline, the gates are closed in broad daylight, and the post road is empty.

Hong Tao did not choose to set up camp here, but just sent people into the city to ask about the battle situation. According to the county lieutenant, the Tangut people had been found in the north of the city more than ten miles ago, but the large force did not see it, and the reinforcements from the imperial court had not arrived.

"Come on, generals, give your opinion. There are still more than 200 miles away from Lanzhou, and you can get there in a day by walking quickly, but you can't see the scouts of the Xixia people, and there is no Xixia army going south to fight the grass valley, what should you do? ”

Don't look at Hong Tao's words and Gao Cuifeng's words are quite relaxed, in fact, he is not steady. It's not clear how many enemies there are in front of you, how many ghostly reinforcements will be behind your butt, and you have to think of several moves for every move.

Now the problem is coming again, the scouts sent by the forward troops are thirty miles away and still have not found any trace of the Tanguts, it is too abnormal, we must slow down and study it carefully.

"Presumably the prestige of the adults has spread far and wide, and the party members have fled in despair." Jiang Erlang has not only swelled a little over the years, but has also become a broken mouth, he likes to take over the stubble when he has nothing to do, and he often says cool words.

"It seems that your second uncle is still not comfortable as a deputy general, so let's just give him a regiment commander, how about the forward regiment?" In the face of this kind of verbal provocation, Hong Tao has never been accustomed to it, and in a word, the deputy commander of the new army has been stroked again and has become the regiment commander.

By the way, the military system of Jeju Island is different from that of the Great Song Dynasty, which is also what Jiang Erlang strongly advocated at the beginning. He hated the Great Song Dynasty, he hated everything, and he didn't want to use the same military system, so he had to set up a separate set.

But the problem is that he just hates it, and he doesn't have the ability to recreate a set, so he can only trouble Hong Tao. Hong Tao was also idle and had nothing to do, and he wanted to show off his erudition, so he took out the military establishment of later generations to make up the numbers, and it was a patchwork of things, and it was not a system at all.

In Hong Tao's eyes, this is not a problem, whether a hundred people are called a platoon or a platoon, what difference can there be in the current combat mode? It is nothing more than to satisfy Jiang Erlang's wishes, and by the way, to satisfy his own evil taste.

The smallest unit in the military establishment of Jeju Island is called a squad, a squad of 12 people, consisting of the chief and deputy squad leaders and 10 soldiers. Further up is the company, which in principle is composed of ten squads, plus the chief and deputy company commanders, with a full number of 122 people. Clerks, trumpeters, signal soldiers, and the like are all tapped from within, and there are no special positions.

There is no battalion above the company, and it is directly a regiment, consisting of ten companies, plus a regiment commander and two deputy regiment commanders, with a full strength of 1,223 people, and there are also no professional civilian personnel and service personnel.

The regiment will be gone further up, not because Hong Tao is lazy, but because the new army is not so large-scale, and the communication conditions cannot command too many people to cooperate.

If you really get an infantry division out, tens of thousands of people have arrived on the battlefield, and it is not impossible to rely on trumpets, whistles, and flags to achieve orders and prohibitions, or it is a bit difficult.

If you want to achieve this state, you have to go through long-term training, for example, the soldiers of the forbidden army, who have been soldiers for more than ten years, what are you usually training? The main thing is the formation, that is, how to execute orders in time during combat, and after so many years of training, it may not be able to reach the level of elite soldiers.

The new army really doesn't have so much time to figure out how to rehearse the formation, and the thermal weapons combat does not need too complicated formations, and it is enough to be able to achieve the general unity of formation, loading, raising guns, and firing.

The focus of the training is mainly on proficiency in weapons, but also on learning simple wilderness survival, civil engineering, first aid and other skills. Whoever loads quickly, holds a gun steadily, digs trenches quickly, and can avoid danger is the best soldier.

To put it bluntly, this is the difference in the mode of operation and the use of weapons, which has caused changes in the thinking of military command and the military establishment. What is suitable is right, and there is no such thing as good or bad.

In fact, on the battlefield, the regiment commander cannot directly command the grassroots soldiers, and the company is the standard combat unit. As long as the company commander and squad leader can understand the orders and the flags, the entire army will be able to have basic combat effectiveness.

Regiment commanders and higher-ranking commanders need to worry not about how soldiers fight, but about having a full picture of the situation on the battlefield. For example, when to increase firepower, when to retract, when to pursue, when to retreat, when to move closer to friendly forces......

In addition to serving the operational command, the establishment of the armed forces also plays an important role, that is, to approve the promotion of soldiers. Being a soldier and fighting a war is actually a craft, and it is also a job, which is no different from farming and becoming a craftsman.

Those who farm the land hope to harvest more grain and own more land, and those who work look forward to receiving more wages to become masters and soldiers? There is also a need for promotions and salary increases, and it is even stronger.

If you want the soldiers not to drop the chain at the critical moment, then you have to let them have a corresponding harvest, and they can't eat a big pot of rice, so that what is cultivated is not elite soldiers, but soldiers.

The military rank system that accompanies the military system is the soldier's food, land, wages, and rank. This time, Hong Tao was even lazier, so he directly applied the level of craftsmen, and the soldiers were divided into three levels, the lieutenants were divided into three levels, and the school officers were divided into three levels, and the salaries of each level were different, and the gap was widened as much as possible.

Soldiers are not promoted according to individual criteria, but are collectively evaluated in squads, so that individual heroism can be avoided. No matter how strong you are as an individual, you can't just think about going it alone, it doesn't work, you can only find a way to integrate into the collective and better complete the combat mission to have a chance to upgrade.

As for the bereavement pension and disability compensation, there are no items for the time being. This is also to meet the requirements of the times, in this era, it is really not so delicate to be a soldier to fight, as long as you can get your salary on time, it is very good.

People can't give too much benefit at once. From eating bran vegetables directly to eating chicken, duck and fish, you will soon get tired of eating, and then you don't feel that there is any happiness in this life.

The benefits have to increase little by little, first put enough salt in the dish, everyone will feel happier than the previous clear soup and less water, and after the salt is used to a little oily, everyone will feel that life is improving every day, and the mood is also high.

However, Hong Tao was not too picky, he improved the status of soldiers in disguise, and all Jeju Island soldiers who retired because of disability will be given priority to better jobs.

But don't think that he is only thinking about the military family, if he thinks so, Chen Niang and the Jewish Presbyterian Church will not agree, what a cost it will have to pay.

In fact, there is also the benefit of making full use of human resources. During their service, recruits had to read and write, learn simple cartographing, medical, mechanical, civil engineering, and even more in the case of the navy.

There is no need to talk about anything else, just being able to write and count this skill is better than 90% of the people in the Great Song Dynasty, and it is better to put it in the workshop or logistics management department than to someone who has just come out of the literacy class and has never seen anything on the market. Moreover, the soldiers are strong-willed, ideologically unified, accustomed to obeying the commands of their superiors, and are better managed than ordinary people.

In Chen Niang's words, the worst person in the world is her father, who can calculate everything to the bones, but it seems that it is all done by great good people.