Three days later, when it was almost dusk, Xue Sichang, who had inspected Yinzhou, arrived in Yan'an.

Although the war is imminent, the city of Yan'an Mansion is very clean. The flow of people in front of the Fusi Yamen was sparse, and only the Fusi officials who went home one step ahead of time were in a hurry. The transfer yamen next door was even more deserted, and only three or two listless old soldiers were standing guard with spears, adding a bit of gloom to the official office in the twilight.

Yanyan Road is a pacification envoy, and there is no independent transshipment envoy, but a Shaanxi transshipment envoy with several other pacification envoys in Shaanxi. There is only one transfer judge on the side of Yan Yan Road, and it is Xue Sichang.

Xue Sichang, who returned to Yan'an, did not enter his own office, but went to Fusi next door. Although pacifiers and transshipment envoys are two systems, they do not govern each other. But now that it is wartime, Tao Jiefu has received the holy decree of acting cheaply when he was in Kaifeng Mansion, and he is in charge of the official affairs of Huanqing, Yongxing, Hedong, Yanyan, and Shuofang, as if he is the commander of the Eastern Front of the Northwest Battlefield.

And Xue Sichang, the judge of the transfer of Yanyan Road, has become the head of the logistics of the army. He has already obtained Tao Jiefu's words, and when the official army succeeds in Xiazhou, Youzhou, Yanzhou and Hejian Grassland, he will be promoted to Shuofang Road Transit Envoy!

The promotion from a transit judge to a transport envoy is a leap in officialdom! If you want to get qualifications, you may not be able to get it in ten or twenty years - he is an official who is a shadow supplement, and he does not have a Jinshi diploma. With such a big pie, Xue Sichang certainly had to sell some strength.

"Wen Huang came back so quickly, how is it over there in Yinzhou? Is Wu Chongdao still easy to speak? ”

Wang En, the head of the capital of Yanyan Road, was also in the Fusi Yamen, and when he saw Xue Sichang coming back, he went straight to the topic after saying hello.

Xue Sichang took a bowl of warm tea from one of Fusi's servants, drank it in one gulp, and then said with a smile: "Wu Chongdao is willing to take out 30,000 stone of grain, and he is also willing to transfer soldiers and horses to stay in Yinzhou City and Mida Cave, so that he can supply grain from Mizhi Village nearby." ”

Mizhi is located in the middle reaches of the Wuding River and the eastern foothills of Hengshan, because it has a relatively open river valley (Wuding River Valley) area, so it has always been an important grain production area in the Hengshan area. After being occupied by the Great Song Dynasty in the first year of Yuanfu, it immediately became the land of Tuntian on the Yanyan Road. In the valleys, there are fertile and fertile fields. If you put 10,000 thousands of infantry of the Sanzhi Army in Yinzhou City and Mida Cave near Mizhi. Then the food supply will not be a problem.

The Mingtang River, where Mida Cave is located, and the Tumao River and Yequ River north of Mida Cave are all suitable for farming and grazing, and there are large areas of grassland that are so fat that people drool. Originally, there were many party tribes grazing in that area, but now they are all scared away.

Wu Haogu only needs to let people "engage" more (maybe buy or grab) some lambs and calves to raise there, and there will be meat to eat in the autumn.

In addition, the knights of the Imperial Horse Straight and Tong Guan and Gao Yu both got many good horses in last year's war. Some of them are stallions that have never been gelding, and they are now kept near Mida Cave. Wu Haogu also spent a lot of money to invite horse breeders from Fuzhou and Linzhou to take care of these stallions. In accordance with the management methods of the Boundary Hippodrome, a file has been established for each stallion and the tall peony horse used to give birth.

Therefore, for Wu Haogu, Mida Cave is also a place where soldiers must be left to guard.

Tao Jiefu stroked his beard, "Kenliu has been guarding Mida Cave and Yinzhou City with soldiers and horses, which shows that Wu Chongdao has no intention of fighting for merit." ”

Wang En nodded, "What else is he fighting for?" At the age of 27, he has already added Yao County, and he can always go to the festival before the age of 40, and the most important thing now is not to make mistakes! ”

The military attache of the Northern Song Dynasty rose rapidly when he was meritorious, and if he was caught, he might be pushed to the end.

Xue Sichang frowned at this time, and stopped talking.

Tao Jiefu said: "Wen Huang, if you have something to say, just say it."

"Now that everyone is vying for meritorious service, it is always good for Wu Chongdao to be willing to retreat." Xue Sichang said, "It's a pity that the elite of the three straights under his command can't be powerful." ”

"Where are the three straight elites?" Wang Endao, "It's good to keep cavalry...... It would be nice to stay in the Northwest. ”

"That's the Son of Heaven's army," Tao Jiefu said lightly, "Our temple here is small and can't accommodate it." ”

Xue Sichang shook his head and said, "Not only all the time, but the infantry of Wu Chongdao has also been trained. ”

"Those dragon warriors, you say?" Wang En said, "It's not bad, but it's not very useful." ”

Heavy infantry like the Dragon Warrior is good, but it's too precious. It's too wasteful to use it to storm the city, and there is no chance to use it for field charges - this time, the soldiers of the three roads of Yanyan, Huanqing, and Hedong all moved. Everyone is vying to be the first, and they all want to take some credit in this "battle to destroy the summer". If there is really a chance to fight in the field, even if it is a strong dragon like the Dragon Warrior, it has to give way to the Northwest Snake.

"It seems that not only the dragon warriors are powerful," Xue Sichang said, "There are also 10 pikemen under the command of the warriors and the internal guards, all of whom are filled by government soldiers, and they look very strict. ”

"10 pikemen in each command?" Wang En was stunned for a moment, "The entire command is all spearmen?" ”

"They're all pikemen."

The old military strategist Wang En shook his head: "What about the crossbowmen?" What about the sword and shield hands? None of them? ”

"The formation method of the warrior and the internal guard is different from the ordinary officers and soldiers, it is not a flower team, but a pure team." Xue Sichang explained, "It is also a pure team of commanding the first level, and the command composed of pikemen is called the infantry commander, and the command composed of dragon warriors is called the warrior commander. In addition, two infantry commanders and one warrior commander form a box team, and five box teams form a direct team. Among them, the Dragon Warrior will serve as both a sword and shield bearer and an archer. ”

Wang En shook his head: "Isn't there only a third of the archers?" ”

Xue Sichang nodded: "And there are no crossbowmen yet...... It is estimated that Wu Chongdao was organized into troops in order to speed up the training of government soldiers. ”

The Song army was now popular in the flower team, that is, in the unit of capital or team, and the proportion of crossbowmen in the infantry was extremely high, usually more than 70%. In other words, combat is actually based on archery. The role of pikemen and sword and shield bearers in the Song army was to protect the archers and crossbowmen from archery.

Of course, the crossbowmen in the Song army were equipped with straight knives, so they could participate in hand-to-hand combat, but their ability in hand-to-hand combat was completely inferior to that of pikemen and sword and shield hands.

And Wu Haogu's two-straight infantry did not have so much time to train archers and crossbowmen. Simply adopted a more trouble-free method, training the subordinate soldiers to be gunners, and at the same time allowing skilled warriors to serve as sword, shield and archers.

Xue Sichang said: "Although the method of formation is not very reasonable, the training of the troops looks good. In just over a month, it already has an appearance, it is very neat, and it looks like an elite. ”

"It's just improvised, right?" Wang En still shook his head, "How can those government soldiers who carry hoes be trained in two or three years?" But they have served for a total of five years, and who will spend two or three years on training? ”

"I'm afraid it won't take two ......or three years," Xue Sichang stroked his beard and glanced at Wang En again, "Wu Chongdao took out more than two hundred military academy graduates from the imperial knights to become military generals under the command of Bu Jin, so the progress of training is very fast.

In addition, Wu Chongdao also transferred some knights from the Military Academy Department and his own staff to form a military commander, which was used to assist him in dispatching and training troops. ”

Wang En shook his head and said with a dry smile: "That's because he doesn't understand it, so he has to use people." It is also thanks to Murong Forget that old man trained a group of people for him, although he can't be a general, but he has mastered some battle array techniques. ”

Tao Jiefu nodded, he had also read several military books written by Murong Wangwu, all of which talked about how to command a team of soldiers and how to train soldiers and troops. They are the most practical and superficial methods, and there seems to be about the formation and use of infantry (team) and infantry command (department).

However, it has reached the level of command (department), how to use more soldiers, Murong Wang's book does not say it, and it does not mention the strategy of the big army. Therefore, Murong forgot to worry about the several military books that did not attract much attention, and Tao Jiefu forgot about the manuscript after reading the manuscript from Zhang Qi, and only remembered it after listening to Xue Sichang mention it today.

Xue Sichang also said: "Wu Chongdao also said that the Biyong School Palace and the Yuntai School Palace are now also teaching Murong the method of leading soldiers, and in the future, the right list of Jinshi will also be examined, and the right list of Jinshi can be used as team officers to lead soldiers." ”

"Nonsense!" Tao Jiefu shook his head, "The right list of Jinshi to be a team officer?" Is there anyone else taking the Jinshi section on the right list? ”

"Not really!" Wang En also chimed in, "The team is not an official!" At best, he is a miscellaneous warrior. If you want to be an official, you have to be a general and a commander, right? ”

In the Song Dynasty, the status of military attachés was low, and the status of military attachés leading troops was even lower, and the generals and commanders were not necessarily filled by military attachés. At the level of team officers and capital heads, there are basically no officers.

And a Jinshi, even if it is a Wujinshi, is also a dignified military attache from the ninth grade. To lead troops in the army, at least a general or commander, a little more can bring a thousand people. In the future, he will be a battalion commander - those are all colonel-level officers! How can you do it just after graduating from military school? Moreover, the Wujin scholars of the Song Dynasty could not be compared with the military academy graduates of later generations, because they did not understand military ...... at all As a medieval officer, archery doesn't even talk about hitting the target, and you have to let the horse stand firm when riding and shooting, isn't this nonsense?

Tao Jiefu waved his hand: "Let him make trouble, anyway, this time we won't point at his infantry." ”

"Yes," Wang Endao said, "as long as his 3,000 cavalry can watch the grasslands and Hanhai deserts in the north, and don't let the western thieves go around behind us." ”

While the three of them were talking, an official from Fusi ran in and arched his hand and said: "Envoy, Yinzhou sent an envoy to report that the army of Gao Taiwei, the deputy chief of soldiers and horses on Hedong Road, has arrived at Mida Cave. ”