Chapter 437: Reorganizing the Army
After seeing the soldiers under Ding Ergou’s command, whether brand new or Zhang Quanyi, they were in no hurry to leave. After obtaining Ding Ergou’s consent, , their team joined up with Ding Ergou's soldiers and headed for the Dianmao Grand Parade in Aquarius State.
The soldiers must prepare their own weapons. There is an arsenal in Gongqin Town. Except for crossbows, none of the weapons in it are provided for free.
The soldiers need to pay for it themselves.
No one wants to save money on this.
Moreover, this time there was a big battle, and the purpose was to completely destroy Bei Yuan. It is conceivable that the battle was fierce. So the arsenal here seems very lively.
Damaged old armor and old weapons can be valued here. After making up the difference, you can get a brand new set of armor.
Xinxin looked at it silently for a while. The quality of these standard armors is very reliable, and the price is only about half of the price.
The light infantry buy the most half-body armor, and the cavalry mostly use chain armor. There are several sets of heavy infantry armor in the library, but no one cares about them.
Heavy infantry and heavy cavalry are standing armies. Most people simply cannot afford this outfit.
The reason why there are these things in the arsenal here is just that the Protectorate thinks that there may be a fierce man down there who needs heavy armor, and if there is none in the arsenal, it will not be beautiful.
The officials of Zhechong Mansion were extremely efficient in their work. Soon, the outside of the arsenal was filled with old armor and weapons, and sets of new items were delivered to the soldiers.
In addition to weapons, there is another thing that is also very popular among soldiers. Basically every soldier goes to the quartermaster to buy one, and it is very precious and is kept close to hand.
This is a cloth bag, but it contains some necessary medicines on the battlefield. These are made by the large medical center under the Protectorate. And the doctors in the big medical clinics are all from Changchun Valley.
There is a legend outside the customs, that is, as long as you are still alive, you can live if you can be delivered to the old gods and little gods in Changchun Valley.
In fact, most of the cloth bags contain first-aid medicines. Once you are injured and the military doctor is not around you, you can rely on these things to save yourself.
Veterans are very skilled at self-rescue.
But here, there is a pill that can really give people a sigh of relief. It is a pill that stimulates the human body's potential. When the wounded are really in extreme danger, just take this pill and they will be healed. Hold on for a while and see if anything changes.
In Li Dachui's opinion, this thing is a stimulant.
If you take a pill like this and you haven’t received effective treatment once the effect of the medicine wears off, you are basically hopeless.
This cloth bag is not cheap.
They actually asked for two hundred coins.
But it is obvious that the soldiers are still willing to spend money on these life-saving things.
At dawn, this army was completely new.
Weapons need to be paid for at one's own expense, but since they have assembled, the food is provided by Zhechong Mansion.
The soldiers lined up and held up their own grain bags. The grain bags were made into long strips as thick as fists and divided into grids. Each grid was a meal ration.
Xin Hui opened a bag. It contained fried rice noodles, maybe some beans or something like that were mixed in. He dipped his finger in it, put it in his mouth and tasted it. It was salty and also... With some other flavors, if you look carefully, you can see that there are even thin pieces of minced meat mixed in.
“This is the ration needed to arrive at the assembly point from Gongqin Town.” Ding Ergou said: “After the assembly, a formal military formation is formed, then the rations will be provided by the Duhufu, which is comparable to ours. It’s much better to prepare yourself here.”
< br>Ding Ergou took out a square thing wrapped in oil paper from his pocket and handed it to Xin Xin, "Here, this is the military ration provided by the Duhu Mansion. This small piece can be eaten for a day. Let's make it. It is very time-consuming, seven steaming and seven drying, and one pound of grain can only be obtained in the end. Two of these military rations, but when eating, you only need to break off a small piece and rinse it with water to make a big bowl. There are a lot of things in it, and it tastes very hungry. The most important thing is that this kind of food is very hungry. Dry food can be stored for up to a year, is easy to transport and store, but A must-have for traveling and fighting!" He held this hard brick-like thing in his hand. He had to cut it with a knife to take it off. It was thoughtfully divided into two parts. One grid probably means that one grid is enough for you to have a meal.
If a soldier prepares a bag of these things, he will not have to worry about going hungry for a month or two.
What is the most important thing in fighting?
It’s logistics.
The soldiers and horses have not moved, but the food and grass go first.
In many wars, the losing side is not incapable of fighting, but is dragged down by logistics.
In places like Outside the Pass, because both sides of the battle have a large number of cavalry, mobile assaults and harassing food routes are the most basic operations. Now that this kind of military food is available, the reliance on logistics is greatly reduced.
And Xinxin also noticed before that the various livestock brought by these soldiers are basically female, which can provide fresh milk for the soldiers.
Zhang Quanyi came over carrying a few medical cloth bags and said with a smile: "I heard before that Li Duhu was a good money maker, but now it seems that it is true, and what's even better is, The soldiers spent money willingly, without any reluctance."
"The soldiers are all looking forward to fighting, and all the seizures on the battlefield belong to themselves." Ding Ergou. He smiled and said: "Even those things they can't use can be sold to the Protectorate at a price. After a battle, they can basically make a lot of money. If they make great achievements, there are other things. Reward. Even if you die, the pension will be extremely generous. The people outside the customs are originally martial. Under the encouragement of these policies, the soldiers' fighting enthusiasm is quite high."
"How to ensure that the soldiers. "Discipline?" Xinxin asked softly: "Can you not show off?"
Ding Ergou coughed dryly and chuckled: "We usually go abroad to fight. Since we are going abroad, we must face enemies."
We are all smart people, so naturally we will stop here, Ding Ergou's words have been made very clear.
After making all preparations, one morning will be considered an expense.
After a simple meal, the army set off immediately.
The army of 1,200 people has nearly 2,000 animals of various types.
"March a hundred miles in one day!" Ding Ergou said: "This is the passing line for the soldiers of the Duhufu to assess, but the order I set for the soldiers of Gongqinfu is that they must march one hundred and fifty miles in one day. In fact, other The soldiers of Zhechong Prefecture all have similar requirements.”
After taking a look at this army, which all uses animals to travel, and then thinking about their logistics, it is indeed possible to travel one hundred and fifty miles a day. Did it.
The team marched all the way. When it was time to pay, the Gongqin town government soldiers encountered another larger government soldier team, a team of three thousand people from Xuanen County. The officer leading the team was very Obviously the qualifications are much older than Ding Ergou.
So Ding Ergou's group of soldiers immediately merged into this team of three thousand soldiers.
Both Xinxin and Zhang Quanyi noticed that after the two armies merged, there was no ambiguity in the command and they were still smooth and satisfactory.
This shows that it doesn't matter if the army of the Beiting Protectorate doesn't know the generals or the generals don't know the soldiers. They only need to follow the prescribed procedures step by step, and they can command an army you have never seen before.
This is an incredible achievement.
And it is also a great benefit to the two of them.
Because the two of them basically knew nothing about the army of the Beiting Protectorate, they were still worried about this along the way. But now it seems that their worries are in vain. They only need to read through the code of conduct of the Beiting Protectorate Association and understand their operating rules, and they will be able to command the troops outside the customs freely.
And these things are not difficult for them.
(End of this chapter)