Only then did Du Fu remember that an order had been sent from the governor's office a few days ago, and the imperial court ordered Shuofang's army to enter Hexi to assist Longyou in defending Tibet.
Du Fu was very confused about this order. Defense against Tibet?
The head of the Tubo host is still hanging on the basket at the city gate. Who wants to defend whom?
Du Fu read from Longyou's residence newspaper that the King of Yue was now restraining Qinchuan, the Tuyuhun Xuanzong envoy, telling him not to easily start a war with Tibet and to restrain the Tang army in the Tuyuhun area.
Du Fu didn't understand the court's order very much. Who was Du Hongjian trying to defend when he brought his troops to Hexi?
It is hard to say whether the Tubo people can defeat the Tang army in the Tuyuhun area, let alone the army in Hexi.
However, since the imperial court had a decree, Hexi naturally had no choice but to obey it. Du Fu received the order and he was to lead a thousand troops from Zhechong and march to Wuwei City to line up to meet Du Hongjian.
Not only Zhechong Prefecture in Wuwei, but all Zhechong Prefectures in other prefectures in Hexi will lead their troops to gather at the military camp outside Wuwei City.
Other regular troops stationed in Hexi will also gather in Wuwei City.
Du Fu didn't understand. Didn't Du Hongjian lead his troops to help defend Longyou? Why did he gather his troops to meet him?
According to the above statement, they are preparing to hold a "joint exercise" outside Wuwei City to welcome the arrival of friendly forces.
Du Fu also conducted "exercises" several times after arriving in Hexi. It was considered a kind of military training that simulated actual combat.
For example, his Wuwei Zhechong Mansion was taken to the Tianshan Mountains to conduct two mountain combat exercises.
But Du Fu didn't understand why military exercises were conducted in front of Shuofang's army? Was it to show the combat effectiveness of the Hexi army?
Forget it, let's execute the order.
The title of Captain Zhechong is a military position. Now in the political class of Zhechong Mansion, Du Fu also heard many times that "it is the bounden duty of soldiers to obey orders."
After receiving the military order, Du Fu ordered his subordinates to blow the rally call.
Quick assembly is also one of the training courses for new recruits. This time it is a formal assembly. The soldiers who heard the sound of the bugle immediately rushed into the dormitory, then quickly packed their luggage, packed their luggage and gathered on the playground.
The quartermaster prepared dry food packages from the warehouse, some of which were loaded on the baggage trucks, and some of which were piled 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 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. When he saw these soldiers under his command, Du Fu realized that these were the elites!
After the rallying horn was blown, within less than two sticks of incense, the entire military camp had already loaded up their bags and assembled. This execution ability was probably no more than that of Sun Wu's trained soldiers.
What makes Du Fu even more proud is that this is not the outstanding ability of a certain general, but the training results of this Zhe Chongfu system.
Wuwei Zhechong Mansion, from the construction plan of the military camp, to the training courses for soldiers, to all training manuals, are all compiled and issued by the staff department.
The General Staff Department has sent a team of fifty instructors here, including players and natives, to teach various courses.
Among them, ideological and political, military discipline, artillery and other new weapons tutorials, these important courses are all taught by players themselves.
Elite veterans are selected as instructors for courses such as riding and cold weapon combat.
The teaching plans for these courses are uniformly compiled and issued by the General Staff Department, which means that all the Zhechong Prefectures in the Hexi pilot program are training soldiers according to this set of rules.
In terms of teaching soldiers, Du Fu's job was to supervise and evaluate these instructors and handle some internal affairs of the Zhechong Mansion.
Even for this supervision work, there are military policemen under the staff in Zhechong Mansion. Du Fu only needs to sign and confirm the processing documents.
Du Fu quickly realized how powerful such a system was.
As long as the King of Yue is willing, he can build more Zhechong mansions and recruit and train such elites in batches.
Thinking of this, Du Fu truly felt that Longyou was powerful. This power did not lie in one or two outstanding generals like Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi, but in such a set of feasible models that could operate precisely and be copied in large numbers.
Du Fu also once thought about whether it was possible to rebuild the Zhechong Mansion in Guanzhong of the Tang Dynasty 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 the world could raise an army like this.
The cost of this Zhechongfu is too great!
Du Fu was the captain of Zhechong, and the expenses of Zhechong Mansion had to be reported to his case every month.
It can be said that the King of Yue's investment in soldiers was amazing.
All soldiers have a salary, and this money is directly distributed by the Longyou Governor's Office. This is already a large sum of money.
Zhechong Mansion not only has a military camp, but also has an attached 5,000 acres of land and supporting farms.
Although Xue Hu, the magistrate of Wuwei at the time, said that the fields and farms were self-operated by Zhechong Prefecture, and the dividends were all given to the soldiers.
But the output of these 5,000 acres of land is only enough for the soldiers to eat themselves, and the meat and eggs on the farm are not enough for the soldiers. The Zhechong Mansion has to write a report from the Dudu Mansion every month to apply for food expenses!
During this period, Du Fu was actually learning from the experiences of other Zhechong Prefectures, how to turn the farm from losses to profits, or grow some cash crops to supplement the income of Zhechong Prefecture.
All this is because of the extremely high food standards set by the staff.
The staff department requires that soldiers must eat three meals a day. Breakfast must include eggs or milk. They must have vegetables and meat every day. The staple food must be sufficient.
The cost of eating, drinking and eating for these more than a thousand soldiers is an astronomical figure, not to mention the amount of money spent on each training session.
In addition to daily training, the staff will also conduct chopping training with live artillery ammunition and real weapons.
Du Fu also saw the price of an iron cannonball from the account, which was really "a cannon fired at ten thousand taels of gold."
Such horrific expenses made Long You's investment in a soldier higher than the Tang Dynasty's investment in a low-level officer.
Those soldiers with potential can also be recommended by Zhechong Mansion to go to the Military Academy in Shazhou for further training.
Du Fu didn't know how much Long You invested in the officers, but seeing how generous the instructors were, he knew that the income and treatment of the officers must be higher.
Du Fu looked at the young faces of Zhechong Mansion, mounted his horse and said: "According to the military order of the King of Yue, a thousand soldiers of Zhechong Mansion in Wuwei gathered at Xinzhuang Camp in the east of Wuwei City and set off!"
All the soldiers lined up neatly and began to advance towards the Xinzhuang Camp outside Wuwei City according to the previous field training plan.
The other recruits from Zhechong Prefecture in Longyou, as well as the retrained Hexi army, began to gather at the Xinzhuang camp.
At the same time, in the Xinzhuang camp.
Xue Hu, the magistrate of Wuwei, was already inspecting the camp.
The engineering team is doing the final inspection. Xinzhuang Camp is divided into two camps, one in the south and one in the north, separated by a small river.
The two camps were built according to the standard of 10,000 people. The southern camp was for the Shuofang army who came from afar, and the northern camp was for the troops gathered in Hexi.
The quartermaster has prepared food and fodder and is waiting for the army to arrive at any time.
Xu Jun, the chief of staff of the General Staff Department, also arrived in Wuwei in person 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 this power when we come up?"
Xu Jun said with a smile: "This is called being a villain before being a gentleman. If you don't scare an old fox like Du Hongjian first, how can he be obedient? Do you think these Jiedu envoys in the Tang Dynasty are vegetarians?"
"Do you think that the prince and the King of Qi asked Shuofang's army to assist in the defense of Hexi? Du Hongjian didn't know what An's intentions were. Du Hongjian led the troops into Hexi just to compete for the military command in Hexi. He didn't strike first to intimidate them.
He will cause more friction in the future."
Xue Hu asked: "But can Du Hongjian agree to any joint military exercises?"
Xu Jun said: "How can you disagree? Du Hongjian is the military governor and the commander-in-chief of an army. How can he give in at this time?"
"Besides, we are not trying to annex Shuofang's army. We are just trying to dispel Du Hongjian's unrealistic illusions through this joint military exercise. We also welcome Shuofang's army."
Xue Hu glanced at Xu Jun speechlessly, and when he came up, he wanted to give the opponent a showdown. Is this called welcoming Shuofang's 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, Shuofang's 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 Wuwei military envoy, was already waiting for Du Hongjian and Shuofang's army at the ferry.
Since the last battle of the Valley, Fang Jianguo has joined the Wuwei Army. He is also Xue Hu's most important deputy. From now on, Fang Jianguo will accompany Du Hongjian to Wuwei City.
Fang Jianguo had already set up several large pots to cook millet porridge, and also set up several white medical tents to treat soldiers with severe seasickness.
Du Hongjian once again lamented the attentiveness of the officers on Longyou's side. Even the soldiers who were vomiting and dizzy on the ferry had made preparation plans.
He met with Fang Jianguo, and Fang Jianguo brought a request from the King of Yue.
"The King of Yue wants to conduct joint military exercises with our army and the Wuwei army?"
Shuofang's army has actually practiced such things as actual combat exercises.
It's just that the military exercises of the Tang Dynasty were basically conducted by each battalion.
Du Hongjian felt his scalp go numb just thinking about the joint military exercise of his own 10,000 troops, Wuwei's 10,000 troops, and 20,000 troops.
Fang Jianguo immediately said: "Commander Du, don't have any worries. This joint military exercise has to wait until your army has rested and recuperated. It is just for the purpose of running the two armies together, and it is not to compete for victory."
Hearing what Fang Jianguo said, Du Hongjian's grievances along the way broke out. He became eager to win and said:
"Your army is so kind. If you don't agree, it will make our Shuofang army timid! Let's wait for our army to rest for a day or two and then come to the military exercise!"