Three days later, near dusk, Xue Sichang, who had inspected Yinzhou for some time, arrived in Fushi, Yan'an Prefecture City.

Although the war is imminent, the Yan'an Prefecture City seems very clean. The crowds coming and going in front of the Fushiyaya yamen are sparse, and only the Fushiya officials who go home step by step in a hurry. The transfer yamen next door is even more deserted, with only three or two listless old soldiers standing guard with spears, adding a bit of bleakness to the twilight official yamen.

Fuyan Road is a pacifier road, and there is no independent transshipment command, but a Shaanxi transshipment command with several other pacifier roads in Shaanxi. There is only one transshipment judge on Fuyan Road, which is Xue Sichang.

Xue Sichang, who returned to Yan'an for a long time, did not enter his own yamen, but went to the Fushi Office next door. Although the Fushi and the Fushi Office were two systems and did not govern each other. However, it was already wartime. Tao Jiefu had already received the imperial edicts for the business of Gou Huanqing, Yongxing, Hedong, Fuyan and Shuofang when he was in Kaifeng Prefecture. He was the commander of the eastern line of the Northwest battlefield.

Xue Sichang, the judge of the transfer of Fuyan Road, became the chief supervisor of the army's logistics. He had already received Tao Jiefu's words. When the official troops were successful in Xiazhou, Youzhou, Yanzhou and Hejian Grassland, he would be promoted to Shuofang Road Transporter!

The promotion from a fortune judge to a fortune envoy is a leap in the officialdom! If you want to maintain your qualifications, you may not be able to survive for ten or twenty years and you will be a good official, and you will not have a Jinshi diploma. With such a big pie, Xue Sichang certainly needs to sell some strength.

"Wen Fu is back so fast. How about Yinzhou? Is Wu Chongdao okay to talk?"

Wang En, the general manager of Fuyan Road Capital, was also in the Fushiyaya. When he saw Xue Sichang coming back, he said hello and got straight to the point.

Xue Sichang took a bowl of warm tea from a servant in Fushi, drank it in one sip, and then smiled and said, "Wu Chongdao is willing to take out 30,000 stones of grain, and he is willing to transfer troops to stay in Yinzhou City and Mida Cave, so that the food can be supplied nearby by Mizhizhai."

Mizhi is located in the middle reaches of Wuding River and the eastern foot of Hengshan Mountain. Because it has a relatively open river valley (Wuding River Valley), it has always been an important grain-producing area in the Hengshan area. After being occupied by the Song Dynasty in the first year of Yuanfu, it immediately became a military farmland on Fuyan Road. The valleys are full of fertile fields. If ten thousand infantrymen of the Sanzhi Army are placed in Yinzhou City and Mida Cave near Mizhi, then grain supply will not be a problem.

The Mingtang River where Amitabha Cave is located, and the Tumao River north of Amitabha Cave, and the Yequchuan area are all suitable for farming and pastoral areas, with large areas of plump grasslands that make people drool. Originally, many Dangxiang tribes grazed in that area, but now they are scared away.

Wu Haogu only needs people to "do" more (may be buying or grabbing) some lambs, and keep the calves there, and there will be meat to eat in autumn.

In addition, the Knights, Tong Guan and Gao Qiu, who were both the Imperial Horses, both got many good horses in the war last year. Some of them were unscrupulous stallions, and they are now kept near the Amitabha Cave. Wu Haogu also spent a lot of money to hire horse-raising experts from Fuzhou and Linzhou to take care of these stallions. According to the management methods of Jiehima Farm, archives were established for each stallion and the tall horse horse used to give birth.

Therefore, for Wu Haogu, the Amitabha Cave is also a place where troops must be left to guard.

Tao Jiefu held his beard and said, "I will stay in my arms to guard the Amitabha Cave and Yinzhou City forever, which means that Wu Chongdao has no intention of competing for merit."

Wang En nodded, "He is still very successful? He has joined Yaojun at the age of 27. He can always be the governor before he is 40. The most important thing now is not to make mistakes!"

Military officers of the Northern Song Dynasty were promoted quickly when they were successful. If someone caught the handle, they might be beaten to the end.

Xue Sichang frowned at this time, and wanted to speak but stopped.

Tao Jiefu said: "Wen Fu, just say something.

"Now everyone is competing for meritorious service, and it is always good for Wu Chongdao to give in." Xue Sichang said, "It's a pity that the three-director elites under his command can no longer show their power."

"Where are the three-direct elites?" Wang En said, "It would be great to keep the cavalry... It would be great if I could stay in the northwest."

"That's the emperor's personal army," Tao Jiefu said lightly, "We are a small temple here and cannot accommodate it."

Xue Sichang shook his head and said, "It's not only that, Wu Chongdao's infantry is also trained."

"You talk about those dragon-controlling heroes?" Wang En said, "It's not bad, it's useless."

It is good to use heavy infantry like the Dragon Martyrs, but it is too precious. It is too wasteful to use it to rush the city, and it is used to charge in the field, and there is no chance for the troops from the three routes of Fuyan, Huanqing, and Hedong have all started to move. Everyone is competing for the first place and want to make some contributions in this "Summer Battle". If you really have the opportunity to fight in the field, even a strong dragon like the Dragon Martyrs, you have to give way to the local snakes in the northwest.

"It seems that not only the Dragon Warriors are powerful," said Xue Sichang. "The warriors and the inner guards also have 10 commanding spearmen, all of whom are the soldiers of the palace, and they look very strict."

"There are 10 spearmen commanders each?" Wang En was stunned. "The entire commander is snatcher?"

"It's all spearmen."

The old military strategist Wang En shook his head: "Where is the crossbowman? Where is the knife and shieldman? There are no more?"

"The formation method of the Mengshizhi and the Inner Guard is different from that of ordinary government troops. It is not a flower team, but a pure team." Xue Sichang explained, "and it is also a pure team at the command level. The command composed of spearmen is called the Bushi Command, and the command composed of the Dragon Dragon Martyrs is called the Hushi Command. In addition, two Bushizhi commands and a Hushi commander form a wing team, and five wing teams form a straight team. The Hushizhi will serve as both the sword and shield hands and archers."

Wang En shook his head: "Isn't that only one-third of the archers?"

Xue Sichang nodded: "And there is no crossbowman yet... I guess Wu Chongdao was organized into a unit in order to speed up the training of the palace soldiers."

The current popular team of the Song army is the flower team, which is based on the capital or team. Moreover, the proportion of crossbowmen among infantry combat soldiers is extremely high, usually exceeding 70%. In other words, combat is actually mainly based on archery. The role of spearmen and sword and shield hands in the Song army is to protect crossbowmen from shooting archery.

Of course, the crossbowmen in the Song army were equipped with straight swords, so they could participate in hand-to-hand combat, but the ability of hand-to-hand combat was not as good as that of the spearmen and the sword shield.

Wu Haogu's two-direction infantry did not have so much time to train archers and crossbowmen. They simply adopted a relatively easy-to-use approach, training the subordinate soldiers to grow spearmen, and at the same time, let the warriors with superb combat skills serve as swords, shields and archers.

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

"That's just a matter of it?" Wang En shook his head, "How can those soldiers carrying hoes be trained in less than two or three years? But they have served for five years in total, who would spend two or three years to train?"

"I'm afraid it won't take two or three years..." Xue Sichang touched his beard and glanced at Wang En again, "Wu Chongdao pulled out more than 200 military academic departments from the imperial knights to become generals commanding by Bushi, so the training progress was very fast.

In addition, Wu Chongdao also dispatched some knights from the Military Academy and his own staff to form a military commander to assist him in dispatching and training the troops."

Wang En shook his head and said dryly: "That's because he doesn't understand, so he has to use people. Fortunately, that old man Murong Wangyou trained a group of people for him. Although he can't be a general, he has mastered some skills of battle formations."

Tao Jiefu nodded. He had also read several military books compiled by Murong Wangyou, all of which talk about how to command a team of soldiers and how to train soldiers and troops. They are the most practical and superficial methods, and it seems that there is the composition and application of the infantry (team) and infantry command (department).

However, it was at the command (department). How many soldiers should be used? Murong Wangyou's book did not mention it, and there was no mention of the major military strategy. Therefore, Murong Wangyou's several military books did not attract much attention. Tao Jiefu forgot it after reading the manuscript from Zhang Shi. Today, he remembered it after hearing Xue Sichang mentioned it.

Xue Sichang also said: "Wu Chongdao also said that the Biyong Academy and Yuntai Academy are now teaching Murong Wangyou's method of leading troops. In the future, the right-listed Jinshi exam will also be taken. You can be a team official to lead troops."

"Breaking a fool!" Tao Jiefu shook his head, "Go to be a team official on the right-list Jinshi? Then is there anyone taking the right-list Jinshi exam?"

"That's right!" Wang En also echoed, "The team leader is not an official! At best, he is a miscellaneous military official. If he has an official position, he must be a general and commander, right?"

The status of military officers in the Song Dynasty was low, and the status of military officers led troops was even lower. The generals and commanders were not necessarily appointed as military officers. At the level of the team officers and the head, there were basically no one with the official positions.

A Jinshi, even a Wu Jinshi, is a dignified military officer from the ninth rank. He leads troops in the army, at least a general or commander, and can lead thousands of people at least. In later generations, he is a battalion commander, and he is a school-level officer! How can he do it after just graduated from a military academy? Besides, the Wu Jinshi of the Song Dynasty cannot be compared with the military academy graduates in later generations, because they do not understand military affairs at all... As a medieval officer, he did not even talk about hitting the target when shooting archery, and he had to make the horse stand firm when riding and shooting. Isn’t this a nonsense?

Tao Jiefu waved his hand and said, "Let him make trouble. Anyway, we won't point at his infantry this time."

"Yes," Wang En said, "as long as his three thousand cavalry can watch the grasslands and deserts in the north, don't let the Western thieves surround us."
Chapter completed!