On the one hand, Wu Haogu's fake army is growing slowly, and doctoral students and generalists are also receiving the best education of this era; on the other hand, various emerging "pilot military forces" are also gathering from all directions to Kaifeng Prefecture City.

To the west of Kaifeng Prefecture, a team was marching sparsely on the road leading to Kaifeng Prefecture. This was a very ordinary Song army. They wore loose red military jackets, Fan Yang hats, carried rough and worn-out weapons, and carried large and small bags of luggage. They marched weakly, and many people took a few steps and looked back at the western sky with tears in their eyes.

This army is the new government soldiers who were highly expected by the Song Dynasty court.

Although Zhang Shuye, the new recruit, was appointed as the military officer of the Baojia Prefecture of Jingzhao Prefecture, and several subordinates of Jingzhao Prefecture, tried every means to boost morale along the way, and spent a lot of money to prepare excellent food supplies. However, the more than a thousand people still left weakly, and they intentionally or unintentionally opposed every order from Zhang Shuye.

Leaving his hometown in Guanzhong to be a soldier for five years is really not so pleasant for these tenants in Lantian County. Although the Lu family in Lantian is kind and righteous, and with a village agreement as a guarantee, it will probably prevent the people in the family from starving to death in the next five years.

Moreover, it is said that after the five-year military service period expires, they can still be exempted from labor service for life. But everyone still can't be motivated... There is probably no difference between five-year military service and five-year hard labor. I still have to leave home thousands of miles away, and I don't know if I have any life to go back to see my grandmother.

Zhang Shuye had no choice but to be depressed by everyone. In addition to setting an example, he was the first to get up and staring at them every day, and waiting for them to sleep before going to bed every day, he was silently observing them.

He is actually a "observer". Although he is a military officer, he is a civil servant after all, and he has no reason to lead troops directly to train troops. In fact, he is not the purpose of the imperial court to send him to Jingzhao Prefecture to replace Ji Yi, who is a civil servant who is a military officer who is a military officer, and then give an evaluation.

Can these soldiers be used? Can they be used very much?

Although the news of the successful pilot of the Lantian County government troops was very excited by Zhao Ji, the important officials of the court, who was also an official. Cai Bian, who succeeded An Tao and Jiang Zhiqi in charge of the Privy Council, was also an old official with rich military and political experience. Of course, he knew that military system reform must be very cautious, and he could not listen to the words of nerd civil officials who had never been on the battlefield.

So I found Zhang Shuye, who had been elected after the disbandment of the Military Academy, and asked him to take over Ji Yi's position.

Zhang Shuye immediately stood by the official road, watching the soldiers in powerlessness, scattered teams, and carrying weapons crookedly. His eyebrows were frowning, but he was quite satisfied.

The reason is that these soldiers in the palace have not practiced seriously, so how could they become elites themselves?

However, before leaving Jingzhao Mansion to travel east, Zhang Shuye instructed his men not to hire mules and horses carrying luggage for these soldiers, and to travel 75-80 miles a day, which is 50% faster than the standard marching era of the imperial guards!

If you march at such a "high-speed" marching, let alone the old soldiers in Kaifeng Prefecture, even the Northwest Imperial Guards would complain. If there were no certain rewards, those soldiers might refuse to advance.

However, these soldiers who were still farmers not long ago, although their morale was not high and they were still crying, and some people tried to escape. However, they still persisted for seventy or eighty miles a day, and no one asked for rewards... Such a hard-working style is a little better than the genuine imperial guards.

The problem now is just how to train them, how to boost their morale, and how to prevent them from learning bad things...

A general of the Zhang family who had been training in front of the Northwest Army for many years came up and reported to Zhang Shuye: "He has been leaving almost today. Have you asked the brothers to make rice?"

"Have you walked through the 75th mile?" Uncle Zhang was stunned and looked up at the sky. The sun was setting and the sun was approaching dusk.

"I have already walked 80 miles away." The old general smiled, "These recruits are moving faster and faster."

Zhang Shuye nodded: "It's true that you can get it through!"

The hometown will say, "You have to have good officials to take them to practice!"

Just a good official? Zhang Shuye shook his head gently, and there must be a mechanism to motivate soldiers to fight hard! Now the imperial guards are soldiers who are jealous of money. What are the soldiers in the palace? Just like the imperial guards, they bring rewards to battle. Can they draw bows when they see rewards?

...

"Your Majesty, I am congratulating you!"

Kaifeng Prefecture, Qionglin Palace. After Gao Qiu placed the 1,000 knights he brought in in the barracks near Qionglin Palace, he immediately entered Qionglin Palace to pay homage to Zhao Ji. As soon as he met, Gao Qiu immediately congratulated Zhao Ji loudly.

"Where does the joy come from?"

Zhao Ji smiled, following Pan Xiao'an and Liang Shicheng. Liang Shicheng is now favored by Zhao Ji, and is responsible for the supervision of the Qionglin Palace together with Pan Xiao'an. At the same time, he is also a well-known person who has already built the Qionglin Palace.

"Your Majesty, the 1,000 knights I brought from Cangzhou are all elite!"

"Every elite?" Zhao Ji asked with a smile, "I have received many memorials to impeach the Knights of Cangzhou... It is said that Wu Hao is privately taught and received by the knights, and the knights are just a fiction."

"It's not just a substitute, absolutely not!" Gao Qiu said, "After walking along the way, who wouldn't say it would be better if you meet His Majesty's Knight in the Front?"

"Hahaha," Zhao Ji laughed loudly, "I just knew that Wu Haogu was reliable in doing things and was reliable."

"Your Majesty's wiseness."

Zhao Ji nodded, "Gao Qiu, let the people you bring to ask them to rest for a day first. The afternoon after tomorrow, I will personally review it.

Pan Qing, can the palace in Moutuogang be opened?"

"Report to Your Majesty, it's ready to use it." Pan Xiao'an replied.

The palace in Moutuogang is a few three-story building surrounded by tall red walls, which is not very luxurious. The only purpose is to give Zhao Ji, important officials in the court and foreign missions to visit Moutuoguan when he was performing martial arts.

The date of the Moutuogang's martial arts exercise has been set, from the tenth day of the first lunar month to the thirteenth day of the first lunar month of the third year of Jianzhong Jingguo. In total, Zhao Ji will order the test knights and observe the 100-mile running of the house slaves and warriors.

"It's a bit too late!" Zhao Ji said excitedly, "Gao Qiu, Pan Qing, tell me, when those warriors are selected, who will be the commander?"

Pan Xiao'an and Gao Qiu looked at each other, and the government was afraid that they couldn't wait to start a war?

"Your Majesty, I recommend Wang Bing." Gao Qiu said, "After Wang Bing was a hero, he joined the army for many years. He followed Murong Wangyou to serve in the Military Academy and was good at training troops to command the army."

"Wang Bing is indeed useful." Zhao Ji nodded. Wang Bing is one of the few officers in the Kaifeng imperial guard system that can still be used. The warriors in front of the palace are responsible for protecting the emperor, so Zhao Ji was still a little worried about handing them over to the commander of the Western Army.

"When Wang Bing trains this recruit," Zhao Ji breathed, "It's time to try the edge in the northwest."

Pan Xiao'an whispered: "Does Your Majesty want to use troops on Xihe Road?"

Zhao Ji nodded and said, "Huangzhou, it's a pity that the mistakes in Shanzhou are too great. Now Wu Dalang has launched a route for grain transportation in the north and south, which can alleviate the supply in the northwest. The court has thousands of elite troops, so there is no need to rely on the army to fight westward... It's time to recover Huang and Shanzhou."

"Your Majesty's wiseness."

Gao Qiu and Pan Xiao'an said in unison.

Zhao Ji smiled and said, "This matter is still being planned, so don't spread it. When the martial arts and good fortune come to me in a few days, I still want to hear his opinions."

"I will obey the order."

...

"The court wants to use troops? How did the prefect know?"

Wu Haogu was already on his way to Beijing at this time, and had already arrived at Qingchi County, where Cangzhou Prefecture was located, and met Shi Guozhong, the magistrate of Cangzhou, at the inn.

Shi Guozhong told Wu Haogu that the court could use troops in the northwest. Faced with Wu Haogu's questioning, Shi Guozhong said again: "Wang Hou was summoned to return."

Wang Hou was the son of Wang Shao, who opened Bianxihe in the Shenzong Dynasty. He followed his father to fight since he was a child and followed the route of military officers. At the age of Yuanfu, he followed Wang Shan to send troops to Xihe and forced to surrender to Qingtang Tubo. He was promoted to the prefect of Huangzhou for his merits. However, in the third year of Yuanfu, the court decided to give up Huang and Shanzhou after the two prefectures, Wang Hou was also unlucky and demoted to Hezhou.

Zhao Ji summoned him back, which was undoubtedly a signal of preparing to use troops against Xihe again!

"It seems that Xihe is going to be on the edge again..." Wu Haogu shook his head, "The game that Wang Zichun started is very difficult to deal with!"

"What? Are you against the Bian Xihe?" Shi Guozhong gently turned the wine glass in his hand.

Wu Haogu sighed: "It's a joke to open the Bianxi River to surround the Western thieves... The Western thieves are not afraid of us surrounding each other. If you want to destroy the country, you have to attack Lingzhou and Xingqing Prefecture. Without hundreds of thousands of soldiers, how can you fight?

To use hundreds of thousands of troops to fight the west, tens of millions of stones alone would have to prepare military rations! The six routes in Shaanxi were already exhausted, so how could they raise them? It depends on the transfer from Baibo. Haha, the consumption on the road is too amazing.

This Western Xia is hard to destroy!”

In Wu Haogu's view, the Northern Song Dynasty had no strength to destroy Xixia at all. To destroy Xixia, the combat effectiveness of the Northern Song army must be much greater than that of the Xixia army. In this way, the Western Xia army could force the Xixia army to shrink with less force and give up field battles. In this way, the Song army could obtain supplies on the spot by plundering the grain-producing areas of Xixia.

However, at present, the Song army did not have such combat effectiveness at all. They could only adopt heavy troops and slowly advance, approach Xingqing Prefecture step by step, and fought a decisive battle outside Xingqing Prefecture City. Even if they win, they would be unable to attack Xingqing Prefecture's strong city. As for the ability of the Xixia army to fight against the city, there is no doubt that Genghis Khan could not see the fall of Xingqing Prefecture until his death!

"Xuanzan," Shi Guozhong frowned, "Can you say this in front of the official?"
Chapter completed!