According to the regulations given by the Ministry of War, this year’s military exercise will be held in the Changbai Mountains.

The main reason is considering that marching in this era is not easy, so we choose a distance that is not too far for each other.

Only the Northern Border and Qingdao Military Region participated in this year's exercise.

The Yizhou Military Region wanted to prevent Tibet from taking the opportunity to cause trouble, so it was in a state of war preparation.

The Qianniu Guards of the Eastern Capital should also pay attention to protecting the safety of the capital and coordinate with Yizhou at any time.

In addition, this military exercise also has a certain experimental nature, so let the northern border and Qingdao Military Region try it out first.

The Ministry of War has established a director's department to be responsible for the specific matters of the exercise.

The gendarmerie was transferred over to serve as battlefield observers.

During this period, they were prohibited from communicating with both parties during the exercise and had to faithfully record everything they saw.

The Ordnance Supervisor was also ordered to build a batch of weapons specifically for exercises.

Now with the help of the Engineering Academy, the production speed is very fast.

In fact, it is a batch of long wooden sticks with a cloth tip filled with fuel wrapped in the front, which is called a spear.

If a soldier is stabbed by this thing and has paint on his body, he will be considered dead.

The grenade's charge was also reduced to the size of a firecracker, and it was also filled with paint.

This kind of grenade explodes around you and won't kill anyone, but the paint will fly around.

As for artillery and shotguns, their use is prohibited during this exercise.

Battlefield observers are located in every corner of the battle site. Soldiers who died in action need to hand over their soldier IDs to the observers and then go to the death area to wait for the exercise to end.

That's right, today's soldiers all have soldier ID cards and are required to carry them with them at all times.

The purpose of this is to ensure the exercise rules to the greatest extent, so that soldiers who die in battle cannot continue to attack the enemy.

Although the exercise time is set after the autumn harvest, it is already June, and it is almost time to start preparations.

Li Yuechen looked at it carefully and found that there was nothing wrong with the charter, so he nodded: "Okay, let's send it out."

After giving the order, a pilot took off on a hang glider an hour later and headed straight for the two military regions with the scroll.

…

In the military, as long as the news is not deliberately kept secret, it usually spreads very quickly.

That afternoon, a group of people came to Li Yuechen's office.

There are Geng Yunqiang, Wang Xiaojie and his daughter, Niu Ermao and others...

All of them are old subordinates who used to hang out with Li Yuechen.

Seeing them coming, Li Yuechen smiled: "Hey, why are you all here together today?"

Geng Yunqiang said with some embarrassment: "Your Highness, I heard that there will be military exercises this year..."

"Well, what? Are you interested?" Li Yuechen asked with his index fingers crossed and resting on his chin.

"This... I just want to ask why there are no Qianniu Guards..."

Soldiers, especially generals, are actually quite protective.

As the commander-in-chief of Qianniuwei Military Region, Geng Yunqiang came over to inquire immediately after hearing that Qianniuwei was not involved this time.

As for father and daughter Wang Xiaojie and Wang Wuqiong, they just wanted to go and have a look.

After all, we are all members of the military, so you should still go and see the special activities of the military.

Li Yuechen is quite patient with his old subordinates.

After picking up the tea cup and taking a sip, he explained: "The Qianniu Guards are left to prevent linkage with the Yizhou Military Region in special circumstances. Otherwise, if there is any abnormal movement in Tibet during the exercise, all the troops participating in the exercise will be exhausted."

It’s tiring, and it’s not realistic to travel long distances to fight, isn’t it?”

After all, soldiers are human beings, not war machines.

As humans, we have to take physiological factors into consideration. If we go to fight on the plateau when we are physically and mentally exhausted, even if we agree in the end, we don’t know how many lives will be lost.

The country has spent a lot of money to train these soldiers. The death of one of them is enough to make people feel distressed for a long time, let alone a large number of deaths.

Hearing her explanation, Geng Yunqiang felt a little embarrassed.

Although he could be considered a literate person, he could not be called educated after all, and he secretly cursed himself for not being able to think of such a simple thing.

So he quickly saluted and said: "I know my mistake!"

Li Yuechen waved his hand: "When it comes to fighting, you can't say that you dare to fight and fight hard. But in the future, the army will increasingly need culture. In this aspect, you need to learn more."

"Your Highness taught you a lesson, and I will remember it!" Geng Yunqiang raised his hand and saluted.

"As for this military exercise, even if you don't tell me, I still plan to let you go and take a look. Maybe you can discover or learn something from it."

When everyone heard this, they were a little moved in their hearts.

It turns out that although they see each other less now, the princess has never forgotten them.

In fact, this was really because they were overthinking it. Li Yuechen was originally a relatively loyal person.

If something happens now, I will naturally take them with me.

Although Li Yuechen has been working hard to improve the country's civilization level for so many years.

But when it comes to helping relatives but not taking care of others, this has always been the case.

When doing good things, of course you should always favor your own people.

After all, as the old saying goes, people's hearts are biased, so there is no such thing as complete fairness.

"Speaking of which, besides military exercises, there is another thing that you can focus on."

Li Yuechen continued: "In addition to the annual military exercises, I also plan to organize military region competitions. From now on, it will be scheduled every spring, and each military region will send the most elite soldiers to participate in competitions in various subjects...that is, the national military region competition!"

Upon hearing this, everyone looked at each other and exchanged glances.

I feel that if this is the case, veterans in the army will not dare to fish casually in the future.

After all, even in peacetime, there are military competitions at the beginning of the year and exercises at the end of the year, so you still have to train hard on weekdays.

After all, for the military region, this is the assessment indicator.

If you think about it, you will know that the military region that does not get the ranking will definitely not have a good impression in front of the emperor... The series of chain reactions caused by this will be very serious.

But at the same time, I have to admire Her Highness the Princess's superb wisdom for actually coming up with such a solution.

"Okay, this is a formal notification. I will write to other military regions afterwards. After this year's exercise is over, you must prepare in advance for the competition in the spring next year!" Li Yuechen said with a smile.

Geng Yunqiang looked arrogant: "Our Qianniu Guards have been following His Highness from the very beginning, so naturally we cannot lose!"

…

Although he spoke beautifully, his expression immediately fell after leaving the office.

He turned around and asked Niu Ermao next to him: "Old Niu, do you think we can beat the Northern Military Region in the military competition next year? After all, they are the frontier army..."

Niu Ermao had a helpless expression on his face: "Brother Geng, you just said you couldn't lose in front of His Highness, why are you giving up now?"

"It's not that I'm cowardly, but they are the frontier troops after all!" Geng Yunqiang gritted his teeth and touched his hair, "Besides, that boy Liu Huang is also His Highness's senior brother. If they both come from the same school, I'm afraid... it's hard to win."

Then what did you promise His Highness to say just now? Niu Ermao complained in his heart.

But on the surface, he still comforted him: "Oh, don't worry about that. After all, Liu Huang is still young, and he is not a fairy like His Highness. Our chances of winning are still not small. Besides, people who come from the bitter cold land on the northern border

, the flexibility may not be much better than that of Qianniuwei..."

From the perspective of people of this era, people from cold places are naturally resistant to cold, and people from the south are naturally resistant to heat, but in contrast, they are not so good in other aspects.

This does make sense according to the logic of ancient people.

…

Li Yuechen basically stayed at the Ministry of War throughout June, processing documents from the Western Regions every day.

In fact, it's just some military intelligence.

Now the friction between the two sides is escalating, and the countries in the Western Region have completely formed an alliance to fight Tibet to the end.

The two sides are currently fighting and negotiating at the same time, and the conditions cannot be agreed upon, so they can only fight and negotiate at the same time.

At the same time, both sides were also paying attention to the movements on Da Zhou's side.

The countries in the Western Region hope that this big country can stand up for justice and maintain order in the surrounding countries.

Tubo just hoped that Dazhou would not get in the way like this, and asked for nothing else.

But I'm afraid they would never have thought that what Zhou Da Zhou wants now belongs to both of them.

The next goal is not only to bring Tubo into the territory, but also the entire Western Region countries.

So now I am just acting as an observer and will not personally participate in the battle between them.

Li Yuechen only used the constantly updated intelligence from the Ministry of War to reason and guess where they were now.

Of course, this job is too tiring to be done by one person. Almost all the management of the Ministry of War and many staff officers in the army are involved.
To be continued...