Xiao Mo thought he was very good at commanding a department in Beijing, and there should be no big problem when he left Beijing. Who knew that this army was like getting married. If he didn't go there personally, there would always be times when people were in a hurry. His family had long known that generals who had never left Beijing would inevitably have trouble, so he specially found two reliable family members to accompany him.

The two old families were all personal soldiers who had truly joined the commander with the commander. Although they were old, they were not good at all, but they were prohibited. When should they set up camp, when to make food, where to send more horses, and where to set up ambush soldiers, it was clear that they were far from comparable to Xiao Mo who talked about war on paper.

Because the Eastern Palace does not allow private appointments, everyone has to log in to the roster. Because of these two families, Xiao Mo specifically asked the prince how to arrange it. Zhu Cixuan made a big stroke and set up a general staff department in each military department and appointed him as a general staff. At the same time, he also organized the training officer and the military chief officer into the general staff department, making this general staff like the Little Eastern Palace, with combat staff, marching staff, and logistics staff, each in charge.

These staff members must not only be under the jurisdiction of the military chief of the headquarters, but also be under the vertical jurisdiction of various functional departments. They are inevitably a little confused when their rights and responsibilities are unknown. Xiao Mo has also been running-in with the staff of the Right Military Department. Now that he is about to arrive at the battlefield, the group has also been running-in with each other. At least there will be no such thing as shirking responsibility or fighting for power.

"General Qian," the marching staff tried hard to stand up, revealing a yellow teeth. "Tonight, two groups of horses came over. I heard that the Central Military Department had already issued an order: make meals on the morning and set off camps at dawn. You must arrive in Ruzhou before dark."

Xiao Mo stood up and took a breath of the cold air at night without any fatigue. He knew that this old man would definitely not talk nonsense. He was following the general Du Song in the Battle of Sarhu. He escaped from the dead and was a tough guy with iron and strong hearts.

"Since that's the case, we have to hurry up and let the logistics staff pass the orders, make rice, and set off the camp in peacetime!" Xiao Mo advanced the time of the front army's march one hour ago.

The rooster crows almost at 2 a.m. It is enough for those who go to bed early to recover their physical strength. The Eastern Palace Guards Battalion pays special attention to the physical fitness of the soldiers. Not only should they ensure the daily intake of fat and poultry eggs, but they are also very meticulous to the cloth shoes and leggings they wear when they are on the way. Even the hot water burns their feet every day during the daily harvest, everyone is concerned about these soldiers who are used to suffering, which deeply feels deeply that they can't go on battle to kill the enemy and repay the prince.

As soon as the words were finished, the military orders from the Central Military Department were already delivered. After Xiao Mo received the formal military order, he became nervous unconsciously and wanted to set off immediately. The horses sent by the dispatch today have arrived in Ruzhou. The report said that although Ruzhou was occupied by the official army, there were no people in the fields and the land was deserted. All the things were covered with broken walls and tiles. It would be difficult to collect grain on the spot.

Xiao Mo was not very concerned about food. Nowadays, much of the food in the guard camp was transported from Jiangnan, not as dependent on the local area as other military towns. This also made the people along the way slightly improve the government army - there are still government troops in the world that do not rob and plunder.

"I think there is no way to collect grain in Ruzhou," the marching staff sighed. "The Qin soldiers are 100,000, including Li Chuang's side. The places south of Luoyang may not be restored in three to five years."

It is easy to abandon the land, but it is not easy to become fertile again. If disasters have been going on today, even good land may not produce good harvests, let alone wasteland? There is no output in the land, and the people are increasingly unretained. It will take less than a year or two to become a dead land here.

"No matter so many, kill the thief first!" Xiao Mo unbuttoned his cufflinks, turned his wrist, and then pressed it again, saying, "Be prepared, we have to set off early. Before His Royal Highness enters the city, he must occupy the entire territory of Ruzhou!"

The staff member gave a military salute, not accustomed to this simple manner of not having to kneel down. He inspected the military camp again and found that more than 80% of the soldiers were sleeping soundly, and did not even take off their iron armor. Looking back on the time when he was in the army, even if he was strong, he had never seen such a unit eager to fight.

The old staff member who was over fifty sighed in his heart and saw the instructor who quietly patrols the camp to cover the soldiers' quilts.

Since ancient times, there have been saying that good men are not in the army, but not in the iron. It is a privilege of literati to abandon pens and join the army. The whole society is full of malice and ridicule for the illiterati. However, in the Eastern Palace Guard Camp, even the lowest-level auxiliary soldiers are not untouchables who are trampled on by others.

Whoosh ~ bang!

After a sharp whistle, a white firework bloomed from the dark sky.

Whoosh ~ bang!

The second fireworks exploded, but this time it was a red spark.

"There are police officers in the southwest!"

The entire camp woke up.

The old staff member was shocked and said to himself: It’s all new recruits, don’t yell at the camp!

He was about to look for Xiao Mo, but suddenly he found that the worry-free camp did not happen. After a brief commotion, the entire camp blew a short whistle, and soldiers sleeping in the tent came out one after another, and everyone was dressed in a brightly armored manner. They were arranged neatly, bent their knees and stomped their feet quickly.

During the stomping of feet, not only did the chill be removed, but the entire queue became more and more neat.

A short and powerful sound of report sounded immediately, and the chief officers of various posters, bureaus and departments accepted the reports one after another, arranged them into a square array, waiting for the military orders above.

Xiao Mo also saw the alarm in the sky. He knew that Ye Bugu had encountered a target worthy of warning. He immediately sent a department to the reception and entered the preparation seat. The others were ready to go and support at any time.

This is the power of Caodian. Originally, only famous generals could think of the work that could be done, and the system was formed in Caodian. Even the novice who led the troops to fight for the first time knew that if they wanted to camp, they had to first survey the nearby terrain, find the location of the ambush, and expand the space required for formation.

Although Xiao Mo did not know where to set up a combat position, as the commander of the first battalion, after the order was issued, someone would do it naturally, just check the work.

Although the marching staff officer was an old soldier, he could not understand the depth of the crown prince for a while. He could actually include the unpredictable battlefield of gods and ghosts in a book, and he could make every step clear from food, clothing, housing and transportation to meeting the enemy. In his opinion, this was no longer something that manpower could do.

Xiao Mo was wearing iron armor, wearing a bright helmet, holding the sword around his waist with one hand, and ordered as he walked: "Send a horse to find out again! Check it out carefully!"

The two stalkers rushed out of the camp, only looking at the knight's figure but not very skillful.

The most commonly trained infantry formations in the guard battalion, and the most powerful one was the spearmen trained by Min Zhan. Due to conditions, the cavalry had no organizational training at all. The "war horses" collected from Nanhaizi were barely enough for officers at all levels to ride. As for the whistle-snooping, they were just a bunch of novices, who had no experience and no skills. It was also sad that Zhu Cixuan's silhouette had not much attention to whistle-snooping, because he didn't know what this ancient reconnaissance army needed to pay attention to.

In addition to inventing the camouflage clothing, Zhu Cixuan made extremely meager contributions to the reconnaissance work. Even the camouflage clothing adapted to local conditions was not experienced by young horses, so the effect was mediocre.

Xiao Mo looked at Yangchen's horse leaving, and felt anxious. He forced himself to calm down and summoned officers from various departments to inquire about preparations. When he walked from the capital here, there was no desertion along the way, which was enough to prove that the guard camp was qualified to become a strong soldier in the world.

But only after experiencing the war, we will know what we are so strong.

"Report!" Tanma finally came back.

"Say!" Xiao Mo immediately met him, and took two steps before he stopped to maintain his demeanor.

"I reported to General Qian, the police had found a brigade of hundreds of people moving from the southwest toward our headquarters." The detective explained the situation: "After verifying, it was found that it was a local fugitive, and there were no weapons except the wooden stick."

"Escape from the famine? At this time?" Xiao Mo is a family of Jinyiwei, a child who grew up in the city. How could he know that escaping from the famine is not something that the national law cannot tolerate. If he doesn't rush at night, would he walk openly in the daytime? That would not be escaping from the famine, but rebellion.

Fortunately, most of the soldiers below were from hardships, and many of them had escaped from famine, otherwise they would not have become miners or boatmen. At this moment, a marching staff came forward and explained in a low voice: "Most of them are tenants who cannot afford rent, or small farmers who evade taxes, and military households who want to escape may also be mixed up, so there are more than 100 people now, and when they leave for a few more days, there will be more than this number."

"Maybe it's another bandit." Xiao Mo frowned.

"That won't be." The staff officer was quite confident about this: "Without deserters and defeated soldiers as the backbone, these people were at most swept by bandits and disbanded as soon as they were fought."

Xiao Mo nodded and agreed. There had been a long history of literary essays on the rise of bandits and Eastern Barbarians in detail. These two teams that brought great trouble to the Ming Dynasty were all disciples of the Ming army. Needless to say, the bandits were the soldiers who had broken up during the Jisi Rebellion. Many hundreds of households in the garrison changed their appearance and made bandits, from mutiny to thieves. As for the Donglu, although they had their own customs, they had learned the tactics and tactics of the Ming army in war. Nurhaci, the old slave Nurhaci, was a slave to Li Chengliang, the Liao Town of the Ming Dynasty.

"But you can't leave it alone. If the central army is alarmed, you will be punished for death." Xiao Mo said: "What can you do?"

"General Qian," She An, who has officially taken over as the Fifth Division, stood up and said, "Can you join the army and be an auxiliary soldier?"

Xiao Mo frowned slightly: "The auxiliary soldiers also have a fixed quota, so how can they be collected as soon as possible?"

"General Qian," She An said without retreating at all, "Now it is just transferring food and grass, setting up camps, and the auxiliary soldiers are not enough. After the war begins, the wounded and fortified construction are even short of manpower. Suck more young and strong people, and then you can launch your garrison defense immediately when you arrive in Ruzhou."

"President She is right, but what should the old and weak do?" Someone questioned.

She Anluo frowned slightly: "The old and the weak naturally let them go by themselves. I think they can only follow us and then go back to Ruzhou."
Chapter completed!