The main sign of the mule-horse army is that weapons, equipment and personnel are carried by mules and horses. Now it is not polite to say that Tianzi Bureau has achieved this.

Each department of Tianzi Bureau has a baggage team. Although this baggage team only has twelve people including the captain, it has a five-person full-time breeder who is responsible for feeding mules and horses and dealing with mules and horses' diseases. The five-person team

The vehicle maintenance team has a total of twenty-two large vehicles, eighteen of which are used to transport soldiers, one vehicle, weapons and ammunition, clothing, tents and other supplies.

This is not actually a baggage team, it should be called a logistics support team.

Each division of the Tianzi Bureau has auxiliary teams, such as the military law team and the medical team. These personnel accompany the marches and battle sequences of each division. A division requires at least eighteen large vehicles to meet the transportation function of the troops.

The cooks in each team also serve as drivers during the march.

The four war divisions need eighty-eight carts. Of course, this is actually not many. The one that needs the most carts is actually the Baggage Division headquarters. They need to transport more materials, not only food and ammunition, but also

There were artillery shells and all kinds of miscellaneous supplies. There were more than 300 large trucks directly under the Transport Department.

Of course, there is also the Department of Medical Care, which owns more than 50 large vehicles. Fortunately, these wood do not require money to buy. Instead, they obtain the best wood from the imperial warehouse through bribery. They are all good wood that has been dried in the shade for more than three years.

If you buy it on the market

, these timbers are enough to wipe out half of Liu Mingyu's family fortune. The craftsmen who build the carts do not need wages. The refugees and common people play a part, and the soldiers of the baggage department bear a part. Otherwise, these carts are enough to wipe out Liu Mingyu's wealth.

Yu's family background.

A large vehicle like this on the market without bridge shock absorbers and roller bearings would cost twenty or thirty taels of silver. With the addition of mules and horses, a large vehicle would cost forty or fifty taels of silver...

Anyway, Lu Xiangsheng cannot afford the money to turn the Tianxiong Army into a mules and horses. In other words, this model cannot be copied.

The advantage of mules and horses is that the soldiers do not have to march and walk, so they can maintain sufficient physical strength and can maintain a marching speed of eighty, ninety or even hundreds of miles. This is a marching speed that the Ming Dynasty army did not have.

It is a pity that Liu Mingyu bought a lot of grain outside the capital during this period. Even if more than 400 carts were loaded with grain, they still could not finish it.

Liu Fugui was also very troubled by the excess food.

"Master, what should I do with this food?"

The Tianxiong Army does not have garrison camps in the capital. The military camp outside Guangqumen is only a temporary military camp. Once the Tianxiong Army withdraws, it will become farmland on the outskirts of Beijing. After spring, the people will still farm here.

Liu Mingyu had no choice but to leave a team of troops to guard here.

Liu Mingyu thought for a while and saw the refugees wandering outside the camp. During this period, Tianzi Bureau had a lot of work, such as building carts, sewing bedding and clothing, and making shoes and socks, so that the refugees could interact with Tianzi Bureau.

A good relationship was formed.

Of course, the key is that these refugees contributed more than 150,000 yuan to Liu Mingyu's reputation. Otherwise, Liu Mingyu would not have so much money to pay bribes, let alone feed the soldiers of Tianzi Bureau.

If these grains were placed on the market, they would be worth a lot of money. However, because they bribed the warehouse officials, they were very cheap when bought back. Each stone of grains did not even cost five cents of silver.

"Open the camp and let the people in!"

With the support of the direct guards of Tianzi Bureau, the people entered the camp one after another, and one or two thousand people came in.

Liu Mingyu climbed onto the grain pile where the grain was stored, and said to the guards beside him: "I say something, and you shout after me!"

The guardsmen expressed their understanding.

"Folks, we are going to the front lines to fight as slaves!"

All the guardsmen also shouted, and many surrounding Tianzi Bureau soldiers also shouted. The voices came one after another, allowing the surrounding refugees to hear clearly.

Liu Mingyu continued: "I don't know if I can come back, so I'll just leave these grains and give them to you. If I can't come back, please ask the villagers to burn incense sticks for Liu. Thank you!"

According to Liu Mingyu's wishes, the soldiers of the Military Affairs Department and the Baggage and Transport Department distributed more than two thousand stones of grain that could not be transported away to the people.

An almost connected electronic sound came from Liu Mingyu's ears, with a reputation of 1111...

This time, we made a lot of money again.

Just when Liu Mingyu rode on his white horse and waved goodbye to the people, a loud electronic sound sounded in Liu Mingyu's heart.

"Congratulations to the host, your reputation has exceeded 100,000, and you can open the second-level mall. Please ask the host if you can open it!"

"I'm going!"

Liu Mingyu had known that this scene would happen. On the first day he came to the capital, he distributed food to the refugees and did not know how to give out porridge.

In fact, Liu Mingyu didn't know whether it was the huge increase in his reputation caused by his distribution of food, or whether he thought his words "If you can't come back, please ask the villagers to burn incense sticks" moved everyone. In short, his reputation suddenly increased

More than thirty thousand.

Liu Mingyu did not immediately open the secondary mall, but directly ordered: "Tianzi Bureau, let's go!"

"Set off!"

Tianzi Bureau, also led by Liu Yongshun of the First Division, started to set off. The officers and soldiers of the First Division, who had already prepared, left the camp in a mighty manner with twenty-two carts.

Yang Shi'en looked at the large trucks one after another and said with a sour heart: "I know that the Tianzi Bureau has set off, but if I don't know, I thought it was the baggage convoy that has set off!"

There is no other way, if you have money you will be willful.

With Liu Mingyu taking the lead of the first team of the first post of the first division, one cart after another slowly drove out of the military camp of Tianzi Bureau. After the first team, the second cart

It's Liu Yongshun and his personal guards, huffing and puffing...

One big vehicle after another makes people dizzy.

The Tianzi Bureau formed a sandwich formation, with the four infantrymen in front having the strongest combat effectiveness and ranking at the front, followed by the artillery division, which was weak in close combat. The six sentries of the artillery division basically had no combat effectiveness, and there were only one military law team and

The Guards have some combat effectiveness.

Then there is the Medical Department. The Medical Department not only has no melee combat capabilities, but they are also equipped with weapons. Both male and female soldiers are equipped with a standard Yanling sword. This is actually the standard military sword of the Ming Dynasty.

, weighing about two kilograms and eighty taels, and its combat lethality is okay. It is much worse than the broken saber.

The female soldiers are equipped with lancets, which can also be said to be a reduced version of the wild goose feather knife. The blacksmiths of the baggage department broke the wild goose feather according to the wild goose feather knife and took out the straight-edged tip to form a sword about two and a half feet long.

A short knife of one and a half feet weighs about one pound and eighty taels. It is suitable for female medical staff to carry, does not affect battlefield treatment, and has certain self-defense capabilities.

After the marching column of the Medical and Nursing Department, there is a mixed force of the Military Affairs Department and the Baggage and Heavy Department. Although the Military Affairs Director Liu Fugui and the Baggage and Heavy Department both have General Shi Liangcai at the general level, the Military Affairs Department can manage the Baggage and Heavy Department, and the Military Affairs Department

They tend to be civilians. After the two divisions, there is the Military Justice Division, which is responsible for the rear.

The Military Justice Department is responsible for the rearguard force and is also the strategic reserve force of the Tianzi Bureau.

Lu Xiangsheng rode his war horse and watched Tianzi Bureau's mighty 452 carts slowly leaving the camp. He couldn't bear to look directly at it. He couldn't see it at ordinary times, but now he could see what Tianzi Bureau's family background was.

How thick is it.

Yang Kai hurriedly explained to Lu Xiangsheng: "Sir, the general did not take care of Liu Mingyu. He made all his supplies and equipment himself!"

"Did you do it yourself? How much money do you need to make up for it?"

Yang Kai sighed and said: "I don't know, but he is the biggest culprit in the capital anyway. People become officials for the sake of wealth, but he is better off. He has almost emptied his family fortune!"

The Tianzi Bureau started from the capital and headed towards Zunhua Prefecture. The speed increased very quickly. By the time we camped at night, we had already opened the Dizi Bureau by more than 20 miles.

While Dizi Bureau was hurrying to catch up, Tianzi Bureau had already had dinner and even started a concentrated study and analysis meeting every night.

There are many large vehicles in Tianzi Bureau now, and the large vehicles are connected with each other to form a vehicle city. Liu Mingyu arranged for the first division to send out four teams of sentinels to go more than 20 miles out of the camp to serve as

The leading soldiers were sent to guard the front. At the same time, the Military Justice Department also sent a sentry to the rear and the left and right wings to serve as guard.

The main force of Tianzi Bureau rested when they needed to, and the sentry commanders who needed to learn learned. At the same time, in addition to the several teams directly under Liu Mingyu, an additional teaching sentry was set up around him.

There are actually only twenty-six soldiers in each of these sentry posts. The sentry commander is Zhou Asheng, who has returned from ten injuries. This Zhou Asheng was shot nine times in the whole body during the battle in Liangxiang County. However, because he is the sentry commander, he is covered with knives.

Wearing armor is just a skin injury.

The post where Zhou Asheng is located belongs to the fourth post of the Second Division. Ma Chenggong is under Ma Chenggong's command. The newly promoted post commander Zhang Gufeng has maintained good performance in leading the training of the second division's four posts. He is good and there is no need to replace him, but he has recovered from his injury.

Zhou Asheng also had to make arrangements.

After much thought, Liu Mingyu unified the soldiers who had returned from their injuries to form a teaching post. Although this post had only twenty-six people, it had fifteen corps commanders, nine team captains, and only two ordinary soldiers.

.

What Liu Mingyu means is that as a grassroots officer training school, everyone trains with the troops, and even literacy learning, an opportunity that only sentry commanders have, is also allowed to learn together.

After a night's rest, Tianzi Bureau began to prepare food and camp early the next morning and continued to move forward.

Lu Xiangsheng also sent someone to give special instructions to hold his pace and not to advance rashly.

"Mr. Qian, build slave sentry cavalry!"

The army had only set out for more than ten miles, but they encountered Jiannu's sentries while still in Sanhe County. This place was obviously still more than 200 miles away from Zunhua City.

This Jiannu cavalry was actually sentry sent out by Yue Tuo, the leader of the banner with a red flag. Although Huang Taiji had retreated from outside Beijing for more than half a month, the capture of Jiannu this time was really too large, and only the prisoners were captured.

There were only hundreds of thousands of people, and although most of these prisoners were young and strong men and women, the problem was that the slaves captured a lot of food, gold, and silver.

The marching speed could not be increased at all. In order to prevent the Ming army from pursuing them, not to mention Sanhe, even the city of Beijing was always being watched by Jiannu cavalry on the outside.

It is definitely impossible for the Tianxiong Army to dispatch more than 20,000 troops without being discovered by Jiannu.

There are more than 2,400 riders in Tianzi Bureau, but they have 452 carts and more than 400 livestock. However, looking at Jiannu's sentry riders, they drooled: "I'm getting rich, I'm getting rich. You guys, go back quickly."
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