I want to be emperor

Early the next morning, the No.30 Seventh Cavalry Regiment was ordered to set off first, acting as the vanguard of the entire army.

Naturally, the marching of the army does not mean that it can go away, but it needs to be carefully arranged. Guo Chengyong, as the deputy commander of the third cavalry battalion and the second cavalry sentry officer in the cavalry regiment, began to arrange it before the sky was bright. various affairs.

After breakfast and other affairs were prepared, he followed the battalion commander, Major Xu Wenshan, to gather troops in the open space of the camp, and then left the camp and headed west.

After the army officially set off, Guo Chengyong could not be free. He needed to command and lead the actions of the second cavalry post directly under him, and at the same time, he also needed to be the deputy battalion commander to contact the regiment headquarters on behalf of the third battalion to determine the specific march of the third cavalry battalion. Routes, coordination with other cavalry battalions, etc.

After a day of marching, he had to be busy arranging camping affairs, and arranging sentries to conduct peripheral exploration, guarding and many other camp affairs.

As for the battalion commander, Major Xu Wenshan, he naturally wouldn't handle these trivial matters in person.

However, although he is tired and needs to deal with many trivial matters, Guo Chengyong will not feel bored. On the contrary, he is quite happy-because this is an important step for the grassroots cavalry officers on the front line. Other cavalry officers want this There is no chance yet.

Generally speaking, in the Great Chu Empire, if you want to be promoted to the chief officer, you must first serve as an adjutant for a period of time. The military seldom says that it will directly promote the chief officer of the next level to the next level. The chief officer of the first-level troops.

There are not only gaps in military ranks, but also huge differences caused by differences in command strength. Therefore, a transition of positions is required in the middle, and it is most common to serve as an adjutant of a higher-level unit.

The formation of the cavalry unit is a bit special. There are only two cavalry posts in the cavalry battalion. The number of troops is small and the formation is simple. Naturally, it is impossible to appoint a deputy battalion commander besides the battalion commander. Therefore, the cavalry unit arranges a senior captain as the deputy. The battalion commander also serves as a sentry officer.

These senior sentry officers are often candidates for the next batch of promotions.

Cavalry sentry officer, cavalry sentry officer and deputy battalion commander, and then battalion commander, this is a common promotion route for frontline officers in the cavalry unit of the Great Chu Empire.

The former Major Xu Wenshan came here in this way, and Guo Chengyong is also following this route. If everything goes well, and with some military exploits, Hu Guochengyong will be able to serve as a cavalry battalion in a few years. Battalion commander, and was promoted to major in the army.

Guo Chengyong is quite looking forward to this. A major in his early thirties can be regarded as young and promising no matter where he is placed.

After nightfall, after all the battalion affairs were properly arranged, Guo Chengyong, the battalion commander Xu Wenshan and another sentry officer, that is, Captain He Tianyu, the sentry officer of the first cavalry post, each sat on a simple folding stool, surrounded by a However, the length and width are no more than forty or fifty centimeters, and a small wooden table was erected temporarily for eating.

The meals on the small temporary wooden table are very simple. In a few iron lunch boxes, there are some canned meat and fruit, as well as some pickles and sauerkraut. The staple food is noodles.

Naturally, it is impossible to eat as well as in the camp while marching outside.

Even military officers eat a variety of canned food and compressed dry food when traveling in the field.

This is limited by realistic conditions... When marching in the prairie or Gobi Desert, or even in the desert, you still want to eat rice or even home-cooked vegetables... Why can't you go to heaven.

It was possible to make noodles to eat because they had just set off and had not yet entered the enemy's territory, and the flour they carried had not deteriorated or become moldy.

If you enter an area where the enemy is active, you will really have to be with all kinds of canned food, fried noodles, and beef and mutton every day.

As for rice... there is not much rice to be found in the entire Yining area. There is no rice-producing area in Turpan Province at present. Several large oases and even the most important Yining Valley area are mainly planted with wheat.

Although some people from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry are thinking about trying to grow rice in Yining Valley and other places, but that is a matter of the future.

Currently, the only staple food in the local area is wheat and corn.

It's not impossible to eat rice, but you can only buy rice that has been transported all the way from the rear, and that is astronomical price!
Restricted by the type of local food output, the various departments of the First Group Army stationed in Yining area naturally have what to eat. It is okay when they are in the camp every day. The daily food and drink are actually no different from ordinary people. Steamed buns, noodles and other pasta Mainly.

When leaving the camp to march and fight, they can only eat fried noodles, plus various canned food and fresh beef and mutton.

Fried noodles, this is the traditional military ration in Huaxia, and they are still eaten even during the Korean War in later generations.

By the way, this stuff is not noodles... It's a powdered dry food that is fried directly from flour. The advantage is that it is easy to store and easy to eat. The disadvantage is that, like almost all dry food, the taste is not good.In fact, the taste is not bad, the key is that this thing must be eaten with water, otherwise it will not be swallowed at all.

Why is there such an allusion of fried noodles with snow? It is because you must eat this food with water, otherwise you will not be able to swallow it... and when the battle is fierce, there may not even be time to boil snow for water, so many soldiers simply stuffed it with water. Put a handful of snow into your mouth, and wait for the snow to melt into water in your mouth before eating a bite of fried noodles.

In addition to fried noodles, there are also various canned meat, canned water, and compressed dry food. These are more popular with soldiers than fried noodles, but the relative cost is also higher, so the military gives fried noodles as well as various canned food. compressed dry food.

Speaking of this compressed dry food, we have to talk about the nomadic Buller thorns, and the Chu Army's canned meat was improved based on this thing.

This thing was born out of the Buhler thorns of the early nomads, but the process technology has been improved, but the basic principle is still the same, and they all belong to the type of dehydrated compressed dry food.

The basic steps are that after slaughtering the cattle at the military grain factory in the rear, the beef with less fat is selected for dehydration, and then crushed and compressed by mechanical equipment... Finally, the final packaging is carried out in horseshoe cans and high-temperature sterilization.

This ghost thing is hard and unpalatable, but it has to be said that this thing is light in weight and provides sufficient calories. Compared with ordinary canned meat that has not been compressed, it can keep soldiers alive for a longer period of time.

And the most important thing is that it can be stored for a long time... The military can stock up in large quantities after purchasing, and there is no need to worry that the shelf life will expire after one or two years of purchase.

The army is fine, and the canned beef rationed by many warships in the navy is even more than ten years old.

Because the frontline soldiers had a lot of opinions on various compressed dry rations, the army also adopted a large-scale supply of fresh cattle and sheep in the supply of military rations on the western front!

To put it bluntly, it is to let the frontline troops directly bring a large number of cattle and sheep to the battlefield, graze while fighting, and directly kill and cook when the meal is served!

The Army of the Great Chu Empire has worked hard to solve the problem of food supply for the front lines, especially the front lines of the Western Regions. Various methods have been used.

Various flavors of fried noodles, various flavors, different types of canned food, and now compressed canned food, etc. In addition, research and development was carried out based on a kind of snack in Europe, that is, biscuits, and industrialized biscuits were produced and served as Military food use.

So far, the development of military rations in the Great Chu Empire has evolved from the early fried noodles and original cans to various compressed dry rations.

Now it belongs to a transitional period, so there are various military rations in the military at the same time.

Although a lot of the military rations are not very good, especially fried noodles, some compressed dry rations, and some relatively primitive dehydrated and air-dried foods, such as bacon, which are not liked by soldiers, but all kinds of fresh canned food are exceptions.

Non-compressed cans made of various fresh meats, as well as various canned fruits are very popular among soldiers... Of course, only canned fresh ingredients without additives are limited.

It's not the bad canned food from Donglin Trading Company that is only for export.

Let’s not talk about the question of whether it will be poisoned or not, but the taste is not very good. When I first ate it, I thought it was like that, and it tasted like meat... But if I eat too much, it will It's disgusting.

In the last year, there was news that Donglin Trading Company was planning to build a so-called new canning factory to produce cans that meet domestic food safety standards, and then supply the domestic market and even want to enter the military procurement system.

For this reason, it was opposed by many grassroots soldiers and even military officers.

However, although there are many opposition voices at the grassroots level, the high-level military is very interested in the so-called "national standard version of canned meat" proposed by Donglin Trading Company.

The reason is simple, this thing is cheap, only about one-third of the price of fresh pure meat cans.

Moreover, the safety standards of the national standard version of canned extra-flavored meat are within the legal range. People from Donglin Trading Company patted their chests and said, this stuff will definitely not kill you!
However, despite the problems of one kind or another, the military rations of the Great Chu Empire can still be proudly said to be the best in the world, and it is absolutely comparable to other indigenous countries.

Every day in the camp, noodles, bread or white rice are enough, and there are often meats, and a variety of fruits and vegetables are also abundant. The daily diet is much better than that of ordinary people in China.

Even during the marching period, the logistics department will try to maintain the supply of fresh food as much as possible. If there is no supply of fresh food, it will supply a variety of military canned or dry food in sufficient quantities. Whether it is delicious or not is another matter, but the portion is definitely enough of.

This time the western expedition to the Kazakh Khanate is no exception. The logistics department has prepared a large amount of materials. The logistics warehouse in the Yining area is filled with five warehouses full of canned fresh meat and beef!

There are even more other types of military rations. There are many canned fruits and vegetables, as well as various compressed dry rations.

In addition, in order to allow frontline soldiers to eat fresh meat, the logistics department also prepared a large number of live cattle and sheep to march with them, so that they can also eat fresh meat when they are on the front line.

In addition to the food that the soldiers eat, a large number of rations for the military horses are also prepared in large quantities.

Sufficient supplies are enough to maintain [-] troops and tens of thousands of horses for at least half a year of combat.
In terms of material supply, the logistical materials for this Western Expedition to the Kazakh Khanate are more than those for several Western Expeditions against Zhungeer.

When fighting Zhungeer, the supply of materials was actually very scarce, but because Zhungeer had a lot of troops, the Chu army also used a lot of troops, and even used a dozen or 20 troops at most.

In terms of the logistics supply capacity of the Chu army in the Western Regions, it was actually not enough to supply so many troops. Therefore, many troops often had a full meal and a hungry meal when they marched and fought, and they would kill soldiers and horses under special circumstances. Just eat.

However, this time the Kazakh Khanate was marched to the west, the force of the expedition was only about one-third of that in the west to Jungar, but the rations provided for soldiers and horses were more than that in the west to Jungar.

This is due to the fact that the Great Chu Empire controlled the large oases in Turpan, and the most important thing was the control and development of the Yining Valley area.

This place is very rare in the Western Regions and is suitable for large-scale reclamation and development. The Ili River and the plains in the valley area make this place the largest and most important granary of the Great Chu Empire in the Western Regions.

Some people call it Jiangnan outside the Great Wall!
It was because of the food support in the Yining River Valley that the Great Chu Empire was able to station a large number of troops in the area outside the Great Wall for a long time, and at the same time it was able to supply more and more new immigrants.

As of the 28th year of Chengshun, the Yining River Valley alone had a population of more than 5 people, and these 5 people were talking about the civilian population.

Soldiers are not included. In fact, in the Yining River Valley, more people are stationed here. At the same time, the various departments of the First Group Army, which is also conducting military reclamation, have more than 6 troops stationed here for a long time, including a first-class division and two Second Class Division, plus a Fourth Cavalry Corps.

In addition to combat training, these troops will also carry out large-scale military reclamation to solve the problem of military supplies on the spot.

If the military and civilians are added together, the total population of the Yining Valley area will reach 11, which is a serious population city in the Western Regions.

Relying on the local sufficient food supply and human resources, the Ministry of Industry has established a series of government-run enterprises here, mainly defense-related factories.

Including Yining Arsenal, Yining Cannery, and Yining Textile Factory, the three major defense expenditure industries involving weapons and equipment, military rations, and military uniforms.

In addition, there are some fragmentary small factories that are closely related to national defense and people's livelihood.

In just a few years, the Great Chu Empire established a city with a population of more than [-] and a basic defense industry system in the barren Yining River Valley.

This kind of thing can only happen in the already industrialized Great Chu Empire, and it is not known to happen in any country that is still in the backward farming era.

Relying on the Yining River Valley, the Great Chu Empire was able to look westward at the Kazakh prairie, and was ready to swallow this prairie directly.

Not just a simple conquest and annexation, the Great Chu Empire even planned to rely on the two important inland rivers of the Chu River and the Syr River on the grasslands in the south-central Kazakhstan to build cities, immigrant settlements, and eventually turn this two-river area into a The bridgehead and even the logistics supply base of the Great Chu Empire in Central Asia provided assistance for the Great Chu Empire to conquer the entire Central Asia and even continue westward.

Therefore, when the soldiers of the Army's Second Cavalry Army marched westward one after another, and the Fourth Cavalry Army and some infantry and artillery units in the rear also crossed Sanshu City and marched westward one after another, in Yining City, an alternative mobilization swearing-in meeting was also held. ongoing.

Immediately afterwards, a civilian team of more than 100 people led by Yang Mingda, who participated in politics in Turpan Province, will lead more than 5000 immigrants to follow the military.

The generals attacked cities and territories in front, defeated and annihilated the indigenous army, destroyed the indigenous regime, and smashed the organized resistance of the indigenous people.

Civil officials built cities in the rear, organized militias to protect themselves, and even took the initiative to expel and wipe out the remnants of the indigenous people, so as to fully and actually control the local area.

Combining one article with one military force is the usual practice of the Great Chu Empire when it expanded abroad. It was done in Nanyang, it was done in Siberia, and it is still done in Central Asia today.

As for Yang Mingda, he is the person in charge of civil servants who marched into the Chu River and Syr Darya River area this time. If there is no accident, he will also become the person in charge of the new administrative jurisdiction of the Great Chu Empire in West Asia.

The center of the empire has even chosen the reputation of this area: Two Rivers Province, named after the Chu River and the Syr Darya River, and the area between the two rivers is usually called the Two Rivers Region.

The Great Chu Empire will set up Lianghe Province in this area in the future, and the other eastern regions of the Kazakh Khanate will be merged into Turpan Province without accident, and the rest of the north should be in the Ob River Basin, which is under military control. Controlled areas were merged, eventually forming a new Ob River Province.

The vast Kazakh Khanate in the past will be completely dismembered into three major parts.

Of course, it is still too early to directly set up these matters separately. In a short period of time, for a long time to come, the administrative affairs of the Kazakh grassland will be in charge of the "Two Rivers Affairs Office", which is under the jurisdiction of the governor of Turpan. Yang Mingda, who participated in politics from the third rank in Turpan, served as the supervisor.

The establishment of the Lianghe Affairs Yamen means that the Great Chu Empire is preparing to take the Kazakh grassland into its pocket completely. However, the Kazakhs know nothing about this, and they don't even know the great ambitions of the Great Chu Empire.

Even when the indigenous Kazakhs discovered the vanguard cavalry of the Chu army, they didn't know why the Chu people appeared here.

Immediately afterwards, there was a huge panic... This panic quickly spread throughout the Kazakh grassland like waves as the knights ran on the grassland!
Ever since, the many Kazakh tribes who were still in the melee were all stunned, and then began to recruit troops one by one to prepare for the battle. The tribes that were fighting with each other before also stopped attacking each other, but turned their heads to the east, preparing to face Chu. people.

Some clever tribal leaders tried to unite with other tribes to resist the invasion of the Chu people, especially the tribes in the east... Seeing that the Chu people were about to kill them, they Naturally, they want to get all the help they can get.

But... Some tribal leaders think that the arrival of Chu people has nothing to do with him.

Anyway, their tribe's pastures are not in the east, but in the south and even the west. It's none of my business for the people of Chu to beat up the tribes in the east...

Some people even think that they can unite with the Chu people to attack other tribes in the central and eastern regions and seize more pastures.

After the Second Cavalry Army of the Great Chu Empire entered the grassland, it faced not tens of thousands or even 10,000+ Kazakh coalition forces, but a dozen tribes or alliances of various sizes fighting on their own.

Some of these tribes or alliances are still attacking and fighting with each other, and some tribes even sent people to contact the Chu people, wanting to attack a hostile tribe with the Chu army.

Then the tribes in the east saw that the situation was not good, they didn't give other tribes a chance at all, and ran to the Chu army and surrendered!
This scene made the high-ranking generals of the Chu army a little uncomfortable...

Some people even began to worry...according to the method of surrender on the opposite side, this large-scale war of destroying the country may turn into an armed march...

After they finish this battle, they will earn some hard work.

Credit?Don't dream, you haven't fought a battle yet, you still want military merit?
How can you get promoted without credit?

So, half a month after marching westward, the Chu army seemed to have captured a large area along the way and accepted a large number of captives from the Hunan army, but the faces of the generals of the Chu army became more and more ugly.

Especially some middle and high-level generals who spent countless contacts to get a chance to lead troops to the front line.

They have worked so hard to transfer them to lead the army, and they are preparing to make a big ticket, earn enough credit and then move up. It turned out that these Kazakh natives were lucky, and they surrendered faster than rabbits!

Damn Xipi, if you don't resist, what can I do for merit?
What a fool!