The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 21 Building Military History
As Wang Mi led his army into Yecheng, and his soldiers were sent out to fight with him, the entire counties around Yecheng were naturally not at peace.

Compared with Shi Le's attack on Handan to the north, Wang Mi's attack on Handan went smoothly. Wang Mi's attack on the east side encountered Wang Bin, and the attack on the south side encountered the amnesty of the beggar army. In short, the legion led by Wang Mi did not take advantage.

In contrast, Liu Tai'an steadily recruited soldiers in Yecheng and trained them from scratch. However, compared with the group that joined at the beginning, the group of soldiers who joined later did not gain much land.

Even so, local clans and families are willing to send some soldiers in.

They may not be so fond of Liu Tai, but because compared to how reasonable Liu Tai was when he led the army, the other rebels under Wang Mi were too unreasonable.

If someone in your family is named after Liu Tai, then seeing that Liu Tai captured Yecheng, these rebels will not come to harass you.

But if you don't have soldiers in Liu Tai's name, the rebel army will immediately put the word "soldier and ruffian" on their faces.

These are all normal operations, such as eating and getting cards. If you are a little more showy, you can rob this person directly.

As long as it doesn't offend the family members of his soldiers, Liu Tai can't care about this kind of thing.

Sometimes, even if you have a strong fist and a lot of credit, you still can't follow the rules. After all, the boss doesn't object, so what do you object to!
As for Wang Mi, it is really good to be kind to his own people. Isn't he just robbing the local people and using it as protection money?

Especially since his headquarters did not go to other places to fight, there was some commotion, which Wang Mi could understand.

Don't let the whole city get into chaos. If you rob, you will rob. After all, the soldiers below will follow you to fight. How can you not give some benefits!
Just like this, the clans and families in Yecheng decisively began to organize resistance forces, and local forces such as Cao Chang Tian Zhen who had certain armed forces also began to merge.

What's more important is that some local clans who were originally indifferent to the offer of men in exchange for land became much more active in sending soldiers to Liu Tai, and some even sent scholars directly.

Liu Tai did not refuse anyone who came, and his soldiers quickly filled up the number of about 700 people. In addition, he also organized about 300 people including craftsmen, doctors, alchemists... and professors of "Han". Scholar of "Book"!
Regarding the miscellaneous abilities in front of them, although they entered the late Jin Dynasty and their status was slightly improved due to the advent of troubled times, because the atmosphere of chatting in the Wei and Jin Dynasties had become permeated among the nobles, they may not even pay attention to specific government orders, let alone Let’s talk about these skilled trades such as craftsmen and doctors.

In comparison, it is really hard to find scholars of "Han Shu", or scholars who have taught "Han Shu" completely.

However, the surrounding environment was forcing them, especially when they found that Liu Tai's military camp was open to the gentleman who was treating "Han Shu", and the environment around them was not considered safe. A group of scholars who prepared a quick version of "Hanshu" were formed.

This group of people were probably the branches of various clans. The families with the "Book of Han" forced their branches to copy a copy of the "Book of Han", and even asked the disciples of the branch to recite it more quickly. They almost knew how to recite the chapter of Gaodi Ji, so they sent it over. .

Most of the "Hanshu" scholars sent over were not scholars like Gong Shiyu who had really studied history for more than ten years, and Liu Tai knew this well.

After all, what kind of era is this? Han Shu is something that almost every family has, but it is not something that can be learned by any branch.

Especially in the Jin Dynasty, the country was not upright from the beginning, and there were many taboos against Han Dynasty secretaries. Even if they were not banned, they would not be allowed to openly learn these things.

But now there are suddenly so many young scholars who can recite the "Book of Han". If you say there is no problem in this, you would be treating Liu Tai as an idiot.

But Liu Tai didn't care. He asked the soldiers to learn "Han Shu" to make the soldiers literate! ?

no.

His purpose is to make the soldiers have nationalist ideas and make them feel proud of being Han Chinese.

With the awakening of thoughts, it will bring about initiative in action, thus strengthening the organization of the entire army.

Especially in the future, when he really separates from the Huns and Han Kingdom and picks up the faith of the Han Dynasty, he can quickly put his soldiers into the state and directly awaken the passive skill of "One Han as Five Husbands", thereby maximizing his own heritage and combat effectiveness.

After all, Liu Tai now only knows about the Eight Kings Rebellion, Yi Guan Nandu and Wu Huan Chaos and other general events.

But Liu Tai didn't know the specific places and people where these things happened, as well as the most critical time points.

Before that, Liu Tai must be as prepared as possible for the arrival of that time.

If he defected to the Jin court and dared to teach "Han Shu" on a large scale today, he might be given poisonous wine tomorrow.

So it's a good thing that I took refuge with Liu Yuan. The country Liu Yuan established is Han. In the future, the conflict between the Huns and the Han will intensify.

At least for now, no one can say anything about his spirit of arming soldiers with the "Book of Han" generously.

At the same time, due to the expansion of the number of soldiers and the limited number of teachers, Liu Tai had to reduce the demand for soldiers.

Those village chiefs (centurions) had to be forced by Liu Tai to learn calligraphy, but the grassroots soldiers only had to listen to those young scholars explaining the course "Hanshu" according to the script every day.

First of all, the characters of this era are really difficult to learn. Even if Liu Tai had a foundation in modern simplified characters, learning the regular script of this era was still bumpy.

Although regular script has appeared in this era, it is a pity that even this kind of writing is too complicated for most soldiers. It is so complicated that it is extremely difficult to promote this writing in the army.

As for Liu Tai's desire to directly replace modern simplified characters with fonts of this era, this is probably even more idiotic.

Not to mention the difficulty and workload of this project, the most important thing is that even if Liu Tai came up with this font, without top-down policy support, it would be nothing more than a toy for his own entertainment.

The fastest way to promote simplified Chinese characters is to find top scholars to form an organization, and then throw them a few simplified characters. Then based on these few simplified characters, he will spend several years re-simplifying all Chinese characters.

Then promote this new type of simplified characters in the military, recruit some military personnel, and train teachers to carry out collective literacy. Only in this way, it will take 30 to [-] years to complete the literacy work at the fifth and sixth levels.

But in the final analysis, Liu Tai needs them to improve their organizational skills and strengthen themselves with national ideas. But as for those who are literate and illiterate, if they want to learn, just follow him in the class. If they don't want to learn, don't force yourself.

After all, he really couldn't afford to take the initiative to force the soldiers to become literate.

But except for those learning activists who became interested in literacy after listening to "Han Shu", and those who had become village chiefs and were forced to learn literacy, Liu Tai did not require them to be literate.

Of course, reading "Han Shu" and writing regular script is a compulsory course at noon every day, but Liu Tai has not given up on daily physical training.Especially after he led [-] soldiers to raid Yecheng, Liu Tai paid more attention to the physical training of his soldiers.

Especially for these newly joined soldiers, the first level is to be able to run thirty miles every day wearing leather armor and holding weapons within a month, and still be able to continue to participate in battles.

This includes those young scholars who teach Han Shu, but these young scholars do not need to participate in the war. The only need is to be responsible for recording the merits of the soldiers on the battlefield.

At the same time, Liu Tai also ordered that if these scholars who taught "Han Shu" were killed in the war, the meritorious service of the garrison would be cancelled, and a demerit would be recorded.

Although the soldiers complained about this, they also chose to accept it, especially in Liu Tai's military camp where they could eat three meals in the morning, noon and evening, and these "Hanshu" scholars taught "Hanshu" every day. , these soldiers can feel that Liu Tai attaches great importance to them.

When Liu Tai saw these young scholars who taught "Han Shu" and recruited them, he said:

"Now that our army has just been established, you have three things to do in our Han army. One is to teach the soldiers "Han Shu" in your free time, so that the soldiers understand the greatness of China and the majesty of the Han Dynasty.

The second thing is that I hope you will assist the military judges in recording the meritorious deeds of soldiers at the bottom. You will meet with me once a month. If there are people at the bottom who take advantage of their merits and kill good people, I will not easily forgive them.

As for the third thing, I hope you can use the pen and paper in your hands to establish the military history of your camp! "

"Military history?!" One of the commanders named Xi asked, "Does the army need to record history books?"

When Liu Tai heard the words of Zhu Bo named Xi, his expression became serious and he said:

“We can know the rise and fall by using history as a mirror. The army is the most important weapon of the country. If we don’t build military history, how can we know the rise and fall of honor and disgrace!

Although our army is small, it is you who should be the legacy and make it famous for generations to come! "

Everyone present looked at each other, but they could also feel the sincerity in Liu Tai's tone.

However, establishing a military history specifically for the army was unprecedented, at least in their thinking.

More importantly, is this kind of thing really necessary?
But no matter what, Liu Tai provided pens, ink, paper and inkstones so that they could write military history books in the army. It was a strange feeling for them, and they more or less accepted it.

However, there are only a handful of scholars who can teach "Han Shu", and there are about three people in a village.

After these scholars who taught "Han Shu" entered the army, Liu Tai's army could not be said to have a completely new look, but Liu Tai could clearly feel that the demeanor of the soldiers began to change.

Although these scholars who teach "Han Shu" are not considered to be tall and powerful, listening to the "Han Shu" taught by them and looking at the handwriting recorded in their hands, even if the soldiers themselves are clearly illiterate, I am illiterate, but I don't know why there is some inexplicable respect and fear in my heart.

Especially when I learned about the military history of their own camp and a team (50 people), I unconsciously wanted to do what I should do a little better.

Seeing the usefulness of establishing military history, Liu Tai began to try to implement the Han Banner, a collective honor for the best in the monthly overall assessment, in the team.

In addition, there are also the best collective physical fitness Han Banner who is the last and fastest to arrive every month, the best military Han Banner who is the fastest and most organized in the monthly marching formation, and the monthly "Han Shu" assessment. The best collective knowledge Han Banner with the highest rate.

Of course, there is also Hanqi, the collective that needs the most help and ranks last among all the teams.

And these achievements must be recorded in your military history. Whether you will be famous for generations or be infamous for thousands of years is yours to choose. It has nothing to do with you anyway.

As soon as this system was implemented, Liu Tai could clearly see that the soldiers became more active in training.

Liu Tai felt that after three months of training with this group of soldiers, he should be able to find a target and kill them.

After all, although the corps commanders, captains, and village commanders are all from his original headquarters of more than 400 people, they are a new army this time. Even if he plans to lead the new with the old, he still needs time to train with his opponents. .

While An Xin was training, Wang Mi suddenly sent someone to summon him. Liu Tai did not hesitate and came to Yecheng Mansion immediately.

At this moment, he saw Wang Mi, Wang Zhang, and a scout he didn't recognize. However, the look on this man's face was quite nervous. Liu Tai couldn't help but be stunned? !

"Uncle, what happened?!" Liu Tai couldn't help but ask.

Wang Mi said: "I didn't expect that Liu Kun would send elites to capture Huguan. If he takes advantage of the situation and captures Shangdang, then we will have no way out!"

Liu Tai couldn't help but frowned when he heard this, because for the Xiongnu and Han Kingdom, Taihang Mountain was a natural barrier.

For example, Liu Tai's army did not carry any food, but could easily lead the main force for seven days with light chariots and simple subordinates. This was because the main force had to transport food.

And if the Sima family wanted to send a large army to attack, let alone transporting food would be a big problem.

But this definitely does not mean that the Taihang Mountains cannot be conquered. Not to mention, just conquering Huguan all the way south from Jinyang can cut off the entire Taihang Mountains.

Now Liu Kun seized the opportunity of the Xiongnu and Han armies coming out in two directions, captured Huguan, attacked Shangdang, and took the center of the Xiongnu and Han kingdoms to attack Liu Cong's troops in Luoyang, as well as Wang Mishile who was now in Yecheng. All troops were cut off.

Strategically speaking, this step directly caused the originally prosperous Xiongnu and Han Kingdom to become precarious.

If the Sima clan can cooperate well, they can take advantage of this opportunity to completely eat up the several legions that have been cut off.

"Where did Liu Kun get his army?!" Liu Taiman was full of confusion. After all, wasn't Jinyang in the north said to be in ruins?

"I can't take care of it anymore!" Wang Mi looked at Liu Tai and said, "Tai'er, your troops are the fastest in the mountainous march. They will set off tomorrow. The opponent is well prepared and cannot be underestimated. I have only one request. I must not let the opponent completely Take the party’s land!”

"No!" Liu Tai looked solemn, but replied quite seriously.

(End of this chapter)