The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 3
Liu Tai escaped from Chu Jijiu's camp and turned around to see Ge Xin, who was holding back a smile.

Liu Tai couldn't help but put his left hand behind his back, and walked forward slowly with his head raised and chest raised.

He walked to Ge Xin's side and said, "Ge Xin, keep an eye on the sacrificial wine. If the sacrificial wine intends to escape from the camp, we will break his legs directly. As long as he doesn't run, then we should Treat it with teacher etiquette!"

"Yes!" Ge Xin heard Liu Tai's words and agreed immediately.

After meeting Chu Jijiu, Liu Tai also breathed a sigh of relief. It was enough that Chu Jijiu didn't take advantage of the defeat and escape.

Otherwise, it would be troublesome for me to find another teacher at this time.

After all, the rebel army had just besieged Luoyang. How could there be a scholar walking past the rebel army on the road so openly?

As for this Chu Jijiu, he and others met him when they were passing through Yangzhai, Henan. The most important thing was that he had many bamboo slips in his package.

These bamboo slips are nothing to ordinary rebels, but Liu Tai understands that in this era, a book can be worth a thousand pieces of gold. Regardless of whether the person is from a poor family or a noble family, as long as he holds a book in his hand, it is the knowledge of this era. molecular.

Now that he has met him, Liu Tai will naturally not miss it.

And Liu Tai never thought about asking Chu Jijiu to give him advice, not to mention that he only needs to follow Wang Mi now, and there is no need to do anything extra.

More importantly, at the age of 12, I have an infinitely bright future.

But similarly, at the age of 12, most people will not easily convince themselves.

If you say that you want to fight for the world, you will either be regarded as a lunatic or a joke.

Therefore, there was no need for him to fight for power. He just hugged Wang Mi's thigh and asked him to protect him from the wind and rain.

As for what will happen in the future, that is something to think about until you are 16 years old, or even 20 years old.

And I don't dare to let Chu Jijiu give me advice, because if the positions of the two parties are not unified, then I don't dare to use Chu Jijiu's ideas.

After all, Chu Jijiu was from a noble family at first glance, and he was not the same person at all!
As for accepting Chu Jijiu, this matter is not something that I can kowtow to a 12-year-old child just by shaking my tiger body.

But if he wants to take refuge with Wang Mi, then he is also willing to become the opponent's stepping stone, and he will even be reused in the future. Even if he threatens him now, if he really knows how to handle it, then he and he will definitely rely on each other. .

Liu Tai knows very well that people of different classes cannot be trusted as one of his own, but it is still possible to cooperate as allies.

Liu Tai walked to the soldiers' camp, and Liu Ming quickly came to Liu Tai's side.

"Today I will personally check the sleeping arrangements!" Liu Tai said seriously, and then began to check the soldiers' sleeping arrangements.

Ancient military camps were naturally quite simple. Compared with command and dispatch, the most difficult thing was to provide food, clothing, housing and transportation.

At the beginning, when he followed his father in the uprising, even eating on time was a problem, but then Wang Mi came over and with his help, he learned how to set up the camp, how to eat, how to bury the filth, and how to communicate with the local aristocratic families.

It can be said that compared to his father who relied on a set of superstitious theories and the oppression of the people by the Jin court, he really couldn't survive, so he rebelled.

But what really makes this rabble look a little like a regular army is the management system brought by Wang Mi.

Wang Mi was obviously relatively unfamiliar at the beginning, but after being defeated several times by Jin Ting and his army, Wang Mi became more and more familiar with these simple military knowledge, and his soldiers became more and more experienced in escaping.

Although they were defeated by the Jin court this time, in fact, the new recruits were more or less demoralized, but the veterans who had been on the battlefield for a few times had a calm look on their faces. Everyone is bragging and spanking.

And as the news came that Liu Tai was going to check his bed, everyone looked at their blankets, and immediately folded the blankets into square shapes about the size of a washbasin with both hands at an incredible speed.

When Liu Tai came over, someone even took out the bamboo pieces, looked at the words on them and started to read them seriously.

Liu Tai came over to take a look, and was very satisfied with the atmosphere in front of him. He even said, "It's a blessing for all of you to come back today. We will have extra food today, and we will continue to train from tomorrow on!"

"Yes!" After hearing Liu Tai's words, everyone responded immediately.

At this time, Liu Tai saw a young soldier who was about three or four years older than himself with some hesitation on his face, and even looked at him with some confusion.

"You? Do you have any doubts?" Liu Tai looked at the young man in front of him and couldn't help but ask.

"Report to the camp master." The young man said doubtfully, "I see that people in other camps don't need to train every day, fold blankets, let alone learn calligraphy from Chu Jijiu.

Why do we do this?Isn’t it enough for us to follow the sacrificial wine and kill the enemy? "

"What's your name?" Liu Tai looked at the young man in front of him and asked.

The young man couldn't help but feel timid when he heard Liu Tai's words, and said cautiously: "Zhang Wu, the fifth oldest child in the family!"

However, when Zhang Wu said this, his expression couldn't help but dim, because he was the only one left in his family.

"Yeah!" Liu Tai nodded and said, "Zhang Wu, learn Chinese characters well, and then change your name when you find your ambition!"

"Huh?" Zhang Wu couldn't help but have questions on his face when he heard Liu Tai's words.

Liu Tai continued, "If you ask me why I want you to learn calligraphy, it's because I think that although you are thieves, if you overthrow the Jin Dynasty, you might be able to become princes, and you won't be able to read by then." no!"

"Prince!?" Zhang Wu opened his mouth in a daze. He never thought that he could become a prince.

Liu Taize said with a smile on his face, "Princes, generals, and ministers would rather have the seed. We have nothing anyway, so why not give it a try!"

Hearing Liu Tai's slightly calm but extremely powerful words, even the old fritters were unconsciously affected, let alone a young man like Zhang Wu.

Liu Tai looked at Zhang Wu as if he was shocked by this sentence, but he didn't say much, but smiled and left.

For Liu Tai, making them literate is actually to stop these people from being so insensitive, so that he can successfully train an elite force.

What should I say... When a person really has no knowledge at all, and it is difficult to even distinguish between front and rear, left and right, such soldiers will have to train their own orders to become instinctive, and even this instinct to orders must be surpassed. They are resistant to death, otherwise it will be difficult for them to become an elite soldier. Most of them will be defeated when they encounter one level of battle damage.And the kind of soldiers who can resist death and fight for their soldiers are more likely to suffer from Stockholm syndrome.

But with Liu Tai's modern sense of morality, he really couldn't commit such an act that would require him to be shot.

After all, even after time travel, most people's moral integrity will decline to Schrödinger's level, but there is a bottom line for any further decline.

In contrast, the other training method for the poor people is to set up lofty ideals for them, build a good style of work, and be able to fight hard and not get out of the line of fire even with minor injuries.

Since there is an opportunity to start from scratch, then the positioning of his opponent's soldiers will naturally be based on the best army in his mind.

Now I cannot provide high-level political guidance such as Marxism-Leninism, and this political guidance theory may not be suitable for China in this era. But the first step I can take is to educate them about illiteracy!

Yes, Liu Tai's goal is very simple. Starting from literacy, even if he can only learn one word a day, after studying for two or three years, he will eventually be able to learn [-] words. At least there will be no problem in daily reading and writing.

As for things like organizational strength, as the number of literacy among soldiers increases, it will naturally be improved.

Liu Tai knew very well that if he wanted to personally create the elite team he wanted, he couldn't rush it.

During this process, some people will definitely leave because they can't bear it. It's also possible that at the end of the war, they will be defeated before the elite soldiers can be trained.

But even so, he must make them literate, and it is not enough to make them literate. He also needs to find opportunities to instill his thoughts in them so that they can become his right-hand man in the future.

I don’t dare to shout these ideas out loud now, but I have to find a suitable opportunity to publicize them.

Even if he helps Wang Mi become emperor in the future, and becomes a general himself, he might have to swallow these thoughts in his stomach.

But if one day I become independent, I will not only find ways to arm the soldiers' bodies with weapons, but also propose a unified programmatic idea that benefits the people, thereby arming the soldiers' minds.

Of course, if you bring these things up now, you will definitely be asking for death, but making plans for the future is always what Liu Tai should do.

If I could create an elite with half the strength of the great man's army in my lifetime, then I would be able to become the No. 1 general at that time and complete the task of unifying the world.

With this idea in mind, Liu Tai tried his best to localize the various skills of that great army that seemed small in his memory.

After inspecting the military camp and calming some of the shocked defeated soldiers, training began on the next day.

Liu Tai didn't talk nonsense. Before dawn in the morning, he started to wake up the sleeping soldiers and assemble as fast as possible. Then Liu Tai took the lead and started jogging every day.

There is no training in other camps, but there is training in Liu Tai's camp. Even if there are three meals a day, the soldiers will still have some complaints, so many things require Liu Tai to lead by example, leaving the soldiers speechless.

As the leader, Liu Tai was responsible for controlling the rhythm and speed. After running for almost ten miles, he came back for breakfast.

After having breakfast and resting for half an hour, I began to train the formation, such as forward, backward, left, right, and goose-stepping.

However, instead of shouting commands, they used a combination of various musical instruments such as golden trumpets and various flags.

Almost every military formation has famous military musicians who do not go directly to the battlefield. They are responsible for observing the flag orders from the commander, and then use their own musical instruments to convey the commander's orders on the battlefield.

This is already the fastest way to transmit information, but if you want to use this information transmission smoothly on the battlefield, you need the soldiers to have skilled training and excellent organizational skills, as well as the commander to accurately grasp the battle situation.

When this system of combining semaphores and musical instruments can be used skillfully, Liu Tai will be able to further use military formations.

Even the simplest cone formation, if it can be successfully laid out and executed on the battlefield, then Liu Tai can be called the commander of a large army.

As for now, it took almost an hour to get familiar with the signals and orders, and the next hour began to practice thrusting.

After all, they were rebels, and the most common weapons in the hands of their soldiers were spears. Even the iron spearheads were obtained from the military equipment warehouse in Xuchang, and the wooden poles were whittled out by the rebels themselves.

This is already very good. Liu Tai remembers that at the beginning of the uprising, it was really about cutting down trees into soldiers and raising poles into flags.

In the afternoon, after letting the soldiers take a break after lunch, Chu Jijiu came to teach the soldiers. Each of them held a bone knife in one hand and a wood chip in the other. They could learn one or two words a day. That's pretty good.

Seeing Liu Tai's camp resume training so quickly, Wang Mi was very satisfied with Liu Tai's performance.

For Wang Mi, he has suffered repeated defeats since he started his army. The most important thing he lacks is the determination to make a comeback. Seeing how Liu Tai has restored the morale of the troops, for Wang Mi, this in itself is the greatest support for him.

Thinking of this, Wang Mi couldn't help but look at the other side of the Yellow River. He had sent his younger brother Wang Zhang to the other side of the Yellow River to find the Huns and the Han Dynasty to negotiate for him to cross the river.

At the same time, Wang Mi himself asked Wang Sang and Cao Yi to start collecting boats from upstream and downstream of the river to prepare for crossing.

In contrast, what Wang Mi is most worried about is that if time delays for a long time and Luoyang continues to attack his camp, he may not be able to hold on.

After all, Wang Mi knew that there were two different qualities between taking refuge in Liu Yuan alone and taking refuge in Liu Yuan with his troops.

However, the reaction speed of Xiongnu Hanting was far beyond everyone's expectations.

Wang Zhang had just arrived on the other side of the Yellow River as an envoy. Liu Cong, who was dominating the Taihang Mountains, saw Wang Zhang and immediately organized a group of ships to pick up the rebels.

Liu Cong came across the river in person, greeted Wang Zhang as his son-nephew, and came to pick up the rebels across the river.

At the same time, someone was sent to send Wang Zhang to Liu Yuan and report to Liu Yuan that Wang Mi was ready to come and surrender.

Wang Mi and others successfully evacuated from the Yellow River, partly because Liu Cong responded quickly, but at the same time, the Jin court seemed to completely let Wang Mi cross the river smoothly.

Perhaps in the eyes of the Jin court, Liu Yuan had been raising troops for several years, but he only occupied a corner of the east of the river. Although Wang Mi corrupted Qingzhou, he was easily defeated by Wang Yan.

So what if such people join forces? As long as the court is willing, they can't be wiped out.

It was more important to continue fighting for power, especially Wang Yan. After winning the battle this time, he was already planning to transfer his civilian job to a military position and prepare to become a Taiwei.

(End of this chapter)