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Chapter 5 Preparing to Train the New Army

(Photo: Statue of Sun Chengzong)
In the Wenhua Palace, Chongzhen sat on the dragon chair with no expression on his face.

The boring eunuch's voice sounded.

"Governor Xuanfu Youdu Yushi Qinshi Wenbao: Cha Han'er is the tribe that Huduntu Hanzheng Ha Lashen divided, and conspired against Sai..."

The eunuch's voice was not in a hurry, and he spoke slowly. If it weren't for the sharpness mixed in the voice, it would be hard for you to imagine that it was an eunuch reading aloud.

Yang Reform only felt dizzy, and felt dizzy after only one morning. The words in this memorial were too difficult to understand, esoteric, and uncommon. He shook his head and asked, "Wait, where is this Shahubao? Where is the city? What is that sweater?"

Several senior scholars in the cabinet glanced at each other, but they didn't know how to answer the emperor's words.

Yang Reform shook his head and said, "Where's the map? Go to the big map and hang him in front of me, so I know where Guihua City is, and Shahu Fort is there."

The cabinet minister hurriedly asked someone to find the map, and hastily hung it on the pillar of the Wenhua Palace.

Yang Reform walked to the edge of the map and took a look. Although the map was rough and not very accurate, he knew roughly where it was at any rate. It was absolutely handmade.After thinking about it, it is estimated that Datong in Shanxi went to Hohhot in Inner Mongolia in later generations.

"Why can such a piece of Mongolian wood rob my Ming Dynasty? What are your views and opinions?" Yang Reform was speechless. Even a piece of Mongolian piece of wood could be robbed in his own home, which is really speechless.There is really no worst, only worse, pure worse than bad.

Cabinet ministers were silent.No one knows what to do, organize an army to fight back?No money, no one, needless to say no money, no one, the defeat of Guangning exhausted all the elite soldiers that the Ming Dynasty could produce.How many years has it been?There was no official army to get the shot at all.

It seems that the cabinet ministers have no good solution, and they all kept silent. Yang Reform sighed, and said, "Let's skip this matter. Next topic, remember to explain things as clearly as possible in simple vernacular, don't Always making things so complicated, I am troubled!"

Yang Reform supported his forehead and read traditional Chinese scripts. For a 21st-century otaku who was born in New China and grew up under the red flag, it was indeed an extremely painful thing.

The eunuch who was in charge of reading out the memorial went on to say: "Liu Dingqing, the head of the household department, impeached Huang Liji, a senior scholar."

Yang Reform has a headache again, what does the head of the household department do?Who is this great scholar Huang Liji?It seems that I don't know it either!However, it seems that the servant is under the minister, and the servant is replaced by Yuanwailang, and the next one should be the chief.Forget it, since I don't understand it, I skip it.

Yang Reform waved his hand, and the ministers in the cabinet were relieved, knowing that this meant that the emperor would not discuss this matter.Yang Reform didn't know which one of them was Huang Liji, and the memorial said he was impeached.

Next, for example, the release of Geng Ruqi, the chief soldier of Jizhen, and the reinstatement of the official.

Yang reformed his head: "Your cabinet should consider this issue by yourself. I will give you three days to complete it within a time limit. If you have different opinions, you can vote. How much should the minority obey, understand?"

Regarding this question, Yang Reform has no impression at all.

"I understand." A group of ministers expressed their approval of the emperor's delegating power.

"Next." Yang Reform waved his hand again.

After one morning, Yang Reform felt a little like dying, but he persisted, knowing that this was the first few times for him, and because he was not familiar with it, he gradually got used to it.

Learning the art of war with Sun Chengzong, according to Yang Reform, there is really not much to learn.

Yang Reform thinks that he has also traveled from the 21st century, and the art of war is scum in his eyes. In Yang Reform's view, the key to victory in war is how to project more attack power on the enemy.

Without sufficient strength, no matter how advanced the art of war is, it is still scum.

Sun Chengzong also sighed in amazement at his emperor's student.Such a genius, but unfortunately an emperor.Otherwise, galloping on the battlefield is also a famous general who can last forever.

"Master Sun, I have basically read these military books roughly, and I have heard you explain them to me. I have a general idea in my heart, and it seems that I don't need to learn any more..." Yang Reform said, Yang The reform really doesn't want to learn any more art of war, it's too painful.

"Oh, Your Majesty, do you have any ideas?" Sun Chengzong asked.

"Master Sun, in my opinion, the key factors for an army to win a battle lie in three elements, discipline, will, and organization. These three elements have a common goal, to exert more lethality on the enemy until the enemy collapses." Yang Reform boldly fooled Sun Chengzong with the perspective of the future, what Yang Reform wanted was to form a new army as soon as possible, not to learn the art of war with Sun Chengzong. It is a pity that the wild boar skin will enter the customs in the second year of Chongzhen. It is absolutely unbearable to wait.

"Your Majesty, tell me your opinion." Sun Chengzong was a little puzzled and asked solemnly.

"These three elements form a perfect combination. The purpose is to project the lethality of the army to the enemy. Let's talk about the organization first. Ten ordinary soldiers are managed by a small flag, and there is a general flag on top of the five small flags." , There are hundreds of households on the general banner, thousands of households on the top of the hundred households, and generals and commanders on the top of the thousand households. This is the organization. Without the organization, no army is called an army.”

"Discipline? The quality of an army's discipline is directly related to the combat effectiveness of this army. For example, the discipline of the Yue family army is very strong. They would rather sleep on the street than enter the homes of ordinary people. For example, the Qi family army of Marshal Qi of this dynasty They can stand still in the rain for an hour or two. Discipline is very strong, and strong discipline can make them forget themselves on the battlefield. Just remember the word discipline, and they can still line up according to the regulations and fight under the charge of the enemy's iron cavalry. , Just move forward, their combat effectiveness will also be very strong, such as setting up camp, defending the city and charging, these are all manifestations of discipline, which can be regarded as the discipline of war."

"Will, the combat power (lethal power) of an army is released by the will to fight. Although it is a very strong army, if it does not have a strong will to fight, it will not have much combat power. The strongest will It is belief, willing to sacrifice voluntarily for certain beliefs and beliefs, such as defending the home and defending the country, this kind of willpower is the strongest, followed by money, material aspects, abundant material guarantees, such as monthly money, burning and burial Money, silver rewards, honors, and promotions are all means to strengthen the will to fight. A strong will to fight can ensure that an army will still fight when there is only one person. With these three, this army is already one It is only a powerful army, and if it is equipped with enough lethal weapons, it will be an invincible and invincible army..."

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Sun Chengzong was silent for a while, and then said: "Your Majesty is indeed a talented person. To have such a view on the art of war really shames the old minister. The old minister has nothing to teach His Majesty." Sun Chengzong was also very depressed. After reading the military books for a few days, it seems to be more powerful than the military books that I have read for decades.genius?
"Master Sun, I am going to train a new army, but there is no suitable candidate, so I want to ask Master Sun for help." Yang Reformed.

"New Army? Does Your Majesty think that the current army is useless?" Sun Chengzong asked.

"Master Sun, do you think that the army in the guard still has combat power?"

"Uh! This..." Sun Chengzong was originally a literati, but he had been in the army for a long time, and he had a better understanding of the current military situation of the Ming Dynasty.To say that there is still an army with great combat effectiveness, Sun Chengzong himself does not believe that it has combat effectiveness, but it is only relatively speaking, and it is not enough to actually fight the Eastern Captives.

"Master Sun, the Ming Dynasty is close to the end, and the guards have almost no fighting power. Therefore, it is urgent to train a new army. Only in this way can we take on the heavy responsibility of defending the Ming Dynasty. What do you think, Master Sun?" Yang Reform road.

"Oh, Your Majesty, I will do my best..." Sun Chengzong readily agreed.In fact, Sun Chengzong himself also planned to train the new army, and he also wrote the memorial book. Now the emperor wanted to train the new army, but Sun Chengzong did not stop him.

"Here, Master Sun, this is something I wrote based on some experience in the past few days. Master Sun has a look." Yang Reform handed Sun Chengzong a thin booklet.

"This is?" Sun Chengzong flipped through the booklet, and the title page read "Recruit Drilling Manual".

"This is my recent experience. I wrote it down and compiled this booklet. Master Sun has a look. If new troops are recruited, Master Sun will also be asked to train the new army according to the contents of the booklet." The pamphlet that Yang Reform gave was based on his impression of the content of the military training and the content of novels he had read for N years.It is nothing more than increasing physical training and eating meat every day.The training content is nothing more than lining up, standing in a military posture, marching, then fighting, weapon training, and finally actual combat drills. In about half a year, you can become a qualified soldier.

Generally speaking, it is quite rough, there is almost only an outline, a few words to talk about, and to put it bluntly, this is nonsense.

Sun Chengzong naturally frowned, but after watching for a while, he also saw a bright spot.Although this training outline is quite rough and simple, it is absolutely practical.Unexpectedly, the emperor still has a few blows, and it is difficult for the emperor to be able to catch these.

Sun Chengzong looked at it for a while and said: "Reporting to Your Majesty, I think that although this is brief, it can be regarded as grasping some key points. If it can be combined with Qi Jiguang's "Records of Military Training" and "New Book of Ji Xiao", it is not bad. It's a way to train soldiers..." Sun Chengzong commented, this rhetoric is already quite a face for the emperor.

"Uh, that's it! Let's do it according to Qi Jiguang." Looking at Sun Chengzong's appearance, Yang Reform seemed to be not too interested in his own military training method. up.

"The minister leads the decree!" Sun Chengzong agreed.

"What does Master Sun think of the new army's recruitment?" Yang Reform asked again.

"Recruitment for the new army? The emperor can recruit elites from the guards, or recruit again." Sun Chengzong said.

"Master Sun, it's like this. I think it's better for the new army to be farmers who don't have the rotten atmosphere of the Guards Army." Yang Reformed.

"Is Your Majesty going to recruit good people? This can indeed avoid the bad nature of the Shangwei Army." Sun Chengzong asked. .

"Also, Master Sun, don't you think that natural disasters and man-made disasters have become more and more frequent in recent years?" Yang Reform asked.

"Your Majesty, does this natural and man-made disaster have anything to do with this recruitment of recruits?" Sun Chengzong was at a loss.

"Master Sun, I am going to recruit troops in the disaster-stricken area. In this way, young people who are capable in that area and unwilling to wait for death will be drawn out of this area, which will reduce the possibility of rebellion in this area. In addition, from the disaster relief effect To put it bluntly, if there are thousands of people in a certain place leading the military pay, I think it will be easier for the people in this place to survive, and if they can survive, it will not be easy to rebel, what does Master Sun think?"

Sun Chengzong pondered for a moment, and said: "Your Majesty, it is possible." Very short.

(End of this chapter)