After another night of hard work, the complete charter on the actual confrontation was finally completed.

As soon as he arrived at the front of the palace on this day, Yang Congyi sent the written regulations to the official office of Lord Zhang of the military case and personally handed them over to Lord Zhang.

After spending half an hour carefully reading it, Master Zhang didn't find any problems, but asked carefully about some of the things in the charter that he didn't understand, and today he was going to send the charter to the Commander Yamen, if he couldn't fully understand it, he would ask the Commander Envoy, but I don't know how embarrassing it would be.

After confirming that all the articles of association were understood, Lord Zhang let Yang Congyi leave.

In front of the palace commander, a carriage stopped.

Soldier Zhang sweated on his forehead, held something in his arms, and hurried in.

"My lord, Zhang Bing has something to see." Konoe Tongyu.

"Let him in." Yang Cunzhong picked up the pen and wrote something on the bookcase, but he didn't raise his head.

After a short break, hearing someone approaching, Yang Cunzhong put down the pen in his hand, looked up, and then said: "Zhang Bing's case, but have you done a good job in the regulations for selecting excellent generals?" ”

Master Zhang held a roll of paper in his hand and said respectfully: "Exactly." Please take a look. He took a few steps forward and placed the roll of paper on the other party's desk.

Yang Cunzhong said with a smile: "The efficiency of Zhang Bing's case is very high. ”

Master Zhang replied: "My lord has an explanation, and the lower officials dare not hurry." ”

Yang Cunzhong said "sit", then stopped speaking, reached out and took the roll of paper, opened it and saw that there were dozens of them.

At a cursory glance, I saw that each piece of paper was full of words, densely packed, and at a glance, it was dazzling. But if you look closely, you can see that the content written on the paper has a clear structure, but the writing habits are different from usual, it is written horizontally from left to right, from top to bottom, each paragraph has a title, each paragraph has a gap, almost not because of the number of words, and there is a sense of clutter.

"Zhang Bing's case, tell me what this charter is about first? Why is it written like this? Yang Cunxin was confused, although he was not good at writing, he also knew that this kind of text layout could not be directly shown to the emperor.

As soon as he heard this question, Lord Zhang's heart tightened, but it was not easy to answer, he had asked Yang Congyi before, and the answer he got was that the charter was too complicated, and he could only see it clearly by writing it in a different way. ”

Having this answer, Yang Cunzhong was noncommittal, only glanced at it hurriedly, put down the charter in his hand, raised his eyes and asked, "Zhang Bing's case, you should tell me what you think." ”

"Yes, sir." Lord Zhang was suddenly a little nervous in his heart, after all, this charter was not written by him, and the solution was not his own idea, so it was inevitable that there would be omissions in it, but since he commanded the adults to speak, he couldn't say that he would let the adults see it themselves!

After sorting out his thoughts a little, he only heard Master Zhang say: "In the past, after every war, there will be a large number of generals and colonels who have been promoted because of their military merits, and the low-level soldiers can also be promoted to captains because of their military merits. In this way, fairness can be achieved, and the selection of schools and large education can be completed at the same time in one fell swoop. This is the overall idea of the entire charter, as for how to implement it, we have considered it very carefully, and it is written in the charter, and what we want to say is too complicated, I am afraid that it will not be clear for a while. ”

"Slow! You say to create a war? Do you know what is the crime of inciting war? ”

Yang Cunzhong's face changed, war is not something that the palace can start, even if the Jin soldiers come to attack, the imperial court does not give an order, and the garrison army or forbidden army stationed on the border does not dare to open the city to meet the battle privately, let alone start a war. After weakening the army stationed in the north, now the court is now staring at the front of the palace, trying to find out the problem all the time, weaken the power of the forbidden army of the front of the palace, and then transfer the control of the front division of the palace to the civilian officials.

Master Zhang hurriedly explained: "My lord, listen to the explanation. During this period, there are senior and experienced generals who judge who are superior and who are inferior, and evaluate both the generals and colonels who command the battle and the soldiers who participate in the battle, and select all the generals and colonels who participate in the battle by creating a confrontation drill that is close to the real one, although this is complicated and difficult, but it has many benefits. ”

"I see what you mean, you want to artificially create a fake battle, and test the generals and soldiers through the battle, right?" With such an explanation, Yang Cunzhong understood what Master Zhang meant.

Back then, the armies of the Great Song Dynasty fought with the Jin people, the Jin people had a lot of war horses, coming and going like the wind, and the Great Song Dynasty army was mostly a foot army, running fast, unable to win, extremely passive, and then imitated the Jin army in the army, only to find a way to defeat the Jin cavalry, before finding the method, experienced many actual combat exercises.

"Exactly, that's what Xia Guan meant. I don't know what adults think, can I do it? Master Zhang asked.

Yang Cunzhong said: "The actual combat drill is indeed a way to kill multiple birds with one stone, but there are many problems in the actual practice. Since you have written the charter and proposed this solution, you should know what the difficulties are, and if you are asked to implement the military case, do you think it is feasible for Zhang Bing's case? ”

Hearing that the commander asked his question back, Lord Zhang was speechless for a while, and was silent for a while before he said: "Whether the lower officials think this matter is feasible or not depends on the imperial court." ”

"Oh, what do you mean by that?" Yang Cunzhong asked.

Master Zhang immediately replied: "The actual combat confrontation drill has a great impact, and the best way is to choose a vast and sparsely populated place in the south not far from Lin'an, and concentrate all the forbidden troops involved in the confrontation there, and the army mobilization must be agreed by the imperial court, as long as the imperial court agrees, although the actual combat drill is troublesome, as long as the palace is attentive, it will definitely be implemented smoothly." If the imperial court does not agree to the arbitrary transfer of the various armies, of course, there are other ways, we can select an elite and go to the camps of each army one by one to challenge, but in this way, the effect of the actual combat confrontation will be greatly reduced, and the time required will not be less. ”

Yang Cunzhong nodded and said: "What you said makes sense, since the whole army of the palace division is participating in the confrontation, you can't let one army come to each army one by one to challenge, you should turn around and let other armies come to challenge." The movement of all armies, even if it is a soldier, requires the dispatch of the Privy Council, and the actual combat confrontation drill does need the Privy Council, and if this charter is feasible, I will coordinate it. ”

Master Zhang nodded silently.

"Zhang Bing's case, if the Privy Council agrees to the small amount of mobilization of each army, how will the actual combat confrontation be carried out, the distance between the armies and the place of the confrontation drill will be different, the supply of food and grass for the march, and the determination of the marching route, how will it be arranged after arrival, who will be the first and who will come last, whether it is a school drill, or a field drill, whether it is an offensive and defensive battle in which troops are arranged, or an encounter battle, or an ambush war?" Yang Cunzhong didn't read the articles of association opened on the bookcase, and threw out a lot of questions.

In fact, these questions are all in the written charter, but Mr. Zhang is several levels lower, and he can't afford not to answer, so he replied: "When writing the charter, the lower officials considered these questions, and according to the different needs of the selection of generals and the difficulty of implementation, they wrote several charters for the adult's reference and selection. For example, if you want to challenge a general with strong adaptability on the field, use encounters, if you want to pick a general who is good at defense or offense, use offensive and defensive battles, and if you want to see the general's ability to adapt to danger, use ambush warfare. ”

After a pause, he continued to explain: "As for the supply of grain and grass and the route of the march, different methods can also be used according to the requirements for selecting generals and transferring capital. If the army's military discipline, marching ability, and ability to raise grain and grass on their own are examined, then they can not be provided with grain and grass supplies halfway, and no specific marching routes can be given; if these things are not examined, they can be given specific marching routes, so that they can march in strict accordance with the requirements of the route and receive food and salary at fixed places. ”

Yang Cunzhong nodded and said: "Very good, it seems that you have written this actual combat training charter very carefully." ”

Master Zhang hurriedly said: "My lord has won the award, since the adult has explained, the lower officials will try their best to do a good job." ”

Yang Cunzhong said with a smile: "Then I will ask one more question, since the charter has been compiled, can we consider how to ensure the fairness of the actual combat confrontation drill process when compiling the charter, and ensure that the selected generals must be better than those who are not selected?" ”

Master Zhang replied: "Fairness is the top priority of the entire charter, and the requirements of the lord have always been kept in mind. For this problem, Xia Guan thinks so, we can select a strong elite in the forbidden army of the front of the palace or the garrison in the north, and use this army to test all the troops participating in the exercise, and each actual combat confrontation is at least three days apart, so that they can get a full rest, and during each confrontation, at least three experienced generals are invited to watch on the spot, evaluate on the spot, and put an end to fraud. ”

Yang Cunzhong then asked: "Not to mention the army stationed in the north, in your opinion, among the armies of the palace commander, which forbidden army can take on this important task?" ”

Master Zhang thought for a moment and replied: "The lower officials don't know much about the combat strength of each army, and I don't know which forbidden army can undertake this task. ”

"You didn't think about it when you wrote the charter?" Yang Cunzhong asked.