As soon as the sun rose, there was a rumbling sound of horses' hooves from the west gate of Qinzhou, and a large group of people and horses poured out of the city gate. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Spring hunting and autumn hunting, ancient times, the monarch watched the martial arts. Qinzhou border stopper, as the Taishou here, Xu Ping chose to go to Sanduchuan autumn hunting on this crisp autumn day. At the same time, the nearby Tibetan departments were recruited for inspection.

The Weihe Valley Road from Qinzhou to Fuqiang Village is extremely steep and unpassable. This trip, Xu Ping did not follow the Wei River, but traveled westward along the tributary of the Wei River, to Zhu Yu Mountain, and then went north to enter Fuqiang Village.

When they arrived at the foot of Zhu Yu Mountain, it was already dark, and Xu Ping ordered to set up camp and rest here for one night.

Seeing that the soldiers around him were busy, Xu Ping said to Cao Keming beside him: "This ocean water is the road for Zhuge Wuhou to enter Tianshui County after leaving Qishan, and it was on Mumen Road not far from here that Zhang He was ambushed. ”

Cao Keming nodded: "Yes, this time I took the Shu army north, and there are many relics of Wuhou's Northern Expedition on the way." ”

"You are now stationed in the Qishan area, after a period of time, as soon as Yuzang Huama out of the West Envoy City, you will take the headquarters of the people and horses along the old road of Wuhou, into the Qiang Village, and then along the Wei River to the west, stationed in Guwei. There are many fortresses in the imperial court in that area, and I have arranged grain and grass in the Du'er Gorge Village, which is enough for you to use. There are several big clans in the Guwei area, you have to be careful and cautious. ”

Cao Keming thought for a while, and said with some embarrassment: "I don't have many soldiers and horses, only 10,000 people, I don't know if I can deter those big clans." The Shu soldiers are not good at fighting, and they are always a little unsteady in their hearts against these Qiang. ”

Xu Ping said with a smile: "When Wuhou went out of Qishan, didn't he bring Shu soldiers?" Which dares to say that they can't fight! Even before they confronted Cao Wei's army head-on, it was only said that they were slightly weaker than the elite of Wei, and the local border army in Tianshui was not their opponent. By the time Qi Shan and Sima Yi went head-to-head and won a lot, even Cao Wei's elite was no match for them. Thousands of years have passed, how can it be now, whether it can be fought or not is reversed! ”

Cao Keming smiled bitterly: "Wuhou I Yingjie, how can we ordinary people compare?" ”

Xu Ping shook his head again and again: "We can't say that, we can't compare to Wuhou, we just say that we can't do a corner of Sichuan and Shu, and we can coerce Longyou and not fall behind." But if the Shu soldiers brought are worse than the Fan soldiers here in Qin Long, then we can only be blamed for being too incompetent! At the time of the Three Kingdoms, whether it was Wei or Shu, any partial division could sweep through Zhuqiang, and at this time, we actually thought that Fan Qiang was good at fighting, and with the help of their military might, it was really embarrassing to say! The descendants are not good, even the ancestors are ashamed and protected, they can't be like this! What a thousand Shu soldiers can do, we can't do it without reason. ”

Cao Keming just smiled bitterly, what can he say? This was true a thousand years ago, but the reality now is that the soldiers in the northwest can fight more than the soldiers in the Central Plains, and the more northwest they are, the more they can fight. There must be some truth in it, but he can't figure it out yet.

Xu Ping looked at Zhu Yushan not far away, sighed and said: "The battle between the armies is not to fight each other on the streets, what is needed is not great strength, but to unite as one, and the order is forbidden." A thousand years ago, the Shu soldiers were able to fight because it took prime ministers nine years to train the Shu army into an iron army. What about us? is still calculating how much armor the soldiers can wear, and how many stones of the bow they can open, alas, the difference between these is unreasonable. Fighting relies on bows, crossbows, knives and guns, not a competition of strength, even if the body is a little different, how useful can it be before the two armies face each other? Duhu, when you go back this time, you will choose one of the ten people in the army and send it to Qinzhou for training. The new house I built in the capital is quite large, and there is a lot of vacant land around it, and I used to grow watermelons in the field. At that time, the people who were invited to plant were said to have been displaced from the Kawasaki area. They worked in the field, and they used drums and drums to drain the fields, and they did it in a very orderly and neat way, just like marching and fighting. Han Chinese can't fight? Ridiculous! It's not that the Han can't fight, it's that now our people with troops can't fight! Compared with the Qiang, the Han people are born to keep order, and they should be the most suitable source of soldiers. This point, on the other hand, can only say that we have not made any progress compared to a thousand years ago, and the military system has degraded to the point of being a thousand years ago! ”

These days, Cao Keming saw the appearance of the garrison here in Qinzhou, which was completely different from the soldiers he brought before, he didn't know if this was the appearance of the army of the Central Plains Dynasty a thousand years ago, but it was certain that the soldiers he brought could fight.

The degradation of the military system and culture is not unusual, no matter how it happens, and this is the result anyway. Recently, Xu Ping has been thinking about this issue a lot, and he can't help but think about it too much, because his reform of the military system has not yet been tested in actual combat after all. Thinking about it, I still strengthened my thoughts.

According to the knowledge learned in the previous life, around the same time as the Han Dynasty, Europe was the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire collapsed as a result of barbarian invasions, but it is recognized that no one considered the barbarians to be more powerful than Rome. After the barbarian invasion, the same thing actually happened in Europe, with a significant degradation of military culture and institutions. The rise of the knightly system, the clumsy battle process, the extreme emphasis on personal bravery, and the loose military discipline were the same as the mainstream of that era. It is completely different from the clear and almost artistic command of the Roman legions. The military revolution in Europe, of course, was marked by firearms, but it was fundamental to transform from a loose army similar to a tribal soldier to a modern army with strict discipline and reliance on overall combat.

Why hasn't the same thing happened in China? The Anshi Rebellion was a landmark event, and since then the military culture and system have undergone major changes, and the standard of strengthening the army has gradually shifted to the personal courage of generals and soldiers. This culture is still thriving even in Xu Ping's previous life, and when it comes to whether the army can fight this thousand years, he still has to be obsessed with how many armors he wears and how many stones he uses to shoot a bow. How useful is that before the army is outnumbered?

"At this time, the ministers talk about the soldiers, and the soldiers do not know the generals, and the generals do not know the soldiers. However, looking at the history books, I have never seen a major malaise that said that the soldiers and generals did not know each other. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty passed through the Western Regions, and the general Wei Qing and the champion Hou Huo had the most meritorious contributions, did they know each other with their subordinate generals? Both of them are from relatives, because Wei Zifu suddenly rose to a high position, according to what people say now, they don't know that they should lose their division and lose their land. The result? As he spoke, Xu Ping shook his head again and again. Why do we think that after a thousand years, the Qiang soldiers can fight, but the Han people are weak and unbearable? Because we ourselves use the methods of the Qiang tribe to lead the army and use their methods to fight, isn't that it? Wei Huo was able to make meritorious contributions because the strong man had a sound military system at that time, and the main general's order could be smoothly transformed into the marching and combat of the army, can he still do it now? ”

Cao Keming vaguely guessed why Xu Ping repeated this question today, and tried to ask: "The commander wants to use Shu soldiers?" ”

"Not bad! A few days ago, the Privy Council issued a letter saying that the two roads of Yan Yan and Huanqing had recently reported that the party might make a large-scale attack in that area this autumn and winter, and that the forbidden army transferred to the northwest could only be allocated there first. If we want to use troops on Qinfeng Road, we can only transfer them from the garrison forbidden army on the fourth road of Sichuan Gorge. Fighting Yu Zanghua hemp, our current strength is enough. However, once they occupy the Western Envoy City and enter the two states of Lanhui, they will face the party directly, and the troops will not be enough. Our current soldiers and horses, including the 10,000 people you brought, and the soldiers and horses of the Shunde army, will only reach 50,000. This is still the garrison forbidden army, the box army, and the Fan soldiers in Qinzhou have been retrained, and there are no other troops available. If you want to face up to the party in the two states of Lanhui, it is not enough to count it without 100,000 people. ”

Xu Ping also doesn't want to go against the traditional concepts of this era, as long as there is a way, why bother with this? But now that it has reached this point, it is necessary to transfer the Shu soldiers, who are generally considered to be unable to fight, to enter Long to fight against the party. The Fanqiang tribe that went west still had a source of soldiers, but Xu Ping didn't want to use it. Without him, it is too risky to govern Tibet with Tibet. Rome died to barbarian mercenaries, and the prosperous era of Kaiyuan ended with Hu soldiers and generals, Xu Ping didn't want to be sold by his own men one day. Xiliang Pan Luozhi is also a generation of heroes, but he was booby-trapped by the alliance's party Xiang Qiang, and died a really nesty death.

As long as we return to the old road of emphasizing discipline, overall operations, and campaign command, there will be no argument that the Han people are not good at fighting. Compared with the nomadic Qiang, the Han people were naturally disciplined, and most of them even farmed with military law.

Xu Ping's army training in Qinzhou for more than half a year has already achieved initial results, and the two armies of Xuanwei and Guiming Shenwu have taken on a new look. The most fearful thing in doing things is that there are no rules to follow, and now that the system has been established, it will be much easier to organize a new army. How long was the recruit period of Xu Ping's army in his previous life? It's only three months to half a year. Relative to the complexity of the weapons they use, half a year is enough time to train the new army, and as long as there are veterans as the backbone, there should not be much difference in combat effectiveness.

Again, it's not that the Han people are not good at fighting, but that the Han people are not good at fighting under this backward and strange system.

Cao Keming thought for a while and said: "Jie Shuai, it is not easy to transfer Shu soldiers into Long. Originally, there were not many soldiers and horses on the four roads of Sichuan Gorge, and there were many barbarian settlements there, so they did not dare to transfer the garrison forbidden army, and there were not many people who could enter Long. ”

Xu Ping said: "Recruit new soldiers." Let the Shudi Prefecture Army recruit Liangjiazi to join the army, without tattooing, they can be allowed to return to the field after five years and join the local camp and field work. If there is military merit, an errand of the same rank is arranged in the camp field. I have already reported this matter to the Central Secretary and the Privy Council, and they have agreed, but they just want us to take the two states of Lanhui to make a petition. When the war here is over, we will draw capable personnel from various armies as recruiters and go to Shudi. The state and county will help form a team, and we will train after arriving in Qinzhou. The specific strategy will be discussed at that time. ”