Section 498 Military parade
On the eighth day of November in the second year of Yuande, on the plain west of the Wei River, drums sounded in unison, chimes rang four times, armor soldiers were in the forest, and the cavalry was arrayed.
"Tian Bao Dinger, also the hole of solid. If you are thick, why not get rid of it? Baldoyi, to Mo Bu ......"
With the joy of "Tianbao", Liu Che's Son of Heaven Law is fortunate to be here.
This is Yongxian County, about 300 miles away from Chang'an, on the plain on the west bank of the Wei River.
It was the most important place of religious activity in the Qin and Han dynasties.
At the same time, this is the former capital of Qin, before Qin Xiangong moved the capital to Liyang in response to the Wei State in 383 BC, Qin built the capital in Yongyong for nearly 300 years.
To this day, Yongdi can still see the ruins of the palace left over from the former Qin State.
When it comes to the Han family, the status of Yongxian is equally important!
Because, there is a temple of the Five Emperors personally established by Liu Bang, the Taizu of the Han Dynasty.
It is rumored that the Black Emperor's Dharma Body in the Five Emperors Temple was made according to Liu Bang's appearance.
Regarding this rumor, Liu Che also does not know whether it is true or false.
Anyway, the old Liu family himself has never denied it, but he has never admitted it either.
The Son of Heaven stopped in front of the Five Emperors Temple, and Liu Che, surrounded by the ministers, stepped off the car, and looked around, and the entire plain had become a huge school field.
Fifty-one county-level units, eleven barracks, and 321 standing troops from Guanzhong gathered here at this moment.
There are nearly 50,000 soldiers and horses in total, covering all types of troops, such as cavalry, light infantry, heavy infantry, archers, and chariots.
Liu Che looked at the banner that covered the sky and the sun, and nodded secretly in his heart.
The general behind him, Wei Qihou, Dou Ying, immediately bowed his head and reported: "Your Majesty, the edict was sent seven days ago." The county lieutenants of all counties in Guanzhong were ordered, the generals of each holding section, the captains, the captains of the schools and the beacons of the beacons were dispatched to dispatch troops and horses. It will be in Yongxian County, three minutes before today's hour. The troops and horses transferred arrived in Yongxian County......"
Liu Che nodded noncommittally.
As early as more than a month ago, he wanted to see the mobilization and mobility capabilities of the soldiers in Guanzhong County.
It's a pity, the Son of Heaven goes out on patrol or even a military parade, what a big deal?
It's not like you can just go.
It just dragged on and on, and it didn't happen until today.
In this way, the opportunity is lost, God knows how many of the officers present now are related households who received the news half a month or even a month in advance and began to prepare?
In the case of being prepared for so long. If the soldiers of the various divisions still can't arrive on time.
The combat effectiveness of the Han army is really worrying, and Liu Che must be prepared to start a new stove and train a new army, so as not to repeat the mistakes of the Guanning Iron Cavalry in the late Ming Dynasty.
Looking at it now, the mobility and action of the soldiers of the various counties are still okay.
Although, probably, most of them were already half a month ago or even a month ago. It's ready for today.
But in seven days, they moved hundreds of miles, even if all these armies abandoned their baggage and advanced with light troops. There are sufficient logistical support along the way.
But it's still rare!
In particular, the various ministries belong to different armies and are in good order. The disciplined lines on both sides of the plain can be seen. The organizational and mobilization capabilities of the Han army have not yet degraded.
It's still a force that can be pulled. Win the battle, can fight a tough battle, and win the battle!
Therefore, there are some flaws, and Liu Che doesn't take it to heart.
After all, the army of feudal society cannot be compared with the modern or even modern army.
Liu Che turned around, and the ministers immediately knelt down and listened to the holy decree.
Liu Che carried a wide ribbon, cleared his throat, and said to the ministers: "Since the major events of the ancient country, only Rong and worship, now I am fortunate to Yong, I want to serve the first king, watch the army and perform martial arts, and then worship the five emperors, Qing and other pillars of the country, please follow me to watch the army!" ”
And then, the music immediately changed.
The sound of "Tianbao" gradually faded away, and the magnificent and majestic "Junpiluo".
"Tianbao" is a poem praising the Son of Heaven, while "Junpilo" is a poem praising the army of the Son of Heaven.
And these two poems, both in terms of text and artistic conception, are full of naked imperialism.
Confucius said, three hundred poems, thinking is innocent.
But Liu Che felt that the poem 300 actually only stated one fact: Long live the Chinese nationalism.
Throughout the poem, all the wars involved are all the wars of Zhuxia against foreign tribes, and the gentlemen it praises are all heroes who defend their families and defend the country, expand their territory, and defeat Yidi, and the ladies it praises are all women who admire gentlemen and guard the distinction between Huayi.
Throughout the whole article, I unabashedly tell everyone: only China's war is just, and the resistance and resistance of the barbarians are all wrong, incorrect, unpopular, and blessed by the gods.
"Junpi Luo, Wei Shui Lang. The gentleman is here, Flurutz. "Liu Che gently followed the music, reciting the poems, he walked forward slowly, at this moment, Liu Che seemed to have a feeling, the heroic spirits of this heaven and earth, those heroes who opened up the territory for Zhuxia, their eyes were hanging down from the nine heavens, looking at him, the heir of this descendant, the current ruler of this country and nation, so Liu Che raised his voice and sang loudly: "Junpi Luo, Wei Shui Lang."...... The gentleman is here, and he has a good time. A gentleman for ten thousand years, protect his family. Junpilo, Wei Shui Lang. So far, the gentleman is the same! ”
This song "Junpilo" may be a bit awkward for later generations, and the words are obscure.
But for today's Han aristocratic ministers, princes and princesses, it is equivalent to pop music, catchy and popular. Moreover, because it is in elegant language, it is sung in a low tone and full of rhythm.
So, accompanied by Liu Che's voice, the entourage of ministers and princes and princes all involuntarily echoed and chanted.
For a time, the sound of 'Junpi Luo' resounded all over the world.
"Junpi Luo, Wei Shui Lang. So far, the gentleman is the same. A gentleman for ten thousand years, protect his family! In the end, this large-scale chorus before the Western Yuan Dynasty ended with Liu Wu, the king of Liang, and Liu Yan, the king of Jiangdu, leading hundreds of officials, kneeling behind Liu Che and chanting loudly the last stanza of this "Junpi Luo".
At this time, Li Guang, the guard lieutenant who was in charge of today's military parade arrangements, was already Liu Chejun's minister. Horses and chariots for the parade were prepared.
Liu Che was the first to board the royal bowl specially built for the military parade.
Sitting on the car, Liu Che instructed Wang Dao, who was on standby under the wheel: "After returning to Chang'an." Remember to call Sima Xiangru! ”
Yizong is about to return triumphantly, and the king has been ordered since ancient times. How can the conquest of Yidi not praise the poetry of Wang Shi's might, justice, discipline, and bringing the light of civilization to Yidi?
To tell the truth, Liu Che really despised the emperors of later generations.
Conquest is not a subordinate, destroying the writing, temples, and systems of Yidi, and making it subject to the Xia, which is something praised by the three emperors and five emperors in ancient times, and the three dynasties of the Xia and Shang dynasties. The great deeds praised by the Book of Psalms.
Why is it that after the Spring and Autumn Period, there are very few articles and poems similar to praising and praising Wang Shi?
Even the Song and Ming dynasties were reduced to the tragic situation of being beaten by Yidi and ruined for barbarism.
Why did those literati who shouted that they should teach the Dharma for three generations and imitate the Holy King pretending to be deaf and dumb in this matter?
Did their sage books be read with their ass?
Liu Che felt that some understandings could not be made.
Liu Che decided that in this matter, he could not make the mistakes of later generations, and he wanted to correct that the current literary world is not praising landscapes. It is to praise the unhealthy trend of gardens.
Sing praises to the gentleman to kill the enemy, protect the family and defend the country, pick up the sister of Yidi, and educate the four yi. Bringing the light of civilization to barbarism is the right way for the literary world!
Between thoughts, the ministers were already in their respective positions.
Liu Wu, King of Liang. Holding the spear in person, he sat on a chariot on Liu Che's left.
Liu Yan, the king of Jiangdu. Holding a bow and arrow, he stands on a chariot on the right.
Prime Minister Zhou Yafu. Ride a four-horse chariot located in the lead.
The rest of the ministers, more than 2,000 stones, and the relatives of the princes, also guarded the left and right in their own order.
Supporting the military parade of the Son of Heaven is the supreme honor of a courtier.
Everyone was also very conscientious and brought out the best in them.
A qiē is ready.
The general Dou Ying drove to Liu Che's royal court, got out of the car and said: "Your Majesty, now that the sixth division is ready, and the ministers are ready, dare to ask Your Majesty to give an order!" ”
Liu Che stood up, drew his sword out of the sheath, pointed the sword forward, and said: "Soldiers, murder weapons, saints have to use them as a last resort, I watch the soldiers today, it is for Xiaoyu the world: Wang Shi, dignified and upright, obey the orders of heaven, only be sent by me, only punish not ministers, only seek injustice, only cut down no way, if you surrender to me, abide by morality, bow to the rule of China, and destroy all countries, Wang Shiqiu has not committed any crimes!" ”
This is taking off his pants and farting, and he has to pretend to be forced!
Ministers or not, there is no way, it's not Liu Che who has the final say, is it still Yidi who has the final say?
Just like the later generations of Emperor Mi, if you say that you don't cook for the people, you will definitely not cook for the people, and if the people cook it, there will still be shady scenes, and the election is unfair, so you must be killed.
Even Saudi Arabia and India can become 'reliable allies' and 'loyal partners' in the free world.
But this façade is still very important, and the moral issue is also very important.
The army must know what it is fighting for in order to have combat effectiveness.
Of course, the army of feudal society also needs sufficient incentives and rewards.
Just like Qin Jun, everyone knows that he is fighting for his family, his wife and children, and his personal future, so he is naturally invincible.
But Qin's problem is that when he has defeated all the enemies, he loses the purpose and courage to continue fighting.
Even if Qin Shi Huang was a generation of heroes, he temporarily set up two new goals of conquest for the Qin Empire: the Xiongnu in the north and the Yue people in the south.
But the problem is that these two new enemies have won the war, and there is no oil and water.
So, after the death of Qin Shi Huang, the Qin Empire collapsed, which was also expected.
It was after learning the lesson of Qin that Liu Che decided to pick up the disguise of morality and dress up the Han army as the messenger of justice, the protector of the people, and the Asian gendarme.
In the future, those places that are not suitable for rule and beyond the reach of the Han whip can adopt the strategy of fetters.
Just like what the Han family did to Mitsukoshi today.
He ordered his prince to be hostage to Chang'an, and to influence his domestic policy.
As for whether it will be morally bound?
People who have this concern can only be said to be naïve!
Dear, when did the war need a reason?
War has always been only a question of whether it can be fought or not.
As for the reason? Oh ho ho ho ho ......
Liu Che had a thousand thoughts spinning around in his heart.
And Dou Ying, who was kneeling in front of the car, was very encouraged when he heard the words, and bowed his head and said, "No! Respectfully! ”
For Dou Ying, a relative of the Dou family whose thoughts tend to be Confucian. Liu Che's speech really encouraged him. I just feel that my whole body is full of energy.
Confucianism at this moment is actually the main battle faction.
But not the warmongering. Confucianism advocates fighting a 'righteous war', not an 'unjust war'.
That's what a 'righteous war' is.
Confucius said it well - the Spring and Autumn Period is unrighteous war!
The war praised by Chung Ni was only a war with foreign nations under the leadership of the Son of Heaven.
Of course, Guan Yiwu assisted Qi Henggong, respected the king, the princes of Jiuhe, and the world of Kuang, also belonged to the righteous war.
At this point. Liu Che and Confucianism can be said to be very close to the concept.
Civil war, can be avoided, foreign war, for the future generations of the nation to open up living space, with the sword of the Han family for the plough of the Han family to obtain land, cattle and reclaimed resources, this is a just war, a sacred war!
But at this moment, Liu Che didn't have the heart to care about Confucianism.
With Dou Yingsan kowtowing goodbye, the huge Son of Heaven parade thin team. He began to move slowly, and drove on the gallop road, which had been renovated once a month earlier and was paved with a layer of fine sand, towards the huge army formation on both sides of the plain of the distant division.
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The Son of Heaven is thin. It was a vast and mighty car, and it was just a car, which was a convoy of princes, kings, ministers, princes, and ministers composed of eighty-one chariots.
And that's just the convoy in which the ministers participated.
According to the Han system. The Son of Heaven is divided into three parts: the guide guard team, the Fengyin team, and the Jingen car phalanx.
The whole Son of Heaven is thin, if all of them are dispatched. That's a huge lineup of two or three hundred tanks and thousands of entourage.
Liu Che this military parade. Out of the sake of frugality, only half of the Lu Bo was dispatched, but this was also a huge convoy of more than 100 chariots, hundreds of cavalry, and nearly 2,000 people.
Along the way, the drumming musicians kept playing all kinds of music that praised the majesty of the Son of Heaven and the submission of the four Yi.
The Tiger Guards and Cavalry waited for each other, preoccupied with the vigilance, and the princes, ministers, and ministers stood solemnly.
When the halogen car drove to the first displayed military array, the entire army, like a black ocean, knelt down in unison and bowed: "Your Majesty, the great Han is victorious!" ”
Liu Che stood up, his eyes burning, and looked at this military formation.
Beside him, the serving Shang Shu Ling Ji Di had already prepared, and introduced to Liu Che: "Your Majesty, this is the garrison army of the Northern Army stationed in the hegemony, and the soldiers in the army are all selected from the good family, after the loyal ministers, and there is even no shortage of old soldiers in the Kwantung region who fought with Gaozu in the world!" ”
"Back then, Jiang Hou joined the Northern Army, and this unit was the first unit to fight for the Liu family!"
Liu Che nodded, understood, this is the Red Army of the Han Dynasty, it is very popular, and it has outstanding achievements, and more importantly, it is reliable in politics!
Back then, after Zhou Bo joined the Northern Army, the Northern Army was not bloodless, and took Chang'an.
They and their comrades' southern army have done it with real swords.
The Southern Army led by Lu Chan alone was a huge obstacle.
Without Liu Zhang's timely support, the coup might have been suppressed.
Liu Che has read the relevant records from the royal archives, and it is said that at that time, the corpses of Weiyang Palace were all over the field, the blood flowed like a river, the Shiqu Pavilion was full of corpses, and the entire Changle Palace became a country of the dead.
Even, when Liu Che's grandfather, Emperor Taizong, arrived in Chang'an, the dead bodies of Changle and Weiyang had not yet been cleaned up.
It was after that civil war that the Han dynasty established the national policy of the northern army as the garrison of the palace gate, and did not allow the southern army to intervene, and the southern army could only be used as a city defense force and a Beijing division garrison force.
In the face of such a heroic army, even Liu Che couldn't help but stand up and instructed Ji Di: "Play without clothes!" ”
Then, Liu Che walked out of the curtain of the chariot, held the sword of the Son of Heaven, and greeted the soldiers.
Suddenly, it triggered a huge cheer from the soldiers of the Southern Army.
In the Han Dynasty, the Son of Heaven is a god, called sacred, the executor of God's will, the ruler of the Mandate of Heaven, the management and grace of the four generations of the Liu family, especially since Taizong, the good image of the Son of Heaven of the Liu family, so that although Liu Che ascended the throne with a weak crown, he naturally had great prestige among the middle and lower rank officers and soldiers.
Since Liu Che took the throne, he has never shirked the requirements of the military, vigorously supported, encouraged, and supported the military's plans, and even Liu Che sometimes cared about the army's food problems.
These things have been passed through the guò embroidered clothes and guards, and have reached Guanzhong and the ears of every soldier.
This made the whole army even more moved.
Now, the Son of Heaven has appeared in person, holding the sword of the Son of Heaven, greeting everyone like everyone.
Although it was only a short moment, it still made countless people feel supreme honor and excitement.
I am fortunate to see Tianyan, which is an honor in the Han family!
What's more, after that, the Son of Heaven Band even played "No Clothes", which made almost all soldiers feel warm in their hearts.
"Do you say you have no clothes? with the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear. Enmity with the Son! Zhou Yafu, who was in the lead, sighed: "Sure enough, it's a holy monarch!" ”
And Liu Wu, the king of Liang on the side of Liu Che's car, looked at the faces of those soldiers who were full of excitement and excitement, and he also fell into deep thought.
Recently, many people have approached him to persuade him, hoping that he can withdraw his support for the Yantie official camp.
Originally, he had already loosened up a little.
However, after seeing this scene, Liu Wu understood.
The Mandate of Heaven and the hearts of the people are in the Han, in the Son of Heaven, whether it is the princes of the Kanto region, or whether it is a powerful businessman, they are all just clowns who jump off the beam.
With this military heart, under the order of the Son of Heaven, the tiger is out of the customs, who in the world can be the enemy?
Moreover......
Liu Wu's eyes swept over the equipment on the Nan soldiers' bodies.
In the past, the Mo swords, crossbows and other sharp weapons that were only seen in the two guards of the Son of Heaven and Yulin, have begun to be equipped with the southern army.
Liu Wu heard that last year, the Son of Heaven and the Prime Minister communicated with each other for a whole year, and all the equipment of the 100,000 field army of the Han Dynasty was updated once.
Although sharp weapons such as knives and crossbows may not have been popularized, Liu Wu listened to his courtier Liang Yu's report that several cavalry units directly under Chang'an had all been equipped with horseshoes and newer stirrups and saddles, and the light cavalry attacked for hundreds of miles day and night, just waiting for leisure, and there was no wind to come and go.
Thinking about these things, Liu Wu knew how to choose! (To be continued......)