The Legend of Shushan Xuanjian

Chapter 598 Eight Laws of Loyal Heir
Xin Yicai thanked Xiao Tao's hair, after the green tea, before the cold food,
The four seasons are best in March, only young people who never come back.

——Excerpt from "March" Han Xie (Tang Dynasty)

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On this day, Bai Fu once again received a secret letter from Duan Xiushi's confidants.

In the secret letter, Duan Xiushi mentioned that in the process of pacifying Anlu Mountain, the powerful combat power of the Anbei Court Army made the court always fearful.

General Li Siye is unparalleled in loyalty and bravery, the court is not worried.

After Li Siye's death, the imperial court was quite worried about Duan Xiushi, Li Feiyuanli and other old generals of Anbei Court.If these rebellious army leaders have a heart of disobedience, they may be more dangerous than An Lushan.

Immediately after the court buried Li Siye, Duan Xiushi, Li Feiyuanli and other generals and some troops from the Anbei Court were transferred away from the Anbei Court camp.

While splitting up the main force of the Anbeiting army, other generals and troops were also mixed into the Anbeiting camp.

By adding sand to the camp in Anbeiting, it is ensured that this army is firmly in the hands of the court.

The [-] elite soldiers who are still in the camp are the last blood of the Anbei Army.

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After burning Duan Xiushi's secret letter, Bai Fu couldn't calm down for a long time.

Accusing the imperial court of suspicion and absurdity will not help the matter, what Bai Fu can do now is to keep the fire of the Anbei court army as much as possible.

These [-] elites can't be all exhausted. This is not only the family property of Anbeiting Duhufu, but also the family property of Tang Jun.

Bai Fu decided to build a new army with these five thousand elites as his team.

His idea is: the elites of Anxibeiting are the masters of a hundred battles, and everyone can count as one against ten; and then use these elites as the backbone, recruit ten or even twenty times as many people, and train them strictly to form a team. A strong team.

At that time, not only can the rebels be wiped out, but also the land occupied by Tubo can be regained and control of the Western Regions can be regained.

Bai Fu's plan is grand, and although the idea is good, there are many difficulties in implementing it.He thought to himself:

Although the soldiers mixed with sand were dismantled, on the surface, the Anbeiting camp was still full of [-] people.To recruit recruits, you must expand.But once it is expanded, it will immediately attract criticism from the court officials.This is one of them.

Second, after the expansion, where will the food and grass army come from?

He owns Princess Taiping's hidden treasure, so he doesn't worry about military pay, but during the war years, food, grass, and military supplies may not be completely settled by money alone.Especially Tang Jun's weapons, even if they have money, they cannot be purchased from the people.

Although the people and horses do not have to worry about food and clothing at present, if they expand, these military supplies will be stretched.

If the imperial court agrees to the expansion, it will be extremely difficult.It is even more hopeless to count on the imperial court to continue to allocate food, grass and military supplies.

Lying on the bed, Bai Fu was troubled by these two problems. After thinking about it, he couldn't find a solution.After sleeping until midnight, I still couldn't close my eyes.

When the rooster crowed, Bai Fu fell asleep in a daze.As soon as I fell asleep, I heard the hurried footsteps of the soldiers.If it weren't for the urgent military situation, the soldiers would not be so anxious.

Bai Fu stood up and rubbed his cheeks violently twice to wake himself up.

Hearing the sound of Bai Fu getting up, the captain of the soldiers pushed the door in and said to Bai Fu: "General, Commander Guangbi's soldiers are here, waiting for you in front of the big tent."

Bai Fu hurriedly called someone.This person was Li Guangbi's confidant, and he handed over Li Guangbi's letter to Bai Fu.

Bai Fu came to the desk and couldn't wait to open the letter and read it.

Li Guangbi said in the letter: The rebel army is powerful, and the cavalry on the grassland can be used to fighting, maneuverable and flexible, and it is difficult to deal with it.In order to ensure that the Tang army decisively fought against the rebels with superior forces, he asked Bai Fu to recruit 1 more horses in Shanzhou to train them into elite soldiers.

Once Shuofang's army needs to be supplemented due to the reduction of personnel due to the battle, this group of troops can immediately go to Heyang and give him command.

Li Guangbi told Bai Fu that he had made a statement to the imperial court about entrusting Anbei Court to recruit strong men for military training, and the imperial court would send an order to Shanzhou in the near future.

Seeing Bai Fu finished reading the letter, Li Guangbi's confidant soldiers stepped forward and whispered in a low voice: "The commander-in-chief said, after these soldiers are trained, they will be placed here with you, and you will have full command."

When Bai Fu heard this, he was overjoyed.He secretly said: "General Guangbi must have understood the purpose of my division of troops, and in order to help me solve the problem of insufficient troops, he resorted to this trick of stealing troops."

Bai Fu rewarded Li Guangbi's confidant soldiers a lot, and drew his newly created several styles of fighting on the battlefield, sword techniques, spear techniques and other kung fu in the front line, in a folder, and presented it to General Guangbi.

In the end, Bai Fu studied ink and wrote a long letter to General Guangbi for the soldier to bring back.

Sending Li Guangbi's personal soldiers away, Bai Fu said in his heart: "Jiang is old and hot, and General Guangbi is old and skilled. This method neither expands the camp in the Northwest Court of An'an, nor expands the troops of the Shuofang Army. reasonable.

In the future, I will learn more from Brother Guangbi. "

Sure enough, three days later, the imperial decree arrived, ordering Baifu to recruit more than [-] soldiers to prepare for the emergency needs of the Heyangshuo army.

The food and supplies needed by the recruits are all available.

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Bai Fu secretly trusted Huang Zhen of the Chuan Gang and Tang Kui of the Tang Sect, and ordered them to transfer the elite disciples of the Wubai Chuan Gang who were secretly trained in the "Yanwu Hall" in Lihentian to Shanzhou.

For the rest of the establishment, Bai Fu decided to recruit able-bodied peasant children from Guanzhong and Hanzhong, and he was determined not to defeat the veterans of the Tang army who had wandered here.

Farm children are pure in mind and easy to teach.This is what Bai Fu really values.

In the face of loyalty, the veteran's experience and ability are not worth mentioning.

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All is ready except for the opportunity.

What is Dongfeng?The way to lead the army!
The Art of War says: "Therefore, the scriptures are based on five things, and they are collated for calculation and their feelings. One is called Dao, the other is called Heaven, the third is called Earth, the fourth is called General, and the fifth is called Law. All of these five are called by generals. Those who know win, those who don't know won't win."

When Lihentian taught the art of war, Master Zhong Si said to Bai Fu: "'Tao, heaven, earth, general, and law' are five things, and 'law' is at the bottom. Generally, generals don't pay much attention to it, and simply understand it as military law.

In fact, 'law' is the foundation of running an army, and a general should spend most of his energy here.As long as the 'Fa' time is up, the battle will be all at once.

'The law is the music system, the official way, and the main use'.

Cao Cao once said: "The system of the song is the system of trilogy, flags, and golden drums; the official is the division of hundreds of officials; the road is the grain road; the master is the main army expenses." '"

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Wang Zhongsi spent several years in prison, with nothing to do, he integrated the methods of military leaders and his own method of leading the army, and created a set of ways to lead the army, which was named "Eight Laws of Loyalty".

This set of ways of commanding the army makes it easy to manage a large army, makes the command system more orderly, and the overall structure of the army is flatter.High-level generals can timely and accurately obtain the situation of the grassroots army, which greatly improves the level of strategizing and the ability of each army to fight decisively.

According to the biography of his father, the loyal heir, Bai Fu unfolded the way of commanding troops one by one.

First, the method of Taoism leading.Let the soldiers read and write, understand the righteousness of the family and the country, and abide by military regulations and disciplines.

Second, the method of mixing arms.According to the types of each army, the army is divided into seven armies, that is, the central army, the left Yuhou army, the right Yuhou army, the front army of the left wing, the rear army of the left wing, the front army of the right wing, and the rear army of the right wing.The army is divided into battalions, and the Seventh Army has a total of nineteen battalions.

Third, the method of strategic planning.Set up a marching Sima battalion to serve as a staff officer.Set up the post of military commander to sacrifice wine, command the marching Sima, and comprehensively plan the battle situation.

The Marching Sima Battalion decomposed the strategy according to the strategic plan, and implemented military tasks to each army and each battalion, decomposed them layer by layer, and finally implemented them on each individual soldier.So that generals at all levels have a clear and long-term understanding of their tasks.

Fourth, the method of training troops.In daily military training, each battalion must practice formation changes.Attack and defense must be unified and orderly under the command of banners and golden drums, like arms and fingers.

Soldiers must exercise their physical fitness, cultivate willpower, practice fighting skills in battle, and skillfully use various weapons.

Fifth, the method of battle report analysis.On the basis of strategic planning, each army prepares and analyzes battle reports as required.

On weekdays, the battle report is once a month, including personalized indicators such as the evaluation of each army's combat power, training quality, improvement of soldiers' capabilities, food loss, and military loss.

In wartime, the battle report is reported for each battle, including key values ​​such as the number of enemies killed, the number of prisoners, the number of food and grass captured, the number of weapons captured, and the number of horses captured.

Marching Sima Battalion analyzed the battle report and monitored the implementation of each army.

Sixth, the verification method.The implementation of strategies, the completion of military training, the authenticity of battle reports, and the compliance with military regulations and disciplines all need to be reviewed through inspections.

This move is the supervision link of strategic planning. Senior military generals use the verification system to strengthen the implementation of strategy and campaign planning, improve the level of military management, and thus support the effectiveness of senior generals' decision-making.

Seventh, the method of evaluation.The completion of strategy execution and campaign planning needs to be evaluated, and strategic planning has thus been transformed into key indicators from several perspectives such as combat performance, casualties, command, and training.

The evaluation results of each army are the main basis for reviewing strategies and implementing rewards and punishments, and promote the realization of strategy execution and campaign planning tasks through performance evaluation.

Eighth, the method of assessment.

Responsibilities for strategy implementation and campaigns are assigned to each army and each battalion, and the assessment should also be assigned to generals at all levels.The assessment system for generals at all levels is mainly based on the assessment of the performance of the generals and the assessment of the personal ability of the generals.

Among them, generals' personal abilities include resourcefulness, loyalty, benevolence, bravery, strictness, integrity, discernment, teamwork, decision-making, communication, passion, martial arts, and experience.

According to the results of the assessment, the promotion, rewards and punishments of the generals are decided.

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When he was in the Shuofang Army, Bai Fu once held candlelight talks with General Guangbi and discussed the "Eight Laws of Loyal Heirs" all night long.

Li Guangbi sighed: "Master's knowledge is extensive and profound. This set of 'Eight Laws of Loyalty' is the essence of what Master has learned in his life, which is unprecedented."

Before Bai Fu took office, Li Guangbi repeatedly emphasized that Bai Fu should govern the army with the "Eight Laws of Loyal Heir".

Until this moment, Bai Fu's wish came true.

That night, the full moon was bright and bright, and Bai Fu felt something in his heart. He bathed and changed his clothes, and burned incense to pay homage to his loyal master.

Bai Fu knelt on the ground, kowtowed his head several times, and said solemnly: "Master, you have a spirit in heaven, please bless me to train an iron-blooded army that sweeps the world!"

　Xin Yicai thanked Xiao Tao's hair, after the green tea, before the cold food,

　　The four seasons are best in March, only young people who never come back.

　　The country of Wu is far away from the river and the sea, and the soul of Hanling is broken.

　　New worries and old hatreds are really helpless, so I have to sleep in the urn next door.

　　——"March" Han Yu (Tang Dynasty)

　　
　
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