Mythical Qin, Han, Three Kingdoms, Sui and Tang Dynasties, establishment of empire

Chapter 388 Army Morale

Liu Hua asked the Huotou Army to prepare dry food for the soldiers preparing for the expedition, which included sun-dried fried tea, ground fried noodles, and dried meat.

If they were in the camp, relying on the amazing carrying capacity brought by water transportation, the soldiers could basically still eat hot food.

But if you perform tasks that require running, you need to use these to configure the corresponding rations.

The latter two are relatively common in Liu Hua's army, but because eating too much will cause the lips to split and the soldiers will get angry, the army originally brought a pack of pine needles, soaked them in hot water and drank them.

However, the tea grown in the mountains of Jizhou was gradually harvested over the past few years, and tea began to be added to military supplies.

To be honest, good things in any era are basically developed in military camps first.

Because the military almost embodies the productivity level of the entire organization.

The strength of an organization can basically be seen by looking at their armed personnel.

And Liu Hua personally watched the Huotou Army in the rear arranging logistics for the army. Liu Hua knew very well that his army had the peasant class as its ideological guidance, the farming system ensured the logistics of the soldiers, and military law deterred their illegal behavior. But at the same time, he Promoting humanistic care and uniting the soldiers as much as possible changed the bad habit of beating and scolding by superiors and subordinates.

This makes his army very outstanding both in terms of organizational strength and its own quality.

A journey of eighty miles a day may sound excessive, but Liu Hua believed that his soldiers could do it.

Even if Sun Tzu said, if you are fighting for a profit at a hundred miles, you will capture three generals. The strong one will go first, and the tired one will be behind, and the method will be eleven; if you are fighting for a profit at fifty miles, you will defeat the general, and the method will be half; If you fight for profit, two-thirds will come.

If any general does not want to become a mediocre general, he must find a way to break out of Sun Tzu's Art of War.

Among them, those who did outstandingly became the seventy-two generals, and those who could change Sun Tzu's art of war could even become the Four Sages or the Ten Philosophers.

Liu Hua knew very well that what Sun Tzu said was not wrong, or for any general, Sun Tzu's art of war is like a righteous way of thinking. When you want to pass on something in the art of war, you have to go back. The Art of War.

But the problem is that Liu Hua also knows what the upper limit of his army is.

They were able to carry nearly twenty kilograms of items on their backs and march fifty to sixty kilometers a day, becoming the pinnacle of light infantry.

Although the nationalism he proposed may not be as advanced as future revolutionary ideas, in this era where there is no military thought, the ideological blessing it brings is groundbreaking in itself.

Not to mention that he did not treat his soldiers badly in terms of food, and after raising them for two or three years, their physical fitness was definitely the best among all the soldiers.

At least running and lying down to die, I dare not say that it will not happen, but it is definitely very rare.

Liu Hua believes that things like running away and getting lost will never happen.

Because if they run away and die, they will still be counted as martyrs. Their fields can be passed down to their children, and their children can also get the best education for common people in this era.

But if the centurions and captains cannot find your body, and there is no trace of you during the roll call, they will treat you as deserters.

Under Liu Hua's military system, the military is almost the only way to rise in this society from top to bottom. Not to mention that your family and children will be humiliated from now on, and even your children will not be able to join the military to gain status in the future. This is very important to anyone. For ordinary people, it is an unbearable burden.

Because they are willing to endure hardships and fight hard, but their offspring are often their biggest weakness. Especially for those who have become a good family and can have land for their children to inherit, they would rather die than have their descendants be inferior to others and have to engage in lowly jobs due to their own reasons.

Therefore, it is inappropriate to use Sun Tzu's Art of War to set up Liu Hua's army.

It was precisely beyond the framework of Sun Tzu's Art of War that it exceeded the expectations of Xiang Jian, Yuan Shao and others and gave Liu Hua the possibility of success.

Liu Yu brought Liu Hua's order to recruit 10,000 more people to follow him, and Liu Yu also honestly told his subordinates the standard of eighty miles a day.

Let them know that if they can't do this, even if they run to death, don't make a sound to me, otherwise I will hack them to death with a knife.

And there is a reason why Liu Yu did this.

Because the quality of Liu Yu's army is not bad to be honest. He has been involved in many battles, whether with Zhao Tuo, Deng Qiang, Wang Li and others. After following Liu Hua, he relied on the military medical battalion to update It has gradually accumulated many veterans of hundreds of battles.

In terms of average quality, it should be regarded as one of the forefront legions among the Han army.

But the problem is that Liu Yu's troops mostly engage in positional warfare or defensive counterattacks.

This means that long-distance attacks are not what Liu Yu's army is good at, so Liu Yu understands that to carry out this mission, he needs not only good combat experience, but also the awareness to keep running even if he dies!

As long as Liu Hua's army reaches the garrison level, there will be counselors who teach literacy. They specialize in popularizing writing and guiding the thoughts of the soldiers, so that they know that they are fighting for the rise of the peasants.

In the process, one can also gain benefits, which makes one's personal future and class mission become one. This impression is even strengthened under the farming system.

Even so, if the will acting on the body can make the soldiers reach eighty miles a day, Liu Hua believes it can, but Liu Yu is not sure.

Therefore, let the soldiers come voluntarily. When the military order comes, don't regret the decision you made.

Of course, a single person is not qualified to make decisions. The decision is made by the legion unit with the legion commander as the highest command.

In fact, the number of people who signed up far exceeded Liu Yu's expectation. In Liu Yu's view, this was really extremely difficult, but for his soldiers, Liu Hua gave him a direction to strive for and enough strength. Financial security.

Now there is a difficulty in front of him. Liu Hua needs them to keep up with him, and then go together to destroy the coalition of princes.

How could the soldiers not be willing to go?

Not to mention how much merit he can gain after destroying the coalition of princes, the most important thing is that both Liu Hua and Liu Yu himself are already the gods of war to the soldiers.

After all, they had defeated the invincible Great Qin, which had swept through the six kingdoms in the past!

Since he didn't, if he missed this opportunity, how could he obtain this guaranteed meritorious service.

Not to mention, even if they die in battle, Liu Hua can guarantee the survival of their descendants. For the simple soldiers of this era, Liu Hua needs him now, and he can't wait to hand over his life, so he still What are you hesitating about?

Liu Yu looked at the enthusiasm of his soldiers and felt that these soldiers were obviously soldiers brought out by himself!

Why, when they heard that Liu Hua was leading the team this time, they all became so fanatical that they even wanted to take their own lives.

Liu Yu originally thought that the volunteers who were willing to go this time might not be able to gather 10,000, and he would need his own Beifu Army to fill in more.

(End of this chapter)