Late Tang

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Song Wen's words actually scared the recruits to pee on the spot. Not only did Li Jing feel very humiliated, but even Zuo Yi generals Wang Zhong and Zhang Hong also turned black.Song Xi, the newly appointed top ten general of the Wendeng camp, had a gloomy expression on his face.

It's too embarrassing, such a cowardly soldier, if he really wants to go to the battlefield, why don't he turn around and run away immediately?

Song Wen didn't have any expression on his face, as if he had expected this group of incompetent recruits to behave like this.He turned to Li Jing and said with a smile, "You have seen your soldiers yourself. Do you have any training plan to change them?" I have talked about Li Jing, and I know Li Jing's achievements in killing four bandits in a row.

Moreover, he also received a secret letter from the commander-in-chief Song Wei. In the letter, Song Wei told him that the officialdom in Dengzhou is now Cui Yunqing and Zhao Wang Li Rui and Sima Yuyu are all in one faction, and Feng Yanqing and other local forces have formed a faction to compete with each other. Case.It also explained that Cui Yunqing and Yu Yu accepted Li Jing as their disciples, and Feng Yanqing was involved in letting his nephew impersonate Li Jing's accomplices for military merit.After Song Wei asked Song Wen to arrive in Penglai, he took Li Jing as a breakthrough point and carefully observed Li Jing, hoping that he could use Li Jing as an opportunity to break into Dengzhou, draw Cui Yunqing and Feng Yanqing as his own, and stabilize Song Wei's Jiedushi s position.

In addition to this, Song Wen was still carrying the commendation and promotion orders from the Jiedu Shi Shuaifu to Li Jing and others.But Song Wen didn't intend to take it out immediately, he had to take a good look at Li Jing's performance first.

Li Jing looked at Song Wen's eyes on her, and thought for a moment.From the gaze of the other party, he sensed that this was not a random question, it should be a very serious question from Song Wen, and it was a test for him.

Song Wen is the Marquis of Du Yu, and Li Jing didn't want to leave a bad impression in front of him.Just now, his subordinates were so scared that they peed their pants. Li Jing didn't want to be classified as useless by Song Wen.

"Back to the words of Marquis Yu of the capital, I think that the newly recruited united soldiers are actually pretty good overall, and their ages are between fifteen and twenty-two. It can be said that this group of united soldiers is actually more recruited than the soldiers recruited by the previous imperial court. Athletes are even better. As long as they are properly trained, I think this is an elite team. But it is precisely because this group of united soldiers are young that there are still many shortcomings. First of all, they have no experience at all, and everything has to start from scratch. Okay These are blank slates, which are just right for us to spend our energy and train them into the strong team we expect."

"The analogy of blank paper is very appropriate. These new recruits with no experience at all are the best and most useless soldiers. Useless is that they have no experience at all. Such soldiers are the most difficult to train, and they are the first to die when they are pulled into the battlefield." Yes. It can be said that this kind of soldiers is the best, because as long as the trainers are capable, they can train a powerful army with twice the results. I listen to you, it seems that you have a gap in your heart? You have a mature plan Well, let's hear it." Song Wen was a little surprised by Li Jing's words, but also had some expectations.

Facing a general like Song Wen on the battlefield, Li Jing didn't dare to pat his chest and make any guarantees, that would only make the other party laugh.He said cautiously: "A good soldier cannot be made in a day. If you give me three years, I am confident that I will train an invincible warrior."

"Three years is too long, how about March?" Song Wen said.

Li Jing froze for a moment, March?He did have a preliminary military training plan in his mind, but what would be enough in March?He said that three years is short, and three months is enough to practice a queue or something.

But how should he answer?If you say no, doesn't that make you appear incompetent?Or if it is feasible, it is a promise beyond one's own ability. Wouldn't it be worse if things don't work out?

After hesitating for a moment, Li Jing decided to speak directly.

"Back to Marquis Yu, March is really too short. These are inexperienced recruits. They can't learn anything in three months. If they are veterans, the reorganization in March may double their combat power. But such a united recruit, please forgive the humble and incompetent."

I thought that this answer would get a few reprimands, but unexpectedly Song Wei turned his head and looked at him seriously, and said with a smile: "Yes, if you really answered that it can be done in March, then you can pack it up and go to the kitchen to do it now." It's time to eat. Leading troops, the most taboo is not being able to see the situation clearly and overreaching. Tell me now what your plan is, and don't care about the time limit."

"The plan of the humble post is to conduct a preliminary assessment first, and then promote the outstanding ones to become corps and team leaders. First appoint and form a top-to-bottom officer establishment, and then organize the team according to the length of each person."

Song Wen nodded and smiled lightly: "It's a good idea, but a snake without a head can't do it. A good officer is half the combat effectiveness of an army. The only thing that can be done is unimpeded up and down, and orders are prohibited. Let me give you a suggestion. After selecting and appointing officers, The most important point is military discipline. There are no few in the army, and no courage and cowardice among the soldiers. With order, you will win, and with chaos, you will lose. Soldiers don’t know generals, generals don’t know soldiers, they don’t advance when they hear drums, and they don’t stop hearing gold. Although there are millions of people , use it to confront the enemy, like entrusting the flesh to a tiger, can you seek victory in peace? The so-called rulers should study when they live, and be firm when they move; advance cannot be violated, and retreat cannot be pursued; "It can be combined but not separated, it can be used but not exhausted; even if it is separated into an array, even if it is scattered into a line, it is the principle of governance."

"An ancient law says: The three officials are not in disarray, and the five teachings are not chaotic, which is called a capable army. The three officials are drums, gold, and flags; the five teachings are eyes, ears, hands, feet, and heart. Teach the eyes to know form. The flag of color teaches the ear to know the number of orders, the foot to know the degree of advance and retreat, the hand to know the length of a soldier, and the heart to know the use of rewards and punishments. The five are used in practice, and they are the rulers of victory. Therefore, if you want to use troops conveniently, Utilizing utensils for their benefit, generals for their excellence, and soldiers for their teaching. Therefore, if you do not read daily first, you are teaching without gradual progress; if you do not teach martial arts later, you are training without merit. This is how to use each other to achieve success. It is also a tool that is difficult to break through. If a husband takes advantage of the gap between the three peasants and learns the face of the Sixth Master; obeys the prestige and manners, understands the young and long, strictly rewards and punishes, and obeys orders; This is to ask for one or two things and do it. Do you understand what I said?"

Li Jing thought about what Song Wen said carefully, and replied: "What Du Yuhou means is that soldiers should first learn to order and restrain, and know how to advance and retreat. Then they should learn the ability to kill the enemy in battle?"

"It's clear, smart. Why don't you tell me straight, this is what Song Jieshuai said to me back then. It took me a long time to understand the meaning of these words. But I didn't expect that you actually I understand so quickly. But understanding is only the first step, do you know how to do it?"

Easier said than done.Everyone knows that the most important thing for an army is order and prohibition, but it is very difficult to really do it. To put it bluntly, since ancient times, there have been a few armies that can truly prevent the enemy from entering, and cannot chase after retreating. Advance, stop when you hear the gold, don't mess up in front of the battle, don't collapse in the face of defeat?

"Marquis Duyu, I have an immature idea in this humble position."

"Speak straight."

"The idea of ​​the humble post is that after appointing the low-level officers, there will be a small team of three, and three small teams will form a squadron, and each squadron must have one person as the core, and each squadron must have a small team as the core."

"continue."

"Let's not practice battle array swords and guns first, but practice weight-bearing running and queue every day."

"Do you want to train your strength first and build up your physique? This is feasible. Although these recruits are very young, they were all farmers before. However, what is the difference between this formation and the battle formation? Why do you need to practice formation instead of battle formation? "

"The battle formation method is too complicated and requires a very high tacit cooperation. What we lack most now is tacit cooperation. At this time, practicing the battle formation is undoubtedly half the result with twice the effort. Therefore, the humble job's idea is to start from the simplest practice On the one hand, practicing weight-bearing not only increases the physique of the soldiers, but also trains their obedience, endurance, and physical strength. As for the training of the formation, it starts from the simplest standing in the military posture and lining up horizontally and vertically. This kind of training is boring and simple, and cultivates discipline. Concept. The basic purpose of our queue training is: "Orders and prohibitions" means "orders must be followed, and prohibitions must be stopped." "Conditional reflex", no longer asking so many "why" in front of orders, but truly "do what you order, and stop what is prohibited."

"Conditioned reflex?" Song Wen was a little confused about this new word.

Li Jing realized that he had said a new term that Tang people did not understand, and explained with a smile: "The so-called conditioned reflex, let's use an analogy, it is like the bell and drum towers in every city. When the bell and drum tower rings at night, you know it’s time to close the city gate and curfew at night, and when you hear the bell in the morning, you know that the city gate is open and a new day has begun. Evening drums and morning bells, over time, are a conditioned reflex. Everyone As soon as you hear the bells and drums, you know what it is, and you don't even think about why."

"Well, this analogy is good, it is true. If our soldiers can really achieve this 'conditioned reflex', they can follow orders and stop orders, and great achievements can be expected."

"Yes, the queue training is not only that, our purpose is to enhance the collective consciousness. In the queue, everyone "shares the joys and sorrows": share the joy and share the punishment. I plan to consciously or unconsciously use collective punishment measures during training. Suppressing the spread of individual bad behavior, thereby enhancing the collective consciousness of students."

"That's right, continue." Hearing this, Song Wen already had a lot of interest in Li Jing's queue training plan.

"There is also the cultivation of tenacious will and firm belief through queue training. The queue training is monotonous, repetitive, and boring. Walking around is meaningless on the surface, but it is not the case. The queue movement needs to be consolidated. From the perspective of the humble staff, the queue is It is the foundation of all kinds of military formations. If the formations are not trained well, let alone the military formations. Military formations are troublesome to train, and it is impossible to train frequently. If you don’t practice for a long time, your movements will be rusty, and the effect in wartime will be reduced. Worse. Queue training requires the cultivation of tenacious will: everyone always has to do things that they don’t want to do, and they don’t want to do it but they can’t stop doing it. .Although queue training is boring, you can develop a tenacious fighting will in it."

"In addition, through this simple and boring queue training, we can also cultivate a style that is particularly capable of enduring hardships and fighting, and can develop a good temperament. In short, the queue itself is a simple matter, but we can use queue training to transform The recruits come to a complete change, train a tenacious, forbidden, and good style of troops, and then start training such as military formations, so that they can learn from one instance and get twice the result with half the effort."

Song Wen pinched his chin and fell into deep thought. A long time after Li Jing finished speaking, he was still immersed in it.After a long time, Song Wen happily patted Li Jing on the shoulder and said: "Although it has not been verified by the facts, I am very interested in the method you mentioned. In this way, you will make a detailed plan later and put it into practice. Write down your ideas and submit them to me, and I will discuss them carefully with the coaches Lin and Wang and the officers of each battalion. However, the first one on the left can try out according to your method first. You are the first one on the left now Leader of the first team, I will appoint you as the coach of Zuo Yidu again, you and Wang Zhong and other Zuo Yidu officers will train according to your ideas from tomorrow onwards!"

Although the Zuo Yidu coach was only a temporary appointment, Li Jing was very happy, which meant that the new Du Yuhou still supported his plan.