Datang New Order

The Tang Dynasty was a peculiar dynasty. Perhaps because the royal family itself contained alien blood, this dynasty’s ability to tolerate foreign races reached the peak in Chinese history, forming two extremes with the Ming Dynasty, which had a complex of Han chauvinism.

Many of the most powerful army commanders in the Tang Dynasty were Hu people. This phenomenon was particularly prominent in the Tianbao period. For example, Gao Xianzhi, the commander of the Anxi Army, was from Goguryeo. An Lushan, the commander of the Fanyang Legion, is a miscellaneous Hu. He has under his command the most valiant cavalry of the Tang Dynasty, the Yeluohe Cavalry; Elite soldiers...

The Ming Dynasty brought Han chauvinism to the extreme. During the entire Ming Dynasty’s rule, it has always been a stance of fighting to the death against aliens. Ming Chengzu established his capital in Beijing and guarded the country as the emperor. After Ming Yingzong was defeated and captured, Daming immediately pushed out Jingtai Emperor to continue the fight, and let the grand master Meng Yuan, who was holding a super hostage, also call his disciples.Daming never even had a real peace talk with a foreign race. A big reason why Yuan Chonghuan, the supervisor, was killed was that he had fantasized about reaching an agreement with Jurchen...

Li Chengzhong didn't want to get entangled in the details of the tactics. He didn't explain too much about the Tuhe Zhenshui battle that Xie Li was proud of, but said: "Since ancient times, there have been Huns, Xianbeis, Turks, and Uighurs outside the pass... I It is admitted that they have defeated us Han people many times, but for thousands of years, these ethnic groups have gradually disappeared. Only we Han people still occupy Zhengshuo in the Central Plains, and have continued from generation to generation... Do you think the Khitan people will break this fate? ? Well, I admit that maybe you Khitan people will rise, maybe you are rising, but as long as I, Li Chengzhong, are here, I will not let you succeed easily, maybe this is also one of the reasons why I came here."

Xie Li didn't understand the meaning of Li Chengzhong's last sentence, but he knew that what Li Chengzhong said earlier was the truth, so he couldn't help sighing, somewhat dispirited, and looked at Li Chengzhong curiously: "You seem to have a very high opinion of yourself. , I can't see why you say such a thing? With more than 400 people under your command?"

Li Chengzhong smiled: "Last year, I was alone. After a few days, I had Jiang Dutou by my side. After a month, I gathered 20 people. When I arrived in Pingzhou, there were 50 people. When I was in Yuguan, there were 100 people." People, when we entered Bailang Mountain, there were 200 people. Now, as you know, I have 400 people. What about next month? What about the end of this year? Actually, it’s useless to say these things, everything depends on the future, we two Make a bet?"

Xie Li was taken aback: "What?"

Li Chengzhong said: "You have been with me for three years. If I occupy Yingzhou within three years, you will serve me from now on. Otherwise, you will be allowed to leave. What do you think?"

Xie Li himself didn't know what state of mind he was in when he agreed to Li Chengzhong's bet. He just felt that he had seen some future direction of life, and he felt a lot more relaxed, so he formed the Khitan "wolf army" according to Li Chengzhong's request.

The winter in Bailang Mountain is full and tense, and the soldiers' routine is as follows:

After waking up in the morning, the team assembled and carried out armed cross-country along a rugged mountain road. The so-called armed cross-country means that soldiers need to hold their own weapons when they run. Among them, the logistics team led by Zhao Dasuo has the heaviest burden.On the way, we crossed the single-plank bridge on the stream-the real "single-plank" bridge, and the broken stone bridge-a piece of stone in the stream, experienced about six to seven uphill and downhill, and crossed three residual wooden obstacles ... The whole process took half an hour, and the total length was about ten miles.

After off-roading, take a break and start the day with breakfast.The breakfast was cooked by the common people, and the soldiers had to eat together as a team. Before eating, they sang military songs and ditties, and they could not eat until their stomachs were empty.The military songs are mainly composed by Li Chengzhong-in fact, they are naked plagiarism, including "Three Disciplines and Eight Points of Attention", "Unity is Strength", "Guerrilla Song", "I am a Soldier", "One Two Three Four" Song", "Defending White Wolf Mountain" and so on, of course, the lyrics have been appropriately modified. …,

After the meal, the sky was bright, and the soldiers of the front battalion conducted military posture and split training in a unified manner, which lasted about an hour.After that, there is strength training for each group of soldiers, including push-ups, sit-ups, pull-ups, and carrying logs.One hour break at noon, including lunch and siesta. Of course, military songs are still sung before lunch.

In the afternoon, skills training was carried out, and each group of soldiers carried out separately according to the weapons used.For example, the sword and shield soldiers trained under the leadership of Zhou Zaidao, the instructors of the archers were Xie Li, Meng Xuxing, and Jiao Chengqiao, and the instructor of the spearmen was Zhang Xingzhong, and Xie Li also instructed the cavalry scouts in the riding and shooting training.

After the training of each group, there is still half an hour of joint training for the whole army, mainly to practice the formation during the march, the mutual cooperation, attack and defense sequence of the various arms after the formation of the battle.Sometimes this kind of joint army training is also changed to a single-weapon whole-army drill, such as bow and arrow practice for all soldiers, close combat practice with swords and shields, wooden spear practice, and horseback riding practice.According to Li Chengzhong's request, soldiers in the front battalion must try their best to achieve "multi-skills" while ensuring "one specialty".Because the battlefield is ever-changing, there are often situations where sword and shield players are required to abandon sword shields and use bows and arrows, or archers abandon bows and arrows and change to spear formations.

Then it was time for dinner, and the military song before the meal was still sung to the point of vomiting, and the meal was followed by the military song.After dinner, set aside half an hour for "cleaning up the house"-sweeping the cave dwellings where the gangs live, washing clothes, etc.Dutou Jiang Miao will inspect the cave dwellings one by one, inspecting and evaluating the housekeeping of each cave.

In the largest cave that has been transformed into a classroom, it is brightly lit every night. Feng Dao first teaches basic cultural courses for half an hour, including literacy and the principles of dealing with people.There were a lot of people listening to Feng Dao's lecture. Besides the military officers, there were also many civilians.Every time Feng Dao starts a class, hundreds of people will be squeezed into the cave that can accommodate 60 to [-] people. There is not even a place to sit, and they all stand and listen to the lecture.

Afterwards, military courses were given by Dutou Jiang Miao and Zhang Xingzhong, who had a high level of education. The courses covered various military rules and regulations, and answered various questions raised by officers during their daily training.Participants are officers above the head of each group.Every three days, the course will be changed to "case" teaching.These cases select famous battles in history, analyze the background before the battle, the comparison of the forces of the two sides, and the process of the battle, and summarize the experience of the victor and the lessons of the loser.Most of these cases were provided by Feng Dao, and Li Chengzhong was the keynote speaker when explaining.Of course, there are also a small number of cases that are based on Li Chengzhong’s analysis of famous battles after the Song Dynasty, such as the Battle of the Jin and Liao Guards, such as the Western Expedition of Mongolia, such as the Battle of Songshan in the Ming Dynasty, and so on. Prairie and Far West Countries" to perfunctory the past.

The focus of the "case" teaching is discussion. Li Chengzhong always uses "what if...?"In order to facilitate the discussion, he divided the officers into groups according to the formation of the team, and fought in groups.For example, the officers of the left team of Jiadu and the right team of Yidu were divided into groups to conduct sand table exercises, while other officers watched carefully.The so-called sand table was proposed by Li Chengzhong and made by Zhang Laojiang's apprentice. Because of the trouble of making it, Zhang Laojiang specially appointed two apprentices to make the sand table for Li Chengzhong to meet the needs of each lecture.

When one of the parties in the case was a prairie barbarian, the instructor Xie Li often led Wang Dalang and other officers of the scout team to participate in the discussion as the prairie cavalry in the exercise to provide more ideas.

After the course is over, the heads of each group will return to the cave dwellings of their own group to pass on the content of the day's course to the soldiers.At this time, the identity of the corps leader was similar to that of Feng Dao and Li Chengzhong. Specifically, when it came to the discussion of "cases", the corps leader led the soldiers to participate.This task puts high demands on the team leaders. They not only have to listen carefully and remember the content in class, but also pass on what they have learned to the soldiers according to their own understanding. …,

Li Chengzhong, Jiang Miao, Zhang Xingzhong, and Zhou Paidao and other officers above the team will randomly participate in the study and discussion of a group, listen to the lectures of the group leaders, and give excellent, medium, and poor evaluations according to the performance of each group leader.At the end of each month, the team leader who has been rated as "poor" three times in a row will be demoted to the team leader, and the position of team leader will be "checked" by other team leaders who have performed outstandingly in training.

By the end of the first month, a total of six corps leaders from the former battalion were demoted to corps leaders, six corps leaders were promoted to inspection chiefs, and six soldiers were appointed as corps leaders.It is foreseeable that in the long run, this method can not only promote outstanding talents, but also allow the experience of each group to be circulated and shared. At the same time, a group of "candidate officers" has been stored quietly.

In addition to daily training and study, every other day, there will be a team of soldiers who cannot enjoy lunch break. They are sent to the back mountain to conduct a simulated actual combat with the "blue army" set up by Li Chengzhong.Of course, except for Li Chengzhong who insisted on calling the Khitan soldiers led by the instructor Xie Li the "Blue Army", all the soldiers in the front battalion, including the Khitan themselves, called them the "Wolf Army".

Every five days, the whole army will have a football league day, which is also a day for the soldiers of the former battalion to rest and have fun.

Every ten days, the entire army will hold a big martial arts competition. Outstanding soldiers will be selected according to their performance in fighting, bow and arrow, and riding skills. focus on.

Because of the looting of a large amount of supplies from the Pinbu winter camp, the nutritional conditions of the soldiers in the former camp have been greatly improved.This improvement is more obvious as the vegetables in the back mountain mature.In the three meals a day, soldiers can drink porridge, noodles, goat milk or milk, and in the two meals a day at noon and evening, vegetables, beef and mutton are an inevitable supply.In addition, under the leadership of Li Chengzhong, the soldiers of the former battalion began to eat mutton soup and beef offal soup.No matter whether you are used to the fishy smell of the internal organs of cattle and sheep, or you feel disgusted to eat these things, haggis soup or haggis soup is a must for every dinner.You must finish drinking even if you pinch your nose - this is a mandatory requirement of Li Chengzhong.