Section XIV

From a historical point of view, Zhou Peigong should be regarded as a very characteristic intellectual. According to what Lin Feng learned, there were few Confucian scholars in this era who loved the discipline of military affairs as much as him, of course, this "hobby" here does not include those who read the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", pragmatic, rigorous and willing to spend a lot of energy on field research These characteristics strictly distinguish Zhou Peigong from those braggarts - such talents are indeed very rare in this era, and it is said that in the last few hundred years, there are only a few similar guys such as Yuan Chonghuan.

Drafting a military system is a very challenging task, and the qualifications to be able to do it are very high, and there are at least three points: first, having military experience and an overall understanding of the contemporary military; second, have high-level copywriting skills; Thirdly, it is obvious that such a huge task cannot be done by one person, so it requires the person in charge to have considerable organizational and leadership skills, so as to be able to lead a lean staff officer corps to complete this work.

In fact, in Lin Feng's original thoughts, it was a bit of a waste of talent to let Zhou Peigong do such a job, if this person was trained well in the army, he would have the ability to take charge of himself, but now he has no choice, because in terms of the current quality of the Han army's generals, only he can be qualified for this position.

In this long winter, the work of reorganizing the whole army of the Han army began quietly. When he began to recall the junior officers, Lin Feng was actually very nervous, to be honest, although the army has developed very, very rapidly, it obviously lacks sufficient cohesion - in other words, Lin Feng himself lacks enough influence over the middle and lower officers in the army.

The origins of these officers were very complex, half of them came from the Liaodong and Fujian military lines that followed Lin Feng into Beijing, while the other half came from the newly promoted local officers of Beijing and the surrendered Qing army officers. Previously, because of the tense political struggle and strong military pressure, in order to be able to quickly assemble an army that can fight, Lin Feng gave his generals the greatest freedom, so the army implemented the army commander system for a long time, that is to say, the commander of each unit has 100% power over the troops under his command, including the appointment and dismissal of officers, it is conceivable that all the officers serving in the Han army are of course their respective commanders are assured of their own people, so according to this theory, If a certain general suddenly became dissatisfied with Lin Feng one day, then he could definitely easily pull away the troops under his command. And Lin Feng's large-scale transfer of middle and lower-level officers is itself a direct violation of the rights and interests of his generals, of course, he is afraid that these military generals will rebound.

This process was carried out very cautiously, according to the reaction of the generals later, Lin Feng was obviously a little suspicious, in fact, although the current political situation of the Han army is not good, but it is not very bad, at least not many people are disappointed in the future, and Lin Feng's performance during this period of time is also very convincing, so these generals didn't expect to rebel against independence or something, this military order that is "life and death" in Lin Feng's view is common in the eyes of the generals, At this moment, they were all immersed in the joy of promotion, and they did not perceive the profound meaning behind this military order at all.

The first step in reform is, of course, a buyout. Under this instruction, the Marshal's Office of the Han Army issued a series of promotion orders, Zhou Peigong was appointed as the chief of the general staff of the Han Army, awarded the rank of major general, known as "General Zhonglang of the Military Division", and General Zhao Liangdong, who was stationed in Datong, was awarded the rank of major general, called "General Koubei Zhonglang"; Later, Wang Dahai, Sun Sike, Liu Laosi and others also got the official military rank, called "Jianwei Zhonglang General", here the army only Zhao Guangyuan's title is a little strange, in order to adapt to the ethnic relations of this era, he had to award the major general called "Mongolian Zhonglang General" - this can be regarded as a kind of provocation for the Mongolian tribes, but unfortunately, because of the cultural quality, few contemporary Mongolian nobles know the history of the Xiongnu, so when the news spread, there was no ethnic conflict. Although the navy is very simple, in fact, judging from the current armament, the few broken ships owned by the Han army can only smuggle and transport black goods, and it is impossible to count on the decisive plan to fight a naval battle, but despite this, Shi Lang and the first student's qualifications and military exploits are there, and it is indeed a bit unreasonable not to reward them, so the two admirals were also awarded the rank of rear admiral, called "General Fubo Zhonglang".

Although this bribery activity did not cost much money, it gave great psychological satisfaction to officers at all levels, because this cumbersome and complicated system greatly satisfied their vanity, although they have become the actual owners of the land of Zhili, but in fact they still lack confidence in their own identity - in short, although many people are arrogant on weekdays, but deep down they faintly acquiesce in their "anti-thief" identity and therefore inferiority, and this fanfare of the title activity undoubtedly greatly erased this, Many people do not recognize their status as "officials and soldiers" from the inside out, calling the shots in the land as legitimate rulers until today.

In order to cater to this psychological turnaround, the award ceremony was held very solemnly - in order to do a good job in this face project, Lin Feng took military risks after the New Year to recall all the generals, held a large rally of hundreds of thousands of people in Tiananmen Square, thousands of musketeers and cavalrymen with bayonets lined up in a neat guard of honor, on both sides of the parade, the drums played in unison, and on the most dazzling occasions, these major generals were awarded the military flag one by one, and then the military police units under the Chinese army were dispatched in a big way under the guidance of the cavalry, Carrying a large number of new officer uniforms and military ranks, he went to the four directions to confer titles and change clothes for other officers stationed abroad.

Many generals did not notice at this time that from today onwards, the armies of the Han army could no longer use the surname of the chief general as a military flag symbol, but began to use the number flag granted by the Marshal's Office.

According to the time of formation of each army and the battlefield qualifications, the Han army was officially reorganized into six armies, two artillery brigades and two naval detachments, namely Zhao Guangyuan's First Cavalry Army, Liu Laosi's Second Army, Wang Dahai's Third Army, and Sun Sike's and Zhao Liangdong's Fourth and Fifth Armies, while Lin Feng's Chinese Army was specially named "Guards Army" - this name similar to the "Imperial Forest Army" fully indicated the ambition of the commander, so officers at all levels naturally recognized this.

With the formal implementation of the military rank system, the plan for the rotation training of officers has also been implemented, limited to the current severe military struggle situation, the officer training plan has been shortened to one quarter, according to Lin Feng's point of view, if this activity is called "going to the military academy", it is naturally very ridiculous, if you really want to learn military theory and combat skills, this short four months is useless at all - in fact, in terms of the current conditions of Mazhuang martial arts, the so-called "military theory" and "combat skills" are almost none, although Lin Feng comes from later generations, But it must be a very ridiculous thing for him to compile some military textbooks, so the first officer course of the Han Dynasty Martial Arts has become a hodgepodge so far - during this time, Zhou Peigong led a group of staff officers who were born as jinshi, consulted countless materials in the library of the military department, and reluctantly compiled a simple course outline according to Lin Feng's requirements. Sun Tzu's Art of War, "Minutes of Military Training", "Thirteen Articles of the Art of War" and other traditional textbooks have been dug up and made up for something that no one can understand.

However, Lin Feng didn't care too much about whether these officers knew the Art of War, in fact, in his mind, it was thankful that these people could learn to write in these months, as for how many theories they could learn, it didn't matter, and the purpose of opening this martial arts had nothing to do with military purposes, and the main task of these people coming here was to accept brainwashing.

Whether Lin Feng wants to admit it or not, brainwashing is the core part of this military reform.

This work is divided into three main steps, and each step is aimed at a different group of people. The first to be brainwashed are these Jinshi who temporarily serve as martial arts lecturers, these intellectuals are relatively speaking, they are also the most difficult group of people to wash, in the end, they are all intellectuals, and they have traveled thousands of miles to the north and south, all of them have insight and experience, if they don't make up a relatively complete system, it is indeed difficult to deceive them.

At this time, Lin Feng's advantages as a liberal arts student were fully exerted - no matter how bad his grades were that year, but because of the relationship between the college entrance examination, the history class also passed, so the system started from history.

In response to these intellectuals, Lin Feng created a "leadership-centered theory" in connection with the current situation - this thing is not very technical from the current point of view, but it was still recognized by the market at that time. Under the instruction of Lin Feng, Mr. Chen Menglei wrote a wonderful article, discussing and elaborating on the history of the destruction of the Southern Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, the Southern Song Dynasty mainly tells the spiritual role of the Great Song Dynasty against the Yuan movement, that period of history because the relationship between the Yuan Dynasty and the slander and banning has now become a little blurred, so Lin Feng in this wanton tampering with the role of other rebel leaders, the general argument is based on experience, if the leader of a nation is killed, Naturally, his subjects lost the confidence to resist - the evidence for this is that the Mongols quickly assessed Jiangnan after the Battle of Xiangshan, and they had previously paid a huge price for failing to complete this strategic task even if Emperor Möngke was killed on the battlefield.

And the experience of the Ming Dynasty is more direct - history proves that grass cowards like Li Zicheng and Yang Qilong can not complete the task of saving the nation at all, these guys are greedy for profit, and it is the material for the food to stop sooner or later, when they killed His Majesty Emperor Sizong Chongzhen, the leader of the nation, our Han subjects were at a loss for what to do, so the Manchurian Eight Banners easily seized the splendid country of our Han Dynasty in one fell swoop, which shows the great role of this leader in calling and spiritual guidance.

At the end of the article, I came to a point of view, in today's era, the only thing that can save the Han nation is our Han army Lin Marshal - Wu Sangui, the history of the old turtle is so filthy, so it can't be considered, and the same is true of other Shang Zhixin and the like, as for Taiwan's Zheng Jing, he is even more bastard, when the nation was in a critical moment, these rats actually fought among their own people in order to support Tang Yonggui, regardless of the overall situation, which shows that they are also a group of villains vying for power and profit.

And our Lin Dashuai is qualitatively different from them - Lin Dashuai showed a different talent from other children when he was young, and had a special sense of politics and military (which can be understood as a special function or destiny or something), and his background was even more tragic, his parents died under the butcher's knife of the Eight Banners (sacrifice for politics), belonging to the most bitter and hateful category, so since he was a child, he has painstakingly studied the sage scripture and learned the art of war strategy, and has been preparing for the future anti-Qing work since he was six years old (Reminder: young and old).

When a group of Han officers and soldiers who fell into the astray way (Zhao Guangyuan, Liu Laosi, etc.) were at a loss under the butcher's knife of the Qing army, a great leader appeared, his wisdom and demeanor convinced everyone, after a battle of wits and courage, this great leader led the army out of the way, seized the opportunity to strangle the Tartar court in one fell swoop, and made a great contribution to the re-rise of the Han Dynasty, and this leader is also strict with himself in life, not close to women, righteous and squandering wealth, sympathetic to officers and soldiers, and caring for the people...... In short, judging from the above advantages, the only hope of our Han is Lin Fenglin, the only leader is Lin Fenglin, the only leadership center of hundreds of millions of Chinese people is Lin Fenglin, and our only mission in life is to protect Lin Fenglin and carry out the struggle against the Qing Dynasty under the leadership of Lin Fenglin......

Of course, this argument has been questioned a lot after the appearance, but it is a pity that in the current situation, any questioning of this theory is illegal, after a group of fools were unlucky because of doubts, everyone immediately expressed their support, and a large number of intellectuals led by Gao Shiqi were even more aware of it, and actively participated in the improvement and supplementary work of this theory. The Confucian academic system, which is in the same vein as the Confucian idea of loyalty to the monarch, has initially turned this shriveled framework into a theory of political struggle with clear arguments, sufficient arguments, and great convincing power, while at the same time, the government under the leadership of Li Guangdi has tacitly launched the highest propaganda efficiency, and all the printing houses in Beijing have received the printing task.

Compared with the intellectuals, the education of officers is much simpler, these officers are now the vested interests of the Han military government, and they are also cultivated by the policy of ignoring the people and the concept of loyalty to the monarch for a long time, and even better most of them are illiterate, so when this theory was just thrown out, these officers did not hesitate to accept this theory that the upper echelons were touting loudly, and at the same time, after a few days of bustling Mazhuang, the "Martyrs' Shrine" built by the Li Guangdi government was in full swing and sent the people to build the "Martyrs' Shrine" was completed. The spiritual seats of officers at all levels who died in the previous wars were put into it with great fanfare, and the marshal himself was dressed in plain clothes, with the handwritten "Heroic Soul Immortal, Heroic Spirit Lasts Forever" ordered people to cast a plaque, knelt down in front of the spiritual seat to worship and weep bitterly, choked up and loudly announced that the parents of these officers were sent to death by the government, and also enjoyed super honors - the parents of officers who died in battle above the rank of major general did not need to kneel down when they saw any official, while officers of other ranks were lined down, and the authority of the officials was immune to according to their ranks.

This honor can be said to be a super honor - the traditional theory of the Chinese ruling class is "etiquette, filial piety", and this filial piety is very important, which can be seen from "XX Dynasty rules the world with filial piety". So all the officers on the spot were shocked by a heart, many officers with strong blood and strength burst into tears on the spot, envious of the dead in the mourning hall, while other officers who were actually attracted by this rich social treatment - if his parents could enjoy this treatment, then even if he died, he himself was famous in his hometown, although he was still alive, compared with this high honor, those so-called "chastity arches" were like third-rate garbage on the stalls.

These officers then learned a whole set of military discipline in the martial arts - although this thing is not new, but the officers still studied very seriously after they were full of a sense of belonging, and many of them noticed the additional punishment for crimes such as "disloyalty to the commander, betrayal and surrender, disobedience, and desertion from the battlefield", and many of them were frightened at that time. Originally, of course, violating this kind of military law was to kill the head, and the officers were not surprised, but this time the additional punishment was extremely harsh, and the families of the officers who violated these crimes will also be severely punished, including deprivation of the rights of military families, removal from the family in the clan ancestral hall, confiscation of all property and exile to Liaodong, etc. - Lin Fengzai can be regarded as a rainy day in this matter, he tried his best to choose young and strong people with family members in the three major conscriptions, in order to ensure the loyalty of officers and soldiers, he would rather bear the big burden of his dependents, in his opinion, The loyalty and combat effectiveness of the army is the most important thing, and everything else is insignificant compared to this.

After completing the second step, these officers whose heads have been washed again began to learn how to brainwash ordinary soldiers - this work terminal can be said to be the simplest and most practical procedure, at this time the so-called "loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness" or "national righteousness" in the guidance theory has very little weight, and its core content mainly revolves around "a cow on 20 acres of land, a hot kang head for wives and children". Lin Feng's students cleverly broke down this theory, calculated a level of income from military merit, military salary, and family treatment, and explained the easiest way for peasants to get land: that is, obey orders, abide by discipline, and fight bravely, so that the Han court would be very generous in allocating the best land to the soldiers' families.

Of course, there is naturally the temptation to promote officers, according to the hierarchy of the Han army, the treatment of soldiers and officers can be said to be distinct, although Lin Feng is very limited to recognize the non-commissioned officer system - the salary of recruits is less than that of veterans, and the treatment of veterans who have not fought is higher than that of veterans who have not fought in war, and veterans still have the right to give orders to recruits on the battlefield, but these are naturally not comparable with the favorable conditions enjoyed by officers, so there are many promotion clauses here to tempt soldiers who want to eat military meals.

Although this method of political education of the military partially violated the ancient admonition of foolish soldiers in the Art of War, such as "drive away, drive in, and do not know what to do", this time it was highly praised by several giants of the Han army - this thing is not complicated, and there is no reason for these politicians not to see the huge benefits of doing so, so in order to implement this military reform, the military and the government have spared no effort to support it.

When Mazhuang Wuxue was carrying out vigorous epoch-making reforms, the envoys of the Great Zhou Dynasty finally passed through the Qing occupation area and reached the front line of Texas. It can be seen from the selection of the envoy group that the Great Zhou Dynasty attaches great importance to this envoy, among which the envoy of the envoy group is Wang Shirong, a genius in the south of the Yangtze River, who has a talent in the south of the Yangtze River. However, because of the jealousy of the relationship, the minister of the country of Ma Xia repeatedly downplayed Wang Shirong's merits in front of the emperor, calling this matter "a matter of chance" and did not show his merits, so after the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, he failed to get the corresponding reward, but the so-called reputation is outside, this time the ministers of the Great Zhou Dynasty recommended him to His Majesty the Emperor at the same time when considering this dangerous and important task.

In fact, this decision was quite correct, after entering the Qing occupation area, the envoy ignored the strong opposition of the deputy envoy and the accompanying officers, forcibly divided the envoy into pieces, changed the easy makeup to sneak forward, and on the subsequent road was even more daring, even daring to pass through the city occupied by the Qing army alone, sometimes bribing the guides, sometimes bribing the Qing army, showing extraordinary wisdom and courage, and finally let this dangerous journey be completed safely without danger.

The first to teach him his strategy was General Sun Sike of the Texas front - when the envoy group assembled at the agreed place according to Wang Shirong's plan, this small team actually changed into the military uniform of the Great Zhou, and openly played the banner of "Great Zhou Qin Envoy" next to the Texas defense line, and at the same time the drums and trumpets sounded in unison, and the swagger of the cowhide was roaring, deliberately provoking the Qing army not far away, and the Qing army couldn't help but send cavalry to chase and kill and quickly fled towards the Han army line, almost making a big battle break out between the Qing and Han defense lines that had been silent for a long time.

Sun Sike has been a general for a long time, although he is not very politically savvy, but this kind of trick can't hide from him, the other party does this nothing more than two meanings, one is to convey the message of "collusion between the Han army and the Great Zhou" to the Qing army, and on the other hand, it is also to reconnoiter and test the armament, combat strength and military status of both sides on the front line of the Han army. Although he knew that he had been tricked by this bastard, Sun Sike didn't dare to embarrass him, the diplomatic level of this envoy group was quite high, far beyond Sun Sike's power.

Therefore, all he can do now is to make this bastard eat and drink well, and then send an eight-hundred-mile fast horse to report to Beijing.

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