Section VIII
History finally stepped into 1686, this Spring Festival Beijing had an extremely lively time, in the past two years, this huge city because of the drastic political changes, a group of discerning lucky people took the Han army's express train to turn over, many originally poor eggs turned into a waist, the so-called rich do not return to their hometowns like brocade clothes night walk, so at this time many people took the opportunity of the New Year to show off fiercely in front of the big guys, Chinese New Year's Eve in addition to the large fireworks officially organized by the Han court, Interestingly, because many of the people in the crowd who showed off this time were from Fujian, the New Year's program added the lion dance and green picking, which was an unfamiliar activity for Beijingers, and the traditional Chinese dragon met a strong opponent.
In this kind of activity, the activities of various groups in the territory of the Han army are particularly obvious, although these people are usually not very restrained, but at this time the characteristics of the small circle are a little excessive, to Lin Feng's surprise, these people actually understand public relations without a teacher, many consortium organization of the dragon dance team, lion dance team have a deep commercial brand, out of the relationship of "fun with the people", Lin Feng has also participated in many such annual meeting activities, witnessing this terrible awakening.
Normally, many dance teams use dragons, lions and other props compared to the traditional image has made a great sacrifice, such as the original depiction of dragon phosphorus, lion hair on the skin are printed with eye-catching big characters, such as "Tong Suo Wu Bullying XX Firm" or "Wonderful Hands Rejuvenation XX Hall" and the like, a group of biao-shaped big men everyone looks serious, just holding up the mutated "billboard" waving up and down, the message is walking in all directions, and a little more creative in other places to make strange moves, For example, the silk picked by the lion has changed from the traditional "Guotai Min'an" and "Grain Harvest" to "XX Commercial Bank Connecting the North and South" or "XX Dan Cure Ten Thousand Diseases" and other psoriasis epilepsy, all in all, the black smoke miasma is strange, which makes people feel very peculiar, of course, this behavior must have been widely discussed by Shilin, and many highly educated Confucians such as Mr. Gu Yanwu have made profound criticisms of this, although there are many people who agree with the "opening of industry and commerce" progressives, But this huge change really frightened them, you must know that although they agree with the conditional relaxation of the shackles, but they are also a little caught off guard by the vitality of industry and commerce, and the moral heart is corrupted to this point, it is indeed painful, but this does not mean that they can prevent this kind of thing, in fact, in Lin Feng's own opinion, these bosses and businessmen are very provocative, although this move so far, it seems that it is still so cautious.
Taking advantage of the opportunity of the whole country to rejoice, there were a large number of officials in the small court of the Han army who persuaded Lin Feng to enter, this limelight was originally from Chen Menglei's Metropolitan Procuratorate, supervising the imperial history Wu Zhirong suddenly gave Zhongnanhai a "book of ten thousand words" on the eve of the New Year, in all fairness, although this Wu Zhirong's character is a little obscene on weekdays, but the article is indeed very good, this "book of ten thousand words" is actually a book of "more than one hundred thousand words", it can be seen that this thing will definitely not be ready for a while and a half, which shows this person's good intentions.
The article takes the mode of policy theory, the traditional theory and practical route, first from the Yan and Huang Emperors began to explain the necessity of the "emperor" and the impact on the Chinese nation, and then began to quote scriptures from the four books and five classics, and linked to the theory of the sages and sages to prove, after dropping the schoolbag, immediately began to discuss the rise and fall of ancient and modern dynasties, here focuses on explaining the life and deeds of Liu Bang, Zhao Kuangyin, Zhu Yuanzhang, and finally analyzes in detail the "king's spirit" today, In the process of analyzing the current situation, he took out the "leadership-centered theory" created by Lin Feng in detail, and made a specific combination, frantically boasting about the noble qualities of His Royal Highness the King of Han, and then made the finishing touch, unquestionable conclusion: The King of Han must be the emperor, otherwise the Chinese nation will definitely be in great danger and will encounter unprecedented disasters.
Before Lin Feng patiently recognized all the rare words on the fold, the news had already spread all over the land of Gyeonggi, and spread rapidly to other places at a speed comparable to that of a telegram, and for a while the Han Dynasty was a sensation, and the officials in the court were stunned and immediately woke up, and then the brigade followed up, and a stack of persuasion pieces flew to the Han Mansion in Zhongnanhai like snowflakes, This major political mistake immediately frightened some of the leaders of the Han army, thinking that the lord really had the intention of ascending the throne, and the reason why he did not come out to speak was because he did not express his position, of course, at this time, no fool dared to stand in line indiscriminately, in fact, there was no stupid person who did not know the current affairs in the position of a high-ranking official, so under the leadership of Li Guangdi, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, and Zhou Peigong, the chief of the general staff of the Han Dynasty, the important ministers of the Han army in Beijing jointly signed a joint table, asking Lin Feng to ascend the throne as the emperor.
When Lin Feng realized the seriousness of this problem, most of the officials and generals in the Han army group had already expressed their loyalty, and even some of the leading generals stationed in other places also traveled thousands of miles to pass the book, because of the long distance, Ma Ying, the general of the prisoner stationed in Nuergan, received the news when the incident was nearing the end, and the anxious General Ma Ying didn't have time to find the gunman for a while, so he simply cut his blood vessels and played a blood book, and made a few dry big characters to ask the lord to be the emperor, which really made Lin Feng a little ridiculous.
To be honest, as far as Lin Feng himself is concerned, it doesn't matter if he is not the emperor, in fact, there is not much difference between him and the emperor in Beijing at this time, in the face of this great persuasion trend, although it seems that "the people's will is available", but his family knows his own affairs, he was taken aback and immediately understood what was going on.
In fact, since Lin Fengli spread the word to the world, most of the ministers in the Han army group understood the weight of this thing, in fact, as far as the Confucian scriptures are concerned, there is no one else who has the power to give orders to the princes of the world except the emperor, since the king of Han must have issued this powerful inscription, it shows that he should have been ready to challenge the princes of the world and win the ninety-five positions, so after a little contact, he immediately made a political judgment that "looks very accurate" - what is more reassuring is that whether the persuasion of this thing is successful or not, that's all meritorious, and on the other hand, when everyone persuades you not to persuade you, it's basically the same as suicide.
At this time, Lin Feng didn't plan to be the emperor, of course, he didn't want to ascend the throne here, but he wasn't afraid of anyone, in fact, since he chopped Kangxi, Lin Feng had already seen it, and as far as the accession to the throne was concerned, he was sure that there was absolutely no one in the princes of the world who came out to oppose it, and the only one who would protest was probably Wu Sangui's Great Zhou court, but protest is protest, once this kind of thing is done and Southern Zhou can't make any strong reaction, then it can only acquiesce to reality, and after a period of time, it can only return to good.
He doesn't want to be an emperor just thinks that the current territory is too small, although the area ruled by the Han army seems to be vast, but most of the areas except Zhili and Anhui do not conform to the traditional "Central Plains Heavy Land", and the Liaodong region can only be called "the land outside the country" according to Confucianism, so it is indeed humiliating to be an emperor like this, even if it is put in the history books and passed on to future generations, it cannot escape the reputation of a "small family" or "Mu Monkey and crown" nouveau riche, Although Lin Feng himself absolutely doesn't care about what reputation is not famous, but in terms of this kind of thing, he still holds his own opinion: if he must be the emperor, it will be considered "the hope of the people" in the substantive sense after the unification of the Yellow River Valley.
In view of this, after careful consideration, Lin Feng, the king of Han, officially issued an edict at the banquet on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and confessed his thoughts about "indifferent fame and fortune", indicating that he was not interested in the position of the emperor except for caring about the people of Limin, but persuading this kind of thing is generally three in and three out, so the ministers continued to be on the table according to the convention, until Lin Feng spent the boss's tongue and confessed to Li Guangdi, Zhou Peigong, Chen Menglei and others repeatedly, reluctantly put this inexplicable persuasion incident aside.
After the New Year, the General Staff issued several promotion orders in succession, and the officers and men who performed well in last year's war were commended, and the Mongolian lieutenant general Zhao Guangyuan, the Pingliao lieutenant general Wang Dahai, and the Yulin lieutenant general Rick Rachel moved to the rank of lieutenant general, and awarded the titles of Mongolian general, Pingliao general, and Yulin general.
In addition, Lin Feng also frequently visited the Fengtai Military Station during this period to inspect the training of the new army. This group of recruits since they joined the army in the early winter of last year, has been training for about three months, as far as Lin Feng's experience is concerned, compared with the previous soldiers, the quality of this batch of recruits is undoubtedly much stronger, in fact, most of these recruits have participated in the war before enlistment, the musket unit is basically the militia that participated in the Liaodong War last year, and has experienced the test of large-scale war, and most of the cavalry recruited from Nuergan, Ningjin, Suiyuan, Chahar and other places are brave warriors, and many people were originally Manchurian and Mongolian warriors. Originally, it was nurtured and raised in the flames of tribal warfare.
At the end of last year, Ma Ying, the general of the garrison in Nuergan, sent Lin Feng a big gift. After several months of tug-of-war, Ma Ying commanded the Sixth Army of the Han Cavalry in the basic purge of the entire Nurkan region, experienced the test of the Great War of the Han Iron Cavalry brave and good at fighting, successively defeated the various tribes entrenched in remote areas, no one can be the iron hoof, under the crazy conquest and slaughter, the Eastern Mongolia, Oroqen, Sikh and other minority tribes living in the Nurkan region have surrendered, according to the conquest conventions, Ma Ying recruited tribal chiefs, nobles' sons and nephews and brave warriors to join the army, but hindered by the military regulations of the Han Dynasty, This group of soldiers could not be directly supplemented into his troops, so these thousands of forcibly recruited ethnic minority cavalry were ordered to bring their own horses and dry food, came to Beijing to report, joined the recruit ranks of the Han army, were broken up and separated by Han army officers, and received military training and Gao Shiqi's "Han nationality identity" education with the Han cavalry.
At this point, with the addition of the 12,000 cavalry originally recruited, the cavalry units in the new army have far exceeded the original establishment of a cavalry army, reaching more than 16,000 people, while at the same time, the garrisons stationed outside are dissatisfied with the establishment of war attrition.
After careful planning, the Armed Forces Selection Department of the General Staff Headquarters began to transfer veterans and officers from the garrisons in various localities to Fengtai Military Station in formation from the beginning of the first month of the month to prepare for the establishment of a new army, and the recruits began to be replenished into various field units in an orderly manner; in addition, middle-level officers at the battalion and brigade levels under the command of generals in various localities also began to be cross-transferred, and a large number of officers who were qualified in Mazhuang martial arts training were added to various units one after another, and the army's personnel allocation has been unprecedentedly strengthened, especially in artillery. The entry into the army of officers who understand the principles of firearms has greatly improved the combat effectiveness of this technical branch.
Now the military training of the Han army is all based on the Junggar Mongol cavalry as an imaginary enemy, and targeted training is carried out for various tactics of the Mongolian cavalry, in fact, when Lin Feng personally inspected, he understood the significance of some of his training items in the military training of later generations, such as the most "notorious" emergency assembly in the university, the essence of this subject roughly means that the soldiers are required to complete war preparations in the shortest possible time in order to deal with sudden military strikes, and now the Han army according to Zhao Liangdong, Ma Jinliang's proposal, Strengthen this kind of training throughout the army, according to their explanation, night attack is the most frequent tactic of the Mongol cavalry, this gang of bastards because of their strong mobility, very fond of suddenly killing the enemy camp under the cover of night and arson assault, and limited to the generally low military quality of the army in this era, most of the recruited troops often bomb the camp in a panic and rout, so they are defeated by a small number of cavalry troops, so they have to strengthen the army's adaptability in this regard.
Under this argument, the newly recruited recruits live a dark life, in fact, their training process is really cruel, at this time Lin Feng understood how warm and affectionate those university instructors were, the training process of the Han army in this area is basically hard and brute force, the usual situation is that on the eve of dawn, when everyone sleeps the most soundly, a group of horse thieves suddenly enter the recruit barracks, each armed neatly holding a big stick, according to this group of rookies is a wild beating, To be honest, this method is indeed very inhumane, but the effect is very amazing, in fact, after so many painful lessons, many of the recruits have become experts in listening in a short period of time - these guys with sensitive ears can actually lie on the bed and hear the slight sound of horses' hooves miles away, and then shout to inform the brothers to put on their clothes and hats to fight to the death in a matter of minutes.
In addition, in order to allow the infantry to overcome the fear of cavalry, the Han army also frequently carried out a variety of infantry exercises, this way is also simple, basically let the infantry line up, and then thousands of cavalry rumbling in the pores of the infantry phalanx to charge, this training is very dangerous, you must know that thousands of horses run up dust to cover the sky, a few zhang away can not see the figure, and the distance between the infantry and the cavalry is too close, so the training accidents are very frequent, basically every time there are a lot of unlucky eggs drop their arms and thighs, However, these abnormal casualties did not affect Lin Feng's determination, in this era, it is harmless to kill hundreds of soldiers, it is nothing more than a few handfuls of silver, and there are absolutely no human rights activists who jump out to talk to him, and under the current military system of high pressure and preferential treatment of the Han army, the emotions of the soldiers have nothing to take care of.
Soldiers are meant to die, and as long as the war can be won, the dead are the most irrelevant thing.
Lin Feng resolutely opposes inheriting Qi Jiguang's carriage tactics, and resolutely opposes setting up any obstacles in front of the field formation, which comes from historical experience - the Great Wall of the Han people did not block the roaring nomads, and the high walls of the Ming Dynasty did not block the fierce Jurchen iron cavalry, who can stop the few planks in front of the soldier and the several horse traps in front of the formation? !
In this era, the soldier's will to fight was invincible nuclear weapons, and the military policy that Lin Feng assigned to the Han army was also very simple: cannons, muskets, bayonets, and the whole family of those who retreated were executed. The Han army spent tens of millions of taels of silver regardless of the cost, but only built 100,000 troops, and what they wanted was a professional army.
The Han infantry fights cavalry.