After listening to the little emperor's explanation, Wang Yinglin was clear about the reason for the serious discrepancy between the results of the battle and the head he had captured, and the anger in his heart was relieved, but he couldn't help but be worried again. He knew that the historical system of counting military merits by head was to help the army bravely kill the enemy, because only by moving forward bravely could he have the opportunity to harvest the enemy's head. That's why there is Qin Jun in "Han Feizi: First Sight of Qin": "The husband is different from the one who dies, and the one who does it for the people is the one who dies." A husband can fight to the death against ten, ten can be against hundred, hundreds can be thousands, thousands can be against ten thousand, and ten thousand can conquer the world. ”

However, firearms are now widely used in the military, and with the large-scale use of actual combat, the first-class capture rate of hand-to-hand combat has become even lower. Therefore, Wang Yinglin realized that this was really unfair to the soldiers who fought for their lives on the battlefield. Especially for artillery is extremely disadvantageous, as a technical branch, they are at most in a relatively backward position to provide fire support, and rarely have the opportunity to fight the enemy face to face, so the casualties themselves will not be too high, so for artillery and other long-range attack soldiers, it is almost impossible to harvest the head, but no one can deny their credit.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that it is inappropriate to judge military merits only by the head!" Wang Yinglin pondered for a moment and saluted.

"What's wrong?" Zhao Yu sat down, took a sip of tea from the teacup, and asked with a smile.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that although the officers and men in the army want to serve the country, rewards are also an indispensable means to boost morale and encourage courage. Now, judging merit only by the first rank is not only unfair, but also makes the soldiers suspicious of each other, and then retreats, passively responds to the battle, and even leads to a big defeat. Wang Yinglin said.

"During the Jingkang period, Jin General Sticky Han besieged Taiyuan, and the Holy Emperor led the troops from Jingcheng Dao and Yao Gu Jiaojiao to aid Taiyuan. …… The Jin people clashed with each other, and the armies shot them with the bow of the divine arm, and they wanted to reward the shooters, but there were only thousands of silver bowls in the line, and the treasurers were insufficient. So the soldiers were all angry and dispersed. In the division, he was killed by a stray arrow. Your Majesty must take this as a warning! ”

"The first-level system itself is to encourage individuals to use bravery, which is indeed inappropriate for the present, but it is difficult to change the habits!" Zhao Yu put down the teacup and said with a wry smile.

"This is a matter of the rise and fall of the country and the victory or defeat of the army, and we must abandon bad habits and innovate them, otherwise it will be the way to destroy the country!" Seeing His Majesty's ambiguous attitude, Wang Yinglin couldn't help but say anxiously.

"If the court and the court all have the insight and courage of Governor Wang, things will be much easier to do, and there is no need to be so difficult to do." At this time, Cao Cheng smiled and said, "Governor Wang, when Your Majesty issued the Imperial Decree, he proposed to revise the first-level system in the past "Law of Rewards and Punishments for Military Merit", but there was great resistance, and the courtiers thought that if the first-level system was abolished, no one in the army would be willing to move forward bravely in wartime, and the enemy would be cowardly. And the army recruits brave people, all of whom raise a lot of money, so that no one is willing to die for the country. Therefore, although this system is flawed, it should not be tampered with. ”

"This ......" Wang Yinglin couldn't help but feel embarrassed when he heard this, he was one of the opponents at the beginning, but he was not a person who knew his mistakes and did not change them, and hesitated slightly, "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the first-level system is indeed inappropriate with the current reality, but if it is completely canceled, it is really not fair to disagree with those brave and brave masters who can take the lead and can be ten!" ”

"Hehe, does Governor Wang know that in the array of ten thousand armies, 'the brave shall not advance alone'?" Zhao Hao smiled.

"I would like to hear about it!" Wang Yinglin frowned, bowed and saluted.

"Okay, there's nothing to do today, our monarchs and ministers just cook tea around the stove and discuss the law with each other!" Zhao Yu nodded, and ordered someone to move the brazier to the back tent, so that several ministers gathered around and brewed tea on the fire cage to drink together. Everyone sat down accordingly, and he added water to make tea with his own hands, thinking in his heart how to convince everyone to accept his proposal......

Zhao Yu thought that before studying the question of whether a martial arts master is suitable for the battlefield, he should first study what a martial arts master is. Does a martial arts master exist? It does exist, and the ancients also believed in the existence of martial arts masters, and there are sporadic records in the official history. Kebineng, the Xianbei leader of the Three Kingdoms era, was assassinated by Wang Xiong, the assassin of Youzhou in the Wei State, who felt deeply threatened, and sent the assassin Han Long to assassinate him. It can be said that a martial arts master can make Xianbei people rise for hundreds of years.

In the Song Dynasty, the army in front of the palace also had the establishment of the royal dragon straight, and the class was generally played by the martial arts, and one or two of the thousands of people were obtained, as the emperor's personal soldiers in the palace. At the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, Ban Zhi still participated in conquests from time to time. Taizu selected thirty people, subordinate to Guo Jin, and fought against the Northern Han Dynasty. Taizu attacked the Northern Han Dynasty, "Taiyuan City has not been down for a long time", and Li Huaizhong was commanded by both the east and west classes to participate in the siege. Therefore, the commander of the palace made Du Yu wait for Zhao Tinghan to "lead all the guards to kowtow, and they are willing to attack first to do their best." But Song Taizu did not have the courage to make a desperate bet and did not let them fight.

Taizong attacked Taiyuan again, and Dai Xing, the direct deputy commander of the imperial dragon, "ascended first, the middle arrow, and made up the direct commander of the imperial dragon's bow and arrow". But for more than 100 years since Song Zhenzong and Liao Shengzong signed the alliance of Lanyuan, Banzhi of the Song Dynasty has always been in a pampered position and has never participated in battles. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Jin army attacked Kaifeng, and only then did it use Banzhi to fight. Li Gang once "begged to guard thousands of people who were good at shooting Ban Zhi", and went to the city to shoot back the Jin army, but Ban Zhi's battle could not save the fortune of the country after all.

Zhao Hao's formation of the guard battalion was actually modeled after the previous 'Royal Dragon Straight', among which there were many martial arts masters who were one against ten, and they were agile and good at hand-to-hand combat. But these people are not quite the same as the various heroes in the martial arts who can come and go freely in a million army with only a pair of fleshy palms, even the clan-level master Yuan Miao thinks that he can't.

Therefore, martial arts masters do have and have participated in battles, and have good combat effectiveness. The group of martial arts masters that appeared earlier in history should be the "technical attack" of Qi in the pre-Qin period, which means to kill the enemy with bravery. They are "timid in the fight and brave to hold thorns", which shows that there were a large number of desperate Saburo who loved heads-up in Qi at that time, and there were indeed many talented people at that time, and many outstanding fierce people emerged, such as Zhu Xuan, Qi Liang, Hua Zhou and others.

The monarch of Qi recruited them into the army, "Collect the heroes of the world, there are the heroes of the world, the horses of the world are like birds, and they are like thunder and lightning, do not be in front of them, do not harm them behind." Go out alone, don't dare to forbidden". It can be seen that their participation in actual combat has indeed played a role in boosting morale, and if they encounter an opponent with a loose organization, they can basically crush the opponent. However, if the opponent is replaced by a highly organized, disciplined, and tightly formed opponent, this move may not work. So there is the famous military law: "Qi's skill attack cannot meet the warriors of Wei, and the warriors of Wei cannot meet the warriors of Qin." ”

That is to say, in the ancient cold weapon battlefield, when thousands of armies formed a tight and strong military formation, squeezing each other and colliding with each other, what was most needed was ordinary soldiers who could keep repeating a single tactical action and acted as a screw in a huge war machine, rather than a hero with excellent swordsmanship and good at flashing and moving. Although the heroes are agile and good at stabbing, they are not only useless in a uniform military formation, but can even be said to be harmful. Unless they can really ignore the laws of physics and be able to fly over the heads of their enemies like they did in martial arts movies

It is not easy for Chinese martial arts masters to go to the battlefield, so what about foreign ones? Among the common images created by literary works, Japanese ninjas are undoubtedly one of the most stylish: mysterious appearance, cool action, and full of gestures, it is difficult to mess with the character at first glance, but the reality is very skinny. In the first year of Mototome, Oda Nobu fought against the Rokkaku clan, and the Koga ninja helped the Rokkaku clan. As a result, Oda Nobunaga's army won a great victory, and the Koga ninja lost 800 people in the battle. In the seventh year of Tensho, Oda Nobunaga led an army of 10,000 to attack Iga, but was held back by ninjas in guerrilla warfare, and finally had to withdraw.

On the surface, it seems that the ninja defeated the regular army, but the main weapon used by the Iga ninja is the arquebus, which should not be considered a martial arts master. It's like if Simon Blowing Snow and Hua Manlou shoot each other with guns during a duel, can you still say that the two are heroes? When the Shimabara Rebellion of the shogunate period came, the ninja was even more humiliating. The good players selected by the various ninja families, not only some of them couldn't even cross the ditches and city walls, but they even got those that were lucky enough to sneak into the city, and they were thrown out of it the next day, and they didn't even have time to see the sun the next day.

In addition to ninjas, another powerful Japanese master is those swordsmen. Before the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese were becoming more and more rampant. A large number of Japanese wandering samurai came to the coastal areas of Fujian and Zhejiang and harassed the coastal areas everywhere. In the historical records, these "true widows" are extremely skilled in their personal martial arts. They come from the samurai class, take martial arts as their main business, and have been trained in civil wars, all of them are fierce and abnormal, extremely good at fighting alone, and have a strong ability to fight alone. Shi Zai: "The widow is happy, and the sword is five feet long, and the foot is five feet." It is difficult for my soldiers to catch short weapons, and long weapons are not short, and those who suffer from them are more than two broken. The edge of the instrument is sharp and the hands are used, and the force is heavy." The officers and soldiers "drew their bows and shot them, and the thieves took their arrows." It can be said that it is martial arts!

However, due to the limitation of the scale of previous wars, these real wars have relatively little combat experience in large corps. The Ming army was just the opposite, except for the popular "fighting generals" when the country was first founded, other times it emphasized more military formations than individual martial arts. The border defense of the Ming Dynasty was focused on the northwest, and the southern army had been in ruin for a long time, so it was naturally not an opponent when encountering elite Japanese invaders. However, after Qi Jiguang established the Qi family army and established the Mandarin Duck Array, he often eliminated thousands of Japanese soldiers at the cost of nearly zero casualties. Of course, there is no such thing as a widow at this time, but it does not prevent Zhao Hao from changing his statement......