Han Xin's famous words came from the mouth of Ye Min, the little Wu Chang, and if he changed to someone else, he would definitely think that he was unashamed and frivolous, and it was not impossible to abandon it in the cold.

But Xu You looks at people with God, and has always focused on the meaning and not the form, whether Ye Min has the ability of Han Xin or not is another matter, but he is calm and full of confidence in his words, this alone is enough to beat most people in this world!

He Wei said to Xu You afterwards: "Ye Min is a person who can take seven feet as a degree, looks like a two-instrumental theory, chest, abdomen, hands and feet, connects the five elements, ears, eyes, mouth and nose, all four breaths, stands like Qiao Song, ends like Huayue, does not get sick when he enters, and does not slow when he retreats." It can be of great use! ”

Xu You did not pull out the seedlings to help him, but only gave Ye Min fifty people and promoted him to be the tun chief. But the strange thing is that Ye Min was no longer allowed to participate in the daily training of the Cuiyu Battalion, but opened up another closed camp in the fruit forest for Ye Min to use for training.

The reform of the basic system of the armed forces has come to an end, and the next step is to focus on military training and actual combat. In the name of senior Qi Fan, Xu You collected the main points of the two military books, the new book of discipline and the actual record of military training, and rewrote them into a new method of military training, and then summoned Zuo Yan, He Wei, Qi Xiao, Han Baoqing, Mingjing, and others to discuss and revise them, so as to facilitate the operation and implementation.

Theory must be combined with practice, and it is easy to pull eggs when the steps are too big, which is the truth that Xu You has deeply realized since he crossed. It is definitely not possible to copy Qi Jiguang's military book in its entirety, after all, the situation is different, the environment is different, and the enemy is different.

After five or six days of intense discussions, the "Military Training Drill Code" was officially promulgated, which is divided into a bundle of military codes, drum and cymbal codes, marching camping codes, gun codes, sword and shield codes, bow and crossbow shooting codes, and siege field equipment codes.

The implementation of Cuidian is different from military law, which must be popularized from the bottom up and directly to every soldier, but Cuidian must be from top to bottom, and the military officers of the church at each level will be integrated.

Therefore, the day after the completion of the Tiger Hall, there was no grand opening ceremony, no red decorations and congratulations, quietly located in the northwest corner of the Xuanji Academy, the courtyard door creaked open, including Zuo Yan, Qi Xiao, Han Baoqing, Ming Jing, Ye Min, including the first batch of students, a total of 17 people, before and after entering together.

The speaker is none other than Xu You!

Xu You did not talk about the art of war and specific tactics of the sages, and the first thing he said was: "You are soldiers, and soldiers must fight, and when they fight, they must divide the winners and losers." But if you want to win, you must first know what war is! ”

"War is not an impulse without purpose, without claims, without demand, without rules! War is not an isolated, extreme, absolutely bestial fight! What is War? War is the continuation of politics! ”

"On War" is not the bible of war, but compared with the macro and subtle strategic thinking of "The Art of War", the theory of war pays more attention to the interaction between micro details and politics, economy and people's livelihood, and is more suitable for classroom teaching to popularize the concept of war.

"You may ask, what is politics?"

Xu You paced back and forth slowly, and said: ""The Eleventh Year of the Hidden Prince" says that 'government governs the people', and politics and governance should be viewed separately, and government is the power, system, order and laws of the state; Governance is self-cultivation, family harmony, educating the people, and peace in all directions. The so-called politics is to think about the fundamental interests of the country to which we are loyal and the people of Lebanon, and war is the last means to achieve this goal. ”

Next, Xu You explained in detail the relationship between politics and war, dichotomy and materialism, and the philosophical idea of the unity of opposites, so that this group of guys who only knew how to be soldiers and fought seemed to have opened the door to a new world, and they were fascinated by the listening while sitting in the school.

"Just now we talked about the nature of war. Well, who can tell me what the purpose of the war is? ”

The audience suddenly became noisy, Xu You forgot to explain the classroom discipline, clapped his hands, waited for everyone to be quiet, and said with a smile: "Whoever wants to answer questions in the future, please raise your hand first, call the mountain chief, and wait for my permission before you can answer the question!" ”

Xu You gave them a demonstration of how to raise their hands, probably because they looked a little silly, and it took a while for someone to tentatively raise their hands and say, "Mountain Chief!" ”

"Okay, Gengbu, you can answer!"

This person's name is Geng Bu, and he performed well among the recruited homeless, and was recommended by Zuo Yan to enter the Tiger Hall, he has a good appearance and a tall body, especially his hands are like pu fans, and his knuckles are powerful.

"In war, either you die or I die. If I go to battle, I have only one goal: to defeat the enemy and win every battle! ”

"Yes, you sit down. Is there anyone else to answer? ”

Three more people raised their hands at the same time, anyway, Geng Bu took the lead, and he didn't feel so ashamed to raise his hands again. Xu You called the name again and said, "Jiao Meng, you can talk about it." ”

Jiao Meng and Geng Bu, on the contrary, were one of the eight thieves who followed Qi Xiao, lean as a monkey, clever and transparent, often full of clever plans, responsible for external reconnaissance and leading the scout team in the immortal thieves, especially equestrian skills.

"Victory is only the result of war, and it should not be the goal of war! Sometimes, winning every battle may not achieve the goal. Listening to what the mountain chief just said, I felt that it was necessary not only to defeat, but also to destroy, and the more enemies die in each battle, the less threat there is. Then, we must fight as much as possible in the enemy's territory, and wreak havoc on the necessities of the people's livelihood, such as houses, cultivated land, grain storage, farm tools, cattle and horses, cloth, etc., and the longer the enemy needs to recover after the war......

"Okay, Jiao Meng thought deeper." Xu You nodded and said, "Quan Siche, do you have anything to add?" ”

Quan Siche was the first member of the Supervision Department to be selected by Wang Shibi from among thousands of displaced people, and it is said that four ox carts were broken in front of his home shortly after he was born. Later, I don't know which fortune teller came up with a bad idea, and Father Quan simply gave him such an unlucky name. At present, Xu You has not found anything special about him, but Wang Shibi admires him very much and highly recommends him to enter the Tiger Hall for further study.

"Chief, if war is a continuation of politics, then the best thing is to surrender without a fight. Use means other than the duel of troops, or inducement or coercion, or deception or force, to form a coercive momentum, so as to control the enemy from the field and benefit the enemy country! ”

Xu You applauded: "What the three of you said has its own reason, and it can be seen that you have moved your mind. In fact, the purpose of war is not the only one, but it has to change with the political purpose, if you need to defeat, you will crush, if you need to destroy, you will destroy, if you need to burn, kill and loot, you will burn and loot. War is only a means, and it is necessary to move in accordance with political trends, and to go beyond political needs, even if it is victorious, it is especially defeated, and in a war that fulfills political demands, it is still victorious despite defeat. In layman's terms, when we fight a war, we want to use force to force the enemy's will to obey our will, and the enemy's interests to obey our interests! ”

He paused and said, "However, the ultimate goal of war is to destroy the enemy, occupy the enemy country, and completely wipe out their will to resist, so as to turn the interests of both the enemy and us into common interests!" ”

"To this end, we must not hesitate to shed blood, not be afraid of casualties, unscrupulous means, whatever the cost, from victory to total victory!"

The first class ended successfully.

In the next two days, Xu You mainly talked about the theory of war and the art of war, and then began to talk about strategic intentions, strategic plans, and strategic actions. Since there is still military training during the day, the classes in the Tiger Hall are arranged after dark.

"What is the most important and simplest rule of strategy?"

In order to facilitate teaching, Xu You ordered someone to make a large rectangular wooden board, painted it with black paint and hung it on the wall, and poured the chalk into juice into a mold prepared in advance, and after solidifying, it was taken out and dried to become chalk. Xu You turned around and wrote a line of big words on the blackboard: Concentrate superior forces! Then I nodded heavily on the word "advantage".

"What are the advantages? Even if there are 100 people on the other side, I have to have 1,000 people, rush over without knives and guns, and trample on you with just my feet! ”

Jiao Meng raised his hand and said, "Mountain Chief!" ”

Xu You pinched off the chalk, threw it over, hit Jiao Meng's forehead, and scolded: "It's not time to ask questions yet, why are you in a hurry for a thin monkey?" ”

I don't know if it's the bad taste that came after the invention of chalk, Xu You likes to smash people with a chalk head, answers incorrectly, runs away in class, does not abide by classroom discipline, and almost half of them have been smashed. In particular, Jiao Meng has a lively personality and has been smashed the most.

Everyone burst into laughter, Jiao Meng also put down his hand, Xu You said angrily: "Stand up and ask!" ”

"Yes!" Jiao Mengteng stood up, his waist straight, and said loudly: "Mountain Chief, if everyone has to press on every battle, then do you want to be in the back?" If the rear team doesn't want it, once there are fighters, the front army is exhausted, how to deal with it? ”

"Good question! Who has the same doubts? ”

Xu You looked around, Ye Min, who had rarely spoken, raised his hand, this was also the first time he raised his hand to ask a question since listening to the class, and said, "Ye Min, you say!" ”

Ye Min stood up, his tone was calm, and said: "In the battle of the Spring and Autumn Period, Jin and Chu fought for hegemony, and the king of Chu Zhuang set up a chariot of forty times as Youque, and broke into the left wing of the Jin army, and Chu won a big victory over Jin. This kind of wandering, cruising left and right, has not entered the battlefield, but can see that when the enemy is weak, he can break through the formation with ten thousand forces. And Sun Bin also said that only one-third of the troops can be used to fight and two-thirds of the troops can be used to fight, leaving two-thirds of the troops as the rear team. Isn't this contrary to what the mountain chief said? ”

The benefits of reading more books are obvious, Ye Min has both the famous sayings of the soldiers as arguments, and the Spring and Autumn War examples as arguments, which are more pertinent and convincing than Jiao Meng's blind questions.

Xu You deliberately made a long face for Ye Min in front of the generals, praised him, and said: "Taking history as a mirror, you can know the gains and losses, and you should follow Ye Min more in the future." In this way, Ye Min, after you go back, you will collect the famous war examples you know from the past and present into a book, hand it over to Tianqingfang for printing, and send it to everyone, and then wait for He Shan to finish talking about Jin Yuce, and you will talk about it for everyone, and preach the ancient and modern war examples for everyone! ”

At present, only Xu You and He Wei are qualified to give lectures, and Ye Min is the third person! As soon as these words came out, not to mention Geng Bu, Jiao Meng and others, even Han Baoqing, who had always been calm, couldn't help but look sideways, and turned his head to look at Ye Min, who was sitting in the back row without saying a word.

Everyone knows that Ye Min and Dong Dahai became famous in three battles, and Xu You set up another camp for him, I don't know what he is practicing every day, but after all, it is a small fight, and no one has really paid attention to it. It is not surprising that Xu You's appreciation of Ye Min is extraordinary, and it is not surprising that he will also be one of the most important figures in the army in the future.

"Yes!" Ye Min responded quietly, as if this was a simple matter. This work alone makes everyone admire.

Xu You smiled: "I'll answer the questions of the two of you now." The concentration of superior forces can be subdivided into time and space, or it can be roughly divided into strategy and tactics. Tactically, you can use troops in succession, that is, the difference between the front team and the rear team, the general who does not have the rear team in his hand lacks the initiative, and it seems to be as stable as Mount Tai, but in fact it is dangerous. However, strategically, it is necessary to ensure that the forces are used at the same time and occupy an absolute advantage......"

Just as Xu You was about to explain in detail, Qingming pushed open the door and walked in. Although the Tiger Hall is an academy, it also follows the example of the White Tiger Hall in later generations, with layers of checkpoints and sentry posts, no one is allowed to enter without asking for instructions, and the trespassers can be caught on the spot and dealt with strictly according to the law.

And Qingming is the only exception!

He walked up to Xu You's ear and whispered, "Zhu Fazhi came to ask for a meeting!" ”

Zhu Fa Zhi?

Xu You remembered that this lacquer man, who was originally congratulated by Gu Yun, had met by chance on Yangzhou City and Zhu Fazhi Bridge, he was a close disciple of Zhu Daorong, but he was very funny, very different from Zhu Fayan, Zhu Wuxian and others.

"What?"

"An Xiuming ordered the destruction of the Buddha, Jing, Yi, Yong, Xiang, Jiang and other prefectures and counties should start burning temples and expelling the monks of Shamen, especially in Yizhou, Liangzhou and Yongxiang, nearly 2,000 monks died under the sword......"

Mingyue is cold, Xu You's eyes are far away, but it is a little colder than Mingyue, no one knows what he is thinking in his heart at this moment, after a while, he said: "Come here first tonight, you guys disperse!" Its wings, you follow me back to Mingyu Mountain! ”