Chapter 174 Ning Yan said

Fang Jiefang's march notes in his hand were full of magnificent pictures of the war in which the Great Sui destroyed the Shang. Thousands of troops crossed the river and swept the southwest. The Shang Dynasty, which has a history of hundreds of years, trembled under the iron hooves of the Great Sui Heroes, the mountains and rivers cracked, and the royal family perished.

Ning Yan's notes are very detailed, where did he go on such and such a day, what did he do, when the war would start, and when would it end.

Especially the battle of Yongzhou, the record is particularly detailed. The left avant-garde of the general Luo Yao took the lead in breaking through the Yongzhou city gate, and the army poured into the city like a tide. At this time, the Shang people had actually completely collapsed, and the soldiers defending the city had no fighting spirit at all. Although there are hot-blooded generals who organize the remnants of the army to resist, how can they resist the crushing of the Great Sui soldiers? The Great Sui soldiers who had killed people turned into an extremely sharp horizontal knife, and no one could stop it.

Luo Yao was outside the gate of the Yongzhou Palace, and it was also recorded in the notes of the eight-rank talisman master who was killed with one punch, but I don't know why it was just a brushstroke, and there was no detailed description.

Fang Xie closed his notes and couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief.

"What do you seem to be worried about?"

Ning Yan sat on the side, looked into Fang Jie's eyes and asked.

Fang Xie hummed and said: "Don't dare to hide it, sir, the student knows that the soldiers of the Great Sui have not tasted defeat for more than a hundred years, and the Central Plains are invincible in the world." But...... What the students are worried about is that in this Western Expedition, the army has not experienced war for 20 years, and the soldiers in the army are all newcomers, and the veterans of the original Shang Dynasty should have all been disarmed and returned to the field. Such an army does not lack sharpness, but it lacks experience...... I don't think the Great Sui will lose this war, I'm just worried that the initial stage of the war will not go as smoothly as people expect. ”

"In the event of a setback...... Will you lose your will? ”

Fang asked.

"When the Great Sui destroyed the Shang Kingdom, the soldiers had not fought for ten years."

Ning Yan said indifferently: "You are from the border army, so you naturally know the characteristics of the Great Sui soldiers. Once on the battlefield, they are no longer a pack of people, but a pack of wolves. ”

"I'll show you something."

Ning Yan took out a piece of tissue paper from his cuffs, Fang Xie took it with both hands and looked at it carefully. There aren't many words on it, but it's definitely weighty. This is the twelve military regulations promulgated by the emperor of the Great Sui Dynasty's Western Expedition, although it has not yet been announced, it is not difficult for the professors of the Yanwu Academy to get it.

"Escape, kill"

"Rescue the ineffective, kill"

"Whoever does not listen to orders, kill"

"Kill the Enemy Raider"

There are twelve counts and twelve killings, and any one of them is a capital offense. I have to say that this military order is extremely solemn and harsh. But Fang Xie couldn't help frowning slightly after reading it, and then read it again from beginning to end.

"Think there's something wrong?"

Ning Yan asked.

"Catch-12...... It seems that they are all tactical and warfare constraints, and there are no constraints on some inevitable things in war. Like what...... The soldiers robbed the property of the Mengyuan people, seized the Mengyuan women, and burned the people's houses, but none of these things were mentioned. ”

Fang Xie was surprised: "These things are not restricted, will it cause anything inappropriate?" ”

Ning Yan smiled: "Do you think it was Your Majesty's negligence?" ”

Fang Xie was silent for a while and shook his head: "No...... How could His Majesty not have thought of this layer. Sir, I think I understand your majesty's intentions. Although the Great Sui and the Mengyuan Dynasty were peaceful for a hundred years, and His Majesty even signed a trade treaty with the Mengyuan Great Khan Mengke, there is no doubt that there is absolutely no friendship between the two countries. Once the war begins, both sides will bite each other like red-eyed wolves, and will never give the other room to breathe. ”

"It is precisely because of this hatred that those Mengyuan people who are strong in the folk style are no longer ordinary people, they are also soldiers when they pick up scimitars, even if they are women, they will bite the soldiers of the Great Sui with their teeth if they have the opportunity. Kuanren can't be exchanged for victory, so His Majesty didn't think about going to Mengyuan to be lenient at all. In the same way, if the cavalry of the Mengyuan Empire rushed into the territory of the Great Sui, the people were afraid that they would react the same. So...... Instead of being lenient, it is better to simply let go and kill, so that those people of Mengyuan are afraid, only fear can make a strong nation finally succumb. ”

Ning Yan said: "Forgiveness is a matter of the future, but it is by no means a matter of war. ”

He paused and continued: "As you just said, both Great Sui and Meng Yuan have their own pride, and this pride does not allow the other side to blaspheme, so the war will be tragic from the beginning. When the soldiers rushed into the grassland, they could not control themselves. They will kill and loot like a demon, and this kind of thing cannot be stopped at all, and military discipline is pale in the face of the madness of the soldiers. So...... His Majesty simply let the soldiers kill people. ”

Ning Yan smiled and said, "Many years ago, I had a similar discussion with General Luo Yao when he was chatting with him when he had nothing to do. At that time, the general asked me, if the imperial court started a war against the Mengyuan and the army went straight to the grassland and finally won the victory, how could it firmly and properly control the tens of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains? How to make hundreds of millions of Mengyuan people surrender? ”

"How does the gentleman answer?"

Fang asked.

Ning Yan said lightly: "I replied to the general at the time...... If the people of Mengyuan surrendered, there was no need to talk about how to stabilize the country. And the simplest and most effective way to make the people of Mengyuan surrender is to kill those who do not surrender. Five or six out of ten will be gone, and their hearts will be afraid. ”

"Kill half ......"

Fang Xie muttered and repeated, feeling a little chill in his heart.

Ning Yan smiled and said: "Now the people of Jiangnan regard themselves as Sui people and are proud of them...... You must know that the general surnamed Li a hundred years ago, although the population slaughtered in Jiangnan was not as large as half, there were still 30% of them. Kill first and then care, kill until people are cold, and then apply benevolence, and those who are alive will have the benefit and will have the happiness and satisfaction of the rest of their lives. It only takes a hundred years for them to remember only the good and not the bad. The people of Yongzhou now wear Sui clothes and spend five baht, children under the age of 14 enter the school of the Great Sui, and the elderly over 60 years old take the silver issued by the imperial court. It's only been 20 years...... They have adapted to life now. You see, it's not that long, is it? ”

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Prison can change a person, and that's a good argument after all.

Although Fang Jie's imprisonment was a bit special, this life still had a great impact on his change in thinking. And it is precisely because of this environment that what Ning Yan said about killing half can be understood more thoroughly. If it had been in the past, Fang Xie would definitely not have taken it seriously.

He will even argue with reason, telling Ning Yan that only if you are lenient to the people, the people will be lenient to you. But the current solution would never say such a thing. His Majesty the Emperor, who is in charge of the national artifact, has far more things to consider than the people. And these things are difficult to define in terms of simple good and evil. You can have your own likes and dislikes, but you can't force the emperor's decisions to be labeled a tyrant.

Ning Yan and Fang Xie didn't discuss the matter of military discipline too much, after all, if they talked about this in private, they wouldn't be put on a hat called great disrespect.

In a world where imperial power is supreme, how many people have been crushed to death by this hat is immeasurable.

The floor was littered with books, and the maps on the walls were sketched beyond recognition. One less stone lock on the ground, embedded in the wall. On the stone bed was Ning Yan's marching notes, and the flying fish robe at the door seemed to be shouting something. When Fang Xie recovered from his contemplation, he heard the flying fish robe calling for him to take the food.

A meal for two people, with meat and wine.

"It's a nice place."

Ning Yan hadn't bothered Fang Xie who was in deep thought before, he knew that he needed to give Fang Xie time to digest if he had stopped at the previous point. Although the boy was in prison, since he was sitting here lecturing, no one could be sure that the boy would not see the light of day again. Speaking of which, His Majesty was very conflicted about Fang Jie's treatment, and imprisoned him, but asked the professors of the Martial Arts Academy to run a few streets to give him a lecture alone.

He is not free, but he is free in confinement.

"It's quiet, no one disturbs, and you can realize a lot of things."

Ning Yan poured himself a glass of wine, and without using chopsticks, he pinched a piece of cooked beef and put it in his mouth and chewed it slowly: "This is a clean day with wine, meat, and books, if I have the opportunity, I would like to enjoy it." ”

Fang Xie smiled helplessly: "It seems that it's not just you who said that this is a kind of enjoyment, maybe the realm of students is not enough, so now I also think that this is suffering, and I haven't found anything comfortable." ”

"It has nothing to do with the realm."

Ning Yan sighed comfortably after taking a sip of wine: "Martial arts have a realm, where is the realm of literati." Say a few words that seem to be very profound, and write a few prosperous and splendid articles is the realm? The realm of speaking, the realm of writing, and even the realm of being seen by others are not considered realms. It's pretending, and the higher the status, the better the person will pretend. Everyone in the world has thoughts, and everyone has a chance to understand the true meaning, which is the realm? Isn't it true that all people are in the same realm? ”

"Some people are looking for a beautiful place to live, what to write about picking chrysanthemums in the south mountains and planting peaches in the north mountains, which is the realm? The old peasants in the mountains and the fields of Orion, whose realm is higher than him. ”

"It's the mentality"

Ning Yan said lightly.

"Mentality"

Fang Xie was stunned for a moment, and then nodded.

"The walls of this prison are strong and unbreakable, even if the torture instruments on the walls are replaced with maps, and there are more books and professors around you, but this prison is still a prison, and it has not changed. The prison is immutable, so you can only change it. When he bends his head and feet in half to be a grandson, when he is straight, he holds his head high and his chest is a big husband, and he can do it, and he is a hero. ”

"The Great Sui doesn't need a hero."

Fang Xie said seriously.

"What Da Sui doesn't need is someone who is a hero, not that he doesn't need such a heart."

Ning Yan said: "Who has no ambition for those who hold power? ”

"Sir's words, if they are heard, it is a great sin of disrespect."

"What kind of disrespect is this? And I'm already wearing a sinful body, so I'm afraid of more? Your Majesty also knows my temperament, and those who say these things bluntly may not be thieves, and those who are full of flattery may not be loyal ministers. If you can get out of here in the future, you will join the army. I'm just telling you one thing that you have to know for a general. ”

"As long as you can win in the end, why do you care about the means? Although the current life seems a bit miserable and makes you unwilling, if you can't even bear this, how can you put a war in your heart? A win? If you can't even fit a win or lose, what qualifications do you have to talk about future success or failure? A coward idiot, it's not a pity to die. ”

"If you are a school in your heart, this is not a prison. Your heart is a prison, and everywhere is a prison. I am unwilling, even if I walk and in broad daylight, I am full of obscurity and coldness after all. The heart is calm and broad, how can you run thousands of troops? You are learning now, not willingly and comfortably, but forcing yourself to learn. Although both are learning, the things they get are very different. ”

Fang Xie muttered a few words: "Mentality...... The student understood. ”

PS: Enjoy the red ticket, and return the three watches.