The reason why Shang Wu negotiated peace was because the center of gravity of Bingzhou was tilting, and after a period of rapid expansion of the strength of the Republican Army, he had occupied the entire east of Hedong, part of Hexi, and nearly two-thirds of Bingzhou. The expansion of power is already quite powerful. Shang Wu had a feeling that they were actually at the end of a period of rapid expansion. This is consistent with the next step of Shang Wu and Jia Xu's plan to shrink and rectify.

Fighting in the state has become a bad battle. Although this has a great deal to do with a hastily carried out military reform by the Republican Army, the War Department believes that the military reform is not successful, and at the very least, the combat effectiveness has not been improved, and the combat effectiveness has decreased a lot.

There are a lot of reasons, and Shang Wu doesn't want to know too much, because he handed them over to the military academy to study, and what he cares about now is to end this rotten war.

Shangwu's feeling is correct, because, when the military strength of a region enters a state of rotten war, that is, when the strength is exhausted, in order to maintain a certain state of strength when the strength is exhausted, Shangwu has to solve the problem of peace. Peace is due to the extreme expansion of military power, and the expansion of the IRA in many places has exceeded its original power tipping point. Now, the IRA needs to consolidate such a situation. So, peace is the only way.

Lijiazhuang, military academy.

Inside the toilet, Cao Ang, as a new cadet, received a sacred mission. This task is to brush the toilet, and use a toothbrush, if it is not clean, it may be them for the whole semester, and if it is not clean, the result can be imagined. Because that's the case with every new student, unless, there's an exception, and that exception is. War broke out. It is a pity that the war is still far away for them.

"I'm sick to death." One of the trainees vomited.

Cao Ang had to endure the stench of the toilet. However, this kind of endurance is inevitable, because the toilet is a guarantee to ensure non-combat attrition, if a toilet problem cannot be solved, the entire army can not maintain combat effectiveness, in this point, Cao Ang still recognizes, he is with a learning attitude.

The imperial army never treated the toilet as a thing, only the most stern army would say so. In fact, more than ninety percent of the military will not do this. Cases of soldiers defecating in the open abound.

Recruits have many, many things to endure. The toilet is the most unbearable thing for them, and in addition to that, there is also the fact that they need to solve some new situations that they find unbearable.

Queues, they had to keep a neat queue, and not tired of it, becoming a queue of habits, and many soldiers could hardly tolerate such a situation. But after getting used to it, the combat effectiveness naturally improves.

The biggest intuitive change is that it is too much faster and more efficient.

On the other hand, in terms of the imperial army, in many details, the handling is very poor, and one detail explains the problem, for example, the first step is the left foot or the right foot. The rule of the military school is the left foot. And in the army of the imperial court, most of the soldiers did not have this consciousness at all, they all carried out according to their own preferences, left foot, right foot. Don't care at all, just walk away. This directly caused chaos in the team, and many people stepped on their shoes.

This has a direct impact on future combat operations.

Cao Ang still has relatively little contact with things, after all, he is just a new cadet soldier, but he comes from the imperial army, many changes in details, so that Cao Ang yo yo a new view, he realized that the war is completely different, this is a new development for him.

Cao Ang received the military knowledge that a modern army should have, and this knowledge will help him to have some new ideas about the future to the greatest extent.

Inside Jinyang City.

"Tear down the walls? This is impossible, how long has this city wall protected the people of our Jinyang City. If the city wall is demolished, how can we ensure our safety? Isn't this playing with people? Some middle-aged Jinyang people said resolutely to each other.

With the further development of trade in Jinyang, the restrictive effect of the city wall greatly hindered the progress of trade.

Increasingly, the merchants from outside Hedong, as well as some merchants from Jinyang, were in the same style as the Republican Army, and they demanded to be able to say something they deserved more. These words are the demolition of the city walls.

Because there are so many, many examples out there. Security is no longer important, the IRA can guarantee them enough security, only the IRA fights for others, and others do not fight for the Republican Army.

In addition, after the demolition of the city wall, the economic development of many places is very fast, and very good, for example, many counties in Hedong have such a development experience, the scale of the county is faster than after the city wall is removed, and the republican army clearly told them that the role of the city wall has been reduced much.

"The demolition of the walls makes sense, the Republicans have studied it. An army equipped with firearms can easily attack a city with a city wall, because the huge city wall will become a big target, and under the heavy artillery bombardment, the city wall will not be able to resist the artillery attack at all. On the contrary, the city walls became the biggest obstacle to the city's defense. A young man said.

"If there is no city wall, the Hu people in the north will quickly go south, this is Jinyang, not Hedong, Hedong is in the south of us, Jinyang, but in the north." The old man said anxiously.

In the final analysis, the city of Jinyang City is a kind of security for the traditional Jinyang people, and their safety can only exist if there are city walls.

They still don't believe in the Republican Army, even though the Republican Army has repeatedly stated that Hedong is safe after the city wall is demolished. But in fact, the traditional Jinyang people still don't believe in such a point. Because the defensive role of the city walls is deeply ingrained in their thinking. Although the new weapons have played a great role and completely changed the defensive and offensive operations, the security trust problem has not been established in the traditional Jinyang people, and the security problem has not been completely solved.

However, the issue of demolishing the city wall has caused a lot of discussion in Jinyang City.

Outsiders from Hedong have supported the demolition of the city wall, because they have seen such a situation, they know that the demolition of the city wall is inevitable, and on the other side, there are the traditional Jinyang people, Jinyang, on behalf of the state, and the state has been on the front line of resisting the southward movement of a few nomads in the north, which also determines the importance of the people's understanding of safety, they believe that the demolition of the city wall is to take away their only security.

Because of this absolute concern for security awareness, the soldiers of the state have been strong, and their situation has always been in such a favorable situation, and in the situation of distress, the need for security in the state is greater, which also determines that their situation is in the most favorable situation.

The Republican Army is still unclear about the needs of the state, they just one-sidedly carry what they think is good, they think that the people of Jinyang will accept such a point.

On a highway east of the river, a group of horse-drawn carriages was moving slowly, all covered by canopies, and no one knew what was inside.

This is a need for secrecy, but the people in the car are curious about everything here.

"Hey, I'm going to call the chief here. It's not the same as our general there. I don't know what our chief told us to do here? A man with a sharp beak and monkey cheeks said with a smile.

"Monkey, what did you say this chief asked us to do?" The others in the car asked. They are all from one place, Dong Zhuojun. Most of them are Xiliang people, and they are good at archery, and most of them can quickly shoot at targets within 80 paces. They don't know what their heads think, but they're such a group of people gathered anyway.

As for what to do, they themselves don't know, anyway, they have to do a lot of things.

"I don't know, I think, we all have something in common, it must have something to do with shooting, no matter what, it's a good thing to be here anyway. I have a good brother who was chosen by the artillerymen. You don't know, now people eat well, have meat every day, and can go out of the barracks to find chicks, and the treatment is very good. The monkey said excitedly.

In the monkey's opinion, coming to Hedong is gilding. As long as they can be gilded, they can do many things in the best condition.

"Well, yes, it's a good thing to come to Hedong. Either way, coming here and going back will definitely be different. I've seen those artillerymen, they are very bullish, our infantry, they all have two meals a day, and everyone else has three meals a day, and the meals are all dry, and the food is very delicious, and there is meat. It's different when you think about it. No matter what, as long as I come to Hedong and can eat meat, no matter how much meat I eat, it is three meals, and I am very happy to eat enough. One soldier said in a very unproductive voice.

"The way you look is really contemptible." The other soldiers said.

"Since we can be here, there must be a big change, otherwise, we wouldn't be here." Others have said the same. They came here full of hope, in their opinion, this is an extremely important opportunity, this opportunity, absolutely not someone else can give, as long as they grasp it, glory and wealth can wait for them.

From the point of view of all the soldiers who came from Dong Zhuo's side, going to the area controlled by the Republican Army was definitely an important shortcut to wealth. Because artillery is such a product.