"Hey! Brothers, stab to the right! ”

"What's wrong, what's wrong? What was your posture when you just walked? How? It's only been a day since you were tied to the horse all the time, and the skin in your thighs is all broken? ”

In February 272, in the cold spring, on the Wuzhang Plain, not far to the west of Chang'an, it was a hot scene.

According to Guan Yi's instructions, the Ji Han government recruited 175,000 new soldiers. While the standing army was swelled to 300,000 for the first time, the proportion of recruits who had never been on the battlefield exceeded that of veterans for the first time since the founding of Ji Han.

It's not that veterans like Zhang Yi raised objections: If so many recruits are recruited at one time, can they train for one or two more years before sending troops? But as soon as such a suggestion was put forward, Guan Yi didn't speak, and the chief officer's economic light and simplicity came back: What was this recruited recruit before? It's a farmer. Recruiting them into the army is subtracting in terms of income. And the government is responsible for eating, drinking, and lazing after recruits join the army, which means that they are making additions in terms of expenditure. This plus-and-subtract situation cannot be effectively resolved in five or ten years. If you don't need someone else to fight it, the government itself will go bankrupt.

Therefore, after the conscription comes, it is necessary to start fighting as soon as possible. Do you feel sorry for the soldiers? Isn't there still half a year to go? Let's train hard!

Zhang Yi and the others couldn't refute this when they heard this, so they had to return to Wuzhangyuan and pull out all the students in the academy. Then they and the veterans sent by the Great Sima Mansion were all put into the recruit unit as instructors.

"Shoot! You must be distracted and move forward! This is the essence of my Han salt workers' gun array. Although you have not worked as a salt worker in Zigong Pavilion, you must not fall into the prestige of this gun array! You! You! You! You three, what were you hiding from when the 'enemy's wooden knife slashed at you just now'? If you dodge like this, the arrays in this row will all be messed up! ”

"But, Instructor Huo, if I don't hide, the knife will hit me, and I will be killed."

"Bastard! Didn't the spear of your comrade on your left stab him before he struck you? How can he still cut you? It was you, who forgot to shoot because of your evasion, but your comrade on the right was 'hacked to death' by the enemy. Didn't say, come on, the military stick is waiting! ”

After the crackling twenty military sticks were beaten, Huo Biao glanced at the three recruits who were temporarily unable to train because of the military sticks: "It's cheaper for you, military medical officer, take them down to apply medicine." Wang Quchang, let them make up for the day's training at night. ”

"No!"

"Listen to me! When you fight, you must order and forbid, and you must absolutely trust your comrades-in-arms. In this way, there is a greater chance of surviving from the battlefield. Of course, how can you not die when you fight? In the case of what happened just now, if his comrade on the left did not stab the opponent to death with a single shot, then this person might be hacked to death if he did not dodge. However, as soon as he dodged like this, the whole battle column was loosened, and our spearmen lost their arrays on the battlefield, which was really useless, and we couldn't even run. So, this evasion will kill not only him, but all of you! Such a person is a military stick on the training ground, and a tumor of the whole army on the battlefield! This official will make it clear to you that if anyone violates the regulations, the military stick will be doubled! Training doubled as well! Do you understand? ”

"No~~"

"Be louder, I can't hear clearly!"

"Captain, I'll get it!"

Not far from Huo Biao's training of spearmen, Jiang Wei and Zhang Yi rode side by side, half relieved, half anxious looking at the hot training scene.

"Boyo, how many years have you and I known each other?"

"Well, Jiang Wei has been returning to Han for forty-four years, and it has been thirty-five years since he really worked with Bo Gong."

"Yes, in the past thirty or forty years, the last seven or eight years, this has changed so much that it really makes my old man feel dizzy."

"Hahahaha, is Bo Gong going to praise Zifeng again?"

"He's been praised enough, so I won't say more. It's just that Boyo, these recruits can really go to the battlefield after half a year? ”

"Hehe, I think it's okay." Pulling his beard, Jiang Wei whipped and pointed: "Bo Gong, you see that Zifeng's training method is different from us old people." In the past, when the prime minister was there, after a recruit enlisted in the army, he first practiced swords, then guns, then horses, and then bows and arrows...... Not for two or three years you can't fight at all. But Zifeng's training is divided into categories. For example, this spearman, after two months of marching in the queue, he began to practice the thrust, and finally added a reinforcement that was forbidden by order, and it was completed. With such little content, in my opinion, half a year is too long. However, even this spearman, who has been trained for a very short time, can fight immediately on the battlefield, and he can fight well. I can only say that Zifeng's talent is really a godsend. ”

"Well, spearmen are very simple, these recruits will train for a few more months, and then they will be able to go to war after mixing with the veterans. But what about the crossbowmen? What about cavalry? ”

"Hahahaha~~~ Bo Gong, have you been a sacrificial wine in this Wuzhang Yuan for too long, and you forgot to go out for a walk? Just at the foot of Mt. Jungnami, not far to the southeast, where bows and crossbows are trained. Some time ago, Cheng (Lai Zhong) wrote to me, saying that this new training of crossbowmen was very boring, and he didn't want to do it anymore. ”

"Oh? Why is that? ”

"In the new training syllabus, neither archers nor crossbowmen are required to be accurate, nor are they allowed to practice individual archery. All soldiers are required to be able to fire a volley in unison, and the bows and arrows fired must land in a specific area according to the command. That's enough. ”

"Hiss~~ Da Sima, this is going to make up for the lack of quality of the archer with the number of bows and arrows."

"Yes, yes. Hey, when will my big man be able to fight so cost-free? It's a poignant happiness. ”

"Hehe, well, the problem of crossbowmen is solved. What about this cavalry? This cavalry can't be as shoddy as spearmen and crossbowmen, right? Don't say that you rely on cavalry to fight all the way in Youzhou, you are the main force of Zifeng, although there are mountains and rivers in the state, and there are more mountains. However, I used to hear Yuan Jian say that there is also a lot of flat land in the state, and cavalry battles are indispensable. ”

"This, Bogong, have you forgotten that Ma Zhongying has been grazing in Xiping for almost four years? The ranch employees there, once recruited, are natural cavalry. ”

"However, among the 70,000 people there, 60,000 are all soldiers from the former Jin Kingdom!"

"So what? It's been four years, after we took Guanzhong, the famine problem was not solved, Zifeng hurriedly sent Wen Ciqian to exterminate the beggar department, and most of the captured women were sent to Xiping. In the past few years, these Jin captives have long been married and had children in Xiping. Besides, let's not mention that my Han now has low tax rates, and the political style of officials is also more positive, and living in my Han is far more comfortable as a commoner than in Jin Wu. You and I have all experienced the era of the emperor's pro-government and Huang Hao's chaotic government. My Yizhou family was suppressed by Emperor Zhaolie and Prime Minister for so long in the past, and once the control was relaxed a little, it was ugly to swallow up the homesteaders. If you think about it again, these Jin captives have been with us for four years, what else can be left of their original home in the eight states of Kanto? In this case, do they need to ask which country they are loyal to? ”

"I see. Hey, no, boyo, when it comes to government affairs, I've been the governor of four counties before, and I've also served as the governor of the capital for a while. How do you feel like you're surpassing me in government affairs now? ”

"Zifeng has a saying that 'live to learn all the time'. In recent years, the country has become stronger and stronger, and the use of troops is no longer as stretched as before, and Wei is certainly interested in this, so he naturally needs to learn a little more. ”

"Hahahaha~~ That wing is lazy."

The two old men were laughing and laughing there, when suddenly they heard the guards next to them shouting: "Stop! ”

"Huo Biao and Zhang Sheng of Wuyuan County Academy are asking to see the general and the general of the chariot."

"Bo Gong, I know this Huo Biao, Shaoxian's grandson. What is this Zhang Sheng? ”

"Well, this person is the son of Jingzhao Zhang, the great-grandson of Zhang Ji, and he is the thirteenth in the family, so we all call him Thirteen Lang in the academy. This son is extremely talented in military strategy, and his command and combat are as cunning as a fox, and he has the style of Boyo. ”

"Oh, that's going to be seen, right and right, let them come."

In a few moments, two sturdy young men stood in front of the two old men.

"General, I'll ask for something!"

"Hehehe, what's the matter, do you want to join the army this time?"

"Yes! Please also ask the general to complete. ”

"Well, you're all students, and you haven't finished your studies yet. Therefore, whether you can be let go or not, Bo Gong has the final say. ”

"Boyo, these two are indeed the leaders of my Wuzhangyuan Academy, and the old man agreed that they would go with the army this time. After all, a soldier can be trained, and a real general is played. ”

"You're right! General, we are determined to emulate Ma Zhongying, and we are willing to open up territory for the Han Dynasty! ”

"Good ambition! However, despite this......"

"General, do you still want to ask for the approval of the Great Sima for this matter? Dare to ask where is Da Sima? I'm going to petition him! ”

"Hahaha, Da Sima has just been happy recently, how can he have time to do these things. Besides, this little thing has to bother the big Sima, so isn't the big Sima tired to death? There are two meanings of this general, one of them is that the entire Wuzhangyuan Academy only allows the two of you to join the army as a special case, and the rest of the people will stay in the academy to continue their studies. Second, you two don't seem to have a word yet, right? This is going to the battlefield, how can you do it without crowning? If the two of you don't dislike it, the old man and Bo Gong will be your crowners, right? ”

"Huh? Thank you, General! I can't thank you enough! ”