Text Chapter 111, Steel
Huang Tian's words were indeed a bit mean, but his sarcasm was also reasonable. Because in his previous life, Huang Zide's department also stepped into the same trap and suffered the same losses.
At that time, Huang Zide had just captured Xiangyang and controlled the northern part of Huguang, most of Gansu and Shaanxi, and part of Henan. At that time, Huang Zide was also considered to have established his own stable base based on these places. However, in order to stabilize this base, Huang Zide planned to take the initiative to attack the surrounding Jokhang official army first. This is also easy to understand, and even correct - it is better to fight in an enemy-controlled area than in your own controlled area, and even if there is any damage, it is a destruction of the enemy-controlled area. For example, aren't the Tartars of Liaodong constantly using this hand to weaken the imperial court?
So Huang Zide took about 30,000 troops, left Xiangyang and marched north, in order to deter the opponent, he claimed to have an army of 500,000, (anyway, bragging does not have to be taxed) and then what, and then everything went so smoothly that I dare not imagine, wherever the army went, the officials and troops of the Jokhang rushed to surrender, but in dozens of days, the officers and troops who surrendered to Huang Zide were as many as 1230,000, almost more than four times the army in Huang Zide's hands. With so many troops, on the one hand, Huang Zide became more and more convinced of his prospects, and on the other hand, it also brought huge economic pressure to Huang Zide.
If the number of surrendered people is smaller, Huang Zide can also rely on his own military strength to suppress them, and then slowly reorganize these surrendered troops, cut them, retain the soldiers who can fight, and remove those who are weak and unbearable to fight from the combat troops, so that they can be restored to become farmers. At the same time, these armies were broken up and reorganized to ensure their complete control over them. Even, just like the overlord Xiang Yu, simply digging a big pit and pitting all the troops is also a solution. But now, there are too many sudden drops. So much so that the strength of the surrendered army far exceeds the army in Huang Zide's hands, so Huang Zide can't cut and reorganize these surrendered troops at all, because in the situation where the guest is strong and the main is weak, as long as he dares to do this, it will immediately lead to a big mutiny in these surrendered troops, and he only relies on a mere 30,000 troops, not to mention suppression, and he can't even protect himself.
And the economic recovery of the area under Huang's control has only just begun, and it is completely impossible to sustain the expenses of an army of this size. In addition, he was unwilling to bring such a completely uncontrollable army back to his base, so he had to take them to continue to attack the Jokhang army, hoping to grab more supplies to maintain these armies, and by the way, consume some of these armies in battle.
Then the situation after that was completely out of control, no matter which important town Huang Zide was heading to, the officers and soldiers he encountered were all looking at the wind, and even, some of the officers and soldiers, before he arrived, had already sent people over to talk to him about how to surrender. As a result, Huang Zide's army is getting bigger and bigger, although he has transferred more than 20,000 descendants from Xiangyang, but this army, compared with the "surrendered army" that has now reached more than 200,000 around him, is really not enough. So Huang Zide could only bite the bullet and take such a "constantly victorious army" towards the Beijing Division. Then he successfully won the Jingshi, and then ...... And then it hit the tartar.
In front of the real "Hundred Victorious Heroes" of the Tartars, Huang Zide's army of "Hundred Battles and Hundred Victories" was defeated back to its original form at once, and then the officers and troops who originally surrendered to him immediately turned around and surrendered to the Tartars, and he had to take his tens of thousands of people to retreat in a hurry under the pursuit of the Tartars and the attacks of the rebels, and finally failed.
"It looks like it's going to be a win in a hundred battles, but it doesn't really have the strength to match it. Under the fame, it is actually difficult to deserve. This situation never brings anything good. For the enemy, this kind of false name can't scare the real enemy, but will only make him more serious and fierce when he does it to you. And for himself, he will let himself overestimate his strength, be arrogant, and then bump into a tartar in such a state, I really don't know what kind of death it will be! Xuan Yi summed it up in his own brain.
"No, this can't continue, it has to be reversed." Xuan Yi thought so.
"I don't recommend that you reverse it right away." Huang Tian's voice rang out again.
"Why?" Xuan Yi asked.
"Because it will alert them." Huang Tian said, "Wouldn't it be nice to let them feel that everything is under control?" ”
"But ......" Xuan Yi was still a little difficult to accept, "If it keeps going like this......"
"Do you really think that an army that can fight can only be ground out by grinding it out with blood on the battlefield?" Huang Tian asked.
"Isn't it? A veteran who has been on the battlefield and cut people can be at least five recruits, or even more. Xuan Yi replied.
"That's not right." Huang Tian said coldly, "Think about Qi Dashuai, when his Qi family army first went to the battlefield, who were their opponents?" ”
"The Qi army of Qi Dashuai is a simple peasant and miner, and their opponent is the Japanese who cross the sea." Xuanyi's heart moved.
Obviously, those would-be robbers are definitely battle-hardened. They have countless bloody battles at sea and on land, and Qi Dashuai's Qi family army, when they faced the Japanese for the first time, did not have the experience of going to the battlefield, but the Qi family army swept away those experienced Japanese invaders with an unimaginable overwhelming advantage, and the exchange ratio obtained made even Qi Dashuai himself dare not believe it.
"Why? Why is this happening? Xuan Yi thought.
"Because most of the strength of the army does not come from bravery or anything like that, but from strict discipline. And strict discipline is not obtained on the battlefield. Huang Tian replied, "I know this opinion from Wang Mang. And it was recognized by some other guys who were suppressed in hell. Since they all agree, I don't think it's just a rhetorical argument. ”
In fact, battlefield experience is indeed very important for an army, and the most powerful armies in the world are quenched with the blood of the battlefield to achieve their invincible edge. But the role of the battlefield should not be exaggerated, and the role of the battlefield is only to quench, or grind it once, in order to sharpen a sharper blade. And if the army itself does not have sufficient quality, or to put it more clearly, the army itself is not made of steel, but only of something like pewter or tin, then quenching and grinding or something will not bring it much benefit, and may destroy it. For example, in another world, when the warlords were fighting in the warlords, the flower planters were fighting every year. Almost all of the warlords' soldiers have been on the battlefield, and they can be regarded as experienced in a hundred battles. But once you meet the soldiers of the Orientals who have never been on the battlefield, these veterans who have been in a hundred battles, they are beaten to the ground. In the final analysis, it is because these "battle-hardened" armies are not armies made of steel. So what is steel? Discipline, training, and organization are the steel. This is the first thing to do, and only then can the "quenching" and tempering of the battlefield have real significance. Compared with Qi Dashuai's Qi family army, those Japanese robbers may indeed be more fierce and crazy, but their discipline and organization are far from perfect. If the Qi family army that first entered the battlefield was unquenched and polished steel, then the Japanese were actually just a silver-like pewter spear head that had been polished a little. This kind of thing encounters steel, even if it is not properly quenched and polished, there is only one possibility of being crushed.
"Senior, what do you mean ......" Xuan Yi said.
"If the enemy army on the battlefield can't temper you well, then temper yourself through your own and your own learning." Huang Tiandao, "For example, the standardized assessment of the army, such as the big competition between various armies, these means can be used to improve the organization, and combat effectiveness of the army. ”
"Then will you tell me more about it?" Xuan Yi hurriedly said.
That night, the lights in the military tents of the Xuanyi Daoists were not extinguished all night.
Early the next morning, Huang Zide had just had breakfast, and was about to go to see the training situation under Kaifeng City as usual, but saw Niu Juming hurriedly walking over with a manuscript.
"Mr. Niu, is there something wrong?" Huang Zide took the initiative to say hello to Niu Juming.
"Marshal." Niu Juming saluted Huang Zide with his fists, and then said, "After our army's victory yesterday, at the celebration banquet, the marshal instructed me to write an essay to spread our army's victory to all directions. I wrote it overnight and brought it to the marshal to see. ”
Huang Zide listened, and walked over, but the manuscript was read.
"Oh, Mr. Niu, what does this 'Rotten Rope' mean? Also How do you pronounce this word? What is the meaning? Huang Zide frowned. He can now be regarded as a mustache to recognize a few words, but there are still many places in the standardized text written by Niu Juming that he can't read, and there are many places where he doesn't even recognize the words.
Niu Juming explained in detail, but Huang Zide's brows furrowed even tighter when he heard this. In the end, he finally couldn't help but say: "Mr. Niu, this text of our army is meant to be told to ordinary people. It's so profound, but it's not very good. ”
"Marshal, how can this text be for ordinary people? Naturally, it is for people all over the world to read. Niu Juming said, "If the marshal wants a copy to be written to the ordinary people, it will be easy." But there must also be such a special one for readers, so that everyone in the world knows that the marshal is not a rogue, but Cheng Tang Zhouwu, who hangs the people and fights crimes. ”
Huang Zide was about to say something more, but when he looked up, he saw that Xuanyi Daoist also came over, but he also held some papers in his hand, so he hurriedly said: "Dao Chief, you came to me, but what is the matter?" ”
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