Let's turn back the time a little more, back to the time when Huang Zide was still taking people to celebrate the New Year in Shangluo Mountain. In these days, every night, Xuan Yi was telling history to Huang Zide and the generals under Huang Zide, in fact, he was teaching them a lesson. But every day there will be a period of about an hour, and Xuan Yi will meditate and practice qi in his room without moving. In fact, during this time, Xuan Yi is not necessarily really practicing qi, more often, he is also listening to "Huang Tian" give him lessons.

According to the "Yellow Sky", the first important ability of an army is not the ability to fight, but the ability to march. Because all kinds of stratagems are often based on the ability to march beyond the opponent.

"It's like playing with people." Huang Tian said, "When you attack others, theoretically you will definitely show flaws." But as long as you move faster than others, then your flaws are not flaws, because your opponent is too slow to catch your flaws. On the contrary, if he forcibly tries to catch your flaw, then in the process of counterattacking, he will show his flaw, and if you are much faster than him, then you will definitely be able to catch this flaw. So, it's okay if he doesn't fight back, the more he fights back, the faster he dies. It's the same with combat. If you march far faster than the enemy, they will be tied down when they face you. When they want to fight you, they can't catch up with you, and when they don't want to fight you, they can't avoid you. Anyone who has learned even a little bit of the art of war knows the phrase 'avoiding the real and attacking the false', but if you are not as fast as the people who march, if you want to avoid the real and attack the false, where can you avoid it, where can you hit it? Especially for the army, which is generally inferior, it is even more necessary to put the speed of the march in the first place. Otherwise, it's a dead end. ”

According to Huang Tian's relay, the story of the Taizu of the Red Dynasty in the world from which Wang Mang came from with no more than tens of thousands of troops, breaking through the encirclement and interception of millions of enemy troops, and fighting from Jiangxi to northern Shaanxi. In a certain battle, Taizu of the Red Dynasty led tens of thousands of troops, took advantage of the speed of movement, crossed the Chishui River four times, and constantly mobilized the enemy's army, and finally made a loophole in the enemy's encirclement, so as to successfully break through the encirclement and deal a heavy blow to the enemy. In another key battle, the army under his command, in the heavy rain, on the rugged mountain road, ran for 240 miles in a day and night, and the general captured the key target, turning the tide of the battle at once, and completely ruining the enemy's entire campaign plan.

Regarding Huang Tian's statement, Xuan Yi felt that it was quite reasonable. He also put forward this point of view when discussing tactics with Huang Zide and others, and Huang Zide and others agreed.

But the most important question is how to make the army run faster than others. Huang Tian believes that in order to achieve this, it is mainly necessary to rely on two things: the first is that the soldiers can be fed, the second is to ensure the morale of the soldiers, and the third is to use small technical means.

Huang Zide's army, at least for now, is still relatively incorruptible, so although it is a "rogue", it is much poorer than the official army of the Jokhang court on the whole. However, because there was no large-scale drinking of soldiers' blood, there was more food that could really fall into the mouths of each soldier than the imperial court officials and soldiers. Therefore, in terms of feeding the soldiers, they were stronger than most of the officers and soldiers of the imperial court. Speaking of which, among the officers and soldiers of the imperial court, probably only the "family members" of those generals can eat more than Huang Zide's soldiers. However, the number of these "family members" is too small, and it is difficult to fight without a large army.

As for the technical means, it refers to the technique provided by Wang Mang to beat the leggings. During long marches, the lower limbs are prone to static due to blood deposition. Veins. varicose tensions and other problems, thereby increasing fatigue and reducing the ability of soldiers to march. Leggings can reduce blood deposition and blood vessel pressure in the lower limbs, reduce muscle soreness in the lower legs, and at the same time facilitate the protection of the lower legs during the march, and prevent them from being scratched by branches and other things in the woods or on the hillside, so it can also effectively improve the ability to march.

But the most important thing is how to improve the morale of the soldiers.

Wang Mang mentioned a system called the "powerful political commissar", which is said to greatly boost morale. But after listening to the specific explanation of this method provided by Wang Mang, Xuan Yi found that this method is really difficult to implement, because its threshold for talents is even much higher than that of the Mandarin Duck Array. A powerful political commissar who can talk to the soldiers and boost the morale of the soldiers is not something that everyone can be.

However, Xuan Yi feels that this system still has something to learn from. That is, an army should pay attention to internal propaganda and education. Of course, the threshold for socialist ideal education is too high, but there is one trick that is not high and is easy to learn. That's hate education. It is the so-called "grievance meeting".

Who would become a member of the rebel army not have a stomach full of bitter water? These bitter waters, which are usually not mentioned, are forgotten in the depths of the "subconscious" (this word also comes from the yellow sky). But as long as it is effectively guided, it can turn these pains into hatred of the imperial court. And this hatred can be easily exploited.

"It's not enough to preach hatred. Hatred is powerful, but it is also limited. Huang Tian didn't completely agree with Xuan Yi's opinion, "Besides, no matter how great the hatred brought by the past events is, it is not the greatest hatred." Do you know what the greatest hatred is? ”

Xuan Yi shook his head.

"The greatest hatred is the hatred that makes a person unable to live a good life after that." Huang Tian said in a sarcastic tone, "It is easy for a person to forget who killed his father and robbed his wife, but it is difficult to forget who took his father's money. Because the money will allow him to live a good life. When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he wanted to fight the Xiongnu. I heard that there was a big country called 'Da Yue Clan' in the Western Regions that had enmity with the Xiongnu, so he sent an envoy to join forces with them to attack the Xiongnu. The homeland of the 'Dayue Clan' was occupied by the Huns, and the first king was killed by the Huns, and even his head was used as a wine vessel by the Huns. But now they occupy another piece of land, and they are doing well. So when the Han envoys found them and explained their intentions, they said that we are living a good life now and do not want to fight back. Therefore, only by making the soldiers feel that the Jokhang Dynasty is an unavoidable obstacle on their way to a better life, will they truly hate the Jokhang Court. Only these hatreds can truly manifest themselves as combat effectiveness. ”

When Xuan Yi heard this, he asked again: "How can we make the soldiers feel that the Jokhang Dynasty is an unavoidable obstacle on their way to a good life?" ”

"Stupid! What a fool! Huang Tian's voice suddenly rose up, "You won't draw a big cake, and then put him behind the Jokhang Imperial Court, and then tell them that if you don't step on the corpse of the Jokhang Imperial Court, you won't be able to eat that big cake!" How could I meet a bunch of fools like you, if it was the group of Dazhao Taizu at the beginning, such a simple thing would need to be said......"

Then Huang Tian babbled and despised Xuan Yi for half an hour. In this small half an hour, Huang Tian used all kinds of animals that Xuan Yi was familiar with, such as the senior brother and the second senior brother, or animals that Xuan Yi didn't understand, such as paramecium, to compare with Xuan Yi, which eloquently proved that Xuan Yi's intelligence was between the second senior brother and the paramecium. Of course, being scolded for half an hour is not without gain. At least, in this small half an hour, Huang Tian still provided a lot of concrete and feasible methods by scolding people.

After being scolded, Xuan Yi got up and went to find Huang Zide.

At this time, Huang Zide was holding a big bow and squinting one eye in the test firing. It was a very simple bow, the body of which was more than seven feet long, and when Huang Zide held it, the lower end was almost touching the ground. Huang Zide slowly pulled his bow away, and shot an arrow at a big tree twenty paces away, only to hear a pounce, and the arrow sank deep into the trunk.

Huang Zide put down the bow in his hand, turned around and said with a smile: "Dao Chief, according to what you said, this bow is really good at a close range, but unfortunately it can't shoot far, and the arrow has to be redone." In addition, it takes a lot of strength to use this thing. ”

The big bow that Huang Zide is using now is actually made directly from the barrel of a spear. The elasticity and energy storage capacity of this monomer bow are far inferior to that of composite angular bows. So in order to shoot high-energy arrows, this type of bow must be made very large. Even when it is erected, it is a lot longer than a person. On the other hand, this bow also has the advantage of being easy to make. Just cut the right wood into the right shape, and then bend it little by little, so that it gradually adapts to the bent state. The result is a single longbow with a lot of tension. This bow has a lot of pull, but it doesn't bounce too fast, so it can only be used to fire heavier arrows, not light arrows that are looking for a longer range. Most of the arrows in Huang Zide's army were captured during the battle with the official army, and they were basically light arrows, so the arrows it used should also be newly made.

Xuan Yi nodded and said, "The owner of the village, Poor Dao suddenly remembered something and wanted to discuss it with the owner of the village. ”

Huang Zide listened, approached, and smiled at Xuan Yi: "Dao Chief, it's a very important thing, right?" Or let's talk as we go. ”

Xuan Yi followed Huang Zide and walked in the direction of the school field below, and as he walked, he told Huang Zide these thoughts.

Huang Zide listened, but didn't make a sound. After a while, he said, "Dao Chief, I just remembered some things from the time of the Great Zhao Taizu. When Emperor Taizu raised the banner to rebel, he accused the Dayuan court of being corrupt and harming the people, and proposed to 'expel Hulu, restore China, establish Chen Ji, and relieve the people'. This is what the Taoist chief said, putting a big cake behind the court, making the court a thing in the way. Well, we used to just run around with everyone, and all we thought about was how to get some food. The soldiers followed us, but they had no other choice for a while, and if they really encountered difficult officers and soldiers, they really had no fighting spirit. The idea of the Taoist chief, I think, can give it a try. ”