Xu Ping said bitterly, but Han Qi was confused. In Han Qi's view, the army should be able to recruit and fight, where is there any problem of gathering and dispersing? As for clenching his fists and hitting people, it is not a profound theory, and it is far worse than what is usually explained in the military books.

Although he didn't say it, Xu Ping also read what he meant from Han Qi's expression, and finally could only stop helplessly. What else can be said? Xu Ping himself recruited and led troops in the sugar industry ten years ago, and summed up these experiences little by little, adding the insights of his previous life. In addition to serving as a magistrate, Han Qi was mostly a Taiwanese minister in the court, so he did not have much practical contact, and he was even more ignorant of military affairs. Can you fight a war just by reading a war book? The story of the soldier on paper was learned in vain.

Does what the Book of War say make sense? Right? Speaking realistically, most of them are reasonable and correct, but when they are really used in practice, they must be combined with their own army and the situation they are facing.

Why do you let your army do this? There have not been many armies that can do this for thousands of years, and I don't know how much effort it takes to make the army I lead to do it.

In other words, when attacking, it is necessary to concentrate superior forces and strive to completely and cleanly destroy the enemy. When defending, it is necessary to have real and false points, to deploy defenses in key points, and to maintain the ability to concentrate forces to counterattack at any time. It's easy to say, but it's very difficult to do, and it's not something that you can do with the army you command with a single sentence.

Controlling the soldiers and horses on both sides refers to the unified command of military operations, and he doesn't care about leading troops in peacetime, otherwise Xu Ping doesn't need to talk to Han Qi bitterly for half a day. What he was most afraid of was that in wartime, he assigned a military task to Han Qi, and he had no way to guarantee that the army on Jingyuan Road would complete it. What's the use of holding accountable after the fact? The battle is lost, and he also has to follow the blame. Fighting two more battles a year, it is difficult to do anything, but the defeat is only in the blink of an eye.

Most of these people who have left great names in history have their own persistence in their hearts, and they are not easily persuaded by others. This is not a bad thing, Xu Ping also has his own persistence, and it is with this persistence that he can become a pillar of the pillar and hold up the sky after tempering. It's hateful to be hateful, Han Qi's training came to Xu Ping.

In the end, Xu Ping said helplessly: "I have been in Qinzhou for more than a year, and since the Xuanwei Army and the Guiming Shenwu Army in the northwest have been the foundation, plus the local garrison forbidden army, as well as the Fan soldiers and the newly recruited soldiers from Sichuan and Shu, the whole training force has been expanded to fifty or sixty thousand people. With two great victories in a few months, this army is still capable of fighting. I also have some experience in doing these things. In this way, tomorrow we will go to Dingxi City together, where the newly recruited Sichuan and Shu recruits are training, and the old troops are being reorganized, I hope to enlighten you. ”

Han Qi arched his hand and said: "Yunxing loves, I should live up to my expectations!" ”

Xu Ping shook his head slightly, no longer mentioned the two official affairs, and only drank with Han Qi and talked about old things and what he saw and heard in the same year.

Starting from Qinzhou, passing through the long cottage, taking the Qingji River, taking the newly built Zhedabao, the avenue to Dingxi City has been built. Qinfeng Road is different from other roads, Xu Ping's principle is not to repair the fortress that can not be repaired as much as possible, and the governance and defense are mainly based on the village after the merger of the clan tents. The Forbidden Army was based on brigades stationed in several easily accessible military strongholds, and when necessary, cooperated with the Xiang army and the village soldiers to deal with local rebellions.

The arrangement of the main army in this way is the organizational and institutional basis for the gathering and dispersion of Ruyi that I told Han Qi before. If you recruit them, you can fight, so why do you ask the army to do this? When you give the order to assemble the army, they each have their own combat mission, either to destroy this clan tent or to deal with that rebellion, and the military order can be brought by others? Without the corresponding organization and system to match, this is an empty word.

Han Qi rode on a horse and walked side by side with Xu Ping on the avenue in the valley, seeing that the road was flat, and from time to time you could see a convoy transporting a large number of materials, walking on one side with the pedestrians on the road, and saying to Xu Ping: "When I went out of Beijing, everyone said that the northwest river valley was vertical and horizontal, and the road was rugged and inconvenient. But I didn't expect that Qinfeng Road here, the road is so wide, and the mirror is flat, and the traffic is convenient, which is really unexpected. With these avenues, the march was much easier, and it took a lot of effort and effort to come and go. ”

Xu Ping said: "Whether it is for the army or the people, the road is the first priority. Needless to say, the so-called military situation is like fire, and only with the avenue can the army march quickly and assemble quickly, and the transportation of materials is convenient and the consumption is also small. To tell you the truth, it is also an army of 10,000 people, and the military rations I use here are less than half of those of the other three roads, and the people I use are even one-tenth of them. Therefore, the other three roads are always short of food and grass, but I still have a surplus here, all of which rely on the repaired roads. As far as the people are concerned, with roads, there will be merchants, who can transport the local rich local products and bring in the goods they need, and they will be richer than other places. When the people are rich, the garrison will have support, and the garrison will not arouse the dissatisfaction of the local people. Zhigui, when we get to the local area, we first build roads and bridges, which is really our first priority as a local official, you have to write it down. ”

Han Qi nodded, this is really good, the renovation of roads, bridges, docks and other transportation facilities is a convenient move for the people, and it is on a par with Xingxue and persuading farmers, and it is the three most effective achievements of being a magistrate. But it's easy to say, to build such a wide road, in such a short time, I'm afraid that other places are afraid that it is difficult to do. Moreover, Qinfeng Road costs less money and food, and it also makes reasonable plans for transportation along the way. The water volume of the waterway from the Jialing River to the West Han River varies greatly, and the waterway is in the mountains and the water is dangerous, and the transportation capacity is much worse than that of the plain rivers. Xu Ping asked Pang Ji to make a specific plan for this, where to store it in the warehouse by water, and immediately mobilize people and ships for transshipment when the amount of water is suitable. In this way, land transportation was avoided, and the materials from Sichuan and Shu were transported by water, and they were sufficient. In fact, most of the Song army's garrisons in the northwest were located by the river, but the other three routes did not have a unified plan, and often did not use water conservancy when the water was sufficient. Xu Ping was still too modest to say to Han Qi, with the same number of troops, the materials consumed by the other three roads would be more than three times that of Qinfeng Road. The training of the army and the march and fighting of the army are highly technical work, and without the cooperation of technical personnel, doing things is often half the result.

During the march, Han Qi saw that every time a large horse team or convoy met head-on, they took the initiative to avoid their right side, and crossed over in parallel, unlike other places to give way, so he couldn't help but ask Xu Ping: "After the strategy, the team of horses and horses meet, and each of them avoids the right side of the road to meet, is it also the rule set here?" It's different from other places. ”

Xu Ping nodded: "This is for convenient transportation." As the saying goes, if you are not afraid of walking slowly, you are afraid of standing, and if you stop a few times on the road, how much time will be wasted. This rendezvous passed, but everyone was a little slower, so as not to stop, and naturally it was much faster than usual. As for avoiding the right side of the road, it is only for the convenience of the horsemen and charioters who drink and scold the livestock. ”

In this era, there were also traffic rules, such as the road to the north of Sichuan and Shu, so the traffic rules were engraved on the stone tablet and stood on the side of the avenue. However, the rule of this era is that the people avoid the officials, and the officials and the people avoid the army, and they do not talk about the left and the right. Xu Pingding decided to walk on the right side of the road, just a habit brought by him in his previous life, in fact, in this era, the left is respected, and the left is reasonable.