88. Training

Training? Joke! What was the situation of the Great Song Dynasty after Yashan, but anyone with a little knowledge of history almost knew that it was in that situation that Zheng Guang relied on hundreds of remnants, from the south to the north and then to the southwest, and once organized a main battle corps of more than 50,000 people and a town garrison of more than 100,000 people, recovering a large area of land in the southeast and thinking that it was a base to fight against the Mongols.

However, the historical background is different, the situation will be different, during the Great Song Dynasty, the country was ruined, and those who were willing to follow Zheng Guang were warriors who were unwilling to succumb to foreign rule, trained to do their best, fought without fear of death, extremely brave, and the most important thing was that everyone knew that they had no way out, either to defeat the invaders and establish a new country, or to die without a place to bury. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Today's Ming Dynasty is different, the main force of the southeast army is still the guards, the guards who have lost the confidence and goal to move forward, the guards who only want to live without any fighting ideas, and the military households who have no future and no way out for generations, have long worn their dreams as people to the ground, and those who have lost their dreams are people who have no strength to move forward, and they are also incorrigible people.

The guards under the guard system cannot be relied on, just like the current Suzhou soldiers, Zheng Guang can lead them to defeat the Japanese invaders, but he will never choose them as the main force to go out of the city to fight, a moment of courage can be used to protect the family behind him, but out of the city to fight, what is needed is the courage of the heart of fame and fortune and the ambition to rush upward, the guards, no.

"Futai, under the rule of Governor Su Song, how many soldiers and horses can be mobilized?" Zheng Guang asked.

Zhu Kun calculated for a moment and said: "About 30,000 people, which is the number of people that the old man can mobilize, why, isn't it enough?" ”

Zheng Guang shook his head and said: "Futai, it's not that they don't want to train those guards, it's really that less than one-tenth of them can be cultivated, most of them are soldiers, and they can't beat one of them in ten battles, and they can't compare to one of them in terms of escaping, no matter how they agitate, even if the main general takes the lead in charging, they can cower, or even turn around and run, completely ignoring the safety of the main general, such soldiers can't be trained under the bottom." ”

Zhu Kun hesitated: "Can't you even pick out 3,000 people out of 30,000?" The old man knows that the guards are rotten, but it doesn't come to such an extent, right? ”

Zheng Guang said helplessly: "Futai, the iron pestle can be sharpened into a needle, can kill, but the wooden stick can only be ground into a toothpick, a break will be broken, the material is different, the result will be different, those soldiers are already twenty or thirty years old, completely stereotyped, unbearable to build, rather than spend a lot of energy and money on them, it is better to start a new stove, reorganize a new army, in the next thought, the best source of soldiers is the simple children of farmers, or the children of mine workers, and must not choose the source of soldiers from the people in the city. ”

Zhu Kun said curiously: "Your statement is quite fresh, and you told the old man, why do you choose the children of the farmer?" ”

Zheng Guang smiled helplessly: "Speaking of which, this is also for the general's heart technique, the source of the Ming Dynasty's soldiers, the worst, is the guards, generation after generation are soldiers, from birth they know what they want to do in the future, relying on their ancestral positions all day long, no enterprising, the only serious study is the ancestral life-saving technique, all of them are life-saving experts, in case of war, they can only bully and bully the people, if they meet the enemy, the fastest run is this group of people, which is why the southeast battle has been repeatedly defeated, It's not that the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty can't fight, but these soldiers don't fight at all!

How can such a person be trained? The mind is full of thoughts of eating and waiting for death, without any sense of honor and disgrace, and it is the source of the lowest soldiers; The best source of soldiers is the simple peasant children, in fact, to put it bluntly, is less knowledge, less reading, easy to fool, like a blank piece of paper, with how we write and draw, at the same time they are the most vulnerable to the invasion of the Japanese invaders, and the hatred of the Japanese is the deepest, a little agitation will scream, do not rush forward, these soldiers are equipped with excellent weapons, can definitely defeat the Japanese invaders! ”

Sun Ting laughed: "Pingzhi is a sincere person, speaks straightforwardly, and does not beautify himself in a roundabout way." ”

Zheng Guang smiled indifferently: "The actual situation is like this, since Futai wants to start with those landless farmers, starting from the root of the Japanese invaders, then we should recruit new soldiers from the areas where the Japanese are most seriously affected, recruit those peasant children whose families are ruined, and the children who have a deep blood feud with the Japanese Invaders. ”

Zhu Kun nodded sympathetically, and then said: "What Pingzhi said is indeed reasonable, but, Pingzhi, before the old man came, he had already talked to His Majesty about this issue, because your Majesty also said such a problem in your recital, and Your Majesty also paid attention to it, but the guard military system is the Ming ancestral system, which has lasted for more than a hundred years, and it is not that it can be changed, and Your Majesty is also worried that the recruitment of new soldiers in the southeast guard cannot be used, which will destroy the local order in the southeast, and this matter also needs to be gradual and gradual. ”

Zheng Guang immediately said: "Futai, the meaning of the next is definitely not to abolish the guard system and promote the recruitment system, the southeast has been in chaos, although the guards are unusable, but the number can also have a deterrent effect, if the guards are disbanded and they are not arranged to arrange a way back, these people will go to the Japanese Invaders if they can't say anything, and when the time comes, the southeast will really become the southeast of the Guards."

In the following meaning, please Futai authorized to recruit three or four thousand recruits, for the time being, to train a new army, as a model for all armies, Futai can first test the combat effectiveness of this batch of new troops, if so, Futai will recruit new soldiers on a large scale, organize and train new soldiers, and at the same time prepare a way back for the guards soldiers, play Your Majesty, starting from one place, gradually and gradually abolish the guard army system, so as to meet the needs of the southeast anti-Japanese army. ”

Zhu Kun's eyes flashed, Zheng Guang's statement was exactly in line with the emperor's previous requirements, the guard system is indeed not something that can be abolished overnight, even if the guards are no longer usable, the huge number is a deterrent wherever it is placed, so that the Japanese do not dare to rush out, and there are indeed twenty or thirty thousand soldiers in the southeast, such as the soldiers of Lu Boring and Tang Kekuan, all of whom are brave and good at fighting.

"Fu Liang, you are an expert in military affairs, what do you think?" Zhu Kun asked his military advisor think tank for advice, Sun Ting pursed his lips, and said: "Futai, in fact, is better at planning, than training, since the virtuous brother of Ping is good at training, then you might as well let the virtuous brother of Ping preside over the training, when the soldiers trained by the virtuous brother of Ping, the disciples can be used to fight, and Futai can see whether this army is available in the end." ”

Zheng Guang smiled slightly: "Mr. Sun is really an expert, in the training of the army, Mr. Sun uses it, how can it be invincible?" ”

Sun Ting also smiled: "Brother Ping Zhixian is so confident in military training? ”

Zheng Guang said with a smile: "Don't dare to say anything else, planning with soldiers may not be Mr. Sun's opponent, but training this item can be regarded as a specialty in the next, as long as Futai is willing to spend money on the new army, within three months, it will definitely achieve initial results, but if you want to really train an iron army that will not be defeated in a hundred battles, it will not work without two or three years of hard work, and training alone can not train the iron army, only actual combat can make the elite soldiers become an iron army." ”

Zhu Kun asked curiously: "Ping Zhizhen is worthy of being Tang Jingchuan's high apprentice, there are apprentices like this, I don't know how capable the master himself is." ”

Zheng Guang said with a smile: "Don't think too much about Futai, Shizun has received a summons from the imperial court and is ready to go to Beijing to confer officials, and maybe he will return to the southeast as an official. ”

Zhu Kun said with a smile: "The old man is not greedy, and the old man is very satisfied if he has Ping Zhi to train for the old man, but Ping Zhi, training for the old man, won't it delay your imperial examination?" If there is really a difficulty, you say to the old man, the old man will not be difficult to force others, after all, taking the right path of the imperial examination is the ladder for scholars to advance, and if you have great ambitions, you have to enter the scholars. ”

Zheng Guang shook his head: "Good habits are developed in ordinary life, whether you can get a jinshi depends on years of hard work, if you can get a jinshi only by relying on these few months of Wenshu, then it is too much to take the imperial examination as a child's play, ten years of hard work, these just a few months, it really can't play a big role, besides, in the interval of training, I will still find time to study the book, and I will not fall behind my homework." ”

Zhu Su exclaimed: "If there are more people like Ping Zhi in the country, why worry about the injustice of the Japanese and the northern captives!" Pingzhi, you can rest assured, you are dedicated to the country, the country will never treat you badly, although the old man does not dare to say what the master is, but he also has some experience in the imperial examination, he was also a second-class jinshi, the way of the article is barely reasonable, if Pingzhi does not dislike, if there is a problem, but even if you come to ask the old man, your master went north, come to ask the old man, the old man absolutely knows everything! ”

Zheng Guang smiled: "Thank you Futai!" ”

After all, Zheng Guang is a literati rather than a martial artist, but the training and garrison is a real military position.

Then, Zheng Guang remembered the human-shaped cow Zheng Yong, so with a little selfishness, he recommended his younger brother Zheng Yong to Zhu Kun, saying that Zheng Yong's bravery was not under him, and he had also read, was literate, and had been trained in the Suzhou City Defense Battalion, so he could be a small general, and planned to integrate him into the new army and count him as a member of the new army, Zhu Kun readily agreed.