Zhang Jing is not a rotten Confucian who does not know soldiers, on the contrary, after many battles in his youth, he is a commander with rich experience in commanding troops, he knows very well the importance of morale for an army, the ancients said, mourning soldiers will win, why? It is because of the morale, because the morale of the mourning soldiers, has reached the limit, they have no fear, for that sorrow, they have nothing to fear.

Such soldiers are the most terrible soldiers, in the same way, the soldiers who inspire morale through other reasons are also terrible, they will not be afraid to fight at all, nor will they retreat, let alone collapse in battle, the morale of an army is high, and even some understand that the enemy commander will take the initiative to retreat, when Song Zhenzong personally came to the front line to stimulate the morale of the Song army, the high shouts of the Song army can even be heard by the Liao army ten miles away, and the Liao army has just lost its general, morale is declining, and it can no longer fight, so the alliance of the Yuan Yuan was finally established.

That's morale!

But the maintenance of morale is not an easy thing, the stimulation of morale can be achieved through certain temporary events, so as to have a temporary effect, but to maintain that kind of morale for a long time, it is very difficult, so since ancient times, the commander of the army will pay attention to how to stimulate the morale of the soldiers when they are in battle, in order to fight, and there is no war can still maintain the morale of the Ming army, Zhang Jing has been fighting for decades, and only saw this one.

It is still a soldier who is still in training and has not gone to the battlefield.

Their shouts were very high, the training was simply a real battle, Zhang Jing saw with his own eyes that the five recruit squads that were still training just now, suddenly four of them attacked the remaining one without warning, and the attacked squad was not in a hurry, and quickly formed an iron wall military formation, fiercely counterattacked, both sides beat the sky with wooden sticks in their hands, and finally although the besieged recruit squad was all beaten down, but the four squads besieging them also suffered heavy losses, and an officer severely reprimanded the four squads for their cooperation, Rewarded the defensive squad, though they were all wiped out.

Zhang Jing asked questions about this kind of thing, and Zheng Guang's answer was very interesting.

"The Japanese people, eight or nine out of ten, are the people of the coastal provinces, and their speech, customs, appearance, and dress are no different from mine, but they have evil thoughts, and often pretend to be refugees to migrate, waiting for the opportunity to sneak attack our army, again and again, extremely arrogant, and the officers of the army are unable to deal with it, and they are no different from the refugees, and they cannot be distinguished, and then our army will rush to the battlefield, not afraid of the frontal impact of the Japanese invaders, but worried that the Japanese will disguise themselves as refugees and wait for the opportunity to sneak attack, so they have this exercise, in order to react as soon as possible, so that the Japanese will not succeed!"

At this time, Zhang Jing had generally understood the origin and generation of the Japanese Invaders, as well as the most effective way to deal with the Japanese Invaders, but Zhang Jing's thoughts were very the same as Zhu Kun's thoughts before, and he would never let go of those who had committed heinous crimes, let them become good citizens in vain, enjoy the benefits of the imperial court opening the sea, and must make them responsible for the sins they committed, so they strongly advocated the extermination of the Japanese Invaders and the opening of the sea again.

He also knew the composition of the Japanese Kou, and he appreciated Zheng Guang's precautions very much, personally inspected the barracks, and watched the training of the soldiers, he realized that Zheng Guang was indeed a great talent in military training, and if he could preside over the training in the southeast, or even in the northern Xinjiang, then he would definitely be able to train a powerful army for the imperial court to compete with the Mongols.

Seeing the army's anti-sneak attack training, Zhang Jing was already very surprised and frightened, then the attack training was even more thrilling, although the weapons of both sides were just wooden sticks, or wrapped in cloth, but the fight was really painful, Zheng Guang was a recruit squad with 50 people, but when the military formation exercised, it was often a unit with 1,000 people, so that they could choose their own commanders, and then one side lined up the army formation, the other side broke the formation, and the military strength of the breaking side was three times that of the army formation.

That is, 3,000 broken army against 1,000 army formation, requiring the army formation to ensure that the army formation is not broken within an hour, that is victory, and if it is hand-to-hand combat, no long-range attack weapons are used.

The breaking side imitates the Japanese tactics, the squad raids, sharp and unstoppable, the military formation forms a copper wall and iron wall formation, the two sides attack, whoever wins has meat to eat, and the losing side, the military formation runs 10,000 meters, and the breaking side runs 20,000 meters.

What? Too much? Fart! 3,000 people beat people, and 1,000 people can't beat them! Shame on grandma's house! Run for Lao Tzu!

So the morale of these 3,000 people is unimaginably high!

Of course, those 1,000 people are not easy to mess with, you bastards! 3,000 people bully 1,000 of us, and they want to eat meat for themselves, don't they? Think beautifully! Impregnable!

The day of Zhang Jinglai's inspection happened to be the day of the attack drill, which was basically once every five days, Zhang Jinglai was very coincidental, and he saw that 3,000 people attacked the military formation of 1,000 people, and the thunder of the sky was stirring the earth's fire, and from time to time there were soldiers who were knocked down to the ground by a stick and could not get up, and many soldiers stabbed out of the sticks, and they could not get up even if they lay on the ground, even though they did a lot of protective work, but injuries were still inevitable.

"Pingzhi, is this kind of training a little too harsh?" Zhang Jing looked at such a war scene, obviously felt that this was too barbaric and bloody, and some could not accept it, but Zheng Guang didn't feel that there was anything wrong, so he said to Zhang Jing: "Make a table, I will say this to the soldiers, sweat more and be injured in peacetime, and you can shed less blood and sacrifice in wartime, I would rather them be injured in training than they die on the battlefield."

These Yiwu soldiers are all following me out to fight the Japanese Kou, there are relatives in the family, there are wives, I would rather they be beaten on the ground unconscious now, rather than they can never wake up on the battlefield to the Japanese Kou, Yiwu fathers and elders handed over the children to me, I will be responsible for them, even though I know that the battlefield casualties are inevitable, but I also hope to do my best to minimize the rate of casualties, so, no matter how cruel the training is, I will not hesitate! ”

Zhang Jing sighed deeply: "It is a great blessing that the country has such an official as Pingzhi, and it is really a great kindness to Yiwu to have such a county as Pingzhi!" ”

And after that, Zhang Jing actually saw a group of soldiers sitting on the ground, an officer holding a piece of paper in his hand, on which a big word "country" was written, and then the officer said to the fifty recruits under him: "This word is the country of the country, the country of the Ming Dynasty, the country of the country of peace and security, understand?" Write it down for Lao Tzu! Today, memorize this word and write it down, this is your task, and tomorrow, we will learn the home of the country! ”

Then the recruits took a wooden stick in a strange posture, and began to write on the sand table in their hands, while writing and reading the country, and when they couldn't write well, they wiped the sand, and then wrote, the way to take the branch was wrong, and the officer took the wooden stick to patrol, and when he saw the wrong stick, he went down: "Are you holding a pen?" I don't know, I think you kid is stabbing people with a knife! Look ahead! Take it this way! ”

The soldier next to him burst into laughter, and the soldier blushed and was full of embarrassment.

Zhang Jing was very surprised, and hurriedly asked: "Pingzhi, you, are you teaching these soldiers to read?" ”

Zheng Guang nodded: "Yes, born as a human being, how can you not be literate and unreasonable?" ”

Zhang Jing was surprised: "Since ancient times, there has never been a thing of teaching soldiers to read and write while training soldiers, these soldiers don't need to know how to read at all, and the soldiers who know how to read are at least the rank of officers in the army, who are you?" ”

Zheng Guang said very seriously: "The subordinates have always believed that the soldiers are not inferior beings, they throw their heads and spill blood on the battlefield, and they should be respected by the literati of our generation, but the reason why most literati look down on the soldiers is that the soldiers are illiterate, they can't read or write, and the literati look down on them.

The subordinate officials taught these soldiers to read and write, hoping that they would understand that they were not inferior, but also that they should understand their identity, they were soldiers, soldiers who were fighting to protect their families and defend the country, and fought against the Japanese invaders, not villains who felt that they were stronger than the common people with knives and guns, and casually bullied the common people, that was definitely not a soldier. ”

Zhang Jing thought for a moment and didn't say anything, Zheng Guang continued: "These literate soldiers, put in the army, are all treasure-like existences, and the previous Black Flag Army, everyone can read and write, that is not at the beginning, but also the lower officials taught them to learn word by word, they can also know more than a thousand words after three or five years of knowing a word a day, and when the time comes, they will be trained as officers, and they will be put in the new army as officers, and they will soon be able to pull up a large army." ”

Zhang Jing asked, "Pingzhi wants these soldiers to become officers of the new army of the imperial court against the Mongols in the future?" ”

Zheng Guang nodded: "Whether an army can fight or not mainly depends on whether the grassroots officers are competent, the number of troops is large, and it is difficult for the commander's orders to directly reach the grassroots army, so it is up to the grassroots officers to carry out the orders, how they carry out the orders, and how well they implement the orders, that is the combat effectiveness of the army." ”