One Hundred and Forty-Five Qin Soldiers (II)

"What's the point?" Xu Wei was a little confused and hurriedly asked. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Zheng Guang said with excitement on his face: "The population of Qin State is five million, and the defeat of the 200,000 army is difficult for the Ming Dynasty to bear, and it will greatly hurt the vitality, but the Qin State has endured it, but it still mobilizes 600,000 troops in a very short period of time and hands it over to Wang Qian, so that he can lead his troops south to destroy the Chu State, what kind of mobilization speed and deep military strength is this?" A country with a population of only five or five million can mobilize 800,000 troops to participate in the war, which is almost the number of all prime-aged men in the Qin State, which is inconceivable today, but the Qin State has done it! ”

Xu Wei began to understand what Zheng Guang meant, and hurriedly asked, "You want to say that this is due to the military system of the Qin State?" ”

Zheng Guang nodded: "You probably haven't read any books on this, after all, the study of the sage is extremely rejecting the Qin State, and the disciples of the sage don't like the Qin State, so the most common thing everyone knows about the Qin State is that the Afang Palace and the people at the end of the Qin Dynasty are in rebellion, but they ignore the reason why the Qin State can dominate the whole country with a population of five million, what is the biggest reliance on eliminating the remaining six countries, and there are not many books that record the history of the Qin State, most of the ones that have been handed down to this day are criticizing the First Emperor, and there are very few related to his military."

In the past, I was fortunate enough to read the book "Warring States Policy", plus some records in the "Historical Records", I noticed that some special military systems of the Qin State were limited to the population and war needs of the Qin State, and almost all the people in the Qin State were soldiers, and men had to register with the state after they reached the age of 15 and become "guards", which is the reserve army I mentioned.

At this time, the reserve army did not participate in the war, but had to serve a month of "guard service" every year, during which the guard did not receive military training, but had to undertake labor for his hometown, such as building roads, controlling rivers, digging canals, transporting materials, and through this collective work, each man's team spirit, coordination ability, management and coordination ability can be cultivated, and the habit of observing discipline and obeying orders can be cultivated.

When a man is twenty years old, he will be transformed into a "regular pawn", and the regular pawn will first serve in the local army of the Qin State for one year, responsible for local defense and law and order, that is, the local garrison army, which is equivalent to the guard of the Ming Dynasty, during which they will receive a whole year of military training, this kind of military training is all-round, queues, arrays, listening to orders, listening to the sound of drums, how to concentrate, how to disperse, how to identify their own troops, etc., quite perfect.

In addition to the training of these signal queues and military formations, the Qin army will also let the recruits carry out wrestling, hand-to-hand combat, technical combat and juju training, etc., to enhance the soldiers' fighting ability, enhance physical strength, enhance the sense of teamwork, and wait until a year later, these soldiers will become qualified soldiers, and then they will choose whether to go to the frontier to expand the territory or go to Beijing to defend the emperor and expedition to other lands, at this time the Qin army is already a very elite army.

That is to say, the Qin army has a complete training system from recruits to elites, from group cooperation to military awareness to battlefield fighting, the Qin army has a very perfect training strategy, the trained soldiers are the national army, and the people responsible for training are also national institutions, and there is a set of written processes, which is very important, serving in the hometown, training in the local army, and then fighting in the regular army, all the way to become a national army and serve, no link can give the generals the possibility of incorporating the national army as a private soldier.

For example, the new army I am now commanding, the method of training is proposed by me, then I am responsible for training alone, and others do not know how to train, but I will make the law of training public, and the imperial court will set up a special training institution to recruit a large number of recruits to train, so with the same time, this training institution can train 50,000 troops for the use of peace, and these troops are all Ming, not the generals' private!

And the Qin army is the same as many armies, the commander only has the right to command the troops, but not the right to transfer troops, the right to transfer troops is in the hands of the emperor, the emperor issued a military talisman, the commander can take the army from the commander of the army, and return the talisman after the war, where the soldiers come from, where they go, the strength of the Qin army is not specially trained by a certain general, and there is no need for the run-in between the army and the generals, because all this is completed in training.

All soldiers are trained through the same training, individual differences will not make the whole have much impact, no matter what kind of commander, can command the same level of army to fight, which can better reflect the gap between generals, and it is precisely because of this complete military system that the Qin army can have a steady stream of elite soldiers into the battlefield, whether it is the battle of exterminating Chu or the battle of Changping, the Qin army has won to the end, so this is not so much the difference in combat effectiveness, the strength of the Qin army generals, It is better to say that it is the victory of the Qin military system.

In the same way, I also think that the military system of the Qin army also has a certain degree of reference significance in the Ming Dynasty, especially the system of the reserve army, which is a very good system, because the Ming Dynasty does not need all the people to be soldiers, and it can't afford to raise so many troops, so I think that the reserve army can be changed to the meaning of the militia, the reserve army is the militia, guarding in the hometown, and the standing army will take over the standing army to fight if it can't withstand it.

Of course, the reserve army also needs more training, so the Qin army trains for a month, we train for three months, the Qin army has a whole year of training in the back, we don't need a whole year, but after three years, it can also be close to the training level of the Qin army, at that time, every state and county in the Ming Dynasty has a considerable number of reserve troops that can fight, in addition to the standing army, the reserve army will also become a powerful force to deter bandits and bandits, and the local area can also have the ability to protect itself, the most important thing is that these are militias, and they need to farm when they are busy. Instead of a professional army, there is no question of local control of too much military power.

The main standing army of the Ming Dynasty can be selected from the existing army, all of them must be registered in the Beijing Division, disrupted and reorganized, and organized according to the new establishment, and then go to the five major military regions to take turns to defend it, every two or three years in rotation, once again disrupted and reorganized, and it is impossible to arrange for any place and who to keep guarding it, otherwise there will definitely be problems, what do you think? ”

After Zheng Guang finished speaking, he said, "What do you think", and immediately defeated Xu Pang, Xu Pang looked at Zheng Guang with a complicated face, and then said depressedly: "Are you sure you are not the reincarnation of Zheng Zhongwugong?" ”

Zheng Guang nodded with certainty: "No." ”

At the same time, Zheng Guang secretly said in his heart: "I am him." ”

Xu Pang couldn't hear Zheng Guang's heart, so he was naturally even more depressed, thought about it again, and said slowly: "It's not very convincing for you to write these now, after all, you don't have the experience of governing on a national scale, and rashly take out such a thing, I estimate that even Your Majesty will be scared, and then investigate what your intentions are, so, I suggest, you still don't take it out for the time being, you can write it out, make a reference, and when we have enough experience, take it out again, it won't seem so abrupt." ”

Xu Fat's words still made Zheng Guang feel a little, indeed, Xu Pang is quite right in some places, now he is a person, and it is true that he has made military achievements, but in the end he is still young, or even young, in the eyes of many people, he is a hairy child, but he is a bit more powerful in war, and he has not yet reached the level where he can talk about national affairs with those elite courtiers who are forty or fifty years old.

And this is how he can actually propose a nationwide military reform measure, who will believe it? No one is a fool or an idiot, you are already very surprised and brilliant when you give a training strategy, you still want to carry out military reform, Jinyiwei immediately arrested and interrogated!

"You're right, I'm a little in a hurry, it's just that the sooner we get these things done, the sooner the Ming Dynasty will get out of the southern and northern captives...... Alas...... "Zheng Guang also thought of his current situation, as well as the current environment, he is not even a jinshi, what qualifications do he have to write to the emperor?" It seems that it is still necessary to complete the road of the imperial examination as soon as possible and obtain a high ranking, so as to truly lay the foundation for the future.

At the juncture when Zheng Guang decided to immerse himself in studying and preparing for the exam, there was also a fierce debate within the imperial court, the topic of the debate was whether the Hetao should be recovered, and the reason for the debate was that the governor of the three sides had played a book to the emperor -- "Please Restore the Hetaoshu".

This book was seen by Xia Yan, the first assistant of the cabinet, after Xia Yan saw it, he was shocked, Zeng Milling put forward the arguments in the music is very reasonable, sincere, clear, very feasible, and Zeng Milling this person Xia Yan has also heard a little, Jinshi was born, strong character, in the early years in Shandong when he was very dissatisfied with the Mongols going south to loot every year, often when he heard these news, he was angry and couldn't eat or sleep, and thought about how to solve this scourge day and night.

His reputation was already very loud when he served in Shandong, and after he became the governor of the trilateral, he proved by his practical actions that his ability was worthy of his ambition, and repeatedly led his army to defeat the invasion of Alta, and invented new weapons in many ways, which made the Mongols suffer greatly.

He got out of what mines and time bombs, buried the mines in the places where the Mongols had to pass to enter the army, blew up the Mongols on their backs, wrapped the time bombs with colorful silk threads and threw them into the Mongol barracks, attracting a large number of Mongols to watch, and when the time came, the bombs exploded, and a large number of Mongols died.

The Mongols attacked the city, he set up a stage under the city, engaged in puppet shows, made a sound and colorful, under the stage was a time bomb, the city head secretly ambushed a large number of artillery, and when the Mongols approached to watch, the bombs exploded, the artillery rang out, the city gate opened, a large number of iron horsemen rushed out, and the Mongols suffered heavy losses......

There are countless such examples, because of Zeng Mill's talent, there has been no small group of Mongolian cavalry in his jurisdiction for a long time to dare to invade, and it is a large number of people who want to come, so there is a sense of security, but Zeng Milling is not idle, if you don't come, I will fight over, I can't sit here and wait for you to call, so the Mongols fell into blood mold, and in the years that Zeng Mill served, he was tossed by Zeng Mill and miserable.

And now, Zeng Milling can no longer be satisfied with a small fight, he is deeply aware that if the Hetao area that was once in the hands of the Ming Dynasty is recaptured, then the Ming Dynasty will have been trapped in the Mongolian iron cavalry, and can not take the initiative to counterattack, in order to achieve the goal, we must find ways to recover the Hetao, for this reason, he field investigation, design tactical tactics, spent several years, will be a complete set of tactical tactics designed, to the emperor requested, lead the troops to recover the Loop!