Chapter 40: On the Road
The first year of Jingding, 1260 A.D., February 22. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Wu Shaogang left Jiangxia Village and went to Lin'an, the capital.
Although it took less than half a year to cross, Wu Shaogang has basically adapted to this era, especially in the less than a month since he went home, he felt a lot, not only from the lower classes, but also from the upper classes, not only from the lower classes, but also from the upper class, the interaction between people, not so kind and naïve, even if it comes from relatives, there will be calculations, want to have a good foothold, the focus is to show their own ability, with both hands to create wealth and power, relying on themselves is the real guarantee.
It all poured into his mind and became a reference experience for the future.
On the whole, Wu Shaogang is still rational, and can even be said to be ruthless, he looks at the world with unusual eyes, in the eyes of special forces, the world is full of the law of the jungle, it is normal for the weak to eat the strong, if you have no ability and ability, it is difficult to gain a foothold in the world, then you can only stay at the bottom of the society honestly, suffer from the bullying and exploitation of others, once you have super ability, or even the ability to change the world, then you can safely reformulate the rules of the world.
Regardless of whether these understandings are correct or not, in short, all this has been embedded in Wu Shaogang's mind and is impossible to erase.
It was really time to leave, Wu Shaogang regained his rationality, abandoned many children's affections, and left his hometown to go to the capital, which is inevitable, since the reality is in front of him, then be ruthless and do what should be done.
After getting on the horse, Wu Shaogang did not look back and galloped forward.
Zhang Binghui and others followed behind him, not leaving a single step.
There are only eight days, from Jiangxia Village to Lin'an Capital, nearly 900 miles, which indicates that the daily journey will exceed 100 miles.
After a long period of exercise, Wu Shaogang's ability gradually recovered, although it was impossible to recover to the physique before the crossing due to physical limitations, but in this era, it is also a leader.
After all, he is only sixteen years old, and the gradual growth of his body is a natural law, and this law cannot be broken suddenly, so Wu Shaogang also accepted the reality and took his time step by step.
The climate has gradually warmed up, although there is still a howling north wind from time to time, but it is not so harsh, and the group is all sergeants, and during the march, they are already in the process of constant movement, so naturally they can't feel the cold.
From Luzhou Mansion all the way to the capital Lin'an, it belongs to the typical terrain of the south of the Yangtze River, which is reflected in the fact that there are many ditches, many water flows, and many muddy roads, which is a great test for Wu Shaogang and others who are in a hurry.
Wu Shaogang actually regarded this rush as an intensive training.
From the moment he returned to his hometown, Wu Shaogang's devil training method had begun to be implemented, and Zhang Binghui and others all deeply felt it, and Wu Shaogang himself insisted on this so-called devil training.
Running 20 miles with weights every morning, no matter whether it is windy or rainy, it can not be interrupted, and the weight-bearing running training of 10 miles every night is also non-stop, each person has sandbags tied to their legs and hands, and the weight has reached 20 catties.
Horseback riding was regarded as a very common thing, but Wu Shaogang's requirements were different, that is, he must be able to stretch his bow and arrows on the back of a galloping horse, and be able to basically hit the target.
As for the spear and the Song hand knife, it is even more demanding, the spear practice is the action of assassination, it looks very simple, there are not many fancy movements, and the speed of the robbery is required to be faster and faster, the Song hand knife is the action of slashing, no other additional actions are allowed, and the speed also needs to be faster and faster.
Wu Shaogang's request is that Zhang Binghui and other five people must be proficient in swords, guns, bows, arrows, bows and crossbows.
In fact, in the process of training, the most difficult is Wu Shaogang himself, the training of knives and guns and horseback riding, he also occupies some advantages, because the coordination and flexibility of the body can be properly mediated, coupled with the training concept brought by the crossing, as well as the understanding of the body structure, so that he can improve the training skills and master many abilities faster.
But when it comes to archery, it's hard to say.
Everyone knows that superb and superb archery ability can not be practiced overnight, Wu Shaogang, who crossed over, has never touched bows and arrows and crossbows before, you must know that after a thousand years, these things are almost eliminated in actual combat, and among the special forces, there are very few people who specialize in practice, but it is not common.
In terms of archery, all Wu Shaogang can do is shoot the bow and arrow, and the rest is not capable.
So when training archery, Wu Shaogang suffered too much.
In order to quickly improve the hit rate of archery, Wu Shaogang once adopted an extreme training method, that is, he tied stones to his left and right arms, and then raised his bow and arrow to shoot at a certain target.
When raising the bow and arrow, it is necessary to balance for at least two minutes before it can be fired.
This kind of training made Wu Shaogang almost collapse.
The effect of extreme training is still there, at least Wu Shaogang's shooting rate has been greatly improved, but compared with those who are skilled in archery, there is still too big a gap.
Wu Shaogang actually understands that nothing can be done overnight, and there are differences in personality between each person, and it is impossible for someone to be proficient in everything.
The outside world has a big misunderstanding of special forces, that is, they think that special forces are omnipotent, proficient in everything, and film and television also react, but as a special forces instructor, Wu Shaogang is very clear that the only common characteristics of special forces are endurance, perseverance and super physical strength, that is to say, the basic quality of special forces is about the same, and if you can't reach that level of basic quality, it is impossible to enter the team of special forces.
Once they enter the team, in addition to the intensive training on weekdays, the instructors also need to conduct targeted training according to the strengths of each special force to highlight the combat capability of a certain aspect.
Special forces operations are not completely alone, teamwork is very important, so that each special forces can give full play to their strongest ability, so that the ultimate goal of training is to let everyone in the team, when performing tasks, learn from each other's strengths and weaknesses, to ensure the successful completion of combat tasks.
This is the true meaning of special forces operations.
If you want every special soldier to become a god, know everything, know everything, and withstand the rain of bullets, you can take the head of a general among thousands of troops, which is a beautiful myth.
Wu Shaogang was very patient with the training of Zhang Binghui and others, and the goal he wanted to achieve was to let Zhang Binghui and others at least be familiar with swords, guns, bows, arrows, bows and crossbows, and when fighting on the battlefield, no matter what weapons they had in their hands, they could use them and put the other party to death.
As for the training in tactical literacy, Wu Shaogang did not implement it for the time being, and he saw that the cultural level of Zhang Binghui and others was obviously insufficient, and this was a huge shortcoming; although they had super tactical literacy, they were not necessarily people with a high level of education, but people with insufficient cultural level had a very low probability of becoming famous generals.
Wu Shaogang had a strong sense of crisis, and in the near future, his opponent was likely to be the Mongol Tatars, that is, the Yuan army.
The fame of the Yuan army in history is huge, not only sweeping the Central Plains, but even sweeping Eurasia, the iron cavalry of the Yuan army, known as invincible in the world, extremely strong in combat effectiveness, Genghis Khan, the founder of the Great Yuan Dynasty, is respected by countless people.
To be an enemy of such an army, if it does not have super combat capability, it is tantamount to death.
Of course, Wu Shaogang, who was a special forces instructor before the crossing, would not be completely superstitious about the combat effectiveness of the Yuan army.
The Mongols live in the steppe, limited by the natural environment, the population density is very low, even after a thousand years, and the army composed of the Mongols is naturally extremely limited in terms of numbers, which makes the Yuan army's real Mongolian iron cavalry, the number of people cannot be too much.
The composition of the vast majority of the Yuan army was still the Han army, which included two parts, one part was the Jin soldiers who surrendered from the destroyed Jin Dynasty, and the other part was the soldiers who surrendered in the Southern Song Dynasty.
For example, Meng Ge, the former Great Khan of Mongolia, led an army of 150,000 to prepare to take Sichuan in one fell swoop, and among the 150,000 troops, the elite Mongolian army was less than 20,000, and the rest were almost all new annexes.
The Southern Song Dynasty court, which was in a corner of the country, was still quite impressive in terms of the number of troops, and the three Ya armies composed of the palace front division, the guard horse soldier division, and the guard infantry division, as well as the ten imperial armies distributed in Sichuan and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, had a total strength of nearly 400,000 people, and the equipment was not too bad.
It's a pity that these armies, when they faced the Yuan army, ended up in a complete defeat.
In terms of the individual combat ability of the sergeant, there may be a certain gap, but it is not a complete defeat in every battle.
After less than half a year, Wu Shaogang finally understood the root cause of this.
The emperor and the court of the Southern Song Dynasty were all in a corner of peace, fond of pleasure, the pursuit of extravagant life, such an atmosphere, how could it not affect the army, and every time the battle, the commander of the army was sent by the emperor and the court, these commanders, thinking of not how to defeat the opponent, full of peace is blessing, pleasure is the top.
If you go to fight under such circumstances, it will be a miracle if you don't fail.
To put it bluntly, the army of the Southern Song Dynasty lacked the most important thing, which was the military soul.
The military soul represents iron and blood, courage, and indomitable, and the core of all of this boils down to being that soldiers are not afraid of death, and in order to win the battle, no matter how much it costs, they must persevere.
Civil officials don't love money, military generals are not afraid of death, why worry about the world is not peaceful.