Chapter 494: The Official Words of the Tang Dynasty Expectation
On the second day of Chongyang, after the court, Li Chen went to the school to watch the drill of the new army. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info But because of a lot of thoughts in his heart, when he arrived at the school, he thought of it, can he promote musket shooting in Datang? In the salute, the musket is used instead of the bow and arrow?
However, if you think about it, there is still some danger in opening the musket. Besides, practicing bows and arrows can also be used for fitness, while muskets are not so effective. Thirdly, anyway, the bow and arrow shoot accurately, with that foundation, joining the army, practicing muskets is also very fast, there is really no need to change bows and arrows to muskets.
At this time, the new army on the school field was sweating like rain, constantly carrying out all kinds of exercises, and at present, it was only a queue training, and it took a lot of energy to train in such a queue alone.
At the beginning, Gao Biao brought back those soldiers, and now they are serving as small squad leaders and big captains as usual. However, this establishment is a bit large, more than the original team should have, because the rest of the Shence Left Army is still on the way, and when they come back, these extra troops will be reorganized.
If there is any difference between this conscription and the previous ones, it is that many of these recruits come from different places. Li Chen's conscription this time was so extensive that he had to recruit troops in areas that the imperial court could still control.
Unlike before, it was usually a single place. Some of these soldiers came from Shudide, Longxide, Guanzhong, Yangzhou, and even Luoyang.
The soldiers came from all over the world, and their accents were even more indistinct, making it difficult for them to understand the orders. After correcting for a long time, they finally learned to listen to orders. Now he also understands why it is easy for ancient armies to form warlords.
Although there are many reasons for this, Li Chen said that there is a problem, usually where is the commander of an army, and most of the troops are recruited from there. Or, the Lord will set his sights on who he will recruit from.
The reason is very simple, the accent is a major problem, when recruiting Shu soldiers, I encountered this kind of problem, and now people are from all over the world, and the accents are even more different from each other, Li Chen also broke them up and mixed them. It adds a lot of trouble. When I first recruited, there were many people who fought because of their accents. Many people have only settled down a lot after being locked up in a small black room, but there are rumors of conflicts from time to time.
Well, you say, there was no official language in the Tang Dynasty? It would be nice to speak the official language in a unified manner. I'm sorry, but the Tang Dynasty got the official words, not for people. Wrong, to be precise, not for ordinary people.
The official language of the Tang Dynasty is really [official] language, only officials can speak it, and ordinary people don't say this. Unlike the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Chongba directly regarded his accent, the accent of his hometown in Fengyang, as an official dialect. The Qing Dynasty was the north. Peking dialect.
What about the Tang Dynasty? The official dialect is based on a book, cut rhyme, and become obtained. It's not that the old Li family started with a Guanzhong accent. Speaking of which, in the Guanlong area, there are obviously two generations of royals, and the Yang family of the Sui Dynasty is also from the Guanlong Group, but it is always regarded as a representative of no culture, which is too vulgar.
Although the Guanlong Group can fight, it was only because of the relatively backward culture that the Northern Zhou Dynasty split out. Even if you win the world, those literati can still despise you culturally. Like the early Tang Dynasty, the fame of the world's families was arranged, and the Li family was ranked behind, which made Li Shimin very unhappy. Don't look at you to win the world, literati always have a way to despise you.
Well, Guan Long's accent is not good. There are the so-called five surnames in the north, the Lu family, the Cui family and the like, which are prominent surnames in the Sui and Tang dynasties, even if they are suppressed, they are still big families. What about their accents?
still can't get on the stage, maybe not on the surface, in fact, I still have an inferiority complex in my heart. Because when the Jin family crossed to the east, some big families followed, and all the small families remained. Even if the Southern Dynasty was conquered in the end, some southern clans, such as Zhu Zhang and Gu Lu, still dared to despise the northerners.
Finally, on a dark and windy night, a group of drunken literati who drank too much and started a drunken maniac literati compiled a book of cut rhymes, which became the official language.
In fact, in the Sui Dynasty, there were many books about phonology. However, one day, several literati gathered at Lu Shuang's house to drink, drank too much, and went crazy.
People are literati who initiate drunkenness, and they are also very elegant. They began to discuss the contemporary accents, and they were embarrassed, thinking that the modern accents had changed their tunes, and they didn't rhyme when they read ancient poems. Then he began to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each rhyme book.
In the end, Lu Shuang found his son Lu Fayan to make a record and record the things discussed today. And Lu Fayan, after more than ten years, slowly consulted some people, and gradually completed the book. Originally, he tried to use it as an heirloom, but he didn't know when it was passed on, and finally it became an official rhyme book, and even continued until modern times, even if the modern accent has long been far from that era, it has always been officially recognized orthodoxy, and it has been added to it throughout the ages.
Oh, by the way, I haven't said it for a long time, what kind of words is this rhyme? In fact, although it is said to be retro and the ancient Chinese accent is restored, in fact, at that time, everyone's accent was spent, and the north was Huhua, and the south was also razed.
Because they migrated to the south and mingled with the local people, even if the southern families thought they had mastered the orthodox Dehe Luoyin, they all deteriorated at that time. So, in the end, I tossed out a set of things that almost no one had ever said. With the southward migration family mastering the Luoxia language and Luoyang official dialect, referring to the current Huhua accent in Luoyang, a set of rhyme books for scholars was determined.
This language is somewhat similar to modern Hokkien, Cantonese, and Hakka. It should be said that these languages retain some of the pronunciation of the Heluo dialect of the Tang Dynasty, but they are all mixed with the local Yimin accent.
So, it's a bit difficult to say that you can use this set of books to promote the official language. Finally, the unified military accent is based on the Guanzhong area and the Guanlong accent. After all, at the beginning, it was recruited as a child of Guanzhong. Later, although many Shu people were recruited as soldiers, the instructors were still those people.
Any soldier must understand the orders pronounced in the Guanlong accent, anyway, in the army, there are only those passwords that are really used, which can be represented by flags, not to mention language.
After the initial confusion, the Forces nouvelles are now in full swing training. Some people are walking in the queue, and the situation of leaving left and right is not a problem at all compared to language.
The other part is practicing spearmanship. I will practice this because the bayonet was also invented. The appearance of the bayonet means that the musket can be protected from other arms and become an independent army, and it is no longer the kind of army that requires the cooperation of the long mao hand, or needs to be equipped with a waist knife.
There are several keys to bayonet, one of which is that the steel must pass. Otherwise, the bayonet would only kill the soldiers. Secondly, it is necessary to have at least a certain degree of accuracy. At present, Datang uses a tenon on the top of the musket, which can be consistent with the end of the bayonet. Aligned, loaded, and with one turn, it can be fixed on the top of the musket without affecting the shot.
The bayonet appeared very early in China, and it is said that in the Ming Dynasty, a short grass was inserted into the musket for assassination. In the West, however, records were first used more than 100 years later. However, it is strange that the Chinese have never developed bayonets that can shoot or fight.
In European countries, it was probably not until the middle of the seventeenth century that there was an official record of the use of bayonets. Prior to this, it had always been Changmao who fought with the musketeers, most notably the Spanish phalanx.
By the end of the 17th century, the cartridge stinger was developed over the barrel, which officially marked the widespread use of muskets. More than ten years later, at the beginning of the eighteenth century, the French and the Prussian army fought, the French army charged with bayonets for the first time, and after defeating the Prussian army, the bayonet was widely used in muskets, and Changmao officially withdrew from the stage of history.
The Tang Army was the same, originally Li Chen replaced the Mo Dao Formation with a spear, and used a combination of crossbows, spears and swords and shields to establish a new Tang Army. However, the development of muskets has made great leaps and bounds, making this change very unnecessary.
However, fortunately, the efforts were not in vain, Li Chen was so optimistic that he comforted himself, anyway, the spear is a thorn, and the bayonet is also a thorn, and the training of the spear was not in vain. There is also queue training, and there are requirements for discipline, and it is not a day job.
Of course, the most important thing is to inculcate the national spirit, so that the soldiers know why and why they are fighting. It's an attempt. Try to see if the Tang people, under his influence, can build an army similar to the modern one, with an idea on the tip of the gun. Now it seems to be very successful.
Now those soldiers can just become seeds, and after the expansion of the army, it is just right to pass on this small flame to others.
'Saint. ''General Shilao. Li Chen came to the school and did not notify anyone, but he still alarmed Shi Xiong, who was in charge of the drill, and came to Li Chen to greet him. Li Chen was quite worried about his body, and it was getting worse and worse when he came in.
To tell the truth, if it were not for him and Liu Wei, two veterans, the Shence Left Army would not have been established at the beginning. Li Chen is just a winner on paper, although Xiaohu and they have been in the Shence Left Army for a period of time and have read some military books, but if they really let them practice on their own, they want to train a strong army, which is impossible.
Thanks to the two veteran generals, according to their years of rich experience, they picked up the gaps and filled in the gaps, so that the Shence Left Army quickly became an army. Now, Liu Wei has passed away, and Shi Xiong's health is also poor, Li Chen is very worried about who will preside over after the two are gone.
"The old general take care of himself, Xiaohu and they are coming back soon, in the future, these things will be left to them to do, the old general is this army has to be the god of the sea." Li Chen said.
'Haha, it's okay, it's okay, the eldest husband was born as a horse leather shroud, and now I, a veteran, can't go to the battlefield, and it's not bad if I can die in the new army. Shi Xiong laughed heartily, although his voice was weak, but it still exuded a majesty, like an old lion.
Shi Xiong was unimpressed and continued to accompany Li Chen to visit the new army in training. It's autumn, and the weather is still cool today, but the soldiers in training, each sweating profusely, has to take bayonets, stab the dummy in front of them, sometimes stab, sometimes under the instructor's command, and retreat.
If it really wasn't that he couldn't throw it away, Li Chen wouldn't let Shi Xiong go out of the mountain, not to mention anything else, just taking this bayonet technique as an example, it was the old general who took a cadre of technical masters in the army and fixed it. According to their rich experience in battlefield fighting, combined with bayonets, they developed bayonet techniques that can be applied to various situations, with a total of 32 moves. At present, on the school field, the recruits sweat and practice hard to achieve these thirty-two styles.
In addition to the bayonet, there is also the horizontal knife technique, which cannot be used in order to prevent the bayonet from breaking, or it is too late to install the bayonet at close range, or in hand-to-hand combat in extremely small places. Each had two bayonets and a mosher knife. As for the shield, it is still kept, but not everyone will equip it.
Probably the original sword and shield soldiers of the Shence Army will be retained, and now it is not the kind of later generations, the era of comprehensive firearms, and there may be opportunities for close white soldiers and chaotic battles, in order to prevent this situation, plus it has been practiced for so long anyway, it is a pity to waste the mentality, in the new army, there are still sword and shield soldiers. Depending on the situation, maybe it will be eliminated slowly in the future.
After this, you can hear the continuous thumping sound in the distance, this is live-fire training. Musketeers can only be trained with a large amount of live ammunition. Of course, Li Chen did not hesitate. However, these are veterans. Only veterans have the opportunity to shoot live ammunition, and those recruits, let's practice the queue and bayonet skills first.
In the past, the sound was louder, this was a cannon, dozens of cannons, shining in the school field, and in front of it was a bunch of recruits, nervously practicing various actions to fire cannons. First of all, you have to train hard, so that they can close their eyes, and they can complete the complete launch process before they can be qualified.
However, artillery is the same as musketeers. It takes a lot of practice. Li Chen didn't save this anymore. After a few drills, there will be a real shot.
After walking around, Li Chen was very satisfied. Everybody's working hard. Even the veterans are no exception, because it's about their treatment.
For Gao Biao, in the army, there is no clear hierarchy, so when there is a chaotic war, the commander is killed, and it is too late to make up for it, and they often fight separately.
In this regard, Li Chende responded by trying to divide the level by skill. Li Chen also forgot where to see, using skills to divide the ranks of soldiers, the higher the skills, the better the treatment.
When promoting junior officers, skills are also used as a reference. On the battlefield, if there is a scuffle, or if the commander is killed, the high-skilled soldier will automatically take over the command. There are various comparisons, so that there will be no appearance, and no one will accept the situation.
'Old General, let's go and see the military academy. Without alarming more people, Li Chen finished watching the drill for recruits, and the number of recruits is not enough at present, and soldiers from recruitment stations in various places will be sent to him. Next, he asked Shi Xiong to take him on a tour of the military academy.
He set up a military school, the Tang Military Academy, which is also in charge of Shi Xiong, and everyone knows what it is used for.
The students inside are of different ages. In addition to the children who came out of the nursing home, there were also some recruits in the Shence Left Army who had a relatively good level of literacy and had made meritorious contributions, and were promoted to schools for training.
The military academy had to be established, and Li Chen had greater expectations. (To be continued.) )