Because of Fan Zeng's "resurrection from the dead", Xiang Zhuang's mood today can be described as excellent, just now was so messed up by the broken army, Xiang Zhuang's mood is getting better and better, and when he was about to go to Yingzhen's dormitory to make up for sleep, Bai Lixian walked in with two test papers and shook a feather fan.

"Is the second military exam over?" Xiang Zhuang said that he turned his head and looked at the sky outside the window, wasn't it evening?

Bai Lixian arched his hand towards Xiang Zhuang with a feather fan and test papers, and handed one of the test papers to Xiang Zhuang, and said, "King, you take a look at this answer sheet first." ”

Xiang Zhuang took the answer sheet, only to see Xu Jiang's name written on the title of the paper.

"Xu Jiang?" Xiang Zhuang remembered it and asked Baili Xiandao, "It's the Xu Jiang who came from Lujiang and played against Bi Shu in the Qingfeng Chess House last night but lost in the middle of the game, right?" ”

Bai Lixian smiled and said, "It's this person, the king might as well take a look at his answer sheet." ”

Xiang Zhuang opened the answer sheet, the first question is the silent writing question of the tenth article of "The Forty-two Articles of Wei Xuanzi", Xu Jiang's answer is not bad, although there are a few fallacies, but it is generally not bad, which can at least show that Xu Jiang has read through "Wei Xuanzi" no less than 100 times, otherwise it is impossible to write silently to this extent.

Then there are two answers to actual combat examples, although the tactics proposed by Xu Jiang are slightly conservative, but they can be regarded as decent, at least in general, they can be classified into the category of prudence, and the last question "On the Chu Army", Xu Jiang also did not put forward any new views, but generally discussed the possibility of training elite soldiers and improving equipment.

After reading the answer sheet, Xiang Zhuang nodded and said, "Well, it can be regarded as a talent that can be created, if you can experience a few years in the army." This Xu Jiang must be on the next level in terms of vision and ability, so let's not be a student from Lujiang, wait for all eight subjects to be examined, and let him go back to Lujiang. Let's join the army under the high school account. ”

Bai Lixian shook the feather fan, and gave Xiang Zhuang a thumbs up, saying, "The king is wise." ”

Several generals under the command of Xiang Zhuang, although Pang Yu is young, he has both wisdom and bravery, and he is calm and has the style of a general, not to mention the self-inflicted self-destruction, there is no lack of ruthlessness in calmness, and there is no lack of determination and forge ahead in prudence, only Gao Chu is the most courageous among the three. But it is also the easiest to brew a fiasco due to recklessness, and it is undoubtedly excellent if there is a cautious personality to join the army and remind him from time to time in front of the account.

"King, look at this answer sheet again." After Xiang Zhuang put down Xu Jiang's answer sheet, Bai Lixian handed over another copy.

Xiang Zhuang took the answer sheet again and unfolded it, but the title was written in regular letters with two very neat words "Bishu", speaking of which, among the tens of thousands of students who came to Wuzhong to take the exam. Most people didn't know about the existence of regular script before, but after only a few days of exposure to regular script in Wuzhong, these students quickly accepted the neat and easy-to-write regular script font.

The first question is still the silent writing of the tenth article of Wei Yuzi, and I saw that the handwriting was neat and tidy, and the pen force penetrated the back of the paper. What is particularly rare is that there is not a single fallacy in the whole text, which cannot be done by simply reading through it hundreds of times, and it is necessary to have a deep enough understanding of the art of war to be able to write silently to this extent.

Xiang Zhuang smiled slightly and said, "Ziliang, Bi Shu's attitude is very correct today?" ”

Bai Lixian shook his feather fan and said, "King, now it looks like yesterday the Legalist exam. The reason why Bi Shu didn't answer seriously, as well as what he said and did in the Qingfeng Chess House, including the destruction of Da Chu twice in a row in the National Destruction Chess, was all deliberate, he just wanted to see if the king had a mind, bearing, and elegance. ”

"It's not that simple." Xiang Zhuang waved his hand and said, "If the Chu State does not have enough manpower and national strength. No matter how open-minded a widow is, no matter how generous he is, and no matter how elegant he is, Bi Shu is afraid that he will not take it to heart, and it is impossible for him to stay to assist the widow. After all, it was the game with Yafu yesterday that touched him. ”…,

Bai Lixian thought so. The reason why he and many old Qin clans chose to follow Xiang Zhuang in adversity is because Xiang Zhuang believes in the system of cultivation and warfare, and respects the Qin law, and Bi Shu studied under Guiguzi, and what he learned is the way of the king, if Xiang Zhuang can't become the emperor's hegemony, Bi Shu will certainly not stay.

Then there is the solution of actual combat examples, one of which is as follows: How to drag down 50,000 Han troops with 5,000 Chu troops in the terrain of mountains, forests and narrow valleys?

Previously, Xu Jiang's answer was to choose the most dangerous place to stick to the village, although this method is safe, although cautious, but it seems a little too conservative, once it is really fortified, it will make the five thousand Chu army fall into the predicament of being beaten passively, and the Han army may also surprise the army to attack behind the Chu army, then the trouble will be big.

Bi Shu's answer is much bolder and more in line with Xiang Zhuang's preferences.

Bi Shu believes that there is no pass in the world that cannot be broken, the Han army has an absolute superiority in strength, if the Chu army blindly defends, it will never be able to defend, so the Chu army can only take the initiative to attack, only the attack is the best defense, the Chu army should be endless, elusive attacks to drag the Han army, so that it is difficult to move an inch.

Specific to the details, Bi Shu also formulated a set of strict tactics, ambush, fire attack, falling rocks, night attack are designed, Bi Shu even designed a set of night communication methods in the mountains, and when he was in Dabie Mountain, Xiang Zhuang and Wei Yi envisioned the beacon fire gathering technique has the same magic.

Seeing Xiang Zhuang's strange expression, Bai Lixian smiled and said: "King, when I first saw this answer sheet, the minister was really a little skeptical, did Bi Shu also participate in the original battle of Dabie Mountain?" In other words, this Bi Shu is simply a disciple of the old military master, and his answer is strikingly similar to your tactical thinking. ”

Xiang Zhuang nodded awe-inspiring and said, "I can't see it, this Bishu is really expected." ”

Xiang Zhuang originally thought that even though Bi Shu studied under Guiguzi, he was just a fledgling hairy young man after all, who had neither led soldiers nor fought in battles, and if he really wanted to go to the battlefield, he would not show his timidity in battle, at least he would need time to grow up slowly, right? But now it seems that this guy is probably a real military genius!

In history, there seems to be no shortage of such figures, Huo Qubing was only eighteen years old and was able to lead the army into Mobei for thousands of miles, and the Huns were defeated, and Lu Xun of Sun Wu of the Three Kingdoms, a white-clothed scholar actually defeated Guan Yu, who had experienced a hundred battles, before these two were born, they seemed to be fledgling hairy boys, right?

Finally, "On the Chu Army", a big topic specially set up by Bailixian in order to select talents.

When he first saw this military test paper, Xiang Zhuang did not think that anyone among the students who took the test could hand over a satisfactory answer sheet on this big question, but now, Bi Shu really handed over an answer sheet that impressed Xiang Zhuang.

Among them, "abolishing Shiqing Shilu and rewarding military merits" is actually the content of the cultivation and warfare system, and there is nothing new, but the latter half of the sentence "abolishing more soldiers and implementing military tun" has greatly touched Xiang Zhuang.

The so-called more soldiers, in fact, is that all the people are soldiers, the state stipulates that all men who have reached the age of 16 must take turns to serve, which is called a guard, as for the soldiers, in fact, it is to let the men who serve in the Yao service join the army, and the soldiers are mandatory, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are willing or unwilling, you must enlist.

Bi Shu mentioned in "On the Chu Army" that due to the compulsion of changing the number of soldiers, the composition of the army is uneven, and the uneven quality of the soldiers seriously restricts the training intensity of the army. ..., Xiang Zhuang can be said to have deep feelings about this.

When the wild horse was in danger, the five thousand Chu troops were also mixed, but Xiang Zhuang brutally eliminated the old, weak, sick and disabled through the most direct and fierce way of long-distance and rapid marching, thereby improving the overall quality of the Chu army and ensuring the overall combat strength of the Chu army, which led to the subsequent brilliant victories again and again.

Therefore, the abolition of the guards and servants is absolutely necessary and urgent!

In fact, if it weren't for the more urgent need to implement the law of arranging households and the people, the Xintian law, and the Shinong Industry and Commerce Division, and the need to carry out a series of military reforms and legal preparations after the abolition of the system of changing pawns and serving soldiers, Xiang Zhuang would probably have issued an edict to comprehensively implement the military reform in the Chu State.

And Bi Shu's proposal of "implementing the military tun" made Xiang Zhuang even more secretly frightened.

The military tun mentioned by Bi Shu is not a military tun in a simple sense, a simple military tun, in fact, it is to recruit the guards and servants together, there are wars, there are no battles to farm, that's all, and the military tun system mentioned in Bi Shuwen is almost the prototype of the government military system implemented in the Sui and Tang dynasties in later generations.

First of all, not all strong men are eligible to participate in the military camp.

Bi Shu believes that special institutions should be set up in each county to be responsible for the selection of strong men, and only strong men who are physically strong and free of diseases are eligible to be selected, and once selected, the strong men and their families will be moved to the military tun land for centralized resettlement and become the state's reserve military households, and the reserve military households can be allocated a fixed amount of land property, and can also be exempted from land taxes.

Of course, it is not that you can sit back and relax if you become a reserve military household, once the strong man in the household is disabled or killed in battle, the reserve military household must be sent back to its original place of residence, and those who have war merits can also get the title, and receive Lu Mi from the local government, if there is no war merit, then there is nothing, although this is cruel, but it is also necessary.

Military households enjoy the benefits of tax exemption, so they must bear the corresponding risks.

In addition, in addition to the busy agricultural season, the reserve military households need to maintain strict training in peacetime, and the armor and weapons needed for combat are also funded by the military households themselves, and are responsible for repairing, once the war breaks out, the country can quickly gather enough well-trained elite soldiers, then the Chu army is invincible before the battle!

"Great talent!" Xiang Zhuang closed the answer sheet and said, "Bishu is a great talent!" ”

After saying this, Xiang Zhuang's eyes suddenly revealed a cold murderous intent, and Sen Ran said: "Ziliang, if this person can't be used by my Da Chu, he must choose the opportunity to punish him!" (To be continued.) )