"Meet the general, I wonder what else the general called me for?" He Baichao was sitting with a sad brow, and He Jin bowed deeply.

Today is August 15, and the Mid-Autumn Festival has not yet begun to become a festival and is well remembered. However, it is recorded in the "Book of Rites": "The Son of Heaven is the spring sunrise, and the autumn sunset moon", and the sunset moon is to sacrifice the moon. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, the emperor had already begun to worship the moon and worship the moon.

Later, aristocratic officials and literati followed suit, and gradually spread to the people, and there was a faint sense of reunion. Therefore, He Jin specially recalled He Xian and He Bai from the West Garden today to have a banquet together. After the banquet, He Xian went to find his beloved wife to contact his feelings, and He Bai was left by He Jin in the garden of the mansion to enjoy the moon together.

He Jin waved his hand and invited He Bai to sit down before he said: "It's not very important, it's just that you and Xian'er are going to go to Qingzhou, and I don't feel at ease, so I summoned you to come and ask." Is the expedition all ready? ”

He Bai said: "Returning to the general, there are a total of 2,000 soldiers on this expedition, 3,100 auxiliary soldiers, 500 craftsmen, 5,500 people, 4,500 war horses, 3,300 pack horses, 3,000 carts, two sets of weapons and armor per pawn, and enough food and grass for half a month. All preparations have been made for the expedition. ”

Without fighting, I don't know the size of the army, but the army of 5,100 people is carried by 3,000 carts. Add to that the number of 11,100 men and 7,800 horses of all kinds, and I am afraid that we will have to drag out a procession twenty or thirty miles long. If the road is not easy to walk, the front and rear teams will at least drag out a distance of 100 miles.

No wonder the ancients often said that there are thousands of soldiers at once, and there is no boundless. At this time, the army was only half and 5,000 men, and it had such a large scale. If 100,000 troops are sent, what kind of scale will it be? What is the size of the million-strong army?

Under the limitations of ancient communication technology and military training command technology, not to mention hundreds of thousands of troops, even an army of 100,000 people can make the command system nearly paralyzed. The distance and tactics are difficult to match, so that so many people simply cannot exert their due combat effectiveness, but will also increase the risk of logistical pressure and morale.

Ancient military training often relied on individual generals, and the formation orders were different, such as Qi Jiguang's training of Qi's army, and its mandarin duck formation was not understood by other Ming troops. In this way, when the armies of the South China Sea and the North of the Sea are gathered together, it will be difficult for them to effectively coordinate their operations, and they will only be scattered and unable to make up effective combat effectiveness.

It seems that a generally cautious military general would not do such a stupid thing. In a decisive battle, an army of 30,000 or 50,000 men is often dispatched at most, and the number of people is enough to reach 100,000 people.

From this point of view, in ancient China, there were several general battles at the level of a million army, and there should have been a lot of water at that time. Even if the numbers are not bad, I'm afraid that they are also regular soldiers, auxiliary soldiers, and civilian husbands. Just as an army, it can be called an army of 10,000...... No, the army is all elite, including the regular soldiers and auxiliaries, all have horses to ride, even if they are counted as 20,000 troops.

He Bai has always thought that his strategy is average and his command is average, and he is afraid that he is not the opponent of the well-known generals at this time. But after leading the army for a long time, it was found that even if the famous generals at this time were stronger than their own abilities, the quality of the soldiers under their command was only far inferior.

It is important to know that later countries have established their own unified and standardized military training disciplines, and use these codes to train non-commissioned officers in the army and military academies, and the non-commissioned officers are responsible for training recruits. So the soldiers can receive exactly the same training wherever they are, so that when they are assembled, they can easily cooperate with each other. And the professional non-commissioned officers provide the possibility of a large number of troops to work together.

Although his own ability is average, he is very familiar with the unified and standardized rules of military training and discipline in later generations. For example, the private soldiers in Changshan and Zhongshan counties were all formed by combining unified post-generation cohort training and cold weapon drills. The whole up and down are unified, the orders are the same, and there is no unsatisfactory between the front and back, the left and right advances and retreats, that is, they will be scattered and reorganized at will, and the generals can also command the battle with ease, which is the strength of their own private soldiers.

In the case of individual combat, an army under the West Garden may be able to fight two or three of He's private soldiers, but in the battle of one tun and one song, the Xiyuan army is afraid that it will not be able to easily defeat He's private soldiers. If the whole army is fighting, even though the Xiyuan army is the elite of the whole country, and there are countless sophisticated weapons and armor, I am afraid that the private soldiers with the He family are only half a catty and eight taels.

With these realizations, He Bai was full of hope for his future. He already has strong soldiers in hand, even if his ability is slightly worse, he can compete with Wei Wu, Zhou Yu, Zhuge Liang, Sima Yi, Lu Xun and others. No, maybe his opponents are only Wei Wu Cao Cao and Zhou Yu, and the other three are afraid that before they leave the mountain, the world will be unified.

After He Bai finished reporting to He Jin, He Jin nodded again and again and praised: "I don't expect that among the descendants of my He family, there is a famous general like you, who organizes the things in the army clearly, and arranges the heavy grain and grass properly." It is necessary to know that there are people who charge into battle and plan strategies, and being proficient in such mundane affairs is the cause of victory for a large army. ”

He Bai said: "Thank you for the praise of the general, I have just been a little more careful and know a little more about the affairs in the army." I also like to sort out the things that need to be done clearly and clearly, so that I can do whatever I want in the future. ”

He Jin nodded and praised: "Only when you know the other can you not slack off in a hundred battles." Tianming can know that it has been, and it will be invincible in the first place. Tianming can have such a talent, I am very relieved. And Tianming really treats Xian'er as a brother. I just saw that Xian'er had followed you for less than two months, and the whole person had changed a lot, not only was his body much stronger, but he also acted much neatly, and he was quite heroic, and I was very happy. In the future, if Xian'er becomes a talent, it will be all due to Tianming. ”

In the later generations, no matter whether the good or the bad, the strong or the weak, as long as they enter the army, there will be great changes. He Bai has nothing else to do in the past two months, except for intensive training, that is, to pay close attention to the issues of work style, discipline and ideological education. In later generations, work style, discipline, and ideological education were the magic weapons for an army to win.

The spirit of absolute loyalty, the spirit of selfless dedication, the spirit of heroic and tenacious, the spirit of dedication, the spirit of close unity, the spirit of strict discipline, the spirit of hard work, the spirit of vigorous and resolute action, the spirit of hard study, and the spirit of continuous innovation. These ten spirits, in addition to his own private soldiers, He Bai also firmly reflected these spirits into the army of Xiyuan.

He Bai believes that the combat power of the Xiyuan army at this time has only increased by half compared to this time last year. After adding a good queue training, even if the combat effectiveness is doubled, He Bai dares to boast. He Xian followed through the assessment of style and discipline and the improvement of his thinking, and it is not surprising that he has changed. Even the thorn Zhang Zhang was also convinced of He Bai's complete five-body throw, not to mention He Xian, who was only a little white.

He Bai also praised He Xian: "Ziquan is brilliant in literature and is an excellent scribe. Nowadays, in the army, he exercises and trains with the non-commissioned officers, shares weal and woe, and never slacks off as the son of a general, and it is natural for him to grow. I believe that in less than two years, Ziquan will grow into a talented person in both civil and military affairs. ”

"Hahaha......" He Jin laughed happily and said: "I have a nephew Tianming, and it is really my great luck to ......"

The two talked happily for a long time, and He Jin asked: "A few days ago, Yuan Benchu forced the Empress Dowager to remove the eunuchs, and ordered Ding Yuan, the commander of the Assassin of Bingzhou, and Wu Mengdu Lieutenant Ding Yuan to burn Mengjin, and the fire illuminated the Beijing Division, and even led 3,000 cavalry to Luoyang City to kill the eunuchs, but this matter has been stopped by the Queen Mother, and Ding Yuan was turned to Jinwu. In addition to the matter of the eunuch, I already feel that the situation is not in my hands, and Tianming thinks that it can still be done? ”

After He Bai heard this, his mood was very complicated. He Jin believes in himself and regards himself as his own nephew, but he can't tell the truth, which really makes people's conscience unhappy.

He Bai had no choice but to ask: "I don't know what the general thinks of the major incident of eliminating eunuchs provoked by Yuan Benchu?" What is the benefit of this, and what harm is it to the general? ”

He Jin was silent for a moment, and then said: "Yuan Benchu was eager to get rid of the eunuchs, in addition to wanting the Yuan clan to dominate the dynasty, he also wanted to compete with Yuan Highway for the power of the next generation of the Yuan family. If he can successfully get rid of the eunuch, then the whole world will obey him Yuan Benchu, thus ignoring Yuan Highway. ”

"What's the harm to me? It should not be harmful. The Yuan family wants to dominate the dynasty, but I am the emperor's uncle, and there are still dozens of famous families in the court, such as the Hongnong Yang family and the Shu County Zhao family. The more domineering the Yuan clan is, the more disgusted they will be, and the more they will move closer to me at that time. At that time, I would hardly have to do anything, and I would be able to get the support of all the officials in the DPRK and China. This is not only harmless, but also beneficial. ”

He Bai was stunned, it turned out that there was such a statement in He Jin. Thinking about it carefully, it seems that what He Jin said is not bad. If it is a pure political dispute, even if the Yuan family is known as the fourth and third princes, its power will not be too great in the whole country.

For example, in the battle against Dong, it was purely a dispute between Yuan and Dong's two families, and the Yuan family tried everything to gather only the princes of the Eighteen Roads. And the ones that really belong to Yuan's hardcore will not exceed ten. However, the Eastern Han Dynasty had thirteen states and nearly 100 counties, and the Yuan clan only occupied one-tenth of the power, while the other clans occupied nine-tenths of the power.

It's just that the bad thing is that since He Jin died unexpectedly, Dong Zhuo forcibly entered Beijing, and controlled most of the elites of other clans by forceful means, and only escaped the elite talents to which the Yuan clan belonged. Therefore, in the subsequent competition for hegemony, only the people belonging to the Yuan family were tossed up and down, but no other clans came out to integrate all forces and compete with them for hegemony.

When Dong Zhuo died, Wang Yun was unable to re-establish the authority of the court, so that Li Guo counterattacked and disrupted the government, making the authority of the Eastern Han court on the verge of collapse. By the time Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty and the elites of other clans returned to the east, the situation in the eastern part of the country had been almost decided, and it was difficult to develop independently and dominate the world except for Yuan and Cao. The other clans were helpless, but also with a hint of expectation, and joined Cao Cao with Emperor Han Xian.

In this way, Cao Cao really had the merit of helping the Han family, otherwise the Eastern Han Dynasty would have been ignored in 196 AD and collapsed on its own. The dispute between Yuan and Dong was the biggest factor that made the Eastern Han regime lose its right to control the whole country, and He Jin's death was only the fuse of this factor.