Chapter 21 Establishment of Military History
As Wang Mi entered Yecheng with the army, his soldiers were sent out to fight against him, and the counties around Yecheng were naturally not peaceful.
Compared with Shi Le's attack on Handan to the north, Wang Mi's side encountered Wang Bin in the east, and met the pardon pavilion of the beggar army in the south, all in all, the army led by Wang Mi did not take any advantage.
In contrast, Liu Tai'an steadily recruited soldiers in Yecheng and trained from scratch, but compared to the group that joined first, the group of soldiers who joined later did not get any land.
Even so, the local clan families were willing to send some soldiers in.
They may not have taken a fancy to Liu Tai very much, but because compared to Liu Tai's reasonableness when he led the army, the other rebel armies under Wang Mi were too unreasonable.
If someone in your family is under Liu Tai's name, then if Liu Tai captures Yecheng, these rebels will not come to harass him.
But if you don't have a soldier in Liu Tai's name, then the rebels will immediately put the word soldier on their faces.
It's normal to eat and take cards, and it's not for nothing that you have to rob this person directly.
For this kind of thing, as long as it doesn't provoke the families of his own soldiers, then Liu Tai can't control it.
Sometimes, even if you have a hard fist and a lot of credit, you can't talk about the rules, after all, the boss doesn't object, what are you against!
And Wang Mi is really good to his own people, isn't it just robbing the local people, so he should be treated as protection money, I don't know!
Especially since his headquarters didn't go to fight elsewhere, there was a bit of commotion, and Wang Mi could understand it.
Don't let the whole city mess up, if you rob it, you will rob it, after all, the soldiers below will fight with you, how can you do it if you don't give some benefits!
Just like this, the clan families of Yecheng decisively began to organize resistance forces, and local forces such as Cao Changtian and other local forces with a certain amount of armed force also began to converge.
What's more important is that the local clans, who originally ignored even if they exchanged men for fields, were much more active in Liu Taisai's pawns at this time, and some even directly stuffed scholars.
In this regard, Liu Tai did not refuse, and his subordinates were soon filled with about 1,700 people, and about 300 people were also organized, including craftsmen, medical craftsmen, and Danshi...... and the scholars who taught the Book of Han!
For the miscellaneous abilities in front of them, although they entered the late Jin Dynasty and their status was improved a little bit due to the advent of the troubled times, because the atmosphere of the Wei and Jin dynasties had been full of scholars in the scholars, they might not even be able to see the specific decrees, let alone these craftsmen and craftsmen.
In contrast, it is really difficult to find scholars of the Book of Han, or scholars who have taught the Book of Han in its entirety.
However, the surrounding environment was persecuted, especially when they found that Liu Tai's military camp did not refuse to accept the gentlemen who governed the "Book of Han", and their surroundings were not safe, the local real clan family really came up with a group of scholars who ruled the "Book of Han".
This group of people is probably the side branches of each clan, the family with the "Book of Han", forced their side branch to copy a copy of the "Book of Han", and asked the side branch disciples to step up their recitation, almost Gao Di Ji can memorize this chapter, and sent it over.
For the vast majority of the scholars of the "Book of Han" sent over, they are not scholars like Gongshi Yu who have really studied historiography for more than ten years, and Liu Tai also knows this.
After all, what era is this, Hanshu is almost available to all kinds of families, but it is not knowledge that can be learned by all side branches.
Especially the Jin Dynasty was not right from the beginning, and there were many taboos against the secretary of the Han Dynasty, even if it was not banned, it was impossible for you to learn these things publicly.
But now there are so many young scholars who can recite the "Book of Han" suddenly, if there is no problem here, it is too much to treat Liu Tai as an idiot.
But Liu Tai didn't care, did he let the soldiers learn the Book of Han so that the soldiers could read and write!?
No.
His purpose is to make the fighters have nationalist ideas, so that the soldiers can feel honored as Han Chinese.
With the enlightenment of the mind, that will bring about the initiative in action, and thus strengthen the organization of the entire army.
Especially when he really parted ways with the Xiongnu Han Kingdom in the future and picked up the Han faith, he would be able to let the soldiers under his command quickly enter the state and directly awaken the passive skills of "one Han as five Hu", so as to maximize his background and combat effectiveness.
After all, Liu Tai now knows at most about the Eight Kings Rebellion, the Yiguan Nandu and the Wuhu Chaohua.
But Liu Tai doesn't know the specific place and people where these things happened, as well as the most critical time node.
Before that, Liu Tai had to be as prepared as possible for the arrival of that time.
If he takes refuge in the Jin court, he dares to teach the "Book of Han" on a large scale today, and tomorrow he is afraid that he will be given wine.
So fortunately, he took refuge in Liu Yuan, and the country established by Liu Yuan was the Han Dynasty, and it was a matter of the future when the contradictions between the Xiongnu and the Han intensified.
At least now, he generously uses the "Book of Han" to arm the spirit of soldiers, and no one can say anything.
At the same time, due to the expansion of the number of fighters, but the limited number of teachers, Liu Tai had to reduce the demand for soldiers.
Like those tun chiefs (centurions), they still have to be caught by Liu Tai to learn characters, but the grassroots soldiers only need to listen to those young scholars talk about the course of "Hanshu" every day.
First of all, the characters of this era are too difficult to learn, even if Liu Tai has the foundation of modern simplified characters, learning the regular script of this era is also bumpy.
Although regular script has appeared in this era, it is a pity that even this kind of character is too complicated for the vast majority of soldiers, and it is so complicated that it is extremely difficult to popularize this character in the army.
As for Liu Tai's desire to directly replace modern simplified Chinese characters with the fonts of this era, this is even more foolish.
Not to mention the difficulty and amount of this project, the most important thing is that even if Liu Tai makes this kind of font, without policy support from top to bottom, it is just a toy for self-entertainment.
The quickest way to implement simplified characters was to find a group of highly educated Confucians, and then throw them a few simplified characters, and he spent a few years resimplifying all the characters based on a few simplified characters.
If we popularize this new type of simplified Chinese characters in the army, and then get some kind of military cadres to do it, and train teachers to carry out collective literacy, only in this way should we be able to complete the literacy work at five or six levels in two or three decades.
But in the final analysis, what Liu Tai needs is that they can improve their organizational strength, and what they need is that they can strengthen themselves with national thoughts, but as for those who are literate or illiterate, if they want to learn to follow their own classes, they are not reluctant.
After all, he took the initiative to force the soldiers to be literate, and he really couldn't afford to support himself.
But with the exception of those who are interested in literacy after listening to the Book of Han, and those who have become the leaders of the tun who have forced themselves to do literacy, Liu Tai does not require them to be literate.
Of course, reading "Hanshu" and writing regular script is a compulsory course at noon every day, but Liu Tai did not let go of the daily physical training.
Especially after he raided Yecheng with 400 soldiers, Liu Tai paid more attention to the physical training of the soldiers.
Especially for these new soldiers, the first level is that they can run 30 miles a day in leather armor and weapons within a month, and they can continue to devote themselves to the battle.
This includes the young scholars who speak the Han Dynasty, but these young scholars do not need to go to war, the only thing they need is to be responsible for recording the exploits of the soldiers on the battlefield.
At the same time, Liu Tai also ordered that if these scholars who taught the "Book of Han" died in the war, the meritorious service of the cantonment team would be cancelled and demerit once.
Although the soldiers complained about this, they also chose to accept it, especially in Liu Tai's military camp, they could eat three meals in the morning, noon and evening, and these scholars of "Hanshu" would teach "Hanshu" every day, these soldiers could feel Liu Tai's attention to them.
And Liu Tai saw these young scholars who taught the Book of Han recruited, and said:
"Now that our army has just been established, you have three things in our Han army, one is to teach the soldiers the "Book of Han" in their free time, so that the soldiers can understand the greatness of our China and the majesty of the Han Dynasty.
The second thing is that I hope that you will assist the military judge to record the merits of the low-level soldiers, and you will meet with me once a month, and if there are people at the bottom who have taken the risk of killing good people, I will definitely not easily forgive them.
As for the third thing, I hope you can use the pen and paper in your hands to establish the military history of your cantonment! ”
"Military history?!" One of them, surnamed Xi, said, "The army needs to record history books? ”
Liu Tai heard the words of the master surnamed Xi, and said with a righteous expression:
"With history as a mirror, we can know the rise and fall, the army is the important weapon of the country, and if we don't build the history of the army, how can we know the rise and fall of honor and disgrace!
Although our army is small, it should be passed on by you, so that it will be famous for generations! ”
Everyone present looked at each other, but they could also feel the sincerity in Liu Tai's tone.
It's just that the establishment of a military history specifically for the army is unprecedented, at least in their thinking.
More importantly, is this kind of thing really necessary?
But in any case, Liu Tai's provision of pen, ink, paper and inkstone to enable them to write military history books in the army was a relatively rare feeling for them, and they more or less accepted it.
However, this kind of scholar who can teach the "Book of Han" is only a minority, which is almost about three people in a tun.
After these scholars who taught the Book of Han entered the army, Liu Tai's army did not dare to say that it was completely new, but Liu Tai could clearly feel that the style of the soldiers began to change.
Although these scholars who taught the "Book of Han" were not tall people, listening to the "Book of Han" in their mouths and looking at the handwriting recorded in their hands, even if the soldiers themselves were obviously illiterate and could not read a single word, they did not know why there was a little inexplicable respect and fear in their hearts.
Especially when I knew that they were going to establish their own military history of a tun and a team (fifty people), I unconsciously wanted to do what I should do better.
Liu Tai saw that the establishment of military history was useful, so he began to try to implement the collective honor Han Banner in the team for the best overall assessment every month.
In addition, there are also the best collective physical fitness Han Banner that arrives the fastest at the last place in the monthly run, the best military column Han Flag with the fastest and most complete marching formation queue every month, and the best collective knowledge Han Flag with the highest pass rate in the monthly "Book of Han" assessment.
Of course, there are all the most needy collectives Han Qi with the lowest results.
And these achievements are all to be recorded in your military history, and whether it will be remembered for a hundred years or for thousands of years, you choose for yourself, anyway, it has nothing to do with you.
As soon as this system was introduced, Liu Tai could clearly see that the soldiers' training momentum had become active.
Liu Tai felt that he had led this group of soldiers to temper and temper for three months, and he should be able to find a target to kill.
After all, although the captain and captain of the Wu Chang in it are all based on their original more than 400 headquarters, but this time it is a new recruit, even if he plans to lead the new with the old, he will need time to train with the opponent a little bit.
Just when he was training at ease, Wang Mi suddenly sent someone to summon him, Liu Tai did not hesitate, and immediately came to the Yecheng Mansion.
At this moment, I saw that Wang Mi and Wang Zhang were there, and there was a scout I didn't know, but this person had a very nervous look on his face, and Liu Tai couldn't help but be stunned? !
"Uncle, but what happened?!" Liu Tai couldn't help asking.
Wang Mi said: "I didn't expect Liu Kun to send the elite to take Huguan, if he takes advantage of the situation to take the party, then there will be no way back for me!" ”
Liu Tai couldn't help frowning when he heard this, because for the Xiongnu Han Kingdom, Taihang Mountain was a natural barrier.
For example, Liu Tai's army did not carry food, and the light car Jian could calmly lead the main force for seven days, that is, the main force had to transport grain.
And if the Sima clan wants to send a large army to attack, don't say anything, just transporting grain is a big problem.
But this is definitely not to say that Taihang Mountain cannot be conquered, don't say it, just from Jinyang all the way south as long as Huguan is captured, then the entire Taihang Mountain can be cut off.
Now Liu Kun seized the opportunity of the Xiongnu Han army to go out on both sides, captured Huguan, attacked Shangdang, and cut off the center of the Xiongnu Han State, Liu Cong's troops attacking Luoyang, and Wang Mishile's troops now in Yecheng.
Strategically speaking, this step directly made the originally prosperous Xiongnu Han State become stormy.
If the Sima clan can cooperate well, then they can take this opportunity to completely eat the several legions that have been cut off.
"Where did Liu Kun get the army?!" Liu Tai was full of incomprehension, after all, isn't the legend of Jinyang in the north in ruins?
"I can't take care of it anymore!" Wang Mi looked at Liu Taidao and said, "Tai'er, your troops are the fastest in the mountains, and they will set off tomorrow, the other party should not be underestimated if they are prepared, I have only one request, I must not let the other party take all the land of the party!" ”
"No!" Liu Tai looked solemn, but replied quite seriously.