Chapter 98 The crushing of the times
After leaving the infantry school, the atmosphere was a little solemn. Du Zhongxiao looked calm and led everyone to the cavalry school in the north.
What does this matter have to do with me? The court wants to draw soldiers and generals, and to build a training for the imperial guards according to Hequ Road. In one sentence, he will do everything according to the order. He teaches them everything. If he can't train himself, who can't blame him?
When I arrived in the north of Zicheng, in front of the cavalry school, I saw a plaque under the left and right. A poem was written together: "The heart is full of blood and the will of heaven, and the iron cavalry lightly knocks on the frost. Why do you need to bury your bones? The place where the horse's hooves are trampled is my hometown."
When Wang Gongchen saw it, he smiled and said, "Master, why are the cavalry here much more elegant than infantry?"
Du Zhongxiao said: "Cabinets are different from infantry, and they are more required to be able to fight independently and in small teams. Speaking of which, cavalry is similar to the military style of the Han and Tang dynasties when they conquered the desert. They are more elegant and let them inherit their predecessors and recreate the heroic spirit of the Han and Tang dynasties."
Wang Gongchen said: "What the politely said is that the Cavalry Commission is really like this. It is invincible across the desert, and it leaves many poems behind it!"
As he spoke, everyone entered the cavalry school together. It was not much different from the Beijing Military Academy, but it paid more attention to squad training, and the requirements were much stricter than the Beijing Military Academy. In addition to artillery, the training of cavalry and infantry is not different except for the content. There is no focus on the characteristics of the troops and combat style. Infantry focuses on large military formations and has higher requirements for arrays, while cavalry focuses on squads, and pays more attention to the cooperation between individual soldiers and a few soldiers. In terms of system, cavalry requires different soldiers to meet, and can be organized temporarily, and there is a complete set of methods.
With the lessons learned from the infantry school, no one spoke and silently came out of the cavalry school.
When we arrived in the west, it was the School of the Infantry School, which was a school for training officers and utility. As soon as we arrived in front of the door, Wang Gongchen saw that "the sword was sharpened by the sharpening, and the fragrance of plum blossoms came from the bitter cold" hanging on both sides, and couldn't help but smile. The cavalry was gentle and polite and polite, and the style of parallelism was gone when we arrived at the infantry. Du Zhongxiao's memory was deeply impressed, almost everyone knew, and he hung it everywhere. There was it in the school, in the army, and in newspapers and books. In my memory, it seemed that this famous quote was picked out from some ancient book. Now that he became an ancient man, he realized that this sentence was not there. The wrong tone should not come from serious poems, nor should it be a couplet, but it seemed like a common saying that hung on both sides of the door.
The sword is sharpened, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from bitter cold. In fact, it is a saying that appeared very late, which happened after the founding of the People's Republic of China. The second sentence of plum blossoms, the seven-character sentence, eliminates bitter words, is completely flat, and cannot appear in poetry, nor can it be a couplet. Like many famous couplets in later generations, it is the creation of a new era literati, and then it is a shell of a folk story, which is widely circulated. This kind of story has templates, either a down-and-out literati among the people, or a newly-ranked minister, who puts a shell of a historical celebrity, and pairs up the couplets, thereby gaining great fame and wealth.
In this era, no one would think that these two sentences were written by celebrities, and you can tell at a glance that they were inspirational folk sayings.
After entering the school gate, Wang Gongchen looked around and found that he was in the same style as the infantry school I looked at in front. There were many brands in the camp and various easy-to-understand words were written. However, this is the military school, and the content is very different from the A school of the barracks school.
After entering the gate, there is a sign on the left and right. The left side says "The officers and soldiers are consistent, and the responsibilities are clear." The right side says "Train yourself and study the enemy." A few steps forward, there is another sign on "Don't fight without confidence", and the other side is "Learn in practice, practice in learning."
These words are concise and not use a word of absent, and the meaning is simple and direct.
After arriving at the official hall, there were a few lines of big words on the wall: "In learning and practice, discover the laws of war, understand the laws of war, and master the laws of war. In war, command and fight according to the laws of war."
Wang Gongchen looked at this sentence and thought for a while before he fully understood what he was saying. The words "Study, practice, and rules" cannot be said in this era, but they cannot be completely consistent with the meaning written on the wall, making people not know what they are saying for a while. However, after thinking through it, he understood what he was saying and found that there were no other words or words that could replace them, otherwise the meaning would change.
After reading it several times, Wang Gongchen said to Du Zhongxiao: "Administrative, if I guess it well, this sentence is not only here, but also several other schools must abide by it, right?"
Du Zhongxiao said: "Nehan is right. In fact, it is not just here, but when training troops in Suizhou, he just followed this principle. But at that time, he acted based on his feelings and couldn't understand it. Only after the military academy was built here did these sentences be summarized and everyone had to recite them."
Wang Gongchen said to Di Qing and Sun Mian: "Taiwei, the emperor and the court officials have been unable to understand why the last time they defeated the martial arts war last time. Now that I have seen these few episodes, I should have roughly figured out. Although the Beijing Military Academy selects talents and uses textbooks from the Hequ Road Army, they are completely different from the teaching methods of the Hequ Road Military Academy. The rules mentioned here are actually the military tactics mentioned by the court, but they are more accurate. Because there are many examples of wars and many general contents, but there are not many details of the marching and combat. Even if there are details, I don't know why. The rules mentioned on the wall are all in one system from the general principles to the various details of marching and combat. Even if everyone cannot do this, most of them know the reason, and the gap is big."
Sun Mian nodded. Although he thought Wang Gongchen had exaggerated, he still admitted that what he said made sense. The military system and textbooks of Hequlu are actually a complete system. How did this system come about? It was written on the wall and summarized from learning and practice. The summary content is the laws of war. What is expressed is the organization, organization, command, various regulations and textbooks of the army.
This system is very primary and incomplete, but for this era, it is crushed for all military theories, military tactics and various armies. Once the system is completed, even the lower limit of combat effectiveness is far higher than the upper limit of other armies. The difference in combat effectiveness is not just the difference between muskets and cannons and cold weapons, but the difference between scientific laws and personal experience.
Will Du Zhongxiao fight? When he was training camp for Tianxiang Army, his military experience was almost zero. How could he fight? Once he goes north, he will win consecutive battles and wins, and all the people who are invincible. In addition to the sharp firearms, the military system also has an overwhelming advantage over other armies.
Military is science, and of course it has its own objective laws. There are some laws that cold weapons and firearms follow together, such as preserving themselves, eliminating the enemy, concentrating forces to form local advantages, and so on. There are also two different laws, such as combat distance, and formations change from dense to evacuation.
Du Zhongxiao presented all his organization, textbooks, booklets, etc. to the court. Many ministers thought that by doing so, they could train a powerful army that could be transformed into a powerful army that could not be compared with the imperial guards in the capital. However, they lost the most fundamental thing. They did not know how Du Zhongxiao brought out this army and compiled those books.
Chapter completed!