The autumn sun shines on your body warmly. Xu Ping sat behind the desk next to the school grounds and watched Jia Kui lead the team to fight with the other party.

The closer he was to the autumn, the more Xu Ping felt that he had no confidence. He always felt that military system reform was not inferior. The most obvious thing was that the military organization was still not established at all levels, and he always felt that it was inappropriate. Of course, Xu Ping could make a seemingly reasonable plan based on everyone's proposal, but he felt that he could not convince himself and could not explain a reason.

Affairs has their own objective laws, and the same is true for war.

In this era, literati talked a lot about military books, which was one of the most published periods in Chinese history. The imperial court organized the compilation, but there were many military books compiled by literati themselves. One was that in the same year of Xu Ping, Ruan Yi, based on historical materials and his own explanations, entrusted the title of "Question of Li Weigong" written by Li Jing. This book was generally compiled from various historical materials, and generally represents Li Jing's military thoughts. After all, Li Jing's military books were passed down in this era. Another was Mei Yaochen, who was unsatisfied in the imperial examination, and he focused on "The Art of War". The relatively complete version of "The Art of War" in Xu Ping's previous life is generally "The Eleven Family Notes to the Sun Tzu", and Mei Yaochen is the last of the eleven Family.

At this time, neither of these two books has been fully completed, but Xu Ping has read some of the chapters. As a young and promising Bians, some people who are ambitious in the battlefield will send their works to Qinzhou and ask Xu Ping for advice. In fact, they want to seek an advancement. This is a common thing. In history, Mei Yaochen and Fan Zhongyan went from close friends to becoming enemies. One of the fuses was that Fan Zhongyan refused to recruit Mei Yaochen into the curtain after becoming a commander. Ouyang Xiu had no use in mediating it.

Mei Yaochen is not so anxious now. His uncle Mei Xun is still there. Another thing is that he has not had that close relationship with Xu Ping, and he is thinking of having no dates or not. When Mei Xun was young, she liked to talk about military affairs. Mei Yaochen was influenced by his uncle and was interested in military affairs. He failed the imperial examination many times, which made his mind move his military achievements. When Yuan Hao's grandfather Zhao Jiqian rebelled against Song in Lingzhou, Mei Xun suggested that Emperor Taizong contact the Liugu tribe of Hexi to attack Dangxiang indirectly and ask for an envoy. With this origin, Mei Yaochen also suggested to contact Qingtang's elixir and attack Dangxiang behind his back.

To tell the truth, Xu Ping's choice is the same as Fan Zhongyan's choice in history, and he will not invite Ruan Yi and Mei Yaochen to Qinzhou. It is not a matter of ability, but the disagreement of the two sides. Both of them have reached the point of writing military books. With their own opinions, it is difficult for Xu Ping's military system reform and military thought to be recognized by them. Recruiting people is to do things, not to quarrel.

The military books of these two people are very excellent works, enough to be listed with the military books of the pre-Qin dynasties. However, the books are like this, but the times have changed. For more than a thousand years, war has been no longer the way it was in the pre-Qin period. The major principles are meaningful, and some details are very different. Although history has been repeated, the cruel war still keeps the practice of war moving forward, especially the melee of the late Tang and Five Dynasties for more than 100 years, which has given birth to a lot of practical experience, and Xu Ping does not need to go back.

The most important issue is that war has developed to the point where it is necessary to summarize objective laws and change the system, organizational form, and combat mode according to the objective laws of war itself, classical military books are no longer of great significance.

During the reign of Emperor Taizong, foreign wars were not going well. In order to control the army, many changes in the military system were changed for the purpose of control, which made the Song army's military system retreat from the Five Dynasties. Over the past few decades, regardless of civil and military affairs, many people realized this problem, but it was just a taboo for the respected people and it was difficult to tell them. In a few decades in history, Taizong's reform of the Song army's military system would have more damage than construction, and it would become a consensus between the government and the opposition. The discussion of civil and military affairs was almost like saying that Taizong was a military idiot.

What Xu Ping needs to do now is to let the army practice more, especially in the battle, and summarize the lost objective laws from it. Only by mastering the internal laws of war can we make the right choice, rather than just imagination and empty talk.

Jia Kui is now the head of Du and the most basic combat unit in the current organization. Xu Ping started from basics and has been watching Du-level battles these days. Jia Kui's arrangement of troops is very interesting. He always divides the troops into three parts, leads the central army himself, and advances or retreats with the front army. The central army always sticks to the front army.

Xu Ping looked at it with relish and felt that he had already felt the combat principles of this basic combat unit.

When he was stuck with the front army, Jia Kui was always slightly left-sided, while the front army was always right-sided. As the battle progressed, the front slowly reached the front front of the central army. At this time, the rear army began to go to the left again.

Seeing Jia Kui's team repeating this process constantly, Xu Ping suddenly slapped his thigh and said to Sang Yi beside him: "I understand! I have been a little confused before. I have finally solved a problem in my heart when I watched your drills in the past few days!"

Sang Yi was a little confused and said to Xu Ping: "What does Jishuai understand? But he thought of a wonderful plan against the enemy?"

Xu Ping shook his head: "How could the enemy's wonderful strategy be so thought of? What I figured out is why the left and right Yuhou was set up in the army. Since ancient times, the army has been divided into nine armies, seven armies, five armies, three armies, and military secretary, but the most important ones are the fifth armies, front army, rear army, left army, right army and central army. A little bit simpler are the front army, central army, and rear army. But the left and right Yuhou were set up in the army, why not front and rear Yuhou? "

Sang Yi was stunned for a moment and said, "The army has always been like this, but I never thought about why."

"Because the right is the front, the left is the back, and the left and the right originally included the meaning of front and back, this is why it was set up. For decades of chaos in the Five Dynasties, they set up the left, and the right Yuhou was definitely not without reason. The military system of this dynasty has been changed several times. Although the official position of the Yuhou was left, it was no longer a box office, which was inevitable that people were confused. When the left and right Yuhou were set up, the two armies would face each other. No matter how many troops there were in the headquarters, they would have to be divided into three armies. The right Yuhou commanded the front army, the left Yuhou commanded the rear army, and the commander commanded the central army. Think about it, is this the reason? Scholar, you are the one who leads the troops, and think about whether it is like this?"

Sang Yi thought for a while and said, "It's roughly the case, but I didn't do it intentionally, but the military formation is just arranged like this."

Xu Ping nodded repeatedly: "Although most of the heads of the Five Dynasties were vulgar and uncivilized, they all came out from the sea of ​​corpses and blood. The official positions were set in actual combat, and it was not without reason. In fact, the Right Army was not necessarily on the right, and the Left Army was not necessarily on the left, but the Right Army was facing the enemy's front, and the Left Army was always good at covering the rear. Most people used their right hand force, and although there were people who were good at using their left hand, there were always not many, and it was impossible to consider them in the military formation. Therefore, it is natural to face the enemy's front army, and the front army of the enemy was placed under the jurisdiction of the Right Yu Marquis. The same is true for the rear army to be under the jurisdiction of the Left Yu Marquis. Now, Yu Marquis is not set in the imperial guards, or even if they are only set up for the position, they are just promoted as an official rank, and they lose the role that the Yu Marquis should have."

Of course, this is not the only reason. The more important reason is that Taizong is ignorant and stubborn about military affairs. He likes to cancel the original flexibility of the army by replacing the military. When the imperial guards went on an expedition, Taizong often gave the formation map and sent people to monitor the formation, called the formation placing envoy, which made the imperial guards' military formation a dead formation. The army's formation was arranged and it was difficult to move. It even reached a large formation of 100,000 or 80,000 people, which stretched for dozens of miles. Once it moved, the entire army was in chaos.

Judging from the formation map, everything is perfect. Where does the enemy come from? How to deal with the military formation? No matter how you calculate it, there is no reason to fail. It can be considered foolproof. Emperor Taizong was extremely conceited by this formation map and was called the "Pingrong Wanquan Formation". The only problem is, what should the enemy do not play according to your plan?

(Note: The Right Army of the Five Dynasties and Song dynasties is actually the Fore Army, and the Left Army is actually the Later Army, and changes will be made according to the combat situation. Of course, is it because people use their right hand well, which is just the author's guess and reasoning, so readers don't need to take it too seriously. The military part involved in this book is to refer to regular military textbooks such as "Strategic Science", "Tactics", and "Military Geography", as well as military selections since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and to deduce them based on geographical conditions and historical records at that time. This is a theoretical imagination. All plots are in the imagination of this range. Please understand it. If it is not within this range, it will be beyond the outline.)
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