Chapter 133: Who is the enemy? Who is the friend (seeking a monthly ticket)
Seven days passed in the blink of an eye, and everyone gathered together again.
This time, everyone has a basic understanding of the current situation of Beihai County in the Han Dynasty, and they no longer focus on empty talk like at the beginning.
"The current situation in Beihai County is relatively simple and clear. Large aristocratic families have either moved their families or gone to Beihai County."
"The local forces are relatively simple. Local tycoons from all over the country have built forts, trained the townsmen, and defended themselves..." Xiong Yan sat at the top and kept talking about the current situation.
It is now 193 AD. The remnants of the Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou have been raging for several years. Cao Cao has surrendered the Qingzhou army, which is said to be one million.
Before Cao Cao surrendered the Qingzhou Army, they had been entrenched in Qingzhou, so Qingzhou's public security and living environment were very unfriendly to aristocratic families and people.
Facing a large number of Yellow Turban remnants, all the aristocratic families in Qingzhou who could escape ran away, which was actually very conducive for everyone to start a rebellion.
To be honest, the aristocratic families in the late Eastern Han Dynasty had strong organizational skills, many times more powerful than the highly praised prime ministers of the Song Dynasty.
You ask Sima Guang, Wen Yanbo, Han Qi and others to engage in political struggle and murder, and each of them is more powerful than the other. But you want them to rectify the soldiers, organize the people, and train the army, huh, what is that?
Any aristocratic family can use its own children as the core, absorb a large number of common people as cannon fodder, and quickly train an army with certain combat effectiveness and certain organizational capabilities.
And such an army is very resilient.
As long as the backbone of the clan is still there, it will continue to absorb cannon fodder!
As long as you are not defeated at once, and you replenish your money and food, you can continue to absorb cannon fodder, and sooner or later you will become an elite soldier in all battles!
This is the reason why Zeng Guofan dived so many times and was defeated so many times, but he was always defeated and never collapsed, and he was even able to train an elite army in turn.
Considering the prosperous military fortunes of the Han Dynasty and the personal qualities of the family members and professional servants of the Han Dynasty, it is not an exaggeration to say that they were professional officers of this era.
The behavior of the children of aristocratic families using their own clan as the core and absorbing cannon fodder for training is very similar to the modern army!
The biggest difference between the modern army and the feudal army is the number of officers!
Platoon leaders in the modern army have all attended military schools, systematically studied military theory, and know how to deal with any situation they encounter.
As long as the officer corps remains, the soldiers will die as well.
Even a bunch of rubbish can be trained into elite soldiers in the hands of a professional military officer corps.
In the 19th century, the army of a certain empire was full of opium ghosts and hooligans, not even good men. But this army went on an expedition across the sea, with more than 20,000 people, and defeated a certain people in the East.
Great powers cede territories and pay compensation.
Thinking of this, Wang Zongchao shook his head slightly, and he began to make unreasonable associations again. Ever since he came into contact with Zhen Ding, Wang Zongchao's mind has been filled with various military techniques and countless war cases at home and abroad in ancient and modern times. He has compared feudal armies, modern armies and modern armies again and again.
Differences in the military.
After a moment, Lao Wang stood up: "In the past few days, I have been responsible for training the army. I have put 1,600 soldiers together for unified training to increase their familiarity and treat them as a whole instead of
The prince of the Wang family, the prince of the Chu family..."
"I have personally seen the Yellow Turban Army. In comparison, these police officers are quite qualified, but there are still some problems."
"Next, regarding the army, this is what I think. First, we should train them in a unified way to become a true whole."
After a pause, Lao Wang continued: "This step is very important. The army is our foundation. Whether it is rebellion or overseas conquest, we must have a reliable army in hand."
"This is our first time training the army. We have never trained the army in the feudal era before. Although there are many theories, there has always been a gap between theory and reality."
"What I want to do is to use this opportunity to train as much as possible an advanced army based on this era."
"The first step is to unify our thoughts. Within the army, there can only be one idea. It cannot be like before. He is the town commander of the Wang family and a relative of my predecessor. Therefore, even if the town commander of the Chu family becomes the commander of the village, he will not be like before.
Not convinced."
"Because he feels that he is a relative of me, the mayor. If the village chief dares to control him, he will dare to report him. He is not afraid of the village chief, just because they have different surnames."
Speaking of this, Lao Wang was also speechless.
If we simply look at physical fitness and personal qualities, these town servants are actually qualified in the current era.
At least they had enough to eat, at least they were well-proportioned, at least they had practiced their killing skills, and they knew basic military rules such as marching when they heard the beat of drums.
Such qualities are indeed considered a qualified soldier in this era. But when used together, they are very unsatisfactory.
There is no overall view, and there are cliques everywhere.
"So, my idea is this: I will deal with a few of them harshly to scare the monkeys, and then turn these 1,600 people into a whole."
"I will use means such as working day and night, feeding them well, and having meat every day to make them forget their different identities. I will use cruel training to tell them that they are all the same here, regardless of the Wang family or the Chu family."
"When they become a whole, we will use them as a basis to absorb strong men among the refugees on a large scale and expand the army to 5,000 people."
"These five thousand people are still training day and night. As for the direction of future training, it depends on how far you have climbed the technological tree."
If Chu Xuan, Jiang Ju, Lu Zhou and others come up with flintlock rifles, then they will train the army according to the model of queuing to kill.
If Jiang Ju and others develop a grenadier, they will need to train grenadiers and then build a new type of army with the grenadiers as the core.
If Lu Zhou and others develop modern artillery, then the artillery will blast the infantry and then the infantry will charge, and the infantry will charge and the artillery will blast!
If Ji Zhen and others did not develop these, but only developed underwater machine tools and steam engines, then they would forge plate armor, make large-scale iron and steel, train an army of soldiers, and train heavy armored soldiers in the cold weapon era.
Soldiers should be trained strictly in accordance with the characteristics of the cold weapon era.
At that time, there was no need to talk about national justice, just provide food to the fields and train the army according to the model of the government soldiers.
The combat effectiveness of the first-generation imperial soldiers was, if not invincible in the history of the Great Xia dynasties, not much different.
The importance of the military is something that no contemporary young person does not understand. It is clearly written in the textbooks - political power comes from the barrel of a gun!
Therefore, when Lao Wang talked about the army, many people were interested. Just like Peng Bing, he wanted to join the army and have a good time.
"The right name means the right words. The right name is very important. This is what I want to say: Next, we have to give ourselves an official position. For example, we should express Chu Xuan as the county magistrate, and express Lao Wang as the county captain. With the county magistrate
In the name of the county, we will absorb the victims and train the army in a unified manner in the name of the county captain." Xiong Yan suddenly said.
Peng Bing frowned and asked directly: "Isn't this all about mutual representation among princes? Isn't this a power that only great princes have? Is it useful for us, a group of ordinary people and a group of landowners, to express mutual respect for each other? It's useless."
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, a series of things that seemed very strange and incomprehensible to later generations did indeed happen.
For example, Cao Cao was appointed as the prefect of Dongjun by Yuan Shao, and then he took office and became the prefect directly.
Of course, this does not mean that Cao Cao is not qualified enough. If we look at qualifications alone, there would be no problem at all for Cao Cao to be a prefect.
But the problem is that he, the prefect, was not appointed by the court, but by Yuan Shao.
It is equivalent to Yuan Shao saying hello to the powerful families in Dongjun: My younger brother Cao Aman is going to be the governor of Dongjun. Please give me face and cooperate with his work.
Then, the powerful family in Dongjun agreed!
Such behavior, if left to future generations, would be a true traitor!
Yuan Shao is the leader of the rebels, Cao Cao is the backbone of the rebels, and every powerful family in Dongjun is a bad person who is a traitor.
If caught, they will all be shot!
But this kind of behavior of princes expressing mutual respect is very popular in this era.
Gongsun Zan appointed Tian Kai as the governor of Qingzhou, and Yuan Shao also appointed a governor of Qingzhou, and then two governors of Qingzhou fought back and forth in Qingzhou.
Liu Bei's governor of Yuzhou was appointed by Tao Qian.
It stands to reason that Tao Qian himself was the Mu of Xuzhou, but he named Liu Bei as the governor of Yuzhou. Later, when Liu Bei fled to Yuan Shao, he promoted Yuan Shao's eldest son Yuan Tan as a talented person (even more powerful than Xiaolian) as the governor of Yuzhou.
, became Yuan Tan’s candidate.
This kind of behavior would definitely be incomprehensible and unacceptable in another dynasty, but the Han Dynasty was indeed unusual in some aspects.
It cannot be viewed from the perspective of future generations.
"Whether it is useful or not is not important. What is important is that if we recognize our identity, we are our own people. If we do not recognize our identity, we are the enemy. For us, the most important thing is to determine who is our enemy and who is us.
Friends." Chu Xuan explained.
Hearing this, Peng Bing was so surprised that he was speechless. He really didn't expect that the rich people's mutual love could have such an effect.
"Although we have made many plans before, this is our first time to actually operate it. Rebellion is indeed a new thing. Now I will try to talk about the next outline of action. Some people do not understand it, and some have objections.
You can talk about it."
"We must have our own ideals, outlines, and themes, that is, what does our regime do? What is the meaning of our existence?"
To do justice for heaven?
Drive out the Tartars?
Equalizing land and exempting from taxes?
King Chuang is here and he won’t pay for his food?
"With slogans, you can attract like-minded people, identify friends and enemies, unite forces that can be united, and strengthen yourself."
"Secondly, we need to have a stable enough territory. Wangjia Town is good, as is Gaochang County as a whole."
"With great righteousness, territory, and army, with these three, we can barely be regarded as a qualified prince. However, we are different. After all, we are not from the feudal era, so we still need the support of the people. Otherwise, our own conscience will not be able to survive, and time will
Over time, they will be completely assimilated into the feudal era."