This can also be said to be Shen Bing's helplessness.
The shortcoming of uneducated common people like Cang is that he always considers his own safety first. With this mentality, let alone a military commander, any engineer is not worthy of his name.
Hu Ze was too cautious and had serious thoughts as a small farmer due to the hardship of life.
All Ren thinks about is killing the enemy and making meritorious deeds instead of having a soldier in mind.
What surprised Shen Bing was the seemingly reckless and rough Yan...
Shen Bing originally felt that his straightforward personality was not suitable for commanding troops in combat.
However, during the time when Rang Yan was the coach, he discovered that he had excellent organizational and commanding abilities, but I don't know how he developed them.
Shen Bing also asked Yan about this matter, and he only said that it was because he had been hunting with the villagers for a long time.
Shen Bing knew that this matter would not be so simple, because this ability could not be developed through hunting.
But Yan didn't want to say anything, so he didn't ask any more questions.
It can only be said that people like Yan are rare. Most uneducated people are not qualified to take on big responsibilities in terms of vision, character and skills.
The same is true for the soldiers of the Wei army, so it is still the educated nobles who stand out in training.
Li Jian and Chen Duan are the best among them.
Li Jian was originally just a commander of five hundred, that is, an officer who commanded five hundred people.
However, the troops he commanded were always the fastest and best at completing their tasks, and they even compared and investigated their mistakes and made timely improvements.
This is what Shen Bing likes most, which shows his subjective initiative and continuous analysis of problems and then improvement.
Chen Duan organized a successful rescue in a shipwreck and was directly promoted to the rank of military commander.
These two people were quite interesting. Shen Bing checked their information and found that Li Jian liked to learn the art of war, while Chen Duan grew up among the soldiers.
To put it simply, the former focuses on theory while the latter focuses on practicality.
This is the difference between Wei State... to be precise, the difference between the Six Kingdoms and Qin State.
In the Qin State, the children of the nobility and even the outstanding ones among the common people were incorporated into the disciple list and taught uniformly. Therefore, every child of the nobility learned the same things, such as literacy, official documents, laws, etiquette, art of war and military training.
Therefore, the generals who came out of the Qin State did not need to read the information. They basically knew all these, but their quality was different.
Even the ignorant Meng Liang received these basic educations.
But the other six countries are different. They do not have this kind of centralized batch teaching, and most of them ask their own teachers for private tutoring.
Shen Bing can't say which education method is better.
This is because the private tutors in the Six Kingdoms pay more attention to individual development. For example, if you are suitable for learning the art of war, you will develop in the art of war, and if you are suitable for practicing martial arts, you will practice martial arts.
However, Qin’s education method will inevitably lead to the erasure of individuality.
But in the end, there is no doubt that Qin’s education system will win, because Qin’s education system can use limited educational resources to cultivate as many talents as possible, and then seek to sublimate from quantitative changes to qualitative changes.
On the other hand, in the Six Kingdoms, a noble child had to be taught by one or even several teachers: a teacher of law, a teacher of art of war, another teacher of riding and archery...
Even ordinary nobles can't bear it and can only settle for the next best thing.
The result is to give up an entire forest for one tree.
If the tree becomes useful, that's it. If it fails or something unexpected happens, all the previous efforts will be in vain.
Qin, on the other hand, cultivates a forest, and eventually a few trees will become useful.
Just like the two talents cultivated by Wei State in front of Shen Bing now: one is more theoretical and the other is more practical. Who can tell which one is more important?
It would be better if these two people could learn from each other and exchange knowledge, but if they don't get along and fight openly and secretly, they will be in disarray.
In addition, several 200 to 500 masters appointed and dismissed by Shen Bing were in a similar situation. Although they performed outstandingly in training, they always had obvious weaknesses.
However, these are only tentative decisions. As the battle develops in the future, it will be much simpler to rise to the rank of official: whoever has done the meritorious service will be promoted.
Shen Bing believes that as the war develops, these soldiers and officers will gradually mature.
Just when Shen Bing was looking at the roster, Wei Wei came in and cupped his hands at Shen Bing to remind him:
"Captain, the Navy Guards have not yet been formed."
"The captain's intention is..."
Shen Bing said "Oh" and forgot about this.
This is the tradition of this era. Officers usually have one-tenth of their own bodyguards.
For example, if Shen Bing has 3,000 naval troops, he should have 300 personal guards.
This is to prevent the general from being "captured the thief before the king" by the enemy.
In addition, the general's life, diet, camping, etc. are all taken care of by the personal guards.
This is actually a modern security force.
The difference is that in this era, in order to allow the personal guards to defend the general to the death, their lives are tied to the safety of the general.
After thinking about it, Shen Bing said:
"If we select personal guards from the navy at this time, I'm afraid it will disrupt the organization."
"Let's order another 300 cavalry from Mengshan Camp!"
Wei Wei was a little surprised. The Mengshan Camp that Shen Bing mentioned was the prison camp where prisoners of the Wei army were held. It was called Mengshan Camp because it was located in the Mengshan Mountain Col.
If the naval force had to be formed from prisoners of the Wei army due to orders, the personal guard Shen Bing could and should be selected from the Qin army.
Because the personal guards should be the most trusted subordinates, of course they cannot be chosen casually.
Shen Bing noticed the confusion in Wei Ya's eyes. He was puzzled at first and then thought of this.
So he laughed:
"Captain Zuo is worrying too much."
"Shen Bing certainly trusts Captain Zuo and also trusts the navy soldiers."
"Otherwise, I wouldn't have appointed this navy captain."
"Captain Zuo, just feel free to order some!"
Wei Wei was moved to tears for a moment.
You must know that when he was under the auspices of the King of Wei, even though he was a general, he was full of suspicion, resentment, and coldness...
Now, even though he is just a small Captain Zuo, he is able to gain such trust and respect.
Looking back on the unbearable past, Wei Wei secretly said that he would never be a general again in the future.
So Wei Yao didn't say much, just raised his hand towards Shen Bing, and then ordered his troops.
Of course Wei Wei didn't know that Shen Bing was risking his own life to survive.
If possible, Shen Bing would not risk his own life. After all, this is a personal guard who can take his life at any time.
But if you think about it more carefully:
Even if Qin soldiers are used as personal guards, what difference does it make?
There are three thousand naval forces, and they will have to go out to fight in the city in the future.
If Wei Wei and his men had the intention to rebel, three thousand versus three hundred would probably be just a grab bag.
If that's the case, why bother?
Using the Qin army as personal guards showed that they did not trust these surrendered troops, and estrangement would be inevitable in future command.
It is better to use all Wei soldiers generously...
But Shen Bing was really a little scared.
I hope these Wei soldiers are not careful, otherwise it would be an injustice if they died in their hands.