Chapter 66: Military Training 1
The army's camp is located on an open grassland 20 miles away from the south gate of Nanchang. So far, the troops deployed by the surrounding eight guards have been gathered. According to the order of the Ministry of War, one-third of the military strength should not have arrived. If all of them are gathered, it should be about 30,000.
Cao Muwen is at least a person who has fought a war. Although he only stays on the tall Taiyuan city wall, after all, he has seen the scene of the enemy attacking the city. But from his personal feeling, the ferocious ability of the peasant uprising army is really not comparable to that of the Mongolian Tatari. In fact, compared with the people who were forced to rebel, Cao Muwen looked at several soldiers sitting on the ground in the distance through the window of the big tent and thought that in fact, the officers and soldiers were more ferocious than the ordinary people, otherwise they would not be likely. The days of "wife and children are hot", but they have to do the work of raiding the family and extermination. However, "seeking politics in his position"...
Cao Muwen thought about it and left it alone. He turned his head to look at Wang Shouren, who was looking at the military briefing sent this morning without saying a word. Cao Muwen stared at him for a while and saw that he frowned slightly, as if he was thinking about the content of the briefing. Seeing Wang Shouren, Cao Muwen was still a little relieved. If Wang Shouren is here and presides over the peasant uprising that surrounds and suppresses this place... I don't know what the outcome will be. Of course, Cao Muwen asked knowingly that those so-called rebel leaders, such as the "Golden Dragon Overlord" Chi Zhongrong, Zhan Shifu, who has been shrinking on the Great Hat Mountain for several years, as well as Zuoxi, Hengshui and other cottages who have not appeared for a long time. Xie Zhishan, Blue Sky Feng and other departments. Although Cao Muwen is now a member of the army and is also a personal servant of the commander-in-chief of this large army, he can be said to be the unsworn enemy of the peasant uprising army. But... Cao Muwen himself clearly understood this point. After all, he was a modern educated person, especially based on China's special national conditions hundreds of years later. Generally speaking, from childhood, whether in history textbooks, film and television movies, or countless cultural works, the "peasant uprising army" has always been righteous, sacred, and irrefutable. This is undeniable. Cao Muwen has accepted these indoctrination since he was a child. Naturally, he was also "orthodox" when he was a child (I don't know if it is appropriate to describe it), but later, the child became a little crooked.
Cao Muwen can still look at things from the perspective of a bystander. After all, "the bystanders are self-clear", but now, he is not only a personal servant of the evil ruling class to suppress the direct murderers of the peasant uprising army, but perhaps himself... Cao Muwen looked at the king behind him who is focused on staring at * Shouren, still placed on the handle of the knife, is now slightly sweating. Although he is not a master, but... He is a little self-deprecating. He remembers that Jin Yong and Jin once let Mr. Yang Ming appear in a martial arts novel, and not only described him as a god-like commander, but also described him as a martial arts. Master, Qigong everyone. However, in fact, there are only three words to describe his personal force value in history books, which is a necessary skill for a military commander. China's interpretation of novels is not shallow, and the content of the march and war above focuses on various generals, rather than the real "war". War is not a fight, and the one-on-one way of fighting has greatly influenced the imagination of later generations of ancient Chinese war scenes. Cao Muwen really wanted to say, "That's a fight, not a war." The personal martial arts of the military commander is not a necessary condition for determining the victory or defeat of the war. Strictly speaking, the word "condition" does not count. Take Zhuge Wuhou as an example, isn't that the case?
Cao Muwen is confident that if he has a twitch in his mind now, it's really easy to take the life of Wang Shouren around him, but... Cao Muwen smiled and he didn't have a convulsion. He knew that it was useless and meaningless.
Wang Shouren is definitely not a character who will be assassinated, even if he is a scholar without the power of a chicken. Jin Yong and Jin Xia once made a detailed description of Wang Shouren's so-called "long roar in the army." In the Ming Dynasty, Yang, the great scholar Wang, practiced his breath in the barracks in the middle of the night. Suddenly, he roared and the whole army was shocked. This is a matter of historical Mingwen. At this time, Yang Guo was full of breath and difficult to suppress, and he heard the long roar for several miles. As for the "history has a clear text" said by Jin Yong, Cao Muwen, an incompetent fan, has never recalled that there is such content in the Complete Works. I don't know where the hero read it from. Because there is naturally military discipline in the barracks. If the soldiers finally fall asleep at night after a day's fatigue and are suddenly shocked by the "long roar" of the ghost crying and wolf, this is the "bombing camp". Most of the soldiers in ancient China were also recruited from the vulnerable small peasant class. Most of them had not received formal training, and even most of them were military training. At that time, there was no psychological guidance for soldiers and psychological training at all, so the psychological qualities of the soldiers were not good. Originally, they fought a war. It's just a loss of life. If it really comes out like this at night, won't it be scared to death? So compared with his romantic martial arts novels, it's better to read some true stories.
Cao Muwen was stunned and thought that he would not do such an ignorant thing with his stunt, but the peasants who revolted were also really pitiful. China has an agricultural social form that has been deeply rooted for thousands of years. The word farmer is also a mark on everyone's heart. Isn't Zhu Hongwu, the great ancestor of the dynasty, also a farmer on farmland?
Since the beginning of China's feudal history and continued to the current dynasty, there have been countless peasant uprisings, large and small. The earliest uprising was the "Chen Sheng and Wu Guangze Township Uprising", and the uprisings of later generations were also different. Most peasant uprisings were indeed only oppressed by the government and landlords, and they had no choice but to survive. But Cao Muwen knows about this matter, but it can't be absolute. Although the peasant uprising is just and controversial, they are also squeezed in disguise when they earn their own living space, destroying the right to life of others (mostly people of the same class as them). While creating, there is both destruction; while fighting, there is also this strong victory.
The ancients said, "I'd rather be a peace dog than leave people in chaos." Opening a page of history, the tragic grief suffered by ordinary people under the butcher's knife during the war is probably something that future generations will never imagine. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, it was such an era. At that time, a man named Huang Chao rose from the grass and swept China, using his hellish power to write an indelible stroke of Chinese history. In a Twenty-Four Histories, probably only he can describe his behavior with the words "knocking bones and sucking the marrow". During the nearly a year of besieging Chenzhou on the eve of his defeat, he used mechanized methods to smash living people and use human flesh as military food to supply his besieged troops to ensure the combat effectiveness of his rebel army. Its appalling degree is not only the best in China, but also probably the best in the world. It can be seen in the Old Tang Book: "(Huang Chao) The thieves surrounded Chen County for 300 days, and Kanto was still uncultivated. People leaned on the wall hungry. The thieves captured people and ate them and killed thousands a day. Thieves have grinding forts, which are hundreds of giants. They are born and crushed in mortars, and eat them together with bones. If so, they are poisonous.
This man's famous poem: "On September 8th of this year, I will kill a hundred flowers after bloom. The fragrance of Chang'an, and the city is full of golden armor. It is known as the supreme masterpiece of revolutionary romanticism. When Huang Chao's troops entered Chang'an, they also issued an edict that "the Yellow King rose up and was the people". However, waiting for the people in Chang'an are not **-like leisurely fragrance. It is reported that Huang Chao's subordinates " lived for a few days, each Out of plunder, burn the market, kill people all over the streets, and the nest can't be forbidden." When the officers and soldiers counterattacked Chang'an, the people of a city completely stood on the position of helping the officers and soldiers fight against Huang Chao. "The nest angered the people to help the officers and soldiers slaughter and blood into rivers, which is called washing the city." Chang'an, a famous city known all over the world, after this disaster Since then, he has been depressed and no longer qualified to become the capital of China.
Such a history of killing each other has a different scene in the eyes of some people. Such a demon king who shows the dirtiest and ugly side of human beings and shames Chinese history and even human history is the "leader of the peasant uprising" with "fearless revolutionary spirit to break through Tang Tian." His poem "expressed that he wants to change the day and overthrow the rule of the Tang Dynasty with heroic spirit. "Aspiration." His troops entered Chang'an, which made Chang'an City "taken earth-shaking changes", "push the peasant war at the end of the Tang Dynasty to the most **, and the bloody "washing of the city" into Sichuan" into a jubilant event. If "the earth-shaking changes have taken place", it is really "correct" that this has changed dramatically. But what about those recorded blood stains? Some high-ranking people have their own wonderful methods, and there is no need to distinguish and verify them. They can be easily dismissed with a sentence of "the slander of the evil ruling landlord class". However, from what we have seen, today's set of sayings and tomorrow's set of sayings will arbitrarily handle history like a little girl dressed up. The four big characters "for the past and the present" are not the best of these high-level people! Some people have seen their faces and tricks for thousands of years and have seen enough. And historians of all dynasties, even if they have all kinds of stubborn opinions that are limited by the times, they are inevitably intimidated by power. However, for the outstanding among them, the integrity of "in the history of Qi and Donghu pen in Jin" has never been extinguished from their hearts. The word "truth" is the lifeblood of history. History books are literature, but unlike all other literary notes, they are not poems, essays, or novels. They are not created by people. History is real. Therefore, history books do not need gorgeous writing and gorgeous words, but only real language and conclusive events. Therefore, their writings really need to be reliable for some masterpieces of others.