Chapter 15: Selecting a strong general, Zhou Tai starts in the army(1/2)
Chapter 15 Selecting strong generals, Zhou Tai started in the army
Author: Yang's Liangjiazi
Chapter 15 Selecting strong generals, Zhou Tai started in the army
The soldiers were enthusiastic and their morale was like a rainbow. Sun Ce laughed and said: "Good! Then I will tell you about the standards for eating meat. If you meet any of these items, you can come and eat meat."
"First item!"
"Anyone who has read a book, can read, or knows how to count, regardless of disability or not, regardless of gender, old or weak, even the young and young, can come and share a piece of beef!"
There is a real shortage of scholars in this era.
The civilization of Jiangdong is far inferior to that of the Central Plains, and it is even more lacking.
The degree of scarcity is enough to shock future generations!
Many of the county magistrates and county magistrates in Jiangdong are illiterate. For example, the famous Soochow general Pan Zhang, who was famous for being a rogue, rogue, bully, and asshole, also served as the county magistrate of Xi'an.
Huang Gai was literate, but he was a martial artist. When he was the magistrate of Shicheng County, he said: "The commander is not moral. He only uses martial arts as an official and is not called a civil servant."
But this kind of warrior also served as the county magistrate and county magistrate of nine counties.
Therefore, in this era, an important part of appreciating capable ministers is to establish schools under their rule and promote education.
This is true for governing a local area, let alone the army. There are many generals from Soochow.
The current most powerful Sima Jiang Qin in the army is someone who cannot read a single word.
People in later generations would not dare to imagine that the general who commanded thousands of troops was actually an illiterate and reckless man! Would ordinary people dare to entrust the army to such a reckless man with single-digit intelligence? This is different from Dian Wei, Xu Chu, and Fan Kuizhi.
What is the difference between streams.
Sun Ce planned to teach literacy to the soldiers in the army. Not only did he want them to grow up to be governors like Lu Meng, but they would at least understand the art of war and gain some ink in their stomachs. Therefore, he naturally valued talents who could read and read.
After listening to what Sun Ce said, the soldiers looked at each other in confusion. In this era, only virtue and merit can convince people, but he is not a meritorious man.
Men, women, old and weak, and even children can eat beef because they are literate?
Military sergeants and heroes have never thought of such a thing. Other women also learn silk reeling, weaving, and those who are qualified learn to play the harp, but very few people learn to write.
But within ten steps, there must be fragrant grass. Within a city of ten houses, there must be wise men.
There were five thousand people in the army, with various origins and routes. Soon someone came out of each queue and asked: "General, I read the "Four People's Monthly Order" in Wubao and I know some characters. Where can I write it?
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"Four People's Monthly Orders" is a monograph of the Eastern Han Dynasty that guides the powerful and the routine farming activities of the manor for a year. It is the family history of the landlord's management. The powerful and powerful obviously need to read this book in order to organize production. Among the few people who came out, there were
More than a dozen people said they had read this book.
Sun Ce said with a smile: "Captain Feng Xian has prepared a sandpit and reeds. All of you who can read can go over and write. As long as you can write the words asked by Commander Feng Xian, you will be considered qualified."
In this era, it is indeed difficult to promote education in the military.
But as long as your thinking doesn’t slip, there are always more methods than difficulties!
The famous idiom, Hua Di teaches his son. It refers to the great writer Ouyang Xiu, who was poor when he was a child. His mother taught him to read by writing on the ground with reeds.
Using this native method, a female streamer could teach the top writers, politicians, prime ministers, grand masters, and Dukes of Chu in the Song Dynasty!
Sun Ce felt that he might not be able to teach several princes and princes in the army. Who said that to promote literature and education, one must have paper, ink, pen and inkstone?
When Huang Gai was a child, his family was poor, his children were in danger, and he endured many hardships. However, he still had great ambitions and often carried a salary to hone himself, study hard, learn books, and talk about military affairs.
That is to say, when he was a child, his family was so poor that he almost drowned his baby in the water. Let alone paper, he may not have even seen bamboo slips, and he learned to read and write in the dirt next to the school.
People who are ambitious and able to forge ahead have a better chance of changing their destiny than others.
Those who work hard will be rewarded. These 127 people who persisted in studying and enriched themselves in the difficult and troubled times were all given a piece of beef and were organized into a separate team. From then on, they were directly led by Sun Ce.
The treatment of these people tickles the hearts of others.
A cow was given away one hundred and twenty-seven yuan, which is a big loss!
The other brave men looked at the vacated iron cauldron and the dwindling beef in the remaining iron cauldron, and they were so anxious that they could not sit still.
Someone couldn't help but ask: "General, in addition to reading and writing, don't the officers and soldiers in the army deserve to eat meat?"
Sun Ce smiled and said: "The military naturally values martial arts. Then the next step in eating meat will depend on how good your martial arts are!"
What is the main focus of martial arts?
Sun Ce doesn't need to say much about this. In the Han Dynasty, everyone knew that the most important thing to test for martial arts was the bow and arrow.
You say you are very skilled in martial arts, but it turns out you can’t shoot arrows? What’s the difference between a tailor saying he doesn’t know how to use scissors and a carpenter saying he doesn’t know how to use a plane?
So Sun Ce said directly: "Second item, those who know how to shoot should go to Sun Sima. Sun Sima will set a target thirty paces away. If you hit more than three out of six arrows, you can come and eat the meat!"
A thirty-step target is really a very low standard.
The Song Army's heavy infantry was very capable of fighting. The assessment standards for archers in the Southern Song Dynasty's Palace Division and Infantry Division were sixty-step targets, twelve arrows, six arrows in the middle, etc.;
That is to say, if you shoot twelve arrows, at least six arrows must hit the target sixty steps away to be considered qualified.
This was the assessment standard for the troops of the Southern Song Dynasty, not the standard for the imperial army that swept across all directions when the Northern Song Dynasty was founded.
It can be said that all the assessment standards set by Sun Ce now are only half of those of the Southern Song Dynasty troops.
If you don't even have this level, don't join the archery team and just make up your skills. What kind of meat can you eat?
The soldiers with bows and arrows were immediately overjoyed and cheered: "Long live the general!"
"It's someone's turn to eat meat, hahaha!"
"Let's see after an arrow hits the bull's-eye, pick a big piece of fat!"
More than three hundred soldiers went to Sun He with bows and arrows.
Sun Ce didn't brag. Although there were more than 5,000 officers and soldiers in the camp, there were only about 300 soldiers with bows and arrows. After selecting, it would be good to have two tuns of qualified archers. The rest are just hand-picked soldiers.
Take short soldiers, unarmored disciples.
Of course, in this era, the armies of most princes are at this level.
Each of them claims to have tens of thousands of people, but in fact most of them are young and strong people. If you can give them a sword and a spear and let them go to the battlefield, they are considered to be fully equipped and the army is in order. Most of them are well-equipped.
Weapons were not even issued, leaving the soldiers to figure out what to do with them.
Under this situation, Sun Ce was convinced that if he gathered the archers in the army and formed two or three groups of crossbowmen, their deployment would be a downgraded blow to the enemy.
If you look at today's martial arts selection, you will know that archers are the elite of the army. Their training difficulty is very different from that of crossbowmen.
Under normal circumstances, whether an army is elite or not depends on the proportion of crossbowmen in its army.
For example, the Qin army and the Western Han Dynasty both implemented a conscription system. For such large-scale troops, all citizens went to the battlefield to kill people, leaving little time to train archers. In order to maintain long-range firepower, the proportion of crossbowmen was extremely high.
The Fifth Academy of the Northern Army of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Anxi Army of the Tang Army were professional soldiers, and their proportion of bows and arrows was relatively high, even exceeding 120%. The proportion of crossbowmen decreased relatively.
However, this is only a general situation and cannot be generalized. After all, in the history of five thousand years of war, there are all kinds of situations.
But one thing is certain, an elite army with infantry, cavalry, bows and crossbows working together must be very powerful in combat effectiveness.
Sun Ce has now mobilized warriors in the army to form elite cavalry and professional crossbow units. As long as they are commanded properly, their combat effectiveness will be greatly improved.
It is easy to defeat the armies of other princes by attacking the masses with a small number.
More may not necessarily defeat less, but strength can certainly defeat weakness!
After the selection of archers began, the other soldiers were so anxious that they scratched their heads.
Especially those soldiers with brute strength, they feel that they are strong and fierce, and other soldiers would not dare to offend them.
They feel that they can eat beef tonight no matter what.
But after two consecutive rounds of selection, hundreds of people were served delicious beef. Seeing that if things continued like this, they might not even be able to drink the beef soup, and all of them were so anxious that their eyes were red.
How can a general choose useless things? Which one is considered brave and heroic, those who play with ink or those who hide in dark corners and shoot arrows? Which one can roar and charge, break the formation and kill the enemy like himself?
Each of them was breathing heavily from their noses, and their necks were all red.
But the reality is so cruel. Their self-conceited bravery is completely worthless in the eyes of the princes, and is even just the courage of an ordinary man.
Any prince can easily capture thousands of these apprentices and drive them into battle by giving them a spear.
Sun Ce, a down-and-out wandering prince who didn't even have a county and hadn't yet made a fortune, had casually gathered more than 5,000 followers.
Fortunately, in order to appease the soldiers and choose the heroes of the three armies, Sun Ce still said the last item: "However, the art of war has a saying, there must be fierce warriors in an army, who can carry cauldrons with light strength, soldiers and horses with light weight, and capture generals with banners.
There must be someone who is capable. If you choose someone like this and distinguish them, love them and value them, this is called military order."
Then Sun Ce swung his long sword, put it on his shoulder, glanced around, looked at the troops, and said: "The third item! Anyone who thinks he is brave and brave in the army can take a step forward! Confront me.
If you are going to test your skills and be able to act as a general with three swords, you can take your pick of the beef in the cauldron behind me!"
"Roar~"
"Roar!"
"Roar!"
The soldiers of the three armies instantly roared with enthusiasm and excitement.
This vigorous and vigorous energy immediately ignited the morale of the entire army. The morale of the officers and soldiers of the three armies was high, and their morale was like a rainbow.
To be continued...