"Ding Guo Gong's sand table deduction was not won by Qi Guo Gong, but all the veterans in the army!" Zhang Fu sighed very much. As a leader of the younger generation, Zhang Fu saw it clearly.
What Xu Jingchang was good at was not making decisions before the battle, leading the troops to kill, nor charging into the battle, taking risks personally... The majesty of Zhu Di in the past few years, who always led the charge and made the Confederate army flee, was not what Xu Jingchang was good at.
But Xu Jingchang was still able to crush Qiu Fu, mainly relying on his skills outside the battlefield. In other words, in Xu Jingchang's hands, everything became a war effort.
This is the total war advocated by martial arts recently!
Yes, after the military household system was gradually abolished, Yingtian, Peiping, and Fengyang successively established martial arts schools to cultivate military talents.
In martial arts, in addition to the original martial arts of soldiers and horses, military books and tactics, many more courses have been added... Zhang Fu is fully aware of this.
His younger brother Zhang Xi studied martial arts.
Of the three brothers of the Zhang family, the eldest, Zhang Fu, inherited his father's title. The remaining two, either through grace or through martial arts, had to climb up the ladder little by little to stand out.
After all, not every family has two dukes to inherit.
Zhang Fu is not worried, the martial arts examination is actually not difficult.
The civil service examination mainly tests the eight-legged essay. After becoming an official, you will become a court official... After passing the martial arts examination, you can join the army to serve the country and become a general. This should be a matter of course.
But in fact, if you have a little understanding of the content of the martial arts examination, you won't think so.
There are about three major items in the martial arts assessment. The first is archery, including standing archery and mounted archery. This item has a very high proportion.
The ability to ride and shoot is also the most important ability of a military commander. After all, if you can kill your opponent from a long distance, why bother to get close and fight!
In addition to archery, there are also tests of strength, such as grabbing stone locks, which require extraordinary physical strength.
As for the third item, which is to test the art of war and write articles, this item is not important. After all, he is just a martial artist. He can write a few words and is not blind.
Zhang Fu's confidence also comes from this. Both of his brothers are strong and strong, and they are good at riding and shooting. Although they have no literary talent, they are at least literate. They can write casually and fool people.
After all, if a noble family like theirs doesn't even have this ability, it would be a joke.
It's just that all these good things began to change after the establishment of martial arts.
In fact, it can be seen from the content of the martial arts examination that it is not about selecting generals, but about selecting warriors... Although as a general, personal force value is very important, you can never win a war by relying on force alone.
This raises a very important question: why can't the martial arts examination be closer to war?
The answer is that it can't be done.
It's that simple.
Thousands of martial arts scholars were given a hundred soldiers each, and they were allowed to practice with each other with real swords and spears... Instead of selecting the top martial arts champion, there were a lot of casualties. In the peaceful years, under the nose of the emperor,
It simply can't be done.
Therefore, the selection for martial arts examinations can only focus on personal force value.
Then the successful warriors will go to the army to practice and accumulate experience from scratch. If they are lucky enough and have talent, they can accumulate experience from battles and complete their transformation. They may be expected to become generals. If not, they will only be lost to everyone
.
In fact, if you are familiar with this process, you can understand why there is a problem of inheritance among generals.
After all, it is much more convenient and easier to pass on family experience than to realize it yourself.
If we encounter a long period of peace, we may not have the opportunity to make meritorious deeds.
And taking a step back... Who can guarantee that military promotion is absolutely fair?
All in all, there are too many things that can be done in the military, and there are too many things that cannot be explained clearly... These vague areas are fertile ground for generals to survive.
The Xu family is also a general, and Xu Jingchang knows the rules very well... Then he thoughtfully added arithmetic courses to martial arts, and then added statistics, drawing, language, customs, geography, astronomy...
Isn’t it impossible to quantify?
This is not easy to handle. Just add more math courses.
Then Zhang Fu was dumbfounded, completely dumbfounded in the literal sense.
He thought he had a handful of textbooks brought back by his brother Zhang Xi, but what was there?
I am a leader in the army, but I can't teach you a little kid?
Then Zhang Fu received a slap in the face.
If you can't teach, you can't teach.
He really doesn't know these things. Zhang Fu couldn't figure it out at first. Is Ding Guogong deliberately trying to torment people?
But gradually, Zhang Fu understood that these courses had turned the art of war, which was originally a metaphysical category, into something tangible.
For example, when calculating food, grass, ordnance, how many men and horses will go out, how far forward, and under what conditions the battle will be fought... How much food and grass will be consumed, how many livestock and civilians will be needed, all can be calculated.
Not only that, once you have mastered the terrain-related courses, you can draw terrain maps, choose formation locations, and arrange your troops according to the terrain.
This thing is definitely much more reasonable than the perfect victory formation that the emperor came up with in the capital.
As for the content of information science, the saying "Know yourself and your enemy and you will be victorious in any battle" has been turned into a thick textbook... and Xu Jingchang, the commander-in-chief of Jinyiwei, personally wrote this course.
Xu Jingchang emphasized one point in it. Intelligence is not a secret letter that has to be obtained through all kinds of hardships, or confidential information that must be taken out by prying open a cabinet... In most cases, it is based on what is stated on the surface.
information and conduct scientific analysis to draw reliable conclusions.
Zhang Fu saw that his second brother was as busy as a top every day, spinning non-stop... he often stayed up until late at night and then got up early, and he did not dare to neglect at all.
This is not martial arts at all. It is simply more terrifying than the ten years spent in the imperial examination!
And hard work often yields unexpected rewards.
In order to check his brother's ability, Zhang Fu had a debate with him. The result was unexpected, Zhang Fu didn't get any advantage.
From then on, he did not dare to neglect and bought an extra copy of his second brother's textbook. He also studied it painstakingly and even went to the martial arts school to observe.
Even if he led troops to the southwest, Zhang Fu would not let go of the scroll and improved very quickly.
Because of this, Zhang Fu could see clearly that Qiu Fu's defeat was due to intelligence and self-righteousness... On a real battlefield, the Wala people should not have Xu Jingchang's calm methods, and the Wala tribes would not be able to match him.
Use your fingers.
Hundreds of thousands of people retreated in large numbers, and losses during the period were also very heavy.
But no matter what, if Qiu Fu leads the army, his chances of winning are slim.
He has been eliminated!
Although it is cruel, this is the fact.
"The Duke of Qi is sixty-five this year." Zhang Fu murmured: "He can also live a long life."
Brother Zhang Xi looked at his eldest brother, wondering why.
"What I mean is that you are not yet twenty...you boy, please study hard for me. What you learn in martial arts is not just arm's length talk, it is a method that can really defeat the enemy!"
After Zhang Fu finished explaining, he rushed his second brother to study.
Then he went around in a circle and headed to the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion.
He doesn't care what others think, anyway, he is planning to improve the academic level of his subordinates. At the very least, he will greatly increase the arithmetic courses... If necessary, he will bring in more people from martial arts.
These young people have a bright future!
"Your Majesty, this is my final draft of the general war. Please take a look at it."
After the deduction, Xu Jingchang took the time to enter the palace and placed a manuscript in Zhu Di's hand.
Zhu Di took it over and looked at it carefully. He was not immediately shocked. Instead, he chuckled and said: "Xu Jingchang, this book of yours is not as good as Sun Tzu's Art of War. The things he wrote are also commonplace... such as knowing yourself and your enemy, such as the army has not moved yet
Food and grass come first, this has been repeatedly emphasized by military strategists of all ages."
Xu Jingchang smiled faintly, "Your Majesty, I did not write this book to be new and different. On the contrary, military strategists of all generations said that they did not explain how to practice it, so that future generations will be confused no matter how much they read from the book.
It depends on your own understanding. What I write, I strive to make every person stand out and understand how to fight."
Zhu Di picked it up again, looked at it again, nodded deeply, and said with a smile: "Yes, you are right. From this point of view, our Ming Dynasty's soldiers and horses are not too bad?"
Xu Jingchang nodded happily, "Your Majesty is wise and wise. Given the greatness of the Ming Dynasty, not making mistakes is the greatest victory."
Zhu Di nodded, "Okay, I know it in my heart. Originally, I was thinking of giving Duke Qi a chance to lead the army, but now it seems that I can't do it."
Xu Jingchang was startled. Sure enough, Zhu Di wanted to use Qiu Fu... But it was absolutely unreliable to let him deal with the cunning Wala. If he really wanted to give him a chance, he would have better look for those soft persimmons with no fighting ability...
While Xu Jingchang was thinking about it, a eunuch suddenly came over and said that the queen was asking your majesty and Duke Ding to come over.
Queen Xu greeted her, and the monarchs and ministers did not dare to neglect them. When they came over, they found that Zhu Zhanji was also there, and the child Xu Xianzhong was also there.
Moreover, he and Zhu Zhanji stood in front of a cricket pot, shouting loudly, and were completely immersed in it.
"Bite, bite quickly! Hard, hard!"
The two guys clenched their fists and howled.
Seeing this, Xu Jingchang felt that his head was getting bigger.
Zhu Zhanji, you are so self-destructive, don’t take my son with you!
If I hadn't seen Zhu Di here, I would have beaten you!
Xu Jingchang stretched out his hand, grabbed his son's collar, and lifted Xu Xianzhong up, who was screaming happily.
The little guy was so anxious, "Don't make trouble!"
When he turned around and saw it was his father, he was stunned.
Xu Jingchang chuckled, "Are you having fun?"
"Open, be happy."
Xu Jingchang smiled and said: "As long as you are happy, you can enter the Mongolian School in a few days. Come and study hard for me."
Hearing the reading, Xu Xianzhong immediately fainted... He didn't even take a few bites of the imperial banquet, and then followed his father and hurried home.
After the father and son left, Zhu Di called Zhu Zhanji over and asked about his homework, "I'm going to let you go to a martial arts school... all the martial arts taught by Taixue will be taught, and you can learn martial arts that Taixue doesn't teach.
Be careful."
Zhu Zhanji quickly agreed. At this time, Queen Xu suddenly said: "I prepared a piece of field yellow for your majesty, why is it missing?"
Almost at the same time, Xu Jingchang, who was sitting in the carriage, noticed that his son's arms were bulging... Xu Jingchang reached out and grabbed the little boy and found that it was actually a piece of Tianhuang the size of a fist.
"What are you doing with this?"
Xu Xianzhong rolled his eyes and said, "Just give it to sir, so that you won't embarrass anyone."
Xu Jingchang was stunned... Bastard, how old are you that you learned how to bribe?
