Fight with the golden drum at dawn, sleep with a jade saddle in your arms at night.
I am willing to put my sword down from my waist and kill Loulan directly.
——Excerpt from "Six Songs under the Fortress Part 1" by Li Bai
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The Art of War says: "It is not true that having more soldiers is better, but that without advancing force, it is enough to combine forces, anticipate the enemy, and capture people."
In Bai Fu's view, soldiers are more valuable than more soldiers. The more soldiers are not the better, but they must be able to control them.
The core generals must be selected from within. Only by leaving promotion opportunities to the younger soldiers can the top and bottom have the same desire and the officers and soldiers can work together.
Zifu witnessed the Battle of Feishui in the Qiaoxun Military Area with his own eyes and was deeply impressed.
Before the battle, Fu Jian threw his whip to cut off the current, and he was in high spirits. Who would have thought that millions of prairie cavalry were defeated by tens of thousands of Beifu soldiers commanded by Xie Xuan.
The most critical factor in why the former Qin army lost this battle was that among the former Qin army, the Di, Xianbei and other tribes stood on the hilltops, each with their own evil intentions. Once the army started out unfavorably, they would immediately counterattack.
Bai Fu will never repeat the same mistakes.
Those who share the same desires will win!
With people united, Mount Tai can move. As long as the soldiers of the three armies work together and sacrifice their lives, five thousand elites are enough to defeat the enemy!
After the troops were split, Bai Fu formally organized his army to prepare for war and began to build this iron-blooded force according to his own standards.
Wei Zhi, Li Ruoyou and Wei Boyu were quite satisfied since they had received the troops sent by Bai Fu for nothing, and they were also their favorite generals and troops.
These three old foxes knew the art of reciprocity. Not only did the three of them pay for the food and military supplies for this group of separated troops, they also used their own resources to donate a large amount of food, grass, and military supplies to Bai Fu free of charge.
By dividing the 12,000 men and horses who had been separated from Germany, Bai Fuben could save three-fifths of his food and salary. Coupled with the gifts from Wei, Li and Wei, Bai Fu had plenty of money and was able to flex his muscles.
The generals under Bai Fu's command were paid three times as much as before, and they were never in arrears.
There is meat for every meal, and every meal is full; the dishes are refreshed every day, and there are enough steamed buns and biscuits; there are people to take care of trivial matters, and there are doctors to see you when you are sick. There are seasonal bedding and military uniforms in both cold and summer.
Each cavalryman is equipped with two horses, and they are all strong horses.
Infantry hemp shoes, leather boots, and tube socks are all available.
The food and clothing of the three armies are several times higher than before, and the weapons and armor used are the most elite weapons in the Tang Dynasty.
Before Bai Fushuai's troops could mobilize for the parade, all the officers and soldiers of the three armies were in high spirits, high spirits and high morale.
Bai Zhifa established strict military regulations: fire artillery at five and three o'clock every day, start as soon as the artillery is heard, and send hundreds of elite patrols from each battalion at night;
During dawn drills, sub-generals, military commanders, and commanders must be present in person; a roll call is held at noon; evening drills are performed at sunset, and a roll call is performed before the second watch.
Every third, sixth, and ninth day, Bai Fu himself went to Yanwuping to supervise the army.
From now on, every day in Yanwuping, war horses neigh, gongs and drums roar, and there are endless shouts of killing.
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On this day, Hu Yan Tieyi, the tiger general under his command, walked into Bai Fu's camp with great interest and said: "General, what are the subjects of today's training?"
Bai Fu pointed to the pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the table and said with a smile: "Look at the pictures and read."
"Ah? This..."
Huyan Tieyi was stunned.
Yes, Bai Fu wanted to teach his soldiers how to read.
After three months of research, Bai Fu discovered that half of the soldiers in Anbeiting's army could not read a single word.
Only an army with faith can be invincible and conquer all attacks!
Bai Fu learned this from Master Yan Zhenqing.
Yan Zhenqing, a civil servant who led the army, was nothing less than a famous general. His first step in running the army was to solve the problem of who the Tang army soldiers fought for.
Bai Fu witnessed all this with his own eyes.
The Tang army was composed of a group of ragged, yellow-faced and thin-skinned villagers. They were not even proficient in using weapons, but from head to toe, they exuded a confident and persevering light.
That was the scene that only the Tang army led by Emperor Taizong and God of War Li Jing had at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Inspired by Taoism, Yan Zhenqing's army was extremely brave and invincible despite its simple conditions and hardships.
Bai Fu was greatly shocked when he ate and lived with the soldiers under Yan Zhenqing's command.
Bai Fu made up his mind at that time that one day he would take charge of the army and train such an iron army!
And all of this starts with reading and knowing how to read.
After the order was issued, the generals at all levels of the Anbeiting Army, Monk Zhanger, were at a loss as to whether the commander-in-chief Bai Fu was acting on a whim or something else.
That evening, Bai Fu came to a camp and had dinner with the soldiers around a campfire.
A soldier named Dunzi boldly asked: "General, I am stupid and strong, so I joined the army. Are you going to cost me my life by making me literate?"
The brigade commander beside him hurriedly scolded: "What nonsense are you talking about? General, this is for your own good!"
Bai Fu waved his hand to stop the brigade commander from scolding Dunzi. He smiled and said: "Dunzi, how many years have you been in the army?"
Dunzi replied neatly: "Three years!"
"Do you miss your parents?"
"I want to, I can't even dream of it!"
"Do you have a letter from home?"
"Yes!" Dunzi took out several letters carefully wrapped in oilcloth paper from his pocket.
Bai Fu said: "Do you know the contents of the letters home?"
Dunzi nodded and said: "When I received the letter from home, I asked my brothers in the army to help me read it, and I probably remember the content."
Bai Fu smiled and said, "Since you remember the content, why do you still keep the letter?"
Dunzi smiled honestly and said: "My father-in-law is a private school teacher in the village. My daughter-in-law knows two words and all the letters are written by her.
Although I am illiterate, when I see her handwriting, it is as if I have seen her. If I lose my letters from home, it is like losing my wife. I can’t bear to leave!"
When the soldiers sitting around heard this, they burst out laughing.
Bai Fu glanced at Dunzi's family letter twice and said, "Dunzi, although you are fat, your wife is thin and not in good health. Is that right?"
Dunzi was stunned and said in surprise: "General, have you seen my wife?"
The crowd burst into laughter again.
Bai Fu was also amused and said: "I also know that your wife is dignified, virtuous, kind, gentle and virtuous, right?"
Dunzi was stunned and said: "General, you are a god! What you said is right. How did you know that?"
Bai Fu pointed at the letter and said with a smile: "The answers to the mystery are all in this letter."
Everyone suddenly became curious, and they all gathered around and circulated Dunzi's letters one by one. Everyone read the letters over and over for a long time, but they couldn't guess how Bai Fu knew about it.
Everyone was chattering, wanting to hear the details.
Bai Fu pointed to the handwriting in the letter home and said: "The handwriting in the letter is beautiful and neat, and it is arranged neatly. It can be seen that Dunzi's wife is a person of Lan Xinhui quality.
However, the body of the pen is slender and the return stroke is soft, which shows that the wrist movement is weak, which should be a sign of physical weakness. That is why I judged that Dunzi's wife is weak.
The content of the letter is well-organized, the thinking is clear, and the big and small matters at home are explained clearly and clearly. It can be seen that he is a filial old man, harmonious with his wife, taking care of the children, and taking care of the house in an orderly manner.
Not only that, Dunzi’s daughter-in-law also describes the trivial things in life vividly and interestingly, making it vivid when reading, as if the parents, wives and children at home are right in front of you.”
Before Bai Fu finished speaking, Dunzi had tears streaming down his face and kept wiping his tears with his hands.
The image and temperament of the writer can be seen in the handwriting, and all the soldiers admired him.
Bai Fu looked around and said: "As the saying goes, you can see the words just like the face.
We long for letters home from our loved ones, and our families are also looking forward to our letters of safety.
I heard from the commander of the army that the more urgent the military situation is and the more intense the war, the more our soldiers are willing to write letters home during their breaks.
I want to ask everyone, why is this?"
The eyes of all the soldiers were red, and they replied in unison: "I miss home!"
Bai Fu stood up, stood on a high place, and said word by word to the soldiers surrounding him: "The war has been going on for three months, and a letter from home is worth ten thousand gold!"
Then let us write a letter home in our own hand. Even if the handwriting is crooked and the content is smeared, the meaning of the letter will be different if it is written by us.
When our family members thousands of miles away see this letter, they will see a high-spirited and high-spirited soldier of the Tang Dynasty!
Brothers, why did we abandon our families and careers, stay away from our homeland, and appear here as soldiers of the Tang Dynasty?
We are using our bodies and flesh to protect our hometown and our wives, children, and children.
If anyone wants to take this away from us and destroy our home, we will let them taste the sharp sword in our hands!
Our swords will cut off their heads, our swords will pierce their hearts, and our cavalry will ride through their nightmares!
We are not afraid of death, not because we are not afraid, but because we deserve to die!
We are not afraid of death, not because we are invulnerable, but because we are fearless!
As long as we are here, they will never think of moving further west!
As long as we are here, the flag of the Tang Dynasty will always fly in the sky!"
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"The Anbei Court must win, the Tang army must win, and the Tang Dynasty must win!" Someone in the crowd shouted, and the scene exploded.
"Anbei Ting will win, the Tang army will win, and the Tang Dynasty will win!"
"Anbei Ting will win, the Tang army will win, and the Tang Dynasty will win!"
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Beside the bonfire where Bai Fu was, dozens of Tang army soldiers burst into tears, raised their arms and shouted, roaring with heart-breaking roars.
In other camps, I don’t know what happened here, but I couldn’t help but feel thunder in my chest when I heard the inspiring roars here.
The soldiers of each battalion put down their lunch boxes one after another, stood up and stood in awe, and roared at the flag of the Tang Dynasty.
The sound was louder than the other, rising and falling in the Beiting Army camp in Anxi, for a long time...