Xin Yi has just thanked the little peach hair, after eating green food and before eating cold food,
The best time of year is March. Once it goes, it will never come back.
——Excerpt from "March" by Han Xi (Tang Dynasty)
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On this day, Bai Fu once again received a secret letter from Duan Xiushi's confidant.
In the secret letter, Duan Xiushi mentioned that during the process of pacifying Anlu Mountain, the powerful combat power of Anlu's Beiting Army made the court always fearful.
General Li Siye was unparalleled in his loyalty and bravery, so the court was not worried.
After Li Siye's death, the imperial court was very worried about Duan Xiushi, Li Feiyuanli and other old An Lushan generals. If these rebellious military leaders had disobedient intentions, they might be even more dangerous than An Lushan.
After the imperial court gave Li Siye a grand burial, he immediately transferred Duan Xiushi, Li Fei, Yuanli and other generals as well as some Anbeiting troops to camp out from Anbeiting.
While splitting up the main force of Anbeiting Army, other generals and troops were also mixed into Anbeiting Camp.
By adding sand to the Anbeiting camp, it was ensured that the army was firmly in the hands of the imperial court.
The five thousand elite soldiers who are still in the camp are the last bloodline of Anbeiting Army.
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After burning Duan Xiushi's secret letter, Bai Fu couldn't calm down for a long time.
Accusing the court of suspicion and absurdity is of no use. All Bai Fu can do now is to preserve the firepower of Anbeiting Army as much as possible.
These five thousand elites cannot be all used up. This is not only the family fortune of the Anbeiting Protectorate, but also the Tang Army's family fortune.
Bai Fu decided to use these five thousand elites as his team to create a new army.
His idea is: Anbeiting's elite are the masters of hundreds of battles, and everyone can be as good as ten; then use these elites as the backbone, recruit ten or even twenty times more people, and train them rigorously to form a team.
A powerful team.
At that time, not only can the rebels be wiped out, but the land occupied by Tibet can be regained and the Western Regions can be regained.
Bai Fu's plan was grand. Although the idea was good, there were many difficulties in its execution. He thought in his mind:
Although the soldiers mixed with sand have been split up, the Anbeiting camp is still full of 20,000 people. If you want to recruit new soldiers, you must expand the number. But once the number is expanded, it will immediately attract criticism from the court officials. This is
One.
Second, after the expansion, where will the food and military supplies come from?
Since I own Princess Taiping's treasure, I don't have to worry about military pay. However, in the war years, food, grass, and military supplies may not be completely obtained with money alone. Especially the weapons of the Tang army, even if they have money, they cannot purchase them from the private sector.
Although the troops and horses are currently well fed and clothed, if the number is expanded, these military supplies will be stretched thin.
If the imperial court can agree to the expansion, it will be extremely difficult. If we still expect the imperial court to continue to allocate food, fodder and military supplies, the hope is even slimmer.
Bai Fu was lying on the bed, troubled by these two problems. After thinking about it, he couldn't find a solution. He slept until midnight and still couldn't close his eyes.
When the rooster crows, Bai Fu falls asleep. As soon as he falls asleep, he hears the rapid footsteps of his own soldiers. If it were not an urgent military situation, the soldiers would not be so anxious.
Bai Fu turned over and rubbed his cheeks with his hands twice to wake himself up.
Hearing the sound of Bai Fu getting up, the captain of the personal army opened the door and came in, saying to Bai Fu: "General, General Guangbi's personal soldiers are here and are waiting for you in front of the tent."
Bai Fu hurriedly called the messenger. This person was Li Guangbi's confidant. He handed Li Guangbi's personal letter to Bai Fu.
Bai Fu came to the desk and couldn't wait to open the letter.
Li Guangbi said in the letter: The rebels were powerful, and the prairie cavalry were accustomed to fighting and were mobile and flexible, making them difficult to deal with. In order to ensure that the Tang army would fight the rebels with superior strength, he asked Bai Fu to recruit 10,000 more horses in Shaanzhou and train them.
Elite soldiers.
Once Shuofang's army needs to be replenished due to combat losses, these troops can immediately go to Heyang and be handed over to his command.
Li Guangbi told Bai Fu that he had already informed the court about entrusting An Beiting Camp to recruit strong men for training, and that the court would issue an order to Shaanzhou that day.
Seeing Bai Fu finish reading the letter, Li Guangbi's close personal soldiers stepped forward and whispered in a low voice: "The commander-in-chief said that after these soldiers are trained, they will be placed here with you and you will have full command."
When Bai Fu heard this, he was overjoyed. He secretly said: "General Guangbi must be well aware of my purpose of dividing the troops. In order to help me solve the problem of insufficient troops, he resorted to this tactic of substituting a weak beam and replacing a pillar."
Bai Fu rewarded Li Guangbi's close soldiers and drew several of his newly created battlefield fighting skills, sword skills, spear skills and other skills on a folded book and presented them to General Guangbi.
Finally, Bai Fu studied his ink and wrote a long letter to General Guangbi, asking the soldier to take it back.
After sending Li Guangbi's soldiers away, Bai Fu thought to himself: "Jiang is old and hot, and Guangbi's soldiers are mature and refined. This method neither expanded the Anbeiting camp nor the Shuofang army. To put it bluntly,
Reasonable.
From now on, I will have to learn more from Senior Brother Guangbi."
Sure enough, three days later, the imperial decree arrived, ordering Bai Fu to recruit more than 10,000 soldiers to prepare for the unexpected needs of the Heyangshuo army.
All the food, grass and baggage required by the new soldiers are available.
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Bai Fu secretly sent Huang Zhen of the Sichuan Clan and Tang Kui of the Tang Clan, and ordered them to transfer thousands of soldiers and horses secretly trained in Lihentian to Shaanzhou.
For the remaining establishment, Bai Fu decided to recruit strong peasants from the Guanzhong and Hanzhong areas, determined not to defeat the old soldiers of the Tang army who had fled here.
Farmers' children are kind-hearted and easy to teach. This is what Bai Fu really values.
In the face of loyalty, the old lady's experience and ability are not worth mentioning.
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All is ready except for the opportunity.
What is Dongfeng? The way to lead and manage an army!
The Art of War says: "Therefore, the scriptures are based on five things, which are calibrated to plan and to explore their emotions. One is called Dao, the second is called Heaven, the third is called Earth, the fourth is called General, and the fifth is called Law. All generals must hear these five things.
He who knows is victorious, but he who does not know is not victorious.”
When Lihentian taught the art of war, Master Zhongsi said to Bai Fu: "Of the five things 'Tao, Heaven, Earth, Generals, and Laws,' 'Law' is at the bottom. Most generals don't pay much attention to it, and simply understand it as military law.
In fact, "Dharma" is the foundation of running an army, and a general should spend most of his energy here. As long as the "Dharma" is in place, the battle will be easy.
‘The law, the system, the official way, the master’s use’.
Cao Cao once said: 'The quzhi is the system of music, flags, and golden drums; the official is the division of hundreds of officials; the Taoist is the food and road; the master is the person responsible for the army's expenses.'"
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Wang Zhongsi spent several years in Tianlao, with nothing to do. He integrated the methods of military strategists and sages in running the army with his own methods of leading troops, and created a set of methods for commanding troops, which he named the "Eight Methods of Zhongsi".
This method of uniting troops makes it easier to manage a large army, making the command system more orderly and the overall structure of the army flatter. Senior generals can obtain the situation of the grassroots troops in a timely and accurate manner, which greatly improves the level of strategizing and decisive battles among the armies.
Ability.
Bai Fu followed Master Zhongsi's father's instructions and unfolded the method of commanding the army one by one.
The first is the method of orthodoxy guidance. Let soldiers read and write, understand the justice of the family and the country, and abide by military rules and disciplines.
Second, the method of mixed military services. According to the types of each service, the army is divided into seven armies, namely, the center army, the left Yuhou Army, the right Yuhou Army, the left front army, the left rear army, and the right front army.
, the rear army in the right compartment. The army is divided into battalions. The seven armies have a total of nineteen battalions.
Third, the method of strategic planning. Set up a marching Sima camp to advise military aircraft. Set up a military advisor to lead the marching Sima and comprehensively plan the war situation.
Marching Sima Battalion decomposes strategies based on strategic planning, implements military tasks to each army and battalion, decomposes them layer by layer, and finally implements them to each individual soldier. This allows generals at all levels to have a clear and long-term understanding of their tasks.
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Fourth, the method of military training. During daily military training, each battalion must practice formation changes. Attack and defense must be unified and orderly under the command of flags, flags and golden drums, like arms and fingers.
Soldiers must exercise their physical fitness, cultivate their willpower and perseverance, practice fighting skills in battle formations, and be proficient in the use of various weapons. In a decisive battle, one must be able to defeat ten.
Fifth, the method of battle report analysis. On the basis of strategic planning, each army prepares battle reports as required and conducts battle report analysis.
On weekdays, battle reports are provided once a month, including each army's combat strength assessment, training quality, officer ability improvement, food and grass loss, military supplies loss and other personalized indicators.
During the war, battle reports are provided for each battle, including the number of enemies killed, the number of prisoners, the number of grain and grass seized, the number of weapons seized, the number of horses and military supplies seized, and other key values.
Marching Sima Battalion analyzes battle reports and monitors the execution status of each army.
Sixth, the method of verification. The implementation of strategies, the completion of military training, the authenticity of battle reports, and the compliance with military regulations and disciplines all need to be reviewed through verification.
This is the supervision link of strategic planning. Senior military generals use the verification system to strengthen the implementation of strategy and campaign planning, improve the level of military management, and thereby support the effectiveness of senior generals' decision-making.
Seventh, the method of evaluation. The implementation of strategy and the completion of campaign planning need to be evaluated, and strategic planning is transformed into key indicators from several perspectives such as performance, casualties, command and training.
The evaluation results of each army are the main basis for reviewing strategies and implementing rewards and punishments, and promote the implementation of strategy execution and campaign planning tasks through performance evaluation.
Eighth, the assessment method.
Strategy execution and campaign responsibilities are specifically assigned to each army and battalion, and assessments must also be implemented to generals at all levels. The assessment system for generals at all levels is mainly based on performance evaluation and the assessment of generals' personal abilities.
Among them, generals' personal abilities include intelligence, loyalty, benevolence, bravery, strictness, integrity, discernment, teamwork, decision-making, communication, passion, martial arts, experience and more than ten aspects.
Based on the assessment results, the promotion, rewards and punishments of generals are decided.
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When he was in Shuofang's army, Bai Fu once held a candle-lit night talk with General Guangbi and discussed the "Eight Laws of Loyalty and Succession" all night long.
Li Guangbi sighed: "Master's knowledge is profound and profound. This set of 'Eight Methods of Loyalty and Succession' is the essence of what Master has learned in his life, and it can be said to be unprecedented."
Before Bai Fu took office, Li Guangbi repeatedly emphasized that Bai Fu should govern the army according to the "Eight Laws of Loyalty and Successor".
It wasn't until this moment that Bai Fu's wish came true.
That night, the full moon was bright and bright, and Bai Fu felt something in his heart. He took a bath, changed clothes, and burned incense to worship Master Zhongsi.
Bai Fu knelt on the ground, kowtowed several times, and said solemnly: "Master, you have a spirit in heaven, please bless me to train an iron-blooded army that can sweep the world!"