Xin Qiji thought about it and felt that what Su Yonglin said made sense.
It's not that many people don't want to rebel, but they are timid. As long as someone takes the lead in rebelling, this group of people will definitely follow suit.
But most people are more timid than they thought and cannot defeat powerful enemies head-on in front of them. If you tell them that the rebels are stronger, they will never follow the rebels and will only sit on the sidelines and watch.
They are speculators who will only pursue purer interests and will not use their lives as bets.
Shandong's victory was not that great in their eyes. Only by winning the battle in front of them and defeating the Jin Kingdom's central army could they have the desire to speculate.
Su Yonglin expected that Jin Ting would not use a large army in the first wave. The army would need time to mobilize. It was more likely to send the vanguard army south to quell the rebellion.
Then the first thing Su Yonglin had to face was the vanguard army.
It is very likely that the field troops with strong field combat capabilities will be a great test for the Shengjie Army.
"You'an, instead of worrying about whether we can survive here, we should think seriously about what we need to do to increase the possibility of survival. Are you right?"
Su Yonglin patted Xin Qiji on the shoulder: "At that time, the Red Ax Battalion under your command will come into real use. What you have to deal with is not those infantry without combat effectiveness, but the real field cavalry.
After all, we have to face the Jin cavalry head-on. If we cannot defeat the Jin cavalry head-on like the Yue Family Army, we cannot say that we have a firm foothold in the Central Plains. Everything about us is just like a mirror, do you dare? "
Xin Qiji's breathing suddenly became rapid.
He recalled the Jin Army cavalry he had seen during his secret inspection in Zhongdu.
Once those steel monsters attack, they will not stop fighting.
If the victorious army wants to win the battle, it must cross that hurdle and reach the level of tenacity of the Yue family army. It must make the Jin army cry out again: "It is easy to shake the mountain, but it is difficult to defeat the victorious army." Otherwise, it will not be possible at all. Survive on the Hebei Plain.
Xin Qiji suddenly felt that the task on his shoulders was very heavy.
But his answer will never change.
"dare."
Su Yonglin smiled and nodded, expressing her expectations for him.
After a while, Su Yonglin seemed to have remembered something, and asked with a smile: "I heard that Gezi said that you would take time to attend his class every day these days? Why, are you also interested in the work of the Guidance Department? I want to think about it later. Be an instructor?"
Xin Qiji was stunned for a moment, then shook his head.
"No, I'm just curious. I feel that there are too many ways in which the Shengjie Army is different from other armies. I have never seen any military book mention the need for such profound education for the soldiers. I When I couldn’t figure it out, I thought of the source, and of course the source was the Guidance Department.”
Su Yonglin nodded, knowing that what Xin Qiji was confused about was probably the ideological and political education given to the soldiers by the Shengjie Army.
That is, the theory of conflicts between superior people and cattle and horses, as well as some conflicts between ethnic groups.
That is a theory that directly points to the nature of society and class, and it has extremely clear direction and guiding significance.
As a person who grew up with traditional Confucian education and one of the few true intellectuals among the current Shengjie Army group, it is understandable that Xin Qiji is confused and even horrified by this.
Now it seems that he is more confused than frightened. It should be because he is relatively young and courageous, so he reacts like this.
If an old scholar heard these contents, I am afraid this would not be the reaction.
So Su Yonglin smiled.
"Do you think it's dangerous to do this? Do you think it's incredible to teach that kind of thinking to soldiers?"
"I……"
Xin Qiji hesitated for a while, then said: "General, I think that the way to march and use troops lies in training and strict military orders. To make the army follow orders and prohibitions, this is the way to strengthen the army, and the other things... do not seem to be the most important."
To be honest, Xin Qiji was quite surprised when he listened to Sheng Jiejun's political education class for the first time.
When he established the Red Ax Battalion, he recruited troops from Jinan itself, but he also transferred some experienced and capable veterans from the army to serve as the backbone of officers and build up the army as quickly as possible.
At that time, he realized that Shengjie Army was different.
The training content is not entirely up to him.
He can stipulate the professional training content of the Red Ax Battalion, but apart from that, the Shengjie Army has a set of special regulations on the training process.
In addition to professional training, a certain amount of time must be reserved for another level of training. This is a regulation that all Victory Army troops must abide by. No branch of the military can change these regulations.
The literacy course surprised him already, and the bonfire party in the evening surprised him even more.
What they talked about were cruel topics from the past. Those things were unimaginable for an intellectual who grew up in a privileged environment.
Xin Qiji sympathized with them, but seeing them crying so miserably, it was somewhat difficult to understand why they were crying so miserably.
Empathy does not exist. You can only feel it if you have truly experienced it. Otherwise, wanting to empathize is just a luxury.
But unexpectedly, the recruits of the Red Ax Battalion became a unified force in a short period of time. They have extremely strong cohesion in all senses, and they have a high degree of mutual recognition. Differences arise due to differences in origin and place of origin.
This surprised Xin Qiji.
So he began to deeply understand the specific content of these ideas circulated among soldiers, and learned that it was a set of theories about the relationship between superiors and cattle and horses.
The core of the theory is that the upper-class groups represented by bureaucrats and landlords do not regard the common people as human beings at all. They are just cattle and horses, and they have no meaning in life except production.
They should work until they die, don't think about anything, and exist obediently as tools of production. It is best not to even eat or drink.
But Shengjiejun thought this was wrong.
Being born as a human being should have its own value. In addition to production, there are more things that can be done.
You can have a full stomach, wear nice clothes, live in a comfortable house, enjoy better spiritual and material products, and don't have to suffer all the time.
They can do this, but the reason why they don't do it now is because they have been unfairly exploited and oppressed.
The materials they produced were greatly exploited. They did not get what they deserved. They were unable to save and resist risks. All this was taken away by the superior people.
The superiors used their power and violence to take away from the people what was rightfully theirs.
What is left to them is endless suffering and a dark situation.
This is not allowed.
The Shengjie Army is an army of farmers. Everyone gathers together to resist this unfair treatment.
In order to resist this unfair treatment, everyone must unite as one and use the weapons in their hands to build a future.
Crush all the superiors and the idiots who think they are superiors, and transform this world into a world where everyone can treat each other equally and live and work in peace and contentment.
Let there be no more superior people in this world, and no more cows and horses. You can have a full stomach, you can read and write, and live a good life.
Xin Qiji felt that his spirit had been severely impacted.
He recalled the human tragedies he had seen when he was growing up, the suffering farmers who had insufficient food to eat, and the miserable deaths of hungry people.
He once believed that it was caused by the brutal policies of the Jin State, so the way to solve the problem was to overthrow the Jin State and let the Song Dynasty in the south regain the Central Plains, so that the country and the people could be saved.
But judging from what Shengjiejun felt in this theory, it seems that this is not just a problem of the Jin Kingdom.
Because one of the theories says that "superior people do not only exist in the Kingdom of Jin, but also exist in the entire world, regardless of country."
If you look at this theory a little bit, it doesn't mean that there are superior people in the Song Dynasty in the south. So since the Shengjie Army wants to fight against the superior people, doesn't it mean...
Will the Shengjie Army regard the Song Dynasty as an enemy in the future?
