During this period, internal and external conditions are relatively harsh.
Faced with such a situation, after Su Yonglin analyzed it, he had no plans to do anything in Hebei.
The current Hebei is not suitable for transformation, and there is a possibility of falling at any time. In the future decisive battle with Wan Yanliang, he plans to use the entire Hebei as strategic depth. If necessary, he can retreat and lengthen Wan Yanliang's supply line. , increasing the possibility of victory.
Another point is that there are not enough talents and the quality is not high.
The current political cadres trained in this accelerated mode do not yet have the ability to conduct operations behind enemy lines and develop base areas behind enemy lines.
They are still too young and cannot be separated from the guidance of a few veterans.
The number of veterans is too small to support the needs of a combat strategy behind enemy lines. They need more experience and longer growth.
If they can overthrow the Jin Kingdom, they will certainly be able to play a major role in realizing the unification strategy in the future.
By that time, with enough numbers, enough experience, and much updated methods, they can sneak into the enemy's country in large numbers and establish bases behind enemy lines.
Let them mobilize the oppressed people at the bottom, let them awaken, let them resist, and let them continue to struggle upward, then the Southern Song Dynasty, Xixia, Dali, and even Goryeo will be exhausted.
At that point, there was no need for Su Yonglin to dispatch regular troops. Direct control of the opponent's internal organizational structure would be enough to make the countries exhausted and make them continue to lose blood and become weaker and weaker.
When political cadres set off violent uprisings among the enemy in droves, which feudal regime could withstand such an organized and large-scale resistance?
Well, the Southern Song Dynasty might be able to do so. Its internal ultra-stable structure gave it a strong internal pressure, and its reactionary forces were extremely powerful. It would take both internal and external forces to work together to completely destroy it.
Several other countries do not have as stable internal structures as the Southern Song Dynasty, and their own governance levels are also quite low. Whether they can withstand it is a question.
Of course, this is a future outlook. For now, Su Yonglin's focus is on the 50,000 soldiers of the original Shenwu Army.
As long as military regulations and military laws can be clarified and officers are prohibited from lynching and punishing soldiers, it will be a huge victory and the first step in the successful transformation of the Shenwu Army.
After the soldiers of the Shenwu Army are freed from personal attachment to the original officers, further changes can be carried out smoothly.
After the instructors of the original Shenwu Army entered the army and took up positions in the original Shenwu Army, within a short period of time, the military appearance of the five armies of the original Shenwu Army was greatly improved.
After the command system was reformed and the rules were clarified, many things that were originally unclear were clarified, and the seemingly chaotic mess became orderly in an instant.
Sun Tzu Yi saw this very clearly.
He found that after his army fully introduced the military regulations and military management methods of the Shengjie Army, especially after the introduction of military clerks called instructors, it seemed that great changes had occurred in a short period of time.
The entire army feels different from the past.
Su Yonglin discovered early on that the reason why many feudal armies had poor combat effectiveness and low organization was due to low military culture and vague military rules. This is very important.
Many times, military laws and regulations are formulated by the superiors themselves for their own viewing. When they are implemented, no one cares at all. They still follow the unspoken rules within the army and do not care about military regulations and military laws at all.
Military regulations and military laws are good, but due to the low cultural quality of military personnel and insufficient supervision from the upper levels, military regulations and military laws cannot be implemented. As a result, at the middle and lower levels of the army, lynching and private law are very popular, and the senior officers above are helpless.
If you don't follow the method below, you won't be able to control the army at all. In other words, the cost of control is too high and too many literate people are needed to reach the grassroots level of the army.
In ancient times, people who were literate in writing and hyphenation were regarded as a strategic force of the country. It was difficult for them to invest in the army in large numbers and to implement the rules from top to bottom.
At that time, the personal authority of middle- and lower-level officers was very large, and they also had more power to act on their own convenience.
As a result, in the middle and late dynasty, as the central court's control over the army declined, a battalion-level army could be said to be a small private kingdom.
The fate of the lower-level soldiers depends entirely on the personal moral quality of the officers.
If the officers are good people, then the soldiers' treatment will be good, and the army's combat effectiveness will be relatively strong.
If the officers are not good enough, the soldiers will not be treated as human beings like pigs and dogs, and the combat effectiveness of the army can only be imagined.
Su Yonglin had learned about the dark side of the feudal army from some books in the past, including the Tang Army of the Brilliant Tang Dynasty, and it would not be any different.
The book records that during the Tang Dynasty, there were incidents in the army where soldiers accumulated wealth through war, but before they could be sent home, they were killed by evil officers in the war, and then the officers took the opportunity to embezzle their wealth.
From a glance, we can see that there are too many dirty facts in the feudal army, and the middle and lower-level officers have too much power to act for convenience, which seriously damages the interests of the lower-level soldiers.
This makes it difficult for the army to maintain combat effectiveness for a long time, centripetal force cannot be formed, and organization cannot be improved. Once encountering difficulties, the army can easily disperse.
Therefore, the first thing Su Yonglin did after establishing the army was to improve the cultural level of the army and implement military regulations and laws.
Then, the personal behavior of officers is tightly bound by strict military regulations and military laws, and they are not given the opportunity to cause trouble. Military legal institutions are set up to severely punish officers for their illegal behavior.
This can protect the interests of lower-level soldiers to a considerable extent and increase the soldiers' recognition of the army and its supreme commander.
Although the core of the instructor system cannot be used in other armies for the time being, it is the first step to transform the army with a superficial appearance, and the changes in the army can be seen almost immediately.
Of course, reform is often accompanied by the liquidation of old vested interests and is bound to be resisted.
The Liberation Army was established not long ago, so there is no interest group at all, but there are also many officers who rely on their own power to seek benefits.
Once the system prohibiting lynching and subjecting all behaviors to military law was implemented, it immediately caused a huge shock in the army of the former Shenwu Army.
After hearing the instructors' tireless preaching, the soldiers at the bottom generally understood the meaning of the new military regulations and laws, and they were inexplicably excited.
Some officers expressed dissatisfaction and felt that once the new military regulations and military laws were implemented, they would cause great harm to their interests, so they generally protested to higher-ranking officers.
This matter quickly reached the ears of Sun Ziyi. After thinking about it for a while, Sun Ziyi felt that it was really hard to say anything about this matter.
He had just merged into Su Yonglin's regiment to seek asylum. Wouldn't he be asking for trouble if he stood up to oppose him at this time?
Sun Ziyi felt that this matter could not be done, so he decided to wait and see what would happen.
Sun Tzu Yi did not interfere, and the officers who tried to cause trouble did not receive support from the top and did not dare to make a big deal, so they could only make small things secretly.
There are often some followers and henchmen around them, or they are related by relatives, or they are actively involved in the relationship. In short, they also have an inner circle.
Now that core interests have been harmed, of course the inner circle must stand up and do something.
For example, when the instructor was explaining military regulations and laws to the soldiers, he made a loud noise and deliberately looked for trouble.
Or deliberately causing trouble during military training and affecting the training.
Or making loud noises in literacy classes, affecting other soldiers' learning, etc.
Anyway, these guys used every little trick they could.
But this does not change the implementation of the new military law.
Their powers are severely restricted.
The Yuan Shengjie Army's superb military management level completely cut off their old channels for obtaining profits, and provided institutional-level protection to the lower-level soldiers, so that the lower-level soldiers were no longer blindly afraid of the officers.
Some people are timid and dare not make trouble. After receiving no support from the top, they choose to stop and endure in silence.
Some people can't stand not getting the benefits they should have.
They became anxious.
For a period of time afterwards, the conflicts between officers and instructors in some armies became so great that the conflicts were almost impossible to mediate, and there were even cases of officers beating instructors in groups.
This almost caused a civil war between the soldiers supporting the instructors and those supporting the officers.
The soldiers supporting the instructor and the soldiers supporting the officers were at loggerheads, and the atmosphere was quite tense.
This situation occurred in all the five armies under the original Shenwu Army, more or less, and internal conflicts in the army broke out at this stage.
