"What is a people's army is that you have to take the people into your heart, really take it into your heart." Li Ke poked his heart with his hand.
"You all come from a well-off family, or have been from a well-off family. Even the ones with the worst conditions may have fathers and grandfathers who were county magistrates and other officials."
"This makes you feel separated from ordinary people, but here today, I have to make demands on you!" Li Ke looked at them and said.
Everyone said nothing and looked at Li Ke solemnly.
"The prejudices in people's hearts are like a big mountain." Li Ke looked at them and said calmly, "Many people look down on ordinary people in their hearts, thinking that they are untouchables and cannot be compared with you. They should not be elevated to this status."
"It's normal to have this kind of thinking, because your parents and everything around you have instilled this idea in you since you were born. Now in the general environment of the Tang Dynasty, many of you will not express it. "
Li Ke paused for a moment after what he said, and the following group of students were silent for a moment. Some of them may not think so, but among this group, some definitely think so.
"I don't ask you to change your prejudices immediately! As the saying goes, no one is perfect in his heart, and no one is perfect in his heart. My request to you is very simple. Even if you think in your heart that all the people in the world are untouchables, they are all born to serve. It doesn’t matter to you, but! On the surface, you can’t show it to me!”
"Pretend, you have to keep pretending for me! Pretend to love the people like a son, and love the soldiers like a son! I will engrave the latest three disciplines and eight points of attention of the Datang army into your bones. This is my Datang King Qin, I have an order for you!" Li Ke said sharply.
"Military orders are like mountains, and this is the military order. If anyone dares to disobey the military order, don't blame me, Li Ke, for being unkind! You can think whatever you want in your heart, but don't show it to me on the surface!"
"Just think of this as your political wisdom. Just think of it as your political wisdom in order not to be remembered by me, the King of Qin of the Tang Dynasty. After all, you have offended me. It is easy for you to remove me from office. You may lose your head."
"do you understand?"
"Understood!" Everyone said loudly and uniformly. They did not defend whether they were that kind of people. What His Highness needed was not their defense, but to tell them that this is an order and must be executed!
"Very good, based on this principle, we can proceed to the next step."
"The combat effectiveness of an army with faith is unparalleled. You have all studied the art of war, or at least read the military books. But there are many things that the military books will not teach you. The so-called wise people will get more help, and the unjust ones will get less help. ."
"If you are unpopular, if this country is unpopular, then no matter how powerful this army is, they will surrender! Even if the enemy does not accept their surrender, they will defeat the enemy and tell them, I want to surrender!"
"And if you win the hearts and minds of the people and become a true people's army, when you resist foreign enemies, those people will even go hungry to send you food. This is the biggest difference."
"I know, when I say this, you sometimes don't believe it, but believe me, you will feel it for yourself one day."
At this point, Li Ke paused for a moment, and then continued: "We will not have classes today. We will just talk about whatever comes to mind. The class schedule you see is made by me based on the new military needs of the Tang Dynasty. "
"In these subjects, to be honest, you have to learn a lot, not just what you have learned before. Reading basic military books, knowing battle formations and changing formations on the spot is considered to be able to lead an army in war."
"Real wars often start before the war begins. Intelligence spying, comparison of the enemy's and ours' military strength, the enemy's and ours' military postures, etc. are all very critical. It is not just about discovering a flaw in the enemy's formation on the battlefield and then leading the troops to charge. The formation finally won the war."
"When you do what I've said before, you'll find that you don't even need to do that last step."
"Take the subject of military topography as an example. What you have to learn is how to use celestial phenomena to distinguish the east, west, north and south directions. In the case of forests and cloudy days, how to distinguish north and south by the growth of tree leaves."
"How to use the trend of mountain ranges to determine where there will be water flow, how to use the direction of water flow to determine the terrain, etc."
"Actually, among the military books you have studied, including Sun Tzu's Art of War, there are chapters on terrain. You have all been exposed to the methods of warfare in different terrains and climates such as sky, wind, snow, water, land, mountains, etc."
"If these military books teach you how to do it, then military topography teaches you how to do it."
"Everything in the world has its own laws. Once you learn the knowledge of terrain formation, you will naturally understand the use of terrain in war."
"You have to learn how to judge swamp terrain, quicksand and other terrain, rescue, etc."
"For example, foreign military research mainly refers to studying the armies of other countries."
"Many people may think that there is nothing to study in this. Aren't there just those types of enemy armies? But many things in it can have very good effects if used properly."
"For example, when the entire country of the other party has a religious belief, and this religious belief can be said to be fanatical in their country, you can use methods such as blaspheming their gods to make the enemy's generals or soldiers Making irrational decisions.”
"For example, some sects in Tianzhu cannot kill cows because cows are divine messengers in their sects. What will happen if you temporarily form an ox cavalry?"
"Although oxen are not suitable for the battlefield in all aspects compared to war horses, they are very effective against the soldiers of this sect. At least when their swords come over, their long-term belief will make them hesitate to chop the head. ox."
"In battlefield fighting, a moment's hesitation can be the difference between life and death."
"There are no absolutely correct tactics in this world, only easy-to-use tactics. Different tactics are developed according to different enemy soldiers and situations. This is the correct tactics. So this is the reason why foreign armies should study this course. "
"Including their usual tactics and so on."
"The study of military and military knowledge will allow you to be more proficient in coordinating the army. When you lose the commanders who are proficient in the relevant armies, you will not be ignorant. More importantly... with the continuous restructuring of the Tang Dynasty's ordnance, The Tang army will have more and more types of troops."
"And these arms are what you must understand and learn."
Li Ke gave them a general explanation of the military knowledge they would learn next.
