"Your Majesty, what do you think of this army?" Fan Kuai asked with a smile beside Liu Bang on the way to Shuicheng?
"Which army are you talking about? Does this country have an army? Have you ever seen an army marching like this?" Liu Bang complained three times, making Fan Kuai laugh.
Liu Bang mainly looked like he had seen a ghost. At this time, he was leading 9 of his soldiers to Shuicheng alone.
Yes, alone.
After the general issued the order to gather in Shuicheng, the entire army dispersed in a hurry. All the soldiers left the barracks directly. Except for Liu Bang himself who restrained 9 of his men by his side, the other officers No one interfered with his soldiers and allowed them to leave the military camp in chaos.
Confused Liu Bang asked Du Yue what was going on. Don't you want to march?
As a result, Du Yue looked at Liu Bang doubtfully again and asked, "What is marching?"
Liu Bang tried hard to explain the concept of marching, and then Du Yue waved his hand and said, "Aren't you asking for trouble? 3,000 people are on the road at the same time. Who can manage them? What are they going to do about food?"
"Of course the soldiers will go to Shuicheng on their own. The main thing is to show up at the military camp in Shuicheng before the specified time. Otherwise, why don't you plan to take 3,000 people with you?"
Liu Bang is a Muggle directly, but when you think about the military history of this world, which is basically zero, everything seems very reasonable.
And any real army general, after a long period of commanding troops, will find that the most difficult thing is not how to fight, but how to lead a large number of soldiers to act together.
Do you think that when the general gives an order, all the soldiers will spontaneously line up and follow the general forward?
This is impossible. Everyone in the army has their own ideas. Some people are eager for military success, while others are desperately trying to escape from the army.
Moreover, people's physiques are different. Some soldiers can march for 12 hours without changing their face, while others have blisters on their soles after walking for less than half an hour and cannot walk at all.
In addition, the rest and recuperation during the march, the setting up of camps, the arrangement of military rations, the emotional guidance of soldiers, the implementation of various generals' orders, and various miscellaneous things all need to be arranged in advance by the commander of the army. Well, if you can't even do these most basic things, then this army will probably collapse by itself halfway through.
The most obvious point is when you open any book on The Art of War.
Note that this book on the art of war cannot be the magical "Thirty-Six Strategies" that has been touted on the Internet. It may be contrary to many people's expectations. "Thirty-Six Strategies" is not an art of war at all, and it cannot even be considered a military work. It's just that some literati in the mid-Qing Dynasty, based on their own imagination, combined with some famous military cases in ancient China, and some four-character idioms that looked very dazzling, put together a book on the art of war that seemed to be very good.
But if you really want to learn some military skills from this book, it is impossible. Otherwise, given the classicness of the cases in this book, people all over the country have basically heard the stories in it, and Basically, everyone understands the meaning of the 36 strategies. Doesn’t this mean that people across the country can become military talents?
This is nonsense. The real official military textbooks in ancient times are actually orthodox military arts such as "Sun Tzu's Art of War", "Six Tao", "Jixiao New Book", and "Seven Books of Martial Arts".
And if you really read these warlords, you will find that they really teach you something similar to the 36 strategies. The content of this kind of strategy may be less than 1/20 of the entire book, and many books do not have these things at all.
The whole book actually teaches you how to set up camp, how to manage the army's food and fodder, how to guide the soldiers' spirits, how to set military laws, how to command the army, etc. These are real, basic things that cannot be more basic. .
This may sound boring, but it's the truth.
Many people like to play real-time strategy games, and when playing these games, they only need to click the mouse and right-click at a certain location. This simple operation may not even take a second, but in real life In the battle, it is actually the most difficult part.
To judge whether a general is qualified, it is not about how many enemies he killed or how many tricks he used, but whether he can successfully reach the predetermined position within the specified time with at least 60% of the troops.
A general who can do this is a qualified general.
It can also be seen from this that Chen Sheng and Wu Guang are not qualified generals at all. They cannot even reach their destination on time with a team of several hundred people. They do not even have the most basic abilities as generals, so it is naturally impossible to win.
Liu Bang's situation is actually similar. After all, when he led his troops to help the corvee laborers, most of the team lost most of them before they had to go to Mangdang Mountain to become bandits. Liu Bang had no ability to lead troops to fight in the first place. .
Liu Bang still remembered that when he led the army to attack Peixian County for the first time, a team of several thousand people came down from Mangdang Mountain. The original plan was to only take three days to travel, but it took a full 10 days to arrive.
In the extra 10 days, all of them were spent solving various problems encountered during the march, solving the execution of orders, etc. Liu Bang had not slept a whole night in these ten days, and at two or three in the morning Zhong Du is dealing with various conflicts that arise in the army.
By the time they arrived in Peixian County, the team of several thousand people had already lost about 1,000 people. The remaining people were basically locals in Peixian County. They reluctantly followed with the support of their obsession to go home. Liu Bang walked all the way to Peixian County, otherwise it would not be that 1,000 people were gone, but only 1,000 people were left.
This situation was not changed until Liu Bang captured Peixian County and Xiao He and Cao Jin joined Liu Bang's army.
After all, Cao Shen was a professional soldier. He had received training from the Qin Empire. He had at least some basic military abilities and knew how to plan and control the army.
So Cao Shen directly took away the command of the entire army at that time, and Liu Bang's army could barely be called an army in the following battles.
If there were no real military talents like Cao Shen joining him, Liu Bang would have become a corpse on the roadside.
This is also the reason why many peasant uprisings in ancient times failed. At the beginning, these rebels only gathered together with bravery and caught the local government off guard. Only then were they able to seize the city and gather hundreds of thousands of people. It seems very spectacular.
But they don't know how to fight at all, let alone lead troops. A real regular army can directly defeat hundreds of thousands of people in a single charge.
It's like a group of guys who haven't even gone to elementary school, junior high school or high school. If you just ask them to develop nuclear weapons and build lithography machines, aren't they waiting to explode?
And now the entire military in the Water Province is basically a group of illiterate people preparing to build nuclear weapons.
(End of chapter)
