This book "Ye Gong's Art of War" was summarized by Ye Fei, the commander of the Fierce Eagle Army, from decades of marching and fighting. It covers the organization of the army, the training of soldiers, and the arrangement of various formations. There are also detailed descriptions of siege warfare, encounters, defensive warfare, raids, reconnaissance, and even the selection of military camps.
In addition, the "Ye Gong's Art of War" that Qiaoying Yu Manling gave Ye Ying also included her own experience. Yu Manling was a well-known wise general in the Falcon Army. Although her force value was not the highest among the Thirteen Eagles at that time, her ability to organize troops was one of the best.
When she was in Kaoshan Village, Yu Manling also spent a lot of energy and combined her own experience to teach Ye Ying "Ye Gong's Art of War". However, the conditions at that time were limited, and Yu Manling could only talk on paper.
Although Liang Qian used some military strategies to fight wits and courage with chickens and ducks, it was just a small trick.
Now that he had soldiers in his hands, although there were only about twenty people, Ye Ying was already very happy. He carefully looked through this volume of the life work of the hero who he regarded as his father. His heart was full of excitement and he secretly made up his mind. You must make your soldiers into elite soldiers.
Ye Ying, who was concentrating on reading "Ye Gong's Art of War", did not notice at this time that outside the tent where he lived, a stern-faced general was walking slowly. When passing by his tent, he opened the tent through the curtain. Under the light inside, looking at him reading at night, a smile appeared on his face.
From this day on, Ye Ying, who had only been in the military camp for a few months, changed his way of existence.
"Hold the tip of the gun higher. You have to know that if the angle is this small, the attack power will be much weaker."
"When you draw your spear, use your waist strength so that your spear's breakthrough power will be stronger."
"The steps are wrong, let me demonstrate."
"You must be as familiar with your gun as you are with your hand. It is your most important partner on the battlefield."
In the Mad Lion Army, according to the needs of combat and the soldiers' specialties, although every soldier has a variety of skills, everyone will choose one for intensive training. According to the soldiers' specialties, they will be divided into different arms.
When choosing a unit, Ye Ying actually determined that his group was spearmen, which made the generals in the camp somewhat strange, because most of the weapons used by Ye Ying before were long-handled broadswords.
Ye Ying quickly adapted to his new identity and fell in love with this feeling. He led his soldiers for daily training every day.
The soldiers in the regiment all love and hate the young commander. The regiment they are in has been training for the longest time and the training intensity is also very high.
I wake up early every morning and run for more than ten miles. Before I can take a few breaths, I start a new day of training. Ye Ying, who looks so cheerful on weekdays, seems to be a different person during training. If he makes a mistake in a movement, he will practice it again, ten times, twenty times... until the movement is standard.
After training every day, everyone will feel exhausted and want to go back to the camp and fall asleep. Some people are originally quite dissatisfied with this training method. But seeing that the commander's training every day was the same as his own, and even more demanding, he had no choice but to take back his complaints.
In the morning and evening, you can see Ye Ying practicing in his camp every day inside and outside the military camp. In addition to the collective drills in the new barracks, Ye Ying's camp also practices many different contents every day.
Time flies, the sun and the moon fly by, and half a year has passed quickly. Ye Ying's hard training has indeed paid off. In several competitions in the army, their results have been relatively remarkable, which has made the soldiers there even more proud. The trace of dissatisfaction in his heart disappeared completely, and some of the complaints from other officers and soldiers also gradually disappeared.
During the past six months, many soldiers in the camp were sent out to perform various tasks, such as assisting the local area in catching smugglers, quelling the chaos of surrounding refugees, escorting some important materials, and participating in the pursuit of small groups of bandits.
But what makes Ye Ying and his soldiers regretful is that they don't have a chance to perform their mission.
For this reason, Ye Ying approached the captain of his team and even directly approached the battalion commander Cao Zhen, but he always came back disappointed and was sent back with the sentence "Soldiers should obey the orders of their superiors."
Seeing others performing missions again and again and accumulating military achievements bit by bit, Ye Ying's team has not yet made any achievements. The impatient Qi Jiao and others have complained countless times. Although Ye Ying pretended to be calm every time, he still couldn't calm down in his heart.
A few days ago, deputy commander Sima Chi led two teams of soldiers to encircle and suppress a group of water bandits. However, after selecting nearly 300 people, Ye Ying and others were still not given a chance. The soldiers had begun to talk privately. The liar leader Ye Ying had offended the Sima family and was suppressed by Sima's deputy commander.
What happened next seemed to confirm the statements of these soldiers, because it is said that the suppression of bandits did not go smoothly this time, and the battalion had to transfer another team of soldiers to reinforce, leaving less than 300 soldiers remaining in the new camp. People.
But even so, it was still not Ye Ying's turn, so the soldiers had to stay in the camp and participate in the drill listlessly.
Speaking of this bandit, it has become a stubborn problem that Daning cannot get rid of. Before the Northern Barbarians invaded Daning, although there were many bandits in Daning, the court suppressed and recruited people at the same time, or adopted the strategy of destroying bandits with bandits. Although the bandits were not completely eliminated, these sporadic bandits could not achieve anything. climate.
The northern barbarians invaded wildly, and the imperial court no longer had the energy to manage these bandits. Because more and more people were displaced by the war, more people joined the various bandit teams.
Next, a strategy of the imperial court further promoted the development of banditry, which was to acquiesce in the existence of bandit villages and encourage them to deal with the ferocious northern barbarians. The initial results of this strategy were really wrong. The bandits relied on their familiarity with the terrain and cooperated with the army to win many battles.
The existence of bandits gave Daning a long buffer time. With the rise of the four legions headed by the Fierce Eagle Army, the Northern Barbarians began to retreat steadily, and even almost broke through the capital.
But at this time, the court discovered that it had become a very difficult task to eliminate these bandits.
At this time, in Daning, various mountain bandits, wandering bandits, water bandits, and sea bandits have gradually grown in size, and they have begun to join forces with each other. It is already extremely difficult for the court to exterminate them. Some people even made incomplete statistics and said that the number of bandits in Daning was close to the number of imperial soldiers.
Therefore, over the years, the imperial court had to focus on targeting the northern barbarians who would show their teeth at any time, and on eradicating bandits from all walks of life.
On this day, Ye Ying, who had been working hard for it, finally got an opportunity, but this mission made him dumbfounded. He was asked to take his soldiers to escort a Beijing official who retired from retirement and returned to his hometown.
Although this official's official residence is from the fourth rank, he really doesn't rank high in Jinling, the capital city with countless nobles. This generation is under the control of the Mad Lion Army, and bandits from all walks of life generally dare not cause trouble here, so there is basically no chance for this group to take action. There is not much military merit in completing such a task. After many people gave in, it was Ye Ying's turn.
However, he finally got a chance to perform a mission, so he just thought of it as a trip to relax, so Ye Ying happily accepted the mission, asked his soldiers to prepare carefully, and soon left the camp.
"Brothers, the team will be handed over to you. You will have completed your mission by escorting them out of Liping County. However, you have to be careful. This middle doctor is a bit difficult to serve." Seeing Ye Ying and his party, he took charge After a bearded officer from the previous journey completed the handover, he whispered to Ye Ying.
Ye Ying took a look at the team. An official from the fourth rank returned to his hometown, and he actually pulled six or seven carriages, and the accompanying servants totaled seventy or eighty people. Seeing how they were fully armed, it seemed that they were coming. There are no shortsighted robbers who dare to take advantage of this team.
Perhaps to confirm the beard's words, Ye Ying quickly realized the official power of this Beijing official.
After the handover, Ye Ying immediately walked towards the carriage of the middle doctor and wanted to say hello, but was stopped at a distance.
"My lord, what is your military rank? Why did you bring so few people here?" The person who stopped Ye Ying was a young man dressed as a servant. It was obvious from his face that he was extremely dissatisfied with Ye Ying and his group.
After hearing Ye Ying's introduction, the servant just snorted, turned around and walked towards the carriage in front. What did he whisper beside the carriage?
Not long after, Ye Ying, who has a very strong hearing, heard a voice coming from inside the carriage: "What's going on with Zeng Yi? He sent more than twenty people to escort me, and the leader is just a small chief."
In this way, Ye Ying, who was in charge of the escort, was arranged to follow the team without even seeing the real owner. What was even more outrageous was that they handed Ye Ying several carriages filled with many things and asked him to send someone to drive them. , if the road conditions are bad, the soldiers have to push it.
"A hot face is stuck on a cold butt, boss, let's quit!" This kind of treatment aroused extreme dissatisfaction among the soldiers in Lizhong. Qi Jiao, who has a bad temper, said angrily, while Shan Fu and some soldiers were also nearby. echoed.
"Okay, it's only about thirty miles, everyone, please be patient!" Facing the passionate crowd, Ye Ying suppressed the unhappiness in his heart and said to everyone.
After listening to Ye Ying's words, the soldiers had no choice but to say nothing. In fact, they also understood in their hearts that the tasks assigned in the military camp were not just for those who wanted to do them. Everyone could only complain and express their dissatisfaction.
With the addition of Ye Ying and his team, the team had more than a hundred people. However, the middle doctor and his people seemed to have forgotten about Ye Ying and his team. There was no further communication between the two teams. Before and after, it seems that it doesn't matter.
This middle-level doctor is worthy of being an official returning home from Jinling City. He can even bring such a servant with him when he retires. Looking at the various weapons and equipment of these servants, they are all extraordinary, even more sophisticated than Ye Ying and others.
As the saying goes, "The prime minister's seventh-grade official will resign and return to his hometown with joy." These servants despise Ye Ying and this team of ordinary soldiers from the bottom of their hearts. The contempt is clearly displayed on their faces and is reflected in their actions.
However, Ye Ying didn't care about this situation. He just ordered his men to follow him from a distance. Anyway, the journey of three days and two nights passed quickly.
There was still a long way from Liping County, and he saw a large group of people standing in front of him. Soon Ye Ying knew that it was the Liping County Magistrate himself who came to greet them with his men.
Led by Liping County officials and officers, the group walked for nearly an hour before they saw a small city, which was the Liping County seat.
The Liping County magistrate was very "hospitable" and personally traveled several miles to bring the person back, and immediately asked his servants to prepare wine and food.
What no one noticed was that shortly after a group of people entered Liping County, a young man from the city quickly left Liping County on a horse.
The Liping County Magistrate was not as unwelcome to Ye Ying and his entourage as the doctor and his servants were. Not only did he arrange good meals for them, but they also lived in a much better place than the military camp.
Regarding this situation, everyone in the new barracks was happy, so they treated this trip as a sightseeing tour and could return in two days.
But what everyone didn't expect was that this line of work was not as easy as they imagined.
