After spending a day in Liuquan Town, Liu Ziyu visited Wang Xiaolie's recruit camp, which opened his eyes.
In the past, the army did not have recruit camps. New recruits are recruited and thrown directly into the army, where they are taught by veterans. As time goes by, the new recruits learn and slowly become veterans. In such an army, when new recruits go to the battlefield, they only look at the veterans around them. When veterans go to the battlefield, they look to the commander. If the commander does not rush into battle, the entire army will not move.
When the soldiers from Wang Xiaolie's recruit camp went to the battlefield, they looked at veterans and officers at all levels, but the ones who really commanded them were the military flags and drums. As long as the flags and drums give a signal, these recruits will either move forward or retreat according to what they learned in the recruit camp. The role of officers is to restrain their discipline.
After watching the recruit camp for a day, Liu Ziyu felt that the training methods here were unprecedented and unheard of. Liu Ziyu didn't know if this kind of training was effective, but he could tell that after a month or two of training, the recruits looked like soldiers.
At night, Liu Ziyu lay in the room and looked at the moonlight through the window.
Wang Xiaolie's army is different from other armies and cannot be treated like other armies. Can such an army fight? Liu Ziyu couldn't draw a conclusion from the new barracks alone. But the recent battle to guard Xijing shows that they are no weaker than the puppet Qi army, or even weaker than the Jin army.
What does it mean to be able to rapidly expand the army and have combat effectiveness comparable to that of the Jin Army? Liu Ziyu felt his blood boiling just thinking about it.
This means that the 200,000 Jin army is no match for the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty had a population of tens of millions, and it only took one or two years to expand its army to one million. This million-strong army is truly capable of fighting, and it is not comparable to the millions Zongze said when he was in Kaifeng Mansion. Both sides can annihilate the Jurchens if they fight head-on.
Thinking of this, Liu Ziyu's eyes couldn't help but get wet.
In the past two years, the Jin Army became a nightmare for the Song Dynasty. If you can defend a city from being attacked by the Jin army, you will be a famous general. Being able to hold on for several years can be called a god of war. It turns out that such a powerful Jin army was so easy to defeat?
Early the next morning, Wang Xiaolie and Liu Ziyu left Liuquan Town and headed for Shouan.
After the military academy moved north from Xinye, it was located in Shouan. This place is not far from Luoyang and is in a valley, making it easier to manage. More importantly, there are a large number of Luohe River tributaries in Shouan, which can easily build reservoirs and can be used as a military industrial base.
At noon, Wang Xiaolie and others arrived in Shouan. Liu Shaoxian and Tian Qing, the governor in charge of county affairs, went to greet him outside the city and entered Shou'an City together.
After eating some soup and rice at the county government office, Wang Xiaolie asked Liu Shaoxian: "How is the construction of the military academy going?"
Liu Shaoxian said: "Half of it has been completed, and about 200 new students have enrolled. The rest has not yet been completed. We have hired some local people and have been building it."
Wang Xiaolie said: "There were wars in the past few years, and many people took refuge in the Luo River Valley. Now Henan Prefecture has been restored, but it lacks population. You have to check carefully and move some people to Luoyang and Henan counties. From now on, how many people will live in the Luo River Valley? The county will be used as a military academy and military industry, and most of the people will slowly move out."
Liu Shaoxian said: "It is not easy for the people to settle down. If they don't have money, food and advice, I'm afraid they won't be willing."
Wang Xiaolie said: "If you want people to move, of course you have to pay them. Don't worry, I will arrange a special amount of money to do these things."
Liu Shaoxian respectfully claimed so.
Wang Xiaolie said: "The Luo River Valley is close to Luoyang City, and the land is fertile. It has a large population since ancient times. In recent years, the Jin army has invaded, and the population has lost a lot. However, compared with the surrounding areas, the population is still dense. From now on. This area should be used as a military academy and a place for training new recruits, and all the people will be assigned to camp and field affairs. When you build a military academy, you only look at the suitable places, and don't worry about whether the government can take it over."
Liu Shaoxian said: "I understand the humble position."
Wang Xiaolie stood up and said, "Let's go to the military academy. After seeing this, I will go back to Luoyang tomorrow."
Liu Shao first said yes. Together with Wang Xiaolie and others, we crossed the river to the north bank and came to the newly built military academy.
The gate is not yet finished. There is a plaque hanging on it with the words "Henan Military Academy" written on it. On both sides of the door hangs "I am Wu Weiyang" and the other side hangs "Virtue Quiet Quartet". The font is bold and powerful, and I don’t know whose hand it was.
Liu Ziyu looked at the school gate in particular and couldn't figure out what it meant. Confused, he followed Wang Xiaolie into the military academy.
The military academy was quiet.
There are occasional guards on the roadside, standing there motionless, like wooden bodies. Whether they are students or instructors, people walking by should be in groups of two or three in a row. Even if there is only one person, he will walk like a tiger.
Liu Ziyu didn't know that Wang Xiao's hunting army had a standard military posture, and that walking and sitting were all prescribed standards. But looking at the people walking by, although no one spoke, they all had an indescribable murderous aura.
Turning around a small square with scattered flowers and trees, we went to a nearby room that resembled a living room and sat down.
Wang Xiaolie said to Liu Shaoxian: "This is Liu Ziyu, the counselor under Privy Council Zhang, who came to Xijing for business. The people on the left and right are free and came to see our military academy and the new barracks."
Liu Shaoxian handed over his hand: "I've met Councilor Liu. My Excellency, Liu Shaoxian, has been raising matters about the military academy. If you have anything, just ask me directly."
Liu Ziyu said: "Look at the appearance here, it is completely different from the new barracks. The new barracks are lively, but here it is quiet. And the people on the road look exactly the same even when they walk. I don't know why."
Liu Shaoxian said: "Commander Jie often said that the core of organized violent groups in the army lies in the organization. How to reflect the organizational ability of the army? The first is discipline. After graduating from the military academy, the cadets will become officers when they go out, and discipline is particularly important to them. In the military academy, There is also a recruit camp, which has stricter disciplines and harder training than a soldier's recruit camp. If you can't train well in three months, you can train for an additional three months. If you can't train in a military academy for three months, you can continue to stay in the military academy. Training. If you don’t train well after studying, you won’t be able to graduate. What we just saw have been trained, and discipline enforcement is naturally strict. "
Liu Ziyu nodded, wondering what Liu Shaoxian meant. I asked myself why people outside even walked in the same way. Why did Liu Shaoxian talk about discipline? Is it possible that there is discipline in Wang Xiao's hunting army even on how to walk?
Of course there is discipline. In fact, in the army, there are disciplines in every move, including walking, eating, sitting and lying down. You must maintain discipline in public places in military camps or military academies, and do not just do whatever you want.
The military academy moved northward, from Xinye to Shou'an, and began to become more formalized.
When I entered the military academy, everything was about speed. Once you have learned it, start learning the following courses immediately. There are no strict requirements for discipline, and we just select suitable students as quickly as possible. After arriving in Shouan, the academic system was officially set to three years, and the discipline was strict, and I no longer simply pursued speed.
In the past, there was a shortage of officers. In order to expand the army, many generals studied in military academies and graduated in one and a half years. What you can't learn in the military academy, you can learn in the army. Now that there is less of a shortage of officers, the requirements are of course different. To truly achieve this, you need to study in school for three years to become a qualified military officer.
This military academy was built by Wang Xiaolie based on the memories of his previous life, and was built to connect with the recruits trained in the recruit camp. By adding a military academy to a new military camp, you can quickly expand the size of your army. To expand the military, it is nothing more than shortening the military school system and recruiting a large number of new students.
If coupled with the local mobilization system, it will be similar to the national mobilization in later generations, and a general war can be launched.
This system was developed by European countries over a long period of time in order to expand the scale of the war. In terms of actual effect, it is better than the all-people-military approach during the Qin and Han Dynasties in China. Training and learning in recruit camps and military academies have been standardized, allowing for rapid expansion of the army.
Of course, a system is just a system. It’s not that if there is a system, the army will come out. With the system in place, we must take the system seriously and make necessary reforms to adapt to this system. As long as you are careful, this system can cultivate a basically qualified army. These basically qualified troops will emerge as truly elite troops after bloody battles on the battlefield.
Wang Xiaolie originally thought that he needed a large number of such troops to grow up in the war with the Jin Army in order to be evenly matched with the Jin Army. I didn't expect that the Luoyang Guard Battle would be won so easily. The basically qualified army that came out of this system was already stronger than the Jin Army.
In the final analysis, the combat effectiveness of the army comes from its organizational capabilities. The organizational ability of Wang Xiaolie's army was still very primitive in the eyes of later generations. But in this era, it is far stronger than the Jin Army and stronger than other armies.
(The second update will be very late, so no need to wait.)
