"Driving a large formation against a great enemy. Comparing with the field, capturing small thieves, and a thousand people of different dignified formations lined up in front. The brave ones should not be ahead, and the timid ones should not be back. The spears were poked, the spears were poked, the swords were slashed, and the killing was returned to him. They just rushed forward together, and it was difficult to turn hands. How could they be allowed to move left and right? One person turned back, and the public was suspicious; the other person moved in an instant, and the public also wanted to seize the heart, so how could they be allowed to advance or retreat?" Zhao Bing said.

"Your Majesty, there are warriors in the army of all dynasties who are known as enemies of thousands of people. They are skilled in martial arts and can interact with the troops at will, as if they are entering a state of no one to take the head of the general. Your Majesty is one-sided in this way!" Wang Yinglin said differently after hearing this.

"Governor Wang, it is more of a legend to take the general's head among the ten thousand troops. Even if there have been one, it is definitely not a time of a dignified battle, or when the two armies are fighting, or when one side retreats, or when a sudden attack can only succeed. Moreover, this probability is extremely low and almost impossible!" Tan Fei answered at this time.

"What Commander Tan said is that the military formations on the battlefield are ever-changing. It is nothing more than expanding the enemy's face as much as possible to facilitate more people to participate in the battle at the same time, but also maintaining a certain depth. On this basis, maintaining uniform tactical actions, stabbing the gun together, shooting is better than shooting randomly. If this is possible, the effectiveness of killing the enemy will be greatly improved. Those who are skilled in martial arts are used to fighting alone and cannot do this. Although they are all skilled in martial arts, there are always some orders of movements. The advanceers face the stings of countless spears of the enemy. Even if they have the ability to do the heavens, they will be poked into a sieve, and then the next one will be repeated." Cao Cheng nodded constantly and said.

"That's true, Governor Wang also witnessed with his own eyes that when thousands of troops formed a tight and solid military formation on the battlefield, squeezed and collided with each other, what they needed most was to repeat a single tactical action constantly. Instead of Ren Xia, who had excellent swordsmanship and good at flashing and moving, although they were quick and good at stabbing, they were not only useless in the uniform military formation, but even harmful. Unless they really had the ability to go to heaven and earth as mentioned in the storybook, they could fly around on the heads of people." Tian Zhong continued, his eyes showing disdain for the heroes.

"Since there is no need for those who are proficient in the military, why do they have to practice martial arts every day?" Wang Yinglin asked with a sip of tea.

"Master Yuanmiao once said: Boxing seems to be without the skills of great battles, but it is a habit of moving hands and feet and being accustomed to physical exercises. This is the door for beginners to enter the arts." Ni Liang, who had been silent, interrupted.

Everyone knows that Master Yuanmiao was born in Nan Shaolin, not only has outstanding martial arts skills, but is not an idiot in the martial arts world. The young emperor Ni Liang also learned martial arts from him. It is said that the bayonet technique in the army was guided by him. If he said this, it is basically equivalent to saying that martial arts are useless in the army and have only become a movement that moves hands and feet.

"We pay attention to the full use of things, and the same is true for using people." Zhao Bing stood up and filled tea for everyone, and then scooped water with a spoon to fill it with fire. "The army is divided into many types of troops. Those who are good at water can enter the navy, those who are good at cavalry can enter the cavalry, and even those who are stupid can enter the baggage. Although those who are skilled in martial arts are difficult to use their strengths when the two armies are facing each other, they are good at climbing and lurking the enemy. They can serve as the chief general to protect the enemy's assassination, and they can also act as scouts to reconnaise the enemy's situation and intercept and kill the enemy's reconnaissance cavalry. It is definitely not useless!"

Zhao Bing still has a deep understanding of this. There is nothing special about the practice in the military. In addition to basic shooting, queues, and physical fitness, the boxing and foot skills he practices are similar to those of current military boxing, push-ups and other exercises. The main function is to exercise physical flexibility and it is useless on the battlefield. In history, civilian weapons control is relatively loose, and the boxing and foot skills may only be useful when they are sneak attacked while taking a bath, or suddenly turn against each other while eating. Of course, the ancients would not spend too much energy practicing this skill that may not be used in their lifetime.

After all, the human body is still very fragile compared to weapons. No matter how high your martial arts are, your ability to withstand damage is not much different from that of ordinary people. If you take a kitchen knife, both ordinary people and heroes will have to kneel down, let alone on the battlefield where guns and arrows are raining. In front of firearms, even if there is a small-scale conflict, no matter how exquisite the heroes are, they will be difficult to display their martial arts in front of ordinary people holding firearms. They are afraid that they will be knocked into slags before their posture is opened.

Therefore, after ordinary people join the army, they only practice basic combat skills, hone their tactical cooperation and physical fitness, and do not play any fancy work. They are supplemented with harsh and perverted military discipline, which will become the enemy's nightmare. However, if they fight with the Ren Xia one by one with bare hands or empty guns without bullets, they will probably die very ugly. Therefore, ordinary soldiers do not need superb personal martial arts at all, they are just part of the entire combat system. But when they are combined in the right way, earth-shaking changes will occur.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties in real history, with the large-scale use of firearms in the war, the rate of first-level ranks that only focus on hand-to-hand combat became lower. In the famous Battle of Huajie, Qi Jiguang killed more than 1,500 Japanese pirates with 1,500 Ming troops, but only 300 heads were captured. In the classic siege of the Wanli Korean Battle against Pyongyang, the Ming army killed 15,000 Japanese troops in Pyongyang to "less than 5,000", but only 1,285 heads were captured.

Therefore, for soldiers on the battlefield, it is more difficult to obtain a head in the age of firearms. Obviously, the system of judging military merits by head has shown the current "unfairness", and even triggered Wang Yinglin, who has always adhered to this system, also felt that it was too harsh and could no longer boost morale and motivate the enemy, and may also trigger negative emotions in the army.

"Since the military achievements have reached the point of being in name only by the head system, why is the change so difficult?" Wang Yinglin heard for a long time and knew in his heart that the generals in the army, including the little emperor, had already realized the drawbacks. He believed that some people in the court knew about it. In fact, although the court officials had different opinions, the little emperor did not vigorously promote the change as before, which made him a little confused.

"Dr. Cao, you have always been in charge of this matter. You are the one who knows the pros and cons of it best!" Zhao Bing pointed at Cao Cheng and said.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Cao Cheng stood up and said to Your Majesty and several senior officials, "In fact, predecessors have already discovered the disadvantages of military merits by using heads. Xunzi·Convention on Soldiers" mentioned that Qi people are highly skilled. If they get one, they will be given redemption. Therefore, they criticize Qi people for fighting for the heads and exchange rewards for personal rewards. The result is that if the enemy is weak, they can barely be used; if the enemy is strong, the soldiers will be dispersed and fled. In Xunzi's view, the head system that only robs people of the head is actually a 'arm of soldiers who are destroyed'. Talent said: Therefore, Qi's martial arts cannot meet the Wei family's martial arts soldiers; Wei family's martial arts soldiers cannot meet the Qin soldiers!"

"Oh, there is such a deep meaning in it?" Wang Yinglin was also a Jinshi, especially with a good study of classics and history. Of course he knew this sentence. But in the past, he only understood Xunzi's words from a text, and did not think deeply from a military perspective. The result was that the military merit-level system was simply understood as stealing people's heads, and war was understood as a gang fight among the mobs. Therefore, he did not see more clearly that the military merit-level system had a counter-effect on the development of the collective concept and discipline constraints of the army. After careful consideration, it made sense, so he reached out to signal it to continue.

"The system of judging military merits by head level has two main disadvantages: First, when the two armies confront each other on the battlefield, I believe everyone knows who the enemy in front of them is killed. It is even more difficult to tell who the original master of the obtained head level is, so there is a situation where "not only a thief head, dozens of people reward merit"; second, it is really dangerous to cut the head level on the battlefield. Because everyone goes to cut the head level and grab the head, it is easy to be killed by the enemy."

"In addition, the first-level system is also extremely unfair to long-range support troops such as crossbowmen. The army is a group with a tight organization and a high degree of discipline and coordination, and it is indispensable. Without medical staff, injured soldiers cannot be treated; without fire troops, everyone will be hungry; without supplies, everyone will have to sleep in the wild, and ammunition cannot be replenished, etc. Therefore, although some people do not directly participate in the battle, they also make a contribution, but because they cannot cut off the enemy's head, it is naturally difficult to get rewards."

"Yes, the army has its own division of labor, and there is no leader in the battle formation. If everyone fights for it, or rewards cannot take care of everyone. It is not surprising that the people in the army are disintegrated, competing for merit, or even killing good people to make achievements!" Wang Yinglin nodded and admitted that what he said was true.

"In general, the standard for meritorious deduction at the head is based on the reward for individual bravery. Therefore, if the constraints are not good, in addition to the difficulty of absolute fairness to each group of troops, it will also lead to the occurrence of killing good people and taking advantage of merit in war. The battle for the heads of soldiers on the battlefield often leads to delays in fighter jets. In severe cases, sometimes the army formation is in chaos because of the soldiers fighting for the heads, which gives the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of it."
Chapter completed!