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Chapter 1: The Brave Must Not Advance Alone

After hearing the explanation of the young emperor, Wang Yinglin was clear about the reasons why the results of the battle were seriously inconsistent with the captured head level. The anger in his heart was relieved, but he couldn't help but worry again. He knew that the system of military merit was set up in history to help the army kill the enemy bravely, because only by moving forward bravely can one have the opportunity to harvest the enemy's head level. Therefore, there was a Qin army in "Han Feizi: First Meeting with Qin": "The man who cuts off death is different from the man who cuts off life, and the people who do it are the most important thing to die. A man who fights to die can face ten, ten can face a hundred, a hundred can face a thousand, a thousand can face a thousand, and a thousand can defeat the world."

However, firearms are now widely used in the army, and with large-scale investment in actual combat, the first-level capture rate of mere combat only has become lower. Therefore, Wang Yinglin realized that this is really unfair to soldiers fighting on the battlefield. Especially for artillery, they are extremely unfavorable. As technical troops, they are at least in a relatively backward position to provide fire support, and rarely have the opportunity to fight face to face with the enemy, so the casualties themselves are not too high. For long-range attack soldiers such as artillery, it is almost impossible to harvest the first-level, but no one can deny their contributions.

"Your Majesty, I think it's inappropriate to judge military merits by the head alone!" Wang Yinglin pondered for a moment and said with a polite manner.

"What's wrong?" Zhao Bing sat down and picked up the tea cup and drank a sip of tea and asked with a smile.

"Your Majesty, I think that although the soldiers in the army are the key to serving the country, rewards are also an indispensable means to boost morale and inspire courage. Now, using the head to judge merit alone is not only unfair, but also makes the soldiers suspicious of each other, and then retreat, respond negatively, and even lead to great defeat." Wang Yinglin said.

"During the Jingkang period, the Jin general Nianhan surrounded Taiyuan. The emperor issued an edict to lead troops from Jingxing Road and Yao Gu's horn to support Taiyuan. The Jin people took advantage of the conflict, and the troops shot them with their divine arm bows. They wanted to give them a shot, but there were only a few thousand silver bowls in the sect. The treasury officials told him that they were not enough. So the soldiers were all resentful and dispersed. The army was killed by the scattered arrows. Your Majesty must use this as a warning!"

"The first-level system itself encourages individuals to use courage only. There are indeed many inappropriate things for the present, but it is difficult to change the habits!" Zhao Bing put down the teacup and said with a wry smile after hearing this.

"This is a matter of concern for the rise and fall of the country and the victory or defeat of the army. We must abandon bad habits and innovate them, otherwise it will be a way to destroy the country!" Wang Yinglin couldn't help but say anxiously when he saw His Majesty's ambiguous attitude.

"If everyone in the court had the knowledge and courage of the governor, things would be much easier to handle, and it would not be so difficult to do a low position." At this time, Cao Cheng smiled and said, "Governor Wang, when his Majesty issued an edict, he had proposed amendments to the head system in the past "Military Merit Reward and Punishment Law", but there was great resistance. The court officials thought that if the head system was abolished, no one in the army would be willing to move forward bravely and face the enemy in wartime. Moreover, the recruitment of brave men in the army would be based on a large amount of money, so no one would be willing to die for the country. Therefore, although this system is flawed, it should not be moved without action."

"This..." Wang Yinglin felt ashamed after hearing this. He was one of the opponents at the time, but he was not a person who knew his mistakes and refused to correct them. He hesitated for a moment, "Your Majesty, I think there is something wrong with the current situation. However, if it is completely abolished, it is not fair to dissatisfie with those brave martial arts masters who can be the first and be one ten!"

"Haha, can Governor Wang know that the saying in the formation of the army that 'the brave are not allowed to advance alone'?" Zhao Bing said with a smile.

"I would like to hear the details!" Wang Yinglin frowned and bowed to salute.

"Okay, there is nothing wrong today. Our monarch and ministers are just around the stove to cook tea and discuss the method, and discuss it with each other!" Zhao Bing nodded and ordered people to move the brazier to the back tent, let several ministers gather around, and cook tea on the fire cage. Everyone sat down accordingly. He added water to make tea with his own hands, thinking in his heart how to convince everyone and accept his proposal...

Zhao Bing thought that before studying whether martial arts masters are suitable for going to the battlefield, we should first study what martial arts masters are. Does martial arts masters exist? They do exist, and the ancients also believed in the existence of martial arts masters, and there are sporadic records in official history. Ke Bineng, the leader of the Xianbei Dynasty in the Three Kingdoms era, was Wang Xiong, the governor of Youzhou, Wei Kingdom, who was deeply threatened by him, and sent assassin Han Long to assassinate him. It can be said that a martial arts master could make the Xianbei people rise for hundreds of years later.

In the past, the Song Dynasty, the army in front of the palace also had a group of Dragon Zhi. Ban Zhi was generally a man of outstanding martial arts. One or two of them were the emperor's personal soldiers. As the emperor's personal soldiers, Ban Zhi still participated in the war from time to time. Taizu selected thirty people, subordinate to Guo Jin, and fought against the Northern Han. Taizu attacked the Northern Han, "Taiyuan City has not been down for a long time", and Li Huaizhong, the commander of the East and West Ban, participated in the siege, and "was killed by the wandering arrows." Therefore, Zhao Tinghan, the commander of the front of the palace, "led the guards of the squads to kowtow, willing to kowtow first, and do his best to do his best." However, Taizu of Song did not have the courage to take a single bet and did not allow them to fight.

Taizong attacked Taiyuan again, Dai Xing, deputy commander of Yulongzhi, "first climb, he was able to climb the enemy, and command the commander of the dragon bow and arrow." However, more than a hundred years after Emperor Zhenzong of Song and Emperor Shengzong of Liao established the alliance of Chanyuan, Ban Zhi of the Song Dynasty had always been in a pampered position and never participated in the battle. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, when the Jin army attacked Kaifeng, Ban Zhi used Ban Zhi to fight. Li Gang once "please ask the imperial guards to shoot thousands of people who are good at shooting" and climbed the city to shoot and retreated the Jin army. However, Ban Zhi's battle could not save the fate of the nation.

Zhao Bing formed a personal guard camp in fact, which was actually imitated by the previous "Yulongzhi". There are many martial arts masters who fought against ten. They are quick to move and are good at close combat. However, these people are different from the various strange heroes who come and go freely among millions of troops with just a pair of flesh palms. Even Master Yuanmiao, who is at the royal level, thinks he can't.

Therefore, there are indeed martial arts masters, and they have participated in the battles and have excellent combat effectiveness. The group of martial arts masters that appeared earlier in history should be the "fighting" of Qi in the pre-Qin period, which means to use courage to attack and kill the enemy. They are "cowardly in fighting among the crowd and bravely holding the stings." It can be seen that at that time, there were a large number of desperate Saburos who liked to fight one-on-one, and at that time, they were indeed full of talents, and many outstanding fierce people emerged, such as Taochuo, Qi Liang, Hua Zhou and others.

The king of Qi recruited them to join the army, "Catch the heroes of the world, and have the heroes of the world, and move like birds, and move like thunder and lightning. Don't stand in front of them, and don't harm them behind them. They go alone and dare not ban them." It can be seen that their participation in actual combat has indeed played a role in driving morale. If they encounter opponents with disarray, they can basically crush the opponent. However, if the opponent is replaced by a highly organized, disciplined and tightly formed enemy, this move may not work. So there is the famous military law: "The martial arts of Qi cannot meet the martial soldiers of Wei, and the martial soldiers of Wei cannot meet the fierce soldiers of Qin."

In other words, in the ancient cold weapon battlefield, thousands of troops formed a tight and solid military formation, squeezed and collided with each other, what they needed most was ordinary soldiers who could constantly repeat a single tactical action and act as screws in a huge war machine, rather than heroes with excellent swordsmanship and good at flashing and maneuvering. Although the heroes were quick to move and good at stabbing, they were not only useless in a uniform military formation, but could even be said to be harmful. Unless they could really ignore the laws of physics as they were filmed in martial arts movies, and could fly over the enemy's heads.

Chinese martial arts masters are not very good at going to the battlefield, so what about foreign countries? Among the common images created by literary works, Japanese ninjas are undoubtedly extremely cool: their appearance is mysterious, their movements are cool, and their every move is full of shape. It looks like they are not easy to mess with characters, but the reality is very skinny. In the first year of the Monochi, Oda Nobuki attacked the Hexao clan for the Long March, and the Kaga Ninja assisted the Hexao clan. As a result, Oda Nobuki's army won a great victory, and the Kaga Ninja killed 800 people. In the seventh year of Tenmatsu, Oda Nobuki led his army to attack Iga, but was dragged down by the ninjas in guerrilla warfare, and finally had to withdraw his troops.

On the surface, it seems that the ninja defeated the regular army, but the main weapon used by Iga Ninja is a mezzanine, which should not be considered a martial arts master. For example, if Ximen Chuxue and Hanamanlou were shooting at each other with a gun during the duel, can you still say that the two of them are heroes? By the time the Shimahara Rebellion in the Shogunate era, the ninja would be even more embarrassing. The selected masters of each ninja family, not only could they even get through the trenches and the city walls, but even those who were lucky enough to sneak into the city were thrown out the next day, and the sun was not even too late to see.

In addition to ninjas, another powerful Japanese master was the swordsman. Before the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, Japanese pirates became increasingly rampant. A large number of Japanese wandering samurai came to the coastal areas of Fujian and Zhejiang to plague the coastal areas everywhere. According to historical records, these "real Japanese" had extremely superb personal martial arts. They came from the samurai class and were based on martial arts practice. They were also trained by civil war. They were extremely fierce and were extremely good at fighting alone. They had strong combat capabilities in single combat. Historical records: "The Japanese are happy to leap, and if they burst, they will be more than 10 feet long. If they are five feet long, they will be five feet long. Our soldiers are short and difficult to catch, and the long weapons are not fast. If they are subjected to them, they will be broken. The weapons are sharp and they use both hands, which is because of their heavy strength." The official army "pulled the bow and shot them, and the thieves will all take their arrows with their hands". It can be said that they are great martial arts!
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