Can I get to the other side?

Liu Xie's question stunned Zhang He and others.

How to train soldiers in the army?

His Majesty asked why.

Although he was confused, Zhang He still answered truthfully: "Reporting to your Majesty, the main training contents of the army sergeants currently include five categories, namely training of ears and eyes, training of courage, training of formation, training of physical strength and boxing skills, and training of skills."

Liu Xie nodded, and then continued: "How are these five categories practiced specifically? What are the contents?"

If it were an ordinary general, he probably wouldn't be able to answer it right now.

Because leading troops to fight and training troops are not the same thing.

Some generals know how to fight, but they may not necessarily lead troops in training.

However, Zhang He was obviously a good player at this. When he heard Liu Xie's question, he said: "Reporting to your majesty, training the ears and eyes is mainly to train the soldiers' ability to 'examine the golden drums and distinguish the flags'."

"Whenever you lead the three armies, you must have the festival of golden drums, so you can organize the soldiers. The general will clearly inform the officials and give them three orders to teach the soldiers how to live, and to use the flag to guide the reform."

"To train courage, through education and rewards and punishments, soldiers can understand why they are fighting, so that they can understand the rationale, and then they can recognize the advantages and disadvantages."

After hearing this, Liu Xie realized a lot.

First of all, the ancient battlefield was chaotic and it was difficult to issue orders, so the only way to give orders to soldiers was through drums and flags. This was also the most important place to mobilize the army.

Training of courage, to put it bluntly, means educating and instilling soldiers' thoughts and strengthening their will to fight. This is why all soldiers need to have a name to fight. An unknown teacher has no courage.

"As for practicing formations, this is the most important, because formations are the basis for changes in formations and the use of tactics, including setting up troops, determining rows, and standing vertically and horizontally."

"However, it is very difficult for ordinary armies to achieve this level. Only elite armies can line up in order, and the generals can command like an arm, so that the army can exert its maximum combat effectiveness."

Zhang He said again, his words filled with emotion.

Although everyone knows this truth, it is extremely difficult to train such a team.

After listening to the previous three training contents, Liu Xie found that there seemed to be nothing he could change, and it was already quite perfect.

So he had no choice but to focus on the remaining two projects.

"What's it like to practice physical strength and skills?"

Gao Lan on the side spoke before Zhang He and explained to Liu Xie: "Ordinary physical training is for soldiers to practice wrestling, riding and shooting, boxing, weightlifting, etc."

"The skills are more extensive. The big ones are divided into infantry, cavalry, chariots, sailors and other specialties. The smaller ones include bows, crossbows, swords, guns, shields, etc."

"In addition, each major item also has corresponding teams and formations, but they are quite complicated, so I will not discuss them one by one."

Upon hearing this, Liu Xie fell completely into silence.

It turns out that the training of ancient armies... was so complicated?

Why is it completely different from what I imagined!

Liu Xie felt that his initial thoughts were too taken for granted. If military training was really that simple, then famous generals in history would be too worthless.

"Your Majesty, are you interested in these?"

Zhang He asked curiously.

Liu Xie looked slightly embarrassed. This ancient man was so awesome. After thinking about it, he seemed to be the only one who could provide some advice on physical training, so he said: "What... I have recently thought of several techniques for physical training. , so I want to discuss it with the two generals.”

"Oh? Your Majesty is actually good at this?"

Zhang He's eyes lit up and he asked with some anticipation: "I don't know what the training method is, I am all ears!"

Gao Lan next to him also had the same look.

Liu Xie said: "It's not complicated at all, it's just sit-ups, push-ups, pull-ups, cross-country with weights..."

As he spoke, he covered it up himself and explained to the two of them what these exercise methods were, what their uses were, etc.

"call……"

After finishing the demonstration of various movements, Liu Xie got up from the ground panting and sweating profusely.

He dusted himself off, and then confidently asked Zhang He and Gao Lan, "How are you? What do you two generals think of these methods of exercising physical strength?"

Zhang He and Gao Lan looked at each other.

Seeing their expressions like this, Liu Xie thought they were shocked, so he smiled and said, "Just say whatever you want. Don't worry, there are no outsiders here."

"These training methods can be used by the two generals to train the palace guards. They will definitely improve their physical fitness."

Liu Xie felt filled with a sense of accomplishment at this time.

This is the advantage of time travellers.

He only needs to make a slight move to reach his peak.

Come on, come on, praise me! Come and worship me!

Liu Xie couldn't wait to show his sage.

"Uh... Your Majesty."

Zhang He scratched his head again, and his scalp was almost scratched by him. "These training methods of your majesty certainly have merit... but the sergeants and soldiers of the army may not be able to bear them."

"Because these methods consume too much physical strength, small-scale training is okay. If the training is expanded to more than a thousand people, the supply of food for the soldiers will inevitably increase. If the supply is insufficient, it may, may cause mutiny among the soldiers."

As a martial arts practitioner, Zhang He could certainly see that these weird exercise methods demonstrated by Liu Xie were indeed useful.

But it is useful, whether it can be used is another matter.

People who practice martial arts consume energy. The more they practice, the more tired they are. The more tired they are, the more they eat. How can the army possibly supply all the food consumption caused by such high-intensity training every day?

And the soldiers are not full, and they are forced to practice like this. If it goes on for a long time, it will definitely cause mutiny.

Gao Lan also hesitated and said: "And some of the training methods you mentioned, Your Majesty, are actually used in our army."

"For example, carrying weights and marching across the country is no different from marching in armor; weightlifting training is to lift stone blocks and stone locks."

"And that goose step, there is also similar training, but it is not of much practical significance. Training military power is usually mostly square formations and battle team training."

Liu Xie's smile froze on his face.

Zhang He also saw that the emperor in front of him seemed to be hit, and felt that it was embarrassing to stay here, so he said: "Then Your Majesty, if there is nothing else, I will take my leave first."

After speaking, he pulled Gao Lan and hurriedly left the back garden.

Liu Xie sat back on the stone bench with a dejected look on his face, and lay on the table in a rather shabby manner, his eyes were dull and his heart was dead.

"Novels are all lies."

Liu Xie sighed and felt a little annoyed.

The wisdom of the ancients is not worse than that of modern people. Some methods are not that they can't think of, but the conditions do not allow it.

For example, Zhang He and Gao Lan, they have their own set of methods to exercise physical fitness, but they didn't pass them on to ordinary soldiers.

The reason is very simple, or the food can't keep up.

Liu Xie's training methods in later generations, without good enough food support, can't be popularized at all. The reason why modern armies can train like this is because the food is good, which is not feasible in ancient times.

And there were already perfect training methods in ancient times.

The most important thing is logistics, logistics, logistics!

Logistics is the hard truth!

He should just stay at home honestly in the future, don't think about messing around, it's easy to hit himself.

At the same time, Liu Xie felt a little scared after Zhang He left. As for what he did today, once Yuan Shao knew about it, it would be troublesome.

"According to Guo Jia's plan, now we just need to wait for Yuan Shao's internal problems to intensify. We can't create any more trouble."

"As long as I don't do anything, I won't make mistakes. Even if I want to do something like today, I must discuss it with Guo Jia first."