This time, Zhang Shixun decided to completely break away from the inherent constraints of the Song Dynasty's military system and reorganize the army in accordance with the military system of later generations.
The number of "bandits" in Taihang Mountains under Li Moulue's control, plus the recently gathered volunteer army in Hebei Province, has reached more than 20,000.
Zhang Shixun selected more than 10,000 of the stronger ones and formed the People's National Protection Army.
As for the remaining ones, they serve as reserve divisions or as militia organizations.
From top to bottom, the People's National Protection Army is composed of army, division, regiment, battalion, company, platoon and squad.
As for the positions, they were completely in accordance with the later system.
Zhang Shixun personally served as the army commander, and Li Moulue as the deputy army commander.
This gang of bandits is unruly and unruly, but they still hold the highest positions in their own hands.
With the title of Heavenly Master, he can still keep the situation under control.
There is currently no party building in organizations at all levels.
There is no way around this. There can only be a political work organization after the Patriotic Alliance is established.
After more than half a month of hard work, the framework of the People's National Salvation Army was finally established, and the appointments of officers at all levels were also implemented.
However, whether it is a senior military officer such as army commander, division commander, regimental commander, or a low-ranking officer such as battalion commander or below, there is a word "temporary" after the position.
The meaning is obvious, positions are temporary.
If you fail to meet the requirements, you can be replaced at any time.
In the following month, Zhang Shixun gathered all the officers together and carried out rigorous training.
The training standards are also carried out in accordance with a set of mature methods and approaches of later generations.
Although officers at all levels were very resistant, no one dared to resist.
Because Zhang Tianshi said that anyone who fails the training will be demoted no matter who you are.
There is a whole day of training during the day, and an hour of cultural classes at night.
The training is not that difficult, it's just a little bit hard and tiring, but you just have to grit your teeth and persevere.
However, the cultural subjects are killing these people.
All the officers, one by one, are "professional" bandits. Some are even hereditary bandits. Three generations of their ancestors have been illiterate. Who the hell can read?
Zhang Shixun didn't care about that. No matter how high or low your position was, you had to be able to read.
He walked around the classroom with a whip in his hand, and if he saw anyone not listening carefully, he would hit them on the head with the whip.
Under his tyranny, the officers had no choice but to learn even though they complained in their hearts.
The teaching materials are ready-made, and "Three Character Classic" is a good one.
The author of "Three Character Classic" is Wang Yinglin of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Zhang Shixun used it directly.
When Li Moulue saw "Three Character Classic", he was shocked after reading only a few paragraphs.
"This...is this written by you, Tianshi?"
"I don't have such great talent. This was written by a god."
No matter how thick-skinned Zhang Shixun was, he would never claim the "Three Character Classic" as his own.
All the Chinese studies classics that can be called classics are basically the most classic parts of Chinese traditional culture. Among the so-called classics, history, philosophy, and collections, classics are ranked first, and they can even be said to be unbreakable truths that have withstood the test of thousands of years.
"Three Character Classic" is one of the most easy-to-understand reading materials, containing very rich and comprehensive content such as morality and human relations, natural sciences, humanities and history, philosophy, loyalty, filial piety, chastity, righteousness, family and country feelings, etc.
The core ideas include benevolence, righteousness, sincerity, respect and filial piety.
The book quotes from classics with good reasoning and is a very good enlightenment reading for children.
While reciting "Three Character Classic", you can learn common sense, traditional Chinese studies and historical stories, as well as the principles of being a human being and doing things contained in the stories.
Li Moulue took the "Three Character Classic" copied by Zhang Shixun and couldn't put it down, reading it over and over again.
As a former scholar, he certainly knew the importance of this textbook.
These bandits in Taihang Mountain kill and rob people, and always speak with their fists. They have no idea what etiquette, benevolence and filial piety are. They are the group of people who need to learn these things the most.
Therefore, Li Moulue took on the task of cultural teaching and personally gave lectures to these unskilled students.
Zhang Shixun was not always strict. After the cultural classes, he would let them relax and show them a video, such as "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties", "Journey to the West", etc.
In addition, Zhang Shixun also attached great importance to diet, and specially took out the compressed dry food that Wang Dong had trial-made to supply them.
The training is rigorous and consumes a lot of physical energy. If nutrition cannot keep up, the training effect will be greatly affected.
Therefore, during training, compressed dry food is available and you can eat as much as you want.
Unexpectedly, the compressed dry rations were very popular among the officers and they loved eating them.
The main thing is that this thing is filling and tastes good.
In those days, even the landlords had no surplus food. As bandits, they ate whatever they could rob. As for drinking big bowls of wine and eating big chunks of meat, that depended on the time. If they couldn't rob anything, they would have to go hungry one day and full the next.
After one month of training, the next step is practical training.
Zhang Shixun selected the best of the best and selected 120 people to form a special company, which he led personally.
Target, Taiyuan, Shanxi.
Shanxi is a very important place, especially Taiyuan.
The Jin soldiers attacked the Song Dynasty, attacking the capital Kaifeng and Taiyuan all the way.
The Jurchen Eastern Army traveled thousands of miles and launched a surprise attack on the city of Bianjing, but it only forced the Northern Song Dynasty to surrender, and did not kill the Northern Song Dynasty in one blow.
The reason is that Taiyuan is still in the hands of the Northern Song Dynasty.
The result of the Jurchens not being able to take Taiyuan was that they could not take Shanxi, and the result of not being able to take Shanxi was multifaceted.
First, the strongest Western Army of the Jin Army was unable to advance to the city of Bianjing, so the two-pronged pincer attack on the Song Dynasty became a solitary Eastern Army advancing deep into the enemy's territory.
Another problem was that it was impossible to block the passage of the Northern Song Dynasty's Western Army from Guanzhong into the Central Plains, and the Northern Song Dynasty's most capable troops could quickly rush to Bian Jing to defend the king.
Another point is that the Jin army was unable to prevent the Northern Song court and its manpower from fleeing westward to Guanzhong.
The Northern Song emperor and his ministers fled to Jiankang in the southeast or Xiangyang in the southwest, but the threat was not great. However, the threat of fleeing to Guanzhong was the greatest because they could replicate the Tang Dynasty's model of suppressing the An Lushan Rebellion.
The Jin Dynasty's Western Army advanced like a hot knife through butter, broke through Shiling Pass, and its vanguard reached the city of Taiyuan. Shaanxi local troops including Linfu Zhe Keqiu and Fuyan Liu Guangshi led a total of 40,000 troops to rescue Taiyuan, but were defeated by the Jin army on the north bank of the Fen River outside Taiyuan City, and dispersed after losing more than 10,000 people.
At this time in Taiyuan, there were only 3,000 Shengjie troops led by Wang Bing.
The Jin soldiers besieged the capital Kaifeng and eventually forced Zhao Huan to cede Taiyuan. The Song Dynasty envoys entered the city to convey the imperial edict to cede Taiyuan, but the military and civilians of Taiyuan rejected this humiliating imperial edict and engaged in a bloody battle with the angry Jin soldiers.
The Jin Dynasty's Western Army, which had been on the march for nearly half a year, was becoming increasingly exhausted and running low on food and grass. Nianhan used the "lock city method" to build numerous fortifications to surround Taiyuan, leaving his general Wanyan Yinshu to continue the siege while he led the main force to withdraw to Datong.
Therefore, Zhang Shixun decided to try his skills from the Shanxi direction and take Wanyan Yinshu as the target.
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