Yang You and Xiang Yu, two guys who didn't understand much, became little nitpickers and were still confused.
Yu Zhifu, a man who had participated in many small-scale foreign battles, was attracted to Qi Guangji.
"Can you tell me more about it? I'm very curious."
"I have also fought against the Japanese pirates before. They were not too strong. My personal guards could defeat them, but they could move and retreat very quickly, and they would often hide in rugged mountains, forests or the ocean.
"It's easy for my personal guards to kill them, but they won't fight us head-on. Sending a large army to garrison various locations won't work either. If we scatter them, they'll be defeated one by one. If we unite, the enemy will have already fled. It's quite a dilemma."
"It's quite complicated. If we want to deal with them, regular armies will be at a disadvantage. We need to train professional militias to target them, using cheap tactics to specifically target them."
Qi Guangji did not avoid talking about this. After a brief pause, he began to explain his Mandarin Duck Battle Formation.
"Similarly, we can form small teams and then form alliances. We can use formations like the Three Talents and Four Symbols to specifically restrain the opponent. Some specialize in defense, while others specialize in attack and destruction. We can advance and retreat together, forming small-scale battle teams or large-scale attacks. This way, we can restrain the opponent..."
Qi Guangji explained very quickly, Yu Zhifu listened very quickly, and the two of them were also discussing quickly.
But Yu Zhifu frowned after only hearing half of it.
"Logically speaking, your magic circle is certainly very useful in restraining the enemy, but achieving a level of discipline and coordination is too difficult. This is something only an elite army can achieve. It's wishful thinking for ordinary militiamen to achieve this."
Yu Zhifu directly rejected it and was no longer as excited as before.
Qi Guangji still didn't give up. He said carefully, "To achieve this, it's both difficult and easy. As long as the quotas are filled, there's no false reporting, and the rewards are distributed, there doesn't need to be a higher reward than a normal army. As long as a batch of captured items can be distributed to them, it will be enough to ensure that orders are followed."
"so……"
Yu Zhifu frowned and shook his head here, but Yang You felt strange.
He didn't quite understand the training of military formations and armies, but he could tell from the conversation between Yu Zhifu and Qi Guangji that both of them had a very good understanding of military formations and armies.
He was far inferior to these two people in this regard and felt that it was very difficult, but in the past two years it seemed to be easily accomplished. However, he was unable to complete the simplest step, the distribution of the appropriate amount of silver, which he could not understand.
"Just pay the salary on time. What's so difficult about that? Isn't that reasonable?"
In Jiujiang County, not long after joining the Six Gates, Yang You felt the warmth of the Six Gates. His salary was always paid on time and was never delayed.
Moreover, there would be some food or fruits offered every now and then, and the treatment and life were quite good.
He felt more comfortable than ever before and asked his colleagues around him, and they felt almost the same way.
He didn't feel any different here.
Xiang Yu was also confused.
On the contrary, Xue Cheng seemed to be thinking about something after hearing this.
He has been working in Jianyi for many years and is of course familiar with the rules and regulations of each place.
Not to mention that it was too far away, even he, the general flag of the Jinyiwei, often received less salary in Jianyi, and the army stationed in Jianyi was never fully staffed.
There were times when one-third of the staff was missing, and in some exaggerated cases, the number was even missing by half. Moreover, not all the people who were trained there were elite soldiers. Many of those who received normal salaries had connections in various military camps or were children of wealthy families.
A bunch of old, weak and sick people need to go to the military camp to punch in for training as usual. Of course, punching in is required, but training is not necessarily required.
There are even many times when even half of the people who need to be named on the roster cannot be included.
Moreover, the one-half or two-thirds of the people who are undergoing retraining will receive the lowest salary, and a lot of money will be deducted from their food and equipment.
Many people who do not participate in the training can get the full quota. Many people from the Wang and Li families have positions in the military, but they usually do not go to the military camp.
But when reporting to the higher authorities, the entire military camp was often fully staffed, and all salaries were always paid in full by the court.
This is not only the case in Jianyi, but also in more extensive and distant areas.
And in a sense, this has become an unspoken rule.
Among Xue Cheng's family, there was a member who once served in the imperial guards in the capital. He described that such phenomena were not uncommon among the imperial guards.
With such a normalized scale, it is simply outrageous to want to train an army that obeys orders and whose salaries are paid on time and in quantity.
If all the salaries issued by the court were to be paid on time and in full, how would the chief officer communicate with his colleagues and superiors?
That's a big problem.
Without enough money and enough belongings, how can you get promoted and make a fortune?
So people like Yu Zhifu, who were familiar with this situation, frowned when they heard this, thinking that Qi Guangji was out of touch with reality. He thought that Qi Guangji's theory was good, but it was too difficult to put into practice in reality and was unrealistic.
"However, Jiujiang County has indeed achieved this step now. But having taken this step, the future of the prefect is a big question. If it weren't for the prince's help, I'm afraid Prefect Rui would have been gone long ago."
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