Chapter 611 Internal and External Troubles
Early the next morning, after completing the basic warm-up exercises, Shi Lei spoke loudly...
"We are not training today, let's play a game."< br>
While speaking, Shi Lei told the rules of the ghost hunting game.
In fact, the rules of the game are quite simple. Everyone is bare-handed and cannot fight. When faced with ghosts, people can only hide and escape. Once caught, they will be counted as losing the ability to resist.
Obviously, Zhou Xu didn't want his soldiers to start fighting while playing games.
When the soldiers heard that they didn’t need to train, they were all in high spirits.
After simply completing the grouping by drawing lots, the game quickly started.
This is the first time for soldiers to play. Although the rules are very simple and you can understand them as soon as you hear them, these guys are all very energetic. In the process of chasing and escaping, they will still inevitably cause conflicts. If you don't pay attention, they will cause conflicts. A fight broke out.
Shi Lei stopped him immediately after discovering it. Looking at the soldiers involved in the fight, Shi Lei's face didn't look good.
Don't forget, their king is right here, and these little brats are causing trouble for him at this time.
To put it mildly, this is because he can't keep his face, but to put it more seriously, it means he is incompetent in running the army!
"You guys, get out of here. Some of you don't want to play, and you have nowhere to use your strength, right? Then get out of here and do physical training and strength training. Do five exercises for each item first. Let’s talk about it in the tenth group!”
When the soldiers heard this, their expressions changed.
In daily training, there are physical training and strength training, but the intensity of each group is already high. How can there be fifty groups and fifty groups? ! This can literally kill them.
But there were so many orders in the army, and when their commander was clearly angry, how could they dare to say 'no'?
One by one, they can only grit their teeth and do it on the side. While being punished and training, they have to watch other comrades playing games there. Good guy, I feel even more uncomfortable.
As for the soldiers who were playing the game, after seeing their miserable appearance, each of them became a little more alert.
Since it’s a game, let’s focus on it. Relax and don’t get too excited, otherwise you’ll have to keep company with those idiots next to you.
The soldiers who played the game for the first time were very excited. They were sweating profusely while running, and they didn't feel tired at all.
The three teams rotated, and after a day of playing, they were still not satisfied, and they almost shouted, "Let's fight again tomorrow!" ’.
They were indeed playing games the next day, but they were just playing games for the soldiers who had been on patrol yesterday and had no rest.
Now that the game has just been launched, soldiers are jumping on it, but after everyone has played it, the frequency will not be so high in the future.
Generally, when training for a week, take half a day out, let them play a game and relax, and that's it.
During this period, Zhou Xu chatted with Shang Xijun for a while.
"You said before that your country annexed another country. Are the people who were annexed from that country still compliant?"
Although Shang Xijun didn't know why Zhou Xu asked these questions, but After experiencing the horror of the dripping punishment, he now really answers every question without daring to be vague.
“There were troubles earlier, but after His Majesty ordered to kill several groups of troublemakers, the situation got much better.”
The moment I heard this , Zhou Xu suddenly felt more confident.
"Sun Tzu's Art of War" says: Soldiers are a major event of the country, the place of life and death, and the way of survival, and must be investigated!
In layman's terms, this sentence means that war is a national matter, related to the life and death of the people of the country, and must be seriously thought and studied. Some people always like to think of military art books such as "Sun Tzu's Art of War" and "Thirty-Six Strategies" as magical.
Although he had not read a few words in the entire book and had no idea what was written in it, it did not prevent him from making infinite myths about it in his mind. After blowing a few words, I felt that I was a bit more qualified.
But in fact, the things written in this book are not that mysterious. It can even be said that they are some easy-to-understand war experiences.
To put it in perspective, everyone may have a feeling of ‘that’s it? ’ feeling.
As a person who was in kindergarten, his dream was to be the general marshal of the armed forces. Later, when he had nothing to do, he actually studied.
Take this chapter of "The Art of War" as an example. It talks about various pre-war tasks.
To summarize in a popular way, it is nothing more than collecting intelligence and then comparing all aspects of the warring parties.
How many troops are there on the opposite side? Are the resources sufficient? Is the monarch virtuous or not? Are the people living well? These all need to be compared.
The other side has more troops than you, abundant resources, a wise and well-loved monarch, and a peaceful life for the people, so this war should not be fought.
Among them, whether the monarch is wise and whether the people live a happy life are very important criteria.
Because if you start a war when the people are living in peace and contentment, it will be an unjust war!
In the eyes of the people opposite you, you are a shameless and hateful invader! They will fight you with everything they have! I wish I could eat your flesh and drink your blood!
If you want to win this kind of battle, you will most likely have to pay a heavy price.
After winning the battle, you absorb the opponent's population and land. Those populations will hate you and will create hidden dangers for your country. It will definitely be difficult to have peace in the future!
On the other hand, if the other party is a foolish and ignorant king, and the people's life is difficult and the people are in dire straits, then you have taken advantage of the great cause and you are going to liberate them, then this battle will be easy to fight.
And this is the harmony between people at the right time and place.
From the simple conversation with Shang Xijun, it was not difficult for Zhou Xu to guess that the idiot on the other side might have launched a typical unjust war before.
After winning the battle, they suppressed it with killing methods. It seemed that the unrest was suppressed, but in fact it further stimulated the annexed population, which will definitely bring harm to them in the future. More trouble to come.
Of course, these are all good things for Zhou Xu.
[That guy is now experiencing internal and external troubles, right? 】
The internal problem is the population that was previously annexed through unjust wars, while the external problem naturally refers to them, the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Although at this point in time, the battle with the rat people in the southern border has not yet come to an end, and their situation in Dazhou does not seem to be that stable, but the opposite side is even worse.
Should we seize this opportunity and risk sending troops, or should we let this opportunity go and seek stability?
However, this idea had just arisen, and then Zhou Xu realized something was wrong and slapped his forehead hard.
"Stability! If the opposite side is stable, I can't be stable!"
Think about it carefully, the opposite side is a country with a permanent force of 5,000 troops, and they, the Zhou Dynasty, have ignored wartime recruitment. On weekdays, the number of permanent troops is only three thousand.
Under this premise, if the other party is given time to resolve its internal problems, then the other party will become his biggest external trouble!
From this point of view, now is the best time for them to take action!
(End of this chapter)