Chapter 27 Martial Arts - spend money like water, kill like hemp

Spend money like dirt, kill like hemp In the tenth year of Guangxu, Zuo Zongtang was ordered to go to Fujian to supervise the division, and to discuss military affairs with Zeng Guoquan, the governor of Liangjiang in Nanjing. Killing like hemp." Zeng Guofan and "Three Disciplines and Eight Points of Attention" Zeng Guofan wrote "Love the Folk Song" by himself, which was the harbinger of the later "Three Disciplines and Eight Points of Attention". ... The second line of travel must be carefully studied, and the tent must be paid every night ... The third order must be strict, and the soldiers are not allowed to leave the camp indiscriminately; The sergeant listens to the lesson, the sergeant and the people are like a family, and you must not bully him.”

If I don't plan now, I will be a captive On the day when Liu Mingchuan was the governor of Taiwan, he once boarded the Huwei Fort, looked east at Japan, and said with emotion, "If you don't plan now, I will be captured by him!" Not long after, Prince Chun passed away, and Li Hongzhang was isolated. There will be no increase in naval guns within ten years." Liu Mingchuan sighed: "People are bullying me, and I am going to kill myself, and I will die forever!" Hongzhang couldn't fight, Mingchuan asked to go, and went to North Korea for four years. Difficult to do.

A letter from home in a Japanese textbook During the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, Wei Rugui, the commander of the Huai Army, marched towards North Korea.Before setting off, Wei remitted one-third of the 240,000 taels of salary to his home. His wife and husband wrote a letter saying: "The king started an army and sent him to be a commander. Since the family is rich in wealth, it should be self-supporting. Gao, look forward to doing your own thing, don't be the enemy..." Wei Guo lived up to his wife's expectations. When the Battle of Pyongyang broke out, he and Ye Zhichao abandoned the city and fled for three hundred miles. Back to the Qing army brigade.When the Japanese saw this letter from home, they regarded it as an anecdote, and once put it in their textbooks as spoils of war.

Three Heroes of Beiyang: Wang Long, Duan Hu, Feng Gou Yuan Shikai was ordered to train troops at Tianjin Xiaozhan. In addition to his own soldiers and generals, he also employed a group of graduates from the Armed Forces Academy.Duan Qirui, Wang Shizhen, and Feng Guozhang were transferred to Xiaozhan, and were quickly appreciated and reused by Yuan Shikai.Once, Yuan Shikai invited a German officer to watch an exercise. The officer pointed at Wang, Duan, and Feng with a horsewhip and praised: "They are worthy of being outstanding generals." Therefore, the three were touted as the "Three Heroes of Beiyang". More visually known as "Wang Long, Duan Hu, Feng Gou".

Duan Qirui of "Bodhisattva Reincarnation" After the defeat in the Zhiwan War, Duan Qirui expressed his repentance at home all the year round, and made friends with some so-called eminent monks and masters with Jin Yunpeng, Wu Guangxin and others, and taught scriptures together.Those monks were greedy for his donations and offerings, and praised him as the reincarnation of a Bodhisattva who descended to the human world in order to save sentient beings.Without any doubt, Duan Juzhi declared that he had made a great vow in front of the Buddha, that he would not care about worldly affairs, and took refuge in the Three Jewels, and said: "This group of warlords are resorting to war, bringing disaster to the country and the people, and they are all reincarnated by King Asura to create a catastrophe. Although I am a Bodhisattva, I have the power of compassion and vow to save all living beings, but the Tao is one foot tall, and the demon is one foot tall. Although the magic power is great, it is difficult to defeat the demons." The hearer said it was a joke.

Serve as a soldier after fulfilling your filial piety Cao Kun inspected his army stationed in Baoding. When he walked through the ranks of soldiers, he found a soldier sobbing.Cao stopped and asked him, "What's wrong with you? Why are you crying?" The soldier said that he had just received a letter from his family saying that his father had died, and that he was far away in the army and could not go home for the funeral.Cao said, "Don't cry, don't cry. I'll give you fifty yuan, go home and bury your father, and come back to serve as a soldier after fulfilling your filial piety."

divine help In February 1925, Chen Cheng commanded the artillery company to participate in the first Eastern Expedition, and played a role in the crucial Mianhu Battle, turning the crisis into safety.He himself said: "My artillery company only has a few old-style Seven-Five Mountain Cannons, and the shells are pitifully small, but every shot is sure to hit, which seems to be helped by God." When others praised him for his military exploits, he said modestly: "I didn't Not sure, maybe the prime minister's spirit in heaven is protecting us."