Why is Qi Jiajun worthy of praise?

If we want to talk about China's famous armies in past dynasties, Bian Xiao has always recommended the "Qijia Army" in the Ming Dynasty. This unit is remarkable in personnel selection, training and equipment, and it can be said that it is the first multi-arms synthetic unit in the world. Qi Jiguang's Practical Discipline for Training and New Book on Discipline Efficiency became famous military documents in ancient China.

According to the records, Qi Jiajun abused the dominant number of Japanese pirates many times, among which the real Japanese (Japanese samurai) killed in a single time often exceeded the number of Qi Jiajun who took part in the war. The total battle damage ratio of Qijiajun is less than 1: 100. I really suspect that Qi Shuai was instructed by aliens.

You know, there was a war that humiliated the Chinese empire. The Ming army practiced the garrison system. However, due to official corruption, military households fled in large numbers because they occupied land, property and military pay. During the Jiajing period, the actual number of troops stationed in the coastal defense station was only about 654.38+10,000, and the generals lacked command experience. Soldiers are weak in strength and poor in military discipline, and they are basically defeated in the face of the enemy.

So that in A.D. 1555, 72 Japanese pirates were able to travel thousands of miles in Su Sansheng, Zhejiang, Anhui and even dared to attack Nanjing. The Ming army dispatched an absolute superior force to destroy it, but the casualties paid were as high as 3000, which was simply staggering.

Qi Jiajun's soldiers are not from military households and health clinics, but volunteers recruited separately in the mainland of Zhejiang Province. Because the government has deeply realized the seriousness of the situation, it has to approve his plan to organize a new army and levy a new tax as the cost of recruitment and training. For this kind of support, Qi Jiguang warned soldiers to be grateful in his lecture.

Before Qi Jiguang, the military valued personal martial arts, and the soldiers who could swing their weapons like flying were the heroes in the eyes of the public. Boxers, thugs, salt owls and even monks and Miao people from all over the country were recruited into the army.

It was not until being defeated by organized enemies again and again that the authorities realized that the success or failure of a battle did not depend entirely on the individual's martial arts. When training this new army, Qi Jiguang not only requires the soldiers to have excellent skills, but also pays full attention to the cooperation of various weapons in the small army. Each infantry class is equipped with both long weapons and short weapons.

The victories of Qi Jiajun made their reputation spread far and wide, which made the soldiers more combative. They can conquer enemy strongholds that other loyalists can't solve in a few hours and annihilate the enemy. Later, according to statistics, the battle damage ratio was extremely low, and sometimes even killed nearly a thousand enemies, but no one died.

Qi Jiguang's operational policy has always advocated numerical superiority and quick decision. On the battlefield, everything depends on strength. Qi Jiajun repeatedly killed the enemy and suffered heavy casualties, which made him frightened. With his strict military discipline and proper array methods, some examples of war were textbook victories in ancient battlefields. Against the background of the defeat of the Ming regular army, such an army should be greatly respected and admired!