With Liu Xuande helping to keep an eye on the military posture, Li Mengxi concentrated on correcting the movements of the new recruits who were always obedient.

I don't know how long it took, but with the very rhythmic slogans of "one two" and "one two", the hard work paid off. This honest and dull recruit finally did not need Li Mengxi to carry him around, and he could walk on the spot with his hands and feet in different directions.

, that is, no longer following the rules.

After standing still, I continued to walk in the same place, but my rhythm was interrupted for a while, and I also lost track of my steps.

It seems that the issue of Shuaiguai has been initially corrected.

It depends on tomorrow, after the night has passed and the body memory of repeated training has disappeared, if I let him walk tomorrow, he will still be able to walk smoothly.

I saw that this new recruit was still a little confused and hesitant in his stance. After standing still, I didn't know whether he would settle in one step or two steps.

The military training Li Mengxi received was to start in two steps, because after a sudden order, the first step was too hasty, and it was easy for the body not to adjust its center of gravity, and it was easy to become unstable.

Therefore, after standing still, pausing for a moment not only gives you more reaction time, but also allows you to adjust your center of gravity slightly and stand more steadily.

Seeing that there was a problem, Li Mengxi took the opportunity to teach the new soldier how to stand still.

"Look, watch how I stand still. When I stand still, I take one step and stand still with the second step. Pay attention." Li Mengxi said to the recruits.

"Stand still—go! One-two-one, one-two-one. Stand—steady!"

Tread.

Two steps, the first step is light, the second step is hard, and there is a sound when it hits the ground.

"Okay, come and try, I'll call you the command." Li Mengxi encouraged the recruit who didn't know his name and asked him to try it himself.

"Stand in place - go! One, two, one, one, two... stop! Just step, keep your head low, raise your head, just walk, it depends on what your feet do!"

Li Mengxi reprimanded.

Time passed quickly, and when it got dark, someone helped light the torch, creating a circle of light.

Li Mengxi was concentrating on training and did not hear anything outside.

After a long time, Li Mengxi saw that the new recruit was almost practicing his steps, so he went to see how the others were standing in military posture.

Turning around, Li Mengxi saw Liu Bei standing in front of the queue, staring at the many recruits with serious eyes and scanning his eyes.

Li Mengxi told Liu Bei that if he saw anyone moving around while standing in a military posture, he would find them.

But Li Mengxi clearly saw it, and when he looked over for a moment, he saw some people shaking their necks, and some kicking their legs.

Isn't this a disturbance?

Liu Bei may have misunderstood. Liu Bei believed that standing on the ground and not running around means not moving around.

The imprecision in Chinese semantics is clearly revealed here.

Li Mengxi stepped forward and pointed at the person in the crowd who might have a sore neck and was shaking his head, "You, come out. Someone said that you can't move at all while standing in a military posture. Have you forgotten?" Li Mengxi scolded him mercilessly.

He walked to another person and said, "And you, your feet are itchy? Move around. Come out."

Li Mengxi pulled out several people at once and scolded them severely.

Finally, Li Mengxi looked at Liu Xuande who looked puzzled and asked speechlessly, "Mr. Xuande, just now I asked you to watch for me and pick out anyone who moves, but why did you turn a blind eye when you clearly saw someone shaking his head?

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When Liu Bei heard this, he was stunned, "Ah! I see everyone is standing still and not moving around?" Liu Bei was confused.

"...Although they are not moving, some people are shaking their heads, shaking their hands, and shrugging their legs. These are all movements."

"Does this count as movement?" Liu Bei's eyes widened.

"To stand in a military posture, you have to stand like a piece of wood, motionless. Anyone who doesn't look like a piece of wood will move." Li Mengxi explained this way.

As long as it doesn't look like wood, it's moving.

Liu Bei savored this sentence carefully and finally understood what Li Mengxi meant.

A good man stood like a piece of wood and couldn't even move a finger. Liu Bei thought twice but didn't understand what he meant, so he asked Li Mengxi with a smile, "Xi'er, I really don't know, what is the purpose of letting the soldiers stand numb?"

Since Liu Bei asked the question sincerely, let him tell him mercifully.

Li Mengxi walked slowly and thought for a moment.

"Well, that's right.

In a battle formation, the most important thing is to advance and retreat as one.

If we want to advance and retreat as one, we must keep the whole army in lockstep.

Since we want to move forward together, we must impose orders and prohibitions.

What is order and prohibition?

If you want to move, don't let it move; if you want to move, you can't move without orders. This is a prohibition and a restriction.

When walking, you take one step, and your head, neck, arms, hips, legs, and feet all move. When you take one step, how far should you go? Does the left foot come first? Or does the right foot not come first?

When walking and running, how do you move your hands? Does the left hand move first, or the right hand?

Walking, running, turning around, head, neck, arms and legs, if they are different in one place, they will be chaotic; if they are different everywhere, they will be chaotic. How can they be neat and unified?

Therefore, every move can be made according to the rules. If one arm and one finger are all the same, one step is taken, and ten thousand people are at the same distance. In this way, tens of thousands of people are like one person, wouldn't ten thousand people be like one?

Even if thousands of people are like one person, how can there be chaos?

That is to say, if the military formation is not in chaos, it will stand on an invincible position."

Li Mengxi wrote a long paragraph discussing the necessity of strictly unifying every movement of the soldiers.

Li Mengxi also just realized why queues are important.

In his previous life, Li Mengxi always heard this assertion, saying that as long as the army could march in unison, it would be a sweep in ancient times.

Li Mengxi expressed some doubts about this conclusion.

If this assumption is correct, soldiers who can march in unison can really sweep everything in ancient times.

Then let’s ask, why can we sweep through ancient times if we can march in unison?

If the queue is aligned, why is it invincible?

In modern times, Li Mengxi roughly realized why queues are important.

Queue is discipline? The term discipline is a bit general.

The more core feature of the queue is that it is neat.

To put it simply, human action patterns, every action, such as waving a hand or taking a step, are coordinated by many small movements.

When multiple people walk side by side, chaos will occur if one subdivision movement is not uniform. When multiple subdivision movements are not uniform, the degree of confusion will increase exponentially.

Therefore, in order to reduce the degree of confusion and improve the degree of uniformity, every minute movement decomposed into one movement, even the amplitude of arm swing and the angle of finger opening, can be completely unified through training.

In this way, when acting in a group, the frequency and amplitude of one subdivided action are completely consistent among people, the frequency and amplitude of multiple subdivided actions are completely consistent, and then all subdivided actions are completely consistent, so the overall action is completely consistent.

Queuing is actually a probability problem.

Stepping your feet, raising your hands, which angle to extend your arms, how much angle to extend, when to retract them, etc. During the march of the queue, the marching actions are subdivided into subdivided actions. The number of subdivided actions can range from dozens to hundreds. The variables are

Dozens or hundreds of species.

These dozens or hundreds of variables are not unified. If there are more people, the movements will become chaotic. There will be hundreds of different movements, so it will be chaotic and the queue cannot be arranged closely.

He raised his left foot, and the one behind him raised his right foot, thus knocking off the shoe of the person in front. He raised his right hand, and the person next to him raised his left hand, knocking the arrow out of the hand of the person on the left.

If the movements cannot be unified, the queue will be too dense, and people will not only be unable to cooperate, but will interfere with each other.

If the formation is dispersed enough, they won't interfere with each other, but the soldiers can't cooperate well and are scattered.

Therefore, formation is really important. If the formation cannot be even, if you step on someone else's shoes after taking only two steps, others will trip and fall, and you will not be able to form a tight formation.

The tight formation, the tight hedgehog gun array, the tight iron barrel-like shield array, against the loose shield array on the opposite side, and the sparse gun array on the opposite side, it is indeed crushing.

What Li Mengxi realized clearly was that in ancient times, an army that could march in formation was definitely an elite soldier, but it was enough to say that it could sweep through. Because there were also formations in ancient times, but they were not as demanding as the formations of later generations.

Furthermore, queues are queues, and battle formations are battle formations.

The way the honor guard moves is completely different from the way the guard of honor marches in close formation and marches like a forest with guns in hand.

The formation of the honor guard is indeed as neat as a sword. It is simply the pinnacle of the formation. However, if you don't practice the practice of setting up the gun formation, there is a high probability that it will not be able to beat the ancient elite soldiers who have practiced the gun formation for a long time.

Therefore, there is a problem with the sentence "An army that can march in formation swept everything in ancient times".

A more rigorous statement should be like this, "An army that can march in line can be considered an elite soldier in any period in ancient times. Being able to line up in line is the basis of a tight formation. If the line can line up, then you can practice a tight formation with spears and shields."

The formation will come naturally. The spear formation soldiers who are well-organized and trained in the spear formation can sweep away the spear formation soldiers who were not so neatly formed in ancient times."

This is the only way to be rigorous.

Queues are very important. The important thing is not the general concept of discipline, but the core concept of "tidyness".

Neatness is determined, there will be no confusion, and people behind will not step on the shoes of those in front, causing a huge mess.

It's that simple.

Therefore, in order to achieve uniformity among thousands of people, we must achieve consistent movements. To achieve consistent movements, we must achieve consistent movements in every small subdivision. To achieve consistency in each subdivided movement, we must continuously perform one movement.

A movement training.

Therefore, for simple movements such as stepping, standing, and standing in a military posture, the amplitude, height, and even the opening and closing shape of the fingers must be strictly unified.

Whether the height and amplitude of the arms and the sequence of arm movements are uniform determines whether the walking, stepping and standing are uniform, and also determines whether tens of millions of people can be the same during the queue.

If the most minute details cannot be unified, it is absolutely impossible to achieve a unified military formation.

In war, the neatness of the formation determines the outcome.

Therefore, training soldiers to swing their hands neatly may seem inexplicable and completely different from actual combat, but it is actually directly related to the outcome of the war.
Chapter completed!