stubborn thief

Chapter 101 Soldiers [For further reading! 】

The goal of going to Beijing is lofty, but in fact it is a notice that people don't take seriously.

It is very easy to say four words to unify thinking, but it is easy to know and difficult to do, and the thoughts of people are inevitably opposed.

No one would stand up against Liu Chengzong, but do you really think there are people in this room who believe that they will go to Beijing?

Liu Chengzong himself didn't believe it.

What he wants is this effect, and only this effect.

Except for Cao Yao, no one in the entire army had the initiative to rebel.

Cao Yao's situation is also different, he is just a bandit leader who simply wants to occupy the mountain and become king, and does not want to be bound by the existing village pact, gentry and court.

There is no awareness, courage, ability and desire to change the dynasty.

If Liu Chengzong really believed in the infinite power of words, and could use a few light words day and night to turn postmen and sergeants who fell grass just to eat an extra bowl of rice into revolutionary fighters who actively participated in the cause of rebellion, then he would be a great hero. Fool.

People don't need to agree with his ideas, they just need to know what direction he will go, and there is no objection, which is enough at the moment.

These men who can't even write their names have already seen Helian Bobo's tomb and the rushing Yellow River under his leadership, measured the width of northern Shaanxi with their feet, walked through countless sun-drenched and cracked fields, and slept Countless abandoned villages.

In the future, I will see more unheard-of scenery, get unimaginable experience, experience the most tragic fight, see the craziest revenge, and see the poor people all over the world waiting for a change.

At that time, they will believe, and believe from the bottom of their hearts, that people rushing from all over the world will eventually enter Beijing.

Maybe they were already on their way into Beijing by then.

With a general direction, the subsequent discussions are much simpler.

Liu Chengzong said: "So today's discussion will mainly focus on three things. First, establish military laws; second, reorganize soldiers; third, determine the distribution of spoils of war."

There was a lot of discussion in the room, and when the voice died down a bit,
Gao Xian nodded and said: "Military law is definitely not a problem. Those in the battalion are either soldiers or postmen and soldiers. It is fine to use the military law of the officer army. It is okay to prohibit rape and robbery. Everyone wants to fight Wangzhuang with you, but reorganize the soldiers. , it’s not necessary, is it?”

Speaking of which, the group of Lion Camp is very special. They started by robbing Wangzhuang. Up to now, there are not many people in the team who have participated in the operation of robbing Wangzhuang, but the legend of robbing Wangzhuang is still circulating among them.

According to legend, the entire mountain cellar was filled with grain, and the three chiefs were distributed thousands of shi of rice grain, which broke the imagination of the soldiers at the bottom.

Cao Yao shook his head and said: "The spoils should be distributed, but why reorganize the soldiers? I just got to know my people well, and the military law should be relaxed. The military law does not allow rape and looting, even in the army. , but being a thief can be restrained? Without soldiers, we are nothing."

This statement was recognized by many officers.

Wei Qian'er sneered and said, "Hey, throw a bag of millet down, and you can sleep with whoever you want in a village. If you can eat enough, who has the time to think about the half-pot of millet for the common people."

Cao Yao stared, and Wei Qian'er opened his mouth to curse.

Seeing that this old thief and a foul mouth were about to quarrel during the discussion, Liu Chengzong stretched out his hand to stop him: "Listen to me."

It's very strange that Liu Chengzong came out to smooth things over at this time, and the two of them didn't look like they were staring at each other, and they didn't care about giving the leader face.

On the contrary, the two looked at each other and turned their heads triumphantly.

It's as if... They all feel that Liu Chengzong is protecting him.

"Military discipline is loose, yes, soldiers like you, but don't respect you, in today's world, recruiting is easy, maybe the situation changes, and it is not impossible to trap tens of thousands of hungry people.

At that time, your soldiers will be captains or even postmasters. When you become battalion generals, what kind of battalion do you want to take over?Soldiers will learn from you... There is also the issue of rape and looting, you have to weigh the pros and cons. "

"Do you really think that the people's support and the rebel army are just for fun?" Liu Chengzong stretched out his two hands: "There are rich and poor people in the world, the rich and the poor. If we want to live, there are only three ways."

He cleared his throat: "Either rob the common people, there are enough of them, enough for us to live;

Cao Yao shook his head, he felt that Liu Chengzong thought it easy.

Everyone has a moral view in their hearts, and then spread their hands and said: "There are a lot of official granaries and posthouses. There are only a dozen or dozens in a county. If you don't leave yourself a way out, what should you do if you rob them all?" ?”

Liu Chengzong could feel that Cao Yao had good intentions, and worried that the prestige he had accumulated with great difficulty would be damaged and the morale of the army would be lost.

And it does make sense, the rich family's official positions will be robbed sooner or later.

"I understand what Brother Cao means, but I still decided to set the military law first. Others can be changed, but this one cannot be changed. This is not only required of the sergeant, but also required of me."

Liu Chengzong smiled, looked at everyone in the room again, and said: "I know that soldiers who have food are very good, and it is human nature to rob houses without food... You also know me, it is really good to lead soldiers to fight Don’t dare to say too much, but listen to me in major matters, and the brothers have never suffered.”

Cao Yao had no choice but to insist on not persuading him. He nodded and said, "If you want to say that, then I have nothing to say. I'll listen to you."

"The Yue family's army does not demolish houses to death from freezing, and does not plunder to death from starvation, but it is not because they have this rule that they do not demolish houses and do not plunder because of this rule. What my battalion is going to do... really push the brothers to that point, if you don’t grab it today, you will starve to death, let alone Liu Chengzong and the military law can’t stop it.”

He laughed and said, "Even the Jade Emperor can't stop it."

Everyone laughed, but Wei Qian'er was very serious: "If the general tries his best, we may be able to starve for two days."

"It's useless to say that, starving for two days is nothing!"

Cao Yao touched Liu Chengzong with his elbow: "Brothers are waiting, how will the war profit be distributed?"

At the beginning, the officers all booed, "Yes, General, how do you divide the war profits?"

"I know you want to hear this, but I have to talk about the reorganization first. Now that everyone is eating in a pot, I will make it clear that the troops must be disbanded."

Liu Chengzong paused, looking at everyone's expressions, except for a few officers from the frontier army, the other reactions were good, and he continued: "Otherwise, the brothers in the frontier army will not be able to integrate, which will affect the combat effectiveness. Don't worry, the captain and above will not move. You are still officers."

Gao Xian asked: "How to divide the soldiers?"

"Each of them takes their own strengths, including the wounded soldiers. Those who can ride and shoot and have done pond riding have priority to enter Captain Wei's cavalry; artillerymen have priority to enter Cao's artillery post, and the remaining infantry are mixed into the left and right posts, waiting for the wounded soldiers. After recovering from injuries, the whole battalion will compete with each other depending on the type of arms, and will be awarded the ninth-class honor."

"Bing Xun, compare martial arts rewards and punishments? Doesn't this work?"

Most of the people in the room had been soldiers. Although Liu Chengzong's words were made up of soldiers and martial arts, it was easy for them to understand.

Because the generals of almost every army have tried to use Qi Jiguang's Art of War published by the Ministry of War to restrain them. They compare their martial arts every month and set rewards of the upper, middle and lower ranks.

But without exception, no one can operate successfully even if the instruction manual is put on the face.

If you can't get enough to eat, how can you reward and punish you?

Even now, people no longer think that this is an effective way to compare martial arts and reward and punish soldiers.

"We also use the ninth class, but not according to General Qi, it is like a general school martial arts, including wounded soldiers, everyone is eighth class, and the comparative subjects and standards applicable to the three military subjects of infantry, cavalry, and artillery are formulated. Standard promotion by one rank, failure to meet the standard demotion by one rank, meritorious deeds in the battle formation and demotion by one rank, as a reward and punishment system.”

Feng Rou said: "But we don't have military pay, so what rewards and punishments?"

"This is the standard of spoils I want to talk about. We have battalion headquarters, officers, and soldiers. All the profits from looting operations are handed over to the battalion headquarters. The subordinates will distribute [-]% to officers and [-]% to soldiers.”

Liu Chengzong raised his hand and explained: "In the future, the battalion will be fully staffed. The battalion general and the seven sentry chiefs will jointly draw up votes for the purchase of supplies and food for the sergeants. At least half of the votes can be used. What do you think? "

None of the captains said anything, they knew very well that they had no say in this matter, and it mainly depended on what the three whistle chiefs wanted.

All three sentinels have the decision-making power, and they agree with this distribution method. After a little discussion, the battalion will be changed to two votes, nine votes in total, and five votes can be used.

Afterwards, Liu Chengzong and others discussed the detailed share of the distribution of the spoils several times, and finally worked out the amount of soldiers' total distribution of spoils according to their military merits.

The ninth rank is considered half of the share, and the lower rank is the auxiliary soldier, who is attached to the soldier and has no right to distribute the spoils.

The eighth rank is calculated as the standard amount. If you advance to the first rank, you will get one share. If you rise to the third rank or higher, you will get a higher rank. If you participate in the profit distribution once, you will lose one rank, until you reach the eighth rank.

The spoils that are not easy to divide will be converted into money and food by the battalion headquarters, and soldiers in need can exchange money and food from the battalion headquarters.

In this way, it can not only stimulate the enthusiasm of soldiers, but also maintain the overall competitive atmosphere of more work and more pay for units at the same level because the total amount of war profits is constant.

With this set of tools, rewards and punishments can come from this, and military law can indeed play a deterrent role.

For example, in the official military law, beheading at every turn is not applicable to the rebel army, but if you make an unprincipled mistake, you can be punished with the method of surrendering soldiers, or even hit the auxiliary soldiers directly to the end.

At this time, Liu Chengzong said the real role of Bingxun in his heart: "Do you remember, on the day outside Yanshui Pass, I saw clearly from the pass city that we dispersed, and the officers and soldiers also dispersed, but the officers and soldiers It can be quickly regrouped, and even soldiers who are not affiliated with each other can find different captains to return to the army."

Cao Yao's memory of that day was too clear, he clicked his tongue and said, "No way, all the soldiers know the captain, it's not easy for our people to recognize all four soldiers in Shili."

Being familiar with each other is also a kind of organizational ability, although it is relatively loose.

"What I want to say is this, organization. Captains must make it clear to their sergeants when they go back. This soldier's honor can also be used in chaotic battles and situations of falling behind. Even if they are all broken up or run away, two soldiers gather together Together, it is up to the people with high military honors to call the shots, gather the defeated army, unite and break through to find most of them to return to the army."

The battle at Yanshui Pass touched Liu Chengzong too much.

So much so that he urgently tried every means to strengthen the organizational ability of the mule battalion.

More than a dozen captains took the order to respond, and the three matters were agreed upon, and the rest of the people were fine, and they dispersed to convey the news to their subordinates.

In a blink of an eye, the captains left, leaving only Cao Yao and the others.

At this time, Liu Chengzong sighed quite tiredly, and smiled at the three of them: "How about it, this meeting can be said, what do you think of this change in the team?"

"Very good." Cao Yao said this insincerely: "After returning to Yan'an, the two teams will be reorganized. You will be in trouble. In fact, I think it's not bad in the original way. It's too much effort for you."

"How to say?"

"I'm not talking about you wanting to enter the city of Beijing. You should know it in your heart. Don't talk about going to Beijing. If this team wants to go back to Yan'an Fucheng, half of them will die anyway."

What Cao Yao said was very cruel. With his legs crossed, he raised his hand and nodded on the kang: "Don't you feel bad that the person you trained so hard died?"

"Why don't you feel distressed? If you encounter a war, there is nothing you can do. These changes will definitely improve the team's combat effectiveness."

Liu Chengzong firmly said: "If you don't believe me, just look back. There are rules in advance, and it is difficult to follow them carefully, but it is easier than not having rules first, and then establishing rules later when you develop a habit."

"But there is a price for this. The price is at least the last ten days. Don't even think about doing anything. Just reorganize the soldiers. The team seems to be useless."

Cao Yao raised his thumb and turned to the west: "Officers and soldiers from Shaanxi cannot come in large groups, but the imperial court stipulates that more than a hundred people cannot be transferred. What if 90 people come to you? Lead a hundred people across the border?"

As he spoke, he leaned back, shook his head, and said, "Not to mention, you are really rebellious. There is no such thing as crossing the border when you are rehabilitated. You just have too much heart and too far-sighted thinking. Everything is in the immediate future, but in the long run, do we deserve it?"

Liu Chengzong cupped his fists silently, raised his hand and patted himself on the head.

Cao Yao didn't understand, and turned to Gao Xian and Feng Ru: "Do you two understand what this means?"

Both of them shook their heads in a daze, and Liu Chengzong said angrily, "Hey, this made me pat Bo Gu Tongjin on the head."

A few people smiled, Gao Xian just laughed, and said: "Let's not talk about things so far away, anyway, I don't think these rules are bad, the imperial court is going to send soldiers to suppress them, there is no place to run in our place, and we can fight even if we don't reorganize them." However, it is better to reorganize, as long as you survive, you will have a thought in the future."

"Let's talk about the immediate ones. What are we doing recently? Reorganize the soldiers and heal the wounded. What about the rest?"

Liu Chengzong spread his hands together: "Let me tell you, in my heart, the adaptation and military honors this time did not meet the best conditions, and I am far behind."

He still remembered that his father used the military officer training team as a teacher establishment to occupy a position.

"When we reunite, teach them to read every day, and when half of them can read a thousand characters, this adaptation will be considered complete. Before that..."

Liu Chengzong said: "Still be a man with your tail between your legs, avoid the officers and soldiers as much as possible, recuperate the wounded, let Tang Qi monitor Dahe, and the rest will be scouts around Xi County, looking for suitable big households. Grab the right once for military training, and we will return to Yan'an with money and food."

　Good morning, I combined the two chapters together today, saving everyone from having to wait for an update at noon.

　　
　
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