I am a nobleman in Spring and Autumn

Chapter 154 Soldiers, Deceitful Ways! (fourth more)

The head was still dripping blood hanging from the waist, and the head's hair was still tied on the belt. The soldiers of the Zhi family had a ferocious expression. It was hard for the soldiers of Chu not to feel terrified in the face of such an opponent.

Why did the soldiers of Zhi's new army fight for heads, and why did they wear the heads of the enemy around their waists?Because the new law promulgated by Zhiyao has provisions to record meritorious service with the head of the enemy army.

Beheading the first level of the enemy will be promoted to "Corporal", and as a "Corporal", you will be rewarded with houses and acres; starting from the second level of the enemy's head, you can increase the number of acres and exchange for slaves; and then promoted to "sergeant" and so on.

In fact, becoming a "Corporal" is tantamount to gaining privileges, and further promotion does not necessarily require accumulating five enemy heads, and can also be promoted by participating in three battles with a certain number of combatants on both sides.

Does it look familiar?Zhiyao just used part of Shang Yang's reform to apply to his own reform.

What is more sad is that Zhiyao is not qualified to establish a title, so someone from the Zhi family does not get a title for meritorious service, but only obtains material rewards and some privileges to increase the rank within the Zhi family.

In fact, the power of this set of reforms may not be obvious now. It just shows that the soldiers of the Zhi family who participated in the war are very hardworking or cruel. Waiting for more and more people to know the charm of privileges, even if Zhi Yao does not want to expand her wisdom The people below will also push Zhiyao to expand the fief of the clan, all because they want to expand the territory where they can exercise their privileges!
Now, Zhishi's soldiers participating in the ambush, what is the way they look at the enemy?They only saw the exploits that were still alive, and what they wanted was to kill the enemy and cut off their heads in exchange for the rewards they wanted.

When the soldiers of the Chu State saw the soldiers of the Zhi family with their heads hanging from their waists, it was almost equivalent to looking at the evil spirits walking in the world.

Zhiyao shot the commander of the Chu army to death, and the Chu army who lost its command was completely in chaos. Then it was the hunting time for Zhi's soldiers. The difference was that people were hunting, not animals.

In fact, hunting people is far simpler than hunting animals, especially a group of people who have lost their command and are heartbroken.

Zigong came to Zhiyao's side and said, "It's too much to win the head!"

For "Confucianism", the behavior of Zhi's soldiers was too brutal.

Zhiyao said: "This is an enemy soldier."

It is not too much to be cruel to the enemy. Most of the time, choosing to be kind to the enemy is cruel to one's own people.

Zigong said instead: "The enemy's fighting spirit has been lost, why don't you accept the surrender?"

Zhiyao said politely: "Forget it, order the enemy to surrender."

In this narrow terrain, there is no need to think about any military formation, and the coordinated operations of the small teams formulated by Zhiyao have played their due role.

The words to persuade the enemy to surrender were shouted out, but not all Chu soldiers wanted to surrender, and another wave of efficient killing was needed, so that the Chu soldiers who were persuaded to surrender completely lost their courage, and the subsequent persuasion to surrender would exert the greatest effect.

There was a strong smell of blood in the air. The narrow passage after the battle was full of corpses and wounded soldiers who had fallen to the ground. Traces of the battle could also be seen in the surrounding forests.

Because of the bloodshed of too many people, the dark red and smelly blood converged, pulling out a long red line, and then turned into pools of blood in the low-lying places.

"The enemy fled about two thousand." Zhi Xuwu participated in the battle just now, and his body was covered with blood.

Zhiyao just nodded.

Fighting eight thousand with three thousand, even though it was an ambush, the Chu army ran around in various ways after losing command, and the terrain was complicated, so it was difficult to wipe out the enemy army. It is right to escape some.

Zhi Xuwu didn't ask if he wanted to pursue, but said: "Soldiers kill enemy wounded soldiers in private, can you stop it?"

Zhiyao raised her eyebrows, showing a serious expression, and said: "The new army is not an army of beasts, warn first, and kill those who commit crimes again."

The group of people who were not dealt with was mainly because they were not stopped before, and killing them meant punishing them without teaching them.

Judging merits by capturing the first level is actually equivalent to releasing a wild beast, which not only makes soldiers more brave in combat, but also makes soldiers very cruel.

The incident of killing the enemy's wounded is relatively minor. It is conceivable that there will be massacres of civilians in the future, and it is difficult to eliminate them.

"I should change the rewards and punishments again, and increase the merit assessment of prisoners." Zhiyao thought.

After the war, they only found out the dead on their own side and the wounded on both sides, collected things that could be used on the battlefield, and did not arrange for the dead Chu soldiers.

After the army retreated, about an hour later, coalition forces came to the site of the battle.

"Why are there so many headless corpses?" Liu Yang was startled.

It should be said that the people who came over were shocked when they saw that the corpses at the battle site had lost their heads.

Wars are won and won, and there have never been so many dead bodies that lost their heads. It not only surprised the coalition forces that came later, but also made them feel angry.

"The Jin army is doing such a thing, it's no different from a beast!" Gong Zilu got the news later, and his face turned blue with anger.

In other words, it is clear that cutting off ears and noses can also be counted as military merit, so why didn't Zhiyao choose?

It's not that Zhiyao is deliberately pursuing Shang Yang's "original taste", it must be that Zhiyao has her own considerations, and of course she will be criticized, but she must get more, and even involve strategic value.

Liu Yang said incredulously, "I heard that it was Zhi Shi who did it."

The forwards of the coalition forces were not completely wiped out, some defeated soldiers ran to meet most of them, and told the process of the battle, so naturally the information about who the enemy army was would not be missed.

The extremely angry Gong Zilu of course knew who did it, but he couldn't understand why Zhishi did it.

It is said that Wu State is barbaric, but Wu Jun is not so barbaric. At most, he used Yang Youji, who was shot like a hedgehog, to humiliate Chu State once.

The very angry Gongzi Lu changed his plan. He was supposed to stop at the pass and continue marching the next day. However, regardless of the fatigue of the army, he insisted on pulling the army out of the pass and marching ten miles forward. Then he was reported that it was the front line In the wilderness, there are Jin troops waiting in formation.

The time has come to the three o'clock in the afternoon, and as far as the matter is concerned, night will fall in more than an hour, which is really not so suitable for fighting.

Waiting in the formation were three "divisions" from the Zhi family and the Wei family. What was put out was the fish-scale formation of the Jin army that had remained unchanged for thousands of years, and three "Che" were divided.

This "Che" is the saying of other countries, and it is "Xing" in the saying of Jin State, which is why the Xun family has the "Xing" of "Zhong Xing Shi".

Looking at the flying flags, Zhishi is in the front, and Zhishi's flag can also be seen in the rear.

Now, both Zhiyao and Wei Ju stood on the raised car body of the nest cart, watching the mighty coalition forces coming.

"About [-] enemy troops? Gong Zilu's banner has been revealed, and there is another Fan family and Xiaozong Liu family, but Zheng Jun is missing." Wei Ju was trying to identify who had come.

The incoming coalition army stopped about two miles away from the Jin army, and then a chariot broke away from the brigade and moved forward alone.

Looking at the banner hanging on that chariot, it turned out to be Gong Zilu's bicycle moving forward?
Zhiyao said to Wei Ju, "How about the whole army attacking at this time?"

Wei Ju was very obviously taken aback, and said anxiously, "No!"

What a pity!

The allied forces came rushing back and forth, just when they were most exhausted, and Gong Zilu was still moving forward alone, if the large army pressed forward to kill or take prisoners, the allied forces would lose their commander in one fell swoop, and they could also take advantage of waiting for work.

However, Zhiyao was just asking, not letting Wei Ju make up his mind.

In fact, Zhiyao has made a lot of preparations for this moment, which cannot be changed by Wei Ju's refusal or opposition.

Seeing Gong Zilu yelling constantly, Zhi Yao, who had been waiting for a long time, lowered the cart.

"Yao?" Wei Ju didn't understand what Zhiyao was going to do.

Zhiyao said: "My son Lu is here, why doesn't Yao go?"

Wei Ju asked, "To Master?"

Zhiyao replied: "There is nothing I can do."

Over there, Gong Zilu, who was about [-] meters ahead of the Jin army, was yelling for Zhiyao to go out and answer.

Zhiyao's chariot appeared, and he was adjusting the bow, and he glanced at Gong Zilu, aiming at the head, neck and heart.

"Xun Yao!" Gong Zilu continued to shout with a look of anger, "Why did you humiliate Chu!"

"Greetings to the Marquis of Chu on behalf of the widowed gentleman." Zhi Yao looked very polite.

Seeing Zhiyao like that directly made Gong Zilu even more angry.

Gong Zilu pointed his sword at Zhiyao and shouted, "Answer me!"

"What did the young master say?" Zhiyao finished asking, without waiting for the young master to answer, he asked again: "The young master has acted like this, so did you invite Yao to be a teacher?"

God so invited me to be a teacher.

However, the soldiers of the two armies were far away, they only watched Gong Zilu draw his sword to Zhiyao, but could not hear the conversation between the two.

Gong Zilu is someone who knows Zhiyao's shooting skills, and he absolutely does not want to be a stepping stone for Zhiyao to become famous.

Zhiyao made the chariot move again, and then saluted Gong Zilu with a bow, saying: Let's stop talking nonsense, let's fight!

Gong Zilu didn't know the phrase "I've never seen such a brazen person", otherwise he would definitely shout at the top of his lungs.

Allied forces here.

Liu Yang and a group of nobles knew that Gong Zilu was very angry. After thinking about it, he felt that it was quite reasonable for Gong Zilu to invite Zhiyao to be his teacher when he was extremely angry.

On the side of the Jin army.

Wei Ju was completely confused, and asked Zhi Xuwu, "Why is your son so angry?"

What else could it be? It was completely stimulated by the nearly two thousand corpses of Chu soldiers without heads.

However, Zhixu Wu couldn't say it, and only gave Wei Ju a meaningful expression.

Under the watchful eyes of the two armies, Zhiyao had repeatedly saluted Gong Zilu with her bow. At first, Gong Zilu was so frightened that he quickly moved the chariot.

Considering that it is very difficult for the current chariot to make small turns, Gong Zilu waited for the chariot to move before he regretted not letting someone carry the chariot to turn, and kept yelling at Zhiyao.

In the eyes of the coalition forces, Zhiyao's behavior did not lose her aristocratic demeanor at all, that is, she did not shoot arrows before Gongzilu's chariot moved, and she even saluted with a bow three times in a row.

The Jin army could vaguely hear what Gong Zilu was scolding. If there was any feeling, it would be that all the soldiers of the Zhi family were angry.

The master humiliated the minister to death, right?
Although most members of the Zhi family are not qualified to be "ministers", Zhiyao is really their "lord"!

Zhiyao waited for the chariot where Gong Zilu was to turn a corner before shooting the first arrow, and then shot three more arrows in a row.

The first arrow shot was blocked by Gong Zilu's car right.

The second arrow hit the unprotected driver.

Because the driver fell down with an arrow in his neck, he pulled the reins to make the horse pulling the cart turn along, and the shield-carrying cart lost its balance on the right side.

The third arrow hit Gong Zilu accurately, and it still passed through the left cheek, and the arrowhead pierced through the right cheek.

Zhiyao put down the bow in her hand, drew out the sword at her waist, raised it high and then slashed down fiercely, shouting loudly: "The whole army strikes!"

(End of this chapter)