Mi Han

Chapter 194
Among the four essentials of training recorded in ancient military books, Mi Yang regards the commandment and punishment as the most important thing, which does not mean that Mi Yang does not value the other three essentials.

Rewards and punishments for prestige complement each other with punishments for admonitions.

As for the other two points: it is not a day's work to teach them with etiquette and righteousness, and to instruct them with loyalty and trustworthiness.

The time for Liu Bei's large-scale Northern Expedition is not far away, so the most urgent task is to give priority to establishing the combat effectiveness of the army under his command.

After establishing the military discipline regulations of the army, the next step is to arrange the specific training process.

In today's world, the criterion for judging a strong army is the eight words "commands are unified and orders are prohibited".

To achieve this standard, you must start with completing the training essentials in six aspects, which are:

Divide when you are old, stand up when you sit, stop when you walk, stop when you walk, unite when you are separated, and gather when you are scattered.

Once these six aspects can be completed, a large army can be regarded as initially capable of combat.

Otherwise, the army under his command can't even unify orders, how can he defend against the enemy?
In order for the army to fulfill the requirements of the above six aspects, it is necessary to carry out the five aspects of the training program.

The army of the Han Dynasty paid attention to punishing them without teaching, which is called abandoning them, so they had detailed and strict requirements on how to teach and order the army under their command.

Of course, because each general is different, so everyone's teaching methods are also different. Mi Yang summed up his own five-point training program based on the actual situation.

The first point: Make the soldiers learn all kinds of flags and flags, the changes of banners, and the skills of vertical and horizontal;

The second point: Make the soldiers listen to the sound of the golden drum, and make the movement stop;

Because there are no high-tech communication tools in this world, the first element is to establish a strict military organizational structure if you want to command your army smoothly.

In addition, there is another very important point, which is to teach the soldiers under the command to understand the art of commanding the flag in the army, and to let the soldiers under the command be familiar with the sounds of various golden drums.

These two points are the command measures for day and night battles.

Look at the banners in day battles, and hear the golden drums in night battles.

Mi Yang, who has experienced both day and night battles, incorporated these two points into his training regulations based on his experience.

He previously emphasized "one meat for seven days". On the one hand, he wanted to improve the food of his soldiers and make them more loyal to him.

On the other hand, it is nothing more than improving the night blindness of the soldiers under his command, and laying a solid foundation for possible night battles in the future.

Once these two points are completed, the army under Mi Yang's command can initially achieve unified orders and prohibitions.

The third point: Make soldiers familiar with the severity of punishment and the benefits of rewards;

As the so-called policy of rewards and punishments is the heart and lungs of the army.

Rewards are used to promote meritorious deeds, and punishments are used to prohibit adultery; rewards must not be uneven, and punishments must not be uneven.Rewards know what they do, and the warrior knows what he will die; punishments know what he inflicts, and evil knows what he fears.

The seven beheading order formulated just now has been able to give full play to the role of punishment.

Therefore, in the specific training regulations, Mi Yang asked the three generals Deng Ai to inform his soldiers in detail of the benefits of the gold and silver awards.

The purpose of this is to fully mobilize the subjective initiative of the soldiers under his command.

In this way, when the army fights in the future, under the interaction of strict military orders and clear regulations on rewards and punishments, the soldiers under the command can be desperate.

Mi Yang accomplished this when he was in the Public Security City, relying on his interests in "protecting the homeland" to the public security soldiers.

But this is only an expedient measure, and cannot be used as a long-term and effective way to motivate the army.

If you want to ensure that your soldiers dare to fight, are good at fighting, and are not afraid of fighting, the most fundamental way is to establish a specific reward and punishment system.

The fourth point: make the soldiers learn the five soldiers with their hands, and prepare for battle;

In the Spring and Autumn Period, the five soldiers refer to the five combat weapons of spear, halberd, bow, sword and Ge.

However, with the development of the times, the three weapons of halberd, sword, and dagger have gradually withdrawn from the standing weapons of the army.

Therefore, five soldiers are usually used in the contemporary world to refer to various weapons commonly used in the contemporary army.

So the fourth requirement is to let the army under your command be proficient in using various weapons, such as knives, bows, and guns, the three most commonly used military standard weapons in the world.

This is to ensure that the soldiers under his command have good combat qualities.

In critical situations, the pikemen in the army can also take on the role of crossbowmen, so that they will not be at a loss when the army is in danger.

The fifth point: make the soldiers fully familiar with the complex terrain in the wild, so that it is appropriate to advance and retreat;

Mi Yang made this point in order to train his army's combat ability and marching ability when fighting in the field.

Unlike later generations, today's world is full of concrete roads.

Although there are official paths in the current era, the official paths in the enemy's territory are strictly controlled as strategic places, and are often guarded by heavy enemy troops.

Under such circumstances, most of the time when the army marched, it was done through complex terrain.

In view of this actual situation, it is very important to train the army under the command to be familiar with field combat and marching and raiding capabilities.

A large army that can only fight and march on flat roads can only be used to defend the city, and cannot conduct real field battles.

This is also the real reason why Mi Yang chose to train in the river valley.

The five major training programs were formulated by Mi Yang himself.

As for the detailed regulations to assist in the completion of these five major training programs, Mi Yang and General Deng Aisan had previously written the training details of the contemporary army together with personal opinions, and finally took the essence and discarded the dross.

So when Mi Yang handed over the order of seven beheadings to the three generals, it had already announced that the training of the army had officially begun.

The passage of time always passes quickly.

After Mi Yang decided on the general training measures of the Seven Cutting Orders and the Five Programs that day, the army under Mi Yang had been training in the valley for nearly a month.

During this nearly one month, Deng Ai's three generals under Mi Yang's tent knew Mi Yang's eagerness to train a strong army.

Therefore, under their command, except for unnecessary rest time, the three battalions were basically in training all the time.

This kind of training intensity is undoubtedly huge, but correspondingly, under this kind of training intensity, the training progress of the army has also greatly increased.

Maybe soon, a strong army will appear in front of Mi Yang.

Now that the army training has progressed like this, there is another great hero, and that is Lu Yi who has been in Shangyong City some time ago.

Mi Yang did not bring much grain and grass from Chengdu. When he arrived in Hanxing County, the grain, grass and meat he carried were only enough to feed his army for a month.

However, with the development of training, the increase in the physical consumption of Mi Yang's army also made the consumption of food and grass in Mi Yang's tent faster than previously estimated by three points.

In this case, it was Lu Yi who was going back and forth between the two Shen brothers in Shangyong City and Xicheng, so that they would send tens of thousands of dendrobium grain and grass to Mi Yang's camp from time to time.

Perhaps there is not much food and grass in each escort, but with the efforts of Lu Yi, Mi Yang has no worries about food and grass to this day, and can train his soldiers with confidence.

Faced with Lu Yi's talent, Mi Yang once sighed in front of Guan Yan: "Although Ji Yang has no talent to lead the army, he is clear and capable. He counts food and grass to support the army, so that I will never worry about lack of food. This is a long history. talent."

The post of long history, originally from the nickname of Juncheng in Bianjun.

Later, with the development of the times, there were more and more generals in the world who founded the government, so that the post of long history gradually became a position under the accounts of the various generals who founded the government, and the head of the shogunate.

For example, Zhang Zhao was in charge of Jiangdong civil affairs for the two brothers Sun Ce and Sun Quan in the post of long history.

Mi Yang praised Lu Yi so much in front of Guan Yan, but he was actually revealing that he planned to gradually train Lu Yi to be a confidant of internal affairs.

Faced with Mi Yang's praise, a smile appeared on Guan Yan's face, and she was also happy that his husband had acquired a great talent.

Today in the large tent of the Chinese army in the river valley, Mi Yang was looking at the bamboo slips in his hand.

This bamboo slip was reported by his army commander, Wang An.

Reward and punishment measures are one of the most important authority of the general.

Therefore, Mi Yang did not let Deng Ai and the other three be responsible for the military discipline supervision in their respective battalions.

He separated this function separately, and set up another Sima who governed the army, and he was directly under his control.

This is conducive to Mi Yang's better control of this army, and it is also conducive to supervising the fairness of military discipline.

Wang An is the old department who has followed Mi Yang since the beginning of Public Security, so his loyalty goes without saying.

Originally, Mi Yang had the intention of cultivating Wang An well, but unfortunately Wang An was illiterate, which prevented Wang An's upper limit from being too high.

But for such a loyal person, Mi Yang felt it was a pity not to use it.

Therefore, after Mi Yang announced the order of seven beheadings, he set up the post of Sima in the army.

Although Wang An is illiterate, his loyalty can fulfill this duty for Mi Yang well.

For example, after Mi Yang formulated the Order of Seven Killings, although Wang An was illiterate, he became one of Mi Yang's pro-army who memorized the Order of Seven Killings by heart through rote memorization.

Originally, according to the strictness of the seven beheading orders, many soldiers would be executed for violating the orders in a short period of time.

But something happened before that prevented this from happening.

After Wang An was appointed by Mi Yang as the military commander, soon after, he arrested several military Sima for Mi Yang who violated the seven beheading orders.

After catching these army Sima, Wang An couldn't make a decision, so he reported the matter to Mi Yang.

The reason why Wang An couldn't make a decision was not because he was afraid of Sima's high military rank.

Although these military commanders were nominally at the same level as Wang An, Wang An was in charge of governing the army, and he had the right to supervise and punish these military commanders.

What really made Wang An hesitant was that these military Sima were generally the same as him, the old troops who followed Mi Yang all the way in Gong'an City.

Because it is also the former Ministry of Public Security, Wang An couldn't make a decision on this matter, so he suppressed this matter for the time being and handed it over to Mi Yang for disposal.

Under Wang An's report, Mi Yang learned that those former police officers had committed the crime of misleading the army in the seven beheading orders.

What is wrong with the army?

Stop in the camp, ask about the village, stay close to each other, share food and protection, do not overstep, force into other troops, do wrong order, do not stop, pass the camp and leave, do not go through the door... This is called misleading the army.

Because these army Sima were both from the former Ministry of Public Security, after a daytime training, they felt that the daytime training was too hard, so they privately crossed the camps at night to meet and chat about the past.

Undoubtedly, this is a clear and obvious crime of misleading the army.

After Mi Yang learned the news, he didn't show mercy to them just because they were the former Ministry of Public Security.

He immediately ordered Wang An to arrest all these military Sima, and then beheaded them for public display after announcing their crimes in public.

After those military Sima who were the former Ministry of Public Security were beheaded by Wang An in public for violating the seven beheading order, all the soldiers in the army were shocked.

Army Sima is the highest commanding general under the commander of a battalion.

Moreover, the identities of these army Sima are unusual, they are the former Ministry of Public Security, and they are the direct troops of the chief general Mi Yang.

How much Mi Yang valued and trusted the old Ministry of Public Security, the soldiers in the army could see it from his previous arrangements.

At present, the top middle and lower rank officers in the entire army are all from the former Ministry of Public Security.

But even with these two unusual identities, Mi Yang beheaded them without hesitation after they violated the military law.

This move played a great deterrent effect in the hearts of nearly ten thousand troops.

The seven beheading order is really unforgiving!
Under such deterrence, the military discipline of the nearly ten thousand army has improved a lot, and the ten thousand army has begun to feel awed by the seven beheading orders.

It doesn't matter if military discipline is strict, as long as it is fair and strict, it will naturally convince the soldiers.

After reading the bamboo slips in his hand, Mi Yang did not find any soldiers who seriously violated military discipline.

Therefore, he said to Wang An: "If you don't violate the seven beheading order, you can deal with the corresponding punishment in the future, and you don't need to report it to me."

The seven beheading order was set by Mi Yang, the most serious military discipline punishment measure.

But in order to maintain the normal operation of a large army, it is not enough to rely solely on the seven beheading orders. To govern an army is like governing a country, and there are many corresponding military disciplines.

Most of those military disciplines are only set up for small mistakes, and the punishment measures are not serious, so Mi Yang can rest assured that Wang An will handle it himself.

After Wang An heard Mi Yang's words, he left with a respectful expression.

After Wang An left, Mi Yang looked at Ding Feng in the tent.

Ding Feng is the younger brother of Ding Feng. He was captured by Mi Yang outside Gong'an City together, and later surrendered to Mi Yang together with Ding Feng.

Mi Yang didn't trust Brother Ding Feng's surrender, but he didn't have much doubt either.

In fact, Ding Feng Brotherhood chose to serve him because he valued his prestige and wanted to build a career with him.

Therefore, Brother Ding Feng's loyalty to him is closely related to his future achievements.

If he can continue to build meritorious deeds, then the Ding brothers will be devoted to him. On the contrary, good birds will choose trees to live in.

This is the common practice of most talented people in the world. There are truly loyal people, but very few.

Knowing this well, although Mi Yang doesn't trust the Ding brothers much, he will use them accordingly.

After sending Ding Feng to assist Deng Ai, Mi Yang incorporated Ding Feng into his pro-army.

At this time, outside the big tent, the shouts of the soldiers trained in the valley spread into the big tent.

The bursts of shouts fell on Ding Feng's face, making his face full of longing.

Seeing Ding Feng's yearning look, Mi Yang had a task in his heart that he wanted to entrust to him.

(End of this chapter)