On top of the tower on the north wall of Yingzhou City.
Xia Gongming and Yunyang sat across from each other in front of the desk, silently staring at the imperial edict rolled out on the desk.
'Emperor Dalong said.
Soldiers are a major event for the country.
Therefore, military administration must be strict, and orders and prohibitions must be enforced to be elite.
The Sixth General of the New Army and the generals of the thirty battalions of the New Army did not respect the commander's orders and fled before the battle, thus delaying the opportunity to fight. They should be executed according to military law.
However, God has the virtue of good life, and I hope that all of you who love me will work hard and have meritorious service for the country.
He was exempted from the death penalty, dismissed from office and returned to his hometown to support himself in old age, and was rewarded with thousands of taels of gold to support himself in his old age.
The 200,000 soldiers of the Six Guards of the New Army are temporarily led by the Six Guards Generals of Northern Xinjiang, each of which will be properly arranged by the court after the war.
Admire this. '
Yunyang stared at the contents of the imperial edict in silence for a long time, then raised his eyes to look at Xia Gongming opposite.
"Is this from the imperial court?"
Xia Gongming nodded with complicated eyes: "Your Majesty issued the decree, and the Ministry of War approved it. However, it was urgently sent from 800 miles away.
It arrived in my hands three days ago, but I have been hesitant about how to read out this imperial edict.
Indeed, General Cheng and others escaped from the battlefield and should be executed according to military law. Your Majesty pardoned their capital crime. This is a better result.
However, under such a situation, if they were dissatisfied after the imperial edict was read, it would probably cause a military disaster.
When the time comes for their troops to return to the court and garrison outside the city, it may not only be because of the assassination of King Bingjian. "
Yunyang picked up the imperial edict and read it over and over again no less than five times. The contents of the edict were still the same, not a single word had changed.
Frowning and putting down the imperial edict, Yunyang stood up and walked towards the outside of the city tower. He stood on the fence and looked at the soldiers of the Sixth Guards Battalion of the New Army outside the city who were still practicing the offensive and defensive formations honestly, with a heavy look in his eyes. The look of worry.
Cheng Kai, the general of the Sixth Guards of the New Army, and the General of the Thirty Battalion ignored the laws and military regulations, and escaping from battle was indeed a capital crime.
If you don't handle things according to the law, it will be difficult to convince the public.
Next, lead the troops to go on an expedition. If everyone follows his example, there will be no army and there will be no soldiers.
Your Majesty is indeed merciful in pardoning their capital crime of escaping from battle.
But as Xia Gongming said, if they disobey the will, there will definitely be a military disaster.
It will be difficult to convince the public if it is not dealt with, and there may be hidden dangers if it is dealt with.
Yunyang, who had always been decisive and capable in his actions, was in a dilemma at this moment.
Deliberately ignoring the sadness in his heart, he thought about how to declare the decree to ensure that it was foolproof.
They are all soldiers who have spent their entire lives in the military. Seeing the fate of the soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country, Yunyang felt mixed emotions!
The more important thing is how to explain to the other battalion soldiers except for the soldiers of the Sixth Guards of the New Army. They fought for the country, the battlefield was stained with blood, but ended up like this. You don't need to think carefully to know that there will definitely be a gap in the hearts of some people.
The four words "military orders are like mountains" have always been the tenet pursued by Yunyang.
However, is the word "military order like a mountain" really useful now that an army of 200,000 tigers and wolves may cause a military disaster?
"Commander Yun, there must be a solution to the matter. It's not a problem for nearly a million troops to be stationed outside the city doing nothing every day."
Yunyang glanced at Xia Gongming who came to his side and stopped: "I understand what you said, but the key is who is the right person to announce the decree at this time?
Who dares to read out the will?
It was not the fear that the generals of the Sixth Guards of the New Army would be furious and beheaded outside the camp, but who could bear the responsibility for the military disaster caused by this decree.
Not dealing with it is not enough to keep the law strict, but dealing with it for fear of... Alas... it's difficult! "
Yunyang hesitated for a long time, walked to the desk, rolled up the imperial edict, stuffed it into his sleeves, and walked down the tower.
"That's all, I'll go over there and have a sound test first before we talk!"
"Old boy!"
Yunyang paused, turned to look at Xia Gongming's heavy expression, lowered his head and smiled bitterly.
"Old man, do you have anything else to say?"
"treasure!"
"I am going here, not for the imperial court, not for His Majesty, but for the country and country that Dalong has maintained for more than six hundred years. The general may die, but the world must not be in chaos.
I have witnessed with my own eyes that Dalong has grown step by step from post-war poverty to today's prosperity, and I absolutely cannot stand by and watch it fall apart again in the disaster of war.
As long as we can prevent the war from affecting the stability of my Dalong people, it would be worth it for me to die outside the city.
Tai Shigong is right when he says that death is inevitable for everyone, and it may be heavier than Mount Tai or lighter than a feather.
I have served in the army for fifty years and guarded the border for forty years. How can I be willing to see the homeland that I have guarded for decades, but in the end the people are in dire straits and the people are displaced because of a military disaster caused by one of my own?
If I don't die generously today, who will come forward to restore the country in the future?
Now that I am seventy, let me make some insignificant contribution to the people in my dying years.
Take care of yourself, old thing.
I may have to take the first step. "
After Yunyang finished speaking, he adjusted his armor, walked steadily, and rushed towards the bottom of the city tower with a steady momentum.
Under the control of the soldiers, Yunyang rode the gondola to the bottom of the city wall and rushed towards the base camp of the Sixth Guard of the New Army.
In the Sixth Guards Camp of the New Army, Liu Chengzhi, surrounded by thirty-six generals, was shuttled between each army formation.
Tang Ru, the Sima and quartermaster of the army, followed closely with a thick roster in his hand.
Six soldiers pushed a wheelbarrow with two heavy boxes on it. Whenever Liu Chengzhi and the others stopped, everyone would stop and look at the centurions in front of them.
Tang Ru waved his pen on the roster.
"Yang Rong, Zheng Kun, Du Jiabao..."
After reading a hundred names in a row, Tang Ru looked around at the square array in front of him.
"Who is on duty and temporarily unavailable?"
"We are all here!"
Tang Ru put away the roster and nodded to Liu Chengzhi: "Your Majesty, all the soldiers are here."
Liu Chengzhi nodded slightly, walked to the box on the wheelbarrow, opened the box, took out a silver note and handed it to the captain of the Centurion.
"General Yang, I can't spare any spare silver to give you military pay. This is one thousand taels of silver notes, and each person will receive nine taels of silver for three months' military pay.
The remaining one tael is for me to treat you to a drink. Don't be dissatisfied with the lack of silver. You will distribute the silver notes to the soldiers after exchanging them for silver ingots. "
"I finally got the order, thank you so much, Your Majesty!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty! Chitose, Chitose!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty! Chitose, Chitose!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty! Chitose, Chitose!"
Liu Chengzhi bowed in front of the hundred men and saluted the soldiers, but continued to rush towards the next hundred men who had stopped training.
Tang Ru immediately opened the next page of the roster and read it out loud.
"Chen Wei, Yan Goucheng, Zhu Dabao...
Who is temporarily unavailable on duty? "
"We are all here!"
Liu Chengzhi skillfully took out a silver note and handed it to the school captain general Chen Wei, saying the same words as before.
Under the shouts of thanks from the soldiers, they continued to rush towards the next square formation.
Cheng Kai and the others followed silently, looking at the smiles on the faces of the soldiers who had received their pay, and couldn't help but smile on their faces.
When a soldier eats food, when a soldier eats food.
Being able to receive full salary on time should be the happiest thing for brothers.
The six people looked at each other and sighed with complicated expressions.
"Gather wealth and disperse people; disperse wealth and gather people. What the prince said is so true."
"If you don't drink the blood of the soldiers, the soldiers will follow you life and death. Everyone understands the truth. But except for the prince, who really doesn't drink a penny of the blood of the soldiers. Apart from the six guards of our new army, who can truly unite words and deeds?" Woolen cloth!"
"Stop talking about this. Have the military orders been passed on? My battalion generals, generals, and captains have all received orders. Don't make any mistakes."
"Don't worry, how dare we be careless about military orders."
