Chapter 64 Military Law
Fortunately, things didn't get to that point. After a few days of domestication, the whipped guys immediately sat down with a smile, and everything went as planned.
This time, the auxiliary soldiers scattered among the crowd did not leave after distributing the food as they did in the past. Instead, they stood there, smiling maliciously, watching the people gobble them up. Most people stuffed the fragrant cake into their mouths in twos and swallowed, fearing that the kings would change their minds and snatch it back again, until there was only the last small piece left in their hands, and they began to chew slowly, half-closed. He closed his eyes and savored the enjoyment, letting the large amount of saliva secreted in his mouth naturally transport the food into his esophagus little by little. Then he licked his oily fingers again and again, still intoxicated in the unfinished happiness.
The auxiliary soldiers began to speak: "Do you still want to eat?"
The crowd suddenly erupted into pleas that echoed through the sky.
"You, you, you..." The auxiliary soldiers began to point their hands at the guys who had just carefully examined them one by one, "Go over there and get them! As long as you work hard, you will have enough food for your esophagus!"
From east to west, the "lucky ones" who were pointed out stood up one after another with great joy, and walked in twos and threes toward the southeast, in the direction pointed by the auxiliary soldiers.
Guan Shengyun used the white flour that he was reluctant to save for the New Year to eat from people's homes. Well, a very small part of it was used to obtain more than 3,000 cannon fodder regiments that will be used in the first batch of siege. Now he is very happy and grateful. Cannon fodder.
Gu Baihua was wandering boredly among the crowd when he suddenly heard a faint whimper. The buzzing sounds of the crowd, the sounds of chewing, swallowing, and violent coughing after being choked...were all heard together. The whimpering was very light, almost like a nearly silent sob. Logically speaking, he should have been swallowed up by the noise, but for some reason, Gu Baihua suddenly felt his heart tightening. Then, it seemed as if the sounds around him suddenly became silent, and there was only that sob, thin, sharp, and straight. It penetrated directly into his eardrums and into his heart.
Turning around, he looked around and saw people everywhere, but Gu Baihua still recognized the source of the sound at a glance. It was a village girl with a lot of pot ash smeared on her face. Her messy hair was fluffy and stained with a lot of dead grass leaves. A baby of about six or seven years old was half leaning on her arms with her eyes closed. The village girl's hand placed under the baby's neck tightly held the broken part of the half-faced pancake. She held a small piece in her other hand and kept touching the baby's pale lips, causing big drops of tears to fall. On the baby's equally dirty face, she murmured: "Gou Sheng is good, Gou Sheng eats white flour pancakes. Gou Sheng opens his eyes and takes a look, sister has pancakes." Beside her, a person The wretched-looking guy, who was in his forties or fifties, was still moving his mouth and his eyes were fixed on the other half of the dough. He didn't even notice Gu Baihua walking through the crowd and approaching.
The situation is not difficult to judge: the parents are gone for some reason, the siblings depend on each other, and the younger brother is dying. Seeing that the auxiliary soldiers have gone away, the guy next to him snatches half of the cake from his sister. The sister, who is unable to resist, besides sobbing, also What can be done?
The murderous Gu Baihua's heart has long been as stubborn as the thousand-year-old ice on the top of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. But at this moment, those tears were like a stream of incandescent molten iron dripping onto the solid ice and penetrating straight through. At first it was just a slight crack, but in a sudden moment, the solid ice broke, cracked, and collapsed in an instant, turning into a crystal clear trickle, gurgling down, nourishing the exuberant scenery next to Shuhe Ancient Town. Vibrant and brilliant mountain flowers.
The girl first saw a pair of cowhide combat boots in front of her. When she raised her head, she saw an armored skirt and two long knives slung on her left and right sides. Then, further up the breastplate, she saw Gu Baihua's gaze.
God's will in the dark.
Somehow, looking at the "thief" in front of her, the girl wondered why she didn't have a trace of fear in her heart at that time. Instead, she felt a sense of security, as if she had found support all of a sudden, and her tense heart relaxed instantly. Come down and take a long breath.
Also afterwards, Gu Baihua explained to his companions who were making fun of him: "Don't laugh, you bastards. What we do is licking blood from the blade of a knife. I know in my heart that sooner or later, I will be hacked to death somewhere. Before that, we just cut someone else. But at that moment, I suddenly felt an itch and a soft feeling in my heart. Let's put it this way, I know that killing is wrong, but I have done so much, and I still have to keep doing it in order to survive. . At that moment, I suddenly felt that I should be able to do a good thing in this half of my life, to protect someone, to protect someone who even if I have never met, but can really protect her. I know in my heart that if I protect her today, I may not be able to protect her tomorrow. She will still die. But if she just walks away and doesn’t tell her that she won’t be able to survive now, this matter will definitely haunt me for the rest of my life. I will remember it after one day and I will never be able to escape it.”
The simple words touched the fragile chord in the hearts of these rough guys. Yes, they are not extremely vicious devils. Most of them have reached this point just because the court has not left any other way for them to go. Of course, although everyone has sympathy, it does not hinder them at all. They pinched Gu Baihua's nose and forced him to vomit all over the floor.
This is something.
At this moment, Gu Baihua just calmly ordered Liang Laosi: "Take them to me and ask the doctor to come over and see if the baby can be saved." Then with a dark face, he said to the girl: "Follow him."
Liang Laosi stepped forward and picked up Gou Sheng. The girl did not flinch, she stood up obediently, followed Liang Laosi and left the crowd with her head lowered.
Watching their figures drifting away, Gu Baihua turned around and silently looked at the guy grabbing the noodles. The latter smiled coyly at first, then glanced at Gu Baihua's cold gaze. The flattering smile froze on his face, and his eyes turned into pleading. Then he turned over and knelt on the ground, kowtowing and calling "Your Majesty the King" in his mouth. Spare your life and communicate through tears. Gu Baihua stared intently at the undulating upper body, and slowly pulled out the sword. The friction between the steel sword and the scabbard made one's scalp numb. Gu Baihua was silent, holding the handle of the knife with both hands and raising it above his head, slashing it down diagonally, and a miserable howl suddenly sounded...
The doctor is no longer needed, Gou Sheng has died long ago. When Gu Baihua came back, he arranged for people to bury it and drove away the few soldiers who occupied the girl's house. The girl stayed in her own house. Liang Laosi took care of him and sent some food every day.
Some of the generals have heard of storytelling. In "The Generals of the Yang Family" there is a saying that those who take wives before the battle will be beheaded. But everyone is a traitor who lives day by day with their heads in their belts. No one really takes storytelling seriously. They just joke about it with Gu Baihua and make beheading gestures when they meet: First, he used the palm of his hand as a knife and slashed his neck. Then he tilted his head, stuck out his tongue and stared, making a weird look, which made all the viewers laugh. At first, Gu Baihua chased the guy making gestures, but later the generals learned the lesson and saw him making gestures from a distance, then ran away laughing, but Gu Baihua did nothing.
With the military affairs in hand and the general attack approaching, Gu Baihua felt soft-hearted at first. He really didn't want to take advantage of this unkempt and dirty-faced village girl. After the girl washed up, she realized that she was actually very beautiful, with delicate features and clear eyes, and she was even more moved. . However, once they became really familiar with each other, he couldn't save his face and force himself to be the overlord, so he slept with Guan Luo and other high-ranking generals in the restaurant that served as the former enemy's headquarters. From time to time, I went over to take a look. Although I didn't break the window paper, the two of them seemed to have a good understanding of each other.
During the days when they were preparing to attack the city, the generals were busy preparing their troops and forging equipment, while Guan Shengyun drafted his own military orders with the help of his two masters, Luo.
Of course, the ancient army also had military disciplines, which are clearly recorded in the "Martial Classics General Essentials" for example. However, in most cases, each ministry implements its own military laws modified and formulated by the leading generals. He was a bandit in the past, but in the future he has to fight thousands of miles and his future is uncertain. He must transform into a regular army. Therefore, it is indeed necessary to formulate a military law. Several Guan Shengyuns were born in the army, and they could remember some important content. After Luo and his son pondered and supplemented it, they finally achieved a small success in a few days.
Luo and his son also gained a lot. As a civil servant in the past, Luo Yonghao didn't know much about the so-called military laws. After thinking about it carefully through the memories of Guan Shengyun and others, especially Luo Shifan, a clever guy, he found that many military regulations were actually based on his background. The generals on the front line conduct in-depth research and speculation on the psychology of soldiers, not just the whim of rough people.
For example, this one: "Anyone who escapes from the battle will be killed. After the war, the deserter returns to the camp and beats him with forty military sticks." At first, Luo Yonghao thought it was nonsense: It's the same as running away. If you catch him on the spot, kill him. If you don't catch him, just come back and give him a beating. That's it. Already? Doesn’t this encourage everyone to run together? After Guan Shengyun finished explaining, Military Advisor Luo realized that his thinking was completely wrong: escaping from the battlefield would undoubtedly greatly shake the morale of the army. Soldiers do not have a God's perspective that overlooks the overall situation. They can only see the situation around them. A local defeat can often pull down the entire front, so the generals must stop it at the first opportunity through merciless killing. When the overall situation after the war has been decided, if all the deserters who return to the camp are killed without mercy, the escaped guys will have no way back and will have no choice but to become bandits, and the army will lose a lot of cannon fodder. Therefore, it is just a beating-compared with being exterminated as thieves sooner or later or starving to death in the wilderness, it is obviously more cost-effective for the deserters to risk their lives and get a good beating. Moreover, some people were coerced and had to run, but they still dared to fight, and some people had a natural reaction of going to the battlefield for the first time... It was unfair to kill them all.
When it comes to military law, Qi Jiguang cannot be ignored. Rather than saying that Lao Qi is a famous general in a hundred battles, it is more appropriate to say that he is better at training troops and leads a good army. For example, Lao Qi had a rule that if the battle failed, the commander would be killed, and if the commander died in battle, the entire team would be killed.
In this regard, he explained this: Do you think that if I lose the battle, I will only kill the commander and put all the responsibility on him alone? If the war starts, everyone will run away? Haha, wrong! Suppose you were a small flag officer, what would you do in a fight? You must rush! Because if you retreat, you will be dead when you come back. The only chance of survival is to rush forward and kill the enemy! right? The commander rushed forward. What would you do if you were one of his soldiers? Watching the chief rush forward and be hacked to death? No one can survive when they come back! You just have to rush along, right? If your commander dies and you can bring back an enemy's head and kill the rest of the team, don't worry, you'll be fine. Otherwise, you will be killed! In this way, other generals have tried their best to use personal soldiers to supervise the battle teams and kill deserters, but they still can't stop them. Are you tired? It seems that I am only killing one person, but my fingers are moving like an arm: if the battalion officer dies, I kill the team officer, and the team officer has to rush. If the team officer dies, I kill the chief flag officer, and the chief flag officer has to rush. If the small flag officer dies, I will kill the small flag officer, and the small flag officer will have to charge. If the small flag officer dies, I will kill the entire team, and everyone will have to charge for me! Thousands of tigers and wolves are roaring and charging, who can stop them?
Qi Jiguang led 3,000 athletes to rampage through Jimen and beat 100,000 Mongolian compatriots to flee to Mobei. However, his casualties were always in single digits. In addition to being well-trained, this move also played an important role - it seems that the Shaomin compatriots were defeated. Apart from Maxim, classmate Lao Qi also became good at singing and dancing.
It's a pity that Guan Shengyun and Luo Yonghao didn't figure out Lao Qi's killer move. However, even so, the combat effectiveness of this unit is far superior to that of many official and regular troops of the Ming Dynasty.
A few days later, the general attack on Shaanzhou finally began.
Appendix, seventeen prohibitions and fifty-four beheading laws. This is the general regulation of most camps. Only seventeen prohibitions are listed here. The fifty-four beheads are too wordy and will be omitted.
One: If you hear the drum but cannot advance, if you hear the gold does not stop, the flag cannot be raised, and the flag cannot be lowered, this is called rebelling against the army, and the offender will be beheaded.
Second: Failure to answer the call by name, failure to arrive at the appointed time, failure to arrive at the scheduled time, and changing the teacher's laws. This is called a slow army, and the offender will be killed.
The third one is to spread the word of unruly fighting at night, to be lazy and not to retaliate, to be more slow and disobedient, and to have an unclear signal. This is called a slack army, and the offender will be beheaded.
Fourth: He complains a lot, makes his general angry, refuses to obey the restraints, and becomes even more difficult to control. This is called fighting the army, and the offender will be killed.
The fifth one: shouting and laughing, flouting the forbidden covenants, rushing into the military gates, this is called a light army, and the offenders will be killed.
Sixth: The weapons used are bows and crossbows without strings, arrows without feathers, swords and halberds that are useless, and flags that are withered. This is called bullying the army, and the offender will be beheaded.
Seventh: Rumors and deceitful words, fabricated ghosts and gods, pretense of dreams, spreading heresies, and deceiving the soldiers. This is called a prostitute army, and the offenders will be killed.
Eighth: Having a good tongue and sharp teeth, making unreasonable claims, inciting soldiers to cause disharmony. This is called slandering the army, and the offender will be beheaded.
Nine: Wherever he goes, he abuses the people, and if he rapes the women of the people, he is called a traitor, and the offender will be killed.
Number 10: Stealing people’s property for one’s own benefit, taking someone’s head for one’s own merit. This is called robbing the army, and the offender will be beheaded.
Chapter 11: Soldiers and civilians gather together to discuss matters, enter tents privately, and spy on military aircraft. This is called spying on the army, and the offenders will be executed.
No. 12: If you hear the plan or the order, leak it to the outside and let the enemy know about it, this is called backing the army, and the offender will be killed.
Thirteenth: When called upon, a person who is tongue-tied, has his eyebrows lowered, and has a troubled expression on his face is called a ruthless soldier, and the offender will be beheaded.
Fourteenth: Going out into the army, pushing ahead and behind, talking loudly, and not obeying the forbidden instructions. This is called a disorderly army, and the offenders will be killed.
Fifteen: Pretending to be wounded and sick to avoid conquest, pinching an injury and feigning death to escape, this is called deceiving the army, and the offender will be beheaded.
Chapter 16: In charge of money and food, when giving rewards, a private person's relatives cause the soldiers to make enemies. This is called a bad army, and the offenders will be killed.
Seventeenth: Observing the invaders without interrogating them, detecting the unknown thieves, not saying anything when they arrive, speaking too little when there are many, and speaking too much when there are few. This is called misleading the army, and the offender will be killed.
Personally, I feel that the above-mentioned military laws were drafted with the participation of civilian officials. They just came up with some awkward terms for rebelling against the army, deceiving the army, ruthlessly conquering the army, and no one can understand it, let alone remember it. For soldiers who are illiterate, Zeng Guofan's children's songs are the best. They are simple and easy to understand and can be remembered after listening to them twice.
