feelings?
When do you need to use human feelings when leading an army?
Su Yonglin felt so strange that he didn't react for a while.
But he finally came to his senses.
"Brother, we are now a rebel army and an army. The army must be regulated and led by military law, not human feelings. Otherwise, what is the difference between the rebel army and the bandits who gather in the mountains and forests?"
Zhao Kaishan still hesitated.
"this……"
"Brother, there is one more thing. The rebels started in the name of my brother. Everything they do represents my brother. Outsiders don't know who did this, but they will know that this is what my brother allowed. Doesn’t this mean that all those things that violate women are done by my brother?”
Su Yonglin's words touched on Zhao Kaishan's pain point.
Zhao Kaishan has always been known as a generous person in Yizhou, and he also considers himself a decent person. Now that someone else has done such a dirty thing, but they want to put a shit basin on his head, how can he agree?
His expression suddenly changed.
"My dear brother, what you said makes sense. This matter really cannot be tolerated. We, the rebel army, are not revolting just to do anything random!"
Zhao Kaishan immediately summoned his subordinates and asked them to enforce military discipline and tell all officers and soldiers to restrain their behavior. Anyone who intrudes on civilian households or assaults women will be dealt with according to military law.
After giving this order, Zhao Kaishan smiled bitterly while facing his son and Su Yonglin.
"The rules have been set, but this kind of rebellion is really not easy. People rebel with you with their heads raised, and all they want is glory and wealth. Whether they are clan members or my tenants, they all feel the same.
And speaking of it, I didn’t expect that this group of tenants would be quite ferocious when they act unbridled. It seems that they all have a lot of anger in them. If they don’t find a place for them to vent, they will cause trouble sooner or later. Even if they are restrained, Difficulties abound. "
Zhao Kaishan shook his head sadly.
Zhao Yucheng didn't know what to say, so Su Yonglin made a suggestion.
"Brother, if that's the case, try not to keep soldiers stationed in the city after the city is broken. I heard that famous generals in ancient times would prepare a force with good military discipline before breaking the city in order to ensure the integrity of the city after breaking the city.
After the city is broken, let troops with better military discipline enter the city to maintain order. Let the troops who broke the city leave the city and station outside the city. They are not allowed to enter the city at will. Otherwise, they will be dealt with according to military law. I think this is a practice that can be used as a reference.
After all, we are not bandits, we are not attacking the city for robbery or killing people and selling goods. We must restrain military discipline, gain the support of the people, and win the hearts of the people, so that we can expand the army and fight against the Jin soldiers.
Otherwise, the people will think that there is no difference between us and the Jin Bing. So if the Jin Bing fights back, how many people will support us? The Kingdom of Jin is so big and we are so weak. If the people gather together, they might help the Jin soldiers to attack us. "
When Zhao Kaishan heard this, he immediately felt that what Su Yonglin said made sense, and Zhao Yucheng nodded in agreement.
"That's the truth! My dear brother, what you said makes sense!"
Zhao Kaishan then made up his mind to restrain military discipline and not allow his subordinates to cause chaos, otherwise he would be killed.
He must do what he said, Zhao Kaishan immediately held a military meeting at the county government, summoned all his officers to make a declaration, and told them what they must not do when attacking cities and territories in the future.
"We are weak and the gold thieves are strong. If we cannot win the hearts of the people, when the gold thieves' army comes, other people will see that we are no different from the gold thieves and will definitely help the gold thieves beat us. We will definitely die! Therefore, military discipline must be improved !”
Zhao Kaishan slapped the table and said decisively.
The officers composed of tribesmen and cronies below had different expressions.
Some don't care, some are very unhappy.
Zhao Xiang stared at Su Yonglin, who was sitting first on the left side of Zhao Kaishan, as if he wanted to eat him alive.
Su Yonglin looked indifferent and didn't say a word. He sat there like a Buddha statue.
Subsequently, Zhao Kaishan announced military discipline, which contained three inaccuracies.
It is not allowed to steal or rob people's homes, it is not allowed to violate or rob women, and it is not allowed to kill or set fires.
Then, Zhao Kaishan began to discuss merit and reward.
"This merit, without a doubt, should belong to the worthy brother Yu Ting."
Zhao Kaishan patted Su Yonglin's shoulder, and Su Yonglin stood up immediately.
"Xiandi brother has an army of only a thousand people. They fought non-stop day and night. They have captured all thirteen gold thieves' villages and a defense barracks in Linyi County. Everyone, the two gold thieves have been defeated!"
Everyone looked at Su Yonglin with different expressions.
"Although I really want to reward you now, I decided to send troops to Feixian County as soon as possible to capture the entire Yizhou. We will discuss merits and rewards at that time."
Zhao Kaishan announced his decision and no one objected, so Zhao Kaishan issued the order.
He handed over his son Zhao Yucheng to the command of Su Yonglin, and ordered Su Yonglin to take his own army and Zhao Yucheng's army, a total of two thousand people, to continue sweeping the fourteen Jin villages and a defense military camp around Feixian County.
Zhao Kaishan personally led the rest of the main force to attack the county seat of Feixian County, striving to capture Feixian County as soon as possible, wipe out the Jin people's forces, and capture the entire Yizhou.
Feixian County is about eighty miles away from Linyi, and a normal journey would take two days. Therefore, the rebel officers believed that it was impossible for the Jin people to get the news of the rebellion in Linyi County so quickly.
As long as the rebels move a little faster, Feixian County will definitely not have time to take effective countermeasures and will be captured by the rebels quickly.
So the two sides took action separately.
Zhao Kaishan appointed Su Yonglin as the commander-in-chief of one side. In order to show his trust, he even gave his son to Su Yonglin to command, allowing Su Yonglin to command 2,000 troops to carry out the mission, which increased the number of troops that Su Yonglin could command.
Although some people are secretly unhappy, at this critical moment, no matter how unhappy they are, they must suppress it and not let it happen.
After Su Yonglin received the order, he and Zhao Yucheng quickly left the city to prepare for action. Zhao Yucheng rectified his men and horses, and Su Yonglin also returned to Laosang Village to rectify his men and horses.
Then join forces and set off immediately.
There are fourteen Jin villages in Fei County, as well as a town defense army. The strength of the Jin people is slightly stronger than that in Linyi County, but it is also very limited.
The main land population is still in the hands of powerful Han landlords.
Faced with such an environment, Su Yonglin was actually a little dissatisfied secretly.
He felt that Jin Ren was still too gentle.
If he had struck harder and occupied more land, he would have been able to attack these Jin villages and control more land and farmers.
In fact, from Su Yonglin's point of view, he is happy to see more Jin people occupying more villages and land.
First of all, this can force more powerful landowners to rebel. The more people rebel, the less pressure they will have, and the greater the pressure will be on the Jin Kingdom.
In this way, Su Yonglin would have more time to organize the farmers on these lands and become a reliable source of troops and logistics supplies.
When the land and population are in the hands of these powerful landlords, they are just tools to satisfy their private desires.
Su Yonglin was able to organize them and become a powerful force against the Jin Kingdom.
Then, from another perspective, it actually makes sense.
These villages occupied by the Jin were relatively lucky for Su Yonglin.
Because there are no traditional landowning gentry here.
The squires who actually held power at the grassroots level were killed by the Jin people as foreign conquerors.
This is very interesting.
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