"I'm late, please forgive me."
"Everyone has worked hard today!"
"Don't worry about the cost of the soup and medicine. Just rest and recuperate. No matter the Zhang family or I are pragmatic, we will not treat you badly."
"Don't get up, don't get up, everyone is hurt because of me, I feel guilty..."
"Well, well, I will definitely convey your thoughts to my uncle and ask him to consider the arrangements carefully."
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It doesn't take much time to comfort them, but judging from the effect of the comfort, if these Zhang family guards are soldiers under Gao Jingshi's command, then Gao Jingshi will definitely have a good reputation of "loving soldiers like sons."
But it is precisely because the guards of the Zhang family are not under Gao Jingshi's subordinates that after such actions, everyone's good impression of Gao Jingshi, the young cousin, really grew up, and they only had to suffer from being in Sijiu City. Zhang Siwei inside - he still doesn't know how much rewards and resettlement fees Gao Pragmatic has promised as a young master.
Of course, if Zhang Siwei could be one-tenth as generous to his subordinates as he was to be high-minded and pragmatic, he probably wouldn't feel so distressed.
Since the two parties are together, it is of course necessary to share the spoils. Fortunately, the horse thieves suffered serious casualties before, and many horses fell nearby. Now they have been collected and become the mounts of Gao Pragmatic and his party.
Liu Xian and his group also had horses before, but they tied the horses far away in the forest before the ambush. Now when both sides gathered the horses, they found that there were more than 50 people with more than 70 horses. Gao Pragmatic was quite happy about this.
In fact, Liu Xian's side played a greater role in this battle, but he is now more pragmatic, so he simply said that he did not bring too many people with him to the north this time, and the horses were enough. He doesn't want it if it is "seized".
But although Gao pragmatic knew that horses are a good thing these days, he refused to take advantage of others in vain. In the end, he made up for the losses of both sides and got a 50-50 score. In fact, Gao pragmatic made a profit, because Liu Xian and the others No horses were lost at all. But Liu Xian still felt that although Gao Pragmatic was young, he was very generous. While observing Gao pragmatically handling various aftermath matters in person, he quietly looked at Liu Wei, not knowing what he was thinking.
In addition to the horses that Liu Xian was riding, some of them were used to carry the corpses of the dead, and some of them were used to carry the property collected from the corpses of the horse thieves. Gao pragmatic also received some of the thieves' surplus money. He took a look and found that it was not a small amount. Except for some items found on some thieves that were not easy to estimate directly, they were only copper coins and broken silver. It is estimated to be worth two or three hundred taels.
In terms of prices at this time, this is not a small amount of money.
Gao Pragmatic didn't care how Liu Xian distributed the money. Anyway, he calmly announced that he would divide the money into two equal parts, one of which would be given to the wounded individually, and the other would be shared equally among all the guards - quite a bit. The wounded can be given twice.
It stands to reason that this distribution method is quite rough, because the uninjured guards do not necessarily mean that they are not fighting hard. After all, it is probably because they are better in martial arts.
However, Gao Pragmatic did not discuss appreciation according to this idea. His method of appreciation was obviously biased towards the later generations' "honoring of collective X-level merit".
Gao pragmatic knew that Qi Jiguang was present in the Ming Dynasty, and this man may be the first person to train troops in China so far. Gao Pragmatic admired Qi Jiguang's military training ability very much, so in this review, he actually followed Qi Jiguang's ideas.
This idea boils down to two points: first, it emphasizes collective nature, and second, it emphasizes clear rewards and punishments.
When some people in later generations talked about Qi Jiguang, they only emphasized that the Yuanyang Formation was invincible, but did not pay much attention to other more basic aspects. In fact, Qi Jiguang had many key ideas that were very important in his military training. Among them is the consistent emphasis on collectiveness. For example, in "Jixiao New Book", Qi Jiguang said:
"Competing in the arena, capturing little thieves, hundreds of people in different formations lined up in front, the brave will not be allowed to go first, and the timid will not be left behind; the spears are poking at you, the spears are poking at you, the knives are hacking at you, and you are killing at random. They are just crowding in together, and it is difficult to change hands. How can they be allowed to jump left and right?
A person who is usually very skilled in martial arts can be successful if he uses only five points at a time; if he uses eight points, he is invincible; there is no one who can be calm and lively without exhausting his usual skills in battle.
The spear is used by a single person, like a circle and string, to learn the technique; advancing and retreating is to learn the footwork and body skills. In addition to this, there are also so-called solo dancers, which are all flower techniques and cannot be learned.
It is inevitable to dance alone with rattan, but it must be learned from now on. There are flash rolls and the like inside, which are also flower methods.
Hook, sickle, fork, palladium, turning around, jumping and hitting, etc., are all tricks, which are not only useless, but also mislead others into being first. There are many ways to make forks and palladium flowers, and it is impossible to shovel them all away. I just follow Yu Gong's stick method to make forks and palladium hooks and sickles. I don't have the flower method, but it is practical. "
It can be seen from this that Qi Jiguang paid great attention to integrity in military training, because he believed that integrity represents practicality, practicality, and practicality in military operations.
However, when the Ming army discussed military merit, it was customary to look at the number of beheadings, so there were often some problems.
According to the tradition of the Ming army, as long as you capture the enemy's head, you can take it to receive the reward. However, the disadvantages of this rule are very obvious and will cause quite serious consequences:
"There are only a few heroes on the battlefield. Every time a leader is beheaded, dozens of people often come to report their merits. If you don't want to retreat together to report your merits, all the soldiers will look at each other and mistake it for defeat. Everyone will leave." For example, if one thief is killed, dozens of people will retaliate. If dozens of thief’s heads are beheaded, hundreds of people will come to retaliate. I don’t know how many hundreds of people there can be in this formation, but they will lose their lives.”
Killing an enemy will cause our entire army to retreat. This is naturally very ridiculous. However, under the system that only looks at the head, this result is very easy to happen. So how to prevent the consequences caused by killing the enemy? What about the weird rout? Qi Jiguang has his own way.
"From now on, those who should take the lead with their long cards, spears, and wolves, and the number of long soldiers will never be allowed to bring the first sword. They can only kill first, and they are not allowed to kill the thieves. Each team is allowed to behead the thieves they kill. , one person will be put behind the formation for each pill. After the killing is completed and the troops are withdrawn, and there is an order to urge the inspection, they are allowed to leave the formation for inspection. Whoever is in the lead, who has a share, and who does not have a share, all listen to the leader's announcement to everyone. Judgment. Anyone who dares to avenge injustice for his kindness and hatred shall be punished by military law. Each head shall be judged by thirty liang. The first one shall divide the spear into twenty liang, and cut off the head soldier by twenty liang. The remaining soldiers shall be divided into one liang by fire. Even if the soldiers do not go into battle, they will be given five cents for their meritorious service; each of the team's gunners will also be given two taels."
In other words, in Qi Jiguang's army, not everyone has the right to harvest heads, but only short-range soldiers can harvest them. Qi Jiguang offered a sky-high price of thirty taels for a head. In order to prevent his teammates from grabbing each other's heads, Qi Jiguang specially It is stipulated that as long as the team wins the first level, the whole team will have rewards, and most of them belong to cards, guns, and swords, thus eliminating the situation where the main players in the team are distracted by grabbing heads. Other members will be rewarded as long as they participate in the war. Even the cook can lie down and count money. He doesn't have to risk his life to charge into battle. He only needs to take the blame for cooking. Why not?
The same principle applies to picking up equipment and treasures dropped by enemies. One person collects them and divides them equally among teammates after the battle. If the fight is delayed because of grabbing trophies, whoever is in charge will have his head chopped off.
Anyone who dares to retreat from the battle will have his ears cut off on the spot. After retreating, those without ears will be inspected. Anyone without ears will have his head chopped off. If the superior officer shields him, then the superior officer will be beheaded. If a team serving as an ambush is not allowed to go up when they should, or goes up blindly when they shouldn't, leading to the ambush being revealed, the leader will be beheaded. If someone fails to save his teammates and one person is killed, the whole team will be beheaded. However, if one head is captured, the person will be exempted from the crime. If two heads are captured, the reward will still be guaranteed.
If you see other teams being surrounded but do nothing to save them, behead the person in charge. If one person dies but gets nothing, one month's salary will be deducted from the armor to subsidize the families of the fallen. If the commander of Jia fights hard but his men escape and the commander dies in battle, all his men will be beheaded. When a larger official dies fighting and is reluctant to kill all his subordinates, two months of their salary will be deducted to subsidize the family of the deceased.
More importantly, Qi Jiguang forbade soldiers from making noise. It was not that the messengers were prohibited from delivering orders. They were also not allowed to shout when they saw the enemy or were injured by the enemy. Otherwise, they would be beheaded. This could avoid affecting the morale of friendly troops.
In the terminology of later generations of gamers, it is equivalent to Qi Jiguang's team's K/D ratio must be maintained above 1:1. If it cannot be maintained, he will kill whoever needs to be killed without saying much.
All in all, Qi Jiguang set various rules with clear rewards and punishments for his troops to ensure that everyone can fight bravely and that each team can take care of each other. These practices are actually constantly emphasizing the integrity and emphasizing that the army is a whole. The quality of the work of any one of them will affect the success or failure of the battle. Therefore, rewards are rewarded together and punishments are punished together.
What is the most famous saying of Nelson, the unborn British naval god? "England needs everyone to do their job!"
It can be seen that no matter in ancient or modern times, at home and abroad, famous generals have different understandings of the army, and the army must be a whole. Although Gao Pragmatic wants to take the civilian route, after all, the military will also need to be reformed in the future, so he will make some experimental moves in advance to observe the effects.
Appease, reward, organize the team, and then naturally hit the road together, setting off for the Cherry Spring Villa.
As for the "bald king" Cao Gan, Gao Pragmatic still left it to Liu Wei and others to watch. He was still very interested in knowing that this man could maintain such a small team of thieves not far from the capital. .
