Chapter 41 Gains and Losses
Walking back to the camp, Chen Wen reexamined the small routine he proposed to Wang Yi.
Historically, in August of this year, Wang Yi sent Liu Yiming to lead the army to cooperate with Chen Tianshu and Yu Guowang's army to attack Xinchang, and this month captured the Hushan District of Xinchang. The established target Xinchang County was not captured until September.
During the Battle of Xinchang, Chen Tianshu was injured and died. The result of this southward advance was abandoned by Yu Guowang when the Qing army drew troops from Siming Mountain in November and attacked Xinchang. Even Liu Yiming died of illness a month later, which probably was related to Xinchang's failure to stand firm and the fundamental place was uprooted.
After learning about Wang Yi's specific plan, Chen Wen made plans and strived to make Wang Yi give up this meaningless counterattack. Even if he could not give up completely, he would also prompt Liu Yiming and Chen Tianshu to withdraw their troops to Dalanshan after conquering Hushan Station to prepare for the Qing army. Chen Wen's routine was based on this foundation.
Chen Wen suggested to Wang Yi that after capturing the Hushan District, Liu Yiming and Chen Tianshu would quietly withdraw their troops and lurk in a place in the north of Siming Mountain. Yu Guowang would also use the banner of these two people to continue to besiege Xinchang. When the Qing army encircled and suppressed the troops, Liu Yiming and Chen Tianshu's commanders would suddenly appear and defeat Tian Xiong in one battle.
This routine comes from Chen Wen's understanding of building a plank road openly and secretly spreading Chen Cang. He is playing a suddenness. Although this plan, which is close to paper, still needs to be studied in details, it is also the only plan that Chen Wen can come up with with the opportunity to change this history.
In Chen Wen's opinion, Liu Yiming's two battalions have always been well received. Although Chen Tianshu's army is small in number, they are all cavalry. It is said that they are also among the Ming army in the Siming Mountain area, especially some of Chen Tianshu's subordinates were handed over to him by Zhang Huangyan, which made Chen Wen develop some curiosity and inexplicable trust in this family.
If he acted according to Chen Wen's plan, when the two armies were fighting, Liu Yiming suddenly showed his banner, and the Qing army would be somewhat affected. At that time, his Yuanyang Formation and Chen Tianshu's cavalry cooperated with each other to fight from the flanks, and the battle situation could basically be locked. After all, the feudal army had very low ability to withstand casualties and respond to changes, and Tian Xiong was not a famous general with outstanding abilities.
However, Wang Yi disagreed.
According to Wang Yi's plan, Yu Guowang, Chen Tianshu and Liu Yiming would attack Sheng County after conquering Xinchang. Later, Yu Guowang and Chen Tianshu stationed there, and Liu Yiming continued to go south to attack Jinhua Prefecture. When they made plans before, Wang Yi and these generals generally felt that these were not difficult. Once Liu Yiming entered Jinhua, the people would definitely eat pots of slurry to welcome the king's army.
As for the reason why they came to this conclusion, it was actually very simple, because in addition to the strong folk customs, the place in Jinhua Manchu had already been shattered by the ground by the generals of Jinhua from the Qing Dynasty.
Chen Wen, the man Ma Jinbao, knew that he was the one Qian Qianyi had always wanted to instigate the rebellion. In the Battle of Nanjing, Ma Fengzhi, the admiral of Susong, who was both ends of the rat head. Although he didn't know when he changed his name, or Fengzhi's name was the name of the man, but his reputation and methods of scraping the ground were very famous in Jiangnan in the early Qing Dynasty, especially his trick of hanging people upside down and pouring vinegar into his nose. Even Chen Wen, a modern man, felt chilling when he saw it in the book.
Normal people can't stand choking in their noses, let alone pouring acetic acid aqueous solution into them. Even if vinegar is rich in trace substances such as amino acids, it is not something that can be poured into their noses.
Chen Wen thought about Wang Yi's follow-up plan for several days but couldn't come up with a feasible reason to refute it, and he could not use "I know history" to dispel Wang Yi's plan that had already been formulated before he came to this era. Therefore, Chen Wen had to convince him with the principle that the Mao Jiang was not indifferent to victory and the general was not concerned about defeat.
However, the effect is very bad.
Finally, Wang Yi agreed that when he and the three generals met in the southern part of Siming Mountain in early August, he would raise Chen Wen's idea and let them discuss it. Chen Wen only got this guarantee.
Forget it, it’s better to begging for yourself than asking others. I’d better think about how I took Wang Yi and the others to successfully open up this epic difficult copy.
When Chen Wen returned to the military camp, the soldiers had already left the established western school ground under the leadership of officers at all levels. Chen Wen was secretly glad that he was not late, so he hurriedly climbed to the military platform and obtained the military law he had already formulated before from Gu Shouli, who had long been fully conceived for Shangguan.
Chen Wen's military law is divided into two parts. The first half is called the regulations, and the second half is directly called the military law.
The regulations are disciplines that apply to daily routines, training and non-war states. They include eating, sleeping and prioritizing subordinate meals that Chen Wen began to implement at noon, all are within the scope of the regulations. They can be said to be places where food, drinking, defecation, urination and sleep are not ignored; and the training starting from the afternoon and most non-war states are also within the jurisdiction of the regulations.
Chen Wen's regulations removed all corporal punishments in the Ming military law, such as cutting noses, cutting ears, and piercing arrows. The punishments were mainly composed of whipping and military sticks, and there were few penalties for beheading. As for the punishments he originally planned to clean the barracks, the three Thousand General Officers believed that they had a tendency to insult the dignity of the soldiers, and were abolished because they were inconsistent with the spirit of Chen Wen's regulations.
This made Chen Wen quite puzzled. When he was about to abolish the corpse punishment, he was ignored by these three guys on the grounds that he was insulting, and even secretly sneered. However, when cleaning the barracks, it was considered to be a damaging the dignity of soldiers. I really don’t know who was insulting the dignity of soldiers?
If an officer or soldier formally integrates into the group of this army, then the most complex and daily routine regulations that occupy the vast majority of the regulations will basically not be violated. As for the number of remaining, Chen Wen thinks that even a fool can remember it, and if you can't remember it, you will remember it if you get whips or military sticks twice.
Unlike the regulations, the military law part is very short, including marching in a state of war, camping and battlefield discipline, and some special circumstances.
In addition to removing corporal punishment from the military law, the punishment intensity is completely different from the regulations. Almost all of them appear in the form of beheadings, with few whipping and cannon liability, especially in battlefield discipline.
"At the time of the battle, the commander was killed but no one was captured in the army, and the entire army was killed; the captain was killed but no one was captured in the team, and the entire team was killed; the commander was killed but no one was captured in the face of the post, and the captain was killed..."
This is the military law that the Qi family army used in the past and was inherited by Chen Wen. In this regard, in addition to the Qi family army children like Wu Dengke and Lou Jiye, even Liaodong people like Li Ruixin think such punishment is natural.
As early as Chen Wen finished speaking the regulations, the soldiers generally lamented that Chen Wen's punishment was too lighter than the Ming army's military law, but no one dared to discuss it on the spot. After all, the first article of the regulations read out by Chen Wen here is the punishment regulations for the head coach's speech, and subordinates who spoke loudly or whispered without permission. Especially under the eyes of the officers and the tutors who were both full of vigilance, no one dared to become a typical example.
For them, the corporal punishment in the military law of the Ming army was really unacceptable. After all, the nose and ears would not grow if they were cut off. Being disabled not only affects their own image and senses, but also deeply affects their marriage, which is also their biggest concern since they entered the camp.
The regulations revised by Chen Wen abolished all corporal punishments and punished them by whipping and cane. Although it still hurts to beat the whip and military sticks, at least they will not become disabled. This makes them grateful to Chen Wen and feel that this commander is still a kind of literati woman.
But, isn't this better?
Unfortunately, the happy time passed too quickly. When Chen Wen began to explain the absolutely harsh military law, the secret joy in every soldier suddenly became gone. And some officers who knew in advance showed thoughts of gloating or sadness when they saw their subordinates' expressions. After all, these military law that often beheads and cowards are also applicable to each of them.
Of course, it also applies to Chen Wen himself!
But Chen Wen knew that in addition to the harsh military laws, the reward for each Japanese pirate in the Qi family was as high as forty taels of silver!
During the Wanli period, one tael of silver could buy two stones of rice, which is nearly four hundred kilograms, and forty taels was less than sixteen thousand kilograms! The Qi family army basically fought against the Japanese during the Jiajing period. At that time, the opening of Longqing had not yet begun, and overseas silver had not yet poured into China on a large scale, and the purchasing power of silver would only be higher.
On the one hand, there is a harsh military law that often beheads, and on the other hand, it is to obtain a few beheadings to buy houses, land, and marry a wife and hire tenants to hire a high reward of silver. This is one of the sources of the strong combat effectiveness of the Qi family army besides hatred for Japanese pirates. No wonder the Qi family army had almost few prisoners when facing Japanese pirates, and all those who could beheaded were used for silver.
Chen Wen didn't know how Qi Jiguang, a poor officer who had no money left behind after his death, did all this, but he also had his own way, but that way is not available yet.
Because of this, it is very difficult for him at the moment. With the financial situation of Dalanshan, Wang Yi and Wang Jiang will never be able to increase the beheading bounty to this number. Even if silver has already depreciated, they cannot afford it because they are not only Chen Wen's camp under their command.
Therefore, Chen Wen needed some other means.
"The beheadings of the base camp are calculated based on the team. The rewards are divided into twenty pieces. The captain takes three pieces, the sergeant takes two pieces, the fire soldiers take one piece, and the other soldiers take one and a half pieces. All beheadings are cut by the fire soldiers. The fire soldiers have to cut off the team and behead the soldiers. The war soldiers are not allowed to leave the battle formation to harvest the heads. The fire weapons team and the cavalry team beheaded separately. All the seized items of the camp will be returned to the public and will not be deposited privately. After the war, the person who saves privately will force the rewards for others' military merits, and I will behead them immediately!"
The beheading is calculated based on the team and does not lead to the surprises of the officers and soldiers. After all, the Mandarin Duck Formation is a whole, and each has its own tasks. If it is assigned by individuals, the soldiers responsible for defense will suffer losses, so it becomes natural for the fire soldiers to cut off the head.
As for Chen Wen's method of rewarding silver, it did not arouse much opinions. The officers took more and less fire soldiers. The same basic principles of the other people were acceptable to both officers and soldiers. However, the capture of Guigong was a bit disappointing to the soldiers. The Ming army has always searched and seized soldiers, and then respected the officers upwards. Now, the capture of Guigong can obtain military merits and rewards from it, but the amount of distribution is not up to oneself, so the soldiers are more concerned about the beheading reward.
"According to the rules set by Qi Shaobao that year, the Japanese pirates were rewarded with 40 taels of silver. This general decided to behead the Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers in the camp and rewarded with 40 taels of silver. The eight banners soldiers in the camp were rewarded with 60 taels of silver!"
"Wow!" Almost everyone was shocked when they heard this reward, and some even made noises involuntarily. However, the scrupulous soldiers were also stunned at this time and had no time to take into account these actions that obviously crossed the punishment line of the regulations.
Although the purchasing power of silver is not as amazing as Qi Jiguang's era, ordinary people in this era do not know how much it depreciated. They only know that the Mongols were annihilated by the Qi family army at that time. Although the Manchurian Eight Banners soldiers were very strong, their generals had also said that the Qi family army led by General Qi Jin in Hunhe was not afraid of them.
Such a high reward really made the officers and soldiers dumbfounded for a while. One Mongol and one Jiannu beheaded was 100 taels! Even if you could only behead the Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers, wouldn’t it be enough to kill a few more? After all, the combat effectiveness of the Mongols was always looked down upon by the Han people in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.
But in the mountainous area where this news is blocked, they didn't know that there were very few Eight Banners soldiers in Zhejiang at this stage. There were only four thousand Han and Eight Banners, but a month later, Chen Wen only planned to force the matter back. It was not that he was afraid of the war, but he really couldn't raise confidence in the combat ability of his teammates, especially when he recalled the Xue'ao guerrilla general Wang Sheng who had been beaten by him, this distrust became even more profound.
"Behead the Eight Banners of Han soldiers, reward thirty taels of silver; behead the Governor, Governor, General, and General Battalion, and reward 15 taels of silver; behead the ordinary Green Battalion soldiers, reward 10 taels of silver; behead the auxiliary soldiers, regiment training and bandits, depending on the situation."
The combat ability of auxiliary soldiers is almost zero. The regiment training in this era was not the Hunan Army or the Huai Army in later generations, but the mass armed forces organized by local landlords to defend the village. If they kill too many, it is easy to cause unnecessary conflicts. In fact, many bandits are just people who are exploited by corrupt officials. They go up the mountain just to farm on the mountain to avoid exploitation, and they do not all take looting as their careers, so the situation depends.
"Uh." As the Han army's reward was proposed by Chen Wen, the surprise in the hearts of the officers and soldiers suddenly evolved into ecstasy. Compared with the Mongolians, the Han army of the Qing Dynasty was even more despised by the Ming army of this era.
Of course, these contempts come more from moral aspects. In addition to not cursing ancestors for the Tartars, the Han army's ability to plunder the common merchants was not inferior to the Eight Banners of Manchu and Mongolia. These all constituted the Ming army's contempt for them. These moral bad deeds also affected the Ming army's evaluation of the combat effectiveness of these Han army in the Qing army, which had psychological moral advantages.
The officers and soldiers in Chen Wenying generally felt that they could not defeat a group of second Tartars who did not want their ancestors when they copied the Qi army back then?
One Han Eight Banners soldier is worth thirty taels, and a team of twelve people are enough to go together. As for those green camp soldiers, it would be good to not die from unknown AOE, but they just have to worry about the fire soldiers and put more effort into cutting off their heads, but they wouldn't mind.
If this is the case, after a few years of joining the army, the settlement fee, monthly salary, and the reward for beheading and some extra income, even if you are exploited by the military officer and boss, you can build a house and buy land to be a small landlord when you return to your hometown. At that time, there may be a few more concubines in addition to your daughter-in-law. As for casualties, the casualties of the Qi family army have always been very low, so will it be so unlucky?
However, Chen Wen knew very well that in this era, except for the Black Banner Han Army established by Huang Taiji, many of the Dongjiang Army were brought by Kong Youde, Shang Kexi and others, and those were veterans who fought old wars. Among the green camp soldiers, especially Tian Xiong's Tibiao Battalion, they also surrounded and suppressed bandits under Huang Degong's tent, and their combat effectiveness was actually not as weak as those soldiers in the camp imagined.
However, Chen Wen was happy to see this psychological advantage. In his impression, when the Guanning Army, the "cavalry cavalry" who entered the pass to pacify the Dengzhou rebellion and encircled the bandits, in addition to being strong and powerful, they had more psychological advantages.
Taking Zuo Liangyu and Wu Sangui as an example, Zuo Liangyu began to encircle and suppress bandits in the early years of Chongzhen, and could also be called a tiger general. At that time, even a ruthless character like Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong could not beat him. However, in the late Chongzhen, these two men had six magical equipment, and Zuo Liangyu could no longer withstand it. Later, when he heard that the Dashun Army was heading south, he raised an army without hesitation to clear the king's side, and he refused to fight against Li Zicheng.
Besides, Wu Sangui, this peerless brave general who was called a gorgeous military force, was beaten by his father Wu Xiang and his deputy general Zu Dabi, who cooperated with his deputy general, to beat Kong Youde's rebels. This was related to their psychological advantages as a counter-rebel army, and Kong Youde's psychological disadvantages as a rebel army. However, in the battle of a stone, facing Li Zicheng with endless left hand and red cross on his right hand, Wu Sangui was beaten so hard that he didn't even recognize his father. Because of this, he could only shave his hair overnight and surrender to the Qing Dynasty, relying on recognizing his father to save his life.
I was timid before the fight, and I was so scared that I pee my pants before I started fighting, so I didn’t have to fight.
Chen Wen was very glad that the slogan he shouted for rebuilding the Qi family army had begun to subtly affect the soldiers' psychology. However, apart from the training that was about to begin, these were not enough!
"The settlement fee for the base camp, the true color, the color of the color, the reward of beheading and the reward of military merits will be paid by the military officer according to the military merits. Including this general, officers at all levels shall not be embezzled." After that, Chen Wen turned around and looked at Qi Xiufeng and asked sternly: "Qi Xiufeng, the military officer, comes from you. If anyone dares to embezzle, I will kill him! Can you know?"
Upon hearing this, Qi Xiufeng actually showed a look of being taken for granted and bowed to Chen Wen and said, "Students understand that students will not dare to violate military laws, nor will they trap the soldiers in hunger and cold."
"Okay!" Looking at Qi Xiufeng's expression, Chen Wen sighed comfortably. Strict supervision is still necessary, and this scholar who is like a blank piece of paper does not need to worry too much about the fact that he will create a huge case in the near future. As for the long run, let's just shut down the one in more than a month before talking about it.
At this moment, the soldiers under Chen Wen showed joy. Although they were still worried about whether they could get it in full, since the master had been written into the military law, even if they were exploited, they should be less.
At this moment, the officers present looked complicated. They lost some opportunity to exploit soldiers, but they did not have to worry too much about being exploited by their superiors. It is still unknown which is more important, so how can they not be complicated?
At this moment, Gu Shouli, who was standing aside, turned around and twisted his sleeves to wipe the sweat from his forehead while no one was paying attention to him. He was very glad that he did not choose the position of the military officer with a lot of oil and water, but chose the chief clerk who handled copywriting.
Chapter completed!