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Chapter 967: Sitting together

Chen Xi did not mean to let Jiang Liwei go.? Chinese? Novel w..

He trapped him in the army without specifying the reasons for his stay, and treated him as a prisoner on weekdays in order to prevent him from escaping and making trouble behind his back.

Chen Xi once said that after the war, Jiang Li would record the only pen in the military merit book. Jiang Liwei had to go with the army and make military achievements. He would make merits after having lunch. This is a good thing that others think is hard to come by, but if Jiang Liwei could choose, he would never want to gain this benefit, because the price was to lose freedom.

This day was the second night when the army was stationed on Tai O Island, and it was also the eve of sending troops to attack Nan'ao Island. Although the officers and soldiers were nervous before the war, because everything went smoothly before the war, this time they took Tai O without bloodshed. From generals to soldiers, they all guessed that they would go to Nan'ao Island tomorrow, and would be destroyed, waiting all the way to receive the thief camp, capture prisoners of war, and finally waiting for the merits to ask for rewards.

Chen Xi demanded that a mobilization meeting be held before the war, that is, generals who are not on duty will gather their respective soldiers together and carry out pre-war mobilization in units of hundreds of households, mainly conveying several meanings clearly: tomorrow will be a tough battle; no private trophy shall be kept; deserters will be executed immediately.

But after it was spread to the army, the taste changed.

In the Guijun camp, a hundred households were spitting out and talking about his experience:

"There is meat in front of you to eat, and the turtle is huddled behind you and you don't even have to drink soup. Brothers must cheer up. The bastards from Fujian next door are staring at us for credit!"

"If anyone runs slowly and gets robbed of me, I will turn against you. If anyone dares to become a deserter, I will chop up the person when I go up!"

When conveying the issue of severe punishment of deserters, Baihu made it clear, but about tomorrow's war, Baihu felt that it was no difficulty. He believed that those with fast legs could be taken in the camp, while those with slow legs could only stare at the back.

The soldiers had questions: "Master Baihu, what you said seems like we will definitely be able to send the first group of island attackers. If the master arranges us to defend Tai O, then will all the credit be gone?"

"No, it's our Gui army's turn to take the lead. I've heard from Qianhu and Deputy Qianhu that we will go to the island for the first time tomorrow. Just like in Tai O, go to the island to build camps and build fortifications. Brothers work harder. When the fortifications are almost completed, the subsequent troops will hand over the line of defense to them and we will charge in the battle!"

"Build camps and fortifications and charge, and there is no need to charge. How can I have so much energy? Sir, can you understand, let others build camps and fortifications, so let's just rush?"

"I don't understand this? What's the connection between this... The first thing that all the officers and soldiers on the island did was to build fortifications after camping, and they couldn't finish them. I heard that in order to prevent the thieves from counterattacking, I saw that the thieves were like grasshoppers in the autumn, and they didn't have to jump around. But since the lord gave such instructions, there was his own reason. Who would be lazy when building camps and fortifications, and waited for the thieves to get into the thieves' camp, let alone not let him take the money!"

"Mr. Baihu, didn't you order not to hide money in private today? If we take it tomorrow... we will be shattered!"

"Hmph, this is going to teach you a lesson. Adults are the most concerned about fairness in their work. They beat Deputy Qianhu Jing and killed a soldier who is not open to their eyes. If Da'ao was shot down by the officers and soldiers, don't try their best to fight hard on their belts and hold two eldest sons down, the adults will never care."

"But the problem is that the bandits surrendered themselves. What happened to the soldiers and birds that were taken over from the villages below? It is also necessary for the lord not to let them hide them privately."

The soldiers thought about it and said that this is the truth.

The greatest contribution to the battle in Da'ao was Shen Xi. Chen Xi set up an ambush to kill the thieves in the camp and then talked about the thieves' leaders persuading surrender. What qualifications do the soldiers below have to privately store their wealth?

The hundred households were still talking: "But tomorrow, we will smash the gate of the thief village, we will kill the thief, we will chop the head, we will capture the women and children, and we will even take the silver box from the gang. Even if we take some in our pockets, the adults will not say anything."

To boost morale and improve the combat effectiveness of the troops, it is the easiest and most effective to use money to open the way. When the soldiers heard this, they were already ready to wait for the battle to come.

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Not only did the Gui military camp say this, but the contents of the hundreds of households in Fujian and Guangdong provinces that were told by the generals at the pre-war mobilization meeting were similar.

Everyone seemed very contemptuous about the war the next day, thinking that it would definitely win and be a great victory; soldiers were encouraged to loot, and some even said "Woman who got the wife and who was at hand?", which made Chen Xi, who had received the news that his personal guards heard from everywhere, felt that the team was too difficult to lead.

It is of little significance to use advanced military governance concepts to govern this group of miscellaneous troops. It is a huge honor to make them sacrifice their lives for the country, and whether the country is rising or falling, is the sense of responsibility of every man with responsibility, which is nonsense.

These garrison soldiers are hereditary military households. They can barely fill their stomachs in good times. In the famine, they are as hungry as ordinary people. They are not interested in being loyal to the court and the country and seeking welfare for the people. They only know the most real thing in their hands... Whoever can make us have a full meal and live a good life will fight with whom.

Before Chen Xi arrived in Guangdong Province, he formulated a complete plan for military management. However, when he arrived in Guangdong Province, he saw this group of officers and soldiers who had never even had a second set of military uniforms in his life, he felt that he was powerful and had nowhere to use it.

When people go out to fight, they want to make some money and go back. They have meat to eat every meal, women warm up the bed, and children to beat and scold them when they are drunk. You forcefully instill some ideas that do not belong to this era. Who is interested in listening to your trick?

Sun Xinian, Zhang Qilin and several other military generals with relatively good combat qualities asked with a bitter face in the central army tent: "Sir, can you rob it tomorrow?"

"Is it really important to grab it or not?" Chen Xi asked with a cold face.

Sun Xinian said: "The lord is a civil servant and a top scholar. But the soldiers below have been soldiers for the rest of their lives and have been soldiers for generations. If you don't let them rob, you will be afraid that they will be unwilling to work hard. At that time, Nan'ao Island may not be able to fight."

On this issue, Chen Xi had to make some compromises: "Let's do this, and the three armies will not be allowed to happen tomorrow. Those who violate the order will be killed. As for the wealth, hundreds of households are used as one battalion, and the income of each battalion is temporarily recorded on the same account. Finally, the military merits will be determined based on the battalion!"

Since soldiers cannot be prevented from looting on the battlefield, they can only prohibit officers and soldiers from doing ** things, so that soldiers can understand the importance of teamwork.

The advantage of taking the Hundred Houses as a unit is that soldiers use the glory of the Hundred Houses as their own glory, and more than one hundred people as a whole, and they are closely related to each other and can help each other on the battlefield.

"All the goods obtained in the battalion will be paid 50%. If the money treasury buried underground is accidentally discovered, the official will reward it as appropriate... The remaining 50% will be divided equally by the officers and soldiers in the battalion, and everyone has it! As for the above small flags, the central army will reward, behead, and capture the bandits. For each person in the battalion, the wealth and goods will be reduced by 10% and the serious injury will be reduced by half. If any officers and soldiers are captured or fled, all the goods obtained will be confiscated! Missing is based on the escape plan!"

Chen Xi first determined the amount of things snatched back by the officers and soldiers. It seemed very harsh and actually had to hand over 50%. But one advantage was that senior generals and officials did not participate in the distribution, which meant that one soldier had to calculate one, and he could take out five taels of silver when he got back from robbing ten taels of silver to share it equally.

You cannot show off your personal heroism. The officers and soldiers in the hundred households are basically fellow villagers, and many of them are old friends for many years. They are embarrassed to keep them privately. They are easily discovered and reported after privately hiding them because this is the wealth shared by everyone in the camp.

Chenxi formulated a punishment system. If one hundred households die or two people seriously injured, one more percent of the money to be handed over. If five people die or ten people are injured, all the officers and soldiers will be in vain.

In addition, Chenxi also established a one-size-fits-all system, that is, if a living person is captured by a bandit, or there is a deserter in the Hundred Houses, then the entire Hundred Houses will have to drink the northwest wind, and no matter how many people grab it, it will be someone else's.

In this way, you need to work together. Even if you have ten thousand taels of silver in front of you, you must first consider the life or death of your comrades around you. Otherwise, it will be useless to grab it. That is to make wedding clothes for others.

Chen Xi's move also has another purpose, which is to establish a sense of honor and disgrace. It doesn't matter if you are afraid of death alone. After you run away, you will be blamed for the people in the entire hundred households and will not be given the spoils. If you don't want to go home and be stabbed by fellow villagers, you will be honest in serving in the army.

In such a narrow island, Chen Xi thought it was appropriate to fight against the bandits, because the number of bandit troops on the island was only seven or eight hundred, and the number of bandit troops in the group was enough to cope with emergencies.

If there is a large-scale war, Chen Xi will expand this "connection guarantee and joint position" system unit into a thousand households, and then increase the number of soldiers who can be sacrificed and injured, and continue to strengthen the punishment for surrendered soldiers and deserters, and the combat effectiveness will surely be greatly improved.

This system was the first time it was implemented in the army. It was temporarily thought of by Chen Xi. It was based on the Hundred Houses and also had the meaning of trial, so that officers and soldiers would consider their comrades first when trying to do things.

When encountering difficulties, even if you don’t believe in the loyalty of your comrades, you must believe that you will take the initiative to help for the sake of profit, and the combat effectiveness of the officers and soldiers in front of the formation will be improved accordingly.

Chen Xi proposed this system of joint position at this time, mainly to change the laziness, arrogance and fear of death in the military officers and soldiers. Whether it can be effective still needs to be observed, but he believes that if this set can be strictly implemented in the military, it will be helpful to improve the combat effectiveness of the three armies.

If a soldier grabs the goods, even if he wants to get half of the goods, he is not afraid of being deducted by the general, because there is a fixed amount for half of the goods and no fixed amount for deducting them.

Even if the soldiers rob little, they don’t have to worry about having no money to share and taking risks or becoming deserters, because there are still people from the same camp who help rob.

Those who grab more will become heroes and gain the honor of soldiers. They can gradually gain voice in the army and have priority promotion opportunities. Those who grab less will mean they have no brains and will be rejected by others. Only when they know their shame will they be brave.

If you simply rob a few, you are not afraid, because the 50% tax that was plundered was left to those who were meritorious in killing enemies. Even if you don’t rob a penny, you can cut off more heads and capture more bandits, and you will earn more than those responsible for robbing.

"Sir, what you said is too complicated. Can you... say it again?"

Sun Xinian couldn't understand after listening for a long time, so he had to ask.

Chenxidao: "It's not time for you to convey it. I'll summon all the thousands and hundreds of households in the camp to the central army's tent. I personally tell them."
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