Li Chengzhong wanted to formulate a military law to regulate the behavior and combat rewards and punishments of soldiers in the front camp in terms of rules and regulations. However, there was already a popular military law in this era, that is, seventeen prohibitions and fifty-four cuts. Currently, the Lulong Army implements seventeen prohibitions.
Fifty-four cuts. Changing military law without authorization is a major crime, so Li Chengzhong could not touch this red line. After thinking about it, he decided to formulate a traffic regulation for soldiers in the front camp, deliberately avoiding the concept of "military law".
Implement new military laws in the army by substituting them for others.
The reason why he was unwilling to continue using Seventeen Bans and Fifty-four Kills was because Li Chengzhong believed that this kind of military law was completely unrealistic. This military law includes rebelling against the army, slowing down the army, slacking off the army, building up the army, underestimating the army, bullying the army, raping the army and slandering.
There are seventeen prohibitions on army, traitorous army, stealing army, exploring army, betraying army, ruthless army, rebelling army, cheating army, cheating army and misusing army, etc., and refuse to listen to what is contained in the prohibition, and do not respond to their names.
Fifty-four behaviors such as fighting at night, frequent complaints, laughter, withered flags, rumors and sly words are punished by "cutting off the offender".
Li Chengzhong, with the assistance of Feng Dao, carefully studied this military law order and felt that it was really difficult to implement it.
First of all, the matters stipulated in the military law are confusing. Some are very general, some are very detailed, some are too general, and some are missing details. There are many omissions and omissions, making it impossible to effectively conduct a complete analysis of the behavior of soldiers.
constraint.
Secondly, many matters stipulated in military law are vaguely described, which is not conducive to specific operations. In other words, the implementation flexibility is too great. The final result is that it is difficult to determine whether a soldier's behavior violates military law. The same behavior can be understood as
Breaking the prohibition can be understood as normal behavior, and it is completely up to the commander-in-chief.
The most important thing is that there is only one method of punishment in this military law, which is "beheading"! If this military law is strictly implemented, it is estimated that all the soldiers in the front camp will be "beheaded" before long.
Therefore, although the Lulong Army has always claimed to use this military law as the criterion, few troops actually implement it. Each department actually does its own thing, and the punishment of soldiers is entirely determined by the superior officer according to needs.
Since Tianbao, due to the large-scale annexation of land, countless farmers have lost their fields, and the government army system has also lost the basis for its continued existence. The Tang army has changed from the government army system to a recruitment system. This recruitment system is not organized and implemented by the central court, but by
The vassal towns in various places recruit their own troops. Therefore, the amount of military power in hand determines the strength of the generals in the vassal town. For the soldiers under their own hands, the generals have adopted a policy of thick ties, not only giving them excellent treatment in terms of material and official titles, but also
When soldiers violate military law, they often turn a blind eye or close an eye. This also leads to the almost abolishment of the seventeen prohibitions and fifty-four executions.
As for the most recent example, the Lulong Army marched southward to Weibo and massacred the city after conquering Beizhou. This behavior directly violated military law. This is clearly stated in the Seventeen Bans and Fifty-Four Kills: "Wherever they go,
Those who abuse their people and force their women to commit adultery are called traitors, and the offenders will be beheaded!" If this order is followed, then all the thousands of soldiers who invaded Beizhou City should be beheaded. This is absolutely impossible to execute. Therefore, at that time
Liu Rengong just lost his temper and was rewarded in the end. If he had really followed the military law, his position as Jiedushi would have been overthrown by his subordinates long ago.
The kind of military law that Li Chengzhong wants is one that can be implemented in practice and is easy to determine. Military law should clearly stipulate specific behaviors that violate prohibitions, and thus refine specific punishment methods to avoid human and subjective judgments as much as possible.
This military law also needs to be humane, giving varying degrees of punishment according to the degree of violation, so as to avoid military morale mutiny due to excessive sentencing. Finally, this military law must be as complete as possible, integrating what soldiers will do in daily life and in wartime.
Try to accommodate the problems you encounter and make sure there are laws to follow.
After careful consideration, combined with later generations' understanding of the law, Li Chengzhong and Feng Dao had many long discussions throughout the night, and finally decided to formulate a soldier's traffic regulations. The traffic regulations should incorporate future generations' training guidelines, military internal affairs regulations, interim military law regulations, etc.
A variety of content has been included in order to be as complete as possible.
This "Soldiers' Traffic Regulations" is a systematic set of regulations, including "General Principles", "Soldiers' Training Regulations", "Soldiers' Internal Affairs Regulations", and "Provisional Military Discipline Regulations". It tries to cover all aspects of soldiers' life, training and combat.
Summarize and summarize various situations encountered, and then clarify one by one whether it is appropriate or not, and formulate corresponding punishment measures one by one.
The "General Principles" is a principled constraint on the behavior of soldiers. It has the first priority in the "Soldiers' Traffic Regulations", that is, all orders must be followed or based on the non-contradiction of the "General Principles". Once any conflict occurs, it will be based on the "General Principles".
The "General Provisions" shall prevail.
"Soldier Training Regulations" summarizes various situations that occur during soldiers' operations and training, and lists them one by one. "Soldiers' Internal Affairs Regulations" focuses on the daily life of soldiers, military appearance, military etiquette, life style, relationship between superiors and subordinates, and the relationship with the common people.
The relationship between these two regulations is explained. These two regulations mainly emphasize what soldiers should do and how to do it, while the "Interim Military Discipline Regulations" stipulates what should not be done. Once soldiers do what they should not do, what kind of targeting will they receive?
Punishment. In fact, what Li Chengzhong calls "military discipline regulations" are military law regulations, but he just avoids the word "military law".
In order to make it easier for soldiers to understand, Li Chengzhong divided the contents of the "Provisional Military Discipline Order" into three categories, namely mild disciplinary violations, moderate disciplinary violations and serious disciplinary violations, and summarized three targeted punishment methods. Mild disciplinary violations, that is, during training
Those who fail to complete the requirements, are disorderly in life, or do not conform to the regulations in military appearance and etiquette, etc., will receive lighter punishments, usually public criticism, warnings, simple corporal punishment, etc., which are divided into grades 3, 6 and 9 depending on the situation. Moderate disciplinary violations
, that is, slacking off on duty, being late for military meetings, destroying utensils, having a disorderly style, being extravagant, contradicting superiors, etc., the punishment will be heavier, usually including confinement, military staff, deduction of pay, demotion, etc. Serious violation of discipline means failure to fight hard.
, disobeying orders, raping women, killing colleagues, seizing credit and impersonating names, stealing and misappropriating property, etc. The penalties imposed are also relatively severe, including removal from official positions, expulsion from the military, beheading and even implicating family members.
This set of "Provisional Military Discipline Orders" was very detailed, and he went to great lengths for fear of missing the details. At that time, Feng Dao suggested that it did not need to be so detailed and that military judges should be allowed to have a certain degree of operational flexibility, but his suggestion was directly sternly rejected by Li Chengzhong. According to Li Chengzhong
In other words, military law should be detailed and clear, reduce operational flexibility, and minimize the room for military judges to execute at will due to personal likes and dislikes.
Feng Dao asked, with so many soldiers and so many trivial matters, can the military law list them all? There will always be omissions. What will be done then? Li Chengzhong replied that if there are no provisions stipulated in the military law, there will be no punishment! It is better to have something slip through the net.
There should be no innocent injustice. Li Chengzhong also explained that the reason why this military law is called "Interim Military Discipline Order" is that the word "interim" in it is to leave an opening to make up for it at any time in the future. The provisions in the order
It can be added, but human life cannot be saved. Therefore, we must be cautious when formulating the law.
Feng Dao also objected to the punishment methods in the order. He believed that the punishment was too light, and these punishment methods did not include strong deterrent laws such as tattooing, castration, and mutilation, which was not conducive to the army's development of strict military discipline. Li Chengzhong
It is believed that the development of strict military discipline does not lie in the intensity of punishment, but in letting soldiers clearly know what consequences they will bear if they do something. As long as the consequences are much higher than the benefits obtained, then this kind of
The regulations will be effective. At the same time, allowing soldiers to regularly experience the ubiquitous majesty of military law will have a far stronger demonstrative effect than directly executing illegal soldiers, and it will also be much easier to enforce.
The two argued for a long time, and neither could convince the other. In the end, Li Chengzhong had no choice but to tell Feng Dao that if soldiers who violated disciplines were frequently executed or maimed, then he would have no soldiers to use. This was also a common practice in this era. Feng Dao listened.
After that, there was silence for a long time, and then I stopped insisting.
In addition to the "Passing Rules for Soldiers", Li Chengzhong also plans to draft the "Passing Rules for Officers" to regulate the behavior of officers. However, he only orders soldiers now, and there are not many officers, and officers like group leaders really need to be counted.
Since he was not an officer, the formulation of this order was not urgent.
In Li Chengzhong's plan, officers at the level of corps commander and group commander should be counted as non-commissioned officers for future generations. These talents are the real elite core of an army. Whether an army can recruit and win battles depends on tactics.
From a perspective, it largely depends on the quality of the non-commissioned officers in the army. He has an immature idea. He wants to train all the soldiers in the current front camp as non-commissioned officers for future generations. These veterans do not need to hold military positions.
They may even still be under the command of gang leaders, corps commanders, etc., but they must be granted certain ranks, such as deputy lieutenant, school lieutenant, etc., and be given better treatment than recruits, and they should be treated better in peacetime.
With the training, once the army is expanded in the future, a large army capable of fighting can be quickly formed.
On December 3, the second year of Guanghua, the "Pingzhou Army Front Camp Soldiers' Internal Affairs Regulations" began to be promoted in the Bailangshan military camp. Because there was not enough paper and silk in the military camp, only six copies of this regulation were copied.
Let Li Chengzhong have one copy, Jiang Miao, Zhang Xingzhong, and Zhou Qidao from Jiadu, Yidu, and Bingdu each have one copy, Wang Dalang and Zhao Da share one copy, and another copy is kept at Feng Dao.
The doctrine was learned orally. First, everyone was required to have a head, and the team officers of each team and the gang leaders were forced to recite it. Under Feng Dao's interpretation and guidance one by one, dozens of officers above the gang leader began the painful endorsement
Process. Five days later, all soldiers began to repeat this process under the leadership of the group leader. Ten days later, the doctrine began to be tried out. During the ten days of the trial, each group, each team, and each group made statistics on the problems that occurred during the trial.
and feedback, then Li Chengzhong convened officers above the team level to study the feedback and suggestions, and improved the doctrine based on the actual situation.
On the first day of the first lunar month of the third year of Guanghua, the "Pingzhou Army Front Camp Soldiers' Internal Affairs Regulations" were officially implemented.
On the first day of February in the third year of Guanghua, the "Pingzhou Army Front Camp Soldier Training Regulations" was officially implemented.
On the first day of March in the third year of Guanghua, the "Provisional Military Discipline Regulations for Soldiers in the Pingzhou Army Front Camp" was officially implemented.
On the same day, the three major regulations were merged, and the "Pingzhou Army Front Camp Soldiers Passage Regulations" was completed and officially implemented in the front camp.