After listening to what Su Ze said, Lin Mojun started thinking.
It is true that discipline or military discipline is more important than dead science such as formations. After all, the army relies on people to fight.
Su Ze continued: "The battlefield is ever-changing. Even a mandarin duck formation cannot cover all situations. The most important thing in commanding a battle is the execution of orders and prohibitions. If the soldiers do not obey the commander's instructions, no matter how good the military formation is, it will be useless."
Lin Mojun nodded. It was true what Su Ze said. The weapons and equipment of the Changning Guard were not as good as those of the Quanzhou Guard and the guards around Fuzhou Prefecture. The military books handed down by the Lin family were also ordinary, but the Changning Guard was famous for its ability in the southeast region.
The key to fighting is that generations of the Lin family have practiced strict military training and enforced military orders and prohibitions.
In comparison, some military guards had better weapons, but the soldiers were afraid of fighting and were chased and beaten by Japanese pirates.
Lin Mojun even asked humbly: "Mr. Su, how can we enforce strict military discipline?"
Su Ze said: "To enforce strict military discipline, the first step is to clearly understand the law. Take this mandarin duck formation as an example. If the shield hand in the front row retreats, two shield hands will be punished. If the wolf hand retreats, the two wolf hand and spear will be punished.
If one hand retreats, six spearmen will be punished, and if the whole team retreats, the squad leader will be punished. They will be trained with the continuous sitting method, and during war, they will use the continuous sitting method to supervise their advance and retreat."
Lin Mojun recalled Su Ze's method of rewards and punishments after the fight. After clarifying the responsibilities, there are clear standards of rewards and punishments, which can indeed make the punished people move forward.
Su Ze continued: "In addition to punishment, we also need rewards. If you advance, you will be rewarded. If you retreat, you will be punished. Only by having rewards and punishments can you have a strong army. If you have punishments but no rewards, you will treat the soldiers as slaves. That soldiers are slaves."
Naturally, he also regards generals as enemies."
Lin Mojun asked: "What about rewards and no punishment?"
"There are rewards but no punishment, that is, the Tang Dynasty suppresses the army. It only knows how to ask for merit and rewards. It is called an official army, but it is actually a soldier and a thief."
Lin Mojun only felt that what Su Ze said were some truths that he had never thought of. When his father was still alive and the guards had plenty of money, this was how his father trained soldiers. Those who fought bravely were rewarded, and those who died in battle were rewarded.
Those on the battlefield were given pensions. At that time, the Changning Guards were invincible when they went to sea to fight.
But after he took over, although he trained his soldiers hard, he could only defend the sea area near Changning Guard. It would not be easy to fight deep into the sea.
After hearing what Su Ze said, Lin Mojun knew the reason. Changningwei was too poor.
Su Ze is not talking about military affairs on paper. In fact, the Qi Family Army is a high-paying army.
Half of the content of "New Book of Jixiao" is about how to strictly enforce military discipline. Those who violate military discipline on the battlefield will have their ears cut off. After the war, the people whose ears have been cut off will be counted, and whoever has no ears will have his head chopped off.
If the captain shields the captain, he will be killed; if the officer shields the officer, the officer will be killed.
If a team serving as an ambush should not go up, and if it should not go up blindly and the ambush is exposed, the head of the leader will be chopped off.
If one person is killed because of not saving his teammates, 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.
To put it bluntly, Qi Jiajun is a unit that counts KD as military merit. If KD is positive, it will be rewarded. If KD is negative, it will be beheaded. Therefore, Qi Jiajun will try his best every time he goes into battle.
In addition to strict military laws, Qi Jiguang also stipulated a high reward, thirty taels for a Japanese pirate's head. According to human nature, in order to prevent the main combatants from disrupting the formation due to competition for credit, it was stipulated that only short-distance soldiers had the right to collect rewards.
The heads are divided among the whole team. The shield bearers, wolf bearers and spearmen in the main battle are divided into the majority, while the people in the back row are divided into smaller portions.
Encouraged by such a high salary, the Qi family army was able to sweep across the southeast and finally put down the Japanese rebellion.
It's just a pity that such a strong army was transferred to Liaodong after pacifying the Japanese pirates, and because the Ming Dynasty reneged on its promises and owed military pay, it was finally disarmed and killed by Wang Bao, the commander-in-chief of Jizhou.
Lin Mojun was silent. Chang Ning Wei really had no money to pay rewards. It seemed that it was impossible to build a strong army as Su Ze said.
Su Ze added: "But there is another way."
Lin Mojun asked quickly:
"any solution?"
Su Ze said: "Xingyi soldiers."
"What are volunteers?"
"Understanding righteousness and knowing honor and disgrace is a righteous soldier."
Su Ze did not continue to explain, but said: "Baihu, do you think the Changning Guards fought bravely when they defended their hometown?"
Lin Mojun immediately said: "It is true. Every time the Japanese invaders come, the soldiers always fight bravely to defend Changning Guard."
Su Ze said: "To protect the country and the people, they are volunteers because the officers and soldiers know that their hometown is behind them, so they naturally fight bravely to defend their homeland. And the people of Changning Guard also know that the officers and soldiers fight to protect themselves, and they can support the guard wholeheartedly.
logistics."
Lin Mojun asked again: "But the guard station also has the task of guarding and fighting. How will it fight at that time?"
Su Ze said: "That is to let the officers and soldiers understand the righteousness and know why they are fighting. Guarding the home is a small righteousness, and protecting the country and the people is a righteousness. If the officers and soldiers can understand the righteousness, then they will be trained as righteous soldiers."
Lin Mojun sighed and said, "How difficult it is!"
Su Ze said: "It's difficult, but it's not completely impossible. Back then, Emperor Taizu raised righteous soldiers to expel the Yuan captives in response to the wishes of all the people in the world."
Lin Mojun asked again: "Then how can we make the officers and soldiers understand justice?"
Su Ze continued: "Of course you need to study, so that the officers and soldiers know why they fight and how to fight. These all need education."
Lin Mojun sighed and said, "There aren't that many masters in the army."
Su Ze said: "I am willing to contribute to the guard station and give lectures to the guards, so that the soldiers can understand the righteousness."
Lin Mojun was a little moved and said quickly: "Thank you very much, Mr. Su!"
Su Ze volunteered and said, "Every two days, I can go to the school grounds to give lectures to the officers and soldiers in the afternoon. What do Baihu think?"
Su Ze was so active, Lin Mojun couldn't help but said: "Excuse me, sir!"
Of course, Su Ze didn't just want to impress the officers and soldiers. He didn't expect the military in the feudal era to have a high level of ideological awareness.
We must know that the powerful army that led China out of the dark age in modern times experienced nearly a hundred years of ideological enlightenment before its establishment. Starting from the late Qing Dynasty, several generations of pioneers built a sense of family, country and nationality, and finally broke through the ideological cage of thousands of years.
, built into a people's army.
Nowadays, the Ming Dynasty has not even awakened the national consciousness. It is too unrealistic to establish the people's army in one step.
This is not some Iron Ambition or some Doria, where as long as you click on some national policy button, you can be automatically civilized or something.
Su Ze wanted to give lectures to the officers and soldiers of Changning Guard. On the one hand, he wanted to improve his "Enlightenment" skills, and also to find ways to gain some experience in "Art of War" skills.
On the other hand, the Ming Dynasty actually reached the junction of the cold weapon age and the firearms age. The Ming army actually began to use firearms. There is a special chapter on bird guns (matchlock guns) in the Qi family army.
In the 27th year of Jiajing, the previous Zhu Wan defeated the Japanese pirates on Shuangyu Island in the 27th year of Jiajing. He obtained a batch of bird guns and Portuguese craftsmen who could make bird guns on Shuangyu Island. The Ming court began to order imitations.
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Now, in the 33rd year of Jiajing reign, there is naturally no remote guard station like Changning Guard. However, with the deepening of the war against Japanese pirates, the Ming army also began to use bird cannons one after another.
During the Wanli period, the Qi army was transferred to Liaodong and had already improved the military formations using artillery. In addition to the border weapons and rockets that the Ming army originally used, the proportion of firearms used by the Ming army was actually very high.
It's just a matter of the quality of soldiers and the quality of weapons. The power of firearms is not very powerful. Of course, the power of firearms in this era is not very powerful either.
But this is not a problem for Su Ze. He has a system to improve firearms. The accuracy of bird guns is already good. He only needs to improve the loading method and gunpowder ratio to develop the next generation of muskets.
At this time, the Portuguese had already sold red cannons and Franco machine guns in East Asia. There was no particularly high technical threshold for casting cannons in this era.
To build an army that uses muskets and artillery, soldiers need to have higher quality.
The reason why the French artillery in the Napoleonic era was invincible was because French mathematics education was the most advanced in the world at that time. France had the highest quality artillery officers and gunners, so they could shoot more accurately and faster.
But after all, it still costs money in the end!
Su Ze looked at the screen and said to Lin Mojun behind the screen: "I have another way to enrich the people and strengthen the army."
"Sir, please tell me, what is the method?"
Su Ze paused and said, "Although this method is good, it requires 'sea trade'."