Chapter 29 Rectifying Military Discipline
At any time, the most feared thing is that the law enforcers know the law and break the law, and the law enforcers ignore the laws and regulations, which is more terrible than the lawbreakers.
It didn't take long for some of the soldiers of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division and a few soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion to see some beautiful female homeless people when they were on patrol, so they used meat as bait to do some skin and meat transactions with them, and did shameless deeds.
After the incident broke out, Zhu Cihong ordered several soldiers to be killed in public, and strictly ordered that all soldiers of the Yongwei battalion bullied the weak and risked their lives, and they would also be killed and would not be tolerated.
Regarding Zhu Cihong's order, Huang Degong and Sun Yingyuan expressed their resolute support and personally supervised it. Both of them have been in the army for many years, and they both know the importance of discipline, and the discipline of an army is more important than combat effectiveness.
From ancient times to the present, all strong armies have a common characteristic, that is, strict military discipline, the Yuejia army and the Qijia army, not how strong the soldiers' individual combat ability is, but strict military discipline.
The most important thing is to strictly obey the military order on the battlefield, and the forward order flag points to it, and move forward, and Mount Tai is pressed on the top and the face does not change.
But whenever the army suffers defeat, it is basically the rout of the front army, and then the whole collapse, and the people behind don't even know what's going on in front of them, and they follow when they see others running.
Today's Ming army, most of this situation, when victorious, rushed in, defeated and fled thousands of miles, even if the commander is excellent, can not reverse this vicious situation
If the military discipline is strict and no one retreats, even if it is outnumbered, it can cause great damage to the enemy, and no one dares to easily fight to the death with such an army.
Most of the military regulations of the Ming Dynasty inherited from the previous dynasties, which seemed too complicated, and basically cut off the head at the slightest breakage, which looked scary, but the actual operability was very low.
Therefore, Zhu Cihong decided to re-promulgate military regulations and strictly enforce military discipline. Zhu Cihong borrowed from the Yue family army and the Qi family army, and combined with later generations, streamlined the complicated military regulations into the main seven articles, called the 'Seven Killing Orders'.
On the second day, Zhu Cihong ordered all the people in the Yongwei battalion to assemble in the school, Huang Degong, Sun Yingyuan, and the guerrilla generals, Qianzong, general, and Baizong of the Yongwei battalion were all present, and even the supervising troops Lu Jiude and Liu Yuanbin were also present.
On the school ground outside the Yongwei Battalion, 5,000 soldiers stood straight, all looking at Zhu Cihong on the stage with burning eyes. The presence of the crown prince in person is second only to the emperor's royal car, and in this era, no one dares not to pay attention to it.
Zhu Cihong asked the generals to pick out dozens of soldiers with loud voices, stand at the front of each queue, and then ordered Huang Degong to read out the seven killing orders in public.
Huang Degong's face was serious, and he glanced at the thousands of soldiers in the audience, and then spoke: "In accordance with the order of His Royal Highness, the military regulations "Seven Killings Order" are specially issued in the Yongwei Battalion to show military discipline, and the military regulations are as follows:
Disloyal and unjust, defective to the enemy and traitor, kill!
Whoever slanders the Lord and does not obey the command, kill!
Afraid of the enemy, those who flee from the battle, kill!
Those who leak military aircraft and lie about military information, kill!
Those who steal property and take away military merits, kill!
Gather a crowd to make trouble, cholera soldiers, kill!
Bully the people, rape and captive, kill!
Every time Huang Degong recited a sentence, dozens of loud voices in front of the queue followed along, striving to make it heard by every soldier in the Yongwei Battalion.
Every killing word fell, like a giant hammer smashing into people's hearts, making people can't help but shiver.
Huang Degong continued: "All those who belong to my Yongwei Battalion, from the supervising army to the generals, down to the ordinary soldiers, but those who violate it will be killed!" ”
Zhu Cihong asked everyone in the Yongwei Battalion to memorize proficiently and check regularly, if someone does not know how to recite or memorize wrongly, the staff will be 20 military sticks, and they will not recite it after checking more than three times, and they will be kicked out of the Yongwei Battalion directly.
The new military regulations seem to be strict, but compared with the previous military regulations, they are much looser. The content of the Seven Killings Order is the bottom line, ordinary trivial matters will be dealt with leniently, and soldiers who are difficult to negotiate with and punished many times will be severely punished.
Zhu Cihong also used "Loyal to the Country" as the military song of the Yongwei Battalion, he wrote the lyrics, and sent people from the Bell and Drum Division to teach it.
As one of the twenty-four yamen of the Ming court, the Bell and Drum Division can be said to be the top existence at that time in terms of music and dance. Zhu Cihong only sang it once, and they basically mastered the tune, and rehearsed it into dance music according to the lyrics, and while playing the music, they taught the soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion to sing collectively.
Zhu Cihong wanted to tell the soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion that he knew what he was fighting for, and he wanted to build a strong army with ideas.
Well-equipped, it is possible to become a strong army after strict training, but this kind of strong army, only on the surface, many of them fight with a heart of compulsion and fear of military law.
With such a strong army, if there is the encouragement of thought and faith, the soldiers can voluntarily fight, Zhu Cihong can say with certainty that such an army will be invincible!
The Mengyuan regime was extremely restrictive to the Han people, with four households and one kitchen knife, but under the national slogan of expelling Hulu and restoring China, this group of ragged Han people with rudimentary weapons defeated the invincible Mongols at that time, fearless of life and death.
The power of thought and belief is also the main soul of the modern army of later generations. Courage, loyalty, discipline, knowing why to fight, plus well-equipped and skilled in combat and martial arts, even if the main general has average qualifications, can be called a strong army.
The last years of the Song Dynasty and the last years of the Ming Dynasty were both years when nationalism and Huayi were prevalent, but it was only because the people were poor and illiterate that it was difficult to form such a thinking army.
Now that he is the prince of a country, he has a lot of resources at his disposal, plus the ready-made personnel of the Yongwei Battalion, and has the most sophisticated equipment of the Ming Dynasty, if he can instill ideas in the soldiers, then he believes that in time, the Yongwei Battalion will be invincible in the world!
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The wolf smoke rises and the country looks north
The dragon flag rolled the horse, and the sword qi was like frost
The heart is like the Yellow River
Who can fight in 20 years
Hatred is mad and the knife is headed
How many siblings are buried in their bones
What a pity to die to repay the family and country
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In the camp of the Yongwei Battalion, there is an exciting collective chorus every day, and this song "Serving the Country with Loyalty" is to express Yue Fei's artistic conception of resisting Jin. Yue Fei's name is like thunder even after five hundred years, and even if he is illiterate, he has heard the storyteller talk about it.
The soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion, many of whom are from the Nine Sides, have fought against Houjin all the year round, and almost all of them worship General Yue, and this military song is more in line with their state of mind.
Therefore, every time they sing, they will arouse the passion of fighting for the country in their hearts, which is also the result that Zhu Cihong wants.
Some of the soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion on duty in the porridge factory were patrolling while reciting the Seven Killing Orders, and after a period of vigorous rectification, the discipline of the entire Yongwei Battalion took on a new look.
"These military masters are completely different from our officers and soldiers."
"I heard that this is Chitose Ye's soldiers, and the songs sung over there are also lyrics written by Chitose Ye himself, and the seven killing orders that those military masters read every day are also written by Chitose Ye."
"I've seen Chitose Lord, the last time I came to visit us, I was standing not far away, very young, and I looked like I was more than ten years old!"
"Wow, Master Chitose is so powerful at a young age, it's really the reincarnation of Zi Weixing."
There was a burst of discussion among the homeless people, all of whom felt the great change in the Yongwei Battalion, and at the same time admired the crown prince.
In recent days, the justice and domineering of the soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion have made many homeless young people envious and want to become one of them.