Chapter Twenty-Three: Fight to the Death for Your Majesty!
In the Han Dynasty, if you wanted to join the army, the first requirement was that the soldier must be a son of a good family. If it's a tenant farmer's child, don't even think about it. At the very least, you have to be a small yeoman farmer. If it is the Flying Fox Army, the Juzhu Army, and the Fine Willow Battalion, the requirements are even higher. For example, Yu Linwei requires that his parents have sacrificed on the battlefield, especially on the external battlefield, so Yu Linwei was an orphan of Yulin when he was a child.
In the Tang Dynasty, of course, the requirements were not so high. But it is also difficult to enter the army.
As for the pre-Song Dynasty, the army has become a joke-like existence.
Zhao Kuangyin himself won the country unjustly, deceived the orphans and widows of the Chai family, and added himself in the yellow robe of Chenqiaoyi, of course, to prevent others from doing the same in his own family descendants to do so, so it was called to prevent the disaster of the former Tang Dynasty's feudal towns, so he adopted a military strategy of strong cadres and weak branches.
The so-called strong cadres and weak branches are all concentrated in the forbidden army, and as for the box army, it is simply an ornament. In the event of natural and man-made disasters, displaced people will also be included in it. In addition, the criminals are basically assigned to serve in the army, and it is worth pondering how much combat effectiveness this army can have. In this way, it is no wonder that since the founding veterans died, Zhao Song's foreign wars have basically been pressed to the ground and rubbed. After all, in the Han and Tang dynasties, if killing people could be assigned to join the army, then I don't know how many people would kill people and set fires!
Therefore, when it came to the Zhao and Song dynasties, the sense of superiority accumulated by the Chinese dynasties was lost for a while, and the soldiers had to tattoo words on their faces, which made people feel humiliated, and even had the bastard saying that "a good man is not a soldier, and a good iron is not a nail".
In addition, Zhao Song and the scholars share the world, pay attention to the opening of the Wen Emperor, and the military generals are lower than the Wenchen, and even the optimus jade pillars like Yue Wumu and Di Qing can't tolerate it, so it's no wonder that Zhao Song is crying and mourning.
When Zhu Yuanzhang, the Hongwu Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, won the world, and thought that Lao Tzu was more wise and powerful than those losers of the Zhao family, he patted his head and made such a freak as Weisuo. still holding the idea of Lao Tzu being a hero, he ordered the descendants of craftsmen to only be craftsmen, and the descendants of soldiers became hereditary soldiers, blocking the channel for the flow of talents. As a result, the Upper Guard House also quickly eroded.
Later, the guard system also became a joke: most of the soldiers became domestic slaves of thousands of households, and they were hereditary domestic slaves! The status of this soldier eating the emperor's food is declining, and it is only natural that the soldier has no combat power.
Until today, Emperor Chongzhen's personal announcement in front of the public means that since the Zhao and Song dynasties, the status of martial artists who have been suppressed for more than 600 years will finally be improved, and even on par with the strong men!
What is the most feared thing for a warrior? They are not afraid of death! They are only afraid of forgetting!
If, like the former Song Dynasty, the generals who fought for the country were not as glorious as the champions of the Donghua Gate, who was willing to fight to the death for the country? The same was true of the Ming Dynasty, but now, Emperor Chongzhen has completely rewritten all this!
Emperor Chongzhen's holy decree today, although it is full of vernacular, is exactly what Chongzhen wants. Although the article is gorgeous, it is illiterate and mud legs. How many literate soldiers are there among the big-headed soldiers? Only when both the mud legs and the big head can understand that they can truly support themselves.
Emperor Chongzhen, who pretended to be forced to run away, returned to the harem in a happy mood, and the remaining soldiers of the Beijing camp, the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion and the White Pole Soldiers who learned the news exploded!
What do Chinese value? In fact, the most important thing is the inheritance of incense. In an ordinary family, if there is a boy, it is called incense. If there are only girls and no boys, then people are saying that the family has been cut off from incense.
What is incense? Bloodline inheritance, after their death, some people send themselves to the ancestral grave, and some people will burn paper on incense to themselves during the New Year's holidays, which is called incense!
Now the emperor attaches great importance to martial artists, and as soon as the Martyrs' Shrine comes out, he is not afraid that there will be no incense after death! Even if the children and grandchildren of their own family are unfilial and forget themselves, the incense in the martyrs' shrine will always have their own share!
As for the parents of the high hall in the family, there are also the imperial court to support them, and there are also parents and officials from the local government who go to condole. As for the wife and children, there is no need to worry about it! Eight hundred of his ancestors are flat and don't know that it is a word of white ding, and now that he has died in battle, the little cub will have the opportunity to go to school, which is simply a good thing that is difficult to find with a lantern! As for himself, he should have died a long time ago, and once he died, he could exchange such a good life for his family, and he would feel guilty if he lived again!
Man, in later generations, was called a higher animal. Since it is still an animal, it must have retained some of the habits of animals. For example, the herd theory can also be applied to people.
When most people decided to die for Emperor Chongzhen, even if some people still had doubts in their hearts, they would be led by fanatics to die calmly.
In this way, Man Gui was surprised to find that it was still those uncles in the original Beijing camp, or those soldiers who were greedy for life and afraid of death, if they were like crazy, they didn't care about their lives at all.
Someone was cut off by Jiannu with an arm, did not retreat but advanced, hugged Jiannu with the only remaining hand, and bit Jiannu's neck fiercely with his teeth, striving to let his companions behind him blow Jiannu to death, and for the swords, guns and sword wounds that cut on his body, he didn't care at all, it was completely a way of exchanging life for life.
And for Hauge, who commanded the siege, this sudden change was depressing.
The Ming troops at the head of the city were like crazy, and suddenly became fearless of death. From time to time, the seriously injured Ming army jumped from the city with Jiannu in his arms!
If the Ming army is like these people in front of them, let alone the Jingshi who attacked the barbarians, can they and the others still return to Liaodong safely?
If it is true that everyone in the army is like this, even if they retreat to Liaodong, can they still hold Liaodong? Those damn it. Ming Jun, why did they suddenly seem to be a different person? No wonder shouting for His Majesty is really so powerful? Can it be reborn?
Haoge, who did not believe in evil, simply divided the last reserve army with a thousand people and sent them to supervise the siege of the city, while he himself lay in the emperor's tent.
You must know that from the siege to the present, the 10,000 Han army and eight banners brought by Haoge have been almost spelled. The 5,000 elite soldiers of the Jurchen Eight Banners are already the last core force in their hands, and if they are exhausted, the Dajin Kingdom, which has a small population, can be called a broken body even if it cannot be said to be a big loss of vitality!