Three hundred and eighty-seven simple soldiers
Xiao Ruxun was named the Marquis of Zhennan, and the news of Shizhen Burma soon spread among the small countries in Southeast Asia and the Ming army in Burma.
Xiao Ruxun's status in the local armies of the Ming Dynasty is very special.
Since the beginning of the twentieth year of Wanli, Xiao Ruxun has stood out from the local officer family in Ningxia, and after quelling the Bibai rebellion in Ningxia, Xiao Ruxun has basically become the head of the armies in Ningxia Town, and once served as the chief soldier of Ningxia, but he was soon transferred to the Korean battlefield, and the bloody war with the Japanese who ravaged the southeast hinterland of the Ming Dynasty for several months, divided the Japanese into pieces, wiped out their 200,000 troops, and made immortal achievements.
Then he didn't rest for long, and he was transferred to the battlefield in Burma, destroying the disgusting country like kraft candy that had been harassing the southern Xinjiang of the Ming Dynasty for more than ten years, and restored the prestige of the Ming Dynasty in Nanyang to the era of Zheng He's Western Ocean, not only expanding the territory, but also greatly increasing the face of the Ming Dynasty, making the Ming Dynasty show its prestige, and more than 20 small countries re-paid tribute and joined the tributary system of the Ming Dynasty again.
These are all the merits and achievements of Ming Huanghuang, if these are the representatives of prestige, then the cooperation between Xiao Ruxun and the troops is the real relationship.
Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, where there are officials, there are battles, and where there are soldiers, there are mountains, and this is a truth that will never change.
Xiao Ruxun, as a military general born and raised in a military family of officers in the northwest, is of course a border general belonging to the Ningxia Town faction, and in expanding a little, he belongs to the Northern Army, belongs to the nine-sided system, and the troops of the non-nine-sided system belong to different mountains and different factions.
In the Ming army, which is full of factions, it is very difficult to find the source left and right, of course, it is not impossible, but if there is no deep connections and strength bonus, it is wishful thinking, and for Xiao Ruxun, this is also wishful thinking from the beginning.
When he first commanded the soldiers and horses in various places to fight, he was only twenty-three years old, and he only had the military exploits of quelling the Ningxia rebellion, and he had the aura of using gunpowder to overturn the city wall of Ningxia.
In addition, Xiao Ruxun is a hairy boy with eyebrows on his mouth and eyebrows, those Liaodong Shandong Datong Xuanfu and Southern Soldiers, which one is willing to bird him? I thought that this was an impossible task, but who would have thought that Xiao Ruxun would use three months before the war to establish his prestige, solve problems for Wu Weizhong, gather the military spirit of the southern soldiers, beat Li Rusong, and deter the rest of the army.
In World War I, Pyongyang wiped out tens of thousands of Japanese invaders, initially established its prestige, and in World War II, the valley did not use gunpowder and used cold weapons, tens of thousands of human heads were fruitful, and the three wars opened the city and four battles against Seoul, and in one month's effort, the results of most of the previous Japanese invaders were abolished, and 70,000 or 80,000 human heads were piled up into a mountain, establishing Xiao Ruxun's prestige extremely hard.
Of course, in addition to prestige, Xiao Ruxun's credibility has also been recognized by various armies.
A mighty general wants to be feared by soldiers, it is very easy, it is good to kill more people, but to get the respect of soldiers, it is difficult, especially generals from different places want to get the respect of soldiers from other places, it is even more difficult, like Xiao Ruxun, who was born in Ningxia, wants to get the respect of Shandong spearmen, how do you get it? Thousands of miles away, you don't know me, I don't know you, why should I respect you?
Xiao Ruxun can do it on the contrary, impartially, without deliberately favoring any army, giving all units the same opportunity to fight, and the results are basically evenly divided, try to achieve a bowl of water, when his headquarters has achieved too many results, he is willing to leave his headquarters behind, and take the armies of other factions to earn military merits, how rare do you say such a commander is?
If the soldiers are familiar with the general, as soon as the general's drum sounds, the soldiers will know what to do, and the cooperation between each other is very tacit, and it is as reliable as the general's arm to use.
This is the reason why, in an objective sense, the subordinate units are more effective in using them than the collateral units.
However, Xiao Ruxun is biased, he can not only lead the descendants to win the battle, but also lead the side troops to win the battle, and the military discipline that restricts the descendants is also very strong, and the descendants are not allowed to provoke other troops, knowing that this will give the descendants a bad impression, but he still does this, tries to maintain the balance of the troops, and when an irreconcilable incident occurs, he pulls it out to fight, and after a victory, all contradictions are settled.
After winning the war exploits and getting rewards, he only took what he should take, and the others were distributed to his subordinates, and he also deliberately rewarded his subordinates with a large head, and tried to take care of every meritorious soldier and, more importantly, he knew how to care about others and could take into account the actual situation, for example, the southern soldiers fought in North Korea, and they were not very accustomed to the cold climate of North Korea, the winter clothes were too thin, and the southern soldiers could not bear the severe cold, Xiao Ruxun did not laugh at the southern soldiers, and directly issued double winter clothes to the southern soldiers to keep out the cold, so they were collectively supported by the southern soldiers.
The northern soldiers and the southern soldiers are not accustomed to eating each other's staple food, Xiao Ruxun tries his best to make hometown food for the local army during the New Year's holidays, regardless of whether it is authentic or not, having this heart is the only one among the Ming generals, making flatbread for the northern soldiers, making noodle soup for the southern soldiers, not to mention how well it is done, just this heart is felt by the defeated majority of the soldiers.
If you care about the troops from the bottom of your heart, the soldiers can feel that in this precarious situation on the battlefield, the mighty and benevolent generals are the most popular, you care about the soldiers, the soldiers are willing to fight to the death for you, the soldiers have no feelings for the family and country, there is no big reason, and now there is no political and ideological education, what are they fighting for? Basically, they are all fighting for life and life, and life is the first thing, so there are many deserters and weak combat effectiveness, but under Xiao Ruxun's hands, these soldiers are willing to fight to the death and are willing to fight hard for Xiao Ruxun.
What do you think is a noble feeling? No! It is because Xiao Ruxun gave grace to these soldiers, making them feel that they have been gracious and taken care of, they are grateful, and they trust Xiao Ruxun, so they are willing to fight for Xiao Ruxun with all their strength, how can there be so many noble feelings? How can there be so much righteousness? Do you expect soldiers who can't read a single word to understand the national righteousness?
Otherwise, why is the emperor always so jealous of the generals?
It's very simple, as soon as the prestige generals ascend to the heights, the big-headed soldiers really dare to launch a counterattack on the emperor, and they are willing to cut their bodies to pull the emperor off the horse, which is definitely not a joke! Nowadays, without political and ideological education, soldiers are very easy to become the private soldiers of prestigious generals, and soldiers do not care who is the emperor, and they will still be afraid at the beginning of the founding of the country. Lao Tzu is having a bad time, so I'll take you under the knife!
This situation was particularly significant before the Song Dynasty, Rao tried his best to suppress the army after the Song Dynasty, but the essence of the army is like this, no matter how you suppress it, in troubled times, the army is still fierce, and it is still the foundation of the regime, so whether it is Wang Xijue or Zhang Wei or Zhao Zhigao or Shi Xing, they must not accept the existence of 30,000 soldiers who have completely become Xiao Ruxun's private soldiers.
If these 30,000 soldiers and horses are used well, with Xiao Ruxun's prestige, climb the heights and shout, these 30,000 people will immediately roar and follow him north to conquer the city, no one knows better than the civilian officials how weak the garrisons in the south of the Yangtze River are, and no one is not worried about whether Xiao Ruxun's prestige in the southern soldiers can call on the southern soldiers and wolf soldiers to turn against each other, and then take the entire Jiangnan in an instant, confront the north and south of the imperial court, and then send troops to the north.
For no other reason, the army is so violent and simple.
So when the soldiers learned that Xiao Ruxun was left in Burma and could not return to the Central Plains, and they were about to leave Xiao Ruxun and return to the Central Plains, they once had a very serious rebellious mentality, and they were very unhappy with the treatment that Xiao Ruxun suffered that was almost equivalent to exile.
Xiao Ruxun couldn't cry or laugh, and appeased these soldiers and officers, saying that this was his own expectation, what he requested, and it had nothing to do with the imperial court, he wanted to stay here for the imperial court, and also a safe and peaceful environment for the people of the Ming Dynasty, this is his philosophy, I hope everyone will be fulfilled, and please don't write to the court, otherwise not only will his situation be more difficult, but the generals will also encounter unfair treatment.
Because the imperial court will think that Xiao Ruxun buys people's hearts in the army and forms a party for personal gain, then it is not beautiful.
After the generals realized the seriousness of the problem, they all died down with grievances, but although they died down, Xiao Ruxun still saw the grievances and dissatisfaction in their hearts very clearly, especially Liu Wei and Deng Zilong, who had almost developed to the point of hatred for those civilian officials.
For this reason, Xiao Ruxun specially invited these two generals who had great prestige in the southern military system to have a meal, explained some truths to them, and told them to be low-key and do things, never go against the will of the imperial court, etc., although they were aggrieved, but safe - the two generals were aggrieved and agreed, and said that in the future, Xiao Ruxun had any needs, one of them was in Guangdong and the other was in Sichuan, and these two local snakes definitely gave Xiao Ruxun enough help.
They reluctantly left Burma with the Sichuan and Cantonese soldiers.
The southern generals are mostly reluctant to Xiao Ruxun, the southern soldiers who were born in Qi Jiguang Yu Dayou's system, and the northern generals have always been less than in a pot, only one Xiao Ruxun is very happy with them, this departure, I don't know which fucking general is going to be assigned to do some fucking things, they are very unhappy, and they are also very reluctant to leave Xiao Dashuai's command, and they miss Xiao Dashuai's chili peppers and big bread even more.
Xiao Ruxun reassured them with good words, telling them to do things honestly, be low-key, don't disobey the officials, let alone contradict the general, not everyone can laugh like him Xiao someone, be careful of being put in small shoes.
The southern soldiers reluctantly bid farewell to the marshal they agreed with.
The wolf soldiers elected their leaders to Xiao Ruxun's tent to say goodbye to Xiao Ruxun, saying that they would cooperate with so many Han generals to fight, only Xiao Ruxun really regarded them as his own people, and others regarded them as barbarians, not to mention anything else, rough people are illiterate and can't speak, if General Xiao can still use us in the future, if we can continue to fight together, we will definitely go to the soup for General Xiao, not to mention fighting the Burmese barbarians, even if it is a rebellion, we will hang our heads on the belt of our trousers and go with General Xiao!
Xiao Ruxun couldn't help but laugh and sent the honest wolf soldiers onto the ship and watched them leave - these soldiers of the Zhuang and Miao tribes did not understand the principles of the Han people, did not understand the words and language of the Han people, and did not understand the rules of the Han people, but they knew how to be loyal and grateful.
In the end, there were more than 20 boys from the Ma family, the young men entrusted to him by Ma Gui, Xiao Ruxun asked them if they would also follow the fleet back to Ma Gui's side, and they shook their heads one by one.
"Uncle entrusted us to the big handsome, the big handsome is our day, the big handsome let us go east, we will never go west, the big handsome let us go south, we will never go north, and we won't go back in the future, the big handsome is in Myanmar, let's follow the big handsome in Myanmar, no matter where to go, go up the knife mountain and down the sea of fire, frown, don't be surnamed Ma!"
Ma Hu said.
These iron-clad men are really Xiao Ruxun a little moved, what is a *******, they are all readers, Xiao Ruxun has a deep understanding.
Of course, there are no absolutes in everything, Yuan Huang, the elite of the scholars, gave up his official position in the imperial court, and became Xiao Ruxun's only literati staff member, staying in the wild land of Burma in the wilderness of Myanmar, and also wrote a letter to his family in his hometown in Wujiang County, so that the family moved south to Myanmar, gave up the family house in Wujiang County, and settled in Myanmar from then on, and wrote a letter to a group of student friends in Zhejiang, inviting them to come to Myanmar to help Xiao Ruxun build Myanmar, although I don't know if anyone is willing to come. But Yuan Huang has done everything he can.
Xiao Ruxun was extremely moved by this, and strongly persuaded Yuan Huang not to do this, he had to leave his hometown at the age of sixty, which really made him unhappy.
Yuan Huang laughed, saying that his ancestors were forced to leave their hometown and come to Wujiang County because of Zhu Di's guilt in the Battle of Jingjing, Wujiang was not his hometown, and it didn't matter if he left, although Myanmar was poor and white, but Yuan Huang could see that Xiao Ruxun would definitely be able to develop Myanmar into a rich paradise on earth.
He was convinced.