Chapter 257: The army must use heavy codes to control the rebellion
The camp of the Heshuo forbidden army.
Woo woo woo~
The next morning, as soon as the sky was bright, the melodious and loud sound of the horn woke the soldiers from their sleep.
"Straight lady thief, what are you crazy about, blowing the trumpet early in the morning!" Someone was woken up and shouted angrily.
"Today's order, those who are late or don't arrive will be punished for serious crimes, or even killed on the spot, get up quickly!" Someone reminded.
Hearing this, those who scolded and scolded remembered the major events that had been spread throughout the barracks last night...... Forty or fifty souls returned to the underworld overnight, and now this is a big thing to kill. One by one, they panicked, hurriedly dressed in armor, carrying weapons, and hurriedly ran to the school grounds.
However, when the forest is big, there are all kinds of birds, and there are always exceptions to the more than 60,000 soldiers and horses......
When the soldiers of the Heshuo Forbidden Army rushed to the school in a hurry, they saw that the generals were already standing up and down, and they were already standing with cold eyes, watching their arrival with cold eyes.
The forbidden army under the stage poured in like dark clouds, and then gradually converged into a group, and stood under the main general's stage, and there was no edge in sight.
The soldiers didn't dare to slack off, and began to rectify the queue, but they didn't know how many years they hadn't rectified, and they were stunned for half an hour before they barely discharged a four-like queue. At first glance, it looks okay, the sword halberd is like a forest, the flag is like a cloud, but if you look closely, it is not as good as at first glance, it is completely like a surging giant worm, without any order.
On the platform, Zhao Hao sat on the big chair in the middle, and the three of them, Seed Master Dao, Seed Master Zhong, and Yang Weizhong, sat on the left and right respectively, while Wu Song, Fang Baihua, Lu Junyi, Liang Hongyu, Hua Rong and Zhang Qing and others stood beside and behind Zhao Hao with their swords.
Zhao Hao, who was sitting in the middle, looked at the forbidden army under the stage and shook his head, he couldn't line up well, how could he go to war? No wonder in the historical battle of Liao, the original front-line team was only a small defeat, Tong Guanyi announced a retreat, and the army was immediately defeated, and the 100,000 forbidden army was killed by tens of thousands of Liao troops to lose their armor and flee.
Looking at the barely lined queue under the stage, Zhao Hao shouted to Yang Weizhong in a deep voice: "Order all armies, battalions, and all capitals to report those who are late and those who have not arrived!" ”
With Zhao Hao's order, hundreds of heralds under the stage immediately rode away and rushed to the battalions.
After a long time, the heralds returned to their horses one after another.
"Report to the general, the five battalions of the Baoding Army should have arrived at 2,000 people, but there were 1,997 people, two people did not arrive, and eleven people were late."
"The third battalion of the Ansu Army, there should be 2,120 people, but it is 1,999 people, not one person, and five people are late."
"The four battalions of the Shun'an Army should have arrived at 2,209 people, but it was 2,209 people, and eight people were late."
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With the report of the heralds, Zhao Hao's brows became tighter and tighter, the establishment of 2,500 people in each army, almost no lack of personnel in the roster to the imperial court, and only a few people who occasionally lacked staff, but the actual number of people reported was 100 to 500 less than 2,500 people.
This is the legendary empty salary, but it is a forbidden army, and the proportion of empty salary is still small. Otherwise, how can a year's military spending account for half of the fiscal expenditure.
Because of the Jinyi Guard's verification, the generals below did not dare to falsely report the actual number of people, otherwise once it was verified, it would fall into the hands of Zhao Hao, the ruthless master, and the consequences would be unimaginable. They simply reported it honestly, and once Zhao Hao was more seriously held accountable, he could also find an opportunity to shirk his responsibility. After all, the routine of eating empty salaries has been a black history for nearly two hundred years, and it is better than making a false report in public and being caught by Zhao Hao.
At this moment, Zhao Hao didn't want to pursue the matter of empty salary. The top priority is to improve the combat quality of the Heshuo forbidden army, not to ask how brave they are, how to use one as ten, just not to collapse in one battle; Second, from the court to the ***** of the Great Song Dynasty, not to mention the empty salary, not to mention the generals of the Heshuo Forbidden Army, even the officials of the Great Song Dynasty themselves have to collect their own black money, and even he Zhao Hao has to send black money to the official family......
"Those who are late will be punished with a rod for thirty, and there will be no mercy next time!" Zhao Hao shouted in a deep voice.
"Whoa!"
"Order all armies, battalions, and capitals to immediately reorganize and arrange the queues, and the two veteran generals also ask the generals to assist!"
"Whoa!"
With the generals' promise, Zhao Hao's tone became murderous: "Jinyi Guard, go to the camps, detain all those who have not arrived, and those who can't act will be carried too!" ”
"Whoa!"
The generals in the audience were rearranging the queue in a chaotic manner, and those generals selected from the Beijing Forbidden Army also joined in to assist the whole team. Hundreds of people were pulled out of the queue and scolded in public, beating them screaming for days, which made the hearts of the forbidden soldiers who were in the whole team tremble, and they dared to slack off.
Immediately afterwards, a group of brocade guards lined up, took the rosters of each battalion, and went straight to the camps of each army to search for those who had not arrived.
After a while, those soldiers who had not yet arrived were escorted to the stage by the brocade guards one after another, and the most striking thing was that there were really three or four people who were carried over with quilts, a total of about 20 people.
Zhao Hao slowly climbed off the platform, stopped in front of the people who had not arrived, and stood in front of the few soldiers lying in the bed.
"Liang Feng, 45 in force, 43 in intelligence, 12 in politics, and 42 in health."
The first person Zhao Hao saw was pale, as if he had malaria, and his body shook when he saw Zhao Hao. Zhao Hao looked at his frightened eyes, with a warm look in his eyes, and turned back and said, "Carry back to the camp, don't suffer from the cold!" ”
He took out a jade bottle from his bosom, poured a few pills, and handed it to a Jinyi guard: "Take this medicine pill and let it take it with hot water, it will be of great benefit." ”
The brocade guards promised.
The man opened his mouth to say something, but he didn't make any business, and he burst into tears in an instant.
Zhao Hao waved his hand and motioned for everyone to carry it away.
After speaking, he walked in front of the second person, the man still had a sad face, and his whole body trembled, a sneer appeared at the corner of Zhao Hao's mouth, and he suddenly stretched out his hand and turned the person out of the quilt and rolled to the ground.
Zhao Hao carefully inspected this person, there were no flaws in his hands and feet, and shouted loudly: "If you can't pretend to be sick, you can deceive Shangguan and behead!" ”
The man was so shocked that he knelt down and begged for mercy, crying: "The general spares his life, the little one is seriously ill, and I hope for forgiveness!" ”
Zhao Hao didn't look at him, just repeated one word: "Chop!" ”
A cold light flashed, and the man's plea for mercy stopped abruptly.
Those who are "seriously ill" with a health value of 93 are already terminally ill, so what can they do if they don't keep it?
With a burst of miserable and desperate exclamations, those who had not yet arrived knelt down one after another: "The general spares his life!" ”
And a soldier lying in the quilt next to him was so shocked that he hurriedly lifted the quilt, revealing half of his left leg.
Zhao Hao looked at the man's half-amputated leg and said in a deep voice: "Carefully investigate why this person is disabled, if it is for official business, he will be subsidized according to the routine and sent back to his hometown; If they are disabled for non-duty reasons, they will be paid travel expenses and repatriated to their hometowns, and the barracks are not a place for the disabled to provide for the elderly. ”
"Whoa!"
He turned to look at the other soldier who was still in the bed next to him and the rest of the kneeling people, and after inquiring about it, he said fiercely: "Cut!" ”
Those who had not yet arrived suddenly shouted like killing pigs.
"General Qiyu, the villain has diarrhea, so he hasn't arrived ......"
"The villain is infected with the wind and cold......"
"The villain didn't hear the rallying cry......"
Zhao Hao's face was gloomy, he turned around, and the Jinyi guards around him had already raised the Qinglong wrong hand knife, but when he saw a person, he suddenly went crazy and shouted: "General, please stay, I have something important to report!" ”
Zhao Hao turned around slowly again, looked at the man, but saw that the man was facing him, holding up a piece of paper, although the words on it were not neat, but they were clearly legible.
"I'm Cai's wife."
Zhao Hao smiled, smiling weirdly.
Cha~
The cold light flashed, the head fell to the ground, blood splashed, and the man held the piece of paper high and slowly fell.
Immediately afterwards, a wolf-like howl sounded behind Zhao Hao, which resounded throughout the entire school field, suppressing the noise all over the field.
The soldiers who were reorganizing the queue stopped, looked over here with frightened faces, and secretly rejoiced in their hearts.
Even those soldiers who were being scolded by the cane raised their heads one after another, and looked at the wooden canes that were splashed with blood and fell on their bodies, and they didn't seem to be so painful.
In troubled times, we must use heavy codes, and the same is true for chaotic armies!
It's been a long time. The blood and bodies on the ground have been cleaned; The soldiers who had been reprimanded with the rod limped to leave, dragged their wounded bodies back to the camp; Tens of thousands of troops finally formed a decent queue after some rectification.
Zhao Hao looked at the queue in front of him, finally nodded, and shouted in a deep voice: "From today onwards, all armies must assemble four times a day, march four times, and march ten miles each time, and each must preach the "Responsibility of a Soldier" once a night, and practice for five days in a row, and there must be no mistakes!" Five days later, listen to the general's order! If there is any slackness, all will be punished with fifty rods, and if there is a deliberate refusal to execute, it will be killed on the spot! ”
"Whoa!"
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Just when Zhao Hao was rectifying the military discipline of the Heshuo Forbidden Army and leading the training plan of the Heshuo Forbidden Army, Tong Guan, the commander of the Northern Expeditionary Army, was writing a recital for the official family in the inner house.
"The ministers came to the north under the edict, and went to Mozhou on September 23 to prepare for the march. That is, he saw that the generals of Heshuo were arrogant and lazy, and did not train the enemy army, and there was no use for it...... Gai Heshuo has not tried to talk about the army for 200 years, and once he is in a hurry, it is quite difficult to blame. The minister heard that the soldiers and civilians of Yizhou stretched their necks and led troops to sacrifice the fortress. In the future, the western soldiers did not dare to respond, causing them to regain doubts......"
This famous and accomplished Tong Xuanshuai, the commander of the 100,000 Northern Expeditionary Army, did not think about victory, first about defeat, not about gain, first about losing, as the commander of the three armies, he didn't want to solve the problem, and first put a bunch of problems to the lord.
And within the two places not far from Tong Guan, Cai You and Cai Mao are doing the same big thing in their own way, that is, impeaching Zhao Hao.
Tong Xuanshuai is afraid of the dignity of his clan identity, and he is very afraid of it, but his horse head is looking forward, and there is a great tendency to dominate the guests, and the ministers think that the county prince is a clan, and he should abide by the military regulations and the will of the officials...... He entered the barracks last night, flew high, and killed more than 200 soldiers without permission...... In the early hours of this morning, more than 100 people were killed...... The officers and men of the three armies are all sad and indignant, and there is a great tendency to rise up...... And in the meantime, Xuan Shuai can't call the shots, so he can only let it happen......"
Those who do not act are hateful, but the most hateful are those who not only do not act, but also stab them in the back.
For thousands of years, how many such traitors and villains are there......