First, when faced with war, people instinctively feel fear, and people mistakenly think that everyone is weak.

In fact, this is an illusion, and human nature is different.

This point is revealed in the madness after the complete release.

The team led by Geng Zhongming, Kong Youde and Mao Chenglu all returned to the city safely, the fear of the soldiers before disappeared, and the moment the city gate closed behind them, almost everyone was paralyzed on the ground.

However, their expressions are different.

Some of them were pale and still shivering, some were excited, their eyes showed an unconcealable light, and some even played with the heads they had hunted back from the enemy; Some people sat on the ground with their heads in their hands and wept, while others held on to the city wall and vomited.

"Get up, get up for Lao Tzu." Kong Youde held the knife, walked into the crowd of people who fell to the ground in a mess, kicked a child, kicked hard, and yelled: "Mother, what are you crying about, is your father dead or your mother is dead, shut up, stand up, and you, spit out Lao Tzu and cut off your tongue for you, laugh, laugh, is it funny?" ”

"Line up!"

Kong Youde raised his sword towards the sky, and the soldiers quickly gathered under his command, and began to line up one by one according to their usual training.

"Count!"

"One, two, three......"

Thirteen less!

Kong Youde's face is blue on the surface, but he is happy in his heart?

attacked once at night, beheaded more than 3,000 people, and only lost a dozen people on his side, which is already very rebellious.

"Who hasn't hunted the head?" Kong Youde had a gloomy face: "Out of the ranks!" ”

Immediately, more than a hundred people came out, all with their heads bowed, not daring to look at the anger of the chief.

"Okay, you guys, you dare not listen to orders!" Kong Youde walked in front of them coldly and said: "All small flags, record the names of these people, all of them have twenty military sticks, but they have to defend the city for a few days, and the military sticks will be written down for the time being, if they perform well during the defense of the city, they can pass the merits." ”

"Yes, sir!" The small flag officers in the battalion responded loudly.

"Who's lost their weapon, out of the ranks!" Kong Youde shouted like thunder.

In an instant, six or seven more men stood up, their hands empty without knives, but their heads hanging from their backs. Some of these people were so distraught after killing people that they ran away with their heads tied to their bodies, forgetting their swords in the enemy camp, some were lost on the way back, and some were taken by the enemy.

"What is a weapon?" Kong Youde began to lecture again: "The weapon is our hands, our eyes, and the guys who eat on the battlefield, to put it mildly, the weapon is your life." In this sneak attack on the enemy camp, there were thirteen brothers who did not return, do you know why they did not come back?

They may have lost their weapons like you and were killed by the enemy, or they were killed because they were cowardly and did not dare to fight against the enemy soldiers when they were in battle, so they were killed, of course, it may also be tied up by those powerless little girls, for this kind of people, Ben will give them two words: little sheep!

We are wolves, not sheep; We go to war to eat people, not for people. It's good that you lost your weapons and your minions when you went to war!

Hehe, today you have all beheaded the enemy, which can be regarded as a meritorious service. However, hehe, the Governor said that the knife in our hands is a hundred refining treasure knives, and which one is placed in the market must not be ten taels of silver, and the general will not embarrass you. ”

"Ah......h

Hearing that they were going to be fined military salaries, these people immediately raised their heads.

What is the purpose of joining the army, isn't it just to support the family for one or two pieces of silver a month?

"Ahh Kong Youde said angrily: "It's already a great favor to lose the knife and not let you compensate, so I only fined you six months and six taels of silver, which is distressing?" Useless! ”

In fact, Kong Youde didn't know the specific price of these knives, if he knew that the Japanese knife of Zhu Guobi, the prince of Baoguo, was purchased for fifty taels of silver, but it was still far inferior to these Japanese knives in the Guide Mansion, I am afraid that he would punish them for two years in a fit of anger.

In the time of a stick of incense, the three teams were assembled and lined up on the field inside the West City Gate.

Su Baiyi walked down step by step, and the three generals walked up, and a strong smell of blood dispersed.

"Your Excellency the Governor, we will live up to expectations, and retreat after attacking Luo Rucai's camp at night."

Geng Zhongming handed over his hand to report.

Su Baiyi's eyes glanced at the soldiers standing in front of him slightly, and their faces could not be seen clearly in the dark, but from the smell of blood emanating from them, it was inferred that after this baptism of blood, it would be a good sublimation for them to try.

"What about the losses?" Su Baiyi asked lightly.

Geng Zhongming gave his hand again: "Report to my lord, in this night attack on the thief camp, we have twenty-nine brothers who have not returned, and we have lost forty-four knives, one hundred and twenty people have been slightly injured, and six people have been seriously injured. ”

"How many kills?"

"The rest died in the firelight, not counting, those who were brought back by the cut level have a total of three thousand and sixty!"

"Good!" Su Baiyi waved his hand: "Two taels of silver for each level, all the brothers who go to battle, each of them will be given an extra month's salary, and in addition, tomorrow morning, kill the pig for meat and treat them well." ”

"Yes!" Geng Zhongming and the three of them gave up.

Su Baiyi naturally knew that the imperial court ordered a first-class reward of fifty taels of silver, but that was for the beheading of enemy soldiers, not these homeless people, so the price he gave was lower.

The main reason is that he doesn't want to train his army into an army that only knows how to repay merits, if that is the case, it will inevitably happen over time.

If we want to cultivate the combat effectiveness of the military, we must first cultivate all kinds of feelings in them, including patriotism, brotherhood, and family affection. Brainwashing from these aspects to make them die is the main door. The military system of cutting grades and repaying meritorious service may have worked well for a while, but in the long run, it has indeed embarked on an evil path.

"Thousands of households from all generations, bring the brothers back, have a good night's rest, and tomorrow morning at five watches, we will change shifts to guard the city." The three of them gave an order, and they led the soldiers back to the camp to rest.

Mao Chenglu and the three of them followed Su Baiyi to the city again, and Geng Zhongming asked with a big grin: "Lord Governor, do you want to personally inspect the head, and we can also report to the court for reward." ”

"No need!" Su Baiyi shook his head and said: "Hurry up with the power, you go to inspect it tomorrow, record the military merits separately, and this level is not allowed to be kept, after the inspection, you can destroy it, and burn it to ashes for me with a blazing fire." ”

There were too many people in the inner city, and Su Baiyi didn't want to leave a breeding ground for all kinds of infectious diseases and plagues.

……

Among the three military tents of the railway, the three thousand soldiers who had experienced the night attack were almost in a state of mind at the moment, and they were perhaps afraid, disgusted, or nervous just now.

Now it's all turned into excitement.

They didn't expect that they would just go out and run around, and it would be so simple to kill people and cut levels, and after they came back, they were not only rewarded by the Governor for a month's salary, but also sold for two taels of silver for each level?

Liu Erniu touched the head of the woman behind him, and his heart jumped suddenly.

An additional month's salary of silver will be issued, and then this level will be exchanged for two taels of silver, and this plus one piece will be three taels. Three taels of silver, my God, that's an acre of good paddy field, I actually earned an acre of good paddy field in one night?

Liu Erniu was apprehensive before, but now, all the fear in his heart was driven out, replaced by excitement, and he even thought evilly: When he killed the woman, there seemed to be an old man next to him, who seemed to have no backhand, and if he knew that a head could be exchanged for two taels of silver, I would have killed one more.

Thinking of this, he looked in the other direction of the big tent with hot eyes, where there was his fellow villager He Shancun, He Shancun was also from Xiayi, the two lived in two adjacent villages, He Shancun was in Heji, and Liu Erniu was in the front street.

The reason why he looked at He Shancun with hot eyes was because he, a tall fellow, actually took a shit luck and brought three levels from the battlefield!

Six taels of silver!

"Brother Erniu, you just went out for a run and earned three taels of silver?" The little man next to him looked at Liu Erniu enviously, and a trace of eagerness flashed in his eyes.

This little guy is called Yang Dazhong, and he is also a fellow villager, in fact, Yang Dazhong is only fourteen years old now, because he was not old enough but really wanted to get two taels of silver placement fee, so he falsely reported his age to join the army.

"Twenty-nine dead!" Liu Erniu took a deep breath and sat on the ground a little stunned, he didn't know if it was worth it for the lives of those twenty-nine people to exchange for these heads.

"What's that?" Yang Dazhong said pitifully: "It's only twenty-nine lives, each of you got a level back, how much silver does this cost!" Brother Erniu, when my father killed the people in the clan, they only paid our family a few dollars? The patriarch gave my mother a piece of cloth, a piece of cloth, Brother Erniu, what are twenty-nine people! ”

"Yang Dazhong, let's go, hurry up, the city has changed its defense!" The little flag officer shouted in the back.

Yang Dazhong was overjoyed and said: "Brother Erniu, I'm going to defend the city, if you're lucky, the old man will let us go out of the city and sneak attack, I will definitely get a few more heads to come over." ”

……

At the head of the city, Yuan Ke stood with the support of two old servants and came to Su Baiyi tremblingly.

Su Baiyi was taken aback and said, "Old Yuan, why are you here in the middle of the night?" You are not in good health, I can just watch the little nephew who guards the city! ”

"Hey......" Yuan Keli waved his hand, and said with a solemn face: "The old man is fine, just come and take a look." ”

"Go and move a stool for Lao Shangshu."

"Nonsense!" Yuan Keli blew his beard and glared, pointed at Su Baiyi and said: "You kid is not a material to lead soldiers, at this juncture of defending the city, the brothers are all watching, why can I sit at the head of the city, old man?" Seeing Su Baiyi's grinning face, he shook his head again and said, "Forget it, don't talk about this, just now I heard that you attacked Luo Rucai's camp at night?" ”

"Yes, this is all the idea of Kong Youde and the three of them, fortunately, they retreated!"

"Good, good, good!" Yuan Keli touched his beard, glanced at the three of them appreciatively, and skimmed Luo Rucai's military camp in the distance, looking cunning and cunning: "In this case, why don't you attack the thief camp again tonight?" ”

"Strike again?" Geng Zhongming looked at Yuan Keli in disbelief.

Yuan Keli curled his beard and said, "Yes, you can't think of it, and Luo Thief can't think of it." ”