Chapter 167: Buying People's Hearts

After another heart-rending scream came out of Wang Shoubei's mouth, he was pressed to the ground by several tiger and leopard soldiers, and finally felt that something was wrong.

The chief soldier in front of him is not trying to scare himself, but is really beating himself.

Ignoring the stinging pain in his buttocks, he immediately turned to Wei and said to him: "Lord General Soldier, the last general knows that he is wrong, please spare the last general...... The last general will never dare to violate military regulations in the future, so my lord will spare me......"

"I have silver, as long as the lord spares the general, the general will immediately give the adult 10,000 taels of silver...... No, twenty thousand taels...... As long as the lord spares the last general, the last general is willing to give 20,000 taels of silver to the lord......"

The king was disappointed, no matter how he threatened and begged for mercy, the whistling military sticks still fell on his body continuously.

Ten sticks, twenty sticks, fifty sticks......

As the crackling sound of military sticks continued to sound in the training ground, Wang Shoubei's voice became weaker and weaker.

Just when everyone in the training ground thought that with the king guarding the forces behind it, the general guard would leave the king to guard for his life. A picture that stunned everyone appeared......

The whistling military sticks not only did not stop, but hit more and more heavily, and there was a very strong posture that he would not give up until the king was killed.

After another fifty military sticks went down, Wang Shoubei's ass was already beaten into pulp by the military sticks. As for Wang Shoubei himself, he lay motionless on the ground, no matter how the military stick hit his body, he did not say a word.

Zhang Wu jumped off the platform, touched the nose of the king garrison with his hand, and ordered to the soldiers who continued to enforce the military regulations: "Okay." Don't hit. He's dead...... Drag him down immediately......"

After the bloody corpse was dragged out of the training ground. Zhang Wu has returned to Dianjiangtai again.

Under the signal of Wei Zheng, he said loudly: "The garrison of Datong Mansion was guarded by the king of Datong Mansion, and was besieged by Shaanxi rebel spies on the patrol road. When the time comes, the chief soldier will personally write a letter to Wang Shoubei asking for merit, and express Wang's merits to the imperial court. Please reward the imperial court heavily. ”

"Therefore, I hope that everyone will not talk nonsense after going down, so that Wang Shoubei will die, and he will not be able to leave a good reputation."

Hearing this, every soldier standing in front of Wei Zheng felt a biting chill in their hearts.

A knighthood and a general of the imperial court was beaten to death directly for violating military regulations. And the general guard of Wei Zhengwei, who issued this military order, directly pushed the matter onto the Shaanxi rebels, and pushed the responsibility away.

At that time. No matter how deep the background of this Wang Garrison is, there is nothing he can do about the general soldier in front of him.

Unless Wang Shoubei's family is willing to admit it. The fact that his son or grandson was beaten to death with a military stick for violating military regulations is humiliating.

A five-grade garrison can be killed so easily, not to mention a small Qianzong, or even a general.

So, when Zhang Wu's words were finished, everyone looked at Wei Zheng's eyes, and they were already unconsciously full of awe.

At this time, Wei Zheng, who was dressed in military uniform, took a step forward and said in his voice as deep as possible: "Soldiers, if an army wants to have combat effectiveness, one of the most basic requirements is to abide by military regulations. ”

"Your king, Lord Garrison, has been killed for violating military regulations. Next, it was the turn of the other soldiers who did not enter the training ground on time......"

Hearing Wei Zheng's words, the thousands of soldiers on the training ground who did not arrive on time were like frightened rabbits, kneeling directly on the ground and begging for mercy at Wei Zheng.

"Lord Commander-in-Chief spares his life, we will never dare to violate military regulations in the future......"

"Lord General Soldier, we are all ordered by the king to guard the night, please check the Lord General Soldier......"

After all kinds of begging for mercy reached Wei Zheng's ears, Wei Zheng continued: "Shut up for me......"

"Since you are a soldier, you must have the consciousness of being a soldier. However, for the sake of you being the first offender in front of me, the punishment I give you can be reduced, but the military regulations must be followed, even my Wei Zheng is no exception. ”

"Adjutant General Zhang, according to military regulations, each person will be beaten with ten military sticks as a punishment ......"

Half an hour later, the thousands of soldiers who had received the military sticks returned to the training ground one after another.

At this time, without Wei Zheng's order, the soldiers who had been frightened by Wei Zheng's series of iron-blooded methods stood on the training ground with a stern face for the first time, waiting for Wei Zheng's training.

Seeing that the thousands of soldiers in front of him finally had a little bit of a military appearance, Wei Zheng continued to stand up and speak.

"Soldiers, in order to improve everyone's combat effectiveness, defend Datong Mansion. I would like to begin by announcing to you a few decisions that I have just made. ”

"First, from today onwards, the Ming military regulations will not be a decoration in my place. Anyone who violates military rules will do whatever they want, and I will never show mercy. Wang Garrison, who had just been beaten to death by a military stick, was the end of violating military regulations, and I hope everyone will not defy the law and follow in the footsteps of the king's garrison. ”

"Of course, if someone thinks that our military regulations here are too strict, they can't stand it. You can ask me at once and leave the garrison. I promise you that I will not embarrass you all......"

"Second, starting tomorrow, the whole garrison will begin to conduct normal training. The Haw Par Army I brought with me from Guan Zai is responsible for training your troops. Or what I just said, if someone can't stand it during the training process, they can also leave. However, if someone does not participate in the training, then don't blame me for enforcing military regulations. ”

"Third...... I know that the salaries of our Datong Mansion garrison have never been paid in full. ”

"After the grain and salary allocated by the imperial court are in our hands, there is a full sixty percent, and we are already thankful."

"Here, I would like to tell you that everyone's food and salary, starting this month, will be paid in full. If the food and salary given to us by the imperial court is not enough, all of them will be paid by our own Wei Zheng to make up for everyone's military salary. In a word, as long as I am in Datong Mansion for one day, this rule will not change. ”

"In addition, in order to prevent officers at all levels from deducting everyone's salaries, from now on, the salaries of all officers and soldiers will be directly distributed by the General Military Office to ensure that each soldier can get his or her own full salary."

"Fourth, I don't care what everyone's food was like before, from now on, the food of the entire garrison army will be in accordance with the rules of my tiger and leopard army, and the white flour steamed buns are enough every day, and one meat meal will be eaten every two days......"

"Okay, I'll think of these orders for the time being, I don't know if you have any opinions."

In the face of Wei Zheng's straightforward means of buying people's hearts, the faces of the thousands of soldiers in front of him showed a look of disbelief and shock.

When a roar full of excitement sounded in the training ground.

"The last general swears allegiance to the general soldier......"

Everyone who was shocked finally reacted.

For ordinary soldiers, although several orders from Wei Zheng belong to buying people's hearts. However, after being able to really implement it, the various benefits you get are definitely not ordinary.

So, as if they had been discussed, four or five thousand soldiers knelt on one leg at the same time, and shouted with excitement on their faces: "Swear allegiance to the commander-in-chief...... Swear allegiance to the Commander-in-Chief......"

Compared with the heartfelt excitement of ordinary officers and soldiers, the faces of those officers who were holding on to the mixed qualifications of the garrison and eating empty salaries showed an unprecedented solemn expression.

In their eyes, among the several military orders issued by Wei Zheng, without exception, they were all aimed at their officers.

If the general's salary is directly paid to every soldier in full, how can he still eat empty salary.

With me having to drill every day according to the military order, and I can't violate the military regulations, so what's the point of coming here to mix qualifications, can I endure the military regulations and all kinds of training......

Encouraged by this thought, the officers were tempted to stand up and resist these orders that stood in the way of their fortune.

However, when the bloody corpse of the king guard appeared in their minds, the little courage that had just been mustered in their hearts immediately disappeared.

There was no way to resist the order, and they were greedy for life and afraid of death and did not want to endure hardship, so they had only one way to choose, leaving the garrison in a gloomy manner, helping Wei Zheng to completely take down the garrison and take the garrison as their own.

As soon as the front foot of the guard left the barracks, some of the officers left with the back foot, and there were a large number of old and weak people in the garrison. It was also cleaned up by Zhang Wu, who was left in the barracks.

A day later, a result that made Wei Zheng feel excited was taken back to the General Military Mansion by Zhang Wu.

"Adults cleaned up after a day. A total of six of the eight thousand generals of the garrison have left, and the remaining two thousand are all old thousand generals who have been on the battlefield and have not been promoted because they have no relationship. ”

"Out of the hundreds, a total of 25 remained. These remaining generals have all been on the battlefield and climbed up from small soldiers little by little. ”

In addition, after some investigation, there are still more than 3,200 officers and soldiers left in the whole army. In terms of equipment, there are basically 486 pairs of leather wallets left in iron armor. There were more than 2,300 arquebuses allocated by the imperial court, and there were still 655 catties of gunpowder lead bullets left. As for the arquebuses that can be used in it, Xia Guan probably took a look, and there were less than 1,200 of them. ”

"In addition to arquebuses, the garrison is also equipped with twenty Huzun cannons, 15 light Franc machine guns, five medium Franc machines, and no heavy Franc machines and Hongyi cannons."

"In the end, I also found more than 3,500 pieces of various cold weapons that had rusted in the arsenal."

"In terms of food and salary, the garrison still has a total of 50,000 catties of fine grain, 100,000 catties of coarse grain, and 11,350 taels of silver. According to the rules of the Haw Par Army, it is not enough to meet the needs of more than 3,000 soldiers of the garrison army for a month. ”

Seeing Wei Zheng's more and more dignified facial expression, Zhang Wu changed his words and continued: "My lord, although the various reserves and foundations of the garrison army are very bad. However, after this rectification by the commander-in-chief, the morale of the remaining soldiers was very high. During today's training, the remaining 3,000 or so officers and men all took the initiative to enter the training ground for military training, shouting that they would be loyal to the commander-in-chief......

"If there is morale, it means that the garrison can still train a really strong army......" Wei Zheng, whose face was a little better, affirmed loudly. (To be continued......)