Wang Deng replied solemnly: "The noodles are not yet clear, how can you divide the pro-soldiers." Wait until the whole army recruits the Thorns. ”

"If you don't say this, I forgot," Zheng Yunming instructed Wang Deng: "Don't rush to stab after the recruitment is over, I have something to say after gathering the sergeants." ”

For the entire Jinghu, the establishment of 5,000 people is not a large number, but each recruit has to go through a tedious process such as checking their physique, eliminating diseases, practicing martial arts, etc., and it took a full day to barely reach the standard of 5,000 people.

At sunset, the newly recruited soldiers were bustling together on the recruiting ground, playing and laughing with each other, not paying attention to the officers' loud reprimands.

Wang Deng, who had ascended to the platform, frowned, took the long whip from Du Tou's hand, and slashed dozens of times in the air. This is the quiet method used in the Song Dynasty, after dozens of crisp whips, the crowd gradually quieted down, and a pair of curious eyes looked at Dianjiangtai.

Zheng Yunming, the new governor of the Jinghu Establishment Envoy Division, was dressed in armor and walked slowly onto the stage with a sword in his hand, and Ge Huai and Liu Quan, carrying heavy swords on their shoulders, guarded behind them.

The audience was full of excitement and fresh looks, Zheng Yunming knew how difficult it was to turn these newcomers who only had one body of strength but had no knowledge of the army to fight into qualified soldiers, but in the troubled times that were about to come, holding an elite soldier in his hand was the most advantageous choice to save the lives of his family.

In order to achieve this goal, no matter how much hardship he suffered, he could not shake Zheng Yunming's determination.

"Today, Ben will be ordered by the Jinghu Envoy to come to Ezhou to recruit soldiers!" Zheng Yunming tried his best to use his loudest voice and said: "The one who does it is the first to give you miners who have no job a way out!" The second is to prepare a team for Jinghu that can fight! ”

"I know that the purpose of your enlistment as a soldier is just to have a ration to fill your stomach! Or save a little from the ration to support your parents and benefit your wife and children! But let me tell you, fighting is never a three-year-old's game! If you want to survive under the edge of the Mongols, you will have to go through the same hard training as the Infernal Hell! You will feel that life is worse than death! You will regret that you have to endure such torture for the sake of a ration! That's the only thing I'm going to do in the next few years, train you guys to be first-class fighters! Then lead you to cut off the heads of all the invaders who dare to attack! You're all ready for me! ”

The recruits in the audience whispered, many of them originally watched Zheng Yunming lead the army, and they must be weak and bullied. I didn't want Zheng Yunming to come up and say a few tough words, and some people suddenly retreated.

"But I'm going to tell you! The benefits of being a soldier are not just a mouthful of food, when you have boiled out a good martial arts and shrewd strategy, you will find that whether you are promoted or rich, it is as simple as drinking water! The country never hesitates to reward the brave soldiers on the battlefield! Do you know that the head of each Tatar was worth fifty guan when he entered Luo! Those who can win the Tatar prince can get 100 acres of fertile land and a mansion in the capital! Anyone who is not afraid of death and can kill the enemy in battle can be promoted to an official as usual! There are many examples of outstanding performance in several battles and the title of Shubu Lang abound in the army! You stupid and stupid men are destined to have no future to gain any fame, but it doesn't matter, in the future, you will be able to be crowned an official and glorify your ancestors! What does it depend on, what it depends on is to listen to the words of the commander and fight bravely to kill the enemy! Don't you want to enshrine your tablet in the ancestral hall in the future, so that thousands of generations of descendants can praise your reputation! ”

There was another sigh of admiration in the crowd, for these civilians who were not smart enough to even write their own names, the army was indeed a shortcut to get ahead, and there were ambitious people among them who had already planned their life dream of paving the way for their own marquis and worship with the heads of the Mongols.

"It will not be a matter of worry! But Ben is going to remind you of three things: First, the biggest difference between the army and the rivers and lakes is that discipline comes first in the army! Food, clothing, shelter and transportation, there are laws! Advance and retreat, attack and defense, there are rules! If anyone dares to violate military law, although he is a confidant of a general, he will be severely punished! From today onwards, I will teach you the contents of the seven prohibitions and fifty-four beheadings every day, remember them well, and if you dare to violate them, then Hugh will ask me to leave me with some mercy! ”

"Second, those who serve as soldiers must not invade the people! I heard that there was once an army stationed in this Ezhou city, known as 'freezing to death without demolishing houses, starving to death without taking prisoners'. Zheng Yunming didn't dare to expect to cover Marquis Yue, but for violating the people, I must do the same as Marquis Yue! You must remember that the war is not only for the emperor, but also to protect the fathers and villagers of Jinghu, and those who dare to disturb the people will be punished three times according to military law! ”

"At the end of the day, Ben will remember that you are all first-time soldiers, and there will probably be no second chance in the future. Therefore, it is hereby announced that this army has officially abolished the old rules of stabbing and stabbing! ”

"That's all! Disband! ”

The crowd erupted in cheers. For five generations, the spur has become a bad rule for recruiting troops. The system of criminals being assigned to the army has turned the punishment of stabbing into a symbol of soldier identification. This is also one of the manifestations of the lower status of soldiers, precisely because the soldiers are treated as prisoners without discrimination, which leads to serious discrimination against the army by social opinions, so that the words "good men are not soldiers" are shouted. For the soldiers themselves, whether it is a black face or a black hand, it is an insult to the person, Zheng Yunming abolished the three hundred years of practice in the army, which made people hate the stabbing method in one sentence, which naturally made the recruits who felt that their bodies were inevitably humiliated.

"Confused, just confused!" When he stepped into the tent of the Chinese army, Yang Luo kept complaining while fanning the folding fan: "Are you a thorn for fun?" After winning the battle, the sergeants who had made war money took off their military uniforms and fled back to the countryside with their treasures to enjoy the blessings, where do you find them? After losing the battle, the sergeants lost their swords and guns and fled, where do you find them? If you don't go to the thorns, is there still a way to maintain military discipline? ”

"Yang Luo!" Wang Deng shouted in a low voice: "Don't be so rude to the Lord!" ”

"It doesn't matter." Zheng Yunming waved his hand and said: "In the Han and Tang dynasties, I have never heard of the method of stabbing and thorning, and there is an endless stream of soldiers, and I have never heard of examples of them being unable to control soldiers. ”

"At that time, the main force was all from good families in the border areas, how could it be the same as the quality of the soldiers we are all recruiting now?" Yang Yu hurriedly said: "Now these anti-knife people, they don't have to be identified, they don't need to be disciplined with knives, axes and sticks, how can they let them march and camp obediently, let alone confront the Mongols." ”

"The court looks down on those who hold knives and guns, those who hold knives and guns look down on the people, and the people look down on those who hold knives and guns," Zheng Yunming shook his head helplessly: "Pure father, this is a dead knot, if you want officials, soldiers, and people to trust each other, one party must make concessions first." Sergeants and civilians are naturally less mindful than officials, so to take this step, the only way to take this step is for me and others to set an example first. ”

"It's useless to talk about the big truth," Yang Luo retorted unceremoniously: "The top priority is to control this group of stupid men, otherwise the team will be too busy to disturb themselves, where can they take care of drills?" ”

Zheng Yunming pointed to the mountain of rosters on the table: "We have to learn to use this to manage people, we are not recruiting homeless people who have no fixed place, nor are we rogue teenagers who have no name and no surname. Each sergeant has a clan, a village party, parents, and a small family. The generals have mastered these, isn't it more useful to simply be a black face? ”

"Pure father, the black face is just a means of identification. What we have to do is not to engrave the identity of the sergeants on their faces. Zheng Yunming pointed to his heart: "It is to let them engrave themselves in their hearts." ”

Yang Yu snorted and stopped talking, but he could see that he didn't agree with Zheng Yunming's reasoning.

The atmosphere was slightly awkward, and Zheng Yunming was about to open his mouth to break the silence when Ge Huai and Lu Xunzhi led the newly appointed nine Tulong Army generals to walk in.

Nine high-spirited young generals lined up and bowed to this Zheng Yunming.

"You couldn't be better dressed in this outfit." Zheng Yunming patted the short-bearded and big-eyed young general led by Zheng Yunming cordially: "Brother Zhu Sheng, when I followed you to assist the government in hunting down Shuikou in Taihu Lake, you said that in the future, you must command an army of 10,000 people and fight on the battlefield for the imperial court. Today you've finally taken the first step. ”

Zhu Sheng smiled and said, "It's all up to your uncle's fortune." ”

"Yes, if it weren't for such a coincidence that Zheng Shumou became the general of the First Army, how could we have the opportunity to lead troops as scholars?" The little man standing beside Zhu Sheng said with a smile.

"Chen Guang, didn't you say that you were going to go to the shogunate of the Huaixi Envoy to get an errand? Why did it fall into my account in the blink of an eye? Zheng Yunming said with a smile: "If your teacher knows that you are not willing to test your fame and only lead the soldiers, you will definitely be angry and throw the inkstone." ”

Chen Guang spread his hands: "The teacher has long known my ambitions, and he won't be angry." ”

"What about you?" Zheng Yunming turned his face to the thin and tall man who was silent on the side: "Brother Peng Man, although we haven't met before, Lord Zhao Shanxiang has repeatedly praised you in the letter for your proficiency in martial arts, known as the number one archery on Jiangxi Road, and even the generals of Jiujiang Mansion are not your opponents." Do you also want to give up your identity as a person to lead troops into battle for the sake of your martial arts? ”

"They are all for the country, and there is no difference between fighting a war and being an official." Peng Man's answer was simple and powerful.

Zheng Yunming nodded, and said to the other six: "Lu Qingchun, He Dajie, Xiang Anguo, the three of you were personally recommended by Wei Heshan. Hu Yanyu, Ma Xiang, and Deng Fang were respectively promoted by different predecessors and scholars. No matter who your sponsor is, I believe that you must be suitable for leading troops. ”

"I believe that before you arrived in Ezhou, you were already familiar with the military books of the ancient sages, and you also had your own set of views on how to govern the army and march. Zheng will not use a certain kind of hard and fast rules to tie everyone up, because there is no fixed answer to fighting with soldiers. ”

"I have only one piece of advice for you: that is, you must never rigidly apply the dogma in the military book to the actual use of soldiers, which is the most common mistake that literati make in leading soldiers. Compared with the martial arts, our advantage is that we rely on the accumulated wisdom of our predecessors, but the wisdom of our predecessors responds to the reality of our predecessors, and we have our reality. Before training elite military horses to defeat the enemy, what you have to do is to integrate the words of the sages into the actual situation you are facing, and I hope that your use of troops can truly reflect the true essence of the "Three Strategies", "Six Taos" and "Twenty-four Articles of the Art of War", not just plagiarism according to the methods of the ancients. You are all smart and skilled people, and I believe it is not difficult to do this. ”

All the generals bowed down and promised.

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