"Why corporal punishment of soldiers?" Huang Ke walked up to the squad leader, picked up the jet-black bayonet, and asked after playing with it in his hand for a while.

The squad leader with the beard was not timid, he gathered his plump belly and saluted and said: "Report to the sir, the commander rebel soldier has committed a crime, and I will punish him in public today." ”

Huang Ke glanced at the officers and soldiers around him, most of those who came to see and have fun were old units of the new army. Huang Ke knew that in order to prevent the original Cantonese army from forming a new force, when they were recruited, they all scattered the officers and soldiers of the original Cantonese army into different teams, but he didn't expect that now they would be bullied.

Most of these former Cantonese officers and soldiers were brothers, and their relationship was intricate, which allowed them to resist the enemy with all their might on the battlefield, and could also allow them to form a power group. It's very important to handle it properly, and if you are not careful, you will lose everything, and he knows this very well.

"How did he do it? Don't you know that soldiers should not be corporal punishment? Huang Ke scolded sharply, and the squad leader with a beard wanted to argue, but he took it back when he got to the bottom of the words. First apologize to this soldier, put you in confinement for three days, write me a check-up, and come out when the check-in satisfies me. ”

He stood there dumbfounded, listening to Huang Ke's reprimand. Huang Ke picked up the bayonet and said, "I will deal with the following crimes later, and now I want to deal with corporal punishment and insult soldiers!" The "Minutes for Soldiers" makes it very clear that any form of insult and corporal punishment of soldiers is prohibited. ”

The squad leader stopped talking, and the other soldiers stood still. Huang Ke glanced at everyone, he took a deep breath and said: "In our land, whether he is a tenant or a beggar, they are all human beings, they all have the most basic dignity, and anyone can be insulted, do you understand?" ”

"Understood......" There was little response, although these people explained it on their lips, but they may not completely agree in their hearts, most of them were born with mud legs, and before this they were all thinking about how to eat well, why did they talk about dignity again? Do they still have dignity?

Although the chief said this, these people don't believe it, what kind of thing is dignity? Surviving is real.

Huang Ke's use of 21st-century ideas to educate the people of that era was too far ahead of its time, and few people in China would have thought of it at the time, but despite this, the trick still had some effect.

"Dog's day! Who took the lead in violating military discipline? Wang Maocai's big shout was heard in the distance, and after seeing an officer standing opposite Huang Ke, he stepped forward and kicked the bearded non-commissioned officer to the ground, and scolded the non-commissioned officer in his mouth.

"Wang Maocai, what are you doing?" Huang Ke looked at Wang Maocai and was about to whip and beat people, he really couldn't stand it, what did it look like like this?

Wang Maocai's hand with the whip hovered in the air, and then slowly fell, originally he wanted to show it in front of Huang Ke, but he didn't expect it to be self-defeating.

"They dare to beat and curse people like this, it turns out that they all learned it from you, the chief. Come on, get Wang Maocai off the equipment and lock him up for ten days! ”

Wang Maocai looked aggrieved and wanted to argue a few words, but he didn't expect Huang Ke to pull the whip in Wang Maocai's hand over. He raised his whip in the air and said to everyone, "This is a horse whip, just to make the horse faster when riding, and not to put it on people." ”

After Wang Maocai was taken away and confined in confinement, Huang Ke convened the officers to first hold a simple meeting, and then he was ready to convene a meeting of the whole army to emphasize the issue of military discipline again, but the main problem at hand was how to screw the hearts of these people together and break the gap between the new army and the Guangdong army?

Wang Maocai is just Huang Ke trying to make an example of the chicken, Wang Maocai is considered a high-ranking officer in the new army, and even he is imprisoned, so he can show his determination to all the officers and soldiers. There is also the fact that Wang Maocai's recent performance is really dissatisfied with Huang Ke, this veteran oil man is a little slippery in everything, and even a little bit to the president's side to ignore his own meaning, this time it can be regarded as a lesson for him.

At the meeting, Batu and Cui Wu disagreed with Huang Ke's punishment, and Batu said with a smile: "What is the difference between a veteran and a new recruit?" In addition to driving the horses, the whips of our cavalry also have a training soldier, and if any one is disobedient, I will go up and give a whip to ensure that it is effective. ”

Huang Ke had a calm face, and when he saw that Batu was furious in his heart, he stopped saying a few words. After turning his head and glancing at the officers below, a strange smile appeared on the corner of Huang Ke's mouth and said, "Batu, so you often beat and scold the soldiers?" ”

As soon as Batu heard that the spearhead was pointed at him, he quickly got rid of it and said: "The commander misunderstood, I didn't fight the recruits, no!" Just say that. ”

Huang Ke's weird smile turned serious, he stood up and said to all the officers, "You are officers now, but what about when you were soldiers?" It is possible to punish soldiers, but it is an old habit of the old army to beat and insult them, and from this day onwards all old habits will be abolished in our new army. In the afternoon, a plenary military meeting will be held, and I will reaffirm discipline in public, and set up a gendarmerie to patrol and picket, and report any violations of discipline immediately. Yang Yibing sent someone to inform all the troops to go to the military headquarters and hold a military discipline meeting in the afternoon. ”

After Huang Ke finished speaking, he grabbed his hat and walked out, and Fourteen quickly followed. The former officers of the Cantonese Army who sat down heard something new this time, they had never heard of an officer who was punished for beating and scolding a soldier in the Cantonese army before, and this time they were punished for insulting a soldier, and for the first time the officers and men of the former Cantonese Army felt the difference between the two armies.

After Wang Maocai was shut down, after lunch, Huang Ke convened the team to hold a general meeting of all the representatives.

Just after noon, the sun was still hanging in the air, like a burning fireball. The weather was hot and humid, the meeting was held outdoors, and the soldiers were sweating all over their bodies for a while.

On the podium made of several tables sat Huang Ke and his generals, and the podium was facing the sun, which was hotter than below. Although it has entered autumn, the autumn tiger in the south is still very powerful, and the tweed military uniform worn by Huang Ke was sweating after a while, and a gust of wind blew, revealing white salt stains on the dry military uniform.

Seeing that the officers and soldiers below did not move, Huang Ke did not move, even if a fire burned himself, he had to not move at this time, otherwise he would not only lose his face, but also the military discipline of this meeting.

"I summoned everyone here today to hold this military discipline conference, we are a new army of steel, we must emphasize military discipline, military orders are like mountains!" Huang Ke read out the "Minutes for Soldiers" again and asked all the officers and soldiers to memorize it. Then, on behalf of the gendarmerie, Yang Yibing announced the enforcement of discipline and other affairs.

The military order is like a mountain, and the soldiers who sit down have nothing to say, and as time goes by, the weather is gradually not so hot, and even a cool breeze can be felt. Just when everyone thought the weather was getting better, suddenly the sky was pitch black, and then a thunderclap sounded in the sky.

Crash! The explosion was followed by a noisy rain, and tens of thousands of rain notes fell from the sky. The rain hurts when it hits a person like a whip.

The officers and soldiers sitting below were in a commotion, they were ready to avoid the rain, and Huang Ke, who was sitting at the front desk, was still sitting there as steadily as Mount Tai.

"Soldiers must not be moved, military orders are like mountains!" Huang Ke said to the officers and soldiers below. The officers and soldiers who were originally restless saw that Huang Ke and several commanders were still there, and they all returned to their positions one after another.

The torrential rain was pouring down, and the rain was flowing down the big-brimmed hat, and Huang Ke was still making his speech, although his speech had been drowned out by the sound of the rainstorm, but no one left the officers and soldiers around.

"We are soldiers, and soldiers should be banned. Now in the military meeting, no one is allowed to leave until I give the order. Officers and soldiers are equally responsible, even if there are knives in the sky, I will accompany you. ”

This sudden rainstorm fell for more than ten minutes, and after ten minutes, all the officers and soldiers were drenched like chickens in soup, Huang Ke stood up and walked forward, he took off the boots on his feet, and poured out all the water in them with a bang.

"Did you all see it? In the new army, all of our officers and soldiers are the same, only administratively different, and there are absolutely no other special rights, you are in the rain, we are also in the rain, you go to the battlefield, we also go to the battlefield! And the officers should also rush ahead of the soldiers and play an exemplary role for the soldiers. Did you hear me clearly? ”

"Clear!" Everyone roared with rage.

A smile appeared at the corner of Huang Ke's mouth, and he waved his hand with satisfaction and said, "Dismiss!" ”

This meeting is completely new to all the officers and men present, they have never experienced this situation before, and the idea of equality between officers and soldiers has been implanted in their minds little by little from this moment, but they remember more that the new army and the old army are fundamentally different.

After the meeting, the officers and soldiers were ready to disperse. Huang Ke knew that it would not be easy to gather these people together, and the tens of thousands of people of his new army had already been distributed throughout Guangzhou City according to the regimental and battalion units, and it took more than a dozen signal soldiers to run on horseback for several hours in the morning to inform the troops of all the troops.

Huang Ke thought about it and said to the hundreds of officers sitting down: "Don't leave for the time being, eat in the canteen of the military headquarters at night, and everyone will wait for the next order." ”

Everyone was puzzled all of a sudden, what kind of medicine was sold in Huang Ke's gourd?