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Among the troops trained by Qi Jiguang, there is a very noteworthy record:

Each battalion of miscellaneous craftsmen served with one gunpowder lineman, one carpenter, one blacksmith, and three gunners, each with a full set of equipment. One flag per small flag, each with the color of the square, one flag in each team, one blue flag for each sentinel, three door flags, four blue flags for each total, five flags for five squares, five for high recruitment, one lamp for each pole, three flags of the five sides of the Chinese army, ten for five square moves, twelve blue flags, ten door flags, twelve flags for the small recruitment of the war, two flags for the Qingdao Dao, two golden drums, two members of the reward officer, one side for the sitting.-, the night camp should be prepared for the general of the Chinese army, on each butter paper, a wire lamp, four inches thick, one foot five inches long; 10 flags of 5 squares, 10 lamps, 38 drummers, 38 lamps; Eight corner flags, eight lights; Put one side on one side, and put on the lamp four lamps

Officials and other leaders each bring a lamp, roughly the same, but the length is six inches, low stubbornness, and carry with them. One on each team flag, the same color, eight inches round, the left is the same as the previous total, but with blue oil paper, two feet long, five inches thick.

The lamps are round and yellow, and they are eight inches. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info covered with four layers of black oilcloth, in order to cover it for a while, so that the inch is not exposed, or the camp is dark, or the camp is dark, or the camp is bright, which is unpredictable.

Among them, "miscellaneous craftsmen serve every battalion." A powder lineman and a carpenter. a blacksmith", which shows that the firearms unit under Qi Jiguang's command needs to be equipped with corresponding personnel to maintain its combat efficiency.

Of course, carpenters and blacksmiths do not necessarily work for the gunpowder troops, but there is no doubt that the fact that gunpowder linemen have become necessary personnel shows that the officers and soldiers under Qi Jiguang's command have a high degree of firearms use, and the consumption rate of leads and other things is very fast. It is necessary to find specialized personnel to produce it.

This can be said to be one of the actual summaries of Qi Jiguang's experience in the war.

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In the "New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness", there are cases of strict reorganization of the local guard army, especially a separate volume of "Military Law of Temporary Formation", which can show that Qi Jiguang thought that the local guard army of the Ming army at that time had to be rectified.

"Military Law of Sitting in Battle":

"The name of the name is the eyes of everyone. And the heart is not, so Shen Zhi sits on the reward and punishment to deter his heart, so the military law chapter is the third. ”

There are only a few heroes who are in battle, and every time they win the first rank, they often come to repay their merits. I don't want you to retreat together to repay the merits, so that the soldiers look at each other and mistakenly think that they are defeated, and everyone is gone. In the future, its long card, spear, wolf, where should be the first, the number of long soldiers is never allowed to take the first knife, just kill first, not allowed to set up Gu Lian's head; Each team's bird is also divided into two pairs.

In the future, when there is wealth, one person in each team will be left in the team to pack up and guard, and the thieves will be equally divided, and the captain of the hundred sentinels will be doubled, and he will not be allowed to stay in the ranks and still leave people in the ranks.

Whoever retreats from the battle, allows the captain to cut off the ears of the soldiers, the captain of the armor and the long ears of the captain, the chief of the sentry and the long ears of the sentry officer, and returns to the army, and those who have no ears will be beheaded.

Where the ambush soldiers, the thief can not afford to get up early, lead the ambush captain to behead, each soldier deducts work and food to give mercy, and still bundles and beats.

If one person dies in battle, he will be beheaded by a real thief, and eight people will be exempted from crime. If you die, you will get two, and eight people will be rewarded.

Whoever takes the lead, the first is surrounded, and the second is not saved; One team was surrounded, and the teams at the outpost did not save it; A sentry is surrounded, and the other post is not saved, resulting in the loss of the person, and the military law beheads the captain of the sentry team.

Anyone who dies in battle, and there is no thief in the first class, will be deducted from work and food for one month, and the deceased's home will be given preferential benefits, and the loser will be deducted from a team, and the chief of the missing post will be deducted a sentry, and the official will be deducted a branch.

If a captain does not retreat and the soldiers retreat, behead the captain. If the captain does not retreat and the soldiers retreat, and the captain is killed, if the captain does not leave, and the soldiers are killed, the captain is beheadedFrom the beginning of the day, to the generals, the generals and other officers are all in this way. It is not limited to the punishment of work and food.

Those who are so-called sympathetic to their families are not only punished for food and food, but also have the hereditary compassion of the shadow son.

Anyone who is defeated in a great battle, killed by thieves, and wounded in the back of the officers and soldiers, will still be regarded as a defeat, and will not be merciful. and still sin against his own house and against those who have been recruited;

All instruments are borrowed, and they are stubborn and unprofitable. Those who are more likely to have military uniforms and equipment without permission, and forget to bring more than one piece when entering the venue, will be tied up by military law, and according to the example of the battle, the captain of the team will sit in a row.

Where the ranks are not in order, walking in disorder, leaving the team without permission, beating drums is not good, and smelling gold is not stopped. Those who do not subdue according to the flag, do not raise the flag, do not receive the flag, do not pass on the order, do not pass the order, the road is congested, and the words are noisy. Juzhi Military Law.

Whenever there is a battle, the formation has been decided, move the foot back, the ranks are crowded, sparse and uneven, and all the sentry officers and long players are committed.

Day and night. However, when the Chinese army started fire and artillery, it was a sudden alarm, and all officers and soldiers did not have to wait for the regular order, that is, they camped separately, and they fought immediately when they encountered the enemy, and they did not need to take the orders of the Chinese army.

Whoever sent a thief to report that the officers and soldiers had heard the news of the thief. It doesn't matter if you don't see the commander in advance, you dare to ask someone about it in the middle of the way, and even if you say it, there is a prophet who will leak the military plane before the commander in charge, and whoever asks and answers will be court-martialed.

Whenever there is a thief, each team is strictly prepared to listen to the order, waiting to find out the number of thieves, so as to send troops, not to violate the order to compete for the first, for fear of falling into the unexpected.

Those who abandon their weapons in battle, and those who do not charge officers and soldiers who are in battle and can exchange for sergeants' sharp equipment and horses, shall be engaged in military law.

Whoever threatens to claim illness and avoid hardships and dangers, and therefore destroys his weapons in order to escape, he shall be beheaded.

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From the content of this volume, we can see how lax the military discipline of the Ming army was at that time, and of course, this situation also has a lot to do with the changes in the political situation of the Ming Dynasty.

In the Ming Xiaozong and Ming Wuzong dynasties, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army partially rebounded. However, after the death of Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty and the succession of Emperor Jiajing, the political situation of the Ming Dynasty began to become chaotic, and even the emperor did not deal with state affairs for a long time, but pursued monasticism.

Some people believe that the decline of national strength in the middle of the Ming Dynasty originated from Ming Wuzong, but Ming Wuzong knew how to do the right thing, which was much better than Emperor Jiajing, who ignored national affairs at the beginning of his reign, but initiated a great court ceremony that was useless, and fought for a title for his father's dedication to the king without regard for national politics.

As for the chaos of the army in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, this can be seen from the content of the fourth volume of the "New Book of Ji Xiao", "Ban Chapter".

"The order is complicated, people are at a loss, so it is divided into this separate volume, which can be less from the slow, with the rest of the order, so the ban is the fourth. ”

The first thing that matters most in the army is that it is not allowed to speak in a loud voice, and that whoever wants to move and stop advancing and retreating has its own banner and golden drum. At night, it is especially forbidden to cut and prohibit.

If any soldier escapes, the people of the same team shall be tied up and beaten, and half shall be imprisoned and half shall be guaranteed.

If the family is intolerable, it is divided into doors or walls, and no separation is allowed.

If people do not pay attention to the door, and allow people to take away the things on the wall, there is no one who enters and exits the camp, regardless of the official or who, must be released from the door, by order, and must not be allowed to enter and out of the place.

Where the camp is carried out, 3,000 people travel 20 or 30 miles alone, how can something be preached? If there is a mistake in the middle of the transmission, Xu will pass it back, and the cloud will not understand, but only pass it to the original messenger and then pass it on. Therefore, those who mislead the military plane will be shown to the public by military law, and the rest of the soldiers are not allowed to open their mouths to receive help and pass on the message, and those who talk too much will cut off their ears.

If you have gathered together for meritorious service, and the soldiers are the things that kill the thief, and the thief is the thing that kills the people, will the people not want your thief to make you willing to kill the thief, and to keep the military law, and not to disturb him, and how not to flatter you, but when you go to a place, the people are only afraid of the thief and the thief, and you have also taken the thief? The people feared that the thieves would burn it, and you also broke it. The people were afraid of thieves and killings; And if you fight and kill him, how can he, the people, not avoid him, and how can he not close the door and lock the door? And for example, last year, when I went to Taizhou, because it was difficult for the people to control the soldiers, the people along the road were also victimized, and the soldiers had nowhere to stay and nowhere to cook, and they were told by the people to take them, and how many were killed by the captain of the official sentry. It's a shop, but also to keep a day, he has a business, this side is the situation of the soldiers and the people.

Where the ancients drove the army, there were soldiers who took a piece of civil armor to cover the armor (that is, armor) because of the rain, and also beheaded the public.

In the army, only orders have always been accustomed to being bastards, and they are not afraid of rewards and punishments.

In the Song Dynasty, the northern soldiers called the Yue Ye army and said: It is easy to shake the mountain, and it is difficult to shake him in an army.

Those who impersonate into the exercise, the substitute is tied up by military law, and the hired person will be used as a soldier to collect the exercise, and the work and food will be divided into half of the original employee.

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Judging from the content of the fourth volume, the local guard army at that time in the Ming Dynasty was not only lax in military orders, but also seriously disturbed the people, and even the phenomenon of indistinguishable soldiers and bandits.

Qi Jiguang may have known that this was an overall phenomenon of the Ming Empire's army, and in the end he could only convey the situation that needed to be changed in the form of a military letter.

But it's a pity that although "Ji Xiao's New Book" can be circulated, it has nothing to do with Qi Jiguang's possible original intention.

After the three major expeditions of Wanli, the local guard army of the Ming army officially became a bunch of useless shows. The Ming Dynasty's operations could only be completed by relying on the border army, which further consumed the Ming Dynasty's already very weak national strength.

(To be continued.) )

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