Wanli 1592

Chapter 525 Generals must use soldiers with severe punishments and strict laws, as well as kindness and righteousness
Li Rusong was obedient and obedient, and Li Chengliang was very satisfied.

"Okay, just remember it. Come on, help Weifu up. You should always see Xiao Jixin with your own eyes. It's a pity that you haven't seen Xiao Jixin after hearing his name for a long time."

Li Chengliang stubbornly wanted to get up to see what Xiao Ruxun looked like, which made Li Rusong a little dumbfounded, so he had to call a few people to help him dress Li Chengliang together, and then personally supported Li Chengliang, and slowly left the safe little Jincheng .

At this time, Xiao Ruxun was on the front line, and he was placing the twenty red barbarian cannons he brought on the city wall one by one, and did the corresponding shock absorption work.

In this regard, the gunners in his headquarters had very rich experience, and directed the gunners sent by Zhu Yijun to carry out slightly unfamiliar but still correct operation steps.

The soldiers of the Beijing camp who were guarding the city looked at the legendary No. 1 general in Wanli with great curiosity and a little fear. The reason for their curiosity was because of the shadow of his famous tree, so they were naturally curious.

As for fear, it was because Xiao Ruxun brought more than 300 heads with him when he came—the heads of deserters killed along the way.

"Anyone who dares to escape without permission in violation of the military law, I don't care who you are as a slave or who you are, I will kill you all the way! Others dare not, but I, Xiao Ruxun, dare!"

He has the confidence to say such words and follow them. No one will doubt that he will not govern and control the army he can control according to what he said.

Xiao Ruxun was very annoyed by the preliminary statistical results. The legendary [-] soldiers in the Beijing battalion have not even reached [-]. Before he arrived in Beijing, many of them had fled on the road. Basically, the timid ones with connections in the family have already fled.

The rest are not all bold, but also some stupid and self-important ones. Li Chengliang doesn't care about those who escaped on the road, but after arriving at Zijing Pass, he arranges his own guards and Chai Guozhu's personal guards to guard the exits and inspect the exits. On each city wall, I saw those who flinched, those who disturbed the morale of the army, and those who tried to be deserters and killed them all, leaving no one behind.

I don't care on the way, if the war starts, you will be real deserters, you will be killed according to the law, you have nothing to say!

Lao Li is also ruthless enough, after all, he is a veteran of the military for decades, skilled in tactics and merciless.

But even so, when the battle situation was tense, Lao Li didn't have time to pay too much attention, which gave many deserters an opportunity. Xiao Ruxun encountered more than 300 people along the way. How many people there are, it can be seen that Lao Li is not omnipotent.

But now it’s all right, Xiao Ruxun specially instructed Li Rusong to get a cavalry team of more than 300 people, and gave him the authority to hunt deserters. If anyone is suspected of deserting, and there is no token or warrant to leave the battlefield, the cavalry team can be killed first and then played. No accountability at all.

Such ruthless means, and the more than 300 heads that were hung up in the howling wind greatly frightened the soldiers of the Beijing camp. Whether they wanted to escape or did not want to escape, they all began to think about whether to escape and survive. The rate is high, or the survival rate is high if you continue to fight to the death.

Generals must use severe punishments and laws when using troops, otherwise the military discipline will be weak, and no matter how powerful the army is, it will be nothing but a beast army. Once the general dies, he will disperse like birds and beasts and disappear in the long river of history.

When a general employs soldiers, he must also use the means of kindness and righteousness. Otherwise, the soldiers fear the general but do not respect and trust the general. If the soldiers are oppressed too much, the general himself will be in danger, such as Zhang Fei.

Leading troops is the same as being an emperor. You need to give both kindness and power, a big stick in one hand and gold and silver treasures in the other. Only by doing both can you get the best results. Neither simple punishment nor simple kindness can bring out the best army.

Therefore, after being intimidated by ruthless means, Xiao Ruxun also needs to win people's hearts, so that these veterans of the Beijing camp are willing to contribute, willing to believe that the survival rate of fighting is higher than that of fleeing, otherwise they will still flee ,Do not believe?

Think about it, Zhang Fei is such a strong and fierce man, and leads his troops so strictly, to what extent did he push his soldiers so that someone would take the risk and kill him to escape?

People are forced to do anything in a hurry.

The first step for Xiao Ruxun to win people's hearts is to distribute winter clothes. He knows that the clothes these soldiers wear are relatively inferior winter clothes. Some deserters he met before also cried and complained that they couldn't stand the cold, and they ran away because they didn't want to be frozen to death. , Seeing the shivering and black faces of these soldiers, you know that they have been cold for a long time.

Under such a cold situation, it is normal that the will to fight cannot be stimulated. The warm blood must have enough body temperature as a prerequisite, otherwise the warm blood will warm the body, and there will be no temperature to fight.

The large amount of winter clothes transferred from the warehouse in the capital came in handy at this moment. Anyway, with the emperor's warrant, those people dared not stop them, and let Xiao Ruxun take a lot of them. Xiao Ruxun was not polite and took a lot more.

The soldiers got enough clothes to keep out the cold, and they breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that this famous general didn't simply force them to die, but cared for them at the very least, so their attitude towards Xiao Ruxun began to change.

The second step is to order the troops in the headquarters to chop firewood, light the fire, and boil ginger water to keep the soldiers warm.

Under the howling wind, a bowl of steaming ginger water can win people's hearts more than anything else. After a long period of forced fighting, many soldiers in the Beijing camp were devastated physically and mentally. A bowl of ginger water would not do much, but it was Can make them feel a little warm.

How precious is a trace of warmth under the ice and snow!
Many people immediately shed tears while drinking.

Their attitude towards Xiao Ruxun began to change sharply for the better.

The third step is to send military medical officers to re-diagnose and treat some injured soldiers, bandage the wounds, and send the seriously injured ones back to Xiaojincheng for recuperation, and the more serious ones are ordered to be sent back to the capital directly. There is no need to die here.

Xiao Ruxun has always paid great attention to medical issues in wars, and he was like this in Ningxia. Therefore, Xiao Ruxun is famous for his low mortality rate in wars. As long as the soldiers who fought with him did not die, they could basically receive medical treatment. Waiting for the injury to return to the team, and the battle is short, then send it back to the base camp for recuperation, there is no need to die.

Xiao Ruxun's reputation of caring about the lives of soldiers and not making unnecessary sacrifices shined brightly on the Korean battlefield, and became one of the main reasons why a large number of troops from other places ignored factional disputes and were willing to follow his orders and fight for him.

Soldiers are also human beings, not weapons, they have their own thoughts, fear, hate, shrink, and cherish their lives. Of course, kindness does not command soldiers, and the general who forces them to die is tough, but soldiers are also human beings.

When there is no need to die, and if there are sufficient conditions, soldiers should not be sent to die. The combat effectiveness of a veteran returning from injury is far higher than that of a hastily recruited recruit.

Xiao Ruxun deeply understands the truth of it, and also knows how pity it is for those who died unjustly on the battlefield in ancient times. How can you watch him pass away when a handful of herbs and a strip of white cloth can save his life?

Xiao Ruxun couldn't do it.

(End of this chapter)