The soldiers behind Yang Yizu began to escort hundreds of Li soldiers who had surrendered from the city, but no Li soldiers stood there any longer, and were all cut off by the head of Qu, the surname Meng, who was named Meng.

Yang Yizu frowned when he saw this and went forward and said, "Meng Zhongbing, you are still so reckless. Before the dock, the general told us to wait for less killing and let them surrender as much as possible.

After all, there are more ways to get military merits, including first arriving, killing generals, grabbing flags, etc. You just don’t listen. No wonder you have been stagnating in Qu Chang’s position for so many years. You don’t think about where to find the population that Your Majesty wants if he slaughtered all the Li soldiers here?"

"Hmph, you quickly took the position of the current chief lieutenant, relying on your confidant, and you have the right to teach me a lesson?" Meng Zhongbing said in disgust, and spitted bloody spit on the ground, which was what had just splashed into his mouth.

In ancient times, middle and lower-level generals promoted their titles, and the important way for soldiers to receive rewards was to rely on military merits. The military merit system during the Three Kingdoms period was basically inherited from the Han Dynasty, and the Han Dynasty came from the Qin State established a 20-level military merit system during Shang Yang's reforms. After all, the Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system.

The upper-level generals can not only be promoted by military merits, but also have other family backgrounds, connections in the court, and the emperor's preferences.

According to the "Warring States Strategy: Han Ce", "The Qin people donated armor and sent prisoners to fight against the enemy, took the head on the left and the captives on the right." This vividly describes the Qin army's appearance of bare shirtless, holding the head on the left and captives on the left, and fighting bravely to kill the enemy.

However, while beheading and making meritorious contributions, there are also assessment procedures and many taboos.

In addition, beheading generals, grabbing flags, climbing first, breaking formations and other actions fall into the category of military merits. In comparison, beheading is just ordinary military merits.

Qin had strict requirements for the assessment of military merits. If one of the Qin troops was killed in battle and the other four were convicted, two to three were killed in battle, the punishment would be increased.

The condition for exemption is that the Qin army is killed in battle and one enemy head must be compensated. Therefore, if an ordinary soldier wants to achieve military merit, he must first deduct his own war-damaged soldiers from the enemy head to calculate military merit.

For officers, the assessment of military merits is more difficult. During the battle, the army where the Qin army's grassroots commanders "Tuncheng" and "Hundred Generals" were not captured, and they would be beheaded. On the contrary, the beheading reached 33, and the "Tuncheng" and "Hundred Generals" were promoted to the first level.

In addition, if you behead more than 8,000 in the siege, or more than 2,000 in the field, you can be rewarded, and generals and officials at all levels can be promoted to one level.

After the battle, "the third son of the army was born, and for three days, the general was the master of the scholar and the official. "The three days were used as a cycle to enter the stage of military merit evaluation and reward.

The heads of the people will be displayed for three days. After the general confirms that the mistakes are correct, he will reward him according to his merits within three days. If the county where he is located fails to implement the reward within three days, the county's chief and lieutenant will be punished.

Beheading takes a long time and is heavy, which is not conducive to marching and fighting. There are records of using other parts to replace human heads in various historical periods. In "Shuowen Jiezi", it is recorded that "Bi (read guo), the army fights cut off the ears." In ancient wars, the enemy's left ear was cut off instead of the head. The left ear was chosen because the left was respected in ancient times.

The head is so important that it has a negative impact.

In order to falsely report military achievements, officers and soldiers killed good people and even killed colleagues for fake things. This situation was also very common during the late Han Dynasty, and Dong Zhuo often did this.

Dong Zhuo once went to Yangcheng to fight. In order to be a military consecrated, he actually gathered the people together and chopped the men's heads to charge them.

A man dies innocently, and a woman's fate is equally miserable.

Dong Zhuo forced them to be assigned to ordinary soldiers. Even the palace maids and princesses of the Eastern Han Dynasty court were not spared, and many of them were forcibly occupied by Dong Zhuo and even Dong Zhuo's subordinates. It was such a Dong Zhuo who did not hesitate to kill good people in order to be promoted and had already lost the hearts of the people.

It is said that Lu Xun, the general of the Eastern Wu, also did the killing of good deeds when he attacked Shiyang City, Wei State.

Lu Xun quietly attacked the small county of Wei, causing the people to be killed by his own army, just to obtain the merit of capturing more than a thousand people, and not to damage the vitality of the Wei State. He let the people suffer such a cruel disaster in vain.

But in this world, if you want to accomplish great things, you can rely solely on the left-handedness of Panmen like Killing Liang and Promoting. You still have to fight against the real enemy and win the victory to be effective.

This phenomenon will occur when the country is corrupt and incompetent. The root cause is nothing more than the weakening of the country's authority and execution ability and the speculative psychology of some officers and soldiers.

A more important military merit than beheading is to kill generals. The general is the commander of an army and occupies a core position in the army.

The general is in the back position and is protected by a brave guard around him. Therefore, it is more difficult to kill a general. Of course, high risk means high returns, and once you succeed, you will be incredible.

The Chu-Han war was fought, and Xiang Yu, a god of war, was defeated at Gaixia and was forced to commit suicide in Wujiang.

In order to compete for Xiang Yu's body, Han soldiers rushed forward and killed each other, with dozens of dead people.

In the end, the doctor, Yang Xi, Sima Lu Matong, doctor, Lu Sheng, Yang Wu and others got their own one.

Emperor Gaozu of Han, Liu Bang, gave four people the rewards of titles to marquis and fiefs respectively.

Among them, Yang Xi kicked off the prelude to the "Hongnong Yang Family", one of the four major Chinese families. It can be said that the military achievements of killing generals changed the fate of a family.

In addition to killing generals, seizing the flag is also eye-catching. In ancient times, there were flags representing the emperor, flags that indicate their identities, flags that symbolize the country, and flags that command the army. Seizing the opponent's military flag can disturb the deployment of the enemy, shake the opponent's morale, and thus affect the direction of the war.

Li Gan, the youngest son of Li Guang, the famous general of the Western Han Dynasty, served under the command of the general Huo Qubing. In 119 BC, Li Gan participated in the famous Battle of Mobei.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! In the battle with the Zuo Xianwang of the Huns, Li Gan was not afraid of death, fought bravely to lead, and seized the Zuo Xianwang's battle flag in one fell swoop.

After the war, Emperor Wu of Han granted Li Gan the title of Guannei Marquis with a fief of 200 households.

Li Gan made up for the regret of "Li Guang's difficulty in seizing the flag" with his military achievements.

Unlike killing generals and seizing flags, breaking the formation is more special.

This military merit requires not a head, but a piercing through the opponent's military formation and splitting and encircling to achieve the goal of winning.

Simply put, it means fighting a bloody path among thousands of troops.

The soldiers who can participate in breaking the formation must be powerful soldiers who take into account both courage and courage.

The siege battle in the cold weapon era was a nightmare for the attacking parties. Because of this, in the ancient military merit system, the most merit was first made.

As the name suggests, the first to climb the city wall is the first to climb.

The first soldier who climbed the city wall alive played an important role in changing offense and strengthening morale.

The first-class people not only have a generous reward, but also gain both fame and fortune, but also gain the favor of the emperor.

In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, Zhou Bo followed Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang to attack Xiayi. Zhou Bo led the way, took the lead and climbed the city first and made great contributions.

Liu Bang gave him the titles of the five major doctors. In the military merit system of the Han Dynasty, the five major doctors belonged to the ninth rank, higher than the officials, officials and officials, and were known as the "respect of the doctors".

Zhou Bo has achieved great success in his official career and has been the prime minister and has become the core figure in the political arena in the early Han Dynasty.

The emergence of military merits was of epoch-making significance. It continued to the Three Kingdoms period and still had strong vitality. Yang Yizu relied on his first-level success in fighting with Zhuge Ke that he was promoted to the commander of the army so quickly.

He also fought for his life and the risk was very high, but Meng Zhongbing was dissatisfied and believed that only military merits obtained by human heads were the real military merits. Yang Yizu was moved to the commander because he made a clever trick, and there were people in the upper class in the army...
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