Chapter VIII Discipline Effect
After a few days of marching, Kong Youde gradually became a little familiar with this strange world. Ordinary people of this era were quite afraid of the army. When pedestrians on the road saw the army, they hurriedly stayed away. When they passed by the village, almost every door was closed and they did not dare to make any noise.
The main reason is that the military disciplines in the late Ming Dynasty were generally poor. The reason must be based on Zhu Yuanzhang. In order to solve the military problems once and for all, Zhu Yuanzhang established a garrison system and even proudly said: "I raise a million soldiers and do not spend a grain of rice for the people." In fact, the garrison system did solve the problem of military pay for the court in the early Ming Dynasty, but as time passed, the garrison system gradually collapsed, and the combat effectiveness of the garrison soldiers became lower and lower.
In the late Ming Dynasty, recruiting soldiers took on the main combat tasks. Because the economic conditions of the garrison soldiers were generally poor, the social status of the garrison soldiers was very low and discriminated against. When recruiting soldiers, normal families rarely joined the army. Therefore, part of the recruitment was the idle and unemployed vagrants. The military discipline was naturally not very good, so it was normal for ordinary people to fear the army.
At noon on November 16, Kong Youde led his army to Lingxian County, but this time he did not set up camp. Kong Youde ordered the entire army to repair it on the spot, bury the pot and cook rice, and then took twenty personal soldiers into the city to find the Lingxian County Magistrate to ask for food.
Just like Shanghe County, the county officials in Ling County were looking for various reasons not to give enough military rations, and they could not refute the reasons they found. Even if they went to the Shandong Governor's Office and the Governor's Office to complain, it would be useless. Fortunately, they were quite kind and not as greedy as the Shanghe magistrate and the county magistrate. This time they gave 300 stones, which was almost enough for the 3,000 army's six days of military rations.
After getting the food, Kong Youde did not continue to stop and drove directly to the north. After passing Ling County, he entered the Zhili border. The next stop was Wuqiao County, which belongs to Hejian Prefecture and is a famous acrobatics town.
Kong Youde had limited knowledge of inexplicable history. He only knew that the time of Kong Youde's rebellion was on the way to reinforce the Daling River north. He had not carefully understood which location was. If he knew that the original place of Kong Youde's rebellion in history was Wuqiao County, then he would never go to Wuqiao County, but instead detoured by Ningjin County to the east or Jing County to the west of Wuqiao.
Originally, when Kong Youde arrived in Wuqiao, the troops were not well fed. A soldier forced a chicken to take over a family servant of Wang Xiangchun, a prominent family clan in Shandong. The soldier felt very humiliated and killed the servant in anger. Afterwards, Wang Xiangchun's son refused to give up and asked to find out the truth. It happened that Li Jiucheng spent all the money given by Sun Yuanhua, so he joined forces with his son Li Yingyuan to incite the soldiers to rob and mutiny. Kong Youde could not suppress it, so he changed and called it the Wuqiao mutiny.
Kong Youde also knew that this rebellion was finally led by soldiers robbing a chicken in a wealthy family. So after he left Shanghe County, he ordered that the troops were strictly prohibited from leaving the team without authorization, and that the troops were strictly prohibited from harassing the people. He was afraid of attracting similar things. At present, the effect was quite good. Although the morale was not very high, as long as he could successfully arrive at the Liaodong battlefield and win a beautiful victory, his official position would be much safer in the future.
After all, after experiencing death, he would never forget the real and painful memory in his life, so he was very afraid of death. People who could not face the threat of death in this troubled time are all senior figures, so he really wanted to climb to a high place, preferably to climb to the highest position of this era - the emperor. Of course, he just thought about it. It is too difficult for him at the moment.
On the afternoon of November 17th, when the sun was about to set, the army arrived in Wuqiao County. Like the previous few days, they chose to camp next to a small river. After they were all settled, Kong Youde returned to his exclusive tent, sat in front of a fire, and looked at "Ji Xiao New Book".
As a person who didn't know much about military affairs in his previous life, he didn't know how to fight. He had also read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a novel after all, and novels mean that the story is relatively strong, so the logic and authenticity will be worse.
For example, science fiction novels written by Jules Verne, Arthur Clark, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Liu Cixin and others are so attractive, but some scientific theories are wrong, while almost few people take the initiative to read textbooks such as advanced physics and advanced mathematics. The novels focus more on storylines, and most people read science fiction novels for entertainment.
Similarly, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is very popular, but few people are willing to read the more historical facts of "The Three Kingdoms", so it is not reliable to learn how to fight from the novel. As for Jiannu's claim to rely on a book "The Three Kingdoms" to conquer the world, and he is very proud, it is actually nonsense. The braids generally have low cultural levels, and only a few upper-class nobles are literate. It is definitely difficult to understand the profound cultural understanding of the Han people. Such as the real Han military book "The Art of War" is too obscure for them and it is difficult to understand.
"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is different. The text of this novel is close to vernacular Chinese and has a strong story. In addition, there are illustrations in the book, which look simple and easy to understand. Therefore, for braids with low levels of Chineseization, it is simply a good thing like reading New Year's pictures or flirting with villains. Moreover, the strategy in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is mainly strategic, and it is naturally useful for the Later Jin Dynasty who is qualified in basic tactical literacy. If a person who does not understand military affairs takes a book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" to train recruits, it may be useless to teach them last year, because this book does not teach basic things such as how to camp, how to shoot archery, how to ride horses, etc.
This is what Kong Youde taught in this book "Ji Xiao New Book". This book originated from Qi Jiguang's summary of military training and military management experience during the anti-Japanese war on the southeast coast. He introduced in detail the experience of Qi Jiguang's military training, orders, tactics, camps, martial arts, guarding whistle, and water battles. The army trained by Qi Jiguang himself can achieve an average of 1:5o damage, so what he wrote is naturally useful.
Moreover, most of the tactical things will not be outdated. For example, the "rewarding does not avoid revenge, and punishment does not avoid relatives" in the volume of rewards and punishments. The army in the 21st century is still useful. At present, what Kong Youde needs is these basic tactical knowledge. This book was widely circulated in the Ming army, so Kong Youde appeared the next day after traveling through time. Basically, after camping every night, he sat in front of the stove and read it carefully.
Chapter completed!