Chapter Prevention First
Zhao Bing had long considered the military merit system. He promulgated the provisional regulations when the Qiongzhou army first took shape. However, he was not familiar with the place of life, and his understanding of war in his previous life was too one-sided, so he still admired the head system. He hoped to stimulate the Chinese people with this purpose, just like "the Qin people heard about the war, paused their feet, and attacked the hand-to-hand sword, and danced the furnace and charcoal". Everyone in the soldiers "carried the heads on the left and the captives on the right". Due to the limitations of the situation and conditions, many of the contents are still based on old rules, and they still adhere to the old concept that there must be a brave man under heavy rewards, which deviated from his original intention.
Later, with Zhao Bing's position consolidation, enriching military experience and applying firearms in scale, he realized that the reward system no longer adapted to the current situation, so he also revised the relevant system. However, on the basis of adhering to strict military discipline, the head system was still in use in improving military treatment and humanistic care. In order to increase the sense of honor, he also linked the number of enemies annihilated to honor and marked it on the military flags of each department.
After hiding one's strength and resting for ten years, Zhao Bing launched the battle to recover Jiangnan, which was also the full application of firearms in the war. While winning, the disadvantages of the first-level system in the reward system also began to appear. For example, the corpses were blown up and could not be identified. In the water battle, the corpses were washed away by the water flow or sank into the bottom of the sea with the ship, which would lead to the inability to harvest the head, and also caused dissatisfaction among the officers and soldiers who were in a subordinate position and did not directly participate in the front line.
However, after the war ended, Zhao Bing was busy consolidating the new harvest, rebuilding the defense line, and expanding the army on a large scale, and Zhao Bing, who was plagued by everything, had no time to take care of it. After the war, a large number of officers and soldiers were promoted. In addition, after the battle line was stabilized, the large-scale armed conflict with the Mongol Yuan decreased, which also covered up the contradictions. The courtiers were not concerned about his proposal to modify the reward system.
Later, when Zhao Bing was discussing state affairs, he proposed an imperial edict and compiled the law. He wanted to take this opportunity to comprehensively revise the military law. However, the complexity of this project was far beyond imagination. It was still in the collection stage and the first draft was not taken out. The matter was put on hold again. However, he did not give up because of this, but adjusted the military merit system based on the situation of the edict. However, Wang Yinglin served in the Ministry of Revenue and was promoted to the Chief Political Affairs Office for only half a year. He did not understand this, so he had a verbal conflict with Cao Cheng, which also triggered everyone's "education" for him.
Seeing that Wang Yinglin had a new understanding and insight into the military merit system under the "education" of everyone and on the battlefield, Zhao Bing briefly explained his adjustment of the first-level system:
First of all, it is a common phenomenon to compete for the head on the battlefield and grab heads. After all, in the battle formations on the battlefield, it is actually difficult to tell who the original owner of the obtained head was killed by, so the exaggerated scene of "" appeared. In order to prevent this situation from happening, Zhao Bing decided that the battlefield was not allowed to pick up spoils at will, and all seized were not allowed to be hidden privately, and then extended to the head system.
At first, when killing the enemy on the other side, each team was allowed to force the troops to cut the enemy's heads specifically, but only one person was allowed to be held behind the formation. After the war was withdrawn, the troops were allowed to leave the team for point inspection only when there was a military order to verify the merits. However, after fully replacing the musket, the cold weapons were fully withdrawn, and the requirements for this were stricter, because in the linear queue, once someone left the team to harvest the heads, it would cause chaos in the queue, and the soldiers who chopped their heads would be assassinated by their companions in the back row. Moreover, the individual equipment equipped by the soldiers had cancelled the single-knife and other sharp weapons. It would be better to save effort to cut the head with a triangular bayonet and a self-defense dagger!
At the same time, in offensive battles, battalions or regiments and brigades often fight with larger units, and advance in line with linear battles. However, often all units will send scattered troops to attack the enemy. They will also undertake the task of cutting their heads, manage them in a unified manner, and send tests to avoid the occurrence of fighting for the head level, and can be used as a basis for merit.
Secondly, in order to solve the problem of artillery, baggage and other soldiers who cannot take the enemy's losses, Zhao Bing made targeted adjustments, the focus was to change the credit of the head from individual to collective ownership. Each head was 30 stake. The twenty stakes who were the first to kill the enemy were two stakes, and the remaining soldiers were all divided into one stakes. Although the fire soldiers did not go into battle, the team was also divided into five stakes; each independent artillery that supported the battle of the team was also divided into two stakes.
In other words, as long as the enemy is killed, the entire team will be rewarded for those who fight, shoot long-rangely, and even those who support combat and those who are guarding the house. This requires soldiers to have their own division of labor, set up people who specialize in cutting off the heads, and manage the heads in a unified manner. In fact, while avoiding soldiers fighting for the heads, it also makes the soldiers more united and those who perform their own duties will eliminate more enemies.
In addition, Zhao Bing also agreed on the rules for how to determine the performance of the battle in defensive battles, or if it is unable to go to harvest the head, Zhao Bing also agreed on the rules. For the fallen enemy who is dragged away or carried away by another enemy, he is considered to be injured, and then pretended to be dead and fled back to the original formation. In order to prevent someone from making false contributions, it is also stipulated that the number of enemies that the enemy reported by the headquarters must be consistent with the confirmation of the superior observation post. Small troops must have confirmed that the independent combat of neighbors or other participants, otherwise it will be considered invalid.
After some discussion, Wang Yinglin benefited a lot. He knew that the reward method issued by the young emperor was still not accurate and could not completely avoid the possibility of fraud. However, it also ensured fairness to the greatest extent, which encouraged the brave to take the lead and took into account the interests of the rear personnel, and basically achieved "reward if you have merits"...
In the next few days, the two armies fought many times. The Song army intended to seize Baoyou City and form a powerful force of pressure at the city. The Yuan army hoped to quickly defeat the current enemy and drove the Song army back to Jiangnan. One wanted to seize the city and the other wanted to defeat the enemy. The two sides had different ideas and could only see the truth on the battlefield. However, neither of the two armies seemed to have achieved their goal. Baoyou City was still in the hands of the Yuan army, and the Song army was not defeated. Instead, the camp continued to move forward and expanded, and had a gradual trend of closing.
However, Zhao Bing suddenly lost interest in the battlefield, and no longer had to come in every battle. He often gathered together in the morning to discuss matters and listened to the war reports, but he often listened more and said less and did not participate in opinions. He stayed in the camp, dealing with official documents sent from the capital, or inspecting various camps, and devoted his mind to the soldiers' food, clothing, housing and transportation, and was more like a baggage officer, rather than an emperor in charge of the army.
"Your Majesty, come in. Several envoys have been waiting for a long time!" Wang De heard the news and hurriedly came out to serve him.
"Yeah!" Zhao Bing snorted, rubbing hard on the mud road on his boots. Although this place is Jiangbei, the climate is still warmer than Huaibei. The land cannot be frozen. The surface will thaw at noon, and the roads in the camp become muddy.
"Welcome to Your Majesty!" Several officials waiting in the tent hurried forward and saluted.
"Let's talk!" Zhao Bing cleaned his boots and raised his hand to ask them to pay the bill without gifts.
A fire brazier was lit in the big tent, which was much warmer than outside. Zhao Bing took off his cloak and let everyone sit down. A small yellow gate brought hot tea, and he glanced at everyone. The baggage officers, medical officers and food officers of each battalion had arrived.
"Medical Supervisor An, I just went to the medical hospital of the first division and found that there were more frostbite and soldiers suffering from wind and cold. Do you have any solutions?" Zhao Bing skipped the greetings and asked politely.
"Your Majesty, I also know something about it!" An Ye is the general medical supervisor of the army, and the medical camps in charge of various departments. He was named by the emperor and hurriedly stood up and bowed, "Because the weather is cold and there are camping in the wild, there is no fire in the tent, so there are many hands and feet, and frostbite on the face. Bei Ye has distributed the sore ointment to various capitals and strengthened investigations. If there are serious cases, they will be sent to the medical hospital for treatment immediately."
"For those who feel cold, there are sporadic reports from various departments, and it has not been widely spread. The doctors of various departments have sent prescriptions to treat the prescriptions and temporarily isolated them to prevent spreading!"
"You are the one you brought on the epidemic ship. Don't you know that the prevention is more important than treatment?" Zhao Bing was dissatisfied with his answer and said in a deep voice.
"I am not aware of my mistakes, but it seems too early to distribute medicines on a large scale!" An Ye had also shared the troubles with the young emperor on the epidemic ship, so he naturally knew that it was dangerous and hurriedly accepted his mistakes, but he felt that there was no need to make a big fuss.
"I'm confused, it's too late to spread. I can inform all doctors to strictly check the sick, and the onset of the sick can be sent to the Houjun Medical Hospital for isolation and treatment. In addition, I cook the decoction to prevent wind and cold, so that every soldier can take it in the morning and evening, and rinse his mouth with salt water. Add more ginger and garlic to the food to prevent problems and prevent them from happening!" Zhao Bing snorted coldly and said sternly.
"As for the order, I will handle it immediately!" An Ye hurriedly said.
"Guo Transportation Commander, how many shoes and socks are there in the army?" Zhao Bing pressed his hand and asked An Ye to sit down, and then looked at Guo Dongping, the transfer commander of the army.
"Report to Your Majesty, there are more than 10,000 sets of spare shoes and socks in the army. If it is insufficient, you can transfer them from the Jiangnan warehouse!" Guo Dongping replied with a polite look.
"Well, soldiers' hands and feet are mostly frostbite because the cold-proof gloves that were mostly damaged when building the camp were built, and they sweat a lot, and their shoes and socks were soaked in sweat. However, fire could not be created in the tent, so that they could not be dried in time and could not be replaced in time. First, you distribute the socks and gloves stored in the camp to the soldiers with the most loss, and then allocate them as soon as possible to ensure that every soldier has extra replacement. In the past, you should only ask the chief officials of each department to urge the soldiers to change them in time and use the rest time to dry their shoes and socks, otherwise your hands and feet will be injured, so what can you use to kill the enemy!" Zhao Bing thought for a moment and asked.
"Yes, I personally supervised this matter and tried to complete it within three days!" Guo Dongping respectfully said.
"Oh, there's another thing!" Zhao Bing thought for a while.
"Your Majesty, please tell me!" Guo Dongping was about to sit down, but then he quickly straightened his body and said.
Chapter completed!