Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 518 Competing in the Central Plains (45)

half year later

Spring of the eighth year of Duke Yan 310 (528)
Gwangju
Changguang City

According to the usual practice, three hundred officers and soldiers of Wei State left the city and went out to find villages to loot and slaughter.

However, they had just left the city not long ago.

"kill!"

"It's time to make meritorious deeds, and I will give my all to Lao Tzu!"

Hou Jing, who had been promoted to the captain of the Liao pay collection team, was leading 99 knights towards the [-] Wei infantry.

Ordinary small counties do not have cavalry, and cavalry is generally controlled in the center of the empire.

Because the name of the raiding team was too scary, Yan Lian changed the "robbing team" to "Liao Salary Collection Team". Although the name was changed, the things they did were actually exactly the same.

When you deliberately stay away from Liao Xing, Liao Xing will take the initiative to approach you.

Liao can be Liao, not constant Liao, rate can be rate, not constant rate, Liao rate must be related to Liao, and it does not have to be in the form of rate.

There has never been a Liao pay, but there are Liao pay everywhere in life, not only people whose name is Liao pay are Liao pay.

The officers and soldiers of the State of Wei were suddenly attacked, and they were caught off guard, and were crushed by Hou Jing's cavalry.

Three hundred Wei officers and soldiers were all beheaded. Hou Jing was very happy to see the heads on the carriage.

Only the head with the armor is considered a military exploit. This requirement is mainly because of fear that some soldiers will kill good people and take meritorious service.

The tradition of killing good people for taking meritorious service was not unique to the Ming and Qing dynasties, but had existed since the Qin State, where the military merit system was born. However, the Ming and Qing dynasties were closer to modern times, and the historical records were more detailed. Little things like merit are hard to pass down.

Where there is a market, there is demand. Because some people need money, some people counterfeit money. Because some people need to solve their physiological needs, some people open brothels.

Preventing the killing of good people for taking credit is not to care for good people, but to worry about destroying the reward mechanism and ascending channels.

If the success rate of killing the good and taking the merit is too high, then everyone will not have the passion to go to the battlefield to fight, and will only kill the good and take the merit.

Therefore, the original purpose of the rulers to prevent the killing of good and false meritorious service is only to protect the military merit system or a system similar to the military merit system, so that the army's ascending channel can operate normally.

It is impossible for ordinary people to wear armor, so if you kill them, you will not receive military merit, and if you kill them, you will kill them for nothing.

However, this policy is not perfect, because barbarians such as Goguryeo, their soldiers do not wear armor, how to calculate military merit at this time?

Therefore, the military merit system is not as simple as imagined. It is different from what many people imagined that people can receive military merit by beheading their heads. Except for the state of Qin at the beginning of Shang Yang’s reform, the record of merit became more and more complicated and troublesome. In the end, the traditional method of using human heads to record military exploits was simply abolished.

A Qin soldier killed the enemy and was about to cut off the head as a trophy. Another Qin soldier who failed to kill the enemy killed the Qin soldier and competed for the military merit of the head.

This kind of thing is not uncommon in Qin State, so the head inspection system was formulated later. Each team has a special head inspection officer, who is not responsible for fighting, but only responsible for inspecting soldiers to cut heads according to the rules.

In addition to head loopholes, there are also loopholes in armor. The commander of country A will sell his country’s armor to the officers and soldiers of country B. To kill the good and pretend to be meritorious, you can succeed.

For example, when Wang Meng destroyed the Murong Yan State, Murong Ping, the coach of the Murong Yan State, frantically sold his country's weapons and equipment, and most of them were bought by the Qin State.

Because of the benefit chain of military meritorious deeds, a new trick/tactic has also been extended, that is, the commander of a country lets his officers and soldiers pretend to be buying armor to kill good men and pretend to be meritorious, and tricks the general of country A into reselling arms supplies.

The birth of all tactics is related to the specific situation at that time. If it is not for the benefit chain of killing military merits, naturally there will be no tactics of using military merits as a guise to trick and resell arms and supplies.

After that, there are more means and methods of protection, which are being improved step by step.

The State of Yan adopts the temporary appointment method, that is, the military inspectors are temporarily appointed during the expedition, not long-term officers, and they will be rotated at any time. This method makes the inspectors and soldiers unfamiliar, and it is difficult to form cooperation and bully Hide it.

Due to the need to count and record the heads, this requires the head inspector to master the two basic skills of literacy and arithmetic. In addition, the inspector is also responsible for drawing maps, so he also needs to master topographical map drawing skills .

With the evolution of the war model and the continuous improvement of the military system, the army will have higher and higher requirements for the cultural literacy of soldiers.

This is the difference between professional soldiers and strong soldiers. Strong soldiers have very low requirements and only need two arms and two legs, while professional soldiers need to master a lot of skills and train for a long time.

Literacy is one of Yan's conscription requirements. People who cannot read cannot directly join the army. If they must join the army, they can learn to read and write in the army.

This is also an important reason why the army of Yan State has always been small. Like the Central Plains, there are hundreds of thousands or even millions of strong soldiers. Yan State stopped playing for a long time. On the verge of death, 20 strong soldiers had to be pulled out as cannon fodder.

Hou Jing happily returned to Huangcheng with the head. In the past six months, he led a hundred cavalry and wiped out more than 2000 Wei officers and soldiers.

"You can mock my character, but you can't mock my combat ability." Hou Jing knows that he is greedy, greedy, treacherous, lustful, cruel, and has a bad character, but his military talent is very strong. This thing is self-taught, he is a natural general.

Back in Huangcheng, Hou Jing did not see Yan Lian, the lady whom he had been thinking about all along.

"Hou Jing, come here."

At this time, Hou Jing's boss greeted Hou Jing.

"Yes!" Hou Jing quickly responded, and trotted over.

"Duluozhou in the Central Plains was recently defeated, and the troops were annexed by Ge Rong. Your Majesty is planning to assign ten teams to take care of the defeated soldiers of Duluozhou. Whether your team will go or not, if you go, I will sign up for you." I value Hou Jing's ability, so I take good care of him.

"I'll go!" Hou Jing promised, this is another opportunity to make contributions.

After Du Luozhou was defeated, he fled to the seaside with his remnant soldiers, begging Yan to accept him.

Faced with a population of 10 for free, and all of them are young and middle-aged people who can open up wasteland and farm, Yan Kingdom naturally has no reason to give up, so Yan Lian decided to temporarily relax the sweep of Guangzhou, and sent troops to Youzhou to meet Du Luo week.

(End of this chapter)