Wanli 1592

Chapter 385 A Simple Soldier
Xiao Ruxun was granted the title of Marquis of Zhennan. The news of Shizhen Burma quickly spread among the small countries in Southeast Asia and the Ming army in Burma. The small countries have their own ideas. Let’s not list them for the time being, just explain the various armies in the army The idea is quite complicated.

Xiao Ruxun's status in the local armies of Ming Dynasty is very special.

Since the 20th year of Wanli, Xiao Ruxun has stood out from the family of local military officers in Ningxia. After the Ningxia rebellion was quelled, Xiao Ruxun basically became the leader of each army in Ningxia Town, and once served as the general soldier of Ningxia, but soon He was transferred to the Korean battlefield and fought bloody battles with the Japanese pirates who ravaged the southeastern hinterland of Ming Dynasty for several months. He tore Japan apart and wiped out their 20 troops, making an incomparable military exploit.

Then he didn't rest for long, and was transferred to the Burmese battlefield again. He wiped out the disgusting country like brown sugar that had been harassing the southern border of Ming Dynasty for more than ten years, and restored Ming's prestige in Nanyang to the era of Zheng He's voyages to the West. Not only did he open up Xinjiang Tuotu also raised the face of Ming Dynasty, making Ming Dynasty show its prestige, more than 20 small countries paid tribute again, and joined the tributary system of Ming Dynasty again.

These are the shining achievements and achievements. If these are the representatives of prestige, then the cooperation between Xiao Ruxun and the various troops is the real relationship.

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, where there are officials, there are fights, and where there are soldiers, there are mountains. This is a truth that will never change.

Xiao Ruxun, as a general from a family of military officers born and raised in the Northwest, is of course a frontier general belonging to the Ningxia Town faction. To expand a little bit, he belongs to the Northern Army, belongs to the Nine Sides System, and the troops of the non-Nine Sides System belong to different hilltops and different factions. .

In the Ming army, where there are many factions on the hills, it is very difficult to have both sides. Of course, it is not impossible, but if there is no deep network and strength bonus, it is wishful thinking. For Xiao Ruxun , which was wishful thinking from the beginning.

He was only 23 years old when he commanded soldiers and horses from all over the country to fight for the first time. He only had the military exploits of suppressing the rebellion in Ningxia, and he had the aura of overturning the city wall of Ningxia with gunpowder. Xiao Ruxun was called Gunpowder General in the army, and some people jokingly called Xiao Ruxun in private A gunpowder maniac, a maniac who cannot live without gunpowder.

In addition, Xiao Ruxun is just a young boy with brows on his mouth and eyebrows who can't do things well. Those Liaodong, Shandong Datong Xuanfu and Nanbing, who would want to ignore him?I thought this would be an impossible task, but who would have thought that Xiao Ruxun spent three months before the war to establish his prestige, solve problems for Wu Weizhong, win the hearts of the southern soldiers, and beat Li Rusong to deter him. the rest of the army.

World War I wiped out tens of thousands of Japanese pirates in Pyongyang, and initially established prestige. In World War II, no gunpowder was used and only cold weapons were used. Tens of thousands of heads were killed. Abandoned, [-] to [-] heads piled up into a mountain, establishing Xiao Ruxun's prestige extremely hard.

Of course, in addition to prestige, Xiao Ruxun's credibility has also been recognized by all armies.

It is very easy for a mighty general to gain the fear of the soldiers, just kill more people, but it is difficult to gain the respect of the soldiers, especially if a general from a different place wants to win soldiers from other places For example, if Xiao Ruxun, who was born in Ningxia, wants to be respected by Shandong spearmen, what do you think?Thousands of miles away, you don't know me and I don't know you, so why should I respect you?

Xiao Ruxun was able to do it, impartial, not deliberately favoring any troops, giving all troops the same fighting opportunities, and basically sharing the results equally, trying to achieve a bowl of water as even as possible, when his own headquarters achieved too much results When he was in power, he was still willing to keep the headquarters and lead the troops of other factions to earn military merits. How rare do you think such a commander is?
Don't talk about anything else, just talk about the troops brought out by yourself, even if you don't consider other things, just say that the familiarity and cooperation between each other is the best. There are no telephones or telegrams in battle on the battlefield, and it all depends on the general's personal prestige and the sound of war drums. Command, if the soldiers are familiar with the general, the soldiers will know what to do as soon as the general's drum sounds, and the cooperation between them is very tacit, and they are as reliable as the general's arms.

This is the reason why direct troops are more effective than collateral troops in the objective sense.

However, Xiao Ruxun was different. He was able to lead direct troops to win battles, as well as lead collateral troops to win battles. The military discipline that restrained direct troops was also very strong. Direct troops were not allowed to provoke other troops. Knowing that this would give direct troops a bad impression, But still do it this way, try to maintain the balance of the various troops, and if there are irreconcilable incidents, they will be pulled out to fight. After a victory, all conflicts will be subsided.

After winning military exploits and rewards, he only takes what he should get, and distributes the rest to his subordinates. He also specially rewards his subordinates with big rewards, trying to take care of every meritorious soldier. More importantly, he knows how to care for others and can consider Considering the actual situation, for example, the soldiers from the South were fighting in North Korea, and they were not used to the severe cold climate in North Korea. The winter clothes were too thin, and the soldiers from the South couldn’t bear the severe cold. The collective support of soldiers.

The soldiers from the north and the soldiers from the south are not used to eating each other's staple food, so Xiao Ruxun tries to cook food from his hometown for the local troops during the festivals. It doesn't matter whether it is authentic or not. If you have this kind of heart, you are the only one among the generals of the Ming Dynasty. Let’s make big cakes for northern soldiers and noodle soup for southern soldiers, not to mention how well they are done, this heart alone has been felt by most of the defeated soldiers.

When you care about the troops from the bottom of your heart, the soldiers can feel that in such a precarious situation on the battlefield, the mighty and benevolent generals are the most popular. If you care about the soldiers, the soldiers are willing to fight to the death for you. Soldiers There is no sense of family and country, no great reason, and now there is no political and ideological education, why are they fighting?Basically, they are fighting for life, fighting for life, and life comes first, so there are many deserters and weak combat effectiveness, but under Xiao Ruxun's men, these soldiers are willing to fight to the death and are willing to work hard for Xiao Ruxun.

What noble feelings do you think?no!It is because Xiao Ruxun bestowed favor on these soldiers, making them feel that they have received kindness and care. They are grateful and trust Xiao Ruxun, so they are willing to fight for Xiao Ruxun with all their strength. How can there be so many noble feelings?How can there be so much righteousness?Do you expect soldiers who don't know a single character to understand the righteousness of the country and the nation?
Otherwise, why is the emperor always so afraid of commanding generals?
It's very simple, when a prestigious general ascends to the top, the big soldiers really dare to launch a counterattack against the emperor, and they are willing to cut their bodies to pull the emperor off his horse. This is definitely not just for fun!Now that there is no political and ideological education, soldiers can easily become the private soldiers of prestigious generals. Soldiers don't care who is the emperor. At the beginning of the founding of the country, they would still be jealous. After a long time of peace, who cares whether you are the emperor or not?I'm having a bad day, so I'll take you out!

This situation was especially obvious before the Song Dynasty. Rao tried to suppress the army after the Song Dynasty, but the nature of the army is so, no matter how you suppress it, in troubled times, the army is still aggressive and still the foundation of the regime, so whether it is Wang Xijue, Zhang Wei or Zhao Zhigao Neither Shi Xing nor Shi Xing could accept the existence of [-] warriors completely becoming Xiao Ruxun's personal soldiers.

If these 3 soldiers and horses are used well, with Xiao Ruxun's prestige, if they climb up and shout, these [-] soldiers will immediately follow him northward to attack the city. No one knows better than the civil servants how weak the garrisons in Jiangnan are. There was no one who was not worried about whether Xiao Ruxun's prestige among the southern soldiers would call on the southern soldiers to turn against each other, and then take down the entire south of the Yangtze River in an instant, confront the imperial court north and south, and then send troops to the north.

There is no other reason, the army is so violent and simple.

Therefore, when the soldiers learned that Xiao Ruxun was staying in Burma and could not return to the Central Plains, and they were about to leave Xiao Ruxun and return to the Central Plains, they once had a very serious rebellious mentality, and were very unhappy with the treatment that Xiao Ruxun received was almost equivalent to exile. Major generals such as the Ma family’s children, as well as Deng Zilong and Liu Ting, etc., all defended Xiao Ruxun’s injustice, and wanted to write a letter to the court to seek justice for Xiao Ruxun. .

Xiao Ruxun didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and comforted these soldiers and officers, saying that this was his expectation, what he asked for, and had nothing to do with the court. I hope that everyone will fulfill his ideas, and please do not submit letters to the court, otherwise not only will his situation be more difficult, but the generals who wrote the letter will also be treated unfairly.

Because the imperial court will think that Xiao Ruxun is buying people's hearts in the army and forming a clique for personal gain, which is not beautiful.

After the generals realized the seriousness of the problem, they all stopped aggrieved, but although they died down, Xiao Ruxun could clearly see the aggrieved and dissatisfied in their hearts, especially Liu Ting and Deng Zilong. Gang civil servants have almost developed to the point of hatred.

For this reason, Xiao Ruxun specially invited these two generals who had great prestige in the southern military system to have a meal, explained some principles to them, told them to behave in a low-key manner, and never violate the intention of the court, etc. Aggrieved, but safe - the two veterans agreed with aggrieved, and said what Xiao Ruxun would need in the future, one of them is in Guangdong and the other is in Sichuan, these two local snakes will definitely give Xiao Ruxun enough help.

They left Myanmar reluctantly with Sichuan soldiers and Guangdong soldiers.

The generals of the southern soldiers mostly had a reluctant attitude towards Xiao Ruxun. The southern soldiers born out of Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou's system had never been in the same pot as the northern generals. Only one Xiao Ruxun was very happy with them. After leaving, They didn't know which fucking general they were going to be assigned to do some fucking things. They were very upset, and they were very reluctant to leave the command of Marshal Xiao, and they missed Marshal Xiao's peppers and big pancakes even more.

Xiao Ruxun comforted them with kind words, telling them to do things honestly, to be low-key, not to disobey the superior, let alone contradict the general, not everyone can laugh it off like him, Xiao, be careful of being put on small shoes.

The southern soldiers reluctantly bid farewell to the marshal they recognized.

The wolf soldiers recommended their leaders to come to Xiao Ruxun's handsome tent to bid farewell to Xiao Ruxun, saying that with so many Han generals fighting together, only Xiao Ruxun really regarded them as his own, and others regarded them as barbarians, so nothing else was said , rough people are illiterate and can't speak, if General Xiao can still use us in the future, if we can continue to fight together, we will definitely go through fire and water for General Xiao, not to mention fighting Japanese pirates and Burmese barbarians, it is considered a rebellion , we will also hang our heads on our trouser belts and walk with General Xiao!
Xiao Ruxun, dumbfounded, sent the honest and honest wolf soldiers onto the boat and watched them go—these were soldiers of the Zhuang and Miao nationalities who did not understand the principles, writing and language of the Han people, or the rules of the Han people. They know how to be loyal and repay favors, and they will pour out their hearts and souls to whoever treats them well. They can tell such things as rebellion, which shows that they are very dissatisfied with most of the famous generals.

In the end, there were more than 20 boys from the Ma family, the young men that Ma Gui entrusted to him. Xiao Ruxun asked them if they would also follow the fleet back to Ma Gui, and they all shook their heads.

"The old man entrusted us to the commander. The commander is our god. The commander told us to go east, we will never go west. The commander told us to go south, we will never go north, and we will never go back. The commander-in-chief is in Myanmar, so we will follow the commander-in-chief in Myanmar, no matter where we go, up the mountain of swords and down into the sea of ​​fire, if we frown, we will not be named Ma!"

Mahu said so.

Xiao Ruxun was really moved by these tough guys, the emotions formed on the battlefield were really not just for fun.

Yuan Huang, an elite among scholars, gave up his official position in the imperial court and became Xiao Ruxun's only literati staff. He came to Myanmar from the south, gave up his house in Wujiang County, and settled in Myanmar from then on. He also wrote letters to a group of students and friends in Zhejiang, inviting them to come to Myanmar to help Xiao Ruxun build Myanmar. Although I don’t know if anyone is willing to come, but Yuan Huang I've done everything I can.

Xiao Ruxun was very moved by this, and urged Yuan Huang not to do this. He was really sorry that he had to leave his hometown at the age of 60.

Yuan Huang laughed, saying that his ancestors were forced to leave their hometowns and come to Wujiang County because they offended Zhu Di during the Jingnan War. Develop Myanmar into a rich paradise on earth.

He is so sure.

(End of this chapter)