Chapter 250: Prejudice, How to Obtain Military Merit
The soldiers behind Yang Yizu began to take down the hundreds of Li soldiers who had surrendered on the top of the city. However, there was not a single Li soldier standing at the city gate. They were all chopped down by the leader of Qu Chang Meng.
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Seeing this situation, Yang Yizu frowned and stepped forward and said: "Meng Zhongbing, you are still so reckless. The general told us before we docked that we should kill less and try to make them surrender as much as possible.
After all, there are more than just this kind of ways to get military merit, there are also ways to ascend first, kill generals, capture flags, etc. You just don’t listen. No wonder you continue to stagnate in the position of commander after so many years. You don’t want to
I think if all the soldiers here are slaughtered, where will the people your Majesty want be found?"
"Hmph, you quickly took the position of captain because you were a close associate of the general. What qualifications do you have to teach me a lesson?" Meng Zhongbing said in disgust, and spit blood on the ground. That was
What just splashed into my mouth,
In ancient times, middle and lower-level generals were promoted to nobility, and an important way for soldiers to be rewarded was through military merit. The military merit nobility system during the Three Kingdoms period was basically inherited from the Han Dynasty, and the Han Dynasty system came from the Qin State established the 20-year-old system during Shang Yang's reform.
After all, the Han Dynasty inherited the system of Qin Dynasty.
The top general can not only be elected by virtue of military merit, but also by other factors such as family background, connections in the court, the emperor's preferences, etc.
According to the "Warring States Policy·Han Ce": "The Qin people donated armor and clothing to the enemy, holding heads on the left and prisoners on the right." It vividly describes the Qin army's bare arms, carrying heads in the left hand, and prisoners in the right hand.
The look of bravely killing the enemy.
However, while decapitation serves as a meritorious service, there are also assessment procedures and many taboos.
In addition, actions such as beheading generals, capturing flags, ascending first, breaking formations, etc. all belong to the category of military merit. In comparison, beheading is nothing more than ordinary military merit.
The Qin State has strict requirements for the assessment of military merit. The Qin army consists of five people. If one person dies in battle, the remaining four will be convicted. If two to three die in battle, the punishment will be increased.
The condition for exemption from punishment is that if one person in the Qin army dies in battle, he must compensate for it with one enemy head. Therefore, if an ordinary soldier wants to obtain military merit, he must first deduct his own battle-damaged soldiers from the captured enemy head before calculating military merit.
For officers, the military merit assessment is more difficult. During the battle, the Qin army's grassroots commanders "tunchang" and "hundred generals" would be beheaded if their troops did not gain anything. On the contrary, they would be beheaded up to thirty-three, "
"Tun Commander" and "Hundred Generals" will be promoted to one level.
In addition, if you behead more than 8,000 people in a siege, or more than 2,000 people in a field battle, you can be rewarded, and generals at all levels can be promoted to one rank.
After the battle, "Three days after the first attack, it is the school. After three days, the general will pay the scholar-bureaucrat a nod for his unsuspecting." With a three-day cycle, the military merit evaluation and reward stage will be entered.
The head will be displayed to the public for three days. After the general confirms that it is correct, he will reward him based on his merits within three days. If the county where he is located fails to implement the reward within three days, the county's prime minister and lieutenant will be punished.
Beheading takes a long time, is heavy, and is not conducive to marching and fighting. In various historical periods, there are records of using other parts to replace the human head. In "Shuowen Jiezi" it is recorded: "阘 (pronounced guo), the ear is cut off in military battles." In ancient times.
In war, the left ear of the enemy was cut off to replace the head. The left ear was chosen because in ancient times, the left was respected.
The head is so important that it has a negative impact.
In order to falsely report military exploits, there was a phenomenon of officers and soldiers killing good people and pretending to have merit, or even killing their colleagues to pretend to be fake. This situation was also very common during the period of Emperor Ling of the late Han Dynasty. Dong Zhuo often did this.
Dong Zhuo once went to Yangcheng to fight. In order to show his military merit, he actually gathered the common people together and chopped off the heads of the men.
The man died innocently, and the fate of the woman was equally tragic.
Dong Zhuo forcibly assigned them to ordinary soldiers. Even the maids and princesses of the Eastern Han Dynasty were not spared. Many of them were seized by Dong Zhuo and even Dong Zhuo's men. This is the kind of Dong Zhuo who, in order to be promoted, did not hesitate to kill good people and take merit, and he had already lost the support of the people.
It is said that Lu Xun, the general of Soochow, also committed the crime of killing good people and taking credit when he attacked Shiyang City of Wei State.
Lu Xun secretly attacked the small counties of the Wei State and allowed the people to be killed by his own troops, just to gain the merit of capturing and killing more than a thousand people, but without damaging the vitality of the Wei State, so that the people suffered such a cruel disaster in vain.
But if you want to achieve great things in this world, it is not enough to just rely on heresy such as killing good people and taking credit for merit. You still have to fight the real enemy and win the battle 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 executive power and the speculative mentality of some officers and soldiers.
A more important military achievement than beheading is beheading. A general is the commander of an army and occupies a core position in the army.
The general is located in the back and is protected by loyal and brave guards. Therefore, it is more difficult to kill a general. Of course, high risk means high profit. Once you succeed, you will have unlimited glory.
During the conflict between Chu and Han, Xiang Yu, the god of war, was defeated in Gaixia and was forced to commit suicide in Wujiang River.
In order to fight for Xiang Yu's body, Han soldiers swarmed up and killed each other, killing dozens of people.
In the end, the four knights, Yang Xi, the knight, Lu Matong, the knight, Lu Sheng, the knight, and Yang Wu each got one.
Liu Bang, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, awarded four people the title of marquis and a city.
Among them, Yang Xi kicked off the "Hongnong Yang Family", one of the four major families in China. It can be said that the military exploits of killing a general changed the fate of a family.
In addition to beheading generals, capturing the flag is also eye-catching. In the ancient army, there were big flags (read dào) that represented the emperor, tooth flags that showed identity, flags that symbolized the country, and five parties that commanded the army.
Flag. Capturing the opponent's military flag can disrupt the enemy's deployment, shake the opponent's military morale, and thus affect the direction of the war.
Li Gan, the youngest son of the famous Western Han Dynasty general Li Guang, served under 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! In the battle with the Xiongnu King Zuoxian, Li Ganhan was not afraid of death, fought bravely, and captured the battle flag of King Zuoxian in one fell swoop.
After the war, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty granted Li Gan the title of Marquis of Guannei, granting him a settlement of 200 households.
Li Gan made up for the regret that "Li Guang was difficult to seal" by virtue of his military exploits in capturing the flag.
Unlike killing generals and capturing flags, breaking formations is more special.
What this military achievement requires is not heads, but drilling through the opponent's military formation, dividing and encircling it, and achieving the goal of victory.
To put it simply, it is to fight a bloody path among thousands of troops.
The soldiers who can participate in breaking the formation must be brave and brave soldiers.
Siege warfare in the era of cold weapons was simply a nightmare for the attacker. Because of this, in the ancient military merit system, being first to the enemy earned the most credit.
The first climbers, as the name suggests, are the soldiers who are the first to climb the city wall.
The first soldier to climb the city wall alive played an important role in changing offensive and defensive positions and boosting morale.
Those who reach the throne first will not only receive generous rewards, fame and fortune, but also gain the favor of the emperor.
In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, Zhou Bo followed Liu Bang, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, to attack Xiayi. Zhou Bo took the lead and climbed to the city first and made great achievements.
Liu Bang bestowed upon him the title of the Five Great Officials. The Five Great Officials belonged to the ninth rank in the military merit system of the Han Dynasty. They were higher than the Great Officials, Official Officials and Public Officials, and were known as the "honor of the Great Officials".
From then on, Zhou Bo prospered in officialdom and became prime minister, becoming a core figure in the political arena of the early Han Dynasty.
The emergence of military merit has epoch-making significance. It continued into the Three Kingdoms period and still has strong vitality. It was Yang Yizu who relied on his merits in following Zhuge Ke to advance to the rank of captain so quickly.
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He also risked his life and the risk was very high, but Meng Zhongbing refused to accept it and believed that only military merit obtained by killing people was the real military merit. Yang Yizusheng moved to the captaincy because he took a trick and was still in the upper echelons of the army.