Chapter 150 I want to be a prisoner
Why do I say that? Because in the era of cold weapons and close forces, the commanders of both sides issued orders to fight to the death without retreating.
The ultimate strength is definitely the party with better discipline and will eventually win.
Why?
Because the soldiers on the side with better discipline are more obedient, every soldier knows that he cannot bear the consequences of turning around and running away in violation of discipline.
Similarly, he also knew that his comrades around him, those in front, behind, and behind, would not escape.
Therefore, even if there are casualties, they will not retreat, but will move forward and then move forward.
The side with poor discipline is different.
They are careless during training and are relatively lax in discipline. Will they still fight to fight the enemy after they go to the battlefield?
Even if someone obeys the order and fights to the death, they will think in their hearts that if they rush up and their teammates around them turn around and run away, then if they go up, wouldn’t they die?
Once you have this idea and don’t trust your teammates or your commanders, such an army will undoubtedly lose if you encounter a disciplined army.
In the past five thousand years, there is only one unit with the strictest discipline and the most capable of obeying orders, and that is the People's Liberation Army.
When facing powerful enemies, they can fight to the death without retreating. What is the basis for their execution of orders?
Wang Wei asked Tongshu to train these selected soldiers to train military postures, with only one purpose, that is, to train their discipline, their execution ability, and their ability to do the orders.
Start practicing from standing in the military posture and make them accustomed to following orders.
With a command, stand attentively, rest and turn left and right. They don’t need to think or have their own ideas. They just need to follow the command.
On the battlefield, the most dangerous thing is that soldiers have their own ideas.
Whether it is standing in a military posture or training and standing attentively, it is actually not very helpful for combat.
But the purpose of training these contents is to make soldiers obey orders.
When the instructor shouted the slogan of turning left, everyone turned left, and no one would turn right.
No one would even think about whether the instructor would turn left when he turned left, would his teammates turn right? If his teammates turned right, would he be stupid to turn left.
All the soldiers had only one firm idea, that is, when they ordered themselves to turn left, their teammates would definitely turn left too.
You don’t need to think about the messy things yourself, you just need to obey the orders carefully.
With this idea, when the commander came to the battlefield, when the commander gave the soldiers the order to charge, there was only one goal in their thought, that was, to complete the task.
And no one would suspect that when they rush, would their teammates also rush?
If your teammates don’t rush, wouldn’t it be a problem to rush forward alone?
Because they knew that when the commander came down, their teammates would definitely rush.
These are the trust transformed through obedience over and over again in daily training.
In the battle of cold weapons, if an army can truly obey orders, then this army will definitely be an invincible existence.
No matter what enemies are, they will definitely be troubled by them.
If this army can fight to the death with orders, even if 50% of the soldiers behind them will continue to fight, then he will surpass more than 90% of the army in history.
If an army could fight the enemy to the last one like the People's Liberation Army, at that time, even if they had only one hundred people, thousands of troops could escape.
In history, in the late Song and late Ming dynasties, why did the Chinese people in the face of Tatars several times or even dozens of times more than them, but they were always defeated?
It’s not because the military discipline was in chaos at that time. During the battle, even if my number was twenty times that of yours, everyone was not thinking about obeying orders seriously, but when they were thinking about whether their teammates would run away, whether their commanders would run away, and if they all ran away, wouldn’t they go alone be killed or something?
When everyone thinks so, no matter how many people they have, they cannot form effective combat power.
In the end, thousands of people often chase teams of tens of thousands of people and hack and kill.
If you think about it carefully, is the team of tens of thousands of people not enough?
Obviously not.
Is that because their combat effectiveness is not strong enough?
That's even more, tens of thousands of people deal with thousands of people, and if you break it apart, ten people beat one person.
In the era of cold weapons, if you fight head-on, you have to put in a huge effort to kill anyone.
I am dozens of times more powerful than you. Even if I don’t attack at all, I just defend. You can only kill 20 or 30% of my people at most, and in the end you will be exhausted to death.
But why do they fail in the end? Isn’t it that the discipline is not strict and people don’t trust each other?
Therefore, what Wang Wei values most when training the new army is discipline.
Once discipline training is out, the combat effectiveness will naturally be strong.
Without discipline, even if they are given a pot and a iron knife, they will still be vulnerable.
Although there are only twenty people in the new army now, even if there is only one person, the discipline cannot be relaxed.
Because if you go down the mountain in the future and want to let the tribe grow, you will definitely absorb other tribes into joining.
There are conflicts between people, and there must be conflicts between tribes.
If the village joins two tribes with conflicts at the same time, then the two tribes will select some people to join the army. When they go to the battlefield and face the enemy, there will be no strict discipline. If people cannot obey orders, it will definitely happen, and those teammates who have conflicts with them will go up and die.
However, when becoming a soldier, discipline, that is, the execution of orders, is ahead of everything, and after making the soldier familiar with this rule.
Whether it is a hostile tribe that hates each other or people with different surnames, under military discipline, they will abandon their thoughts, act according to orders, and tightly tie them together, and eventually form a strong combat power.
It is precisely because of these reasons that the training Wang Wei gave to Tongshu was not to train these people’s combat effectiveness or their combat skills, but to train their discipline and their obedient habits.
In a blink of an eye, it was time to eat.
The iron bell for eating was ringed.
Everyone standing at attention there was overjoyed.
The sky is vast and the earth is the biggest, and they forget everything they said just now in the sound of the meal bell.
Several people turned their heads and ran towards the place where they were eating.
Until I ran several steps and saw that no one was following me, the people remembered what Tongshu said just now.
Tongshu looked at the five people who ran out to eat with a sneer and said directly: "You five are not allowed to eat this morning and at noon. If something disobedient happens today, you are not allowed to eat at night. Not only are you not allowed to eat, you will also have to be whipped!"
After hearing this, one of them couldn't help but say, "Why? Wang Wei promised us that as long as we work hard, we don't have to go hungry. Why don't you let us eat!"
After hearing this, Tongshu pointed to the two words on the wooden sign and said, "How do you pronounce these two words?"
"Remember the rules." The man replied.
Tongshu nodded and said, "Yes, these two words are rules. From today on, your identity is no longer a defeated prisoner, but a soldier from my small tribe. Soldiers must abide by the rules. If you fail to abide by the rules, you will naturally punish you!"
When the man heard this, he blurted out: "I don't want to be a soldier. I want to continue to be a prisoner. Being a soldier will make you hungry, and being a prisoner will make you hungry!"
After hearing his words, Tongshu narrowed his eyes and said, "I'll remind you again. Wang Wei gives you the opportunity to be a soldier, which is to give you the opportunity to join my small tribe. If you give up on your own initiative, I won't force it, but if you give up this time, there will be no such good opportunity next time!"
After hearing Tongshu's words, the man asked, "If I give up being a soldier, can I still have food to eat when I work like before?"
"Yes." Tongshu replied.
"Then I give up being a soldier, and I will be a prisoner like before!" the man said firmly.
Tongshu glanced at him and finally confirmed: "Are you sure?"
"I'm sure!" said the speaker with a firm look on his face.
Tong Shu nodded, then turned to the remaining nineteen people and said, "Wang Wei told me that you will give you the opportunity to choose independently. Now I will ask again. Are there anyone like him who chooses to continue to be a prisoner? If so, I will never stop you!"
Everyone looked at each other after hearing the words of Tongshu.
Chapter completed!