Li Rusong was obedient, and Li Chengliang was very satisfied.

"Okay, just remember, come, help your father up, your father always has to see Xiao Jixin with his own eyes, it's a pity to hear his name for a long time but haven't seen him."

Li Chengliang stubbornly wanted to get up to see what Xiao Ruxun looked like, which made Li Rusong a little crying and laughing, so he had to call a few people to help him dress Li Chengliang together, and then personally supported Li Chengliang and slowly left the safe Xiaojincheng.

At this time, Xiao Ruxun was on the front line, and he was placing the twenty Hongyi cannons he brought on the city wall one by one, and did a good job of absorbing the corresponding shocks.

At this point, the gunners of his headquarters have very rich experience, and they command the gunners sent by Zhu Yijun to carry out slightly rusty but still correct operation steps.

The soldiers of the Beijing camp who were guarding the city were very curious and slightly afraid to look at the legendary first general of Wanli, the reason why they were curious was because of the shadow of the famous tree of the person, and they were naturally curious.

As for fear, it was because Xiao Ruxun brought more than 300 heads when he came—the heads of deserters killed along the way.

"If anyone dares to violate military law and run away without permission, I don't care whose family slave you are, and you will be killed all the way! Others don't dare, but I Xiao Ruxun dare! ”

He had the confidence to say such things, and if he did so, no one would doubt that he would not govern and control the army at his disposal as he said.

The preliminary statistical results made Xiao Ruxun very annoyed, the legendary 60,000 Beijing battalion soldiers, up to now, not even 30,000, before he arrived in Beijing City, many of them had fled on the road, all the way to escape, basically the timid people who had a relationship with the family had fled.

The rest are not all bold, there are also some stupid and arrogant, Li Chengliang didn't care about escaping on the road, but after arriving at Bauhinia Pass, he arranged his own guards and Chai Guozhu's personal guards to guard the exits, inspect the city walls, and saw that all the retreating and disturbing military morale tried to be deserters, and none of them were left.

I don't care on the road, when the war starts, you are real deserters, and you should be killed according to the law, there is nothing to say!

Lao Li is also ruthless enough, in the end, he is a decades-old military veteran, skilled in methods, and unrelenting.

But even so, when the battle situation is tense, Lao Li doesn't have time to pay too much attention, which gives a lot of deserters an opportunity, Xiao Ruxun has encountered more than 300 along the way, and I don't know how many I didn't encounter by other routes, so it can be seen that Lao Li is not omnipotent.

But now it's okay, Xiao Ruxun specially instructed Li Rusong to get a cavalry team of more than 300 people, giving him the authority to hunt deserters, but if anyone is suspected of desertion, and there is no token or warrant on him to leave the battlefield and need to do something, the cavalry team can cut it first and then play, and will not be held responsible.

Such ruthless methods, as well as the more than 300 human heads that were hung up in the cold wind, greatly shocked those Beijing soldiers, whether they wanted to escape or did not want to escape, they all began to consider whether to escape with a high survival rate, or continue to fight to the death with a high survival rate.

Generals must use strict punishment and strict laws, otherwise military discipline will be sluggish, and no matter how strong the army is, it will only be a beast army, and as soon as the general dies, he will be scattered and disappear into the long river of history.

The generals should also use the means of kindness and righteousness, otherwise the soldiers are afraid of the generals but do not respect and believe in the generals, and the soldiers are oppressed too much, and the generals themselves will be in danger, such as Zhang Fei.

Leading troops is the same as being an emperor, you have to give both grace and might, a big stick in one hand and gold and silver treasures in the other, both prongedly, in order to get the best results, simple punishment and strict law and simple kindness can not bring out the best army.

Therefore, after the ruthless means of deterrence, Xiao Ruxun also needs to win people's hearts, so that these old oilmen in Beijing are willing to contribute, and are willing to believe that the survival rate of fighting is higher than that of escaping, otherwise they will still escape, don't believe it?

Think about it, Zhang Fei is such a strong fierce man and leads the troops so strictly, to what extent did he force his soldiers to escape?

People are forced to do everything in a hurry.

Xiao Ruxun's first step to win people's hearts is to send winter clothes, he knows that the clothes worn by these soldiers are relatively inferior winter clothes, and some deserters he met before have also cried that they can't stand the cold, and they don't want to be frozen to death before they run away, seeing these soldiers shivering and their faces are blue, he knows that they have been cold for a long time.

In such a cold situation, it is normal to not be able to stimulate the will to fight, and the blood must also have enough body temperature as a premise, otherwise the blood will warm the body, and there will be no temperature to fight.

A large number of winter clothes transferred from the warehouse in the capital came in handy at this moment, anyway, there was a warrant from the emperor, and those people didn't dare to stop it, so they let Xiao Ruxun take it, and Xiao Ruxun was not polite and took a lot more.

The soldiers were relieved that they had enough warm clothes, feeling that this famous general was not simply forcing them to die, but had the least care for them, so their attitude towards Xiao Ruxun began to change.

In the second step, the army of the headquarters was ordered to chop firewood, light a fire, and boil ginger water to keep the soldiers warm.

Under the cold wind, a bowl of steaming ginger water can buy people's hearts more than anything else, many Beijing soldiers after a long period of forced fighting, the body and mind are devastated, a bowl of ginger water can not play a big role, but it can make them feel a little warm.

How precious is a touch of warmth under the ice and snow!

Many people drank and drank and immediately shed tears.

Their attitude towards Xiao Ruxun began to change sharply for the better.

The third step is to send a military medical officer to re-diagnose and treat some wounded soldiers, bandage their wounds, and send them directly back to Xiaojincheng in the rear for recuperation if they are seriously injured, and directly order them to be sent back to the capital if they are more serious, there is no need to send them to death here.

Xiao Ruxun has always been very concerned about medical problems in the war, which was the case when he was in Ningxia, so Xiao Ruxun is known for his low mortality rate, as long as the soldiers who fought with him did not die, they can basically be treated, and the war will be longer to stay in the army to recuperate, waiting for the wounded to return to the team, and the war will be short, then directly sent back to the base camp for recuperation, there is no need to die.

Xiao Ruxun's reputation for caring about the lives of his soldiers and not making unnecessary sacrifices shined on the Korean battlefield, and became one of the main reasons why a large number of foreign troops ignored factional disputes and were willing to obey his orders to fight for him.

Soldiers are also people, not weapons, they have their own thoughts, they will be afraid of hate, they will shrink, and they will also cherish their lives, although they are not in charge of the soldiers, the generals who forced them to die are certainly strong, but soldiers are also people.

When there is no need to send a soldier to death, if there are sufficient conditions, a soldier should not be sent to death, and the combat effectiveness of a veteran who has returned from a wounded army is far higher than that of a hastily recruited recruit.

Xiao Ruxun deeply understood the truth, and also knew how sorry it was for those who died unjustly on the battlefield in ancient times, how could he watch him pass away when a handful of herbs and a strip of white cloth could save his life?

Xiao Ruxun couldn't do it.