List of high-quality authors
Whether it is the official history or the romance, the Three Kingdoms period is not a peaceful day, basically the war is raging, the Eastern Han Dynasty court has existed in name only, and the follow-up is directly destroyed, without the constraints of the ** unified dynasty, the warlords entrenched in all parts of the country are ready to move, and the wars are one after another, although to the middle and late stages of the Three Kingdoms, the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu are still in great wars, and small wars are frequent.
How can we make our soldiers throw their heads and shed their blood for their ambition to unify the world? The best way to do this is to do the reward. However, wars are frequent, and military exploits cannot be calculated arbitrarily, after all, this will discourage the enthusiasm of the country's soldiers and soldiers.
So, how are military merits counted during the Three Kingdoms period? First of all, it is said that the calculation of military merit is calculated by the number of the enemy's left ear, and the specific operation method is that before the battle, the soldiers will divide a special pocket for the enemy's ear, and cut off the left ear and put it in the bag regardless of whether the person is alive or dead, and calculate the military merit by the number of the left ear.
Secondly, in addition to calculating military merit by the enemy's left ear, there are also those who calculate military merit by the enemy's head, which is recorded in many historical classics. Cai Wenji wrote in "Poems of Grief and Indignation" that men were hung on the side of the horse, and women were carried behind the horse. "Jin Shu Sima Yi Benji" wrote, and Sun Quan besieged Jiangxia, sent him to Zhuge Jin, Zhang Ba and attack Xiangyang, the emperor supervised the army to seek power, go, attack, defeat, behead, and more than 1,000 heads, moving hussar generals. It means that Sun Quan sent Zhuge Jin and Zhang Ba to attack Xiangyang, and then Sima Yi defeated one person, beheaded one person, and then beheaded more than 1,000 people, so that Sima Yi was promoted to hussar general by virtue of his military merits. Of course, it is mentioned here that whether it is cutting off the ears or beheading, there will be more or less the disadvantages of stealing merit and killing good and risking merit, so the subsequent development and evolution have gradually become a symbol of the enemy's army such as the capture of military flags and honor guards. Beheadings or cutting off ears are already an occasion.
Then, in addition to killing the enemy, the expansion of the territory should also be counted, after Ma Tan carelessly lost the street pavilion, Zhuge Liang asked Liu Chan for guilt, Liu Chan issued an edict at that time, the original text is, the battle of the street pavilion, the blame is Ma Tan, and the king is guilty, against the king's will, obey the obedience. The year before last, Yao Shi, Yu beheaded Wang Shuang, this year, Guo Huai fled, descended to collect Diqiang, revived the two counties, shocked and violent, and the merits were obvious.
This is the edict issued by Liu Chan after the failure of Zhuge Liang's second Northern Expedition, Zhuge Liang obviously lost the battle, but Liu Chan still said that Zhuge Liang made great military achievements, why? Because Zhuge Liang defeated Guo Huai and subdued the ethnic minorities who fought against Shu Han, the focus was to restore the two counties.
Finally, outstanding performance on the battlefield can also be counted as military merits, but most of the outstanding performance on the battlefield is reflected in the first to climb the city tower, the Three Kingdoms Zhang Xiuchuan records, the battle of Guandu, the embroidery battle meritorious, moved to break the Qiang general. It is mentioned here that Zhang Xiu will die soon after during the Northern Expedition to Wuhuan.
According to the biography of Ding Feng, Zhuge Liang, the general of Cao Wei, occupied Shouchun and rebelled, and then was surrounded by the Wei army. Including Lejin is the same, because in the battle with Puyang against Lu Bu, Yongqiu against Zhang Chao, Kuxian Zhanqiao Rui and other battles, there is a pioneer and charge into battle, Cao Cao is more atmospheric, directly to Lejin Fenghou, named Guangchang Pavilion Marquis.
So, some people may ask, anyway, there is no live broadcast on the battlefield, I said that I fought bravely, can I climb the city tower for the first time? Well, yes, but it's a bit riskier. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the Qin and Chu coalition forces went to fight Zheng Guo, and Zheng Guoshou sent Huangjie out of the city to meet the battle, but was defeated and captured alive by wearing a seal. After the war, I was going to give ** a reward, but I didn't expect this Huangjie to turn black and white upside down, even if Bozhou Li asked, he insisted that it was Wang Ziwei, the younger brother of King Chu Kang, who was reigning at the time, who captured him alive.
The result? Even if the younger brother of the king of Chu competed for his military merits, which made Huang Jie very angry, this fierce man wanted to kill this shameless relational on the spot, but he gave up because the prince ran too fast. Think about it, if someone really takes the lead to lead the army, the soldiers are basically civilians, the prince of the year is still a relative of the emperor, and there are people who dare to face each other with swords, not to mention ordinary soldiers with equal status or just generals and soldiers with a relationship between superiors and subordinates. It is not cost-effective to take a life for military merit.
In addition to not daring to take the lead in the army, on the battlefield, sometimes the ** court will also assign the overseer to the imperial history, well, in fact, similar to the superintendent, they will come to the front line, and calculate the killing situation after the war, and then develop to the Tang and Song dynasties, the court is more and more worried about the army, which leads to more and more overseers, and then want to falsely report the military merits, it is very difficult. It may even be impossible to steal chickens and rice.
Finally, in ancient times, the Three Kingdoms period was no exception, after the end of the war, the victorious side would begin to clean up the battlefield, and cleaning the battlefield was not only about counting the spoils of war, but also about counting the number of people on both sides, and a report would be formed and handed in. As we all know, the number of ** is basically the same as the number of heads. If the number is not matched, the court will conduct a bottom-up, or top-down investigation, not to mention the trouble, there will always be a day to find out on their heads. Unless you can buy off an entire army in charge of the battlefield at the time, which is completely impossible.
All in all, the calculation of the three ** merits is still relatively wide, and the strict military merit system may put an end to a lot of phenomena of taking the lead in the army, of course, it is not denied that there will occasionally be the act of killing the good and taking the merit, but the risk is so high, there are very few people who dare to take this risk. Therefore, the ancient military merits are relatively fair, but you must not underestimate them, after all, on the battlefield, one move accidentally kills Huangquan, and it is not so easy to get military merits!