What will happen to soldiers who do not listen to orders in ancient times?

In ancient times, soldiers who did not obey orders usually had two different ends, one was good, for example, the soldier did something that made them win the war, and the soldier was promoted and rich, and the other was that the soldier was punished for not obeying the command or became the fastest person to die on the battlefield. Let's talk about the consequences of these two types of disobedience.

In general, it is rare for a soldier to achieve meritorious service without following a command. Because the duty of a soldier is to obey the command and obey the order, and due to the ancient system, this situation is unlikely, but in ancient times, some generals started as soldiers, because of military merits, so as to become generals step by step. Therefore, the emergence of this situation is largely due to the fact that the soldiers give the generals their ideas, and the generals come to the final conclusions.

Part of the reason is also because it is difficult to achieve some merits by relying on individual strength alone, or relying on the strength of some people, and at this time, the generals directly under them have become their first choice.

In most cases, the end of a soldier's disobedience to orders is often miserable, because it is the duty of a soldier to obey the orders of his superiors, not to assert himself, because if they are caught disobeying orders, they will be punished severely. In ancient times, the army had clear rewards and punishments, the rewards were high and the punishments were also very serious, which was also because the soldiers recruited were uneven, and a strict and reasonable system was needed to solve these problems, so that the overall quality of the army was improved. Because in order to set an example for the monkey and give everyone a warning, once there is a situation where the soldier does not obey the command, he will be severely punished, and the punishment is in a variety of ways.

Whether in ancient times or in modern times, because of their identity, soldiers, they must obey commands, obey orders, and not act arbitrarily. Once you don't listen to the command, you have committed a big taboo and will suffer bad consequences.

In ancient times, a soldier who did not listen to his command was not a good soldier. Such a soldier is cut with a knife, and the end is very miserable, and the impact is also very huge.

Of course, the end will be miserable! This soldier must be beheaded to establish prestige, or else he will not obey the command, and the army will not become a plate of scattered sand.

If you are basically court-martialed on the battlefield and don't listen to orders to retreat when charging, you will be killed by the Overseers. If the soldier does not obey the command in peacetime, it is possible to let you go home, of course, more often than not, it is still dealt with by military law.

If you don't obey the order, you will definitely be dismissed, the leader will be punished, and if it is serious, you may be beheaded and killed.

It will be dealt with in accordance with military law. In ancient times, orders and prohibitions were emphasized, and soldiers had to listen to the words of their generals, and if they did not listen, they would be punished by military law.

Military orders are ancient words rather than modern or modern, depending on the situation, and the serious one is beheading to set an example.

It depends on what kind of military system is implemented - the government military system, the emperor has real power, and the generals cannot control the soldiers; In the conscription system, generals and soldiers get along for a long time, and it is easy to form a separatist force.

By the Song Dynasty, the generals were often separated - the generals regularly changed their stations, the soldiers did not, and the real power remained in the hands of the emperor. And when going to war, the emperor will appoint the generals, and the exclusive department will allocate the number of people, and the generals will only be responsible for leading and training the troops.

If a general can live with a soldier for a long time, train and fight together, then the soldier will of course put his head first—admiration, loyalty, and affection. Therefore, the emperor did not have the prestige of the generals.

So, in this case, the soldier is more loyal to the general.

If the general is not able to stay with the soldiers for a long time, such as changing the garrison regularly, the soldiers are more afraid of the emperor than the general who will not see each other in a few months—and the soldiers will be more loyal to the emperor.

The army is not the king, but it is the one who supports the king! First of all, let's introduce the three kinds of persuasion - the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle said that if you want to change the other person's way of acting and thinking, you must master the following three**

Logical emotion.

To trust in "logic" is to elaborate one's own rational thinking. To convince people, it is not enough to rely on logical theories. On the one hand, people have feelings, and if you don't take into account the feelings of the other person, no matter how correct your theory is, the other person will not accept what you say.

On the other hand, if you don't gain the trust of the other person, then no matter how perfect the logic is and how sensational the language is, you will not be able to convince others. Therefore, to successfully persuade others to act, the following three elements must be taken into account:

Action (or change of thought) = theory, emotion, trust. These three elements are indispensable, and none of them can inspire others to act or change their way of thinking.

Correspondence 1 Soldiers fight not only for loyalty, but also for friendship. People are emotional animals, generals can be influenced in various ways, and Wu Qi sucks stinky feet for soldiers. The generals with military power get along with the soldiers for a long time, and when the generals buy people's hearts. Death for a confidant.

2 A soldier fights not only for loyalty, but also for life. The salary is given by the general, and when the ** fiscal austerity and taxes are too heavy, the soldiers are more profitable than fighting for the ** out of logical comparison. The people live on food.

3 Soldiers fight not only for loyalty, but also for justice. After the general must have established a trustworthy image of Gao Daquan in front of the soldiers, King Qi Wei made a big fight and a small fight. Of the four virtues proposed by Aristotle in his Nicomachean Ethics, justice is primary, followed by wisdom, bravery, and temperance.

It can be said that justice is the first good that encompasses our social life.

So ......The general "hangs the people" ......The masses are ...... "in dire straits".Soldier "Now that the three armies have no master, we are more willing to support you as our Son of Heaven".

In fact, the fundamental reason is: the prince will have a kind of Xiangning? In fact, it is nothing more than an executioner pressed on the heads of ordinary people. Instead of letting you bet, I bet.

China now implements the dual-chief system since the Song Dynasty: civilian officials monitor generals. The general has no right to promote fans. Negative Article 1. There is nothing to be afraid that civilian officials will not lead troops to war.

Whoever brings out the soldiers will listen to whomever they bring, and what they say is the same as life and death, and they share weal and woe. There must be mobilization before the rebellion, and when mobilizing, benefits will definitely be promised, so that some people will defect under the drive of interests, and some people will defect with the flow, and the few remaining people will threaten to defect, otherwise it will definitely be a death, as for the loyalty to the court, loyalty to the emperor or something is useless, who will be stupid enough to let you go to the ventilating news, just execute you, so as long as you do the step of killing chickens and monkeys, any loyalty will fall apart, after all, they are just soldiers, Whoever lives in his hands will listen to whomever he wants.

Why is the general not subject to the king's order outside Because in ancient times, soldiers were used to look at the soldier talisman, and whoever was in the hand of the soldier talisman was the master, and the general naturally carried the talisman with him when he fought outside, so he could listen to the words of the emperor or not, and only listen to his own command.

Most of the time in ancient times, military power was like this: the general had half a talisman in his hand (possibly another token), and the emperor had half of it, without the emperor's talisman, the general could not mobilize an army of dozens of people, (the Tang Dynasty seemed to be unable to exceed 30 people). But there is still a problem, the military book says that "the general is outside, and the king's order is not subject to it", many rebellious generals rebelled under this banner, and more often they will lie to their subordinates that the emperor has been kidnapped and needs to enter the capital to rescue the emperor, such as the rebellion of the seven kings...

Another point is that the soldiers eat and live with the generals all day long, and the emperor is too far away from them, and many people will still rebel when they consider their emotional and practical interests.

In fact, compared with Japan, you can know that the emperor of Japan has never been rebelled, and even if the people under him rebel, they are also rebelling against the shogunate (that is, the prime minister), because the emperor has absolute authority and gives divinity, although China also says that "the monarchy is divinely granted", but more often it is more rational, the so-called "emperor takes turns", so the soldiers will not have too many scruples.

A document used in ancient times to convey orders or dispatch troops. It is made of copper, jade or wood and stone, and is made in the shape of a tiger, also known as a tiger charm. It was made in half, the right half was kept in the monarch, and the left half was given to the commander-in-chief. When the army is transferred, it must be verified before it can take effect.

Without a talisman, it is useless for the emperor to come.

Most of the soldiers were finally loyal to the emperor. However, there is a saying in ancient times that the general will not be subject to the orders of the king outside. In fact, it's not that the soldiers don't listen to the emperor.

It was at that time that the emperor's orders could not be directly conveyed to the soldiers, and they were all conveyed by the general. Therefore, if he is falsely preaching, the people under the decree will not know at all. It's like if you're an employee now, the CEO of the company won't give you orders directly, but your boss will give you orders.

On the one hand, the tradition of not being subject to the king's order is at work. After all, the front line is still the general's word, which is just like the current sentence: county officials are not as good as being in charge.

Of course, they are loyal to the emperor, but the emperor can't go to the army every day, so they only listen to the military power, and the military power is in the hands of the general, so they have to listen to the general...

It is impossible for ordinary soldiers to know the content of the emperor's decree to the generals, so as long as the chief general and several other important generals and strategists are united, they can not follow the military order, and the soldiers will only think that it is the emperor's will, of course, provided that they are not rebelling. Those who rebel are generally the generals who play a pivotal role in the country, and they have a very high prestige in the army, and there are many cronies, so that the rebellion can be successful, otherwise the morale of the soldiers will inevitably be low, such as Zhao Kuangyin and Zhu Di.

Soldiers belong directly to the general, and the general belongs directly to the emperor, so the soldier should be loyal to the emperor, but after all, "the moon is the first to get the moon near the water" and "the mountain is high and the emperor is far away", and the soldiers generally have no culture, so they are loyal to the general who gets along with them day and night.

Most of them are generals, and of course generals have to be prestigious.

Whoever is powerful will listen to whomever he is, and people will be destroyed if they are not good for themselves, not to mention that the small soldiers just want to live.

Most of them are still loyal to the emperor, unless the emperor is mediocre.

It depends on what kind of general it is, the person who leads the troops, you have to be gracious and powerful, and your subordinates will work hard for you, of course, there are all kinds of situations...

The generals will not be subject to the orders of the army abroad. Sima Sui Tho in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty said.

will be outside, and the king's order will not be affected.

The general bought people's hearts, and the emperor was mediocre and incompetent, so the county officials were not as good as the current management.

Soldiers level by level, they must listen to their superiors, and they generally call their superiors brothers, hehe, those who lead soldiers are also divided into several levels, and the local feudal officials are still very powerful.

There are many reasons for this, but there are three things that can be combined:

1. Ancient warfare was a confrontation of cold weapons, and most of them used the tactics of charging in a crowd of people.

In the battle between the two armies, in the slow crowd, a single soldier is actually inconspicuous, but if you play clever and pretend to be dead, then you are really looking for death. The ancient battlefield was chaotic, once the charge of the division was issued. The combatants on both sides of the enemy have entered the realm of selflessness, and this is a real environment in which killing people does not pay for their lives, but rather merits, so everyone will only rush forward desperately and kill forward.

At this time, if you lie down and pretend to be dead, you are asking for death. In fact, when you lie down, the people behind you don't have long eyes, and your teammates will avenge you when they see you fall, and the other people in the back will also rush over with the people in front, which is stepped around alive by your teammates, and you are really dead when you lie down and cheat to death, and this kind of death is more painful than dying in battle.

Second, the severity of ancient military law, pretending to be dead on the battlefield is like escaping from the battle.

Deserters have been severely cracked down on by the army since ancient times, and once they go to the battlefield and find deserters, they will be killed on the spot when they are discovered. If you pretend to be dead, once you find out, you will let the overseers take it down and give you a knife unceremoniously. Let you die on the shameful charge of desertion.

In ancient times, most of the men in the army are for meritorious service, on the battlefield, they will not lie down and pretend to be dead, but rush forward with the heart of killing the enemy and making meritorious contributions, and some timid and afraid people will also follow the people who can fight behind the number, in their hearts understand: retreating will be killed by the war, lying down and pretending to be dead will let the teammates who rush up behind step to death, after weighing the stakes, they are still forced to choose to charge, rather than pretending to be dead.

Third, the cleaning of the battlefield, those who pretend to be dead will not end well.

In ancient times, after a battle, many people died on both sides of the battle. The defeated side is either wiped out or flees. In the face of the battlefield left behind, in order to prevent the occurrence of the plague, the victorious side will clean up the battlefield, cremate the dead and bring back, and if they find that their personnel are pretending to be dead in it, they will send the person to the war supervision office for processing.

When they find that there are enemy personnel pretending to be dead, the winner will pinch out the person who pretends to be dead, and humiliate it like a monkey, and finally get tired of playing and end it with a knife.

To sum up, no one in ancient times played "smart" on the battlefield and pretended to be dead.