After all, for many generals, letting their men burn, kill, and massacre cities to ease the emotions festering among the ranks was already standard practice.
Otherwise, once the repression built up for too long, the army's morale would inevitably begin to waver.
This was also why Wang Xu was not very clear on how the Heaven-Answering Army operated. The Heaven-Answering Army did an excellent job protecting its intelligence.
Now that Great New's Momentum was immense, there was no possibility of anyone selling out the nation for glory.
As for the former Great Cang, its army had been a sieve. The enemy could often learn of the army's movements even earlier than the Great Cang emperor himself.
For Zhao Cheng, the foremost matter in the Heaven-Answering Army was military discipline. The Dao officers under him held low ranks but great authority. From time to time, they even carried out one-on-one ideological work with the soldiers, while also serving a supervisory role.
If your ideological awareness was high, future promotion came easily as well.
But if you committed a breach of principle—such as slaughtering innocent civilians, or burning, killing, looting, and plundering—then so long as there was a stain on your record, even if you were not executed on the spot, you could forget about any future promotion.
Even your whole family would be shamed by it. The entire household would be unable to hold its head high, branded as a family of scum.
As the saying went: life and death are small matters; losing one's integrity is a great one.
Those soldiers of old had burned, killed, and looted because their neighbors and families had no idea what they had done. There were no restraints upon them, and many had been seized as conscripts in their teens, with no one to