The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 36 Centaurs
The mountain road is rugged, and it is impossible to ride up the mountain. It is not easy for infantry to reach the mountain pass, and it takes half a day.

It is impossible to deploy troops here, even if there are thousands of troops coming, they can only use the dojo inside the snail shell. The general can only arrange dozens of people to attack along the narrow mountain road, and this is already the limit.

The guards on the mountain pass can not only use rolling logs and stones to attack the enemy troops on the mountain pass, but even the enemy soldiers who are not participating in the attack on the mountain road behind may be killed by the falling rocks above their heads.

Han Zhikuan allocated a hundred battalions of soldiers to Huang Yizhou. These people were imperial soldiers and horses, and theoretically they did not belong to a certain general.

He knew that the Huang family and his son led the army to win the golden army after the attack, and he also hoped that the Huang family and his son could make further contributions.

Han Zhikuan has less than 900 people under his command. Apart from not being willing to give it to his servants, the 100 people he gave to the Huang family are definitely strong people who have chosen 900 people.

On the day these seemingly well-groomed battalion soldiers came to Jiulitai, they were told that they would be paid enough to serve as soldiers with Mr. Huang, and that they would give out five buckets of miscellaneous food in real life. Just when these big soldiers were suspicious, Song Pengfei opened the package , more than one hundred taels of silver dazzled in the sun.

The treatment of the battalion soldiers in the pass is worse than that of the Guanning army. The monthly salary of the cavalry is one tael and five taels of silver, while the infantry only has one tael.

These soldiers serve as soldiers for food, and it is not easy to reform them in a short time.

Huang Han could only adopt the usual style of military attache in the Ming army, forcing the battalion soldiers to fight desperately with the Ding team to supervise the battle, cut off their ears if they dared to whisper, and beheaded them on the spot if they dared to turn around and run away.

If you want people to work hard, you can't treat them badly. Huang Han doesn't drink the blood of soldiers, and pays them on time and in full. If these people don't work during the battle, Huang Han will feel more at ease if he kills them.

Without him, according to Huang Han's modern thinking, paying money and food is to buy the services of these people. The service of soldiers is naturally to kill the enemy. If these battalion soldiers run away when they see the enemy, it is a breach of contract. There is nothing wrong with killing them as an example. .

Every battalion soldier received a lot of silver, knowing that the true nature is five buckets of miscellaneous grains. Soldiers who can send grain home can receive it on a monthly basis, and they can get silver or copper coins in exchange for color.

There is no one who doesn't like a leader who pays wages on time. Those who eat food as soldiers are very reluctant to work under the command of an unfamiliar military officer.

They thought it was a shame to leave the city and come to this remote place.Don't think this way now, Mr. Huang promises to pay the food and pay on time, and promises to pay the full amount, which is enough.

The people in the capital city of the Ming Dynasty are having a difficult time of year. The war is raging and the war is raging. I am fish and meat, and others are knives.How many ordinary people will lose their lives in this cold winter?
The ordinary people who were lucky enough to survive the slavery and harmed their homes began to flee, and the Han people who were starving and cold began to wander, wandering, and did not know when they would be able to return to their homes.

At this time, there were so many soldiers in Beizhili, but it was a pity that Huang Han didn't have the strength to accept these ordinary people who had a blood feud with the Jin army.

Huang Han is eager to rise to the top and gain power, because only in this way can he help more Han people.

Time was running short, and he took his men and horses without delay in training on the first day of the new year. Fortunately, the thirty cavalry sent by Han Zhikuan had served for more than three years, and it was not far away if they were not proficient in bows and horses!
Whether they are loyal or not is hard to say, it takes time to run in and build trust with each other.

There has never been love for no reason in the world, let alone hatred for no reason. Human feelings need to be cultivated slowly.

Huang Han is not in a hurry, he believes that everyone will become true comrades-in-arms after a few actual battles, and the love of robes will be established.

With mutual trust, it will be relatively easier to get along with each other in the future, and then give these soldiers favors to make them feel respected and give them the opportunity to get promoted and make a fortune.

At that time, it would not be a problem to get loyalty and support. When it was a matter of course, Huang Han would of course take these cavalry as servants.

When the battalion soldiers came to report for duty, Huang Han checked the equipment of these soldiers one by one, and found that their weapons, bows and arrows were not the ones used to deceive Shangguan.

He knew that this was Han Zhikuan's intentions. These soldiers should be the best in the battalion. This kind of favor must be remembered, and he will always find opportunities to repay it in the future.

Now Lian himself has a total of 29 riders, including Lian Hanzi and Song Pengfei, [-] servants with no problem of loyalty, and [-] spare horses.

With such a configuration, the mobility of this cavalry team is not weaker than that of the Houjin Army.

The combat effectiveness should not be comparable to the same number of Jiannu, but it doesn't matter. Fighting in the homeland is their own home field, so they naturally have home field advantage.

Besides, Huang Han didn't intend to win more with less at all, and he didn't intend to head-to-head. The small team of slaves who went out to rob guerrilla in the dense forest and hills outside the main battlefield was the intended target.

In order to better attack the enemy and protect himself, the choice of battlefield is particularly important. Of course, Huang Han can't appear on the plains, and the battlefield he chose is the hilly area.

It may be necessary to use the terrain to go around in circles with the Jin army to get rid of the encirclement and suppression, so it is very important to be familiar with the battlefield.

A lot of captures were made, and there was still plenty of fine iron armor to equip the cavalry. Huang Han selected ten of the thirty cavalry under his command to equip them with iron armor and helmets with visors. People who know the value of these equipment, their emotions and attitudes are immediately different.

Huang Nongsheng, Yang Gu, Yang Jiahe, and Huang Chunsheng in the family team are too poor in riding skills to be able to ride and fight. This time they are also brought out to train them.

But they are not allowed to charge on horseback. Their task is to take care of the 29 spare horses when the cavalry charge, and to provide timely assistance when they find that You Paoze is injured.

Huang Han led the cavalry to train every day, and the nearby mountains and forests have been turned around.Official roads, mountain roads, trails, where the terrain is dangerous, and where the dead end is already clear.

When encountering villages and ordinary people, this cavalry will carry out propaganda, telling them that the Jin army will come to Yongping Mansion to plunder immediately, and ask them to take precautions early.

The Ming Dynasty paid attention to battles in battle. Often when the situation was favorable, the soldiers would swarm up and disperse when the enemy broke through. Guerrilla tactics were rarely adopted.

Because the soldiers of this era have no sense of national honor, no national concept, let alone lofty beliefs, they serve as soldiers just to get paid.

It is not uncommon for soldiers to flee in the face of a battle. They must rely on the supervision of the generals to stay on the battlefield and fight for their lives.

If you bring such soldiers up the mountain into the forest or advance or retreat to attack and retreat flexibly, maybe there will be very few soldiers left on the marching road.

(End of this chapter)