Traveler Major League

Chapter 147
At this time, there was a big banquet in the barracks, and everyone was enjoying the rare peace. A large group of Presidents and President Qian toasted each other with smiles.

But this group of people didn't come here for dinner at all, so it didn't matter much.

"My lord, when are we going to exterminate the Ze thieves?" Sun Changxian held up his wine glass to respect Liu Yingyu who was seated in the chief seat. As soon as he said this, the whole room was silent. Liu Yingyu looked at the generals under his command and shook his head inwardly. Shaking my head, nearly half of these people are newly promoted, and they are all the group of people who were beaten up by the People's Army, and they have all been psychologically shadowed.

"Everyone, are you afraid?" Yang Zuo also stood up and looked around and asked.

It was only at this time that the others realized that this banquet was a party to express their opinions. These two people who spoke were obviously Lord Liu's cronies, and they were just acting as trustees. If they didn't express their opinions at this time, when they didn't express their opinions, everyone in the account stood up one after another.

"I'm afraid of a bird, so I'll be the leader of Mr. Liu." "What's there to be afraid of, Liu Ze?"

After everyone expressed their opinions one after another, they all complained: "Master Liu, the small group of people we sent out these days encountered Ze thieves and they all fought bravely to kill the enemy. But Ze thieves' firearms are really sharp, and our damage is too great. Brothers The pension has not yet been cashed, if the army moves, they will have to mobilize money and food, and now there is a shortage of money and food."

"That's right, my lord. The brothers put their lives to kill the thieves, but the money for burning and burying has not been distributed since the war two months ago. It's really hard to explain why you beat the brothers again."

Liu Yingyu looked around the wine table, held up the wine glass, and said helplessly, "Last month, His Majesty personally rewarded our army with two thousand silver, but after excluding filial piety and miscellaneous items, there is only 1000 taels left, and all of them have been replaced with silver." Food, this food is as expensive as two taels of silver."

"Recently, our army has split up and attacked the bandits' villages in a joint attack. Everything captured can be distributed to everyone."

This was all the sincerity Liu Yingyu could show, any more would be like gouging out his flesh.

Unexpectedly, there was a human voice in the crowd: "But the seizure is not much, and it can only be used for daily expenses."

"Can you transfer some money from the government office in Yan'an?"

Liu Yingyu pursed his lips and said nothing, this was not up to him to decide, he could only ask his grandpa to sue his grandma to earn some money.

"After recruiting recruits, there are not many left after the allocation. We need to take care of everyone. That's why our brothers who died last time have not yet received pensions." Seeing Liu Yingyu's helpless expression, Chief Qian Wang Wei hurriedly sighed Dao, Mr. Qian was killed in battle, only eight liang of silver was paid.

According to the rules, they don’t need to worry about these things. All sergeants have a complete preferential treatment and pension system, which basically allows the soldiers who died in battle to die and their wives to support them. According to the regulations, if a soldier dies in battle, his wife will be given full military pay for three years. , that is, 36 shi of rice, and then 3-6 buckets of grain per month for life.

But in the late Ming Dynasty, the only military salary guarantee was enough to choke the battalion soldiers. The entire guard system had completely collapsed. There was no system at all. In the end, only [-]% of the officers and soldiers escaped with their lives, and the army really has no fighting spirit.

"It's still the old rule. You can go to the thieves to recover the money and food, and then distribute it to the soldiers as military funds. We must send troops. If we don't fight, we will not be able to support them."

After Liu Yingyu investigated the situation under the People's Army, when he returned to Yan'an, he tried his best to reorganize his armaments and update the strategy of encirclement and suppression. The corresponding reflection was that the originally sparse checkpoints on the mountain road became denser, and the surrounding area began to appear. The situation of harassment by country soldiers organized by landlords and gentry who fled from the counties before.

In response to this change, Liu Ze, who had just wiped out Baihuling and returned to Luochuan County, urgently set up a mobile battalion with Li Kefu as the battalion commander. There was a regular company in it, and an artillery platoon was strengthened, with four red-haired barbarians. The composition of the company is specially set up to break the blockade.

Liu Ze slightly pursed his lips, handed a piece of paper to Li Kefu and said, "Look, this is the basic situation of the changes during this period."

During this period of time, the Ming army was divided into small teams and cooperated with more country gentry and soldiers. They were all locals and were familiar with the terrain and human conditions. All the men in the village were organized and trained into armed gangs of various names, such as the Big Sword Club, the Red Spear Club, etc. If any did not participate, they would all be arrested and punished for banditry, and all their property would be confiscated.

In response to the demagogic policy of the People's Army's rent reduction, the surrounding landlords also took the initiative to reduce the rent by [-]%, buying farmers with this benefit, and even giving them land. For farmers, it is nothing more than a no-cost business with empty hands and white wolves.

Whenever the officers and soldiers advance and suppress, those township soldiers and peasant congregations who have benefited also follow behind the officers and soldiers. Silver, other odds and ends of furniture and clothing are returned to the soldiers.

There is even a folk song that goes, "Snatch enough officials and soldiers, keep enough good people, and keep the rest for yourself."

Under this kind of temptation, the officers and soldiers and the soldiers from the countryside would kill men when they saw them, rob them when they saw property, and arrest women as prostitutes and sell them when they saw women. Members of the public association, fish in troubled waters, ask for directions everywhere, and if they cooperate, they will be arrested, killed and sold.These despicable acts of theirs made the villagers and soldiers panic and panic.

When Liu Ze saw these reports for the first time, he was also taken aback, but he reacted quickly.

These small tricks of the Ming army can only be disgusting. Because of the poor generation of weapons, the Ming army who is confronting head-on is not an opponent of the People's Army at all. It is only because Liu Ze has concentrated his manpower in Luochuan County during this period. The surrounding defenses are empty, and the people are panic-stricken, which leads to being taken advantage of. In fact, most of the people in the occupied area are still more on the side of the imperial court, and only those who follow Liu Ze through the journey are really their own people.

"Commander, how do we fight this time?" After reading the information, Li Kefu gritted his teeth and asked. A great benevolent person like a god descending from the earth.

Liu Ze held the information in his hand, rubbed his chin and said, "The task of your battalion is to remove all the checkpoints of the Ming army around here, and I also remove all the villages that do not cooperate. Disrupt their rhythm, I want people, things, food, everything in short.”

"Commander, when are we going back to Hongmaoman's place?"

"Wait, it's been two months and there hasn't been a thunderstorm, maybe it's coming soon." Liu Ze said helplessly while holding his forehead. searched.

"If there is no turning point, we can only go to attack the city to grab food."

(End of this chapter)