The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 63: Hidden worries after winning

It is impossible for the soldiers in the front row to say that they are not worried. Even if they are more or less veterans who followed Liu Tai in the Northern and Southern Wars, they mostly performed missions such as raids or sneak attacks, and the frontal war was not very successful. many.

It was their first time to fight with the military formations used in daily drills. They felt unfamiliar, but they gradually became more skilled.

But it is a blessing because they are the soldiers at the forefront, have the best equipment, and eat the most abundant food.

At this moment, the military commanders of every village not far from them were shouting more rhythmically, "The army of tigers and warriors, one against five!"

Let them mentally believe that they are invincible and have no fear of the enemies in front of them.

At this moment, they collided head-on with the powerful army, and steadily resisted the sudden advance of the powerful soldiers. They even only maintained a stalemate for a while, but there was a vague tendency to push back.

After all, the slave soldiers on the opposite side were even worse. They were faced with a blood-stained shield and spear array, but they were afraid to step forward!
"Completely unorganized..." It was also the first time for Liu Tai to formally command his army.

The other thing is to use "Follow Me" after completing the command, and let the soldiers rush with you in an absolute cone formation!
But Liu Tai knew that he could use this trick with 3000 or 5000 people, but when the number reached 1 or more, this "follow me recklessly" trick would only be useful for his own headquarters.

No matter how many people you have, you can't just lead the first battle and the decisive battle with one hand. Let's finish it in one go!
Therefore, Liu Tai paid close attention to military formation drills, encouraged village commanders to read and read, established a military history system, and strengthened military welfare facilities.

These are all to strengthen the organizational strength of the army and reduce the cost of command and communication. This is the orthodox way of commanding troops.

After all, he really couldn't learn Huo Qubing's method of commanding troops, or he was afraid that he would die if he tried.

At this moment, Liu Tai began to conduct battlefield command instead of giving up thinking with just "Follow me".

Liu Tai had to admit that as long as his army was in contact with the other party on the battlefield, it would be impossible to separate the two armies that were already fighting with one click like in a video game.

After the two sides started fighting, they had to wait until one of them retreated due to lack of morale or being unable to bear the fighting, otherwise no one would be able to separate them.

Liu Tai didn't know which god could do the ability to further command an army that was already fighting together, but he couldn't do it anyway.

Commanding your own army is not like a real-time game, but like a card game, because every time you play a card, you will regret it.

He needs to play every card in his hand well. When he has no cards to play, he will have no choice but to take his personal guards and make a "rash move".

"I need to further strengthen my training on the regiment and the regiment, so that my command on the battlefield can be smoothly carried out to the regiment level. As long as I can give secondary command to the regiment at the regiment level on the battlefield, then I can rely on myself. In this era when the Four Saints are rare, this move can at least protect yourself on the frontal battlefield!" Liu Tai made a secret decision in his heart.

Although Liu Tai was thinking about his next step to make his command of the army stronger.

But seeing the wealthy army in front of him being restrained and unable to move forward, he also played his second card!

Soon, Zhao An received the order and led about a thousand cavalry out from the flank!

They didn't rush in directly. This kind of cavalry that can charge into battle is really not so easy to train.

Not to mention how to make the horses overcome their fear of the battlefield, and how the soldiers control the horses to move collectively on the battlefield. These all require time to settle, especially the greater the number, the higher the requirements.

At least Liu Tai's subordinates, Liu Tai's personal soldiers, could stay in order when following Liu Tai forward.

The cavalry led by Zhao An were mostly used as cavalry archers.

He relied on the saddle and stirrups to stabilize his body on the horse, and then fired arrows at the flanks to harass.

To be honest, the arrow damage caused by this cavalry archer is very limited. Even because many people have just changed their profession to cavalry archers, it is very good to be able to use the force correctly to shoot the arrows smoothly. As for the accuracy, it is not even possible. Dare to hope.

However, the last thing needed on the battlefield is accuracy, especially when the target is an army composed of a group of wealthy servants who don't wear any armor at all. They watch arrows constantly falling from above their heads. The psychological pressure caused by this is more severe than the actual blow!
The task Liu Tai assigned to Zhao An was to harass. Zhao An's cavalry did not need to rush forward, just harassing was enough.

Then Liu Tai patiently watched what tricks Xu Gong would use, and then he would just use them again.

After all, it was the first time for him to fight such a frontal command war, so Liu Tai adopted a cautious and cautious attitude.

Even if he has a handful of cards in his hand, he cannot throw them all away. After all, he needs to be responsible for the entire army!

But in the end Liu Tai overestimated the coalition of wealthy servants in front of him, and even far overestimated their fighting will.

Only Zhou Ping led the front army to withstand the impact of the slave coalition, and Zhao An carried out orderly harassment on the flanks. The entire army of wealthy slaves inevitably became turbulent.

They couldn't move forward, and there was a river next to them, so the servants of these wealthy families could only retreat and keep retreating!

After all, their transition from servants of a wealthy family to soldiers only took less than a month.

Such an army will inevitably collapse when faced with the orthodox tactics of an orthodox army.

Therefore, when the No. 1 slave starts to turn around and run away, the war will enter garbage time.

"Run? Why are you running? Why are you running? There are so many of us!" Xu Gong initially directed the law enforcement team to enforce the law, hoping to deter the soldiers from escaping.

But in the face of the general trend that Zhou Ping commanded the front army to retreat step by step, the entire army was bound to retreat. The mere law enforcement team could not stop the entire army from escaping. Even Xu Gong himself could only flee along with the general trend.

"He...he ran away?!" Liu Tai looked a little stunned at the scene in front of him.

I originally thought I was going to have a good fight, and I had even prepared that I needed to rush in and make a move to "follow me recklessly".

But when the fight started, Liu Tai didn't expect that the opponent had only been able to hold on for so long before someone from the front row came to resist and harassed them from the flanks. His own army hadn't even taken advantage of the situation yet. How could you collapse now? !

Liu Tai didn't understand, but this didn't stop Liu Tai from thinking about how to fight the next defeat. Orders came down one after another:
"Order Zhao An to abandon the harassment of the army and directly attack Wubao where Xu Gong is located.

Zhou Ping's soldiers were not allowed to chase for more than five miles, and then stopped to rest.

Liu Ming and Ge Xin were ordered to lead their troops in pursuit in turns, and ignore the prisoners who were left behind. Just keep chasing the defeated troops.

Let Tian Tian lead the recruited soldiers to capture the defeated soldiers and help them adapt to the battlefield! "The flag soldiers around Liu Tai began to play flags to direct Liu Tai's orders. At the same time, Liu Tai's messengers also mounted their horses and conveyed further details of Liu Tai's orders to the various captains. Liu Tai's army was still in effect. operation.

After Zhao An received the order, he led the cavalry to take advantage of the panic and seize Wubao.

As the main force on the battlefield, Zhou Ping's soldiers consume the most physical strength. It is quite good to be able to take advantage of the victory and fight for five miles.

The most important thing is that the large shields they hold as front-line troops are actually quite heavy and not suitable for pursuit at all.

Although the troops of Ge Xin and Liu Ming were also running, since they were responsible for the pursuit, they naturally could not carry large shields and wear heavy armor. It would be great to be able to wear leather armor.

At the same time, the two troops pursue each other, which can effectively control the fleeing direction of the opponent's army, so that the opponent can only bite the bullet and flee in the direction Liu Tai expects.

Then Liu Tai and Tian Tian steadily led the new recruits and began to capture those prisoners who had stopped and could no longer run on the battlefield.

Letting the newly recruited soldiers from Xuzhou do this kind of thing is to cultivate their confidence in going to the battlefield. After all, they won the first war, which can make them more confident in their own army.

At the same time, these people are also locals in Xuzhou. As far as this era is concerned, basically there is some kind of friendship between fellow villagers, rather than the army under Liu Tai. Maybe they took advantage of military history in the past. Without paying attention, he immediately chopped off the heads of these soldiers, which was regarded as decapitation merit.

The actual confrontation in this war may have lasted only about 10 to [-] minutes, but this pursuit battle was quite long.

Xu Gong first wanted to escape back to his Wubao, but Zhao An led his cavalry to detour and occupy the front, and then set up an ambush, so he could only continue to flee.

Then Liu Ming and Ge Xin, who were behind, led their troops in pursuit. Xu Gong kept leaving his soldiers to cut off their tails in order to survive, and at the same time, slave soldiers continued to collapse on the ground due to exhaustion.

After chasing for three days, Xu Gong finally managed to escape from Taishan County and fled to Langya County.

I don't have many feelings about Xu Gong's successful escape from Liu Tai.

After all, after staying in this world for a long time, it is really easy to die if you feel like an unknown soldier on the battlefield. But if a general with a real name really wants to run away, it is not easy to kill him.

For example, his uncle Wang Mi, for example, Shi Le, who cooperates well with him, can always escape from danger.

However, compared to Xu Gong's escape, Liu Tai was more troubled by the slave soldiers he captured along the way.

Most of these people are secret servants of wealthy families and are not on Taishan's household register.

Of course, that's all. What's more important is that they have always been slaves of aristocratic families, which has made their entire thinking pattern transformed by the aristocratic families into what they expect.

Such people are different from normal people who originally had land or whose names were registered.

They have been kneeling for too long. It is really not something that can be done in a short time to get them to stand up again, and there are too many such people captured at one time!

And it is precisely because there are too many people like this that the contradiction between people and land is exposed again!
Yes, Liu Tai swept through the wealthy families in Taishan County this time and obtained the land and wealth of these wealthy families.

But since he plans to run Taishan County for a long time, it is impossible for him to release the land of the wealthy families at once.

Because land is a non-renewable resource, although the land released by oneself can theoretically be recovered, due to the Matthew Effect and land annexation, no matter how good the system is, the possibility of land recovery is too low.

Because land is the main carrier of feudal wealth, as long as the productivity has not developed to a certain extent or even completed the transformation of production relations, this cannot be changed if Liu Tai wants to change it.

Secondly, Liu Tai is preparing to conquer the world. The soldiers who already own land will perform well in serving in the army in their own counties or surrounding counties.

But if these people are allowed to fight too far away, unless they are allowed to plunder, their enthusiasm for fighting will not be high.

They are brave because of the land, but they are also cowardly because of the land.

As long as Liu Tai's army still wants to follow the path of strengthening military discipline, the military system can be used, but not to a large extent.

Because for the soldiers of the government army system, plundering the wealth of defeated targets is almost their most important source of wealth.

Even if Liu Tai is the monarch, he can't stop them from obtaining wealth. Otherwise, either the system will be changed or Liu Tai will be changed!
Moreover, the reason why these newly captured slave soldiers are not suitable for the government army system is because a large proportion of them are singles without wives.

For these people, it doesn't matter whether they are given fields or not, because they can feed one person and the whole family is not hungry. Even if they are given fields, they have not married and there are no people in the family to cultivate the fields, so what is the point of giving them fields.

Therefore, the government military system cannot accommodate a single person who has no worries. Of course, most systems in the world cannot accommodate them.

At the same time, the limitation of land is also reflected in another aspect, that is, the soldiers under his command fight with him in the north and south.

Because Liu Tai had no intention of running a business in the past, he was just a passer-by in every county, so he lavishly divided the land without anyone noticing.

But now a large number of Taishan people who own land are joining Liu Tai's army. Even if the veterans believe that Liu Tai will not treat them badly, seeing that the new recruits will have acres of land as long as they join, this will definitely make the veterans murmur.

Even if you don't have anything to worry about, if you take the land and no one will farm it, for the veterans, you don't have to take it, but you, the boss, have to give it.

Otherwise, you are too biased and give all the benefits to newcomers. We old employees are not human beings!

Therefore, with the alliance of wealthy families who defeated Taishan County this time and almost obtained a large amount of land in Taishan County in one fell swoop, it was not the end of things for Liu Tai. On the contrary, it was just the beginning of things.

How to divide the fields and how to manage Taishan County brought Liu Tai back from the joy of defeating the powerful coalition.

Liu Tai immediately took full control of Taishan County and asked military historians to take stock of the acres and inventory of wealthy families.

After all, only when you know how much you have gained can you plan your next step.

Chu Hui was naturally called back by Liu Tai immediately. He had been eating and drinking in his place for so long, and now he was going to have to add more burdens.

(End of this chapter)