Vow to die at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 316 Three Years War (Eleventh)

Looking at the county town where the bandits were in front of him, Geng Jimao suddenly had an idea.That is, if he can recruit this group of bandits to surrender, how shocking will it be in the world?A brigade of more than [-] regiments surrendered to the city. This is something that no one has done yet, even if the northern court is so powerful, it has not been able to do it.

It is well known that the bandits train their troops very well.In the past, if the forces of all parties obtained a few bandits and deserters, they would feel like a treasure and let them teach the method of military training.However, the final result is mostly to get its shape but not its spirit.Geng Jimao attributed this to the fact that the gangsters who came to vote were of a very low level, the highest level being the squad leader.If he can get a bandit descendant at the level of captain or even column leader, then he will definitely train elite soldiers like bandits.

Of course, Geng Jimao's thinking is wrong. The most powerful thing about the security regiment is not the training of soldiers, but the perfect and strict system.The method of training soldiers is only useful if you are in this system, otherwise, no matter how hard Geng Jimao trains his soldiers, they will not be the same as the security regiment, and in the end they will still be superficial.

As soon as he said it, Geng Jimao sent an envoy to Yongkang County with a banner.

Seeing an enemy approaching, the regiment members habitually pulled up the bowstring, and only waited for an order to shoot this rampant enemy through.

Seeing this scene, the emissary couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat, and hurriedly beat the horse while shaking his hands desperately, and said some incomprehensible words in his mouth.

This situation is a bit special, and the squadron leader who was in charge of the defense of this section of the city wall for a while was a little unclear.So he didn't order to shoot him with arrows, anyway, there was only one enemy, and it didn't look like he was carrying explosives, so this envoy of Geng Jimao was lucky to come under the city wall alive.

"Brothers on the city wall, we are envoys sent by the prince, don't shoot arrows! We have a letter to convey!" The envoy was afraid that the bandits would shoot him to death, so he hurriedly explained.In order to survive, the word "bandit" must never be mentioned, so they are called brothers.

Because Geng Jimao is domineering, he usually regards himself as the King of Jingnan, so his subordinates also call him the prince. After all, the prince's voice is much louder than the father-in-law.So at the time of the battle, Geng Jimao's envoy still called his leader the prince.

At this moment, the envoy probably understood what he said. Although the accent was weird, there was also a trace of Jinling Mandarin accent.Since the security group implemented Jinling dialect as the official language, many people have also learned Jinling dialect for the convenience of communicating with the security group, but after all, it is not a language they are familiar with, so it is a bit strange to speak.

Since it was a letter from an envoy, the squadron leader couldn't decide, so he lowered the hanging basket to let the other party put the letter into it, and then pulled the hanging basket up to the city wall.

There was a lot of movement here, which had already alarmed the team leader Zhao Xing. When the hanging basket was pulled up, Zhao Xing also came here.

After opening the envelope and carefully looking at the letter in his hand, Zhao Xing sneered.

"This fake tartar is really delusional. The rise of our security team is to swear to the death and never surrender. It is precisely because of the tens of thousands of predecessors who swear not to surrender that the security team is what it is today. My three one team None of the more than [-] soldiers is willing to surrender!"

Hearing what Zhao Xing said, the group members who were paying attention to this place all heaved a sigh of relief.Although these fake Tartars were also Han Chinese, the regiments were unwilling to surrender.Because they have been firmly tied to the security group, their families and property are under the control of the security group.Officers may have a good way out after defecting, but ordinary regiment members don't think they can do the same.Deserters will be deprived of all family property and political status of all family members, and even their family members will be sent to labor camps if the circumstances are serious, which will be an extremely terrible end.Even though some regiment members have no family members, after years of education by preachers, they have long been wholeheartedly toward the security regiment.

In fact, Zhao Xing said this because of helplessness. If he had to choose, he would pretend to agree, and then slowly spend time with the enemy.After all, his information has already been uploaded, and the big troops will definitely come to support them in the near future.But the army of the security regiment is different from other armies.

Because of the existence of preachers, the army of the security regiment actually implements a dual-head system, and the prestige of the preachers is not inferior to that of military chiefs.Coupled with the implementation of military academies, many middle-level officers have received military academies.The five squadron leaders under Zhao Xing all went to the military academy. They were obedient to Zhao Xing, but loyal to the security regiment.Like all grassroots regiments, if Zhao Xing pretended to surrender, someone might rise up to replace him and take power in the army.Therefore, Zhao Xing has neither the ability nor the prestige to pretend to surrender. This is a true portrayal of all middle-level cadres in the security regiment.Their subordinates will only obey their orders when it is in the interest of the Security Corps.That is to say, subordinates obey their superiors only to obey the prestige of the security regiment, and obey the power and status given to the superiors by the security regiment, not the personal charm of the superiors.

So Zhao Xing made the most direct response and asked people to shoot Geng Jimao's emissary on the spot.Poor this emissary was careful all the way, but in the end he could not escape death.

It's just that although Zhao Xing's move stabilized the morale of the army, it angered the enemy.

Seeing that his envoy was shot to death, Geng Jimao was furious. He didn't care about setting up camp and was about to send a large army to attack the city.Fortunately, Jin Li dissuaded Geng Jimao in time, saying that the siege of the city at this time would only benefit the bandits in vain, and wait for the siege weapons to be built before attacking the city. Teach the bandits a lesson, which made Geng Jimao suspend the siege.

Five miles away from the city, Jin Geng's allied forces set up camp.I saw tens of thousands of people cut down the surrounding trees like locusts, and then erected fences and hoods one by one.

Most of the Jin Geng allied forces this time are men of hundreds of battles. They are all veterans of battles, so everything is proceeding in an orderly manner.

Zhao Xing stood on the wall watching all this, but he had no choice but to keep watching.In fact, it would be good to attack while the enemy is not on a firm foothold, but it also depends on the situation. I only have more than 2000 main forces and more than 2000 peasant guards, which is worth more than [-] troops.The number of regiments is small, and it is good for an armed force like the agricultural guard to defend the city as a reserve. I am afraid that ducks will be released when they go out of the city.At this time, there were only [-] guns and ten cannons in the city, most of which were of small caliber and could not reach the enemy camp five miles away.In this way, Zhao Xing could only sit back and watch all this happen.

For two days in a row, Jin Li and Geng Jimao's coalition camps were building siege equipment, and they also sent a small group of troops twenty miles away from the camp to collect food and arrest people, making full preparations.

Time was urgent, and Jin Li and Geng Jimao were also worried that if they stayed in Yongkang County for too long, they would attract reinforcements from regiment bandits, which would not be conducive to their rapid advance.

On the third day, the siege began.In this campaign, Jin Li invested [-] troops, and Geng Jimao invested [-] troops. They wanted to take Yongkang in one fell swoop and open the passage to Jinhuafu City.

(End of this chapter)