Guide to traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty

"Come out quickly, don't wait!"

Liu Huichuan was responsible for leading the way, leading the Ming army to arrest the families of senior military officers, and conduct identity screening on these people.

In the two cities of Nanjunsi and Zimu, most Han soldiers lived outside the city, even in the valley villages thirty or forty miles away from the city. They usually need to farm their own land. Before the war, someone comes to recruit them. The low-level officers are responsible for recruiting people and taking the men from the village to join the army.

Only Dangxiang people can live in the city, and they usually guard against Han people.

Of course, Han craftsmen and their families were also allowed to live in the city. They even had to live in the city to prevent them from escaping to the Han Dynasty or being kidnapped by Song soldiers if they failed to move in time.

In the blink of an eye, it was dark, and Liu Huichuan's wife and children were brought.

Although his wife was picked up for free and his son belongs to someone else, Liu Huichuan attaches great importance to this family because he has nothing else to care about.

If he had not been a low-level officer, his wife and children would not have been allowed to hide in the city.

The remaining Han family members had just moved to the north of the river valley, and many of them had been captured by Li Yanxian.

"Choose a house in the city, settle down your family, and follow me to see the general!" the Ming army officer in charge of delivering the message ordered.

"yes!"

Liu Huichuan was overjoyed, but he was not greedy. He only chose a medium-sized house, which used to be the residence of a party officer.

After settling his wife and children, Liu Huichuan went out happily. Along the way, he saw civilian husbands carrying torches to carry corpses.

He was taken to the Nanjun Si Yamen, where a meeting was being held overnight, and Liu Huichuan was standing outside waiting.

After waiting for two quarters of an hour, some generals came out and Liu Huichuan was called in.

The Ming general named Yang Zhi had a very amiable expression and said to him with a smile: "Find a stool to sit on."

"Yes." Liu Huichuan did not dare to neglect and sat down carefully.

Yang Zhi obviously inquired about his details and asked: "People from Hengshan?"

Liu Huichuan nodded: "Yes."

Yang Zhi said: "Last year, Xixia took advantage of the situation and stole most of Hengshan Prefecture and County. If your family is still alive, I'm afraid they were kidnapped by the captured soldiers. Do you want to avenge the Xixia people for such a deep hatred?"

Over the past ten years, Liu Huichuan's state of mind has been changing.

When he first started working as a serf, he kept trying to escape, but he was not a reckless person. Guazhou was too far away, so it was extremely difficult to escape back to the Han Dynasty, and the escaped slaves who were caught also ended up miserable.

Later, when he became a prince, he also wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to escape, but he could never find the opportunity. He was even more afraid of running back and having his head cut off by the Song army to receive the reward.

It wasn't until he became an officer that he finally settled down, and even wanted to become a real Xixia man and fight bravely to strive for a rich future.

And then there is the lie, a serf-born son-in-law with no future at all!

Now, Liu Huichuan finally woke up. He remembered that he was a Han and he had a bloody feud with Xixia.

Kneeling on the ground, Liu Huichuan said: "I am willing to fight with the general and kill all the Xixia people!"

Yang Zhi smiled and said: "Henan Army Sicheng will be renamed Dingxi Fort from now on. There are three types of surviving young masters. One is those who defected when our army entered the city, and each person can be divided into thirty acres of land; the other is those who killed Those who defected only after arriving at the military division's yamen were given twenty acres of land each. There was also another type, those captured during battles outside the city, who were given five acres of land each."

Thirty acres of land?

Liu Huichuan's eyes gleamed when he heard this.

This is all river valley land, which is considered fertile land in the northwest.

Liu Huichuan felt a lot, but Yang Zhi didn't care.

There is no shortage of land here, only people who work the land. The Hehuang policy during the Huizong period of the Song Dynasty was that as long as a soldier was willing to guard the border here for a long time, a soldier could get 200 acres of land! As a result, no one is willing to come, and most of them will leave within a year or two after coming.

In order to resume agricultural production as soon as possible, Yang Zhi had to allocate farmland to the captured Han people for farming.

"Since the land has been divided, we have to fight for the court," Yang Zhi said. "I will only leave 1,500 troops here, 1,000 to garrison the mother city and 500 to garrison the sub-city. If Xixia invades with troops, , all men who farm in the valley must be drafted into the army to guard the castle."

"This is what it should be." Liu Huichuan took it for granted.

Yang Zhi smiled and said: "If you perform meritorious service in the future, you will be rewarded with land! Moreover, you are allowed to capture party members and bring them back to the river valley to be serfs. Can you ride a horse?"

Liu Huichuan shook his head: "I haven't ridden one before."

Yang Zhi said: "I will reward you with another horse and go back to practice your riding skills. The Han people who submitted this time will practice in their free time. I will arrange a general to lead the army, and you will temporarily serve as his deputy. Tell those Han people , this is Ming China. As long as you fight bravely to kill the enemy and perform meritorious service, everyone can become a general. It is not like in Xixia, where you can see the end at a glance and you will not be able to climb up in this life. "

Now you become a general?

"General Yang's great kindness will be remembered in my heart for the rest of my life!" Liu Huichuan was so excited that he almost cried.

It's just a matter of buying horse bones for thousands of gold, but promoting a young master as a general can inspire all the Han people who surrender to fight bravely.

As for this position, it is only temporary and Yang Zhi does not have that power.

Liu Huichuan's military rank will be very low, but his probationary military rank will be very high. He will be gradually promoted to military rank after making meritorious service in the future.

The next day, the prisoners were screened.

The party members were separated separately, and the senior generals and their families were escorted to Lanzhou and imprisoned to be used as bargaining chips in the future.

All middle and low-level party officers will be executed!

The ordinary soldiers of the party were assigned to the Ming army stationed in the city as serfs.

The 1,500 Ming troops who stayed to guard the border were all from Hanzhong. However, the land in Hanzhong was tense, and not every soldier could receive land. In the past, they were directly rewarded with money for their meritorious services.

Nowadays, money is still rewarded, but the soldiers who stay here have to be allocated additional land, and serfs are assigned to them for farming. This is compensation for guarding the border far away from home. Otherwise, the soldiers will be uneasy and just wait until their families are brought here. From now on, everyone will be a small landowner in the army.

Of course, after Xixia is destroyed, serfdom will inevitably be abolished.

Nowadays, military serfs can be used to motivate border guards, and secondly, they can consume the population of Xixia. The regular garrison here will inevitably bring farmers and soldiers to the Xixia territory to rob people from time to time.

In the end, there were more than a thousand prisoners of war of various ethnic groups left, including Qiang people, Tubo people, Uighurs, etc.

Yang Zhi called these people over and lectured him personally: "You can go home alive. After returning to your respective tribes, tell your tribal chiefs that if you are recruited by Xixia to fight in the future, you can fight less hard. If you are willing to surrender to Ming China, The chief can secretly punish the envoys to Lanzhou, and when the Ming Dynasty destroys Xixia, all the tribes will be rewarded heavily for their meritorious service."

Different ethnic groups speak different languages, and Chinese is the lingua franca.

Yang Zhi also hired a translator in Lanzhou, fearing that they would not understand, so he translated again in different languages.

When the soldiers of all ethnic groups heard that they would not die, they were so excited that they knelt down to thank Yang Zhi.

"The death penalty can be avoided, but the living crime cannot be escaped," Yang Zhi added. "Starting from tomorrow, you will dig out the red soil and follow the craftsmen to build up the soil to repair the gaps in the city wall! When the war is over, I will let you go home."

Soldiers of all ethnic groups became more confident that they would not die and expressed that they would work hard.

There was work to do today, and countless stripped corpses were piled up all over the city.

Soldiers from all ethnic groups were responsible for moving the corpses out of the city, then digging many large pits, mixing the corpses with firewood and throwing them in, burning them with fire and then filling them with soil for burial.

The captured war horses and armor were sorted and placed outside the city, with priority given to Li Yanxian's miscellaneous cavalry.

The equipment of these brothers is all kinds of, and the horses are also good and bad. Today, they can finally be more formal.

"Don't be anxious, everyone has a share," Li Yanxian said with a smile, "According to military rank, line up to receive the battle horse armor. To receive a good horse, you must hand over your previous horse. To receive a good armor , you must hand over your previous armor. Of course, those without armor will tell you otherwise."

The miscellaneous cavalrymen were beaming with joy, and the first batch of officers had already come out.

They led horses, wore armor, and carried weapons. First go to the horse group to change the war horse. After choosing, take the good horse away and keep your original mount.

Then follow this method and replace the weapons and armor.

The second batch, the third batch... until it is the turn of the ordinary cavalry, lots will be drawn internally according to the number, and those who are lucky will have priority.

Neither Li Yanxian nor Yan Ping participated. When they left Xiangyang, Ju Ming presented them with a complete set of equipment.

"Yan Er, what do you think of my horse?"

Rider Luo Ruming came over with a horse, but this guy was a rich man, and his family was in business. He has not been interested in doing business since he was a child. Instead, he likes guns, sticks, bows and horses. He hangs out with heroes all day long, and he can be regarded as a hero.

Li Yanxian returned to Shaanxi to raise troops, and Luo Ruming brought thirty people to surrender.

Yan Ping said: "Your previous horse was also a good horse, so there is no need to change it again, right?"

Luo Ruming smiled and said: "The strongest has its own strong opponent, and the same goes for this war horse. This horse is unusually steeding. I am afraid it is the mount of the Xixia general."

Yan Ping said: "The war horses of the Xixia Prime Minister and the military chief have long been killed by fire guns, both men and horses."

The war horse in front of me is the mount of Han Huaizhong, the supervisor of the army, and it was a gift from the Emperor of Xixia.

Luo Ruming raised another bow and said with a smile: "You may not be able to buy a top-quality Xixia bow even if you have money, but I have made a profit this time."

Li Yanxian's four thousand miscellaneous cavalry collectively changed their uniforms from top to bottom.

Even the armor worn by Li Yuchang and Yeli Fulu was beaten into pieces by muskets, but there were still cavalrymen vying to get it. They just asked the army craftsmen to repair it.

After the cavalry finished selecting their equipment, they asked Liu Huichuan and the other men to choose.

The soldiers and armor of Chong Gongzi are not very good, far inferior to those of the Qisheng Army. Once they change their equipment and train carefully, they will have full combat effectiveness in the future. They were all allocated land in the river valley, and in order to keep their own fields, they would fight desperately with the Xixia people.

Apart from the different tax systems, these border valleys are actually very similar to the Tang Dynasty's military system.

Li Yanxian summoned his troops to gather together. Looking at the four thousand cavalry who had changed their uniforms, his heart was filled with excitement. He felt that he could lead the troops all the way to Liangzhou!

Actually, these armors are just so-so, far worse than the Iron Kites.