Episode 147: Forming the Taiping Army
Changguang County, a dilapidated county seat, once the territory of the Eastern Han Empire, has now been occupied by the Yellow Turban Army, the rich families and families in the city have moved away, and the rest are poor people, nearly 200,000 people, all of whom have become Yellow Turbans!
And now, this has become the starting point for Xiao Lan, a godly stick from the other world, to dominate the world, but this starting point is not as good as he thought before.
Xu He and others are all born with mud legs, and pulling people to train the army is just a family that seems to organize people who can go to the battlefield, in fact? Without relative training, the combat effectiveness is extremely low.
Except for some people who spontaneously planted some fields, the people of Changguang County basically lived by robbery, and there was no difference between robbers and robbers.
Now, Xiao Lan understands why Xu He brought thousands of men and horses to rob Yuan Shu's grain and grass team, to blame, and to blame Yuan Shu's original price background of the fourth and third dukes is too good, the Yuan family's power is everywhere, and Qingzhou happens to have it, because it is now the autumn harvest season, so Yu Sheling is specially asked to lead people to come to Qingzhou's territory to collect grain and grass.
Okay! Xu He waited for more than 200,000 yellow scarves, and was croaking with hunger, seeing a large amount of grain and grass passing in front of him, it was naturally impossible to let go in vain, so the scene that Xiao Lan saw happened.
It's just that the combat power of the Yellow Turban Army is too watery, and there are 6,000 men and horses against Yu She's 1,000-strong grain transportation team, but they didn't take advantage of it, if Xiao Lan hadn't appeared in time, I'm afraid Xu He would have been killed by Yu She, then, what awaits the Yellow Turban Army next will be an unprecedented defeat.
Therefore, the first thing Xiao Lan has to do now is to gather the soldiers who can fight, this matter is not difficult, Xu He, the boss of the Yellow Turban Army in Changguang County, has already surrendered, and the rest of the people are naturally no exception.
The Yellow Turban Rebellion has broken out to this day. Several years have passed, and there are very few Yellow Turban Army who can survive, old and weak, just. As poor people, their quality of life is too poor, so the number of people who can have 50 pounds of strength to become a regular army is really not much.
Xiao Lan screened with mental power. Among the 200,000 people, more than 20,000 people were selected to form the Taiping Army. He called himself a marshal and named Xu He a general. Fortunately, after a dragon's blood in the mountain pass, even the grain transportation team with the Yellow Turban and Yuan Shu produced 6,000 elite soldiers and 200 elite horsemen, so that Xiao Lan would not feel that he was too miserable as a marshal.
The second thing is to distribute food, speaking of food, Xiao Lan couldn't help frowning secretly, before entering. He had purchased a large amount of food and stored it in his personal space, but after coming to this world, he found that the food in this mutated world had more things than the origin world, so that it could meet the energy consumption needed by the people in this world.
"From this point of view, the improved grain varieties brought about by the origin world must be improved again, otherwise, it will not be enough to deal with the current situation." Xiao Lan calculated in his heart. Divide the grain and grass in the city and distribute it to the soldiers and civilians of the city.
Next, it's time to divide the land and arrange for people to farm, fortunately. The entire Changguang County is the Yellow Turban Army, and those rich and wealthy local tyrants have all been evacuated, and all the land is ownerless, but it saves Xiao Lan's work and distributes the land according to the head. Organize the people to farm.
Seeing this, Xu He couldn't help but ask strangely: "Lord, why do we still have to farm?" ”
Hearing this, Xiao Lan couldn't help but be stunned, and couldn't help but ask: "What do the soldiers and civilians under our command eat if they don't farm the land?" ”
"Rob!" Xu He replied as a matter of course: "We used to do this, those warrior lords, I don't know how much people's fat and ointment have been squeezed from the people, so we will rob them." ”
Xiao Lan was speechless for a while, and he also discovered that in the past two days, he organized the people to farm, and these yellow turban people were not active.
So, picking a good day with sunny weather, Xiao Lan summoned the people of the Yellow Turban in the city and told everyone: "I organize the people to produce, not to want everyone to farm for me, but to let everyone farm for themselves, and the land distributed will be owned by everyone in the future, but they are not allowed to buy and sell each other, and the tax is calculated according to the size of the land, one hundred taxes, and I promise here that the people under my rule will never be given more in the future!" ”
Among the poor people, there are also a few people who are literate and understand things, and when they heard what Xiao Lan said, they immediately stood up and asked: "Dashuai's words are true!" ”
Xiao Lan didn't say a word, he jumped into the sky, and after a while, he returned, stood a stone tablet ten zhang high on the square, and carved a few lines of big characters with the meteorite sword:
"The land is owned by the state, the people are cultivated, one hundred taxes are one, and they will never be paid!"
This is an era that values commitments, and it is difficult for a husband to follow his word, not to mention that Xiao Lan has set up a monument in public like this, and the people of the Yellow Turban in the city are all convinced.
"Oh my God, I'm not dreaming, in the future, these lands will be our own?"
"Yes, yes, one hundred taxes, never increase, the Han Dynasty has been established for so many years, and I have never heard of such a low tax!"
"Hun said, Dashuai is not from the Han Dynasty, didn't you listen to Qu Shuai, Dashuai is a god from heaven who came down to earth to save our people from fire and water."
"What Qu Shuai, now he is the general of the infantry army under the big marshal, General Xu He!"
Although the vision of the people in this era was limited, but when the land was distributed, the tax was reduced to one hundred taxes, which was a benefit that they could see and touch.
The enthusiasm of the people was improved, and the next thing went much smoother, distributing grain and grain seeds, and organizing people to build farm tools, and Xiao Lan Brilliant No. 1 could only record a large amount of information, pick out suitable drawings from them, and hand them over to the craftsmen among the people to build immediately, which was also considered cheating.
While agricultural production is on the right track, Xiao Lan will naturally not forget to train soldiers, after all, in the final analysis, this is the foundation of his struggle for world domination.
Under normal circumstances, picking out an army of 20,000 people from among the 200,000 people is definitely a self-destructive thing, but because they are the Yellow Turban Army and have survived several years of war, it is barely acceptable. Moreover, these people often fight with the official army, compared with the ordinary people, but a little more fierce, after all, the Yellow Turban Army is basically composed of poor peasants, with Xu He's men, living like a bandit and bandits, such a rabble, but also able to fight with the official army for several years, it can be seen that the degree of ferocity, if you can improve the quality of life, with formal training and training, you can soon become an elite soldier.
In contrast, Yuan Shu's 1,000 grain army seems to be well-trained and has stronger combat power than the scattered Yellow Turban Army, but in fact, their potential is not as good as the Yellow Turban Army, fortunately, Yang Xiao gave them dragon blood wine before, which added a little bit of heritage, whether it is potential or combat power, it is much improved than before.
Now, Xiao Lan is in charge of the military and forms the Taiping Army, naturally it is impossible to be as casual and unprovoked as the original Yellow Turban Army, and it is impossible to copy the army construction of the Han Dynasty, he will organize ten people into a small team, a hundred people for a squadron, a thousand people for a large team, ten thousand people for a school, set up a captain, in the future, this is the basic army setting, the generals lead the troops, are based on the captain, and they are not afraid of rebellion.
However, now the consciousness of these soldiers still needs to be improved, so Xiao Lan simply found literate people to teach them to read, and moved the three major disciplines and eight points of attention from later generations, changed them slightly, and made military regulations:
The three major disciplines are that all actions should be commanded, not a single needle and thread should be taken from the people, and all seizures should be returned to the public.
The eight points of attention are: first, to speak in a friendly manner, second, to be fair in the purchase and sale price, third, to return the borrowed goods, fourth, to compensate for the damage caused by the goods, fifth, not to beat or insult others, sixth, to protect the crops of the masses, seventh, not to molest, play hooliganism, and eighth, not to beat, scold, and abuse soldiers and prisoners.
At the beginning, the sergeants of the Taiping Army were not very adaptable, but with Xiao Lan's enwei and envoys, the two-pronged approach, in less than two months, the soldiers and civilians of Changguang County were firmly controlled in their hands, forming a vigorous whole, and by the end of the year, it had become a climate.
However, now the Taiping Army is only in its infancy after all, and if it wants to really have strong combat power, it must go through a test of blood and fire, to put it bluntly, it is to start a war, Xiao Lan originally thought that Yuan Shu would raise troops to attack because of the matter of food and grass, but this guy has not moved. Therefore, Xiao Lan can only continue to wait for the opportunity, waiting for a suitable opportunity to send troops, and he believes that this opportunity will come soon...... (To be continued.) )