During the first battle outside Rongxian County, the Ming army was able to continue to charge after suffering more than 10% casualties!

Before the final collapse of the army, its casualties had reached nearly a thousand because they were crushed by the cavalry and infantry of the Tang Army!

In other words, these soldiers will completely collapse after the casualties have reached more than 30 percent!

And this number is quite impressive, even the vast majority of the current Tang Army troops cannot do it!

Only the most elite grenadiers in the entire Tang Army can do this, and perhaps the most elite First Infantry Battalion in the main force can barely do it, but it is difficult to say whether it can be done specifically, because the First Infantry Battalion has never suffered such heavy casualties.

However, the general casualties of the ordinary Tang Army troops reach about 10 percent, and the courage to charge will basically be lost, and after the two sides enter hand-to-hand combat, the casualties will reach more than 20 percent, which is basically a collapse situation, and this situation will not change because of who the general who leads the army and whether the tactics are advanced or not, but the courage of the soldiers themselves and the survival instinct of human beings.

The performance of the Ming army soldiers outside Rongxian County, especially their high ability to bear casualties, made Li Chunjing on the front line and Hao Bonian in the rear look high.

After Ma Wei arrived, Hao Bonian briefly exchanged a few polite words with him and said, "Master Ma, you are a local from Liuzhou, are you familiar with this Tusi soldier?" Are they all fearless of death? ”

Ma Wei is a native of Liuzhou, and he naturally knows more about Tusi, so he immediately said: "I have many people in Guangxi and little land, and lack of resources. ”

The four words of the people's style are basically Ma Wei's words, but although Ma Wei is also a native of Guangxi, he is not blindly praised, but said truthfully: "Although there are soldiers who are not afraid of death, there are definitely not many, most of them are the elite soldiers of the Tusi, but ordinary soldiers, even if the people are strong, they are just ordinary people, and they are also in the process of cleaning up!" ”

Hao Bonian said: "In this way, the number of soldiers like the Second Infantry Regiment should not be very large?" ”

Ma Weidao: "Of course, these 3,000 soldiers are already the only elite soldiers that the Tusi in Liuzhou and even the nearby state capitals can gather, even if the elite soldiers of the Tusi in the entire Guangxi combined, it will definitely not exceed 10,000 people, if it is a temporary conscription, without training, it will not be much stronger than the ordinary guards."

Hao Bonian nodded after hearing this: "If there are only 10,000 people, it's nothing!" ”

Hao Bonian is not worried about the existing soldiers and guards in Guangxi, he is more worried that after the fight, many Tusi and even Ming Dynasty officials wantonly recruited ordinary soldiers, this number is not as simple as a few thousand, tens of thousands of people can be made up, if the tens of thousands of soldiers temporarily recruited are as fierce as the three thousand soldiers outside Rongxian County, then it will be very difficult for Guangxi to fight.

If there is only a scale of less than 10,000 people, then he is still more confident in fighting, and he has already defeated 3,000 people in front of him, and I am afraid that the remaining elite Tusi soldiers who can be gathered here in Guangxi are only five or six thousand at most.

When the time comes, be cautious, it's best to try to get a branch to break through, but you don't really have to be afraid of these soldiers too much!

But after chatting a few more words with Ma Wei about the situation of the soldiers, Hao Bonian suddenly said: "If our army also recruits local natives to join the army, I don't know if it is feasible?" ”

The reason why Hao Bonian asked Ma Wei directly was because Ma Wei was a squire in the military department before, and he was responsible for recruitment, which was quite authoritative in the field of recruiting new soldiers.

Ma Wei didn't answer for the first time, but pondered a little before saying: "Many local villages are short of food and clothing, if you can give enough money to settle down, and promise to be able to eat enough food and get enough silver, it is still easy to recruit natives to join the army, but the natives are fierce, I'm afraid they can't adapt to the strict military discipline of our army!" ”

The requirements of the Tang Dynasty Division for recruits are not the courage of any soldiers, the people are fierce and the like, the requirements of the Tang Dynasty Division for recruits are simple and simple, high and high, first of all, his height and physical fitness of the recruits are relatively high, and this is also the requirement of most armies, not strange, nor is it a unique requirement of the Tang Dynasty, but the Tang Dynasty Division has a very strange requirement when recruiting recruits, that is, as long as the net worth is innocent.

It's not that the children of the peasants resolutely don't want it, and the city dwellers don't want any of them!

Secondly, some green-skinned hooligans and idle people in the countryside are also resolutely unwanted!

Even in the innocent peasant family, it is the one who gives preference to those who have sound parents, brothers, and docile personalities.

Because such a person is easier to train, and the soldiers themselves don't have too much care!

But if the people are strong, these soldiers are easy to recruit, but they are afraid that it will be a lot more troublesome to train!

Troops like the Tang Dynasty Division actually don't need soldiers who are too bloody and courageous, what they need are thoughtless soldiers, as long as they can obey orders.

However, although there are still scruples, but this thing has not been done, it is naturally impossible and feasible, now that the army has gone south to Liuzhou, the follow-up must be recruited on the spot, not only to supplement the existing troops such as the First Infantry Brigade, but also to set up a new unit, we can't expect the First Infantry Brigade with a third garrison brigade to completely conquer the Liangguang region, it is definitely necessary to continue to expand the army.

Not to mention the rest, just to control such a huge area as Liangguang, and put a 400-person robbery camp in each county, it will require a lot of soldiers.

Immediately, Ma Wei said: "Ma will discuss with his colleagues in the military department, and then see if a large number of local natives are recruited into the army!" ”

Hao Bonian said: "In this way, it will bother Master Ma more!" ”

Hao Bonian led the army to fight in the south, naturally it was inseparable from all kinds of support from the rear, the soldiers needed to be recruited by the military department in the civilian system, and the transportation of military rations and even baggage all needed the assistance of the local government in Liuzhou, and it was difficult to complete these complicated tasks by relying on the army alone.

Ma Wei naturally knew why His Majesty let him go south with the army, not to govern the place, but to provide all kinds of support to the front-line army in a better and more timely manner.

After all, whether it is the officials sent by the Ministry of War to recruit new soldiers in Liuzhou, or the officials sent by the Ministry of Taxation to collect taxes in Liuzhou, they are inseparable from the support of their own Liuzhou prefect.

In the end, most of these recruited recruits and collected money and food will be used to supply the front-line army!

After coming out of Hao Bonian's camp tent, Ma Wei immediately ran to his camp tent, and then held a brief discussion meeting with the officials sent by the cabinet ministries who also went south with the army.

Just like the original march into Liping Mansion, the cabinet arranged in advance for many officials to march with the army, and whenever they conquered a place, these officials would immediately enter and establish the rule of the Tang Dynasty.

For example, the previous Huaiyuan County, now there is a county order of Huaiyuan County belonging to the Tang Dynasty to settle in, and began to bring the subordinates who came with him and those middle and low-level Ming Dynasty officials who had just surrendered to Cheng to form the county yamen of Huaiyuan County of the Tang Dynasty, and began to prepare for the establishment of township and village administrative institutions in the townships and towns under Huaiyuan County.

The officials of the Recruitment Department of the Ministry of War have already opened a recruitment station on the spot to start recruiting recruits, and the civilian officials of the Training Department under the Privy Council have also established the first recruit battalion of Datang in the Liangguang region in Huaiyuan County, and it is expected that it will not be long before there will be at least hundreds or even thousands of people training in this new battalion!

Similarly, officials from the Ministry of Taxation have also been stationed in Huaiyuan County!

It is worth mentioning that the number of officials of the tax department going south is the largest, for example, in Huaiyuan County, the new county commanders are all responsible for establishing the rule of a county, but they only brought more than 20 people to the south and took office, and there are not many people on the side of the military department, there is only one real official, and there are more than a dozen followers, and even military soldiers are required to assist when recruiting soldiers.

However, only the people from the Ministry of Taxation came very much, and there were seven or eight officials with grades, and there were not many people with their entourage, but there was also a team in Huaiyuan County that made outstanding achievements in the Tang Dynasty and made great contributions to the establishment of the dynasty.

The tax inspection team of the Tang Dynasty is equipped with more sophisticated equipment than the robbery camp, swords, spears and even armor and muskets are readily available, and even in Guizhou, the tax inspection team that accompanied the second brigade to the west and accurately went to the Guiyang area has a super luxurious lineup of more than 500 people, and also has a war weapon like a bowl cannon!

Let many green-skinned hooligans who have just joined the tax inspection team sigh: Zhuang, my tax inspection team is worthy of being the elite gathering place of the Tang Dynasty!

Moreover, after the tax inspection team arrived in Huaiyuan County, the first thing they did was not to collect taxes, but to recruit troops on the spot!

The people they recruited were not good families or good people, but green-skinned hooligans and Jiangyang thieves, in short, they recruited some bad pus-shedding villains.

When they found the organization of the tax inspection team, they immediately rejuvenated one by one, changed into the black uniform of the tax inspection team, and received the allocated waist knife, short stick and other equipment, and became a member of the tax inspection team of the Tang Dynasty.

According to the assumptions of the officials of the Ministry of Taxation, more than 100 members of the original tax inspection team of the Department of Grain Collection were transferred from Liping Province and Xingquan Province to use them as seeds.

Then began to cooperate strongly with the local tax officials to make money, oh no, it should be legal and reasonable to carry out tax work!