Chapter 42 Prisoners

Yu Zhilong did this, not because of how deep his sympathy for the peasants, but because he felt that since it was a rebellion, he would inevitably expand his momentum and attract the largest number of people to join, so as to enhance his own strength.

"I have promised to give 10,000 taels of money to Master Liu today for his disposal, and you will be responsible for checking this matter and handing it over to Master Yu before sunset. The examination of about 200 horses and mules and 3,000 stone of grain shall also be handled by you, which is a more cumbersome matter and should be completed tomorrow. ”

"No!"

"Is there any news from the city?" Yu Zhilong asked.

"Not really." Fang Xue replied.

"Well, I'm in a hurry!" The personnel who were only arranged yesterday infiltrated the city, and then the brigade came here to relieve the siege, and even if there is any news, it is difficult to get here now. Arrange for the details to enter the city, this matter is quite confidential, how to act is only known to Yu Zhilong, Zhao Shi and several subordinates, in order to facilitate follow-up contact, Yu Zhilong specially told Fang Xue about it, once there is news, immediately notify Yu Zhilong.

Putting aside his thoughts about the county seat for the time being, Yu Zhilong thought about the future land policy in the blink of an eye, such as cracking down on the notorious gentry, collecting all their wealth and acres, sending most of them to small farmers and tenants free of charge, and abolishing the policy of expulsion and the abolition of the artisan registration, and other measures that need to be carefully considered as soon as possible. Now Yu Zhilong feels that there is really a lack of a large number of governance and planning personnel around him, and although he has some ideas, there is no one to help implement and improve them. In the specific implementation, those detailed planning took up a lot of their own time, just like the two villages that had just been seized, how to deal with those acres, cattle and sheep, rewrite the land deed, distribute all kinds of materials, etc., were so tired that they could not calm down.

Zhao Shi, Wu Side, Mu Chun and others are all military generals, and they can be alone when they charge into battle, but it is Zhang Fei who lets them do these paperwork and administrative things, and they have big eyes on small eyes! Qian Zheng has studied private school, learned arithmetic, and can deal with some miscellaneous things of writing and calculation, but Qian Zheng's ambition is not here, he thinks more about galloping horses and commanding troops to fight in the future, and now that Qian Zheng is in charge of a hundred households, the training of soldiers is enough for him to be busy. At present, there is only one Fang Xue who is more suitable for these things, and with the few apprentice-like helpers he has found, he can barely carry out some of Yu Zhilong's orders.

The main thing was busy for the time being, Yu Zhilong led Sun Xing and other personal soldiers, got out of the tent, and went straight to the places where the various departments were stationed to inspect. After yesterday's battle, all the units were exhausted, and today they arranged for each department to rest and replenish their personnel, and at the same time continued to queue and fight training in the field.

At this time, the sky was bright, the field had already been harvested, and the people and horses of each department freely chose a relatively flat land, and according to the original professor's method, they were mostly training in the queue.

Yu Zhilong didn't say anything on the side, just quietly observed. After the various departments stayed overnight, Zhao Shi and the others divided up to persuade these captives according to Yu Zhilong's intentions and mobilized them to change camps. At this time, most of the volunteer prisoners had been added to the various ministries, and the sources of these volunteers were basically similar to those of Liujiazhuang and other volunteers, most of them were local tenants and landless refugees, and they were only soldiers for food. Before Yu Zhilong persuaded him to join the various ministries, he had already ordered the persuaders to make it clear to him that as long as he changed his camp and fought sincerely, in addition to the generous rewards after the war, after taking Linqu County, he would definitely sweep the surrounding towns and towns, and distribute part of the farmland to the people according to the merits of the soldiers, and no field tax would be charged for ten years. If they have a small family in Yidu and other places, and are willing to settle here, Yu Zhilong will find a way to pick up their family in the future, and the travel and resettlement costs are all borne by Zhilong. Moreover, when the family came to Linqu, Yu Zhilong would also allocate a certain amount of silver taels to settle in the family, and then allocate some acres of land for his cultivation, and only two percent would be collected within ten years. If a soldier is disabled or killed in battle after the war, he will also receive a bereavement pension to his family. However, at present, everything is busy, and the specific terms will still be drawn up in a few days before being announced to the whole army.

In order to win the trust of the captives, Yu Zhilong promised that as long as he surrendered to him, he would immediately allocate five taels of silver to each person.

After these concessions were informed of the captives one by one, most of these captives were very moved. Although all the discounts will only be available if you take down Linqu County, looking at the morale and combat power of these people, it seems that it is not difficult to win Linqu. If the leader really walks the talk, then switching sides seems like a good choice. In particular, the placement of family members is even more exciting. Therefore, except for a small number of those who were loyal to Meng Qing, most of the captives joined Liu Zhengfeng and Yu Zhilong's team, and soon the three hundred captives were selected and handed over to Liu Zhengfeng for specific distribution. And these three hundred captives were indeed relatively weak people selected by Huang Er, Qian Zheng and others.

For the vast majority of people, what they didn't know for a long time was that in the middle of the night that day, Ji Xiancheng personally led a team of soldiers to quietly tie up more than 20 people who were loyal to the Meng clan and brought them into the mountains. After about an hour, Ji Xiancheng waited for him to come back quietly, but no one could see those twenty or so people in the future.

Most of the captives are willing to join, and another important reason is that Yu Zhilong announced that he will soon go to Banyangfu Road and Jinan Road, and most of the Qilu region will be occupied by the new army.

In fact, the widely circulated "Mo Dao Shiren has one eye, instigating the Yellow River to rebel in the world" a few years ago, but it greatly opened the eyes of the world, and Liu Futong and others succeeded in one fell swoop, and turned the Central Plains upside down. Later, the imperial historian did not spend hundreds of thousands of troops to conquer and suppress, and was shocked and collapsed overnight, which shows that the Yuan court has exhausted its strength. In a word, follow Yu Zhilong, although there are risks in the future, but the future is bright, the family is carefree, follow the Yuan Ting Righteous Army, you will only die without a place to be buried!

Under the temptation of all means, most of these volunteer captives finally stayed and joined this army.

After watching it for a while, Yu Zhilong found that it was still those volunteers who adapted the fastest in the queue training, and most of them knew to pay attention to the banners and obey the orders of the hundred households and the general banner. With the addition of these volunteers, Yu Zhilong's drills in various parts were obviously much smoother. Now the morale of all units is like a rainbow, the enthusiasm of the soldiers to participate in the training is very high, and the whole field is dusty and there are bursts of killing.

After a while, Zhao Shi came over and asked for instructions on future military training. Now after the whole army is reorganized, every team of 100 households is full of 100 people, and according to the military system of the Yuan army, it is all hundreds of households. In order to ensure the combat strength and effective control of each department, all the attached captives were scattered and divided into 100 teams according to proportion.

Interestingly, the clothes of the attached captives are relatively bright, although some of the soldiers' clothes are damaged, but they can still be seen, which of those driving clothes are mostly tattered, many people are barefoot, the two gangs are lined up, the contrast is really obvious. After the two big villages were laid down two days ago, although some clothes were temporarily searched, the number was far from enough.

Most of the quarry guards are in good health, but what they lack is effective military training and military discipline. The main purpose of Yu Zhilong on this day is to let these soldiers who have bloody battle experience experience the difficulty of big battles, and constantly strengthen military discipline in the queue change training. The battle of the valley is mainly won in the geographical advantage, and the victory is to win the first strike, if you want to fight against the Yuan army in the field, with the current quality of these people, it is not its opponent at all. Historically, thousands of officers and troops were often able to defeat peasant armies several times their size, and in addition to the fact that officers and soldiers were strong and strong, an important reason was that officers and soldiers were generally well-trained, knew how to advance and retreat, and were familiar with formations.

"Keep up, pay attention to the formation, and align the front and back!" In the field, Huang Er shouted vigorously, "Are your eyes slanted?" Why always walk out of the queue! A crisp slap sounded, and a clear palm print quickly appeared on the dazed soldier's face.

Huang Er is a rough man and has a quick temperament. Seeing that his subordinates could not even master the standing and walking of the queue, his heart became more and more impatient, and he slapped a soldier who did not have a long mind, and the soldier staggered, his body shook, and he quickly stood up straight.

At the same time, Wu Side, Ji Xiancheng and others were in a hurry, and they also kicked and scolded some soldiers who acted too out of line from time to time. Some of the soldiers who were not smart in their movements and brains were directly kicked to the ground by them.

Yu Zhilong frowned, although this way of beating and scolding is simple and pleasant, it is not conducive to long-term training, especially if the prisoner has just been attached and his mind is unstable, if the beating and scolding is very heavy, it is inevitable that he will not have remorse, even those who drive the soldiers will inevitably not have any thoughts under the severe scolding.

In contrast, Qian Zheng, Chang Zhi and others were more gentle, they held a slender stick, patrolling back and forth between the parts, but there were soldiers who could not obey the order to make timely movements, and the long stick in their hands was pointed on the head of the soldier.

Yu Zhilong looked at these soldiers who were not yet familiar with how to move, and many soldiers who did not understand the sound of the golden drum, and he was naturally anxious. However, he also did not have the experience of commanding and training soldiers in the cold weapon era, Zhao Shi came to ask for instructions on the method of training, and Yu Zhilong could only discuss with Zhao Shi according to the vague impression in his mind and the experience of the present world.

According to on-site observations, he discussed with Zhao Shi how to conduct combat training and physical training for the soldiers in the future. In particular, he instructed that in the method of dealing with non-commissioned officers, it was strictly forbidden for officers to arbitrarily and indefinitely corporal punishment and insult of non-commissioned officers, and instructed Zhao Shi, Luo Cheng, Qian Zheng, and Mu Chun to draw up a brief charter for military training, and to gradually improve it while training in the future.

During this day, Yu Zhilong mostly observed and corrected the training of soldiers in various departments in the field. Now he has more people, not counting the noble baggage team, Yu Zhilong has newly organized two hundred household battle teams, and reduced the number of his own and Zhao Shi's personal soldiers to fifty respectively, and the reduced personnel have been merged into a new hundred household team, and now there are a total of seventeen full hundred household teams under his command. After Gao Shang appointed the whole army's baggage house of 100 households, he soon recruited hundreds of people everywhere, and then equipped with ten mules and horses and carts and pots and pans, etc., the people and horses who cooked in the house were basically solved, and Gao Shang set up a Zizhong detachment to be dedicated to the transportation of all grain, firewood, camp tents, etc., and he selected a steady, famous Tong Kui's deputy hundred households from the original scout team, mainly in charge of the transportation of baggage.

Fortunately, a lot of things have been seized recently, and all the miscellaneous items can basically be gathered, Yu Zhilong handed over most of the carriages, horses, and camp tents of the captured Meng Righteous Army to Tong Kui for arrangement, and the other was sent to Liu Zhengfeng. Liu Zhengfeng's subordinates basically threw away the sundries that could be discarded in order to march lightly, and now these sundries are in short supply, and they are just in emergency situations.