Chapter 294: The Adventures of Li Hongji (9)
After making the most basic arrangements, the people's hearts have initially stabilized, and then it is time for Li Hongji to show his strength, and some people in each settlement will be sent to join the army, and the principle of voluntariness will be adopted, but all families who join the army can enjoy tax-free treatment, and families can also get Li Hongji's advanced farm tools, and they will only live a better life without worrying about the labor problem.
In each settlement, there are still a lot of people who want to join the army, because in the psychology of the nomads, the supremacy of force is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, which is the precipitation of history, and it is natural for everyone to be stronger, to become a person who is admired and respected by others, and the adults of the nomads are natural cavalry seedlings and are very aggressive.
After recruiting a large number of soldiers, Li Hongji asked officers and officers at all levels to systematically train these recruits, and the infantry did not use these people, because it was difficult for them to understand the use of advanced rifles and mortars in the Ming Dynasty, and the training was very troublesome, and Li Hongji did not have much time to waste, so he directly equipped them with sabers and war horses, these people all grew up on horseback, natural cavalry seedlings, and a very small number of serfs who farmed the land were not qualified to join the army at all.
The training of the army is still based on basic coordination, and they do not lack the skills of riding horses and combat skills, but what they lack most is battlefield discipline, and what the officers particularly emphasize to them in the training is the cooperation between comrades-in-arms. Zhu Youxiao came from the later generations, and naturally handed over many of the later generations' outward bound training methods to the officers of the military academy, including the escape wall, trust back fall, island survival, flying wheel, dependence and crossing, thunder array, outwitting the enemy camp, rapids, crossing the swamp, crossing the curved bridge, skillfully crossing the net array, trapped against the wall, swinging the wooden bridge on the ground, crossing the high net, crossing the peak, hanging tower, net climbing frame, plum blossom pile, pyramid, life chessboard, obstacle course, camping, picnic barbecue, orienteering, wild survival, mysterious puzzle, cliff dropping, Canyon exploration, mountaineering, directional treasure exploration, cave exploration, canyon crossing, zipline, water curtain stream wall, pumping board to cross the river, water plum blossom pile, floating barrel bridge, water single cable, across the Grand Canyon, water training, water and wood hoarding, brave crossing, lifting logs, etc.
After the harsh 100-day training, these recruits finally understood the source of Li Hongji's army's powerful combat power and deeply understood the power of team combat. In order to make these recruits better adapt to this new combat method, Li Hongji also specially arranged several actual combat exercises to have his own 32-member personal guard team fight against the recruits, and whether it was a 30-person group, a 60-person group, or a 100-person group, all of them failed in front of Li Hongji's guards, and this further strengthened their determination to train.
More than 20,000 recruits have taken shape after 100 days of arduous training, so that Li Hongji has 30,000 soldiers, and there are only three generals who will lead the troops, that is, Liu Zongmin, Liu Fangliang, and Yuan Chongdi.
Speaking of the Ottoman Empire, which was defeated by the Tsarist Empire, they can be said to have suffered heavy losses in this war, did not reap any benefits, and also lost a large area of land, not only the local Governor of Murad was furious, even the Ottoman Emperor Murad IV was angry, and ordered Governor Ashhard to regain the lost land, otherwise he would be removed from his post or even sent to prison for punishment.
At this time, the cunning Tsar Mikhail Romanov of the Tsarist Russian Empire once again showed his wisdom, and he was a little lacking in confidence in directly confronting the Ming army, and the fiasco in the war in Western Siberia made him feel uneasy, but Li Hongji's appearance in the Assyrian Sea made him feel like a fish in his throat, and he saw that Western European countries made a fortune on the vast ocean, and he could not suppress his desire for the sea, the Assyrian Sea and the Black Sea will be his main road to the Mediterranean, and he must open this line to the sea full of wealth and opportunities.
So Mikhail Romanov showed goodwill to the defeated Ottoman Empire, and his envoy once again sat down at the negotiating table with the Ottoman Empire. Facing the Ottoman Governor Eshad who was still full of anger, the envoy of the Tsarist Empire had a sycophantic smile on his face, and his humble attitude made the Ottoman Governor Eishad feel as if he was the victor, and he was suddenly a little inexplicable, and he lost his vigilance for a while, and waited for the envoy of the Tsarist Empire to see what he wanted to say.
"Dear Mr. Eishad." The messenger said, "I think there must have been a misunderstanding between us, we were very friendly allies, but the intrigue of the hateful Polish-Lithuanian made us lose our minds, and unpleasant things happened between us, and thanks to the wisdom of our great Tsar, His Majesty discovered their plot, and decisively stopped the dispute between us, and sent him to explain the situation to Mr. Viceroy and ask him for his understanding. ”
"The conspiracy of the Poles," said Governor Eishad, feeling a little surprised, "Your Excellency, you say that this is a conspiracy of the Poles?" Let's have a conflict, so what conspiracy was used by the Poles? How do I feel that you Tsarist Empire used a machia? ”
Governor Ashhard listened to the envoy of the Tsarist Empire and could not hold back his anger, so he asked loudly.
"No, no, no. Mr. Governor, please be patient and let me explain to you. The envoy of the Tsarist Empire was still smiling, "Originally, we were allies, and our common goal was to regain the land that belonged to us, but the Poles gave large tracts of land to the generals of the Ming Dynasty, and you can see that in the northern part of the Assyrian Sea, isn't there a new power that has just recently emerged?" That's the advance force of the Ming Dynasty in the distant East, our common enemy, do you know their goal? ”
Governor Eishad was a little stunned, how did this guy get to this place, and what does this have to do with the conspiracy of the Poles? Then he asked: "You say that the conspiracy of the Poles, how did it get involved in the Ming Empire, and does the two have anything to do with it?" ”
Seeing that the Governor of Ishhad was finally successfully changed the topic by himself, the envoy of the Tsarist Empire smiled even more charmingly, and then said: "Dear Governor Elshard, I don't know if you know enough about the history of the Ottoman Empire, we have all been oppressed by the nomads in the east for hundreds of years, and now we are finally strong, but they have begun to challenge us again, if the Mongol army set foot on our land again, how should we face it?" ”
As a high-ranking member of the Ottoman Empire, Governor Al Eshad must have known a lot about these historical developments, but listening to the words of the envoy of the Tsarist Russian Empire, he still felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't think of anything wrong for a while, so he had to continue to listen to this envoy's flickering.
The envoy of the Tsarist Russian Empire also felt that it was too far away, so he explained: "The conspiracy of the Poles I am talking about is that these nobles are very hateful, they gave a large area of land in the north of the Assyrian Sea to the general Li Hongji of the Ming Empire, it is a pack of terrible wolves, if they develop, they will soon pose a great threat to our two countries, this is the legacy of the Poles raising tigers, the reason why I ask you do you know our history, this is what it means, when this force becomes strong, It was when the Poles united with them to seize our land, and the lesson from the past was that the first Huns went west, and the iron hooves of the Mongols. It is when our Tsar His Majesty saw this, that he thought of going south as far as possible, intending to surround them and expel them, so as to avoid a threat to us in the future, which led to our conflict, and I beg your understanding, Mr. Governor, that we will not touch the land belonging to the Ottoman Empire. For the sake of our common interests, His Majesty the Tsar has now decided to give you this piece of land, including the land we have received from the Poles, and will also share it with your country, and I invite you to participate in accepting it, which is the reward that your country deserves for its cooperation with our great Tsar, and is also the basis of trust for our future cooperation. ”
The envoys of the Russian Empire spread out the map they had brought with them, pointing out to the Governor of Ishad the northernmost part of the Assyrian Sea, and even the land that the Russian Empire had received from the Poles had given a large area to the Ottoman Empire. Judging from the map, the Tsarist Russian Empire marked almost all the land occupied by Li Hongji to the Ottoman Empire, and the purpose of blaming others is very clear, which shows its viciousness and cunning.