The enthusiasm for working for oneself is not comparable to being whipped by Jiannu and doing coolies.

More than 2,600 men had eaten their fill of horse meat, drank enough broth, carried a bag of wheat, lit torches, and happily went up the mountain.

They were indeed happy that they had not only avoided the fate of being slaves, but also received life-saving food, and at this time they were bent on quickly finding their relatives hiding in the mountains.

Every local who was familiar with the environment took a dozen strong men up the mountain, and they carried away a thousand stones of wheat at one time.

In the night, Hermes-Epitek followed the strong laborers to Pisces Village to carry it, and the mountains and forests were even darker, and thousands of men and women were not afraid of hardships at all, they happily carried heavy wheat, and under the light of torches, they formed a team to walk on the mountain road.

A man surnamed Li in his early forties asked Qiao Dashan: "Brother Qiao, what is the origin of this 'Red Flag Army'?" How did they defeat the Tartars and take away so much food? ”

Qiao Dashan said: "I heard Brother Pei Daneng say that their 'Red Banner Army' is an honored army that fights horses and parades in the streets of the capital, and it is a heroic unit that has been praised by the Son of Heaven. ”

"No wonder they are completely different from other soldiers, they all talk to us with pleasant faces, and call us fellow countrymen!"

"That's true, it's the first time I've seen such a disciplined man, if my Ming soldiers are like this, where will it be the turn of Jiannu to spread the wilderness here!"

"Yes! It's a pity that General Huang has too few men and horses, if he also has one or two thousand male soldiers, I'm afraid he can catch up with Qi Shaobao's majesty when he was in Jizhen, how dare the Tartars be bold in front of Qi Shaobao's army back then! ”

"There are hundreds of men who were rescued with me who want to join the 'Red Flag Army', but the requirements are high, and those who don't have a skill don't want it at all, and those who are skilled in archers and horses will accept it."

"Tsk, no wonder General Huang doesn't have many people but is particularly capable of fighting, and I'm afraid that's what it means to have more soldiers!"

"Actually, I don't hide it from my brother, I also think that I will follow the 'Red Banner Army' to fight Tartars in the future, although I can't ride and shoot, but I also have a real style that I have practiced for more than ten years, and I will definitely not be worse than others when I wear armor and fight on foot."

At this time, Qiao Yunsong, a young man under the age of twenty who had been following them closely, interjected: "Uncle, can you take me with you too?" I don't want to hide in Tibet anymore, I want to avenge my family. ”

"Alas! Yun Song, this kid and my family are thinking about touching the camp of the Tartars all day long, how can I let them go to death in vain, and keep an eye on them. Brother Qiao, if you go to the army, simply bring those juniors, and if you can't choose a regular soldier, we will be willing to follow the 'Red Flag Army' to do labor. ”

Qiao Dashan said: "Don't be in a hurry at this time, I inquired clearly, the 'Red Flag Army' will be stationed in Zunhua for a period of time, we have a lot of food, and we can arrange our family properly, and then we will find Brother Pei Daneng to introduce us to eat food and become soldiers." ”

Qiao Yunsong said: "Uncle, you still think about it carefully, we left the food and took away the mouth of eating, and the family can always eat a few more times to fill their stomachs." ”

"I can't say that, if we eat the food of the 'Red Banner Army', we will have to sell our lives to General Huang with all our hearts, if we don't have the intention of dying, I won't take you with me."

Li Er smiled and said, "Uncle, if it weren't for my father's close attention these days, we would have gone to find the Tartars desperately, what's the big deal?" Anyway, more than a dozen people in my family were plagued by the Tartars, and only five people were left without food, and if I die more, I can save a piece of food! ”

"So a few of you are trying to save food rations? I'm afraid I don't need it now, look at my shoulder, I'm afraid it's more than half a stone of wheat, right? ”

Qiao Yunsong said: "Where is it all to save food, the main purpose is to kill the Tartars to avenge, anyway, I am determined to join the army." ”

Qiao Dashan said: "Okay, I have an idea in my heart, we have to let the 'Red Flag Army' leave the men of Pisces Village at that time." I have seen General Huang, he should still be easy to talk to, originally General Huang was going to burn the grain and retreat, but I took the villagers to ask for help, and he agreed to give the food to everyone. ”

"General Huang is such a good person! With so much food, I wonder how many people will live! Second child, you must follow General Huang to work hard in the future, and strive to avenge the Li family. ”

The common people who walked at night were talking about the "Red Flag Army", and many young and middle-aged people had the idea of joining the army, and the people who met their fellow villagers in the "Red Flag Army" hoped that their sons, nephews, and brothers could join them.

In fact, the Ming government and its fuckers, originally Jiannu wantonly plundered Liaodong, and the common people in the Guannai did not have the consciousness of the same hatred and hatred at all. After that, the Jin army entered the pass, burned, killed, looted, and humiliated women, and millions of ordinary people were destroyed in their homes.

If the Ming government mobilizes enough, it can turn bad things into good things. With the government taking the lead in organizing it, many men who have a bitter grudge against the Houjin army will definitely join the Ming army and take up arms to take revenge.

Originally, Jiannu were barefoot and not afraid to wear shoes, they were poor and barbaric enough to run rampant in the land of Gyeonggi. Nowadays, many Han people are also abjectly poor, and their blood is spurred by hatred, and the selection of more than 100,000 or 200,000 northern men to train into an army is probably not too bad.

Then select fierce men like Lu Xiangsheng and Yan Yingyuan, and Jia Zhi will lead these men and horses out of the customs to Liaodong to return a tooth for a tooth, maybe they can destroy Jiannu in one fell swoop.

The Ming government, which mourns its misfortune and is angry and indisputable, is the Ming government, and those Ming scholars and doctors are insensitive pigs' heads, no one has a sense of the overall situation, and they are all playing in the nest and playing party fighting.

The former kingdom of the Celestial Empire was repeatedly looted by Jiannu, and later these young adults either became accomplices of Jiannu or became the new force of the Liukou, and finally many forces played the Ming to death.

The Ming government organized the young and middle-aged people whose homes were destroyed by Jiannu into an army, and there was another huge benefit - to stabilize the place.

How can many strong men who have no organization and no food to eat be willing to wait for death? I am afraid that there will be no shortage of people who gather in the mountains and forests. Their raids and robberies will exacerbate the fragile balance of the natural economy of Beizhili, which has been broken by the Houjin army, and then a vicious circle begins.

It's a pity that the Huang Han people are soft-spoken, and they don't have the ability to influence the government for the time being, and he can't even accept more men to join the army, because his number of soldiers is only 1,360, even if he counts some overstaffed family soldiers, I'm afraid he can't break through 2,000 people.

Therefore, many of the more than 2,000 young adults who were rescued were ready to follow the "Red Banner Army", but most of them were politely declined, and Huang Han only left behind about 20 good men who could ride horses and shoot arrows, which should be counted as supplementing battle losses.