Chapter 49: Can't Run to Death
Liu Zhilun was happy, how could the imperial court rest assured that he could be taken out of the capital with such a tall equipment as the Hongyi cannon.
He had fifty cannons, but they were all easy to transport because they were all made of wood.
Liu Zhilun also made more than 1,000 wooden wheelbarrows to accompany the army, which is not a problem to walk on mountain roads and small roads, and a soldier can push a wheelbarrow to transport three or five stones of grain.
When engaging the Tartar and Jiannu cavalry, the soldiers could tie three wooden pole spears with a length of one foot and two feet in front of the wheelbarrow, and then push them to ram the enemy cavalry, and the effect should be leveraged.
Liu Zhilun said: "General Huang rest assured, if the soldiers are really willing to run, the baggage they carry will not slow down the speed of the army, but it is not easy to mobilize the enthusiasm of these soldiers to rush with the enthusiasm of running without death!" ”
The camp of the 10,000 Ming army was in the middle of the Xianghe River to Jizhou, less than 260 miles away from Zunhua.
If you maintain a state of rapid march for three days, it is very possible to rush to the city of Zunhua, but how to make these Ming troops who will flee without anyone watching them show the strength to eat milk and travel long distances is indeed a big problem that is difficult to solve.
Seeing Liu Zhilun groaning, Huang Han said with a smile: "The cauldron is broken, and the one hundred and two Qin Passes belong to Chu after all." The adults will reward the three armies tonight, so that everyone will be fed, and tomorrow morning they will continue to let everyone eat and dry, and the lowly will arrange for the family to do propaganda and agitation work, so as to ensure that tomorrow all the soldiers will run forward like chicken blood. ”
Liu Zhilun said: "There is not much food in the official camp, and I am afraid that it will last less than ten days to save it, and the official has sent a messenger to ask the household department to release food and salary as soon as possible, and also sent documents to several state capitals that have not been taken by Jiannu." It's just that I don't know when I will get food again. ”
"Then there is no need to save, let all the soldiers be fed, as long as the food is enough to support three days, at that time everyone only has two choices, one is to fight Zunhua to eat meat and drink, and the other is to be defeated by Jiannu and die of starvation under the city of Zunhua."
Liu Zhilun is also a hard bone, Huang Han's more ruthless style of play than anyone else is very temperamental, he originally had the idea of serving the country with death, and at this time he made up his mind to immediately arrange for someone to pass the word, let the soldiers be fed from tonight, and immediately notify the military attache above the hundred generals to come to the Chinese army to discuss the matter.
Huang Han took the lead in convening a meeting of his own headquarters and clearly told everyone that he was about to participate in the attack on Zunhua.
It shows that Zunhua City is a looting material transfer station for the Houjin army, where there is enough food, not to mention materials worth millions of taels of silver.
Huang Han asked the family members to send a message to all the Ming troops, and Liu Shilang promised with the majesty of the Holy Son of Heaven that every participating soldier in Zunhua would be rewarded with at least thirty taels of silver.
Then these more than 50 people conveyed this solemn promise to the cavalry of the small 500 Ming Army that had just belonged to the command of Huang Han, and then more than 500 cavalry passed this promise to the ears of more than 10,000 soldiers.
The barracks suddenly exploded, and everyone was skeptical, and everyone was talking about the authenticity of the thirty taels of silver that everyone would allot.
At this moment, the mobilization meeting of the military attachés above the rank of 100 generals ended, and some excited military attaches announced that as long as they captured Zunhua City, which was only garrisoned by 800 Jiannu, every Ming army who did not fall behind would receive at least 30 taels of silver.
At the mobilization meeting of officers presided over by Liu Zhilun, Huang Han issued a solemn warning, demanding that each battalion should send people to organize a law enforcement team, and then all the law enforcement team members should be mixed and supervised by the general flag of each battalion.
The duty of the law enforcement team is not only to supervise the battle and kill those who are afraid of the enemy, but they also have a general task - to ensure that all soldiers do not hide the captured and must be handed over to the public school and then distributed uniformly.
Naturally, the law enforcement team also had to participate in the publicity, and everyone had to swear and promise all the soldiers in an unquestionable tone that all the participants in the Zunhua City would be rewarded with at least thirty taels of silver, and those who performed meritorious service would also be rewarded according to the size of their merits.
As soon as Huang Han finished speaking, the officers discussed everything they said, they thought that these soldiers were too bad, and their eyes were red when they saw the yellow and white things, and the limited number of law enforcement teams was afraid that they would not be able to suppress it.
Even Liu Zhilun thought that such strict law enforcement might be counterproductive, and in the end, his own people would fight and turn into mutiny, and the army would be finished.
Huang Han was full of confidence and said to those generals: "My lords, the humble position does not mean that the law enforcement team will not teach them, first of all, they must spare no effort to carry out propaganda, and everyone understands the rights and obligations of the soldiers. ”
Speaking of this, Huang Han paused, and all the military attachés waited with blazing eyes to listen to the following, the words rights and obligations were so fresh, Liu Zhilun listened to them with relish, and hurriedly urged: "Lord Huang has any clever ideas, come quickly." ”
Huang Han hugged his fists to Liu Zhilun and said: "The soldiers must fight bravely to kill the enemy, and they must not be allowed to rob money, and once they start robbing, some people will definitely take more, some people will get less, and even some people will be empty-handed. ”
All the officers agreed, and many nodded.
Huang Han continued: "It is completely possible to force all the soldiers to seize and return to the public and give a reward of thirty taels to each of the combatants.
In this way, there will be hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in the public school, and it is estimated that there will not be less than 500,000 taels of silver. Therefore, the lowly position proposes to divide these floating wealth into ten equal parts, and the eight camp masters will each take a share at their disposal, and give one to Lord Liu to call, and the lowly position is also cheeky to ask for a share, I don't know if you have any opinions? ”
The generals of each battalion suddenly realized that the centralized seizure was for the sake of the officer, Lord Liu, and himself.
This young man was not simple, not only was he able to prevent the soldiers from fighting for the sake of uneven distribution of spoils, but also forced the soldiers not to be moved by the gold and silver but to kill the enemy, so that everyone was of course cleverly arranged.
It was really exciting for everyone to be rich, and all the military attachés said in unison that there was no problem with such distribution, and they would do their best to do a good job of publicity.
Huang Han once again emphasized: "Your Excellency, you must let every soldier know that the centralized distribution of captured gold and silver is for everyone's benefit, and to ensure that every soldier who participates in the war receives at least thirty taels of silver. ”
Obviously, this is a grandiose excuse to take advantage of everyone's common interests and make a handful of money on everyone's head, which is similar to taking it from the people and doing it to the people.
The military attachés understood the purpose and importance of the propaganda, and when they returned to the camp, they would continue to nag until they were tired of listening to everyone.