Chapter 57: Trust and Loyalty
Recaptured the county seat of Wuyi, but at this moment, in the county seat of Wuyi, except for the 1,000 young and strong people in other places coerced by the Qing army, who used to transport materials, grain and grass for them, there was no one left.
It is a fact that the county seat of Wuyi is a barracks and a large barracks.
This harvest is too much, 4,000 Qing army prisoners, Zhang Qiang originally captured more than 1,000 prisoners, plus more than 1,000 prisoners before, Zhang Qiang found that the prisoners were more than three times his own strength, which was definitely unhealthy, and half of the prisoners in his team were transformed into soldiers.
This can't help but make Zhang Qiang worry that he is sitting on top of a castle made of sand, which is likely to collapse in an instant.
But now he has no way to solve it for a while, there are no people in Wuyi County to recruit, and those people who have a good impression of him have either fled or have been taken away by You Haibo.
Wuyi County was not destroyed, and because Zhang Qiang used the captive soldiers to repair the city wall and build fortifications, making Wuyi County more like a fortress, extremely strong, unless the Qing army sacrificed another 200 cannons to attack the city, otherwise there were 10,000 or 20,000 troops, and if they wanted to take Wuyi County, they could not take it in the face of Zhang Qiang's 2,000 elite soldiers who had experienced two months of fighting.
Therefore, Zhang Qiang entered Wuyi County with peace of mind this time.
Wuyi County through Liu Guangbi Ruan Dacheng two additional troops, transported a lot of grain and grass, material is also a lot, the preliminary estimate is 20,000 stone grain and grass, 10,000 stone of materials, Zhang Qiang before and after defeated the Qing army nearly 30,000 troops, captured a lot of weapons and armor, not to mention those cloth cloth armor, bamboo armor, paper armor, dilapidated cotton armor, just say chain mail, scale armor, ordinary iron armor, enough for Zhang Qiang to equip 6,000 people.
Therefore, Zhang Qiang expanded his troops again this time, Zhou Congee, Xuanyuan Longfei, Wei Wuji, Mi Chun, Mi Lin, each of them selected two hundred trustworthy Ming soldiers from among the captives, and the Han soldiers in the Han army banner were incorporated into the team.
So that each of their teams has reached 600 troops, including only 100 senior soldiers of the Righteous Army, no more than 200 skilled soldiers of the Righteous Army, 100 new recruits of the Righteous Army, plus 200 soldiers of the Qing Army, the combat effectiveness of the whole team has risen to a higher level, and the combat effectiveness of the whole team has not been affected by the expansion of the army, the only thing that has been affected is morale, because of the addition of 200 surrendered soldiers, their morale is slightly low, but in the future, they will fight with the Qing Army, these soldiers will be completely integrated into Zhang Qiang's team because of victory, and become Zhang Qiang's soldiers.
These soldiers do not have any concept of a country or a nation, nor do they say a word of loyalty to the generals they were originally in, just because they are all soldiers and eat food, and who they serve is not effective, and there is no comparison with the henchmen of those generals.
Of course, they also have no loyalty to Zhang Qiang at all, Zhang Qiang now in addition to his own generals to be loyal, ordinary soldiers, unless he personally trained, after the baptism of the system of soldiers, and a little loyal, other soldiers, or young soldiers, do not need to consider this layer, it is useless to consider, loyalty is this thing, ethereal, elusive, too many variables, too many influencing factors, the biggest influencing factor is that it seems that the Qing army has a huge advantage in unifying the Ming Dynasty.
Hu Kui's cavalry team expanded to 300 men, and Zhang Qiang's fire team Zhang Qiang only believed in the soldiers trained by his command skills, so he could only continue training with the newly selected 200 soldiers.
In fact, his personal army is always only linked to the strength allowed by his command skills, and two hundred soldiers are his real personal team, and once these soldiers are handed over, he will actually have no troops in his hands.
Before each training, he had to hand over his old forces to others, and then he personally trained 200 recruits.
This time, he handed over the 600 firecrackers in his hands to Hu Kui, who was the general banner of the 300 cavalry team and the 100 firecrackers, and he was also in charge of his firecrackers, so he could be said to be the strongest person in his team.
On this day, he was training recruits.
Mirin came to pay a visit, "My lord, Lin Cheng wants to meet your lord, and he hopes that your lord will give him a chance to be loyal to you. ”
Zhang Qiang said without thinking: "No, you don't know, I have never seen those captured generals, I don't want to make myself uncomfortable, what if he betrays me that day?" ”
Mi Lin is still in charge of the baggage team, and at the same time is in charge of the task of guarding the prisoners, and Mi Chun has changed from a rogue squad leader to a general banner under Zhang Qiang, and he is Zhang Qiang's man.
Mi Lin's current official position is actually the same as the position Zhang Qiang gave Tian Bin, a small flag plus a general flag rank, but because he came with Mi Chun, and it was not a short time, and he was conscientious, so Zhang Qiang gave him the right to lead 600 troops, that is because of what he did, there were fewer people, it was impossible to estimate, more than 6,000 prisoners, even if Zhang Qiang drew more than 1,000 troops from the captives to enrich his troops, there were still more than 5,000 prisoners, because this prisoner has not counted those who committed the most heinous forced labor, The hardcore traitors in the banner of the Han army who worked to death, as well as the Mongolian Tartars, and the Qing soldiers and real Tartars, there are also a lot of them, at least a thousand people.
Mi Lin knelt down and said: "My lord, I used to be a subordinate of General Lin Chengcheng, and I also know that General Lin Chengcheng betrayed General He Jin, and his subordinate Tian Bin also betrayed General He Jin again, but in any case, I still hope that General Lin can give General Lin a chance to be loyal to you, and he was forced to surrender to the Qing army in desperation." ”
Zhang Qiang touched his chin and thought about it for a long time, but he still couldn't make up his mind, "You stand down, wait for me to think about it carefully, and then give you an answer." ”
Zhang Qiang didn't know how to trust this peasant rebel general who had twice betrayed his comrades for his own personal gain.
He didn't dare to trust the other generals who were caught, first, his reputation was not enough, and he had not yet reached the point where others wanted to serve him, which he was self-aware; The second is that these people are not enough to trust, they prefer to be the boss themselves, flowing back and forth, except for the substantial contribution of the harm they caused to the Qing army, they have nothing to contribute, but harmful, harmful to the people and the Ming Dynasty.
From the perspective of the Han people, they are an outlier.
And Zhang Qiang is a Han Chinese, although he wants to fight for hegemony, wants to be the emperor, and restore the Han people, but he still stands in the perspective of the Han people and fights against the barbarian Qing soldiers and Tartars.
"Invite Zhou Congee, Wei Wuji, and Master Hu Kui." Zhang Qiang said to the soldiers around him.
After a while, the three of them came to Zhang Qiang, Zhang Qiang told them Mi Lin's request, Zhou Congee slapped his thigh, "My lord, these rogues are still not credible, it is better to remove his official and demote him to a small soldier, otherwise, once he has two hearts, our bases in the mountains will be exposed, and I will say that we can't appoint such a person to do such a secret thing." ”
Hu Kui said: "My lord, you can't help but guard against it, not only Mi Lin, but also Mi Chun should be restricted, the two of them have 1,200 troops with us, which is equivalent to one-third of our troops, if Lin Cheng provokes it, it will hurt us a lot." ”
Wei Wuji's fingers tapped on his thighs, he muttered without speaking, Zhang Qiang turned around, "Wuji, what do you say?" ”
Wei Wuji said: "My lord, your foundation is too shallow, if you don't appoint them, I'm afraid no one can use them, but you can't guard against it, if you appoint Lin Yangcheng, you have to consider the balance of power, you can't let the power of the Liukou become bigger in our army, otherwise, we will make wedding dresses for others, but at present, Lin Yangcheng wants to take refuge in you, and I can't help but agree to him, otherwise who will serve the adults in the future, the adults have been detaining the captured enemy generals and ignoring them, this is not a way, it will restrict our development." ”
Zhang Qiang became interested, "What do you say?" ”