Chapter 598: Calm the people's hearts

In the middle of the night, Puhe became a sea of fire, Liaozhen General Soldier led 5,000 soldiers from the south gate of Puhe to flee overnight, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses were scattered in three days, large and small units of Huazhou cavalry cruising between Tieling Wei and Puhe, if the Ming army had someone vainly trying to collect the troops, it would be resolutely attacked. If you lay down your arms, then no one will pay attention, Huazhou invaded Liaozhen, this war from the beginning to the end, but two months, the Ming army of Liaozhen, which had been peaceful for a long time, had no psychological preparation for war and death at all.

Therefore, under the fierce and changeable offensive in Huazhou, the Ming army, which seemed to be outnumbered, quickly collapsed, and the situation on the battlefield, the Liaozhen soldiers could only be said to be defeated, not defeated, but Jiang Feng's next technique was quite ingenious, so that a large number of cavalry were divided into multiple units, relying on the advanced weapons and abundant horsepower, constantly impacting and harassing the retreating Liaozhen Ming army.

On the battlefield in front of Fan He, Huazhou did not do its best to defeat the Ming army, if it is to be completely annihilated, it is definitely not this means, Jiang Feng and his generals are combined, is to break up the Ming army as much as possible, if the Ming army is defeated in the main battle, then it is not worth worrying.

Sima Cheng, a subordinate of the Governor's Mansion in Huazhou, also had a pro-military camp, and even a chamber of commerce, and all kinds of available intelligence analysis were used, and the conclusion was that the army of the Ming army had been in peace for a long time, and the suppression of the peasant army may still have some effect, but it may not have any ability in the main battle with the large army.

The biggest possibility is to start a fight, thinking that they are the strongest soldiers in the world, but as long as they are frustrated, they will immediately be psychologically chaotic and unable to support, those military households who are more accustomed to holding hoes than knives and guns have long been rotten roots, they also have the courage to fight, beat them hard, and at the same time give them a way to live, they will not even rise up to resist, they will only go home to farm in peace.

Of course, Huazhou is the armed force of the Han people, which is also an important point, if the Mongols enter the army, even the cowardly Han peasants and even Han slave laborers will rise up to resist and never die, because this is a scourge of human life, and the Han people are not treated as human animals.

After the defeat of Fan He, the army retreated, if the Huazhou army was pressed at that time, it was not impossible to be completely annihilated, but if the young and strong soldiers of the entire Liao Town were too seriously killed and wounded, their families and relatives would definitely hate the Huazhou army, even if it was a Han army, if this place wanted to be peaceful, it would take a lot of effort.

In this battle, if the Ming army is defeated, in order to save the troops of Shenyang, Liaoyang, it is inevitable to retreat, when retreating, the morale of these soldiers who have no war experience must be extremely low, Huazhou harassed with a large number of cavalry, divided into batches, like a group of wolves hunting, constantly tearing off the flesh and skin of the large prey, making him bleed and weakened, and finally let him fall to the ground weakly.

This tactic really had a miraculous effect, the impact again and again made the Ming army tired, ready to rest but had nowhere to rest, so they could only keep rushing towards the Puhe place, in the Puhe place, the Huazhou military bow that arrived at the light cavalry fired rockets indiscriminately into the castle, disturbing the Ming army.

Originally, according to Jiang Feng's prediction, the Ming army at this time should have been panicked and restless, and there were still a few cavalry harassing on the road the next day, but Jiang Feng found that he still overestimated the Ming army, and the rocket fired into the Puhe River became the last straw that broke the camel's back.

At that time, Li Gufeng, the chief soldier of Liaozhen, could no longer control the army except for his own personal soldiers, he concentrated the horses in the hands of his own personal soldiers, and also placed them at the south gate, indicating that he did not want to control the troops, and the fire in the city was chaotic at first.

Li Gufeng, the chief soldier who had been prepared, fled directly from the south gate with people, without the main general, and the rest of the Ming army was like a headless fly, the soldiers were naturally unwilling to be so scared, I don't know when they died, they were all scattered, and many people dropped their weapons and returned to their own guard Grange.

Most of the scattered Ming army in Liaozhen was already completely frightened by this war, and after returning to the place where they lived, no one was still willing to fight as soldiers, and they were all willing to farm as farmers at home. In the Liaozhen area north of Shenyang, under the propaganda and appeasement of the Huazhou cavalry and the general Qiu Feng, they quickly settled down, and as long as they put down their weapons, the fierce Huazhou soldiers did not look for their own trouble.

In the north of Shenyang, that is, half a month, it became completely without military households, all farms, at the beginning, when Huazhou sent people to surrender, it still relied on the surrender led by Qiu Feng and the regular troops of Huazhou, and later the various guards and thousands of households did not resist at all.

The Huazhou army simply did not participate in the surrender work, and directly pressed forward, and a large number of regimental training in the northern province outside the Guanwai began to enter Liaozhen to maintain law and order and accept surrender.

At this time, a lot of interesting things happened, for example, five hundred regimental training was ordered to go somewhere to disarm and surrender, after setting off, their regimental training envoy found that it was not a hundred households to go, but a thousand households, and suddenly he was half dead, and he led the cavalry to chase, for fear that these regimental exercises would be harmed by the other party, and their heads would not be able to be saved at that time.

Who would have thought that halfway through, they actually met those group exercises, they came back happily, it turned out that when they had not yet arrived at the Thousand Households, the people of the Thousand Households came out with the knives and guns of the entire Thousand Households and waited, they did not pity the weapons they handed over, and guaranteed that they had no remaining weapons here. And very cordially led these regiments to enter the search.

The five hundred regiments were also trembling, for fear that they would be calculated by the people of these thousand households, but from beginning to end, although they were vigilant in their hearts, the people from top to bottom of these thousand households were extremely enthusiastic and polite, and only after they were finally sent out did they know that their surrender had been successfully completed.

Most of the other surrenders are the same, they are all Han Chinese, and there is no need to use swords and guns, the other party is so strong, but they don't do those things that hurt the barbarians, then there is no need to resist.

Every time a land is recovered, what Huazhou has to do is to measure the land, register and make a register, and there is a policy, that is, the tax policy of the people's three public sevens, pay in kind, no fire consumption, no other expenses.

The guard of the Ming Dynasty was actually the grange of the official family of the Ming Dynasty, and the annual field tax paid at the peak had reached more than 30% of the plate of the Ming Dynasty, and the military households often suffered similar taxes to the tenants in the countryside when they farmed, which was already extremely hard, and there was no time for training at all. In the end, their annual payment of land is nominally 30% of what Hua's policy says.

However, in terms of fire consumption and the like, the tax tricks of the Ming Dynasty are superimposed, and many military households have to increase more than half of their annual income, and it is not easy to live a better life. The reason why the situation in Liaozhen is stronger than that of other guards is that Liaozhen is vast and sparsely populated, and the military households cultivate more land and harvest more, and those who remain in their hands are more.

In addition to heavily armed soldiers and regimental training, there were also revenue and expenditure documents and agricultural officials who announced policies. The land in each place is evenly distributed in everyone's hands, and the reason why it is said to be an equal distribution.

That's because every garrison, thousand-house, and fortress cultivated land has so-called public land, and in addition to building city fortifications and training and service, military households also cultivate public land, which is completely compulsory, and the harvest is completely handed over.

The harvest of the public land is not in the literal sense of the Ming Dynasty and the warehouses of the government, these public fields are actually the private fields of the general soldiers and deputy generals of Liaozhen, and these senior generals get their due share in this public land according to their rank.

This is also the large number of thousands of family soldiers around the general soldiers of Liao Town, because Liao Town has such an income.

These fields are often the closest to the guards, thousands of households and fortresses, the closest to the water source, the most fertile land, the best fields are all public land, the general army of Liaozhen and the officers at all levels are the landlords from the big to the small, there is no friendship between the landlord and the tenant to talk about, the tenant will always have a grudge against the landlord.

Huazhou distributed these public land to the hands of local military households, and determined the proportion of land endowment, which is equivalent to giving them a big benefit at once, everyone has more good land in their hands, and they have to pay less taxes, and the benefits are the most real, and suddenly the panicked people's hearts turned, but these benefits can only be given in the hands of Huazhou, and only Huazhou Changsheng These policies can last forever.

Unconsciously, those Liaozhen military households began to look forward to the long-term victory of the Huazhou army, of course, Huazhou's policy cannot always be based on appeasement, each thousand households draw 100 ding, the original thousand households and officers at all levels, with their own pro-soldiers, will accept Huazhou's re-training, into regimental training.

However, they cannot be stationed in the local area, they need to leave the original station for 200 miles, and in each place for regimental training, the proportion of people from Guanwai and Liaozhen must be half and half, the regimental training envoy is the old people of Huazhou outside the Guan, and the deputy envoy of the regimental training is the Liao people of Liaozhen.

In front of Huazhou's army is slowly advancing, and behind is the implementation of Huazhou's appeasement policy one by one, and more than half of the chassis of Liaozhen are firmly controlled by Huazhou.