14. Skilled soldiers
"Bring it!"
Jiang Jibang raised his head with a look of disdain, and ignored Lin Yu's words, "It's okay if you don't fire the cannon, give me the picture of the Spring Palace, and I will keep this secret for you." ”
Lin Yu had no choice but to turn his back and take out the Indian divine oil from his sleeve, quietly left the bottle and threw the box to his brother-in-law: "If you don't learn well at a young age, how can you be blind under the nine springs of your father-in-law?" ”
Jiang Jibang took it happily, and his eyes straightened: "I call the one who is close to Zhu and the one who is close to the ink is black, and besides, I am thirteen years old, and I will have to marry a daughter-in-law in two years." ”
Finally bought this brother-in-law, Lin Yu ordered the little flag officer to send two soldiers to send Jiang Jibang back to the governor's mansion, but he went straight to the "Yu" camp.
The camp was stationed three miles away, and Lin Yu rode his horse and whipped up, and came to the door without a stick of incense.
In order to prevent these soldiers who had rebelled first and then surrendered from mutiny again, Zhuang Zigu recruited these soldiers overnight, disrupted them, and mixed them with some Ming troops under Liu Zhaoji.
Knowing that Lin Yu was going and returning, Zhuang Zigu hurriedly took Chen Luyao, the head of the thousand households, Yang Baili, and the hundred households Li Kang, Zhu Biao, Ma Jin and others to greet him.
Zhuang Zigu hugged his fists and saluted from afar: "Lin Gongzi has been fighting for a day, and he is not resting at home, why do you come to work again?" ”
Chen Luyao, Yang Baili, Li Kang, Zhu Biao and others will be Lin Yu's direct subordinates in the future, and they will be respectfully saluted: "See Lin Shoubei!" ”
Chen Luyao, who was in his early forties, worshiped Qianhu, and in order to show his identity, he said with concern: "Lin Shoubei has been fighting for a day, and he must have been sleepy, so you can rest in peace in the house." We will definitely assist General Zhuang to clean up these rebels and obey them, and we will never dare to have two hearts again. ”
"Chen Qianhu's words are wrong!"
Lin Yu returned the salute and corrected solemnly: "Although these soldiers betrayed the Ming Dynasty and surrendered to the Tartars, many of them were persecuted by Zhang Tianlu and Zhang Tianfu's brothers, not their original intention. We must not brand them as traitors, so that they can atone for their sins and defend their homeland and country. ”
Zhuang Zigu clapped his hands and praised, and said loudly: "What Lin Gongzi said is too good, I am a rough man who listens to it!" ”
Not far away, the rebels who were waiting to be incorporated with their heads bowed were all lifted by their spirits when they heard this, and they all raised their heads to look at Lin Yu, with a grateful look in their eyes.
Lin Yu noticed the gaze of these soldiers, and immediately strode onto the parade platform, raising his arms and shouting: "Brothers, everyone is Han Chinese, all descendants of Yan and Huang, I believe that you will not be willing to be ruled by the Tartars!" ”
Lin Yu glanced at the soldiers of the battalion with a majestic gaze, silently, everyone was holding their breath and listening, but the blood in their chests was slowly burning.
Lin Yu continued to say in a loud voice: "People are not saints and sages, even ants are still greedy for life, let alone people!" You have made mistakes, but I believe that this is not your intention! ”
"Seeing Emperor Sizong hanging himself in the coal mountain, watching the Liukou sweeping all over the place, and watching the Tartars drive straight in, I am as desperate as you are. Even Wu Sangui and Zuo Liangyu have surrendered to the Tartars, and it is understandable that you were coerced by Zhang Tianlu and Zhang Tianfu, the two dog thieves, and did something wrong. ”
As soon as the words changed, he suddenly became stern: "But we are eating the salary of the Ming army, and many people have been soldiers of the Ming Dynasty for generations, how can we let these barbarians drive us to slaughter our compatriots?"
Dolgon has issued a shaving order in Beijing, telling us to shave our hair and keep it in braids, otherwise we will have no hair and no head!
As the descendants of Yan and Huang, the state of etiquette, how can we bow down to these wild boar skins, keep braids like wild boar tails, and let them breathe and drink? ”
If you are a man, you will change your past mistakes, pick up the weapon in your hand, follow me to attack Jiannu, and atone for your sins, you will still be a good man after a hundred years! ”
The blood of the soldiers in the battalion was ignited instantly, and they all raised their fists in response: "We are willing to follow Lin Garrison to attack Jiannu and atone for our crimes!" How can we be enslaved by the Tartars? The man will not die, and the Ming will not die! ”
"The man will not die, and the Ming will not die!"
The roar was like a tsunami from the mountains, wave after wave, and even the Ming army on the city wall was infected, and they raised their arms and shouted: "The man is not dead, the Ming is not dead!" ”
Looking at the soldiers who were still depressed and decadent at their feet, they were ignited by themselves, and the blood in Lin Yu's chest was also burning.
Princes and generals, would you rather have a kind?
Now that you have come to this world and obtained the golden finger against the sky, why don't you do something vigorous?
The Zhu Ming Dynasty has been hopelessly corrupted, even if it can defeat the Manchus and recover the mountains and rivers, can Zhu Youxiang help him up? I'm afraid it's not as good as Liu Adou, right?
In addition to Zhu Youxiang, several other Southern Ming emperors in history, such as Zhu Yujian, Emperor Longwu, Zhu Yihai, Zhu Yihai, Emperor Yongli, which one has the appearance of a Ming monarch?
"Lao Tzu is a traverser, he doesn't owe the Zhu family a penny, and he hasn't touched the Zhu family at all? Why do you have to put mud on the wall? These vassal kings of the Zhu family can help them, and if they can't help Lao Tzu, they will do it themselves! ”
Looking at the fists waving under his feet, listening to the shouts of the mountains and tsunamis, Lin Yu suddenly found the direction of the future.
When the shouts gradually calmed down, Zhuang Zigu walked onto the parade platform and said with five bodies on the ground: "Lin Gongzi, I didn't expect you to be a master of motivating morale, I Zhuangzigu sighed to myself!" ”
"General Zhuang has won the award, and Lin just felt it." Lin Yu clenched his fists and said modestly.
Zhuang Zigu said sincerely: "Since Lin Gongzi is so good at using soldiers, you should preside over this acquisition, and the last general will give you a hand next to you." ”
Lin Yu already had an idea in his heart, so he was not polite at the moment, and nodded: "Since this is the case, then I will tell you about the establishment of our 'Feather Battalion'." I want to build a new army, with a completely different formation from the past, so that we can increase our combat effectiveness and defeat the Tartars. ”
Since Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, he has been militarily adopting the guard system.
The imperial court designated an area for an army, such as Hangzhou Wei, Weihaiwei, Dengzhou Wei, etc., and the military households in this guard house lived in this area with their families, joined the army during wartime, cultivated in their spare time, and became self-sufficient.
A guard has 5,600 military households, and the highest commander is the commander, and there are 1,000 households under it, and 100 households under 1,000 households. There is a general flag under the hundred households, and a small flag is set up under the general flag.
The biggest feature of the guard system is that it is hereditary, as long as there is a soldier in the family, the children and grandchildren will be military households.
When the father dies, the son inherits, the son dies and the grandson inherits, and the elder brother dies and the younger brother inherits.
Ordinary people can farm and do business, and have the opportunity to make a fortune and become officials in the future, but military households can only serve as soldiers from generation to generation, and only a few can establish military merits and flourish after all.
As the politics of the Ming Dynasty became increasingly corrupt, the upper echelons of the guards used military households as labor to seek money, and many of the fine land allocated to the guards were taken away by the landlords, making it more and more difficult for the military households to survive. Since the Jiajing period, more and more military households have fled, and the Ming Dynasty's guard system has gradually collapsed.
During the Wanli period, the Ming Dynasty was troubled internally and externally, harassed by ethnic minorities such as Houjin in the north, and the Japanese in the east eyeing Korea, internal grievances arose, and riots occurred from time to time, and the Ming court could only gradually implement the conscription system.
The biggest difference between the conscription system and the guard system is that soldiers are no longer a lifelong system, nor do they need to be inherited by children and grandchildren, but have become a profession. The common people responded to the call of the imperial court to become soldiers, worked hard for the imperial court, and received military salaries on a monthly basis.
In addition to the conscription system and the guard system, the Ming Dynasty has produced another military system since the Jiajing period, called the "battalion system".
The battalion is commanded by the "chief officer", and the source of soldiers is obtained in two ways, one is recruitment, and the other is to draw elites from the guard, which gives rise to a new identity - soldiers.
These soldiers were soldiers in the battalion, and they were paid according to the standard of soldiers; When there is no war, they return to the guard house to become a military household, enjoy the treatment of a military household, and basically rely on the guard to solve the problem of food and clothing, and the imperial court only pays a small subsidy.
They are also soldiers, and they can enjoy considerable military salaries in the barracks, while when they return to the guardhouse, they can only be self-sufficient, and they cannot do business or change careers, and they have to be passed down from generation to generation.
With the flight of a large number of military households, the "military household system" of the Ming Dynasty gradually existed in name only, and the combat effectiveness of the garrison army deteriorated. In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, they could only rely on battalions to fight everywhere, for example, the "Qi Family Army" commanded by Qi Jiguang was a typical representative of the battalion.
In Lin Yu's heart, he just wanted to rely on his advanced consciousness to form a team that he controlled and whose combat effectiveness was comparable to the "Qi Family Army", so that he could find a place in the troubled times.