Volume 2 West River White Boyan Section 24 Turban
The next day, the early morning sun shone over the land. The thick snow on the rooftops, roadsides, and hills was shining in the sun, and people couldn't open their eyes. The whole world is in vain.
At this time, it is located in Longfenggou, fifteen miles west of Shangai City......
After washing, Zhao Hong began to eat his breakfast quietly. In the case of very scarce material conditions, his breakfast was very simple, kimchi with hu cakes. The ambitious Zhao Hong plans to reorganize his subordinates. So he munched on the hard-to-swallow kimchi while frowning as he thought about the formation of the team.
It has been a few days since he was coerced into the White Wave Army, so Zhao Hong already knows the White Wave Army well. Since the White Polish Army has been fighting with the official army for many years, under the mutual influence, the current military establishment of the White Polish Army is exactly the same as that of the Han official army. The slight difference is that the top leader of the White Polish Army is still retained to be titled ----- Qu Shuai. This can't help but remind Zhao Hong of the establishment of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom army in another time and space, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom army seems to be also a division commander and a brigade commander. This reminded Zhao Hong of one thing......
Some time ago, when the weather was not so cold, under the unified requirements of the Bai Bo Army, Zhao Hong's subordinates also tied yellow turbans on their heads. And Zhao Hong remembered that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom army he saw on TV was the same as the Yellow Turban Army, and they were also wrapped in red turbans and yellow turbans on their heads. The establishment of the rebel army wrapped in a headscarf often prefers to be called a certain handsome, is it particularly handsome with a headscarf wrapped around his head?
Regarding this problem, Zhao Hong specially put a bronze mirror on the Hu chair after breakfast. Some time ago, Zhao Hong went to Shangai City to buy a bronze mirror, and now it just came in handy. It seems that the position is majestic, so Zhao Hong remembered that he watched the anti-Japanese game in his previous life - the bloody battle on the beach. In that game, the Japanese samurai also wore a menstrual cloth on his head and rushed up with a Toyo sword in his hand. I wonder if the Japanese learned from the Yellow Turban Army and the Red Turban Army in ancient China?
Zhao Hong stood in front of the bronze mirror, which was not very smooth, so the figure looked slightly deformed inside. A high nose bridge and a goose-egg-shaped chin. Zhao Hong gently stroked the fluff on his lips that was gradually hardening, and these fluffs also sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. The spotlessly washed pale yellow linen wrapped Zhao Hong's forehead tightly, and the tail of the cloth hung down with two streamers at the back of his head, and if there was wind, it would flutter with the wind. Although the figure in the bronze mirror still looks a little childish, it is a little more mature and confident, and a little less bookish. Then Zhao Hong, who had some evil taste, made a grimace at the bronze mirror, and was forced to stop after entertaining himself for a while.
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Although it was absorbed by the White Wave Army, the establishment of Zhao Hong's department was not broken up by the White Wave Army, and he still commanded his original subordinates. In the Middle Ages, it was generally the case that the superior commanded his subordinates through his subordinates, so his subordinates were not his own subordinates.
The entire tribal alliance of Baoji Village was organized into a team. According to the establishment of the Han army, the standard establishment of a team should be 50 regular soldiers. But for the Yellow Turban Army, which is similar to the Wanderer Group, it is common for a team to be close to 300 people.
After so many years of war, the surviving Yellow Turban Army is not so much a peasant army as a powerful gang of beggars who are running around committing crimes. In the Yellow Turban Army, although most of them are bachelors, there are still many people who drag their families, for example, there are a large number of women, children, and children in the Baibo Army in Shangai. Therefore, for the White Polish Army, which often dragged its family with its family, such a military establishment as Shiwu often also played the role of an administrative unit at the same time. This situation is more similar to the Hu tribe with underdeveloped productive forces, and the Hu tribe is generally a combination of soldiers and people: if you enter, you will be the people, and if you go out, you will be soldiers.
Zhao Hong estimated that the other reason was that the soldiers of an extensive beggar gang like the Bai Bo Army were certainly incomparable to the well-equipped and well-trained officers and soldiers of the imperial court. Therefore, in the war between the White Polish army and the official army, it is usually three White Polish armies that can fight against one official army. A large formation of several hundred people of the White Polish Army is basically equivalent to a small formation of 50 members of the official army. In this way, the grouping method of the White Polish Army, which is large in number and small in number, is also more convenient for the top level to calculate the comparison of the strength of the two armies based on intelligence.
The evidence that can support this reason is Cao Cao's incorporation of Qingzhou soldiers. In its original history, the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, which had intended to join the White Bo Army, was massacred by Gongsun Zhan, and the remnants of their forces were forced to turn around and flee to Yanzhou, where they were eventually defeated again by Cao Cao. According to historical records, after defeating the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, Cao Cao incorporated 300,000 Yellow Turban Army. Zhao Hong has always been puzzled by this, if the Yellow Turban Army really has 300,000 soldiers, then Cao Cao estimates that no matter how he plays, he will die. It is impossible to defend the city, let alone defeat the Yellow Turban Army and incorporate them into the Qingzhou Army.
Even in such an important strategic decisive battle as the Battle of Guandu, the number of all Cao troops was far from reaching 300,000, and even Yuan Shao's 780,000 troops were far from reaching the astronomical figure of 300,000. Not to mention that many years ago, Cao Cao had just become the pastor of Yanzhou. How many Yellow Turban troops did Cao Cao recruit?
Such a contradictory logic was also very confusing in Zhao Hong in his previous life, but since becoming a member of the White Bo Army, Zhao Hong felt that he had found the answer to his question. According to the situation of the Baibo Yellow Turban Army, compared to the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, Cao Cao naturally did not incorporate 300,000 Yellow Turban Army soldiers. Three in ancient society with the meaning of many, and 300,000 is actually an approximate number, describing a large number. These 300,000 Yellow Turban soldiers actually refer to the displaced people of the Yellow Turban Organization, including a large number of men, women, and children, and it can be said that most of them are almost ordinary people. Zhao Hong is really young and strong, and it is estimated that it is one-fifth at most. The number of young and strong men is also considerable, but one-fifth of them are almost 60,000 soldiers. If there were 60,000 soldiers, the battle of Guandu would not have been so difficult for Cao's army.
Therefore, Zhao Hong estimated that the water in these 300,000 displaced people was also very large, so it was spread to future generations by false rumors. If 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers eat, it is estimated that Cao Cao will be poor, and Cao Cao will not be able to raise so many mouths that do not work for nothing when the people's livelihood is withering. In fact, it is to incorporate hundreds of thousands of ordinary people......
Like most of the Yellow Turban Army, Zhao Hong's main task as a general of the White Wave Army was to organize the migration and production of the displaced people below. For these Yellow Turban Army generals, fighting the war is just their sideline, and managing social life and production is their main business.
In this regard, Zhao Hong and the five chiefs are currently working a bit like the aunts of the neighborhood committee in their previous lives when there is no war, dealing with people's livelihood issues and mediating some civil disputes every day.
However, joining the Bai Bo Army is not without benefits, the food problem that caused Zhao Hong the most headache before does not have to worry about it for the time being, and every once in a while, the superiors will allocate a part of the grain and grass. Although these foods do not feed everyone, at least they are hungry. In this era of severe scarcity, this is already very good, so the vast majority of people are happy with it.
Because Zhao Hong's department is too young and strong compared to other White Bo troops. Seeing that Zhao Hong, who was the Dubo, was in a panic, Qu Chang, a good leader who cared about his subordinates, Zhou Yan, stuffed a lot of new homeless people into Zhao Hong's team.
This quickly increased the total number of Zhao Hong's team to one hundred and seventy-eight strong men, and the women, children, old and weak combined at this time also had eighty or ninety people.
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