Chapter 16 Shouting, provoking, incitement
Speaking of this kind of meat floss, it is also thanks to the advantages of Lin Chong's traverser.
It is said that in the original historical time and space, the reason why Temujin's Mongol army was able to come and go like the wind and sweep the entire steppe desert was because of this special military ration.
It's just that the Mongols used a more primitive method at the beginning, hanging the cut beef in a dark house in winter, and relying on a temperature of minus thirty or forty degrees to dry the beef naturally, while the Liangshan military used the method of drying room.
But the principle is the same, that is, to completely remove the moisture in the beef, squeeze out the air inside, and turn it into compressed dry food, which is convenient to carry around.
Of course, such a high-grade military ration is convenient, but every time a soldier goes out to fight, he carries most of the cattle with him, and the processing technology of meat floss is also quite complicated and cumbersome, and the cost is very high.
Counting that just equipping each soldier with these meat floss would cost a lot of money, and the average commander is really reluctant.
However, Lin Chong didn't think so, in his opinion, there was nothing more important than winning a battle, and he was reluctant to spend money on it, if he lost, he would only lose more, and even many times it could not be measured by money at all.
For example, there are many reasons for the failure of the Song Dynasty, one of which is that the Song Dynasty has been tossed by Song Huizong and Cai Jing for more than ten years, and its finances have long been on the verge of collapse.
After the first siege of Bianjing, hundreds of thousands of righteous troops came to King Qin, and later the two sides negotiated peace and the Jurchen withdrew the army, and the master proposed to send a large army to defend the banks of the Yellow River, but sending troops to defend would have to manage money and grain.
As a result, the big turban in the middle of the court was lucky, thinking that the Jurchens had just left, and they had gained many benefits from going south this time, so they should not come again.
If the Jurchens don't come, will this money be more soon? Now that the imperial court's finances are extremely poor, and it can save a little bit, it vetoed the proposal of the cultivation master.
As a result, the Jurchens walked for less than half a year, and immediately went south again, and the Northern Song Dynasty was completely tragic.
The losses brought by Jingkang's shame to the Northern Song Dynasty and to the Chinese nation are completely incomparable with those who raised troops at the beginning.
Therefore, Lin Chong has always been quite willing to spend money in the military, not only equipping each soldier with the best weapons and armor, eating and wearing well on weekdays, and the logistics supply in wartime is also good to the sky.
Besides, Liang Shanjun is not bad for money.
When he heard Mei Jiasheng talk about the means of making money for the Liangshan army, he couldn't help but be stunned, and he was more and more glad that he surrendered to the Liangshan army.
Now that Great Xia is in decline, it is only a matter of time before the country is destroyed, and he is not the royal family of Great Xia, so why should he be martyred with it?
It is better to seek a way out as soon as possible, and the Liangshan Army is so rich and has such strong combat effectiveness, it is undoubtedly the best choice.
Thinking like this, Lin Chong originally asked him to shout in front of the surrounding western thief array to persuade him to surrender, and the fine mother rock was still a little ashamed, but at this time, he felt that it was taken for granted, and he was not embarrassed at all.
So soon Ximu Yanming followed Zhang Qing, Wu Jie, and Wang Feiyu, and brought 2,200 horsemen to Richard Ge's Chinese army to agree, and loudly persuaded them to surrender through the trench.
"Listen to the brother on the other side, Xixia is no longer saved, Brother Richard designed to bring the Liangshan army here, just to drag the Liangshan army to run out of food and grass, but I tell you that the grain and grass of the Liangshan army can support at least a month and a half......"
"The Liangshan army is neat, brave and good at fighting, the fierce generals of the Liangshan army are all 10,000 enemies and 1,000 enemies, you have also seen it, even the 100,000 Liao army was defeated by the 3,000 iron cavalry of the Liangshan army, tens of thousands of leather room troops, Xi Wangfu's pro-army surrendered to the Liangshan army, you are not an opponent at all......"
"Brothers, you can't beat it, the Western Xia is over, Xingqing Mansion has been attacked by 100,000 Western troops and 10,000 Liangshan troops at this time, you must know that it only took one day for the Liangshan army to attack the Bianjing City of the Song Kingdom, Li Qianshun has been captured by the Liangshan army, do you all have to die with Li Qianshun......"
"Lord Lin Jun said, the western thief has been a disaster in Guanxi for a hundred years, and he has done all kinds of evil, everyone is an unforgivable sin, even if you kneel and beg to surrender, Liang Shanjun will never forgive! Even if you flee to the ends of the earth, the Liangshan army will chase after you and pay for your blood debts!
There is only one way to avoid death, and that is to exchange lives for lives, as long as you kill two thieves and bring their heads over, you can live! If you don't want to die, do it quickly, if you don't do it, others will do it......"
"And Tubo, the brother of the Uighurs, the lord of the Lin army said that as long as you defect, you can avoid death, don't hesitate any longer, someone will take revenge, there will be resentment to revenge, the Western Xia is finished, and the gods can't save ......"
In fact, long before Lin Chong came to Kansai, he had collected a lot of information about Western Xia and conducted a serious analysis.
For example, the army of the Western Thieves, in addition to the elite of the Iron Harrier, the Capture Army, and the Bubazi, there are also many tribal armies, and in addition to dozens or hundreds of large and small tribes, these tribal armies also include the Tubo tribe and the Uighur tribe who were appeased by the Western Xia.
Speaking of which, the Song Dynasty and the Western Xia fought in this area for nearly a hundred years, and the Tibetan tribes and the Huangtou Uighurs have always been the objects of struggle between the two sides, and large-scale wars often broke out with the Western Xia.
Especially when the Western Xia was just rising, they invaded the Tibetan tribes and the yellow-headed Uighurs many times, killing people, setting fires, robbing money and grain, and doing all kinds of evil.
Although the Uighurs and the Tibetans later formed an alliance to jointly resist the Western Xia and won two great victories, the Liao State took advantage of the fire many times to rob the country, and finally under the double blow of the Liaoxia and the two countries, the Yellow Head Uighurs were wiped out, most of them fled to the west of the Green Mountains, and a small part was attached to the Song Dynasty, but many were still captured and surrendered by the Western Xia and became Western Xia mercenaries.
The same is true of the Tibetan tribes, which fought fiercely with the Western Xia many times, and later the Song Dynasty also promoted and recruited many Tibetan soldiers from the Tibetan tribes, such as the Western Army Liu Yanqing Department has 5,000 Tibetan soldiers, which is simply regarded as a treasure.
However, for the same unknown reason, or the Western Xia changed their strategy, no longer blindly looting and attacking them, but vigorously appeased.
In addition, at that time, the Western Xia had indeed been on the offensive against the Song Dynasty, pressing the Song Dynasty to fight.
The Tubo people are also accustomed to following the strong, so hundreds of thousands of Tubo people were co-opted by the Western Xia and became a minority group that was treated preferentially by the Western Xia.
Among the nearly 200,000 troops that Richard surrounded the Liangshan army this time, there were 10,000 Uighur soldiers and 20,000 Tibetan tribesmen.
Therefore, these Tibetan tribes and Uighur tribes actually contradicted the Western Xia festivals, and they were the objects that could be divided and won over by the Song Dynasty.
However, according to the name of the fine mother rock, the Western Xia side also has both wooing and using them, as well as guarding.
For example, intermarriage to form a family of children and daughters, give special preferential treatment, arrange a better pasture or something; There is also the fact that the sons of the chiefs of various tribes are organized into the proton army and serve as the emperor's Praetorian Guard, which is a glory on the one hand and a hostage on the other.
With such a combination of soft and hard, these Tibetan tribes and the yellow-headed Uighur tribes could only grit their teeth and continue to work for the Western Xia, but they may not have other ideas in their hearts, and this is exactly what the Liangshan army can use.