Chapter 407: Federal Empire Volunteer Army?
The commander of the first and second divisions asked several staff officers to loudly preach to the captives the alliance between the Great Shang Federation Empire and the Great Song Kingdom, and at the same time denounced a series of crimes of the Tatar bandit group, stating that the imperial army's military operation was only an act of killing and hanging the people.
At the same time, he also accused those who were the Han people in the north, who were also victims, but willingly became the minions of the Tatar bandits, and thought that the end of their killing for hurting the imperial soldiers was shameful!
The imperial army respected the rights to life and property of the Han people in the north, and only confiscated the property of the Tatar bandit group------ as long as the prodigal son turned back and no longer served the Tatars and worked for them, even those who had participated in the Tatar servant army would be treated as civilians.
In fact, the last one touched too many people.
After the admonition, the old and young women were first released to live in Zhending City, and the other young and middle-aged people were screened one by one.
Liu Fan, the head of the ten thousand households, jumped out at this time, and he fell to his knees in front.
Howling and crying, he said that he was really a victim, that he had to be the head of this ten thousand households under the persecution of the Tatars------ how the Tatars did bad things at will on the road to Zhending, how many people were harmed, and so on.
They have basically committed all the crimes that humans can commit.
The staff officers knew the origin of this Liu Fan, and they also knew some of his deeds.
This guy was not forced to be an official, but the family paid for him to take the position.
However, at this time, it was meaningless to expose the old background of Liu Fan, the head of the ten thousand households, and many of the young men sitting on the ground probably knew better than the people in the imperial army.
The staff officers took the opportunity to temporarily forgive Liu Fan for his defection to the enemy, but they still had to observe his actual performance in future operations.
After the staff officer finished speaking, the young men were a little commotional.
If the people in charge will be "forgiven", then they need to worry that they will be executed!
The scene came alive, and under the guidance of the staff officers, they began to curse the Tatar robbers------ this was not a prisoner meeting, it was simply a meeting of grievances.
Several staff officers glanced at each other, and felt that things were starting to get easier.
At this time, the observation made Zhao An's personal soldiers arrive quickly, saying that the follow-up army would arrive within half a day.
Well, the staff officers rejoiced, and here things can be left to them.
That night, the largest conference tent in the Imperial Army camp was brightly lit, and the staff officers were beginning to plan their next move.
At this time, in Zhending City, Zhao An was observed to have a few drinks with Sun Huchen and others in the original Dalu Huachi official mansion.
This time it was too easy to receive, and the Imperial Army of the Federation really did what they said, they didn't even garrison troops in Zhending City, and they definitely didn't want to occupy the city and not leave.
In fact, some people are cautious for fear that others will not abide by the treaty.
Okay, the observation made Zhao An drink it all with a small wine glass.
He said: "General Sun, it is a great achievement to incorporate Liu Fan and others, don't lose a lot next time------ this time fortunately it came in time, if it is a little later, who knows what kind of changes will be made!" ”
The main general, Sun Huchen, knew that the observer was the Zhao family, and in his report to the Great Song Dynasty officials and the commander of Fake, he praised himself a few words.
Don't underestimate these sentences, because of his surname Zhao, these few sentences of his are more useful than writing thousands of sentences by himself!
He suddenly smiled and said, "Fortunately, there is an observation to make the head drink, otherwise I will be ------ small."
"Hahaha, don't mention the past again, you have borrowed that Liu Fan these days to persuade those counties and towns to surrender quickly, and raise the banner of my Great Song Dynasty.
Good life settles the local people------ wait for me to send someone to urge you to receive it urgently, there must be no mistake!" ”
"Definitely, definitely!"
The observation made Zhao An happy, and he believed that whether it was the Great Commander of Fake or the Great Song Dynasty, they would be relieved after receiving his urgent report, and let the Imperial Firearms Army come up.
If the two tiger and wolf divisions that formed the imperial army were in front, followed by the Imperial Firearms Army, and then there were follow-up receiving troops------ Tatar bandit group could be broken soon!
The main general Sun Huchen was also happy in his heart.
To tell the truth, if he fought in the field with the Tatar bandits, he was really afraid; If he defended the city, he would have taken Liu Fan by virtue of his surrender, and with a lot of baggage he had carried, he was confident that he would be able to defend it for ten days and half a month.
In fact, there really doesn't need to be that much time, and there will be at least three batches of receiving teams behind him.
Besides, with two tiger and wolf divisions in front, can the main forces of the Tatar army run to attack the city?
It's a joke------ it's a big deal.
On the morning of the third day, when the two independent divisions of the Empire were about to continue their northward advance, the follow-up troops of the Federation Empire arrived first.
The cavalry, which had been patrolling within 20 miles of the perimeter, reported to the two division commanders that a "volunteer army" composed of more than 1,000 retired soldiers was advancing here.
They held self-made volunteer flags, carried arquebuses, cap guns and pistols, and some cold weapons, and wore old-fashioned military uniforms from different periods------ the whole march process was quite neat, and they were not stragglers at first glance.
The patrolling cavalry stopped them and asked, and one of them, a middle-aged man who claimed to be a volunteer regiment commander, said that they were all retired personnel who had been retired for more than ten years, and hated that they had not been on the battlefield and fought Tatar bandits with real swords and guns!
This time, the Federal Empire officially declared war on the Tatar bandit group, and they privately organized themselves and came to help in the war with the weapons they used in those years.
Hua Yin, the commander of the first division, couldn't cry or laugh, and said:
"At this time, who uses some old guys as help! The next battle is extremely dangerous------ who can take care of them when it comes to the critical moment?! ”
Tao Mu, the commander of the second division, frowned and said, "How do they solve the logistics supply?" Is it by robbing all the way? ”
The patrolling cavalry said that they were also driving dozens of four-wheeled wagons, although they were not of military grade, and they looked very durable------ and a few cavalrymen on horses, and they thought that those Mamluk cavalry should have been retired a long time ago, why could they go to the battlefield and we couldn't!
The patrolling cavalry said hesitantly: "The person who claimed to be the commander of the volunteer regiment claimed to have trained Commander ------ Hua back then, and some people said that Commander ------ Tao was still a baby soldier back then------
Well, it's not going to be easy.
How can such a gang come out in Shandong?!
Because there is no longer only military training in the army, but also double work and cultural training, the resettlement of retired soldiers from the empire has always been excellent, and this is also after a considerable amount of retirement money.
The Federal Empire has always been a recruitment system, and they all know in advance the salary and retirement pay of the soldiers.
In the city, they can work as skilled workers in factories, as patrol officers or as government clerks.
In the rural areas, village heads, town heads, and even county heads are selected from among them, and they can also engage in agricultural technical work.
Of course, you don't need to resettle, you can also do business on your own, and some people directly spend retirement money to buy a large number of farmland and pastures in Australia or Nankai.
There are too many successful retired soldiers, such as Li Ao, an arms dealer, who has become the prime minister of a foreign country.
They can't stay at home, why are they running here?!
The two division commanders hurriedly found a few staff officers who were particularly eloquent, and asked them to persuade those volunteers to return------