048 Unstable hearts
Faced with a small coalition of nobles who relied on courage and cannon fodder to fight, even if the conscription militia under Shu Zifeng's command was poorly trained, with only 200 arquebuses and more than 500 veterans who had experienced bloody battles, it was enough to destroy them.
To deal with this group of enemies who only knew the infantry pig rush and the rapid raid of the cavalry, Shu Zifeng took advantage of the absolute superiority in numbers, first boarded the camp and recruited the militia cannon fodder to consume the troops on the opposite side, dragged the opponent's main force, supervised the battle with the warrior battalion, and finally lured out the cavalry troops of the noble coalition as a reserve, and sent them to God with two hundred arquebuses!
The battle was coming to an end in less than half a day, everything was as clean as a textbook, different from the previous desperate, this time Shu Zifeng always held the initiative on the battlefield, and had been oppressing the arrogant and arrogant aristocratic coalition army who did not know their own strength and had to make desperate moves.
Except for a small number of noble cavalry who escaped, almost all of the remaining surviving enemy soldiers became Shu Zifeng's prisoners, and the killed enemy soldiers contributed 3 points to Shu Zifeng......
About 100 heads contribute a little bit of volume to the exchange ratio, it's really a pit Shu Zifeng has no temper......
Of course, Shu Zifeng, who has achieved so many results, once again lost a large number of conscripted militia cannon fodder, Shu Zifeng found that compared to the first battalion that was cheaper and died without any compensation, the death rate of the conscripted militia was several times higher!
Is it true that the more people die on the battlefield?
Shu Zifeng's understanding of the battlefield mostly stays in the era of thermal weapons, on the battlefield where bullets fly, the so-called 'heroes' are often the first to be beaten into a sieve, and the soldiers are eager to drift sideways to reduce the exposed body area as much as possible, therefore, obscenity is not a shameful thing on the battlefield of thermal weapons, after all, anyone is fair in front of bullets, you can't let the bullets avoid you in circles, you can only choose to walk around the bullets yourself......
However, the situation on the battlefield of cold weapons seems to be the opposite, the more timid and afraid to fight hard, the easier it is to be hacked to death, because it is much easier to kill from behind than from the front, and normal people are often reluctant to fight against the desperate Saburo who looks like a madman, and prefer to find the kind of recruits who are afraid to fight and cringe.
This is not to bully the soft and fear the hard, but the experience summed up by the veterans on the battlefield in order to survive as much as possible, the real old fritters will try their best to avoid those generals and warriors with superior combat power, and stay away from the kind of madman who will stick a hole in your body when he dies, so that he can live longer!
Under Shu Zifeng's policy, only by desperately killing the enemy and establishing meritorious deeds can he survive and be free from the status of prisoners of war, which is naturally more daring than the 'hired' conscripted militia.
Perhaps, the ultra-high death rate of the conscription militia is nothing in Shu Zifeng's eyes, but the resulting problems of low morale and pensions are placed in front of Shu Zifeng.
According to the standards of this era, the number of dollars given to the conscripted peasant soldiers for the death of the battle completely depends on the mood of the noble lords, even the mercenaries are the same, the lord will give a full deposit in advance, and he will pay the rest of the commission when he sees the completion of the combat mission, as for how many mercenaries die because of this, that is not something that the employer should consider.
Because of this, the professional mercenaries who have obviously strong individual combat effectiveness are far inferior to the direct guards and knights of the nobility.
Naturally, Shu Zifeng can also completely not give the pension to the dead conscription militia, and the conscription militia can't say anything, but!
When there is no fighting, Shu Zifeng's approach may have no effect, however, at this time, the conscription militia killed hundreds of people in the battle, hundreds of people who were still talking and laughing together a moment ago, and even relatives and friends of the same township, now turned into a corpse lying in front of their eyes, and other conscription militia thought of the life problems of the old and young women and children in the family after the death of these living people, and they couldn't help but feel sad about the death of rabbits and foxes.
This sentiment began to spread greatly in the face of the fact that a large number of militia members were killed, and if it weren't for the fact that the soldiers of the Warrior Battalion could receive a certain amount of compensation from their families after they were killed in battle, I am afraid that they would also be infected by the emotions of the militia.
For the first time, the conscription militia raised the issue of a pension, and even though they knew it was wrong, they were young and strong laborers, all of whom were the breadwinners of their families, and they did not want their families to suffer in poverty after they died in war.
It's not that Shu Zifeng doesn't want to give it, but he can't afford it!
He may be able to afford a pension for a few hundred people, but what about later?
As long as this head is opened, it will be endless trouble, and if it is canceled halfway, it will only make his majesty lost!
Of course, the most important factor is, why should Shu Zifeng bow to a group of white cannon fodder who are regarded as cattle and sheep by himself?
Therefore, Shu Zifeng confidently announced to the conscription militia that he would not break the previous 'routine', and if he wanted compensation after the death of the battle, he could, rely on meritorious service to enter the warrior camp, and all the treatment would not be less, he would only be responsible for the real battlefield warriors, not a group of farmers who took up arms!
This proclamation mercilessly belittled the fighting power of the Recruit Militia, and at the same time, the Recruit Militia, who performed valiantly in the Recruit Militia and stabbed the soldiers of the Orthodox Guard of the enemy army, were selected and declared to be the soldiers of the Warrior Battalion.
On the one hand, there is merciless rejection and contempt, and on the other hand, the best of them are selected into the warrior battalion with higher salary, Shu Zifeng's approach not only makes the soldiers of the warrior battalion feel more face, and feels that they can completely look down on the scumbags of the conscripted militia, stabilize the morale of the core army, and reject the demand for conscription militia without spending a penny, and the families of the hundreds of dead conscripted militiamen have not even received a penny of pension!
This practice makes it impossible to make 'reasonable' arguments for the conscription of militias, after all, in this era, there are soldiers who are paid for the army, but not many soldiers who can receive pensions......
However, Shu Zifeng's approach was not without any harm, on the first night after the war, there were a large number of conscripted militiamen who deserted and planned to flee back to their hometowns, but they were caught by the warrior battalion that had been prepared for a long time.
On the second day, Shu Zifeng listed the crimes of these deserters in public, in this world, the crime of desertion is very serious, if the nobles are not happy, cutting the deserters is a 'legal' behavior, so Shu Zifeng classified all the deserters in these conscripted militia into the Xiandeng camp to 'atone'.
Shu Zifeng's approach is understandable, these conscription militiamen eat Shu Zifeng and drink Shu Zifeng, and being punished as deserters is completely in line with the values of the world, and even many soldiers in the warrior battalion feel that their adults are still merciful, and they did not cut down this group of deserters in public.