Chapter 161: The First Entry, the Original Evil (Text)
Standing on top of a ruined city wall full of blood and rubble, you can clearly see that the once prosperous city of the capital has gradually been shrouded in fire and dust.
The grenadiers were clearing the remnants of the enemy that had lurked in the houses, and from time to time shards of flesh flew out of the detonation, or humanoid fires that escaped from the smoke and flames, testifying to their success.
Like an efficient demolition team, they left behind rubble everywhere they passed.
As for our Longzhou regiment, as long as we stay on the city wall called Yingjingmen and make soy sauce, it will be easy to get rid of a few small groups of remnants and mobs who don't know where they are flowing from.
According to the Frontier Military Division, within the period of martial law, as long as the city judges with their own eyes, anyone who can afford to hold a weapon can be counted as an enemy and disposed of.
Most of the time we spent on the city walls, we used crossbows and firearms to shoot at suspicious people who tried to approach the city gates.
By the way, train those new recruits. Because we are in a position where there is always no shortage of moths to the flames, running over to try to escape.
During this period, the people who were abducted and deceived by us, and even those who were brought in by the sheep, were given priority to replenish the spear team that was easiest to get into quickly, and together with the remaining old people, they were reorganized into three spear teams
Although the average combat effectiveness has been reduced, it looks like it is like that after being re-equipped with a neat facelift.
More than 100 armed volunteers were hired according to different deadlines, all of them were scattered units of no more than thirty or fifty men, so they were directly organized into two new third and fourth white regiments, and continued to fight according to their own habits and methods.
In the end, the minimum employment period was half a year, and they brought their own swords and armor of different Cheng dù, and a few of them also had mounts or horses, which seemed to be quite strong, but it remains to be seen how specific they are zhì and table.
More than a dozen of them were sent out by me to give them an extra daily wage and horse fodder money to act as scouts and scouts.
As for the first batch of dozens of military slaves who were transferred, they were all selected from the leaders of each team according to their crimes and the length of their service, for fear that they would join forces to make trouble.
At the same time, in order to prevent these criminals and lawless outlaws from bringing bad habits into the team, a rat feces spoiled a pot of porridge, these military slaves were scattered and arranged to various hand-to-hand combat units according to the lottery, so that the veterans of each team stared at and slowly polished.
But at the moment, it seems that they are quite peaceful, especially after I devised a few thorns, turned them into salted meat hanging on the city wall and groaning, and gave the others a greeting gift-style reward, I know the current affairs and accept the discipline honestly, I don't know what will happen when I encounter the enemy.
In addition, we received unexpected assistance,
Because it was the third force to press the formation, the forward military division added a part of our manpower, mainly from the former officers and troops who were scattered or suffered too many losses a few days ago, and were removed from the front of the formation.
It is said that it is because in the rebels' several counterattacks, these arrogant and careless troops are really ugly, and they are not even as good as a certain regiment, so the Chinese army took the opportunity to initiate a series of personnel changes, removed the number of several battalions and regiments, and asked the remaining soldiers not to be redeemed by other troops.
During this period, it was rumored that the front-line military division intervened in the process of sending these remnants of subordinates to the supplementary battalion, and cut off some of the troops that should have been allocated to a certain regular army.
Although there are some deliberately set up beams for us, kindly pull the bias to help, and by the way pull the taste of roasting on the edge of the stove, but we can't accept the imperfectional means.
Needless to say, if you think about it with your feet, you can know that this must be from the Wei Du command, who has not completely given up some kind of attempt, "good intentions" and methods. In this regard, I can only hate and curse "your sister" in my heart, and then show a certain enthusiasm for seeking talents to Yu Hou, who leads the team.
Therefore, the equipment and training of these allocated soldiers are okay, but it is difficult to say that the will to fight and morale are not to be said.
After all, for these former officers and soldiers, not to mention being disbanded, and being assigned to enrich a miscellaneous regimental training, can be said to be a kind of humiliation and punishment, but it can also be regarded as a kind of spur and encouragement, depending on how they understand it.
However, I don't care much about it, at least they can be used to supplement my old troops, to regulate and cultivate their obedience with the daily routine of orders and prohibitions, and then to think about slowly rebuilding trust and familiarity, and in a certain way, any brave and good fighting force is fed with money and honor.
Although the composition of the regiment suddenly became much more complicated, my command also expanded to more than 1,600 people, including baggage teams and horse gangs, as well as bows and arrows or short soldiers for each person.
Therefore, it is indispensable to take this opportunity to rectify and alienate......
Of course, I paid out of my own pocket to raise armaments, armed to recruit this army, and took this opportunity to come to the battlefield, all I wanted was experience and experience in actual combat.
However, no matter who the opponent is on the battlefield, there are many people who kill and kill, and they have accumulated a strong spirit, and if they fail to properly guide them in the direction of honor and values in a timely manner, it is easy to accumulate qualitative and turn into anger, or collectively known as the psychological hidden disease of battlefield trauma.
Whether it is a murderous maniac who gives orders, or a walking corpse-like soldier who has almost no opinions because he is closed in his heart, and can only act at the sound of orders, he is not a qualified army
Because, in addition to the hard work and heavy work and practice, there is no time to take care of other things,
If there are conditions for soldiers to vent their feelings and pressures through other channels, and if they are not able to use prestige and credibility to satisfy their hunger, or if they want plums to quench their thirst, any commander's control over the army must be guaranteed.
According to the practice of most armies in the story, it is common practice to indulge soldiers in occupying or controlling the area for a short period of time to vent their excess energy and tension by doing whatever they want, as is the case with some officers and soldiers in the city today.
It's a pity that at present, it is the prerogative of the first and first troops, and it is our turn to be in the third sequence, and I don't know if we have to wait until the Year of the Monkey.
Therefore, the method I can choose is very limited, very primitive, and very ancient, that is, from the black market of the army in the rear, find some women who are in the leather and meat business, as a reward for various daily assessment indicators and performance excellence, and then appropriately provoke the sense of competition between different groups to indirectly strengthen my control.
However, in order to regulate morale, it is really a shameful thing to pimp his subordinates, and his reputation is not good, and there is only Zheng Zhou, a war trafficker, such a thick-skinned supernumerary who does not care about discredit, can use the banner of the rear merchant group labor army to cover his ears and steal the bell to save the country.
With the passage of time,
The gates and key points of the outer city have been basically taken, and most of them have been cleared, and the remnants of the rebels have retreated to the inner city where the palace is located, and continue the hopeless struggle.
The inner city and the palace are imitating the pattern of the Daming Palace in Xijing, leaning on the higher platform in the north of the city, so the geographical shape is more advantageous than the outer Guo, and the palace walls are also higher and thicker.
In addition, the surrounding complex buildings, tall and sturdy barracks, etc., somewhat hindered the advance of the officers and troops, and even heavy equipment that was easy to push over, was killed, injured, and destroyed by the brave men who emerged from the city.
But it's just a dying throes,
All I could do was to take the members of the pacesetters and the teaching team to patrol over the cleaned towers
Then, with a close mirror, Yuan Yuan watched the progress of the official army's attack on the inner city and the purging of the outer Guo, and then according to their banners, on the temporary prefabricated sand table, some kind of deduction and judgment were made.
In the ruined urn city, a group of women sitting in a car are staggered by a group of people tied to ropes.
Because there was a gap in our vicinity, from time to time the inhabitants of the city, taking advantage of the night or dusk, tried to climb this place and escape from the city, and after shooting several batches, I was somewhat dull and changed the order that all could be killed.
Instead, two teams of men were sent in turn, one inside and one outside, to ambush near the cleared gap, and then capture these fugitives one by one, after accumulating a certain number.
When Zheng Zhou sent the woman over, by the way, he took these "new goods" out and sold them directly, which could also generate some benefits, but at least indirectly allowed them to escape some kind of slaughter and mutilation.
It is said that in some of the towns and streets where the officers and soldiers fought fiercely, the ditches were all blood-red in color, and all kinds of "suicide" and "self-immolation" city citizens were like freshly harvested rice, and their clothes were untidy or naked, and they were covered under the eaves of the walls and houses.
So much so that the medical officers of the various departments who accompanied the army gathered one after another to raise a stern protest, and if this continued, the corpses that could not be cleaned up, and the accumulated outbreak of epidemics, was enough to ⊥ the officers and soldiers who had not yet achieved the last bit of results and fell into some kind of big trouble. The Marquis of Yu and the procuratorial team were specially dispatched, and under the repeated orders and inspections, the armies were reined in.
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I even secretly sent people to use the hostages as collateral to deliberately release some sporadic people who had been blackmailed to create the illusion that they had successfully escaped, so that they could lure and organize more "goods" and run through the trap themselves.
Of course, as a reward, I will not break my promise to give these "traitors" and their families real freedom according to a certain number of heads, as well as a small amount of money to avoid other states for travel and food.
Although this is an ugly thing that makes full use of a certain aspect of human nature, it is something that can be helpless. I don't want to get my hands dirty, and I can't see out of sight, that's all I can do.
In contrast, I have some hopes that the official army will not be so quick to attack the last stronghold of the inner city, so that my business of selling people can last longer.
Unfortunately, the truth cannot be taken lightly, and I received an order again, but it was a direct order from the Chinese army. All the troops that have completed the replenishment, regardless of whether they are well rested, must be engaged in the siege of the inner city