At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were famous generals but no famous troops, and the troops that the generals relied on were the personal soldiers around them, leading tens of thousands of soldiers, and the most elite were the main generals and generals at all levels.

These pro-soldiers or family members, holding full of food, armor and weapons are well-equipped, these pro-soldiers and family members do not need to engage in farm work and chores every day, only need to train martial arts, in order to support these elites, most of the generals are to pay the food under the court, and most of the money and grain that have been heavily deducted are used to support these pro-soldiers and family members.

And in order to envelop these pro-soldier family members, not to mention the supply of money, the generals also have to train with them from time to time to get closer, and many of the pro-soldier generals follow the generals as domestic slaves.

Even in the face of the Jurchen army, there are often examples of a certain general leading his own soldiers to rush into the battle and all of them die, which is indeed too brave and tenacious for the officers and soldiers of the same era.

However, the cost is huge, the number is scarce, and it is the capital of the generals, when the Ming Emperor in order to strengthen the border defense, the guilty generals will go to the border town to serve can be exempted, after going to the border town, the level of the official position, often depends on the number of generals he brought to the pro-soldier family to determine, invisibly, the pro-soldier family Ding has become a measure of the strength of the generals.

If the pro-soldier is here, even if tens of thousands of troops are defeated, they can recover, if the pro-soldier is killed or injured, it is injured the vitality of the army and cannot be recovered.

So there is Wu Sanguidi, Laozi Wu Xiang. 70,000 salaries, 30,000 soldiers were actually raised. Among the 30,000 soldiers, only 3,000 pro-soldiers can be used, and the allusion is better than that of Wu Xiang, which shows the importance of the pro-soldier family to the Ming generals.

Shandong General Soldier Qiu Lei had a blue face and a black face in the yamen, which was full of anger and endured it. But at the door of the Zhizhou Yamen, his face began to turn pale. For no other reason, most of his own personal soldiers were killed by others. How not to be afraid.

There are few soldiers in the Jiaozhou battalion, and there are many Qiu Lei's soldiers, but in such a short period of time outside, there is such a result, the difference in strength between the two sides is already obvious, and the military strength of the Jiaozhou battalion outside the city is far beyond the men and horses mastered by Qiu Lei.

Governor Yan Jizu and supervisor Liu Yuanbin are not ignorant of military affairs at all. Seeing each other looking at each other in front of them, they were all shocked in their hearts, the Jiaozhou battalion was only thought by them to be the organization of Minzhuang Township Ding before, and the battle with the Manchu Qing still had to rely on the soldiers and horses of Qiu Lei, the general soldier of Shandong, who would have thought that this would be the result.

The governor of Texas vomited on the side, this is one of the few voices in the field that can be noticed, and the people of Texas on the periphery saw that the people were harmed, and the villains who did things that hurt the heavens and reason were simply beheaded and killed. But seeing this scene, no one felt happy. The open space in front of the Zhizhou Yamen was already full of bloody corpses, and the smell of blood was permeated. The soldiers of the Jiaozhou battalion in the field gave an order, and the short axe in their hands chopped down.

This kind of slaughterhouse-like scene is not only the citizens of Texas City, but also the governor and the supervising army. Even the guards of the governor and the prison army are terrified, as for the Qiu Lei soldiers who knelt on the side and were guarded, many of them even closed their eyes, and it may be possible to fight for their lives on the battlefield, but this kind of scene is the real test of courage.

There is also a small episode in the middle, where several soldiers who are about to be beheaded struggle and shout, but they don't want to spare their lives. The Jiaozhou battalion was so killed. They don't have the idea at all, it's just when they're on the road. It is necessary to pull a few more people as companions, such as the few personal soldiers who are guarding the side of the chief soldier Qiu Lei.

Since they are close to the main general, they must be the most cronies and the highest status, but in the eyes of the Jiaozhou battalion, they don't care about these at all.

Since he was recognized, a soldier immediately came over, Li Meng nodded, and more than a dozen soldiers immediately surrounded Qiu Lei, the chief soldier of Shandong, and the few personal soldiers who were identified around Qiu Lei were already stupid, and they were still glad that they were by the side of the chief soldier today, and the other party would take care of face and not step forward to take people.

Who would have thought that the soldiers of the Jiaozhou battalion didn't care about this at all, they couldn't even resist in this situation, and someone actually shouted with Qiu Lei, the chief soldier of Shandong:

"Dashuai help, Dashuai, I was with you back then...... Pingbailian"

This sentence was not shouted, he was already pressed to the ground with an axe and cut off his head, when the soldier screamed, Li Meng and the soldiers who arrested him were staring at Qiu Lei, the chief soldier of Shandong, and Qiu Lei at this moment should not talk about any courage, for fear that the other party would take this opportunity to even cut himself.

And looking at the tiger-eyeing posture of the soldiers of the Jiaozhou battalion, it is very possible, and he couldn't help but stiffen his face and said:

"After doing such hurtful things, what kind of face do you have to talk about the love of the year, if General Li doesn't kill you today, I will also cut you!"

This was said against his will, and after he finished speaking, even the expressions on the faces of Qiu Lei's subordinates who were not involved in the case were strange, which was obviously abandoned by their own general.

Li Meng stood on the side and praised with a smile:

"Mr. Qiu is really a person who knows the general justice, and Li is really eager to do this today, but I think Master Qiu will do the same."

Asked by Li Meng, Qiu Lei couldn't even squeeze out a smile on his face, Li Meng was quite satisfied with this effect in his heart, firstly, the core of Qiu Lei, the general soldier of Shandong, had already been knocked out of more than half of them, and secondly, Qiu Lei behaved like this, and his subordinates must have no loyalty in the future.

This is really impressive, the dignified general of the town, the chief military officer of a province, can only be relied on by five or six hundred pro-soldiers, so calculated, the six or seven thousand troops in the hand, the total number of generals and soldiers at all levels is only five or six hundred, a total of more than 1,000 can fight, what combat effectiveness can such a force have.

"Ladies and gentlemen, let's continue to discuss the matter, don't be delayed."

Li Meng said with a smile again, stretched out his hand and made a gesture of please, this is also Li Meng's proposal, and it is also Li Meng's statement to go in, if others do this, I am afraid that Governor Yan Jizu and Supervisor Liu Yuanbin will have a big temper long ago, but looking at the bloody scene outside, who would dare to say a word.

Nayan Jizu coughed and said:

"The foreign enemy is coming, and there are still many important things to discuss, don't delay, go in and discuss!"

He put up the shelf, full of governor style, and turned around and walked into the yamen of the governor of Texas. Liu Yuanbin, the eunuch of the supervising army, also laughed dryly and walked in, as for Qiu Lei, the chief soldier of Shandong, hesitated, he also turned around and walked in, and the current situation did not allow him to have any objections.

Li Meng nodded at Wang Hai on the side, and also walked in together, this time the discussion really needs to discuss how to arrange the defense of the Texas area, Li Meng naturally has to express his opinion.

Since it is given justice, the governor of Texas will naturally not follow in to find boring, with the support of his family, he staggered back to his residence to rest, and the other Texas gentry leaders are also scattered in a hurry, the blood seen today, I am afraid it will take a long time to recover, but at this time, finally someone felt a trace of happiness in their hearts, think about the families in Texas City, think about the women of Ci'an who died, and the blood was not without a little joy.

Those Qiu Lei's personal soldiers who were half-squatting there, even if they were not cut and killed, but the kind of scene they saw, as well as Qiu Lei's cold attitude, all made them unable to raise their courage and combat strength a little, and the Jiaozhou battalion did not plan to let them stay in the city, and directly escorted these personal soldiers out of the city from the north gate.

Another thousand soldiers of the Jiaozhou battalion entered Dezhou, and began to drive the defenders at each city gate, and their own troops changed the defense, and those soldiers guarding the city gate belonged to the backward sequence even under the subordinates of Qiu Lei, the chief soldier of Shandong, and they were completely old and weak soldiers, not to mention any resistance, and soon all the gates of Dezhou City were already controlled by the Jiaozhou battalion.

Seeing that the people around the chief soldier Qiu Lei were driven out of the city, the people of Jinan Mansion stationed in the south and east of the city began to be agitated, and those Qiu Lei's generals didn't know what was going on in the city, and when the soldiers stationed at the city gate also appeared in front of them, the troops began to be in an uproar.

However, this restlessness quickly quieted down, and the horses and foot soldiers of the Jiaozhou battalion appeared not far from Qiu Lei's military camp, and at the battlement at the head of the city, the soldiers of the Jiaozhou battalion began to hang the heads and corpses of the people who had just been killed on it one by one, and some blood stains flowed down the city wall, and it was already dusk, but this scene still made the people below speechless, and then they shuddered, so far they knew the difference in combat strength between the two sides.

Those below the garrison are in charge of something, I heard those pro-soldiers say that General Qiu was invited into the palace to discuss matters, although the life and death are unknown, but there is no clear news, this can be used as a reason to comfort yourself, since the adults are fine, why should we be so nervous, why don't you wait outside the city.

Li Meng's reconnaissance cavalry and sentinels had already entered the territory of Beizhili to investigate, but there was no movement of the Qing army in the area of Hejian Mansion and Cangzhou.