"What are we going to do?" Back in the house, Gao Xiaosan asked.

Not long after the appointment, one of Li Bingcheng's personal soldiers sent official robes and Yinxin waist plates, Han Xu was already a thousand households, and the waist cards were changed to copper, belts tied around the waist, supplements, and official hats, all of which were readily available.

The battalion generals of the Ming army actually did not have official positions, and the general lieutenants of the general army at the beginning of the country used Hou Bo, which was super high, and later changed to the governors of the five armies to hang the seals, and it was also a product or two products and three grades, and the generals in the battalion had to have corresponding positions in the prefectures or the governors of the five armies in various places to determine their respective grades.

Generally speaking, the commander of the team has no quality at the first level, and the officer in charge of the team may be the general flag or a hundred households, and the general principle corresponds to a thousand households, and the thousand generals can be hung to command the affairs, and then there are garrisons, superintendents, guerrilla generals, staff generals, deputy generals, and even the general soldiers, and each level has a corresponding official position of the guard to determine the rank.

In addition to the battalion position and the guard military position, each general will generally have a hereditary position, and serving the Ming Dynasty will not only be glorious and rich, but also extended to future generations.

It is said that in this way, each general should stimulate the conscience of heaven and the effectiveness of blood sincerity, right? However, the fact is just the opposite, the greater the hereditary power of the generals, the more they have their own small ninety-nine, the Jiangmen force in western Liaoning has been formed, the ancestral Yang family has more than 10,000 military households, hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land, and the soldiers raised are their own families, the territory and strength are the first-class, the emperor and the Ming can only rely on the back, this feudal general system, is really a serious regression in the development of the world.

The advantage is that the soldiers can be known, and the soldiers also know the generals, and in terms of small-scale wars, the system of the Ming Dynasty has guaranteed a certain combat effectiveness.

Han Xu is now the boss, not only is he qualified to pick his own subordinates, but he can also raise his family and cultivate his own team power.

But he didn't plan to do so, and squeezed out of the noisy crowd, everyone was squeezed into stinky sweat, and five hundred taels of silver were held in their arms, and everyone grinned, really laughed crookedly.

When they returned to their residences, everyone looked at each other's official robes and the silver on the table, and they all had a feeling that they were still dreaming.

Gao Xiaosan was the first to wake up, the official was appointed, and the reward was also taken, what should I do next?

Yang Guoxiong said quietly: "The above is clear, a few of us have been set a benchmark, after the expectation of the lord, the general soldiers are also looking forward to our meritorious service, Bao Guerrilla and that Wang Dayong are not good, our situation, just like a little daughter-in-law, the father-in-law appreciates, but every day in front of the mother-in-law's Hades face, nothing has to be worn for small shoes, it is difficult." ”

This person usually looks very stable, what he can say is very interesting, the He family brothers laughed first, and Gao Xiaosan and Han Xu couldn't help but laugh.

Gao Xiaosan was thoughtful, laughed a few times, and then continued: "Lao Yang's words are funny, but they are also true. There is a layer, I don't understand, that Wang Dayong and his group, there are always some sneaky appearances, and they usually hide things from people, we put the total as soon as it rises, he is busy beating, telling us to be honest, I can't understand, what is the big thing about him, need to be so cautious and careful? ”

"It's amazing, it's good to beat him up." He Qingyun did not change his coarse nature, and said with a big grin.

"No...... Gao Xiaosan still groaned: "If you remember the revenge of beating Wang Dali, it shouldn't be like this." ”

Han Xu smiled, the performance of Wang Dayong and his gang was also a little abnormal, but this matter was not in his consideration, and the soldiers would stop it. But when Gao Xiaosan first started to speak, he had already thought about it again.

Seeing that Han Xu fell into deep thought, the rest of the people also stopped talking, after so many days, Han Xu was already the undoubted backbone in everyone's eyes, and everyone was used to listening to him in everything, just let him say it.

"In the long run, we still have to make new contributions and live up to expectations." Han Xu followed his train of thought and said slowly: "These days, in addition to practicing martial arts and reading books in the castle, I have also gone to several other places. Xiaosan, Guoyong, you are all locals of our Liao Town, tell me how the soldiers and horses of Liao Town are now? ”

"Ugh." As soon as they said this, the two Liaodong locals shook their heads and sighed.

Yang Guoyong said in a deep voice: "From two aspects, one is the official general, several major battles, more than 1,000 generals to less than the total soldiers, five or six hundred dead, several guerrillas who surrendered, more than 100 more than 1,000 generals, and most of the surviving generals are afraid of tigers and dare not fight. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Guoyong smiled and said to everyone: "If it weren't for this, we wouldn't have such a good opportunity to rise to the top." ”

When the Ming army in Liaodong was in its prime, it was okay to fight the Jurchens, and the Khan and the Baylors of the various departments also killed a lot, and the Jurchens were the masters of the tribes before Nurhachi, and there were few who had a good end. At that time, the main opponent of the Ming army was still the powerful Mongolia, and the Jurchen was only a little bit of a hand, and it was not taken seriously.

If Han Xu wanted to come out at that time, and didn't fight a vicious battle for more than ten years in a solid manner, he wouldn't even think about it.

Li Chengliang came out after a few battles, but he originally had a career and was an officer at the beginning, which ordinary soldiers can compare?

"Let's talk about soldiers," Yang Guoyong continued: "There is no armor, no weapons, no salaries in all battalions, all soldiers are pretending to be dead and refuse to fight, and the newly recruited battalion soldiers are mostly greedy for generous salaries to enlist in the army, there are many scoundrels and slippery people, no armor and no soldiers, thin and weak, how can they fight?" ”

"That's pretty much it."

Han Xu replied in response, affirming Yang Guoyong's words. He has indeed gone a lot of battalions this time, and it is good that the soldiers who were newly transferred from other places are still like soldiers, and the tens of thousands of soldiers in Liaozhen itself are really rotten to the home, and they are no different from dead dogs, no salary, no weapons, no armor, no war horses, and more importantly, the soldiers have no fighting spirit, and the morale is so low that the cavalry of the horse battalion starves their horses to death or secretly kills them, and they can't go to the sentry or fight without horses, so that they can avoid going to the battlefield. What is the use of a soldier who eats food, and is afraid of war so far?

The Xinyong Battalion is a special case here, after all, it is a brave person selected from each battalion, and with the example of Han Xu, the morale is indeed much higher than that of the ordinary battalion.

"The general charter is that we still have to fight again, the more useless the battalions are, as long as we make a little meritorious service, we can attract the attention of all parties, and the top is satisfied, and people like Wang Dayong will be embarrassed by us. If you go into detail, you can score a few steps. ”

Han Xu's thinking was already very clear, and the more he said at the moment, the smoother it became: "The first step is to pick people, Guoyong junior, a few of you are responsible for picking people, remember to find a good hand, don't be afraid if you want to make money, don't be afraid if you want to be promoted, there is only one case, and those who have been deserters before must not be." ”

Originally, Han Xu wanted to say that he should not be a traitor, but when he thought that more than half of the people under him were criminals, this was unspeakable, but if he had the opportunity to take charge of a battalion alone in the future, he could discuss if he didn't accept this kind of fierce cavalry at night, and the real battalion soldiers would never accept criminals with criminal convictions.

As for not deserting soldiers, that is indeed the most important thing, unruly and unafraid, being a traitor can be restrained by military discipline, being a deserter, and even the officers and soldiers who have plundered their own people are not as good as robbers, that kind of veteran oil is categorically unacceptable, and it is not good to manage it.