Ma Qianjiu was caught? When Zhu Yuanzhang heard the news, he didn't have any special feelings, if he was an ordinary person and caught his former boss, he would inevitably be a little embarrassed, embarrassed, or not want to meet or something, but Zhu Yuanzhang had experienced too many things, and he didn't have these thoughts at all.

He waved his hand and said, "Catch it, grab it, what's there to ask?" First of all, he and the officers and soldiers captured alive will be locked up in the cave, and I will not deal with them for the time being, and I will have to think about how to use these people. ”

It turned out that the soldiers not only caught Ma Qianjiu, but also captured a lot of officers and soldiers, most of them surrendered voluntarily, or suffered a little injury, or were tired and did not run away, as for the seriously injured officers and soldiers, everyone was too lazy to catch back, anyway, there was a lack of medicine in the cottage, there was no doctor, and if he was seriously injured, he could not be saved, so it was better to kill him with a knife to help him suffer less crimes.

"Brother Zhu, what are these officers and soldiers doing alive? It's better to kill them all! Desperate Saburo walked over from the side, and his tone of voice was a little vicious, since he was defeated by the officers and soldiers last year, he had a little hatred for the officers and soldiers, and he didn't understand it very much when he saw that Zhu Yuanzhang actually kept the officers and soldiers alive.

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed: "Because we need to absorb, not reject." ”

When he was wandering in the sky and watching the changes in the world, he had personally witnessed the development process of a peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty, and he profoundly knew that in the early stage of the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty, the combat effectiveness of the rebel army, or the thief army, was very poor, and there were often hundreds of officers and soldiers chasing and killing thousands of rebels, and 3,000 officers and soldiers could chase 100,000 rogue soldiers crying and crying for their mothers to escape. It was not until a large number of officers and men defected and joined the ranks of the rogues that the fighting quality of the rogues was improved and they were changed, and this change lasted for more than 10 years, so that the rogues and the officers and men could stand on the same starting line.

Zhu Yuanzhang knew that it was better to absorb 50 officers and soldiers than 100 ordinary people. Although he also had the confidence to train ordinary people into soldiers, it would take time and many difficulties to overcome. The people came to him just to make a living, and even some people just wanted to eat, and it was not easy to train such people to become soldiers.

But the officers and soldiers are different, once they can be absorbed, they can directly be used as their own combat strength, because the military households of the Ming Dynasty were born and raised for the purpose of fighting, and in their subconscious they think that they must fight, should fight, and fighting war is their own job.

This is a psychological gap, for example, you were originally a programmer, and one day, your boss suddenly called you: "Stop programming, go learn art, our company needs an artist now." ”

In this case, would you like to learn? Most people in this situation should quit their jobs instead of learning to be artists.

But if you're an artist, your boss says to you, "Go and reinforce your art knowledge, our company needs you to make more beautiful pictures." ”

Most people will readily agree and then take the tuition fee given by the company to further their studies.

This is the psychological gap brought about by the difference in identity.

Zhu Yuanzhang understands this very well, and now he has trained the people to become soldiers by inspiring them to survive, but one day, when their lives are no longer threatened, they don't want to fight. Officers and soldiers are different, they are "military households", they have been defending their families and the country for generations, and they are responsible for fighting wars, and they will not have the consciousness that they do not want to fight if they have a good life, or in other words, even if their lives have become better, they still clearly know that they must fight.

Zhu Yuanzhang also understands that the military household system of the Ming Dynasty has many drawbacks, and it will have to be changed sooner or later, but in this special period and special circumstances, it is still worth taking advantage of. The officers and men captured alive can be completely absorbed into their own ranks and become part of their own combat strength, and there is no need to rush to exterminate them.

According to Zhu Yuanzhang's orders, the soldiers took the officers and soldiers captured alive up the mountain and imprisoned them in the cave, leaving sentries outside to guard them. Ma Qianjiu was also locked up, and the interesting thing is that the soldiers in the cottage had a very bad attitude towards the officers and soldiers, beating and scolding, but they were much more respectful and polite to Ma Qianjiu.

The reason is very simple, when Ma Qianjiu was the chief steward of the Ma family, he was also the No. 1 celebrity in Baishui, and many villagers and ordinary people knew him. He is a good person, at least he doesn't oppress the poor like other stewards, so he has a good reputation among the people. Many of the soldiers in the cottage are from the Ma family, such as Li Chujiu, Wang Er and others, who were also Ma Qianjiu's subordinates before, and everyone consciously respects him for three points.

The soldiers did not lock him up with the officers and soldiers as Zhu Yuanzhang ordered, but built a small cave next to the cave where the officers and soldiers were held to lock him up. This may be regarded as a form of good people with good rewards, if the second young master of the Ma family was arrested, he would have been trampled into meat by the people who hated him, where would there be a separate cave to live in?

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't have time to pay attention to the prisoners for the time being, so he registered all the weapons and food he had taken from the officers and soldiers, and only after they had memorized them did he let the soldiers carry them up the mountain. Don't underestimate the registration process, if you don't register and let the soldiers move, maybe you will lose something halfway through. After registering, no one will dare to sneak in and take the property. In this year's army, military discipline has not been strict, and the autumn is not guilty, so it is very good not to burn and loot.

Zhu Yuanzhang secretly calculated, the weapons captured this time are enough to rearm the four brigades, at least they can use iron spear-tipped spears, and there is no need to use sharpened wooden sticks, which does not have a great impact on the combat effectiveness of the army, but good weapons can bring courage to the soldiers and have a positive effect on morale.

In addition, nearly 100 mandarin duck battle jackets of the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers were also taken off from the dead people, which was not bad. Wearing this thing to the battlefield is much stronger than wearing a linen coat, and the arrows shot by the archers who are not strong enough cannot penetrate the mandarin duck battle jacket.

Some friends who are not very familiar with cold weapon warfare will think that if the weapon is good, the army will be powerful, but in fact, this view is wrong. In the era of cold weapons, armor is more important than weapons! Because the lethality of weapons in the era of cold weapons is very limited, take the gun of the king of a hundred soldiers as an example, no matter how sharp the tip of the gun is, it will not pierce the iron plate.

And a good set of armor is equivalent to an iron plate, I stand in front of you wearing an iron plate, and it's okay for you to stab a hundred shots, and if you stand in front of me in a cloth coat, I can stab you with one shot.

Ancient military generals must have worn the best armor to go into battle, and their whole body was wrapped like iron, and ordinary soldiers held a bamboo stick in their hands, how to deal with this iron thing? So...... Zhao Zilong wore a silver iron plate, Nagasaka was the sun, seven in and seven out of a million army, knocked left and right, but he was not injured. Later, there was also a Yang Zaixing, who rode alone to charge the military formation of the Jin soldiers, killing hundreds of people and returning, which was also the credit of wearing an iron plate.

It wasn't until hot weapons began to become popular, and the iron armor really couldn't resist the bullets, because the bullet kinetic energy was too great, even if it couldn't penetrate the iron plate, it could shock you out of internal injuries through the iron plate, and the iron plate affected the flexibility of the soldiers, and this thing began to withdraw from the stage of history, from protecting the whole body to protecting the torso, and then even the torso was not protected, and went into battle directly in cloth uniforms.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't feel much about the captured spears and bows and arrows, but the one hundred sets of mandarin duck battle jackets captured made him feel very happy. In the people of the Ming Dynasty, it was very easy to get weapons, just find a blacksmith shop, if you want to buy a knife, you will have a knife, if you want to buy a gun, you will have a gun, but it is very difficult to get armor. Because the people of the Ming Dynasty allowed the private possession of weapons, but the private possession of armor was prohibited, and the private possession of armor was equivalent to rebellion. For example, when Wu Zetian executed the crown prince Li Xian, what was the crime? Hundreds of armor in private possession!

Well, it can also be seen from this that the ancients also knew that armor was more useful than weapons.

He plans to re-dye these uniforms so as not to be confused with the colors of the coats of officers and soldiers, and then distribute them to Ma Xiaotian's group of personal soldiers, as well as the elite of the old team, and let the soldiers wearing these jackets serve as the main combat force in the future.

Odds and bits and pieces kept Zhu Yuanzhang busy for a long time, until it was dark, he finally finished dealing with the post-war matters, even though he was an iron body, he was a little tired at this time, so he went to the stream behind the mountain to take a bath and returned to his cave.

The cave was still dark, and the grass curtain was lying in the cave, since Zhu Yuanzhang was angry with Zhang Yingxian that day, she never dared to say anything, and stayed there quietly, and never came to disturb him.

Zhu Yuanzhang was not interested in paying attention to her, he just had something to look for Qiu Ye, so he opened his mouth and said to the grass curtain: "Is Qiu Ye there?" ”

"In ...... I'm ......" Akiba seemed taken aback, and her voice fluttered over.

Zhu Yuanzhang asked casually: "Do you know how to dye cloth?" More than 100 sets of mandarin duck jackets were captured today, and I want to change their colors. ”

"Yes!" Akiba said through the curtain, "There are a lot of berries in the mountains, which can be used to dye cloth...... What color does Bugling Zhu want to dye, I'll just go find the berries of the corresponding color. ”

Her voice seemed to be a little flustered, a creature like a woman often has some inexplicable emotions, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't care about it originally, but he was very familiar with Autumn Leaves, and he always felt that her voice was not very normal today, and she seemed to be trying her best to restrain something.

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help frowning: "Qiu Ye, why are you talking in such a tone today?" What are you flustering about? ”

"I didn't ...... Nothing ......."

"Something is wrong, you seem to be afraid that I will talk to you......" Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly became vigilant: "What are you afraid of?" Afraid I'll open the curtain and come over, aren't you? ”