As the loyal younger brother of the Ming Dynasty, the life of the Korean Kingdom has always been good. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Their army was also able to receive gifts from the Ming army on a regular basis, and many of the weapons and equipment retired by the Ming army would be selectively sent to the Korean Kingdom. Don't look at all retired things, they were all regular equipment of the Ming army before. Better than the weapons and equipment of the vast majority of countries in the world. Moreover, the army of the Joseon Kingdom did not pay the salaries of the soldiers, and after receiving free weapons and equipment from the Ming army, they basically did not have military expenditures.

The armies of the Kingdom of Korea were very poor in combat effectiveness when they fought under their own command, as can be seen from the battles they took part in against Japan. When defending their homeland, they were beaten by the poorly equipped Japanese and lost their armor and collapsed. When they followed the ass of the Ming army to kill the Japanese mainland, they could only do some things to suppress the place and escort grain and grass.

The main reason for this is that there is no ordinary soldier in the army of the Kingdom of Joseon. All the officers were of noble birth and were of the highest rank. And these untouchable soldiers, in the eyes of these officers, have no use except to consume food.

Moreover, the army of the Korean Kingdom was treated very poorly, and it could hardly be called an army. Their soldiers are not paid any salary. Because being a soldier in the Korean Kingdom is equivalent to a kind of conscription, and it must be carried out.

At the same time, officers with status backgrounds treated these soldiers as free labor, and drove them to work in the fields of the officers' homes or factories all day long, and were even escorted to the mines. Many ordinary soldiers died from overwork. And when they died, there was nothing.

Soldiers are dead and no one is going to hold them accountable for the sake of these untouchables, whose lives are not even as good as large animals. In this case, the soldiers of the Joseon Kingdom would die on the battlefield for their commanders unless they were crazy. It's a blessing not to shoot black guns in the back, and it's a joke to expect them to defend their home and country.

In fact, the reason why the army of the Kingdom of Korea is like this is also due to the Ming Dynasty. The Kingdom of Korea was too close to the Ming Dynasty. Although for various reasons, it is difficult for Da Ming to tear off his face and take the initiative to destroy this small country. However, the side of the couch still needs to be quiet.

Therefore, it has become a normal thing to use various means to weaken its strength. This is true not only of the Kingdom of Korea, but of all other countries that still exist in the vicinity of the Ming Dynasty. After experiencing the Age of Discovery, broadening his horizons and crisscrossing the world, the Ming Dynasty is no longer the ignorant and pedantic Ming who only knows the way of Confucius and Mencius all day long.

However, once the soldiers of these vassal states were brought under the command of the Ming army, they would immediately become another army. An army that is brave and good at fighting and is not afraid of death.

The earliest time the Ming Dynasty directly commanded the armies of vassal states to fight was during the American Rebellion. At that time, the Ming Dynasty was in a difficult situation at home and abroad, and the army had generally become war-weary after a long period of fighting. As a last resort, cannon fodder troops from vassal states had to be mobilized to participate in the battle.

What people didn't expect was that these vassal armies, which were originally considered to have little combat effectiveness, played a huge role under the command of the Ming army officers. Since then, in every major war, the Ming army has mobilized a varying number of vassal armies to use as cannon fodder.

The reason why this is the case is also very simple. It's a mess in the country's army, as long as you can survive. But when you come to Daming, the treatment is the same as that of the Ming army. In addition to not being promoted, the soldiers of these vassal nations were able to get the rewards they coveted.

The Ming Dynasty attaches great importance to military merits, and the rewards for military merits are also very rich. The armies of the vassal nations are not lacking in material rewards other than being promoted when they fight. This is something worth fighting for with their lives for the soldiers of the extremely poor vassal states.

Not to mention that Daming treats everyone equally in terms of pensions. Even if the soldiers of these vassal states die on the battlefield, their families will inevitably receive the full pension that should have belonged to them.

If anyone dares to fight the idea of this money, then over the years, countless people, whether they are people from the Ming Dynasty or people from vassal countries, have proved with their heads that this money is not easy to take. This was a great encouragement to these soldiers, who were so poor that they had nothing but a rotten life.

After officially taking over the vassal army, all officers will be removed and replaced by soldiers of the Ming army. These Ming officers and soldiers are usually used by skipping the ranks, and the ordinary soldiers of the Ming army who are transferred can serve as squad and platoon commanders in the army of vassal countries, non-commissioned officers can serve as company commanders, and division-level officers are also regimental-level officers of the Ming army.

Regardless of the low rank, all the officers of the Ming army were graduates who had undergone rigorous training in regular military academies. There are no problems with being a commander.

The North Korean soldiers who attacked Frankfurt were all dressed in standard Ming military uniforms and equipment, and they were indistinguishable from ordinary Ming soldiers in appearance. These North Korean soldiers have little technical and tactical ability, and they are not trained to fight in concert with all arms. All they have is no skimping on their own lives.

These people are so poor that it is almost a problem to survive. Every year people starve to death in their hometowns, and they barely survive in the army. But if you come to Daming, not only can you eat the delicious food you dream of every day, but also get an unprecedented supply of military supplies. More importantly, they get the money.

It is not the currency issued by the Kingdom of Korea itself that is too hard to wipe the ass, and its value is not even as good as waste paper. It is a real Ming hard currency that passes through the world. If you fight a war, you will get money, and if you make meritorious deeds, you will get more, even if you die in battle.

Aren't there a bunch of younger brothers and sisters in any of these poor jingle North Korean soldiers waiting to be fed? Who didn't live to be so old that he didn't even have a wife? Who has long been tortured by all these years of poverty and is better off than death? watched the family work day and night, and watched the sisters and sisters being sent out to make money. What do these people who have nothing but a rotten life care about?

When the heavy shelling, which lasted for nearly an hour and a half, began to extend to the rear of the German position, with a rapid whistle sounding, hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles rumbled out of their starting positions, and the mighty torrent of steel was discharged towards the German positions on the opposite side.

And behind these armored units are nearly 100,000 brave North Korean soldiers. Although these North Korean soldiers have not undergone much training, they have the command of many Ming army officers, and they still have the most basic combat skills.

When the Ming army began to gradually approach the German position, the Germans, who had looked dead and silent from a distance, like a lifeless cemetery, came to life in an instant. Mortar shells rained down, and long chains of machine-gun rounds mixed with tracer rounds whipped like whips, knocking groups of soldiers to the ground.

"Bow down! Lower your body! A sergeant of the Ming army brandished a pistol in his hand and smashed a North Korean soldier who was standing and walking forward in a daze to the ground, "I don't understand people, do you?!" Fucking put your body down! ”

These soldiers, who were lowly serfs in the Joseon Kingdom, had little training at all. The emergency training for more than a month before was also too low to achieve much effect. A bunch of guys who can't even read words and can't tell the difference between their left and right feet, can you expect them to become well-trained elite soldiers in a short period of time?

The Ming didn't need them to become as elite as the Ming army, they just needed them to consume the German army.

Covered by armored troops, the North Korean soldiers quickly rushed into the first line of defense and engaged the German defenders in a fierce fight.

On the one hand, they are looking forward to exchanging the heads of the defenders for their own good life, in exchange for a beautiful wife, a spacious house, a fertile field, and the status of a superior person. On the other hand, in order to protect their homeland from being trampled by the enemy, their families will not be reduced to lonely ghosts at gunpoint and miserable camp skills.

Not a wide trench, a fierce exchange of fire broke out as the influx of Korean soldiers and the arrival of reinforcements from the rear by the Germans broke out. The guns in both hands were desperately tilting the ammunition. If you run out, you will basically not have a chance to change the magazine, because the enemy has already rushed in front of you.

The narrow trenches were filled with officers and men from both sides in gray and grass-green uniforms, bullets raining down and guns dancing. The butt of the gun was smashed, the grenade shattered the steel helmet, the sapper shoveled off half of the head, and the teeth bit off the throat. Soldiers from both sides with different purposes frantically strangled together without knowing each other. Use all the means you can to kill the enemies in front of you.

In just over ten minutes, the corpses of thousands of officers and soldiers on both sides had fallen in a trench that was not too long. The trenches were almost filled, and red blood poured out and stained the ground. The officers and soldiers of the two sides, who were still fighting for life and death, soon embraced each other and fell to this land forever after they died in battle.

It's not just happening in this land. Throughout the long front, millions of troops on both sides fought desperately on the battlefield where bullets rained down. In just one morning, the commanders of both sides received more than 100,000 reports of battle damage!

It's a battle that is entirely about life. Because the battle line is not very long, and the military forces invested by both sides are too large, this has led to the fact that the tactics of outflanking the armored forces that were good at using in the past have no effect. (To be continued.) )