Chapter Seventy-Four: Gathering the Army
Ask for recommendations, ask for collections, ask for rewards
Early in the morning of the eighth day of November in the forty-first year of Jiajing:
The howling cold wind blew through the cold land of Liaodong, and on the huge school field outside the dangerous mountain city, 10,000 soldiers stood straight and quiet on the school field like sculptures, waiting quietly for the officers to review in a neat phalanx.
The Ten Blades of Liaodong, including Cheng Yi, were also draped all over their bodies, and they stood straight on the high platform with serious expressions: they were waiting for the king in their minds!
Just when the first rays of sunlight fell on the earth, a figure wearing fiery red bright light armor, a phoenix-winged lion swallowing helmet, a big red cloak, and a crimson war horse appeared on the school field - Li Rusong, the king of Liaodong Yama, the military soul of the dangerous mountain army!
At this time, all the dangerous mountain troops standing on the school field, although their whole bodies were cold and numb because of the half-hour waiting, but none of them fell or moved, and everyone, including the cavalry, stood straight one by one, and watched this fiery red figure walk up to the point platform with admiration!
"I'm the tiger wolves of the dangerous mountains of Liaodong! Tell me, half an hour's cold wind can be cold! The sword in your hand can still kill the Tartars! Striding onto the school field, Li Rusong pulled out the sword at his waist, pointed at the sky and shouted loudly.
"It's not cold! Kill the Tartars! In response to him, the thunderous shouts of the 10,000 dangerous mountain troops in the audience and the flame-like battle righteousness contained in it!
"Excellent! So at present, there are no soft eggs in our dangerous mountain army! Hold your swords tightly and follow General Ben as he prepares to fight the Tartars! Retaliate with the weapons in your hands, kill all the Tartars, and their land, their cattle and sheep, and their treasures will all become your spoils of war! I'm an iron rider in Liaodong! With a satisfied look in his eyes, Li Ru shouted angrily.
"Invincible!"
"I'm the Red Flame Legion!"
"Invincible!"
Suddenly, the atmosphere of the entire school field was ignited, and all the soldiers raised their weapons and shouted feverishly, and the huge waves of sound came one after another.
"Start the whole army competition!" Immediately after Cheng Yi's loud announcement, all the soldiers were ready to start the army test for better treatment:
"This group of guys is okay, they didn't go to the mud bomb to harm the devils because of the master, and during the time they were stationed in Tunbao, they took the opportunity to be lazy and not practice" Looking at the soldiers in the audience with satisfaction, one by one excellent drill results, Li Rusong nodded and said in approval.
The dangerous mountain army has an extremely strict elimination system, and at the same time, it also has coveted preferential treatment: soldiers are divided into A, B, and C, and the soldiers of the third class are divided into ten acres of fertile land for the lowest soldiers, and the soldiers of the second class are given 30 acres of fertile land each, and the soldiers of the first class can be divided into 80 acres of fertile land. In peacetime, all fields are taken care of, cultivated, and harvested by the chiefs and parents of each village and tunpu, and all grain does not need to be taxed, and all of it belongs to individual soldiers.
Once a year, the whole army will have a big competition, because those who fail to achieve results will be demoted by one level, and the soldiers of the third class will be directly demoted to ordinary garrisons, and their land will be deprived in the following year, and they will become the number corresponding to the current rank of the soldier.
At the same time, each soldier is pacified and supervised by the officer, to count their exploits, not allowed to hide the spoils of war privately, after the war by the baggage troops to collect the spoils, after the war according to the soldiers' military exploits unified distribution, harvest the head of the enemy soldiers, violators on the spot beheaded. Each soldier's exploits can be accumulated indefinitely, or exchanged:
Each soldier's combat exploits can be exchanged for an acre of land or pasture for every fifty points, and even mansions can be exchanged for combat exploits.
Secondly, there are supply and marketing cooperatives in the barracks to supply the soldiers with rice, grains, mules and horses, and other war trophies, and the price is forty percent lower than the market price, and the soldiers can exchange them for war exploits or buy them directly.
You must know that the dangerous mountain army of the road has won successive battles, and the Mongols and Jurchen Tartars who have fought are full of urine, and the harvest after each battle is extremely amazing, among which the Tartars plundered a large amount of grain, gold and silver in a staggering amount, except for a part of about seventy percent of the money that was filled into the army treasury and handed over to the Liaodong General Army, the remaining thirty percent will be sold to the soldiers at a very low price.
After that, the rest will be sold at the normal price, but if you have a household registration in the dangerous mountain or nearby Tunpu, you can get a discount of one percent on the price, and the merchants from other places will clearly mark the price.
In elite units such as the Liaodong Iron Cavalry and the Chiyan Legion, the armor and weapons issued to each soldier are all Seiko products of the Dangerous Mountain Ordnance Institute, most of which are **, and each soldier is issued with a different waist knife or cavalry spear based on cavalry and infantry. Compared with these two elite troops, the equipment of the second-line garrison is much inferior, and most of them are issued with cold weapons such as spears and broadswords, and the guns are also scrapped models.
Because of the lack of quantity, Li Rusong announced that 1,000 "Yama guns" will be distributed to the best 1,000-man team in the whole army's competition, so the six 1,000-man commanders of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry are holding back their strength and are ready to compete.
"Hehe, brother, this time we will concentrate 4,000 infantry and 6,000 iron cavalry, such a huge army. Which grandson are you going to fight? Li Ning stood in front of Li Rusong with a smile, rubbed his hands and asked.
"Hey, aren't you kid the thousand-man commander of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry? What's the matter, itchy hands? This time it's a big guy, I'm going to serve the Hada Department and the small tribes near him in one pot" Glancing at Li Ning with a smile, Li Rusong said unhurriedly.
Among the Jurchen tribes in Liaodong, Wang Gao's Jianzhou Jurchens, Hada and Yehe tribes are the strongest, and the three major tribes occupy almost eighty percent of the strength of all Jurchen tribes in Liaodong.
At present, Wang Gao is dead, and his son Atai is operating in the area of Liaohaiwei in the extreme south according to the intelligence of Jinyiwei and Chen Cheng's falcon, and he is still a pony thief, and the distance is too far for Li Rusong to whip up.
Among the remaining two tribes, Qing Jianu has been quite honest in recent years, and has not made any offences or offenses, but has only wholeheartedly exchanged markets with the Ming Dynasty, exchanging ironware, salt and other things with Liaodong's war horses, timber, ginseng, furs and other things, and he really can't find an excuse for a while.
In the battle of Gulezhai last year, Meng Gelu showed both ends of the snake and rat, and at the same time tried his best to avoid paying the "life money", this person's cunning and stinginess, as well as the character of being scheming and ready to stab a knife in the back at any time, made Li Rusong deeply impressed.
At the same time, at the beginning of this year, when the Mongolian barbarians invaded the border, Meng Gelu also sent 5,000 cavalry to invade many villages and small Jurchen tribes near the dangerous mountain after receiving Li Rusong's letter.
At present, Meng Gelu has incorporated and annexed seven or eight small tribes, with nearly 20,000 control soldiers, and his ambition has swelled again, and he has moved the tribe to the vicinity of the Xilie Station, and he may attack the Xilie Station at any time.
"Our army was not established for us to worship the generals and feudal marquis, nor to kill people, our dangerous mountain army fought so that our people in the dangerous mountains could live a peaceful life, so that they would no longer be ruined and separated from their wives because of the looting of the Tartars! So that we can live a hundred times better than now! Li Rusong, who stood tall like a green pine, breathed in the cold air and said categorically.
"Obey the orders of the major general!" Cheng Yi and the other ten blades behind him, as well as Zhang Dingbian and other hundred people and Wu Chang, were full of fanatical admiration, and knelt down on one knee and responded violently.
In the dangerous mountain army, including the Li family's father and son themselves, none of them were born rich and noble, everyone survived the hard days of the poor, they were all natives of the Liaodong Han people, and they all suffered from the raids of the Tartar criminals.
And Li Rusong personally led them, step by step out of the hellish life in the past, and lived such a stable life now. But at this moment, their god, Li Rusong, has personally pointed out the way forward for them: protect more Han people, kill all the Tartars, and live a better life!
Because in their hearts, as long as there is a major general, there is a young general's leadership, there is nothing that the dangerous mountain army can't do, and there is no enemy that the Liaodong iron cavalry can't win, they are the strongest army under this blue sky!