Zu Dashou promised Shi Dayong a general, what kind of official is this general, of course Shi Dayong knows the way. In fact, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the military generals were extremely chaotic, the border soldiers and the guards were mixed, and the official names were also as many as a cow's hair, and they were different.

The so-called border soldiers refer to the army of the nine border towns, and the guards are the guards stationed in the two capitals and eighteen provinces (thousands of households, hundreds of households).

Since the founding of Taizu Hongwu, the Ming Dynasty has established the military household system of the guard, although the nine-sided towns are also the same. The military attache of the guard station is generally composed of commanders, commanders, commanders, and commanders, as well as the commanders of the department, the department of experience, the department of suppression, the division of thousands of households, the hundred households, and the general banner.

However, since Jiajing, the guard house has been abandoned, and seven or eight out of ten military households cannot be used. Therefore, the imperial court organized a new army and unified it with the new military system, such as the Qi family army in Zhejiang, Li Chengliang in Liaodong and other armies are all products of the new military system.

The military attachés of the new army are composed of commanders, commanders, adjutant generals (deputy commanders), staff generals, guerrillas, capital divisions, garrisons, thousand generals, and generals. There are slight differences in various places, such as Xuanda, Guyuan and other towns have officials in charge of the team, defense, and conduct. Among them, the highest military commander only has an establishment in the Beijing camp, but there is no one in the towns on the nine sides.

During the Chongzhen period, the army of the Ming Dynasty was composed of border soldiers, guards and Beijing battalions. To put it bluntly, the soldiers here are those who are recruited with silver and dare to sell their lives; And the guards were half-cultivators who had been military households for generations, did not take silver, and had no combat effectiveness; Jingying is the emperor's imperial forest army, guarding the important places in Gyeonggi, and waiting for leisure is not moving. In other words, Jingying actually has a shelf, and it can't actually be used inside.

Therefore, whether it was against the Mongols or Jiannu Manchuria, it was mainly border soldiers. Among the three, this side of the army is also the most combative.

Without Shi Dayong's time and space, the displaced people were everywhere, and the guards in all parts of the Ming Dynasty were vulnerable, so they had no choice but to transfer border troops to clear and suppress, and the result was that the peasant army fled in despair. There are often scenes of more than 1,000 iron horsemen breaking tens of thousands of peasant troops, which is actually the difference between professional soldiers and halfway monks. However, when encountering those half-savage Manchurian soldiers, this iron cavalry was unbearable, and often thousands of people were chased away by thousands of people, which was really incomprehensible.

What happened to this Ming army?

The equipment is better than others, the food is more than others, the silver is also spent a lot, the troops are dozens of times that of others, and there are all fortified cities and artillery, but the battle is extremely poor.

Is barbarism really invincible to civilization?

Shi Dayong often thought about this problem when he first came, and he was very puzzled, but after this bloody battle, he finally decided that there was only one reason for the defeat of the Ming army - that is, blood!

How can an army without blood defeat those barbarians?

The best way to defeat barbarism is to be more savage than them!

This is not a retrogression of history, not a march against the flow of history, but a change that sets things right and learns from the pain!

Civilization will only truly come if barbarism is eradicated!

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The staff general is second only to the general soldier and the deputy general in the border army, and is a senior general who can take charge of himself, ranking above the guerrilla and the capital division, and most of the ranks are positive and third-grade.

Shi Dayong's current Songshan garrison is the fifth grade, and if he wants to be promoted to a general, he must go through the three hurdles of the fourth grade, the fourth grade, and the fifth grade. Now Zu Dashou has retained his rank of general with one sentence, that is, he has been promoted to three levels in a row.

Of course, this favor did not fall from the sky out of thin air, if it weren't for the heads of the more than 100 Mengzi and more than 80 Manchu Tartars, Zu Dashou would not be able to mention him by three levels at once, no matter how much he treated Shi Dayong. Even if he is willing, the military department will not be willing!

Merit is always the main reason for deciding promotion.

The big man in the military department, he can't rub the sand in his eyes, he doesn't care who you are, he doesn't have real combat exploits, and if he wants to be promoted, there is no door!

What's more, this is purely an exchange of interests, Shi Dayong doesn't feel how he should lead the love of his ancestors' birthday, and he is grateful to the striker general. On the contrary, the resentment never diminished.

In fact, if it was the original owner of the body, Shi Dayong would only be happy for his promotion and fortune now, where would he think about those soldiers who died in battle. But Zhou Chu is a later generation, he has never been on the battlefield and has never seen a dead person, this battle is the first battle he has come to this time and space, and it is also the most dead people he has ever seen in his life. He couldn't help but be shocked and wept.

People's hearts are flesh and blood, gamblers are also people, they are people, and they all know the pain of life and death.

Mind to heart, try to exchange identities with the dead spirits, and you will feel pain, real heartache.

In the world, who does not have parents, wives and children, who does not want to be filial piety in front of the knees, and who does not want to watch their children grow up with their own eyes?

No one wants to die if they had a choice.

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The search for the bodies has largely ended, and about 30 or so bodies are really unrecognizable, and the rest of the fallen have been properly placed.

The lime that Zu Dashou had allocated had already been used, and each carriage was covered with a thick layer of lime. Some of the soldiers of the Liaodong Army in the city were deeply moved when they heard that the Songshan garrison was going to transport the corpses of these fallen soldiers back to their homeland. They all offered suggestions, saying that some medicinal materials should be put to ensure that the corpse does not decompose. After several Lang Zhong were introduced to Shi Dayong, Shi Dayong listened to their opinions one by one, and asked Zu Dashou's deputy general He Kegang to ask for some medicinal materials. He Kegang agreed, and asked someone to carry it immediately.

In this regard, Shi Dayong even thanked him, and after sending He Kegang away, he suddenly felt a little strange, feeling that why the name of this Deputy General He was so familiar, he must have heard it somewhere. But for a while, I couldn't remember where I had heard the name of He Kegang, and it happened that Huang An and Shao Wu came to report that the brothers' corpses had been disposed of, and whether they would set off immediately, so they put the matter down.

At this time, it is the time of Shen (three o'clock to five o'clock in the afternoon in the future), if you set off now, you will definitely not be able to catch up with Jinzhou after dark, and it is estimated that most of you will have to rest at the chicken station.

There were a lot of wounded soldiers, and although He Kegang sent some Lang Zhong over, he still couldn't take care of them. A few of them reported that some of the brothers would not survive tonight if they did not hurry up and be healed.

It seems that we must rush to Jinzhou immediately, otherwise dozens of lives will be added.

Shi Dayong gritted his teeth and ordered to clean up and set off immediately.

After the order to prepare for the departure was given, the remaining soldiers, led by the general, acted as coachmen, or horsemen in the front, or as boosters in the rear.

When everything was ready, Shi Dayong walked to the cart at the front surrounded by his subordinates, took the whip from the soldier who was acting as the coachman without saying a word, and threw his hand into the air.

The sound of the "horn" was crisp and loud.

"Brethren, we're home!"

"Brethren, we're home!"

"Brethren, we're home!"

One after another, one after another, one after another.

The wheels of the car slowly rolled, leaving streaks of imprints on the bloody ground.

The carriage full of corpses slowly rolled south, towards home.

Paper money drifts in the wind.

Woo, that's the cry of the dead.

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"My lord, let's go too."

After the convoy departed, Shi Dayong did not leave, and stayed where he was on his horse, witnessing his subordinates advancing towards the south.

Guo Yi didn't know why the Lord of the Lu Dao Garrison didn't leave, so he walked over with Li Ji, the only one alive among the fifty pro-soldiers.

Not far from them, there was a pile of headless corpses, which were built by the slaves. Their heads have been taken away by choking on lime. After the Songshan army left, the people had to bury the bodies of these Jiannu to prevent the outbreak of the plague.

Hearing Guo Yi's voice, Shi Dayong nodded and said to him, "Don't be busy, wait." ”

"What are you waiting for?" Guo Yi was puzzled, and with Shi Dayong's eyes, it was Dalinghe City.

Shi Dayong just wanted to say that he was waiting for the "old and weak soldiers" that Zu Dashou had promised to allocate to him, when he saw a team of brightly armored cavalry galloping out of the city gate. The fish rushed out and rushed towards him.

"Oh, here we are."

Shi Dayong smiled, Zu Dashoucheng did not deceive people, what he gave was not an old and weak soldier, but five hundred Liaodong iron horses.

Five hundred Liaodong iron horsemen rushed to Shi Dayong's eyes like a whirlwind, and the formation was completed in an instant. Judging by its formation, it is no worse than Jiang Wanli's cavalry battalion. In the end, it is in the same vein, whether it is under the command of Zu Dashou or the Liaodong cavalry under the command of Man Gui back then, it is really not much different, the same tiger and tiger.

It's a pity that behind the bright armor, a brave heart is missing.

At the front of the team, the two members of the thousand always beat the horse out, and stopped at a distance of three zhang from Shi Dayong, and the two of them held hands together on the horse, gave a military salute, and praised:

"The last generals Xia Desheng and Li Yizhong see Lord Shi!"

Shi Dayong raised his hand and said, "You don't have to be polite!" He looked at the cavalry behind them, and the more he looked, the more happy he became.

Xia Desheng rode his mount, and the mount slowly ran forward a few steps, and said loudly: "The two generals and the five hundred cavalry under their command are now under the command of the ancestor marshal in accordance with the order of the ancestor general, and from today onwards, they will be assigned to the Songshan garrison account, please review it!" ”

"Zu Shuai is very gracious, Shi will never forget!"

Shi Dayong said sincerely, no matter what Zu Dashou was so generous, he always received this love. As for whether Xia Desheng and Li Yizhong can be used for themselves, that is a matter for the future, and now, he is anxious to review his cavalry.

With a clamp between his legs and the belly of the horse, the mount suddenly rushed forward, and after the prancing horse whipped to the front of the team and galloped, Shi Dayong pulled the saddle, and his sharp eyes slowly swept over the faces of the five hundred cavalrymen, and he only said one sentence:

"From now on, you are all my brave soldiers, I can't guarantee you anything else, but I can guarantee one thing - if you die, I will also send your corpses to your hometown and to your relatives!"

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Author's note: It is often difficult for readers to distinguish between the officer establishment of the guards and the border soldiers, so this chapter briefly explains it so as not to be confused and confused. In the end, what is this commander Tongzhi and that lieutenant general and staff general?