Jakba They didn't understand why, only Zhou Guowen and other major generals of the Ming army knew, and the emperor said that this was called promoting consumption, and the silver sent out was recycled.

Many shops and even restaurants in Bami City were opened by the Ming people, and they also had to pay taxes, and after these soldiers consumed, they could just pay part of the commercial taxes for the Ming Dynasty.

Because Ahan Province has just occupied, the tax is low, and the commercial tax collected is relatively low, but at least some of it can be recovered, and it is better than nothing.

And these servant armies really don't have the habit of saving money, they basically use as much as they want, and there are really not many people like Jacoba who know how to keep some for their families.

Because of their consumption, the commerce of Bami City was developed, and the surrounding dynasties such as the Aries Dynasty and the Black Sheep Dynasty traded with the Ming people, and Bami City, which was originally unpopular during the Shahru period, is now quite prosperous.

In November, the Ming army selected a wave of better Chinese language learners from the servant army and promoted and rewarded them.

Jakba was promoted again, and at that time he was the first person in the entire battalion to receive the reward, and the whole battalion of nearly 3,000 people was watching below.

Jakba and other six captains were promoted to sentinels, and Yu Lu was promoted to another level, four times a month, traveling with war horses, and giving ten catties of sugar, a horse of cloth, and from next year, they will have half a month of annual leave every year, and their personal belongings and silver can be stored in the imperial warehouse and brought back during the holiday.

Everyone in the camp listened and watched below, and many people had envious looks on their faces.

The key Jakba's cotton armor was also replaced with a tie armor.

When you arrive at the sentry officer, you can wear armor, and the whole body is made of steel sheets, which is quite dazzling.

And last night, someone in the Ming army had already approached the six of them and asked them if they would like to change their surnames to Han.

The six of them expressed their willingness.

According to Jakba's understanding, those who are unwilling will not be promoted today.

So someone at the scene announced that from now on, Jakba will change his name to Jia and name Guo.

Jakba transformed himself into a country with the Han name Jia.

After being promoted, more than 200 people were selected from their entire battalion, including Jia Weiguo, and were transferred to other battalions.

This battalion was all transferred from various battalions, and they all had several characteristics.

Able to speak simple Chinese, learn Chinese characters relatively well, and be very obedient.

There are about 520 people here, led by a Ming man.

Five whistles are the total, exactly one total.

Everyone began to practice bows and arrows, and Jia Weiguo later congratulated himself for speaking Chinese well and was placed in the archers.

Those who don't speak Chinese well have become cannon fodder in the front row.

When I got here, I was more comfortable, and every morning after my physical fitness, I lined up and started practicing archery in the afternoon.

There are targets in front of them, and each person takes turns shooting arrows.

Jia Weiguo is a sentry officer, and there are three teams under him, each team stands in a row, including the chief and the captain, exactly 34 people.

The three teams take turns shooting, the first row shoots first, immediately retreats, the latter takes a step forward and shoots, and then the third row shoots again.

At first, Jia Weiguo didn't understand, according to his understanding, the three rows were shooting in turn in place, and it was no different from now.

But that's how the Ming army practiced, and it required each team to change quickly and keep enough distance between people.

The first row shoots backwards, the second row goes up, the second row shoots and then retreats, the third row is long, and the middle transition should be fast and maintain the formation.

Start completely regardless of the effectiveness of archery, and only practice the conversion speed.

After practicing for half a month, another whistle joined them.

Six rows take turns.

At this time, Jia Weiguo knew why he had to practice like this.

There is not much difference between the three rows of standing in place and the round shooting, but the sixth, ninth, and twentyth rows are completely different.

If there are more archers, there are fifty rows, and the power of the rear shot is small, and they can shoot to the front, so they can't shoot arrows at the same time.

Dozens of rows of archers in the movie, firing a salvo at the same time, is also a movie, if you shoot like this, the one behind can shoot the front to death, even if you can't shoot the front, you will only shoot an air.

The Ming army was able to shoot a lot of arrows in war, and even if flintlock pistols were prevalent now, the speed of making guns was still far from keeping up with the speed of equipping and training more than two million troops.

What's more, the servant army can only use cold weapons.

Therefore, the Ming army is training them to transform their abilities, and they are required to be fast and stable on the battlefield.

In December, they became nine rows of six.

More than 500 people lined up in nine rows to take turns.

At this time, the results of the training have been seen, and the transition between the platoons is smooth and fast, and it takes about a minute from the first platoon to the second turn.

It effectively guarantees their rest time, and they can maintain their physical strength without continuous shooting.

In January, the Ming army again changed its training methods.

At this time, with the order of the officer, the archers of the nine platoons had to learn whether to advance or retreat.

That is, when the nine rows of bows and arrows are in turn, they can approach forward while shooting.

If the enemy is fierce, you can shoot backwards at the same time.

Each platoon should be practiced until it advances and retreats freely, and the whole body is consistent.

After this practice, Jia Weiguo watched the feeling that the scene was really spectacular.

"Forward." With the officer's order.

The nine-row shooters shoot in one row, the back row shoots again in the front row, and the third row goes forward to the front row and shoots again.

Layer by layer, it can attack and retreat, and change tactics at any time according to changes in the battlefield situation.

Jia Weiguo could imagine that if they faced the enemy's infantry on the battlefield, they could keep the formation forward while shooting, and the opposite side could not resist at all, so they could only fall layer by layer.

In the first month of the seventeenth year of Hongxi, the servant soldiers who had been trained for a year began to set off one after another and assembled.

But Jia Weiguo, the chief archer, is still in place.

This time they began to train the speed of shooting, but not to the target, but to shoot to a certain distance.

Each platoon tries to shoot the same distance.

The Ming army practiced them for several months, and they didn't care whether the shooting was accurate or not, because the Ming army relied on more arrows, and then dealt with dense formations, it didn't matter whether it was accurate or not, the important thing was the reliability of the distance shooting.

In February of the seventeenth year, Jia Weiguo had heard the rumors in the camp, and the Ming army marched westward, with 100,000 foot battalions of the servant army, 50,000 cavalry of the Ming army, a total of 150,000 foot cavalry, and pressed towards the Aries Dynasty.

The reason for the Ming army to start the war is very good, last year, there was a Ming caravan, which was robbed in the territory of the Aries Dynasty, and dozens of people were killed and wounded.

The war was cloudy, and the battalion was talking about the war, but everyone believed that the Ming army would win.

At the beginning of March, the Ming army summoned the general Yang He to prepare to send troops.

The next day wagons came to the camp loaded with a large number of arrows, and each of them brought two bags of arrows, about fifty.

Then the whole army set out, and after they set out, the Ming people recruited many people in the local area, drove horses and mules, and led the cart to follow them.

There were arrows in the cart, bows, grain, grass, and tents.

Because the Ming army had already set off on foot in January, there was no war all the way behind them, and they walked fifty or sixty miles a day, and there were no important belts, so it was quite easy.

In the middle of March they arrived at Salbi, where they had entered the territory of Persia, and in Salbi they saw a large army of servants.

There are five of them combined, all of them are archers like them, nearly 3,000 people, led by a Ming general.

Jia Weiguo's entire camp rested here for three days, waiting for the people behind to bring their baggage and grain and grass to gather in this city.

In late March, they set out for Larman City.

The city of Lalman was the most important town of Aries in central and western Persia, and it is said that the Aries dynasty had gathered a heavy army there to prepare for the Ming army.

The Aries Dynasty was mainly founded by the Turkmen people, who originated from the steppes of the northern Aral Sea in Central Asia and were an important part of the nine surnames Oghuz. They poured into eastern Asia Minor during the great Turkic migration of the 11th and 12th centuries, and in the 14th century they became an important force in the South Caucasus and Asia Minor.

Kara Uthman was also very happy, and immediately pledged his allegiance and surrendered to the Timur Empire.

In 1402, when the Ming Dynasty was still in the midst of the Jingjing, Timur raised 150,000 troops to attack the Ottoman Empire, and Kara Osman followed with 20,000 elite servants, making great achievements.

At that time, it was Kara Osman's 20,000 cavalry who were responsible for attacking the left flank of Bayezid's army, and after a fierce battle between the two sides, the Tatar army and the Anatolian army of Bayezid's army fell to Timur one after another, and Bayezid's own army collapsed and he himself was captured.

Timur was originally going to continue to attack the Ottoman Empire, but when he heard that the Ming army was in trouble in the civil war, he immediately decided to return to the army and prepare for the Ming Crusade.

Kara Osman made a great contribution to this battle, and Timur gave the entire Diyarbak region (in present-day Turkey) to Kara Osman as a fief, and Kara Osman buried himself in the vicinity.

Not long after Timur's death, Kara Osman officially declared his independence from the Timurid Empire in 1408 and established the Aries Dynasty.

After that, he took advantage of Shahru's eastward expedition to invade Shahru's territory, and in just over a year, he entered the central and western parts of Persia.

After the Ming army attacked, his Aries dynasty was actually the closest to the Ming army.

In the middle of March of the seventeenth year of Hongxi, a large number of cavalry came from the west and approached the city of Larman.

In charge of garrisoning Larman City is Kara Osman's eldest son Hazam, and the main force of the Aries Dynasty is near Diyarbak, so far, he has only 30,000 soldiers and horses, half of which are not elite.

The Ming army invaded with more than 100,000 troops, and claimed 500,000 to the outside world, which really shocked and frightened him.

Because the Ming army has been invincible and undefeated since it left Jiayu Pass, the firearms of the Ming army shocked the whole of Central and West Asia.

Diabak concentrated a large number of craftsmen, but they could not make the flintlock pistols of the Ming army, and the power of the artillery was far inferior to that of the Ming army.

He had no confidence in holding Larman, but the good news was that their nemesis, the Black Sheep Dynasty, had finally arrived with reinforcements.

Like their ancestors, the Black Sheep dynasty was Turkmen, rising in Armenia, and its leader, Kara Yusuf, was considered a brother of his father, Kara Osman.

But Kara. After Yusuf's death, his son Iskandar succeeded to the throne, and relations with the Aries dynasty began to deteriorate, and the two forces were intertwined in West Persia.

A few decades later, the Aries dynasty destroyed the Black Sheep dynasty.

At this time, the Ming army suddenly marched westward, and Kara. The Ottomans sent messengers for help in all directions, but in the end they were only reinforced by Iskandar, who usually hated them the most.

There is no way, not to mention that both countries are from the same race, even if the lips are cold, Iskandar also understands it.

The Ming army attacked Western Persia in the middle of the attack, and the black sheep and white sheep forces were staggered, and they would definitely hit the Black Sheep Dynasty, and if Iskandar didn't help, the next thing the Ming army would fight was him.

So Iskandar did not hesitate and did his best.

Their main force was still relatively close to Central and Western Persia, so in mid to late March, first a large number of cavalry, then infantry battalions, successively assembled in the city of Larman within half a month.

By the end of March, the combined forces of the Black Sheep and White Aries had reached 150,000, of which 90,000 were Black Sheep and 60,000 were White Sheep.

At this time, the two dynasties combined were only about 400,000 soldiers and horses, which was already the largest number of troops they had gathered in a short period of time.

There is no way, the Ming army does not pay attention to martial virtues in the war, and if it attacks suddenly, it is too late to recruit troops and horses from all over the country, and more than half of the troops may not have time to rush to the battlefield, not to mention that they have to guard against the Ottomans and other countries.

But bad news also came at the same time, Shaharu attacked from the north with all his army, before Hazam almost drained the defenders in the north, Shaharu was so lucky, like no man's land, all the way to capture the city of Aries, plunder wealth and population.

Because the Ming army needed these territories, Shaharu ordered that no fires should be set to it, that the town should be kept intact, and that everything of value should be robbed.

The Black Sheep dynasty came from Jahan, the younger brother of Iskandar. Sha, who was also the ruler of the Black Sheep dynasty after Iskander.

After the two parties met, Jahan. Sha said that he led his troops on the right flank (i.e., south) outside the city, and once the Ming army came to attack, they would storm the left flank of the Ming army.

The implication is that they command their own soldiers and horses.

Hazam really wanted to unify the command, afraid that the Ming army would be broken by the Ming army, but the other side had more soldiers and horses than him, and he was unwilling, so he could only compromise, in order to prevent the other party from fleeing, he repeatedly emphasized that if my white sheep was attacked, the next one would be the black sheep.

Jahan. Sha nodded heavily: "You don't need to say this, we all understand this truth." ”

"The Ming army occupies the whole of Persia, it depends on whether our Turkmen give it or not, and this battle will be won."

"Victory." Deafening cheers rang out all around.

Jahan. After Shabiao passed, he took 90,000 soldiers and horses to the south to ambush, and at the same time sent a large number of sentry cavalry to investigate the direction of the Ming army.

Hazam hoped for a quick battle with the Ming army, and could defeat the Ming army before Shaharu's soldiers and horses arrived.

However, the Ming army arrived belatedly, and at the beginning of April, 50,000 forwards came to 20 miles outside Lahrman and set up camp.

And nearly 3,000 archers in Jia Weiguo's entire battalion are among them.

Among the 50,000 forwards, about 20,000 cavalry of the Ming army, and the other 30,000 were all servant infantry battalions, of which one-tenth were archers.

Jia Weiguo's entire battalion was together, and nearly 3,000 archers were a separate battalion, following behind the Ming cavalry.

The big war is about to break out.

(End of chapter)