Chapter 63: Hidden Worries After Victory
The soldiers in the front row, if it is impossible to say that they are not psychologically worried, even if they are more or less veterans of the Northern War with Liu Tainan, but they are more likely to perform tasks such as surprise attacks or sneak attacks, and there are not many frontal battles.
At this moment, it is the first time to use the military formation of daily drills to fight, and they feel rusty, but they are also slowly becoming proficient.
But thankfully, they are the soldiers at the forefront, with the best equipment and the most abundant food.
At this moment, the military history of every tun not far from them shouted rhythmically, "The army of the tiger is five with one!" ”
Ideologically, they firmly believe that they are invincible and are not afraid of the enemies in front of them.
At this moment, they collided head-on with the Hao army, and steadily resisted the rapid advance of the pigs under the command of the Hao clan, or even just a stalemate for a while, there was a vague tendency to push back.
After all, the slave soldiers on the opposite side were even worse, they were facing the shield gun array stained with blood in front of them, but they were a little afraid to step forward!
"Completely disorganized...... Liu Tai was also the first official commander of his own army.
The others are more like "follow me" after completing the command, and let the soldiers rush with themselves in an absolute cone formation!
But Liu Tai knew that 3,000 or 5,000 people could use this trick themselves, but when the number reached 10,000 or even more, this trick "follow me recklessly" would only be useful to his own headquarters.
No matter how many people you can't command, you can only have such a decisive battle in the first battle, and you can finish the stud!
Therefore, Liu Tai vigorously grasped the military formation drills, encouraged the tun commanders to read and write, established a military history system, and strengthened the army's welfare facilities.
All this is aimed at strengthening the organizational strength of the army and reducing the cost of command and communication, which is the orthodox way of commanding the army.
After all, Huo Quai's way of commanding troops really can't be learned by himself, or he is afraid that he will die if he tries.
At this moment, Liu Tai began to command the battlefield, instead of giving up thinking with the sentence "follow me".
Liu Tai had to admit that as long as his army was in contact with each other on the battlefield, it was impossible to separate the two armies that were already fighting like a video game.
After the two sides began to fight, they had to wait until one of them retreated because of lack of morale or could not bear the fight, otherwise no one would be able to separate them at all.
The kind of ability to further command the army that has been fighting together, Liu Tai doesn't know which way the gods can do it, anyway, he can't do it himself.
Commanding an army by yourself is not like a real-time game, but like a card game, because every time you play your cards five regrets.
You need to play every card in your hand, and when you have no cards to play, you can only take your own guards to "recklessly".
"I need to further strengthen my training for the tun team, so that my command on the battlefield can be smoothly implemented to the tun level, as long as I can command the tun level on the battlefield for a second time, then I rely on this trick in this era of the four saints, at least in the frontal battlefield to protect myself!" Liu Tai's heart secretly made up his mind.
Although Liu Tai was thinking about how he should make his command of the army stronger next.
But looking at the posture of the Hao clan army in front of him being restrained and not advancing, he also played his second card!
Soon, Zhao An received the order and led about a thousand or so cavalry to kill from the flank!
They didn't rush in directly, this kind of cavalry that can charge into battle is really not so easy to train.
Not to mention how to get the horses to overcome the fear of the battlefield, and how the warriors control the horses to collectively crisscross the battlefield, these take time to precipitate, especially the more the number, the higher the requirements.
At least Liu Tai's command, and Liu Tai's personal soldiers can be uniform when they follow Liu Tai to rush forward.
The cavalry led by Zhao An was more used as archers.
Hold yourself steady on the horse with the saddle and stirrups, and then shoot arrows from the flanks to harass you.
The arrow damage brought by this archer cavalry, to be honest, is very limited, and even because there are many people who have just transferred to archers, it is very good to be able to shoot arrows smoothly with the right force, and they don't even dare to hope for the right head or something.
However, the last thing you need on the battlefield is to be accurate, especially when the target is an army composed of a group of wealthy slaves who are not wearing any armor at all, and they watch the arrows constantly falling above their heads, which causes more psychological pressure than the actual blow!
The task assigned by Liu Tai to Zhao An was to harass him, and he did not need Zhao An's cavalry to rush forward, as long as harassment was enough.
Then Liu Tai patiently watched what tricks Xu Gong would use, and he would see him again.
After all, it was the first time to fight such a war with a frontal command, so Liu Tai had a cautious and cautious attitude.
Even if you have a handful of cards in your hand, you can't throw them all away, after all, you need to be responsible for the entire army!
But in the end, Liu Tai overestimated the coalition of Hao clan slaves in front of him, and even greatly overestimated their will to fight.
Only Zhou Ping led the front army to resist the impact of the slave coalition army, and Zhao An carried out orderly harassment on the flank, and the entire army of the Hao slaves was inevitably turbulent.
They can't move forward, and there is a river next to them, so these slaves of the wealthy clan can only retreat, keep retreating!
After all, it didn't take them a month to go from slaves to soldiers.
Such an army is bound to collapse in the face of the orthodox tactics of an orthodox army.
So, when the first slave starts to turn around and run away, the war goes into garbage time.
"Run? What are you running, what are you running, there are so many of us! At the beginning, Xu Gong also commanded the law enforcement team to enforce the law, wanting to deter the soldiers from escaping.
However, in the face of the general trend that the entire army will inevitably retreat as Zhou Ping commands the front army to force step by step, the law enforcement team of the district cannot prevent the entire army from escaping, and even Xu Gong himself can only flee along the general trend.
"This ...... That's it?! Liu Tai looked at the scene in front of him but was a little stunned.
originally thought that he was going to have a good fight, and he was even ready to make a wave of his own "follow me" consciousness.
But when the fight really started, Liu Tai didn't expect that the opposite side would last for so long, didn't he come to the front row to resist, the flanks harassed, and his own Chinese army had not yet pressed on the situation, why did you collapse? !
Liu Tai didn't understand, but this didn't prevent Liu Tai from fighting the next rout, and one after another orders fell:
"Order Zhao An to give up the harassment of the army and directly attack the dock fort where Xu Niche is located.
The soldiers under Zhou Ping's command must chase no more than five miles, and then stop resting.
Order Liu Ming and Ge Xin to lead the troops to take turns in pursuit, don't care about the prisoners who are left behind, just chase the rout for me all the time.
Let Tian Yu lead the recruited soldiers to capture the defeated soldiers and help them adapt to the battlefield! ”
Liu Tai's banner commanders began to play flags to direct Liu Tai's orders, and at the same time, Liu Tai's heralds also mounted their horses and conveyed further details of Liu Tai's orders to the captains, and Liu Tai's army was still operating effectively.
After Zhao An received the order, he took the cavalry to take the first step and seize the dock fort while this person was panicking.
Zhou Ping, as the main force on the battlefield, has the greatest physical exertion among the soldiers under his command, and it is quite good to be able to take advantage of the victory to kill five miles.
The most important thing is that the big shield they hold in their hands as a front-row army is actually quite heavy, and it is completely unsuitable for pursuit.
Although Ge Xin and Liu Ming's armies were also running, since they were in charge of pursuit, it was naturally impossible to hold a big shield and wear heavy armor to go over, and it would be very good to be able to wear leather armor.
At the same time, the two troops pursued and could play a good role in controlling the direction of the opponent's army's escape, so that the other side could only bite the bullet and flee in the direction that Liu Tai expected.
Then Liu Tai and Tian Yu steadily led the recruits and began to capture the prisoners who stopped and couldn't run.
And handing over the newly recruited recruits in Xuzhou to do this kind of thing, firstly, is to cultivate their confidence in going to the battlefield, after all, winning the first war can make them more confident in their army.
At the same time, these people are also natives of Xuzhou, in this era, basically there is some affection between the villagers and the villagers, not like the army under Liu Tai, maybe in the past, they took advantage of the military history not to pay attention, and then directly cut off the heads of these soldiers as a decapitation battle.
The real confrontation of this war may have lasted about twenty or thirty minutes, but this pursuit battle was quite long.
Xu Gong first wanted to escape back to his dock fort, but Zhao An took a detour with the cavalry to occupy it first, and then ambushed for a while, so he could only continue to flee.
Then Liu Ming and Ge Xin, who were in the back, chased the troops non-stop, which made Xu Gong constantly abandon the soldiers and cut off their tails to survive, and at the same time, there were constantly slave soldiers who collapsed on the ground due to physical exhaustion.
chased for three days in a row, and finally Xu Gong escaped from Taishan County and fled to Langya County.
I didn't have much feeling about Xu Niche's smooth escape, but Liu Tai didn't have much feeling.
After all, if you have been in this world for a long time, you always feel that if you are a nameless soldier on the battlefield, it is really easy to die, but a real famous general, if you really want to run, it is really not easy to kill the other party.
For example, his uncle Wang Mi, for example, Shi Le, who cooperated well with him, can always escape when he encounters danger.
However, compared to Xu Di's escape, Liu Tai had a headache because of the slave soldiers he captured along the way.
The vast majority of these people are the slaves of the wealthy families who are secretly hidden, and they are not on Taishan's household register.
Of course, if that's all it takes, what's more important is that they have always been slaves in the wealthy family, which makes their entire thinking mode have been transformed into what they expect by the wealthy family.
Such people are not the same as normal people who already have land or whose names are registered.
They have been kneeling for too long, and trying to get them back on their feet is really not something that can be done in a short time, and there are too many such people captured at one time!
And it is precisely because there are too many people of this kind that the contradiction between man and land is exposed again!
Yes, Liu Tai swept the wealthy families of Taishan County this time and obtained the land and wealth of these wealthy families.
But since he plans to operate Taishan County for a long time, it is impossible for him to release the land of the wealthy family at one time.
Because land is a non-renewable resource, although it is theoretically possible to recycle the land by itself, because of the Matthew effect and land annexation, no matter how good the system is, the possibility of land recovery is too low.
Because land is the main carrier of feudal wealth, as long as the productive forces do not develop to a certain extent, or even complete the transformation of production relations, this is not something that Liu Tai can change if he wants to.
Secondly, Liu Tai is ready to fight the world, and the soldiers who already own the land will perform very well in the army in their own county or surrounding counties.
But let these people fight too far away, unless they let them plunder, their enthusiasm for fighting is not high.
They are brave because of the land, but they are also cowardly because of the land.
As long as Liu Tai's army still wants to take the line of strengthening military discipline, the military system of Nafu can be used, but it cannot be used.
Because for the government soldiers of the government military system, plundering the wealth of the defeated target is almost their most important source of wealth.
Even if Liu Tai is the monarch, he can't stop them from acquiring wealth, otherwise they will either change the system or change Liu Tai!
Moreover, the reason why these newly captured slave soldiers are not suitable for the government military system is because a large proportion of them are bachelors who have not married wives.
For these people, it doesn't matter whether they give land or not, because they feed the whole family and don't go hungry, even if they give land, they don't have a family, and there is no population in the family to cultivate the fields, so what's the point of giving fields?
Therefore, the government military system cannot accommodate a single person who has no concern, and of course, the vast majority of systems in the world cannot accommodate them.
At the same time, the finite nature of the land is also reflected in another aspect, that is, the soldiers under his command who fight with him in the north and south.
Because Liu Tai didn't plan to operate it before, all counties were passers-by, so he divided the fields lavishly, and no one felt it.
But at this moment, a large number of Taishan people who own fields have joined Liu Tai's army, even if the veterans believe that Liu Tai will not treat them badly, but seeing that the recruits will have acres of land as long as they join, this will definitely make the veterans mutter.
Even if you have nothing to worry about, and no one farms the land when you take it, but for the veterans, you can not do it, but you can't help but give it to you, the boss.
Otherwise, this is too partial, no matter how the benefits are given to the newcomers, our old employees are not people!
Therefore, with the defeat of the Hao Alliance of Taishan County this time, it is not the end of the matter for Liu Tai to get a large amount of land in Taishan County almost in one go, on the contrary, it is precisely the beginning of the matter now.
How to divide the land and how to govern Taishan County is to pull Liu Tai back from the joy of defeating the Hao coalition army.
Liu Tai fully grasped Taishan County for the first time, and asked the military historians to take stock of the acres and inventory of the wealthy family.
After all, knowing how much you have gained, you can arrange your next plan.
And Chu Yu was naturally called back by Liu Tai for the first time, and after eating and drinking here for so long, the next thing is to make him more burdened.
(End of chapter)