Chapter 140: Mercenaries
When Huang Taiji knew that one of the soldiers and horses had lost contact, it was already the second day, and the Jurchens who scattered and robbed were not able to deliver the news easily.
Zilharan and his own soldiers were wiped out!
Huang Taiji was a little surprised, and then he felt a shock in his heart, "Someone is coming, pass the order, and immediately send scouts to find out if Ning Yuanjun is here." ”
In Gushan County, in the camp of the Ningyuan Army, Feng Hu returned triumphantly with his head.
It was a pyrrhic victory, but it boosted the morale of Ning Yuan's army.
Feng Hu came to Ye Qiu's tent and threw a token over, "Brother Qiu, Lao Tzu also killed a Jurchen Baylor, hahaha, I really didn't expect it, my luck is too good." ”
Ye Qiu looked at the token, which was engraved with a simple pattern and Mongolian characters (the Jurchens don't have their own script yet), Ye Qiu could recognize it, these were the four big characters of "Heshuo Belle".
"It's Zilharang, you killed the Jurchens' Heshuo Bel Zilharang. This person is a close confidant of Huang Taiji and a die-hard supporter of him. Yes, yes, as soon as this person dies, Huang Taiji's strength will be greatly damaged, and Mang Gurtai and Dai Shan will probably jump out to fight for power again. ”
"Hehe!" Feng Hu touched his head and laughed.
Ye Qiu was thinking about whether he could provoke a fight among the Jurchens and end this war as soon as possible, and he wanted to go back to see his mother and Yuntu before leaving.
Although it was only a short year of getting along, Ye Qiu had already regarded them as relatives, and when he thought of this, the strong melancholy and reluctance in his heart surged out again...... If the world ...... How nice it would be to be real......
"Brother Qiu, Brother Qiu, why are you in a daze again?" Feng Hu shook his hand in front of Ye Qiu's eyes, Brother Qiu has been like this a lot recently, I don't know if he is homesick.
In the next few days, Huang Taiji found that the yellow flag and the soldiers and horses inlaid with the yellow flag were specially "taken care of" by the Ming army, and it seemed that these Ming troops were specifically staring at the people under their banner.
"Damn Ning Yuanbing, damn Ye Qiu. ”
He also knew now that it was Ning Yuanbing who was opposing him, and they were stationed near Gushan County at the moment.
Ning Yuanjun's careful thinking was clear to him, this was to consume his own strength, once he couldn't suppress Mang Gurtai and Dai Shan, internal friction would come.
"Good calculation!" Huang Taiji, who himself likes to use discordant means, admired Ye Qiu, a young man.
Speaking of which, the Ming court sent a number of supervisors to the Ning Yuan Army, and controlled the salary, silver, ordnance and grain, and there was also a credit to Huang Taiji.
"Pass the order, and order Mang Gurtai's Zhenglan Banner and Daishan's Zhenghong Banner to fight Ning Yuan's army, and tell them that they don't need to be busy looting, and the spoils of my two yellow flags will be distributed to them in thirty percent. ”
......
Boom!
Damn it!
Looking at the herald in the distance, Mang Gurtai smashed the Han woman in his arms to the ground, and the woman suddenly broke her head and bled and rolled on the ground in pain, but she didn't dare to say a word.
"The fourth child is really a good calculation, Ning Yuanjun is so capable of fighting, is this trying to use it to consume Lao Tzu's soldiers and horses!"
"Master, what are we going to do?" asked one of the soldiers.
"Let's go, Lao Tzu will go to Dai Shan and see what the boss has to say. ”
Mang Gurtai waved his horsewhip and took his guards away.
In Gushan County, Ye Qiubu is digging a trench, and the dry is in full swing.
After Ye Ye made an inspection, he came to Ye Qiu's side and asked, "Brother Qiu, will the Jurchens really come?"
"Don't worry, you will definitely come, it's not Huang Taiji's two yellow flags, or Mang Gurtai's blue flag or Daishan's red flag, it is estimated that the latter is more likely. ”
Ye Qiu still admires the Khan Emperor Taiji of the Jurchens in this world, this person can rely on his superb political skills in a group of elder brothers and younger brothers, and forcibly abolish the old system of "several big beylers, all sitting in the south, and managing the government together", and change it to "sit alone in the south", highlighting the exclusive status of the Khan.
With this kind of means, Ye Qiu couldn't ask himself.
However, Huang Taiji's operation also planted the seeds of division among the Jurchens, for example, this time, if the operation is done properly, it may be able to eat the Jurchens and let them suffer another big loss.
Ye Qiu's confidence lies in the 10,000 spearmen under his command, these spearmen are different from when they were hastily established, not only have they undergone strict training, but also made some tactical changes.
Improved Macedonian phalanx!
This is a tactic brought by the Tessi people, the name is strange, it is said to be the infantry battle formation of a country called the Macedonian Kingdom in the history of Tessie, which once swept across the entire Tessie continent.
Speaking of which, this Tessie named Victor and Ye Qiu got acquainted, and it is also quite legendary.
Victor was a dilapidated aristocrat in Portugal, and when he heard about the wealth of the East, he gathered more than 100 of his men in Portugal to beg for a living, only to find that the country's business was monopolized by the compatriots who occupied Macau, and they could only follow behind to get some soup and water.
That's not what Victor wants.
Then he found out that the north of this eastern country called Daming was in the midst of war, and the idea of becoming a mercenary suddenly occurred in his heart.
Unexpectedly, this conservative empire did not accept foreigners as soldiers, and Victor ran into walls everywhere.
In a fit of rage, he simply decided to take refuge in the enemy of the Ming Kingdom, the force formed by the barbarian nation called "Jurchen".
Unexpectedly, when they wanted to sneak across the border, they were discovered by Ning Yuan's patrol, and then Victor and his men surrendered happily and were brought to Ye Qiu.
After some exchanges, Ye Qiu found that this Taixi person was quite extraordinary in terms of the level of cold weapon combat, especially extremely familiar with all the famous tactics in Taixi's history.
This is also one of the reasons why Victor can't get along in the Tessie Continent, an expert who focuses on the study of cold weapon warfare, is useless to the Tessie Continent, where hot weapons have begun to replace cold weapons.
But for Ye Qiu, he really picked up a treasure.
The battle between the Ming and the Jurchens was completely based on cold weapons, and this Taixi man was exactly what he needed.
Especially after this Victor used more than 100 of his own to rehearse Ye Qiu's own improved Macedonian spear phalanx, Ye Qiu immediately decided to hire Victor and his men.
Subsequently, Victor was appointed as the drill officer of the infantry of the Ningyuan Army, as for whether Daming had such an official position...... It doesn't matter, it's just an employment relationship anyway, and you don't need to report to the Ministry of War.
Victor spent more than half a year greatly transforming Ningyuan's infantry, especially the spear phalanx.
And Ye Qiu also learned a lot in the process of communicating with Victor.
"The Jurchens are here!" Feng Hu said excitedly as he looked at the watchtower.
The flag waved on the watchtower, and a group of Ningyuan cavalry on the plain rushed towards the camp, and the rumbling muffled thunder came from afar, and a black line rushed from the ground line.