Chapter 495: Organizing the Army
Speaking of the Tibetan Army Valley, Li Fengyun gathered everyone and said what he thought in his heart, although most of the people did not understand what Li Fengyun said about "equality", but Li Fengyun's prestige in the eyes of everyone was so great that almost all of them agreed with Li Fengyun and were willing to follow him.
Taking advantage of the fact that everyone was there, Li Fengyun nominated more than 20 people as the veterans of the Tibetan Army Valley, including all the guerrilla battalions, the Yuansu of the Fengyun Dart Bureau, and those with greater influence. Li Fengyun's nomination, who will have an opinion, no one objected, and these more than 20 people were decided.
Everyone was noisy and shouting, and a few more people were elected, and they made up thirty people to form the initial senate meeting, and Li Fengyun was enshrined as the leader of the senate meeting, referred to as the head of the senate.
The patriarchs of the Senate are appointed for life and will not be expelled if they do not make a major mistake or voluntarily quit. In the future, the major matters of the Tibetan Army Valley and the Fengyun Dart Bureau must be discussed and agreed by the elders of the Senate before they can be implemented.
In order to make up for the shortcomings, Li Fengyun also proposed the establishment of a collegiate council, with one person for every 100 people, and a total of 32 collegiate councillors were elected, and these 32 people were changed every year, and they had no power to make decisions on major matters, and were mainly responsible for collecting the opinions of the people for discussion by the senate council. There are more than 80 Khitans, and of course they won a place for a joint councilor, and jointly elected Yelu Yande as a joint councilor.
The first thing the Senate and the Council of Ladies were to discuss the treatment of the captives.
At present, there are more than 1,600 prisoners in the Tibetan army valley, and the combined number of guerrilla camps and the aborigines in the valley is less than 1,600. More importantly, this matter was brought up by Li Fengyun.
After several days of discussion, a charter was finally drafted.
From now on, all captured enemy soldiers will have to work hard for three months, and all those who have committed sins against the people of the Central Plains must be punished according to the laws of the Central Plains. Of course, if the Tibetan military valley cannot be carried out such as the confiscation of the army in the law, it will be replaced by punishment such as hard labor.
After three months, the innocent were immediately released, and the guilty continued to atone. Released captives are free to choose whether to stay and serve the Tibetan Army Valley or leave.
Those who leave the Tibetan Army Valley, from the moment they step out of the Tibetan Army Valley, means that they are no longer a person in the Tibetan Army Valley, and they are not protected by the Tibetan Army Valley. In order to ensure that the surrendered troops leaving the Tibetan Army Valley would not harass the people, the Tibetan Army Valley would give a small amount of silver taels as a reward for these three months of labor, and also as their travel expenses home.
Of course, if the silver taels are not enough for them to return home, they can also choose to continue working in the Tibetan army valley in exchange for the corresponding reward.
Those who remained, if they wanted to join the guerrilla battalion, had to go through many selection and evaluations, and they could not be treated unfairly such as preferential treatment or discrimination because of their previous experiences.
Although the constitution is simple, it is very strange, as long as Li Fengyun does not express his attitude, the controversy is often very serious, the collegiate council does not participate in the discussion in name, only provides suggestions, but in fact it cannot be done, in fact, many times, the controversy takes place in the collegiate council.
Because half of the councillors were prisoners, they certainly wanted to be treated better, while the other half felt that this was unfair to them, and they were unwilling to give up their status advantage. The Senate is clearly biased towards the latter.
If it weren't for Li Fengyun's strong pressure, these two groups of people almost fought for their own opinions several times.
This gave Li Fengyun a headache, he didn't expect that the word "equality", which was originally simple in his heart, became so complicated in reality.
Li Fengyun suddenly realized that to achieve "equality" in his mind, I am afraid it is not as simple as he originally thought, and it is not just a knife that can be fought out. Perhaps, as he said, he may not succeed in his life.
Since the release of the "Regulations for the Release of Prisoners" came out, contrary to Li Fengyun's expectations, only more than 20 captured Khitans really left, but only more than 200 of the captured surrendered troops remained, and the rest left the Tibetan army valley.
Li Fengyun was very puzzled, and Yelu Yande explained: "Actually, it is not surprising that in the Khitan, being captured by the enemy is the greatest shame of the steppe warriors, so many people would rather die in battle than be captured as slaves.
Although the general released us, the shame of being captured has been deeply imprinted on us, and even the Hui tribe can hardly be looked down upon.
If you go to join the Khitan army, people like us who have been arrested are also difficult to trust, and they will generally be assigned to the beggar army, do the heaviest work, eat the worst things, and rush to the front in battle, and will soon die in battle.
But if you don't go to the Khitan army and don't return to the tribe, the Khitan people will only herd horses and sheep, and they don't know how to farm at all.
Rather than this, it is better to fight with the general. If the general really succeeds, it is not a shame to follow the strong man on the grassland, and he will be able to return to his hometown one day.
To tell the truth, the people who went back were actually children at home, and they really couldn't rest assured, so they left. If I don't have anything to worry about, I'd rather stay in the Tibetan Army Valley and serve the general, so as to have a background. ”
Li Fengyun understood, thinking back to those captured prisoners of the Central Plains, the situation was completely different, these captives out of the Tibetan Army Valley, with their own skills, they can also join the army again, even if they don't join the army, now Hebei is sparsely populated, but the land is fertile, how is it better than the barren land in the Wolf Mountain. Even if it is not good, it may not be a way out to occupy the mountain as a king and become a bandit, the world is so big, as long as you hide from the guerrilla camp and no longer be caught by the guerrilla camp.
Thinking about this, Li Fengyun sighed, these things are really not something he can solve.
But fortunately, at least the Khitans left more than 60 people, and these more than 60 people chose to join the guerrilla battalion, and then added more than 30 soldiers of the original guerrilla battalion who were better at cavalry and archery to form a brigade of real cavalry. The cavalry of the guerrilla battalion finally started, unlike before, except for a few dozen people, the rest were foot soldiers on horseback.
This cavalry, Li Fengyun handed him over to Wang Cheng, belonging to the personal guard regiment, Wang Cheng was originally good at cavalry shooting, and in time, the elite cavalry of the guerrilla battalion will start from this cavalry brigade named the Hussar Brigade and gradually grow stronger.
Due to the great losses of the guerrilla battalion in the Hutuo River War, the losses of the generals were particularly serious, and the team had to be reorganized, and a large number of auxiliaries were incorporated into the battle troops, and the establishment of the seventh regiment was still maintained. However, each regiment was reduced to two brigades, totaling 200 men.
The seven regiments are organized as follows:
The Hussar Brigade was led by Wang Cheng, and the Hussar Brigade was led by Ding Monkey, and when Li Fengyun was away, Wang Cheng acted as an agent.
The Left Guard Regiment, led by Zhou Zongyun, has jurisdiction over the Left Guard A Brigade and the Left Guard B Brigade. Although Zhou Zongyun's left arm was cut off, he is a first-class master after all, although he is missing an arm, which has an impact on his strength, but he is still not a second-rate master who can deal with it, and most of the martial arts masters of the original Tiance Mansion are incorporated into the Left Guard Regiment. Among the seven regiments, the Left Guard Regiment may be regarded as the strongest regiment, and even Li Fengyun's personal guard regiment cannot be compared with it.
The Right Guard Regiment, led by Yuan Ba, has jurisdiction over the Right Guard A Brigade and the Right Guard B Brigade.
The avant-garde regiment, led by Zhao Wuji, has the Avant-garde Brigade A and the Avant-garde Brigade B.
The Guard Regiment, led by Yao Guan, has jurisdiction over the Guards Brigade A and the Guards Brigade B. Yao Guan came from Qingping Town, and when he was in Zhenzhou, he came with the mad monk to help Li Fengyun, and later joined the Fengyun Battalion, and the battle was very brave. At that time, he was only a third-rate master, and now, like Yuanba and Zhao Wuji, he has become a second-rate early master.
These four regiments of soldiers and horses are all foot soldiers, responsible for rushing into battle.
The next two regiments were archers, made up of skilled archers from the guerrilla battalion.
The Zuo Yi Regiment, led by Chu Yun, has under the jurisdiction of the Zuo Yi A Brigade and the Zuo Yi B Brigade. Chu Yun was originally a subordinate of Zhou Zongyun of Juyi Hall, but he was a second-rate mid-term master, and in this battle, he took the lead and made a lot of military exploits, plus there was no lack of military strategy, and he was appointed by Li Fengyun as the chief general of Zuo Yi's regiment.
The Right Yi Regiment, led by Sun Chengfang, has jurisdiction over the Right Yi A Brigade and the Right Yi B Brigade. Sun Chengfang is a disciple of the Wolf Mountain Sect, a second-rate mid-term master, who once followed Li Fengyun to attack the Tibetan Army Valley and the Langya Village, and later followed Li Fengyun to fight the Hutuo River, which was also a great achievement. Most of the soldiers of the Right Yi Regiment are the children of the Wolf Mountain Sect. Compared with the left Yi group, the right Yi group is stronger.
The last regiment is the Haw Par Regiment, led by Ding Bao, under the jurisdiction of the Haw Par A Brigade and the Haw Par B Brigade, which are responsible for garrisoning the Langya Village.
The seven regiments totaled more than 1,400 people.
Wang Dashan continued to command the auxiliary army and the grain and grass preparation department, this time the auxiliary troops were transferred to the regular army, almost drained the auxiliary troops, and the auxiliary troops must be expanded immediately, Li Fengyun planned to transfer another 200 people from the Fengyun Dart Bureau, and then recruit hundreds of people from the surrounding areas of Wolf Mountain and Wolf Mountain Fort, so as to maintain the size of the auxiliary army at 1,000 people.
Of the more than 200 Central Plains captives who chose to stay, about 100 joined the guerrilla battalion auxiliaries.
In addition, this time Li Fengyun set up a civil ministry to separate the people of the Tibetan Army Valley and Langya Mountain from the guerrilla battalion. The Ministry of Civil Affairs was handed over to Yutang Chun to manage, and Su Yunong was in charge of Jishitang under the Ministry of Civil Affairs, which was specially responsible for treating the sick and wounded of the guerrilla battalion and the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
After a whole army, due to the defeat in the battle of the Hutuo River, the originally sluggish morale of the Tibetan army valley was boosted. Inside and outside the Tibetan Army Valley, everyone was full of vigor and hope.
That's when bad news came.
In the battle of the Hutuo River, General Wang Chongyin was killed, and the 20,000 elite soldiers he led were killed in more than 10,000 people, and the rest were scattered.
In the battle of the Hutuo River, the general Wang Qing was killed in battle, Huangfu Yu and Fu Yanqing escaped from the Hutuo River, 6,000 soldiers, and less than dozens of people returned alive.
Du Chongwei led an army of 300,000 to surrender to Yelu Deguang. and persuaded Zhenzhou and Zhuozhou, which were still holding on. (Li Fengyun thought that the Khitans had taken Zhuozhou, but in fact they didn't.) )
Huangfu met the general in the golden tent of Yelu Deguang, reprimanded Yelu Deguang, scolded Du Chongwei and Li Shouzhen, gouged out his eyes, and died of anger. In a fit of rage, Yelu Deguang violently broke the body of Huangfu Yu General for three days, and was about to break his body into pieces and feed it to the dogs three days later, but was dissuaded by General An Xianqi, who hastily buried the body of General Huangfu Yu.
Zhang Yanze led two thousand elite horsemen, rushed in the starry night, raided Kaifeng, Kaifeng was breached, and Shi Chonggui, the emperor of the Jin State, presented a surrender table to the Khitan emperor Yelu Deguang.
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One bad news after another hit the morale of the guerrilla battalion soldiers who had just been reinvigorated to the bottom.
The capital is dead, what are they still fighting here?