The fleet docked downstream, and the soldiers with white poles disembarked one after another.
They walked very comfortably on this journey because many veterans had participated in the previous battle to aid Liaodong. At that time, they had two legs and took the No. 11 bus to come here.
It takes several months to walk on the road, and it is very hard to travel through mountains and rivers.
This time, the chieftain showed mercy and rented a boat for everyone. First, we boarded the boat from Chongqing, followed the Yangtze River to Jinling, and then changed to a sea boat to Tianjin Pier.
I originally thought that walking the last three hundred miles would be OK. I didn’t expect that there would be a boat trip. It was really exciting.
They got on the boat from Beitangkou, lay on the top of the boat filled with rice, and slept on tarpaulins. The food for the past few days was provided by Dingyuan Hou's servants. They ate white rice every day, which made them happy to death.
Shizhu was a poor place, and only nobles could eat white rice, so they only ate some grains.
During festivals, autumn harvest festivals, and torch festivals, you can only eat cakes and bamboo tube rice. Unexpectedly, on these centipede-like fleets, not only are there three meals a day, but you can also add unlimited rice to make you full.
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There are also vegetables to eat, all with oil and salt. This is a big surprise. In this season, there are cabbage, radishes, and potatoes, which are very rare things.
Sichuan has been short of salt since ancient times, and the price of salt has been so high that ordinary people can only eat a little occasionally, but they dare not eat it freely. These are stir-fried with lard, onion and ginger, stir-fried with bean paste, stewed potatoes and cabbage, and thinly sliced
The thin slices of fatty meat are so delicious.
When preparing meals, stainless steel thermos buckets were delivered from each boat, containing rice and stews. Each person was also given one tael of white wine a day. It was said that the sweet potatoes and vines were burnt, which was not very tasty. Drinking too much would burn the heart and lungs.
However, these low-level soldiers will still feel their throats are sore when they drink alcohol.
They were envious of the servants' treatment. The alcohol was actually allocated to them to treat their wounds. However, they couldn't help it, so they directly mixed it with water and gave each of them one or two a day to satisfy their cravings.
Qin Liangyu couldn't bear to chill the hearts of his subordinates. He secretly told Ma Xianglin to keep at least half of the alcohol for use on the battlefield.
Since the servants of Marquis Dingyuan are so fond of this thing, it must be effective.
If you can save a wounded soldier, it means you have an extra veteran. Veterans are the mainstay of the battle formation.
Seven thousand white-pole soldiers stretched themselves down from the top of the grain pile. After lying down and enjoying themselves all the way, it was time to work. Each battalion officer of the white-pole soldiers was responsible for arranging the troops, forming military formations, and preparing for war.
Qin Liangyu had two older brothers and one younger brother. At this time, all of them had been killed in battle. But she had many nephews, and they were all arranged by her to help her control the army.
Because after her husband's death, the Ma family competed for the chieftain throne. Qin Liangyu fought a civil war for three years in Shizhu before she could secure her position as chieftain. Therefore, she used many more Qin family members than Ma family members.
This time, 7,000 people came first, and 13,000 more people had to come on foot. Qin Liangyu first divided the 7,000 people.
The eldest brother Qin Bangping and the second brother Qin Banghan were awarded the official title of Du Si Qian. They died in the Battle of Hunhe in the first year of Taichang (1621). Qin Bangping's two sons, Qin Yiming and Qin Gongming, each served as battalion officers, commanding a battalion of 500 people.
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His younger brother Qin Minping was awarded the title of deputy general of the army. He died in the battle to put down the "She'an Rebellion" in the fourth year of Tianqi (1624). Qin Minping's two sons, Qin Zuoming and Qin Zuoming, each commanded a battalion of 500 soldiers.
Hu Mingchen, the capital commander, and Qin Yongcheng, the assistant general, were the old men left behind by her husband Ma Qiancheng. They had always supported Qin Liangyu and each led a battalion of troops.
General Qin Yanzuo led a battalion. General Qin Yongcheng led a battalion.
Li Hualong led a battalion of soldiers and horses, all of which were chariots, and had a hundred light sidecars, which were used for camping and fighting cavalry. Thirty leather cannons were also placed in the chariot camp. After all, the big livestock were in the chariot camp.
.Although these leather cannons are lightweight, they also need to be towed.
Ma Xianglin led a cavalry battalion of 500 men. Zhang Fengyi led a cavalry battalion of 500 men.
Qin Liangyu personally led the personal camp of 500 cavalrymen, two musket battalions, equipped with Japanese iron cannons, and a thousand musketeers.
The ruler of the Ma family of Shizhu is a Han Chinese. His ancestral home is Fufeng, Shaanxi. He is a descendant of Ma Dinghu, the 39th generation grandson of Ma Yuan, the general of Fubo in the Han Dynasty. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Ma Dinghu suppressed the entry of Wuxi barbarians and was awarded the title of Shizhu to appease the envoy for his merits.
Official positions are passed down from generation to generation, and the stone pillars can be guarded for the rest of the world.
Shizhu's strength is actually very great, and its territory is also very vast.
In the early Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, Mark Yong, the fifteenth generation grandson of Ma Dinghu, conquered Jiuxi and Shibadong and was named the Xuanfu envoy by the imperial court. According to the Records of Shu Figures, Mark Yong "At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, he attacked the stone pillars to appease the Secretary, and he was benevolent."
Be brave, share the joys and sorrows with the soldiers, and be united as one.
There are thirteen ethnic groups with registered residences in the whole territory. Outside the mountains there are six ethnic groups, Chen, Wu, Gao, Ya, Luo and Xiang.
In Dongzhai, all the thirteen tribes were ordered to set up a fence and have soldiers, so they could farm as much as they could when there was nothing to do. If there was a police officer, all the villages would stand together to listen to the command.
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the power of the Shizhu Chieftain increased dramatically, and he became one of the most important chieftains among the chieftains in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties. After the Shizhu Chieftain was officially established, it was inherited by the Ma family for 26 generations, totaling 569 years. It was not until 1949 that the Shizhu Chieftain was established.
Change the soil and return to the current.
Ma Su spread Ma Dou Hu in the 20th year of Wanli (1592). Ma Dou Hu was Qin Liangyu’s father-in-law and Ma Qiancheng’s father. Ma Qiancheng’s death was related to his father’s mining, and he was implicated. He finally died in
In prison.
When Qin Liangyu took over, Shizhu was already unstable. After her father-in-law died, her mother-in-law, Qin, succeeded her as chieftain. Qin came from the Qin family, one of the thirteen families, and had the support of her mother's family. However, she did not sit still and was ousted by the Ma family.
.Later, Ma Qiancheng took over the position.
Ma Qiancheng also had a younger brother named Ma Qiansi. He was born to Qin, and she planned to let Ma Qiansi replace Ma Qiancheng. After hard struggle, Qin Liangyu and her mother-in-law finally drove away her mother-in-law and brother-in-law, and allowed her husband to succeed to the throne.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! After her husband died, she fought a civil war with her mother-in-law and brother-in-law. In the end, it was indeed hard for her to become the female chieftain. But these experiences sharpened her military talents.
After all, Rome was not built in a day. The white pole soldiers and their commander Qin Liangyu gradually grew up in the war from weak to strong.
During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Tan Yanping, the chieftain of Longyang Cave, wanted to break away from the rule of Chieftain Shizhu and register in Wanxian County. In order to maintain the ancestral motto of "the soil should not leave the country", Chieftain Ma Douhu of Shizhu sent his son Ma Qiancheng to lead his troops to besiege Longyang.
Yangdong, burned and killed many of them, and forcibly suppressed the independence of the thirteen little chieftains below.
After the death of her husband Ma Qiancheng, Qin Liangyu's situation was very pessimistic. Each of the Thirteen families supported the Ma family's heir and became a mess. Qin Liangyu relied on the white-pole soldiers in his hands to fight a civil war for three years and completely defeated the Thirteenth family.
It took the little chieftain of the family to stabilize the stone pillar.
Until the 16th year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1659), Shizhu Chieftain returned to the Qing Dynasty. Shizhu governed a vast area of 230 miles wide and 240 miles wide, extending from Lichuan, Hubei Province to the east, Qianjiang River to the south, Fengdu to the west, and Zhongzhou to the north.
Therefore, the fact that Qin Liangyu can bring out 20,000 Qinwang today is directly related to the fact that she suppressed Shizhu's resistance with iron-blooded tactics and unified the internal forces after being tempered by the war.
A large number of white soldiers formed a team and began to distribute weapons and armor. In the past two years, Qin Liangyu made a lot of money from her business. She was very willing to equip her own army.
Yang Fan has a large number of captured weapons in his hands. They are all junk that he despises. However, these weapons are considered valuable by other forces.
The soldiers are first issued a set of Mongolian leather armor, which they wear on the inside. On the outside, they wear a new type of armor that combines plate armor and chain armor. The important parts are plate armor, and the active parts are connected with chain armor.
It saves costs while keeping it lightweight.
According to the tradition of Shizhu, these soldiers wrapped the quilts they carried with the army outside the armor. It can be easily carried, and can also be used as a layer of cotton armor, which can withstand musket fire and buffer heavy weapons. It is very useful for defending slaves.
Arrows are also very effective.
"Each person is given three large steamed buns stuffed with meat, and they can drink water by themselves. The battle will begin in a quarter of an hour." Qin Liangyu ordered after seeing that the military formation had been sorted out.
This is a lesson learned from the Hunhe fiasco. Let the soldiers eat enough and drink enough water before fighting. They still have O-shaped fried noodle bags hanging sideways around their necks according to Yang Fan's style.
If you beat for too long and can't eat, just grab a handful of fried noodles and stuff them into your mouth to replenish your energy.
The military formation composed of 7,000 people was silent and dark, and the black frosted plate armor also exuded an aura of oppression.
