Zu Dashou appointed Shi Dayong as a general. Of course Shi Dayong knew what kind of officer this general was. In fact, the establishment of generals in the late Ming Dynasty was extremely chaotic, with border soldiers and guards mixed together. The official names were also numerous, and they were all different. If you were not familiar with
In the military, it is mostly impossible to tell the difference.
The so-called border soldiers refer to the troops in the important towns on the nine sides, and the guards refer to the guards stationed in the two capitals and eighteen provinces (Qianhusuo, Baihusuo).
Since the founding of the country by Taizu Hongwu, the Ming Dynasty has established the military household system of guard stations, even in the nine-border towns. The establishment of military attachés in the guard stations is generally divided into the commander-in-chief of the capital, the commander of the commander-in-chief, the commander-in-chief of the general affairs, the experience department, the governor-general, and the governor-general.
Division, Thousand Households, Hundred Households, General Banner, etc.
However, after the Jiajing period, the guard posts were abandoned and seven out of ten military households could not be used. Therefore, the imperial court established a new army and organized it under the new military system. Army such as the Qi Family Army in Zhejiang and Li Chengliang in Liaodong were all products of the new military system.
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The military attachés of the New Army are organized into admirals, generals, deputy generals (deputy generals), staff generals, guerrillas, generals, guards, generals, and generals. There are slight differences in different places. For example, Xuanda, Guyuan and other towns also have management teams.
Defense, conduct and other officers. Among them, the highest military position, the admiral, is only established in the Beijing camp, but not in the towns on the nine sides.
During the Chongzhen period, the Ming Dynasty's army was composed of frontier soldiers, guards and Beijing camps. To put it bluntly, the frontier soldiers were recruited with money and dared to work hard; while the guards were military households for generations and did not take money.
They are half-farmers and have no combat effectiveness; the Jingying is the emperor's imperial army, guarding key areas in the capital and is immobile. In other words, the Jingying is just a show-off, but cannot actually do anything inside.
Therefore, whether it was fighting the Mongols or establishing slaves in Manchuria, the frontier soldiers were the main ones. Among the three families, the frontier soldiers were the most effective.
In this time and space without Shi Dayong, refugees were everywhere, and the Ming garrison troops were vulnerable. As a last resort, Chongzhen hurriedly mobilized border troops to clear them up. As a result, the peasant army fled. There were often scenes of more than a thousand cavalry defeating tens of thousands of peasant troops.
This is actually the difference between professional soldiers and half-way monks. However, when encountering those semi-savage Manchu soldiers, the cavalry was unbearable. Tens of thousands of people were often chased away by thousands of others, which was really puzzling.
What happened to the Ming Dynasty's army?
The equipment is better than others, the food is more than others, the money is spent a lot, and the military strength is dozens of times that of others. They have all kinds of fortified cities and cannons, but they fight in vain.
Is barbarism really defeated by civilized laws?
Shi Dayong often thought about this problem when he first came here and felt very puzzled. However, after this bloody battle, he finally concluded that there was only one reason for the Ming army's failure - and that was bloody nature!
How could an army lacking bloodiness defeat those barbarians?
The best way to defeat barbarians is to be more barbaric than them!
This is not a retrogression of history, nor is it an advance against the flow of history, but a change that brings order to the chaos and learns from the painful experience!
Only by eradicating barbarism can civilization truly come!
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The general is second only to the general in the frontier military system. Under the deputy general, he is stationed in various places. He is a senior general who can act alone. He is above the guerrillas and the capital, and his rank is mostly the third rank.
Shi Dayong's current Songshan garrison is at the fifth rank. If he wants to be promoted to a general, he has to go through three hurdles: the fourth rank, the fourth rank, and the third rank. Now Zu Dashou has secured his rank as a general with just one sentence, that is
Upgrade three levels in a row.
Of course, this favor did not fall out of thin air. If it were not for the heads of more than a hundred Mongolian Tatars and more than eighty Manchu Tatars, no matter how much Zu Dashou favored Shi Dayong, he would not have been able to do it all at once.
Unusually, he was promoted to the third level. Even if he was willing, the Ministry of War would not!
Merit in battle is always the main factor that determines promotion.
The big bosses in the Ministry of War have nothing to say about you. They don’t care who recommends you. Without solid military exploits, there is no way for you to get promoted!
What's more, this is purely an exchange of interests. Shi Dayong doesn't feel that he should be grateful for his ancestor's longevity. On the contrary, the resentment has never subsided.[
In fact, if he were the original owner of the body, Shi Dayong would only be happy for promotion and wealth now, and he would not think about the soldiers who died in the battle. But Zhou Chu is a later generation, and has never been on the battlefield or seen dead people. This battle is
The first battle he experienced when he came to this time and space was also the most dead person he saw in his life. He couldn't help but be shocked by it and couldn't help but shed tears.
Human hearts are made of flesh, and gamblers are human beings, and they all know the pain of life and death.
Put your heart together and try to exchange each other's identities with the dead souls, and you will feel pain, real heartache.
In this life, who doesn’t have parents, wife and children, who doesn’t want to be filial to their knees, and who doesn’t want to watch their children grow up with their own eyes?
Given a choice, no one wants to die.
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The search for corpses has generally been completed. About thirty corpses cannot be identified, and the rest of the fallen soldiers have been properly placed.
The lime allocated by Zu Dashou has been used, and each carriage is covered with thick lime. Some of the Liaodong Army's lieutenants in the city were deeply moved when they heard that the Songshan garrison was going to transport the bodies of these fallen soldiers back to their homeland.
They were moved and offered suggestions one after another, saying that they needed to put some medicinal materials to completely ensure that the corpse would not rot. After several doctors were introduced to Shi Dayong, Shi Dayong listened to their opinions one by one and asked for some medicinal materials with Zu Dashou's deputy general He Kegang.
Meaning. He Kegang agreed immediately and asked someone to carry it immediately.
For this, Shi Dayong thanked him repeatedly. After sending He Kegang away, he suddenly felt a little strange. He felt that the name of Vice General He was so familiar. He must have heard it somewhere. But for a while, he couldn't remember where he had heard of He Kegang.
Name, just as Huang An and Shao Wu came to report that the corpses of the brothers had been disposed of, they should set off immediately, so they dropped the matter.
It was already Shenshi time (3 to 5 p.m. in later generations). If we set out now, we would definitely not be able to reach Jinzhou after dark, and we would probably have to stop at Jimingyi.
There were many wounded soldiers. Although He Kegang sent some doctors over, they still couldn't take care of them. Several generals came to report and said that if some brothers were not treated quickly, they might not survive the night.
It seems that we must rush to Jinzhou immediately, otherwise dozens of lives will be lost.
Shi Dayong gritted his teeth and ordered to tidy up and set off immediately.
After the order to prepare for departure was issued, the remaining soldiers, under the leadership of the general, acted as coachmen, horsemen in the front, or assistants in the rear.
After everything was ready, Shi Dayong, surrounded by his subordinates, walked to the front cart, took the riding whip from the soldier acting as the driver without saying a word, and threw it into the air.
The sound of "ba" is clear and loud.
"Brothers, we are going home!"
"Brothers, we are going home!"
"Brothers, we are going home!"
One after another shouting, one after another crying.
The wheels rolled slowly, leaving traces on the bloody ground.
The carriage filled with corpses slowly rolled toward the south, toward home.[
The paper money scattered all over the sky in the wind.
Woo hoo, that's the cry of the dead soul.
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"Sir, let's go too."
After the convoy set off, Shi Dayong did not leave. He stayed on the horse and watched his men move towards the south.
Guo Yi didn't know why the garrison master didn't leave, so he came over with Li Ji, the only one alive among the fifty soldiers.
Not far from them, there were piles of corpses with heads, which belonged to the slaves. Their heads had been choked with lime and taken away. After the Songshan Army left, the civilians would bury the corpses of the slaves.
Get up, lest the plague breaks out.
Hearing Guo Yi's voice, Shi Dayong nodded and said to him: "I'm not busy, just wait."
"What are you waiting for, sir?" Guo Yi was puzzled. Following Shi Dayong's gaze, he saw that it was Daling River City.
Shi Dayong was just about to say that he was waiting for the "old, weak and remnant soldiers" that Zu Dashou promised to allocate to him, when he saw a group of cavalry in bright armor galloping out of the city gate. They filed out and ran towards him in a mighty manner.
"Here, here we come."
Shi Dayong smiled. Zu Dashou sincerely did not deceive others. What he gave was definitely not some old and weak soldiers, but five hundred Liaodong cavalry.
Five hundred Liaodong cavalry rushed to Shi Dayong's eyes like a whirlwind and formed up in an instant. Judging from their formation, they were no worse than Jiang Wanli's cavalry battalion. After all, they were from the same origin, whether they were the Liaodong cavalry under Zu Dashou or Man Gui.
, as expected, they are not much different, the same tiger and tiger are powerful.
It's a pity that behind the bright clothes and armor, there is a lack of a brave heart.
At the front of the team, two members of General Qian came out on horseback and stopped three feet away from Shi Dayong. The two men held hands together on the horse, performed a military salute, and praised:
"Last general Xia Desheng, Li Yizhong meets Lord Shi!"
Shi Dayong raised his hand and said: "You two don't have to be polite!" He looked at the cavalry behind them, and the more he looked at them, the happier he became.
Xia Desheng reined in his horse, which slowly ran forward for a few steps, and said loudly: "The two generals together with the five hundred cavalry under their command are now obeying the order of General Zu, and will be placed under the garrison tent of Songshan from today on. Your Excellency, please review!"
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"Master Zu's great kindness will never be forgotten by Mr. Shi!"
Shi Dayong said sincerely that no matter what Zu Dashou's generosity was for, he would always accept the love. As for whether Xia Desheng and Li Yizhong could be used by him, that was a matter for the future. Now, he was anxious
Review your own cavalry.
The horse's belly was clamped between his legs, and the horse immediately ran forward. The leaping horse whipped up and galloped in front of the team. After Shi Dayong tightened the saddle, his sharp eyes slowly swept across the faces of the five hundred cavalrymen, and he only said:
One sentence:
"From now on, you will all be my Shi Dayong's soldiers. I can't guarantee you anything else, but I can guarantee one thing - if you die, I will also send your corpses back to your hometown and to you.
In the hands of relatives!"
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Author's note: Readers often cannot distinguish between the officer establishment of guards and frontier soldiers, so this chapter briefly explains it to avoid confusion later. What is the meaning of this commanding general and that deputy general?