Aruhan and the several military officials who were supervising the military system around him were equipped with the same equipment as ordinary soldiers, except that the military robes were pure black.
Sukhbalu gave an order, and they followed the order, picking up their bows and setting up arrows.
These military officials are all about the same age as Aruhan, in their forties. Among them are three Han'er, a yellow-haired Huli Gai and a Khitan. Among the Han'er, there is also a Han who is from Hebei. Li Ting gave an order to dismantle Meng An Mouke and regarded him as a Jurchen of Han'er.
These people are all veterans of the Jin Army who were gradually absorbed by the Zhou Dynasty.
After the collapse of the Jin Kingdom, for the purpose of appeasing and absorbing surrendered people, stabilizing the place and making full use of their talents, the Zhou Dynasty recruited and used the Jin army who were willing to continue to serve in the army in an eclectic manner, neither discriminating or fearing, nor deliberately entangled its ethnicity.
However, there are still basic selection procedures. Only strong players with certain martial arts and combat abilities will get the opportunity to undergo unified training.
During the training process, those who had resentment against Da Zhou or had any personal connections were eliminated one after another. In the end, only those who could adapt to arduous training and passed the assessment based on their ability would be assigned to various armies. middle.
The difficulty of the assessment is naturally not low. Guo Ning has long emphasized on various occasions that he does not think that only Han'er can gain a foothold in the Great Zhou Dynasty, but he will never do it just because he has to take care of and win over foreigners or surrender. Take special care of them.
Those who have the ability will naturally rise to prominence. In the early days of the Zhou Dynasty, there were many places to employ people.
Don't expect the favor of the court for those who are incompetent. It's better to go home and farm the land honestly. There are a lot of such people, and the local officials don't treat them harshly. They give them what they need and take care of them.
As for some people who were particularly stubborn and always caused trouble for the court, it was even worse. They were assigned to iron or copper mines or coal mines in various places. Those who were more lucky were also driven to build roads everywhere, and they did not last for three to five years. Not allowed to escape.
As the supervisor of the Recruitment Department, Aluhan participated in the entire process of reorganizing the Daijin surrender army. During this period, he successively selected dozens of people who were not optimistic about the training officer to serve as members of his supervisory system.
These people are all veterans, and they are veterans with extremely rich experience. Secondly, they have good combat experience, and they are very proficient in eating, drinking and gambling. The most important thing is that they have been spectators for decades and have a deep understanding of the past. The Dajin army used various cunning methods to capture soldiers, escape from service, eat empty wages, drink soldiers' blood, deceive and abduct good people.
They were suddenly drawn out to follow Aruhan, which was completely baffling at first.
Some people are so confused that they only think that they are a worm in the army. They only have some useless routines in their minds. How come they become military officials?
Some people are secretly happy, thinking that since their status is high, if they don’t use all their skills to make money and gain benefits, isn’t it true that God doesn’t take it and they take the blame?
But they soon received more rigorous training, and some of them couldn't stand it anymore. They ran away at night, and then were caught back, and were punished to the point of death by the special methods of the Recording Department.
Some people actually died.
In the end, these people who survived understood that they were once dead dogs in the Jin army, but now, they need to become the most reliable people in Da Zhou's army. Da Zhou will never allow them to use people like them. Everything that I was used to appeared in Zhou's army.
In the past two years, they have dealt with no less than a dozen bullies in the army, some of whom have even become governors. They have also overthrown important generals in charge. They also participated in the recruitment of at least half of the subordinates of the Department.
The training of the army constantly removes rotten impurities in the army, ensuring that the army always maintains strong combat effectiveness.
Living this life is too hard compared to being in the army under the rule of Da Jin. But no one will miss Da Jin, because the new life makes people feel comfortable.
Now that they have followed Aruhan to the Mongolian vassal army, everyone is already familiar with what to do next.
As for the fight in front of me...
Even if you haven't been on the battlefield for several years, a battle with hundreds of cavalry is always a piece of cake, nothing to brag about.
Aruhan may have some status, but the military officials who oversee the military system have never been superiors. They are part of the army. Like any soldiers, they can climb mountains, swim in seas, drink strong wine, and kill with strong force.
Enemy, fighting is our job!
The buzzing sound of the bow strings merged into a dull roar. The ordnance production level of the Zhou Dynasty was much higher than that of the Mongols, so both sides were mounted archers. Their range was longer and their arrows were fired earlier.
The first round of arrows was thrown out, shooting down two or three people. The soldiers also found nothing.
This result is too bad.
The formation of Boyawu's cavalry was originally very loose, with each cavalry separated by several feet. At the moment when the arrows were splashed, it suddenly separated into two groups, moving as fast as lightning.
One group of cavalry galloped past the side of Sukhbalu and others, galloping from west to east. The knights on horseback fired their bows and fired back; the other group of cavalry, with a smaller number, took advantage of the smoke and dust stirred up by the horses' hooves to go to the west of the battlefield.
Turn around, it seems like you are going to join up with the Huoluolasi people.
Sukhbalu's face looked a little ugly, and he immediately stopped shouting: "Go west, shoot two more rounds!"
The strength of the thousands of tribes on the grassland can generally be divided according to their closeness to the Mongolian Qiyan tribe where the Golden Family is located. The earlier they are established, the more trusted they are by Genghis Khan. The higher their status, the stronger their strength. For example, the earliest established
The sixty-five thousand households are generally better off than the descendants who are later added to the ninety-five thousand households. The bottom few among the ninety-five thousand households are also better than those who are later added to the one hundred and twenty-nine thousand households.
But the Boyawu tribe is not as good as those at the bottom of the 129,000 households. They were only established after Genghis Khan defeated Khwarezm and controlled thousands of miles of land in the river.
They are not even Mongolians.
Sukhbalu cursed them as bastards of the Kipchaks. In fact, they trace their origins back to the Oghuz people of the Turks, who later migrated to the Western Regions and mixed with the Kangli people, the descendants of the Kipchaks. The Kangli people were
The main branch of the Western Regions later became the descendants of Khwarezm. The mother of Khwarezm Suantuan Mahamo, Turgan, was a member of the Boyawu clan.
I heard earlier that the man who killed the envoy sent by Genghis Khan and provided the Mongolian army with an excuse for the Western Expedition was a Kangli general from the Khwarezm Kingdom.
After this happened, Genghis Khan was furious on the surface, saying that if you want to fight, then fight. In fact, when he raised the army, he may not have been secretly happy in his heart. Not to mention that the leader of the Kangli people wiped out Gumari and her son Qulu.
Both He and Yaya rebelled against Khwarezm after the Mongolian army arrived and took the initiative to serve as rural guides for the Mongols.
Therefore, after the Mongolian army wiped out Khwarezm, they treated the Kangli people very favorably. The ancient Mari family and her sons Qulu and Yaya always had considerable military strength. On the grassland, Genghis Khan even instructed the princess of Zhenguo to come forward.
, temporarily pieced together some scattered settlements of the Boyawu tribe, and built a thousand households to show the trust of the Mongol Uluths in them.
This kind of makeshift thousands of households has neither cohesion nor loyalty at all, and more seriously lacks military training and military equipment. It really doesn't sit well with Sukhbaru.
But the Central Plains and the grasslands are isolated after all. Even if there are many businessmen coming and going, and even if there are Mongolians like Sukhbalu who strive to integrate into the Han people as a source of information, there are some things that they still cannot figure out.
The incoming group of Boyawu cavalry in front of me is not just a few thousand households on the grassland, but a real and combatable army.
At the beginning of the year, the fourth prince of Mongolia, Tuo Lei, suggested to Genghis Khan that the grasslands could not continue to be empty, but the main force of the Mongolian army had to suppress the local areas in the river and gradually expand its headquarters. Therefore, it might be possible to mobilize the army of the Kangli people in the Khwarezm Kingdom.
grassland.
The remaining tribes of Khwarezm were far away from the river, so the Mongols could easily take advantage of the combing of the river. However, the Kangli and Boya people had no roots in the grassland and could only be driven by the Golden Family.
This suggestion was appreciated by Genghis Khan, so the thousands of cavalry owned by the Tommi Gumari clan and her sons Qulu and Yaya, as well as a thousand fine cavalry from the Boyawu tribe were all mobilized. The heavy cavalry under Genghis Khan
General Subotai also transferred a number of men and horses from the Miliqi, Naiman, and Kelei tribes, and matched them with 10,000 war horses collected from various tribes in the Yemili River Basin.
After this unit was formed, it was immediately dispatched to the grassland. The river was far away from the Mongolian grassland. It took them several months to arrive at the grassland one after another. While they were still waiting for Belgutai to come forward to allocate grassland, they ran into the troops who had left the grassland earlier.
The Mongolian traitors clamored for Belgutai's head.
Fortunately, Belgutai issued a huge reward and assigned countless manpower to find the two missing men! The people of the Central Plains really bully others and go too far!
The incident happened in a hurry, and it was difficult to mobilize the troops from various departments. How could Belgutai let go of this newly arrived army? He immediately sent them out and asked them to go south to face the Mongolian traitors head-on.
At this time, Tutuha, the general of Boyawu's tribe, waved the small shield in his hand and knocked down two arrows falling from high altitude.
He was a newcomer. Although he knew that his subordinates were tired, he still tried to make great achievements. But at this moment, he looked at the enemies in front of him and felt incredible: "Aren't these all Mongols? Genghis Khan's power covers thousands of miles, and the Mongolian cavalry is invincible.
Just like this, the Mongols in the grassland headquarters still cannot be stopped from rebelling? Are these traitors crazy? Stupid? Or are they just born arrogant?"
