"Clear rewards and punishments are the most important thing." Mu Ang nodded and said. Except for a few, the vast majority of people pursue fairness. As long as things are done fairly, more fairly than the Soviet Party Dharma King, most generals will have a good impression of Zhu Xin.
"We must also reward the soldiers directly, rather than through the Soviet Party Dharma King." Mu Ang added. If you reward the soldiers of the Ahong Kingdom directly, they will appreciate Zhu's affection more. This trick was very useful. Zhu led his troops south more than ten years ago.
When attacking the Ava Kingdom, the chieftain generals were directly rewarded, and the chieftain himself was not easy to stop. Later, several chieftains were recruited to send troops to fight in small battles, and the chieftain generals who performed meritorious services were generously rewarded. Although it was not because of the heavy rewards, these generals
They are willing to do everything for Zhu Gan, but they are also very satisfied with their current life and will never support their chieftains to be disrespectful to Zhu. They are also more willing to cooperate when Zhu Zhengbing recruits grain, which allows Min Fan to greatly strengthen its control over each chieftain.
After defeating several rebellious tribes, the land and people were brought under the direct jurisdiction of the vassal state, which did not arouse the suspicion and fear of the chieftains. This time they came to Bengal to fight, but they were just okay at the beginning. When Zhu called them for the second time, they were sent out.
There were too many people, and many chieftains were reluctant. Zhu mobilized people close to Min Fan to persuade the chieftains, and finally made them willing to send troops according to Zhu's order.
They discussed for a while how to control the Ahong Kingdom. The lunch break was over. Mu Ang hurriedly got off the carriage, ordered the generals to gather their soldiers, and continued southward to Babna City in order.
After the whole army set off south, Zhu, who was sitting on the carriage, opened "A Brief History of the Western Regions" and started reading. Seeing this, the guard on horseback beside the carriage said: "Your Highness, you did not take a rest at noon. You were talking to General Mu.
You should rest for a while now."
"How did you rest?" Zhu said. The carriage he was riding in used rubber brought back from the Hanzhou mainland as tires, and applied a very primitive shock-absorbing device. It was much less bumpy than ordinary carriages. If he was in the city,
On the road, there were almost no bumps; but now they were on a dirt road in the wild, which was still unmaintained. The road was trodden by life and was uneven. Zhu was not particularly sleepy now, so of course he couldn't sleep.
"Besides, we have to rush to Babna City tomorrow, and I have to plan how to attack the city tomorrow, so I don't have time to rest." He added. After saying this, and after hearing another flattery, Zhu lowered his head.
Keep reading.
"Well, the Tianfang believers pray five times a day. Can we take advantage of this and send troops to sneak attack when they are praying? I can't use this. Since someone has already attacked our army, the guards of Babna City have already known about our army.
We are about to arrive and attack the city, but there is no way to sneak attack them. The Tianfang believers will not even have to kneel down to pray even if the enemy troops attack the city, right? The Tianfang believers in the Western Region have long been killed by Shang Bing."
"But they took advantage of their critical holiday to attack? Tianfang believers are really strange. There is a festival where you can't eat from the rising of the sun in the morning to the setting of the sun in the evening. The court officials, generals, wealthy businessmen, and landowners are just at home.
It’s okay to be hungry for a day. Instead, you can go to get rid of oil and water. But if ordinary people are hungry for a day, they can’t work at all. Doesn’t it mean that they will lose a day’s harvest? In particular, the calendar of Tianfang believers is still a pure lunar calendar, not only is there only three hundred and five hundred and fifty in a year.
There are more than ten days, and there is only one more day in the leap month, which makes this festival season different every year. If it happens to catch up with the spring plowing season, and you are hungry and unable to work all day, the harvest of the year will be delayed. I don’t know.
What do they think? But calculating the calendar, there are still more than three months before this festival of Tianfang believers, so I can't take advantage of it."
"Tianfang believers don't eat pork, so they can use pork or lard to humiliate them and make the enemy generals lose their minds? You can try this method, but when the army is marching, the pigs can't keep up with the march, so they can only drive cattle and sheep for meat. Ba
As a city ruled by Tianfang believers, Buna City will definitely not be able to find pigs, and it is not needed now. However, you can send a message back and ask them to transport a few pigs. If you don't need them this time, you can use them next time you attack the city.
try."
"..."
Zhu Yi read several chapters in a row and found that the strategies used by Shang Bing were either unavailable to him now, or lacked the means to implement them, or could not be used. He was immediately disappointed and wanted to put down the book. But he picked up the rest with his hands.
As for the content, I felt that there were only a few pages left, but I had finished reading them all, so I continued reading.
He flipped through a few more pages, and suddenly saw a page about the Tianfang believers in India. He immediately focused his attention again and continued reading. He only saw it read: "...For some reason, the original people in India are extremely weak in war."
, as early as more than a thousand years ago, many people from heaven, Persia or the Western Regions went south to attack India, and most of them were able to gain a foothold in India, seize a piece of land and establish a country. Not only that, these outsiders who came to India, in order to ensure the army
Although locals are also recruited as soldiers, they are mostly used as auxiliary troops and cannot be relied on to serve as the country's main city. Elite soldiers are still recruited from Persia or the Western Regions, either by recruiting adult men or by purchasing young children.
Form a Boy Scouts and train them slowly. The local people in India are darker, similar to the natives of Southeast Asia, and their appearance is also different from the people in Tianfang, the Western Regions and other places. People with such different looks rule India, and the local people in India are actually willing to be ruled.
I always felt very weird."
At this point, Shang Bing had not finished writing this paragraph, but Zhu slowly put down the book, raised his head and looked at both sides of the road. The road he took a few days ago was in the middle of Ahong country to Bangladesh, and there were fewer people.
There are more woods; this is already some of the most prosperous places in Bangladesh. There are no trees on both sides of the road, only fields or ponds. But Zhu seemed to have seen the woods and murmured: "Both Mu Ang and I guessed
The reason why there was harassment by enemy troops in the past few days but not today is probably because there are no longer trees on both sides of the road and it is very difficult for them to hide. This does make sense, but there should be other reasons."
Zhu sat on the carriage and looked out for a while. Suddenly he heard someone say: "I have seen your highness."
"General Sheng." Zhu Ye returned the greeting.
"I take the liberty to ask, what is your highness thinking about? But are you worried that tomorrow's attack on Babna City will not go well?" Sheng Yong asked. Seeing Zhu sticking his head by the carriage window and looking at it for a while, he couldn't help but step forward to ask. Of course.
, his purpose was not to talk to Zhu about how to attack the city tomorrow, but to persuade Zhu to sit back in the car and not put his head next to the window. Although there are no woods on both sides of the road, it is impossible to sneak attack the army. But maybe
There were several people holding crossbows who wanted to assassinate the Ming general. It was dangerous to put Zhu's head next to the window. It was not good to tell Zhu so bluntly, so Sheng Yong first raised a different topic and then persuaded him to put his head back.
"Gu is indeed worried that tomorrow's attack on Pabna City will not go smoothly, but it is not because of the current situation." Zhu said: "Gu Shi just read a book sent by King Qin from the northwest and found that it said that India's
The Tianfang Christian countries all recruit soldiers from Tianfang or Dashi as their elite divisions; General Lan’s letter also seems to have said that the main force of the Delhi Sultanate, Bangladesh and other countries are also relatively white and do not look like native Indians.”
"What's wrong with this?"
"General Sheng, do you still remember the appearance of the enemy troops who attacked the army a few days ago?"
"A bit darker than the people of the Ming Dynasty, almost the same as the natives of Nanyang. His Highness said," Sheng Yong suddenly reacted: "Several countries that are against the Ming Dynasty are ruled by Tianfang believers, and the main elite under their command should be relatively white people.
, not native Indians.”
"But now that they know that His Highness is leading the army south, in order to slow down the pace of the army going south, even if many local people are sent as cannon fodder, there should still be elites to suppress the battle. But in the past few days, no white-looking people have been found. So the enemy sent
It is very suspicious that these people come to harass our troops."
"General Sheng is right." Zhu said: "If it is to delay, we should send out elite troops to suppress the formation and drive out the troops composed of local people, instead of all fighting by local people."
"Could it be that the enemy is deceiving? But where is this 'deception'?" Sheng Yong said slowly: "In any case, a sneak attack can let our army know that the enemy has discovered that the southward movement has been discovered, and speed up the march. This will help
What’s the use?”
"But not only did our army not speed up its march, it actually moved slower."
"This is because His Highness is in the army, and it would be more unsafe for His Highness to lead the troops at this time, so the march has been slowed down. However, the enemy army does not know that His Highness is in the army..."
"How can you be sure that the enemy doesn't know that Gu is in the army?"
"Your Highness is saying that because the enemy knew that Your Highness was in the army and knew that a sneak attack would slow down our army's march, they sent people to attack in a sneak attack to delay our army's march south? This also makes sense."
"Of course this makes sense. But Mr. Gu feels that it's not that simple. Maybe..." Zhu wanted to express his guess again.
But at this moment, the soldier who was at the forefront of the march suddenly came to Zhu's carriage on horseback. He took a breath and saluted and said, "Your Highness, there are enemy troops blocking the way ahead."
"They want to fight our army in the field?" Sheng Yong said incredulously. Let's not talk about whether the Tianfang believers can defeat the Ming army in the field. From a strategic point of view, at this time, the northern Indian countries should focus on defense and wait.
The Ming army made a mistake. Since the main focus was on defense, no matter whether the Ming army could be defeated in the field, the losses would be far greater than the defenders. This is very strange."
"What did General Mu give the order?" Zhu Ze asked immediately.
"General Mu also thought it was a bit strange, so he sent a few people to test it out immediately," Napu Bing said.
"Quickly pass Gu's military order, release the exploration horses for twenty miles, and explore the left and right sides!" Zhu was silent for a moment, and then suddenly ordered.
