Chapter 1491 Holding the new Oda Nobunaga of mortal death
In order to encourage scholars to join the army, and also to make the military more firmly on the side of the royal family, Li Xuan has been unswervingly promoting the social status of soldiers for so many years.
For example, in terms of salary and benefits, the salary and benefits of joining the military are relatively high these days. Even for ordinary soldiers, their salaries have dropped significantly since the end of the Unification War, and the monthly salary they receive is roughly the same as that of ordinary workers.
Yes, but what you have to pay attention to is that as a soldier in the Tang Empire, food and accommodation are included, and there is no need to spend extra money for food and clothing.
The money the soldiers received was sent home or spent by themselves.
As for officers, it is even higher. Even if they are still studying in Wu Xuetang School, their military rank is Warrant Officer, but they still have a monthly salary of about ten yuan. After graduation, in addition to military rank salary, they will also have position salary.
A second lieutenant's monthly salary in peacetime is about twenty yuan.
Not to mention, soldiers will be arranged to find employment after they retire, especially military officers who are retired. Most of them will be arranged to work in various organizations in various places and continue to serve as officials.
Compared with other industries, the treatment of military personnel is undoubtedly better.
In addition, soldiers can more easily obtain the title of nobility. If we say that the title of nobility in the early years was more of an honorary title, at most it would only result in a small noble salary.
But since Li Xuan started to fief the nobles a few years ago, the title of noble has become a real benefit. Once you obtain a fief, you can get a fief salary. In addition, you can usually obtain a large amount of land as private property. These lands are a
A huge amount of wealth, even if the descendants are unable to keep the title and the fief is taken back, the private land given will not be taken back. In other words, these lands can be passed down forever.
In addition, a very important point is that the Holy Emperor Li Xuan relaxed the restrictions on canonizing nobles a few years ago. Although it is still extremely difficult to canonize noble titles above baron, the title of noble at the level of Lord has been added.
The conditions for this Lord's canonization are much easier. You must know that Li Xuan plans to canonize at least tens of thousands of Lords in the end, and then send them to all over the world, so the restrictions on the Lord's canonization will not be too big.
Then it also relaxed the difficulty of inheriting the title. In the past, after the hereditary rank was reduced to a baron, the title was directly reduced. But now, after the hereditary rank is reduced to a lord, if the lord's prince can pass the assessment, he can still inherit the title of the lord, although the assessment can be expected
The conditions will not be easy, but at least there is a chance to inherit.
Improving the treatment of nobles is basically equivalent to improving the treatment of the military, because currently, more than 90% of the nobles in the Tang Empire are from military backgrounds.
Only by joining the army can it be easier to obtain a noble title.
Otherwise, you can only become a scientist and an academic aristocrat.
As for being an official, you have to reach the level of a department boss before you can be awarded a title, and for most officials, this path is almost impossible.
Under the influence of many conditions, the political status of soldiers in the Tang Empire was relatively high, and similarly, their social status was also relatively high.
Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many children of powerful people enthusiastically applying for military academies and then joining the army, just to preserve their family's glory and wealth, or even to advance to a higher level.
Bi Zhian is one of these powerful children.
Facing the possible attack by the Fuso people, although Bi Zhian was nervous, he was more excited and even looking forward to it.
Why did he come all the way to Fusang? Isn't it just to achieve military success?
The Tang military and colonial authorities in the Osaka area were fully prepared to respond to the Fuso people's changes!
The Osaka Garrison Regiment has held several meetings in a row, and basically every officer has participated. Bi Zhian has also participated in several meetings in a row.
Although his military rank was inconspicuous in the huge Tang Army, he was just a lieutenant.
But in the Osaka area, there are not many officers in the army. The regimental commander has the rank of lieutenant colonel, the deputy regimental commander has the rank of major, and the chief of staff is a captain.
The Osaka Garrison Regiment has a small number of troops. Although it bears the name of a regiment, it is actually just a reinforced battalion. Therefore, there is no battalion below, but directly manages each team. It has six infantry teams and two artillery teams.
A cavalry corps and a baggage corps.
The captains of these teams are all captains or lieutenants.
As one of the captains of the six infantry regiments, Bi Zhi'an is only a lieutenant, but he is already a relatively important officer in the Osaka area.
After attending several military meetings, Bi Zhian followed the orders of his superiors and led his troops to garrison the northeastern defense zone of Osaka. To the east and north of his troops were friendly troops.
In addition, there is a relatively special unit among the troops he leads, which is a militia unit of the Osaka Militia.
These militiamen were young people from the Tang Dynasty who had been urgently recruited in the past few days. After these young people were recruited, they were distributed with weapons and trained urgently while assisting the houses.
The combat effectiveness of these militiamen is obviously not good. Even if they are used to fight against the Fuso natives, they will be very reluctant because they have not received any military training at all. Even if they have flintlocks, they are of little use.
At most, they are engaged in some auxiliary tasks, such as transporting supplies, helping to build fortifications, and undertaking security duties in the rear.
In fact, the Osaka Garrison Regiment's use of this militia force, which totals more than 800 people, is limited to allowing them to undertake auxiliary tasks. These militiamen without military training will not be allowed to go to the battlefield unless absolutely necessary.
The militia team assigned to Bi Zhi'an is responsible for auxiliary tasks, helping to transport ammunition and other supplies, and helping to build parapets. If the battle is more critical, they will be asked to hide behind the parapets and use muskets to support the battle. No matter how many enemies are killed,
, just fire the gun and create some momentum.
When Bi Zhian led the team to deploy defense, about ten kilometers away from Osaka Castle, a large army wearing various traditional Fuso costumes, but with different colors of military uniforms and different flags, and even marching separately, was slowing down.
Moving slowly towards Osaka Castle.
This Fuso army was led by Oda Nobunaga, who contacted the Tokugawa family, the Imagawa family, the Miyoshi family and other large numbers of daimyo to form a coalition.
Their goal was to capture Osaka Castle and pull out the huge nail that the Tang Dynasty had planted in the hinterland of Honshu Island, so that the Fuso Allied Forces could calmly fight against the main landing force of the Tang Dynasty.
However, over the years, these Fuso people have also been deeply aware of the formidable military power of the Tang Dynasty. You must know that even the various weapons and weapons they use now are all imported from the Tang Dynasty.
Including matchlock guns, shotguns, plate armor and even waist knives and spears, they were all weapons imported from the Tang Dynasty.
To be honest, even Oda Nobunaga didn't have much confidence in using the export version of the weapons purchased from Datang to fight against the Tang army.
Over the years, the Tang Dynasty's garrison on the Fuso Islands has actually dealt with local daimyo. Although the scale of the battles was not large, usually involving hundreds or thousands of people, over the years, the Fuso people simply
Not even a single benefit was obtained.
It was all a disastrous failure!
But even if they have no confidence and are afraid of the military power of the Tang Dynasty, these Fusang people have to bite the bullet and fight because they have no way out.
The current situation has become very obvious. Datang wants to completely regain the Fuso Islands and eliminate the many Fuso daimyo on the islands, regardless of whether they were friendly or hostile to the Tang Dynasty before. Moreover,
Complete annihilation.
The news coming from the western part of Honshu Island has proved that many local daimyo have been completely wiped out and no one has survived.
Naturally, these famous people were not willing to sit back and wait for death. Even though they knew that they could not fight, they had no choice but to form a coalition to fight.
In order to conquer Osaka, Oda Nobunaga, Tokugawa Ieyasu and other daimyo joined forces and formed an army totaling more than 50,000 people.
Fifty thousand troops are already a veritable army on the contemporary Fuso Islands. After all, after decades of melee, especially the brutal wars in the past ten years, the total population of the Fuso Islands is only two.
Just three million people.
Even if all the young and strong men were recruited, it would not be possible to form a large-scale army.
These 50,000 people were already Oda Nobunaga and other daimyo, and they brought all the troops with them, not only the traditional samurai, but even the young and strong farmers in the area.
But can these 50,000 people conquer Osaka?
Oda Nobunaga doesn’t know!
All he can do now is do his best and obey fate!
No matter whether you can't fight it or not, you have to fight it, otherwise you will die.
No, there may be other ways, such as surrendering directly, but this will only save your life for a while.
The Tang Dynasty did not give any preferential treatment to the indigenous people who surrendered. Surrendering would only temporarily spare your life, but the previous power would be lost. In the eyes of the Tang Dynasty, there was no difference between the famous names of Fusang and the peasants of Fusang.
Prisoners who surrender are usually sent to do hard labor. How long they can live depends on God.
Not many indigenous prisoners of war could survive it anyway.
Even if it's not for glory or wealth, but just for your own life, you still have to fight this battle.
What's more, whether it is Oda Nobunaga or Tokugawa Ieyasu, these famous names are also famous heroes in contemporary Fuso. Later generations even call them the Three Heroes of the Warring States Period.
You ask such people to give up all their power, then go to work as coolies obediently, and finally die of exhaustion on the construction site. They would rather die directly on the battlefield.
Today, they came to Osaka with the determination to die.