Su Jiakang sent Diao Leixun to lead two hundred Ming troops to secretly attack the baggage troops of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty. However, what Su Jiakang and Diao Leixun did not expect was that the size of this baggage force would be as high as more than 500 people, and there were many large soldiers in it.
The main force of Tang Xin's army escorted them.
Under this situation, Diao Leixun did not dare to lead his army to launch an attack. In the end, he could only watch the baggage troops of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty leave the ambush, and then returned to Zhengtai County in dejection.
After Su Jiakang heard the report of Diao Leixun's trip, although he was very dissatisfied that Diao Leixun retreated without even daring to fight, he also knew that with the 200 remnants of Diao Leixun's troops at that time, it was impossible to cause any damage to the supply troops of the puppet Tang thief army.
No matter what threat, a sneak attack will fail and the whole army will be annihilated instead.
But even though he could understand Diao Leixun's choice, he was still quite dissatisfied!
If Diao Leixun dares to lead an attack, even if he encounters strong resistance from the puppet Tang thief army, the ambush may still cause a large number of casualties to the puppet Tang thief army. As for his own side, he may suffer heavy losses or even the entire army.
The army is annihilated, but how can there be no casualties in a war?
What's more, it wasn't Su Jiakang himself who died, it was just a group of lowly warriors!
For strategic victory, for the Ming Dynasty, and for Su Jiakang's future, Diao Leixun should have launched a suicide charge at that time!
However, although he had these thoughts in his heart, he did not express them. Even though Su Jiakang did not care about the lives of Diao Leixun and other soldiers, the safety of Zhengtai County still needs these lowly warriors to protect it.
For the safety of Zhengtai County, Su Jiakang endured the anger of a Jinshi official, and instead comforted Diao Leixun and other soldiers who returned without success.
If Su Jiakang failed to send people to attack the baggage of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, it would directly lead to a serious result: the New Army of the Tang Dynasty will use this batch of materials to build more weapons in the next month or two.
It takes time to build weapons, and it takes a long time, and it will not be available for a while. However, the expansion of the new army of the Tang Dynasty did not stop due to lack of weapons. Instead, it continued to maintain the momentum of rapid military expansion.
In every town in Zhengtai County, the New Army of the Tang Dynasty set up recruitment points and recruited a large number of qualified recruits.
What kind of people can meet the requirements? The first is their origin. For example, if they are a child of a local farm family, their height must meet the requirements, and their physical fitness must also meet the minimum requirements.
And he must be an honest person, preferably someone who can't fart even after a kick, a glib tongue, an overly flexible personality, or even a smart person.
Secondly, those whose parents are still alive, those who have two or more brothers, and those who are poor will be admitted first, even if their height and physical fitness are slightly lower.
On the one hand, there are parents at home, which means that there will be care and fighting for the parents at home.
If there are many brothers in the family, there is no need to worry about the family being cut off after a battle. This allows soldiers to have less worries during the battle.
Those whose families are poor mean that they need the land distributed after joining the army, which gives them a reason to fight to the death for the land.
These are specifically targeted at farmers who have no skills of their own, but some special units do not have many requirements, such as cavalry. As long as you know how to ride and have a passable physical fitness, you can successfully apply. If you also bring your own
When a war horse is recruited, he is immediately given the rank of sergeant.
Archers also have the same treatment. As long as you have good archery skills, you can successfully apply even if you were a gangster before.
This is because today's new army of the Tang Dynasty is extremely short of cavalry and archers, and it is difficult to train them. If you catch one, you can use it without caring about anything else.
However, there is another group that also receives preferential treatment, and that is literate people!
As long as you can write hundreds of common words on the spot, if you want to join the military, you will immediately be given the officer rank of warrant officer. If you want to join politics, you will be immediately assigned to serve in various agencies.
If you are still the kind of person who has received formal education and has reached the level of a scholar, even if you could not pass the county examination before, you will be given an official hat immediately. If you want to join the army, you will be awarded the rank of second lieutenant and enter the martial arts school under the Privy Council.
After studying, with outstanding academic performance and passing the inspection, you can enter the Emperor's Class taught by Li Xuan himself and become a member of the core officer class of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty.
As for those who have obtained the official title of imperial examination, that is, scholars, the Tang Dynasty is reluctant to let you join the army and fight. Instead, you can choose any of the nine internal departments. The last time you will be a doctor, after the assessment period, you can easily get a minister.
In the Tang Dynasty, there are only two scholars now.
As for higher-level candidates? If you dare to come, Li Xuan will give you the title of a bachelor, or even a noble title of earl.
As for Jinshi, the Tang Dynasty has no arrangements for treatment for the time being, because there is probably no Jinshi in the world who will take the initiative to offer loyalty to Li Xuan. If there is, Li Xuan would dare to throw out a Duke directly.
You can choose a title, a bachelor's degree, or any of the nine ministerial books. If you're still not satisfied?
Damn, you’re not satisfied even with the highest-ranking official title? Aren’t you staring at his emperor’s throne?
If he wants his throne as emperor, huh, Li Xuan will kill him immediately!
The weak and hard-working Tang Dynasty had a huge thirst for talents, even if the talents could only write a few hundred common words!
It is a pity that not only all but 99% of those who read some books these days, especially those who read the Four Books and Five Classics and are dedicated to the imperial examinations, have no good impressions of Li Xuan's valley dynasty, or even
He wholeheartedly hoped that the Ming Dynasty King would be able to fight his way back to Zhengtai County.
The more knowledgeable and educated people are, the more they can see through the nature of the Tang Dynasty: they are just a group of bandits who are brain-burning and playing the game of founding a country and becoming emperor, and sooner or later they will be annihilated by the imperial army.
Relatively speaking, the people at the bottom do not have this kind of knowledge and awareness. In their view, there is no difference between the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty. Some people even cannot tell the difference between the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty. Many peasants
When I went to apply for the army, I thought I was recruiting for the imperial army.
And there is nothing wrong with them thinking so, because when the Tang Dynasty promoted recruitment, it also used titles such as imperial court, officers and soldiers, so many people believed that the Tang Dynasty was the official dynasty, and Li Xuancai
He is the most powerful emperor in the world.
You can't just think that they are stupid, but many villagers in these remote places have never even been to the county town in their lives. Not only have they never been there, but even their parents and ancestors have never been there. Many people have activities in their lives.
The range will not exceed the scope of their village, and the farthest place they have visited is the village next door.
They only know the meaning of the words "court" and "officers and soldiers", but they don't know the difference between the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty.
The lack of knowledge, coupled with the fact that although the new army of the Tang Dynasty did not pay salaries, the treatment given to the soldiers was definitely not bad. There was Anjia silver, an open supply of white rice, and even a piece of land was given out for free after joining the army. Together, these three things,
This created a phenomenon where a large number of people, especially poor children, enthusiastically joined the army.
This also allowed the New Army of the Tang Dynasty to recruit a large number of new soldiers in just half a month, not only replenishing the existing several battalions and teams, but also mixing the newly established fourth battalion and second battalion into
The battalion, the expanded artillery team, and the newly established grenadiers have all recruited the required soldiers.
In addition to the originally full supply camp, the first garrison battalion reorganized by the Ming army's recruited soldiers and prisoners, and the heavy armored sword and shield troops, which were already more than one team, and the archer team each had 150 people, there were already
Expanded to sixty cavalry.
In terms of military strength alone, the New Army of the Tang Dynasty has completed this large-scale expansion mission, and the total strength of the entire army has reached 3,800 people.
The main force included four infantry battalions and two mixed battalions. The combat strength of these six battalions reached 1,800 people.
After recruiting all the new soldiers and assigning them to each unit one by one, Li Xuan led the entire army to carry out large-scale training. At the same time, it was also to speed up the training progress of several other infantry battalions and form combat effectiveness faster. Li Xuan started from the first
The first infantry battalion and the second mixed battalion were divided into platoons, and the organic units were transferred to serve as the backbone of the other four battalions, which were all new recruits.
Accelerate the growth of these four battalions in a way where the old leads the new!
After more than half of the main force of the 1st Infantry Battalion and the 1st Mixed Battalion were transferred, although the combat effectiveness inevitably dropped a lot, this was a necessary price to bear for the short-term expansion of the army.
Moreover, although nearly half of the veterans in the 1st Infantry Battalion and the 1st Mixed Battalion were transferred, they still have half of the veterans left. After recruiting new soldiers, they can still regain their combat effectiveness relatively quickly.
If troops were not transferred to the newly established infantry battalion in an organic manner, although the combat effectiveness of the 1st Infantry Battalion and the 1st Mixed Battalion could be maintained, it would take more than three months for the other four newly established battalions to form combat effectiveness.
, even for more than half a year.
This time is intolerable to Li Xuan!
Because the Ming army could not give him so much time to slowly expand and train the army.
While the military was expanding, Liu Bagou and others returned to Xikou Village and started working one by one according to the many policies set at the previous imperial strategy meeting. The first and most important thing was to formulate and improve the tax system.
The autumn harvest is coming, and they must be prepared to collect taxes before the autumn harvest, because then they can raise enough military rations to supply a large amount of food.
The Ministry of Taxation continued to dispatch tax officials to various towns and villages, and also promulgated the first formal tax law of the Tang Dynasty: the Datang Dynasty Tax System.
This tax system caused great controversy when it was first promulgated. This tax system was welcomed by the majority of small and medium-sized landowners and ordinary farmers, and was also strongly opposed by large landowners and businessmen!