During the battle outside Rong County, the Ming army soldiers were still able to continue charging after suffering more than 10% casualties!
Before the soldiers finally collapsed, their casualties, due to being crushed by the cavalry and infantry of the Tang Army, had reached nearly a thousand people!
In other words, these soldiers completely collapsed after their casualties reached more than 30%!
And this number is quite impressive, even most of the troops in the current Datang Army cannot achieve it!
The only ones who can do this are the most elite grenadiers in the entire Tang Dynasty Army. Maybe the most elite First Infantry Battalion in the main force can barely do it, but it's hard to say whether they can do it specifically.
Because the 1st Infantry Battalion had never suffered such heavy casualties.
However, for ordinary Datang Army troops, the general casualties reached about 100%, and their courage to charge would basically be lost. After the two sides entered a hand-to-hand battle, the casualties reached more than 20%, which was basically a collapse situation. This situation did not
It will not change because of who the general is leading the army or whether the tactics are advanced or not, but is caused by the courage of the soldiers themselves and the human survival instinct.
The performance of the Ming army soldiers outside Rong County, especially their high ability to withstand casualties, made Li Chunjing at the front and Hao Bainian at the rear look high.
When Ma Wei arrived, Hao Bainian briefly greeted him and said, "Master Ma, you are a native of Liuzhou. Are you familiar with these chieftain warriors? Are they all brave enough to die?"
Ma Wei was a native of Liuzhou and naturally knew the chieftains well. He immediately said: "Guangxi has a large population but little land, and lack of resources. We have always fought for water, fields, etc. The people have always been fierce, and there are often armed fights in the villages."
The four words "people's toughness and toughness" basically define Ma Wei's words. However, although Ma Wei is also a native of Guangxi, he does not praise blindly, but says realistically: "Although there are soldiers who are brave and not afraid of death.
, but there are definitely not many, most of them are the elite soldiers of each chieftain, but the ordinary soldiers, even if the folk customs are more fierce, are just ordinary people, and the fear of death is also being eliminated!"
Hao Bainian said: "So, there shouldn't be many soldiers like the ones encountered by the Second Infantry Regiment?"
Ma Wei said: "Of course, these three thousand warriors are probably the only elite warriors that the chieftains in Liuzhou and even nearby state capitals can muster. Even if all the elite warriors of the chieftains in Guangxi are put together, they will never be able to do it."
The number of soldiers exceeds ten thousand, and if they are temporarily recruited soldiers, without training, they will not be any better than ordinary guardsmen."
Hao Bainian nodded after hearing this: "If there are only ten thousand people, it's nothing!"
What Hao Bainian is worried about is not the existing soldiers and guardsmen in Guangxi. What he is more worried about is that after the war started, many chieftains and even Ming Dynasty officials recruited ordinary soldiers, and the number was not as simple as a few thousand.
, tens of thousands of people can be scraped together. If the tens of thousands of temporarily recruited soldiers are as brave as the three thousand soldiers outside Rong County, then it will be very difficult for Guangxi to fight.
If there is only a scale of less than 10,000 people, then he is relatively confident in the fight. He has already killed 3,000 people in the front, and I am afraid that the remaining elite chieftain soldiers that can be gathered in Guangxi will only be at most.
Only five or six thousand people.
When the time comes, you should be more cautious. It is best to find a branch to defeat them, but you don't really have to be too afraid of these soldiers!
But after chatting with Ma Wei a little more about the situation of the soldiers, Hao Bainian suddenly said: "Is it feasible if our army also recruits local natives to join the army?"
The reason why Hao Bainian asked Ma Wei directly was because Ma Wei was previously the Minister of War and was responsible for recruiting soldiers. He was quite authoritative in the field of recruiting new soldiers.
Ma Wei did not answer immediately, but thought for a moment before saying: "Many local villages are short of food and clothing. If we can provide enough money to settle down, and promise to have enough food and salary, we will recruit native people to join the army."
It’s still very easy, but the local people have strong morals and may not be able to adapt to our army’s strict military discipline!”
The requirements of the Imperial Guard of the Tang Dynasty for new recruits are not just the courage of the soldiers or the toughness of the people. The Imperial Imperial Guard of the Tang Dynasty's requirements for the new recruits are simple and high. First of all, his requirements for the new recruits are
Height and physical fitness are relatively high, and this is also a requirement of most armies. It is not strange, and it is not a requirement unique to the Royal Division of the Tang Dynasty. However, the Royal Division of the Tang Dynasty has a very strange requirement when recruiting new soldiers, and that is
As long as the farmer's son is innocent.
It’s not that farmers’ children absolutely don’t want it, but urban residents don’t want it at all!
Secondly, we definitely don’t want some green-skinned hooligans and idle people in the countryside!
Even among farmers with a clean family background, priority is given to those with healthy parents, brothers, and docile personalities.
Because it is easier to train such people, and the soldiers themselves do not have too many tricks!
But if the folk customs are strong and strong, these soldiers will be easy to recruit, but training will probably be a lot of trouble!
Troops like the King's Division of the Tang Dynasty don't actually need soldiers who are very bloody and courageous. What they need are soldiers who have no ideas, as long as they can obey orders.
However, although I still have concerns, I have never done this before. Naturally, it is impossible or not feasible. Now that the army has marched south to Liuzhou, soldiers will definitely be recruited locally in the future, not only to supplement existing units such as the First Infantry Brigade, but
New troops still need to be established. We cannot expect the First Infantry Brigade and the Third Guard Brigade to completely conquer the Guangdong and Guangxi regions. We must continue to expand the army.
Not to mention other things, just to control such a huge area as Guangdong and Guangxi, and to set up a 400-person bandit capture camp in each county would require a lot of soldiers.
Ma Wei immediately said: "Ma will discuss it with his colleagues in the Ministry of War, and then we will see whether to recruit a large number of local natives to join the army!"
Hao Bainian said: "In this case, I will trouble Master Ma to worry more!"
When Hao Bainian led his army to fight south, it was naturally inseparable from all kinds of support from the rear. The soldiers needed to be recruited by the Ministry of War in the civil service system, and the transportation of military rations and even baggage required the best assistance from the Liuzhou Prefecture. The army itself was very difficult.
It is difficult to complete these complicated and many tasks.
Ma Wei naturally also knew why His Majesty asked him to go south with the army. It was not to govern the place, but to provide various support to the frontline army in a better and more timely manner.
After all, whether it is officials sent by the Ministry of War to recruit new soldiers in Liuzhou, or officials sent by the Ministry of Taxation to collect taxes in Liuzhou, they cannot do without the support of the prefect of Liuzhou.
In the end, most of the new soldiers recruited and the money and food collected will be used to supply the frontline troops for combat!
After coming out of Hao Bainian's Chinese army camp, Ma Wei immediately ran to his own camp, and then held a brief discussion meeting with officials sent from various cabinet ministries who also went south with the army.
Just like when they marched into Liping Mansion, the cabinet had arranged in advance for many officials to march with the army. Whenever a place was conquered, these officials would immediately move in and establish the rule of the Tang Dynasty.
For example, in the former Huaiyuan County, the magistrate of Huaiyuan County who belongs to the Tang Dynasty has settled in, and began to form the Datang Dynasty with the subordinates who came with him and those who had just surrendered from the middle and low-level officials of the Ming Dynasty.
The county government of Huaiyuan County was established, and preparations were made to establish town and village administrative agencies in the towns and villages under Huaiyuan County.
Officials of the Recruitment Department of the Ministry of War have already opened recruitment stations on the spot to start recruiting new soldiers. Civilian officials of the Training Department under the Privy Council have also established Datang's first recruit camp in the Guangdong and Guangxi regions in Huaiyuan County. It is expected that this recruit camp will not be long.
There are at least hundreds or even thousands of people training!
Similarly, officials from the Department of Taxation have also arrived in Huaiyuan County!
It is worth mentioning that the number of tax officials who went south is the largest. For example, in Huaiyuan County, the new county magistrate is responsible for establishing a county, but he only brought more than 20 people with him.
He just went south and took office. There were not many people at the Ministry of War. There was only one official and about ten followers. When recruiting soldiers, they even needed help from military soldiers.
But only the people from the Taxation Department came in large numbers. There were seven or eight high-ranking officials. They did not bring many followers, but there was also a group staying in Huaiyuan County who had made outstanding achievements in the Tang Dynasty and was the dynasty's leader.
He has made great contributions in establishing and has more than 100 tax inspection teams under the Grain Collection Department of the Taxation Department in Liping Prefecture and Xingquan Prefecture.
The tax inspection team of the Tang Dynasty was equipped with more sophisticated equipment than the bandit camp. They were equipped with swords, spears, and even armor and muskets. They even accompanied the Second Brigade westward in Guizhou to accurately go to the tax inspection team in the Guiyang area.
The inspection team has a super luxurious lineup of more than 500 people, and they also have war weapons such as bowl-mouth cannons!
Many green-skinned gangsters who have just joined the tax inspection team have a sigh: How magnificent, our tax inspection team is worthy of being the gathering place for the elites of the Tang Dynasty!
Moreover, after the tax inspection team arrived in Huaiyuan County, the first thing they did was not to raid homes and collect taxes, but to recruit troops on the spot!
The people they recruit are not good-natured, kind-hearted people, but green-skinned hooligans and gangsters. In short, they recruit some bad, pus-eating villains.
Everywhere, there is a group of green-skinned gangsters. When they found the tax inspection team, they all immediately took on a new lease of life. They put on the black uniforms of the tax inspection team and received their allotments.
Armed with equipment such as waist knives and short sticks, he suddenly became a member of the Tang Dynasty's tax inspection team.
According to the assumptions of the officials of the Ministry of Taxation, the Grain Collection Department of the Ministry of Taxation transferred more than 100 members of the original tax inspection team of the Grain Collection Department from Liping Prefecture and Xingquan Prefecture. They were used as seeds, and one was recruited every time they visited.
Local elites form a local tax inspection team!
Then he began to vigorously cooperate with local tax officials to raid homes and make money. Oh, no, taxation work should be carried out legally and reasonably!