Chapter sixty three.
With the decades of the late Ming Dynasty, some warlords became increasingly conventional in the Ming Dynasty. The strength of military generals depends entirely on the number of personal soldiers and whether they can fight. When Li Chengliang used his hands to cover the sky in Liaodong, he killed all the Mongolian Jurchen tribes, and he was favored by Emperor Wanli and the Chief Secretary Zhang Juzheng, who was relied on three thousand personal soldiers who could fight.
These small hills in Tieshan Town are unreliable, and the soldiers under their command are unreliable. Mao Jue has long wanted to build a group that can be used to make a move so that people can not fight to run away.
Moreover, unlike Yuan Chonghuan's tactical ideas, Mao Jue did not agree with his strategic layout of gradually defending the castle cannons and finally trapping the Later Jin Dynasty. Not to mention whether he could trap Jiannu, the price alone was something that the Ming Empire could not afford.
The changes in Huang Taiji's battle at the capital already show that this strategy is unrealistic, and the Battle of Daling River is a sign that the strategy has just begun to declare bankruptcy.
In the late stage, the huge Ming Empire could not consume the small Later Jin Dynasty, forcing Hong Chengchou to take risks. When he could no longer fight the field, he finally destroyed the last 130,000 troops of the Ming Dynasty. Before the Battle of Songjin, the Ming army still had a 70,000 advantage against the peasant army, but after the Battle of Songjin, the Ming Dynasty was no longer able to deal with the surging peasant uprising trend. In just a few years, it collapsed and fell into Li Zicheng's rioters' army.
Therefore, Mao Jue believed that even if Sarhu was defeated in the Battle of Liao, the Ming army should not be huddled in the city and dared not fight in the field. Although Manchus could fight, they still could not escape the inherent disadvantages of ethnic minorities. The Ming Dynasty could still lose once, twice, three times, and four large-scale decisive battles. However, as long as the main force of the Eight Banners was defeated in one decisive battle and the large number of Jianzhou Jurchens were killed and the Later Jin Dynasty would collapse.
It is not unreasonable that Yuan Chonghuan could pacify Liao in the five years. It must be resolved as soon as possible. Compared with the Tianqi period, Chongzhen still had a great chance in his early years. At least the party dispute was not as sharp as Wei Zhongxian when he was alive. Yuan Chonghuan once obtained the full command of Liaodong. He might have a chance to give him a few years.
Unfortunately, Emperor Chongzhen's impetuous and reckless advancement changed every day and even killed Yuan Chonghuan. Finally, he dragged the peasant uprising to the scale of the scale. He fought on both sides and lost one another to the last bit of vitality of the Ming Dynasty.
Liaodong Town is still better at least, at least with the Ming Dynasty as its support. At the critical moment, Hong Chengchou also took out 130,000 troops to go out of the customs battle, but he had no backs to Dongjiang Town. In the tenth year of Chongzhen, North Korea's Bingzi was in chaos. The Qing army returned to the army defeated Pi Island on the way, and tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians on the island were slaughtered.
So before this, Mao Jue must have an army that can withstand field battles.
Compared with the Liaodong Town, which has many people and many powerful people and wealthy soldiers, Mao Jue started from scratch. However, this is also a huge advantage. It means streamlining and efficient if it is small. Without the intrigue and disputes in Liaodong Town, there are no such things as intrigues and disputes in interest, which means new hope.
However, this new hope really feels like it is a bit unstoppable.
The selection site was set up in Mao Jue's first battlefield, Yuegu, which is the largest fortress and the schoolyard is the most spacious, but in the morning it was crowded with people who were recruiting, with a total of five or six thousand people, and even some of He Momo and some of Zhao Cheng's soldiers came to apply.
As there are more people, the quality has decreased.
Originally, women were not allowed to appear in this occasion, but Mao Jue did not hold back two larks. Besides, although Adrena, a foreign girl, had unknown origin, it seemed that she was a noble and had some knowledge of military affairs. She also put on the principle of equalizing rain and dew. Mao Jue brought everyone here. But she sat on the stage and then sat on the general. The girl suppressed the contempt on her face. Adrena asked Mao Jue in disbelief.
"Young Master, is this the army of the Ming Empire?"
Mao Jue also had a headache. He said that the young man left home and returned. The old man in front of him was really right. The one in front trembled in the corridor, and the one behind was still holding crutches. But just like that, he was wearing the military uniform of the Ming Dynasty, was a real booked warrior! The principle of priority for combat soldiers made them squeeze in front.
I am choosing a personal soldier, not a nursing home! Before these people could finish their headaches with Su Changmei’s ink, Mao Jue waved his hand with blue veins on his head.
"Boom away!"
Fortunately, there were genuine personal soldiers who Liu Chong had served here. They pulled the sleeves of several old men and pulled them out. While being dragged, the old man with crutches turned around and shouted at the top of his throat.
"Master General! The young man beat the Bitiguan! He followed Li Chengliang and Li to attack the Tuman. The old man is Lian Po, and he is old, can he still have a living!"
After a few old men left, they followed a few big pancakes to a pretty good face. They were around 20 or 30 years old and were quite strong in their physical condition. However, when they spoke, Su Changmei, who was responsible for registration and recruitment, they were all Korean. They probably got the news and found them from North Korea. They could not find them at all on the household registration of Tieshan Town. They had been talking to each other for a long time, and Mao Jue waved his sleeves with blue veins on his forehead.
"Trag away!"
These two waves of people have been wasted for about twenty minutes. Looking back, there are still five or six thousand people in a thick sea of people. Following this progress, Mao Jue could not choose his own personal army regiment for half a month. Seeing the crowd of people heads moving, Mao Jue gritted his teeth and picked up Su Changmei.
I just saw Mao Jue and the generals, and even the selected military generals disappeared all of a sudden. The crowd was even more restless. At this moment, a cannon suddenly sounded from the gate of the fortress.
In the astonishment of the crowd, Mao Jue stood on the city wall with his flag. In front of him, Su Changmei shouted heart-wrenchingly like a pig.
"The general has an order, and all applicants will head to Jialaoshan. Only those who can keep up with the flag can apply, otherwise they will be eliminated on the spot! Let's go!"
Before he could finish his voice, Mao Jue and dozens of personal soldiers had already descended from the city gate. Then, horses were neighing outside the city gate, watching more than a dozen iron mountain flags running wildly on the road. The five or six thousand strong men crowded in Yue Valley were suddenly like a mountain collapse, shouting and running wildly towards the bottom of the mountain.
As soon as we got up, there was a marathon. Yuegu was almost thirty miles away from Galao Peak. During this period, we had to go uphill and downhill, which was enough to make a lot of trouble. However, at the beginning of the run, the crowd level was quickly pulled away, and the old and weak were far behind. The young and middle-aged people who had real physical strength could quickly catch up with the front even if they were crowded on the side of the station.
When fighting in a military war, even if you don’t care about courage, martial arts, or something, physical fitness must be the most basic requirement. Maybe a fierce battle will take a whole day, maybe the last sword will be the winner!
I really don’t know how the recruitment was recruited elsewhere. Mao Jue’s battle was really lively. Thousands of people crossed mountains and rivers, and they were shouting while running. I don’t even know who was all involved in it, barking around the crowd and circling. Thirty miles away, Mao Jue’s horse arrived in more than half an hour. Then he set up a checkpoint at the entrance of the schoolyard in Fort Galao and raised a timed leaking jar high.
The strong man ran away with sweat and panting followed one after another, and the water in the jar also flowed out drop by drop, along with the holes under the jar. When the water in the jar was almost shining, Mao Jue decisively ordered the door to close. The personal soldiers at the gate of the military camp suddenly closed the two heavy wooden doors and locked the crowd behind outside the school grounds.
More than 4,000 people were eliminated in one go, and only more than 1,700 people came in. Although they were all panting like dogs, at least not one of them was old and weak. The group of strong men with the best physical fitness in Tieshan Town were all selected by Mao Jue.
However, without giving them time to breathe, the second round of squatting began again. Liu Chong and his personal soldiers pulled up twenty tents, and twenty people went in together, and quickly came out in less than a minute. Some cheered and took Zhang Tiaozi to line up in front of the military camp, while others patted their heads and drooped out from the other side with their heads down.
"What is this testing?"
Mao Jue's method is really fresh. Even Adrena has never seen it before. She has a blackboard about three meters away. She uses pens of red, black, yellow and green to write several tilted mountain characters. The person who comes in will answer the whispered question of the personal examiner within a few seconds. The mountain characters pointed to with a wooden stick are upwards and downwards, and red and green!
Curiosity killed the cat, and I couldn't help but be curious. This foreign girl looked like a good cat, and asked Mao Jue with a sweet smile, but in secret, the girl's neat teeth were already chewing.
Mao Jue has been fooled by him so many times these days, and he always asks God! If God could hear Adrena's call, this girl would not have fallen into the East as a female slave.
However, this time, when the girl was about to roll her eyes, Mao Jue answered her with a rare answer, pointing to the tent, Mao Jue said naturally.
"Shanzi's direction tests his vision, and he can't see the enemy clearly on the battlefield. The low voice is a test of listening and standing. If he can't hear the command on the battlefield, how can he continue to fight? As for whether the red, yellow, blue and green tests whether the color of the command is color blind, if he can't even see the command's flag, he doesn't need to go to the battlefield."
"If you have good physical fitness and these normal ones, you can be considered half a qualified soldier. As for the discipline, martial arts, archery and so on, you can be trained and tempered in war. The barracks can turn the most timid people into warriors. I believe this."
This almost copied the physical fitness tests and physical examinations of new recruits in later generations, but it was indeed new in this era. Even in the West, the soldiers either looked at the identity of a noble knight or pulled up with their limbs intact. They really didn't think about these things. Looking at Mao Jue counting in front of him, this foreign girl with a higher heart than her top, her eyes were filled with admiration.
Chapter completed!