The Liao army had a natural advantage over the Nanjing Forbidden Army. Especially troops like the First and Second Divisions had fought against the Tatars in Liaodong for several years. They had extremely rich experience in firearms combat, and their infantry and artillery coordination was perfect.

Although the Third and Fourth Divisions did not fight many battles, the grassroots officers generally came from the First and Second Divisions. Moreover, these officers have been trained by Mao Wenlong Shanhaiguan Army School, and their commanding abilities are very strong.

What made the Nanjing Forbidden Army even more desperate was that everyone in the Liao army, from the division commander to the cooks, was literate.

Each company has a cultural instructor who follows the company in drills on weekdays. They don’t have to participate in battles! The only responsibility is to teach the soldiers to write. If there are illiterate people in the company, they have to eat military sticks. Of course,

They also have their own rights.

Usually, the cultural instructors also serve as division chiefs. I was beaten by an officer, and you still want to eat meat?

As long as you dare to eat the words I taught you on the steamed buns, and then pass them as farts, then the consequences will be... You, you, will eat pickles for these ten days.

Watching other people eating so much fish and meat, the taste of eating pickles is really not good. From time to time, I have to be teased by my comrades who are working hard to learn to write, and even a thick-skinned person like a city wall can't stand it.

Now the illiteracy rate among the Liao army has dropped to zero. The first thing for new recruits recruited every year is to receive re-education from cultural teachers.

When Shi Kefa formed the Nanjing Forbidden Army, he had thought of doing this. However, he was scolded by the Donglin Party's scholars! Qiu Ba, who was carrying a gun, deserved to learn the ways of the saints and listen to the words of the saints. How unreasonable!

At that time, there were not just one or two people who pointed at Shi Kefa and scolded him. They were all well-educated Confucians from Jiangnan. Facing these powerful old guys, Shi Kefa could only spit in his face.

In the eyes of Donglin Party members, the Qiu Ba people are just warriors and inferior people. These people can just grow muscles, they don't need to grow brains.

Zhang Huangyan was right. The military generals during the Sui and Tang Dynasties were too strong. In the end, it led to the Anshi Rebellion, where the feudal vassal towns were separated and the tail was unable to be defeated, which seriously affected the emperor's authority.

By the time of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the generals in charge of the army often became the leaders of the rebellion. Song Taizu, who was wearing a yellow robe, was the general of the Later Zhou Dynasty. That's why Zhao Kuangyin came up with the idea of ​​releasing military power over a cup of wine to eliminate the military generals and the imperial power.

threats.

From then on, military generals officially ushered in an era when warriors were inferior to dogs!

By the Ming Dynasty, this phenomenon of using civil society to control military affairs was common. Except during the founding of the country, military generals were more powerful. Throughout the Ming Dynasty, military generals were always suppressed by civilian officials. The Ming Dynasty no longer had generals with the strength to rebel, but its national defense was also lax.

The corruption of military discipline has caused the combat effectiveness of the Ming army to decline for two hundred years!

Nurhaci and his sons and grandsons were only tens of thousands of people, making a fuss in Liaodong. After the Saarhu, the Ming Dynasty could not send out an army that could fight.

Knowing the intention of the old guy Zhang Huangyan, he reminded Li Xiao that Man Gui, Ao Canghai and others were too arrogant and domineering. For senior officials like Mao Wenlong, meeting these two people was like meeting a cat and a mouse. Not to mention

, an ordinary court official.

The old fellow had only been in the Liao army for such a short time that he had no idea what Ao Canghai and Mangui meant to Li Xiao. Sun Chengzong never said such things. He was as arrogant as Ao Canghai, and even greeted him respectfully when he saw the old man.

After entering Xuzhou, Li Xiao actually did not want to march south as soon as possible.

But the development of things was far beyond Li Xiao's imagination. According to the usual practice, after entering Xuzhou, the first thing to start was to redistribute the land. Officials transferred from Shandong began to imitate Shandong's example and distribute the land of big households.

Distribute to farmers.

This was a big deal. The tenants who had been without land for generations were upset. They felt that this government was not a government, but a Bodhisattva who came from heaven to save the common people. They even gave cattle for farming!

The news spread like wildfire, and at first it was just a commotion in Shangqiu and other places near Xuzhou. The tenants were ready to overthrow the big households and seize the land. The big households were very wary of this sign. When there were too many chickens, they decided to kill them.

A few monkeys to scare these restless mud-legged creatures.

Dozens of heads were chopped off, and the enthusiasm of the tenants was replaced by fear. However, they accidentally chopped off the heads of two family members of the Liao army. The heads were chopped off, and they were actually hung on the top of the city with banners.

, tell everyone that this is the family of the Liao Army, and it is no big deal if the Liao Army comes.

Master Ao was angry when he heard the news! Although most of his men were from Liaodong and not many from Shandong and Henan. But Master Ao did not rub sand in his eyes and said that the Liao army was not good.

While the messenger reporting to the capital was still on the way, artillery shells fell on the city wall of Shangqiu City. The shells opened a large gap in the blue brick city wall, and Liao soldiers poured in like a tide. Anyone wearing the uniform of the Ming Army, as long as he did not

Climb on the ground, raise your hand and shoot. The huge Shangqiu City is said to be impregnable. But under Ao Ye's artillery fire, it only lasted for one day before it was occupied.

As for the county town below, a few cavalry were sent to run around. The big families who participated in the killing of tenant farmers were tied up and sent out.

By the time Li Xiao found out about Xin'er, Master Ao had already beheaded several carts. All the tenant farmers in Shangqiu were cheering because the newly arrived Liao army promised to give them land.

Once things started, things started to get a bit slow.

Kaifeng, Zhengzhou, Zhoukou, Luohe, Xuchang...!

One city after another, in less than a month, Mr. Ao wiped out the entire Henan province with one division!

Li Xiao looked at Master Ao's letter and felt a little pain in his forehead. How can I get so many local officials for you? To occupy Henan in twenty-four days, this is not a battle report, but a march report.

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According to Ao Canghai, he sent twenty cavalry to Luohe to investigate. As a result, these cavalrymen were five miles away from Luohe, and the local officials came out to greet them. They also prepared a sumptuous banquet, which frightened the cavalrymen and almost fled for fear of this.

It's a trap.

The five fools boldly volunteered to go to the city for a big meal, and when they came back they told Master Ao that Luohe was willing to surrender, and the land of the big families could be divided however they wanted. As long as their heads were not chopped off, the land would be fine.

Luohe's experience has been promoted to many cities, such as Puyang, Xinxiang, and Jiaozuo. Just a few cavalrymen running around are considered occupied. The local big families have fled to the south of the Yangtze River. Only some misers can't let go of the savings accumulated for generations.

's fields.

Shanxi surrendered faster than Henan, and it only took Man Ye twenty days to occupy the entire territory of Shanxi. Of course, this had a lot to do with the fact that all his men were cavalry. Zu Dashou of the Fourth Division was gearing up, waiting for Sun Chuanting to return.

Occupy Guanzhong. It is estimated that after the wind of dividing the fields dissipates, Guanzhong will look the same.
Chapter completed!