Entering June, the security around Zhenjiang Fort has obviously increased a lot.
The number of scouts and patrols sent out by the four deputy forts every day has also increased significantly, and the first batch of new recruits who have been trained from Pidao have also begun to be added to the battalions in Dongjiang Town. Originally, the military strength was somewhat Dongjiang Town was surprised, now it was obvious that there was a surplus.
Zhenjiang Fort is a typical military fort. There is basically no commercial and entertainment facilities. You can imagine how boring the soldiers are. The addition of refugees from all around has also made the soldiers stationed in Zhenjiang Fort basically different from the previous border troops. The situation of reorganizing the army while working in the fields has changed to a professional and decommissioned army.
How to let the soldiers vent their excess energy after training has become a very important consideration for Jiang Wan.
Jiang Wan's approach was also simple and crude, taking turns to disperse the soldiers from each battalion in dozens or hundreds of people, outside his own sphere of influence and onto the territory of the Tartars.
In the past, this practice was the preserve of the Tartars. However, under the military merit system established by Jiang Wan, the soldiers of Zhenjiang Fort scrambled one by one. Even if they knew that they would be in danger of dying in battle, they were not willing to be left behind. back.
The head of a Tatar is five taels of silver or five acres of fertile land around Zhenjiang Fort. Now there are enough people to hire people to farm the fields around Zhenjiang Fort. This means that if you are lucky, you can cut two taels. When the head of a Tatar comes back, you will get ten acres of fertile land. In addition to the food for the tenant farmers, the annual output of these ten acres of land is twenty or thirty dan, which can be converted into dozens of dollars in silver. two.
This kind of business is simply a business without capital. What is even more imaginative is that if you have more fields and start a farm, not only will your annual income be guaranteed, but you will also have a wife or several wives, and then you will have a lot of children. It's definitely not wishful thinking to have kids running around all over the place.
Of course, there are also those who are unwilling to exchange their military merits for money, so they can just hand over their heads.
Nowadays, Zhenjiang Fort has strong soldiers and horses, and there are many positions. An ordinary soldier can be promoted to a corps commander with three heads, and a corps commander can be promoted to any rank with three heads. As long as there are enough heads and the military merit is high enough, just accumulate the merits and become the commander-in-chief. Defense is no longer a dream.
In short, every time when the auxiliary forts sent soldiers out for hunting, the selected soldiers were all very happy, as if they were celebrating the New Year, while those who were not selected looked downcast, with envy and jealousy on their faces. Let these lucky people pack their bags and weapons and leave the castle.
Most of the time, the team that went out can come back within the designated time. Of course, sometimes there will be losses, but the people who come back are not particularly sad and angry. Since you are a soldier, you must have the consciousness to die in battle. , Moreover, the compensation provided to those who died in battle was not light, it was just half a year's salary, so even if they died in battle, the soldiers who died in battle would not have much to worry about.
And more teams that go out for hunting can more or less bring back some heads of Tartars, although everyone knows that not all the heads brought back by these hunting teams are Tartars. soldiers.
You can probably tell whether a Tartar head is a Tartar just by looking at its hairstyle, not to mention the more powerful ones, you can also tell whether it is a Tartar or not by looking at their teeth and ears.
As long as the heads of Tartar men are brought back, the superiors will still recognize this military merit. In the eyes of the superiors, there seems to be no concept of "killing a good man and taking credit for merit".
For the actions of the generals above, the soldiers below simply support it. This means that even if they go to the Tartar territory and do not encounter the Tartars, they will just massacre a Tartar village and come back.
The same is true of military achievements.
Because of this incident, Jiang Wan's reputation skyrocketed among all the officers and soldiers. Whether it was his old troops or the old and new officers and soldiers of Dongjiang Town, they all applauded Marshal Jiang for his work.
However, the Ming troops in Dongjiang Town were happy, but the Jin people were not.
The Jin people's strategy was to occupy the Ming Dynasty's land and cities, and then gradually move the residents there. The Jin people's population was not prosperous to begin with, and they had always longed for more land and population.
The Ming army in Dongjiang Town continued to harass villages and cities, making the people who migrated out become fearful and uneasy.
It's not that they can't fight, but the hunting teams of the Ming Army are elusive. When they see someone who can be beaten, they swarm up, kill people and grab things, and then leave. When they see someone who can't be beaten, they just go around without thinking at all.
Confront them head-on.
And it was impossible for the Hou Jin troops stationed at the front-line military forts at Malanyu and Panjiakou to be dispersed and stationed in various villages.
This led to hunting raids by the Ming army, causing a large number of Houjin people to flee, and the so-called occupation of land for reclamation and grazing became empty talk.
Besides killing and beheading, the thing the Ming army did most was destruction.
Pasture, burn it!
Crops, burn them!
All living cattle and sheep that cannot be taken away will be killed, and the corpses of cattle, sheep and humans will be thrown into rivers or wells to pollute water sources, or even directly poison the water sources.
In short, it is basically correct to use "not a blade of grass can grow" to describe the place where the Ming army passed.
This situation, Houjin determined, could never continue until the autumn harvest.
Huang Taiji would not use his Eight Banners elite soldiers to fight these small armies of the Ming Army. There would be little profit if they won, and it would not be worthwhile to lose people. Therefore, the task of fighting these Ming Army safari teams was
It fell on Zu Dashou.
That's right, it's Zu Dashou.
Since there has been no news from Zu Zehong and Ning Wan, both Zu Dashou and Huang Taiji seem to have forgotten about this matter. Everyone thought that Huang Taiji would continue to idle Zu Dashou and would not let him touch any soldiers.
At that time, Huang Taiji sent Zu Dashou to Panjiakou.
Let him, as the commander-in-chief of the Zhenghuang Banner, command the Han banner soldiers in Panjiakou and Malanyu, and the guard generals Li Sizhong and Li Yongfang of the Panjiakou and Malanyu military forts, all under his control.
Using Ming people to deal with Ming people is naturally the best way.
This is the unanimous thought of the princes and nobles of the Eight Thousand Years Later Jin Dynasty.
When Zu Dashou took office, he didn't have any of his old troops around him. Instead, there were hundreds of Korean troops. This was the fire gun team he trained for Hou Jin after imitating the Ming Dynasty's fire gun team. Of course, training this team
The Fire Gun Team is more about Huang Taiji's orders.
This fire rifle team of less than a thousand people followed him to the front line and became the only army directly under his command. The Han army flag officers and generals in the two military forts on the front line only had a subordinate relationship with him.
There are no other entanglements. This configuration and pattern shows that Huang Taiji spent a lot of time thinking about it even if he used his ancestor Dashou.
As for Zu Zehong, he may be dead, or he may be captured and surrendered, or he may run away quietly. No one asks, no one cares, and it seems that this matter has no impact on Zu Dashou.