Life in Pidao is much better than life in Dengzhou.
At least, that's what Qin Wu thinks.
Ever since the governor arrived in Dengzhou, he has gone crazy. Officers and soldiers have been suppressing bandits all year round. In the past, local officials and gentry could not pay for these officers and soldiers, but now they pay for them one by one.
Do this job too.
This caused all the villages, large and small, in Dengzhou to suffer an immediate disaster. Facts have proved that in the past, thieves were everywhere in the villages. It was not that the government was incapable of eradicating these thieves, it was just that they did not want to do it. Once they got serious, the so-called
The "banditry" is actually just a joke.
For those big villages with a good reputation and brand name, the officers and soldiers used firecrackers, swords and spears to forcefully knock open the gates of the village, and washed them like grates. Those who survived were simply smoke rising from their ancestral graves, and smaller ones
Some of the villages, such as Qingyun Village where Qin Wu was born, although they also had names, could not even think of resisting the officers and soldiers.
These small villages dispersed immediately, fearing that they would be targeted by large groups of officers and soldiers.
As a result, Qin Wu wandered around for a while. He was in fear every day. He finally got news about his family, but he was asked to return home and surrender.
He was worried that this was a trick by the government and did not dare to act easily. It was not until he saw that many people were like this and that there was no risk in going back that he had the courage to return to his hometown.
Of course, that doesn't mean everything will be fine once we go back.
His family and fellow villagers vouched for him and saved him from prison. However, His Majesty obeyed the government's arrangements and was assigned to serve in the army for three years. If he achieved military merit within three years, he might be able to return home early. If
He has not made many military exploits, but as long as he serves in the army honestly and survives these three years, his crime will be considered gone.
The government no longer pursues his past affairs.
So, he came to Pi Island. After arriving at Pi Island, he discovered that there were hundreds of people who were almost the same as him. The officers and soldiers on Pi Island organized these hundreds of people together, and then
, and soon someone who looked like an official came to receive them.
At this time, he realized that people like him were organized into the cavalry battalion in Dongjiang Town, and that the old guy who seemed to be an official was the father of General Zu Zehong, the biggest official in the cavalry battalion.
However, this ancestral general didn't seem to have paid much attention to them. Even the formation and training on weekdays were all done by the people around him, and ordinary people couldn't even see this ancestral general.
But that's okay, anyway, when I was in Shandong, I heard that the officers and soldiers in Liaodong fought fiercely with the Tatars. If this old general didn't look at them, he didn't take them seriously.
It shows that he has no intention of sending them to the battlefield with the Tatars.
There are more than 200 horses in the cavalry camp, most of which are Shandong horses brought here by them, and some are unknown where they come from. Qin Wu and his companions are naturally familiar with the Shandong horses they are familiar with.
He is so familiar with it that he is not interested in other miscellaneous horses.
Although he has been working as a robber for several years, as long as the horses are obedient, usable and easy to feed, when he is a robber, it is enough. Before he came here, he really didn't know what the officers and soldiers' cavalry would do when training their war horses.
There are so many things to pay attention to.
The officers who taught them didn't have a good temper. Often when they made a mistake, the horses might not be whipped, but the soldiers who made the mistake would definitely be beaten.
After being beaten, the memory will naturally improve. In less than half a month, this cavalry team of several hundred people has actually become more impressive.
War Horses However, the cavalry team basically consisted of two people and one horse or even three people and one horse. After the basic training was somewhat satisfactory, the officers' gimmicks appeared again.
Their weapons are not long knives or spears, but firecrackers!
Moreover, it is still the kind of short, thick and clumsy firecracker, the kind of firecracker that can make earth-shattering noises when set off.
When the first shot was fired, almost most of the cavalry horses were frightened. That day, everyone in the entire cavalry had almost no time to do anything else but comfort the horses.
Days like this lasted for seven or eight days, and finally the war horses were no longer so afraid of the sound of fire cannons. By this time, almost everyone had completed a round of fire cannon training.
It turns out that this fire gun can not only be fired at the enemy three times, but after it is fired, it can also be turned around and used as an iron rod to hit people.
Qin Wu was simply astonished by such a weapon. If each of the hundreds of them had one such blunderbuss, they would be able to sweep across the entire Dengzhou. Who could resist it?
Such a way to play!
Especially when you are on horseback, you only have to face the enemy for such a short period of time. If you hit such a dense fire cannon, the opponent will probably die before he can reach you. Even if he is not dead, you can catch him with another blow.
That's pretty much it.
Later, he learned that the most powerful cavalry of the Ming Dynasty used this style of fighting. Even the Tatar cavalry were extremely afraid of this cavalry.
That cavalry, called Guan Ning Cavalry, is gone now.
However, I heard people say that their cavalry battalion will probably be called the Dongjiang Cavalry in the future. After all, they have inherited the mantle of the Guan Ning Cavalry.
Qin Wu, who had learned this set of tactics, suddenly looked forward to when people like him could be assigned to the army. During the more than half a month on Pi Island, the news was not completely isolated from the outside world. He knew that people in Haihai
Over there, Dongjiang Town built a huge military fort, and probably more than half of the entire Dongjiang Town army was stationed in that place.
Pidao is now just the rear area of Dongjiang Town. Even if he learns this powerful combat method, it will not be easy to find an enemy here.
If you want to kill the Tatars and achieve military merit and go home early, you still have to go to Zhenjiang Fort.
Someone asked the officers around General Zu, but they were reprimanded. It seemed that the officers around General Zu were not enthusiastic at all about going to Zhenjiang Fort, and they seemed to be training these new recruits here.
Just stay here to make yourself less bored.
Not too lazy, but definitely not too enthusiastic either.
Until one day, the outside of the new barracks was bustling with people, and a group of new people came in from the outside again, and an officer who looked younger than him walked in from the outside and said to them who had been summoned.
"You will be my people from now on. Now, I will give you a moment to pack up your belongings, put on your weapons, and prepare to leave!"