Chapter 380 Grenadier Cavalry
In Tengxia, Pan'an, who had just become the Yao King, looked around. These were the leaders of the various cottage tribes in Tengxia.
These Yao village leaders are also looking at Pan'an. This Yao king is already fifty years old. He once followed Zhang Jing in his expeditions from east to west, participated in the third war to pacify Tengxia, and also participated in the war to pacify the Japanese in Zhejiang. For his outstanding achievements, he was recommended by Zhang Jing and granted the title of Hereditary Thousand Households.
Because of his inability to fight against the Japanese, Zhang Jing was escorted to the capital by the Jinyi Guards to be executed, while Pan'an and other wolf soldiers were also driven back to Guangxi by the Ming court.
Not only did Pan'an not receive any rewards, he did not even receive basic military pay. He was also oppressed by the nobles of the Ming court along the way.
After returning to Guangxi, Pan'an immediately summoned his old troops and attacked Tengxia again to kill Wu Jingzhou Zhizhou for rebelling.
After Pan'an rebelled, he was quickly elected as the Yao King by the Yao people in Tengxia.
However, Pan'an didn't have any joy at this time. Pan'an also knew the art of war. Qianjiang Bazhai was the gateway to Tengxia and an important channel for supplies in and out of Tengxia.
As soon as the Qianjiang Bazhai was lost, the New Southeast Army blocked the Xunjiang River. As long as the enemy defended the Qianjiang Bazhai, the tens of thousands of Yao people in the mountains would starve to death.
The defeated soldiers who escaped from Qianjiang Bazhai said that the new southeastern army was able to use "demon magic" and could summon thunder and flames with just a wave of their hands. The Yao Village made of wood could not resist at all.
The enemy also has a "magic weapon" that can kill people a hundred steps away, but Pan'an, who has fought abroad, knows that this is probably a blunderbuss.
Although Pan'an estimates that the so-called "demon method" may also be a firearm of the Southeast New Army, people in Tengxia are now panicked.
Pan'an suppressed his uneasy emotions. The terrain of Tengxia was complex, with high mountains and dense forests. It was not easy for the Southeast New Army to go up the mountain.
But the question now is, will our side collapse first before the enemy can no longer hold on?
surrender?
Not long ago, the Yao people from Bazhai who fled back had brought the policies of the Southeast New Army.
All Yao villages on Tengxia must put down their weapons unconditionally and go down the mountain from Tengxia. The Southeast New Army will give them land.
If anyone remains in the mountains and resists, the New Army will not tolerate them and will definitely wipe them out.
Pan'an knew that these Yao village leaders would never accept this condition.
Now we can only fight. We can only fight once and then watch.
Pan'an watched as a tribal wizard prepared a green concoction using herbs, then cut off the hair of the Yao village leader present and blended it into the concoction.
Finally, a strand of Pan'an's hair was cut off and mixed with the concoction, and then neutralized with other concoctions to make a pot of strange green soup.
The wizard's apprentices filled wooden bowls with green soup and brought it to each Yao village leader, and the largest bowl was brought to Pan'an.
Pan'an has actually been Chineseized for a long time. It was difficult for him to accept the old Yao village customs on Tengxia. Now looking at the hot and smelly soup, he couldn't help but regret it.
Why did you come to the mountain to rebel in such a good way?
But having reached this point, Pan'an had no way out. He drank the concoction, raised the weapon in his hand and shouted:
"Fight to the death!"
The Qianjiang Bazhai had been completely occupied by the Fourth Brigade, and some of the soldiers who had defected to the village were Accepted as a guide, all the remaining Yao people were moved to nearby Xincheng by Yu Zigao.
Tan Lun had already contacted Wang Daokun and sent his men as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi to take over the civil affairs of Xincheng County.
The Bazhai moved to Jiangjiang will be placed near Xincheng and live mixed with the local Han people. The local officials will be replaced by local officials and the local officials will be replaced by local officials.
After releasing some prisoners back to Tengxia, Yu Zigao decided on the policy of fighting in Tengxia - to strengthen the walls and clear the country, and all the Yao villages in Tengxia must be plucked out!
This is not because Yu Zigao is easy to kill, but because Tengxia is already a spiritual holy place for the Yao people of Guangxi. Once there is any trouble, some people will take over the mountain and become the king here, killing officials and rebelling.
There are not only the aboriginal Yao villages in Tengxia, but also some Yao and Dong people who simply committed crimes and were wanted by the government and fled to Tengxia.
Some of these people have been convicted of murders, and most of them are cruel people who like to kill. It is impossible for them to farm well.
They robbed merchant ships on Tengxia Gorge and often looted the surrounding Han people, committing all kinds of evil.
Therefore, after Tan Lun learned about the situation in Tengxia, he formulated the combat policy for Yu Zigao - to destroy first and then appease.
The first bird on Teng Gorge must be beaten until it hurts and scares away, in order to deter those ambitious elements.
Only by pacifying Tengxia can we implement land reform and return to flow in other places in Guangxi in the future.
After clarifying this point, the Fourth Brigade, led by the "leading party" like Duzhe Village, began to attack one village after another.
After the attack, they moved the Yao people down the mountain and set fire to the Yao village. Yu Zigao was famous for his ferocity and could make children cry in Guangxi.
Just when Yu Zigao was conquering cities and territories in Guangxi,
Wuyuan City was located in the northern grassland.
Yu Dayou is inspecting the city defense. The Wuyuan city wall has been renovated. Although the city wall is not very tall, it has made the people in the city feel safer.
There are now 20,000 people in Wuyuan City. This number is already the second largest city in the grassland after Bansheng.
Lu Er, a royal guard, bit the bullet and began to learn to manage civil affairs at this age.
He could only grant land to the people, then divide pastures for the herdsmen, and deal with various disputes.
How come I, Lu Er, am an intelligence worker, and now I am working as a civil servant?
Lu Er kept writing letters to the Capital Intelligence Station, asking them to send some civil affairs officials over quickly, but the Capital did not have the talents here, so he could only send them to Nanjing to seek help from the Governor Su Ze.
Lu Er could only continue to hold on.
Taking advantage of winter, Yu Dayou conducted simple military training on the men under fifty and over twenty in Wuyuan City.
Yu Dayou, who was already familiar with the grassland, knew that An Dahan would definitely continue to launch attacks on Wuyuan City when the spring lambing season was over.
In addition to conducting paramilitary training during the off-season, Yu Dayou's trump card was a thousand-man cavalry regiment.
These one thousand people are soldiers with excellent riding skills carefully selected by Yu Dayou. The horses used are all the horses "sent" by An Dahan last time.
This cavalry unit is equipped with long knives, but the most important weapon is grenades.
This is a grenadier cavalry unit, and cold weapons are only their last weapon for close combat. Yu Dayou trained them to fight by throwing grenades on the move.
This was also the strategy that Yu Dayou came up with after being inspired by Su Ze when he was communicating with Su Ze.
But in fact, this was Su Ze's own mistake. After learning about the results of the grenade in the Battle of Wuyuan, Su Ze proposed the "Grenadier Guards Cavalry" unit to Yu Dayou.
But in fact, Napoleon's "Grenadier Guards" did not use grenades at all. This was a type of cavalry that used muskets like dragoons.
The reason why they are called grenadiers is because in Napoleon's time, the strongest and tallest men were used as grenadiers.
Therefore, "grenadier" became the face and honor of the army. The French Grenadier Guards took the name of grenadiers. First of all, as the name suggests, they are all composed of tall people, and the horses under their crotches are also carefully selected. The tallest horse.
Therefore, the "Grenadier Guards" can become the most elite cavalry unit under Napoleon.
This was Su Ze's mistake, but Yu Dayou really developed the grenadier cavalry unit.
It's just that Yu Dayou's grenadier cavalry is not an ace cavalry used for head-on confrontation, but a scout unit used for guerrilla harassment. Yu Dayou was a master in the art of war in the world. Since Anda Khan would definitely attack Wuyuan City after the lambing period, why didn't he take a preemptive strike and attack Anda Khan's territory when the grassland was at its weakest?
This grenadier cavalry unit was designed to drive away the surprise attack troops that harassed the Mongolian tribes and dampened the vitality of Anda Khan.
In early March, each grenadier cavalry carried two horses, and the horses dragged grenade boxes and dry food along the Yellow River and began to sweep away the Mongolian tribes in the Hetao area.
On the grassland at this time, it is the time when the ewes are pregnant and giving birth to lambs.
The entire grassland was very busy, and many small tribes gathered to help the ewes give birth and take care of the newborn lambs.
A tribe of 10,000 people under Tumut's right wing was gathering in a pasture on the edge of the Hetao and was busy working nervously.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
The scout in charge of the alert warned the tribe, followed by the roar of horse hooves.
Captain Uluru came out of the tent. Before he could put on his armor, he heard a terrifying explosion.
The earth was shaking, tents were burning, and people and animals were roaring and groaning.
By the time Captain Ullu had summoned his cavalry, the enemy had disappeared without a trace.
In such an attack, the tribe suffered heavy losses after taking stock.
A large number of ewes had dystocia due to fright, and newborn lambs suffered heavy casualties as a result of the attack.
Many tents were blown up and burned, and the stockyard where fresh fodder was stored was destroyed.
Uluru felt like crying but had no tears. Such a loss was too great!
The death of the lamb means that there are not enough livestock in the winter, so the tribe will starve to death this winter!
Wuyuan City's counterattack quickly spread across the grassland, and this elusive grenadier cavalry unit added a lot of mystery.
Some tribal shamans said that these were death cavalry resurrected from hell and used hell flames to attack.
The Mongolian tribes close to Wuyuan City quickly began to migrate regardless of the fact that the ewes were still pregnant, trying their best to stay away from Wuyuan City.
News that a large number of tribes were attacked reached Bansheng City. After seeing the news, An Dahan felt his head buzzing. The Han people in Wuyuan City were bullying others too much! Before I even hit him, he turned around and attacked me!
"Father Khan! These Han people bully others too much! Please give me five thousand cavalry, and I will destroy Wuyuan City and bring my brother back!"
Huang Taiji, who had gained a lot from the Ming court, asked.
An Dahan looked at his son and said, "Now is the lambing season. It is impossible to mobilize so many cavalry. According to the news, the Han people have completed building a city in Wuyuan. Can five thousand cavalry take down Wuyuan City with firearms?" Huang Taiji calmed down and
said He sat down slumped.
An Dahan asked: "How are the craftsmen brought back?"
Sanniangzi said: "Great Khan, these Ming craftsmen have been placed."
An Dahan nodded and said: "To deal with Han cities, we must use Han artillery , Ben Khan has already asked these blacksmiths and gunpowder makers to cast cannons, and as soon as spring is over, they will attack Wuyuan City immediately!"
Huang Taiji was ready to prepare, but Sanniangzi looked worried.
The firearms of the people in Wuyuan City are obviously more advanced than those of the Ming Dynasty. Can the artillery made by the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty be able to defeat them?
What are the origins of these people?
In Bansheng City, a group of Han people were gathering together.
These Han people were all common people in the border areas and were captured by the Mongols and brought here.
At the beginning, Anda Khan also showed preferential treatment to the Han people, granting land to the Han people near Bansheng, and many people were even allocated land.
Zhou Sheng's own land had long been usurped by the Ming Dynasty's military guards. He worked hard for these military guards for a year in farming, but the food he harvested was not enough to feed the whole family.
These landless people, in addition to farming for the military guards, were often recruited as civilian husbands.
After Zhou Sheng got a field, he brought his family from his hometown to Bansheng.
Farming for the Mongols or farming for the Ming Dynasty was both a matter of farming. At that time, farming for the Mongols could still save surplus grain, so Zhou Sheng naturally knew how to choose.
He not only brought his family members to Bansheng, but also brought many fellow villagers to Bansheng.
It's a pity that the good times did not last long, and Anda Khan's policy of light corvee and low taxes expired.
In order to support An Dahan's war against the Ming court, Zhou Sheng and others were entrusted with paying taxes to the Han seal officials. These Han people collected taxes much more harshly than the Mongols.
Zhou Sheng's family only had five acres of thin paddy land, but it was registered by the tax official as having ten acres of superior paddy land. They were also classified as a superior household and were required to pay a tax burden of five to one tax.
In addition to the field tax, Zhou Sheng also paid a horse leg tax (a quarter of a horse) to the tax collector every year, and also provided a warehouse of grass fodder to the Mongols.
Such a high tax burden is simply beyond what Zhou Sheng can afford.
At this time, the "caring" Han palm print official came to his door again and asked him to use his own land to offset taxes.
Zhou Sheng lost his land and became a tenant of the Han Dynasty's seal official. His life became even worse than in the Ming Dynasty.
Zhou Sheng convened a gathering of fellow villagers today. These are indentured tenants without land, and their status on the grassland is similar to that of slaves.
They farm all year round but still suffer from hunger.
When An Dahan wanted to build a palace, they had to carry stones. Many people died on the way last year.
Zhou Sheng looked at these fellow villagers who were brought to the grassland by him, and he whispered: "Staying in Bansheng will only lead to death. I heard that the lord of Wuyuan City is a Han and is granting land to the Han people. Let's go to Wuyuan City. "
Everyone was talking about it. The news of Wuyuan City's land grant has spread in Bansheng, but crossing the grassland is a very dangerous thing, not to mention that they are all contracted tenants and have no status as free people at all.
"Han people? The Han people are the most cruel to the Han people on the grassland. Didn't the people who just came to Bansheng rehabilitate the land be granted land?"
Everyone nodded.
Zhou Sheng looked at the crowd and said, "We have nothing to lose. If we continue to stay here, we will either starve to death or die of exhaustion. I'm going to give it a try."
Zhou Sheng said no more and led his family with only the remaining With a little food, he traveled westward from Bansheng City overnight.
Many Han people in Bansheng City also followed Zhou Sheng. When it dawned the next day, Zhou Sheng found that there were hundreds of people behind him.
And as the news of Wuyuan City spread, there were more and more teams like Zhou Sheng.
Hundreds of rivers have different origins, but they all return to the sea.
(End of chapter)