Chapter 109 Whole Army

This time, Yu Xiaotian ordered to abolish the 20,000 soldiers and horses under Zuo Liangyu's command. When Zuo Liangyu heard the news, he immediately led his troops to plot a rebellion and led troops to attack Xiangyang, trying to capture Xiangyang and then control the surrounding prefectures and counties to compete with the imperial court. In just over ten days, he captured Nanzhang and other places and forcibly wrapped the people to join the rebels in a short time. From time to time, the force was expanded to 40,000 to 50,000, and there was a tendency to make a big play for Yu Xiaotian.

Zuo Liangyu's idea is very simple, that is, to support himself, and be unable to compete with the court, that is, Yu Xiaotian, try to procrastinate, make Yu Xiaotian feel that his bone is not easy to gnaw, and finally recruit him, then he can continue to support his troops and exert great power!

However, Yu Xiaotian could not guard against Zuo Liangyu. He had sent some of the Yu's army in Xiangyang City in advance. Zuo Liangyu led the troops to attack Xiangyang City. These Yu's troops defended dangerously and repelled the attack of Zuo Liangyu's rebels one after another. Then Sun Chuanting was ordered to lead troops to suppress him, supplemented by Meng Fei and other generals, and quickly blocked it. Zuo Liangyu's momentum of expansion around the court, and divided his troops several ways, blocked Zuo Liangyu's troops in the territory of Xiangyang Prefecture, and defeated him several arrays in succession.

Zuo Liangyu was finally blocked in the area of Nanzhang County, and more than 10,000 more troops "encircled" more than 30,000 troops of Zuo Liangyu and besieged them in Nanzhang County.

Seeing the bad situation, Zuo Liangyu led his troops to try to break through and escape into Sichuan, but how could Meng Fei give him such a chance to lead the army to launch a final attack on him.

Zuo Liangyu's rebels are basically temporary hostages, and the quality of their equipment is extremely poor, and they are simply looking for death.

As a result, as soon as the two sides fought, the rebels under Zuo Liangyu's command collapsed. Finally, Zuo Liangyu was captured alive by Meng Fei, and then his family was put into a prison car and sent to Xiangyang City for disposal.

Sun Chuanting executed Zuo Liangyu Lingchi according to Yu Xiaotian's instructions. His whole family was beheaded, including those military generals who followed Zuo Liangyu, and also killed a person's head and completely extinguished Zuo Liangyu's military chaos.

The extermination of Zuo Liangyu's troops also greatly shocked the generals in other places. Originally, some local generals also planned to follow the army and make trouble, hoping to force the court to make concessions to them and re-adore them, so that they could retain their force.

However, when he heard that Zuo Liangyu had been killed in less than two months from the uprising to being annihilated, Zuo Liangyu, including his military generals, were killed by the whole family. After suffering the disaster of extinction, some of these generals who were originally restless suddenly gave up the idea of fighting.

Now the court is not in power by the former Emperor Chongzhen. Now Yu Xiaotian is in power. Not to mention this guy's black hands, his heart is hundreds of times blacker than Chongzhen. What's more, he now has nearly 200,000 elite Yu Jiajun. Although there are not too many troops stationed in various places, he does not seem to be superior in military strength. But no one dares to underestimate these family soldiers. Their equipment is really good, and the fire-gun in their hands is too sharp. They are often good at winning more with less, which is extremely difficult to deal with.

Zuo Liangyu claimed that 100,000 troops were plotting rebellion, but Yu Xiaotian only sent more than 10,000 Yu's army to Sun Chuanting, which easily destroyed Zuo Liangyu. These people have 8,000 soldiers on hand and want to compete with Yu's army. It's simply looking for their own death. It doesn't matter if they die. Maybe the ancestral graves may be So these local generals finally had to accept the order of abolition.

Yu Xiaotian was not too difficult for these generals. It turned out that their family property was kept for them. In addition, everyone gave a huge severance fee so that they could buy land property. At least there was no problem as a small rich man. Some local generals also licensed them. Some fields are exempted for three years, which is a special preferential treatment.

But even so, these local generals are also very reluctant, because when Yu Xiaotian withdrew the local army, he took back the original military fields and distributed them to those demobilized soldiers to cultivate.

It turned out that the fields of these guards were basically controlled by these generals for generations, and those soldiers were basically their serfs and could only do things for them.

Now these soldiers have separated the farmland under their control, which makes them lose the soil to enrich their own pockets. How can they not suffer?

However, under the strong military pressure of the family and army, it is not possible not to agree. The rebellion directly let the whole family die. Whether they are happy or not, they can only pinch their noses and admit it.

After the abolition of the officers and soldiers in these places, the Yu family army became the real force support of the Ming Dynasty and became the only military subject. Yu Xiaotian changed the military household system before the Ming Dynasty and changed all the army to the recruitment system, greatly improving the income and status of the generals, so that the soldiers can live more decently, although they continue to The army is required not to interfere in local government affairs, but at the same time, local officials are not allowed to control these troops.

These new officers and soldiers are the army of the country. They only obey the dispatch of the Ministry of War and no longer listen to the restraint of local officials. However, when necessary, the Ministry of War can hand over some local troops to local officials for temporary restraint, which has raised the social status of soldiers on the whole.

Although the civil servants are a little unhappy and feel that these Qiu Ba can be on an equal footing with them in the future, which is really humiliating, Yu Xiaotian is now the supervision of the Ming Dynasty and is a military general, and they dare not expect to ride on the head of the army in the future.

And Yu Xiaotian said something in the court: "If a country's soldiers do not even have the minimum status and can't even get the minimum respect, then who can expect these soldiers to serve the country? Who can expect the country to take the lead when it is threatened?

So soldiers are both the sword and shield of the country. They must have dignity so that the country can have dignity! ......”

After the generals of the Yu family army heard about it, they were very moved. Even some former generals of the Ming army felt that this was really pleasant to listen to, especially those ordinary soldiers. They thought to themselves that if they had met the prison earlier, how could their days be like It used to be like an ox and horse!

After Yu Xiaotian's words spread all over the country, when Yu's army recruited troops again, many young people in rural areas began to sign up enthusiastically.

Now it's much better to be a soldier than before. First of all, they don't have to worry about entering the military, and then become military households for generations. In fact, they are not much different from the unripe.

And now the treatment of soldiers is also quite good. You can get enough two taels of silver a month, and no one dares to deduct their salaries. At the same time, as a soldier, you can eat three meals a day, and two sets of military uniforms are issued every year, which can be said to be full of food and clothes, and can support their families.

The most important thing is that they no longer have to be despised everywhere as before, calling them military masters face to face, poking their backbone and scolding their mothers. At least now they are wearing new military uniforms assigned to them and dare to raise their heads to be human beings, which is more important than anything else.

So although Yu Jiajun is now nominally a decent officer and army of the Ming Dynasty, those who are soldiers in private still agree that they are members of the Yu family army. All of this was given to them by Yu Xiaotian, so they were born in the Yu family army and died as ghosts of the Yu family army. They are almost loyal to Yu Xiaotian. There is no two minds to speak of.

Although the number of officers and soldiers in Daming is much lower than before, its combat effectiveness is more than eight times stronger than before.

As for their equipment, it is not a problem. With Yu Xiaotian's power, the original Seawolf's military factory also began to receive a large number of orders and began to set up new factories in Fujian, Guangdong, Beizhili, Shandong and other places to produce various new weapons for the new army.

Various artillery and rifles used by the Army have now have mature production technology and technology. In addition, many technical workers have been trained. In addition, the mechanical factories in Danshui and Quanzhou have now been able to produce hydraulic machinery with a good degree of precision.

These new hydraulic machinery have been continuously put into use, and the original old factories have been expanded, so that two large mechanical factories have been formed in both Tamsui and Quanzhou. All kinds of special machinery produced have been continuously transported to new military factories in various places for installation and use.

These arsenals soon began to produce a large number of new weapons for the new army, and then equipped them into the new army.

These new weapons are strictly monitored, and each weapon is numbered and assigned to the logistics department under the newly formed military headquarters after leaving the factory.

These new firearms are only equipped for the new army under Yu Xiaotian's direct control. Like the old army of the Ming Dynasty, it is impossible to obtain such weapons.

And after the weapons were sent to the army, an extremely strict supervision system was also implemented. All weapons have been strictly registered, and any numbered rifles can be found at any time or even at the destination of the bayonet. Then the pickets in the army go to various places to regularly count the weapons of the troops in various places, any Guns must be put in place, and the weapons damaged in the war must explain the cause of the damage after the war. If it is damaged, something must be there before they can be exchanged for new weapons.

If it is lost on the battlefield or captured by the enemy, then it must be made clear that there are enough people to prove it, which will prevent those generals in the previous Ming army from secretly selling the good weapons in the warehouse and then replacing them with a pile of junk.

Now, because all the rifles produced by Seawolf Group have adopted a new type of fire cap, the production of ammunition is also very strict, especially the factory that produces fire cap has implemented the strictest control, including when the logistics department distributes ammunition, the fire cap is the most strictly regulated fire products and must not be light. Easy to lose.

In this way, even if some of the gun in the army is captured or lost by ordinary people on the battlefield, these rifles can't be fired because they don't have a fire cap. If they leave the fire cap, it's just a torch, which is useless.

So after several years of large-scale military operations, although these new rifles have also been lost on the battlefield, they can rarely be reused by the enemy. Even if some fire hats are lost, as long as the enemy uses up these fire hats, these rifles will lose their function at the same time. Become a scrap iron.