I am one year older than Chongzhen

(Book friends are recommended to read the newly released work "The Soul of the Late Ming and Han Dynasties" and the old works "The Sun Never Sets on the Ming Empire" and "1981")

Three months later, a thousand activists serving in the army were upgraded to auxiliary soldiers. Not only did their food standards improve, they also received a monthly salary of 500 cents.

There are also a thousand auxiliary soldiers who have been turned into regular soldiers. Not only the monthly salary has been increased to one tael of silver, but also five measures of wheat.

The monthly pay for regular soldiers is not the same. The basic monthly pay for recruits and infantrymen is one tael of silver plus five measures of wheat.

The monthly salary of cavalry and artillery is 50% higher than that of ordinary infantry.

Recruits are assessed every six months, and those who are judged to be outstanding by the literary teachers and town governors are promoted to soldiers, with a monthly salary of at least one to two five cents.

After becoming a warrior, in addition to being promoted for meritorious service, you can pass the assessment and be promoted to a warrior after one year, starting with a monthly salary of two taels of silver.

After gaining merit or getting perfect marks in the assessment for two years, the warrior will be upgraded to a warrior, with a monthly salary of at least three taels of silver. A first-class warrior in the cavalry can earn a full five taels of monthly salary.

This is a promotion path for soldiers with outstanding combat skills and tenacious style but unable to improve their cultural level, especially cavalry of foreign nationalities.

There is no way, some soldiers are like tigers descending from the mountain when fighting, and like dozing cats when reading and literacy.

It is unrealistic to expect these soldiers to pass the cultural examination and become officers, so Huang Yi divided the soldiers into four levels, and each level was divided into three levels, for a total of twelve promotion steps.

Let ordinary soldiers who are illiterate or illiterate also have goals and hope!

Of course, those who have reached the full level are first-class warriors. Warriors, warriors, warriors, and soldiers are each divided into three levels.

Recruits are automatically qualified as third-class soldiers, and those who meet the assessment standards and can be promoted must be first-class soldiers.

To survive in China, involution is indispensable. If you want to be superior to others and live a wonderful life, you have to win over the people around you!

Huang Yi is happy to see his subordinates roll up, and every soldier will be a warrior by the end of the roll!

Then there would be no need for Huang Yi to say: "There are strong warriors guarding the four sides!"

It can be said: "Having hundreds of thousands of warriors march across the world!"

Well, that's a story later. The current task is to kill the rebels and make a fortune!

Ever since, under Huang Yi's instruction, Liu Yulie, the governor of Denglai, Shandong, and Wang Kun, the eunuch of the Supervisory Army, reached a consensus!

The counter-rebellion army began to form troops!

And it is clear that there is a hundred thousand encirclement!

Although the historical eunuch Gao Qiqian and the generals of the Guan Ning Army did not enter the pass to participate in the Denglai counterinsurgency.

However, the number and methods of the Ming army that defeated Dengzhou City were exactly the same as in history!

The Ming army still spent several days building a thirty-mile-long wall. It was as high as a city and reached the sea at both its east and west ends.

Liu Yulie and Wang Kun jointly issued an order. More than a dozen generals, led by Chen Hongfan and Liu Zeqing, led their troops to guard the Western Wall. Wang Hong and Liu Liangzuo led their own troops to respond.

Yang Yufan, Deng Qi and other generals led their troops to guard the east wall, while Liu Guozhu and Mou Wenshou led their own troops to respond.

The entire southern wall is given full responsibility to the Xinghe Army, and Huang Yi can decide when to attack!

At this time, winter had just begun to snow, and the ground had not yet frozen three feet. The Ming army and civilians, nearly 100,000 people, worked together.

Even though the siege was several months later than in history, the trenches and earth walls surrounding Dengzhou City were still completed in less than half a month as in history.

How could the Ming army work together?

hehe! It depends on what you do!

The soldiers of generals such as Yang Yufan, Deng Qi, Chen Hongfan and others are basically rubbish. Expecting them to charge into battle is equivalent to losing their lives. These ruffians are greedy for life, hate superior officials, and bully ordinary people. They are really bad, but they are really not stupid.

They know who is the biggest beneficiary of digging trenches and building earthen walls.

Hiding in trenches and earthen walls, firing muskets and shooting arrows is safe and secure. Of course, you must spare no effort to dig and dig!

Because Dengzhou faces the sea in the north, it only needs to be surrounded on three sides. The Xinghe Army is responsible for the south, so it is naturally in the center to support the friendly forces on both wings.

The Xinghe Army was full of confidence and was not afraid of the rebels breaking through from the south. They deliberately did not dig trenches or build earthen walls to lure the rebels to attack.

It's not that we don't build fortifications, it's that we don't build walls to facilitate the cavalry group charge. A part of the Xinghe Army's auxiliary troops commanded 9,000 laborers plus more than 10,000 guard squadrons sent by Liu Yulie to dig and dig!

All the excavated soil was dumped 200 steps away from the south gate of Dengzhou City. Next, it was rammed and compacted to form a high earth platform that was one mile in length and seven feet thicker than the city wall.

Are the rebels just watching the Ming army dig and dig?

Of course it’s impossible, there’s no such thing as watching helplessly in history!

"Capital Marshal" Li Jiucheng personally led the elite rebels to fight out of the city...

Of course they do!

Guan Ning's cavalry, which was ready to attack, immediately launched an attack.

In this battle, Zu Dale's formation killed Li Jiucheng, and the rebels suffered heavy losses and no longer dared to launch a decent attack.

Now there is no Guan Ning cavalry, but there are 3,800 cavalry from the Xinghe Army.

Most of the Xinghe Army cavalry who appeared at the gate of Dengzhou City were natural cavalry - Mongolians.

These Mongolian cavalry were personally selected and even led by the new chief, in order to gain credit and Huang Yi's recognition and praise!

The Mongolians who swore allegiance to Huang Yi were eager to receive Huang Yi's rewards, especially the stainless steel pulley bow.

With this magical weapon, shooting thirty feather arrows one after another will not cause numbness in the arms.

The Mongolian cavalry in each base area can shoot at Jiannu Bagala, and they are absolutely sure to kill Bagala.

Things are rare and valuable. So far, among the satellite Mongolian tribes to which the base belongs, there are only thirty-six Mongolian knights who have received the stainless steel pulley bow as a reward from Huang Yi.

These thirty-six people are all archers with high loyalty and outstanding combat effectiveness.

Among the established Xinghe Army cavalry, there are also many Mongolian cavalry. Thirty-six of them have repeatedly performed military exploits and were treated as first-class warriors, and were given the honor of being given priority to equip stainless steel pulley bows.

If they make new achievements, they will definitely become the first batch of warriors of the Xinghe Army!

Most of the Han cavalry came from slaves rescued from the Mongolian tribes. These people had decent riding skills, but there were not many good horsemen and good shooters.

There is no way, everyone has their own strengths!

Horseback riding and archery have become instinctive for Mongolians since they were young.

The Han people learned to ride horses and archery the day after tomorrow. Those who could surpass the Mongols under the same conditions were all talented in this area.

Therefore, under normal circumstances Huang Yi does not need to let the Han people compete with the Mongols in horseback archery.

The Han people could practice riding on horseback, shooting three-eyed muskets, and throwing "flying thunder". They could also exercise on horseback and dismount from their horses to fire a volley with a flintlock rifle during war.

The lethality of lead bullets fired from flintlock muskets is much higher than that of arrows scattered by cavalry bows, and the war horses cannot bear even a single bullet.

Therefore, except for the Han cavalry under Huang Yi who were already good at archery, the rest of the soldiers were trained in firearms.

Therefore, only 28 Han cavalry among the Xinghe Army cavalry were equipped with stainless steel pulley bows.