I am one year older than Chongzhen

Chapter 46 The Gunner's Gunner
There is no need to chase those young and middle-aged men who ran away, as long as they control their wives, children, and children, I believe that most of them will surrender voluntarily.

Our own side paid the price of three deaths, two serious injuries, and seven minor injuries. The leader of this tribe and the males of their family will definitely not survive.

It is impossible for Huang Yi to do this kind of dirty work. Those old knights are familiar with this kind of work.

The resisters had to pay the price, not only the house of the leader was liquidated, but all the properties of the men killed in battle were confiscated, and all the family members were given to the meritorious knights as slaves.

Of course, Huang Dazhi, Huang Dayong, etc. were responsible for cleaning up the property. They found a total of one hundred taels of silver, thirty taels of gold, and some gold and silverware.

Not all of them were found in the yurt of the tribal leader, there was also some gold and silver in the homes of the upper class of the tribe.

Huang Yi finally understood why wild boar skins were being hunted continuously until the first few months before the pigtails were raised.

Robbery comes in too fast!
In this battle, many cattle, sheep and horses were captured, a pair of iron armor, more than [-] pairs of leather armor and cotton armor were seized, and more than [-] Han slaves were rescued.

Meritorious rewards!

Yamoboli, a knight under Huang Yi's leadership, beheaded two enemies and got the armor. He was so happy that he knelt at Huang Yi's feet and kowtowed like garlic.

Twenty or so pairs of leather armor, except for Huang Dazhi who put away seven pairs, the rest basically rewarded the knights in the first and second ranks of the first echelon, which is absolutely fair and just.

Huang Yi has long realized the importance of armor.

I thought I could save some leather armor or cotton armor in my hand.

If there is an opportunity, it is necessary to vigorously develop the firearms force, and the training of loading and firing matchlock guns is the top priority.

At this time, the matchlock guns had a slow rate of fire, no accuracy, and a worrying range. Compared with Jiannu's bows and arrows, their advantages were not obvious.

The matchlock gunners can be skilled in loading and playing, and they can deal with it calmly when facing each other, so the musketeers can fight against cold weapons.

However, the actual situation of Daming's field battle with Jiannu was that the army collapsed, losing again and again, and he no longer had the courage to fight Jiannu in the field.

If the matchlock gunners of the Ming army could wear leather armor or cotton armor, they would definitely be able to resist the spread of feather arrows.

If you can strictly implement the three-stage attack tactics, you will never lose to the cold weapon troops.

In the final analysis, in a word, the corruption of the Ming Dynasty party has become rotten to the root...

Whether a regime has hope can be seen from the faces of those Han people who are enslaved.

They were all numb, like walking dead, and they didn't feel much about changing to a new master.

But after seeing more than 170 Han people, after eating roast lamb with them, more than half of the Han people cried.

I have been a slave for too long, and I no longer have the memory of eating a full stomach. This is really the first time I have eaten so much fat mutton.

"Following the new master can really fill your stomach?"

Too many newly freed Chinese slaves questioned.

"Yes!" Huang Dazhi, Huang Dayong, Qi Xiaoshan and other teenagers answered without hesitation.

"Everyone is full, and the master will be poor!"

Some Han slaves did not believe it at all.

Huang Dayong explained: "So everyone has to work harder! You have to be like us, dare to take up arms and fight Jiannu and Tartars!"

A young man named Li Wanquan said: "We didn't dare before because we didn't have enough to eat and we didn't have the energy. If we can really have enough to eat, we dare to work hard!"

Huang Dazhi smiled and said: "Haha..., it's just a good idea to eat well, we don't believe it!"

Including Li Wanquan, seven or eight younger Han slaves blushed and said in unison, "We'll see if you don't believe me!"

Huang Dayong teased: "Just you skinny bears, you are either fighting for your life or dying for your life!"

Li Wanquan said unconvinced: "I'm so hungry, I was a strong man three years ago! Two or three people may not be able to beat me."

Huang Dazhi asked, "What did you do before?"

"Embarrassed to say."

A Han man should be familiar with Li Wanquan, and said with disdain: "You have been reduced to being a slave, what is there to be embarrassed about? If you don't tell them, I will tell them."

"Zhao San, you don't need to talk too much, I will say..."

Li Wanquan used to be a gunner of the Ming army. After being defeated and captured, he was unwilling to fire at Paozhe, so he concealed his identity as a gunner and was assigned as an ordinary infantryman to the armored men as slaves.

Later, because Jiannu’s food was not enough to eat, many Han Ahas used it to exchange cattle and sheep with the Mongols, including Li Wanquan and Zhao San.

Zhao San's name is Zhao Yong. He used to be a gunner of the Ming army, and he was also a slave after being captured.

That's because the Jiannu captured too many Ming troops during the wild boar skin period, and they couldn't incorporate them all. Only a small amount was kept as the Han army, and most of them were allocated to the armored men as slaves.

The vast majority of Jiannu can't and don't need to bother to farm, but they have a lot of fields. Those who farm are all captured Han people, including many captured Ming soldiers.

Huang Dazhi was quite surprised to find two former slaves of the Ming army, and they immediately asked the young and middle-aged Han people from the Kachagute tribe respectively.

There are really a few.

It's just that they are not gunners or gunners, and they are not cavalry.

This is in line with common sense. The Ming army should have [-]% cavalry and [-]% infantry. After a defeat, the cavalry has an obvious advantage in escaping, and the infantry is basically the fate of being abandoned.

Rare things are precious, and the cavalry of the Ming army captured by Jiannu must be given priority to be incorporated into the Han army, and it is impossible for the cavalry to farm the land.

The man named Zuo Guanghu used to be a Ming saber and shield player, and Yue Mufei and Yao Yongchao were both spearmen.

Sword and shield hand and long gunman are the most common and most numerous arms, and they also have the lowest training cost.

However, the sword and shield hands cooperate with the spearmen to form an formation, and they are fully capable of dealing with Mongolian light cavalry.

Qiu Xingshun was in the Shandong Guards Army. He was the most unlucky. He went to Liaodong only for shifts, and his main job was to be a coolie to build cities and military forts.

Daming's guard army had degenerated to the point where it was no different from farmers and craftsmen. Qiu Xingshun's family had no contacts, and he went to Liaodong for three shifts to perform hard labor.

There were only three incidents. Qiu Xingshun was captured by Jiannu when the city was built for the third time.

The first job after being captured was not to build the city, but to demolish it.

So Qiu Xingshun basically didn't have combat skills, but he was good at building cities and tearing down walls.

Would someone like him be loyal to Daming?
Certainly not, because his family is the lowest level of the Guards Army, life is hard, and they are often hungry and bullied.

Otherwise, how could he, a native of Shandong, go to Liaodong to build a city, and was captured by Jiannu and became a slave?
Li Wanquan should be a bit bloody, Jiannu gave preferential treatment to the gunners of the Ming army, if he surrendered Jiannu, he would not be a slave.

But he didn't want to shoot at Pao Ze, he would rather be a slave, which is evident.

The same people who were reduced to the end of the world, and reduced to being slaves, finally did not get beaten and scolded, and could comfortably eat meat and chat around the fire.

Too many Han people talked about the sad things when they were slaves, and talked about which companions died of hunger and cold...

(End of this chapter)