Chapter 148 Soldiers are not expensive
"Liu Mu, have you heard that Sun Junmen and Lord Haifang Daowang hanged themselves!
That guy Zhang Keda wanted to stick to the water city, but he was bombarded by the red-clothed cannon. The water city was broken and he eventually committed suicide!"
This soldier named Liu Mu asked in a question-filled tone, "Is there anything wrong with that guy Zhang Keda, he is worthy of death. His Zhejiang soldiers and Shandong soldiers bullied us like that!
However, Sun Junmen treated us Liaodong men very well, and it was a pity that he committed suicide like this.
Lord Sun lives well, why did he suddenly think about committing suicide? Could it be that General Kong forced him?"
"General Kong is not the kind of person who can be kind to the generals and revenge! I heard that General Kong wanted to regard Sun Junmen as king, and then he would build a country where he said that Denglai was the king. Sun Junmen refused and even scolded General Kong angrily. General Kong could not say that Sun Junmen was so he had to retreat.
Then he arranged for someone to take care of Sun Junmen and Lord Wang's daily life. I don't know what Sun Junmen thought, so he overturned the illuminated candlesticks and committed suicide with Lord Wang. When the guardians appeared, the whole house was burned. Finally, they worked together to put out the fire, but they still couldn't get it down!"
Liu Mu lamented, "Hey! Why can't I think so much about Sun Junmen and want to commit suicide?"
"Who knows this! I also heard that after Sun Junmen died, the generals cried unsatisfiedly. Those soldiers who were guarding like us were killed by General Kong's orders, and even the guards Qian Zong were killed by the staff!"
The soldier named Liu Mu was silent and said with some concern, "We have to keep a close eye on it. If the few people in this room can't think too much, we will start to be implicated!"
"Yes, I hope they don't do stupid things!..."
Of course, Sun Yuanhua and Wang Hui could not have died just like this. They were still alive. This was a play arranged by Kong Youde.
In the original history, when everyone saw that Sun Yuanhua would rather die than be king, he had no choice but to arrange a boat to escort Sun Yuanhua, Wang Hui, Zhang Tao, Wu Weicheng and others back to the capital. Then Sun Yuanhua was framed by Wen Tiren's party and used to attack Fu Zhou Yanru and seize the position of Fu.
Kong Youde, who knew this history, naturally would not let such a thing happen again, but most of Sun Yuanhua and Wang Hui's family were not in Dengzhou. For the sake of their family's safety, Kong Youde arranged this drama so that their family members would not be implicated.
These two soldiers who spoke were deliberately arranged. In the room in this yard, Song Guanglan, Dengzhou Road, Zhang Tao, Denglai General, Wu Weicheng, Dengzhou Prefect, Jia Mingjie, and the county magistrate Wang Ming were all released. These people were all released. There was no benefit to killing them, and it might even make the court decide to quell the rebellion faster.
In order not to let the detained people take action deliberately, the two soldiers pretended to chat casually at the entrance of the yard and said these things.
The door of the yard is a bit far away from the room, so people in the room can barely hear it, and they need to listen carefully to it to hear it clearly, and they will be more likely to believe this matter.
Kong Youde decided that in a few days, they would naturally be able to "Sun Yuanhua and Wang Hui committed suicide" and the news of Zhang Keda committing suicide will be spread to the court. In this way, Sun Yuanhua and Wang Hui's family should be without any danger in the short term.
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Dongxiaochang Daying.
As a loud horn sounded, an officer shouted at the top of his voice, "Lunch time is up! The morning exercise ends here! The teams disbanded on the spot and rested for a quarter of an hour. Listen to the sound of the digits and gathered to eat!"
"Young guys, in the days ahead, you just need to step up your training!
There is enough white rice to eat. Even if you open your stomach, you slaughtered ten fat pigs today so that you can eat them well!
The General has said long ago that as long as you follow the General and follow the general's orders, you will be unable to be hungry! If anyone dares to be lazy during training, he will be expelled from the military camp at that time, he will not blame others!"
Listening to the officer's words, although the soldiers were all tired, the smiles on their faces were indeed very sincere. It was a rare pleasure for them to have a full meal, let alone pork.
From the second day after taking Dengzhou, Kong Youde began to reorganize his troops. He didn't want any of the soldiers who were surrendered, and left them all to Li Jiucheng and Geng Zhongming, and let them go at hand.
Moreover, he also eliminated some of the old and weak in the army from the position of war soldiers, but he did not drive them out directly, but became a special cooking camp. They became the cooks among them. In most cases, they were no longer responsible for fighting, but were responsible for cooking for the soldiers.
Then he invited some chefs from hotels and inns in the city to teach them how to cook. Originally, those chefs were unwilling to reveal their skills, but they were unwilling to teach them.
After cutting off a few heads, they all gave up their resistance. Although they were worried that the master would starve to death by the disciples, they chose the former than being cut to death directly. It was not free to ask them to do these things, and they were not taught their specialty, but just some ordinary dishes and cooking skills, so they were not so resistant.
After the establishment of a special cook, the soldiers no longer need to cook themselves, so they have more time to participate in training, greatly improving the training progress.
Now, the number of soldiers under Kong Youde's men has suffered only more than 6,000 losses after being eliminated and combated. However, Kong Youde was not prepared to expand his army on a large scale. He selected 6,000 young and strong people from Liaodong refugees and was incorporated into the recruit camp.
Soldiers are expensive but not expensive. There are elite combat soldiers of 12,000 people, which is enough in the early stage.
The peasant army in Shanxi and Shaanxi, except for the thousands of people in the core, were all farmers who picked up weapons and had not received any professional training. It is okay to fight with the wind. Once an unfavorable situation occurs, it will be scattered and suffer heavy casualties.
Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng, Hong Chengchou and others have used thousands of elite official troops to defeat tens of thousands of peasant troops and run around. The lessons here are very profound.
These recruits were organized into sixty hundred-man teams, and the general general was held by Kong Youde's personal soldiers, and they controlled the absolute control of the recruits, and then the discipline inspection commission's strict training was carried out.
It can be said that from dawn in the morning until the sun set, the recruits were training.
Kong Youde's training for them was actually three months of training for recruits from the People's Liberation Army in later generations, which was just adding some training programs based on military training in colleges and high schools. It was the most basic training.
The main training sets are lined up, reporting numbers neatly, turning around, starting and running three major steps, and a training plan is formulated.
Chapter completed!