I am one year older than Chongzhen

Chapter 259 Xinghe Army

It is impossible for the imperial court to promote Huang Yi in vain. There must be whipping and fast cattle, and the order of the Ministry of War followed closely.

Huang Yi was required to send at least 2000 troops into the pass to stop and wipe out the rogues who had spread to Shanxi.

Although the imperial court gave food and salaries, it was only a drop in the bucket. If all the imperial court's food and salaries were used, Huang Yi might only be able to train seven or eight hundred armored cavalry.

Now Huang Yi actually has two garrison battalions with a total of 600 troops, and a reinforcement battalion filled with [-] troops along the way, with a total of [-] troops under his jurisdiction.

The Ministry of War wants to dispatch 2000 troops into the pass to kill the rogues. Even though Governor Xuan Da is the father-in-law, Huang Yi refuses to obediently obey the order.

It was the consistent style of the generals in the late Ming Dynasty to ask for the true color and fold the color as the cost of launching, and Huang Yi was no exception.

So he submitted an official document, explaining the dispatch of [-] soldiers, including [-] cavalry, [-] infantry, and [-] artillery, plus no less than [-] coachmen and porters.

The imperial court needs to pay 2 shi for military rations and [-] taels of silver for military pay, otherwise it is impossible to send troops.

While asking for food and money, one must actively prepare for war.

Among the troops under his command are soldiers from Shanxi and Shaanxi. In the past few days, these people have taught the whole army to shout a few slogans that can be understood by the people of Shaanxi and Shanxi.

Without him, it is just to better capture prisoners, the slogan is "Surrender and avoid death!"

"Disarm and don't kill!"

"I want to live and kneel with my hands up!"

"We are the Xinghe Army that will never disturb the people!"

"The Xinghe Army has strict military discipline, and will never kill the good and pretend to be meritorious!"

"Xinghe Junqiu did nothing wrong!"

All soldiers and generals are required to be able to clearly shout these slogans with Shanxi and Shaanxi accents and the Mandarin of the base area.

The world is going downhill, people's hearts are not old, and the army of Ming Dynasty in the last days is not much better than bandits!
Therefore, Huang Yi began to clearly distinguish himself from the Ming army in dress.

Today's Xinghe army uniform is based on grass green, the flag is sky blue, and the cape is white.

Huang Yi wants to take advantage of the opportunity of entering the customs to suppress bandits to let more people know that the Xinghe Army has strict military discipline and a good style of work, and has made sufficient preparations before going out.

The number of doctors and veterinarians accompanying the army was as high as [-], and the medicines, honey, and alcohol they carried were loaded into four carts.

In order to increase the survival rate of the wounded and sick, Huang Yi often discussed anti-inflammatory and painkillers with Li Yongtai and his son and several military doctors.

In fact, it's not a discussion, it's just a confession of some recipes saved in the phone.

According to the formula provided by Huang Yi, Li Yongtai boiled willow bark, added rhubarb, coptis, scutellaria baicalensis and other traditional Chinese medicines, and formulated the Chinese patent medicine "Jiiming San" with obvious anti-inflammatory and pain effects.

The stabbed and cut wounds were disinfected with alcohol, and hemostatic powder and honey were applied externally after suturing, and "Jiming San" was taken internally, and the cure rate increased by [-] to [-] percent.

The Xinghe Army also has one of the biggest features, that there are thirty water trucks accompanying the army.

This kind of waterwheel is equipped with a large wooden barrel, which can be fully loaded with one cubic meter of clean water.

In ancient wars, the proportion of staff lost due to injuries and diseases may exceed [-]%.

Huang Yi will never allow this to happen, because what he pursues is zero casualties!
How to strictly control the spread of disease?

The simplest and most effective method is to pay attention to personal hygiene, adopt a meal-sharing system, and not drink raw water.

Every soldier has gourds and coconut ladles for his own use to store and drink water, and a copper lunch box for eating vegetables, soup and cakes.

The ancient army basically drank raw water.

Huang Yi's Xinghe Army put an end to this, so there were water trucks accompanying the army, and auxiliary soldiers were specially arranged to find clean water sources and boil water for the soldiers to drink.

There are countless dangerous places in the mountains and rivers inside and outside Shanxi. In the second year of Chongzhen, King Qin's five thousand Xuanda frontier army collapsed due to lack of food, and fled all the way back to their hometown.

These people caused a catastrophe, of course it is impossible to return to the original team, and it is impossible to go home.

The vast majority of Xiaoju mountains and forests have engaged in the act of robbing houses.

Therefore, there are so many bandits in Shanxi and Xuanda today.

The Xinghe Army entered the pass from Zhangjiakou, and was about to go to the prefectures and counties at the junction of Shanxi and Shaanxi to wipe out the bandits.

The distance is less than two thousand miles.

Huang Yi knew very well that if the Ming Dynasty did not carry out thorough reforms, and did not knock down the clans, officials, and local tyrants and evil gentry who had devastated their bones, they would never be able to kill all the bandits.

This time, the primary task of entering the customs and suppressing bandits is not to kill the enemy, but to let the people who can't survive know that there is a Xinghe Army that saves the people and is in trouble.

You can't lose money in war, you have to make money!
Asking for money and asking where to get the grain and fodder can only barely save capital.

If you want to make money, you must grab it!

Certainly not to rob the common people!
The Xinghe army has not yet reached the point of falling out with the Ming court, nor can it rob the government, gentry, and big landlords.

So, on the road less than [-] miles from Zhangjiakou to Puzhou, Pingyang Prefecture, Shanxi, bandits and horse thieves who deviate less than [-] miles from the road will be targeted.

In order to improve efficiency, Wang Jinbao led 36 spies to set off on the day he received the order from the Ministry of War and Governor Xuanda to transfer troops.

None of them wore military uniforms, and none of them belonged to the military establishment. They had to hang out with the coachmen of the chariot and horse dealers to inquire about the distribution of bandits and horse thieves in Shanxi's prefectural capital.

They also had to prepare guides for the coming army, and they had to pre-store some food and grass in several states and counties.

Huang Yi knew that Daming's system was rotten, and he never believed that the prefectures and counties along the way could provide food and grass in time.

In history, the old father-in-law's five thousand Qin Wang soldiers and horses collapsed because he did not bring enough food and grass. He believed in the policies and regulations of the Ming Dynasty, thinking that there should be there when he arrived, and he was killed in the end.

Eight years later, the turning point should be the time when the famous generals Cao Wenzhao and Ai Wannian were defeated and killed in an ambush.

Before that, the rogues were mainly rogues, and they basically didn't dare to fight the Ming army.

In the vast majority of cases, they saw the established Ming army, and the leader of the rogue bandit left the old and weak women and children and took only a part of the strong and the old bandits with horses and mules.

Huang Yi never regarded Wang Jiayin, Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, Ma Shouying and other bandit leaders as revolutionaries.

These people killed innocent people indiscriminately and kept destroying and destroying again, causing more ordinary people to freeze to death, starve to death or be killed.

The official army of the Ming Dynasty was very bad, and the rogue bandits were even worse. The Qing army that followed was actually almost as bad as them.

But all the Han people ignored the brutal killings of the officers and bandits, and blamed the Qing army for their hatred.

Of course Huang Yi knew that the Ming army, the bandits, and the Qing army were all enemies that must be eliminated, but he couldn't take his time in a hurry.

There are many benefits to sending troops after autumn. It is guessed that the lairs of horse bandits, bandits, and bandits must have stored enough food for the winter.

Fighting all the way, we will definitely be able to capture many prisoners and receive many refugees. I don't know if the captured food is enough to consume.

(End of this chapter)