Chapter 41: The Soldiers

Huang Han said aloud to the ten men in front of the clan elders and village chiefs of Wangjiatun Village, as well as the ordinary people who sent their relatives to serve as soldiers:

"The sky can see the sun and the moon, this official Huang Han will fight to the death with Jiannu in this life, you follow this official as a soldier, one day, this official will lead you to Liaodong to fight blood for blood, and kill Jiannu to the point that no chickens and dogs are left."

Wang Zhicheng said with a sincere face: "Adult, the little one believes in you, and the little one will follow you up the knife mountain and down the sea of fire without frowning." ”

The men who volunteered to join the army solemnly swore that they would fight with the Houjin Army to the end, and would never go home if they did not get the beheading merit.

The village chief and the clan elders all saw Huang Han rushing with cavalry, and there were actually dozens of descendants in the village who wanted to join the army, and they chose ten people who could ride horses with martial arts to follow Huang Han.

Among them, there are two good hunters, Wang Zhaoxiang and Wang Fuquan, who have first-class archery skills and can shoot quickly within 80 steps.

When Huang Han left Wangjiatun with his men and horses, hundreds of people came to see him off in the whole village, and many of the descendants also told a few people who followed the army to not forget to return to their hometowns and bring their brothers if they mixed well in the army.

Seeing this situation, Huang Han couldn't help but feel moved in his heart, why didn't he take this opportunity to deliberately recruit strong men to cultivate his family in the villages around Yongping Mansion, which had been plagued by Jiannu?

These people are as deep as the sea with Jiannu, and the will to fight must be fine, train them well and educate them, and these people will become the children of their own support in the future.

On the fourth day of the first lunar month, Huang Han returned to Jiulitai Village with his men and horses, buried the three sacrificed robes on the back mountainside, sent the four seriously wounded up the mountain to recuperate, and handed over the captured damaged armor to Yang Laoshi who had been transferred to the mountain for repair.

The Houjin army should be busy attacking Yongping Mansion now, and has not yet come to Jiulitai to loot, in fact, even if they come, it is not a big deal, this place has almost been emptied, it is possible that Jiannu needs to go out of his way to find firewood, otherwise the house that is not a grass house may not burn the camp.

Huang Han arranged for a meeting in the temporary classroom of the Huang family's compound after the Ming Gang and the secret outpost, summing up the lessons and lessons of this raid.

At the meeting, Huang Han encouraged everyone to speak enthusiastically, and many soldiers found that the unfortunate death and serious injury of the robe were likely to avoid such a bad result if they had strong armor.

Since the iron armor is not enough to equip every warrior, Huang Han made a provision after discussing with everyone, and in the future, the warriors equipped with iron armor and face armor will launch a frontal charge, and the warriors with incomplete armor will have to use leather shields to protect their bodies when they follow and attack.

At the meeting, Huang Han solemnly wrote down the names of the three martyrs of the Ming army.

He told everyone that in the future, the martyrs will be buried in the back mountain, and when the Houjin army is repulsed, the Huang family will pay two silver to build a martyr's shrine there to worship the martyrs' tablet, so that the martyrs' souls can enjoy the incense and enjoy the sacrifice of future generations.

Huang Han also promised in public that once Jiannu retired from the army, he would let his fellow villagers send thirty taels of silver to the families of the martyrs, and if the families of the martyrs could not live in their hometowns, they could be taken to the Huang family for resettlement.

These promises were so amazing that the Ming army, which already had a sense of identity, had a lot more trust in Huang Han.

They also saw Huang Han's attitude towards the wounded, among the four seriously wounded, a soldier named Hu Dashan had half of his arm cut off, his chest was trampled by a war horse, and the injury was serious, and he was a waste person who could be saved.

Huang Han not only actively rescued, but also promised that all the soldiers who were left behind and disabled could stay in Jiulitai Village, and the Huang family guaranteed that everyone would not starve.

"All of us are united, and the mountains can be shaken. Only loyal and righteous, angry bullfighting. The Lord will kiss me better than my parents. ……”

After the meeting, it was time to learn culture, and when the soldiers of the Huang Han Sect sang the military song composed by Qi Jiguang, some people actually burst into tears.

Presumably, it was Huang Han's attitude towards the soldiers that infected them, and the grassroots soldiers actually lived a simple life, they were respected, and they would be more desperate when facing the enemy.

The cavalry team was reduced by seven due to casualties, and after being replenished by ten at Wangjiatun, the number was three more.

Due to the large number of captures of the total annihilation of the stubborn enemy, the number of horses owned by Huang Han has doubled.

Although the new recruits are not enough to fight on horseback, they are equipped with leather armor, cotton armor and cold weapons, and with their physical strength and martial arts, they can still be effective in hand-to-hand combat.

Anyway, the next step will be to train soldiers in battle, and when these men with force value get the experience of killing the enemy face-to-face on the battlefield, the growth rate should be amazing.

The Ming army, which had experienced a bloody battle, recognized Huang Han, and the men who fought side by side were the easiest to dig out each other's hearts and lungs, and the remaining twenty-three Ming troops after casualties and attrition had been integrated with the family members.

Huang Han thought that there was no need to favor one over the other, and asked the Ming army brothers if they were willing to become family members and fight for the future together in the future.

Huang Han's performance in several battles is obvious to all, and the lectures in these days have made the Ming army understand a lot of truths, and of course there is a head to follow such a civil and military all-round master.

Under normal circumstances, it is not easy to become a military attaché's family member, and the military attache chooses not only people with outstanding combat skills, but also most of them choose the village party, and some are simply the clansmen brought out of their hometowns by the military attaché.

Huang Han generously left all the cavalry of the Ming army as a family member, and each person would have at least five dollars of silver per month.

Zheng Guochang was sent to a mountain shelter by Huang Hanyu for the New Year, and the villagers in Jiulitai knew that the adult who came was many times older than the official of the county lord, and they respected the Zheng family very much.

The pair of children who came with Zheng Guochang are grandchildren, and the elder brother Zheng Xiaowen is the second son at the age of 22, and his wife and concubines are not with him.

He was about to go to Jingshi Guozijian to study, and when he was plundered by the Jin army, the trip was delayed, and he stayed in Yongping Mansion to accompany his parents for the New Year.

Zheng Xiu'e is over 16 years old and is Zheng Guochang's only daughter, who has always followed her parents.

The brother and sister lived in the compound of the deep house for a long time, and when they came to the shelter, they found everything interesting, and they walked around the mountain to see and talk to the villagers, and soon learned why the men, women and children of Jiulitai Village celebrate the New Year on the mountain.

Zheng Guochang listened to what his children said and heard thoughtfully, Jiannu was wanton in the land of Gyeonggi like no one, and it was unknown that they would come to attack Yongpyeongfu.

Did that kid from the Huang family predict that Yongping Mansion would not be able to hold it, so he deliberately provoked himself to come to Jiulitai to take refuge for a while?

Zheng Guochang, who was on the verge of anger, once again suppressed his anger, and he decided to wait patiently until the fourth day of the first lunar month.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, Zheng Guochang has already lived on the mountain for five days agreed with Huang Han, and before he can start to go crazy, Huang Yizhou sent Huang Yong to invite Master Zheng to see something.