Chapter 622: Combat Power Under Greed
The private ownership system of slaves under the Eight Banners of the Later Jin Jurchen is similar to the family system of the Ming army in this era, which is half a catty and eight taels of needles against Maimang.
It's a pity that the Ming army is even more unbearable because of the selfish desires of the bigwigs in the court. It has created an obvious gap in combat power between the two sides
The army under this system, when facing the Ming army, which is more corrupt than them, generally does not suffer too many casualties in the battle, but the benefits that can be obtained by them are quite a lot.
After the bottom of the gold poverty is gone, any little thing can make them happy for a long time, and every time they win a battle, it is a feast of plunder, which can stimulate the greed of the Tartars to the greatest extent.
Therefore, in these battles, it is rare for the Jurchen Eight Banners to play tricks, and there are even many times when the Eight Banners and the Niu Lu below are still vying for the opportunity to fight, hoping to gain military merits and expand the tribe's goods and manpower.
It's just that now after encountering the Huaxia Army, which is far stronger than the Ming Army, there are hidden drawbacks under the Houjin system. It's starting to come to the fore.
Abatai and his Niu Lu were the cannon fodder for the two yellow flags under the control of Dedolgon to go to the front line to bear the losses.
However, in fact, after doing so, Dolgon's core power is not a trace of the strength of the white flag, and the two yellow flags in the new control will not lose anything, but it can firmly seal the mouths of the other flag owners.
Dolgon's hand was a good move in the aftermath of slavery.
"Humph!"
After Chen Xin and Fu Yan listened to Su Kemeng's introduction together, they were a little disdainful of the primitive tribal system of Houjin in their hearts, Fu Yan snorted coldly, and kept shaking his head and thinking hard.
He really couldn't understand why the army of the Ming Dynasty would be defeated again and again in front of such a slave tribal army, and in the end, counting the battle of Dalinghe, it could be said that it was a complete defeat.
This is XX of XX, what the hell is going on!
At this time, the four mountain grenades in a 10-pound mountain howitzer company on the top of the mountain also began to bombard the enemy under the orders of the officer.
In the face of the enemy targets below, the accuracy of the mountain grenade, which has long been well demarcated, is not bad, and in the case of using solid bullets, it can always hit a few unlucky eggs each time.
However, just such a small casualty is not even a little bit of skin for the huge base of nearly 200,000 in Houjin.
Dolgon's banner appeared on the hill to the north, and all the units of the Houjin army entered the area they wanted to attack under the artillery fire on the mountain, and then, the Houjin army suddenly broke out like a mountain and a tsunami.
After Chen Xin sent Su Kemeng away, he said to Fu Yan beside him: "It seems that the Tartars are going to make a desperate gamble this time, and I want to go back to Lushun Nancheng to take charge of the dispatch of reinforcements and logistics materials."
Fu Yan wants to hold the defense line of the left flank, but this cockscomb mountain can be completely given up when it is forced to do so. Anyway, the artillery of the Houjin army is not used, and even if it occupies this place, it will not be able to pose much threat to the southern city of Lushun.
The most important thing is the city of Lushun South City and the narrow waterway in and out of Lushun Port. Are you clear? ”
"Don't worry, your subordinates will understand, and you will not forget your teachings."
Chen Xin nodded, then turned around and went down to Cockscomb Mountain, checking how well he was preparing for defense along the way.
Chen Xin walked quietly all the way and did not play his banner, so those soldiers basically didn't notice Chen Xin passing by them.
At this time, instructors at the company level, instructors at the battalion level, and political commissars at the brigade level were all doing pre-war ideological mobilization work for their respective teams, and the soldiers let out passionate cheers from time to time.
The most exciting ones are the auxiliary soldiers who have recently been recruited in the past two years.
Most of them came from the original Dongjiang Town, and the political workers cleaned up all the soldiers after many screenings and screenings, and now most of the remaining soldiers in the team are ordinary honest soldiers.
After meeting with a group of tuntian households recruited to Tuntian, the total number reached 4,800, and then the military department was organized into six auxiliary battalions, and a small amount of military training was carried out, mainly in discipline and city defense.
As for the others, they were not expected to be able to fight like the regular field troops led by the tigers, so they did not do much training.
They were mainly responsible for farming, and when the farming was slack, they would dig trenches, and in addition to managing food and housing, their wages were much less than those of the regular army.
As long as they participated in the auxiliary troops of the Huaxia Army, they were given priority to the land on the borders of the kingdom and cultivated by the people in their families.
The kingdom's promise to them was that after the entire territory of Liaodong was recovered, they would give each strong laborer a full 30 acres of land, and this was where the hope of these auxiliaries was.
Moreover, more importantly, these people who participated in the auxiliary forces left behind in Dongjiang Town are basically as deep as the sea of hatred with the Tartars, and there are political workers agitating on the side every day to maintain their hatred, who can not grit their teeth after seeing the Tartars!
For these newly joined auxiliaries who still have some minor problems, compared to the soldiers led by the tiger ben in the regular field army, although the kingdom does not give much, it is much better than the fact that they were forced by Yuan Chonghuan to have no food and no clothing before.
Coupled with the fact that the kingdom has given them a smooth path to ascent, they can enter the regular field army through excellent performance, which is more promising than anything else.
They all knew that today was a huge large-scale battle, so they all shouted loudly and vented their emotions in their hearts.
After listening to it a lot, even Chen Xin himself began to feel a little infected by them, and bursts of enthusiasm rushed to his head, just like the feeling when he heard the national anthem at the flag-raising ceremony of the primary school in later generations.
Chen Xin followed the defensive line set up on the gentle slope, all the way to the foot of the mountain, entered the earthen wall from the passage by the sea, and then he soon came to the northern wall of the southern city of Lushun, and saw the busy Chief of Staff Liu of the First Brigade of the Mixed Brigade.
Coming to the place where Chief of Staff Liu was, Chen Xin ordered his own royal flag to be erected there, although a new infantry brigade was added, but in this battle, Chief of Staff Liu still served as the chief of staff of this campaign, he had been in Lushun for more than a year, Chen Xin believed that he would be more professional than himself.