activa-t Chapter 316 Khan's Concerns
Chapter 316 Khan's Concerns
During the war, Ning Yi had to use heavy methods.
Especially when dealing with prisoners, let them know that anyone who dares to disobey will be killed without mercy and will have no chance of survival.
They surrendered to the barbarians and came to attack Hushan Pass, wasn't it because they were more afraid of the barbarians?
He felt that the barbarians were stronger than the Wu State, which was too weak.
But once they knew that the Wu Kingdom treated them more cruelly, they would naturally be more afraid.
On the contrary, there is no need to adopt a soft policy towards these soldiers.
There were many prisoners and wounded soldiers, all of whom were forced to stay behind when the rebel army retreated.
Among them were border troops, soldiers from vassal kings, the Beijing troops that had gone to support the border, a lot of support from the Northwest Army, and some of the troops from the Second Prince.
Ning Yi merged them all at once, cured their injuries, and threw them into the criminal army.
However, all the soldiers and officers had to be screened out and beheaded in public, so that these soldiers, without a leader, would not dare to act recklessly.
Then, those who performed well among the criminal army were sent to the temporary army for reorganization in batches.
In this way, the captives can be given hope of survival, and the criminal army can also provide them with a way to whitewash and get promoted, which naturally stimulates their fighting power.
However, in the entire Hushan Pass, only tens of thousands of soldiers were injured.
These wounded soldiers, except those with disabilities, are indeed unable to go to the battlefield again. Some of them who have been selected can indeed do other labor.
We will try our best to send everything else towards the capital.
The others just returned to the army after their injuries healed.
Ning Yi knew that if he wanted to rally the troops' morale, he had to first gather the wounded and let the other armies see it.
In addition, Ning Yi mobilized another two thousand flintlock rifles from the base.
This was just made in the last few months.
They began to select more than 3,000 smart and capable young soldiers from the entire wounded camp.
All are quite trustworthy.
The eighth firearms battalion was directly reorganized into two firearms regiments.
Anyway, the 800 people in the Firearms Battalion have always been his guard and rarely have the opportunity to go to the battlefield.
Instead of doing this, it would be better to reorganize your own firearms regiment as soon as possible.
The firearms regiment was directly divided into three firearms battalions, each with 500 musketeers and cold weapon defense soldiers.
In addition, an artillery battalion was expanded with twenty Tiger Dun cannons, which made it look much more powerful.
A firearms battalion also has two Tiger Dun cannon platoons, so that each battalion can fight independently.
Several months ago, Ning Yi started to set up a gunpowder factory in the direction of Humen Pass.
There are many mountains and forests in Hushan Pass. Not only are there sulfur mines, but there are also large saltpeter mines that the base has been looking for for a long time but has not found.
They were all confiscated by Commander Ning Yi.
After continuous cleaning and rectification, the gunpowder bureau has finally started to produce gunpowder continuously.
He also included some of the students from the twelfth batch who had just followed him for three months.
There were exactly two firearms regiments, with a total of nearly 5,000 people.
This is the army that Ning Yi trusts the most, and it can be said to be the army with the strongest combat effectiveness.
But Ning Yi was not worried about the fact that there were only two groups, because the 13th and 14th batches of servants sent from the subsequent base had all undergone basic training at the base.
When they came to train, Ning Yi directly gave them the remaining hundreds of muskets for training.
In the future, they will be organized into two firearms training camps, and their task will be to conduct comprehensive firearms training.
We just need to wait and see how many flintlock rifles the base has and send them over.
In Hushan Pass, because there were two firearms regiments, the sound of frying beans could be heard from some places every day.
Many wounded soldiers in the city were confused and thought they were being given fried beans to eat.
The firearms regiment has the best weapons and equipment, and the most rigorous training. In addition to practicing volleys and assassinations every day, they also perform various physical training.
These two groups are Ning Yi's treasures.
In addition, some of the book boys who were well from the injuries were selected and brought with them from the other twelve classes to form a guard battalion, with a total of only 600 people, including 300 flintlock musketeers, other cold weapon soldiers, miscellaneous soldiers, medical soldiers, and even artillerymen, which was very complete.
The future guard camp will be where Ning Yi will personally guide the final step, and what awaits them is the expansion of the future firearms army.
Now, Zeng Zhizhong has sent a lot of craftsmen to the base, and it has developed into a firearms manufacturing base in the mountains west of Hushan Pass.
Over there, there were several armies stationed nearby, and tens of thousands of prisoners were busy every day.
Thousands of flintlock muskets can be produced every month. That’s not all. There are also productions at the old base, which amount to almost two thousand flintlock muskets a month, and quite a few Tiger Dun cannons. Ning Yi is naturally happy.
All kinds of minerals near Hushan Pass were confiscated. The reason was that after mining, they would be used to make weapons and military equipment to defend against barbarians.
Since your old emperor doesn't give me weapons, I can mine and make them myself. Is that not too much to ask?
The old emperor doesn't care about all that. He is now focused on developing the south.
As for Lao Liu, he mined, smelted iron and steel himself, and found a group of blacksmiths to make weapons.
He was too lazy to even look at it, as long as no one asked him for anything.
Ning Yi was busy with the reorganization at Hushan Pass, repairing the city walls and military camps everywhere.
There are also military camps everywhere where soldiers are trained.
Now I have winter clothes. Although they are worn out, they can at least keep me warm.
Waiting for further attacks from the barbarian army at any time.
The barbarian Khan has been very angry recently.
Because he had received accurate information that the army heading towards the interior was completely wiped out.
After all, there are many of his spies in the territory of Wu State.
The entire capital knew that the Sixth Prince led a group of captives and defeated him in Yuanzhou, almost wiping out his entire army. How could he not know this now?
No matter how angry the Barbarian Khan was, there was nothing he could do. If Dalto were in front of him, this idiot would definitely die.
There is no way you can end up in such a mess with your 30,000 elite cavalry and nearly 50,000 rebels.
What's more, there are 20,000 elite cavalry supporting troops arriving later.
In the end, not a single horse came back. How did they all die?
All we know about the Battle of Yuanzhou is that the Sixth Prince directly pinned down the rebel infantry, while the 30,000 elite troops of the Northwestern Army forcibly engaged Dalto's cavalry.
They defeated Dalto's 30,000 cavalrymen, and then suffered a great defeat.
But after all the calculations, he still had at least 30,000 cavalrymen. Where did they go?
The barbarian Khan did not dare to attack Hushan Pass again.
People were sent everywhere to search for the remaining cavalry, especially the 20,000 cavalry who came to support and suddenly disappeared.
This was something he couldn't accept no matter what.
Finally, traces were found in the mountains and the body was dug out.
More than 20,000 bodies were buried naked, with nothing else left.
This was clearly an ambush by the Wu State.