Aruhan and the several military officials who were supervising the military system around him were equipped with the same equipment as ordinary soldiers, except that the military robes were pure black.
Sukhbalu gave an order, and they followed the order, picking up their bows and setting up arrows.
These military officials are all about the same age as Aruhan, in their forties. Among them were three Han children, a yellow-haired Huligai man, and a Khitan man. Among the Han'ers, there was another Jurchen from Hebei who was ordered to dismantle Meng An Mooke by Li Ting and regarded as Han'er.
These people are all veterans of the Jin Army who have been gradually absorbed by the Zhou Dynasty.
After the collapse of the Jin Kingdom, for the purpose of appeasing and absorbing surrendered people, stabilizing the place and making full use of their talents, the Zhou Dynasty recruited and used Jin soldiers who were willing to continue to serve in the army in an eclectic manner, neither discriminating or fearing, nor deliberately entangled its ethnicity.
However, the basic picking procedures are still there. Only those who are strong and have certain martial arts and combat abilities will be given the opportunity to undergo unified training.
During the training process, those who harbored resentment against Da Zhou or had any personal connections were eliminated one after another. Only those who could adapt to hard training and pass the assessment based on their ability would be assigned to various armies. middle.
The difficulty of the assessment is naturally not low. Guo Ning has long emphasized on various occasions that he does not think that only Han'er can gain a foothold in the Great Zhou Dynasty, but he will never take special care of them just because he wants to take care of and win over foreigners or surrender.
Those who have the ability will naturally rise to prominence. In the early days of the Great Zhou Dynasty, there were many places to employ people.
If you don't have the ability, don't expect the court's favor. It's better to go home and live farming. There are a lot of people like this, and the local officials do not treat them harshly. They give them everything they need and take care of them.
As for those who are particularly stubborn and always causing trouble for the court, things are even worse. They were assigned to iron or copper mines and coal mines in various places. Those who were more fortunate were also driven to build roads everywhere and were not allowed to escape for three to five years.
As the supervisor of the Recruitment Department, Aluhan participated in the entire process of reorganizing the Daikin surrender army. During this period, he successively selected dozens of people who were not optimistic about the training officer to serve as members of his supervisory system.
These people are all veterans, and they are very experienced veterans. Besides having good combat experience, they are also proficient in eating, drinking, prostitution and gambling. The most important thing is that I have been a spectator for decades, and I am fully aware of the various treacherous methods used by the Dajin Army to capture soldiers, escape from service, eat empty wages, drink soldiers' blood, deceive and abduct good people.
They were suddenly drawn out to follow Aruhan, which was completely inexplicable at first.
Some people are so confused that they only think that they are a worm in the army. They only have some useless routines in their minds. How come they become military officials?
Some people are secretly happy, thinking that since their status is high and their skills are not used to make money and benefits, isn't it true that God doesn't take them and they take the blame instead?
But they soon accepted more rigorous training. Some of them couldn't stand it and ran away at night, and then were caught back. They were punished to the point of ecstasy by the special methods of the Recording Department.
Some people actually died.
In the end, these people who survived understood that it was okay to be dead dogs in the Jin army, but now, they need to become the most reliable people in Zhou's army. When Da Zhou uses people like them, he will never allow everything they are used to to appear in Da Zhou's army.
In the past two years, they have dealt with no less than a dozen bullies in the army. Some of them have even become governors and generals, and they have also been overthrown by them. They also participated in the training of at least half of the troops under the command of the Recruitment Division, constantly removing rotten impurities from the army, ensuring that this army always maintains strong combat effectiveness.
Living this life is too hard compared to the army under Dai Jin's rule. But no one will miss the Kingdom of Jin, because the new life makes people feel comfortable.
Now that they have followed Aruhan to the Mongolian army, everyone is already familiar with what to do next.
As for the fight in front of me...
Even if they haven't been on the battlefield for several years, a battle with hundreds of cavalry is always a piece of cake, nothing to brag about.
Aruhan may have some status, but the military officials who oversee the military system have never been superiors. They are part of the army. Like any soldiers, they can climb mountains and descend to the sea, drink strong wine, and kill powerful enemies. They are good at fighting!
The buzzing sound of the bow strings merged into a dull roar. The level of ordnance production in the Zhou Dynasty was much higher than that of the Mongols, so both sides were mounted archers. Their shooting range was longer and their arrows fired earlier.
The first round of arrows was thrown out, shooting down two or three people. The military officials found nothing.
This result is too bad.
The formation of Boyawu's cavalry was originally very loose, with each cavalry separated by several feet. At the moment when the arrows were splashed, it suddenly separated into two groups, moving as fast as lightning.
One group of cavalry galloped past Sukhbalu and others, galloping from west to east. The knights on horseback fired their bows and fired back; another group of cavalry, with a smaller number, took advantage of the smoke and dust stirred up by the horses' hooves to go to the west of the battlefield. Turn around, but it seems that you are going to join the Huoluolasi people.
Sukhbalu's face looked a little ugly, and he immediately stopped shouting: "Go west, shoot two more rounds!"
The strength of the thousands of tribes on the grassland can generally be divided according to their closeness to the Mongolian Qiyan tribe where the Golden Family is located. The earlier they are established, the more trusted Genghis Khan will be. The higher their status, the stronger their strength. For example, the first sixty-five thousand households established are generally better than the later generations who later filled in the ninety-five thousand households. The few at the bottom of the 95,000 households were better off than those who later became the 129,000 households.
But the Boyawu tribe was worse than those at the bottom of the 129,000 households. They were only established after Genghis Khan defeated Khwarezm and controlled thousands of miles of land in the river.
They are not even Mongolians.
Sukhbalu cursed them as bastards of the Kipchaks. In fact, they trace their origins back to the Oghuz people of the Turks, who later migrated to the Western Regions and mixed with the Kangli people, the descendants of the Kipchaks. The main branch of the Kangli people in the Western Regions later became the descendants of Khwarazmo. The mother of Khwarazmo Suanduan Mahamo, Turgan, was a member of the Boyawu clan.
I heard earlier that the person who killed the envoy sent by Genghis Khan and provided the Mongolian army with an excuse for the Western Expedition was a Kangli general from the Khwarezm Kingdom.
After this happened, Genghis Khan was furious on the surface, claiming that if you want to fight, then fight. In fact, when he raised his army, he may not have been secretly happy in his heart. Not to mention that the leader of the Kangli people, Tommie Gumari and her sons Qulu and Yaya, both rebelled against Khwarazm after the arrival of the Mongolian army and took the initiative to serve as rural guides for the Mongols.
Therefore, after the Mongolian army wiped out Khwarezm, they treated the Kangli people very favorably. Tomomi Komari and her sons Qulu and Yaya always had considerable military strength. On the grassland, Genghis Khan even asked the princess of Zhenguo to come forward, temporarily pieced together some scattered tribes of the Boyawu tribe, and built a thousand households to show that the Mongol Uluses had no trust in them.
This kind of makeshift thousands of households has no cohesion and loyalty at all, and it seriously lacks military training and military equipment. It is really not in Sukhbaru's eyes.
But the Central Plains and the grasslands are isolated after all. Even if there are many businessmen coming and going, and even if there are Mongolian Nayan like Sukhbaru who strives to integrate into the Han'er as a source of information, there are some things that they still can't figure out.
The incoming group of Boyawu cavalry in front of them were not just a few thousand households on the grassland, but a real and combatable army.
At the beginning of the year, the fourth prince of Mongolia, Tuo Lei, suggested to Genghis Khan that the grasslands could not remain empty, but the main force of the Mongolian army must suppress the local areas in the river and slowly expand its headquarters. Therefore, we might as well mobilize the army of the Kangli people, the local snakes of the Khwarezm Kingdom, to go to the grasslands.
The remaining tribes of Khwarezm were far away from the river, and the Mongols were able to take advantage of the combing of the river. However, the Kangli and Boya people had no roots in the grassland and could only be driven by the Golden Family.
This suggestion was appreciated by Genghis Khan, so thousands of cavalry including the Tommi Gumari clan and her sons Qulu and Yaya, as well as a thousand fine cavalry from the Boyawu tribe were all mobilized. The heavy cavalry under Genghis Khan General Subotai also transferred a number of men and horses from the Merqi, Naiman, Kelei and other tribes, and matched them with 10,000 war horses collected from various tribes in the Yemili River Basin.
After this force was formed, it was immediately dispatched to the grassland. The river is far away from the Mongolian grassland. It took them several months to arrive at the grassland one after another. While they were still waiting for Belgutai to come forward to allocate pasture, they ran into the Mongolian traitors who had left the grassland earlier, clamoring for Belgutai. head.
Fortunately, Belgutai issued a huge reward and assigned countless manpower to find the two missing men! The people of the Central Plains are really bullying others, and they go too far!
The incident happened in a hurry, and it was difficult to mobilize patients from various departments. How could Belgutai let this newly arrived army go? He immediately sent them out and asked them to go south to face the Mongolian traitors head-on.
At this time, Tutuha, the general of Boyawu's tribe, waved the small shield in his hand and knocked down two arrows falling from high altitude.
He is a newcomer, and although he knows that his subordinates are tired, he still strives to make contributions. But at this moment, when he looked at the enemies in front of him, he felt strange: "Aren't these all Mongols? Genghis Khan's power covers thousands of miles, and the Mongolian cavalry is invincible. Just like this, it still can't stop the Mongolians in the grassland headquarters from rebelling? These traitors are crazy Are you mad? Are you stupid? Or are you born arrogant?"
