In these years, Su Jue first led the army into Liaodong to wipe out the remnants of the Jin Kingdom, and later guarded Liaodong for the Ming Dynasty. He led the army in Liaodong to eliminate bandits, stabilize order, and assist in the development of the local area, and made many achievements.
After the situation stabilized, he was ordered to send troops into Goryeo to assist the Goryeo revival forces to control the situation in Goryeo and eliminate opponents, hoping to turn Goryeo into the Goryeo province of the Ming Dynasty as soon as possible, and made many contributions.
In addition, after annihilating the human enemies, Su Jue also led his soldiers to transform into human pioneers and open up wasteland in areas that had previously been inaccessible to humans.
When opening up wasteland, they not only have to face a cruel natural environment, but also a huge number of powerful wild beasts. They need to face these powerful large carnivores and risk their lives to eliminate them to prevent them from invading. Infringement of human territory.
It has to be said that in this era of Liaodong, human settlements are in an absolutely weak situation. Point after point is connected by transportation routes. Beyond the points, there are undeveloped or partially developed jungles. It's the mainstream.
And even human settlements will face invasions by large carnivorous beasts because the surrounding areas are mostly undeveloped jungles.
Of course, the terrifying upright ape who can use tools and weapons is not easy to mess with.
When both sides are in a state of natural organization, the large carnivorous beasts and the terrifying upright apes are basically in a state of love and murder, and no one can do anything to the other.
But when a new organizational form that transcended natural organization appeared on this land, the situation changed.
As a people's army, and more importantly as a human army, the Ming Army will of course stand on the side of mankind unconditionally.
The living conditions of humans in this era are still dominated by the concept of not protecting animals. In this era, protecting animals is basically equivalent to door-to-door delivery. Large carnivorous beasts are applauding and giving likes. It is really a civilized mudslide.
Of course the Ming army would not be so stupid.
Therefore, after the Ming army entered Liaodong, in order to protect the people and provide a better living environment for the immigrants, under Su Jue's deployment, a large number of elite troops were deployed part-time to exterminate the ferocious beasts, and began in the primitive environment of Liaodong. A massive operation against the beast.
Of course, humans are no match for carnivorous beasts one-on-one, but after humans who are good at using weapons form a combat team, and through training and clever traps and strategies, they can suppress the beasts and kill them in large numbers.
Beginning in the sixth year of Hongwu, Su Jue organized the elite troops of the Fifth Corps of Liaodong to use sophisticated equipment and an excellent sense of cooperation to attack the ferocious beasts that invaded human settlements.
In the beginning, there were some casualties due to lack of experience, but the reason why the terrifying erect apes can stand at the top of the food chain is because they are smart enough and good at using tools.
They can summarize research and have experience, so soon the military has compiled a lot of experience.
They studied tigers, wild wolves, bears, wild boars, leopards and other ferocious beasts, summarized their living habits, movement trajectories, weaknesses, etc., and then summarized a set of effective combat plans.
After this combat plan began to be used, the Ming army's lethality against ferocious beasts increased exponentially, with almost no defeats.
Tigers, brown bears, leopards and other ferocious beasts like to fight alone. Once they encounter a group of Ming troops, there is almost no possibility of survival. The Ming soldiers held steel knives, spears, crossbows and shields, and wore armor. They fought with the ferocious beasts, and the ferocious beasts could hardly do any harm to them.
Creatures such as wild wolves and wild boars are social animals. They often travel in groups when looking for food. They have strong combat effectiveness and are very difficult to deal with.
Wild boars, in particular, are absolutely ferocious beasts and have strong aggressiveness. They often attack earlier than Ming soldiers, with extremely fast speed and strong impact.
What's even worse is that they have rough skin and thick flesh. Cold weapons such as spears, steel knives, and crossbows cannot effectively kill them, nor can they immediately reduce their attack power. Instead, they will arouse their ferocity and make them more violent. Attack the Ming army formation.
Their violent impact can overwhelm the well-trained Ming army shield soldiers, and then wreak havoc and attack the Ming army soldiers.
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In the first period of time, more than fifty Ming soldiers died from the impact of wild boars, and more than 200 were injured, which was more than the number of soldiers killed or injured by tigers.
So the wild boar was regarded by the soldiers as the most dangerous opponent more terrifying than the tiger.
After suffering, the soldiers of the Ming Army also learned to use food and traps to induce them, and kill them after they were attracted by the food and fell into the trap, which could reduce casualties.
Later, everyone discovered that wild boars cannot climb trees, and also discovered the advantages of firearms in dealing with such group-moving beasts, so they began to use firearms on a large scale.
When deciding to hunt down wild boars, soldiers often set up ambushes in areas with more trees around wild boar habitats, lure the wild boars with food, and then shoot in clusters with muskets.
After all, it is a gunpowder weapon, which is much more lethal to wild boars than cold weapons. It is also loud and noisy, and the power of intensive shooting is considerable, enough to scare wild boars.
The well-trained musketeers just shoot. Although the wild boar has rough skin and thick flesh, it will inevitably be defeated when faced with a musket powered by gunpowder. Even if the lead bullet cannot break the defense, the feeling of being hit is definitely uncomfortable. .
It is true that lead bullets do not have that strong penetrating power, but the projectiles are large and most of them are irregular. On the battlefield back then, many people died from ruptured internal organs just because they were hit in the limbs.
They are all flesh and blood of father and mother. No matter how strong the wild boar is, there is no reason not to be afraid of muskets. In the end, they can only escape in embarrassment. Some unlucky ones even have their heads blown off and die on the spot.
Those who cannot die on the spot will not survive. As long as they are injured and bleed, the lead poison and fire poison will make them unable to recover after the injury, and they will die slowly, and they will be unable to continue attacking human settlements and stealing food.
Wild boars are undoubtedly the most lethal beasts to farmers and farmland in human settlements, and they are also the most hated beasts by farmers. Therefore, whenever Ming army soldiers carry a large number of wild boar carcasses back to human settlements, they always Can receive a lot of praise.
It's just a pity that although wild boar has a lot of meat, the quality of the meat is not good, it is very woody, it requires more effort to chew, and there is a lot of demand on the teeth, and the wild boar has a strong fishy smell, so if it is not cooked by an experienced chef It's really hard to swallow when cooked with strong ingredients.
For the soldiers of the Ming army who were well paid and could eat domestic pork from time to time, this food was tasteless, but for the farmers in Liaodong who generally lacked oil and meat ingredients, they didn't care about it.
Ming army soldiers would cut off clean wild boar meat and distribute it to nearby residents for free, and teach them cooking methods as an additional benefit and avenge the local people.
Because they are becoming more and more skilled in killing wild beasts and their achievements are getting greater and greater, farmers in Liaodong region all regard these soldiers who are fighting the wild beasts on the front line as heroes.
Their existence and hard work had no worse effect on consolidating local people's hearts than the series of preferential policies implemented by the Ming government, which made local residents think highly of the Ming government.
Su Jue himself personally led the army to encircle and suppress wild boars, driving the wild boar herds to gather together, and then commanded the soldiers to bombard the wild boars with Thor cannons, causing the wild boar herds to explode with flesh and blood. He achieved great results and left an excellent impression on the people. .
The fighting of the Fifth Corps greatly improved the living environment of the people in Liaodong, gradually drove wild animals away from human settlements, and made great contributions to the smooth promotion of the Liaodong immigration plan.
Because of the superposition of military merits and contributions to rehabilitating the people, Su Jue's identity as the central representative was the first to be confirmed.
At the same time, Su Jue is also the most low-key and calm commander in the army. He is not very enthusiastic about fame and fortune. He will take whatever Su Yonglin gives him, and he will never fight for it himself, regardless of Su Yonglin.
He likes to immerse himself in work and do various things. He is fully interested in any challenging task, fully devoted, and then solves it to gain satisfaction.
As for the official reward afterwards, it is not the most important thing to him.
Su Yonglin admired his character, so he trusted him with the entire Liaodong Military Region, and he never made any mistakes.
Therefore, all the honors he received were well deserved.
