After returning to the shore, Yuan Yao asked the five hundred soldiers to come closer to him. He wanted to boost their morale before the battle.
Five hundred people died in this song, and there are currently no official military princes or deputy false princes.
Yuan Yao promoted a village chief to a false marquis on the spot.
And this new military lord is the commander of the camp who led the soldiers to fight the most bravely just now.
Yuan Yaoxian asked him and the other four commanders to take turns mobilizing before the battle to boost morale.
Although Yuan Yao always ensured that his soldiers had enough food and clothing, he never defaulted on military pay and stipends, and even distributed extra grain and rice during festive seasons.
But he rarely visited the camp, visited the soldiers, or visited the wounded soldiers, and did those things to win over the soldiers' hearts.
Although the soldiers all knew that they were working for Yuan Yao, the eldest son of the Yuan family, many of them were not familiar with what kind of person Yuan Yao was.
Therefore, it is better to let the camp commanders who eat and live together with the soldiers on weekdays, know each other very well, and trust and respect each other to boost morale.
When the new false marquis first gathered the crowd to speak out, he truthfully informed his subordinates, the Pao Ze brothers, that what they would face next would be Peng's real armed men who were at least several times their own.
The village chiefs were either serious or passionate in encouraging their brothers and sisters, leading the crowd to shout battle commands.
Seeing that the morale was good enough, Yuan Yaocai mounted his horse and took the stage.
"Fellow Huainan disciples, when the war breaks out later, your garrison commander will lead the command, and your corps commander will lead you to kill the enemy. I can't get in the way!"
"I only have one thing to tell you today!"
Yuan Yao raised a finger and shouted with all his strength.
"In this battle, you are not fighting for me, Yuan Yao, but for yourself!"
"After defeating me, Yuan Yao stretched out his hands and treated me as a prisoner. They can't do anything to me. They have to provide me with good food and drink!"
"But if you lose the fight, you can only kick your legs, close your eyes and say goodbye in the next life, and then be thrown into the river to feed the fish!"
Yuan Yao rode his horse and circled back and forth in front of everyone. For a while, he raised his hands on horseback as a gesture of surrender, and for a while he pointed to the Xiushui River, which was just around the corner.
"Ha ha ha ha"
The soldiers were standing very seriously, waiting to hear what their master was going to say.
But Yuan Yao's two words made everyone break the point and couldn't help laughing.
But the laughter soon stopped, because everyone realized that Yuan Yao was not joking, but a reality that was very likely to happen.
"I, Yuan Xianneng, said today that you are fighting for yourself, and you are not just talking about it in vain!"
"Most of you brought your family with you and followed me from Huainan to this place!"
"Your wives, children, and children are all working in Chaisang to cultivate the fields at the moment. I look forward to your safe return!"
"If there are unfortunately any of you who die in battle today, Magistrate Lu will give the family members of the deceased a double share of good land and two slaves to cultivate the land!"
"But you are the mainstay of the family, so naturally you don't want to die. Your wife, children, and slaves have remarried other men. In the end, all the benefits will be taken advantage of by others!"
After Yuan Yao said this, everyone laughed.
"So you all must fight bravely to kill the enemy and hold on until General Lu and General Zheng lead reinforcements."
"If anyone beheads one person in this battle, he will be rewarded with ten acres of land and one slave. This will be accumulated for each person killed!"
"Anyone who beheads three or more people will be rewarded with fifty acres of land, three slaves, and an ox!"
"Whoever beheads ten people will be rewarded with two hundred acres of land, ten slaves, three cattle, and a house a hundred steps wide!"
Yuan Yao firmly believes that there must be a brave man under a heavy reward!
Regardless of ancient times or modern times, most people are suffocated by reality.
What I can do is to give this group of ordinary people who have been squeezed out of Huainan a chance to achieve financial freedom in this era!
There is no doubt that Yuan Yao's conditions are very high.
In particular, the opponent is not the army of regular princes, but only the inferior clan armed forces.
Such military merit rewards are much more generous than Great Qin's military merit nobility system.
Of course, if you want to ask where so many fertile fields and slaves came from, it can only be obtained by destroying the Peng family and plundering their people, livestock, land and food.
As soon as Yuan Yao finished speaking, a arrogant warrior asked:
"Young Master, if I kill thirty or even fifty people, can I be rewarded with hundreds of acres of land and how many slaves?"
"We are born in a mud-legged family, but we also want to live the life of a landlord!"
Yuan Yao snorted and said angrily: "Behead fifty people in a formation?"
"I won't give you even half an acre of land!"
"I'll just build an ancestral hall and enshrine you! Then I'll make you a statue of gold according to your figure and give it to you!"
Everyone laughed again, and the tension before the fierce battle disappeared.
"Young Master, why don't you ride away first? I hope those commoner soldiers won't be able to catch up with you!"
Suddenly someone in the crowd shouted.
"That's right, we are willing to fight to the death here to hold back these Peng family thieves for Young Master!"
"As long as the young master doesn't forget the merits of today's fight to the death when he goes back, and leads an army to kill all these Peng family thieves in the future, my death will be well deserved!"
"Shut up, don't say anything more!"
Yuan Yao had a sudden attack and drew his bright sword for the first time today.
"You have failed me today, how can I fail you?"
Yuan Yao jumped off his horse and stabbed his mount directly in the crotch with his sword.
Horse blood sprayed directly all over Yuan Yao, and everyone present turned pale with horror.
"Today I kill this horse to tell you that I will fight to the death with you in this battle!"
Looking at the fallen horse, everyone fell into a deathly silence.
But just a moment later, everyone raised their weapons and shouted in unison:
"Fight to the death!"
"Fight to the death!"
"Fight to the death!"
The sound was deafening and soared into the sky.
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A quarter of an hour later, Peng's clan armed forces finally appeared in the reed swamp in the distance.
I saw that these thousands of people had no queue to speak of, but they still relied on the strength of their numbers to press towards the small area of the bridge entrance in a mighty manner.
When the distance was slightly closer, Sergeant Yuan also intuitively felt how different these thousands of people were from the more than a thousand people who had just attacked.
Most of the clan armed forces at the front held a shield in their hands.
Although most of these shields are very simple homemade shields, with various shapes, including round, square and corners.
Some people were even holding large pieces of bark pulled from an unknown tree.
But it is undeniable that these people at least have the ability and awareness to resist arrows.
In close combat, everyone has two shoulders to carry one head. If you are hit by a hoe, you will be seriously injured even if you are not dead. There are too many uncertainties.
Moreover, it is not difficult to forge and use swords. As long as there is a blacksmith and coppersmith in your village who can forge hoes, he can make a sword for you no matter what.
Therefore, from ancient times to the present, there has never been any way to prohibit private possession or use of swords and weapons.
But weapons like crossbows, which have manufacturing requirements, especially training and method skills, are hard to come by.
Strong bows and crossbows are the greatest weapons for suppressing and dealing with uprisings by civilians.
Armor that can withstand swords and arrows also has higher production requirements.
This is the reason why the Han Dynasty officially prohibited the private possession of armor and crossbows, but did not prohibit the private possession and use of swords.
As long as you don't have armor and a crossbow, it will be difficult for ordinary people to fight against soldiers equipped with crossbows.
But what if you don’t have heavy armor? Then replace it with something cheap and easy to make, such as a shield!
The Peng family is obviously not an ordinary strong family name. The clan armed forces they established have the consciousness and ability to fight against the government and the army.
As thousands of clan armed forces got closer and closer, Yuan Yao also clearly saw that a considerable proportion of the Peng family's armed forces in the lead were holding the old-fashioned shields of Jun Bing Xiang Yong.
There are more than a hundred people, wearing the same double armor as Yuan Jun, and there are armored men.
Yuan Yao frowned and immediately ordered: "The shield soldiers must be ready to raise their shields at all times. These people are likely to be followed by archers!"
"Light the fire immediately and set the horse on fire to rush into battle!"
