HCB Chapter 300: A Private Army in the Open
Chapter 300: A Private Army in the Open
At present, the only way to expand the army is to use these soldiers who have been injured and then recovered.
They have captured soldiers and soldiers from the Beijing camp. No matter who they are, as long as they are injured in battle for Ning Yi, they will benefit after they recover.
As for the soldiers of the vassal kings, after they were injured and recovered, they were thrown back into the criminal army, but the officer rank was higher.
As long as they fight a few battles and recover from their injuries, they can all serve as junior officers when they come out, and this won't be a big problem.
As for the rest of the wounded soldiers who had recovered, Ning Yi simply temporarily organized them into a group, trained them well, and did some defensive work.
Although those officers from the Beijing camp had complaints, they didn't say anything.
After all, Ning Yi did not embezzle the injured soldiers' money in name, but let them be promoted.
If the officers of the Beijing camp do not allow it, who among the soldiers below would be willing to fight for them?
Of course, due to the successive battles, the two Beijing Camp guards who had just been dispatched for a month, as well as the three old Beijing Camp guards, suffered heavy casualties.
Ning Yi simply replaced them and then reorganized them.
The reason is that the original troops suffered heavy casualties and are now reorganized into four Beijing camps.
As much as possible, the injured officers were allowed to return to Beijing, bringing with them their military achievements and bonuses, and everyone was smiling.
The others were forced into the Beijing guards.
Ning Yi immediately took over the vacant position and stuffed it with trustworthy people.
Ning Yi's current establishment of the Beijing Camp Guard has already reached five, and he has secretly occupied them.
These five, after integrating the captured soldiers, criminal soldiers, and the original troops, and adding a group of loyal restoration officers, immediately became a trustworthy army.
Others thought that Ning Yi was trying to reorganize his combat power and thought it was too frivolous.
After all, in this way, many armies are reorganized in a disorderly manner and it is difficult for them to have much combat effectiveness in a short period of time.
But that's what Ning Yi did. Even if his combat ability was weak, it didn't matter. He just had to train well.
Then there are all kinds of bonuses given out and strict military laws enforced, so there is no need to worry about lack of combat effectiveness.
In private, who would have thought that Ning Yi was embezzling the army of Hushan Pass over and over again.
Qin Haifeng reported: "Your Highness, the battles at the western passes are fierce again. The two guards we just sent over have suffered heavy losses."
"Should we send a temporary army there?"
When both sides fight for the pass, they actually suffer greater casualties, and sometimes they even need to attack from above.
This was also the battlefield watched by the inspectors, for the old emperor to see.
Ning Yi thought for a moment and said, "Don't be in a hurry. Let the Beijing Camp go over and kill some people."
"The other four guards of the Beijing Camp have suffered almost all their casualties. If we reorganize the army and send them forward, it won't be a big problem. The pass won't be lost."
Of course he was relieved about the pass issue because he had his own private army in the mountains.
Although the barbarian army attacked fiercely, it seemed that they had fought for the pass several times, but it was snatched back by the Dawu Kingdom again.
Because they captured those passes, they could go around to the back of Hushan Pass from the north.
Ning Yi just didn't bother to care about it.
Do you really think that by taking down a few passes and sending in some troops, you can successfully disrupt the defense system of Hushan Pass?
There are still tens of thousands of cavalrymen behind Hushan Pass. The Northwest Cavalry Army, with more than 30,000 people, does not have to go to the battlefield all day long and is training in the area south of Hushan Pass.
He was provided with delicious food and drink, and others probably thought that it was for Ning Yi's escape.
Many people may use it this way. After all, even if these cavalry are used on the front battlefield, they will not be of much use. The barbarians have 200,000 cavalrymen who are eyeing them covetously.
But Ning Yi would never let them protect him and escape.
On the front battlefield, only the original defenders of Hushan Pass and the criminal army are needed to hold on.
Apart from two veteran soldiers from the Beijing Camp who served as the supervisory team in the city, the other three Beijing Camp guards only needed to take turns to go up to the city wall for training.
The other four guards of the Beijing Camp, which had been reduced in size, went around to provide support to various places, which was enough to fill those meat grinders.
Except for the Provisional First Army which serves as a support force on the front line at any time, the other three provisional armies have the task of training all day long. The reason is that the newly reorganized army has no combat effectiveness and is in the process of running in.
Anyway, in a year, Ning Yi has plenty of opportunities to slowly annex the entire army of Hushan Pass.
Moreover, his method of annexation is more reliable than the old emperor's method of only winning over high-ranking military officers.
Ning Yi just needs to directly annex and win over all the middle-level and grassroots military officers.
And to the south of Hushan Pass, there is another large army of almost 10,000 people.
This unit was appointed by Ning Yi as the direct cavalry army.
There were nearly 10,000 cavalrymen, and all the war horses were captured from the barbarians.
Ning Yi attached great importance to these cavalrymen. He personally went to check the training situation several times and even specially selected good officers.
The personnel composition of this cavalry is also simple.
A part of the group of more than 4,000 people were wounded soldiers selected from the Northwest Cavalry Army. Those who performed well were given officer positions, which made them very happy and their treatment was greatly improved.
The other part is the old cavalry selected from the border army prisoners.
It's no wonder that there are still quite a few old cavalrymen. After they are thrown into the criminal army to fight two battles, they are pulled back into the cavalry army for running-in training.
The effect is really good.
To this end, Ning Yi specially dispatched dozens of old servants to follow him for a long time to do ideological work every day.
Good senior officers were transferred from other cavalry armies to manage it.
Once several outstanding officers from the Tiger Guards were transferred, the entire cavalry army immediately entered into high-speed training.
These old cavalry soldiers from the northwest are now fully focused on fighting for His Highness, and they don't care about Yu Shengfei and the others at all.
If you follow Yu Shengfei, you will die of poverty. Only by following His Highness can you be well fed and well fed, and have good horses to train. The treatment is much better than in the Northwest Army.
Of course, Yu Shengfei wouldn't come to ask for people, as his staff was already full.
He just envied Ning Yi's cavalry of about 10,000 people, as they were treated much better than his 30,000 cavalry.
I complained to Ning Yi, thinking that His Highness was being unfairly treated as treasures by the captured cavalrymen.
And their Northwest Cavalry Army is the truly loyal army of the court.
Ning Yi smiled on his face and explained to him that those captured soldiers were all veteran cavalrymen with strong fighting ability, but those officers were all wounded soldiers from the Northwest Army.
Deputy Commander Yu, do you even want to snatch some supplies from the wounded soldiers in your army?
This made Yu Shengfei speechless. Of course, he also knew that Ning Yi treated that cavalry as a treasure, simply because he wanted to raise a cavalry of his own.
The prince wanted to raise a private army, and Yu Shengfei had no right to interfere. He only needed to report to the emperor.
But the old Emperor Wu pretended not to know. After all, there was a bloody battle going on at Hushan Pass. The explanation given by the sixth brother was that he should at least have a cavalry escort for escape, right?
Otherwise, in the end, there will be no one to protect you when you escape. Who would be happy about that?
Of course, it was also stated that the officers of this cavalry army were temporary, and once the war was over, the Ministry of War would appoint new ones.