"It's not unreasonable for you to say this." Pan Mengyuan smiled and then changed the subject: "If you are an ordinary soldier, there is no problem with your arrangement like this, but Yin Xiong is different. He is a naturalized soldier!"

Unlike Ma Changbao, Pan Mengyuan, as the governor, not only needs to consider military aspects, but also political points. In particular, he focused on Yin Xiong's identity as an ordinary Ming army soldier, who was an Indian naturalized soldier.

Second only to one point, it is no exaggeration to reward Yin Xiong. Although the war has been settled, the Ming army has basically wiped out the surrounding Indian tribes, and even if there are fish that have missed the net, it is not a problem. However, although this battle has stabilized the Xinming in terms of immigration and expansion, it has also brought other problems.

First, the Ming army's great victory made the surrounding Indian tribes frightened. Such a powerful coalition was easily eliminated by the Ming army. So what would happen if the Ming army attacked them and directly annexed and eliminated their tribes? Secondly, although these tribes and the Indian tribes that jointly resisted were not the same tribe, as Indians, they inevitably felt the feeling of the death of rabbits and foxes. In addition, the Ming army showed such powerful power at this time, no one could predict whether the Indians who had not yet completely naturalized would still maintain their original mentality.

In this case, the promotion of Yin Xiong who made great contributions was a typical example, which was also a signal sent by the Xinming side to the Indians. This could allow these Indians to eliminate their concerns and also use them to win over the hearts of the naturalized Indians. More importantly, Yin Xiong's promotion also gave many Indians a role model, telling them that as long as you think that the Ming people can fight for the Ming Dynasty or contribute to the obligations of a Ming person, then the Ming Dynasty will inevitably treat everyone equally.

This is exactly what Pan Mengyuan considered, so whether Yin Xiong's contribution was consistent or whether his ability could reach the level of independent command of troops, this reward was necessary.

Seeing Ma Changbao's thoughtful expression, Pan Mengyuan knew that he had understood something, and immediately said with a smile: "Besides, what about a mere sentry chief? It's totally worth winning over these people's hearts. What's more, this governor saw that Yin Xiong was not only a talented person, but also a good cavalryman. Being an infantry sentry chief may not be qualified, but it is the most appropriate to train a sentry chief to serve as a cavalry."

This sentence immediately reminded Ma Changbao that after this battle, he carefully pondered the battle. As he said, if Yin Xiong had not accidentally chopped off the head of the mad dog, he would not even be sure of what the battle would end up in his mind.

From training and equipment to tactics and command, the Ming army did not know how many times it would surpass those rammed Indians, but don’t forget that the main force of the Indian coalition was the cavalry. Facing the cavalry, the infantry had innate shortcomings.

Although Ma Changbao was extremely prepared and commanded before and during the war, facing so many cavalry, the Ming army suffered a considerable loss and suffered 30% casualties when it was at the beginning, including several grassroots officers, which was enough to see the problem of the Ming army.

Compared with the Indian coalition, the Ming army failed to achieve a full firearm configuration like the New Army and could not form a dense and continuous strike. There were only a part of the firearms equipped in the New Ming army, and were not used as the real main force, but were only assistance at best.

Second, the Ming army did not have a powerful cavalry unit. Although the Ming army in Xinming was not like the local Ming army, war horses were not short of them. In many places in Xinming, there were wild horse herds, with these wild horse herds ranging from hundreds to thousands, and they were all of the best war horse bloodlines.

But even with so many wild horses, it was impossible for the Ming army to form a large cavalry in a short period of time. After all, wild horses are not captive war horses, so it is not easy to capture them. And even if they are captured, it takes a lot of time to train a wild horse to become a war horse. Then, with the training, equipment, etc. of cavalry, it is not easy to build a powerful cavalry.

So until now, Xinming's cavalry had only less than a thousand cavalry, and these thousand cavalry were still scattered among the armies. Just like Ma Changbao, the entire regiment was equipped with only two cavalry. If he had not had these two cavalry in the previous battle, he would not have been able to escape by the Indian coalition, but he would not have been able to even achieve a complete victory.

But now it is different. In the battle of Pingyi City, the Ming army not only annihilated the Indian coalition, but also obtained a large number of qualified war horses from this battle. In addition to the war horses that were shot and injured by cannons, muskets and other weapons on the battlefield, the Ming army finally cleaned the battlefield and obtained more than 3,000 intact war horses.

With so many war horses, the Ming army can completely build a complete cavalry regiment based on this. When the cavalry regiment is formed, the last shortcoming of the Ming army in Xinming will no longer exist. At that time, with the strength of the Ming army, let alone the more than 10,000 Indian coalition forces before, it will be easy to deal with even twice as many enemies.

Of course, it is not possible to complete such a cavalry unit in a short time. At present, the number of Xinming's army is nearly 10,000, and the number of this army is very saturated compared to the entire number of immigrants. If personnel are drawn from the immigrants to join the cavalry, it will become a move to put the cart before the cart is put. Therefore, Pan Mengyuan must be officially formed after the next batch of immigrants arrive. Now Yin Xiong's incident inspired him. As Indians who were proficient in riding, they are almost born riders, so it is better to recruit cavalry from naturalized Indians directly.

Pan Mengyuan's idea made Ma Changbao suddenly realize and immediately expressed his agreement. Later, Pan Mengyuan ordered Ma Changbao to temporarily resign as the former commander of the regiment and be renamed as the newly formed cavalry regiment commander, and was also responsible for the reorganization and training of the cavalry regiment.

Yin Xiong, a boy who was originally ridiculed by others in the tribe and even called "Mush Wave", made great contributions in this war and jumped from the big head to become the sentry commander of the newly established cavalry regiment, thus joining the ranks of formal officers.

Not only that, in order to commend Yin Xiong's merits, the Governor's Office also awarded him a first-class combat medal, which was awarded by the Xinming government to commend heroes who made meritorious in combat. The first-class combat medal is the highest level of the battle medal, and also represents the hero and merit of the owner of this medal. Yin Xiong was the first to receive this medal and the only recipient so far. It not only has enough glory, but also has privileges similar to civil servants. Not to mention those Indian naturalized people, even the real Ming people were envious of this incident.

It was precisely with Yin Xiong as a representative, coupled with the strong publicity of the governments and military at all levels of Xinming under the instruction of the Governor's Office that the panic in other Indian tribes was fleeting in an instant because of the victory over the Indian coalition, and replaced by the incomparable envy and desire for this.

Therefore, when the newly formed cavalry regiment clearly stated that they would select suitable cavalry among Indian naturalists, in just three days, the recruitment was crowded with people, and countless young Indians with longing and hopes were constantly coming to be like Yin Xiong, and the gate was surrounded by water.
Chapter completed!