368 Tens of thousands of prisoners
You An did not expect that the combat effectiveness of the human servant army under his command gradually decreased in the "strategic transformation", so that the team sent out to harass the Ming army even collapsed and all the employees surrendered.
As a result, the speed of the Ming army's pursuit naturally increased greatly.
The reason why the Ottoman Empire's human servant army sharply reduced its combat effectiveness is very simple - Richard's temptation to distribute 50 acres of fertile land!
After Richard transformed some of the prisoners captured by the Ottoman Expeditionary Force into auxiliary soldiers who distributed land, a rumor that Yu'an was very annoying in the Ottoman Expeditionary Force became popular in the Ottoman Expeditionary Force.
Surrender to the Ming army can get fertile land!
This rumor is not very tempting to the human officers of the Ottoman Expeditionary Force, but the effect of bewitching the lower-class soldiers who were born in serfs was so immediate!
You'an, who had retreated to Shi Guo Mansion, gathered in the army of 50,000 or 60,000 human servants, intending to rely on the city defense to block the Ming army.
As a result, these human servants were defeated on the first day by the Ming army's brief shelling and the charge of thousands of auxiliary troops!
The captured people are hundreds of times more likely to be killed!
For a moment, Richard was a little confused - there were too many prisoners of war in the Ottoman human servants, and even according to the minimum food standards, the attacking Ming army did not have enough supplies to support them!
Fortunately, the speed of the Ottoman Expeditionary Force was defeated beyond Richard's similarity, allowing Richard's Ming army to easily seize a large amount of food supplies stored by tens of thousands of Ottoman Expeditionary Forces, solving the crisis of prisoners of war to eat themselves...
It was not that Richard suddenly became kind and did not want to raise his butcher knife to the prisoners of war, but that as soon as these prisoners of war in the Ottoman Expeditionary Force surrendered, they shouted that they would serve the Ming Dynasty and the Lord of Destiny!
All day long, they shouted to the guards' auxiliary soldiers in the prison camp to join them...
The Ottoman officers who were surrendered were dejected and their faces were gray...
The Ottoman officers were not these serf-headed soldiers. They all had industries in the Ottoman Empire, otherwise they would not have worked so hard to fight the Ottoman Empire.
As a result, at the beginning of the battle, these Ottoman officers were taken into prison by the defeated soldiers from below...
Even many Ottoman officers' guns are not opened for insurance!
There are so many prisoners of war who are eager to make achievements for themselves, even Richard's cruelty cannot kill the killer!
If this is done in one size fits the point, who else dares to surrender in the future on the Ottoman Expeditionary Force?
Therefore, the auxiliary army, which had been expanded five or six times as the logistics line was extended, gradually decreasing the front-line pursuit team, had gradually decreased to less than 10,000 people!
The weapons are all ready-made, they can use them themselves...
The miserable You An once again became a frustrated general and fled to Anguo Mansion without stopping. If You An hadn't been a very skilled person, he would have been almost captured by soldiers of the lower-class human servants who wanted to surrender in the chaos and presented them to Richard!
At that time, You'an had picked up dozens of human servants and broke through the encirclement of his own people...
Before Youan went to the Western Regions, he never thought that one day he would be intercepted by his own human servant soldiers!
If not, it would be very easy to escape from the battlefield as You'an. After all, he has always been in the rear and is equipped with the best sweat-blooded BMW.
Who knew that before the Ming army came, the surrounding human servants rebelled first!
If not, how could tens of thousands of troops be defeated by the auxiliary army of thousands of people?
Richard was both happy and worried after receiving so many prisoners at once.
What is happy is that the problem of the scarcity of military forces in the Ming army is solved. These Ottoman prisoners of war are all mature soldiers!
Although he was born into a serf, he was all serf soldiers who fought in the south and the north!
Compared with Han farmers, they may have fought more. The most important thing is that they all surrendered with advanced Ottoman weapons and equipment such as Lumi guns, and can be directly involved in the battlefield!
Originally, Richard was worried that the Battle of Shi Guofu might be a tough battle and would consume thousands of auxiliary troops. Now it seems...
The first issue that Richard had to think about was to check the land and prepare to distribute the entire west of the Pamir Mountains to the auxiliary army in the future!
There is no difficulty in this. Anyway, there are not many Han people west of the Pamir Mountains. The young and strong Han people were concentrated in Anguo Mansion by the Ottoman Expeditionary Force. They either became soldiers of the revival of the Tang Kingdom or people of the revival of the Tang Kingdom...
However, the Ottoman human servant army that surrendered to Richard were all foreign races, such as Persian Arabs, and so on. They looked very different from the Han people at first glance.
The most important thing is that their culture, language and writing are completely different from those of the Han people. If they really take root in the west of the Pamir Mountains, the west of the Pamir Mountains in the Western Regions will no longer be the land of the Han people!
This is a big and small trouble for Richard from the 21st century on Earth.
However, Richard's most important goal now is to completely eliminate the Ottoman Expeditionary Force and retake the entire Western Regions. This issue will be arbitrated before talking about it.
As a result, the Ottoman officers were removed and downgraded to a group of serf reserves. They would rent them as official slaves of the Ming court to those military soldiers with land but no one to cultivate them.
As long as the remaining prisoners of war were willing to serve the Ming Dynasty and be loyal to Richard, they could become members of the auxiliary army. Anyway, the west of the Pamir Mountains was very large, and the fields of tens of thousands of people could still be shared.
The originally thousands of veteran soldiers were transformed into the immediate superiors of tens of thousands of new prisoners of war.
There is no way, and Richard can only use this method to form combat power as quickly as possible.
Anyway, these prisoners of war have the ability to fight, so it is enough to be able to go to the battlefield.
With the help of tens of thousands of auxiliary troops, all the Ottoman Expeditionary Force controlled areas outside the Anguo Mansion fell, and tens of thousands of troops were suppressed outside the Anguo Mansion City!
This is the last retreat of the Ottoman Expeditionary Force!
At this time, the Ottoman Expeditionary Force was almost dead in name only, leaving only a group of second-line logistics militia and Lindenwan's Semu Army.
Relatively speaking, the Tang army, which had just been revived, surpassed the Ottoman Expeditionary Force for the first time!
You An didn't expect that under the military field system, the Tang army would suddenly grow into one of the main forces in defending the Anguo Mansion!
Chapter completed!