In fact, these grassroots officers are not popular in the Song State. The real powerful will not serve as small officials who manage a few people or a dozen people, so these grassroots officers are all promoted from ordinary soldiers.

Like those soldiers, they all served as soldiers and ate food. Those who truly had political tendencies were actually middle- and high-level military officers. At this level, military officers also had at least a few hundred people in their hands, which could form a force that was worthy of the Song Dynasty's imperial court's envy and infiltration of the idea of ​​loyalty to the emperor.

This is why Richard just removed middle and senior military officers from the Song State, but left behind grassroots officers.

Of course, there are also too many grassroots officers, and Richard cannot find so many people to stuff them in...

Like soldiers, grassroots officers have also been asked about their willingness to join the army. If there is a shortage of grassroots officers, they will be elected according to the review of the soldiers by the middle and senior officers assigned by Richard, and will be promoted to the Ming Dynasty or soldiers who have no political tendency and high prestige who are in the army to eat food.

In short, it is to downplay the political influence of the Song State in the Shazhou Army and strengthen the idea of ​​loyalty to the Ming State.

At least let the soldiers know who is giving them food, clothing and food, so that they can understand ‘gratitude’!

For the big-headed soldiers at the bottom, talking about loyalty to the emperor is too far away, but the issue of food and drink is easy to understand. The soldiers often say that eating food in the army is actually the meaning of only those who take the food from the court that they will work hard for the court.

It is precisely because the soldiers' thoughts in this era were difficult to be influenced by loyalty to the emperor and patriotism that it was extremely easy to convert prisoners of war.

If it were later generations, prisoners of war could not be used as an army to attack their motherland except as a coolie, otherwise they would wait to turn against each other!

The nationalism and nationalism of later generations were deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. It was difficult for soldiers to point the butcher knife at their mother country, but there was no such problem in this era. As long as they were given food and drink, except for their parents, relatives and friends who could not do anything, the emperor could chop it up and offer it to him if he had the chance!

As for the nation... what is that? Can it be eaten?

As for the country? What is the matter between the court and the people?

As for loyalty to the emperor? Haha...

This is the common idea of ​​civilians and soldiers in this era!

After a group of ready-made middle and senior officers were airborne, the Shazhou Army quickly completed the adaptation, and even the weapons and equipment were the big sword spear and the mesh gun they used to use!

The battle formation was the same as the Song army training they had originally experienced. The Ming Dynasty had already studied the formation of the Song army. After all, the Ming Dynasty used a coercion gun before.

As tactical weapons and equipment were not changed, the reorganized Shazhou Army quickly recovered its combat effectiveness and opened the panic-occupied area of ​​the Song army at the end of September 2013 of the Ming Dynasty!

Richard's journey to recover lost land was naturally smooth. The people in the occupied areas remained neutral with the rule of the Ming Dynasty and the rule of the Song Dynasty. The soldiers of the local government could not have the courage to fight against the Ming army, which had annihilated 100,000 vanguards of the Song army, and the bureaucrats of the local governments ran away and surrendered...

Those who run away all the high-ranking officials surrendered were all the small officials and officials.

After all, those who opened the door to welcome the surrender were the masters of the high-ranking officials, and those small officials and officials just followed the crowd.

What's more, Richard needs these people to manage the place, so naturally he cannot pursue it.

You can't just surrender and slaughter this place from top to bottom. Everyone is Han. If you massacre like this, how many people will be left after the war?

Richard clearly remembers that in the history of the Earth in his previous life, the battle between the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Qing Dynasty was slaughtered by each other according to the "hairstyle", and finally set a population reduction record comparable to that of a world war!

Now the population of East Asia has experienced a green-skinned catastrophe and cannot withstand the slaughter of Song Dynasty in Ming Dynasty...

Not only Richard, but also the Song army did not raise the butcher's knife. Firstly, it was because the local governments in Ming Dynasty were very obedient and obedient, and secondly, it was because the Southern Song Dynasty did not want a no-man's land!

This is a civil war between the Han people about orthodoxism. Both the Ming and Song dynasties chose the war against the army, and did not raise the butcher knife to the civilians.

This is essentially different from the alien invasion of the Ottoman Expeditionary Force.

Neither of the Ming and Song dynasties wanted to easily massacre and destroy their orthodox reputation. It was still very good for the army to pass by.

During the process of regaining the lost land, except for the main culprit who had no time to escape, the rest of the people did not pursue the matter, but just collected some food and supplies.

This is the war in this era. Due to the backward organizational strength and mobilization strength, as long as the main force is annihilated, except for the big city, they will voluntarily surrender and avoid military disasters.

This is also a description of war in historical books. It often writes that after occupying a capital city in an area, the entire area will be destroyed like autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves!

In fact, these cities surrendered voluntarily...

If you can't even defend the capital city, don't expect those small cities to fight to the end unless it is an invasion of alien races or a new main army arrives.

After receiving the news that the vanguard Song army had been destroyed, Yue Fei immediately ordered the troops to stop stationing on the original border line of the Ming and Song dynasties, because the border line of the Ming and Song dynasties had natural fortresses and fortresses built by the Song State before, most of which were permanent offensives and connected together.

The destruction of the 100,000 Song army directly dispelled Yue Fei's intention to attack the main attack and planned to confront the Ming army for a long time.

As for those occupied areas, even if they were taken away by the Ming army, there would be no loss to the Song State.

In this way, Richard easily regained the territory that had been occupied by the Song army before and confronted Yue Fei's direct army hundreds of miles away from Yue Fei's army.

However, Yue Fei can afford to wait, but Richard can't.

The food consumed by more than 70,000 Shazhou troops every day is a terrifying number!

In order to calm the morale of the army, they cannot be short of their food!

However, in front of me was a permanent fortress fortress group created by the State of Song. If you hit it one by one, you would kill many people even if you had artillery...

The most important thing is that the transportation of shells also takes time!

After collecting the enemy military deployments summarized by the reconnaissance cavalry, Richard had to choose a strong attack method...

Although it was not the only way to attack the Southern Song Dynasty, the Central Plains region is now a large area of ​​no man's land. Even if the main force of the green-skinned orcs is destroyed, there are countless green-skinned goblins and fart spirits that survive and reproduce.

If we switch to the Central Plains to attack the Southern Song Dynasty, we would not get any food supply in that no man’s land and could only rely on logistics transportation. This would be absolutely disastrous for the Ming Dynasty!

The Ming army is now very strong in military strength, but all other national strengths are very weak except for military strength!

Military rations are basically collected locally, so there must be human towns on the offensive route of the Ming army led by Richard!

Otherwise, hunger alone would be enough to collapse Richard's army!

After all, Richard's logistics routes also transport a large amount of ammunition for war.
Chapter completed!