"Qin Shaofu shot the feudal general ...... with an arrow"

After a night's rest, the tension and fear of the great battle were gradually replaced by physical exhaustion! What is even more difficult to face is that the brothers who were alive and well yesterday have become a lump of cold frozen meat today!

In the county court hall, Qin Jin summoned the officials of each Cao, and also invited Zheng Xianli to attend. After having the experience of fighting side by side, many people in the court of Xin'an County have accepted this man from the Anxi Army from their hearts.

"Yesterday's victory in the battle is all thanks to the single-minded dedication of all the monarchs!"

The county court officials were immediately buzzing, and they were able to defeat the Fanhu rebels in a field battle, which was the first time after the great chaos, and although the casualties were heavy, the significance it brought was absolutely immeasurable. Hu Cao Zuo, who had experienced the battlefield and was lucky enough to survive, repeatedly praised Qin Shaofu's wisdom and martial arts, and he was not chaotic in the face of danger.

"Shaofu Jun killed the feudal general with an arrow, forcing the Fan soldiers to retreat, and the top 100,000 troops were ......"

The words are flattering, but everyone loves to listen to them, and Qi Bihe couldn't help but tease: "If you want to talk about slapping horses, in this Xin'an City, count you Liu Shilang is this!" He gave a thumbs up! The whole hall burst into laughter, and the previously slightly depressed atmosphere suddenly changed.

"Where, where!"

The official smiled dryly, he used to be the confidant of the county Cheng, but after the county Cheng died, he lost his backer, and his status in the county court was not as good as day by day. This time, he took the initiative to ask Ying to follow him to Changshi Township, also to show his heart to Qin Shaofu, but he didn't want to encounter a tragic battle that he had never seen before.

Now that he is lucky not to die, just by virtue of the experience of fighting side by side with Qin Shaofu, no one in the Manxian court dares to despise him anymore.

Qin Jin raised his hands and pressed them falsely, signaling everyone to be quiet, and then changed his words.

"However, it is a tragic victory! With so many people dead, the responsibility lies with Qin, if it weren't for the risk of burning food, there would be no ......" Speaking of this, Qin Jin's voice was a little choked, he was not hard-hearted after all, these people who were alive and kicking before yesterday have become cold corpses today, and even some people can't even recover their bodies completely. It was only at this time that he realized that it was not only power that he had for his superiors, but also an invisible responsibility.

"Qin Shaofu blamed himself too much for this, even if he didn't go out of the city to burn grain yesterday, the soldiers were not injured, and they would make a comeback. Judging from the battle situation of yesterday's defense of the city, all kinds of means have been exhausted, and they can only delay the speed of their siege of the city, and a bloody battle will be inevitable! To put it mildly, the city will be destroyed sooner or later. ”

Zheng Xianli's voice was a little excited, he never imagined that Qin Jin would be able to defeat more than a thousand soldiers first with just eight hundred people with that kind of rough and clumsy gun formation, and then disrupt the rhythm of the Tongluo tribe's siege and repel it in one fell swoop. It wasn't until now that he understood why Dr. Feng valued this county lieutenant so much, and he really had something extraordinary.

"Qin Shaofu defeated the Fan army twice in the field yesterday, which made them invincible, and the invincible cowhide was blown up, which had an immeasurable effect on boosting the morale of our Tang army and people!"

This sentence is in the hearts of the county court princes, it is normal to die in battle, as long as the victory is achieved, it is worth it! Compared with the era in which Qin and Jin were born, the people of this era are far more indifferent to life.

Seeing this, Qin Jin was not hypocritical, and at the same time, an idea arose in his heart.

"The bereavement of the dead soldiers cannot be ignored, and a memorial ceremony will be held tomorrow to commend them for their achievements for Xin'an!"

The idea of a memorial service is a novelty, and all of you here have never heard of even the soldiers who died in battle, and this treatment is usually only enjoyed by ministers and generals of a very high grade and who are deeply favored by the emperor. It would be nice for an ordinary sergeant to have a spiritualist ritual.

However, now that Qin Jin's reputation in the Xin'an County Court is growing, people are accustomed to obeying the decisions he said, so no one objected despite objections.

Last night, Qin Jin thought about it all night, there are three things that must be done after the war, the memorial service is only one of them, and the more important thing is to re-strengthen the city defense, when he was studying the map, he suddenly remembered that there was a river outside the city of Xin'an Dongguan from south to north, but in the middle of winter, the snow was frozen, and he forgot it for a while!

The sun was shining, the sky was blue, and the snow outside the city was covered with frozen mottled bloodstains.

A thousand Ding Zhuang are all gathered here.

"Dig!"

With the order of the officer, the iron pickaxe was picked up, and the ice chips flew everywhere.

"See the water!

After a while, Ding Zhuang shouted, only to see that the originally smooth ice and snow river surface had revealed a blackened river bottom, and the clear river water was bubbling and flowing. As patches of ice are shaved up, the exposed water surface expands.

Then large pieces of crushed ice were fished ashore with iron nets and hooks and transported to the construction site between the river and Dongguan City. There are also more than 1,000 Ding Zhuang gathered here, and the construction site is nothing more than sharpened wooden stakes driven deep into the snow and ice ground, and two rows of wooden stakes are three feet apart, from south to north. The thickness of the wrist of the wooden stake is more than one person high, and then Ding Zhuang tied the bamboo mat to the wooden stake to form two or two bamboo mat walls.

The large ice pieces that were slashed from the river surface were all thrown between the two bamboo mats, and then buckets of river water were poured down, and the cold winter wax moon dripped into ice, and the poured river water flowed along the space sandwiched by the two bamboo mats, and soon froze into ice.

Repeatedly watered by the river, a wall of ice gradually rose from the ground.

"It's General Zheng!"

The sharp-eyed Ding Zhuang found Zheng Xianli who was inspecting along the river with people!

"General Zheng is mighty!"

In yesterday's battle, Zheng Xianli's performance was quite eye-catching, and these Ding Zhuang were also in awe of him.

Looking at a wall of ice that had begun to take shape, Zheng Xianli secretly admired that although the soldiers of this Qin Shaofu battle array were not agile enough, they often had unexpected ideas in terms of clumsiness.

In the past, Zheng Xianli advocated the tactics of long-distance raids and large openings and closings, which was also the main feature of the Anxi army, but since the Central Plains, the recruited soldiers were too unusable, even if the characters such as Dr. Feng were tired of losing their reputation.

Therefore, he had a kind of contempt for the Tang Army, who had not heard of the battle formation for a long time in the Central Plains, and when he first saw Qin Jin's methods of training soldiers, he instinctively felt that how could this clumsy tactic fight with the Fan soldiers!

But it was yesterday's battle that completely changed Zheng Xianli's view of Qin Jin and his military training methods.

A careful study of the characteristics of the Qin and Jin Dynasty's use of troops shows that it is nothing more than focusing on the word "defending", and even the field battles are heavy on defense rather than heavy attack. Look at the ice wall in front of you, local materials, easy to build, I believe that there is no need for the dark sky, two ice walls more than one person high rise from the ground, and there is an extra river in front, and the soldiers want to use the method of filling the city again, I am afraid that it will not work, except for the absolute superiority of the force to attack, when there is no other way.

Thinking of the large-scale siege of the city, Zheng Xianli's brows tightened again.

The number of soldiers who attacked the city in these two days was no more than three or four thousand. When the main force of Luoyang's troops freed up their hands and sent tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people to attack on a large scale, could they retreat the enemy with only one river, two ice walls and one city wall?

Since the capture of Luoyang, the pace of the troops seems to have slowed down, which is very different from the situation in Hebei Province for a hundred miles a day, but I don't know what the unknown reason is.

The fire in the furnace in the workshop crackled, and the old blacksmith held the crucible with iron tongs in front of the mold one by one, and the round cakes the size of the bottom of the bowl gradually took shape. Chen Qianli was preoccupied, holding a freshly cast silver cake in his hand.

Qin Shaofu called it a medal!

The three thousand medals used up nearly 100 catties of silver in the treasury.

Originally, the officials proposed to use gold as the material for the medal, but Qin Jin considered that gold was a large currency in circulation in the Tang Dynasty, and if it was melted and cast into a medal and issued, he was afraid that it would not take a few days to be spent by the people as money.

Silver is different, silver in the Tang Dynasty is rare, and it is mostly used as a royal reward, so the common people generally do not dare to spend silver as money, for fear of being targeted by the government and causing trouble.

The reason why Qin Jin wanted to hold a memorial ceremony and issue medals was not just as simple as mourning the dead and rewarding merits.

At the 10,000-person meeting, Qin Jin personally pinned a polished and smooth medal to the chest of a wounded soldier.

"Zhang Jincao, a united soldier, was awarded a second-class meritorious service and beheaded ten people! A silver medal will be awarded, with which the corresponding conscription of the county court can be exempted!"

The soldiers in the field cheered!

In the Tang Dynasty, officials and citizens generally served conscription, and only officials above the fifth rank had the privilege of being exempted from conscription. Therefore, the five grades are a dividing line between the rank and low rank of officials, and this dividing line is drawn by conscription.

Qin Jin's inspiration came from this, with the medals of various ranks, he could be exempted from the corresponding conscription assigned by the county court, which naturally became an extremely honorable thing for ordinary people, and it was a very beneficial thing!

This kind of silver medal is divided into four classes, A, B, C, D, and is not awarded except for those who have made significant contributions. The conditions for decapitation of the tenth rank or the battle dead are awarded the second class, and the conditions for the remaining two grades are reduced in turn.

In the entire Xin'an County, from Qin Jin downwards, Chen Qianli and Qi Bihe were awarded medals, including Zheng Xianli, who was awarded a second-class medal.

Zheng Xianli is a person who has been praised by the imperial court, and he didn't take this silver medal as child's play seriously, but after the heavy medal was hung on his chest, when more than 10,000 soldiers and civilians chanted in unison, he still couldn't help but feel excited!

After the ceremony, Qin Jin announced his next move in public.

No one could have imagined that after the big prize, the next thing to do was a big killing!

"From now on, in Xin'an City, anyone who is guilty of collaborating with the enemy and treason will be killed immediately!"

As soon as these words came out, the tens of thousands of people on the field suddenly fell silent, and everyone felt a compelling chill from Qin Shaofu!

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