Chapter 243: Amazing Loot
Jin Shengheng's words made Yue Fei a little embarrassed, scalpers were his idea.
However, compared to the destruction of the Horqin Tribe, their death can be said to be very deserved.
"This is a mistake by the governor of Pontus, who wanted to burn the Horqin Department with the scalper array, but never thought that our department would suffer losses.
Now that Horqin is gone, it can be regarded as a consolation to those soldiers who died in battle.
They will not die in vain, the death of the soldiers in exchange for the stability of my Ming Dynasty for a hundred years, the governor of Pontus will definitely play the holy reward for their families, in order to comfort the souls of the soldiers in the sky! ”
Jin Shengheng hurriedly bowed and saluted:
"Thank you, the last general will thank the governor for those brothers who died in battle!"
"Lao Jin, don't be sad, the soldiers who died in the battle are all my Ming heroes!"
Huang Degong and Jin Shengheng are old acquaintances, and when he saw that Jin Shengheng was sad, he also stepped forward to comfort him.
Although Jin Shengheng is not as famous as Huang Degong and Yan Yingyuan, he is not as famous as them.
However, as the deputy general under Zuo Liangyu, he was unambiguous in front of the righteousness of the famous clan.
Dare to raise troops to resist the Qing Dynasty and finally die in battle, which is also an existence that we respect.
He is the only anti-Qing hero in Zuo Liangyu's department, and he is absolutely out of the mud and unstained.
When Yue Fei saw Huang Degong coming, he turned around and asked:
"Huang Degong, what about the prisoners handed over to you by the Governor of Pontus?"
Huang Degong smiled:
"Dudu, the last general will send them to the Immortal Heaven, in the future, they will only harm their Immortal Heaven, and they will not harass my Daming."
Yue Fei's face sank:
"You...... How can you do this, don't take it as an example, if there is a next time, the governor of Pontus will send you to the house to make a fire! ”
"Don't worry, Huang Degong is not an example, thank you for sparing your life......"
"Flutter ......"
Yan Yingyuan saw Yue Fei and Huang Degong singing double reeds, and laughed out loud.
Seeing Yue Fei glaring at him, Yan Yingyuan hurriedly covered his mouth.
The hatred of Tartars and aliens, no one present has any experience of Yue Fei, just look at his song full of Jianghong.
In Yue Fei's heart, he didn't want to keep a single tartar, but as the commander of the first army, he still had concerns.
Therefore, Huang Degong was given the charge of killing the prisoner, everyone knew it, and Lao Huang was willing to bear this infamy for the governor.
For the sake of the Ming Dynasty and the Han people, even if Huang Degong died again, he did not complain.
After more than half a year of campaigning, the various tribes of the prairie were finally taken by Yue Fei's Left Route Army.
Now Meng Yuan has almost no men, and all of them were killed by the Ming army, leaving only women and children, cattle, sheep and horses.
The prairie is now finally truly in the hands of the Ming Dynasty.
This is something that Taizu Chengzu did not do, although Taizu overthrew Meng Yuan, but only drove them out of the Great Wall.
The Mengyuan did not really perish, the Northern Yuan only moved north, and the regime still existed.
In the late Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty continued to invade, such as Tatar, Warat, etc.
But to this day, these barbarians no longer exist in the Mongolian steppe.
Looking at the history of China, we can find that the demise of each dynasty is more or less related to foreign races.
When the Tang Dynasty fell, there were foreign races such as Tubo, Hui, and Nanzhao.
When the Song Dynasty fell, there were Mongol, Khitan, Jurchen and other ethnic groups.
The fall of the Ming Dynasty was also associated with the Manchu Qing Dynasty. It can be said that the demise of these dynasties was caused by internal and external troubles.
However, there was a dynasty that was on the verge of its demise and the emperor was reduced to pawns in the hands of warlords.
In the eyes of foreigners, it is still an invincible existence, that is, the Eastern Han Dynasty during the Three Kingdoms period.
As the son of heaven of the Han nation, Zhu Youzhen will do more ruthlessly than the Han Dynasty.
As long as he dares to challenge the Ming Dynasty, no matter who he is or what country or nation, Zhu Youzhen will let him exterminate the clan.
After a big victory, the next step is to clean up the battlefield and collect the spoils of sword and war.
More than 100,000 troops moved, and the battlefield was quickly disrupted.
The corpses of the Tartars were dug and buried on the spot, they did a lot of evil during their lifetime, and after their deaths, they became fertilizer for the steppe, which can be regarded as making their own contribution to the steppe.
Three miles away from the tribe's station, Gou'er led the Ming army to find the cattle, sheep and horses of the Horqin tribe.
As far as the eye can see, densely packed with cattle, sheep and horses are enclosed here, which is also where the wealth of the entire Horqin Department lies.
The harvest of the Horqin Department was very great, with more than 50,000 cattle, more than 800,000 sheep, and more than 200,000 horses.
Seeing the dense cattle, sheep and horses in front of him, not only the soldiers of the Ming army were overjoyed, but even Yue Fei couldn't close his mouth with a smile.
After Yue Fei arranged for someone to take care of the loot, everyone entered the Horqin station, which had been extinguished.
There is still smoke in many places here, and the 2,000 cattle that have made great achievements have also suffered heavy casualties.
The soldiers soon discovered more than a thousand dead cattle, most of them burned to death, and of course some of them were killed by the Tartars.
"Come and see the governor, what a big silver ......"
Suddenly, a thousand-commander shouted in surprise, and Yue Fei, Huang Degong, Yan Yingyuan and others hurriedly walked to the thousand-commander's side.
"Shhh...... Governor: What's going on? ”
Seeing the large piece of silver on the ground, Huang Degong couldn't help but gasp, and hurriedly asked Yue Fei what was going on.
Yue Fei bent down to take a closer look at the big piece of silver, and suddenly smiled happily.
"This is supposed to be the place where Oba hid his treasure, the fire melted all the boxes of silver, that's why it became like this, look for it, there should be gold."
Seeing the silver, Yue Fei remembered the gold and hurriedly ordered to continue the battle.
"Governor, look, there's a hole in the ground!"
Soon, the Ming army found a hole in the ground next to a large piece of silver.
Yue Fei immediately asked people to go down to take a look, and if they found that the situation inside was wrong, they had to come out immediately.
But as soon as the two Ming soldiers climbed into the cave, they immediately began to shout.
"It's all gold and silver, it's like a mountain."
"Haha......, hurry up, move them all out!"
"Yes"
More than 5 million taels of silver and 100,000 taels of gold were quickly moved out of the cave by the Ming army.
Seeing so much gold and silver, Yan Yingyuan and others couldn't help but blurt out:
"Grandma's, this Horqin Khan is so rich, he actually hides so much gold and silver......"
Yue Fei looked up at them and said:
At least half of the gold and silver here came from my Great Ming Wound, and now it is equal to the return of the goods to their original owners.
The gold and silver in front of him made the eyes of the soldiers glare, and some people had to breathe fire in their eyes.
Yue Fei knew what they were thinking, and without the emperor's will, he couldn't distribute it to the soldiers privately.
In order to appease the emotions of the soldiers, Yue Fei still smiled and said:
"Don't be blushing, the Ming three-way army is very hard, the emperor said that after recovering Liaodong, there will be a lot of rewards."
Although the soldiers looked at the mountains of gold and silver, their eyes were a little red, and no one took them to snatch them.
They can now pay their salaries on time every month, which is very satisfying compared to the previous time when they only received a few dozen yuan.
"Don't worry, although we love gold and silver very much, we won't take anything that doesn't belong to us."
Yue Fei nodded:
"Okay, worthy of being my Ming soldiers, we will camp on the spot tonight, and order the Huotou Army to put some dead cattle, sheep and horses on the shelves and barbecue immediately.
Bring out all the wines, and tonight you can just eat meat and drink in a big bowl to celebrate the Ming Dynasty's recovery of the prairie......"
"Thank you, ...... Governor"