Chapter 162: Entering Beijing to Receive the Reward
The arrival of the official document of the governor of Yongzhou shocked everyone in the hall of the Luoshui Guan Marshal's Mansion, and everyone asked in their hearts, what news has arrived?
Gao Wanjun ordered someone to present the official document, opened it and took a look, which was clear.
It turned out that after Zhou Siyuan, the governor of Yongzhou, received the battle report sent back from the front, he was overjoyed when he learned that the front line had won a complete victory and had captured Luoshui Pass. In the past two days, he received instructions from the imperial court, saying that the Great Song Kingdom had reached an agreement with the Great Xia Kingdom, and that there was no need to stop the army and truce the war, and there was no need to march into the territory of the Great Xia Kingdom. He also received an official document from the imperial court appointing Huang Wenlong as the commander of the border area, so what he has to do now is to deal with the aftermath.
Since there is no need to fight, there is no need for those newly recruited recruits to continue to raise. The number of recruits this time is huge, and it is necessary to raise such tens of thousands of recruits. After the end of the war, the imperial court will definitely not allocate military salaries again, and Yongzhou's income alone cannot afford to raise so many new soldiers.
Therefore, Zhou Siyuan wrote an official document and asked Huang Wenlong and Lu Yang and other leaders to leave the border troops behind, and bring all the newly recruited recruits back to Yongzhou, and then dismiss them collectively.
At the same time, Zhou Siyuan also ordered Huang Wenlong to report the list of all meritorious people in the course of this campaign, and to bring them back to Yongzhou to receive the reward.
After reading the official document, everyone breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, and the battle was finally over. At the end of the year, everyone hopes to go home for the Spring Festival for a reunion.
After taking care of everything in Luoshuiguan, Gonggong Ji and Gao Wanjun decided to get up early tomorrow morning and return to Beijing. Huang Wenlong ordered Lu Yang, Fei Wen, and Bian Hongtai to lead the township soldiers and some recruits back to Yongzhou. He himself will stay at the Luoshui Pass in the future.
Because of the holy decree, Xiao Ding had no choice but to follow Gao Wanjun's army into Beijing together. And Zhao Laixi, Fan Sanpang, and Zhao Hu followed Lu Yang's troops back to Yongzhou to wait for dismissal.
Early the next morning, the army marched out, and the forbidden troops of Gonggong Ji and Gao Wanjun also had to pass through Yongzhou City when they returned to Kyoto, so they took the same route as the troops of Luyang and Fei Wen.
Nearly 20,000 forbidden troops, plus more than 10,000 township soldiers, went straight to Yongzhou City.
Xiao Ding rode a horse and followed the team, looking at the villages and towns on both sides that had been baptized by war, thinking back on the war for more than a month, and his heart was full of emotion.
From a small soldier at the beginning to now, what he has seen the most these days is the cruelty of war, and it is not an exaggeration to say that human life on the battlefield is like a mustard. Every time they charge, a group of people will be put down like cutting leeks, and every soldier who falls may have a happy family behind them, but they will never go back.
Because of the war, people were displaced; Because of the war, the soldiers threw their bodies on the field; Because of the war, countless families were destroyed......
Xiao Ding secretly congratulated himself on his fate, and did not die on the battlefield. At the same time, he thought of his cheap dad Tian Dabao, Tian Dabao was lucky to be able to go back alive, compared to his life, what is it to lose half of his leg!
Thinking of his family, Xiao Ding retreated again, in fact, in his heart, he was not interested in what to enter Beijing to receive the reward. He just wants to go home quickly, reunite with his family, and celebrate the New Year with his family. For the reward that the emperor said, he didn't pay attention to it at all.
However, there is a holy purpose first, and Xiao Ding does not dare to disobey the will. Although he, as a modern person, does not disdain the ancients' set of loyal monarch thoughts, he also knows that in ancient society, the emperor is the boss, and no one can afford to offend, and if anyone dares to resist the order, he will be killed, and his little arm can't twist his thigh after all.
Therefore, even if he was reluctant to enter Beijing in his heart, he had no choice but to follow the large army to Kyoto Zhongzhou City.
When passing through Dingbian City, Yang County Commander personally went out of the city to greet him. The large army only reorganized a little in Dingbian City, and then continued on the road.
Yang County Ling is very grateful to all the generals, thank you Dade! If it weren't for these generals swearing to stick to Dingbian City, Dingbian City would have been poisoned like Yunzhong County and Jiuyuan County. He Yang County Order may have already exposed the corpse in the wilderness.
Therefore, Yang County Commander not only prepared tea and wine for the soldiers in advance, but also specially prepared a lot of dry food for the soldiers to satisfy their hunger on the road. When everyone broke up, many people also went out of the city to send each other, and Yang County's order was even more reluctant, and after taking people to send them far away, he still stood in place and watched the army go away, refusing to return to the city for a long time.
Three days later, the army came to Yongzhou City. Zhizhou Zhou Siyuan and Assassin Shi Feiwu met with the generals together. Zhou Siyuan was in the prefect's hall, and according to the list provided by Huang Wenlong, he rewarded all the meritorious generals in public. Basically, except for Fei Wen, other officers and soldiers with outstanding achievements were rewarded differently.
Even Fan Sanpang was rewarded by Zhou Siyuan with one hundred taels of gold because he once captured Kangle Kingdom alive.
Zhao Laixi was also rewarded with twenty taels of gold because he had shot Hu people's soldiers; Zhao Hu and the others were rewarded with ten taels of gold because they had assisted in guarding Dingbian City and assisted Fan Sanpang in capturing Kangle Kingdom.
On the list, Xiao Ding has the most credit, what rescues Pubian, sticks to Xinquan, raids the enemy camp, kills the enemy general, makes crossbow arrows and knives to resist the enemy, offers plans to burn the earth river, offers plans to outwit the water pass, etc., almost every decisive victory is inseparable from Xiao Ding's credit.
However, because Xiao Ding wanted to enter Beijing to receive the emperor's personal reward, it was inconvenient for Zhou Zhizhou to reward Xiao Ding too much, and he only rewarded Xiao Ding with one hundred taels of gold and a good sword, which was regarded as a little heart of Zhizhou for the meritorious person.
Whether it was an officer or a small soldier who received the reward, they were all elated. Only Fei Wen was not happy on the side. Others are more or less rewarded, but he has nothing. Even Bian Hongtai, who had been surrounding him, was rewarded for fighting against enemy generals and being responsible for escorting grain and grass.
Only he Fei Wen, who had no credit at all, was demoted. How could he not feel aggrieved in his heart? You must know that when he first arrived at the battlefield, he was also full of ambition and rushed to make meritorious contributions. I was thinking about making more meritorious contributions, so that I could be promoted and make a fortune when I came back, but I didn't expect it to become what it is now, he originally planned to calculate the credit for burning Tuhe on his head, but after Huang Wenlong knew what happened, he didn't give him credit at all, and even said that he almost ruined the plan.
Fei Wen was in a bad mood and was soon discovered by Bian Hongtai. Bian Hongtai was naturally very happy to receive the reward from Zhizhou. Seeing that Fei Wen was lonely, he twisted his body and walked over, and said softly: "Brother Fei, don't be sad, everyone looks at your credit, and it's all because Huang Wenlong's old boy didn't report it to you." Besides, Brother Fei, your family has a big business, why do you care about Zhou Zhizhou's reward of ten taels and twenty taels of gold? I think you might as well go to the bar with me, I just learned a dance last night, and I can dance to Brother Fei later! ”
Fei Wen listened to it on the side, and couldn't help but feel a little chill at the root of his hair, and said in his heart, I'm sick, go watch you a big man dance!