Taiyuan, Shanxi.

At this time, the whole Taiyuan became a huge barracks, and the 100,000 troops on the east road were gathered near Taiyuan, and were making up the materials, preparing to go to Shaanxi, cutting off the route of the Tartars to the north and attacking the Tartars in Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ningxia from east to west.

The border troops from the nine sides, as well as the guards from the various guards, gathered around Taiyuan at this time, there were huge barracks everywhere, and in the barracks, the soldiers who were about to go to the battlefield looked very uneasy, very frightened, some wanted to find an opportunity to sneak away, some planned to surrender immediately after encountering the Tartars, and some people planned to gang up as deserters when the night was dark and windy, and find a place to fall into the grass.

It's not just the soldiers who are very scared, but also the generals who command these soldiers, thousands of households, hundreds of households, and so on, are also very afraid.

This battlefield is private, not to mention the fierce grassland people, naturally they are even more afraid, it has not been carried out yet, and many people want to escape.

Some people recruit people to carry the bag and let people go to the battlefield for themselves, some people plan to go to the battlefield and directly take their own people to turn around and sneak away, and some people even think that when the time comes, they will take their subordinates to kill a few people, and kill the good and take the merit, which can be regarded as a war, and there is an explanation.

In short, from top to bottom, there are not many people who really want to win this station and dare to fight this battle, everyone is afraid of death, and they are afraid of war with the grassland people.

Of course, this is not to blame them, except for the border army and the steppe people, these guards are all new soldiers, and they used to be farmers who farmed the land, and they were immediately pulled over to participate in the war, and such an army is even worse than a plate of scattered sand.

In addition, their weapons and equipment are also very bad, the armor and weapons transferred from the household department are rotten, and the guns and artillery will be blown up, and everyone dare not use them, and they would rather use rotten swords to fight with the Tartars than use such artillery and guns.

If weapons and armor and so on are okay, there are still people who dare to fight to the death with the grassland people, they are all two shoulders and one head, who is afraid of whom!

But it's not good.,The money allocated by the household department is small.,The corruption is very serious.,The weapons and armor created by this are really not good.,It's better to bring out the kitchen knives from your own homes.。

In a guard barracks, dozens of soldiers gathered together, saying that they were soldiers, but there was no shadow of a soldier on these people's bodies.

"What do you say?"

Wang Daniu looked at the dozens of people from his own village around him and asked.

These dozens of them are all from a guard in Shanxi, and their ancestors are all military households, and when they are passed down to their generation, they have all become serfs from thousands and hundreds of households.

Originally, I thought that this kind of farming, although the days were a little harder, but at least I was still alive, who knew that after an order from the Son of Heaven, everyone would go to war with a hoe.

"What else can I say, smear oil on the soles of my feet, and look for a chance to slip away."

Wang Daniu's side, Chen Haozi said.

"Yes, are we really fighting with the Tartars, what are we going to fight with them?"

"Look at the weapons issued by the court, they are not as good as my kitchen knife."

Li Fugui next to him also followed, and after speaking, he also took out the weapon issued by the court, a knife, a knife as thin as a cicada's wings, not so much a knife, but a piece of iron sheet, it is really difficult to disobey the master of the knife, to beat the knife like this, it is effortless to go to the battlefield, but such a knife can kill people?

And Li Fugui took out the kitchen knife he brought out, and slashed at it, cutting the iron sheet into two ends in an instant, but his kitchen knife didn't even roll the blade a bit.

"Slip~"

"That's right, there is no war like this, this is not a war, this is to let us go to death, at least give us a decent weapon, I have nothing to say about dying on the battlefield."

"That's right, forget if you don't have this armor, this weapon is so perfunctory, it's almost like sending it to death."

"The steppe people are all cavalry, coming and going like the wind, we are all infantry, there is no difference between being unarmed and unarmed, just don't issue this broken iron sheet, it's better to give each of us a wooden gun than this."

The others are also one by one, and I said at a glance.

Everyone is a rotten life, and there is nothing to die, but they all feel that it is really not worth it to die like this, and they don't want to die like this, and they feel annoying when they think about it.

They were born and died, but they couldn't even eat enough, and the fields of the guard were all occupied by hundreds and thousands of households, and they all became serfs of hundreds and thousands of households, and the war was so perfunctory to them, no one was willing to sell their lives at all, and they all wanted to escape.

"Well, since everyone said that they want to slip, then they will slip together at that time, so that there is a response, the road has been asked clearly, and when the time comes, we will go directly to the chaos or when it is dark."

Seeing that everyone didn't want to die, Wang Daniu also nodded and said to everyone.

As soon as he finished speaking, a person hurriedly ran over, holding a newspaper in his hand, and said with red eyes: "Something is wrong, something is wrong, something is wrong, something is wrong." ”

"Dead monkey, you're going to die, what's going on?"

Wang Daniu looked at this person, knocked directly over and hurriedly asked.

Everyone was discussing how to slip away, and he was so babbling at this time, which was also terrifying.

"I just came from the capital, saying that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince raised fifteen million taels of silver from Quan Daming to fight a war, and the most important thing is that they said that killing a Tartar will reward one hundred taels of silver, and if you die in battle, you will be paid two hundred taels of silver."

The person who was called the monkey was very thin, and he was knocked on the head by Wang Da Niu, but he was not angry, but told what he knew.

"What?"

"Fifteen million taels of silver?"

"Kill a Tartar and reward a hundred taels of silver?"

"Two hundred taels of silver for the dead?"

Everyone was dumbfounded when they heard this, and some people plucked out their ears in disbelief, wondering if they had heard it wrong.

"Monkey, will you tell me again?"

Wang Da Niu pulled the monkey over and stared at him and said.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has already issued an official document, saying that if we kill a Tartar, according to the head of the Tartar, the reward for killing a Tartar is one hundred taels of silver, and if he is killed, he will be given a pension of two hundred taels of silver."

The monkey said it again.

"Kill a Tartar and reward a hundred taels of silver, and if you die in battle, you will be rewarded with two hundred taels of silver?"

This time, everyone heard it clearly, but it was still hard to believe.

"My good man, my rotten life is worth two hundred taels of silver?"

Chen Haozi pinched himself fiercely, a little dumbfounded, he was a broken military household, and his life was worth two hundred taels of silver.

"Kill a Tartar and reward a hundred taels of silver?"

Li Fugui's eyes turned red in an instant, one hundred taels of silver, you can buy dozens of acres of land, you can build a house, you can start a daughter-in-law, in short, you can do a lot, a lot of things, and you can use a hundred taels of silver to do a lifetime of big things, and you can still have a lot of silver left after you finish doing it with one hundred taels of silver.

"Is this true or false?"

Wang Da Niu's eyes were also red, all of a sudden blood red, blood red, red and terrifying, staring at the monkey and asked.

"Of course it's true, the East Palace Prince's Mansion has already sent people to various military camps to publicize it, and it has also been sent to the whole Daming in the form of a newspaper, and it has been published in the Daming Morning Post."

"And this time, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince not only raised fifteen million taels of silver, but also raised a lot of things, Miyun Iron Factory alone donated 10,000 sets of armor, 100,000 weapons and 1,000 artillery, it is said that many guards have begun to receive new armor and weapons."

"The weapons and armor of the Miyun Iron Factory are really good, I've seen it, and I don't know if we have a share here."

The monkey raised the Ming Morning newspaper in his hand and told what he had seen and heard.

Wang Daniu grabbed the newspaper and looked at it, but he didn't know how to read, so he immediately pulled out a thin person and said: "Scholar, hurry up and see with the big guy, whether it's true or not, this one Tartar is one hundred taels of silver, and the death pension is two hundred taels of silver." ”

The person who is called a scholar is actually a military household, he used to secretly go to private schools to learn secretly, and he knows a lot of words, everyone used to want to make fun of him, saying that he was a rag military household to study, even if he read, because he was a military household, you don't want to rely on the imperial examination.

The scholar picked up the newspaper and read it carefully, he was only half-baked, and he didn't know many words, but some ordinary words could still be recognized, plus even those who guessed, he could basically read seventy-seven-eighty-eight.

After carefully reading the Ming Morning Post, his eyes were also red, and he said to everyone: "What I said above is good, it is the same as what the monkey said, killing a Tartar will reward one hundred taels of silver, and two hundred taels of silver will be paid for the dead, and not only we will be rewarded." ”

"If we win a big battle, the more enemies we kill, those dogs above us, hundreds of households, thousands of households, and the like will also be rewarded, and the rewards are much richer than ours."

"Ma Dan, killing a Tartar rewards a hundred taels of silver, if I can kill a Tartar and then die, wouldn't I have three hundred taels of silver?"

The scholar's eyes were red, and he couldn't wait to go to the battlefield and fight the Tartars right now.

"Really~"

Wang Da Niu's whole person couldn't help but roar in a low voice, as his name suggests, strong as a cow, with great strength, thinking of killing a Tartar and rewarding a hundred taels of silver, he couldn't help but clench his fists, his eyes were scarlet and terrible, looking at everyone like a Tartar, like a tiger that chooses people and devours them.