Groups of prisoners, guarded by officers and soldiers, marched along the water in despair.

The chaotic homeless people frantically snatched grain, rice, livestock, and cloth in the Shuishui Village, and then dispersed.

Only some of the most core positions of the water village are guarded by elite officers and soldiers, and the displaced people are not allowed to enter at all.

Looking at the knives of the regular army, as well as the unfortunate precedent of a few people who were beheaded on the spot without long eyes, the homeless people knew what to choose, and did not risk their lives again.

After completely ransacking the Shuishui Village, the officers and soldiers set a fire and burned down the thief's nest.

To tell the truth, the battle ended sooner than Li Su expected.

Although the effect of stealing the house was very good, in Li Su's expectation, even if the stealing was successful, how could he fight for another quarter of an hour, but he didn't expect the battle to end in a few minutes.

Later, as Liu Ye took Zheng Bao's head, followed by a group of panicked headless flies, to surrender to the official army, Li Sucai reacted to what was going on.

Wu Qiu Yi was very excited when he saw this, and praised Liu Ye in public for being trapped in the nest of thieves, but he did not forget to find an opportunity to serve the imperial court, and asked him if he was interested in serving the current Youzhou Mu and the predecessor of the great sect Liu Yu.

Liu Ye is a native of Heqi, and it was only because Zheng Bao was in the local situation that he was coerced as a liaison between the mercenary leader and the government.

Li Su was beside him, and he couldn't cut off his beard, so he didn't move.

But calm down and think about it, this is also normal, Liu Ye is the Han clan after Liu Yan, the king of Buling, and the Han clan who was separated after the Zhongxing of the Eastern Han Dynasty, so the bloodline is much closer than Liu Bei, who was separated when Emperor Jing of the Western Han Dynasty was divided.

If he just wanted to find another powerful Han clan to take refuge, under the same opportunity, Liu Ye would not choose a county order like Liu Bei, who was farther away than his blood.

And Liu Yu was not only the great Zongzheng and the head of the Han clan before, but also the descendant of Liu Jiang, the king of the East China Sea - Liu Yu's ancestor Liu Jiang and Liu Ye's ancestor Liu Yan, respectively, the eldest son and fourth son of Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu, and they were both born to Liu Xiu's deposed queen Guo Shengtong.

Liu Jiang also served as the crown prince for seventeen years before Empress Guo was deposed. It was only after Liu Xiu sat firmly in the world and no longer needed to rely on the Hebei Gate Valve who sponsored him to raise troops that he abolished Queen Guo, who was born in Hebei Gate Valve, and re-established his original wife Yin Lihua as the queen.

Then Liu Jiang followed the change of the queen's concubine and gave up the position of prince and let his younger brother Liu Zhuang be the prince, which was later Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty. (Liu Xiu married Yin Lihua first, but when he first became emperor, he didn't establish Yin Lihua, because he needed to marry to find foreign aid.) Yin Lihua's mother's family has no power, so she endures it, and waits for Liu Xiu to unify the world and then abolish the queen of the foreign aid family)

Therefore, Liu Yu's lineage is not only as simple as "the kings of the descendants of Emperor Guangwu", but also the line of "once been the prince for seventeen years", which is half more noble than other descendants of Guangwu except for Emperor Ming.

From the level of the official, the dignity of the bloodline, and the distance of kinship, Liu Ye was very good at the wind and reported Liu Yu's thigh first.

Anyway, let's get this person to Youzhou first, and the identity is temporarily estimated to be Liu Bei's colleague.

Whether he has the ability to do it in the future depends on Liu Bei's own ability, and it has nothing to do with Li Su.

……

After cleaning up the battlefield and recruiting the newly recruited talents, the losses and captures in the battle were almost counted.

The 4,000 rogue militia brought by Li Su suffered more than 1,000 casualties.

The worst casualties were the 1,000 homeless death squads led by Lu Su himself, and the number of dead and seriously wounded in battle actually reached 500 - if it was a normal state of fighting, with the quality of the exile army, even if it was an elite, 1,000 people would have died and 200 would have collapsed long ago.

However, Lu Su's group of men and horses was under the attack of the enemy's front and back, and he was responsible for blocking the way for Zheng Bao's main force to return to the aid of Shuizhai. In addition, the reinforcements had already come at that time, and everyone knew that they were the victorious side, and it was impossible to end well when the enemy surrendered at this time.

This is also the reason why in ancient wars, sieges should be surrounded by three missing one. Leave a gap, and the enemy's morale will collapse, and the enemy will only be forced to fight with you.

In contrast, although Zhou Tai's side seemed to have lost badly, in fact, all of them did not die to three hundred, most of them fled, and some did not even flee there to watch, watching the friendly army win in the end, and rubbing back to Shuizhai to pick up garbage, but for the sake of their efforts to lure the enemy, Li Su did not care about their share of heavy loot.

The chaos gradually subsided, and the Warring States were preliminarily counted.

"The Lusu army lost 500 of 1,000 people. Zhou Taijun looked at the corpse and estimated that 300 were dead, but he robbed a few things and escaped. Guan Yu's army had 2,000 dead and wounded, 400, and hundreds of people were looted and scattered after the war. ”

"The friendly army of Wuqiu Duwei, with a strength of 1,500 people, has accumulated more than 500 killed and killed. Jinghu chief Zhang sent 2,000 more troops, 400 dead and wounded, and Shanyang chief Xu Qian, sent 1,000 troops and 300 dead and wounded. ”

"Zheng Bao's department totaled nearly 10,000 people, killed, died, and fled more than 2,000 people, and captured 8,000 people."

Looking at the liquidation of the military officials, Li Su was also secretly frightened, and had to sigh that the Danyang soldiers were the best soldiers in the world after all.

In the case that there were more than 4,000 Danyang soldiers on the friendly side, although this army won, there were about 2,500 people killed and killed in the battle, not counting those who escaped. And Zheng Bao's subordinates only lost more than 2,000 yuan in these three items combined.

It can be seen that in terms of the ratio of head exchange, the officers and soldiers are still at a disadvantage. The reason for the final victory was mainly that Zheng Bao's water village was copied and the army's morale collapsed.

In four words: stealing wins.

Of course, there is no accident or fluke. This is because flanking attacks and stealing homes were originally the general policy discussed before the war, and all tactical arrangements revolved around this policy.

After counting the losses and captures, it was the turn of the spoils of war and the distribution of prisoners of war, but Li Su couldn't intervene in this matter for the time being, so he took his colleagues on his side and listened to the mediation of Du Lieutenant Wuqiu Yi first.

After some bargaining, Wu Qiu Yi left about 6,000 Danyang prisoners of war, and divided 2,000 to Zhang Duo and Xu Qian.

The 2,000 people are not all soldiers who can fight, some of them are originally subordinate to Zhang Duo and Xu Qian's henchmen, who were captured by Zheng Bao before, and now they have to go back.

There are also some of them who are more rigid under Zheng Bao's command, who have a relatively large grudge with the officers and soldiers in the battle just now, who are disabled and can no longer fight, or who have local families who are unwilling to travel thousands of miles to the north.

Speaking from the heart, the gains of Zhang Duo and Xu Yi in this battle could not completely make up for the losses they had made up for helping Wu Qiu Yi take the lead. What they value more is the future development space of "after Zheng Bao is killed, they can take advantage of the situation to become bigger", so even if they lose money temporarily, they must follow suit.

Otherwise, purely to grab money and people, Zhang and Xu Cai would not accept such harsh distribution conditions.

The remaining carefully selected prisoners of war of the Danyang soldiers, plus those who had been hired before, Wu Qiu Yi gathered 5,000 men and horses, and he was quite satisfied.

Finally overfulfilled the recruitment task assigned by Liu Yu! When you go back this time, you can get the "Captain's Priority Promotion Right"!

In Zheng Bao's water village, the officers and soldiers also seized back about 20 million yuan of money, which was distributed to these soldiers without Qiu Yi, 5,000 yuan per person, and the small leaders at all levels added money - Danyang soldiers are very money-even if you catch them in battle, if you want them to be convinced to continue to serve you and fight to the death, you have to give money well.

It's just that under normal circumstances, a person gives at least 10,000 yuan to settle down, and if he is defeated as a prisoner of war, he can barely do it if he only gives 5,000.

As for the part that usually exceeds 10,000 yuan, most of them are divided by the handsome chiefs at all levels as middlemen, and now that Zheng Bao, the middleman, has been uprooted, those "marketing and operation expenses" no longer exist.

After completing the task, Wu Qiu Yi patted Li Su on the shoulder: "Li don't drive, there are still 2,000 soldiers left to hire, I know that you are also entrusted by Liu Liangxiang to recruit some private soldiers, if the money is enough, you can do it yourself, I am enough." ”

"Thank you, Captain." Li Su happily accepted it, while calculating the money he brought from this trip.

When he left Luoyang, he had 10 million, and later Mi Zhu got 20 million, a total of 30 million. It is not a big problem to eat these two thousand Danyang soldiers who are discounted and discounted.

Li Su then instructed Lu Su to help him: "We will also pay 5,000 yuan per person to settle down in accordance with the price of the captain, and we will add more money in the future, and after we get on the ship, we will make up some more in the name of the official employer to win the hearts of the army." lest I give too much now, and the people hired by the lieutenant will be unhappy. ”

Lu Su received the order and immediately went to handle it, and soon 10 million was spent, and then another 6 million was set aside.

Li Su's plan is to eventually distribute 8,000 yuan per person, 3,000 yuan more than the imperial court recruitment, which will be distributed in the name of Liu Bei, of course, after arriving in Youzhou, he will also ask Liu Bei for reimbursement. In this way, Liu Bei's control and loyalty to the army can be ensured to surpass that of ordinary imperial troops.

Wu Qiu Yi could not care about the morale of the troops in the future, that was because he was just dealing with Liu Yu's errands, and did not treat these soldiers as his private property.

I believe that Liu Bei will definitely have enough money to pay this account when he sells Wuhuan horses.

Li Su still had 14 million on hand, and he felt that the quality of the 500 Jiujiang soldiers under Lu Su who had survived the bloody battle was also good, and he had a lot of money anyway, so he also stayed.

The key is that these people have seen strong winds and waves, fought hard battles and fought to the death surrounded by enemies on all sides, and those who can survive are people with strong nerves.

There were more people on Guan Yu's side, but because they had not been screened, Li Su ordered that all those who still had families in the local area be eliminated and that they should be given a severance pay of 2,000 yuan each, which could be regarded as a reward for their participation in the war just now. Then we respect personal choice and screen at every level.

In the end, out of the 1,600 people in Guan Yu's waterway, almost 500 people were also selected.

Together with Lu Su's department, a total of 1,000 Jiujiang soldiers were recruited under his command.

The soldiers on Lu Su's side were rewarded with 10,000 yuan per person because the battle was more difficult just now, and Guan Yu's soldiers were responsible for stealing the house, so they could only take 5,000 yuan per person.

However, everyone felt that the rewards and punishments were clear, and no one was unconvinced -- it was obvious to all who had a more arduous combat mission just now.

"Brother Boya, there are only five or six million dollars left, it should be enough, right?" Lu Su handled these affairs clearly, and watched the money on Li Su's account drop rapidly, and he was also a little emotional.

The preparation has been done for so long, and it is really time to burn money, and the speed is really outrageous.

However, Li Su persuaded Lu Su: "Zijing, you must have a business mind, after this is over, we will take a boat to the north, the north and the south have different products, even if it is military supplies, there are also north and south, south and north."

Keeping the copper coins for the return trip is a waste of the difference. I think Wu Yuezhi's subway industry is thriving, and it has been the hometown of sword casting since ancient times, and the price of iron is relatively cheaper. Give these Danyang soldiers some ordnance. ”

Lu Su thought for a while: "The Danyang soldiers all bring their own weapons, mainly swords and shields, don't you need them?" ”

Li Su: "Aren't there still those powerful Danyang soldiers who disdain to use knives, but use hammer shields?" I think those war hammers are all thick and hard wooden sticks, with some waste nails, and the armor-piercing combat power is really not good. Let's simply find the iron shop of Mi Zizhong's family and build hundreds of wood-handled maces with pure iron hammer heads. In short, now is not the time to save money. ”