Chapter 316: A huge amount of loot
When they reached the vicinity of Mayi, Qinchuan and Li Dingliang restored the river.
Li Dingliang's troops also carried more than 7,000 people and more than 4,000 ahah, and he also seized a lot of them, including more than 12,000 stones of grain, as much as 50,000 taels of silver, more than 3,000 cattle and sheep, as well as gold, silver, jewelry, cloth, silk and other property, which were transported by 800 mules and horse-drawn carts and more than 2,000 chicken carts.
When the army returned to Ningwu Pass along the Hui River, passing through Shuozhou City, Qin Chuan asked people to send those old men and hundreds of people who did not want to go back with him to Shuozhou City.
The reason why these people were let go was because they all had land, and after Jiannu retired from the army, they could also recruit displaced people to cultivate the land, which would not only prevent the fields from being wasted, but also save some more displaced people.
On the day of passing Shuozhou City, the city wall was full of people, just quietly watching Qin Chuan's army, as well as the cart of heads.
Qin Chuan sent someone to tell the defenders of Shuozhou to let them prepare more materials to defend the city, because they were about to face the onslaught of tens of thousands of rogues, and whether they could defend it or not depended on themselves.
After Shuozhou, it is not far from Ningwu Pass.
When Zhao Wu sent back the news that Jiannu did not pursue with light horses, Qin Chuan still had some regrets.
From this point of view, Huang Taiji is indeed good at using soldiers.
I don't know that in the face of Ningwuguan, which is heavily defended by firepower, this generation of heroes who laid the foundation of the Qing Dynasty is still strong.
After three days of marching, Emperor Guan's army successfully returned to Yangfangkou.
Then, Qin Chuan asked Luo Daniu, Luo Ba and Feng Yilong to escort all the people and Aha to Shenchikou and enter the area of Wuzhou and Lanzhou.
Wang Jizong and Wen Cheng have already led many officials to wait there, and all the people and Aha will be placed by them, and they will be placed wherever there is a shortage of people to farm.
At the same time, there was also a batch of money and grain, and the officials of the Finance Department were also waiting to receive the money and grain at Shenchikou, which would be stored in batches in the warehouses of various prefectures, counties and military forts, and would be managed by the special personnel of the local Finance Department, mainly for military rations and to help the people.
All the casualties and captures of this expedition were counted.
From the first battle of Mayi City to the attack on Yue Zhi on both sides, a total of four major battles were experienced, including the wounded who were seriously wounded and died on the road, and the Guan Emperor's army suffered a total of 1,072 casualties and 630 seriously wounded, of which 185 were crippled because of broken hands and feet.
The biggest casualty was the battle with Daishan.
It is difficult to count the minor wounded, because many of the Guan Emperor soldiers suffered flesh wounds, and it is conservatively estimated that all the wounded Guan Emperor troops must have reached more than 3,000 people.
For Qin Chuan, these battles can be described as heavy casualties.
Since the establishment of the Guan Di Army, it is the first time that thousands of people have been killed.
In addition to a large number of captures, Qin Chuan also harvested a group of elite soldiers, more than 10,000 Guan Emperor troops who survived, and had the experience and courage to fight in the field with Jiannu.
All the seized money, food and property were also counted, even if Qin Chuan had already estimated it in his heart, he was still shocked when he saw the numbers.
The grain seized in the four wars totaled 43,000 stones, 116,000 taels of silver, and 1,700 taels of gold.
There were more than 5,300 pieces of cloth and silk, 1,800 cattle, 3,500 horses, mules, and donkeys, and more than 8,000 sheep.
More than 27,000 people were rescued from exile and 14,000 Aha were taken prisoner.
The above people, money and food were snatched by Daishan's three-way army after entering the customs from Desheng Fort, and then they pulled a net all the way.
This is just the capture of Jiannu all the way to Daishan, Jiannu has another three-way army, and the most grabbed should be the two roads of Derge and Azigna, and there are countless money, food, and wealth in a single security city.
Huang Taiji's tactics of entering the customs and looting not only replenished Houjin with a large number of people, livestock, grain, gold, silver, cloth and other materials, but also greatly accelerated the pace of the demise of the Ming Dynasty.
Qin Chuan has read some historical materials, in the ninth year of Chongzhen, when Jiannu was led by Azig to enter the customs, he robbed 180,000 people and livestock, and countless grains and treasures.
In the eleventh year of Chongzhen, when Commander Dolgon entered the customs, he robbed 460,000 people and animals, and 970,000 taels of silver.
In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Abatai once again led Jiannu into the customs, this time robbing more fiercely, sweeping most of Shandong, in addition to hundreds of thousands of animals, there are 22 million taels of silver.
That's more than 20 million pieces of silver.
Qin Chuan speculated that the Huang Taiji, Derge and Azig three-way Jiannu should have taken more than 100,000 people captive, and the grain must have exceeded 100,000 stones, and the gold and silver treasures and cattle, sheep and horses were difficult to estimate.
These people, money, food, and wealth are probably going to be brought back to Liaodong by Jiannu.
Unless Zhu Youzhen's idiot is willing to give up part of the military fort city, transfer the Ming army out, and fight Jiannu in advance.
But this is not possible.
Qin Chuan can do this step, it is already very good, and he is very satisfied.
In addition to the above population, money, food, and wealth, the Guan Emperor's army also captured more than 11,000 pairs of armor, including 3,300 pairs of cloth iron armor, more than 2,000 leather armor, more than 3,700 cotton armor, more than 1,500 chain mail, and 237 pairs of scale armor and piercing armor.
More than 14,000 weapons of all kinds were captured, including knives, guns, spears, forks, clubs, axes, etc., and most of these weapons were well-made, better than many weapons of the Ming army.
Of course, no matter how good it is, it can't compare to the weapons of the Guan Imperial Army, because now the Black Mountain Iron Yard can smelt wrought iron with performance close to low-carbon steel, and the quality of the weapons produced is quite high.
In addition to weapons, there are more than 5,000 bows and arrows, including 1,300 Mongolian bows and more than 4,000 compound horn bows, which are later famous Qing bows.
This compound horn bow combines the advantages of the Ming army's large bow and the Tunguska single bow, with large pulling force, long range, can shoot heavy arrows, has high stability and accuracy, is lighter than the British longbow, and has a longer range than the Japanese bow, and is even praised as the strongest bow in the world by some bow enthusiasts in later generations.
There were a large number of Ming soldiers in Qinchuan's Guan Emperor army, and there were many archers among these soldiers, but there was a shortage of bows and arrows in the army.
With these more than 5,000 bows and arrows, the long-range strike capability of the Guan Emperor Army can be improved by another level.
In addition to weapons and armor, more than 8,000 horses were captured in this wave, which is more important than bows and arrows.
Qin Chuan plans to attack the Hetao area next year, and it is necessary to have a large number of war horses to quickly mobilize the army, and this war horse is simply timely rain.
These armaments were quickly distributed, and the three main forces of the first battalion, the trapping camp and the Wudang battalion, as well as the cavalry battalion of the tiger and leopard battalion, would be distributed first, and of course the other battalion leaders stationed in various places could also be divided.
With a large amount of armaments, the overall strength of Emperor Guan's army has been greatly improved, especially the armor rate, which has reached more than seventy percent, which is still the reason why Qin Chuan let some elites wear double armor.
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On the second day after the division of troops at Yangfangkou, Qin Chuan led the trapping camp and the tiger and leopard battalion back to Ningwu Pass.
Liu Youzhu and other generals took the remaining Guan Emperor army to greet them on both sides of the road outside Guancheng.
As soon as Qinchuan's banner appeared, a tsunami-like cheer sounded outside the city.
Qin Chuan sat on a tall horse, said a few inspiring words, and then asked people to drive mule carts full of human heads to the north gate of Guancheng, and pile all those heads outside the north gate.
A total of more than 11,300 heads were captured, including more than 8,700 Jiannu heads and 2,600 Mongol soldiers.
These heads would be made of quicklime nitrate and then piled up to form a mountain outside the walls of the north gate.
I don't know how Huang Taiji will react when he sees this Rentou Mountain.
It can be mad, or it can be calm.
His Eight Banners elites will definitely be furious, and when the battle starts, they will definitely rush up with a roar and grab people's heads.
However, the heads are not so easy to grab, and Qin Chuan will let them keep some more heads down.
In the vicinity of this human head mountain, rivers of blood are destined to flow and corpses are piled up.