Chapter 47: Bargaining

Qin Chuan felt that Hu Dawei was not bad, he had no official position, and he was also a straightforward person, with something to talk to and meat to eat.

Hu Dawei is a Mongolian, descended to the Ming Dynasty, and can be regarded as a brave and warlike general.

Historically, this goods was often transferred around by those civil officials, suppressing bandits everywhere, and had some military exploits, but as a partial general, he had encountered many pig leaders and dog teammates, and was also pitted by Yang Dezheng, He Renlong and Zuo Liangyu.

The most memorable thing is that when the Qing army entered the customs and plundered in the eleventh year of Chongzhen, Hu Dawei led the army to follow Lu Xiangsheng in the battle of Julu.

Lu Xiangsheng first divided his troops with the supervising army, Gao Qiqian commanded the Guanning army, Lu Xiangsheng commanded the Tianxiong army and the soldiers of Shanxi, Xuan, and Dasanzhen, as well as the two Fubiao battalions in Datong, Shanxi, with a total of 25,000 soldiers and horses.

Later, Chen Xinjia lied about the military situation, saying that the Qing army had crossed the Longquan Pass into Shanxi, and the governor of Datong, Gui and Song Xian, the governor of Shanxi, hurriedly brought 5,000 Fubiao battalions from two provinces into Shanxi, and Chen Xinjia transferred Wang Pu 8,000 troops back to help Xuanda.

In fact, the Qing army, which entered the customs in the eleventh year of Chongzhen, did not set foot in Shanxi.

At this point, Lu Xiangsheng only had 12,000 soldiers and horses left, and he was restrained everywhere, the military food was cut off, and he could not ask for food in Qingyuan County and Zhending City, and he could not beg for help from Gaoqi, and finally he was tired and hungry, and was surrounded by Qing soldiers in Julu Jiazhuang.

After Hu Dawei broke out of the encirclement, Hu Dawei and others led the army to go first, and he led his own people to turn over and kill the Qing army, bent on death.

After Lu Xiangsheng died, the body was buried on 80 days, Hu Dawei was uneasy, and wrote to ask for guilt, Chongzhen did not allow it, and ordered him to continue to lead troops to suppress bandits.

In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Hongji besieged Kaifeng, and Hu Dawei rushed to the rescue with Yang Wenyue, but was hit by artillery and died during the battle.

Yang Guozhu was as early as the 14th year of Chongzhen's battle of Songjin, first led the army to break the Qing army's Rufeng Mountain, killed the Qing army's defeat and retreat, and then received Hong Chengchou's military order to attack Xishimen when he was deeply surrounded by the Qing army.

For these generals who died on the battlefield, Qin Chuan only admired them in his heart, including Cao Wenzhao, Cao Bianjiao, Sun Chuanting, Zhou Yuji, etc.

Now, Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting are not dead, Hu Dawei Yang Guozhu is not dead, Cao Wenzhao Cao Bianjiao and Zhou Yuji are not dead, so I don't know if their pair of butterfly wings can save their lives.

These people are all fierce people, how good it is to accept them as little brothers.

Hu Dawei's rugged face is very similar to a bandit, more suitable for being a bandit, Yang Guozhu Cao Bianjiao, who is deeply surrounded by the Qing army and does not surrender, is also very compatible with the temperament of the old bandit in Jiuji Mountain.

Especially Zhou Yuji, a good man like Zhou Yuji, who heard that Jiannu was preparing to return with the stolen money and food, led his troops to kill Jiannu, and dared to make Li Hongji suffer a big loss in Daizhou and Ningwuguan with a few thousand people, Qin Chuan was his favorite.

In other words, in a few years, Zhou Yuji will come to Jinyu to suppress bandits, and when the time comes, you can ask him to come with him, first rob Li Hongji and Zhang Bingzhong, and then rob his mother's Jiannu.

As for the Tiger Dawei...... Qin Chuan now has to bargain with the other party first.

Hu Dawei is a rough man, and when he is full of wine and meat, he opens his mouth to ask for something.

Two hundred and thirty war horses, eighteen pairs of cotton armor, twenty horned bows, thirty pots of arrows, two hundred long and short weapons, and iron-clad wooden shields, all of which he had to choose by himself.

Qin Chuan argued with reason, saying that he could only give him forty percent of the five hundred war horses he had said before, that is, two hundred war horses, and cotton armor could only be given to twelve pairs.

But Hu Dawei didn't give an inch, saying that there were hundreds of loots on the battlefield full of corpses inside and outside Mengjiazhuang, and he didn't rob Qin Chuan of these things, so Qin Chuan should not be insatiable, and said that in the end, he would use the official position to suppress it.

Of course Qin Chuan didn't eat this, the two sides fought so much that they blushed and had thick necks, so that the people on both sides of the door were picking up their teeth and preparing to fight, thinking that those two were going to turn their faces.

In the end, both sides gave a step, and the number was still according to what Hu Dawei said, but it was not allowed to be chosen.

After the two sides negotiated, they immediately went downstairs to pick up things, and the people on both sides breathed a sigh of relief.

Cotton armor, horned bows and arrows, and long and short weapons are fine, anyway, they are all piled up there, just take them out from the face and count them enough, and neither side can choose.

But the horses are not easy to handle, Mengjiazhuang's livestock yard is encircled by the Lou Fu horse that Qin Chuan snatched from Bashanhu, and the hundreds of Mongolian horses that Fan Yongdou snatched are enclosed in several other yards

When Qin Chuan took Hu Dawei to divide the horses, he happened to pass by the livestock yard, Hu Dawei glanced inside, and then he couldn't walk.

He was a Mongol, and of course he knew that those sturdy Lou Fu horses were the most suitable for charging mounts, and he could see that the endurance of these horses was not much worse than that of Mongolian horses.

Qin Chuan realized that something was wrong, and hurriedly asked Luo Daniu and others to block the gate of the livestock courtyard.

But Hu Dawei didn't leave, and said with a dead face that he wanted dozens of Lou annoying horses, and called his people, it seemed that if Qin Chuan refused to give it, he would rush in and grab it.

Of course, Qin Chuan didn't want to bother him with him, but he didn't dare to fight with him, because he couldn't fight.

In desperation, he had to bargain again, and finally sent the insatiable Hu Dawei away at the price of thirty Lou Fu horses for forty Mongolian horses.

Of course, when counting Mongolian horses, most of the horses Qin Chuan gave him were older and thinner.

Hu Dawei was in a good mood, whistling and taking him away with a thousand soldiers and captured booty.

Fan Yongdou attacked Mengjiazhuang, the cheapest was him, there was no need to fight, no one died, he got two hundred and twenty war horses and a bunch of armor for no reason, he made a lot of money.

Of course, after he went back, he had to hand over some of it to Song Tongyin, and it was necessary to honor the officials.

In this battle, the biggest loss was Fan Yongdou, who was simply a blood loss, even if he failed to get back that batch of money and food, he also folded in the lives of nearly 200 nursing homes, 580 war horses, and a lot of armor, bows and arrows.

If you count the two hundred eye-protecting family members, he lost about 15,000 taels this trip.

It wasn't enough to break his bones, but it was enough to make his flesh ache for a while.

Of course, he will not give up, the surname Qin has become a court official, he can't move, but someone can.

Just let out the rumors that Mengjiazhuang has a lot of money and horses, and there will be a lot of people to help him kill the one surnamed Qin.

Zijin Liang, Lao Huihui, Cao Cao, King Chuang, General Chuang, Eight Kings, etc., these people are enough for someone surnamed Qin to drink a pot.

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Qin Chuan didn't know that he was about to become the fat meat that Liukou was worried about, and he was very busy at the moment.

After sending Hu Dawei away, he had time to count the battle damage and capture.

The seizure was the largest since he became a thief, and after the things he had stolen from Fan Yongdou, after removing the ones that had been distributed to Hu Dawei, there were still 390 Mongolian horses, all of which were intact high-quality horses, 26 pairs of cotton armor, 36 horn bows, 45 pots of arrows, and more than 200 long and short weapons.

In addition, the coalition forces that attacked Zhuang before were killed and wounded and fled, threw down a lot of weapons and iron-clad wooden shields, and counted them after cleaning the battlefield, and selected those that could still be used after being intact or simply repaired, including 40 horn bows, more than 400 long and short weapons, and nearly 300 wooden shields.

What pleased Qin Chuan the most was the captured armor, from more than 500 corpses of the coalition army, a total of 147 pairs of armor that could be used were peeled off, in addition to cotton armor, there were 25 pairs of cloth iron armor.

This kind of iron armor is not different from cotton armor, cotton armor is made of cotton soaked polyester layer by layer, and then covered with some cowhide and sheepskin in the middle, and there is no cotton wool in the cloth iron armor, but it is inlaid with iron sheets and covered with a layer of cotton cloth outside, also known as dark armor, and the defense ability is much stronger than cotton armor.

Cotton armor is cheap and simple to make, so whether it is the Ming army or Jiannu, the Mongolians, most of them wear cotton armor, and the soldiers of the hundreds of Ninghua Thousand Households led by Han Mao last time have more than 100 pairs of cotton armor, and there is no pair of cloth iron armor.

Zhenwuwei's armament may be more neat, so there are these twenty-five pairs of cloth iron armor.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the army was rotten, the armament lacked maintenance, and the supply was insufficient, resulting in a low armor rate, and the armor rate of Zhenwuwei's soldiers was about one-third, and many corpses were without armor, otherwise, Qin Chuan could capture more.

After this battle, plus those captured by Han Mao and Bashan Tiger before, he now has 548 war horses, including 65 Lou Fu horses, 260 pairs of cotton armor, 25 pairs of cloth iron armor, 110 horn bows, 400 wooden shields, most of them covered with iron, and more than 1,000 long and short weapons.

These things were all looted, enough for him to arm 500 cavalry and 500 infantry.

However, Mengjiazhuang also paid a great price.

When listening to his subordinates' report on the battle damage, Qin Chuan's brows were twisted into a piece, and he couldn't let go for a long time.